Patrick Ney

I will be hosting the StartSmart CEE and @MIT AI Summit this coming Monday. See you there!

@Newsforce I loved working on this episode. Diving deep into the origins of the revolution gives a totally different perspective on the regime today.

🚨 WHAT JUST HAPPENED?! CARDBOARD AYATOLLAH & THE NEW REGIME A dead Supreme Leader. A son rushed into power. A regime trying to survive missiles, panic, and its own contradictions. @paddyney breaks down who Mojtaba Khamenei is, how Iran got here, and why this succession crisis could have huge consequences far beyond Tehran. 00:00 - The strike that changed Iran 00:51 - The new Ayatollah 02:14 - How Iran got here 04:18 - The Shah, SAVAK, and the system before 1979 07:35 - How Khomeini sold the revolution 09:51 - The revolution’s bait and switch 12:00 - Mojtaba’s credential problem 14:12 - Meet the new boss 16:21 - How the revolution became a monarchy again 17:30 - Closing thoughts on Mojtaba’s burning inheritance

@Tangul_Bei @NBCNews O rly

@paddyney @NBCNews Taxes have nothing to do with it

A generation ago, Poland rationed sugar and flour while its citizens were paid one-tenth what West Germans earned. Today its economy has edged past Switzerland to become the world’s 20th largest with over $1 trillion in annual output. nbcnews.com/business/econo…

When you look below the surface, what just happened in Iran is the Ayatollah just became the Shah. Cut through the noise and get the context modern media misses with @Newsforce’s new show, “What Just Happened?”

@tu_Peregrinare @NBCNews Im talking about the past 35 years overall. Social spending went up only recently. CIT rather than PIT

@paddyney @NBCNews Social spending is at 23% of GDP. Above the OECD average but below Nordic levels... Personal income taxes top 32%...

@JosephStec @NBCNews Yes. Low CIT PIT is a different matter

@paddyney @NBCNews Low tax? 😂

@WbrewNiemcom @Newsforce Ktory?!

@paddyney @Newsforce Kiedy film będzie można zobaczyć online?

I am thrilled to have joined @Newsforce a rapidly growing real-time, real-people news channel. I’ll be hosting a show that gives the context the mainstream media misses. Huge thanks to the NF team for their trust. Watch this space!

@engcathedrals Childish

The Association of English Cathedrals will not now be active on X. We’re incredibly grateful to all our followers for all the support and connections we’ve made over the years. As the AEC thrives and grows, you can find us over Bluesky, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram. Follow us there and thank you for your support!

❤️🇵🇱 Don't ever mess with the Poles, otherwise they will mercilessly chit-chat you.

@thewardoll 35 dollars for a patch?!

"Godfrey, ablaze with furious anger, prepared to return the blow and thus aimed for his neck. He raised his sword and plunged it into the left side of his enemies shoulder blades with such force that it split the chest down the middle, slashed through the spine and vital organs and, slippery with blood, came out unbroken above the right leg. As a result, the whole of the head and the right side slipped down into the water, whilst the part remaining on the horse was carried back into the city. All those inside rushed together to see this horrible sight, and were struck with amazement, panic and fear, overcome with terror; here there were screams like those of a woman in labor, their voices raised in misery, because he had been one of their emirs." - An excerpt on Godfrey of Bouillon, the First Crusade (Defenders of the West by Raymond Ibrahim) Though he died at the age of only 40 years old, his legacy has lived on for over a thousand years. Though he did not live to see it, his campaign created a peaceful and stable existence for those living in the Kingdom of Jerusalem for over 200 years. Though he could never have imagined it, his military campaign would be the catalyst for 8 more Crusades that would be the only defensive bulwark against lslamic aggression. There is a greek proverb that says, "A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit." and that is why I have such reverence for the history and the man that is Godfrey of Bouillon. It's also why I wear this patch on my kit. It's a reminder, that like Godfrey, we are made to spend ourselves - our blood, our sweat and our tears, for the sake of others. Godfrey's Jerusalem Cross patches at war-doll.com/store 🏴

@ArkadyRzegocki @posklondon Pełna zgoda!

Bardzo zasłużona instytucja. Będąc w Londynie warto odwiedzić @posklondon oraz Instytut J. Piłsudskiego 👇🇵🇱🇬🇧

@Telegraph Surely we must look into Anti Zionist Hostility? (AZH)

🔴 Parliamentary watchdog could investigate hard-Left MP’s social media posts Find out more at the link below ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…

@AKorybko Thank you. Very interesting

Why Do More Russians Perceive Poland To Be An Enemy Than They Do Any Other Country? (link below)

@EchoesofEmpire_ We Neys never surrender

In 1812, following the battle of Krasny, Marshal Ney and 3000 men were cut off by 60,000 Russians. After trying to force their lines, they crossed the Dniepr river and covered 90 km of open ground, surrounded by cossacks and rejecting 3 offers to surrender. 800 men rejoined the army. Art Adolphe Yvon

@TRUMP_ARMY_ AI post

🚨 WATCH: In an emotional video, a young Iranian who barely made it across the border into Turkey has delivered a gut-wrenching eyewitness account that's sending shockwaves worldwide. He says the outside world has no real grasp of the horror unfolding inside Iran right now. This isn't about arrests. This isn't about beatings. This is about deliberate killings—cold, calculated executions on the streets. Protesters are being shot straight in the chest, point-blank. No warning shots. No stray bullets. No accidents. Over and over again, with lethal intent. The death tolls trickling out online? According to him, they're nowhere near the truth. The real numbers are far higher—bodies vanish into mass graves, hospitals are raided to finish off the wounded, and corpses are stacked and hidden to erase the evidence. Families are terrified into silence. They beg for their loved ones' remains, sometimes forced to pay for the very bullets that killed them, then warned never to speak. Fear seals every mouth.Inside Iran, people can't cry out without risking the same fate. Outside, the world sees only fragments—filtered, delayed, minimized. That enforced silence is the regime's most powerful weapon right now. It lets the killing continue unchecked while the rest of the planet looks away. The refugee's plea cuts through it: the scale of this bloodshed is being buried alive. And until the world forces its eyes open, the true carnage stays hidden in the shadows.

@InvestUpX_Trade @Mr_Husky1 AI comment

@Mr_Husky1 Walking out was the ultimate power move. It’s amazing how fast 'store policy' changes when they realize they’re about to waste a whole sandwich over two slices of tomato. Business 101: Don't lose a customer over 5 cents of produce."

I walked into an empty Subway to purchase a sandwich.. I asked for tomatoes, and the employee puts two on my sandwich, so I asked for more, and she states she’s given me the allotted amount of tomatoes per sandwich.. So, I tell her I’m no longer interested in the sandwich and proceed to leave.. Needless to say, I got my extra tomatoes, and as I was leaving, it made total sense why that Subway was completely empty.. 🙄

@natecooley @bandy1803 He kills the child at the end.

This passage brings up something about Blood Meridian I've thought about more than anything else in the book. Does the kid ever actually kill anybody? For as violent and brutal as the Glanton gang is, is the kid ever explicitly described as killing another person? Does the text ever explicitly state that the kid kills anybody? Surprisingly, not really; or at least, it's sorta ambiguous, and I think it's not only intentional by Cormac but incredibly important to the book's overall theme and symbology. Early in the book, on his way to New Orleans, Galveston, and Nacogdoches, the kid engages in violence (fighting) and is shot, but he doesn't kill anybody. Then, in the filibuster expedition, the kid is present for battles and violence, but again, he is not described as killing anybody. During the meat of the story when the kid is throwed in with the Glanton gang, the gang collectively and most of the gang members individually are described as killing and engaging in brutally violent acts. The kid though is hardly ever described as he himself committing violence individually. During this period of mass slaughter, scalp hunting, and atrocities, the narrative voice often shifts to collective descriptions of violence: "They rode down the villagers ... the wailing of the women ... the infants hacked and skewered." The violence is panoramic. The Kid rides and fights among the gang and their victims, but McCarthy never isolates the kid's actions as personally murderous. To be clear, the kid participates in massacres (at least by presence and association), but the text’s restraint on direct attribution seems intentional; the kid is complicit but not concretely identified individually as a killer. In the desert fights (e.g., Yuma crossing, skirmishes with Apaches, etc.), the text continues with the same ambiguity with regard to the kid. This all leads to the climax when he has the chance to kill Judge Holden but he shrinks. I have a theory on why the kid is never explicitly described as committing violence individually. I'm still working through it though. If I'm wrong too, and the text does explicitly state that the kids kills another man, please point it out to me.

The kid was lying on his belly holding the big Walker revolver in both hands and letting off the shots slowly and with care as if he’d done it all before in a dream. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian