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@VickieforNYC @marklevinshow Dems are in such bad shape that anything goes to boost their visibility. The truth is they are dead beyond revival. We're witnessing the last throws.

So we have actual communist revolutionaries marching in the 'No Kings' demonstration that has been fully sanctioned and supported by the Democrat party at the national level. This is what Democrats are mainstreaming into our politics. Understand where we are.

@mishtal @BBCNews @SkyNews @CNN anti-Israel motherfuckers are unusually active today. Can't tell what's bot what's plain rot.

@EYakoby @marcthiessen The same methods used by Hamas and its owners: while losing on the battlefield they create a buzz of fake victory in the media. And leftists and other malignant actors are happy to fan that buzz disproportionately.

It’s crazy how the US and Israel are striking thousands of targets across Iran. Iran hits a single target every three days and the panicans start posting how much of a disaster this operation is. It’s all a demoralization op.

@sciencegirl Bright example of suboptimal user interface.

An early typewriter that uses a pointer instead of a keyboard to select letters

@LiquidFaerie Absolutely brilliant as usual, Faerie. Just one little correction: 1940 was not a peak of Stalin purges, it was downward slowing of it. The Gulag was overflowing with prisoners and Stalin's butchers were running out of space to put in new victims.

𝘛ℎ𝘦 𝘐𝑛𝘴𝑝𝘪𝑟𝘪𝑛𝘨 𝘉𝑜𝘵𝑎𝘯𝑖𝘴𝑡𝘴 & 𝘚𝑐𝘪𝑒𝘯𝑡𝘪𝑠𝘵𝑠 𝑤𝘩𝑜 𝑆𝘢𝑣𝘦𝑑 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑊𝘰𝑟𝘭𝑑’𝑠 𝑓𝘪𝑟𝘴𝑡 𝑆𝘦𝑒𝘥 𝘉𝑎𝘯𝑘 🧵 The Siege of Leningrad dragged on for 872 days, from September 1941 to January 1944. Nazi forces cut the city off completely. Food vanished. Cold bit deep. Historians reckon up to 800,000 people, maybe more, died from hunger and related causes in what had once been a lively place full of life. Right in the heart of that suffering stood the Institute of Plant Industry, on Herzen Street in a grand old building that used to be a palace. Nikolai Vavilov had set it up in the 1920s as the world’s first major seed bank. He was a remarkable explorer who travelled to more than 60 countries, gathering seeds, tubers, roots and bulbs to save genetic diversity for future generations. By the early 1930s the collection already held at least 148,000 live samples, some in 120,000 metal tins. Think naked-grained barley from remote plateaus, wild flax from Iran, citrus pips from roads near Kabul, and thousands of potato varieties, including rare ones from South America. It was a living museum of crops, built to help end famine through better breeding. Vavilov himself never made it to the siege. In 1940, at the peak of Stalin’s terror, he was arrested during a trip to Ukraine. He had clashed with Trofim Lysenko, whose fake ideas about genetics rejected real science and led to disastrous harvests and more deaths from hunger. Vavilov was accused of spying for Britain, sentenced to death then commuted to hard labour. He starved to death in prison in January 1943. The irony cuts deep: the man who dreamed of preventing starvation died that way himself. However, the institute carried on under his vision. Staff stayed loyal to his work even in those terrible times. His reputation was later restored, and in 1968 the institute was officially renamed after him. But, back to the story: When the blockade closed in, about 50 botanists worked at the institute, along with their families. Evacuation plans fell apart when the Germans seized a key rail point. They could not move the seeds, so they decided to protect them on site. The collection weighed around 120 tonnes, roughly 250,000 packets of edible seeds, nuts and vegetables. In a city where people ate anything to survive, these scientists chose not to touch a single one. They worked in freezing rooms with broken windows, in semi-darkness. They flung 108 incendiary bombs off the roof into courtyards or buried them in sand. They tied over 100,000 boxes into bundles under metal sheets, set traps with arsenic & glass for rats and mice and moved the most precious items to the cellar. Wheat came first, then rye, oats, barley and the rest. One deputy director, Nikolai Ivanov, took charge after Vavilov’s arrest. He organised everything and firmly refused any suggestion to eat the seeds, saying the country would need them more than ever once the war ended. 1/2⬇️

@EYakoby @CarmineSabia Well the victims of lies and manipulation were eager to get lied to and manipulated. They wanted it.

Well that ends the debate on deaths in Gaza. Hamas itself is admitting that 80% of casualties were combatants. There was never a genocide. You have been lied to and manipulated.

@yarotrof Yep. Russia seems highly plausible. Provided the plane destruction really happened.

@marcthiessen Read the community notes. Not so awesome. The whole report is a fairytale.

So awesome!

@nypost @JacquiHeinrich All these regimes have similar modus operandi - attacking defenseless civilians: Russia, Islamic Republic of Iran, China. Similar dictatorial regime, similar operations.

Russian drone strikes destroy Ukraine maternity hospital full of newborns: 'This was pure terror' trib.al/J4lZJbD

@TheNorfolkLion @MartinTwigs68 Yikes!

Bloody hell, you know times are dark when you agree with Tony Blair or should I say, he agrees with us!

@HenMazzig Once again we are talking not about people with brains but about people with no balls when they realize their plot was noticed.

Politico has removed an offensive cartoon that featured Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and an assortment of American conservative politicians wearing Jewish prayer shawls covered in blood. The bloody bag of money on top really just ties it together as a disgusting, antisemitic mess of a drawing. But removing the cartoon means that someone looked at this and thought it was totally acceptable to post. Only afterwards did someone with a brain point out how terrible this is. This is the world we live in now, either completely ignorant of antisemitism to the point that people can't recognize it when it's right in front of their faces, or completely fine with it unless they get pushback. Either way, the damage was done.

@petersavodnik I think it's too late to talk about guardrails. It's time to be armed.

He’s confused about the nature of the new, hyper-charged anti-Israel sentiment on the left. It has nothing to do with policy or the Middle East or rebuilding Gaza or the Iran war. It is fueled by a worldview that is fundamentally antisemitic, and there is no making common cause with that. This is not a matter of negotiation or finesse. It’s about guardrails.

@GBX_Press They just hunger for damage in Israel. They use any old and debunked garbage salivating for bad news. You're out of luck scumbags! Cry more!

🚨‼️ BREAKING 💥 The moment the Yemeni missile launched by the Houthis—Ansar Allah in Yemen—strikes Israel with a direct hit 😨

@Laughoutloud9b @stuey_beef @MartinTwigs68 Right. But the pace of this process is staggering: mail ballots will be eliminated when my grandchildren retire.

@BMGoldstein @stuey_beef @MartinTwigs68 Well at least you've started to get on top of the fraudulent postal voting we still have it unfortunately.

Let this sink in. A Downing Street‑issued phone, used by Keir Starmer’s then chief of staff, is snatched in central London. Police logs show No 10 made no attempt to recover it, no approach to the Met’s specialist units, no MI5, no GCHQ – nothing. Now the ICO says it wasn’t told either, despite guidance to report any serious loss of personal data. If a Tory government had done this, Labour would be screaming ‘national security scandal’ on every channel.

@hopelesssprings @stuey_beef @MartinTwigs68 Oh. Like Obama after Bush.

@BMGoldstein @stuey_beef @MartinTwigs68 No, the truth is, the previous government was so bad that they voted for this government, as Most likely to knock the last lot out of power no matter the cost. It was called at the time a loveless landslide. We are now paying that cost.

@omriceren Add an ability to reproduce and you get Alien, Predator and other nightmares ready to invade.

Oh good.

@Mish_K_ Propaganda!

Women are far superior.

@Mish_K_ Comedian. I had to ask @grok.

Who the fuck is Druski anyway?

@omriceren They need to have their "victories" - Lego is the only theater left for them.

Reading this post is a humbling experience. Every time you get to a word you're sure you've gotten to the dumbest part. Then you read the next word and you're forced to acknowledge to yourself, wow, wrong again.