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[S. Dawn Heyse @SDawnHeyse]

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[Marc Molinaro @MarcMolinaro]

In NY, a homeowner building a garage, a farmer expanding a barn, or a small business improving their property can spend years navigating environmental reviews, permits, hearings, and litigation.

But when a politically favored solar developer wants to industrialize thousands of acres, Albany suddenly finds a shortcut.

The Fort Edward Solar project exposes the double standard.

This isn’t an abandoned industrial site. It’s a grassland habitat recognized for its environmental significance and home to vulnerable species.

For most New Yorkers, impacts like these would trigger intense scrutiny and could easily result in denial.

Yet through ORES, state policy starts with a different assumption: the project moves forward, and the impacts are ignored.

Albany tells us farmland must be preserved. Habitat must be protected. Local voices must be heard.

But when those priorities collide with state energy mandates, the rules change.

That’s what frustrates so many New Yorkers: The sheer hypocrisy.

If these lands are worth protecting, protect them. If environmental standards matter, apply them consistently. And if local communities are expected to live with the consequences, their voices should matter before—not after—the decision is made.

Albany cannot claim to be protecting farmland, habitat, and local control while using ORES to override all three. Local voices matter. ORES should be disbanded.

[Military Arms @MAC_Arms]

The folks at @Guns_com are reporting that House Democrats have introduced legislation to outright ban silencers. They're rarely used in crime, they're safety devices, and they want to ban them. This is what they will do when they regain power, federally.
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[The🐰FOO @PolitiBunny]

You could absolutely give the people of Virginia a break and suspend the .52 cent state gas tax, but you won't.

You'd rather pretend it's all Trump's fault so you can politicize our struggles, which again only proves you didn't run to help Virginia; you ran to help yourself.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

Imagine you’re sitting at a poker table with friends.

You throw down a three of a kind. The same guy gets up, goes to the bathroom, and comes back three minutes later with a better three of a kind. This keeps happening. At what point do you stop telling yourself it’s probably just a coincidence?

That’s the exact situation happening in California.

California keeps delivering election results that shift after long, unexplained delays, after huge mail-in batches, and after verification standards most serious countries would reject outright. And every time people raise an eyebrow, they’re told some version of “trust the process.”

Meanwhile, in parts of the world they still count votes out in the open with painted rocks in the town square so everyone watching can see the count happen in real time. No mystery. No back rooms. No “we’ll update the numbers in a few days.” The entire goal is making sure normal people actually believe the outcome is legitimate.

Real legitimacy comes from processes that look believable to the people who have to accept the results. When you do the opposite ... hidden counting, weak verification, multi-day delays ... you’re not strengthening trust. You’re just seeing how much the public will tolerate before they stop believing anything.

So here’s the real question: How many times does the guy have to come back from the bathroom with a suspiciously better hand before we’re allowed to say the game looks rigged?

Not stolen in some dramatic movie sense. Just structurally built so the house advantage is obvious to anyone paying attention.

When does “trust the process” stop being reassurance and start sounding like an insult?
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[Elicia Brand #IStandWithIsrael. @EliciaBrand]

Thank you to Congressman Randy Fine for shining a light on one of the most outrageous examples of injustice to come out of @LCPSOfficial in the way that only Rep Fine can. 🔥🔥🔥

Three boys were outrageously suspended after objecting to a female in the boys’ bathroom who was filming them. The BOYS were the ones punished.

They were targeted.

When students express discomfort about privacy in a bathroom, they should not be treated as the problem. Yet LCPS chose to discipline the boys rather than address the legitimate concerns they raised.

@reprandyfine is a rock star. Thank you.
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[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Japanese people, stop lying to yourselves.

The exact same pattern that destroyed thousands of British girls is already being imported into Japan right now.

In Rotherham alone, over 1,400 children — some as young as 11 — were systematically raped and trafficked by grooming gangs, mostly Pakistani Muslim men. Police and councils ignored it for years because they were terrified of being called racist.

That filth is now arriving here under the Specified Skilled Worker program. Hundreds of thousands already here, numbers exploding every year.

And Japanese people are still smiling, still saying “our culture is different.”

You are not different. You are just later.
And if you keep staying silent, your daughters will pay the price next.

[Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich]

GNC is owned by a Chinese firm. The more you know.

[𝑮𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𓍢ִ໋♡ @CopperCation]

Our politicians and police say two-tier justice doesn't exist. Oh really? ⬇️

The man on the left, Afsar Safi, a migrant from Afghanistan aged 30, kidnapped a 7 yr old girl and sexually assaulted her. He got 2.5 years in prison and is expected to be out on licence after having served just 6 months.

The man on the right, Reece Robinson, a British man aged 21, has just been fast tracked through the courts for throwing stones at the Southampton protests. He got 2 years.

How is this even remotely acceptable?

We are being gaslit beyond belief.

[Bitcoin Teddy @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Bill Maher just went so hard against Islam, it left his guests in stunned silence.

It all started when Maher recalled how people overused the term “Islamophobia” after 9/11.

He says that moment was the “beginning” of a “wokeness” that forbade you to say this out loud:

“There is such a thing as Western civilization. Remember after 9/11, if you said ‘clash of civilizations’? It was the beginning of sort of that wokeness where, ‘Oh, don’t say that. That’s Islamophobia.’”

“No, it was a clash of civilizations. The civilizations are very different, and OURS IS BETTER!”

[Guests stare at each other in silence].

Maher continued: “And if you’re not clapping, spend a week in a Muslim capital, you wouldn’t last.”

[The Second Amendment @USCons_Amend_II]

I will say this once again and explain it one last time.

Guns do not kill people.

Bullets do not kill people.

Tools do not kill people.

People either die of natural causes, accidents, or they are killed by other people.

Whether it is by the stroke of a pen or with a shot from a gun.

People kill people.

Not tools.

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

@GavinNewsom So not the people engaging in actual fraud?

Oh that's right, you would rather go after @nickshirleyy and the people uncovering fraud than the people engaging in it.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

As a Japanese, the thing that terrifies me most is not what is already happening in Britain.

It is that Japan is sleepwalking into the exact same situation — and most Japanese people still think “it won’t happen here.”

We are now accepting record numbers of foreign workers from countries and cultures that have already produced grooming gangs, street violence, and parallel societies in Europe.

Our politicians call it “labor shortage countermeasures.”
They never call it what it actually is: importing the same problems that destroyed safety in other nations.

Japanese people are still smiling, still polite, still in a daze.

By the time the first major grooming scandal or terror incident happens here, it will already be too late.

Wake up. While we still can.

[Lydia Moynihan @LydiaMoynihan]

Voter rolls in LA country increased by 691,000 people since 2018 despite the county losing 366,600 residents…

I can understand why people have serious questions about ballot harvesting, voter registration, and election results in LA county.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

If you've watched Band of Brothers, you know Carentan.

What the show doesn't fully capture is the math of what Easy Company was asked to do.

To take Carentan, paratroopers of the 101st Airborne had to advance down a single flooded causeway with zero cover, under direct machine gun fire, with nowhere to go but forward.

Men froze. Not from cowardice. The human brain simply stops when it calculates the odds correctly.

Lt. Richard Winters reportedly had to physically push men forward himself.

They took the causeway. They took the town on June 12 after fighting began around June 10.

Carentan connected Utah and Omaha beach. Without it, the two beachheads remained cut off from each other.

Every logistics line that fed the D-Day invasion ran through a town that almost didn't fall.

[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

Colonialism is bad, right?

Wrong.

The Aztec Empire ran sacrifice at industrial scale. Excavations of the Huey Tzompantli, the skull rack next to the Templo Mayor, have uncovered hundreds of skulls of men, women, and children. Spanish eyewitnesses described tens of thousands. The Aztecs fought "Flower Wars" whose purpose was capturing live victims for the altar. Hearts were cut out of living people. Subject peoples hated Aztec rule so much that Tlaxcalans made up most of Cortes's army. The conquest was largely an indigenous uprising against an indigenous empire. The sacrifices ended under Spanish rule.

India: burning a widow alive on her husband's funeral pyre. British records from Bengal alone documented thousands of cases between 1815 and 1828. The British, with Indian reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, banned it in 1829. When priests told General Napier it was sacred custom, he answered: my nation also has a custom, we hang men who burn women alive. You follow yours, we will follow ours.

India: Thuggee cults murdered travelers by the tens of thousands over centuries as offerings to Kali. It was a hereditary profession. William Sleeman's campaign in the 1830s wiped it out.

Slavery was a universal indigenous institution. Dahomey and Ashanti were built on slave raiding and sold captives for a thousand years to Arab traders before any European ship arrived. Pacific Northwest tribes held up to a quarter of some village populations as slaves and killed them ceremonially at potlatches. The Comanche ran a captive-raiding economy across the Southwest. What colonizers introduced after 1807 was the first attempt in history to abolish slavery globally. The Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron spent fifty years hunting slave ships and freed about 150,000 Africans. African kings protested. The King of Bonny complained that abolition was destroying a trade ordained by his gods and priests.

The Dahomey kingdom's "Annual Customs" beheaded hundreds of captives and slaves every year to honor dead kings. Documented by European visitors for two centuries. It ended when France conquered Dahomey in 1894.

Sailors called Fiji the Cannibal Isles. Chief Ratu Udre Udre kept a stone for every victim he ate. His pile holds nearly 900. Shipwrecked sailors were killed and eaten. Within a generation of missionaries and British administration after 1874, the practice was gone.

Nigeria: In parts of Igboland, newborn twins were left in the bush to die and their mothers ostracized or killed. Missionary Mary Slessor spent decades in Calabar rescuing abandoned infants until the practice collapsed.

Indigenous genocide of indigenous people. In 1835, two Maori tribes invaded the Chatham Islands and slaughtered the Moriori, whose own law forbade them to fight back. They killed, enslaved, and ate them. The Moriori population fell from about 2,000 to barely 100. No European did this. British colonial law ended it.

Add headhunting in Borneo, the Philippines, and Nagaland. Female infanticide in India and Polynesia. Foot binding in China, dismantled partly by missionary campaigns. Every one of these ended under pressure from the colonial powers we are taught to treat as history's unique villains.

Colonialism was not charity. The Belgian Congo was a horror, conquest was for profit, and rule was without consent. But the ledger has two sides and one has been erased. Pre-colonial societies practiced slavery, human sacrifice, widow burning, infanticide, and genocide, because cruelty is not a European invention. The first civilization that tried to abolish these practices worldwide is the one you were taught to be ashamed of.

If "indigenous" means innocent and "colonizer" means guilty by definition, that is not history.

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

Mohsen Mahdawi is 34 years old.

He first enrolled at Birzeit University in the West Bank in 2008 and studied there for six years. In 2018 he enrolled as an undergraduate at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He stayed there until 2021, and never earned a credential despite enrolling as a seventh year senior and being a full time student there for four years. Despite this extremely suspicious academic record, he was admitted as a transfer to Columbia University — a school which rejects over 97% of applicants — where he attended as an undergraduate for another four years.

Columbia’s rules explicitly state that students must be progressing toward an on-time graduation, but they accepted Mahdawi as an eleventh year undergraduate and allowed him to remain a student in good standing even though he was evidently not maintaining a full course load. His student status was a pretext; he was acting as a full-time anti-American, anti-Jewish and pro-terrorism activist. Since he claims to be a Palestinian refugee, it is unclear who was paying his tuition or providing for his rent and expenses in New York City while he was engaged in subverting American institutions.

He finally earned a bachelor’s degree in May 2025 from one of the top five American universities after 17 years as an undergraduate and was accepted to a master’s program at Columbia even though the State Department was already trying to deport him on national security grounds.

Democrats at every level fought hard to keep him in the country.

[Tim Anderson @AssocAnderson]

When Democrats promised affordable housing, what they meant was forcing localities to accept more manufactured housing through state mandates.

HB 655 limits the ability of local governments to treat manufactured homes differently from site-built homes in many zoning districts.

If your community wants to decide for itself what housing belongs in its neighborhoods, Richmond increasingly thinks it knows better.

When gun grabber Dan Helmer is proud of something - you should immediately expect to slightly vomit in your mouth by his “accomplishments.”