UnbotheredModerate

Recovering savior. This is how I use my Political Science degree. Feminist, Anti-Racist, Queer-Ally, white guy. Get money out of politics. Do your part.

[UnbotheredModerate @UnbotheredMod]

Moderates resolve political conflicts.
If you give up on persuading them and kick them out of your coalition then you are choosing coercion over democracy.
Nothing good comes from using the militant fringe to overpower the rest of the country. #AntiPartisanModerate

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

Zohran Mamdani's wife, Rama Duwaji is going to another Luxury Islamic retreat at this 18th century castle in Porto to study Portugals "deep Islamic roots"

[Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll @skjask]

Want to cry about kids not being able to send kids over the Gaza border? Read this.
For 15 years, Aviv Kutz brought people together to fly kites from Kfar Aza to Gaza on Simchat Torah. The kites said Peace, Salaam, Shalom and bore messages of hope and peace to their Gazan neighbors.
On Oct 7- Simchat Torah 2023, the annual event did not take place because Aviv and his family were slaughtered by their Gazan neighbors. The family of 5 was found clinging to one another, dead in their home. Another 57 kibbutz members were murdered, 19 taken hostage to Gaza.

Think its sad that kites over a the border are seen as a threat? Talk to those who use them to send explosives to our kids- make a change. Until then, don't expect us to see anything coming over from Gaza as anything but a threat.

[UnbotheredModerate @UnbotheredMod]

Democrats made a fatal mistake when they validated the far left. Because the far left is not a team player. Complaining is *the* core piece of their identity. It makes them feel better than everybody else. When Democrats validate the far left it helps their numbers, and it benefits their leaders, but they never fully join the Democrats and Dems alienate moderates, so you lose people on both ends of the political spectrum.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: The Michigan Democrat Convention is half empty.

Jewish, Indian, and Black Michiganders have come out saying they feel uncomfortable to attend.

[UnbotheredModerate @UnbotheredMod]

@shannonrwatts Bullying is the best recruitment strategy, amirite?

[Jordan Domingue @DomingueJordan]

The Temple Synagogue attack on March 12, 2026 is a fresh memory for Michiganders and people across this country. However though the Michigan Halloween 2025 thwarted terrorist attack is largely forgotten.

It’s a good window to look at why the Arab/Muslim community in the state needs to be seriously pushed on support for Hezbollah and other Islamist militant jihadist groups. The legal defender of the two indicted for this attack is also the democratic nominee in state for the University of Michigan Regent - Amir Malek. A man I’ve heard refer to the inducted as “good boys.”

Take councilman Kamal Alsawafy. I’ve met him several times, decent man, has advocated for multi faith peaceful coexistence, has served our country, but also rather quiet about saying Hezbollah is a terrorist organization.

Now Kamal and Abdul are two different people, but the rhetorical threads are absolutely the same. They both would condemn violence that targets innocent people, but would not say that these organizations are rightly designated as terrorist organizations, and therefore threats to U.S. national security. Instead they would dodge because they understand the support these organizations have in the community. This is because they internally adopt the self framing of these organizations as resistance, and ultimately see them as so though they sometimes go too far. This is a serious problem, and it’s only compounded by journalist largely being uninformed and or too afraid to be labeled racist or islamphobic.

So Abdul, do you think Hezbollah deserves its designation as a foreign terrorist organization? If not, why?

@ProfMJCleveland thank you for the work on the original article. Perfect awareness on the common dancing done to avoid a simple answer. You are onto something huge that so few even understand.

https://t.co/WWZPJsQSOQ

[UnbotheredModerate @UnbotheredMod]

@MIAFLCIO @AbdulElSayed Unions like this message?
"life shouldn't be hard, the government should babysit me"
Abdul sounds like a conman insulting my intelligence.

[UnbotheredModerate @UnbotheredMod]

Tucker is afraid of something

[From the Frontline @From_Frontline]

Twenty-four hours after I published an exposé on JD Vance's Qatar-linked donor network, the Daily Caller — founded by Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel, funded in part by Omeed Malik, all people I named in my reporting — ran a hit piece calling me, an American citizen criticizing my own vice president, "foreign interference."

Notice what the piece doesn't do: disprove a single fact I reported. Instead it leans on anonymous sources, my being Jewish, my work in Israeli media, Jewish Republican donors, and someone's house being on the same street as Netanyahu's.

By that same standard: the Daily Caller's D.C. headquarters sits blocks from a development 90% financed by Qatar. And Tucker Carlson himself announced from a stage in Doha, across from Qatar's prime minister, that he's buying property there.

If proximity and financial ties are evidence of foreign influence, that standard should apply to them too. If my reporting is wrong, prove it. Instead they wrote about my nationality, my faith, and my employer.

By @emilykschrader — read more 👇

URL: https://t.co/LH4ztEjD5Q

#JDVance #Qatar #TuckerCarlson #MediaBias

[UnbotheredModerate @UnbotheredMod]

@Khan_Fatimaa1 @SchieferTomTom Hold up, this feels like institutionalized racism...

[UnbotheredModerate @UnbotheredMod]

Everything I don't like is propaganda or fascism 🤬😑

[Emma Camp @emmma_camp_]

One of my favorite things leftists do is call arguments they don't like "propaganda." Spooky!

[UnbotheredModerate @UnbotheredMod]

Good Iran War update

[Peter Baum @baum_p]

FACTS
Update to last weeks post …..
It is now 11 weeks since either Hamas or Hezbollah fired a rocket into Israel
The death toll of Hamas operatives this past week was increased by another nine and regarding Hezbollah, some sixty five of them plus twenty three IRGC operatives are literally stuck in tunnels as exits are blocked . Many may have already died and Iran has not only lost contact with them but has left them totally without political support . The Israelis will allow the anti Hezbollah factions in the Lebanese army to take credit for this .
Iran has not been able to fund or supply with weapons , either Hamas or Hezbollah for the full 11 weeks .
Arab Gazans continue to work with the IDF identifying the locations of Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives , hence the continued successful eliminations .
Both Greece and Finland signed large defence contracts this past week with Israel and Finland announced it has stopped funding to UNRWA
The worthless Iranian Riyal is now trading near to 2.1 million Riyals to one US dollar and electricity ,water and petrol rationing implemented across all of Iran .
Internal infrastructure damage still occurring within Iran caused by Kurds , Immortal Guard , CIA or Mossad none of whom claiming responsibility.
Basij and IRGC members have not been fully paid for three months and the IRGC’s Bank Sepah has literally run out of money from their non functioning ATMs .
Imported Arab mercenaries were not paid this past week and many are returning back to Iraq .
Weather conditions are exacerbating the water shortages and no rain expected for the next three weeks.
Consumer goods and pharmaceuticals running desperately low .
Venezuela to leave OPEC and Iran unable to produce, export nor store oil creating irreparable damage to oil wells .
Alternative routes for other oil producers now account for nearly 80% of traffic that previously transported through the Straits of Hormuz reflecting the last two weeks stability in energy market prices .
Saudi Arabia to attack the Houthis this week without Trump’s assistance - I’ll be updating on this later .
Not a bad week at all .

[UnbotheredModerate @UnbotheredMod]

"Mike Roger's is an existential threat to our democracy"
Really?
Seems a little excessive.
Trying to manipulate our emotions with fear.
I am so done with Us-vs-Them politics.

[L A R R Y @LarryOConnor]

Condescending

[UnbotheredModerate @UnbotheredMod]

Feels like Green Energy is a psyop to make us more dependent on foreign oil.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Germany built one of the largest wind and solar fleets on Earth. It dismantled its nuclear power stations and retired its coal, with the promise that green energy would power its future.

The country spent billions transitioning.

Then winter arrived, and "Dunkelflaut" hit -- the dark windless dead zone. Wind and solar fell to barely 5% of demand. The grid staggered, and Germany was forced to fire up old coal plants it said had closed forever, and import expensive nuclear from France.

This is the physics politicians fail to mention, and a point many people still fail to grasp: When the wind dies and the sun sets, renewables disappear. The only way the grid survives, the only reason countless millions don't freeze to death, is thanks to oil, coal, nuclear and gas.

[UnbotheredModerate @UnbotheredMod]

Hypothetically, of you were trying to take over the world, and you controlled most of the oil, why wouldn't you try to convince the strongest countries to limit their oil production?
Did you know that the UK literally capped their oil wells with concrete?

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

The West had sufficiant and affordable energy security, until the United Nations finally destroyed it in the name of the Net Zero.

This has become the world's greatest single transfer of public assets by elected democratic governments in history. None of them consulted with their own citizens, yet proceeded to collude with the UN and sign numerous binding agreements, leading to combined commitments of many billions of dollars of public money.

Many of these governments agreed to a financial commitments to decarbonise their economies, lasting decades beyond their own elected tenure. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been handed out in the form of subsidies, to help build and install large arrays of wind turbines and solar panels.

This has led to a widespread economic slowdown and the loss of capacity for steel production and industrial manufacturing. These same governments have green lighted large areas of public land to be accessed and bulldozed for roadways, new power lines and the placement of massive wind towers over formerly picturesque rural areas, on hill slopes and blocking offshore seascapes.

This was a deliberate transfer of control of a nation's most vital strategic asset for an intangible belief system, that human society was at fault in producing carbon dioxide for its most essential energy needs. This transition to renewable energy, so far, has led to some of the most costly household power bills in modern history.

One outraged writer told me that Net Zero must be the most diabolical act of needless self harm ever inflicted on any democratic nation by its own government. This led to wholesale destruction of coal and gas power plants. This had damaged every nation industrially, defensively, economically and environmentally.

Government by regulatory decree is not government by representation. Mandating multi-decade economic rewiring without a specific electoral mandate violates the fundamental social contract between the state and the taxpayer.

Locking in 30-year subsidy contracts strips future voters of their democratic right to adjust energy policy based on real-world performance. This captures exactly what ordinary people now think of this heavy-handed exercise in power.

'If we weren’t so used to being betrayed it would be considered treason.'

[UnbotheredModerate @UnbotheredMod]

We have no idea of the threat we are facing. https://t.co/kaLMIV91pj

[Rich Toronto @rich_toronto]

Multiculturalism works. Until a culture joins that wants to destroy the others

Religious freedom works. Until a religion is included that teaches to kill others

Diversity works. Until a group comes that wants to be the only ones

STOP believing they think like us. They don’t

[UnbotheredModerate @UnbotheredMod]

This is the most straightforward explanation of the Islam threat we are facing right now.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

SHOCKING: This Turkish ex-Muslim woman spent 30 years working for a Turkish state organization that sent Muslims to America to engage in jihad and influence politics.

She explains there are two types of jihad: a demographic/missionary jihad, carried out through immigration and conversions.

And a political jihad, where Muslims infiltrate American universities and political movements to influence young people into becoming anti-American, hating Jews and Israel, and seeing Muslims as allies.

They pretend to be secular and support progressive causes, but it’s all taqiyya to gain political power and advance Islam. Even though they are also trying to infiltrate the right, Muslims have realized the left and progressives are their biggest useful idiots.

Does anyone in particular fit that description and come to mind? It’s all starting to make sense now.

[UnbotheredModerate @UnbotheredMod]

@realMaalouf Wow, this is the best testimony on the Islam threat that I have seen.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Check out this threatening statement by a cleric in Iran. As more women walk the streets across Iran without hijab, his response is a threat. He says if women have the freedom to choose their clothes, men should have the freedom to rape or sexually assault them.
That is incitement to sexual violence. I call on democratic governments to impose Magnitsky sanctions or arrest warrant on this cleric and other Islamists who incite violence against women. Let there be consequences for normalizing rape.

[Trisha Posner @trishaposner]

Mamdani sold himself as a new kind of politician — the “people’s mayor.” Until the people talk back.

Immigrant shop owners organized against Mamdani’s taxpayer grocery stores. They went door to door. They sued. Then the city's Dept of Sanitation starts hitting them with $350–$1,000 "sanitation tickets," including for garbage that isn’t even theirs.

That’s not a new politics. That’s old machine revenge: smile for the cameras, punish anyone who won’t fall in line. Mamdani has the payback political DNA.

https://t.co/OBtKkBu37E

[DSA Watch @DSA_Watch]

Michigan’s Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) expresses concern that Abdul El-Sayed is “making excuses” for domestic terrorism

Nessel is one of the few Michigan elected Democrats not endorsing Abdul El-Sayed

[UnbotheredModerate @UnbotheredMod]

Yep

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: 𝕏 reveals it uncovered a Chinese bot farm of roughly 200,000 accounts, including hundreds used to influence U.S. debate over AI data centers & energy policy.