WeAreAllSinners

Guilty and forgiven ☦️

[WeAreAllSinners @gauchegolly]

I'm doing some cleanup. If I you follow me and I unfollow you, please give me a couple of days to circle back and follow back. The cleanup is difficult and messy. (Thanks, Elon)

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

If you are confused how John Thune just became Senate minority leader…

Imagine your party gets hammered in the midterms, losing at least seven Senate seats to the Democrats and the majority along with it, and instead of stopping to ask what went wrong, Senate Republicans walk into a closed-door room just one week later, shut out the very voters who sent them there, and come back out with the EXACT SAME leader, because when Ron Johnson, Rick Scott, Mike Lee and others begged for a little more time so members could lay out a real vision for the party, the delay was voted down 31-15 in a private tally we only know about from anonymous sources, and then, with no challenger and no recorded vote, Thune kept his job by acclamation, and the rest of the leadership team stayed almost entirely unchanged, as if nothing happened, as if millions of Republican voters didn't just watch their majority crumble, as if "accountability" is something Washington demands of everyone except itself, so now the SAME people who led us into the minority get to lead us through it, Republican voters still don't know how their own senators voted on the delay, and we're all just supposed to nod along and trust the process and feckless, worthless people that put us here in the first place, which is exactly why so many of us are FURIOUS tonight.

[WeAreAllSinners @gauchegolly]

@CalRizzerected @AmiriKing Yep.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Democrats Say They Now Have A Clear Mandate From Voters To Do All The Crazy Stuff They Never Mentioned In Their Campaigns https://t.co/04ehhQF59Y

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Hey @grok did Thomas Massie ever introduce or support impeachment against Lloyd Austin for presiding over the disastrous Afghan withdrawal, unlawful COVID mandates, or harmful DEI policies meant to divide the force?

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

Hateful rightwing rhetoric:
"My dishwasher wasn't working... so I told her to get busy and make me a sandwich lmaoooo"

Harmless leftwing comedy:
"I'm so happy this guy was brutally murdered, hope it happens to more of you"

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

Okay, I'll explain:

Boys don't like weapons. They like tools. This is one of the largest gaps between men and women, and incredibly well-established. Boys are interested in "things" and conceptualize them as tools. Girls are interested in people and conceptualize them as relationships.

She thinks that we're "socially conditioning boys to be violent" which is why they're "fascinated by weapons." No. They're learning how to use tools, and hitting something with another object is about the earliest "tool using behavior" possible. Even some birds do it. Boys fascinated by UTILITY; the idea that an object has undiscovered potential to do things.

Her concerns and analysis could easily be resolved if she would bother to familiarize herself with the century of scientific literature on the subject.

This is a good example of why journalists should report instead of comment: if they actually understood things (or had the capacity to do so), they'd be doing them instead of reporting on them.

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Hakeem Jeffries: Says Stephen Miller is a malignant tumor that needs to be eradicated from govt

Scott Galloway: Wants Elon Musk executed

Jennifer Welch: Cackles at length over Charlie Kirk's murder

James Talarico: Love won!

[Mooné Rahimi @hiitsmemooneh]

As an Iranian woman, I want to expose Iranian-American Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari.

NIAC Action, the political arm and lobbying organization of the Islamic regime in the USA, endorsed her run for Phoenix City Council. In Congress, she filed articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth, citing U.S. military action in Iran among the grounds. Sazandegi, a newspaper affiliated with a faction within the Islamic Republic’s political establishment, put her on its front page. Tasnim (another Islamic regime media outlet) amplified a clip of her attacking President Trump.

Ansari is Iranian-American, and I’m Iranian. I want a free Iran, and she doesn’t speak for me. If Washington wants to know what Iranians fighting the Islamic Republic have to say, it should hear from them directly.

Not only do all Iranians fighting for Iran’s freedom distrust this woman, they also hate her. She is a disgrace to Iran and Iranians.

@LauraLoomer

[NyanChuu🔮🇯🇵🍭 @tanpukunokami]

I grew up near Yokota Air Base and now live near Yokosuka, so I have spent my whole life watching Americans in Japan.

Americans online worry a lot about how the world sees them, but what locals notice here is much warmer than you think.

A huge sailor holds a bakery door for a Japanese grandmother, then gets stuck holding it for ten more people, smiling the whole time.

At my favorite ramen shop, a young American finishes every drop of soup and tells the quiet old master in broken Japanese it was the best meal of his life. The master nods stiffly, then grins for the rest of the night after the door closes.

When someone here tries to speak three broken words of English, Americans always light up and never mock the effort.

Recently, I watched US news with my 66-year-old father. The TV said America was divided and exhausted.

My father shook his head and said, "Other countries accept decline when they hit a wall. Americans never act like the story is over. They always get the loudest right before they reinvent themselves."

From across the Pacific, we still see the people who hold the door for strangers and believe tomorrow can be built better than today. Please don't forget who you are.

[Vriller @The_Vriller]

This!

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @SanaELedene]

I’m so sick of seeing people across social media claim Abdul El-Sayed is only getting heat “because he’s a Muslim man.”

That’s not the reason. Other Muslims have been elected to office without this reaction. Repeating it just makes you look stupid.

Here are the actual problems:

1- In 2012 he signed a letter to Mohamed Morsi (the Muslim Brotherhood president of Egypt) supporting his power grab and calling on him to “purge the media and the police as quickly as possible.”

2- His biological mother, Fatten Elkomy, worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA), which the U.S. Treasury designated for supporting terrorism. His half-sister has publicly said their mother was active in the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in the 1970s.

3- His half-sister Eman Abdelhadi posted on social media about their mother’s Muslim Brotherhood activism and expressed support for family members backing the Brotherhood in Egypt.

4- He refused to condemn the IRGC when directly asked by an Iranian-American student whose family was targeted by them. Leaked audio also shows he deliberately stayed silent on Khamenei’s death because “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad,” prioritizing his base over basic condemnation of a terrorist regime.

5- His father, Mohamed El-Sayed, sits on the board of Life for Relief and Development, a Michigan-based Islamic charity that paid a $780,000 settlement to the U.S. Treasury for violating sanctions by transferring money into Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. The group has also faced raids and scrutiny over alleged ties to terror-linked networks.

These are documented facts.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Facts.

[Le Crapaud @Le_Crapaud47]

Le comportement de cet immigré vous rappelle-t-il quelque chose ?

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

In the early days of DOGE, Trump had a 56% approval rating.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

So why do high-IQ populations stop having babies when they reach a certain tech level?

Precisely because high IQs are so valuable.

When the combination of wealth and technology from high-IQ men reach a certain level, high-IQ labor becomes the bottleneck. At this point, wealthy industrialists, and indeed entire civilizations, face an irresistible temptation.

They can double the size of the labor force, and half the real wages of high-IQ workers while building more, by putting all the women to work.

And since women are instinctively compliant with social norms, all you have to do to accomplish this is convince women that society thinks careers are high-status, and children are low status.

Both radical feminists and reactionaries both noticed some time ago that when you educate women, they stop breeding.

Reactionaries thought this was because women are retarded, and they are genetically programmed to blow up society if you empower them.

Feminists thought this was because having kids is horrible oppression, and women everywhere hate it, and have only ever done it because they forced into it by rape and sexual slavery, so the moment you empower them, they stop.

Amusingly enough, these are actually the same idea, except written with snarl or purr words.

And either way, this idea is wrong. Women don't stop having kids because you educate them. You could send them to finishing school for six years and teach them about matters animal, vegetable, and mineral, along with many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse, and absolutely nothing would change. Except they'd be better conversationalists, and terrific at educating their kids.

No, the reason women stop breeding when you educate them has nothing to do with education at all.

It's because of what you're educating them FOR.

You educate them to put them into the workforce, and once they are in the workforce, you have three things going on.

First, they can build careers or have babies, they can't do both. Two, you just told them kids were for low-class, uneducated, barefoot-and-pregnant loser women living in shacks in rural Kansas. But most importantly, three, when they compete with men in the workplace, and have their own incomes, they lose respect for men.

Women, whether you like it or not, whether I like it or not, only want to have babies with men they consider their superiors.

If they work in the same workplaces as men, they consider those men to be equals, even if his job is "senior multithreaded kernel programmer" and hers is "project schedule kanban board den mother".

So what you've done, what high-tech societies always do, is sacrifice their entire futures for one to three generations of increased shareholder value.

But hey, we know some really great recipes for seedcornbread.

[Bethany Cherisse @BethanyCherisse]

The female collective's two main talking points at present seem to be "If you won't let me murder my baby before it's born, I'll kill it later and blame everyone else" and "If I regret having sex with you, I'll accuse you of rape and destroy your life." Followed closely by "I have the right to be a whore, and I'm not responsible for anything that happens as a result."

In-between these absurdities, these so-called 'progressive' women mock and ridicule trad wives, sneer at women who respect their husbands as leaders and the male sex as a whole, vilify women who choose to marry in their early twenties rather than whoring around, deride women who speak about the values of modesty or motherhood, and scream "pick me" at any woman who dares espouse a modicum of morality or utter a word of support for a man.

Never in my life have I been more ashamed to be a member of the female sex than I am right now.

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

They didn't do nothing. They actively stopped the SAVE Act from passing, that counts as something.

[Dr. Sydney Watson @SydneyLWatson]

I didn't realize you could vote your way out of a dictatorship 🧐

[Samurai Shiba @SamuraiShibaJP]

There's a saying on American social media:

"Be the American that Japanese people think you are."

I'm Japanese. I've lived in Tokyo my whole life.

So let me tell you what we actually say about you, when you're not in the room.

"When someone falls down on the street, we pretend not to see. We're protecting their pride. Americans run straight at them. They don't care about the pride. They care about the knee." (Office worker, 38)

"An American will stop four lanes of traffic for a family of ducks. And then everyone in the cars claps for the ducks." (Taxi driver, 61)

"If you lend an American a pen, you will never see it again. If you need a kidney, they'll ask your blood type." (Nurse, 45)

"At kids' soccer games, they cheer when the other team's kid scores. The other team's parents look confused. Then they cheer too." (Youth soccer coach, 52, lived one year in Ohio)

"A man sneezed on a bus in Chicago. Eleven strangers said 'Bless you.' He said 'thank you' eleven times. Nobody on that bus thought this was strange." (University student, 21)

"At an airport in Texas, I watched a soldier try to pay for his lunch. The cashier said someone already had. He asked who. She said, 'Somebody who didn't want you to know.'" (Retired teacher, 70)

"American fathers cannot braid hair. But they will watch a video at midnight for an hour so their daughter's hair looks right on picture day." (Hair stylist, 33)

"I ran the Chicago Marathon once. Strangers stood in the cold for hours holding signs for people they will never meet. At mile 20, a man I'd never seen read the name off my bib and screamed it like he'd raised me." (Runner, 48)

"When Americans get lost, they ask a stranger. If the stranger is also lost, they become a team." (Tour guide, 39)

"They ask the waitress her name. And then they remember it." (Restaurant owner, 66)

And one more. From my father. He's 76. He doesn't say much about anything. This is the longest thing I have ever heard him say about another country.

"Every time something terrible happens in America, I watch the news, and I look for one thing.

The people running toward it.

There are always so many."

So, America.

You don't have to become the Americans we think you are.

We're not imagining you.

We're remembering you.

[Lisa Britton @LisaBritton]

In this New York Times opinion piece on the Democratic Party’s “masculinity crisis,” the focus is on the party’s difficulty attracting male voters. What stood out to me was how much the piece emphasized performative masculinity—how politicians should present themselves—rather than any policy discussion. Treating male voters as if they can simply be won over by the right character or persona is insulting. If the goal is actually to earn their support, the conversation should center on what policies and actions would improve men’s lives, not just on how to act in order to appeal to them. The real issue is how phony politics is today. Remember, one actual party strategy over the past two years to win male voters over was to “swear more.” 🙄