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This is the fist bump everyone needs to be talking about.
Ted Cruz and fellow Republicans celebrating after blocking a bill to help toxin-exposed veterans survive.
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The last IDF soldier left Gaza on September 12, 2005. The keys went to the PA.
The crossings were open. That blockade everyone complained about? It didn’t exist yet.
Rockets were already hitting Israeli towns that same day. Greenhouses bought so Palestinians could farm were looted and smashed. By night, synagogues were on fire and crowds were celebrating. Here’s what came next:
January 2006: Hamas wins the election.
June 2006: Hamas kidnaps Gilad Shalit — they would hold him for five years.
June 2007: Hamas throws Fatah off the roofs and drags them through the streets. They take the Strip.
That is when Egypt shut the border at Rafah. Israel shut what the PA no longer staffed.
“Open-air prison from the day they left” requires you first delete 2005–2007.
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A senior Hamas official just said it on live television: "We Palestinians are not indigenous of this place. Half of us are actually Egyptians, and the other half are Saudis. We are not from here."
This isn't an Israeli claim. This isn't Zionist propaganda. This is a Hamas official, on camera, telling the truth by accident.
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The detail that makes this more than a Kimmel story is The View. Disney has confirmed the show stopped booking any political candidates at all after its own February interview with Talarico, citing the FCC's pressure campaign directly, not just declining to comment on the rule. That means three different shows across three networks have now pulled back from the same candidate over the same rule change in seven months. This is not hypothetical chilling effect. It is a documented, repeating pattern.
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel said the agency that regulates television "threatened" the show and that an interview with James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, will not air on television but on YouTube. to.pbs.org/4h1MubS
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ICE brutally detain 2 U.S. citizen teens—driving to hand in papers to join Marines.
Now changing their minds about enlisting.
"How can I serve a country that doesn't even uphold my basic rights?"
Agents shot them with pepper spray—then punched them in the face.
Just because they stopped to film an ICE operation arresting parents outside of a school.
They were locked up for 8 hours—despite having proof they were U.S. citizens.
Agent told them:
"I don't give a damn... your parents can't help you now."
Incident occurred near Santos Livas Elementary School in Alamo, Texas.
Posting first full length English language credited video here to help raise awareness.
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The New York Times coverage of the Gaza-Israel war was grossly pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel, according to a peer-reviewed study. Jewish casualties were omitted or minimized while Palestinian casualties were amplified and misrepresented.
Yale University Professor Edieal Pinker published the review in the an academic journal Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. His peer-reviewed research quantitatively evaluated 1,559 New York Times articles published between October 7, 2023, and June 7, 2024, to assess potential narrative imbalances.
The study found that:
- 91% of the analyzed articles failed to mention Israeli casualties that occurred after October 7.
- 1,423 articles completely omitted mentions of both Israeli post-Oct. 7 casualties and Hamas combatant deaths.
- 50% of the articles did not reference the Israeli hostages held by Hamas during the fighting, and 41% omitted mentions of the Israeli casualties from the initial October 7 attack itself.
- Personal stories highlighting Palestinian and Lebanese suffering appeared on average two out of every three days. Comparable accounts of Israeli suffering unrelated directly to the October 7 events appeared in very few articles.
- The word "Israel" appeared 27,205 times across the dataset, compared to just 8,499 mentions of "Hamas," meaning Israel was mentioned more than three times as often. This statistical discrepancy places near-exclusive agency and responsibility on Israel while severely diminishing Hamas's role in sustaining the conflict.
Pinker concluded that these consistent editorial choices cultivated a dominant narrative portraying Israel as the sole aggressor facing few consequences beyond losing international sympathy, while Palestinians were predominantly framed as passive victims. He argues that the coverage deprives readers of a comprehensive understanding of the ongoing combat dynamics and the continuous nature of Israeli losses.
Following the initial release of the study data, The New York Times publicly defended its reporting, claiming it has covered the war with rigor and from all angles. Of course my commentary on their reporting shows that this defense is hot garbage.
The New York Times buried the Holocaust in the back pages and then doubled down on downplaying Jewish suffering after October 7. They are a disgusting business that should be boycotted.
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Yeah this is misinformation. It wasn’t for “Free Palestine Statements”, making it sound like he only made some statements online that he’s being punished for.
It was because he turned his warm up act into a political rally which nobody who bought tickets signed up for. If you buy tickets for an Ed Sheeran concert, but it turns out to be a political rally, you’d be pissed off
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I have recently discovered something called Bean Soup Theory, and I confess it has explained an astonishing amount about the modern internet… particularly X.
The premise is beautifully simple. Someone posts a recipe for bean soup. Rather than simply thinking, “I don’t like beans,” and moving along with their day like a perfectly functioning member of civilised society, people descend upon the comments to announce: “But I don’t like beans.”
Marvellous.
The recipe was clearly not addressed to you, Cordelia, as it had ‘beans’ in it. It was not a summons from the King. Nobody has arrived at your residence with a casserole dish and a warrant compelling you to consume legumes. You may simply scroll. 🤷🏻♂️
And yet this peculiar affliction has spread far beyond soup. Someone makes a general observation and, within seconds… “Well, I don’t do that.” Someone describes a common human experience… “That doesn’t apply to me.” Someone expresses an opinion… “I disagree.” Someone posts something they enjoy… “I don’t like it.”
Yes, Gladys.
We know. 🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
The extraordinary conceit that everything placed before one’s eyes must somehow be personally applicable, agreeable or custom-tailored is becoming quite exhausting.
Not everything is about you.
There, I have said it. 😮💨
You are not required to identify yourself in every sentence. You do not have to insert your personal circumstances into every observation. And a statement about humanity in general does not become factually invalid merely because your particular life has taken a different route.
A universal truth and a personal truth are not obliged to hold hands and attend the same garden party. Sometimes something is simply true. Sometimes it applies to many people but not you. Sometimes it applies to you but not someone else.
And sometimes… brace yourself… it is merely a post on the internet which you were never required to engage with in the first place.
The algorithm has apparently trained an entire generation to believe that every piece of content should arrive personally addressed:
“Dear Gladys,
Having reviewed your preferences, childhood experiences, dietary requirements and emotional landscape, we have prepared the following post exclusively for you.”
Heavens to Betsy! It isn’t the Royal Mail.
You may encounter something that isn’t for you and simply carry on. This used to be called discernment. One saw something, decided it wasn’t one’s cup of tea and moved along. No public declaration was necessary. No manifesto was required. No one needed to summon the village elders to announce that beans were not compatible with their lived experience.
And frankly, my darlings, I am beginning to suspect that the internet has produced an alarming shortage of people capable of quietly thinking… “That’s not for me.” …and then shutting the bloody door behind them.
So here is my humble contribution to Bean Soup Theory:
If you don’t like the beans… DON’T EAT THE FLIPPING SOUP!
If the post doesn’t apply to you… DON’T MAKE IT ABOUT YOU.
If you disagree, you are perfectly entitled to scroll past without filing an affidavit.
The world is not obliged to revolve around your preferences. Other people are allowed to have experiences you haven’t had, opinions you don’t share and truths which do not neatly fit inside the rather small wardrobe of your personal circumstances.
And if that is terribly inconvenient, I can only suggest a restorative cup of tea, a moment of quiet reflection and perhaps the radical Victorian practice of minding one’s own business.
Because, saints alive, these people on the internet are exhausting.
This Laird is run absolutely ragged.
I have survived political discourse, royal scandals, comment sections and people who put milk in the cup before the tea. But apparently… beans are where civilisation finally draws the line.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have soup to ignore.
@LairdOfThManor 💜🎩
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Trump's Midterm Power-Grab Just Took a Direct Hit
Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine just torched Trump's traitorous scheme.
CAIN CALLS TRUMP'S POTENTIAL ORDER "UNLAWFUL"
In a letter to Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Caine stated the military has no plans to send federal troops or federalized National Guard to polling places — or to seize ballots, machines, or election materials — in the November 2026 midterms. He added he has "neither received nor anticipate receiving any unlawful order" about the Joint Force's role.
That's after Trump flooded cities with Guard troops against protests, Hersh reported a White House insider confirming a poll-deployment plan in July, and Trump himself refused to rule it out. Slotkin earlier asked Defense Secretary Hegseth the same question; Hegseth dismissed it as a "gotcha hypothetical" and still hasn't answered.
Voting-rights expert Wendy Weiser called Caine's letter "significant": it preemptively labels any such order unlawful and slams home that state and local officials — not the Pentagon — run elections.
The top general just drew a bright legal line in the sand that the most corrupt president in U.S. history can't easily cross.
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In 2007, Israeli jets flew deep into Syria and destroyed a facility that Bashar al-Assad insisted had “nothing to do with nuclear,” prompting IAEA chief Mohammed ElBaradei to slam Israel for bombing the site instead of giving its intelligence to international inspectors.
Five years later, the 120-member Non-Aligned Movement condemned the strike as a “flagrant violation of the UN Charter” and praised Syria’s cooperation with the IAEA, even as Assad’s regime continued concealing what it had built.
Now, 19 years after the strike, the IAEA has closed the investigation and confirmed that Israel destroyed an undeclared nuclear reactor, that Syria was secretly manufacturing fuel for it, and that approximately 73 metric tons of uranium metal remained at a connected facility, including 55 tons already made into fuel rods.
Had Israel waited for the world to agree, Syria’s reactor could have become operational before inspectors uncovered it, and seven years after the raid, the ruins of the reactor site itself fell into the hands of ISIS.
Iran is no different. Jihadists must not obtain nuclear weapons. It's that simple.
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BREAKING: Whistleblower says U.S. Postal Service system Trump ordered for vetting mail ballots is likely to cause major disruptions this fall if implemented. nbcnews.com/politics/electio…
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“Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an impracticable zero percent failure rate. ' When ballots are submitted to USPS in large-volume batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that batch will be rejected.
For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal — because, for example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they've moved — then USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well.”
BREAKING: Whistleblower says U.S. Postal Service system Trump ordered for vetting mail ballots is likely to cause major disruptions this fall if implemented. nbcnews.com/politics/electio…
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I’m happy to share this because I don’t care what side of the aisle you sit on, this is a fact.
Speaker Mike Johnson this is for you.
Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for over 50 years on every salary I received. From my first part time job until I retired. I always had a job.
The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it.
The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too.
It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.
Congress took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking.
They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer. And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!
Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.
99% of people won't forward this to their timelines…..will you?
Please, for the sake of our country, repost this.
