Marvelous Mrs W.

[Dave Rubin @RubinReport]

Irony is dead.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

"My body, my choice." Except when a Muslim mayor says cover up. Then it's "my body for votes."

@AOC

[Brandon @TheMidwestVet]

@AlinejadMasih @AOC And they said Republicans would make them wear clothes like the Handmaid’s Tale.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Hello @AOC, while you smiled in a hijab at a New York event, I was in Federal Court facing the 4th hitman hired by the Islamic Republic to assassinate me, for campaigning for Iranian women to have the same freedom you performed for a photo op. Will you come to court with me in August when I face the 5th hitman? Or does solidarity only work when it doesn't offend the Islamic regime?

You wore hijab voluntarily in New York. Women are killed in Iran for taking it off.

You are the very woman who, at every opportunity, protests against violence against women, decries gender segregation, and champions "inclusion." Yet here you stand, smiling and wearing a hijab, at an event in New York, in the heart of the West, where men and women are strictly separated. To me and millions of Iranian women, this does not look like a choice. It is no longer "My body, my choice," but rather "My body for votes."

They who claim to fight for women's self-determination in the name of feminism voluntarily embrace an ideology that mandates our women cover their hair simply because they are women. They enjoy the prosperity, freedom, and privileges of the Western world, where they may live as autonomous individuals , yet they simultaneously accept that other women should not be afforded the same rights.

#LetUsTalk

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🚨 VIDEO: Texas state Rep. James Talarico opened a legislative session with a heretic prayer, invoked old Communist-adjacent phrase

h/t @reddit_lies who spotted it on Reddit; I tracked down the original video.

The prayer addresses God as "holy mystery" with "so many names" — Torah, Quran, Gita, Dharma — treating all religious traditions as equally valid expressions of the same God.

Jesus is described as "a barefoot rabbi" who "expressed" God's love... one expression among many implied.

The closing line: "build a new world in the shell of the old."

That phrase has a specific origin. It comes from the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) Preamble, written in 1905. It's syndicalist labor movement language. Not explicitly Communist - but they wanted to abolish capitalism and the state all the same.

See it for yourself:

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico couldn't be more wrong! The Bible is not silent on abortion as he claims—that's an absolute lie. God commands us, "You shall not murder" (Exodus 20:13). Abortion is taking a life—it is murder. The Word of God tells us we are created in the image of God and consistently underscores the value of human life. Jeremiah 1:5 says, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart..." In 2021, this same Democratic candidate opposed a bill to ban men from women's sports, saying that "God is non-binary." Don’t be deceived by wicked politicians spouting lies like this. https://t.co/RCYLX5iPPf

[Marvelous Mrs W. @NoOneCallsMeMel]

@WellsJorda89710 I can’t get past the mask….what month and year is it?

[Eldrode @Eldrode]

Rand - they are on a desk in THE SENATE.

The Senate is controlled by a Republican Majority under @LeaderJohnThune

You are a Republican senator.

Here's where this falls flat. Those of us outside of government have no idea why this is being held up by you guys. But you do. If you're going to ask the question "why" on X - but you know the answer.....you're doing all of us who look to you to shoot us straight a disservice.

You know why it's held up. Have the courage to tell us. And if it's @LeaderJohnThune fault - be honest about it.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

The answers to many modern problems are simple but politically incorrect.

So instead of solving anything, everybody pretends they don't know what's going on, and spend years misdiagnosing the issue, talking in circles, and wasting time.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Stoicism is one of the West’s most influential philosophical traditions, and author Ryan Holiday is its greatest advocate. And so, when he says that Ivanka Trump’s praise of Marcus Aurelius is “as cringe as it possibly gets, because it’s not real and it’s totally missing the point,” anyone who cares about Stoicism should pay attention. While Ivanka’s quotation of Marcus, on how “the soul becomes dyed the color of its thoughts,” reproduces the sentence accurately, explains Holiday, she fails to live up to the philosophy because she has not, in his terms, staged “an intervention with your dad whose life would be dyed with his horrible, negative, mean bullying thoughts all the time.”

But what Holiday demands of Ivanka contradicts the stoic philosophy he claims to teach. “A man must know many things first,” wrote Marcus Aurelius in Book 11, “before he be able truly and judiciously to judge of another man’s action.” And yet Holiday does not entertain the possibility that Ivanka has thought carefully about her relationship to her father, that she has considered and rejected the path of public denunciation, or that her loyalty might itself reflect a moral commitment. Instead, he assumes that her silence about her father proves her unethical.

Donald Trump’s tweets, his rallies, his rhetorical style, and his political career are not Ivanka’s to control. The very first sentence of Stoic Epictetus’s Handbook says, “Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions...”

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[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

I am going to keep repeating this until people understand this.

Karen Bass was not only a Castro operative and Communist, but she got elevated to Vice Chair of National Endowment for Democracy, which is the center of soft power operations in the US government. She is not a "DEI mayor." She is extremely powerful at the global stage.

She was actively involved in shaping foreign policy with the Obama administration, especially Africa. Her Ghana visit during the LA wildfires wasn't a vacation, it was part of a Biden delegate to greet Ghana's new President.

She was considered HUD Secretary for the Biden administration. Instead, she nominated the person who would become the actual HHS Secretary - California Attorney General Xavier Becerra.

Now, let me ask you. If a literal Castro operative gets elevated to this stage, what does this imply about the rest of the United States government?

[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission.

Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military.

On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed only because the idiot Taliban didn't arm the missile. The helicopter didn't explode, but it had to land and an ordnance team recovered the missile’s serial number which led back to a cache of Stinger Missiles kept in

Qatar by the CIA.

Obama and Hillary were in full panic mode, so Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to retrieve the rest of the Stinger Missiles. This was a "do-or-die" mission, which explains the Stand Down Orders given to multiple rescue teams during the siege of the US Embassy.

It was the State Dept, NOT the CIA, that supplied the Stinger Missiles to our sworn enemies because Gen. Petraeus at CIA would not approve supplying the deadly missiles due to their potential use against commercial aircraft.

So then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus when he refused to testify in support of Obama’s phony claim of a “spontaneous uprising caused by a YouTube video that insulted Muslims.”

Obama and Hillary committed TREASON!

THIS is what the investigation is all about, WHY she had a Private Server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and WHY Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was the result of the YouTube video, even though everyone KNEW it was not.

Furthermore, the Taliban knew that the administration had aided and abetted the enemy WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission, so they began pressuring (blackmailing) the Obama Administration to release five Taliban generals being held at Guantanamo.

Bowe Bergdahl was just a useful pawn used to cover the release of the Taliban generals. Everyone knew Bergdahl was a traitor but Obama used Bergdahl’s exchange for the five Taliban generals to cover that Obama was being coerced by the Taliban about the unauthorized Stinger Missile deal.

So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised, as well and a Sec of State that is a serial liar, who perjured herself multiple times at the Congressional Hearings on Benghazi.

Perhaps this is why no military aircraft were called upon for help in Benghazi: because the administration knew that our enemies had Stinger Missiles that, if used to down those planes, would likely be traced back to the CIA cache in Qatar and then to the State Dept’s illegitimate arms deal in Libya.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🧵 THREAD: You've heard the phrase "OUR DEMOCRACY" a million times. But what exactly is "OUR DEMOCRACY"? 🤔

When they say "democracy," they don't mean a republic. They don't mean consent of the governed. They don't mean your right to choose your own leaders.

They mean a system where "institutions" - NGOs, multilaterals, the permanent bureaucracy - advance a set of values they consider settled: equality, social justice, cosmopolitanism, global governance. These values aren't proposals to be voted on. They're treated as moral prerequisites that must be true *before* your vote counts.

Despite what they say, they aren't for checks and balances. Checks and balances limit what government can do to you. This limits what you can do to *them*. The brakes are on accountability, not power. The institutions that set the boundaries of acceptable policy have put themselves beyond the reach of the electorate, and they call that arrangement "democracy."

Trump has been an existential threat to this system since the moment he said "drain the swamp" ... because the swamp IS the system. When he threatened those institutions, he didn't threaten the republic. He threatened their immunity from it.

And they said so. On camera. At their own events. In their own words.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread.👇

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just described the most sophisticated theft operation in American history.

Not a heist. A system.

Your tax dollars leave Washington.

They enter a non-governmental organization. The government. With different letterhead.

Musk: “Obviously if it’s a government-funded non-governmental organization, it’s just the government.”

They cross a border.

American law stops following them.

They pass through three more entities in three more countries.

They come home.

Different pocket. Clean hands. Perfect crime.

Musk: “The government can send money to an NGO that is then no longer governed by the laws of the United States.”

Now run the math.

Congressional salary. $200,000.

Average net worth of a longtime member of Congress. North of $20 million.

Musk: “There are a lot of strangely wealthy members of Congress. I just can’t connect the dots of how they got $20 million earning $200,000 a year. Nobody can explain that.”

Nobody is supposed to.

This machine ran untouched for decades for one reason. Human limitation.

A forensic team cannot trace ten thousand wire transfers across fifty global jurisdictions at once.

The corruption does not hide in darkness.

It hides in volume.

They built a labyrinth so deliberately complex that the sheer weight of it collapses every investigation before it starts.

Paper buries paper. Bureaucracy absorbs inquiry.

The entire architecture was engineered to exhaust you.

Then artificial intelligence arrived.

AI does not get tired.

It cannot be bought.

It does not lose the thread at wire transfer 4,000.

You give it the entire global ledger. It maps every node, every transfer, every shell entity, every offshore NGO across every jurisdiction. Not in weeks. In hours.

It finds the signal inside the noise.

It flags the pattern.

It traces a dollar from a D.C. appropriation to a Cayman shell to a congressional portfolio in the time it takes a human auditor to find his parking spot.

The labyrinth was built to defeat human eyes.

It is defenseless against a machine that reads the entire maze at once.

This is why the establishment is not just annoyed by DOGE.

They are terrified.

Musk: “We’re going to try to figure it out and stop it.”

He did not arrive in Washington to trim budgets.

He arrived with supercomputing, AI audit systems, and a mandate to map the full financial architecture of the federal government.

For the first time in history, the complexity that protected the corruption is the very thing that will expose it.

Every shell entity is a signature.

Every routing pattern is a fingerprint.

Every congressman who walked in earning $200,000 and walked out worth $20 million is now a variable in an equation that will be solved.

The swamp was never impenetrable.

It was just too big for human hands.

It was never built for this.

[Marvelous Mrs W. @NoOneCallsMeMel]

@mtgreenee Is the following true?—

[Promethean Action @PrometheanActn]

Iran chose civilization. Trump gambled on it — and won the first round. Netanyahu and Graham aren't happy. That tells you everything.

[Fandom Pulse @fandompulse]

Project Hail Mary writer Andy Weir on social commentary in books:

"I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that."

"I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that."

"To that end, I also don’t talk about my personal political opinions publicly. I don’t want readers to even know, honestly. I don’t want that in the back of their minds as they read my stuff."

Is this why he has the #1 sci-fi movie in decades?

[Marvelous Mrs W. @NoOneCallsMeMel]

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[Marvelous Mrs W. @NoOneCallsMeMel]

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[Marvelous Mrs W. @NoOneCallsMeMel]

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