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[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The world after Western dominance won’t be neutral. It will belong to someone else.

The “multipolar world” is being sold as the end of Western hypocrisy and the solution to the failures of the current order.

But power never disappears, it shifts. And an unstable multipolar world will eventually produce a new dominant civilisation, with its own values imposed on everyone else.

The real question is: are those values better than ours? I don't think so.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had.

Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation.

Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it.

Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans.

They conquered until they collapsed.

America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined.

And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Almost unprecedented?

It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history.

The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid.

It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed.

America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it.

That’s not policy.

That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything.

You’re being told a story right now.

That America is the villain of history.

You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one.

The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it.

And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.”

Probably right.

China has historically built walls, not fleets.

But the real question isn’t about borders anymore.

We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet.

AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint.

If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be?

The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to?

Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy.

Billions lifted out of poverty.

All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before.

And carries no guarantee of being repeated.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was what it didn’t do after.

[NJdad @NJdad]

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[Rep. Josh Williams @JoshWilliamsOH]

I grew up in poverty, overcame homelessness, and spent half a decade not being able to leave my bed.

Tomorrow, I will be on the ballot for Congress.

My story is an American story— and I'm running to give everyone in America a chance to write their own story.

To every Republican in Ohio's 9th District, I humbly ask for your vote.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Amendment: "Globalize the Intifada" means "It's too difficult and dangerous to kill Jews powerfully protected by Israel's defense forces, so let's try kill them instead where they are half-heartedly protected by unsympathetic governments and weak police."

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

This is the single most genius diplomatic gesture I have ever seen.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

"The El Salvador prison the media doesn't want you to see."

[Leonard Grunstein @LenGrunstein]

In 1933, in Germany, college students were in the vanguard of a movement to push Jewish students and professors out of universities. The images are eerily familiar, embodied in the so-called Gaza encampments that were set up at many universities, which barred access to those who were visibly Jewish, identified by the Star of David necklaces or those who wore kippahs. Many universities condoned this misbehavior, some professors joined in the abuses, and there were even local governments that reportedly did not permit police forces to intervene. https://t.co/MhBzQ58fHz

[MAZE @mazemoore]

2015. Chuck Schumer explains why he is not supporting Obama's Iran nuclear deal.

Schumer detailed how the deal would not only fail to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions, it would in many ways advance Iran's nuclear program.

It's worth noting that as soon as Trump announced in 2018 that he was withdrawing from the deal, Schumer switched his position and began claiming that Obama's deal had been a success.

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐈 𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐔𝐓 𝐒𝐇𝐔𝐓𝐒 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐑

A reporter tried to make Victor Glover’s Artemis II mission about race. His response should be played in every classroom in America.

Glover — the pilot of the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo — acknowledged the tension directly. He said he lives in a “𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘺” between appreciating that “𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘣𝘰𝘺𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘰, 𝘩𝘦𝘺, 𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵?” and pushing for something bigger.

Then he said what the left refuses to say: “𝘐 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 — 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯’𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 — 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺.”

Read that again. An astronaut about to fly to the 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐧 just told a reporter that the goal isn’t to subdivide achievement by skin color — it’s to 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭. He didn’t dismiss representation. He didn’t deny it matters. He said the endgame is a world where none of these categories define what someone can accomplish.

This is everything the modern left gets wrong. They don’t want to move past race — they want to 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐢𝐭. Every achievement has to be filtered through a demographic lens. Every milestone is a “first” for a hyphenated identity. And here’s a man strapping into a spacecraft that will orbit the Moon, telling them the future isn’t about categories. It’s about 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲.

𝐇𝐞’𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐧. 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝗩𝗗𝗛: "𝗜'𝗩𝗘 𝗡𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗦𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗔 𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗬 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗔𝗡 𝗔𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗔"

Victor Davis Hanson has a theory about the DHS shutdown that I haven't seen anyone else articulate as cleanly — and I think he's right.

It was never about ICE.

Democrats couldn't make the ICE argument because half their party — Ilhan Omar, AOC, the Squad wing — doesn't want any immigration enforcement at all. They can't go on television and explain why shutting down TSA salaries for 39 days is a reasonable response to ICE agents arresting people with deportation orders. Because the honest answer is: we don't think anyone should be deported. And that position polls somewhere near the ocean floor.

So what was this actually about? VDH's answer: the midterms. Democrats want to repeat what they did last year — hurt the economy, destroy the airline industry, make Americans angry at the party in power. Canceled flights. Six-hour security lines. Travelers sleeping on airport floors. People missing funerals and high school reunions and business meetings — all of it on camera, all of it attributable to chaos in Washington.

They have no agenda. VDH says it plainly — he has never in his career seen a major political party with nothing to offer. No policy vision. No affirmative case for anything. No plan for housing, no plan for crime, no plan for energy, no plan for the border — unless the plan is no border. All they have left is sabotage. Make things bad enough that voters blame whoever is in charge.

The problem: it isn't working. Harry Enten reported the worst Democratic polling numbers ever recorded. CNN's own reporters at Atlanta and Houston airports described scenes of near-celebration. An ICE agent in Houston was getting handshakes and thank-yous. A deal using pre-positioned reconciliation funds got TSA workers paid without a single Democratic vote.

The strategy failed because Republicans didn't fold. And now Democrats are going home for Easter recess with nothing to show for 39 days of pain they inflicted on the American traveling public.

𝗡𝗼 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮. 𝗡𝗼 𝘃𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆. 𝗡𝗼 𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆. 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟯𝟵 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱.

[Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez @RepCarlos]

🚨SOS CUBA🚨 I am looking at the face of a 16-year-old child, and I am beyond outraged. Jonathan Muir should be in a classroom, playing sports, and dreaming about his future. Instead, he is sitting behind bars, another victim of the Castro regime’s relentless crackdown on its own people.

We cannot stay silent while a child’s youth is stolen by a dictatorship. It’s time to turn up the volume and make sure the world hears his name. Please share this post to spread the word and stand with Jonathan and all political prisoners in Cuba. Freedom isn’t a suggestion—it’s a right. And Jonathan deserves his back now. 🇨🇺✊

#FreeJonathanMuir #SOSCuba #HumanRights

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

🇰🇼 🇮🇱 Rare moment of truth at the UN from brave Kuwaiti dissident @JJJuraid, invited by UN Watch:

“Mr. Chair,

I heard the term “colonizers.” But who are the real colonizers? A Jewish Kingdom ruled in Judea for a thousand years. We, the Arabs, took this land.

Who Arabized Egyptians, Phoenicians, Persians and Amazighs? It was us, the Arabs.

So why does the council enshrine a lie by keeping a permanent agenda item on Palestine, while ignoring the indigenous heart of Israel returning home?

Let us be clear about who is actually defending our sovereignty. Today, Israel is a fighter for peaceful nations, freeing Gaza from Hamas terrorists and saving Iranians from the Islamic Republic.

What Israel is doing to the IRGC — stopping a genocidal regime from acquiring nuclear weapons — is a gift to humanity.

There are 57 Islamic countries and only one Jewish state, Israel. Despite the ongoing hateful desire to eliminate it, Israel has not only survived, it has thrived.
I don’t believe in miracles, but this is one.

So I ask the UN: when will you end the ritual of condemning Israel?

Is it not time, instead, to learn from Israel? How to defeat terror, defend free societies, and pursue peace.

Thank you.”

What a refreshing act of integrity and truth.

Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil.

[Jennifer-Ruth Green @JenRuthGreen]

"It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag." - Father Dennis Edward O’Brien, Sergeant, USMC

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

INCREDIBLE: American Nathan Martin comes out of NOWHERE to beat Kenyan by 00.01 seconds in the LA Marathon — closest finish ever.

“I could see the leader and with 800 meters to go, I was thinking, ‘I’m catching him.’”

He finished 2h 11m 16.50s

PATRIOT🇺🇸

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

Astrophysicist Dr. Willie Soon quotes atmospheric physicist Dr. Richard Lindzen:

"It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world—that CO₂, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison."

"What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO₂ from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin."

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

California's $2.2 billion solar plant is shutting down.

Once hailed as a breakthrough, the Ivanpah Solar Facility in the Mojave Desert is now a case study in failed technology and environmental risk.

Built with $1.6 billion in federal loans in 2014, the plant was hailed as a symbol of America's clean energy future.

It used 173,000 mirrors to focus sunlight onto three massive towers, heating fluid to drive steam turbines.

Complicated.
Expensive.
And it never delivered on its promise. After just 11 years, the technology is now obsolete.

On top of that, the facility became notorious for its environmental toll, with estimates of at least 6,000 birds incinerated each year by the concentrated beams.

The promise was affordable, reliable, green power. The reality was high costs, technical failures and ecological damage.

[Nicki Minaj @NICKIMINAJ]

His way of bonding with black ppl is to tell them how stupid he is & that he can’t read.

This means my first read on him was correct. He’s been handed so many things & put in high positions he never earned or deserved.

Do you wanna know the craziest part of this footage that will haunt him forever? He’s literally slowing his speech down & talking in a sporadic cadence.

He’s not just TELLING them that they’re all probably stupid & probably can’t read, he’s LITERALLY SLOW-ING-DOWN-HIS-SPEECH to make them understand the words that are coming out of his mouth!!!! As if they’re children!!!! That means he REALLY BELIEVES they’re slow. He’s not just saying it—he didn’t misspeak!!!! He BELIEVES it!!!!

Do ya love it?!?!!
Do ya just love it, black ppl?!????

[The Garden Faithful @GardenFaithful]

The 5-on-3 format in the 2nd period didn’t work for them either 😭😭

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

China offered Alysa Liu’s family millions of dollars to represent them at the 2022 Olympics. But her Chinese born dad, who stood up to communism, refused the offer. Now his American born daughter is the first US ice skating gold medalist in 24 years.