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Just Passing By

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Talked to a bunch of guys in their 20’s who read me back in 2016 and kept getting asked why I “disappeared” in 2017. I was banned and hidden on every platform. Now I hate Zuck and Sergi even more. They really did fuck up a whole ass period of my life. I will not forget this.

[Ada Lluch @AdaLluch]

Today the European Parliament passed the Return Directive.

That means easier paths to mass deport illegal migrants.

The entire floor started chanting “send them back!” once the directive passed.

Remigration is inevitable!

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

When Dr. Mark Brody sent a cautionary email to his patients urging them to wait for better vaccine data before getting the COVID shots, Rhode Island suspended his license. When forced to choose between renouncing his medical opinion or failing a board-imposed ethics course, he surrendered his license voluntarily, now practicing integrative medicine without prescriptions.

Dr Brody is one of six plaintiffs suing seven medical boards for violating the free speech of physicians whose medical opinions differ from other physicians.

[Declaration of Memes @LibertyCappy]

This is my kind of Wholesome Affirmation content 🥰

[Lydia † 🇬🇧 @LibertyLydia]

A few of you will know that I am one of the girls who contributed evidence to the @rapeganginquiry report released earlier today.

I initially hid my identity because I never intended to speak about it in public or for anyone to know the horror of what I experienced.

But I feel it is now time that people understood what is driving me so hard in this fight.

I don’t need to go into details. I’m sure everyone gets the gist by now. I believe the time for talking is done; now is the time for action.

The GE 2029 is the last real opportunity we have to save our country and ensure the protection and preservation of our people.

A @RestoreBritain government will reverse the damage done to our society by repealing destructive laws, shunning ideological obscenities, and deporting those who seek to do us harm.

And this is just for starters.

It is therefore incumbent on every British man and woman to now stand and defend our nation by backing the only political solution we have left.

If we stay united in this, if we stay focused and undeterred, there is no doubt in my mind about what comes next.

We will win.

And together, as a nation, we will @RestoreBritain. 🫡 🇬🇧

[Mandy @MarindaVannoy1]

@SenWarren You know the system is rigged against white people when you have to pretend to be an Indian to go to college.

[Eleanor Ferguson @allthatferguson]

@hecheateddotorg Funny how concern for fairness in sport rarely extends to fairness toward the actual kids involved.

[Rep. Nancy Mace @RepNancyMace]

Millions of pages of documents. Thousands of potential victims. One co-conspirator in jail.

This doesn't add up. 

The predators involved in the Jeffrey Epstein case cannot remain redacted names. They need to be exposed and they need to be prosecuted.

We do not care how important, powerful, or rich these people are. They need to pay for their crimes against women and children.

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

A heartbroken elderly Albanian man says Jared Kushner has taken everything he spent a lifetime building, including his land, his home, and the future he hoped to leave behind for his children.

He says he returned home one day only to find his property sealed off behind barbed wire, with men in black uniforms standing guard and refusing to let him step inside the house he once called his own.

In a single moment, he says, the life he had worked for was gone.

“It was the end of the world. The end of the world.”

“I felt imprisoned.”

“They took my freedom.”

“They took my livelihood.”

“They took my land.”

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

The fatigue is real even inside the community.

People will agree with Pastor Manning, just not as bluntly.

You’d expect younger generations to be improving by now, but these “teen takeovers” show they’re still being raised in the same rotten culture.

Welfare deserves a lot of the blame. It actively discourages stable families, creates broken homes, and leaves us with broken kids. Those incentives need to be reversed.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

Just watch this.

[Rep. Nancy Mace @RepNancyMace]

There would be no better 250th birthday present to America than seeing Somalia-first Ilhan Omar deported.

[Cathy O'Brien @RealCathyOBrien]

Please help get this plea out to as many as possible as my communications are still intermittent and limited. Donate button, GoFundMe, options for help are on https://t.co/Ntu8gK9NnA Thank you for the much needed help!

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

No, it’s not “Pride Month.” Not for me, and not for millions of others.

You’re welcome to be proud of whatever you want, in any month you like—because this is America. But what started in 1969 as a rebellion against persecution, morphed into a license for public depravity, and then morphed again into a weapon aimed at families and innocent children. Along the way it went from a day, to a week, and then a month and became official, and thereby effectively mandatory for all.

Enough!

If you’re gay and wondering why you are facing resistance now, the answer is that, with few exceptions, most of you didn’t stand up against the expansion and weaponization of “pride,” and the coercion that went with it. In that failure to resist, the gay community compromised any expectation that the rest of us should support “pride” at all, but especially the obscene display of hostility toward civilization and the families of which it is built, and for whom it exists.

If your hackles are raised by the idea that civilization is about families, realize that families are how civilizations persist through time. Not everyone needs to form one, but we all must respect and protect them—It is the foundation of what it means to be civilized.

For the small fraction of gays and lesbians who DID courageously stand up and resist expansion, coercion and the weaponization of “Pride,” I stand with you, and I have all along. But I won’t be celebrating, and I won’t be silent.

It’s not too late to join the voices of reason and to confront the insanity of what “pride” has become.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Look at this photograph. It is 1968. The man carrying this little boy on his shoulders is not his father. His father has just left. His father has chosen someone else, a new life, a new world. And the man who showed up — who drove 45 minutes across London just to check on a 5-year-old boy whose world had just collapsed — is holding him steady with both hands while the boy laughs at the top of his lungs. That drive produced the best-selling Beatles single of all time. The boy has never quite known how to feel about that.

This is Paul McCartney and Julian Lennon. 1968.

And this is 1 of the quietest, most complicated love stories in the history of popular music.

Julian Charles John Lennon was born on April 8, 1963, at Sefton General Hospital in Liverpool. His father was John Lennon. The Beatles had released their debut album Please Please Me just 4 days earlier.

John was not at the birth.

He was performing.

From the very first day of Julian's life, the pattern was established. The music came first. The touring came first. The becoming-the-most-famous-person-on-earth came first. Julian came somewhere after all of that — loved, in John's way, but not prioritized. Not present for.

Paul McCartney had known Cynthia Lennon since the band's earliest days in Liverpool. He watched Julian grow up from infancy — not from a distance, but up close. He was the warm constant in a world that moved very fast and left a small boy behind in its wake.

In May 1968, John Lennon told Cynthia their marriage was over.

He had been having an affair with Japanese conceptual artist Yoko Ono. By Cynthia's account, she returned home from a holiday to find Yoko already installed in the family house. John offered no real apology. He simply left — for Yoko, for the avant-garde, for the next chapter of his extraordinary restless life.

Julian Lennon was 5 years old.

Paul McCartney decided to drive to Weybridge, Surrey, to check on Cynthia and Julian. A 45-minute drive from central London. No particular agenda. No camera. Just a man going to see a friend and her small son because the right thing to do was to show up.

He got in his car.

He started humming.

"I was traveling one day to see Julian Lennon and his mother Cynthia," McCartney later recalled. "I used to call him Jules. So the song started off — I was in the car driving out — 'Hey Jules, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better.'"

He thought Jules sounded too country and western.

He changed it to Jude.

Recording of Hey Jude began on July 29, 1968. The finished version ran 7 minutes and 11 seconds — the longest song ever released as a Beatles single. It featured a full orchestral arrangement and an extended outro of repeating refrains that audiences sang along to instantly, as if they had always known the words.

Hey Jude was released on August 26, 1968.

It reached No. 1 in the United Kingdom. It reached No. 1 in the United States. It reached No. 1 in Australia, Canada, and across Europe. It spent 9 weeks at the top of the American charts — the longest run at No. 1 of any Beatles single in history.

It sold more than 8 million copies in its first year alone.

It remains the best-selling Beatles single ever released.

And for decades, almost nobody knew it had been written for a 5-year-old boy on a Tuesday afternoon in Surrey while his father was across London falling in love with someone else.

John Lennon's reaction when he first heard it was characteristic. McCartney was embarrassed by the lyric "The movement you need is on your shoulder" and planned to change it. John told him: "You won't, you know. That's the best line in the whole song."

John also believed the song was about him — about Paul encouraging John to pursue Yoko without fear. Paul has said it was both. Songs like that carry more than 1 truth at once.

Here is what most people have never heard.

Julian Lennon did not receive 1 penny from Hey Jude.

The song that McCartney wrote specifically for him, that was inspired entirely by the pain of his parents' divorce, that became the best-selling single in Beatles history — earned Julian Lennon nothing. Copyright law did not work that way. The song belonged to Lennon-McCartney. Julian had no claim.

He also received almost nothing from his father's estate when John Lennon was murdered outside the Dakota building in New York City on December 8, 1980. Julian was 17 years old. John's will left the vast majority of his estate to Yoko Ono and their son Sean. Julian received a relatively small settlement after years of legal disputes.

The man who inspired the greatest Beatles single left his firstborn son almost nothing.

Paul McCartney, by contrast, maintained his connection to Julian across the decades. He has spoken warmly about him in interviews. Julian has described Paul as the Beatle who truly showed up — who checked on him, who drove to Weybridge, who sat with Cynthia, who put a small boy on his shoulders and held him steady while the world reorganized itself into something harder.

Julian Lennon has described his relationship with Hey Jude as a love-hate one.

"I have a love-hate relationship with it, I have to say," he told podcast host Bill Maher in 2023. "People don't really understand that it's a stark and dark reminder of actually what happened. The fact that Dad walked out, walked away — left Mum and I. That was a point of complete change and complete disruption and complete darkness and sadness."

He added: "I get both sides of it. But a lot of people don't necessarily understand there's a dark yin and yang of that song."

In a separate interview with Esquire magazine, he said: "It's a beautiful sentiment, no question about that, and I'm very thankful — but I've also been driven up the wall by it. In my heart of hearts, there's not a bad word I could say about it."

He has heard it more times than almost any human being alive.

Every stadium singalong. Every birthday party rendition. Every baby in a nappy on the internet strumming a toy guitar. Every well-meaning friend who sends it thinking they are giving him something sweet.

What they are giving him, every time, is the memory of his father leaving.

And the memory of another man showing up.

Look at this photograph one more time.

A dark room. A small laughing boy sitting on a man's shoulders, head thrown back, completely safe, completely free, completely unaware that the man holding his legs is 45 minutes into the most important drive of his life. Paul McCartney's eyes are closed. He is steady. He is not going anywhere.
Julian Lennon is 5 years old and laughing with his whole body.

He does not know yet about the divorce. He does not know about Hey Jude. He does not know about the estate disputes, or the years of complicated feelings, or the love-hate relationship with a song that 8 million people bought in its first year.

He only knows that there are 2 hands holding him up.

And that for this particular moment, that is everything.

Share this with someone who needs to be reminded — that showing up for a child who is not yours, in a moment when their own parent cannot, is one of the most quietly extraordinary things a human being can do. And that sometimes the greatest songs ever written begin with nothing more than a 45-minute drive to check on a little boy.

[Rep. Nancy Mace @RepNancyMace]

There is no crime on earth more evil than harming a child.

Monsters who r*pe children do not deserve to live.

This is exactly why we introduced the Death Penalty for Child Rapists Act.

End of story.

[Cathy O'Brien @RealCathyOBrien]

Thank you @annvandersteel for posting this. My heart is overflowing with gratitude for all the love, support, prayers, and much needed donations to https://t.co/Ntu8gK9NnA Donate button and GoFundMe.

[Jones Plantation @JonesPlantation]

They are all on the same team.

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[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Andrew Wilson: "And I can’t prove this, but it’s been my experience, that left-wing communities and left-wing groups, especially online communities and online groups really pander to the mentally ill in a big way."

[The DarkHorse Podcast @thedarkhorsepod]

Biologist Dr. Heather Heying breaks down Washington State's Executive Order on menopause and why she calls it the "Daddy State."