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@DavidKrae @mysteriouskat Peter Boghossian not understanding Europe's anger at the Greenland invasion threats can't be considered sane. I don't know if it was just momentary TDS (as TDS should be used), but I can't be bothered with that dishonesty.

@mysteriouskat Helen Pluckrose Peter Boghossian Andrew Doyle Douglas Murray Ayaan Hirsi Ali David L Bernstein John McWhorter Glenn Loury Adam B. Coleman Mike Nayna Jason Littlefield Claire Lehmann Jonathan Kay Barbara Kay Wilfred Reilly Iona Italia Nicole Levitt Kemi Badenoch ...and many more

Of all of those "anti-woke" warriors, I struggle to name any who remained fully sane.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

@Mercutio_M Jajaja El prompt era 'Merc de mayor' ;)

@LanderLo JAJAJAJA Jabrón, no estoy TAN hecho polvo.

@Mercutio_M La IA utilizando tus fotos.

“The East reveres Buddha, the West reveres Christ. Both taught love as the secret of wisdom. The earthly life of Christ was contemporary with that of the Roman Emperor Tiberius, who spent his life in cruelty and disgusting debauchery and perversion. Tiberius had pomp and power; in his day millions trembled at his nod. But he is forgotten. Those who live nobly, even if in their day they live obscurely, need not fear that they will have lived in vain. Something radiates from their lives, some light that shows the way to their friends, their neighbours perhaps to long future ages. I find many people nowadays oppressed with a sense of impotence, with the feeling that in the vastness of modern societies there is nothing of importance that the individual can do. This is a mistake. The individual, if he is filled with love of mankind, with breadth of vision, with courage and with endurance, can do a great deal. Every one of us can enlarge our mind, release our imagination, and spread wide our affection and benevolence. And it is those who do this whom ultimately humankind reveres.” — Bertrand Russell

@Bodbe6 @grok explain what's happening

Two clips of the famous ambush of a Russian column at the crossroads near Ivankiv - including footage filmed by a Ukrainian BMP-1 crew. February 26, 2022.

He blew himself up and stopped the Russian advance on Henichesk. Marine Vitalii Skakun was killed on February 24, 2022, after detonating the Henichesk road bridge with himself on it. It slowed the Russian push from Crimea, gave Ukraine time to prepare defenses in the south. 1/

In two weeks, I'll be putting my accusers on trial in a landmark defamation case—one that may offer rare redress for those silenced by "cancel culture." This is an essay I wrote years ago (but didn't publish) about my experiences and what's at stake: caylanford.substack.com/p/views-from-t…

@IonaItalia @CC_ethMariana uou have been reported for hacking Iona.

The Epstein Sewer I've been a reporter for 40 years more, man and boy, and I can't remember being as shocked by a data dump as reading the Epstein files this morning. Sex with under-age girls. Torture. Snuff jobs. Something like 30 members of the Trump administration or people in his circle pop up in the Epstein files, sorry Epstein sewer. Donald Trump, time and again. Stories of him taking part in the sexual abuse of girls under the age of consent. Photos of Brett Ratner, the director of the un-hit movie Melania, with Epstein and young girls. Our own Andrew, formerly known as Prince, cavorting with what looks to be on the face of it a child, not a woman. And the news that Peter Mendelson's husband was paid $10,000 by Epstein when he was a convicted paedophile. Maybe more. Maybe a lot more. There is even a walk-on part for Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world, catching the clap from a Russian prostitute and worrying about how to slip his wife medication without her knowing about it. Immediately, we must step back. In any investigation, whether by the FBI, by the Met here in London or even by a simple journalist like me, you come across fantastic stories which can be, on the surface, at first brush, terrible and alarming and shocking. And then you work a bit harder and you interrogate the stories and they turn out to be dross. The source cannot possibly know the details of the story they claim to have. The source is weak, foolish and wrong about detail. But, some of the time, they be telling the truth or part of the truth. And some of the time they may be fantasists. Working out the difference is hard. This is a particular difficulty with the victims of sexual abuse and child sexual abuse. We all know about “Nick” whose fantasies led the police to probe the former Chief of the Defence Staff Lord Bramall and former European Commissioner Leon Brittan, among others, in the infamous Operation Midland historic child sexual abuse investigation. “Nick” – real name Carl Beech — was found to have fabricated his allegations and he was convicted in 2019 of perverting the course of justice. It was all nonsense. So, we've got to keep that in mind. It may well be that Trump and the Mandelsons and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Bill Gates and Brett Ratner etc have been stitched up by dark fairy tales. The presumption of innocence must be at the forefront of everybody's minds. Having said that, for example, the photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor cavorting with what seems to be a child is shocking. The multiple times Trump is alleged to have been up to no good is shocking, even for someone like me who has challenged him to his face about his financial relationship with a Russian-born gangster. If true, why did Peter Mandelson go along with the $10,000 gift from Jeffrey Epstein convicted paedophile to his husband? What did Jeffrey Epstein get out it? This story, on the face of it, is shocking. And the one about Bill Gates? Not good, not good at all. Now there's a terrible problem here. What normally happens in a great democracy like the United States of America is that the president commissions a good judge or good people to carry out a full and open inquiry in the beautiful light of day. I'm thinking of the Warren Commission, the investigation into the assassination of JFK, and the brilliant and beautifully written report by Congress into 9/11. For most reasonable people, and certainly me, both those reports laid some of the silly conspiracy theories to rest. The Warren Commission concluded JFK was killed by a lone assassin. Congress concluded that 9/11 was the product of a kind of Saudi death cult led by its Evil Messiah, Osama bin Laden, but that was it. There wasn't greater collusion. The problem is Trump is so toxic to the proper process of the rule of law, to honesty, to decent conduct. Any such inquiry has no hope until he's out of the White House. So, for a time, millions and millions of people will suspect that those who hold democratic power in the United States, in Britain, in Europe and in Israel are fundamentally evil because there are terrible bits of evidence pointing them to be in hock to a paedophile, an extremely rich one at that, who used his money and his skills and his ability to manipulate people to be served on an industrial basis by girls under the age of sexual consent. I know this story well because I did a podcast for Global, Hunting Ghislaine, and then wrote a book of the same name. And it's obvious, yes, that the only person who helps Jeffrey Epstein conduct his disgusting sexual perversions on an industrial basis and ends up in prison is a woman, Ghislaine Maxwell. On the face of what we've seen, there are many others, all male, who have grave questions to answer. Now, those questions may be unfair. The problem is, of course, the source of this scandal is Donald Trump. He brought his own high explosives to the Epstein sewer and lit the blue touch paper without realising it was a delayed action fuse. In 2020 when he's out of power, he's telling President Joe Biden: “you've got to release the Epstein files. What are you hiding?” The moment he is back at the White House again in 2025, everybody says: “Release the Epstein files.” And Trump has been forced to do so. His creatures in the FBI and the Department of Justice have tried to cover up his involvement but they've done an incompetent job. Emails have come out pointing to horrific events. Then they've been redacted. But too late. We’ve seen some of it. The stink will stay until there is a proper and open and well-led public inquiry by the Americans into this sewer. But so long as Donald Trump has got his hands on the machinery of power in the White House, I don't think such an inquiry is going to happen. And that's bad news for all of us who care about democracy because obviously the Russians and the Chinese are watching. Let me throw one name at you: Sergei Belyakov. When Russian “model” Guzel Ganieva threatened to blackmail some of Epstein's not-that-good and not-so-great friends in in 2015, he turned to Belyakov who so happens to be a FSB officer. That is Epstein was pals with a Russian spy. Yes, I have doorstepped Vladimir Putin and yes, I have been spied on by the FSB in Moscow and yes, I have been detained in a Russian police station, albeit for an afternoon in Moscow, because I was asking the wrong kind of questions about the Russian secret police, the FSB. And, yes, I've written a book called Killer In The Kremlin. So yes, I know about what I'm talking about. If Belyakov knows all about the blackmail attempt, so does Putin. Indeed, there are emails pointing towards Epstein planning a meeting with Putin but we don’t know whether that ever happened. At least, not yet. But all of this is bad news. This festering sewer will continue to poison the democratic process and how power is called to account until Trump is out of the White House. This is seriously worrying. In a crisis, one should always look for silver linings. Here are the following: one, Trump is in serious trouble. The Republican Party will be trounced at the midterms and that means that the Democrats will be able to ask serious questions from November onwards, while the Orange One’s grip on power weakens. Two, the Andrew formerly known as Prince is a nonce, period. There is a big question about our royal family: should they have stripped the titles off their loathsome creature earlier? The answer to that is a screaming yes, but it's clear that our king understood the sick and hideous nature of his brother better than the politicians. Yes, there should be a proper inquiry by the Metropolitan Police into the full circumstances of this hideous picture of Andrew cavorting with what looks to be a child. Three, Peter Mandelson is also finished, for good. He benefitted from his husband getting a $10,000 gift from a convicted paedophile. He may have taken more, a lot more. What did Mandelson give Epstein in return? We need to know the answer of that and from now on, I don't want to hear Peter Mandelson be a pundit on anything until he admits and confesses and apologise for his sins. Four, Bill Gates: maybe he was stitched up. But he should never have been friends with Epstein after he was convicted of being a paedo. Five: Don’t watch Melania the movie but you knew that anyway. Once again we must bear in mind the possibility that some of these allegations may be grossly unfair and maybe dross, that there is no substance to them. But all of these people in the Epstein files have to explain what's happened for the good of democratic government because the dictators in Moscow and Beijing and Pyongyang and Tehran are laughing at us. And right now, millions and millions of our own people think our system stinks. And to be honest with you, for the moment, it does. John Sweeney is the author of Hunting Ghislaine. If you wish to back John Sweeney's work, he is on Patreon at patreon.com/JohnSweeneyRoar

The absence of courage in grown men is one of the defining characteristics of the Trump era.

To the U.S. Congress and the Senate: Take responsibility and put an immediate stop to your President. Sincerely, A citizen of Greenland 🇬🇱

Don't think I've ever seen a political issue split as strongly on the moron/not moron divide as Greenland. Crosses partisan and national divides.

An Iranian mother, her face bloodied by police, defiantly shouts: ‘I’m not afraid! I’m not afraid! I’ve been dead for 47 years!’ Her courage fuels the voices of countless protesters demanding freedom. #IranProtests #IranRevolution2026 #HRW

The US is now doing the kind of things we used to make fun of banana republics for doing when I was a kid. I know not all the people who supported this man are idiots. Is there a point where the non-idiots say "enough is enough?"

Eran novios se habían comprometido esa misma noche, salieron a celebrarlo, no sabían que iban a ser sus últimos besos, sus últimos bailes. Cuando regresaban a casa (#Beasain) les acribillaron. El claxon sonó 27 minutos, nadie les socorrió. Eran Hortensia y Antonio. #1979 🧵

This is Bushra Shaikh, a Pakistani woman living in the UK. She openly pushes Islamist propaganda and cheers for Islamic expansionism. She supports a regime that guns down its own people with bullets and artillery, and wants that same brutal regime armed with nuclear weapons. Let that sink in: a world where no one is safe except the Islamic Republic's supporters and Islamist ideologues. She is not some harmless commentator. She actively advocates for forces that are hostile to the West and to basic human life. And here's the rot at the core: in the UK, people are arrested for anti-Islam posts on social media, while someone openly backing a murderous theocratic regime walks free. That is moral collapse.

@KonstantinKisin Please explain how bullying allies like Denmark brings strength and peace?

It's clear President Trump stared down the "experts" who predicted the Iran strikes would be the start of WW3. Look how quiet they are now. In Britain, we can only hope for leaders who understand how the geopolitical game is played. Peace through strength.

@Mercutio_M Ójala me equivoque, pero a los que celebraban prematuramente hay que recordarles que hablamos de Trump.

Trump hace algo: jugada maestra. Trump no hace algo: jugada maestra. Trump hace algo pero que es lo contrario al algo inicial: jugada maestra. Trump hace algo que ni un solo hughita es capaz de explicar: jugada maestra. A mí todo esto me suena. Mmm... Ah, coño, The Process.

Massive gatherings in solidarity with Iranian protesters facing Islamic regime brutality, by students and social justice activists in New York, London, Paris, Berlin.