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[a howling wind @allthatisol]

Celebs saying ‘Transwomen are women’ etc is a modern version of the stunts Chris Morris pulled on Brasseye etc.
Celebrities will repeat things they don’t understand if they are told it’s for a good cause , is ‘science’ and think it helps their career.
It’s what they do.

[Zineb Riboua @zriboua]

El Pais confirming that there were bots, accounts on Instagram, TikTok and elsewhere amplifying and spreading the message that "borders are open," all happened during Throne Day when Moroccan forces are already busy with the King’s ceremony https://t.co/FcAslJyUWC

[Naomi Cunningham @LoudBonnet]

"It is time to kink-shame."

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

Fact! I’ve never studied a war or battle where one country not participating in the conflict had the ability to save thousands of civilians (easily letting the international community create a displaced person camp just on the other side of the Egypt Gaza crossing at Rafah) and not only didn’t, but deployed military forces to the border and built a new wall to make sure not a single civilian escaped (unless the civilian paid about $10,000 - an estimated 100,00 civilians got out if they paid). The fact that the UN, UNSC, and even U.S. did not put major pressure on Egypt to do so is also a story not told.

[Zineb Riboua @zriboua]

My latest

Ceuta, Morocco, Understanding the Situation

The Islamists have launched a new front

Since the Arab Spring, Morocco's Islamists have struggled to offer a credible governing agenda. Instead, they have spent years convincing young Moroccans that their country has no future. Through alliances with NGOs, partnerships with European activist networks, and relentless claims that Morocco's ties to Israel and the United States make it a conspirator or aggressor, they have pursued a single political objective: to delegitimize the state, deepen public disillusionment, and convert that resentment into votes in September.

https://t.co/sR2fyqMzrY

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

“I will tell them no.” That’s what Netanyahu reportedly told his ministers days before flying to Washington, in response to reported U.S. pressure for a “series of withdrawals” across Syria, Lebanon and Gaza. He later denied the issue even came up in the meeting—a denial that now appears to have been a lie.

Yesterday the Board of Peace published its plan. Under the roadmap, Hamas surrenders everything it holds—weapons, light and heavy, tunnels, depots and production facilities. The handover runs in stages beginning within weeks: police weapons first, then the heavy arms and tunnels are decommissioned under the International Stabilization Force, stored in designated sites and taken out of use, while personal weapons fall “under Palestinian law.” None of it goes to Israel. At the end, only the Palestinian technocratic committee administering Gaza holds any authority over arms.

In the board’s words: “At the end of the process, Hamas will have no governing role in Gaza, neither openly nor behind the scenes, and the Gaza Administration Committee will hold full authority in accordance with the principle of one authority, one law, and one weapon.”

For a strip holding more than 60,000 rifles and a perennial smuggling problem, “one weapon” is perhaps overly optimistic. The plan calls for complete disarmament—but the meaning of “decommissioned,” “taken out of use” and “under Palestinian law” is where the Talmudic debate begins. Will the rifles be disabled or merely warehoused? Is Palestinian technocratic custody a genuine handover, or is Hamas’s arsenal relabeled as police stock? And where—under whose lock—do those 60,000 rifles actually end up? Still, fewer weapons in Hamas’s hands are a positive, even if the strip can never be scrubbed of arms entirely. Israel’s largest objection isn’t the scope but the sequence.

The plan builds on Trump’s 20-point framework, which specifies: “As disarmament is completed, Israeli forces will withdraw.”

Israel wants it even more front-loaded: complete disarmament and demilitarization as a precondition before it gives up any territory.

And, as is inevitably the case with Trump’s deals, the other side reads it differently. Hamas has claimed: “We will not take any steps regarding disarmament before Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip.” Don’t take that at face value—they are almost certainly preparing to give up some portion of their arsenal. Expecting Islamists to publicly announce the end of armed resistance is unreasonable, even once they’ve agreed to it in practice, but don’t read their rhetoric as entirely empty either. Israel has told envoy Tony Blair that the reported 15-point document does not adequately address its demands. Translation: There is a withdrawal somewhere in the agreement before disarmament is completed. Though I doubt it’s total.

More likely this is a fight over symbolism. Hamas will not want a photograph of its men handing weapons to Israel—hence the international forces. Meanwhile, a single foot is 12 inches more than Netanyahu is willing to give back before elections.

My Take: they won’t get every weapon. But so long as Israel doesn’t have to withdraw completely and keeps the freedom to go back in when it needs to, 20,000 disabled rifles are worth entertaining the process.

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

One of the pillars of the Gaza "genocide" narrative is that the IDF deliberately bombed displaced civilians in tents after telling them to evacuate. Yet there are now over 100 documented cases where "tent strikes" killed Hamas & Islamic Jihad commanders, such as Iyad al-Attal.

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

Good. Very glad to hear this. Another positive move by Andy Burnham in his first couple of weeks as PM.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Amnesty is a very wealthy international NGO that has attempted to restrict the range of acceptable expression by smearing other organisations, which hold legally-protected beliefs and are protecting their own rights in law, as ‘anti-rights.’

None of the defamed organisations are removing rights from trans people. Women and LGB people have simply refused to give up their own rights and freedom of speech to accomodate the notion that humans can change sex.

You and your ilk are the quasi-religious authoritarians here. You defame and persecute all who refuse to accept your unfalsifiable belief system, and seek to punish heretics. In another age, you’d have been among the most enthusiastic witch-hunters, and then, as now, you’d be utterly convinced of your unimpeachable rectitude.

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

The thread below documents FORTY nurses, doctors and healthcare workers throughout Gaza's hospitals and medical facilities who were Hamas & Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters, mostly commanders. It proves the systematic militarization of Gaza's hospitals. More to be added soon.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Hamas negotiating team member Razi Hamed, to Al Jazeera: The proposal Hamas agreed to is about "storing" weapons under the technocrat committee's supervision, not surrendering them, and is an "internal Palestinian matter."

He said it hinges on the Sharm el-Sheikh humanitarian protocol, an IDF withdrawal, the technocrat committee entering Gaza, deployment of the international force, and disarming Israeli-backed militias. If Israel doesn't do it, Hamas won't either.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The thing is, neither the men who believe erroneously that they’re women, nor the men who get a sexual thrill from dressing as women, are, in fact, women. They’re all men. Their motives are irrelevant. Men aren’t entitled to women’s hard-earned rights.

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

BREAKING: A new agreement between mediators & Hamas details full disarmament.

Key terms:
-All weapons (heavy/light/police), tunnels & stockpiles surrendered
-Weapons handed over in weeks to depots guarded by multinational forces
-Hamas ends all military activity & recruitment
-Zero withdrawal from the original yellow line until disarmament is complete.

[Imshin @imshin]

9K, a newly built wedding hall, opened at the beginning of July '26 at Qarara Mawasi, Khan Younes, South Gaza Strip. Available for bookings.

#TheGazaYouDontSee
Link + more details in 1st responss

[Obadiah Mbatang @residentadviser]

It’s same old. Kind of thing Aunty Hazel Blears used to write back in the day. But “rights and responsibilities” framing is dull. Rights *are* responsibilities. Rights require society (need society to recognise rights). Negative rights impose obligations on rest of society.

[a howling wind @allthatisol]

@residentadviser I suspect social care reform will be burnhams ‘get brexit done ‘ . No consensus in 2027 so goes to country late 27/ early 28 .
Share your concern re Tory recovery but not sure they or Reform have enough opportunities to demonstrate who should lead the right before a GE loss.

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

🧵Pro-Hamas @DropSiteNews reported an IDF strike on the Cairo School's prayer room in Gaza on July 25, 2025 as killing civilians only.

But Hamas confirmed the TRUE target, at minimum: Commander Muhammad Fayyad. EVERY Gaza school strike has been misreported this way. Detail: 1/

[HeCheated.org @hecheateddotorg]

Boys in Washington have participated in at least 269 "girls'" athletic events, placing in the top 3 in 156 of those and stealing 74 1st place finishes.

A boy sexually assaulted a girl on the wrestling mat in a "girls'" wrestling match and had previously been complained about as he was using the girls' locker room.

Another boy has stolen multiple state track and field titles from deserving female athletes despite finishing at the back of the pack when he competed against male peers. At his first championship, he joked about his win as "just another day at the office."

A third boy led to objections for his participation on the "girls'" basketball team, with the girls objecting being reported for "bullying" and "harassment."

A fourth boy was selected as a member of the "women's" Team USA after participating on his girls' high school ultimate team, which he led to the High School National Invite (the national championships) and helped to a third place finish.

A fifth boy who has since graduated now gives lessons to other men like himself (who pretend to be women) on how to use guns and assault rifles, for "protection" against those who disagree with him.

A sixth boy led his "girls'" cross country team to a conference championship title, district championship title, and a 2nd place finish at the state championships and set a school record.

A seventh boy ran on his middle school "girls'" cross country and track and field teams, stealing multiple medals, including a 1st place in the 1600 at the Cashmere Junior Olympics. A girl he beat has testified in tears about the experience. He returned his sophomore year in high school for just two races, stealing the 2nd place medal at the district championships.

There have been other boys who have participated on "girls'" teams as well, and in none of these situations have female athletes benefited from Washington rules.

They have only been hurt.

Only boys and men serve to benefit from these rules. They are anti-woman.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

A network of Hamas operatives posing as “journalists,” calling itself the “Palestinian Journalism Network,” is now inciting against a friend of mine from Gaza who is a peace activist. These are the same supposed “journalists” who are publicly mourned when killed in Gaza, only to later be exposed as Hamas or Islamic Jihad members and quietly removed from press‑casualty lists. They are accusing her of working with Mossad and Israeli intelligence and attacking her husband as part of supposed espionage networks run by Jews, Zionists, and Israelis. Their death blow or coup de grâce was to accuse her of associating with me, “the notorious collaborator,” as they put it. Their article reads: “As part of her suspicious activities, Rawaa al‑Khazendar maintains contact with figures known for their pro‑Israel stances, including the operative Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a US‑based Palestinian activist notorious for inciting against the resistance and promoting normalization.”

Hilariously, I do not consider it an insult to oppose Hamas’s fascistic, ISIS‑like “resistance,” and I will never apologize for promoting tolerance, bridge‑building, peace, and normalization between Israelis, Jews, and Zionists on one side, and Gazans, Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims on the other. Eighty years of unbroken conflict have brought Palestinians nothing but devastation. A new beginning is long overdue.

Several points are obvious. A portion of Gaza’s “journalists” are so obviously Hamas operatives or affiliates. Speaking out against Hamas carries immense personal cost. And Western observers, whether journalists, activists, politicians, academics, or humanitarians, consistently misread Arab and Palestinian societies. They rely on crude binaries when evaluating anyone who claims to be “resistance,” press, or NGO staff (think Doctors Without Borders). Acknowledging this does not erase the fact that Israel has killed legitimate journalists in Gaza, whether accidentally or deliberately. But ignoring the deep rot inside Hamas‑controlled professional sectors is naïve, harmful, and dangerous.

Hamas will escalate its attacks on me now that I have dedicated a short book to exposing them. I guess that means let the war begin...

[MrMenno 🇳🇱🏳️‍🌈🎶 @MrMennoTweets]

Incorrect. Their interest is about keeping males out of women-only spaces (particularly prisons, shelters and toilets / changing facilities) but also intimate care and sports, and protecting the legal recognition of women and girls as a sex class, and female homosexuality as a consequence, and the freedom to speak about these issues openly. The only reason all these things are under attack is #BecauseTrans

[Stephen Wilson @faintlyfalling]

They are literally just women saying that allowing men to legally register as female has some material consequences for women generally and may not be the unicorn and rainbow joyfest people like to pretend it is. Some compare them to far-right extremists for this, which is mad.