Steve Masterson

God is good, all the time. Texan in Idaho. Texas is as much a state of mind as a place. Robust western civilization for history and reformation.

[Chad Crowley @CCrowley100]

A White kid is brutally murdered, and before the blood is even dry, the system moves to contain the outrage.

Keir Starmer says Henry Nowak’s father does not want his son’s death used to create “division.”

That is how the script begins.

In the United States, there’s a federal body called the Community Relations Service, a unit of the Department of Justice created under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Its official purpose is to intervene in racial and identity-based conflicts by bringing “stakeholders” together and managing “community tensions.”

Its real function, however, is more insidious: political containment. When a White victim is murdered by a non-White offender, the facts are buried beneath appeals for calm and unity. When a non-White victim is killed by a White offender, despite being statistically far rarer, the same machinery moves in the opposite direction, turning the event into a national indictment of so-called “racism” and “White privilege.”

The deeper function of such institutions is glaringly obvious. When a racially charged crime threatens the official narrative, in which White people are always guilty and everyone else is always the innocent and oppressed victim, the first priority is containment. Grieving families are placed under immense moral pressure to denounce “hate,” reject “division,” and make sure the victim’s death never becomes a symbol of public anger.

That’s what’s happening here.

Henry Nowak’s death is being transformed from an indictment of the system, which is now wholly and explicitly anti-White, into a lesson in obedience. The public is told to mourn quietly and accept the official framing without question, while avoiding the most basic question of all: why was a dying White kid handcuffed while bleeding to death, while police searched his phone for “racism” after he pleaded with them that he’d been stabbed multiple times by a foreigner holding a gigantic knife, or, forgive me, a ceremonial kirpan right in front of them?

The United Kingdom, however, does not need an American-style CRS because, like every single Western nation, it already has the same apparatus: the politicians, the police, the media, and the same global activist networks, all working to manage justified outrage before it transforms into actual political change.

And that is why this has to be named without apology. The system is not neutral. It is anti-White in its assumptions and anti-White in its results. Its policies, from DEI to mass immigration, seek White demographic erasure. If we want actual change, the whole system has to be named for what it truly is, and those behind it have to be exposed. Only then can it be broken, and only then can real change occur.

[JD™ @LostMyHats]

Did you know that the Israeli Defense Forces use Rabbis to sanction their war crimes, including the rape of Gentile Civilians? True story.

In the IDF, rabbis aren't like the U.S. Army's chaplains, who give last rites and help soldiers work through their personal struggles. The IDF's rabbis set policy according to their own form of Sharia Law, known as Halakha, and their rulings take precedent over Israel's official military policy. And the IDF's "Chief Military Rabbi" - an official title - actually gave the thumbs up for raping gentile women (as long as they were attractive).

Rabbi Eyal Karim was answering questions online when he was asked if Jewish law permitted Israeli soldiers to rape women during wartime. His written answer said that "although intercourse with a female gentile is very grave, it was permitted during wartime out of consideration for the soldiers' difficulties," and that it was permissible to "breach the walls of modesty and satisfy the evil inclination by lying with attractive gentile women against their will."

That's a quote. He was not disciplined. He was not removed from service. He continued his military career for fourteen years. In July 2016, the IDF appointed him as Chief Military Rabbi, the highest religious position in the Israeli armed forces, with the rank of Brigadier General.

Americans have a hard time grasping why the IDF commits so many human rights abuses compared to Western nations like the U.S. But that's because, as Americans, we are subjected to mass censorship and constantly bombarded with Israeli propaganda, so much so that we have a hard time accessing legitimate news.

You need to understand you've been lied to about the existence of a "shared religious values" and "Judeo-Christian ethics. That's not a thing. The IDF operates under Halakha, a Rabbinic legal philosophy more akin to Islamic Sharia than to English Common Law traditions founded on Christian ethics.

The Chief Military Rabbi holds the formal title of Ra'av Tzvaí Rashi, and his office issues binding halachic rulings on questions that intersect Jewish law and military operations. This is not an advisory role. The Military Rabbinate is a full corps of the IDF, meaning it sits within the formal command structure with its own chain of authority, budget, personnel, and operational mandate.

Notions like the "Imago Dei," Augustinian Just War theory, or English Common Law, founded on Christian principles such as natural rights endowed to all men by their creator, are all foreign to the Israeli mindset. That's why minimizing civilian deaths, avoiding destruction of civilian infrastructure, or reducing human suffering are all things Western nations, despite doing it imperfectly, are factored into our rules of engagement and written into our military policies. When our soldiers violate them, they are punished.

But Halakha rejects all these concepts, which is why the IDF racks up genocide-level civilian death stats and has rape stats in its numerous warzones equal or even greater than those of most terrorist organizations.

When five IDF soldiers were charged with sodomizing a Palestinian recently, they were met with parades honoring them, Netanyahu called them "heroes," their charges were dropped, and the Israeli prosecutor who released the surveillance video to whistleblow on the cover-up was arrested instead. Israel and the United States do not share a common religious heritage. Christianity is rooted in the Old Testament, and theirs is rooted in Pharisaic traditions (according to Jesus in Mark 7:8-9).

The product of that distorted religion is on display in the Israeli civilian death count, their rape stats, and how they treat women and children in Gaza. The only difference between Israeli war ethics and those of Hamas or Hezbollah is that only theirs is supported by evangelicals in the United States.

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

The level of betrayal that has played out here is insane.

Normally, labor scarcity is how an economy heals itself. When workers become harder to find, employers have to raise wages to deal with it, and out of this market slowdown the seeds of a new boom would be sowed as young people have greater purchasing power to buy a home, get married, and have kids of their own.

But instead of allowing that correction to happen, America chose a different model. We’ve mass imported millions of replacements to suppress wages, blowing out asset prices in the process and leaving native Americans economically (and increasingly culturally and politically) dispossessed in their own country.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

261 years ago today, a 29 year old country lawyer with nine days of legislative experience stood up in the Virginia House of Burgesses and basically threatened the King of England with assassination.

His name was Patrick Henry. He had been a burgess for nine days. He was wearing a borrowed wig. The Stamp Act had just arrived in the colonies and the senior members of the House, men like Peyton Randolph and Richard Henry Lee, were quietly trying to figure out how to politely object.

Henry did not politely object.

He stood up and introduced seven resolutions. The first four were respectful. The fifth said Virginians could only be taxed by Virginians. The sixth said any other tax was illegal. The seventh said anyone who claimed otherwise was an enemy of the colony.

Then he gave the speech.

"Caesar had his Brutus. Charles the First his Cromwell. And George the Third..."

The Speaker of the House jumped up and shouted "Treason! Treason!"

Henry paused. Looked around the chamber. Looked at the Speaker. Finished his sentence.

"...may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it."

The fifth resolution passed by one vote. The Speaker had it stricken from the record the next morning. It did not matter. Henry's friends had already leaked all seven resolutions to printers up and down the seaboard, presented as if all of them had passed. By August every colonial paper had printed them.

The Stamp Act riots started six weeks later. Stamp distributors were tarred and feathered from Boston to Charleston. The Sons of Liberty formed in the wake of the resolves. Thomas Jefferson, then a 22 year old law student, was standing in the doorway of the House that day. He said decades later he had never heard anything like it.

John Adams called Patrick Henry the man who "gave the first impulse to the ball of revolution."

Lexington was ten years and 11 months away. The fuse was lit on May 29, 1765.

[William Wolfe 🇺🇸 @WilliamWolfe]

“I long for the day when the precepts of the Christian religion shall be the rule among all classes of men, in all transactions!

I often hear it said, ‘Do not bring religion into politics.’ This is precisely where it ought to be brought, and set there in the face of all men as on a candlestick!

I would have the Cabinet and the members of Parliament do the work of the nation as before the Lord, and I would have the nation, either in making war or peace, consider the matter by the light of righteousness.

We are to deal with other nations about this or that upon the principles of the New Testament. I thank God that I have lived to see the attempt made in one or two instances, and I pray that the principle may become dominant and permanent!

We have had enough of clever men without consciences—let us now see what honest, God-fearing men will do!”

—Charles Spurgeon

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

“More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity.”

- Cicero

[Theo Wold @RealTheoWold]

Republicans: "We want to save America by requiring an ID and proof-of-citizenship to vote, only counting American citizens in the census, deporting people who shouldn't be here, and drawing districts based on population size.

Democrats: "We want to save America by removing every election integrity law, giving every illegal alien amnesty, packing the Supreme Court, giving ourselves racially gerrymandered districts, and imprisoning our political opponents.

[JD™ @LostMyHats]

Just in case you didn't think Israel's human rights abuses couldn't get any worse, we can now add "using dogs to rape prisoners" to the list of IDF war crimes.

The New York Times just ran a column alleging Israeli prison guards are using trained dogs to anally rape Palestinian detainees. Israel called it a "blood libel" because, let's face it, they always do. They've mastered the art of victimology.

But here's the problem: the evidence isn't coming from a single outlet or activist group. The rape via dogs accusation is coming in from many different and unrelated sources; the testimonials are supported by corroborating evidence, and there's nothing about Israel's POW track record that suggests this is out of the realm of possibility. In fact, the evidence shows the opposite; a majority of the allegations appear valid.

These include:

A Gaza journalist at Sde Teiman was blindfolded and held down while a handler encouraged a dog to anally rape him. Guards laughed and filmed, while he bled and urinated blood afterward.

A man identified as "Ahmed" at Ofer Prison was forced to the ground while a dog named "Messi" mounted and sexually assaulted him. He was beaten for resisting.

A man named Wajdi, 43, was repeatedly raped by soldiers first, then untied and raped by a dog, causing severe pain and bleeding.

A detainee identified as A.A. was stripped with a group at Sde Teiman while dogs climbed on them, urinated on them, and one anally raped him for approximately three minutes while soldiers beat and pepper-sprayed the prisoners simultaneously.

A man identified as Amir, 35, was stripped and raped by a dog described as trained for the purpose, for several minutes, while being beaten.

A.S., also 35, was forced down and anally penetrated by a dog at Sde Teiman.

A lawyer named Fadi Saif al-Din Bakr witnessed a young detainee raped by dogs released by soldiers.

An unnamed detainee at Sde Teiman reported that soldiers brought dogs that urinated on prisoners and one anally raped him, after which he suffered a severe psychological breakdown.

Multiple other detainees across Sde Teiman, Ofer, and Megiddo gave group accounts of dogs climbing on or raping stripped prisoners while guards watched, filmed, or laughed.

Two IDF guards, speaking to Israeli analyst Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, confirmed it happened. One said it was "too awful to talk about."

These testimonial accounts are numerous, consistent, and corroborated across independent sources. And that's just the dogs. Pull back the lens, and the full picture of Israel's treatment of detainees is considerably worse.

Israeli military indictments - not NGO reports, or Palestinian testimony - but Israel's own legal filings, confirm that in July 2024, FIVE IDF reservists stabbed a Palestinian detainee near the rectum with a sharp object at Sde Teiman, causing a torn rectum, cracked ribs, and a punctured lung. Medical records and security camera footage were cited as evidence. Those five soldiers were indicted in February 2025. In March 2026, Israel dropped all charges because the military's own attorney general had leaked the footage of the abuse. Netanyahu celebrated the dismissal and called it a "victory." That must be the shared Judeo-Christian values we keep hearing about, right?

None of that is "blood libel." Those are serious allegations, supported by facts, corroborated evidence, polygraph tests, supportive testimony from multiple witnesses, internal documents, whistleblower reports, and more.

Elsewhere in the record:

*Detainees were raped with iron batons and carrots.
*A man was raped with a fire extinguisher nozzle until he lost consciousness.
*A 35-year-old journalist at Megiddo, whose rape with multiple objects lasted over 20 minutes, who bled rectally for three weeks, and who received no medical treatment.
*A disabled man named Tamer Qarmut, detained during a hospital raid, was beaten until he suffered permanent hearing damage, then raped by a soldier with a wooden stick who forced him to lick it afterward.
*A 42-year-old woman from North Gaza was stripped at gunpoint, photographed naked, and assaulted by four masked soldiers on a metal table on her third day at Sde Teiman.
*A 35-year-old Gaza man at Ofer Prison who had his penis gripped and cut with a scalpel.
*Seventeen-year-old Walid Ahmad died at Megiddo after six months without charge. An Israeli doctor said starvation was likely the cause. He had been an athlete before his arrest.
*Arafat Hamdan, 25, died within two days of military custody because they denied him insulin.
*Dr. Adnan al-Bursh, a Palestinian surgeon, died at Ofer under circumstances suggesting sexual torture.
*The IDF was investigating 48 deaths in custody as of June 2024, 36 of them at Sde Teiman alone.
*By November 2025, that number had climbed past 90.
* B'Tselem collected 55 testimonies and called the system a "network of torture camps."
*UNRWA documented its own staff being beaten, forced to sign confessions, attacked by dogs, and used as human shields.
*The UN Human Rights Commission concluded in March 2025 that the sexual abuse was "committed under explicit orders or with implicit encouragement from Israel's top civilian and military leadership."

Israel has refused every UN request to investigate these crimes. Their indictment rate for complaints involving alleged crimes against Palestinians is under one percent. Call it a blood libel if you want, but the IDF's own paperwork disagrees.

All the details, the facts, and the evidence is included with hyperlinks for your further research as an Insight to Incite data drop on Patreon.
https://t.co/nMszxNdnxO

[JD™ @LostMyHats]

Have you ever thought it curious why God prospered the European peoples? If you’re like me, you just assumed it’s because they took to the gospel like a duck to water. God blesses Christians, and Europe was thoroughly Christianized, so case closed. And that’s 100% true.

But it’s not the full story.

It’s also a fulfillment of prophecy. Noah prophesied that the lineage of Japheth would dwell in a place intended for the lineage of Shem and rule over the lineage of Canaan. And the Bible tells us who the lineage of Japheth, Shem, and Canaan became, so thankfully, there’s no guess work.

I’ve seen the lambasting of this article as something untoward, or dubious, or scandalous. I’d submit to you that because we are so used to ignoring any prophecy not in John Hagee’s End Times chart, we don’t know what to do with a prophesy that isn’t.

But here’s what you do with it: Rejoice. Rejoice that God explained the reason for Europe’s rise to world dominance. Rejoice that God planned the rise and fall of empires before those empires even existed. Rejoice that God has a plan for every nation and declares the end from the beginning.

This prophecy is actually one of the most important, consequential prophecies in the history of world civilization. The prophecy says what it says. It means what it means. And it’s okay to exult in God’s manifold greatness in prophesying it.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The experts don't want you to know that you can get every essential nutrient you need by baking ground beef, eggs, cheese, and bacon together in one tray and calling it dinner.

Complete protein. Every B vitamin. A and D. Iron, zinc, selenium, choline, creatine, CoQ10. Saturated fat for the hormones. Cholesterol for the brain.

The reason this isn't being shouted from every rooftop isn't that it doesn't work. It's that nobody makes any money when the answer fits in one baking dish.

[Taya Bass @travelingflying]

Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.

Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.

Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”

[Steve Masterson @txinid]

@Gentleman_Ways @EvaLovesDesign How about a PNW mountain cabin?

[Joel Webbon @JoelWebbon]

"This theology damnation-porn is usually citing James 1:27, defining pure religion as caring for orphans and widows in their distress. God identifies himself throughout the Old Testament as the defender of the widow and the fatherless. The widow James had in mind was a woman with no resources, no advocates, no platform, and no institutional protection. She was economically vulnerable, socially marginalized, and dependent on the community’s conscience for survival.

Erika Kirk runs a political organization with a nine-figure budget. She commands a public platform measured in millions. She has the active defense of virtually every major figure in the conservative Christian media ecosystem. Franklin Graham, Victor Marx, Allie Beth Stuckey, and two million followers with a hair trigger stand between her and any criticism that might otherwise reach a general audience. She is not in distress. She is not marginalized. She is not being ignored. She is the CEO of Turning Point USA, and the questions being asked about her are the same ones that get asked of every CEO who takes over a major organization under contested circumstances.

Applying James 1:27 to Erika Kirk is not biblical faithfulness. It is the appropriation of a category designed to protect the powerless and its deployment as a force field around the powerful. It is the exploitation of Scripture to produce an immunization against accountability.

Stuckey watched people criticize a woman she likes, and she wanted to defend her. That’s not the problem. The problem is she theologized her feelings. She ran the emotion through the doctrine machine and produced a verdict: people who do not share this feeling will go to hell when they die.

This is the specific error that the biblical prohibition on women teaching doctrine exists to prevent. It is not that women are incapable of reading Scripture. It is the emotional make-up of female moral reasoning that produces this: the translation of a strong feeling into a binding theological conclusion. The feeling comes first. The text is recruited afterward. The verdict arrives dressed in the language of the Bible, but the engine driving it is emotion, not scripture.

Stuckey did not begin with the question “What does Scripture say about mockery?” She began with the feeling “Criticizing her is cruel” and worked backward to “Therefore critics don’t have the Holy Ghost.” That is not exegesis. It is mood laundering. The Scripture is the decoration on top of an opinion on top of an emotion, and at the bottom is a woman with an axe to grind.

This pattern is not unique to Stuckey. It is the consistent output of female theological authority. The boss-babe conference circuit, the podcast empires built on inspiration rather than exposition, the million-follower platforms where feelings about current events get baptized as doctrinal positions, all of it produces the same thing at scale: theology shaped by whoever the teacher happens to like and dislike at the moment of recording.

Erika Kirk did not emerge as the beneficiary of organic Christian compassion. She was positioned. The same political machine that spent the weeks after Charlie Kirk’s death climbing into the coffin for photo opportunities, leveraging the assassination to gain organizational control and insulate TPUSA from scrutiny, has extended its protective structure to Erika personally.

Any criticism of TPUSA’s direction becomes an attack on its CEO. Any attack on its CEO becomes an attack on a widow. Any attack on a widow becomes a demonic assault on a woman of God. Allie Beth Stuckey, eager to be useful and culturally significant and spiritually serious, steps in front of the camera to confirm that yes, questioning any of this means the Holy Ghost has probably left in your last sneeze.”

*Read the full article at our website. Link in bio.

[☧ Today in Christian History @HistoricalRook]

#OTD May 9, 1619:
The Synod of Dort concluded in Holland after six months of intense theological debate. Convened to address the rise of Arminianism, the Synod reaffirmed the Heidelberg Catechism and upheld the doctrines that became known as the ‘Five Points of Calvinism.’ In the aftermath, around 200 Arminian pastors were removed from their positions.

[The English Remnant @Englishremnant]

Protestantism is Christianity stripped of Roman Catholic excess and man-made superstition. It is not megachurches, strobe lights, or smoke machines. True Protestantism is grounded in strict, Bible-centred belief.

The Reformers did not invent something new. They returned the Church to what it was always meant to be. Female archbishops, LGBTQ flags, and dancing vicars do not represent Protestantism.

True, traditional Protestantism is serious, disciplined, and no-nonsense.

Christ is King 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Dale Partridge @dalepartridge]

Gynofascism is killing our nation.

We must outlaw female judges.

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

“Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.”

-Roger Scruton

[☧ Today in Christian History @HistoricalRook]

#OTD May 2, 373:
Athanasius of Alexandria, often called ‘the Father of Orthodoxy,’ died after a lifetime of courageous defense of the faith. A key figure at the Council of Nicaea in 325, he became the chief opponent of Arianism, the heresy that denied Christ’s full divinity. Exiled five times for his stand, he served as bishop of Alexandria for 45 years. Athanasius was also the first to list the 27 books of the New Testament as we recognize them today.

[C.Jay Engel 🌲 @contramordor]

Many were making these points almost a year ago and we were slammed as being Panicans and told to shut up and just trust.

No one ever explained to me why it’s bad to believe—at the same time—that Kamala would have been way worse, but also that Trump’s deportation agenda is being actively subverted and successfully overcome and he needs to bring these forces to heel.

We’ve been calling for a state of emergency for over a year.

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

“The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”

-William Wordsworth