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In 1844, Catholic leaders in Philadelphia had one simple request: allow Catholic children to use their Bibles in school instead of the state-mandated KJV. The reaction? Violence. Protestant mobs took to the streets. Exploding with claims that “popery” was invading America, they said that the Pope was undermining Protestant liberty, and that Irish Catholics were a foreign influence. Churches were burned to the ground, rectories looted, seminaries torched, and sacred libraries destroyed. Two major churches, St. Michael’s and St. Augustine’s were completely desecrated and reduced to ashes in a single day of rioting. Dozens died and significant Catholic heritage in Philadelphia was destroyed in just one day of rioting. In 2026, these same sentiments are rising again: people are beginning k again accuse Catholics of foreign agentry and dual loyalty, all while cheering along to Israel siphoning billions of tax dollars per year.

Regarding the Iran war Trump says American's financial situations don't matter to him "even a little bit" When the GOP gets annihilated in November don't you dare blame Tucker or Megyn or Candace or Fuentes or Massie. Just watch this over and over.

Breaking: Israel just blew up a school run by nuns in Lebanon. Reports say that Israel struck Antonine Sisters College yesterday leaving it severely damaged.

Thomas Massie: The Epstein scandal is “deeper and darker” than anyone imagined. “It’s bigger than Watergate.” “It’s bigger than Iran-Contra.” “It’s not about Joe Biden or Donald Trump.” “There are degrees of evil here that we’ve never seen at this scale … ” “Our government was compromised by wealthy, connected billionaires, and by Jeffrey Epstein himself.” “At the age of 14, these girls that were being sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein were told if they could go find another girl to take their place, then they wouldn’t have to be sexually abused.” “And some of them took that deal.” “It’s one thing to be evil to a child.” “It’s another thing to get a child to do evil.” “The light sentence that was given to Jeffrey Epstein in 2008 that allowed him to victimize hundreds of more women, we want to know, why was he given that light sentence?” @RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY @Local12

Insane. The cost of living, which he promised to deal with on day one, has been hitting working people harder and harder for years. Meanwhile, Iran has no nuclear weapons, couldn’t hit us with them if they did have them, and would never be so stupid as to try even if they could.

@acnewsitics He's not exactly admitting it. He's saying these are "fake indictments," meaning he's portraying himself as not guilty. 🙄

Admitting he's done things he should have been jailed for. It's a start.

Yes Ben. We have a little something in America called the first amendment and criticism of you does not pass the Brandenburg test for incitement.

The 216,000 abuse case in Francis is totally fake. It is not based on any attempt to summarize actual cases. Instead it was based on a survey. But the survey has huge problems with it. The “researchers” sent a survey out to 250,000 French citizens with little effort to hide what it was for. This by itself is a huge problem because it opens the door to people with an agenda against the church intentionally skewing the results. The “researchers” further did not limit the questions to young people being abused by priests but to anyone involved in any way in the Catholic parish (janitors, parents, teachers, etc). Further, they only got 28,000 responses. This again opens the door to bias because it limits responses to people with strong feelings. People who experienced abuse are far more likely to respond to a survey about abuse. This is called "self selection bias" and is one of the most basic errors in polling. And of those 28,000 responses, only 171 stated abuse had taken place. You read that right - 171 . Not 216,000. 171. But it gets worse. One would hope that the researchers would reach out to those 171 responses and do something to verify the claims. Ask them to give a little detail to ensure that the claims were true. But there was no effort to verify the claims. They were just anonymous poll respondents making claims with no chance of negative consequences of doing so. So where does the 216,000 come from? Here is where it gets truly ridiculous. They took the 171, divided it by the 28,000 responses and then multiplied by the population of France (roughly 54 million) to get the 216,000 victims of priests (after removing the percentage who claimed non-priest parish abuse). Anyone can see this method is ridiculously flawed in so many ways but even if we know nothing of the method, the number itself should have been a tip off that something was very wrong. The portion of the 330,000 supposedly done by priests was 216,000. There were roughly 3,0000 priests in France. Basic math would say that is an average of 70 victims per priest! Ridiculous. Despite being obviously false, this study was widely reported. It gets referenced regularly in online forums. It sticks in people’s memories.

The genocide of Orthodox Christians in Atheist Soviet Union is perhaps the single greatest Christian persecution in Human history. What crimes did the Bolsheviks commit during the ‘Russian Revolution? They nailed him to the floor of the church. He remained alive for a long time. Red-hot ramrods were slowly driven into his body until one pierced his heart… This is how Bishop Sylvester (Olshevsky) of Omsk died in February 1920. Bishop Tikhon (Nikanorov) of Voronezh was crucified on the Royal Doors of the iconostasis. Bishop Andronik of Perm was buried alive in a pit which he had been forced to dig himself. Bishop Hermogenes of Tobolsk was tied to a ship’s wheel and drowned. Bishop Seraphim (Chichagov) was carried on a stretcher to be executed at the Butovo firing range, as the nearly 90-year-old elder could no longer walk. Grand Duchess Elizabeth & the nun Barbara were thrown alive into a deep mineshaft in Alapaevsk. Bishop Benjamin of Petrograd, along with several laymen, was shot after a show trial based on false charges related to the confiscation of church valuables. Priest Peter Skipetrov was shot in the face in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. Archbishop Nikon Rozhdestvesnky (accused of ‘antisemitism’) was stabbed & maimed to death outside of his monastery (Trinity Sergius Lavra), his body was disfigured beyond recognition. The Bolsheviks also beheaded him. Metropolitan Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky) of Kiev was dragged outside the walls of the Kiev Lavra, shot, and bayoneted while he gave his blessing to his executioners. The elderly ascetic, Bishop John (Pommer) of Latvia, was tied to a door torn from its hinges, laid on a workbench, brutally tortured, and then set on fire while still alive. Bishop Thaddeus of Tver was drowned in human waste. Father Alexey Merkuryev of the Urals was murdered in front of his congregation, daughter, and son. Bishop Theophan of Solikamsk was stripped, his hair braided, a pole threaded through it, & he was slowly lowered into an icy hole in the Kama River. His body became encased in ice. But the hierarch was still alive - and then he was drowned. Some priests and laymen had their hands tied behind their backs, their eyes blindfolded, and were ordered to walk across the ice until they fell into a hole. The torturers mockingly called them ‘divers.’ The holy prisoners of the Solovki labor camp had their beards and mustaches ripped out and were starved to death… No number of pages or tears can recount all that our land endured so recently - just yesterday. This is only a drop in the ocean of blood shed by the Holy New Martyrs, whose memory we commemorate each year. Hundreds of thousands of priests and millions of laypeople were killed and torn apart for their faithfulness to Christ. More than 2,000 have been canonized as confessors and martyrs - and how many more are known only to God? And this was not some mere political struggle. It was hell itself unleashed. Only demons devoid of all conscience could torture people in such ways. The scale, ferocity, and mercilessness of Soviet persecution of the Church is encapsulated in a single figure: out of 80,000 churches and monasteries at the beginning of the 20th century, by 1939, barely a hundred parishes remained across the vast Russian land. Not a single monastery. Not a single seminary. Not a single bishop at liberty. Just a scattered handful of monks. Key Book References: Konshaubi: The True Story of Persecuted Christians in the Soviet Union by Georgie Vins. Chronicles the experiences of believers facing Soviet oppression. The Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity by Francis McCullagh (1920s/Various reprints). An early account of the anti-religious campaigns. Soviet Antireligious Campaigns and Persecutions (Vol 2 of A History of Soviet Atheism) (Springer Nature). Persecutor by Sergei Kourdakov (1973). A memoir by a former Soviet officer involved in raids against Christians.

One of the coolest scenes from Marvel's Daredevil: Born Again, Season 2, when Matt Murdock (Daredevil) begs Saint Jude to pray for him and ask God to help him when he was completely helpless and didn't know what to do, and before he even finished the prayer, help came

Feel like the Bible is quite explicit on this one

@CouceIgnacio @ggreenwald @GovMikeHuckabee @Israel Tucker is saying that we're spending $1.5 trillion on our military and using it to back Israel. He did not say that we give $1.5 trillion to Israel. Now are Glenn's comments clear?

I’m admitting that your anti-Israel bias led to unquestioningly accept an exaggerated number. I know that you know the following, which is what makes you intellectually dishonest. The United States provides substantial foreign aid to strategic allies and regions facing security challenges. Top recipients by FY2024 (under Biden) disbursements/amounts include: 1. Israel: $6.82B 2. Ukraine: $6.51B 3. Jordan: $1.74B 4. Ethiopia: $1.31B 5. DRC: $1.26B 6. Somalia: $0.96B 7. Nigeria: $0.88B 8. South Sudan: $0.84B 9. Kenya: $0.83B 10. Mozambique: $0.76B 11. Egypt: $0.24B 12. Yemen: $0.76B 13. Afghanistan: $0.76B. Return on investment includes strategic and security benefits, with ~40% of aid spent on US contractors and goods. Each dollar in aid generates $1.35–$2.75 in US exports.

Neither of these ppl are dumb. I worked w/ them at Fox. They know how to Google basic facts. The US provides $3.8 billion (NOT $1.5 trillion) but @Israel spends many X over that on US. We get a huge ROI-are they too lazy to research or intentionally lying?

@anishmoonka But does that make setting time aside for lovemaking harder? 🤔

A kid drew himself sleeping in bed between mom and dad and labeled it 'safe.' In Japan, this exact sleeping arrangement has a name. They call it 'the river.' Mother is one bank. Father is the other. The child between them is the water. Roughly 70% of Japanese mothers sleep this way with their kids, sometimes through the teenage years. The Western model of putting a kid alone in their own bedroom is barely 200 years old. For most of human history, in most cultures still alive today, kids slept beside their parents. James McKenna runs the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab at Notre Dame. He spent decades watching what happens when parents and kids share a bed. The bodies sync up. Heart rates align with the parent's, breathing falls into the same rhythm, and by morning even sleep stages have started matching. The parent's body, in McKenna's words, acts as a kind of biological jumper cable for the child's. In 2013, researchers in the Netherlands tracked 193 babies through the first year of life. They measured cortisol, the brain's main stress hormone. Babies who had spent more weeks co-sleeping in the first six months produced less cortisol under stress at 12 months. Sleeping near a parent had rewired the kid's stress system to be calmer under pressure. Inside the kid's brain at night, the amygdala, the fear alarm, gets more sensitive as the body gets tired. Darkness makes it worse. A 2021 paper in PLoS One from Australian researchers showed that light directly suppresses amygdala activity. Lights off, alarm louder. The whole brain is wired to read 'alone in a dark room' as a threat. Now add a parent's body to that bed. The kid's nervous system reads warm body, breathing nearby, familiar smell. The threat alarm dials down. Two parents on either side dial it down twice. The drawing is the kid's brain calculating maximum safety: I am surrounded by the people who keep me alive, and nothing can reach me without going through them first. The arrangement in this drawing is what most of human history called 'sleeping.' Sleeping the kid alone in another room is a 200-year-old Western invention that we forgot was an invention. Every kid who has ever padded into your room at 3am and crawled into the middle of the bed is just trying to redraw the picture.

🚨BREAKING: Physicists have now confirmed that it is a fundamental and inviolable law of nature that Iran is always two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon.

The ballroom went from $200 million & privately funded, to $300 million, to $400 million and taxpayers cover some of it, to MAGA trying to silently jam through $1 BILLION, 100% of which is our tax money, for this ballroom. WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.

BREAKING: Ynet, one of Israel’s largest media outlets, has published a bombshell report on Christian persecution in Israel. Full article translated to English: "Spitting and humiliation are daily. People are afraid to walk in Jerusalem with Christian symbols." By Oded Shalom The smashing of a statue of Jesus in Lebanon by an IDF soldier was a direct continuation of the reality in the Old City and the West Bank. Attacks on priests and monks, the desecration of Christian symbols, and graffiti sprayed on churches take place in broad daylight and are causing echoes around the world. “It has worsened under the current government, and they are not trying to stop it,” says Hagop Djernazian from the Armenian Quarter. Tour guide Paniot Penioto sums it up: “We Christians have been here for 2,000 years. What is your problem?” Garo Sandrouni says he sees a lot of hatred on the street in front of him, a street with heavy traffic throughout the day of religious Jews on their way to the Western Wall or to yeshivas on Mount Zion and in the Jewish Quarter. Sandrouni observes what is happening from inside a small ceramic shop in the Armenian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, not far from the seminary for priests that trains young Armenians from around the world to serve as clergy in their communities. He sits there every day, all day, from around 9:00–10:00 in the morning until 6:00 in the evening, except on Sundays; a shop whose shelves are filled with many hundreds of Armenian ceramic items, characterized by a richness of shapes and colors, all handmade, piece by piece. And what he sees from his seat behind the small table at the back of the shop is an ugly and offensive reality toward everything he grew up with, against everything that is Christian. “Spitting at Christian clergy, at Christian symbols, spitting toward the Armenian monastery not far from here. Spitting and curses,” he says in a weak and hurt voice. This reality is so routine here that it has taken over the name of the place. The permanent signs on the walls of the old houses say “Armenian Patriarchate Street,” but some call it “Spitting Street” because of the criminal practice. Where else in the world is there a street called that because people spit on Christian religious symbols? Ahead of Easter, chains and small flags were hung on the street near the Armenian Orthodox Church, and a religious Jew passed by and tore them down. Djernazian: “What an uproar there would have been if this had been a Jewish symbol.” We asked Sandrouni how it feels to see this hatred, and he answered with only theee words: “Think for yourselves.” Later, we understood for ourselves, when we heard from community member Hagop Djernazian about an incident that happened about three weeks ago, and is not really unusual here. Several young people from the Quarter worked on decorating the main street ahead of Easter and hung chains with colorful balls, as well as paper flags of the Armenian Orthodox Church with a cross in the center. “A religious guy with a knitted kippah passed near the Armenian monastery and simply tore one of the flags to pieces,” Djernazian recalls. “We were excited ahead of the holiday, which is very meaningful and important for us, a holiday with many traditions and holiness, and suddenly a person passes by, tears up a church flag bearing a cross right in front of our eyes, and continues on as if nothing happened. “It is a spit in the face. Real humiliation. I have no words to describe what you feel at that moment. Think what the reaction would have been if something like that happened to a Jewish symbol. What an uproar there would have been. And here, for us, it is almost a daily matter. It crossed every boundary a long time ago. This happened before this government too, but since it came to power, it has become more extreme and more frequent, and we do not see any attempt to stop it. Not even to condemn it or speak out against it. It is so humiliating and intimidating that some people think twice before walking with a visible Christian symbol, such as a pendant, for example, in order to avoid an unpleasant situation. Yes, to that extent.” The Chief of Staff is Shocked The video documented last week of an IDF soldier smashing a statue of Jesus in the village of Debel in southern Lebanon was posted by Djernazian on his Facebook page. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quickly condemned the act in English, called the soldier a criminal, and wrote on his X account that “Israel is the only place in the Middle East that respects freedom of worship for all.” Djernazian answered him in a post of his own. “I wrote that Netanyahu says this is an exceptional incident by a lone individual, and that this is interesting, because at the same time that he claims he protects freedom of worship and Christians in Israel and the Middle East, things like this are happening that prove the exact opposite, including what happens here with us in Jerusalem,” he explains. The smashing of the statue of Jesus in southern Lebanon sparked angry reactions around the world. The soldier who carried out the act was identified, tried, and sent to 30 days in military detention, together with the soldier who filmed him. After Netanyahu, Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir also condemned it. In a speech before the IDF’s senior command staff this week, he mentioned the incident and asked reproachfully: “Where does smashing the statue of Jesus meet the spirit of the IDF?” Perhaps this incident does not meet the spirit of the IDF, but it teaches a great deal about the general mood toward Christianity in Israeli society. The phenomenon of smashing symbols connected to Christianity, vandalism at holy places of the Church, spitting and curses directed at priests and monks, happens in broad daylight, before the eyes of passersby in the Old City of Jerusalem, sometimes even in front of police officers. Clergy serving in churches in the Mount Zion area and the Armenian Quarter report that in 2025 there has been an increase in cases of desecration, humiliation, verbal attacks, and spitting at them and at houses of worship. A 2025 report by the Rossing Center details: 61 attacks on clergy or people with a Christian symbol; 52 incidents of damage to church property; 28 cases of harassment of religious processions; and 14 cases of vandalism of church signs. The Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue, an institution that promotes an inclusive society for members of all religions, publishes an annual report on attacks against Christians in Israel and East Jerusalem. The data on the incidents are collected together with the Religious Freedom Data Center and show a continuous rise in the number of events. The report, published about three months ago, shows that 2025 was very unpleasant for Christians living here. It recorded 61 physical attacks on clergy or people who had a prominent Christian religious symbol on them. These included spitting, pepper spray, and even beatings. There were 52 reported and documented cases of damage to church property, including graffiti, trespassing for the purpose of vandalism, and smashing statues. In addition, 14 cases of vandalism of church signs were documented, as well as 28 cases of harassment, including verbal attacks and physical disruption of religious processions. The latest case occurred on Tuesday, when a nun was attacked in the Old City. Truly, freedom of worship. Voluntary Christian Emigration In July last year, a field of thorns was set on fire near the remains of St. George’s Church in the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh, northeast of Ramallah. It is a village surrounded by shepherd farms and illegal outposts, whose residents suffer from harassment by settlers, and suspicion arose that they were responsible for the arson. News of the fire, which almost reached the walls of the ancient site, was published online and alarmed the church leaders based in Jerusalem, who quickly updated the whole world. European ambassadors came for a solidarity visit to the village. Even the United States ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, an Evangelical Christian and an enthusiastic supporter of the settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria, came to strengthen the residents of the place. This is only one example of attacks on Christian houses of worship. About two and a half years ago, when curses and spitting at Christian clergy in Jerusalem increased, the Chief Rabbis published strong condemnations of the phenomenon. But outpost and farm activist Elisha Yered, former aide to MK Limor Son Har-Melech of Otzma Yehudit, did not understand what the fuss was about. On X, he wrote: “A good time to remind people that the custom of spitting near priests or churches is an ancient Jewish custom, and in halacha there is even a special blessing when one sees a church… a blessing that comes to praise the Holy One, blessed be He, who tolerates the evil deeds of idol worshippers.” In February this year, American media personality Tucker Carlson came to Israel to examine the situation of Christians in Israel and the territories. Carlson is a popular and controversial conservative right-wing figure, who in recent years has promoted, among other things, conspiracy theories, some of them antisemitic. For months he has claimed that Israel and the West Bank have become dangerous places for Christians. The result of his visit is a film about an hour and a half long with the forceful title: “The shocking reality of Israel’s U.S.-funded treatment of Christians in the Holy Land.” As of Monday this week, it had accumulated 1,971,586 views. In it, he speaks with priests and Christian residents who tell the same story of attacks and humiliation. Carlson also addressed last week’s incident of the smashing of the statue of Jesus by an IDF soldier. He interviewed Alice Kisiya, a Palestinian Christian resident of Beit Jala who fought with other activists for the evacuation of a settler outpost established on private land belonging to Palestinian Christians from the Bethlehem area. “Smashing a statue of Jesus or of the Virgin Mary is not an act of defense against terrorism,” Carlson begins, wondering aloud, “Why would a settler or a soldier break statues like these?” To hear the answer, we called Kisiya ourselves. “As part of our struggle, we set up a makeshift church on the land,” she answered. “We hung icons of the Holy Mary and crosses in it and prayed there. The settlers told us that they would also take over Bethlehem and expel all the Christians from there. When we told them that Bethlehem is historically connected to Christianity, they answered, ‘It is ours, you will have to leave.’ “In one of their attacks on us, they broke an icon of the Holy Mary. I showed the broken icon in my conversation with Carlson to show that the case in Lebanon is not a one-off or unusual. Apart from him, I gave many interviews to foreign media and emphasized the religious context. It was important for me that the world see what Christians go through here in the land, to tell the world that the settlers and the State of Israel want to cause Christians to emigrate from Palestine so that they can take over our lands. Do not forget that besides the lands Israel holds in the West Bank, the churches and Palestinian Christians are the largest landowners in the territories.” Evangelicals in Retreat Hana Bendcowsky, director of educational programs at the Rossing Center, says this is the result of the nationalist radicalization taking place in Israeli politics and society. “The climate is one of Jewish supremacy, of rejecting anyone who is not Jewish, and it is getting worse,” she says. “There is a feeling that the whole world is against us and that anyone who criticizes Israel is antisemitic. Into this enters the legitimization of harming Christians and humiliating them. We in this country do not understand what this does to affection for and support of Israel among Evangelical communities in the United States. Part of their deep religious worldview for decades was devoted support for Israel, and that is now in retreat, partly because of our treatment of Christians. You see a significant decline in their support for us, especially among young people and among people with an awareness of the value of life and human rights. They see Israel’s conduct and say, ‘These are not values we identify with.’” And what is Israel doing in this context? “Other than statements — not much. We at the center, together with activists who collect testimonies and documentation, file complaints with the police, and nothing happens with them. Investigations are barely opened. You see that the police have no interest in dealing with this. So young people who once hesitated over whether to spit at priests say to themselves today, ‘Why not, actually?’ There are the ultra-Orthodox, for whom Christianity is idolatry; most of them ignore it, but there are also those among them who spit and curse. And there are the religious-nationalists, mainly hilltop youth with large kippahs, young people with the attitude of ‘we are the owners here and you have nothing to do in this land.’ They allow themselves to burn, smash, curse, and spit.” Rabbi Michael Henkin, one of the leaders of “the religious left,” whose members are in contact with Christian clergy in Jerusalem and the West Bank, says that a new ethos has developed in Israeli society, according to which anything perceived as different is a threat. “And every threat is perceived as deserving destruction,” he adds. “This is directed not only at Christian symbols, and is expressed not only in spitting at priests in the Old City, but also against Muslims. After all, we destroyed mosques in Gaza, and in the territories mosques are sometimes burned by hilltop youth. It is also directed against Jews. Look at what the police did to a kippah embroidered with a Palestinian flag alongside an Israeli flag. They cut it.” Bendcowsky says the big story is the impact on Christian communities: “There are about 197,000 Christians in Israel, including East Jerusalem, and most of them are not spat at and most are not attacked. But their sense of security is shaken when they see graffiti on their church. Even the video of the smashing of the statue of Jesus in Lebanon shakes them and makes them feel unwanted here. Even if it did not happen to them, or in their community, it is an Israeli soldier, and their feeling is that the attack was directed at them as well. “They feel vulnerable and threatened. I do not know a Christian family in which there is no talk of leaving — at least by the son or daughter. I do not know a family in which at least one child has not already left. It is not only the fear of attack or humiliation. Israel also makes it difficult for Christian communities to hold their religious ceremonies. Look at what happened here during the last Easter.” Enough , Accept Us At the end of March, the police prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to hold the Palm Sunday ceremony there, which opens the events of Catholic Holy Week. The war with Iran was still ongoing, and Home Front Command instructions prohibited gatherings of more than 50 people. This was the reason the festive procession usually held every year did not take place. Only the Patriarch, the Custos of the Holy Land on behalf of the Vatican, Father Francesco Ielpo, and two companions arrived at the church. According to the Church, the arrival had been coordinated in advance with the police. Nevertheless, the police prevented the Patriarch from entering, and for the first time in 100 years the religious ceremony was not held inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The entire Catholic world rose to its feet. The Prime Minister of Italy, the President of France — everyone issued condemnations, and Netanyahu was once again forced to apologize. Ten days passed, and it was the Orthodox Church’s turn to mark the beginning of Easter with Holy Saturday. What happened at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is described to us by tour guide Paniot Penioto, a Christian of Greek origin who was born, raised, and still lives in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City: “Holy Saturday is a very sacred holiday for us. It is a day that symbolizes the miracle of Jesus’ resurrection, when he rose from his tomb and returned to life. Without the Messiah rising from death, we have no religion. That is what makes him our God, and that is why this day is so sacred to us. “I am very well known in the Christian community in the Quarter, especially among the Greek Orthodox community. For 25 years, I have been the one coordinating the procession with the police, the church, the youth, and the scouts, and every year the situation deteriorates. With every passing year, we feel that we are less and less allowed to mark the holiday properly according to our traditions and rituals. These are rituals and traditions of a thousand years and more.” What is the reason? “I don’t know. We reach understandings and agreements, we close one thing in the evening, and the next day there is chaos. The police backtrack on everything we agreed. They put barriers at every corner, they do not let people enter the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, they even stop people at Jaffa Gate. There is documentation of Holy Saturday when tens of thousands would come. Thousands entered the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Today, the police approve only 2,700 people to enter the church, but out of that number they themselves bring in a thousand police officers. Under the Jordanians, there were two police officers inside the church who organized the whole day without theatrics. And not only under the Jordanians. It was like that in the past under Israeli rule as well. There are pictures of ten thousand people inside the church, standing in the courtyard, on the roof, in the alleyways. A real celebration. “Cases like this make us feel suffocated. This year, for the first time, I stood at the entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and felt that I was choking, that I could not bear this humiliation — mine, and my community’s. Enough, accept us. We Christians have lived here for 2,000 years. This is our place too. Here our Messiah was born, here he was crucified, and here he was buried. Accept our religion and our faith. What is your problem?”

Just as left-wing nominees won’t answer “What is a woman?”, right-wing nominees won’t answer easy questions like this. The first are hostages to an ideological cult, the second are hostages to a personality cult. Both major parties are now corrupt and both are grave dangers to the country. The temptation to fixate on the question which is worse, as a way to excuse the sins of the other, must be resisted. Genuine patriotism requires refusing to acquiesce to lies, sophistry, and demagoguery regardless of who they come from. Only leaders who themselves refuse to do so should be supported.

They’re forcing children to be dependent on AI so that the moment they leave school they won’t be able to survive without it. And they’re calling THAT captive marketing instead of exploitation.

@aakashgupta You're either hiding or missing the biggest part of this story, which is that Shapiro is defending genocide and Israel First, while the ones who are eclipsing him are highly critical of that.

The Daily Wire is the case study of why personality-driven media companies can't compound. Peak in late 2023: Shapiro's YouTube alone pulled 170M monthly views. Daily Wire+ subscriptions, a Nashville studio operation, Bentkey kids streaming, an e-commerce arm with razors and chocolates and cigars. The company was running a billion-dollar conservative Disney bet. Then they made the studio bet bigger. Pendragon Cycle, an Arthurian fantasy series of the kind that has bankrupted larger production houses. Bentkey trying to compete with Disney for kids' attention. Daily Wire+ chasing Netflix. Running a newsroom, a film studio, a children's streaming platform, and a private-label consumer goods business simultaneously requires either limitless capital or extraordinary discipline. Some of it worked. Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" was the top-grossing documentary of 2024. Most of it didn't. In March 2024, they parted ways with Candace Owens. She walked into the open market and built a show that competes with theirs. Today she has 5.5M YouTube subscribers and added 10.9M followers across platforms since January 2025, generating roughly 805M views in that window. Daily Wire converted its biggest distribution asset into its largest competitor. Early 2025, co-founder Jeremy Boreing stepped down as co-CEO and launched a solo podcast outside the company he co-founded. Bentkey was shuttered the same year. Entire team cut. Then the audience math hit Shapiro himself. 170M monthly YouTube views in late 2023 to roughly 22M in early 2026. An 85% collapse in 18 months. Another 60K subscribers gone in the last 90 days alone. Layoffhedge.com estimates cumulative workforce reduction above 60% over the past year. Tucker Carlson left Fox in 2023, kept his audience, runs his shop with a fraction of the headcount. Megyn Kelly's network drew 138M YouTube views in February alone. The personalities figured out they don't need the platform. The platform discovered the opposite. Daily Wire built a billion-dollar valuation on names that can walk, take the audience with them, and run a competing show from a laptop the next morning. 170M views to 22M. The company kept the overhead. The audience left with the people.

@pamvonhadder Yeah I filled mine with toys. Didn't get further than the median, though 😂

The childhood dream to pull one of these and leave the house mysteriously