Don Botts
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Don Botts
@DonBotts
Former Cranston City Councilman, #YNWA
East Greenwich, RI Inscrit le Eylül 2008
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@DonBotts The voters of my District will decide when I should retire. Like they did for you when you ran for State Rep and lost!!!
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@JFLusi @DavidMoralesPVD Closed fist as well. He hates America and anyone who can't see through that fake smile is a fool.
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@DavidMoralesPVD Why are you the only member of Rhode Island's House of Representatives to refuse to participate in the pledge of allegiance? Are you anti-American? If you want to be taken seriously as a candidate for mayor, you owe the Providence voters a thorough explanation. Let's hear it.
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Neighbors, it’s time to get on the ballot! 🗳️
We’ll be collecting signatures across Providence! To kick things off, we’ll be hosting a Signature Collection Party tomorrow at 7:00 PM at 303 Knight Street.
Come sign, grab a piece of cake, and help us get on the ballot. See you there!
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What the West Still Doesn’t Get It:
Communism’s True Core: The Systemic Lie
Most people in the West think they understand communism. They picture bread lines, gulags, failed five-year plans, and the collapsed Soviet Union. They treat it as a discredited economic theory – an experiment that proved that abolishing private property doesn’t work. Case closed, history moved on.
This misunderstanding may be the most dangerous intellectual failure of our time.
Communism was never primarily an economic system. Economics was the surface. Beneath it lay something far more insidious: a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper – a civilizational war against truth itself, waged through every institution, every classroom, every newspaper, every conversation, until reality itself became negotiable and the lie became the air people breathed.
The Words We’re Missing
The Polish language, forged by decades of living under this system, produced words for this phenomenon that English simply cannot match:
Zakłamanie [zah-kwah-MAH-nyeh] – a state of total, pervasive, socially embedded falsehood, a condition in which an entire society is saturated with lies so thoroughly that truth becomes almost inaccessible.
Obłuda [ob-woo-dah] – a deep, performative hypocrisy, the gap between what is proclaimed and what is actually practiced, the mask worn so long it begins to feel like a face.
These are not words for individual liars. They describe a system – a mode of social organization built on organized mendacity, where the lie is not the exception but the foundation. English has no single word for either concept, and that linguistic gap is not a coincidence. It reflects a gap in experience. Cultures that did not live under communism lack the vocabulary because they lack the wound.
And because they lack the vocabulary, they struggle to recognize the thing when it reappears in new clothing.
The Continuity: Communism, Leftism, Wokeism
What we call wokeism today, or the broader radical left, is not a new phenomenon. It is the same operating system running on updated hardware. The specifics have changed – instead of the proletariat, we have marginalized identity groups; instead of bourgeois class enemies, we have racists and transphobes; instead of socialist realism, we have DEI statements. But the deep structure is the same.
That deep structure is this: truth is not discovered, it is assigned. Reality is not something to be understood honestly but something to be narrated strategically. Language is not a tool for communication but a weapon of power. And anyone who resists the approved narrative is not simply wrong – they are dangerous, and must be silenced, shamed, or destroyed.
This is zakłamanie in its modern form. This is obłuda wearing a human rights badge.
The same movement that insists men can become women will insist, with equal fervor, that questioning this is an act of violence. The same institutions that claim to champion free inquiry systematically suppress dissent. The same people who invoke tolerance as their highest value are among the most intolerant forces in public life. The contradiction is not accidental – it is structural. It is the system working as designed.
Why the West Still Doesn’t Get It
People who grew up in freedom tend to assume, at some level, that bad actors know they are lying. That somewhere behind the ideological performance, there is a cynical operator who privately acknowledges reality. This assumption is wrong, and it is why Westerners consistently underestimate what they are dealing with.
The totalitarian lie, at its mature stage, is not cynical. It is believed. Or rather, it creates a condition in which the distinction between belief and performance collapses entirely. People learn to say things they do not believe so fluently, and for so long, that they lose access to what they actually think.
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What a dolt. Does he really think 3/4 of the states are going to ratify an amendment? Don’t waste our time. Pass the SAVE act.
Senator Rand Paul@SenRandPaul
The Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship is disappointing. That’s why I've already filed an amendment to end birthright citizenship for those here illegally. I’ll keep fighting to protect the integrity of American citizenship.
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@HeyJohnstonRI @AllanFungRI @ChrisPaplauskas I don’t see it that way. Chris and the Independent will split the votes and the D will get it. It is retribution. If he wanted to make a difference and was willing to work, he’d run against Gallo. Or for Ward 6 city council.
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If @AllanFungRI still thinks he has political cachet, go run against Hanna Gallo. Absolutely ridiculous to run against a fellow Republican when he is doing a great job.
@ChrisPaplauskas is the one of the hardest working persons I have met and does tremendous work for his community.
Vote with your eyes Cranston. See this for what it is.
Brian C. Newberry@BrianCNewberry
A complete and utter betrayal of an excellent rep in @ChrisPaplauskas . Totally transparent self interest and lack of respect for anyone who has ever supported them. Disgusting.
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@HeyJohnstonRI @AllanFungRI @ChrisPaplauskas It’s a screw job. He probably figures he can get enough votes without even campaigning hard to screw Chris and let the Democrat win.
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Reyna was born in England when his American father was playing oversees. Same for Berhalter. Tillman's father was serving overseas. Same for Dest and McKennie. So let's not go crazy here.
Senator John Cornyn@JohnCornyn
The success of the U.S. men’s national soccer team in this year’s World Cup is the product in part of America’s historically welcoming immigration system. wsj.com/opinion/world-… via @WSJopinion
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And who says it isn’t happening in the US?
Simon Elmer@SimonElmer2022
Since 2016, the Mayor of London has been Sadiq Khan, a second-generation Pakistani immigrant and devout Muslim. The current Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, is also a Pakistani Muslim. The leader of the Scottish Labour Party, Anas Sarwar, is a Pakistani Muslim. There are currently 26 Muslim Members of Parliament, 4 Muslim members of the Scottish Parliament, including the former First Minister of Scotland, Humza Yousaf. 2 members of the Welsh Parliament are Muslim. The Mayor of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, is a Muslim. The Mayor of the London Borough of Newham, Rokhsana Fiaz, is a Muslim. 2 London Assembly Members are Muslim. 18 peers in the House of Lords are Muslim. And in 2025, at least 8 ceremonial mayors, who do not wield executive power but whose role is to normalise the Islamisation of Britain, were Muslim. The UK, however, is not only run by its politicians but also by its civil service and the army of administrators at every level of the state apparatus and civil society. Placing a Muslim in charge of Britain’s capital city for a decade is one very obvious way to implement the Islamisation of Britain. Placing a Muslim in the office of Home Secretary is another. Placing a Muslim at the head of Ofsted is another. But the infiltration of the UK state by Muslims goes far beyond the scores of Muslims who now sit at the head of our councils, in the mayoralties of our cities, in our legislature and in the House of Lords. It’s largely unknown to the general public, but Muslims have created a network of political, civil, military, legal, police, media, educational, health, financial and charitable bodies working towards the Islamisation of the United Kingdom. Within the UK’s Government and Civil Service there operate today the Home Office Islamic Network (HOIN), the FCDO (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development) Muslim Staff Network, the Civil Service Islamic Society (CSIS), the Civil Service Muslim Network (CSMN) and the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPACUK). Within the UK military there operates the Armed Forces Muslim Association (AFMA). Within the UK judiciary there operate the Association of Muslim Lawyers (AML), the Muslim Lawyers’ Hub and the Muslim Lawyers Action Group (MLAG). Within the parallel Sharia judiciary there operate the Islamic Sharia Council (ISC), the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal (MAT) and the Muslim Law (Sharia) Council. Within the UK’s police forces there operate the National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP), the Association of Muslim Police (AMP) at the Metropolitan Police, the West Yorkshire Association of Muslim Police (AMP), the Scottish Police Muslim Association (SPMA) and the City of London Police Association of Muslim Police (AMP). Within UK media there operate the BBC Muslim Network, the Channel 4 Muslim Network, the ITV Muslim Staff Network Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM), Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), the Islam Channel, British Muslim TV, Muslim Television Ahmadiyya International (MTA International), the Ummah Channel, Ahlebait TV and 5Pillars. Within the UK’s education sector there operate the Muslim Teachers’ Association UK (MTAUK), the Association of Muslim Schools and Institutes (AMSI), the British Muslim Teachers’ Association and the Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS). Within the UK’s health sector there operate the National Muslim Staff Network (NMSN) and the NHS Muslim Network. Within the UK’s charities there operate the Islamic Relief UK, Muslim Hands UK, Muslim Aid, Ummah Welfare Trust (UWT), Muslim Global Relief, the National Zakat Foundation (NZF) and the Muslim Charity UK. And within the parallel Sharia financial system there operate 5 fully Sharia-compliant banks (Al Rayan Bank, Gatehouse Bank, the Bank of London and the Middle East, United Bank Limited and the Ahil United Bank), as well as 25 conventional banks which offer Sharia finance alongside conventional finance. Other nation-wide Islamic organisations operating in the UK include the Association of British Muslims (AoBM), the British Muslim Network (BMN), the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) and the Islamophobia Response Unit. In my book I look at how these various Muslim organisations and their financial backers in the Islamic world work together to lobby the UK Government and Members of Parliament to write and pass legislation that furthers the Islamisation of Britain. The most recent example of the influence of such Muslim groups on UK legislation is the UK Government’s adoption of the definition of anti-Muslim hatred and Islamophobia written by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims. An organisation composed exclusively of Muslims, including 21 Muslim MPs and 5 Muslim Peers, this APPG is funded by the Aziz Foundation, a charity founded in 2015 by Asif Aziz, a Malawi-born Muslim property developer and billionaire whose company, Criterion Capital, has investments worth £6 billion in Britain, and who, since 2024, has been a tax exile in Abu Dhabi. Another indication of how these Muslim organisations operate closer to the corridors of power — indeed, with the offices stationed off them — is the Civil Service Muslim Network, which lists, among its stated aims, the following: •Represent, support, connect and champion Muslim civil servants across government. •Generate a better understanding of Islam within the Civil Service and challenge discrimination and misconceptions. •Create a network of senior allies who recognise the lived experience of Muslim colleagues and help improve religious literacy and respect. Doubtless I’m not the only British person who cannot understand why such a network should be required in the UK if Britain is still a secular society rather than one, as I believe, that is already operating under aspects of Sharia law modelled on its implementation in Pakistan; or why it should not only be tolerated but given a place in our civil service, except as a platform — one of many built in Britain and largely with the taxes of the British people — for the Islamisation of Britain. As for Muslim organisations operating within our police forces and legal system, it is contrary to the principle of police being officers of UK law, the adjudication of courts over sentencing under that law, and of everyone in Britain, irrespective of their religion, being equal before the law. The two-tier policing of the British people, the decades-long cover-up of the Muslim rape-gang network operating in 149 constituencies that we know of across Britain, and the gross travesties of justice handed down by these courts to Muslim rapists, murderers and terrorists is further confirmation that the UK is, indeed, already operating under Sharia law. Like the UK’s 85 known Sharia Courts, which oversee child marriages in contravention of UK law, these Muslim associations, Muslim societies, Muslim committees, Muslim councils, Muslim non-governmental organisations, Muslim APPGs and Muslim networks have created a civil service, legal system and police force that operates within, but independent from and contrary to, the laws of the UK, which they seek to change through political lobbying of our Parliament and Government. Again, this is consistent with Sections 4 and 14 of Pakistan’s Enforcement of Sharia Act, 1991, according to which ‘Laws [are] to be interpreted in the light of Sharia, and ‘The State shall take adequate measures for the Islamisation of the judicial system.’ Finally — although this list doesn’t approach exhausting the influence of Islam in British society — in addition to these organisations there exists within Britain a terrorist arm with links to the Muslim Brotherhood. This is a transnational Sunni Muslim organisation that was founded in Egypt in 1928 to promote Islam and Sharia Law. Fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood known to be currently operating in Britain include the Cambridge Education and Training Center Ltd., IMA6INE Ltd., Wembley Tree Ltd., Waslaforall, Future Graduates Ltd., Yas for Investment and Real Estate, Holdco UK Properties Limited and Nafel Capital Partners, all of which have recently been proscribed by the United Arab Emirates as terrorist groups. Indeed, most of the organisations I’ve listed here are linked by varying degrees of separation to the Muslim Council of Britain and the Muslim Association of Britain, which themselves have links to the Muslim Brotherhood. It is a measure of how far Britain’s Islamisation has advanced that this organisation operates freely in the UK while being banned as a terrorist organisation in many Muslim countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Syria, Jordan, Kenya, Bahrain, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates, as well as in Russia. Extraordinarily, in January 2026 the UAE announced that it was excluding UK universities from its approved list for state scholarships, citing the risk of Emirati citizens being radicalised by the Muslim Brotherhood operatng on British campuses. Universities where networks linked to the Muslim Brotherhood are reported to operate include the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, Queen Mary University of London, the University of Birmingham, the University of Manchester, the University of Leeds, the University of Bradford and the University of Newcastle. The same month, the US Department of State proscribed chapters of the Muslim brotherhood in Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine as designated terrorist organisations. And there are consequences to harbouring and funding Islamic terrorists in the very country against which they launch their attacks. Six years ago, in 2020, there were 43,000 people on MI5’s terrorist watch list. After the mass migration of half a million Muslims to Britain and more than two-and-a-half years of weekly protests against the war in Gaza, the numbers can only have grown since then. In 2024, Islamic terrorists accounted for 80% of UK police force’s counter-terror caseload. As of 31 March that year, 63% of prisoners in the UK arrested on terrorist-related charges were Islamic terrorists. Muslims have been responsible for 94% of all terrorism deaths, and 88% of terrorism-inflicted injuries, in Britain over the last 25 years. In the last 10 years, the percentages are even higher. One would never guess it from the relentless references to the threat from the mythical ‘far-Right’ by the UK Government and media, but MI5 today lists Islamic terrorism as ‘the most significant threat to the UK by volume’. As anyone who has lived in Britain since 9/11 knows, this hasn’t happened overnight, and we have repeatedly ignored every warning to the contrary, as we continue to do today. In 2006, when the UK was led by the New Labour Government of Tony Blair and net migration to Britain had increased to over a quarter a million a year, the think-tank, Policy Exchange, published a report titled ‘When Progressives Treat With Reactionaries’, in which it argued that the British Foreign Office had already, in effect, become a front for The Muslim Brotherhood. Twenty years later, they have been proven right. Today, the UK is run by Muslims. Extract from my new book, The Great Replacement and the Islamisation of Britain. If you want to know just how far down the path to becoming an Islamic State Britain is, and what we, the British people, can do to stop it, please consider purchasing a copy of my book. The link is below. architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/2026/02/26/the…
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Once upon a time, Popes launched crusades against Muslim invaders to protect Christianity. This dunce? I bow to you, come on in!
Visegrád 24@visegrad24
Pope Leo XIV is going viral for giving a speech to a crowd of migrants at Spain's Canary Islands, the epicenter of illegal migrants and mass immigration into Europe. He addressed a crowd of migrants and asylum seekers, saying that he wants to bow before their dignity and that human dignity does not lose its value when crossing a border, even if illegally. He also criticized European politicians for their bigotry and urged them to provide better ways for immigrants to enter Europe. The Pope is being criticized for not addressing the devastating consequences of mass migration to Europe, which would only be fair to mention, since he stood on the island that serves as a literal hub for millions of illegal migrants.
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@Mike_kim714 I live in RI and would love to loop your bag through that hilly course!
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One of my followers caddied for me during the Wed Pro am at Memorial and everyone had a great time (especially my caddie lol).
I figured I’d do it again for the Travelers Champ!
I’ll pick someone within driving distance to Travelers.
Who wants to be my caddie for a day?
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Nithya Raman tied to HOMELESS NGO in L.A. receiving $600k, with thousands of homeless voters registered at shelters with ZERO beds.
I believe we found where Raman's magical mail-in ballot drops came from. U.S. Attorney launching probes into major fraud.
James O'Keefe and many others showed you that the homeless are being paid for votes. Direct link to Nithya Raman, St. Joseph Center received $600,000 in taxpayer funds from the homeless/housing committee while Raman was chair.
A photo of her presenting the check was quietly removed from the center's website after NY Post article. Raman's campaign and the center did not respond to questions.
7,600 voters registered at homeless shelters and service providers across LA. Midnight Mission, Skid Row, 1,160 registered voters, but the shelter only has beds for 84 men + 36 women.
St. Joseph Center, Venice drop-in center, 185 registered voters at its address, offers no beds or accommodations whatsoever.
Hundreds more tied to supportive/affordable housing projects, with nearly 200 added in the final weeks before the registration deadline.
Over 80 voters registered at four behavioral health/addiction facilities, Corner of Hope, Volunteers of America Alcohol Services, LA Centers for Alcohol & Drug Abuse, Homeless Health Care LA Harm Reduction Center.
313 voters tied to LA County social services facilities. Voter registration drives witnessed outside grocery stores, one homeless man, Norman, claimed he was paid to sign people up and saw cigarettes offered as incentives during "big push" efforts.
One registered voter, Bo Jackson, near Midnight Mission couldn’t remember registering and couldn’t name a single candidate in the LA mayor’s race.
The story ties directly into the heated LA mayor's race and major concerns over California's election integrity with clear ties to fraud.
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Let’s play a golf trip guessing game…
What do you think this golf trip would cost per person?
Give me your best guess below.
- Peak season (mid-summer)
- Golf, rooms, and rental car included
- Four players
I’ll reveal the actual cost later today.
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Uh, no. Today we remember the heroes who gave their lives to preserve our republic.
Mayor Jacob Frey@MayorFrey
Today, we remember George Floyd, who was murdered by a former Minneapolis police officer six years ago. That moment changed our city forever.
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Happening in blue states everywhere. When kids know there won't be repercussions for acting like ass hats, this is what you get.
End Wokeness@EndWokeness
First day of warm weather and police had to impose an emergency 8PM curfew in Long Branch, NJ "Large crowd of unruly teens"
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