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[Derek @DiplomatRhine]

Many people have no understanding of the real, often invisible challenges that disabled veterans live with every day. These conditions aren’t theoretical — they’re the result of service, sacrifice, and experiences most civilians will never have to endure. So when commentators like @judgeglock speak without knowledge, empathy, or basic common sense, it shows a complete disconnect from the realities veterans face. If he truly wants to understand how even a young, healthy service member can end up with multiple disabilities, he’s welcome to sit down with me — or any veteran — and learn what that cost really looks like.This comes from a disabled veteran who served so people like him have the freedom to speak, even when they choose to do so irresponsibly.

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

I bucked all advice from my friends (and resisted my conservative bias) and decided to fully trust the Times journalists.

As they left my home they asked that I not talk to any other outlets and I insisted then and repeatedly over the following weeks that I would keep my word and only share this story with them.

But then the weeks dragged on. They kept coming back to us saying the editors needed more. I needed to go on the record (okay). We need more screenshots (okay). I met every bench mark they set, eager to provide more sources or evidence as needed.

After the story went up I began to ask them … wait, where are the stories from the other women? Where are their accusations of sexual assault? Why am I the focus? Why are there 11 paragraphs dedicated to detailing my work history (more than has been published about Graham’s by far)?

Why does it say “nobody could corroborate” when I offered them sources that COULD corroborate?

Why did they include an out of context quote from a friend joking “do not call Graham” after I called off my wedding? (Because she knew I would never).

Where were the screenshots they’d said they would use? Or the mention that I’d supported local democrats and that most of my family (and husband) are liberal?

The editors said it was too much, they explained.

The Times also failed to include any mention that I DID confide in multiple friends through the years that Graham had been abusive — long before he was running for office. Those friends confirm they told the Times so.

It dawned on me that this really was a set up all along. The journalists I trusted who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign. Violating the trust of his victims. Shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life.

And at the end of my call with them I reluctantly accepted their insistence that this was still a powerful story and that I had done a brave thing. And I thanked them for all the hard work they had put into it.

Still fawning after all these years.

[Tobias Huch @TobiasHuch]

@IsraelWarRoom @bookingcom https://t.co/t2DdrriveL

[wokeandwoofing @wokeandwoofing]

When a Canadian doctor says -"Would you rather have a Trans child or a dead child?", this is not a threat. They are just making you aware that they now offers both of these services.

[Christoph Rehage🇪🇺 @crehage]

how does hadj symbolize our collective humanity if non-muslims are not allowed to go to mecca?

[Not a Good Jewish Girl✡️ @estherzelda0514]

I was an American Jew in the diaspora that did not want to tie myself to Israel. I was only tangentially aware of it, and in pure young adult fashion, rebelliously annoyed to be reminded of it by the Jews around me. I talked about Israel not at all. If you had asked me, I was opposed to it.

That changed with Operation Cast Lead. I had no idea what it was called at the time. I was checked out completely. I was starting my PhD, and had no idea that there was anything happening in Israel. If it was mentioned, I just kind of glazed over and forgot about it. I was American, what did I care?

But the people around me in academia? They knew. They cared. They saw my posts on Facebook spending time with a cousin who lived there; a trip to Tel Aviv five years ago.

This was all it took.

I was asked by other students about Israel, where I stood on it, what I thought. These questions carried an air of accusation that puzzled me. When I said I do not know, and I do not care, the questions became more pointed, more hostile. Was I a Zionist?

What is a Zionist, I asked.

I did not know. I heard the term only in circumstances of it being in the title of Jewish organizations mentioned in temple conversations. I wasn't there for that, though, I wanted a second helping of kugel and the ladies gossiping at the post-services buffet were in the way.

My ignorance and nearly complete disinterest in Israel did not matter. I was tied to Israel whether I liked it or not. My dark eyes, tan skin, long dark curly hair, Mediterranean features, my Jewish husband who wore a kippah to fancy occasions... inquiring minds needed to know, was a good Jew or a bad Jew?

It was a game, and I did not know the rules. Tails they win, heads I lose. I quickly learned that unless I verbally prostrated myself and proclaimed the most violent of antisemitic terrorists had a point, I had to answer for Israel. Even if I did that, I would still have to answer for Israel.

Israel did not make me a Zionist. My Judaism did not make me a Zionist. Antizionists, who have always been antisemitic, always been hostile, made me a Zionist. Because I was not allowed to be anything but that, not if I wanted to have any respect for myself.

[muchfacepalm @muchfacepalm]

These are the same people that lecture us about “cultural appropriation”.

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

Nothing beats a socialist Latina woman in Muslim Hijab more than a socialist anti-colonial NYC Muslim mayor praying while wearing England's Arsenal jersey.

Internationalist Third Worldism, virtue-signaling and identity politics have no limits.

[muchfacepalm @muchfacepalm]

@jonfavs @mattyglesias This you? https://t.co/hhQZOLoiNl

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Graham Platner isn’t just our best and only chance to beat Susan Collins, he’s a good, decent man who’s struggled and grown and is always trying to do better.

I hope everyone with reservations takes a little time to get to know the real life version of him, not what the algorithm throws in our faces. Clearly, that’s what so many people in Maine have done - from all different walks of life and political persuasions.

[muchfacepalm @muchfacepalm]

@jonfavs @mattyglesias This you? https://t.co/50dzqP0AX1

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

@MarkJCarney Your citizens make effigies of Jews while you stay silent.

Your opinion on anything Israel is neither needed nor wanted.

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

“Free Palestine.”

I grew up on those words.

In Lebanon, most people around me wanted a free Palestine for a very practical reason — to send the Palestinian refugees back. The civil war that tore my country apart was ignited in no small part by the Palestinian armed factions who turned Lebanon into their launching pad. “Free Palestine” meant: free us from them.

In Damascus, where my father’s family lived, the sentiment was different but equally self-serving. Palestine must be returned to the Arabs, its righteous owners. No one asked follow-up questions. No one was expected to.

Palestine was central to Islam, most Arabs are Muslim, therefore supporting the Palestinian cause was reflexive. A non-brainer in the most literal sense — no brain engaged at all.

Nobody stopped to point out that Palestine is not an Arabic word. Nobody found it strange that Jerusalem, the supposedly third holiest city in Islam, is not mentioned once in the Quran. Not once. Nor is Palestine. The entire theological and political architecture of this cause rests on a foundation that their own scripture doesn’t bother to acknowledge.

What was actually happening was indoctrination. A systematic, generational rejection of Jewish sovereignty — and frankly, of any minority sovereignty. Jews, Christians, Druze, Kurds, Assyrians, Yazidis — the Arab world has been remarkably consistent in how it treats people who are different. We just don’t talk about that.

Instead, in the West, we talk about Palestine.

In the West, a civilization that has elevated human rights to its highest moral currency, the Palestinian cause has become the one exception to every rule. In the queue of human suffering, Palestinians cut the line every time. Homosexuals executed in Gaza and hanged from cranes in Iran? Palestine first. Women imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for campaigning for the right to drive — a right they were denied until 2018 — girls sold into marriage in Afghanistan, women erased from public life entirely under the Taliban? After Palestine. Political dissidents ground into dust in Syrian and Egyptian prisons, journalists disappeared in Libya, children starving in Yemen while their rulers wage proxy wars, entire populations hollowed out by hunger in Sudan? All of it waits. Christians ethnically cleansed from Iraq and Syria, the Arab world methodically emptied of every Jewish community it once held — a demographic erasure carried out across a century with surgical patience and near-total Western silence?

Palestine is still first.

So let’s end where we started. Free Palestine. Which Palestine, exactly? The Roman invention? The British administrative line? The British Mandate covered the entire territory of what is today Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan. In 1921, 78% of that mandate was handed to the Hashemite family — a dynasty imported from Hijaz in present-day Saudi Arabia — and became the Kingdom of Jordan, which it remains to this day. A foreign royal family, on the majority of historic Palestine, ruling it as a monarchy. Nobody protests that. No flags, no chants, no encampments. The remaining 22% was designated for the Jews, became Israel, and is the only part that any pro-Palestinian activist has ever had a problem with.

So when you say Free Palestine, you mean that 22%. You mean the Jews.

And free it from whom? From a people with a three-thousand-year-old documented presence in that land, to restore the glory of a name coined by Roman colonizers, a name lifted from the Torah, a name that has no roots in Arabic, no mention in the Quran, and no history as a sovereign state?

You are not chanting for liberation. You are chanting for colonialism — the Roman kind, repackaged for social media.

Free Palestine is not a cause. It is a colonial term, coined by invaders, recycled by the indoctrinated. The least you can do is have the intelligence to understand it and the decency to reflect on your position.

📍#Israel

[Joo @JoosyJew]

I thought for a moment this said “Three boys avoid jail after rape of two teenage girls.”

[muchfacepalm @muchfacepalm]

“Fertile farmland”???

[Alex Fasulo @alex_fasulo]

The land under these panels will never be farmed again.

Potato growing associations nationwide will not buy potatoes grown on ex-solar sites.

Why?

The panels leach heavy metals, as well as drop glass shards and microplastics onto the soil below them.

In a mass commercial arrangement, vegetation below the panels is soaked in herbicides.

The fertile farmland is gone forever.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Unreal. The DAY I released this video detailing how Karen Bass and Nithya Raman are paying unscrupulous NGOs to increase drug use & hand out needles, one of these NGOs on Karen's payroll gets busted for distributing fentanyl. Karen Bass is destroying LA with your $.
VOTE NOW!!!

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

BREAKING:

Zohran Mamdani condemns the horrific shooting at the Islamic Center while reiterating that he is deeply opposed to controversial real estate events being hosted inside mosques.

Do you see how insane that sounds?

[Eli Steele @Hebro_Steele]

https://t.co/FA19HDk3dr

[🇬🇧Lost Britain 🆘 @LostBritainSOS]

So here we have 2 children, one is a racist, violent, far right thug, the other, well I’ll let you decide.

[Aja ♀️🇬🇧 @AjaTheEmpress]

@JuliaHB1 Am I the only one who remembers when our national broadcaster, The BBC, were happy to mock Islam and the sensory deprivation sacks.
Yes this really was the BBC.

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

In releasing three new albums, 42 songs, and 14 music videos in a day, Drake is borrowing from the MAGA playbook of flooding the zone. You can’t process it all, and that’s by design. https://t.co/HBhgRKucGS