Rachel

Personal account, all views my own. ME/CFS patient report & perspective.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

man dressed as a speed camera turns around and scares the cop

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

Remember when I said that Israel is the sun around which the anti-Zionists orbit, and nothing else exists to them anymore? Point proven.

A western leftist asks Reza Pahlavi if he is an “Israeli asset.” Why? Because he isn’t even a real person to them.

Iran and its history doesn’t exist

The millions of Iranians calling his name in the streets didn’t exist

The legacy and stories of those who came before him don’t exist (except through their controlled western lens)

The 2,500 year relationship between Iranians and Jews doesn’t exist

The only thing that exists is Netanyahu, building Reza Pahlavi pixel by pixel in his lab.

And we Iranians? We’re the idiots who fell for the CGI

When an entire nation is erased for the comfort of a western fantasy, remind me again who the supremacists are?

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

Media reporting on Gaza: we’ll print any casualty figure even wildly implausible ones with no way to verify them.

Media reporting on Iran: we can’t report anything unless there are five independent sources, background checks, and a signed affidavit from the Boy Scouts.

[Rachel @RachxFrank]

@GatosMucho @Erfanmusic @instapundit And extra for trump

[Erfan Paydar @Erfanmusic]

🤯 This is wild to watch. So many journalists I’ve taken seriously over the past few years, people I believed were unbiased and genuinely cared about human life are now trying to diminish the real uprising of the Iranian people against this murderous regime, simply because they dislike Israel and want to tie everything back to it.

The people of Iran hate this government and want it gone. There have been uprisings again and again since the revolution, but they are always crushed by a regime that kills and imprisons anyone who dares to speak out.

Talk to some Iranians, please. You don’t have to force every international story into the single narrative you care most about.

The 90 million people living in Iran are human beings too. The whole world isn’t only about one cause you’re focused on.

If you don’t want to help them or be their voice, fine, but at the very least, don’t diminish their sacrifices. This is heartbreaking.

#IranProtests #DigitalBlackoutIran #IranRevolution2026

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

Urgent: how to help save a young protester’s life.

I cannot believe how many years we’ve had to recycle this dystopian practice. God, when will it end? #ErfanSoltani

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

can we replace "cracking down" with "murdering" in reports from Iran, please?

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

After screaming this for years, I can’t believe it’s taken 12,000 Iranians murdered by the IRGC—to the world’s deafening silence—for people to finally see that the whole human rights movement & its social justice warriors was a gigantic, spectacular farce.

I feel so fucking sick

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

Share this to save his life.
If you make him famous, the Iranian regime might not execute him tomorrow.
#ErfanSoltani

[Adam @ABrokenBattery]

Tessa Munt MP: “ME is perhaps the only condition where the sicker you become, the less care you receive from the NHS.” NHS care for severe ME is nonexistent, over 200 healthcare workers were so concerned they wrote to the Health Secretary 14 months ago but received no response.

[Rachel @RachxFrank]

@halfateaspn Sending hugs. Therapy (esp when thoughts get dark) and finding joy in the smallest things. It's not a cure but it helps me cope.

[Adam @ABrokenBattery]

Clip: Channel 4 News revisits the case of Maeve Boothby O’Neill, who died from malnutrition caused by severe ME. The segment includes reaction to DecodeME’s genetic findings from Sonia Chowdhury of Action for ME and a patient participant. #MECFS

[Jeremy Jeffs @magnetoJJ]

#SevereME is devastating & even 40+ years after my own (mild) diagnosis I can only guess at the pain & suffering. Hilary, Cereth & Craig let me take photographs, thank you.

#mecfs #SevereMEDay #severemeday2025

#LivesUnlived
Info on exhibition and book https://t.co/6hudecBO4h

[Dan 🦠➡️🧠🔥 @Dan_Wyke]

Why hasn't @BBCNews covered the groundbreaking findings of the @DecodeMEstudy? Does the health editor @BBCHughPym not consider the story newsworthy? Reminder: M.E. affects at least 400,000 people in the UK alone. #BBCNews #MECFS #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis https://t.co/fFDmO9QB8M

[Jules de Barsham- I Stand With Israel🇬🇧🇮🇱🟦 @DeBarsham]

Lammy: “We urge the Iranians to re-establish diplomatic talks with the US”
If they refuse we’ll urge them again.
If all else fails we’ll consider using harsh language”

What a useless, gluttonous, impotent moronic twat!

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

I have some advice for David Lammy on how to resolve this problem👇

If the Pakistani Government won’t take back these men, visas should be immediately suspended for all Pakistanis wanting to come to the UK.

If they continue to refuse, aid should be suspended. It’s that simple. 

That’s what a Government motivated by keeping the British public safe would do. But right now we are being walked over and everyone can see it. 

Qari Rauf and Adil Khan are among two of Britain’s worst rape gang offenders. They were the ringleaders of a nine-strong gang of Asian men who sexually assaulted 47 girls – some as young as 12 – after plying them with drink and drugs. They are now out of prison, free to walk the same streets as the victims they terrorised. Convicted, but not properly punished. 

It’s completely out of order. Why are these Pakistani nationals – who have committed evil crimes – still here, you will be asking.

The Pakistani Government are reportedly using these monsters as bargaining chips to get their failing airline - suspended for safety reasons - access to our airports. If true, that is morally bankrupt. 

But these two rape gang perpetrators are really just the tip of the iceberg. 

Most have gone unpunished, their crimes ignored by authorities paralysed by fear of being called racist. The national inquiry Starmer has been forced to announce is a step forward, but this can only be the beginning.

Justice demands we punish every single perpetrator for their heinous crimes. The NCA must now pursue the abusers – they are much better placed than local police forces marred by the scandal – and the guilty men need full life sentences. 

If they are foreign nationals they must be added to the 18,982 foreign nationals subject to deportation proceedings currently in society and the 9,800 foreign offenders in prison. All must be removed. 

For some foreign criminals the obstacle to their deportation is their home country refusing to cooperate, for others it is human rights obstacles – in many cases caused by the Strasbourg Court stretching the ECHR beyond recognition. 

There are some in Westminster who still say we shouldn’t deport these people in case they are unfairly punished back in their home country. To that I say: tough luck. I couldn’t care less. My sole interest is protecting the British public from dangerous criminals who have committed appalling crimes. 

I have long argued that reform of the ECHR is impossible. This week the head of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, finally confirmed what many else have long suspected. He let the cat out the bag: “I am not calling for reform of the ECHR… When states face complex challenges, the answer is not to dismantle the legal guardrails they themselves helped build.”

So, once David Lammy has finished delivering his ultimatum to the Pakistani government, he can report back to the Prime Minister that his ruse of “reforming” the ECHR is a pointless charade. Starmer has a choice: remain in a broken convention to appease his legal pals, or leave the convention to protect the British public and manage rights with responsibilities sensibly like America and Australia.

Increasing the deportations of dangerous foreign criminals while we continue to import criminality from high-risk countries is like bailing out a sinking ship with a bucket.

Restrictions on migration from high-risk countries – like Eritrea, whose nationals are estimated, based on conviction data from 2021 to 2023, to be twenty times more likely to account for sexual offence convictions than British citizens – are a prerequisite for safer streets.

So David Lammy’s final task must be to break the news to counterparts that we will be putting restrictions and rigorous scrutiny on their visa applications.

This row is a test. Will Starmer protect the public or not? Are we a serious country any more or have our leaders lost the plot?

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

So that I understand this correctly:

Yemen fired missiles and drones indiscriminately at Israel without provocation. Hezbollah (part of the Lebanese government) fired thousands of rockets and missiles at Israel indiscriminately without provocation. All of these were armed and funded and controlled by Iran. And millions around the world plus a bunch of delusional podcasters were not only okay with that, but cheered it on and demanded more.

Yet Israel destroys Hezbollah in Lebanon, hits the Houthis in Yemen and hits Iran military and nuclear installations, and the US hits just three sites in Iran, all of a sudden Israel and the US are condemned for breaching the sovereignty of these countries?

There comes a time when hypocrisy and stupidity are so blatant and openly shown that it’s hard not to mock and laugh at these idiots.

[Khaled Hassan @Khaledhzakariah]

العقل الفسيخى اللى اقنعك ان امريكا ضعيفة تحتاج مصر و ان اسرائيل ضعيفة و ان السعودية بلد ساذجة يتم استغلالها من أمريكا، هو نفس العقل الفسيخى اللى اقنعك ان الهزيمة انتصار، و الصوت العالى شرف و كرامة، و سب و قذف الناس و الخوض فى شرف امهاتهم هو انتصار على عدوك، و الفقر نجاح و صمود، و الموت و الدمار جايزة لكل مؤمن يجب ان يتمني ينولها.

العقل الفسيخى هو مصطلح لوصف مجموعة من الناس، خاصة ملايين المصريين و اليمنيين و الفلسطينين، لا علاقة لهم بالعلم، العقل، الواقع، او حتى مصلحة بلادهم. هم ناس يروا فى دمار بلادهم و قتل اطفالهم شئ جميل و شريف.

ابعد عن هؤلاء الناس مهما كان الثمن. كفاية. كفاية. كفاية. اصبحنا ملطشة العالم كله و اضحوكة حقيرة. اصبحنا كالقردة، يضحكون علينا عندما نتحدث و نتصرف و يسجلون كلامنا و تصرفاتنا و يتداولوا التسجيلات بينهم للمزاح و المسخرة.

[Kasra Aarabi @KasraAarabi]

Let’s be absolutely clear: This was always a weaponisation programme. It was never for peaceful purposes. It’s for this reason that Ayatollah Khamenei gave oversight and control of the nuclear programme to the IRGC—the regime’s ideological army—and not civilian elites.

[Mahyar Tousi @MahyarTousi]

I have finally gotten in touch with my dad in Tehran.

He has been listening to IDF advice on evacuations. He is safe and says most of the IRGC bases in the capital have been destroyed.

The only danger to him is IRGC as they are cracking down on Iranians in the city.