Adam Rule

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

Hany Ramzy was the last Christian player on Egypt’s national soccer team.

After he was seen making the sign of the cross following a goal for Egypt, an unofficial decision was made to exclude Christian players from the national team.

Although Christians make up an estimated 10–15% of Egypt’s population, they are banned from senior government positions and many other areas of public life.

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

Another prize entry for my favourite genre of Twitter conversation, thanks to @DBanksy

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

Sam Neill with a great ‘fart story, and Jeff Goldblum with a great ‘fart story’ put-down.

RIP SAM (1947-2026)

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

The CDC under RFK Jr stopped tracking cases of cyclospora, a parasite that causes diarrhea

Now the case count, like the diarrhea it causes, is explosive

Thousands and thousands of cases across the US but no one is quite sure how many

What a shit show

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

So Reform UK is funded by Russia, Restore bought and paid for by an American trillionaire, GB News owned by a hedge fund in Dubai and the Daily Mail registered in Bermuda. That's patriotism for you these days.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

You mean to tell me weve been living on a duck this whole time? Now it all makes sense.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

A week after Hamas “gave up control of Gaza”: Despite Hamas’s deceptive claim that it “dissolved” its government in Gaza, the opposite has unfolded. Since that announcement, amplified endlessly by Al Jazeera and other “pro‑Palestine” platforms, the group has intensified its thuggery, violence, and extortion of Gaza’s population. Its security and intelligence services have summoned hundreds of Gazans, including people I know, for interrogation, some at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Many were tortured and accused of “collaborating with Ramallah,” a new catch‑all charge Hamas now uses against anyone who questions its rule or posts critical content online. Gazans widely understand Hamas’s grip as the central obstacle to reconstruction and any hope for a new future.

The crackdown on social media activists has grown even more extreme since the fraudulent “dissolution.” Hamas intelligence operatives now target people for merely commenting on Facebook posts that criticize the group’s brutality, branding Gazans and even outsiders, including a friend of mine in Jordan, as “agents working for Israel.” The smear campaign became so aggressive that Jordan’s General Intelligence Department, or Mukhabarat, summoned my friend to investigate whether they were actually working for Israel. Think about that: Jordan, a country with a peace treaty with Israel and one that bans Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, was pulled into Hamas’s intimidation campaign. My friend and their family ultimately fled Jordan after local elements joined Hamas’s smear effort, creating a dangerous environment.

Hamas has also escalated its extortion of Gaza’s merchants, demanding outrageous taxes and protection payments that have forced many businesses to close. And listen to this: when a small group of displaced Gazans protested because they feared the presence of Hamas police near their shelter in Gaza City's Sheikh Radwan area would elicit Israeli airstrikes that would cause civilian casualties, Hamas forces opened fire with AK‑47s and threw stun grenades, detained several protesters, and then told their families the detainees would only be released if they paid for the cost of the ammunition used to suppress the mini-protest: 25,000 Shekels, roughly $8,300 USD!

Hamas did not “dissolve” its government. It is tightening its grip, escalating its violence, and entrenching its fascistic control over Gaza more aggressively than ever.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

No surprise here then. Just as Trump fires the members of the Electoral Assistance Commission.

There is so much going on ‘quietly’ right now one could be forgiven for thinking corruption is the hallmark of this regime

my thanks to Liz Oyer, former Pardons n Attorney for this important clip.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/6J27ry3Uzb

[Kevin Schofield @KevinASchofield]

An MP messages: “Each MP is afforded personal security at their advice surgery and constituency engagements should they wish.

“We’re also able to make use of physical security measures at our homes and offices - including cameras, door strengthening devices, and alarm systems.

“And we’re able to carry personal alarms with us, which are provided by Parliament, and can be activated to alert a call centre - and the police - should we find ourselves in a dangerous situation.”

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Joe Biden and Lindsey Graham were friends for years. In 2015, Graham tearfully called Biden an amazing human being.

Then Trump came along.

Graham threw that friendship away to serve a man he once called a danger to America, attacking Biden personally and even going after his family.

Biden still chose grace.

That ability to rise above betrayal and remain a statesman is what makes Joe Biden better than most of us.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Polite reminder. Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald Trump. Same Nigel Farage.

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

Israel had a problem, and Germany had a solution. Israel needs more manufacturing capacity for Iron Dome components. Volkswagen, having failed to establish itself as a leader in electric vehicles and bleeding market share to Chinese imports, has capacity to spare. So the two problems found each other: Volkswagen’s management board green-lit converting a production line to defense manufacturing under a deal with Israel’s Rafael, saving thousands of German jobs in the process. A win-win.

Until the Qataris intervened and sank the deal.

Why do the Qataris have a say in what German factories build? Because, according to Bild, the Qatari sovereign wealth fund holds 10.4 percent of Volkswagen’s shares and 17 percent of its voting rights—and it vetoed the deal for one reason: the company slated to manufacture at the plant is Israeli. Qatar spent years funding Israel’s enemies and is now spending its equity blocking Israel from intercepting the missiles it paid for.

Volkswagen confirmed that its Qatari shareholders vetoed the cooperation at the Osnabrück plant but said it would keep seeking partnerships to save the site. Good luck to the 2,300 workers employed there—all facing layoffs by the end of 2027.

The Qataris had help, of course. Peace activists and opposition parties had criticized the conversion from the start, insisting Volkswagen manufacture only for the civilian market—never mind that everyone in Germany has understood for over a year that tens of thousands of jobs are gone without exactly this kind of reform. The protests intensified once the partner turned out to be Israeli, with radical left-wing activists, backed by the Left Party, declaring it “a deal that the German public cannot accept” given Netanyahu’s military activity across the Middle East.

And this is not just about Volkswagen. According to Bild, the $4.2 billion deal for German shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd to acquire Israel’s Zim is also apparently collapsing—and here too, senior Israeli sources point to Gulf money inside the German corporation: the Qatari sovereign wealth fund holds 12.3 percent of Hapag-Lloyd, the Saudi fund another 10.2 percent.

Nor is the creeping problem exclusive to Germany. As FDD’s Natalie Ecanow has documented, the state of 330,000 citizens, half the size of New Jersey, has invested some 400 billion dollars in the United States—roughly 1.2 million dollars per Qatari citizen. From defense and energy to basic infrastructure and manufacturing, the Qatari octopus has slipped its tentacles into countless sectors of the U.S. economy. As the Volkswagen case demonstrates, these investments can pay more than one kind of dividend.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

the one conspiracy i believe is that this place is full of bots programmed to say insane, incendiary things and they're funded by foreign organizations who want to divide americans and destabilize US society

["Sources close to" Bob Borsley @BobBorsley]

If you’re wondering why Britain is such a mess, it seems it’s nothing to do with austerity and Brexit and 14 years of government by a party who couldn’t even choose a leader they could stick with. It’s the fault of Count Binface:

[David Baddiel @Baddiel]

Bravo.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

I thought the best person to defend me against charges of financial irregularity would be Nadhim Zahawi, who claimed £6,000 to heat his stables and hid £27m in an offshore account then threatened to sue anyone who asked about it.
#bbclaurak

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

According to a source for the New York Post, Ro Khanna was invited to meet freed hostages and survivors of October 7th.

Khanna's team didn't even bother to respond.

His team was also offered an opportunity to meet with Druze civilians in the Golan Heights and a briefing on how aid is currently getting into Gaza. They didn't take it.

Now, if Ro Khanna genuinely believes that aid is not properly getting into Gaza, why not go to the briefing? If he thinks Israel is lying, wouldn't that be the perfect time to get proof?

But he didn't go, because those aren't his intentions. He didn't want to meet with victims of Hamas or those trying to get as much aid into Gaza as they can because they contradict his narrative.

And the narrative is all that matters.

[Jonathan Eric Lewis @LewisJonathanE]

When I was a graduate student at Emory, I taught a class on comparative genocides

We studied the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and the Rwandan genocide, specifically. Students, piqued by curiosity, were asked to describe how these horrific events were similar and how they were different

Fast forward to 2026 and now 'genocide' is mainly used as a rhetorical weapon, meant to delegitimize Jewish peoplehood and to manufacture consent for the abuse and harassment of Jews

There is no attempt to understand the term or to learn about actual genocides. Few people who scream 'genocide' on here have ever read a book on the topic. Many, lacking reading comprehension skills, are simply incapable of doing so

If you don't think this is going to effect how politics are conducted in the United States going forward, I have a bridge to sell you

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

I'm deeply saddened at the death of Ann Widdecombe. But not too saddened to speculate about it against police advice and enjoy it being a fantastic distraction from my dodgy financial dealings.