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[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Nico Lagan @RealNicoLagan]

Canada's New Social Media Ban is NOT About Your Children | Here's What They're NOT Telling You

Canada just announced the Digital Safety Act — a social media ban for anyone under 16.

Most Canadians think this is about protecting children. It isn't.

To enforce a social media ban, every single Canadian will have to prove their age by attaching government-approved ID to their social media accounts. That's not child protection. That's a digital ID.

And once you're verified on one platform, that verification follows you everywhere — linking every account you own under your real identity.

But it gets worse.

This isn't a standalone policy. This is the missing piece that connects Bill C-9, C-22 and C-8 into a complete surveillance and censorship system.

Bill C-9 defines what you can and cannot say online. Bill C-22 forces platforms to save your data for up to one year. Bill C-8 gives the government the power to cut you off the internet entirely.

The digital ID created by this social media ban is what connects all three.

And they're selling it to you as child protection.

Don't be fooled. All these bills are interconnected — and this is the last piece of the puzzle.

https://t.co/8fky3EXQmF

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

Listening to @GadSaad break down Canadian taxes on Sean Hannity… aren’t you just excited to be Canadian??

From January 1st until the end of August, you work for free for the government.

Only starting in September do you finally get to keep what you actually earned.

Provincial tax capped at 25.75%. Federal tax at 33%. Already deep into the 50s before you even spend a dollar.

Then add the double sales tax, carbon tax, gas tax, property tax, and school tax — and you’re left with roughly 30 cents on every dollar you make.

This isn’t “contributing to society.” This is modern serfdom dressed up as compassion.

The same government that wastes billions on ArrivScam, failed apps, and fax machine replacement programs now expects you to hand over eight months of your life every single year.

And they still have the nerve to tell you there’s no money left for actual Canadians.

Wake up. This didn’t happen by accident.

#cdnpoli #TaxFreedomDay #LiberalFail #CanadaFirst

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The thousands of British people imprisoned merely for social media posts or speaking their mind need to be released!

No more prison island!!

[🇺🇸 Edward T. Winslow @EdwardTWinz]

The UK just deployed a political weapon it's only used once before in modern history.

And nobody is talking about what it just backfired into.

🚨 🚨 🚨 KEIR STARMER BANNED FOREIGN JOURNALISTS FROM ENGLAND TO STOP A RALLY → IT PRODUCED THE LARGEST ANTI-GOVERNMENT MARCH IN YEARS 🚨 🚨 🚨

The Home Office issued entry bans on 11 foreign nationals ahead of the 16 May 'Unite the Kingdom' rally in central London. Rebel News founder Ezra Levant. Multiple journalists. Commentators. Banned from the country. To stop a march.

Metropolitan Police deployed 4,000+ officers. Live facial recognition. Drones. Dogs. Horses.

The result: tens of thousands — some estimates reaching hundreds of thousands — flooding the streets of London anyway.

THE WEAPON:
→ UK Home Office entry bans — 11 foreign nationals barred from the country
→ Prime Minister publicly labeled the rally "extremist" and "hatred and division"
→ Starmer framed it as "a battle for the soul of our nation" in direct pre-rally statements
→ Police mobilized at a scale typically reserved for state visits or terror threats
→ Live facial recognition deployed across central London
→ Rival pro-Palestine march simultaneously permitted on the same day
→ Metropolitan Police prepared for 50,000 — the actual crowd exceeded preparation
→ Government rhetoric amplified international media attention across the US and Europe

THE TARGET:
→ A march organized around "national unity, free speech, and Christian values"
→ Organized weeks after Reform UK seized 1,350+ council seats and control of 13 councils in the 8 May local elections
→ Reform's gains came primarily at Labour's direct expense — Essex, Sunderland, council after council

THE MATH:
→ Reform UK: 1,350+ seats gained in a single election cycle
→ 13 councils flipped — including Essex with 42 seats
→ Starmer's response: ban journalists, deploy 4,000 officers, call the march extremist
→ Outcome: the bans became the story, the march became a symbol, and the streets filled anyway

Read that again.

💀 Every ban Starmer issued handed organizers a government-censorship narrative
💀 Every officer deployed turned a political rally into a national confrontation
💀 The suppression didn't shrink the movement — it advertised it

⚠️ Reform just proved it can win elections. The march proved it can also fill streets.
⚠️ Starmer called it "a battle for the soul of our nation" — and then lost the visual battle on live television
⚠️ This isn't a fringe moment. This is what a political realignment looks like in the streets.

They're showing you the arrests and the police lines.
They're NOT showing you what this sequence actually means — a government that just lost 1,350 council seats in one night responded to the aftermath by banning journalists and calling a march extremist, and the streets answered with the largest visible opposition mobilization in years.

You don't ban foreign journalists to stop a fringe event. You ban foreign journalists when you're afraid of what the footage will show. And you only deploy 4,000 officers with drones and facial recognition when you already know the crowd is going to be too large to ignore.

Process that.

Most people won't see this. RT to change that. 🔥

I'll keep you updated as this unfolds, turn on notifications this is EXTREMELY important.

[Free Talk Live @FreeTalkLive]

You have every right to know what your government is doing, and they have no right to know what you are doing.

That is why they are called public servants and we are called private citizens.

Instead, the relationship has been inverted. The state hides behind secrecy, classified files, and redactions while demanding total visibility into your finances, communications, movement, and behavior.

A society where the rulers live in privacy while the population lives under surveillance is the very definition of tyranny.

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

A very powerful & passionate speech by MP John Brassard who is the chair of the ethics committee.
There is a real problem when “The opposition party (in Canada) is held to greater account than the Government”

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

More people should listen to this grandma.

[Ken Blackwell @kenblackwell]

Thomas Sowell is 95 years old.

Let that number sit with you.

Ninety-five years on this earth, and in all of them, he has never held public office, never had a viral moment, never begged for anyone’s attention.

What he has done is write 30 books and spend 50 years of patient research building a body of work that has outlasted every fashionable idea his critics tried to bury him with.

While the loudest voices in Washington were chasing polls and the cleverest minds on campus were chasing grants, Sowell was in the library reading the data, tracking the outcomes, and dismantling one bad idea after another.

He doesn’t argue feelings.

He measures results.

He isn’t selling anything.

His whole approach boils down to one line that every politician and activist in this country should be forced to recite before they open their mouths:

“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”

Sit with that, too.

Every federal program, every mandate, every well-meaning crusade carries a cost, and somebody pays it.

Sowell’s life work has been the simple act of asking who.

Listen to him on the “help” our communities have been promised for two generations:

“I’ve been doing studies now for 20 years of programs designed to increase equality. They increase inequality.”

“Even when the programs are designed for disadvantaged groups, they help the affluent members of the disadvantaged groups, while the lower members of those groups fall further behind than ever before.”

That is the whole affirmative action racket laid out in two sentences.

The kids from the same zip codes as the Harvard faculty get the slot, while the kids from the neighborhoods that actually need a ladder are told to wait their turn.

Sowell says it plain:

“The vast majority of blacks who go to places like Harvard, Cornell, and Stanford are not blacks from the ghetto. They’re from the same neighborhoods as the whites there.”

The race hustlers don’t want you to know that, because they need the grievance to stay in business.

Sowell’s advice to young people cuts right through the hustle:

“Stay away from the race hustlers.”

“Equip yourself with skills that people are willing to pay for.”

That is the whole ball game right there, a matter of skills, work, and accountability rather than slogans, hashtags, or another federal program designed to pad a consultant’s salary while leaving the South Side worse off than before.

Here is the line I want every young person in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and every other corner of America to read tonight:

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”

That one sentence explains our schools, our cities, and why the neighborhoods the War on Poverty was supposed to save are in worse shape now than they were before the checks started flowing.

Sowell has pushed a whole generation of us to stop reacting and start asking harder questions.

What are the incentives?

Who actually benefits from this policy?

What do the numbers look like five, ten, twenty years later?

Ask those questions honestly, and the illusion falls apart.

The most dangerous man in America right now isn’t the one shouting on television.

He is the 95-year-old professor in Palo Alto who doesn’t need you to agree with him, because he has the data on his side.

Ninety-five years of telling the truth.

Thank you, Dr. Sowell.

[Skint Eastwood @Skint_Eastwood1]

Ricky Gervais on 60 Minutes Makes a Crystal-Clear Case for Free Speech

He put it perfectly: the great thing about freedom of speech is that I can say what I want, and you can say you're offended, and I get to decide whether I care or not.

Because let's be honest, there's nothing you can say that someone, somewhere won't find offensive.

That's why blasphemy laws are so absurd, they're basically trying to protect an all-powerful deity from having its feelings hurt.

At the end of the day, we should be free to criticise any idea.

Just because you're offended doesn't automatically mean you're right.

Spot on, Ricky. Free speech isn't about never upsetting anyone, it's about the right to speak anyway.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

This is worth repeating:

I never cared that you were gay until you started shoving it down my throat, and I never cared what color you were until you started blaming me for your problems.

I never cared about your political affiliation until you started condemning me for mine.

I really never even cared where you were born until you wanted to erase my history and blame my ancestors for your problems.

I never even cared if your beliefs were different from mine until you said my beliefs were wrong.

But now I care. My patience and tolerance are gone, and I am not alone in feeling like this. There are millions of us who feel like this.

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

Unbelievable. This girl has been banned from the University of Guelph campus FOR LIFE due to being in the vicinity of her family members conversation with a group of people.
The Campus Safety Office felt that what they were talking about was sufficient enough to ban her & her family member from being anywhere on University of Guelph property forever. Canada is in trouble.

[DogTurd™🍁 @DogTurdCanada]

It’d be a real shame if this went super viral.

Share it and share it often.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

“Virgin female prisoners should be raped before execution so that they do not go to heaven.”
-Ayatollah Khomeini
(founding leader of the Islamic regime in Iran).

I’ll never wrap my head around the fact that this is what Western leftists decided to side with.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

"Everything that you are seeing now here in Canada is what happened in Venezuela 20 years ago, step by step, because it's a script from communism."

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Bloodletting for fever. Confident. Standard practice.

Mercury tablets for syphilis. Confident. Widely prescribed.

Radium water for low energy. Confident. Sold in pharmacies.

Lobotomies for anxiety. Confident. Won a Nobel Prize.

Thalidomide for morning sickness. Confident. Distributed to millions.

Cigarettes for throat irritation. Confident. Doctor-endorsed advertising.

Heroin for coughs. Confident. Marketed by Bayer.

DDT sprayed in children's schools. Confident. Government-approved.

Margarine instead of butter. Confident. Heart-healthy alternative.

Dietary fat causes heart disease. Confident. Fifty years of guidelines.

Statins for everyone over fifty. Confident. Best-selling drug in history.

Seed oils are safe. Confident. Endorsed by every major health body.

Meat is carcinogenic. Confident. WHO classification still stands.

Every generation of doctors was confident.

Every generation was wrong about something they were certain of.

The question isn't whether to trust doctors.

The question is which part of the current list turns out to be the thalidomide.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

Let’s stop pretending.

Carney has his majority.

Through 5 floor crossings.

The by-elections are just a formality.

Over 100,000 voters, betrayed.

AN UNELECTED MAJORITY,

IN A DEMOCRACY,

IS NOT DEMOCRACY.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

🎯

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

Why Socialism Doesn't Work, Explained for a 10-Year-Old.

You're in a class of 30 students. One kid works like crazy and gets an 18 average. Another does nothing and gets a 4. The teacher decides it's unfair and gives everyone the class average: 11.

The one who had 18 stops working. Why bother if it changes nothing? The one who had 4 keeps doing nothing. Why work if you're handed 11 for free?

The next year the class average is 7. Then 5. Then 3.

The teacher doesn't get it. He thinks the problem is that the students aren't supportive enough of each other. So he starts punishing those who don't put in enough effort. He monitors everyone. He decides who studies what. He bans switching classes.

That's exactly what happened. Every time. In every country. No exceptions.

USSR, China, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, Cambodia, Ethiopia, East Germany. 40 attempts. Same result. Every time.

Socialism punishes those who produce and rewards those who don't. Everyone ends up producing nothing. And when no one's producing anymore, the government uses force to make people work.

It's not an accident. It's the design.

- @brivael