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[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

To be very clear: reality is very different from the rhetoric. The IDF takes extraordinary measures to mitigate civilian harm in Lebanon. In fact, as in Gaza, it employs more civilian harm mitigation measures than any military in past or current operations.

The IDF issues evacuation warnings through multiple channels including text messages, phone calls, voicemails, flyers, radio, television, and social media. It operates dedicated civilian harm mitigation cells, tracks civilian presence through drones, cell phone data, and other ISR capabilities, and uses rigorous targeting processes that include legal reviews and proportionality assessments for any planned strikes. Legal reviews at lowest tactical level, and with the ability (which happens often as well as command decisions not to strike based on all context) to override commander decisions, unlike any other military.

In southern Lebanon, these measures are particularly effective because civilians can move away from military objectives and active combat areas.

Even in Beirut, the IDF has repeatedly provided warnings identifying specific buildings that will be struck and when. The warnings have proven so reliable that Lebanese citizens and journalists have set up cameras in advance to record the strikes. When targeting Hezbollah senior leaders, command meetings, or other military objectives in densely populated areas such as Dahiyeh (the Hezbollah controlled neighborhood of Beirut), the IDF relies on precision-guided munitions, small diameter munition (warheads with less explosives), and other low collateral damage munitions, detailed intelligence, and other methods designed to limit collateral damage while achieving the legitimate military objective.

There is also no equivalency. Israel does not intentionally target civilians. Hezbollah is a U.S.-designated terrorist organization whose strategy includes deliberately attacking civilians. Hezbollah launches rockets, missiles, and drones at civilian communities in northern Israel (daily, despite any cease fires), targeting homes, schools, businesses, and civilian infrastructure.

One side conducts legal reviews, proportionality assessments, civilian warnings, and precision strikes against military objectives. The other is a international designated terrorist group that intentionally places military assets among civilians while deliberately targeting civilians.

[Amy Mek @AmyMek]

🚨ISLAMIZATION OF TEXAS CONTINUES - THEY'RE NOW ON OUR HIGHWAYS

This billboard is currently on I-30 in Dallas:

"THE MUSLIMS WERE RIGHT"

Paid for by ICNA / WhyIslam
877-WHY-ISLAM

Let that sink in.

This is the same ICNA/WhyIslam group that, just months ago, set up at Wylie East High School and handed out Qurans, hijabs, and "Understanding Shariah" pamphlets to students during lunch - without parental consent and in violation of school policy.

[ICNA/WhyIslam are influenced by Jamaat-e-Islami and tied to networks that include Muslim Brotherhood organizations]

Now they're on our highways telling every driver that "the Muslims were right."

Texans, this is not neutral community outreach.

⚠️This is dawah - the Islamic invitation phase.

Groups like ICNA and WhyIslam are following a deliberate, documented strategy. Their approach, drawn from Muslim Brotherhood planning documents (including the 1991 Explanatory Memorandum) and classical Islamic sources, has two main stages:

🔺Stage 1 (current):

Invitation + normalization while numbers are still small. Use billboards, school events, public messaging, and community programs to make Islam more visible and accepted.

🔺 Stage 2:

Once they have demographic weight and institutional access (schools, government, media, corporations), shift to consolidation and dominance. The stated goal in these documents is not permanent pluralism, but the eventual establishment of Islamic governance.

Osama bin Laden used a similar pattern publicly before 9/11. He repeatedly issued "invitations" to the West to accept Islam. When those were rejected, he escalated to violent jihad.

If this billboard doesn't concern you, you're not paying attention.

Texas drivers see this messaging every day on I-30.

Our kids saw it in their school cafeteria.

Enough TEXAS!

‼️Demand that ICNA and WhyIslam lose access to our public schools and taxpayer-funded highway billboards.

The "invitation" phase only continues as long as we keep accepting it.

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

With Tucker Carlson running defense for Tyler Robinson and saying that Israel killed Charlie Kirk, it's important to remember that Carlson is a bad person who wants to incite mass murder, and you should be endeavor to have zero association with him.

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

Lebanon should normalize with Israel, cooperate on eliminating Iran proxy Hezbollah, then sign an agreement to withdraw Israeli forces from Lebanon and replace them Lebanese forces.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

If you're blaming Israel, then you have the exact same mentality, ultimately, that excused and celebrated Luigi Mangione, Karmelo Anthony, and the killer of Iryna Zarutska, the same perverse processing that justified the BLM riots: that the real perpetrators can't be culpable.

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

The Cancer Owens cultists aren’t going to admit that they were wrong about “Erika Kirk killed her husband” because if they admit it, they’d be admitting that they tortured a grieving widow for absolutely nothing.

At best, you can hope that they quietly go away at some point, like the Zero COVID cultists.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Candace Owens had way more reasons to kill Charlie Kirk than Israel.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Bomb Iran.

[Majid 🦁☀️🇮🇪🇮🇱 @majid_hatamian]

⚠️ MUST WATCH: An Iranian-American who escaped Sharia law just delivered a chilling testimony at a Wylie, Texas school board meeting that everyone in the West needs to see. ​

He breaks down the 3 stages of subversion happening right now:
👉​Stage 1: "They come in peace... they tell you 'we just want rights.'"
👉Stage 2: Two-tier policing, Sharia courts, and pushing blasphemy laws (like what we see in the UK and Canada).
👉Stage 3: The final stage, the absolute hell of apostasy laws, executions, and hanging (like what happened to Iran).

​"I escaped that hell hole years ago, and I am seeing the exact same thing happening right now in the United States."

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Pretty important context: the Iranians are fighting with each other too, including over negotiations with Trump. Trump understands this.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Israeli forces have seized a strategic Iranian-built Hezbollah underground command center on the Ali Taher Ridge in southern Lebanon.

Hundreds of Hezbollah terrorists are believed to be trapped inside as the IDF dismantles the site.

[K3RRR @K3TripleR]

This is an approach I personally have used, and it works great! I did this with my SDRplay RSP2 and my ICOM 705. One of the great things about this approach is that you can set up PSTrotator for Doppler on both SDRplay and the ICOM 705. I did a YouTube video on this several years ago. Let me see if I can find it...Here it is, albeit eight years old. This is a great way to operate full duplex on the satellite, so you can hear your own downlink!:
https://t.co/IUee0eTiN7

[Cosmos Archive @cosmosarcive]

The particles that make up the atomic nucleus are not fundamental. Protons and neutrons are built from even smaller particles called quarks, whose different combinations determine their properties.

• Proton (uud) = 2 up quarks + 1 down quark → charge +1

• Neutron (udd) = 1 up quark + 2 down quarks → charge 0

• Up quark charge = +2/3

• Down quark charge = −1/3

• Antiparticles have the same mass but opposite charge

A change of just one quark is enough to turn a proton into a neutron, showing how the structure of matter depends on some of the smallest building blocks in nature.

[Cosmos Archive @cosmosarcive]

Euler's Identity is often called the most beautiful equation in mathematics:

eᶦᵖⁱ + 1 = 0

In a single line, it connects five of the most important numbers in mathematics:

• e → the base of natural logarithms
• i → the imaginary unit, where i² = −1
• π → the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter
• 1 → the multiplicative identity
• 0 → the additive identity

A remarkable result that links algebra, geometry, and complex numbers through one elegant equation.

[Cosmos Archive @cosmosarcive]

Think of spacetime as the universe's map of cause and effect. This diagram shows how every event sits inside a structure called a light cone, which separates what can influence you, what you can influence, and what lies beyond any possible connection.

Inside the cone are time-like events, meaning a signal traveling at or below the speed of light could connect them. The 45° boundary represents the path of light itself, moving at 299,792,458 m/s, while events outside the cone are space-like and cannot be reached without exceeding that cosmic speed limit.

This is one of the core ideas of Einstein's relativity: space and time are woven together into a single fabric called spacetime. The geometry of that fabric determines what information can travel, which events can be connected, and ultimately what can and cannot happen in the universe.

[Cosmos Archive @cosmosarcive]

Seeing sounds and hearing shapes.

These Chladni-inspired patterns show how particles settle where vibrations are still, turning frequencies into pure geometry.

If we are all just vibrations, what kind of pattern are we creating?

Credit: generomics

[Erika Kirk @MrsErikaKirk]

This is what decades of anti-American messaging produces.

It’s why Charlie started TPUSA: to push back against the radicalization of Americans and remind them that this country is worth being proud of.

[Cosmos Archive @cosmosarcive]

The Doppler Effect is one of the simplest ways motion reveals itself in physics.

When a sound source moves toward you, the waves compress and the frequency you hear increases. When it moves away, the waves spread out and the frequency decreases. That is why a passing siren sounds higher as it approaches and lower as it recedes.

f′ = f × ((v ± vd) / (v ∓ vs))

Where:

• f′ = observed frequency
• f = actual frequency emitted by the source
• v = speed of sound in the medium
• vd = velocity of the observer
• vs = velocity of the source

A single equation that explains everything from ambulance sirens to how astronomers measure the motion of distant stars and galaxies.

[Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency @CISAgov]

Never assume someone else will report an unattended bag or package. If you see one, notify event staff or law enforcement right away. It’s always better to be safe and let professionals check it out. Learn more: https://t.co/zJqYRevwMm

[Cybersecurity @ NIST @NISTcyber]

🚨UPDATE: The June 22 @NIST Hardware CPE & CVSS Workshop is now fully virtual