Colocelt

🇺🇸 in 🇰🇷 | Pragmatic liberty advocate | Prefer freedom to control | Conservative commentary on politics, faith & global issues | Open to civil disagreement

[Colocelt @colocelt]

This is a piece of my 𝕏 origin thread 🧵 because this has always been my favorite social media. I have two @X accounts and have used this service for around 17 years. I started this 𝕏 account during the US election season in 2008.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I challenge every single person who believes minors should be enabled and even encouraged to transition to read this first person testimony to the end.

1/3

via @IWF https://t.co/3276o4tg8J

[Colocelt @colocelt]

This is a fun video -- Don't be a drama queen!

https://t.co/pDATXNBPnU

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Yes, the people who call themselves 'trans' exist and they deserve exactly the same rights as everyone else, which, fortunately, they already have in the UK. It would rightly be considered discrimination if a person was refused employment, housing or the vote because they identified as trans.

'Trans women are women' is a thought-terminating cliché. Men are not women. That doesn't mean they're not allowed to present themselves however they like, call themselves whatever they like and believe whatever they like about themselves. It means they haven't changed sex.

If we replace the objective, observable characteristic of sex with the unfalsifiable concept of gender identify, women and girls lose, among other things, their right to fair and safe sport and women-only spaces, including changing rooms, prison cells and rape crisis services.

Women and girls are provably more vulnerable to forms of abuse including sexual assault, harassment and voyeurism in mixed-sex spaces. There is no evidence that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same rates of criminal offending as all other men.

Trans people exist. I have no desire for them not to exist; indeed, I wish them safety, happiness and health. However, 'existence' does not, and should not, mean the violation of other people's right to privacy, dignity and freedom of speech, or the reconfiguration of society to indulge a fallacy.

[首相官邸(災害・危機管理情報) @Kantei_Saigai]

【津波注意報】
津波警報を発表しました。
ただちに避難してください。
発表日時 20日16時55分
対象地域：北海道太平洋沿岸東部、北海道太平洋沿岸西部、青森県太平洋沿岸、宮城県、福島県

[特務機関NERV @UN_NERV]

【津波情報 2026年4月20日】
津波警報を発表しました。ただちに避難してください。
［震源に関する情報］
16時52分頃、三陸沖を震源とする地震。震源の深さは約10km、地震の規模はM7.4と推定。

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Committed Democrat here.

I’m a hard no.

My vote is Operation Epic Fury. 🇺🇸

[Faraz Pervaiz @FarazPervaiz3]

To all Americans who voted for President Donald J. Trump: thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang]

At this moment, we are not Republicans, Democrats, or independents. We are Americans. We must all stand behind the President.

[Pino Americano @PinoAmericano]

@GavinNewsom I know this is hard for you Gavin, so let’s try saying it together:

“I support America”

Go ahead. Give it a try, for a change.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

President Donald J. Trump on the United States military combat operations in Iran:

[Arsalan Naamdar @arsalannaamdar]

To all Americans who voted for Donald J. Trump: thank you from the bottom of my heart — from me and from Iranians everywhere.

[Reza Pahlavi @PahlaviReza]

هم‌میهنان عزیزم،

لحظاتی سرنوشت‌ساز پیشِ روی ماست.

کمکی که رئیس‌جمهور ایالات متحده به مردم شجاع ایران وعده داده بود، اکنون رسیده است. این یک مداخله بشردوستانه است؛ و هدف آن، جمهوری اسلامی، دستگاه سرکوب و ماشین کشتار آن است؛ نه کشور و ملت بزرگ ایران.

اما، با وجود رسیدن این کمک، پیروزی نهایی هم‌چنان به دست ما رقم خواهد خورد. این ما ملت ایران هستیم که در این آخرین نبرد کار را تمام خواهیم کرد. زمان بازگشت به خیابان‌ها نزدیک است.

اکنون که جمهوری اسلامی در حال فروپاشی است، پیام من به نیروهای نظامی، انتظامی و امنیتی کشور روشن است:

شما سوگند خورده‌اید حافظ ایران و ملت ایران باشید، نه حافظ جمهوری اسلامی و سرکردگانش. وظیفه شما دفاع از مردم است، نه دفاع از رژیمی که با سرکوب و جنایت، میهن ما را به گروگان گرفته است. به ملت بپیوندید و به یک گذار باثبات و امن کمک کنید. در غیر این صورت، با کشتی درهم‌شکسته خامنه‌ای و رژیمش غرق خواهید شد.

و پیام من به رئیس‌جمهور ایالات متحده، پرزیدنت ترامپ، این است:

ملت شریف ایران، با وجود سرکوب و کشتار وحشیانه این رژیم، نزدیک به دو ماه با دلاوری ایستادگی کرد. اینک از شما می‌خواهم بیشترین احتیاط ممکن را برای حفظ جان غیرنظامیان و هم‌میهنانم به کار ببرید. مردم ایران، متحدان طبیعی شما و جهان آزادند، و یاری شما در سخت‌ترین دوره تاریخ معاصر ایران را فراموش نخواهند کرد.

و به شما هم‌میهنان عزیزم در ایران:

در این ساعت‌ها و روزهای حساس، بیش از هر زمان دیگر باید بر هدف نهایی خود متمرکز بمانیم: بازپس‌گرفتن ایران.

من از شما می‌خواهم که در حال حاضر در خانه‌های خود بمانید و آرامش و امنیت خود را حفظ کنید. هوشیار و آماده باشید تا در زمان مناسب، که به‌طور دقیق به اطلاع شما خواهم رساند، برای اقدام نهایی به خیابان‌ها باز گردید.

پیام‌های من را از طریق شبکه‌های اجتماعی و رسانه‌های ماهواره‌ای دنبال کنید. اگر در اینترنت و ماهواره اختلال ایجاد شد، از طریق امواج رادیویی با شما در تماس خواهم بود.

ما به پیروزی نهایی بسیار نزدیکیم. می‌خواهم هر چه زودتر در کنار شما باشم تا با هم ایران را پس بگیریم و دوباره بسازیم.

پاینده ایران،
رضا پهلوی

[Tara Nia @taraniatamayo]

I am an Iranian and an American taxpayer who pays millions of dollars in taxes every year, and I vote for WAR FOR IRAN, not a WAR WITH IRAN. This is not about fighting the Iranian people. It is about helping rescue a nation that has been brutally repressed, imprisoned, and killed for decades and is now shouting for freedom. The current regime is a danger first and foremost to Iranians, but also to the region and the world through its militarization, proxy conflicts, hostage-taking, and threats beyond its borders. Millions of Iranians inside and outside the country want change and a normal life, and many see a democratic future for Iran under Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. A free Iran would not be an enemy of the United States. It would be one of the most valuable strategic partners in the Middle East. With Europe weakening as a unified security ally, having a stable, friendly Iran would strengthen Western security near Russia and China and help rebalance global power in favor of democratic nations. Iran’s geographic position at the crossroads of the Middle East, Central Asia, and Europe, combined with its vast energy reserves, educated population, industrial capacity, and pro-Western diaspora, makes it uniquely positioned to be a force for stability rather than chaos. A free Iran could help stabilize global energy markets, secure critical shipping routes, counter extremist networks, reduce nuclear risk, and open one of the largest untapped markets in the world to American companies in technology, aviation, infrastructure, medicine, and education. Supporting the Iranian people is not pro-war. It is pro-peace, pro-security, and firmly in the national interest of the United States. Helping Iran become free would remove one of the world’s most persistent sources of instability and replace it with a strong partner capable of contributing to regional stability, economic growth, and global security for decades to come.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

It is not

War against Iran
War with Iran
War on Iran

It's a war *for* Iran

[Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD @houmanhemmati]

🇮🇷 47 years ago, I stood at a window in Tehran as a 3-year-old boy, smelling burning tires and hearing the chants that would steal my country. I didn’t have words for what was happening. Today, I am watching smoke rise over the same city — but this time the smoke is not the end of Iran. It is, God willing, the beginning of her resurrection.

Several weeks ago I wrote in that the fever of 1979 was finally breaking. I never imagined I would wake up to see that fever confronted so directly. Israel — with the clear support of the United States — has launched a preemptive strike deep into Tehran and against the regime’s military machinery. Explosions in the capital. Military targets hit. The IRGC’s aura of invincibility, already cracked, is shattering in real time.

I do not celebrate war. No decent person does. What I celebrate — what millions of Iranians inside the country and in the diaspora have prayed for in secret for decades — is the possibility that a regime which has no right to exist may finally be forced to go.

This is the same regime that:
- Armed and cheered the October 7 massacre against Israel for no reason other than pure genocidal hatred.
- Murdered tens of thousands of its own sons and daughters who dared to walk peacefully in the streets demanding the most basic freedoms.
- Gouges out the eyes of young women for the “crime” of wearing makeup.
- Hangs teenagers from cranes for posting a tweet.
- Exports terror, poverty, and darkness to every corner it can reach including the U.S.

No nation, no people, should have to live under that. Not Israelis. Not Americans. Not Lebanese. Not Syrians. And certainly not Iranians.

I am a physician who has spent his life trying to heal bodies and a son of Iran who has spent his life mourning a stolen homeland. What we are witnessing is not aggression — it is surgery. Painful, necessary surgery to remove a tumor that has metastasized for 47 years. The tumor is the Islamic Republic that has hijacked Iran.

To the brave pilots and special operators of the Israeli Air Force and the men and women of the United States military now carrying out this mission: I pray for you with everything I have.

May God shield you from harm. May every missile find its target and every soldier return home safely to the families who love them. You are not invaders. You are the answer to the prayers of millions who have whispered “enough” in the dark since 1979. You are giving our friends the chance to breathe free air again. The entire region will owe you a peace we have not known in my lifetime.

To my fellow Iranians watching from inside the country right now, heart pounding, maybe hiding in basements or on rooftops: Hold on. The end is clearer than it has ever been. The regime’s fear is real. Their eyes — those same eyes that once stared down at us with absolute power — now show something they haven’t shown in decades: panic. The math has changed. The window of 1979 is finally closing.

To the little three-year-old boy I once was — and to every little boy and girl in Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tabriz today who hears explosions instead of lullabies: This time the sounds are not the closing of a door. They are the opening of one.

The road ahead will not be easy. Transitions never are. But the direction is unmistakable. A secular, prosperous, free Iran is no longer a dream — it is becoming an inevitability.

I have lived the stolen life so that others might not have to. Today, for the first time in 47 years, I allow myself to believe that the stealing is almost over.

Thank you, Israel. Thank you, America. The Iranian people — the real Iran — will never forget.

The fever is breaking.
The dawn of 2026 is here.
And this time, the light wins.

🇮🇷❤️🇮🇱🇺🇸

[Tony Lindsay @TonyLTalks]

@BlaireWhite A necessary breakdown of white liberal women.

[Reza Pahlavi @PahlaviReza]

1M+ protesters came out in solidarity with the Iranian people. They are not asking the world to fix the regime but to bury it.

Spoke to @MariaBartiromo about my discussions with world leaders at the @MunSecConf and the urgency to seize this opportunity to help liberate Iran.

[Colocelt @colocelt]

@Amer1can_Barbie @stepfanie LOL I came here to say the same thing... he is more likely a "friend of Dorothy"

[Fran Collins @bigdoginc6]

I am noticing that there are some folks on here doing some serious whining about the Trump administration. So, I thought I would post some advice to help you get through your little crisis.

1. Accept the fact that this is the leadership that we, working middle class Americans wanted. We are pulling the economic weight in this country and we are tired of pulling the weight of those that do not contribute.

2. If you haven't already, get a job. Every business in the country is hiring. And you get paid for the work you do. The harder you work and the more you learn, the faster you will advance and the more you will earn. It's an amazing concept.

3. Understand that if you are a citizen or a legal alien that you are not going to get deported. I don't care what CNN says.

4. Tariffs are a bargaining chip. When you are in business you make deals, and sometimes you have to play hardball. That is how you get the deals you desire.

5. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects you from discrimination by age, sex, race etc. DEI openly violates this. Democrats want you to believe the opposite is true because they value your vote more than your quality if life.

6. It's not the government's money it is your money. You absolutely should give a damn about how it is spent.

7. We are not the World Bank. If other countries need help they should raise their own finances. I don't recall receiving any hurricane relief money from India or China.

8. Drill baby drill. Want to know why? Because we have it. Are electric cars the future? Not in their current form. There is way more oil in the ground than lithium, and guess where most of that is, China. Want food prices to come down? Then energy costs have to come down. And that means oil, gas, coal, and nuclear. Unicorn farts won't power a factory.

9. The economy and the security of the country are far more important than your feelings, get over it.

10. There are men and there are women. Simple as that.

11. Education is to establish a learning core that prepares a child for the real, working, world. Anything else is wrong.

12. Donald J. Trump is the President of the United States and he won in a mathematical landslide. Get over it.

Please read it again if you didn’t understand it on the first read.