Patrick Seeley

Trying to keep the blue side up.

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

October 9, 1238. King James I of Aragon rides into Valencia, ending more than 500 years of Muslim rule over the city.

James became king at five years old, after his father was killed at the Battle of Muret. By his twenties he had already conquered Majorca, and he earned the name history remembers him by: James the Conqueror.

Valencia was the richest prize on the eastern coast of Spain. James besieged it through the spring and summer of 1238. During the siege, a crossbow bolt struck him in the forehead. By his own account, the blood ran down his face so badly that he had to wipe it from his eyes, and he kept riding through the camp so his men wouldn't think he was dying.

The city's ruler, Zayyan, finally agreed to surrender at the end of September. The terms let the Muslim population leave with their belongings, and tens of thousands walked out of the city under safe conduct.

On October 9, James entered and founded the Kingdom of Valencia. The date is still a public holiday in Valencia today.

James ruled for 63 years, one of the longest reigns in European history, and wrote his own memoir of his wars. He is the first Christian king of the Middle Ages known to have done it.

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

THIS MORNING. RAF FAIRFORD. 00:45.

A pensioner called 999. Not MI5. Not GCHQ. A villager spotted three suspicious vans heading toward a US bomber base and dialled 999.

Five men arrested under the Explosives Act, then upgraded to Section 5 of the Terrorism Act: preparation of a terrorist act. Three vans. 85 homes evacuated at 1.30am. Army bomb disposal robot inside a 400-metre cordon. Counter Terrorism Policing now leading. Major incident declared.

The operation was not intelligence-led. A resident made a phone call. That is what stopped it.

The IRGC already told you this was coming.

In July 2026, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a formal statement naming RAF Fairford specifically as "a legitimate target." They cited the US B-1B bombers striking Iran from British soil, authorised first by Keir Starmer in March 2026 and continued by Prime Minister Andy Burnham. They published the threat. They named the base. Seven months later five men turned up at it after midnight. The intelligence services had no warning. A villager did.

Now the part they really do not want you to know.

Last November the National Crime Agency arrested a man in central London on a German warrant. His name is Mohammed Naim. Son of Basem Naim, Hamas politburo member, former Gaza health minister, US-sanctioned terrorist. Mohammed served as personal bodyguard to Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh from 2006. He was photographed doing it. AFP published the images. In 2010 Egyptian police arrested him for smuggling weapons and gold through tunnels into Gaza. That arrest was documented. On record. Available to any Home Office caseworker.

In 2015 he walked into a British Home Office and claimed asylum. They gave it to him.

Theresa May's Home Office granted him indefinite leave to remain. He later received full British citizenship. Changed his name. More than once. Settled in suburban England as an IT consultant. Raised a family. The state never looked twice.

In summer 2025 he travelled to Berlin. Collected five handguns and ammunition from a Hamas contact. Drove to Vienna. Stored the weapons in a storage unit. Recorded a propaganda video announcing the plot. Target: Jewish community centres, Israeli diplomats, pro-Israel events across Germany and Austria. Timed for the second anniversary of October 7.

Mossad and German intelligence foiled it. British intelligence did not find it.

A court granted him anonymity for 100 years. He sits in a British cell while Germany waits for extradition. The state that gave him the passport is now hiding his identity. Indefinitely.

Now look at what your Prime Minister found time for this morning.

While five men were arrested at gunpoint outside an airbase the IRGC had publicly threatened, while 85 families were evacuated in the middle of the night, while bomb disposal robots crawled through vans a mile from sleeping US bomber crews, Andy Burnham was on the BBC.

He was asked about Daniel Thomas. A father of four. A former soldier. A working man. And Burnham said it is "hard to conclude" he is "anything other than someone who has racist views."

Instant. Confident. No hesitation. No "inappropriate to comment."

Asked about five terrorism arrests at a US bomber base: "It would be inappropriate to comment further whilst investigations are ongoing."

Asked about 85 families evacuated at midnight with zero intelligence warning: he is "being kept updated."

Asked about a Hamas weapons operative handed a British passport who moved guns across Europe: silence.

He found the words to attack a British father in seconds. He cannot find words for the people who were almost blown up this morning.

This is the government that calls you racist for wanting to know who is crossing the border. This is the government that houses asylum seekers in better accommodation than 75% of the working families funding it. This is the government that gave a Hamas weapons operative a British passport and then a century of anonymity when he was caught. This is the government that sat on an IRGC threat against British soil and left a pensioner to do the job of the security services.

They are not failing to protect you. They are choosing not to.

A villager stopped the attack this morning. Not the Prime Minister. Not MI5. Not the Home Office. A resident who looked out of a window at 00:45 and knew something was wrong.

They were right. This government was asleep.

Every fact in this post is verified and sourced. Screenshot it. Share it. They will not tell you. So we have to.

[Andrew Zywiec, M.D. @AndrewZywiecMD]

This will literally make the history books.

Netflix, as a company, publicly mocking the murder of Kirk on the anniversary.

In every cinematic situation, people recognize the battle of good versus evil.

You're in it.

Start paying attention.

[Canada Proud @WeAreCanProud]

One year ago today, Charlie Kirk was murdered while debating with students in Utah.

He wasn't hurting anyone. He wasn't calling for violence. He was having respectful dialogue with someone of opposing views, something he spent his entire career doing. But the radical left could not tolerate that.

Freedom of speech is a fundamental right. Nobody, no matter what their beliefs are, deserves to be murdered for exercising it.

That's why today we are remembering Charlie Kirk for his commitment to freedom of speech, and the values of good-faith discussion he inspired in millions of people worldwide.

[Maxime Bernier @MaximeBernier]

Les Canadiens se réveillent aujourd'hui avec une toute nouvelle hausse de taxes, signée PM Carney et ses « contre-tarifs dollar pour dollar ».

Soyons clairs : ce n'est pas une arme contre Trump. C'est une taxe sur VOUS.

Chaque fois que vous achetez de l'acier, un frigo, des produits de manucure ou une laveuse, etc… vous payez plus cher pour que Ottawa se sente brave.

Les libéraux appellent ça « tenir tête à Trump ». Moi, j'appelle ça du sabotage économique.

Ils taxent les Canadiens pour se sentir bien en « punissant » Washington. Et qui paie la facture ? Les familles, les travailleurs et les entreprises d'ici.

Trump a commencé cette guerre commerciale absurde. Mais deux torts ne font pas un droit ; ils rendent juste tout plus cher.

On ne combat pas des tarifs avec encore plus de tarifs. C'est juste idiot.

Bonne Journée des taxes, tout le monde. Merci, Carney.

[Jim Breuer @JimBreuer]

You'll question God all day but the second someone says science, you stop thinking. Who's really in the cult?

[Maxime Bernier @MaximeBernier]

Canadians wake up today to a brand new tax hike; courtesy of PM Carney's "dollar-for-dollar" countertariffs.

Let's be clear: this isn't a weapon against Trump. It's a tax on YOU.

Every time you buy steel, a fridge, manicure products or a laundry machine, etc… you're paying more so Ottawa can feel tough.

The Liberals call this "standing up to Trump." I call it economic sabotage.

They're taxing Canadians to feel good about "punishing" Washington. And who pays the bill? Families, workers, and businesses right here at home.

Trump started this pointless trade war. But two wrongs don't make a right; they just make everything more expensive.

You can't fight tariffs with more tariffs. That's just stupid.

Happy Tax Day, everyone. Thanks, Carney.

[Karla Treadway | Host Sovereign Sphere Podcast @thesovereignceo]

He holds the world record for the longest confirmed sniper shot (2.2 miles) with Canada's elite JTF2 unit — then got pushed out in 21 days for refusing the COVID vaccine mandate. Dallas Alexander opens up about growing up on a Metis settlement with no running water, the psychedelic journey that helped him grieve his brother, why he believes Canada 'wouldn't last one day' in a war with the U.S., homeschooling his 5 kids, and how he traded his sniper scope for a guitar to become a country music artist.

A raw conversation on freedom, grief, identity, and reinvention.

Watch below or click one of the links in the comments to help support this show!

@dallasalexandr

[Patrick Seeley @papaseels]

@SamaHoole So impressed with the detail in your posts @samahoole. Appreciate the effort you put into these, I get a lot out of them.

[Wiretap Media @WiretapMediaCa]

💥Hamilton Police hung up when asked who ordered them to keep the Dominion Society out of the city.

According to Inspector Darren Murphy, police are only non-partisan “based on context.”

The context, as he framed it, is this: Hamilton Police have decided to police feelings. Their objective is to keep The Dominion Society — a non-criminal organization — out of the city because they disagree with DSC's political views.

When we asked who made that decision, Inspector Murphy said it was a group decision.

When we pressed him on whether those were orders passed down the chain of command, he refused to answer.

Then he hung up the phone.

That is not public safety. That is political policing.

A police service that hunts venues, warns businesses, and treats lawful speech as a community threat has become an activist organization.

[Salty Albertan @FringedCanuck]

Wow! Fucking disgrace!!! They are infringing on our Charter rights. How about they stfu and go arrest drug dealers,traffickers,cartel members. They are acting like Nazi’s. Can’t hate these fks enough. Lazy uneducated retards policing us. Smh. Canada is such a disgraceful shit hole governed by Retards.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A superfood is not discovered. It is commissioned, and one family in California did the whole thing in public.

Stewart and Lynda Resnick bought a pistachio orchard with some pomegranate trees on it and kept them because the return per acre was better. Then Lynda Resnick did the thing she is genuinely brilliant at. She went and bought the science.

By 2012 they had put more than $35 million into pomegranate research and had 70 studies published in peer-reviewed journals. In 2007 the company spent more on research than on advertising, $17 million against $12 million, and she said publicly that she was proud of it. One peer reviewer rejected a manuscript for being excessively advocatory of pomegranate juice as a treatment for prostate cancer. It was published elsewhere.

Then the advertising, quoting the research they had paid for. The juice could treat, prevent or reduce the risk of heart disease. Prostate cancer. Erectile dysfunction. Clinically proven. One billboard put the little bottle under a hangman's noose and the words Cheat Death.

The Federal Trade Commission found deceptive claims across 36 advertisements and promotional materials. The order named both Resnicks personally and runs for twenty years. In 2015 the DC Circuit affirmed it. In 2016 the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal.

After the ruling, they gave UCLA $4 million to start a Food Law and Policy Program.

And none of that is the expensive part.

The Wonderful Company holds around 185,000 acres of California, fifteen million trees drinking on the order of 120 billion gallons a year, more than any other private interest in the American West. To feed it they hold a 57% controlling stake in the Kern Water Bank, 32 square miles storing up to 1.5 million acre-feet underground, built with over $70 million of state money for public drought relief and handed into private control in 1994.

So when the droughts came the family holding the bank were insulated from the thing everyone else was suffering, and could sell water back into the system that had paid to dig it. In a bad year they outbid every other farmer in the valley. Neighbours grub out orchards. The nut acreage stays in the ground.

That is what the little bottle costs.

The verdict changed nothing. It sits in the chiller today at the same price, beside the word antioxidant, sold to people who have never heard of the Kern Water Bank and could not find Kern County on a map of the state whose drought they read about every summer.

A superfood is a crop somebody owns a lot of, with a laboratory on retainer and a media buy behind it.

Nobody has ever had to buy 70 studies to make people eat beef.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Historian Bill Federer: "By 2030, there will be a majority Islamic population in Europe, and they will just flat out vote for Sharia law.

People forget Egypt was completely Christian for 6 centuries. It's not anymore. All of North Africa was completely Christian for 6 centuries. It is not anymore.

Constantinople was the largest Christian city in the world, and the largest Christian church in the world for hundreds of years was the Hagia Sophia. And it was turned into a mosque.

They want to do the same thing with the Vatican."

Pay attention to what he is saying!

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

This is a church in Otranto, Italy.

These are real skulls belonging to Christians who were beheaded by muslim invaders for refusing to convert.

The entire city was massacred and enslaved in 1480 by the Ottomans, an atrocity so barbaric that this church put its martyrs on display to never allow the West to forget.

Sadly, in the year 2026 it's happening again, and everyone has forgotten.

History repeats itself.

[Xi Van Fleet @XVanFleet]

Today I visited the Museum of Communism in Prague.

While the museum in Budapest focuses largely on events in Hungary during the Communist era, Prague’s Museum is organized by themes and topics.

What struck me most was how closely its story matched my own experience growing up under Mao. The reason is simple: Communist regimes follow the same playbook.

I recognized so much of what I lived through—not only in the history of Communist China, but in ideas and trends I see emerging in contemporary America.

I’ll be sharing a series of posts from the museum. This is history we cannot afford to forget.
@VoCommunism

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ sparked unexpected controversy when one of the Viking ships used during production, an authentic, hand‑built replica owned by a small maritime heritage non‑profit, was returned with significant structural damage. The vessel, normally maintained through volunteer labor and modest donations, had been loaned out under the assumption that a major studio would treat it with care and cover any repairs. Instead, the organization found cracked planks, warped ribs, and a ruined sail system that would cost more than their annual operating budget to fix.

The non‑profit reached out to the production team repeatedly, hoping for a straightforward reimbursement or at least a conversation. What they encountered instead was silence. Emails went unanswered, calls were redirected, and the studio’s representatives insisted the damage was “pre‑existing,” despite photographic documentation taken before filming. For a group dedicated to preserving Viking‑age craftsmanship, the dismissal felt not just financially devastating but deeply disrespectful.

As the story spread among local historians and maritime enthusiasts, frustration grew. Volunteers who had spent years restoring the ship felt betrayed, watching a Hollywood epic profit from their work while leaving them with a broken artifact they could no longer sail or display. The incident became a symbol of the imbalance between massive film productions and the small cultural institutions they rely on, raising uncomfortable questions about responsibility, preservation, and the true cost of cinematic authenticity.

The damaged Viking ship had actually been restored using traditional clinker‑building techniques, meaning every plank was hand‑shaped and overlapped the next, so repairing even a “small” crack requires a specialist craftsman and days of labor. That’s why the non‑profit wasn’t just upset about the cost; the damage erased work done with skills that only a handful of artisans still practice today.

#archaeohistories

[For Such A Time As This @for_such_a]

Congressman calls the Congressional Progressive Caucus 'communists', stating that American communists renamed themselves progressives. There's a thin line between communism, progressivism, Marxism, and socialism, all aiming to nationalize welfare states..#Politics #USPolitics

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

The European mind simply cannot comprehend a random citizen playing the national anthem with a semi automatic rifle in their backyard shooting range

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The reason they call me a Nazi is to encourage people to murder me