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[I We @gdspartner]

@SamShep18447427 Nope - Henderson got it instead.

[I We @gdspartner]

@Osint613 Trump needs to get WAY ahead of this.

[Willis Eschenbach @WEschenbach]

It's nothing but a bunch of photos of people injured in a war THAT THEY STARTED THEMSELVES!!

Did you really expect that invading Israel, raping, torturing, and murdering a thousand people, abducting women to serve as sex slaves, and promising to do it over and over forever wouldn't lead to bloody war?

Go whine to Hamas. Every drop of blood in every picture is on their hands.

w.

[Skint Eastwood @Skint_Eastwood1]

🚨UK Police Threaten Arrest for “Future Crime” – Minority Report Comes to Britain

UK police officer threatens to arrest a man for peacefully filming in public, because his presence “might” wind people up and cause someone else to lose their temper.

This is straight-up Minority Report policing.

They’re not arresting him for any actual crime. They’re not even claiming he’s breaking the law. They’re saying: “We can arrest you to prevent a breach of the peace” meaning, we’re going to punish you in case some random person gets angry at your legal activity.

Think about that. If someone gets so wound up by a camera that they want to attack the person holding it, the rational response is to arrest the aggressor, not the person exercising their right to film in a public space.

How on earth can you justify detaining someone for something that hasn’t happened and might never happen? It flips justice on its head: the person minding their own business (and their rights) becomes the problem, while potential troublemakers get their feelings protected by the state.

Officers should be de-escalating and protecting lawful behaviour, not threatening people with arrest for hypothetical future crimes by others.

Absolutely disgraceful.

[I We @gdspartner]

@London_W4 @TRobinsonNewEra The police in the United Kingdom are absolutely insane. What happened to free speech?

[I We @gdspartner]

@Milajoy No question. JD's nationalism has blinded him.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

This man is a hero.

[I We @gdspartner]

@epaleezeldin Good for you, Lee!

[Mosab Hassan Yousef @MosabHasanYOSEF]

According to the Jerusalem Post, a major plan to topple the Iranian regime using Kurdish forces, backed by Israeli air support was ready.

Trump vetoed it at the last minute.

Israeli sources accuse JD Vance of leaking the entire operation to Erdogan.

A 41-year-old Vice President with zero experience in the region decided he knew better than seasoned strategists who have fought the Islamic Republic for decades.

This is not a policy disagreement.

This is a serious betrayal.

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

Oh, look! Bosnia fans chant "Palestina" in solidarity with Palestine before their World Cup game against America.

Now I feel even better that we kicked their ass*s tonight and sent them back home!

[I We @gdspartner]

"The United States almost certainly had the lowest murder rate ever recorded in 2025, with the FBI having data back to 1960," says crime data analyst Jeff Asher. "And the available evidence suggests that we're going to go even lower this year." NPR

There are a combination of factors - a lower murder-age population, and Trump's tough-on-crime and tough-on-illegal approach. But I think the Bruen decision on "shall issue" permits - the huge increase in concealed carriers of firearms - is what has made the difference.

The change has taken a few years. It takes time for a Supreme Court judgement to trickle down to the States, and then to increase the number of gun carriers, and then for the would-be murderers to internalize the fact that the risk calculus has changed such that they change their behavior.

But I have no doubt whatsoever that it is Bruen, more than any other factor, that has led to this wonderful development. And that we can look forward to even better news to come.

And I think it is important to assign the cause appropriately. Our local idiot mayor claims that he is solely responsible. But given the overall national improvements, it is clear that the cause must be national - not local - in origin.

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

In 1859, a man named Thomas Austin released 24 rabbits into the wild for sport hunting in Australia. In 70 years, the rabbit population grew to 10 billion.

They multiply like Muslims.

[I We @gdspartner]

@chriswithans Why, yes! Of course.

[I We @gdspartner]

Anyone who wants to sow their wild oats will tell you that “Monogamy isn’t natural.”

They are right. Our natural selves animalistically live in the moment, and if we are “true to ourselves,” we really ought to pursue every passing opportunity for pleasure. Or, frankly, to indulge our anger, or desire for revenge, or any other momentary passion. Following our natural inclinations does not lead to long-term marital harmony.

Other healthy family relationships are also against our natural selves. Sibling rivalry, including outright fratricide, is as old as time. So are intergenerational betrayal (King Lear) and perfidy (Oedipus). And, as already mentioned, the idea of a man and a woman mating and loving each other for life not only beggars belief: it is counter to the way Mother Nature made mankind.

Which tells us that “good” homes – the kind where the parents stay true to each other, where siblings root for others to succeed, and where children honor their parents – are indeed unnatural.

Bilaam, the biblical prophet, understood this. He says that the Jewish home (the goodly tents /spiritually-infused dwellings) (N. 24:6) is -
Like a fixed flow / like gardens on a river / like (portable) tents made permanent by G-d /like cedars on the waters.

But these are all paradoxes! Things that flow cannot be fixed. Gardens cannot be planted on a river bank because they will be swept away with the spring waters. Tents are, by definition, portable homes – not permanent! Cedars do not grow on the water – they need drainage. Bilaam is comparing the Jewish Family to things that are inherently impossible!

Bilaam is saying that the Jewish Family cannot exist in a purely physical world. In no normal, physical world does monogamy triumph over promiscuity, do siblings help one another instead of competing, and do parents and children love and respect each other.

No, not in a natural world, a world governed by only physical inputs.

The only things that can be physically impossible – but still exist nevertheless – are those things that have a special, spiritual ingredient. And that ingredient is the presence of G-d within a marriage, the spiritual element that makes it possible for us to overcome our physical limits.

This is why Bilaam uses the word mishkan to describe our dwellings. Mishkan is also the name of the Tabernacle, the where G-d’s presence dwells amidst the people. A mishkan is our physical world with infused spirituality.

The Jewish family are a walking impossibility. We are described by, and defined as, something that cannot be found in nature – that can only be found when G-d joins us in our tents. Bilaam understood this!

P.S. Bilaam “solved the problem” by advising our enemies to send loose women into the camp, to drive a wedge within the family, and between the people and G-d. Animalistic displays of pure physical lust cannot coexist with holy spirituality, with the presence of G-d amidst the people.

[I We @gdspartner]

@mariempalmer @lheal @ifarca The ethnic cleansing argument is pure BS. Millions of Arabs live in Israel. How many Jews live in Arab lands?

Don't worry. I'll wait.

Oh - and Gaza was not occupied at all until 7 October. They also could have traded freely through Egypt... why did they not?

[I We @gdspartner]

@NewYorker The irony is delicious. The Palestinians have spent 70 years proving that they cannot be trusted ever again. it is about time that Israel learned from the experience.

[Willis Eschenbach @WEschenbach]

Encouraged by the amount of vitriol and name-calling engendered by my last two posts about climate, I thought I'd have another go. See the image below.

Some notes.

• Temperatures have been up to 15°C (27°F) warmer than today, and all kinds of life flourished.
• Atmospheric CO2 was twice as high as today in the Carboniferous, and temperatures were lower.

Best to all,

w.

PS—Why was I encouraged by name-calling?

Because when people start throwing mud at me, it's a sure sign they're out of real scientific ammunition … and when I'm taking flak, it's clear evidence that I'm over the target.

PPS—My previous two posts about climate are below:

https://t.co/Z70H8irEwU

https://t.co/RzE36wrgKT

[I We @gdspartner]

@mariempalmer @lheal @ifarca Nah. No racial supremacy. We are shorter, weaker and slower than the rest of you.

[I We @gdspartner]

@JYuter Making the temple large is a mistake. The Mikdash is meant to foster a personal relationship, nothing like a pagan temple or Catholic cathedral.

[I We @gdspartner]

@ifarca I should have said: the 6 pointed star - Calling it "Star of David" feeds into the myth.

[I We @gdspartner]

@ifarca The Star of David is not a historical symbol for the Jewish people. It was incarnated by Zionists in order to have a symbol for the Jewish people that lacks any religious meaning. Nobody before 1880 would have recognized it as Jewish.

The Menorah is MUCH better.