Philip Imants Long 🛡️🇺🇸🇱🇻🇺🇦

[Philip Imants Long 🛡️🇺🇸🇱🇻🇺🇦 @Phil_I_Long]

A few things to think about:

The most common phrase in Hebrew and Christian scripture is “Don’t be afraid.”

The early followers believed that Jesus was resurrected & death had been defeated. This made them effectively impossible to intimidate, to the point that nothing even the Roman Empire could do would dissuade them.

Christianity spread across very different cultures and languages without an army (until after 325). The primitive Church both had problems AND was an amazing community that turned worldly values (status, money, hierarchy, patriarchy, tribalism, blood family ties) on their head with forgiveness as the core ethic. Nothing else in History has been even remotely like it.

As Jesus through the Church authors History, our problems and paradigms change. The different parts of the Church adapt (sometimes reluctantly) and meet each era with new understandings, theology and practices. What is immutable is the Cross & Resurrection, defeating death and freeing us from its power, enabling us to turn our hearts (repent) … individually and corporately. The ethics Jesus taught flow from this basic reality. This means that while the world to come empowers us, the world “now” is of paramount interest to the Divine. The Book of Revelation has Heaven and earth joining, and we will have glorious resurrected bodies to inhabit eternity. We are not escaping this world, we are transforming it under subtle Divine guidance.

The “invisible” struggle of the Church with Empire post 325 is, indeed how we now enjoy an enlightened, scientific civilization with Dignity Culture.

[marqix ☆ @fwmarqix]

My daughter told me a story years ago about her AP Art teacher that stuck with me far longer than any actual art lesson ever did.

There was a girl in her class who loved everything loud, glitter, rhinestones, neon paint, peacock feathers, all of it. While everyone else was doing tasteful, serious, gallery looking work, she brought in a canvas that looked like a chandelier had exploded on it.

The room got awkward fast.

You could tell she already knew the teacher probably hated it. He was one of those stern, old school art guys who liked restraint and thought “less is more” was basically scripture.

So she starts explaining herself before he even critiques it. Trying to soften it, Trying to make it sound more acceptable. More refined. More “art.”

He let her finish, looked at the piece, and said:

“You’re making a terrible mistake.”

Whole class went silent.

Then he said, “Not because this is too much. Because it’s not enough.”

She looked stunned.

He pointed at the canvas and said, “This has the fingerprints of somebody who loves bold, flashy, ridiculous things… and then got scared halfway through. You pulled back. You edited yourself for people who were never going to like your taste in the first place.”

Then he hit her with the line my daughter still remembers:

“If I’m going to dislike your work, don’t give me something I can politely dismiss. Give me something so fully committed I have to respect it.”

That girl came back at the end of the semester with a portfolio that looked like Vegas and a peacock got into a fistfight. It was outrageous. Glitter, texture, color, chaos.

The teacher hated every piece.

He gave her the highest mark in the class.

That’s a lesson a lot of people need outside of art too: if you keep sanding yourself down for people who were never your audience, all you end up with is a weaker version of what made you interesting in the first place.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

The funniest part of this Democrat meltdown is watching the donor class act shocked that the radicals they bankrolled actually believe the shit they were chanting.

For years the deal was straightforward. Rich leftists wrote the checks, NGOs washed the money, universities stamped out the activists, and blue cities handed them jobs with benefits. The media called it progress. The party bosses figured the little revolutionaries would stay in their lane and show up when it was time to vote.

Cute arrangement.

Now the radicals want the keys. Not a seat at the table. Not another diversity sinecure. Not a grant for some half-assed “community organizing” hustle. They want the actual machine ... the money, the nominations, the city halls, the party infrastructure, the whole rotting hive.

And the donors are standing there blinking like, “Why are they talking about taking our money?”

Because that’s what you trained them to do.

You spent years funding resentment and calling it justice. You normalized envy and called it compassion. You celebrated chaos in the streets and called it moral clarity. You turned professional activism into a career with good benefits and told them they were heroes for hating the country that paid them.

Now they’re inside the house asking who actually owns the deed.

Mamdani didn’t hijack the Democratic Party. He just stopped pretending the old guard was still in charge. The radicals weren’t some unfortunate side effect. They were the intended product.

Democrats built the hive.

Now the hive wants to eat the people who built it.
(article below)

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

Let’s get a few things straight:

Lebanon is a country that was destroyed by importing other people’s causes into it and being used as a launching pad against Israel.

The reason Arabs and Muslims were able to do that is that Lebanon was a Christian-led nation, and the Christians had to appease the Arab and Muslim majority surrounding them.

Israel never attacked Lebanon, never, unprovoked.

Lebanon was pressured into attacking Israel alongside the Arab states in 1948.

Then Palestinians were imported into Lebanon after Jordan’s Sunni king expelled them, and the Christian Lebanese weren’t in a position to refuse.

The Sunni Muslims, alongside the communists, armed the Palestinian militias and let them use Lebanon as a launching pad against Israel.

Israel invaded to clear out the Palestinian terrorists because Lebanon itself couldn’t, so the 1982 invasion was, in reality, helping Lebanon restore its sovereignty.

Hezbollah was created in 1982 as an Iranian proxy to capitalize on the so-called Palestinian cause.

Israel remained in southern Lebanon to deter the new Iranian militia.

In 2000, Israel withdrew from Lebanon.

Hezbollah kept attacking Israel and kidnapping its soldiers.

In 2006, Israel went to war with Lebanon after Hezbollah kidnapped its soldiers.

In 2023, following the Hamas attack, Hezbollah attacked Israel unprovoked on October 8.

The Lebanese government is too weak to disarm Hezbollah.

Israel needs guarantees for its security, so the disarmament of Hezbollah is non-negotiable.

The useful idiots who tell you any other version are lying to you.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious.

Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal. https://t.co/72wxaVLzVT

[Fouad Makhzoumi @fmakhzoumi]

Today’s agreement announced in Washington marks a historic turning point and presents Lebanon with a rare opportunity to fully restore its sovereignty, reclaim its national decision-making, and open a new chapter of security, stability, and peace.
We unequivocally support this process, led by the Lebanese state under the leadership of President Joseph Aoun and the Government, as the only serious national path capable of bringing decades of conflict to an end and addressing the outstanding issues between Lebanon and Israel.
For this process to succeed, all arms must be placed exclusively under the authority of the Lebanese state. Hezbollah’s weapons outside the framework of state legitimacy must come to an end, and the Lebanese Armed Forces must assume full security responsibility throughout the South as a first step toward extending the state’s authority across all Lebanese territory.
At the same time, Israel’s full withdrawal from all occupied Lebanese territory remains an indispensable pillar of any just and lasting agreement that delivers security and peace for both sides.
Today is not merely the beginning of a new round of negotiations. It is the beginning of Lebanon’s path to reclaiming its state: one state, one army, one legitimate authority over arms, full sovereignty, and lasting peace.

[DSA Watch @DSA_Watch]

🚨 A House Democrat from a swing district has told CNN they’re having serious conversations about leaving the Democratic Party next term over the rise of the “Mamdani Wing” of the party

[Philip Imants Long 🛡️🇺🇸🇱🇻🇺🇦 @Phil_I_Long]

@JillianMichaels Neocons tried to do that and failed, then did it to the Rs.

[Jillian Michaels @JillianMichaels]

The Democratic Party as we know it is officially DEAD. What just went down in the New York primaries wasn't an election—it was a coordinated, hostile takeover. While everyone was laughing at Bernie Sanders memes, a radical group exploded from 6,000 to over 100,000 members, quietly infiltrating city councils, school boards, and now... Congress. They aren't launching a third party; they are dismantling the establishment from within using a chilling strategy called "entryism."
Watch the first 10 seconds to see the exact moment power shifted, because what they have planned for 2028 changes everything...

Watch the full episode on my YT channel! Link is in the comments ⬇️

[Dangerous Thoughts @DangerousThinkg]

Everyone should hear these words about the WNBA

[DOGMA DETOX - Kian Kermanshahi - کیان کرمانشاهی @kiankerman]

🔴Mehr als 30 Jahre lang war ich ein devoter Schiite – mit direktem Draht zu hochrangigen Vertretern des iranischen Regimes. Ich habe zwei Moscheen in Deutschland mitbegründet und war über 15 Jahre das Gesicht und die Stimme der antisemitischsten Demonstration Deutschlands: des Quds-Tages(Jerusalem Tag). Ich bin im Epizentrum des schiitischen Islams großgeworden und habe ihn durch mein Studium tiefer durchleuchtet als fast jeder andere. 2017 folgte nach langem Ringen der endgültige Schnitt: Ich kehrte dem Islam den Rücken. Heute demaskiere ich die absurden Dogmen dieser Lehre und warne den Westen eindringlich vor den geopolitischen Bestrebungen der Muslimverbände und ihrer Hintermänner. im Westen. Wenn du also die ungeschminkte Wahrheit über den sunnitischen und schiitischen Islam wissen willst, ihren Lehren, die sie euch nicht erzählen, dann abonniere mich. Ich zeige euch, was Muslime wirklich lehren. BILD: 2007 Mashad - Am Schrein von Imam Ali Reza

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Absolutely disgusting clown

[Philip Imants Long 🛡️🇺🇸🇱🇻🇺🇦 @Phil_I_Long]

@liorsela What Tesla should do is charge less for HW3 vehicles …

[Matt Couch @RealMattCouch]

Imagine trying to take out the only reason you make any money…

[jjmac21 @jjmac2169]

As pointed out before; here’s the refs from last night that has had it out for Caitlin Clark from college days. WNBA needs to investigate. Refs Gina Cross and Angelica Suffren. Absolutely horrible people.

[Max Twain @MaxTwain24]

Never has a photo so completely encapsulated the total and complete failure of the @wnba’s leadership.

Never in the history of sports has a golden goose been so deliberately squandered.

[Matt Paulus @mattpaulus]

@MichaelDell It can never be overstated how much damage this one woman has caused the state of Delaware.

[Ellie in Space 🚀💫 @esherifftv]

Having to be readmitted to the hospital five days postpartum is heartbreaking for me as a new mom.
My baby is doing amazing, it’s me, the mom who is having some health issues.
If you pray, I humbly ask you to please pray for me.

[Philip Imants Long 🛡️🇺🇸🇱🇻🇺🇦 @Phil_I_Long]

@ImtiazMadmood Good kitty.🐱

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

The Yevsektsiya were Jews. They blamed Zionists and traditional Jews for alienating Soviet society. They believed that if Jews abandoned religion, nationalism, and every trait the regime found objectionable, Communism would reward them with acceptance.

They helped shut down synagogues, persecuted Hebrew teachers, and denounced fellow Jews as enemies of progress. When they were no longer useful, the Soviet state disbanded the Yevsektsiya. Many of its members were executed during Stalin's purges. Others disappeared into labor camps. Their loyalty bought them nothing.

The Antizionist League of Iraq was made up of Jews as well. Its members insisted that Zionism was the source of hostility toward Iraqi Jews. They argued that if Jews publicly rejected the idea of a Jewish state, suspicion and hatred would disappear. They were wrong. The League itself was dissolved and its leaders imprisoned. The Farhud left hundreds of Jews dead, Jewish homes and businesses were looted and destroyed, and over the following years an ancient community was driven into exile. Nobody stopped to ask whether their victims were Zionists before burning their homes or stabbing them in the streets.

A century ago, Baghdad had one of the largest Jewish communities in the world. Jews made up roughly a quarter of the city's population. Today there are fewer than ten Jews left in all of Iraq. Trying to prove that you are one of the "good Jews" has never altered the outcome.

German Jews were among the most assimilated Jews in the world. They were educated, patriotic, and deeply proud of being German. Many of them fought proudly in WWI. They often looked down on poorer Jews arriving from Eastern Europe. Some convinced themselves that antisemitism was directed only at those less refined than themselves. Even the Association of German National Jews sought accommodation with the Nazi movement and declared its opposition to Zionism. The Nazis outlawed the organization anyway. Its members were deported and murdered alongside the rest of European Jewry.

Today there are fewer Jews in all of Europe than there are Arab citizens of Israel. So much for Europe lecturing Israel about tolerance.

Once a society begins stigmatizing Jews, or even just one category of Jews, the writing is already on the wall. Assimilation has never provided lasting protection. Appeasement has never provided lasting protection. Explaining ourselves politely and hoping to be accepted as the "good ones" has never provided lasting protection.

We are living through a dangerous moment. The United States, and perhaps Argentina, remain among the few places where Jews are not broadly stigmatized. But even that cannot be taken for granted. A 2023 Harvard-Harris poll found that two thirds of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 agreed that "Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated as oppressors." Those young people will shape the future of public opinion.

We have no choice but to speak plainly about antizionism.

Because if antizionism were merely opposition to Netanyahu, it would not predate Netanyahu. If it were merely opposition to Israeli policy, it would not predate Israel. Long before 1948, Jews were being massacred for refusing to accept their place as a tolerated minority.

The uncomfortable truth is that antizionism did not emerge in response to Jewish power. It emerged in response to the idea that Jews should possess power at all.

Kind explanations did not save the Jews of Baghdad. Compliance did not save the Jews of Germany. Revolutionary zeal did not save the Jews of the Soviet Union.

Clarity matters. Memory matters. And the refusal to lie about what we are facing matters most of all.

[Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 @JasonJournoDC]

💥NEW: James Carville: “I actually do think it's time for Democrats to talk the S word: ‘Schism’ ... there's just some sh*t that I can't be in the same tent with ... I'm done ... I don't want to be in a political party that denies the right of the state of Israel to exist.”