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Ima Baker retweeted
I was one of the first people to call out the Massie/Epstein grift. I wish I could show you the DMs from accounts that came after me for questioning Massie. Many let me know that they liked my videos but were now very "disappointed" in me. 😂
Unlike them, I had watched all the hearings during the Biden years when Christopher Wray was asked about the Epstein case. Massie was in some of those hearings. Wray was asked numerous times about the Epstein case and he would respond to every question with "there is nothing more to share, but I'll check and let you know if I find anything."
Wray gave that answer every time he was asked. It was a complete blowoff. Massie watched. He never one time questioned Wray about Epstein and he had no follow up questions when Wray would casually dismiss questions about Epstein. Why? Because he didn't GAF back then. Just like the Democrats and the MSM.
It's crazy that there are still some people who are still pretending that this had anything to with the "survivors" and that it wasn't completely, from the start, about trying to hurt Trump.
Massie and Khanna were to the Epstein hoax what Schiff and Swalwell were to the Russia hoax. Massie was the Schiff type, sleazily parsing his words and allegations. Khanna was the retarded Swalwell type, spouting whatever ridiculous claims entered his head.
I created and posted a video of some of the claims Ro Khanna has made about Epstein and the Epstein files. It's absolutely pure comedy. All bullshit.
Most people aren't aware of how much time these two spent on TV together from June of 2025 to July of 2026. Schiff and Swalwell TV type time, both of them making ridiculous claims and none of it turned out to be true. They didn't do that because they "care about survivors." They did it to hurt the current President. Can we all stop pretending please?
Do you know that Thomas Massie has repeatedly said during interviews that he endorsed Trump because Trump promised to be transparent about the Epstein files? That's a pretty ridiculous lie, but it doesn't stop Massie from saying it.
Massie has also repeatedly claimed that "all of Trump's friends" are part of the Epstein class. What does that even mean? That's Adam Schiff saying "Trump loves the Russians."
Remember when Massie made that post implying that Trump started the Iran War to deflect from the Epstein files? After posting that Massie went on TV and claimed that he wasn't actually saying that but that OTHER people were saying it and that's why he posted it. More Adam Schiff type talk.
In November of 2025 Massie held a press conference and made these statements as facts:
▪️There are men who have never been investigated before who are co-conspirators of Epstein's and who are guilty of rape and sexual abuse.
Never been investigated before but are guilty. How could he know that to be true? How could he have possibly made that claim unless he saw proof, which would mean that he is now covering up those cases.
He also said:
▪️There are 1,000 victims of Epstein.
▪️There are at least 20 accusations of rape and sex trafficking that the FBI is covering up.
▪️When the Epstein files are released, all these men will be exposed and will go to prison.
▪️If the names of these guilty men are not released and they are not arrested, himself, MTG, or Democrats will read the names on the House floor.
Was any of that true or was he completely full of shit?
Thomas Massie is the Adam Schiff of Trump's second term. Just watch what he's doing right now.
Ima Baker retweeted
EXCLUSIVE:
🚨 Thomas Massie’s ex-girlfriend tells me one of the reasons why she decided to go public with her story is because he is taking money from Iranians and the Islamic lobby 🚨
Former Congressional staffer and @RepThomasMassie’s ex-girlfriend @Cyntaxed007 Cynthia West tells me Massie’s anti-Israel crusade is riddled with hypocrisy. West said Massie talked to her about his “Iranian connections” and that she became alarmed when she started looking at his donors and saw he was taking so much Islamic money from Iranians.
She told me,
“When you start looking at Joe Kiani,” West said, referring to the Iranian-born Democrat megadonor, “this is one of Thomas’s big donors.”
West said Massie appeared to be receiving money from “pro-Palestinian folks” while publicly attacking Israel.
“He’s at this fundraising event,” West said, “and it appears that he is receiving money from these pro-Palestinian folks, and then also tweeting while he’s there, saying, hey, we need to remove all aid and assistance to Israel.”
West raised an important question about Thomas Massie’s stance on Israel: “Are you a pay-to-play?” West likened Massie’s views on Israel to selling his soul.
West also called out the hypocrisy of Massie railing against pro-Israel influence while benefiting from donors and PAC money connected to Jewish and pro-Israel contributors. “You can’t be like, oh, I don’t want people getting money from AIPAC, while at the same time you’re taking money from the other side,” West said, referring to the Islamic lobby backing Massie with so much money.
Massie pretends to be some “America First” isolationist and lectures us about foreign interference while allegedly taking money from Muslim, communist anti-Israel Democrats. “You need to be principled,” West said.
But Thomas Massie isn’t principled. He’s a hypocrite and a liar.
Release the Massie Files!
@POTUS @SpeakerJohnson @GOPoversight
EXCLUSIVE:
🚨 Congressman Randy Fine @RepFine tells me he was approached by Cynthia West @Cyntaxed007 (Thomas Massie’s accuser) last year in Florida about Thomas Massie’s @RepThomasMassie alleged financial ties to Iran. 🚨
Rep. Randy Fine revealed to me that he met Thomas Massie’s ex-girlfriend, Cynthia West at a GOP event called the Florida Freedom Forum on August 2, 2025.
In an exclusive statement to @LoomerUnleashed, Fine said, “Cynthia West came up to me and told me that Massie is a total sexual creep, weirdo, and he had put her in a difficult personal situation. She told me he asked her to do things in their relationship that she felt were not appropriate. She said Massie also has direct ties to Iran. We stayed in touch.”
Additionally, Fine said Ms. West told him Massie asked her to engage in personal and sexual behaviors she felt were inappropriate, claimed emotional abuse during their relationship, and expressed concerns over the Iranian ties, which she believes are financial from what she saw and heard during the time they were dating.
Rep. Fine told @LoomerUnleashed,
“I am particularly troubled by the allegation that Thomas Massie used his power to get his then girlfriend a taxpayer funded position position in Rep. Victoria Spartz’s @RepSpartz office shortly after they began dating in late 2024, only to have her fired shortly after in what West described as retaliation after her breakup with Massie when she no longer wanted to entertain his creepy sexual demands.”
Separately, Fine noted that in May 2025, Iranian-born billionaire Joe Kiani @JoeKiani, an Iranian born donor and the founder of medical technology giant Masimo Corporation and Willow Laboratories, allegedly hosted a fundraiser for Massie that raised $100,000, during which Massie reportedly bashed Israel while the event was underway. Joe Kiani is an Iranian born Democrat mega donor. In 2021, he was appointed by Joe Biden to serve on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), a move that was widely viewed as an alleged pay for play position by House Oversight Republicans.
Source: oversight.house.gov/release/…
Kiani has reportedly donated millions of dollars to Democrat causes and candidates, including $1 million to the Biden Foundation in 2017, $750,000 to the pro-Biden super PAC Unite the Country, and $1 million to the Biden Inaugural Committee. In addition to receiving an appointment to PCAST, Mr. Kiani’s company Masimo received over $3 million in federal government contracts under Biden’s regime.
Source: nypost.com/2024/05/17/us-new…
Read the full letter from the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform here:
oversight.house.gov/wp-conte…
In August 2024, Joe Biden vacationed at Kiani’s $37 million ranch in California.
Source: nypost.com/2024/08/20/us-new…
I have obtained this photo of Massie and Cynthia West from the time they were dating, proving she isn’t lying about their romantic relationship, which began roughly two months after Massie’s wife of 30 years died. Cynthia tells me Massie dated at least one other woman before her, just a couple weeks after his wife mysteriously died.
Ima Baker retweeted
Nah man. I’m not gonna let this go unchecked. As a GWOT veteran I can’t.
I listened to Massie drone through his articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth and I recognized the sickness immediately.
We fought under this ridiculous worldview during GWOT, and it cost us dearly.
Massie is merely an acolyte of the bloodless bureaucratic religion that puts the lawyer in the center of the kill chain, treats every American use of force like a moral emergency, and somehow always finds more sympathy for the enemy being hunted than for the American sent to hunt him.
His whole speech I began wondering who he actually was speaking for, and that’s not good.
GWOT vets know EXACTLY where that road leads. Another approval. Another review. Another JAG opinion. Another commander afraid to make a decision because one bad headline will destroy his career faster than losing the fight ever could.
We were lectured for years about “courageous restraint.” We were told that killing one enemy might create ten more. We were taught to fear our own lethality while the enemy studied our hesitation.
And then we spent twenty years bleeding into the fucking sand.
So spare me the sermon about how dangerous it is to remove lawyers who think their job is to become a veto point over command. Spare me the sudden reverence for process from people who watched Afghanistan collapse, watched thirteen Americans die at Abbey Gate, watched the Taliban retake Kabul, and somehow found no constitutional apocalypse worthy of impeachment then.
Now the outrage is that the machine is actually being used. That commanders are expected to command. And that enemies are being treated like…. actual enemies for once.
That civilian leadership is telling the bureaucracy to get the hell out of the way of lawful military action.
From where I sit, the betrayal isn’t that Washington finally found some aggression for a chang. The realest betrayal is that men like Massie still think the lesson of the GWOT was that we needed more hesitation.
No. WE NEEDED MORE VICTORY.
And I’m done pretending those are the same thing. We’re all done with it. Massie is dead wrong here, he knows it, you know it, and I know it.
Sincerely,
-A seriously disgruntled GWOT vet who knows Hegseth is the cure to what ails our military here.
Breaking News: Congressman Thomas Massie is reading Articles of Impeachment against @SecWar Pete Hegseth on the House floor now.
Watch here: youtube.com/live/3EmwC0QQ8f8…
Ima Baker retweeted
Last thread on government fraud got 1.1 million views.
This one starts with a lab that went from $26k to $43 million in one year… testing 4,000 seniors for a childhood disease.
Thinking about how much we pay in taxes and how much paid out due to fraud, misuse and mismanagement just makes my blood boil. About 13-14 yrs ago my credit card number was stolen and numerous fraudulent transactions. I called each retailer where charges were made and helped uncover a network of stolen credit card numbers where merchandise was being sent to the same two or three addresses. I spoke to the Secret Service and they told me that fraud is highly profitable because only amounts over 100k get investigated (as a citizen) because of the cost and time involved in forensic accounting. Fraudsters know this. Now, think on a national scale. It’s just easier for them to say “millions” are small potatoes or we don’t have the manpower to investigate. Should taxpayers be on the hook for incompetence and mismanagement?
Over the past 10 days, I became the digital Nick Shirley.
Using public & private records my AI agent swarm found ~$787 million in government billing that made absolutely no sense.
Thread 🧵
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Ima Baker retweeted
Please listen to this man. He is an immigrant from Iran now living in New York and he’s begging Americans to Vote Red during midterms. He says America is being taken over like Iran was
“In my country, in Iran — when we go to school, we had to walk over American flag. That's how we were brainwashed. Walk over American flag and stay in the courtyard and the principal says, Death to America. We had to say death to America 10 times
This is how we start our life in Iran. So I see it in New York City, it's same thing happening now under Zohran Mamdani, the mayor. People bring US flag to burn it and say death to America, which is Maghbar America in Arabic and in Farsi.
— Like, why do we let this happen in New York City, the most beautiful city in the world that people would die to be here for just one day to experience it? Do you know why? Because Zohran Mamdani is Democrat
Mamdani is running the office and he's not loving this country — He's here for Muslim Brotherhood. He wants to bring the Sharia law to United States, and Democrats, they allow him to do that”
“So me, who've been in Middle East, Vote Red and Vote Republican, I want to stop that here right now. I don't want to spread in other states or in other cities. I think it's my duty to be here — I guess it's my mission to protect America. My kids, your kids. So think about it.
Tell your neighbors, tell your family, Vote Red is very important”
Everyone has to vote Red to stop the Islamic takeover of America
We will all be living under Sharia Law if we don’t stop Democrats. People need to understand how serious this is
What a great way to approach life.
She was 17, working as a Hooters waitress in Jacksonville, Florida, when the cooks walked out. She didn't know how to deep fry chicken tenders or fries. She went back to the kitchen and figured it out.
Two years later, Hooters asked her to fly to Australia to help open the first franchise there. She'd never been on a plane. She didn't have a passport.
She got the passport and went. By 26, she was a vice president. She helped grow Hooters from 100 locations to over 500 in 33 countries and from $300 million to $1 billion in revenue. She never finished her undergraduate degree.
At 32, Cinnabon recruited her to be president. She was the youngest CEO to ever appear on Undercover Boss. Under her leadership, Cinnabon added 200 bakeries, expanded to 56 countries, and approached $1 billion in annual sales through partnerships with Taco Bell, Burger King, and grocery stores.
She grew up on a $10-a-week grocery budget. Three sisters. Single mom who left their alcoholic father when Kat was nine. The family survived on her mother's determination and multiple jobs.
"Every year on my birthday card, my mom writes: 'Don't forget where you came from, but don't you dare ever let it solely define you.'"
Kat was the first person in her family to attend college. She enrolled in an engineering program at the University of North Florida but dropped out to pursue her career at Hooters. She later earned her MBA from Georgia State University without a bachelor's degree, getting accepted through letters of recommendation from business leaders including Ted Turner.
After Cinnabon, she became Group President of Focus Brands (Cinnabon, Auntie Anne's, Moe's, Carvel, Schlotzsky's). Then in 2021, AG1 (formerly Athletic Greens) recruited her after the founder heard her on a podcast. She became President and COO, then CEO in 2024.
She's known for a practice she calls the "hotshot rule": every month, she asks herself, "If a hotshot took over my job today, what's the first thing they'd fix that I've been tolerating?"
Here's what Kat Cole's story makes me think about. She said yes before she was ready. Every major career leap, from the kitchen walkout to Australia to Cinnabon to AG1, happened because she said yes to something she wasn't qualified for yet and then figured it out in real time. "Saying yes before you are ready is only half of it. You have to use your hustle muscle to close the gap."
Most people wait until they feel ready. They wait for the degree, the experience, the credentials, the confidence. Kat built one of the most impressive corporate careers of her generation by saying yes first and learning second. Every single time.
I think about that in my own work. I've never felt fully ready to start any of the businesses I've built. The readiness came after the commitment.
"Saying yes before you are ready is only half of it. You have to use your hustle muscle to close the gap."
What are you waiting to feel ready for that you should just say yes to?
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Ima Baker retweeted
This is going to sound insane...but its already been said more than once.
Maybe the reason so many illegals never apply for citizenship after years of living here is simple.
Their situation works better while they remain illegal.
They get work opportunities that Americans are locked out of. They receive benefits paid for by sanctuary states. They take cash for the jobs they do. And they can return home whenever it suits them.
Citizenship would bring taxes, rules, and permanent commitment. Illegal status keeps the door open both ways. They know they have jobs because they are not citizens and so do the folks that employ them.
High-trust countries assume people want to join the system. Low-trust operators treat the system as a temporary resource to extract from.
That incentive structure explains a lot more than we are usually allowed to say.
Please hit the 🔔on Chief's account to get notifications.
Ima Baker retweeted
我认识恩赫巴图先生很多年了🙏
也看过他女儿特穆伦在美国国会作证的视频，当时非常赞赏她的才华和勇气。
父母流亡美国，她在美国出生长大，从未有机会踏上故土。2024年12月5日，17岁的她站在美国国会-行政部门中国委员会面前，沉着而清楚地讲蒙古语如何在学校里被消失，文化符号如何被禁止，藏传佛教和萨满传统如何被镇压。她还曾在联合国大会期间向各国代表简报，2026年又作为焦点演讲者登上国际宗教自由峰会。她本该是把真相和正义传下去，反抗共产暴政的青年力量。
可11月1日在密歇根大学，她的激进极端情绪表露无遗，众目睽睽之下冲上去扇人耳光，把犹太裔女创作者推倒在地，被警察按倒带走时她还高喊：我当时就该杀了你！
⁉️到底出了什么问题⁉️
显然，这不是一次突然的情绪失控。这是一个曾经用自身被暴政迫害的苦难要唤醒美国的年轻人，被美国校园的极左意识形态彻底改造成一个要用拳头让别人闭嘴的人。
美国教育中的极左、极端与共产思潮，就是吞噬年轻一代的癌症。它不教人珍惜自由，不教人尊重不同意见，只教一套公式：用自己的位置和利益先判决谁是压迫者、谁是被压迫者；然后，正义与邪恶就由他们说了算。
更值得警惕的是，我这些年见过不少这样的反共斗士和菁英，到了民主国家，却转身拥抱极左意识形态。
为什么？他们把自己受迫害的真实经历，错套进了极左的公式。他们在新的国家里自觉是弱者、是少数，就认同了那套把普世人权偷换成身份特权的战术。
他们发现，把身份包装得越是受害者、弱者、少数群体，话语权越大；而且越是激进，越受左翼社会追捧。谁被贴上压迫者的标签，谁的权利就可以被剥夺。
人权一旦变成按身份分配的特权，暴力就会被包装成正义，极端主义就会被美化成进步主义。
特穆伦最可惜的地方就在这里。她曾经为信仰被镇压的人呼喊，如今却因为一张桌子上质疑伊斯兰的问题，就爆发，就动手打人，还说要杀人……；她的父辈逃离中共，是为了让孩子能在自由中成长；她却在美国的大学里，要用暴力让别人闭嘴。
逃出了一种洗脑，又走进另一种洗脑。逃出了极权的同化，又被极左同化。这才是这件事最痛、也最危险的地方。
希望这个案例能够让那些极力带动自己子女站左，认为在民主国家越左越进步，越吃得开的人能够思考🧐……
Ima Baker retweeted
One NGO made $115,000,000 to traffic children across the United States.
This is how it worked:
- Kids trafficked by cartel
- Sent to an NGO
- NGO receives millions of your tax dollars from the government
- Then sends kid to “sponsor,” no biometrics, no DNA testing
- Never see or hear from the child again
These NGOs are more secure than the border, with high spiked gates, cameras, and no access to the front desk. Ask a question and they will call the police. This is why it's important to vote.
🚨 Inside the Largest Government Funded Human Trafficking Ring in History: Your tax dollars trafficked over 300,000 children across the United States while NGOs enriched themselves with millions of dollars.
One NGO received $895 million to traffic children across the US. Others got $100+ million, and NGOs in areas like Tucson, Arizona pocketed millions but now receive nothing since the border shut down.
In this video we break down the contracts, speak with former Border Patrol, and confront the NGOs. It’s a must watch, like it and share it. Make sure no one forgets the hundreds of children lost in the government’s hands.
Halloween decorations are down. Is it just me or are the kids changing? I made treat bags so I could track how many trick or treaters came through. 230 treat bags weren’t enough so had to get out the back up candy for about 40 more kids and even though my city only has a two hour window for trick or treat , we had to turn away some kids right at 8pm. I noticed it was the Indian kids that felt entitled to go through a cauldron I kept towards the back of my chair because they were sure the other treat bags were going to have something better than the one handed to them even though they can’t see what’s in the bags because of the printed graphics. Very few black children but audaciously asked why I was hurting them with spikes when, instead of walking on my sidewalk up to the porch, they walked in my bushes. They had attitude and acted confrontational and who TF teaches their kids to talk to adults like that? Especially when the adult is giving them treat bags? I would say 90% of the kids don’t say “trick or treat” and don’t say “thank you”. Who’s raising these kids? Several of them wanted a different treat bag even though they couldn’t actually see what was in the bags (one tootsie pop, one blow pop, two Jolly Rancher, two Double Bubbles, one Haribo pkg, three fun size chocolates like Reese’s, Twix, Kit Kat, etc) and three asst’d like Dots, flavored Toosie Rolls or Baby Ruth’s, Butterfinger) um, I was generous and spent $250 on HALLOWEEN CANDY. I even made special bags for the toddlers (candy & cookies that littles can eat w/no allergens or choking hazards). I think this was it for me. I’m bummed that kids are downright rude, expectant and display little to no social skills.
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Ima Baker retweeted
I'll be canceling my lifetime memberships and I guess we will just have to create a new veterans organization. wow
Ima Baker retweeted
A three star general sitting in a diner in Arlington with notes he took from a classified report, reading them out loud to a reporter who was writing a book… think about that for a second.
According to the internal investigation report Axios got its hands on, Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia, the man running strategy, plans and policy for the Joint Chiefs, admitted to leaking classified information on Iran and Ukraine to two reporters at two different outlets over about a year, and a U.S. official says he acknowledged it on video after he failed four polygraphs. It started as early as June 2025, it ran through Signal, and when one of those reporters lost Pentagon access he just moved the meeting to the Silver Diner. Then there is the Signal thread about Iran that he says he deleted by accident… investigators don't buy that and neither do I.
Now keep in mind the part the press is skipping. When Hegseth fired him, the Joint Staff put out a statement thanking him for 32 years of distinguished service, and according to a U.S. official it was acting Army Secretary Adam Telle's office pushing for that warm send off to limit the fallout. They pulled it once the full picture came out. So who exactly were they protecting, and why was the first instinct to polish the general instead of protecting the country he swore an oath to?
Here is the reality. This is what institutional rot looks like up close, a man with stars on his shoulders who decided the press was his chain of command, and the report even says he admitted being one of the 20 officials quoted in a story trashing Pentagon leadership. Rank was supposed to mean something. Honor was supposed to mean something. He traded both for a few pages in somebody else's book.
How many more of them are still sitting in that building? You already know the answer.
DOJ has the referral. Charge him.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! The Pentagon's Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia — who was just fired by SecWar Pete Hegseth — has ADMITTED to leaking classified Iran and Ukraine intelligence to *two reporters* at two different outlets, according to an internal investigation report obtained by Axios
AND SO THERE IT IS.
Hegseth and Trump are PURGING the leakers! Now, PROSECUTE.
He allegedly met one reporter at a Silver Diner in Arlington and read off notes from a classified report on U.S. aid to Ukraine ‼️
Officials also suspect he deliberately wiped a Signal thread with another reporter about Iran.
Sylvia, the Joint Staff's top military planner, reportedly confessed on video after FAILING four polygraph tests
The Pentagon has referred the case to the DOJ for possible prosecution.
The media fearmongered when Hegseth started cleaning house, and now we know why he did it!
@PeteHegseth did the right thing here. We don't want these people near our national security.
Ima Baker retweeted
My biggest concern is that if there is a clean sweep by Democrats of the House, Senate and Presidency in 2028, they will:
1. Make DC and Puerto Rico states to gain a strong majority in the Senate.
2. Open the borders and legalize everyone living in America illegally to cement a permanent majority.
3. Increase the size of the Supreme Court to gain an immediate majority.
This would result in America becoming a permanent one-party state and the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word.
All that is needed to ensure this doesn’t happen is 51 Republican senators in 2029. That is why you should vote for Republican senators this election. Other reasons are irrelevant compared to this one.
Ima Baker retweeted
Adam Carolla says it took 10 DAYS before he heard about the concealed carry dad who ran into his daughters’ elementary school and took down the shooter.
He thought about it, and he knows exactly why it didn’t get more airtime.
“IT F*CKS UP EVERY THEME THEY HAVE ABOUT GUN OWNERSHIP.”
CAROLLA: “That was the first time I’ve ever seen a picture of this guy [Kaylub Giamanco], heard him talk.”
“He says, ‘I didn’t save enough kids, and I’m sorry to the parents of the kids who I couldn’t save.’ And now he can’t sleep at night because he can still hear the screams of the children begging for their lives.”
This man should be a household name. A national hero.
But as Carolla explains, his story wrecks the picture of gun owners the media wants in your head.
“The theme of the dad who wanted to protect his kids ... and put an end to this school shooter is NOT a theme they like.”
“MSNBC, CNN, LA Times, THEY HATE THIS STORY.”
Daniel Penny, meanwhile?
CAROLLA: “That guy is everywhere because they love the theme of a blonde-haired guy choking out a black guy.”
When a story doesn’t fit the narrative, you never hear about it. When it does, it’s all you hear about.
Ima Baker retweeted
When I was Muslim, I was taught that living among the infidels when unnecessary was a sin.
It stops being a sin when it is migration jihad.
I survived a Sharia death sentence for apostasy to warn the free people. Two-minute read. Must know.
There is a REMIGRATION mandate in Islam, which Islam in the West does not want you to know.
It exposes the entire migration jihad strategy against the West.
The classical default across the four Islamic schools is this: if you can live in Dar al-Islam, do not settle permanently in Dar al-Kufr where infidel law applies.
Quran 4:97 warns Muslims who die able to remigrate to Islamic lands but do not.
Muhammad said: “I disavow every Muslim who resides among the mushrikeen.” (Abu Dawud 2645)
Short stays for medicine, study, or trade are allowed. Permanent settlement is the issue.
What each school says:
1. Maliki: strictest. Permanent residence is strongly disapproved or prohibited.
2. Hanafi: most pragmatic. Allowed if you can practice safely; still discouraged without necessity.
3. Shafi‘i: the classical jurist al-Mawardi (d. 1058) held that if a Muslim can openly practice and manifest his religion, the land becomes Dar al-Islam for him. Staying is better than migrating because of the hope others will convert (dawah).
Al-Mawardi and later Shafi‘i jurists (including ar-Ramli) make it explicit:
If Muslims in non-Muslim territory are capable of self-protection (imtinā‘) and segregation (i‘tizāl), remaining becomes obligatory because the land’s status becomes Dar al-Islam for them. Remigration would turn it back into Dar al-Harb.
4. Hanbali: if a Muslim can practice Islam openly and safely, remigration is no longer obligatory but remains strongly recommended (mustahabb).
The preference is to join the Muslims and increase their strength in Islamic land rather than permanently reside among the infidels and add to their numbers.
None of them mean assimilate or give allegiance to infidels. Permanent residence means a segregated outpost of the Ummah: practice intact, identity kept, allegiance to the Ummah over the host country.
What makes it okay to stay in the land of the kuffar?
Serving Islam’s expansion from inside, making it Dar al-Islam. That is immigration jihad.
Integration and assimilation are a myth. The remigration mandate is real, so is Immigration jihad.
Ima Baker retweeted
The most unfair thing in America right now is telling a generation of young people: “You get less so someone from another country can get more.”
Less pay.
Less housing.
Less security.
Less of a future.
We’re done with that
Hubby and I early voted today. Later in the day we receive our mail and a Indiana Republican congressman sent a postcard addressed to “(our name) Household.” Strangely, our 22yo kid received an Indy Democrats postcard addressed to her. She’s only voted Republican previously so why are they sending her a postcard telling her who is on the Democrat ticket? And, why was Dawn Downer stand in FRONT of the No Electioneering sign and talking to voters in line? I guess the rules don’t apply to her.
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Ima Baker retweeted
Ten million people have watched a TED speaker accidentally destroy the entire brain training app industry.
She filmed the talk once at TEDxVancouver and it has been on YouTube ever since.
Lumosity charges $12 a month to simulate a diluted version of what she covered in 14 minutes for free.
Her name is Dr. Lara Boyd. She is a neuroscientist at the University of British Columbia and the researcher who runs the Brain Behaviour Lab studying how practice physically rebuilds the brain after stroke.
For over a decade she has repeated the same answer to the only question that matters: how do you actually change a brain?
Her entire framework fits on a napkin.
Every experience physically changes your brain. Chemical changes last hours, structural changes last years, functional changes rewire whole networks. The only driver that works is behavior. Nothing beats practice. The harder the struggle, the bigger the rewiring. No two brains need the same dose.
That last rule alone has probably cost the brain training app industry a hundred million dollars in canceled subscriptions.
"The brain you have at the end of this sentence is not the brain you had at the start."
That is a paraphrase Boyd returns to across the talk. London taxi drivers have measurably larger spatial memory regions. Braille readers have larger sensory maps for the reading hand.
Founders install a $15 meditation app and skip the one difficult conversation that would actually rewire their defaults. Parents hand their kid an educational tablet and never let the kid struggle with a problem long enough for the structure to lay down.
The talk is free on YouTube. Boyd's lab publishes its research open-access.
Boyd still teaches at UBC. Almost none of the ten million viewers have added one hour of struggle to their week since watching.
The science is free. The willingness to actually practice the hard thing instead of the easy app is the entire edge.
