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The really apt Orwell quotes at this point are just too numerous to list, but we will start with this one, from 1984: “You think, I dare say, that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We’re destroying words–scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re cutting the language down to the bone.... Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime* literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten…”

For the first time since 1994, the Pope is personally carrying the Cross for all 14 Stations of the Cross, as Pope Leo XIV leads the Via Crucis at Rome’s Colosseum in the first Good Friday of his Pontificate.

RT all weekend!

This is a beautiful screw-up because it implicates many people within the NYT. Each story goes through multiple editors, yet not one caught this before publishing. The people who write the news literally know nothing. Stop putting your trust in them

BREAKING - Fenway Park is facing massive criticism after turning off comments on their post celebrating Red Sox opening day footage from the 50s because it included too many White people. They hate you.

BREAKING: Chinese anchor baby arrested for conspiring with her brother -- also an anchor baby -- to kill U.S. soldiers with an IED at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. Their illegal alien parents were deported in 1998 but the BS "birthright citizenship" doctrine invented by Justice Brennan in the 1980s allowed the murderous anchor babies to stay. nationaltoday.com/us/fl/tampa/ne…

🚨 STEPHEN MILLER SOUNDS ALARM ON IMMIGRATION & SPENDING — “THIS IS UNSUSTAINABLE” 🔥 I’m watching this argument from Stephen Miller and it’s igniting a massive debate right now. He’s laying out a chain reaction — arguing current immigration policies impact long-term government spending, social programs, and national debt. His warning is blunt: Policies today shape the system tomorrow — and Washington isn’t thinking long-term. But one thing is clear: Immigration + spending + national debt = one of the biggest political fights in America right now. 🔥🇺🇸

Ownership shared this statement: "She was once an immigrant chasing the American dream. She worked to build a life for herself and lost it along the way. This mural is our way of honoring her on a building owned by an immigrant family who understands that journey." @NBC10

That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

Being a boy isn’t a disease that needs to be cured! Masculinity is a strength that needs to be fostered and encouraged. The fact that there are any mothers who think this way is so sad to me.

For 8 years after Charlottesville, hosts on CNN played video of Trump's comments from that day, cut the video right before Trump condemned white supremacy, and then told their audiences that Trump never condemned white supremacy. Lemon, Tapper, Cooper, Acosta, and many others. Liars who deserved to be shamed.

@matt96h @JimmyRuztlir @wsliger @DrJStrategy For him? US doesn't need it open.

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

@matt96h @DrJStrategy And then you'll be begging Iran not to constantly raise the access cost when the US is no longer your heavy-handed backup plan. Guess you never had to deal with the bully on the playground.

Democrat reliance on foreign money for their political machine isn’t new - we’ve know for years about Hansjorg Wyss and others funding ballot fights through left wing nonprofits for years. But the NYT blowing the doors off ActBlue is a huge deal.

Two Chinese anchor babies just tried to bomb a United States Air Force base.

Especially because e- filing is simply taking the place of hard copy filing of documents in the office of the court clerk--which, absent a sealing order, are publicly available records. So attorneys are being asked to swear that they won't provide publicly available records to the US government unless a subpoena or court order requires it?

@TomFitton @JudicialWatch Is this not an overt insurrectionist act by Colorado??

.@JudicialWatch is examining this isssue.

@realMaalouf Religion of Peace x.com/ImtiazMadmood/…

@bp22 @elicalebon One is dead

@elicalebon Would love to listen to a podcast with these two women and their current perspectives

Young leftist women in 1979, holding up a picture of Ayatollah Khomeini, calling for the modern-day version of the intifada. Here’s the difference. They won. At the time, women in Iran had unparalleled rights, beyond anywhere else in the Middle East. They had full suffrage, could hold high office, freedom of dress, and were present in parliament, courts, ministries, and diplomacy. They were widely educated and professionally active in law, medicine, engineering, academia, and the arts. In terms of civil and legal rights, they were equal to—and in some cases ahead of—western women in the 1970’s. Yet, it wasn’t enough. They wanted revolution. They had been seduced by the false promises. They wanted the Islamist figure who swore to free the oppressed from the oppressor and bring about heaven on earth, a utopia in Iran. We all know how this story ends. Lynchings, eye gauging, amputations, and mass graves. Now, westerners are falling about themselves in the same giddy delirium, hungry for a glimpse of the nightmare Iranians still haven’t woken up from. I guess that’s why they say those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.

@ThatF95046 @elicalebon @SandraOracle And the Gays for Palestine

@elicalebon @SandraOracle Every time I see left wing Feminists and LGBTQ+ activists waving Palestinian flags and cheering for Hamas I think of this picture. These useful idiots don’t realize that they would be the first ones thrown against the wall and shot if Islam ever gained traction here.

@elicalebon The sad part is that even those who know history, make the same mistakes again...