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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Yoni Leviatan @songsofyoni]

The single most important thing American Jews can do to fight back against antisemitism is make sure it doesn't mutate from the podsphere to the halls of power.

This was a win but there's a long fight ahead. Donate. Get involved. Prove America is the exception.

[Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez @RepCarlos]

Thomas Massie’s anti-Semitic diatribes are pathetic but not surprising.

Completely unbecoming of a Member of Congress!

[George Deek @GeorgeDeek]

A Catholic church serving local Christians as a place of prayer was turned into cover for a terrorist attack by Hezbollah.

The Christians of Lebanon deserve the attention and concern of the world, even when Israel is not the one being blamed.

The Catholic world should speak clearly whenever churches and holy places are abused for terrorism.

[Magdi Jacobs @magi_jay]

In 2019, seven years ago, when he was 34-years-old, Graham Platner logged into reddit and posted a response to a video of an American soldier being shot by the Taliban.

Platner wrote:

"This video never gets old. Dumb motherfucker didn't deserve to live. At least his stupidity and fat ass wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt. Poor marksmanship on the Taliban's part is the only reason this mouthbreather made it home, he managed to make every possible shit decision possible when it comes to small unit combat."

Think about each line. "This video never gets old." Platner's implying he's watched the video several times and enjoys it. "At least his stupidity and fat ass wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt."

That's what Platner thinks about his fellow Americans at war. If they're not good at killing or broader tactics, he has contempt for them. He displays no empathy. The opposite, in fact.

The man that Platner is commenting on, by the way, is Pfc. Ted Daniels, who was a 37-year-old father of two serving in Afghanistan at the time of the incident (2012). The bad tactic Platner enjoys mocking? Daniels stepped into the open deliberately to draw Taliban fire away from his fellow soldiers so his squad could get to safety.

Daniels was shot four times in this video and, ultimately, earned a Purple Heart.

When the video was initially released (2013), Pfc. Daniels was critical of himself in interviews, saying, "It wasn't the most tactically brilliant thing to do." He described that he was embarrassed by the video; that people could hear him screaming for help. But, also, he said: "I put my ass on the line for other guys."

Then, we have, again, Graham Platner, logging into reddit, in 2019, to comment: "Dumb motherfucker didn't deserve to live."

For all those who say, "That's just how Marines talk," I'll tell you: Platner's comment got downvoted by the military community. Even if it didn't: We're not talking about the military anymore. We're talking about a 34-year-old man, years after service, logging in to mock another man who's being shot on video. We're also talking about the U.S. Senate, not boys-will-be-boys or Marines-will-be-Marines.

We're always told to view Platner as a changed man. 2013, when he made the rape apologia comments, was the "darkest point in his life," or so we have been told. So what was going on in 2019, such that Platner enjoyed watching a video of a man getting shot and mocking him? How many arcs of change are there in Platner's life? Was there a specific point where he discovered human empathy?

I couldn't help but think of that specific reddit comment while watching the video below. "Still sending young Americans to die thousands of miles away from home," Platner says. Didn't he log in to reddit seven years ago to say, "Dumb motherfucker didn't deserve to live" ?

I don't like being lied to.

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

Bill Maher is 100% right here. We have a problem and we cannot ignore it. We must fight the bigotry… and shame those who espouse such views.

@billmaher

[David Collier @mishtal]

Dear @nytimes

Remember when you put a sick child with Cerebral Palsy on your front page - and falsely claimed he was a healthy child deliberately starved by Israel?

I was the one who uncovered the truth.

So excuse me if I don't believe a word you write.

[AIPAC 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @AIPAC]

Oh.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

1) She left Iran and never returned.

2) Her husband and daughter attended monarchist rallies this year.

3) When she died, your rotten regime media photoshopped a hijab onto her head, spitting on her grave in the process.

4) Kose nanat

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Remember how they lost their sh*t when @elonmusk did this?

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

This is truly extraordinary. A Western politician with courage and clarity. @KemiBadenoch could save the UK from the cowardice that has taken over its elite and the threat from Islamists who will destroy the country.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: The suspect is being treated by Hatzola paramedics.

He just tried to cut the throats of two Jews people.

Remember last month when the internet said Hatzola only treats jews? Well they’re currently treating a man who attempted to stab jews.

[Adin - عدین - עדין @AdinHaykin1]

There are more Arabs in the IDF than Jews in the entire Arab world.

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

If you’d told me a few years ago this is where we’d be on Iran, I’d have said you were high:

1. Nuke program set back years. Enrichment and reprocessing gutted, weaponization sites destroyed, Fordow inoperable, Natanz in ruins, a generation of senior nuclear scientists eliminated.

2. Ballistic missile program crippled. Monthly production down from 100 to near zero. Roughly half the regime’s missiles and launchers destroyed. The IRGC Aerospace Force commander who ran the missile enterprise dead.

3. Air defenses devastated. American and Israeli airpower dominating Iranian skies, with strike aircraft operating over the country with near impunity.

4. Full economic warfare. Not just OFAC sanctions anymore, but military pressure layered on top: naval blockade, near-zero oil exports, choked imports, wrecked steel and petrochemical sectors, triple-digit inflation, and a currency that is effectively worthless.

5. Regime decapitation. Khamenei dead. Larijani dead. Hundreds of senior IRGC, intelligence, military, and Basij commanders dead including the IRGC commander-in-chief, the armed forces chief of staff, and the Aerospace Force commander. Mojtaba Khamenei inheriting a hollowed-out regime with no supreme authority and a gutted command structure.

6. The region turning on Tehran. Gulf states shutting down the sanctions-busting, money-laundering, and financial escape routes the regime has relied on for years. No Arab capital willing to throw Iran a lifeline. China and Russia providing limited support.

7. Proxy network shattered. Hezbollah and Hamas heavily degraded. Houthi political leadership taking direct Israeli strikes. The “Axis of Resistance” and “ring of fire” are now more slogans than real threats.

8. Syrian corridor severed. Assad is gone. The new government in Damascus is actively blocking Iranian arms transfers to Hezbollah: arresting smugglers and publicly declaring Syria will no longer serve as a transit corridor for Tehran’s terrorists. The land bridge to the Mediterranean that took decades to build is effectively closed.

9. Lebanon pivoting west. With Hezbollah battered and resupply choked, Israel and Lebanon have opened direct peace talks for the first time since 1983, aimed at a permanent agreement and Hezbollah’s disarmament. Beirut now asserting that the Lebanese armed forces alone are responsible for national defense. This is a direct repudiation of Hezbollah’s “resistance” claim. TBD.

10. Deterrence exposed as a bluff. Four direct attacks on Israel — April 2024, October 2024, June 2025, March 2026 — failed to impose strategic cost and instead triggered heavy retaliation. Iran couldn’t even use Syria as a launchpad.

11.Economy hollowed out from within. Power shortages, water crises, factory shutdowns, pension unrest, and mass protests. Nationwide demonstrations erupted in December 2025 after a year of economic freefall, with bazaaris, oil workers, and truckers, the regime’s traditional support base, joining strikes across all 31 provinces. Running out of oil storage space. Fuel shortages. The worst crisis since 1979.

12. Scientific and technical brain drain. Beyond the nuclear experts, Iran has lost a generation of irreplaceable expertise in missile design, centrifuge engineering, and weapons development. The survivors are harder to recruit and easier to deter.

13. Naval power decimated. The regular navy shattered, IRGC navy taking growing losses as CENTCOM moves to reopen Hormuz.

And against all of this: the regime forced to play its Hormuz card at its weakest possible moment when the U.S. has options instead of when we didn’t: namely, Tehran with nuclear-armed ICBMs, 10,000 ballistic missiles, a Chinese- and Russian-built military, hundreds of thousands of attack drones, a fully operational terror network, and hundreds of billions of dollars to harden its economy.

That’s the strategic picture. It’s extraordinary. Much more to do but I can’t comprehend how much has been achieved.

[The Iran Watcher 🇮🇷 @TheIranWatcher]

🚨 Tehran’s police chief just exposed the truth - it was the regime, not foreign agents, that massacred protesters.

For months, the regime and its Western apologists blamed the January massacre on “Mossad/CIA agents.”

Now Ahmad Reza Radan himself calls it a “second war” and an “urban war” against Iranians and admits pride in it.

This wasn’t foreign interference. It was the Islamic Republic regime waging war on its own people where over 45,000 unarmed Iranian protestors were massacred.

Lies don’t stay hidden forever.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

According to my sources, I can confirm Bita Hemmati, a protester from the January 2026 nationwide uprising, has been sentenced to death alongside her husband Mohammad Reza Majidi Asl and now both of them are facing imminent execution.

Think about that.

Their charges?
“Acting against national security.”
In other words, speaking out, protesting, demanding freedom.

She joined anti-regime demonstrations with her husband. That’s it. A peaceful protest. And now they are going to be hanged in 21st-century for demanding freedom.

Bita Hemmati and her husband, Mohammad Reza Majidi Asl, are among more than hundreds of Iranians sentenced to death after the January uprising but because of Internet blackout, we cannot reach out to their family members or their lawyers. We can barely get information from inside Iran.

President Trump asked for the release of six political prisoners. Important but this is bigger than six.

Every innocent political prisoner facing execution must be released, immediately.

#StopExecutionsInIran 💔

[AIPAC 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @AIPAC]

Congressman @RoKhanna, the group that you’re supporting here says:

The “genocide” started 77 years ago. Do you agree?

They call to “Globalize the Intifada.” Do you agree?

They describe Zionism as “a terrorist project.” Do you agree?

Is this your new moral direction?

[Majid 🦁☀️🇮🇪🇮🇱 @majid_hatamian]

I am still shaking from a soul-crushing Uber ride today in Dublin. It started with "Where are you from?" I said Iran, and the driver's face lit up as he thought he'd found a partner in his hate. He looked at me and said, "It must be crushing what the f***ing Israelis are doing to your country."
​The moment I pushed back, the moment I told him the truth, that I support Israel and want to see the regime in Iran fall, he erupted in pure rage.

​He began screaming about his uncle's high rank in the IRA, glorifying terror as a "success story" to justify the total erasure of Israel. To be trapped in a car with that level of brainwashed vitriol, being shamed and attacked for defending the Jewish people, is a burden I can't describe.

​Being Iranian is so incredibly taxing. You spend your life fighting the regime that destroyed your home, only to have strangers weaponise your identity to justify their antisemitism. To my Jewish friends: I see the hate you face. I will never stop standing with you, no matter how much it costs. 🇮🇱🦁☀️

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

16-YEAR-OLD GIRL ABDUCTED BY IRAN REGIME AND TORTURED FOR PROTESTING!

Her name is Ghazal Ghalandari, a teenage girl was taken from her home on January 20, 2026, around 10 security forces stormed her family home in the city of Yasuj and arrested her.

This is what the regime does:
They fear their own people.
Even teenage girls.

Say her name:
Ghazal Ghalandari.
💔