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Christian first. Dad and husband. Sometimes pretends to program and write games 🇺🇲 🇮🇱 🇺🇦

[Sunny @sunnyright]

Conservatives will mock and downplay this, but this is important in stopping the creep of socialism. You need to have people on the left who can tell fellow lefties that this isn’t normal and isn’t good and isn’t the answer.

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So close to realizing Israel actually needed to kill *more* people during the Gaza war

[Israel News Pulse @israelnewspulse]

If you ask Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, Armenia, Georgia, Cyprus, Kurds, Syrians, Assyrians, Yazidis or Israelis if Erdogan should be getting F-35s, they will all say NO.

Do you know why?

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@VividProwess Looking at NYC's election results

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

Zohran Mamdani and the Nitwit Revolution:

https://t.co/TByoBoMYT0

[Gummi @gummibear737]

The US should not give F-35 technology to Turkey

Trump mentioned it, not sure if it reflects policy because he says lots of things

But this should never happen under any circuimstances

Turkey, under their current leadership, is not a friend of America

Thought this was obvious

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Bullshit. Utter bullshit. The protests in the West against Israel began THE DAY AFTER OCTOBER 7TH. The protests in the West against Israel began before Israel even responded to that horrific terrorist attack. Bibi ain’t the reason. Hatred of Jews & hatred of Israel is the reason.

[Samuel Sey @SlowToWrite]

My mom when the pastor preached about disobedient children.

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@mtaibbi Are these people just ignorant or intentionally running cover for DSA?

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

Tucker Carlson thinks that Muslims were very kind toward Christians during the Ottoman period, and for that reason, I would like to explain to you how kind they were.

For 300 years the Ottoman Turks were stealing kids from their mothers. This was the most brutal thing humanity ever witnessed. They were waiting for women to birth, raise their kids, and then at the age of 8 were collecting them. The devşirme known as "collection of children" or "blood tax" or in Greek as "paidomazoma", was a systematic practice by the Ottoman Empire from the late 14th century until the mid-17th century, that forced the recruitment of young Christian boys, typically aged 8–18, from Balkan provinces as a form of tribute ("blood tax").

They were taken from their families, converted to Islam, and rigorously trained to serve in the empire's military, administrative, and bureaucratic roles. This created a loyal class of elite soldiers and officials who were dependent on the sultan rather than on hereditary Turkish aristocracy.

Many became Janissaries, the empire's elite infantry corps, or rose to high positions like grand viziers, provincial governors, admirals, or financial bureaucrats.

Estimates suggest tens of thousands of boys were recruited annually at its peak in the 15th–16th centuries.

Historians estimate the total number of Christian boys taken across the entire Ottoman Empire around 300.000 kids. From those kids 150.000 were Greek kids (over 300 years). It means the half of the total kids that were stolen were only Greek.

For example in 1540, a levy in the Greek regions of Thessaly & Macedonia took 1.000 Greek boys in one season and in Chios (the Greek island) 200 boys taken in 1567 alone. The peak was 5.000 kids/annual from Greece. A generational trauma, with thousands of Greek families losing sons every few years for centuries.

The system began under Sultan Murad I (1362–1389) and largely ended by 1648, as Muslims were increasingly allowed to fill these roles and Janissary corruption grew.

After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Ottoman control extended over most Greek lands, making Greek Orthodox families prime targets for recruitment. The practice targeted rural communities disproportionately, as urban or strategically important groups were often exempt.

On 28 February 1395, Archbishop Isidore Glabas of Thessaloniki denounced it in a speech as "paidomazoma" (child-gathering), describing the anguish of parents: mothers scratching their cheeks in grief and fathers beating their breasts and the violent Islamization of children and their hard training in the use of dogs and falcons.

A 1550 Greek poem by Ioannes Axayiolis, appealed to Charles V of Germany to liberate the Christians from the Turks (for liberation from this "sorrow"). The text is found in the Codex Vaticanus Graecus of 1624.

In another account, the Roman Catholic bishop of Chios in 1646 writes to the director of the Catholic Greek Gymnasion of Rome asking the latter to accept Paulos Omeros (lol my name Pavlos Homeros), a 12-year-old boy from Chios, to save him from the devshirme.

Once taken, boys were circumcised, renamed with Muslim names, and forbidden from contact with their families. They were raised as Muslims, effectively erasing their Greek cultural and religious identity to foster loyalty to the sultan. Historical records show Greek-origin devşirme boys rising to prominence, such as Mimar Sinan (chief architect of the Ottomans, possibly Greek) and several grand viziers like Ibrahim Edhem Pasha (from Chios).

The system accelerated Islamization in Greek regions, reducing Christian populations and creating a class of "Greek Muslims" (for example in Pontus or Crete). It fueled revolts and the Greek War of Independence (1821), where devşirme grievances were invoked.

During the Ottoman period, Muslims enjoyed performing all kinds of mutilations. Ears, noses, lips, tongues, breasts, and genitals were primarily cut off. Not just those, though. Let's recall here the Saint Raphael of Mytilene, who was hanged from a tree and had his lower jaw cut off, while the twelve-year-old martyr Irene was roasted in a barrel on the Tuesday of Easter in the year 1463, ten years after the fall of Constantinople.

In many cases, the severed body parts "adorned" the warrior collection of the janissary. The pashas gave bakshish (tips) to every "brave" Muslim warrior according to how many ears of "infidel" Christians he brought back. He himself confirmed his bravery and "manliness" among his peers by having a "komboloi" (worry beads) made from the nipples of breasts he had cut off from women. The bravest man was the one with the longest komboloi after a massacre and looting.

Blinding with various sharp objects was also common. This was particularly frequent during periods of massacres and atrocities. Many unfortunate Christians remained blind for the rest of their lives because they had the misfortune of a horde of janissaries passing through their land. The Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha were especially notorious for this crime.

Many times Christian captives were placed in front of cannons that were fired, turning them into human shreds of flesh. In other cases, they were tied to galleys that sailed in opposite directions and were torn apart. Dismemberment of victims also occurred with horses.

Indeed, Islam was very kind toward Christians during the Ottoman period.

In Greece, the denial or public endorsement of the Genocide of the Greek Christians of Pontus, Asia Minor, and Anatolia by the Turkish Muslims is criminally prosecuted and constitutes an offense.

We won't forget the anti-Greek and Islamic propaganda that Tucker Carlson pushed through his podcast.

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@DrClownPhD This one wins

[Rabbi Brian Samuel @rabbriansamuel]

Evangelical Christians make and break elections. In 2028, they will be the guardrail against the Tucker/Massie/Greene rebellion.

We need to pray.

[Ron Cantor @RonSCantor]

My name was mentioned on the #TuckerCarlson podcast — and the guest, JD Hall, made multiple false claims about me on the show and on his Substack. Claims so outlandish that if you've followed my ministry for more than five minutes, you'd immediately know they're fiction.

In this video, I respond point by point to Hall's allegations, including:
🤑 That I took money from the Israeli government to stop sharing the gospel with Jewish people
🤐 That I "struck a deal" to muzzle Shelanu TV — comparing me to Judas Iscariot and a Nazi collaborator 😱 That I live in fear of deportation and carefully police my words to stay in the country
🤥 That I never confronted Mike Bickle (IHOPKC) or Dr. Michael Brown — when in fact Tikkun raised $100K for the Bickle investigation and I wrote about it in my book When Shepherds Prey
✝️ That Messianic Jews avoid the word "Christian" because the Israeli government pressures them — when the opposite is actually true

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@iowahawkblog Jordan rules

[Ron Cantor @RonSCantor]

Tucker Carlson would call the apostle Paul a loser for loving Jews who had not yet accepted Jesus. (Romans 9:1-5)

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@mtaibbi "Russian Roulette is a safe game 5/6 times"

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Anti-Israel.

Anti-America.

Anti-Western Civilization.

Why am I the only Democrat in the U.S. Senate that refuses to excuse this or defend any of those self-identified communists?

[Ron Cantor @RonSCantor]

Disqualified minister JD Hall @LostMyHats told @TuckerCarlson that I, Ron Cantor, agreed not to share the gospel with Jewish people in order to have my broadcasting license restored in Israel. This is slanderous and defamatory—and 100% false. I suspect he knows that it is false since he has already been found liable for fabricating stories in the past, found guilty of embezzlement, and was investigated by police for domestic violence with a knife and strangulation. Not a fun guy.

For six years, Shelanu TV, our 24/7 Hebrew-language broadcast, has boldly proclaimed Yeshua as the Messiah of Israel with testimonies, apologetics, and more! We exist to share Yeshua with Israelis.

I'm not a lawyer, but it appears that this is the legal definition of slander and defamation. Fortunately, I have a lawyer who is smarter than I am, looking into it. In the past, I overlooked his lies, but Carlson is reaching millions of people.

[Dave Rogers @iahphx]

@bonchieredstate It's not good for America for the Democrats to be socialist Islamic-loving, America-hating DEI morons. It's quite bad, and our nation's biggest problem.

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

It's playing with fire, though.

The DSA isn't just a gimmick. It is the base of the Democratic Party, and it's only gaining more influence.

I'd much rather Democrats not be insane and stop this in their primaries.