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Drifted home to Rome.

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

Just over two weeks ago, Lisa Nandy, Secretary of Misinformation, left X claiming the platform promoted abuse and misinformation.

Yet Shabana Mahmood’s post claiming that 12 people arrested in connection with far right terror offences last week “undoubtedly saved lives” reached over 308,000 views.

All 12 arrested have since been released without terror charges.

If politicians demand accountability from social media platforms, they should first demand it from themselves.

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

“undoubtedly saved lives”

I’m extremely worried as to what is going on in the Home Office.

Twice, in a week, the most senior politicians in our country are looking stupid because they’ve shared police misinformation, or have made it up themselves.

Spreading misinformation to millions of people, without apology, whilst you hold high office should be a breach of ministerial code.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Amnesty is no longer the organisation that defended all who were persecuted for their freedom of speech. It has become a self-appointed, vainglorious policeman of wrongthink. It tweets out ideological slogans. It demonises those who disagree with those slogans. It intervened in FWS v Scottish Ministers, on the side of those determined to keep men in women’s prisons and rape crisis centres.

Some of us haven’t forgotten that Amnesty stopped supporting the since-murdered prisoner of conscience Alexei Navalny because they deemed he’d said unacceptable things in the past. They reversed that decision due to public backlash, exactly as they withdrew the recent defamatory report, before I or anyone else had responded to it, because they panicked on seeing the reaction. A cynic might think they changed their minds on both occasions, not on principle, but because they were afraid of losing money.

You cannot be simultaneously an impartial defender of freedom and speech and a wealthy international witch hunter that publicly vilifies and intimidates small campaigning groups with whom you disagree. As for ‘silencing’ Amnesty, I have neither the power nor the desire to do so. I want them to explain as loudly and extensively as possible why they are using their might and formerly lustrous reputation to attack small non-violent campaigning organisations with legally protected beliefs.

[Christian Concern @CConcern]

Amnesty International lists Christian groups including Christian Concern as 'anti-rights'

@TDieppe comments on the report and the response it has received 🗣️

[Lianna @lianna_armenian]

🇬🇷☦️ Never forget the #Greek Genocide.

Tears still fall when we see this rare archival footage of the forced exile of the #Christian #Greeks from their own ancestral lands.

This is a historical/educational tweet about the Greek Genocide.

The Ottoman Empire, under the Young Turk government (Committee of Union and Progress) and later Kemalist forces, carried out a systematic campaign of persecution, mass murder, and expulsion against the native Greek population of Asia Minor, Pontus, and Eastern Thrace.

This formed part of a broader effort to eliminate Christian minorities and create an ethnically and religiously homogeneous Turkish state.

Over 350,000 Pontian Greeks are estimated to have been killed, with total Greek deaths across regions ranging from several hundred thousand to as many as 1 million, according to various scholarly estimates.

Persecutions began intensifying in 1914 with boycotts, arbitrary arrests, property seizures, and forced conscription of men into lethal labor battalions (Amele Taburları), where most perished from exhaustion, starvation, disease, and execution.

The physical destruction was accompanied by a systematic economic campaign. Under the pretext of laws dealing with "abandoned goods" (Emval-i Metruke), the state seized the homes, lands, businesses, and bank accounts of the deported and murdered Greeks. This mass expropriation stripped the Christian communities of centuries of wealth to build a new national economy.

Beyond physical and economic destruction, this campaign constituted a profound cultural genocide. The perpetrators aimed to erase all historical traces of the Greek presence. Ancient towns were systematically renamed, schools were shut down, and thousands of centuries-old monuments, churches, and monasteries were either destroyed, desecrated, or converted.

Women, children, and the elderly endured death marches designed to kill without pulling a trigger. Deportees were forced to walk for weeks across brutal terrain without food, water, or shelter. Anyone who collapsed from hunger or exposure was either shot on the spot or left to die by the roadsides. Thousands died from disease and attacks by irregular forces. Entire villages were burned.

These atrocities occurred alongside the Armenian Genocide and massacres of Assyrians, as part of the same late Ottoman campaign against Christian populations.

Contemporary evidence is extensive: reports from American consuls and ambassadors, Western missionaries, European diplomats, and relief organizations documented the events in real time.

The violence deliberately targeted Christian clergy. A prominent example is Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Smyrna, who refused to abandon his flock in 1922. He was arrested, tortured, and lynched by a mob - an act of martyrdom that symbolizes the tragedy.

In 2007, the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) officially recognized the Greek Genocide, affirming that the Ottoman campaign against Pontian and Anatolian Greeks constituted genocide, alongside those against Armenians and Assyrians.

This was the violent erasure of a civilization with roots stretching back three millennia.

Eternal memory to the blessed martyrs.

May the blessed Christian martyrs rest in peace.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

🚨When asked about new taxes, Andy Burnham said “at some point that might be having to ask for a little more"🚨

Andy Burnham isn't even Prime Minister yet but he's already talking about raising your taxes AGAIN.

We are heading for another summer of chaos with Labour obsessing about who they can tax to pay for more benefits.

It doesn’t matter who is in charge, the problem is the Labour Party.

[Caroline Farrow @CF_Farrow]

Amnesty has designated Catholics a hate group.

In the light of Ann Widdecombe's murder, this is particularly disturbing.

[Caroline Farrow @CF_Farrow]

Checking out Amnesty's blacklist. When a “human rights” group starts branding Catholic journalism and Catholic doctors as “anti-rights,” it has stopped defending liberty and started policing belief.

The Catholic Herald and Catholic Medical Association should not be on a blacklist for being Catholic.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Oh Amnesty. How far you have fallen.

Amnesty International UK compiled an “anti rights”list. And not one Islamic organisation appeared on it. Not one.

But Christian organisations were, including the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, as well as the Catholic Medical Association and the Catholic Herald.

This is globalist blatant anti Christian prejudice, where mainstream Christian belief is treated as dangerous (seriously)

Amnesty then deleted the report when people noticed obvs … but the internet never forgets.

[Westminster Diocese @RCWestminster]

"This morning, Mass was offered for the repose of the soul of Ann Widdecombe at Westminster Cathedral, where she was sometimes the Lector at the Sunday evening mass. We pray for her family and friends at this time. May she rest in peace."
~ Archbishop Richard Moth

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I never noticed what the Quran doesn’t have.

Dates. Places. Names you can check.

Read the Quran’s stories: no chronology, almost no geography, kings called only “Pharaoh,” events floating in no particular year.

Where did the story happen? When? Under whom? The text doesn’t say. You can’t check it… which conveniently means you can’t crosscheck it.

Now read the opening of Luke 3:

“In the FIFTEENTH YEAR of the reign of TIBERIUS CAESAR — PONTIUS PILATE being governor of JUDEA, HEROD being tetrarch of GALILEE, his brother PHILIP tetrarch of ITUREA and TRACHONITIS, and LYSANIAS tetrarch of ABILENE, during the high priesthood of ANNAS and CAIAPHAS…”

SEVEN historical anchors in one sentence.

An emperor, a governor, three rulers with their exact territories, two high priests.

And people HAVE checked — for centuries, often trying to break it. Skeptics mocked Luke’s “Lysanias of Abilene” as an error…

UNTIL an inscription naming Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene turned up.

Pilate was called legend by some… until the Pilate Stone was dug up at Caesarea in 1961 with his name and title carved in it.

Luke 1:3-4 tells you why: “Having followed all things closely… that you may have CERTAINTY.”

Certainty. That’s the offer.

One book floats above history where nothing can touch it.

The other planted its flag in checkable ground and said: dig.

They dug. It’s still standing.

Praise the Lord and His mighty God-Breathed scripture.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, Surah 5:32 was my favorite verse to quote.

“Whoever kills a soul, it is as if he killed all of mankind.”

I put it in every debate. Every conversation about Islam and peace. It felt like the most beautiful verse in the Quran.

Then I read it slowly.

The verse doesn’t say Allah revealed this to Muhammad. It says: “We decreed upon the CHILDREN OF ISRAEL…”

Wait. Decreed where? When? I went looking.

And I found it.

Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5. A rabbinic commentary on Cain and Abel, written down around 200 AD — four centuries before the Quran.

Rabbis discussing why Genesis says Abel’s “bloods” cry out — plural — and concluding: whoever destroys one soul, it is as if he destroyed an entire world.

Word for word. Same context. Same Cain and Abel story it’s attached to in Surah 5.

The most beautiful verse in the Quran is a rabbi’s classroom commentary.

And that’s when the question changed for me. It was never “is this verse beautiful?” It was: what is a rabbinic homily doing inside a book that claims to be the eternal, uncreated speech of God?

Because there are only two options:

Either Allah quoted the rabbis.

Or a man in Arabia heard Jewish teachers and repeated what they said.

The Bible predicted men would do this too.

Jeremiah 23:30 — “I am against the prophets who steal my words from one another.”

Once I stopped defending man’s word… I found the Living Word. Christ Jesus my King.

[Jonny 🇻🇦 @jonnyLib_Dem]

@riecker It’s true. And it works.

[Jonny 🇻🇦 @jonnyLib_Dem]

@MrCasey62 Exactly. One of the reasons I know the power of Our Lady’s intercession is answered prayer.

[Jonny 🇻🇦 @jonnyLib_Dem]

@WarMonitor3 Source?

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

Well, it was inevitable, and it happened.

Time and again, Russia brings down another Ukrainian apartment building with a missile in the middle of the night, burying entire families beneath the rubble.

Ukraine strikes one of Russia’s largest and most strategically important oil refineries, around 3,000 kilometres from its own borders.

One side deliberately targets civilians. The other targets the infrastructure that fuels the war.

If anyone still struggles to see the difference, they’re choosing not to.

[Jonny 🇻🇦 @jonnyLib_Dem]

@BreeSolstad Correlation does not equal causation.

[Jonny 🇻🇦 @jonnyLib_Dem]

@CatholicSat @Yimbymanatee What are the others?

[Jonny 🇻🇦 @jonnyLib_Dem]

@JSGleason136245 @IfUCanKeepIt @Mark129988 @DavidFischer Mormon meaning?? That is a very American perspective. No one else would even be thinking about the Mormons.

[Jonny 🇻🇦 @jonnyLib_Dem]

@LittleMmerari1 @IfUCanKeepIt @Mark129988 @DavidFischer Read the church fathers. The washing (or laver) of regeneration ALWAYS refers to baptism.