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[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

The Ivy League universities are about to find out that the Civil Rights Act doesn’t have an exemption for discriminating against whites, Asians, and Jews.

[dave ainsworth @daveainsworth63]

Remembering the great comedian, writer and poet Spike Milligan (Terence Milligan) who was born on this day in 1918. He died in 2002. #SpikeMilligan #TheGoonShow #Q5 #Puckoon #AdolfHitlerMyPartInHisDownfall
#TheBedsittingRoom #Oblomov #TheThreeMusketeers #Yellowbeard

[swordfish @swordfish7774]

I salute Game of Thrones star @liamcunningham1 ... he has shown enormous courage in highlighting & condemning Israel's on-going genocide in Gaza ... potentially at personal cost in terms of his career.

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@rosey_nz @NZFreeSpeech @nzpolice We need to track down the administrators & elites embedded within the public service (& elsewhere) who are casually implementing profoundly anti-democratic policies by stealth.

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@TheCinesthetic

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@KidCreole3 @mikemovies 🎯

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If you were to take a shot of my beef chow mein takeaway on a visit to Palmerston North on 2 July 2010 & transform it into a stained glass window to be installed in Westminster Abbey:

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Uummannaq, Greenland.

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@Freelineorlando @OldCarLongRoad @PedroPerico75 @milanpaurich @hermannkarlovic @roger_bakes @ihateclaims @mecalnan @CarloDallapicc1 @JaneNightshade @performativeUtt Entirely agree.

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@daveainsworth63 The Crow Road

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@FUDdaily Excellent analysis.

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@aniobrien https://t.co/rquhJMpJa0

[Hala Jaber @HalaJaber]

1. I’ve Been There” — A Misleading Claim
Murray dismisses critics by saying they “haven’t been to Gaza,” as if that disqualifies them from speaking.
But millions around the world have seen Gaza—through livestreams, footage, reporting, & testimony that have filled our screens daily for months.
His own visit was a guided military tour with the IDF—not independent, not journalistic, & far from exposure to civilian life under occupation.
This is not the same as “being there.” It’s controlled access through one lens.

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@aniobrien https://t.co/KfXFzpC3Os

[Dan Cohen @dancohen3000]

Israel doesn’t allow foreign journalists to enter Gaza since October 7. Douglas Murray was shepherded into Gaza by the Israeli military for a propaganda stunt in the chair where Sinwar was killed. That’s his claim to “expertise.” A complete and utter fraud.

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@2ETEKA https://t.co/vxwxl6btZW

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Looking back at the views of Values Party voters in the 70s through various surveys & polls ... they were strongly supportive of individual freedom, free expression, were anti-censorship, anti-coercive ... their current Green successors have moved in the polar opposite direction.

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@aniobrien I'm sceptical about the term "Woke Right" ... but if we're going to deploy that label then I'd suggest it's much more apt for the tactics used by Douglas Murray & the Neoconservative warmongers than for the paleoconservatives.

[Michael Hallihane @michael_hal]

What could be more adolescent than the ruling elite yapping on about a television drama as if it were real life? While simultaneously averting their eyes from a real life abuse scandal. We are not governed by serious people.

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Why is pineapple juice from a can of pineapple chunks/pieces/circles/slices so much nicer than the pineapple juice you buy in plastic bottles off the supermarket shelves ?

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@filmstofilms_

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@ZealandEarly @InLoveWithAView Not so keen on their creaming soda ... Schweppes & Golden Circle seem to be the only ones who can do a decent creaming soda ... & both are very difficult to come by these days.

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@mmeJen https://t.co/04ugH93tJK

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@Hamishkt @aniobrien 🎯 Murray is very good / incisive demolishing wokedom ... but awful on the Middle East (as if scripted by the Israeli Ministry of Information) ... & (from 1st 12 mins of debate) clearly unfamiliar with the broad consensus among leading historians on key aspects of Nazi Germany.