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[Mrs Fox 🕊️ @CaliforniaFrizz]

Ann Widdecombe was an elderly woman living alone who has reportedly been murdered.

Whether you agreed with her views or not, this is a truly horrific tragedy.

I cannot believe some of the disgraceful comments I've seen on social media today. A woman has been violently attacked and killed, yet some people still can't show the most basic decency or humanity.

Political differences should never outweigh compassion. A violent death is not something to celebrate or mock, and the lack of empathy on display highlights the state of our society.

My heart goes out to her family & friends 💔

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇪🇺 The EU just passed Chat Control 1.0 in Brussels.

Platforms can now scan your private messages again, officially "voluntary," in practice blanket surveillance.

Here's the democratic scandal: 314 MEPs voted against it. Only 276 voted for it.

It passed anyway... because an absolute majority of all MEPs was required to reject it, not just a majority of those present.

More people voted no than yes. It still passed.

Pushed through on an urgent procedure just before summer recess, when absences are highest and attention is lowest.

This is how rights disappear folks. Not in one dramatic moment, but in procedural fine print, on a slow news day, while everyone's looking at Tehran.

Source: @Fidias0 / Writer: Oliver

[Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 @PaulineHansonOz]

Tasmania’s largest farm has been sold to a foreign corporation who will destroy it for “carbon credits”.

The sale was approved by Labor Treasurer Jim Chalmers today, Wednesday 8 July.

The loss of 22,000ha of productive, irrigated farmland currently supporting dairy, beef and previously sheep is a hammer blow to Tasmanian and Australian food security.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers said he believed the sale was “not contrary to the national interest”.

As if it isn’t bad enough it’s being sold to a foreign corporation, it won’t even continue on as a farming operation.

Chalmers and this Labor government have allowed their obsession with net-zero to put Australia’s food security at risk.

Our ability to feed ourselves is clearly in the national interest. Destroying productive farmland for scam “carbon credits” is an act of national self harm.

In the middle of a cost of living crisis, how much will this decision put up the price of cheese and milk? How much more expensive will steak or mince be when Australia stops producing it ourselves?

One Nation’s plan for cheaper groceries and national food security is clear. Ditch net-zero which is destroying productive farmland. Ban foreign ownership of farmland (and housing). Get Australian farmers back to farming and putting affordable groceries on the shelf.

One Nation has always opposed foreign ownership of farm land while Labor’s war against Australia’s world-leading agriculture sector continues. Australia is already a net importer of fresh food, seafood and dairy and this is only going to make matters worse.

Australia must be self-reliant and able to feed ourselves. Jim Chalmers and Anthony Albanese think we can eat solar panels and carbon credits.

This decision is a national disgrace.

[Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education @craigkellyAFEE]

It makes you want to weep for Australia.

Here we have Tasmania’s largest farm — Rushy Lagoon, a massive 22,000-hectare of prime, productive, irrigated land that has been a powerhouse of beef and dairy production in northeast Tasmania for decades.

And now it’s being deliberately shut down for dodgy “carbon credits” — worthless pieces of paper peddled by grifters, spivs, and rent-seeking parasites in the name of Net Zero so they can profit while the nation suffers.

Just when you think it can’t get any worse — congratulations, Australia — our taxpayers are being forced to fund this insanity with $69 million.

That’s right. Chris Bowen’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation is pumping $69 million of our money into the deal to become a minor shareholder in the destruction of productive farmland.

Think about the level of this insanity. $69 million of Australian taxpayers money is being used to help a foreign company buy Australian farmland and shut it down.

It’s no different from Luddites buying a factory and smashing the productive machines with sledge hammers.

At this is happening the exact moment Australia’s productivity is collapsing and living standards are in freefall, Labor’s priority is closing down real, productive agriculture.

This is economic sabotage.

With this decision today, Australia is a poorer, weaker nation.

Productive land is taken out of commission, food production is hit - so we’ll pay higher prices at supermarket and taxpayers foot the bill so the carbon credit scam industry can flourish.

I weep for what Labor and Anthony Albanese are doing to Australia.

They are vandalising our productive economy, enriching their mates, and driving us into decline — all while lying that this is “progress.”

Enough.

Australia deserves better than this destructive, ideologically deranged government. If they are not voted out at the next election, the Australia we‘ve known and loved will be gone forever.

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[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

If Will Thomas didn't swim against the women, he still would have come in 462nd place, and nobody would know his name.

See how that works?

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

I am having a drink this evening with a friend in a Chiswick pub. Two policemen have just come into the pub and asked me to step outside. I have stepped outside and they have threatened me because I tweeted about a councillor banning seating outside pubs in Chiswick. They admit on video (watch it!) that I did not break the law at all. They came to threaten me. To warn me off tweeting about councillors and the council. This is modern Britain. This is the police state. Please, please, please watch this video. It does involve me using very bad language, but this has got to be seen. Police coming out to threaten someone who hasn’t committed a crime. I’m fuming.

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

Every bit of mainstream media is entirely focused on the poor boys who are supposedly banned from sports (They aren't.)

Let's hear from the girls who compete in the 23 states that don't have protected women's sports.

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

This is the City Barge pub in Chiswick right now. What do you notice? It’s 3pm and they’re open. It’s a sunny day. Yes, that’s right; they have had to remove all of the tables and chairs outside. They have had to destroy their own business. Why? Because Rick Rowe, a Green Party councillor on Hounslow council, who lives very, very, very close to this pub and complains about it almost daily, has banned all three pubs here on strand on the Green Chiswick, from having outside tables. I can only assume he hates pubs, hates business and hates the British way of life. This would usually be buzzing with people enjoying their afternoon. However, they’re the wrong sort of people for Rick.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

If the investigation into this cover up proves that Sadiq had been lying all along, he should go

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

March 19, 2026. Chicago, Illinois.

An 18-year-old college freshman walks down to the lake at midnight with her friends.

A pier. A lighthouse. The Chicago skyline. Maybe the northern lights if they're lucky.

She is a freshman at Loyola University. She is from New York. She is studying business.

She is the kind of girl who is always the first to hug you at the door, and the last to hug you goodbye.

She believes in God. She does Bible study. She volunteers for charity.

She is eighteen years old.

At the end of the pier, behind the lighthouse, a man is hiding.

He is dressed in all black. He is wearing a ski mask. He is holding a forty caliber handgun.

She walks ahead of her friends to the end of the pier and sees him.

She whispers to her friends, "someone is behind the lighthouse."

The man leaps out.

The girls turn and run.

He fires once. Into her back.

She falls on the pier. Her friends keep running because they have to.

When they come back, she is bleeding out by the lighthouse.

She is eighteen years old.

She is gone before the ambulance arrives.

Now you need to hear what happened BEFORE the lighthouse.

The man who shot her was never supposed to be in this country.

He crossed the border illegally in 2023. Border Patrol caught him.

And then Border Patrol released him.

Six weeks later, the same man was arrested again. This time in Chicago. For shoplifting.

Chicago could have called ICE. Chicago refused.

Chicago is a sanctuary city. Illinois is a sanctuary state. The law there forbids local police from cooperating with federal immigration officers.

So the man walked.

And then he didn't even bother to show up to his own court date.

A warrant was issued.

And nothing happened.

For almost three years, nothing happened.

He just lived in Chicago. With a warrant out for his arrest. In a city that had chosen, on principle, to not look.

Until the night he picked up a forty caliber pistol, put on a black ski mask, walked to the end of a pier, and waited behind a lighthouse for someone to kill.

Read that timeline again.

2023: caught at the border. Released.
2023: arrested in Chicago. Released.
2023: skipped court. Warrant issued. Ignored.
2026: an 18-year-old college freshman walks out to see the skyline.

The system had three chances.

The system used zero of them.

This is not me saying it. This is her family's lawyer, in a public statement:

"We are gravely disappointed by the policies and failures that allowed this individual to remain in a position to commit this crime. When systems fail, the consequences are not abstract. They are real. And in our case, they are permanent."

Permanent.

That is the word her family chose. Permanent. As in: she is not coming back.

An 18-year-old girl walked out to a pier in the middle of the night to look at the Chicago skyline with the people she loved.

She believed she lived in a country where you could do that.

The country she believed in failed her.

Not by accident. By policy. Written down. Signed. Defended.

Defended even now, while her parents bury her in New York.

She should be in class this morning.

She should be hugging her friends after Bible study.

She should be calling her mom from her dorm.

She should be alive.

A border that worked would have saved her. A city that called ICE would have saved her. A courtroom that chased a warrant would have saved her.

Three doors. All locked. From the inside.

By the people we elected to protect her.

Her name was Sheridan.

She was eighteen.

Don't let this country forget what was traded for a slogan.

And God bless every single American who refuses to call this normal.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

🚨 Breaking: Everywhere is warming faster than the rest of the world 🤡
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[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

Can someone explain to me who chose Andy Burnham to be British Prime Minister? He wasn’t even an MP. He was given a seat and being crowned immediately as PM. This is absolute proof that the electorate are of zero relevance in this country. Anyone who still believes Britain is a democracy is extremely naive.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

The British state VS one sheet of paper.

Winner—

the paper.

What?? The British Empire lost… to PAPER??

Right, listen. Men convicted of trafficking children for sex in Rochdale.
UK: "You're being deported."
Man: "Nah."
UK: "Excuse me? We've stripped your British citizenship, off you pop."
Man: "Then I renounce my Pakistani citizenship too — RRRIP (passport)."
UK: "…what."
Man: "I'm now stateless. Citizen of nowhere. International law says you can't deport the stateless. Owned."
UK: "ngghhh…"

*record scratch*

Hang on hang on. He did this by tearing up his passport a few days before the Court of Appeal ruling. One little RIP — and the entire machinery of the British state just powered down.
Battleships, colonies, MI6, James Bond — beaten by an origami crane somebody tore in half. *honk*

UK phones Pakistan.
UK: "Your national has—"
PAK: "Not ours, mate. He renounced it himself. Not our problem."
UK: "Couldn't you just—"
PAK: *click* beeeeep…

The tribunal: "Honestly, it'd be fairly easy for these lads to get their Pakistani nationality back."
The criminal: "don't wanna (unwilling)"
UK: "Ah. Can't be done, then." — IT CAN BE DONE. Why is a convicted trafficker's "don't wanna" beating an entire G7 nation?!

Ministers who swore to close this loophole: a long, proud line of them. Every one defeated by a bit of paper.
You lot think you're running a country. You're doing arts and crafts. Scissors and glue. Grade: D minus.

Honest question:
in a country where a convicted child trafficker can stay put with a shrug and a paper-tear —
what was the point of actually winning the trial?

[M. A. @eurostrategist]

In September 1990, my village in Valencia hit 46°C.

It was the exact kind of natural climate volatility this ancient planet has unleashed for billions of years.

Today, Valencia, Rome, and Athens are actually sitting well below their seasonal averages. Yet, the media is in a coordinated meltdown over a standard two-week warm patch in the UK, France, and Belgium.

As a geospatial engineer who wrote a thesis on climatology, I’m positioned better than many to talk about the topic, the entire narrative relies on a broken view of data systems.

The formula is simple: zoom in on a tiny slice of geography, filter out the cool regions that ruin the story, and label a hot afternoon a global catastrophe.

The funniest part is the sheer hubris of the solution.

We are told the Earth's massive climate system operates like a living room thermostat, that if humans just stop CO2 emissions, we can magically freeze the weather at our preferred temperature.

Pretending we can micromanage global macro-cycles with carbon taxes.

But as long as panic funds the machine, and people don’t think by themselves, they’ll keep selling the front-row tickets.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Tokyo, it is ordinary to see a seven-year-old board a train alone with a yellow safety cap and a perfectly folded permission form in a backpack.

Japan's school commute culture runs on trust layered over systems.

Many elementary students walk or take public transit without a parent — in surveys across major cities, the vast majority of first graders already go to school on their own or with classmates, not because parents are careless, but because neighborhoods, schools, and communities designed for it over decades.

Station staff know the regular faces.
Drivers watch the platform.
Older students quietly guide younger ones to the right car.

A child in a yellow hat stands on tiptoe to tap his IC card, serious and proud.
A shopkeeper near the school gate watches until the last straggler passes, then nods.

An American parent visiting Japan sees this for the first time and feels something complicated — then watches a local grandmother bow to the child, and understands it is village-scale care, not abandonment.

Safety built from habit, signage, and a whole town paying attention.

Some independence is not loneliness.
It is a community holding the edges so a child can walk the middle.

[Carrie Clark @cwestonclark]

I am begging critics of the puberty blocker trial to stop getting lost in the weeds arguing about research ethics, Gillick competence, informed consent, fertility preservation and the like. The NHS’s refusal to complete the Data Linkage Study (DLS) before proceeding with a new trial is the ONLY argument worth making on this issue. Everything else is a distraction.
The DLS would find out what has happened to all the children who have already taken puberty blockers. There is NO justification for proceeding with a puberty blocker trial before the DLS is complete. The entire programme of future research in this area should be informed by its results. The fact that the NHS is getting ready to run a live experiment on vulnerable children before it has even established the fate of those it has already experimented on is utterly damning.
The deeply disappointing Dr Cass should be widely derided for her ridiculous comments on ‘harm reduction’. The DLS IS harm reduction. Critics of the trial must stop fighting on their opponents turf by quibbling over technical details. We need to relentlessly force the DLS onto the agenda and expose the shameful hypocrisy of the NHS. DO THE DLS.
#DotheDLS
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[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

So Australia has passed a law that allows men to be listed as mothers on a baby’s birth certificate. This is a government document, so the Australian government has basically just legalized perjury, as long as it’s done to make a trans person feel validated.