Mark Lewis

The Archbishop of Washington D.C. just said it directly. “In Catholic teaching, this is not a just war.” This isn’t a foreign pope making diplomatic statements from Rome. This is the Archbishop of the American capital. The man who leads the Catholic Church in the city where the war was decided, where Congress was gaveled into silence, where the Pentagon threatened the Vatican’s ambassador for daring to disagree. He just told Washington — from Washington — that what they are doing fails the moral test their own faith demands. The just war doctrine has four criteria. A just cause. Right intention. Last resort. Proportional means. Cardinal McElroy is saying this war fails them. He joins Pope Leo XIV who called it unjust. Who called Trump’s threats unacceptable. Who the Pentagon summoned and threatened with the Avignon Papacy for saying so. They threatened the Pope. They didn’t silence him. They can’t silence the Archbishop either.

This is what families, children and tourists have to witness daily on the TTC. Not to mention the risk of breathing in second-hand fentanyl smoke. And the TTC wonders why ridership and revenues are down.

This is for the fucking cowards and narrative-peddling parasites… I am so goddamn sick of the retarded, intellectually bankrupt lie that President Trump is “beholden to Israel.” It’s not just wrong…it’s a pathological symptom of a diseased mind that cannot comprehend a leader who operates from raw, unbuyable sovereignty instead of the usual Washington whorehouse of lobbies, donors, and dual-loyalty strings. Every single spineless sack of shit who’s occupied the Oval Office for the last thirty years has stood at a podium, furrowed their brow like a third-rate actor, and recited the exact same script: “Iran is an existential threat.” Bush, Clinton, Bush II, Obama, Biden…all of them. They said it. They knew it. Then they did…............nothing. Sanctions with holes big enough to drive a supertanker through. JCPOA fairy tales that funded the mullahs’ missile program and terror proxies while they lectured us about “diplomacy.” It was never about Iran. It was about maintaining the illusion of control, the grift, the revolving door between K Street, AIPAC fundraisers, and the next cushy think-tank sinecure. Trump? Forty fucking years of the same message, before he ever ran, before he ever needed a single shekel or shekel-adjacent favor. He called Iran a cancer in the 1980s. He never wavered. And when he had the power, he didn’t posture…he acted. Soleimani turned into red mist. Maximum pressure that actually hurt. Abraham Accords that bypassed the Palestinian veto and forced the Arab world to choose reality over the same 1970s death cult script. He moved the embassy to Jerusalem and recognized the Golan not because someone in Tel Aviv whispered in his ear, but because it was strategically correct for American interests and he refuses to pretend otherwise. That’s the part the controlled minds can’t process. Trump is not “controlled” by anyone…not Israel, not Saudi Arabia, not the Saudis’ checkbook, not the Chinese, not the Davos vampires. He is pathologically, almost philosophically unmanipulable. He possesses what the ancient Greeks called autarkeia…radical self-sufficiency of the soul… fused with a Nietzschean will that treats power not as something to be rented out to the highest bidder, but as an extension of his own unbreakable spine. The very accusation that he’s a puppet is projection from people whose entire existence is defined by who owns their leash. They look at a man who cannot be bought and their lizard brains short-circuit: “If he’s not owned by us, he must be owned by them.” No. He’s owned by reality. By history. By the cold, lethal calculus that Iran’s theocratic death cult has been at war with civilization since 1979 and every other president treated it like a manageable diplomatic herpes sore instead of the metastatic cancer it is. Trump looked at the board, saw the checkmate coming for the West, and said “fuck that” with the precision of a surgeon and the ferocity of a warlord. So spare me the tinfoil antisemitic fan-fiction. Spare me the cope from people who need Trump to be a puppet because the alternative… that a free man with zero fucks to give is reshaping the world…is too terrifying for their slave morality to endure. Trump isn’t Israel’s marionette.
He isn’t anyone’s marionette.
 He’s the goddamn wrecking ball that was always going to come for the mullahs, the lobbyists, the forever-war grifters, and every other parasite who mistook American power for their personal ATM. And the body count of dead Iranian terror architects proves it.
 Fucking deal with it. 💀🗡️

🇿🇦 South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says that the country will not abandon its DEI policies, known as “Black Economic Empowerment (BEE).” “Those who say BEE and affirmative action must stop are just dreaming,” he said. South Africa has strict laws that mandate race-based hiring practices. A new law called the Employment Equity Amendment Act sets hiring targets for 2025–2030 across 18 economic sectors. Some workforce targets aim for 90–96% of employees to come from designated groups, which include Black people, women, and people with disabilities (minimum 3%). That means that if a company has more than 5% white men, it could face penalties of up to 10% of its income.

Me after getting paid peanuts

Less than 24 hours after the close of the proceeding, Justice Leonard issued her decision, stating: “To be clear, the Court is not staying the collection of signatures; this decision has no impact whatsoever on the signature collection period or when that period expires... Specifically, the Chief Electoral Officer shall not certify the petition results or make a referral to the Minister of Justice until the Court has ruled on the Applications by ACN and the Blackfoot Nations.” If there is no harm in gathering signatures, what is the harm in verifying them or transmitting the results to the Legislature? In effect, the decision halts the communication of the democratic will of citizens to their elected representatives. How does that strengthen, or even preserve, the integrity of our democratic process? And it doesn’t take into consideration the canvassers, those standing in the cold for hours and engaged their fellow citizens in a lawful democratic exercise, only to be told that their work cannot be formally recognized or conveyed. If participation is permitted, but the outcome cannot be communicated, what exactly is the process meant to achieve and who does that ultimately serve?

Iran’s delegation to the Islamabad Talks is made up of four men with doctorates: - Dr. Ghalibaf (Speaker of Parliament) - Dr. Araghchi (Foreign Minister) - Dr. Ahmadian (Secretary of the Defense Council) - Dr. Hemmati (Central Bank Governor) The US delegation is made up JD Vance, a failed author, Steve Witkoff, Trump’s gold buddy and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law. None of them have the technical range to negotiate complex nuclear issues.