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This is so unbelievably disgusting @TheDemocrats. You have become the party of antisemitic hate and blood libels!!! Don’t you dare ever call me for a donation again! @dscc @SenSchumer
New low for normalized Jew-hate in the American Democratic Party. Very sad:
Painting your political opponents as puppets of Jews, as this El-Sayed ad does, and as crazed baby-killers and money-grubbing villains who are the root cause of every bad thing not just in the world, but in your life—from wars to the price of eggs to the reason you can’t have free healthcare—is not just low-grade Jew-hate. It’s pure Third Reich stuff, translated directly from the original German.
Do you remember when Jewish Democrats in Michigan explained that they would vote for El-Sayed despite his open disdain for Jews, since there are many other important issues they need him to fight for? That anything was worth it to “defeat MAGA”?
Well, here’s El-Sayed’s answer to them: Don’t worry, all those issues we agree on, like healthcare, inflation, and climate change, I’m going to make them about Jews too! I will tell the public that the Jews are the reason they can’t have those things.
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In 1823, a 24 year old fur trapper named Jedediah Smith was leading a group through the Black Hills when a grizzly bear charged out of the brush and slammed into him.
The bear took his entire head into its mouth. It broke his ribs, tore his scalp open from his eye to his ear, and nearly ripped his ear completely off.
When the bear finally ran off, his men stood around in shock. Nobody knew what to do. So Smith, bleeding and barely conscious, told one of them to get a needle and thread and sew him back together.
The man stitched his scalp back down. Then he told Smith the ear was too far gone. Smith told him to sew it on anyway. So he did.
Ten days later, Smith was back on his horse. For the rest of his life he wore his hair long to cover the scars.
Then he went on to become one of the greatest explorers in American history.
In 1826, he led a party across the Mojave Desert and became the first American to reach California over land from the east. The Mexican governor thought he was a spy and ordered him out.
On his way back, he became the first person of European descent known to cross the Sierra Nevada from west to east, and then crossed the Great Basin desert, hundreds of miles with almost no water. At one point a man in his party collapsed from the heat, and they buried him in cool sand just to keep him alive while Smith went looking for water.
The next year, on another trip through the Mojave, his party was attacked and ten of his men were killed.
The year after that, in Oregon, he left camp one morning to scout ahead. While he was gone, his camp was attacked and fifteen of his men were killed. Smith and three others were the only survivors.
He carried a Bible everywhere, and was known for not drinking, not smoking, and not cursing, in a profession full of men who did all three.
By his early 30s he had walked, ridden, and paddled more of the American West than almost anyone alive.
In 1831, he was guiding a wagon train down the Santa Fe Trail. They were out of water, so he rode ahead alone to find some.
He ran into a band of Comanche warriors at the Cimarron River and was killed. He was 32.
His body was never found. His friends only learned what happened when Comanche traders showed up in Santa Fe trying to sell his rifle and pistols.
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Parkinson's Laws, Part Two – Triviality, Expenditure and the Committee.
Everyone knows Parkinson's first law: work expands to fill the time available. Fewer people know he wrote more – and that his other laws describe Brussels with uncomfortable precision.
1. The Law of Triviality. Parkinson's example: a finance committee approves a £10 million atomic reactor in two and a half minutes, because nobody in the room understands reactors. Then it spends forty-five minutes on a £350 bicycle shed, because everybody understands bicycle sheds. The time spent on any item is in inverse proportion to its importance. Brussels spent years making sure your bottle cap can't come off – while the big questions, energy, defense and the empty cradle, waited.
2. The Second Law: expenditure rises to meet income. Give an institution more money, and it will always find ways to spend it – never to give it back. Brussels has proposed nearly two trillion euros for its next seven-year budget, with new taxes of its own to fund it. And Parkinson was an optimist. France spends more than it earns, and hasn't balanced a budget since 1974.
3. The Coefficient of Inefficiency. Parkinson studied cabinets through the centuries and found that beyond about twenty members, a committee stops deciding anything. Power quietly moves to a small inner circle, and the full committee becomes a ceremony. With a straight face, he even calculated the breaking point: somewhere between 19.9 and 22.4 members.
The European Commission has 27.
One commissioner per country – not because the work needs twenty-seven, but because twenty-seven countries each need a seat. Politics decides the size of the committee. Parkinson decides what it will accomplish.
He wrote it as satire. Brussels turned it into a system.
Parkinson’s Law – Why the State Bureaucracy Grows When the Work Shrinks
In 1955, a British naval historian wrote a joke for The Economist. Seventy years later, it remains one of the most accurate descriptions of the modern state ever written. Everyone knows the slogan: work expands to fill the time available. Almost no one knows the mechanism underneath it. That mechanism explains Europe.
1. The evidence. Between 1914 and 1928, the Royal Navy lost two thirds of its largest warships. Over the same years the Admiralty – the office that ran the ships – grew by three quarters. There were fewer ships and more men behind desks. Then there was the Colonial Office, which kept growing while the colonies left one by one. It was hiring while the empire was shrinking.
2. The first mechanism. An official who feels overworked has three choices. He can resign, he can share the work with a colleague, or he can ask for two subordinates. He never chooses the colleague, because a colleague is a rival. Two subordinates are a rank. So one tired man becomes three. Then each of the two subordinates feels tired.
3. The second mechanism. Seven people now do what one did, and they keep each other busy with drafts, approvals, and comments on the approvals. Everyone works hard, and nothing is produced. You have been in this meeting. You have been copied on this email. You have watched three people sign the form that one person filled in.
4. The law of triviality. Parkinson noticed that a committee will approve a nuclear reactor in minutes, because nobody understands it. The same committee will debate the bicycle shed for an hour, because everybody does. Bureaucracy does not avoid the important question by accident. It avoids it by design – the small question carries no risk, and on the big one, someone’s name goes on the decision.
5. The ratchet. A business that fails closes. A department that fails gets a bigger budget, because the problem is now bigger. Failure is the bureaucracy’s best argument for itself. This is why the state never shrinks on its own: every problem it does not solve becomes a new office for solving it.
6. The civilizational lesson. Burnham described the managers taking over. Parkinson showed how they breed. Put the two together and you get Brussels. You get France, where the state spends more than half of everything the country produces and still cannot fix a hospital. This is not because the people inside are wicked. It is because the machine works exactly as Parkinson said it would.
7. The vindication. Parkinson was dismissed as a humorist. Then Milei cut Argentina’s ministries in half – and the country did not collapse. It barely noticed, except on the bill. The lesson is simple: you cannot reform a bureaucracy by asking it what to cut. It will always propose to cut the ships – and hire someone to manage the cut.
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On this day—October 25, 1956
Egypt, Syria, and Jordan announced a unified military command under Egyptian leadership, explicitly oriented toward the annihilation of Israel.
This came weeks after Nasser’s public statements rejecting any peace or negotiations with Israel and amid rising cross-border fedayeen attacks on Israeli civilians. Four days later, the Suez War began.
This was a formal unification of what had been in place since 1948, and it continued to take shape in the coming decades. In 1948, five Arab armies invaded the day after Israel’s independence with the goal of preventing its existence. In 1967, Arab leaders again mobilized their militaries with the goal of wiping Israel off the map. In 1973, the Egyptian writer Mohamed Heikal wrote that liberating the 1967 territories would only be a stage toward liberating “the whole of Palestine itself.”
From the rejection of partition in 1947 to the Khartoum “three no’s,” to multiple wars and charters, the consistent objective has been: first the prevention of Israel and since then the destruction of Israel.
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In the 1.300 years of Muslim-Arab slave trade, approximately a million Greek Christians were sold as slaves. Greek girls who were pretty were forced into prostitution after being enslaved to Turks who took all their earnings. Women captives were known to be subjected to sexual abuse.
After Chios Massacre (March 30, 1822) where the Muslim Turks slaughtered 42.000 Christian Greeks, 52.000 women and children were sold as slaves in the markets of Smyrna & Constantinople.
On September 1, 1821, Samothrace was devastated by the Ottomans through a general massacre, 10.000 men & boys were slaughtered while women & children were sold also in the markets of Constantinople & Smyrna. Only those who converted to Islam survived.
On July 14, 1821, 486 Greeks of Cyprus were publicly beheaded because they didn't convert to Islam.
On 13-22 September 1922, thousands of women (Greeks and Armenians) were mass raped and slaughtered in Smyrna from the Islamic horde, the Young Turks, who were motivated by racial and religious hatred. Only those who converted to Islam survived. They aimed the Christians of Anatolia and tried to erase our Greek footprint. They failed.
On 6-7 of September 1955, during the Constantinople pogroms, Muslim Turks committed rapes againt the Greek community of the City. Hundreds of women expelled and raped. Now there is a minotiry of less than 2.000 Greeks living in the city that their ancestors found, Constantinople.
In 1974, the Muslim Turks invaded the island of Cyprus and raped in the name of their god thousands of Greek women from 12 to 71 years old. Even the Church of Cyprus had consented through its tolerance to the amendment of the legislation in 1974, so that the abortions of that period became legal.
Women captives were known to be subjected to sexual abuse. Male Muslims were given the right to have sex with female captives (slaves), which was phrased: "those men who guard their genitals, except with their wives and those whom their right hands possess, for then there is no blame" (Quran 23:6), which granted men the right to have sex not only with their wives but also with female captive slaves.
Islam is an enemy for every woman.
Anyone who willingly supports the Islamic invasion against native Europeans is a traitor to his or her own kind and ancestors.
Picture: This is a Greek slave captured by the Muslim Turks during the Ottoman period. The sign writes: "ΡΟΔΟΝ ΕΤΩΝ ΙΗ ΠΩΛΕΙΤΑΙ ΜΝΑΣ Ω" which means: "Rose, eighteen years old for sale, for 800 mnas".
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- Homer Pavlos
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Between 850K-900K Jews were ethnically cleansed from Arab countries over several decades after WWII.
No one discusses right of return or reparations. No one accuses those Arab countries of stealing land and pretends those Jewish families and their ancestors are entitled to it.
That is actually the norm for refugees after conflicts. Most move on in other countries. The one exception is Palestinians. That’s why the UN has invented a separate definition of refugee that only applies to Palestinians and counts people who have never lived there and were born/grew up elsewhere as refugees. Because the entire point is to use that framing to advocate for the destruction of the current state there, not to deliver justice or freedom for Palestinians.
That goal and the entitlement that comes with it is the main hindrance to actual peace and self-determination for the Palestinians who remain.
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To everyone watching the surge in far-left violence across the West and telling themselves it cannot get worse: I am old enough to remember when organized left-wing terror groups were killing, kidnapping, and bombing across Europe and America. The 1970s and 1980s are worth a quick revisit.
In West Germany, the Marxist-Leninist Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof) and the Revolutionary Cells carried out hundreds of bombings, arson attacks, and bank robberies over some 25 years, wounding hundreds and killing dozens. In September 1977, Baader-Meinhof ambushed Hanns Martin Schleyer, one of Germany’s top industrialists, murdered his driver and three police officers, held him for 43 days, then killed him.
In Italy, the Marxist-Leninist gang Red Brigades carried out assassinations, kneecappings, and kidnappings over 20 years, killing nearly fifty people. In 1978 they kidnapped former prime minister Aldo Moro, killed his five bodyguards, and left his body in a car trunk after 54 days.
In Spain, GRAPO, another Marxist-Leninist group, killed more than 80 people, including a notorious 1979 cafe bombing in Madrid. It used kidnappings to attack the state and later raise money. Its highest profile victims were the president of the Council of State and a top military general.
In France, Action Directe, a self-described “libertarian communist urban guerrilla” group, carried out more than 80 bombings. Its leaders were convicted of assassinating General René Audran in 1985 and Renault CEO Georges Besse in 1986.
In America, the Weather Underground claimed roughly two dozen bombings, including the Capitol and the Pentagon. Their bombs killed no one but their own members—three in a Greenwich Village townhouse in 1970—until 1981, when remnants joined the Black Liberation Army in the Brink’s robbery. A guard and two police officers died.
These groups did not emerge from nowhere. They began inside much larger movements of protest marches, campus organizing, and anti-war activism. Small cells decided that talking had failed, that the state was illegitimate, and that violence was the only remaining language. They were few in number but they did real damage.
The grievances of the 1970s were not identical to today’s. The mechanics of escalation, though, are similar. When political anger, economic frustration, and a sense of moral emergency pile up, it only takes a handful of people to break away and treat armed confrontation as the next logical step. History shows it has happened before. The question is whether it will happen again.
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Some schools indoctrinate children on an anti-Israel/colonizer oppressor/oppressed narrative as early as the second grade.
Philadelphia’s School District will overhaul its social studies curriculum after a House investigation found it promotes ideology justifying violent resistance, legitimizes radical groups that incite antisemitism, and trains students to be far-left activists as early as ages 7 and 8.
World history lessons directed kids to “honor” a resistance movement of their choice—including the Hamas-backed Great March of Return. Teachers were instructed to study Frantz Fanon, who argued decolonization is inherently violent. The social studies director is now in termination proceedings.
Curriculum is destiny. This is how the next generation learns to view Israel and Jews through a false historical narrative.
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Slavery is a serious problem. Almost 50 million people are enslaved across the world today, creating illicit profits worth about $236bn a year. Some exist in a state of domestic servitude in the Gulf Arab states, while others labour in the mines of Africa and Asia.
In Mauritania and parts of the Sahel, you will find whole families trapped in “hereditary slavery”, where bondage is passed down the generations. In Libya, journalists have filmed actual slave markets, at which men were seen being auctioned for $400. (“Does anybody need a digger?” one slaver bellowed. “This is a digger, a big strong man, he’ll dig.”)
These are moral outrages, about which people of conscience might usefully campaign. How strange, then, that anti-slavery activists prefer to concentrate their energies on the trafficking of about three million Africans by the British Empire between the 1560s and the 19th century. And how revealing...
My @Telegraph column today. Read in full:
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
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SURPIZE! The True Meaning of "El-Sayed": How the Left Bows to the Ultimate Patriarchy
Here is what "El-Sayed' really means and you probably won't be shocked. Typical!
The name El-Seyed, often transliterated as Al-Sayyid or Sayed, carries a heavy historical and theological weight that Western progressives completely fail to comprehend. In classical Arabic, the word translates directly to "The Master," "The Lord," or "The Chief."
Historically, this is an aristocratic and deeply hierarchical title. Within the Islamic world, the honorific Sayyid is traditionally reserved to denote the direct blood descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, specifically through his daughter Fatimah and his grandsons. It is a strict marker of holy lineage designed to command absolute respect, deference, and social submission from the broader populace. It represents an unyielding cultural hierarchy based entirely on inherited religious nobility.
While modern conversational Arabic has diluted the term to serve as a polite equivalent to "Mister" or "Sir," its foundational linguistic root remains permanently tied to dominance and authority.
This reality exposes the profound, embarrassing ignorance of the modern progressive left. They parade political figures with names like Abdul El-Sayed around as shiny tokens of their multicultural virtue. They blindly celebrate these identities to satisfy their diversity quotas, entirely oblivious to the fiercely traditional, patriarchal, and hierarchical cultures those names actually represent.
The left demands the total destruction of Western hierarchy, yet they enthusiastically elevate political figures whose very names translate to "The Master." They worship the aesthetic of the exotic while despising the concepts of authority and tradition that are baked into the very language they pretend to champion. They are marching behind banners they cannot even read, proving once again that their entire worldview is built on shallow optics and complete historical illiteracy.
The title operates identically to the aristocratic "von" of the European nobility (my entire family are "Vons" so trust me I would know), serving as a permanent genetic marker that separates the ruling elite from the subservient peasant class.
Progressives spend their lives trying to dismantle Western traditions while blindly worshiping the literal landed gentry of the Arabic world.
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To every American about to vote in the midterms, and to every Western nation: this is a very important message. It explains why there is chaos everywhere.
The West never understood communism. And that is exactly why it's sick with it.
We were taught that communism was an economic mistake. Bread lines, failed five-year plans, the USSR collapsing in 1991. Case closed.
Wrong. Economics was only the surface. The core of communism is the systemic lie. Not one man's lie: the lie as social architecture. A system where truth is no longer discovered but assigned, where language no longer describes reality but covers it up.
Poles have words for this. Zakłamanie: a society so saturated with lies that truth becomes almost unreachable. Obłuda: hypocrisy performed for so long that the mask becomes the face. English has no equivalent. That's no accident. You don't have a word for a wound you never lived through. And without the word, you can't recognize the disease when it comes back in a new costume.
My thesis is simple: the West has been infected. Not by Soviet tanks, by the software. And most of our current dysfunction flows from it, first and foremost.
Look at France. Over 57% of GDP in public spending. Debt approaching 120% of GDP and still climbing. Not a single balanced budget since 1974. Fifty years. That's not a policy anymore, it's a condition. And every year, with a perfectly straight face, we're told that this time it's discipline, that the social model is saved, that everything can be funded without anyone paying.
That's zakłamanie, social-democrat edition. The founding lie is that you can redistribute wealth without caring who creates it. That the state can absorb more than half the economy and the economy will stay alive. It doesn't work. It holds as long as you can borrow, until you end up borrowing to pay the interest on what you already borrowed.
We have no gulags. But we have the structure: a state that plans, subsidizes, regulates every move, and a political class whose real job is managing the gap between what it says and what actually happens.
Macron is the perfect embodiment. His signature "en même temps" ("at the same time") is Orwell's doublethink turned into a doctrine of government: hold two contradictory propositions and demand that everyone accept both. Liberal in speech, while debt goes from roughly 100% to nearly 120% of GDP on his watch. Édouard Philippe, Gabriel Attal: same school, same grammar. Fiscal seriousness at the podium, rising debt in the books. And the worst part isn't that they're cynical. It's that after reciting the script for so long, they no longer see the gap. That's exactly what people from the East describe: at its mature stage, the lie isn't cynical anymore. It's believed.
This isn't just a French story. In the US, a growing part of the Democratic Party has adopted the same grammar: truth becomes a matter of belonging, disagreement becomes violence, language gets rewritten by moral decree. Wokeism is the same operating system with a new interface. The proletariat replaced by identity groups. The class enemy replaced by the "problematic." Public self-criticism replaced by public apologies online.
A Pole, a Czech, a Hungarian recognizes the pattern in three seconds. We see a slightly excessive but well-meaning movement.
That's where everything is decided. You can't fight a disease you can't name. The debt, the deindustrialization, the collapse of trust in institutions, the political paralysis: this isn't a series of accidents. It's what happens when a society stops paying the price of truth.
The first task is to relearn how to say what is. The rest will follow.
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From Convenient to Condemned: The Jewish Moneylenders’ Status and Role in Medieval Europe
This paper will examine the role and status of the Jewish moneylender in Medieval European society using various course materials and articles. The figure of the Jewish moneylender was not an ancient stereotype, but a role produced by Christian legal and theological constraints and the monetary needs of the emerging early Capitalist system. The supersessionist logic advanced by Augustine had already provided a durable theological foundation for the charges that Jews were obstinate and blind. In Answer to the Jews had described Jews as the branches that had been stripped off for their unbelief (Romans 11) and framed them as having remained in “useless antiquity” for their refusal to recognise Christ as the fulfilment of the prophecies in the Old Testament and of administering the law while scorning the Gospel in an act of witness against themselves.[1]
Christian opposition to usury reinforced this existing framework. From late antiquity Ambrose, Jerome and Augustine condemned the practice of moneylending for interest. The Third Lateran Council of 1179 and the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 intensified the ban, forbidding Christians to lend at interest and imposing social and economic sanctions on Jews that did so. However, credit remained essential and legitimate sources from Christians were forbidden so Jews enjoyed a short period where their money lending was vital as the source of credit for the emerging system of trade. The collapse of Jewish long-distance trade after the First Crusade left many Jews with few alternative sources of income. Rulers then extracted tallages from the communities forced to keep capital liquid which created a vicious cycle: society relied upon the Jew becoming a usurer and then condemned him for this role. By the twelfth century the words “Jew” and “Usurer” had become almost synonymous. Passion plays from the period cast Judas as a haggling Jewish moneylender while art showed the devil as a partner in Jewish finance. As Joshua Trachtenberg argued: the Devil, Jew, usurer and heretic became “one and the same creature.” The broken branch as framed by Augustine had acquired an economic dimension.[2]
The events at Clifford’s Tower, York in 1190 show the societal response to this pattern and its violent consequences. Amid Crusading riots, approximately 150 Jewish residents of York took refuge in Clifford’s tower when indebted local Barons exploited the absence of Royal authority to effectively cancel their debts. A contemporary account by William of Newburgh describes that after the mob surrounding the castle demanded the Jews to convert or die that the vast majority inside chose to commit suicide rather than forced Baptism, and survivors who accepted conversion were killed by the mob and upon the death of all the Jews the debt records stored in York Minster were burned. The cancellation of obligations to settle the debt was accompanied by religious rhetoric about the enemies of Christ. Similar attacks, fuelled by debt occurred in England between 1189-1190 and had occurred earlier on the Continent. The 1290 expulsion under Edward I removed the creditors and the debt obligation permanently and Jewish property and assets were seized upon expulsion. The events at Clifford’s Tower represent an early, local example of a logic that was later systematised.[3] [4]
Three centuries later in Spain, the Alhambra Decree of 31 March 1492 achieved the same economic result via legislation. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella ordered unconverted Jews to leave by the end of July 1492, forbidding the export of gold, silver or coin and cancelling all Royal debts to Jewish creditors. The stated reason was religious subversion, but the practical effect was the cancellation of Jewish credit and the forcible transfer of assets.
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There is nothing original about this woman. This is white guilt passed down through education. She is repeating what white guilt whites have said for decades. The "freedom" that she claims to want is actually what Shelby Steele has long called dissociation. She dissociates from what she sees as the sins of the West in order to gain innocence. A false innocence. Because the irony here is that this dissociation requires privilege. You cannot perform white guilt innocence about the West from Gaza. You need the nice house in London to do it. And the turtleneck.
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More trans crimes covered up by media: An Oregon trans child s—x criminal I previously reported on in 2024 has been arrested again for allegedly attempting to gain access to minors, this time in Hennepin County, Minn.
Alec Ray Craig, a trans-identified male who uses the name "Makayla Craig," 29, was arrested for allegedly attempting to register at a local Minnesota high school by identifying as a homeless teen girl under the name "Molly Lennox Fox."
He was convicted last year in Linn County, Ore. for trying to sign up at an Albany, Ore. school under a false identity while being a registered s—x offender. He was sentenced to 20 days in a local jail.
Craig identifies as a transgender polyamorous age-regressor otherkin furry. His pronouns have included "she/her" and "they/them." He fundraises for leftist causes. Using the arguments of trans ideology, some trans radicals believe you can also self-identify your age, just like gender.
The trans activist has a prior conviction for sexually abusing a minor in 2023 that bans him from being around minors.
For years, media has covered up that Craig is trans— referring to him as a "woman." Minnesota mainstream media uses Craig's fake female name and "they/them" pronouns in their current reporting
As I documented in my new book, The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult, trans radicals are often supported and aided in their delusions and crimes by institutions and leftist trans advocacy groups. Order my book now: amazon.com/Zizians-Inside-Tr…
Craig is currently booked into the Hennepin County Jail on a $200,000 bond.
Ngo investigates: Oregon trans activist and registered s—x offender accused of trying to gain access to children at high school by posing as a 15-year-old girl
The @albanyorPD in Oregon announced on Dec. 19 that it had arrested a 27-year-old registered s—x offender named "Makayla Craig" for posing as a 15-year-old girl trying to attend school with other children. The police referred to the suspect as a "them," and when I called the jail, the person refused to tell me if Craig is male or female. So I looked further.
Makayla Ray Craig is a convicted felon and trans activist who was previously known as Alec Ray Craig. Craig was convicted last year of s—xual abuse. He was sentenced to only 36 months probation. He is prohibited from having unsupervised contact with minors.
Craig has an extensive online social media history as a trans activist and aspiring trans influencer. He has posted p—rnographic cartoons on Reddit that show characters who look like schoolchildren engaging in s—x acts. In the summer, he praised the shooting of Donald Trump.
In 2022, he and his mother, Robin Leigh Craig, went viral on TikTok in a video where the mother defended her son's trans identity. In the background of the video, one could see s—x toys hanging on the wall.
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“Dear Italian students, who today take to the streets carrying flags with the hammer and sickle and wearing T-shirts emblazoned with ‘CCCP’,” began an open letter in Italian by Lithuanian expat Neringa Budryt.
“I would like to ask you a question: do you truly know what the symbols you carry represent? And do you know what would have happened to many of you had you openly demonstrated in countries living under the oppression of communist regimes?
Let me tell you something. It is easy to display a red flag when, for you, communism is merely an abstract idea of equality, social justice, and rebellion against the system. It is easy to wear a T-shirt with "CCCP" on it when you have never experienced the reality of a communist regime.
We come from that part of Europe where communism was not a T-shirt, a symbol of rebellion, or a romanticized notion of equality. It was the system in which we lived—a system we never chose.
We know the history of Soviet repression, Stalinist purges, the Gulags, and mass deportations. Above all, we know the word "Siberia"—a place to which thousands of innocent people were forcibly deported, simply for thinking differently.
In Siberia—amidst freezing cold, starvation, and forced labor—many lost their lives; those who survived carried the scars of that experience forever. Entire families were torn apart, and generations were denied the chance to live freely in their own homeland.
In the countries of the Soviet bloc, censorship, political police, surveillance, and the suppression of dissent drastically curtailed individual freedoms.
We grew up in a system where state control permeated even our daily lives. At school, we were required to wear the red necktie of the "Pioneers." We were monitored; they tracked where we went and even whether we attended church. Even faith—a choice that should belong to an individual’s own conscience—could become a cause for suspicion.
We used to celebrate Christmas with our windows blacked out, to ensure no one would see us and report us. Because it was forbidden—just like so many other things: jeans, rock music, and all the symbols of a Western lifestyle. My mother returned from a Soviet labor camp. And do you know what happened to her? She was barred from continuing her education because she had been labeled an enemy of communism.
Under a communist regime, you could not protest. You risked arrest, imprisonment, interrogation, persecution—and, in certain historical contexts, even death. In the Soviet Union and other communist regimes, political dissent could cost you your freedom and your life.
Demonstrations independent of the authorities were not a guaranteed right; they were often suppressed by force.
That is why it strikes me to see young Italians proudly displaying the hammer and sickle—symbols associated with regimes that persecuted and imprisoned millions of people.
Today, you are free to take to the streets, shout against the government, criticize institutions, and wave your flags precisely because you live in a democracy that grants you these freedoms. Under an authoritarian regime of that kind, protesting against those in power could have landed you in prison.
This is not about denying the existence of social injustices, inequalities, or the right to fight for a better world. You are free to take to the streets to demand a more just society—but you should not idealize a system that denied so many people the very things you are free to exercise today: the right to choose, to believe, to speak, and to dissent. Before wearing a T-shirt with "CCCP" on it, listen to those who experienced that world. Talk to the deportees and their descendants; read the accounts of those who endured the gulags and forced exile to Siberia. Learn what it meant to be stripped of your freedom, your home, your loved ones—and even any prospect of a normal life—simply because of your background or your beliefs.
Before waving the hammer and sickle, please, study history thoroughly.”
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BREAKING: New video shows Islamists in Africa hacking to death Christians.
Do not stop talking about the slaughter of Christians in Nigeria.
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He tells us more than he realizes. Bret Baier asked a question. Abdul El-Sayed didn't like it.
Arrogant. Condescending. Controlling.
And in the space of roughly a minute, Michigan's Democrat nominee for the United States Senate told voters considerably more about himself than he probably intended.
If that's how a Senate candidate handles one Friday-afternoon interview with Bret Baier, Michigan has every right to wonder how he'd handle six years of sustained scrutiny from an actual Senate seat. Will constituents' questions get answered, or reframed as attacks? Will disagreement get debated, or will the disagreeing get accused of bad motives?
Not with his answers. With his refusal to let the questions get asked.
Baier was trying to ask El-Sayed about a 2012 letter he signed, addressed to Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's then-president and a Muslim Brotherhood figure.
El-Sayed cut him off before he finished the sentence.
"No, no, no, let me just stop there."
He meant it, too. Baier tried again. El-Sayed interrupted again, accusing the journalist of questioning his loyalty to America. Then came the line of the whole exchange.
"Be a journalist."
"I am," Baier said.
There it is.
The quiet arrogance of a man who's decided a journalist's job is only legitimate when the candidate approves the question in advance.
I've watched the clip more than once. Watch his eyes. Listen to the register of his voice climb half a step with every interruption. That's not composure. That's tempered rage — the particular indignation of someone who seems genuinely offended that anyone would dare press him on something he'd rather not discuss.
How dare you ask me this?
That's the impression he leaves. And impressions matter plenty when a man is asking voters to hand him six years of constitutional responsibility. El-Sayed says he's never belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood and never will. He's denied the allegations outright. Fair enough — a denial deserves to be reported accurately, and an allegation isn't proof.
But an interruption isn't an answer either. And indignation was never evidence of innocence.
Here's the part that actually gets me: the constitutional defense he kept reaching for.
"My loyalty belongs to the Constitution of the United States," he insisted.
Okay. Which Constitution?
Because in April 2023, in a video he later made private, El-Sayed proposed something worth sitting with: "What if we tweaked the Constitution, amended the amendment, and instead of the right to bear arms, we change it to the right to have healthcare?"
Not a new program. Not expanded coverage. A trade. Erase one constitutional right, write in a different one.
The Constitution has a lawful amendment process, and proposing to use it is itself protected speech. Nobody should pretend otherwise. But it's entirely fair to ask a candidate what he actually believes that document is supposed to protect — especially when he's invoking loyalty to it as the answer to a completely different question an hour later on cable news.
I believe the Second Amendment protects a liberty the government didn't create and has no business casually erasing. El-Sayed floated trading it away for a government benefit. Those are not small, compatible differences. They're two different theories of what the Constitution is even for.
So when he assures Bret Baier his loyalty belongs to the Constitution, I'd genuinely like to know: the one Americans actually have, or the one he'd prefer to write?
His campaign now says he "respects" the Second Amendment. Fine. Then explain the 2023 video. Tell voters plainly whether you still believe what you said. That's not persecution. That's the job.
The same standard applies to the Muslim Brotherhood letter. El-Sayed signed something in 2012. He says the meaning's been distorted. There's an easy way to settle that: explain what you signed, why you signed it, and what you believe now.
Instead, Michigan got 60 seconds of a candidate trying to run the interview himself.
I've sat across the table for thousands of interviews over the years. Most guests handle hard questions fine. Some push back on the premise, which is healthy. Every once in a while, somebody tries to make the question itself the offense.
That last move is always the most revealing one. Suddenly the person asking becomes the problem. Not the letter. Not the video. Not the contradiction sitting right there on tape.
The person asking.
El-Sayed wanted everyone watching to know he intends to swear allegiance to the Constitution. Good. So does every senator who's ever taken the oath. The oath isn't the finish line. It's the starting gun on the responsibility that follows.
And that document he's so eager to defend also happens to protect Bret Baier's right to ask an uncomfortable question. A man who hopes to swear loyalty to it should be able to survive a reporter exercising that same freedom without reaching for the mute button.
Asking the question was never the crime.
Trying to keep it from being asked at all?
That told us more than El-Sayed probably realizes.
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Scottrhawk retweeted
Under capitalism, you can spend your entire life publicly criticizing capitalism, writing books against it, and selling anti-capitalist merch for a profit.
Under communism, writing a single private pamphlet criticizing the party gets you sent to a forced labor camp or put against a wall.
The sheer tolerance of freedom vs. the fragile cowardice of tyranny.
Scottrhawk retweeted
New low for normalized Jew-hate in the American Democratic Party. Very sad:
Painting your political opponents as puppets of Jews, as this El-Sayed ad does, and as crazed baby-killers and money-grubbing villains who are the root cause of every bad thing not just in the world, but in your life—from wars to the price of eggs to the reason you can’t have free healthcare—is not just low-grade Jew-hate. It’s pure Third Reich stuff, translated directly from the original German.
Do you remember when Jewish Democrats in Michigan explained that they would vote for El-Sayed despite his open disdain for Jews, since there are many other important issues they need him to fight for? That anything was worth it to “defeat MAGA”?
Well, here’s El-Sayed’s answer to them: Don’t worry, all those issues we agree on, like healthcare, inflation, and climate change, I’m going to make them about Jews too! I will tell the public that the Jews are the reason they can’t have those things.