Stan Kerr 🍊Fringe Minority

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. (M. Crichton)

The Arab Word is Watching a Different War: Three reasons why it has been difficult to understand the Arab position: The first is the Arab relationship with Iran. From the vantage point of Brussels or London, Iran presents itself as a resistance movement with a grievance against American hegemony and Israeli occupation, and this presentation maps comfortably onto familiar Western anticolonial frameworks. What it does not map onto is the lived experience of Arab populations in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and across the Gulf. In those countries, Iran's presence meant Hezbollah holding the Lebanese state hostage to Tehran's decisions, thirty-five armed factions in Iraq drawing salaries from Iranian funds channeled through the Iraqi national treasury, and Houthi commanders answering to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps while firing on Arab civilians from Yemeni soil. Freedom is not the word any serious Arab observer would use for what Iran brought. Indeed, the Arab world's quarrel with Iran runs far deeper than American bases or Israeli airstrikes. What drives it is the systematic subversion of Arab sovereignty by a foreign power that uses the language of Islamic solidarity as cover for an imperial project conducted through proxies. The second dimension is the proxy question itself, where Western analysis fails most comprehensively. Iran goes far beyond supporting armed groups. Parallel state structures get built inside Arab countries, financial systems get captured, and political figures get installed who owe their existence and survival entirely to Tehran. The Iranians who have administered this project understand it as the export of a revolution, but what Arab populations have experienced is closer to a colonial occupation conducted through intermediaries, and as of now, they’re not mourning the Islamic Republic. When Westerners treat these proxy networks as instruments of legitimate resistance rather than as mechanisms of subjugation, they endorse an imperial project while believing themselves to be opposing one, and as a matter of fact, make themselves the legitimizing force behind Iran’s war against the Arab world. The third dimension is the most counterintuitive for a Western audience, and it is the one most consequential for how the current war is understood and misunderstood. For Arab nationalists, including secular nationalists and even those with deep reservations about Israeli policy, Iran represents a greater and more immediate threat than Israel does. This is a position that Western media are structurally ill-equipped to render intelligible, because Western discourse on the Middle East has been organized for decades around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the primary axis of regional injustice. The result is that when Western governments and Western publics take strong positions against Israel’s actions against Iran’s operations, they believe themselves to be standing with the Arab world. In reality, they are advancing a position that the Arab world does not share and has not asked for, while ignoring the threat that Arab governments and Arab populations actually live with. The rhetorical use of Israel as a perpetual alibi for Iranian aggression has been one of the Islamic Republic’s most durable tools, and Western opinion has served as the unwitting amplifier of that tool across the entire duration of the Islamic Republic’s existence. open.substack.com/pub/zinebribou…

@BreannaMorello Great job—@HennepinSheriff for arresting 𝗣𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗲 𝗢𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗸𝗼 (IG: @mnangrydaughter) for her alleged assault against @Savsays, with proud father, 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗢𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗸𝗼 (IG: @mnangryman) watching the events unfold in the background.

@libsoftiktok @Savsays It’s not a mistake. It’s a pattern. It’s not some of them, it’s mostly all of them.

@TheShawnHendrix @libsoftiktok @Savsays Yes and no. A Byrna might be more advisable in a mob.

@libsoftiktok @Savsays This is why we have the second amendment

Conservative journalist @Savsays was just ATTACKED outside an ICE facility in Minneapolis Where are the cops???

@realMaalouf @betseyross It might help to know where this asshole imam’s mosque is.

Islamic imam with a gun inside a mosque: “There’s no better way to worship Allah than by killing an infidel.” I don’t know about you, but I’ve never seen a religious leader of any other religion act like this!

GOOD NEWS: The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office states that the three people who assaulted me yesterday, will be CHARGED. Here’s the footage of Paige Ostroushko, one of the three, being arrested after attacking me. She immediately runs from the police and pretends to act shocked as to why she’s being detained. Thank you to @BreannaMorello for being so on top of this and thank you to the Sheriff's department who ended up having to drive me to safety yesterday due to the violence of the mob. Am looking forward to seeing these charges all the way through.

Show up anyway. Defy the little jihadi. He and his Muslim cabal should be defied at every turn.

@ENERGY @PolitiKatTales It’s black gold, baby.

Wake up, America is drilling like never before thanks to President Trump.

Trump wants Congress and states to get off their butts and make this fraud-prone process illegal or tightly restricted. Democrats know how easily it can be used for vote fraud.

Graham is showing he doesn’t understand how Hamas fights. Not only do they enlist children to fight, they put non-combatants in front as shields. In urban warfare, Israel has few options to keep children safe; that’s in Hamas’s hands.

🚨 CBS: Americans overwhelmingly support President Trump’s goals in Iran. "As for you know, the aspirations, Americans broadly support them..."

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The Board of Immigration Appeals has rejected the appeal of Hamas fan boy Mahmoud Khalil, bringing him one step closer to his deportation. This is exactly what accountability looks like in a functioning system. The fact that this process has taken time, through hearings, appeals, and judicial review, is not a flaw, it’s proof the system is working carefully and deliberately. He hasn’t been railroaded; he’s been given layer after layer of due process. At a certain point, though, a decision has to mean something. If the government, through established legal channels, determines that a noncitizen’s presence is incompatible with U.S. interests, enforcement has to follow. It’s hard to ignore is the broader pattern. This isn’t happening in a vacuum. Khalil has aligned himself with some of the most pro-Jihad, anti-American activists in public discourse, including figures like Zohran Mamdani and Mehdi Hasan, while operating in spaces that have seen skyrocketing Jew hatred. American universities cannot become incubators for ideological movements that legitimize violent actors—and then claim victimhood when consequences arrive. The United States is under no obligation to grant permanent residency as a shield for that behavior. At the end of the day, this is a privilege, not a right, and America does not have to host a Hamas cheerleader who has made himself part of campus jihadi crowd harassing Jewish students on campus and spreading support for U.S. designated terror groups. Reminder: while Hamas was holding American citizens hostage, Mahmoud Khalil was celebrating Hamas in America.

@ConservativeTht Communists don’t care if you suffer. The ideology and the Party is all that matters.

A New York law that clearly discriminates against Christians, would require Catholic nuns serving in hospice homes to use patients’ preferred pronouns & train staff in gender ideology. Democrats knew what they were doing when they passed the law. Christians must comply or die. foxnews.com/media/catholic…

@dcexaminer Not surprising. Denying the reality of your own body is bound to affect you mentally.

Adolescents struggling with gender dysphoria who sought gender transition medical treatment were found to have worse mental health symptoms in the long term compared to their peers, contradicting the belief that so-called “gender-affirming care” significantly improves outcomes. MORE: trib.al/tDBIm6I