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Phil Cooke is a strategic advisor to church, nonprofit, and media leaders navigating the intersection of faith, culture, and high-stakes public visibility.

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Phil Cooke
Phil Cooke@PhilCooke·
Worth the read. This is spot on:
Brivael Le Pogam@brivael

Je veux présenter mes excuses, au nom des Français, pour avoir enfanté la French Theory (qui a enfanté la pire des merdes idéologiques : le wokisme). Nous avons donné au monde Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Et puis, dans les ruines intellectuelles de l'après-68, nous avons donné Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Trois hommes brillants qui ont fabriqué, dans l'élégance de notre langue, l'arme idéologique qui paralyse aujourd'hui l'Occident. Il faut comprendre ce qu'ils ont fait. Foucault a enseigné que la vérité n'existe pas, qu'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir. Que la science, la raison, la justice, l'institution médicale, l'école, la prison, la sexualité, tout n'est qu'une mise en scène de la domination. Derrida a enseigné que les textes n'ont pas de sens stable, que tout signifiant glisse, que toute lecture est une trahison, que l'auteur est mort et que le lecteur règne. Deleuze a enseigné qu'il fallait préférer le rhizome à l'arbre, le nomade au sédentaire, le désir à la loi, le devenir à l'être, la différence à l'identité. Pris isolément, ce sont des thèses discutables. Combinées, exportées, vulgarisées, elles forment un système. Et ce système est un poison. Car voici ce qui s'est passé. Ces textes, illisibles en France, ont traversé l'Atlantique. Les départements de Yale, de Berkeley, de Columbia les ont absorbés dans les années 80. Ils y ont trouvé un terreau qui n'existait pas chez nous : le puritanisme américain, sa culpabilité raciale, son obsession identitaire. La French Theory s'est mariée à ce substrat, et l'enfant de ce mariage s'appelle le wokisme. Judith Butler lit Foucault et invente le genre performatif. Edward Said lit Foucault et invente le post-colonialisme académique. Kimberlé Crenshaw hérite du cadre et invente l'intersectionnalité. À chaque étape, la matrice est française : il n'y a pas de vérité, il n'y a que du pouvoir, donc toute hiérarchie est suspecte, toute institution est oppressive, toute norme est violence, toute identité est construite donc négociable, toute majorité est coupable. Voilà comment trois philosophes parisiens, qui n'ont probablement jamais imaginé leurs conséquences pratiques, ont fourni le logiciel d'exploitation à une génération entière d'activistes, de bureaucrates universitaires, de DRH, de journalistes, de législateurs. Voilà comment on a obtenu une civilisation qui ne sait plus dire si une femme est une femme, si sa propre histoire mérite d'être défendue, si le mérite existe, si la vérité se distingue de l'opinion. C'est de la merde pour une raison simple, et il faut la dire calmement. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers : la croyance qu'il existe une vérité accessible à la raison, la croyance qu'il existe un bien distinct du mal, la croyance qu'il existe un héritage à transmettre. La French Theory a entrepris de dynamiter les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui les avait nourris. Mais le résultat est là. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Une génération entière sait soupçonner et ne sait plus admirer. Une génération entière voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part. Je m'excuse parce que nous, Français, avons une responsabilité particulière. C'est notre langue, nos universités, nos éditeurs, notre prestige qui ont donné à ce nihilisme son emballage chic. Sans la légitimité de la Sorbonne et de Vincennes, ces idées n'auraient jamais traversé l'océan. Nous avons exporté le doute comme d'autres exportent des armes. Ce qui se construit maintenant, en silicon valley, dans les labos d'IA, dans les startups, dans les ateliers, dans tous les lieux où des gens fabriquent encore des choses au lieu de les déconstruire, c'est la réponse. Une civilisation se reconstruit par les bâtisseurs, pas par les commentateurs. Par ceux qui croient que la vérité existe et qu'elle vaut qu'on s'y consacre. Par ceux qui assument une hiérarchie du beau, du vrai, du bon, et qui n'ont pas honte de la transmettre. Alors pardon. Et au travail.

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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
Well said
Brivael Le Pogam@brivael

Tu confonds deux choses, et c'est exactement le piège que la French Theory a tendu. Liberté, égalité, fraternité — égalité *de droits*, égalité *devant la loi*, égalité *de dignité*. C'est la promesse républicaine, et personne ici ne l'attaque. Le wokisme, ce n'est pas ça. C'est l'égalitarisme des résultats. Et l'égalitarisme des résultats, contrairement à l'égalité des droits, n'est pas un élargissement de la liberté — c'est sa négation. Quelques exemples concrets : — San Francisco supprime les classes de maths avancées au collège pour "réduire les inégalités". Résultat : les écarts entre élèves explosent, les familles aisées prennent des cours privés, les pauvres se font enterrer. L'égalitarisme a creusé l'inégalité. — Les politiques de discrimination positive à Harvard : étudiants admis avec des scores très en dessous de leurs camarades, taux d'échec dispropportionné, sentiment d'imposture, ressentiment généralisé. On a saboté ceux qu'on voulait aider. — L'aide humanitaire qui distribue du riz gratuit pendant 30 ans en Afrique : effondrement des filières agricoles locales, dépendance institutionnalisée. Donner un poisson, c'est empêcher d'apprendre à pêcher. Le wokisme ne détruit pas l'humanité dans le sens dramatique. Il fait pire : il dessert systématiquement ceux qu'il prétend protéger, et il génère du ressentiment des deux côtés — ceux qu'on infantilise et ceux qu'on culpabilise. La fraternité républicaine dit : tu es mon égal, donc je te traite en adulte capable. Le wokisme dit : tu es ma victime, donc je dois te protéger de toi-même. L'un élève. L'autre infantilise. Ce n'est pas la même chose, et confondre les deux est exactement le tour de passe-passe qu'on dénonce.

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Handre@Handre·
The Gracchi brothers destroyed Rome's property rights in 133 BC, then wondered why their republic collapsed within a century. Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus seized private land through legislative force, redistributing it to landless citizens under the banner of "reform." They created the template for every socialist redistribution scheme that followed. Rome's wealthy families had legitimately acquired vast estates (latifundia) through conquest, purchase, and development. The land generated wealth, employed thousands, and fed the empire. The Gracchi saw inequality and decided government theft would solve it. Tiberius bypassed the Senate entirely, appealing directly to popular assemblies who voted themselves other people's property. When senators objected to this constitutional violation, Tiberius had his colleague Octavius deposed. Pure mob rule. The economic consequences arrived swiftly. Landowners stopped investing in improvements, knowing politicians could seize their property at will. Agricultural productivity declined as redistributed plots went to inexperienced farmers who lacked capital for proper cultivation. Food shortages followed. The Gracchi had broken the link between productive effort and reward, destroying incentives across the entire system. Worse than the economic damage was the political precedent. Future demagogues learned they could buy votes by promising to redistribute wealth from productive citizens to political supporters. Marius, Sulla, Pompey, and Caesar all followed the Gracchi playbook, using land redistribution to build personal armies of grateful beneficiaries. Property rights form the foundation of civilization itself. When politicians can seize private property through majority vote, you get warlords fighting over the spoils while your economy burns.
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X Freeze
X Freeze@XFreeze·
Woke is a death cult that executes common sense and devours anyone who tells the truth It spreads insanity like a plague and turns mental illness into the new standard Worst of all, it has turned pure evil into a religion and demands we worship it
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Jeremy Wayne Tate
Jeremy Wayne Tate@JeremyTate41·
I am not a policy wonk, but seems like normie Britts want their country back
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Phil Cooke@PhilCooke·
You gotta admit that “asthma resort” is pretty good marketing…
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🇺🇸 Thomas A. Whitaker
The UK just deployed a political weapon it's only used once before in modern history. And nobody is talking about what it just backfired into. 🚨 🚨 🚨 KEIR STARMER BANNED FOREIGN JOURNALISTS FROM ENGLAND TO STOP A RALLY → IT PRODUCED THE LARGEST ANTI-GOVERNMENT MARCH IN YEARS 🚨 🚨 🚨 The Home Office issued entry bans on 11 foreign nationals ahead of the 16 May 'Unite the Kingdom' rally in central London. Rebel News founder Ezra Levant. Multiple journalists. Commentators. Banned from the country. To stop a march. Metropolitan Police deployed 4,000+ officers. Live facial recognition. Drones. Dogs. Horses. The result: tens of thousands — some estimates reaching hundreds of thousands — flooding the streets of London anyway. THE WEAPON: → UK Home Office entry bans — 11 foreign nationals barred from the country → Prime Minister publicly labeled the rally "extremist" and "hatred and division" → Starmer framed it as "a battle for the soul of our nation" in direct pre-rally statements → Police mobilized at a scale typically reserved for state visits or terror threats → Live facial recognition deployed across central London → Rival pro-Palestine march simultaneously permitted on the same day → Metropolitan Police prepared for 50,000 — the actual crowd exceeded preparation → Government rhetoric amplified international media attention across the US and Europe THE TARGET: → A march organized around "national unity, free speech, and Christian values" → Organized weeks after Reform UK seized 1,350+ council seats and control of 13 councils in the 8 May local elections → Reform's gains came primarily at Labour's direct expense — Essex, Sunderland, council after council THE MATH: → Reform UK: 1,350+ seats gained in a single election cycle → 13 councils flipped — including Essex with 42 seats → Starmer's response: ban journalists, deploy 4,000 officers, call the march extremist → Outcome: the bans became the story, the march became a symbol, and the streets filled anyway Read that again. 💀 Every ban Starmer issued handed organizers a government-censorship narrative 💀 Every officer deployed turned a political rally into a national confrontation 💀 The suppression didn't shrink the movement — it advertised it ⚠️ Reform just proved it can win elections. The march proved it can also fill streets. ⚠️ Starmer called it "a battle for the soul of our nation" — and then lost the visual battle on live television ⚠️ This isn't a fringe moment. This is what a political realignment looks like in the streets. They're showing you the arrests and the police lines. They're NOT showing you what this sequence actually means — a government that just lost 1,350 council seats in one night responded to the aftermath by banning journalists and calling a march extremist, and the streets answered with the largest visible opposition mobilization in years. You don't ban foreign journalists to stop a fringe event. You ban foreign journalists when you're afraid of what the footage will show. And you only deploy 4,000 officers with drones and facial recognition when you already know the crowd is going to be too large to ignore. Process that. Most people won't see this. RT to change that. 🔥 I'll keep you updated as this unfolds, turn on notifications this is EXTREMELY important.
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Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸
Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸@JerryDunleavy·
NEW: Obama went on Colbert’s show to decry the politicization of the DOJ under Trump. I lay out here, in the most comprehensive piece ever written on this topic, how Obama helped Hillary dodge prosecution and how Obama helped launch the Russiagate saga. justthenews.com/government/whi…
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The Vigilant Fox 🦊
The Vigilant Fox 🦊@VigilantFox·
Bill Maher just dedicated the end of his show to throwing his own party under the bus for defending every minority group except Jews. “There is a frothing anxiousness for the literal extermination of this one group. And Democrats, where are you?” “If any other minority group was being talked about this way, you’d break out the Kente cloth and have 10 benefit concerts.” “But because you see that so many of your brainwashed-by-TikTok constituents now have an unfavorable view of Israel, you indulge them when you should be correcting them.” “All the people likely running for president now on the Democratic side want it known they don’t take money from AIPAC, the Israeli lobby… You take money from crypto and factory farmers and big tech, from Diddy and Weinstein and Epstein, but AIPAC is too far?” “Let me just say this to all who ask me, ‘Why are you harder on the Democrats than you used to be?’ Until you fix this whole issue, stop asking me.”
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Defiant L’s
Defiant L’s@DefiantLs·
CNN: Blue cities are out of control across the country In La the"homelessness budget was $950M. Yet homelessness surged 80%"
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Joel Berry
Joel Berry@JoelWBerry·
No screaming. No fires. No broken glass. No threats, or machetes, or chants of “Allahu Akbar.” Just well-mannered, civilized Brits working to save their country from barbarism.
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Thomas Sowell Daily
Thomas Sowell Daily@DailySowell·
“Anyone who studied history knows that for the first 150 years of this country the federal government did not intervene when the economy turned down. And all that time the downturns all corrected themselves.” — Thomas Sowell
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Anish Moonka
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
Charles Dickens fought his depression by walking through London at night. One October he set out at 2 in the morning and walked 30 miles, all the way to his country home in Kent. In 1860 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 150 years to catch up. Dickens called his bad spells "spectres." They came back every time he started a new novel and sometimes hung on for months. His mood would fall apart, his sleep would collapse, and the only thing that pulled him out was walking. He explained his method in an essay called "Night Walks," published on July 21, 1860 in his weekly magazine All the Year Round. He had tried fighting his insomnia from bed and lost. So he changed the plan. The fix, he wrote, was "getting up directly after lying down, and going out, and coming home tired at sunrise." A worried mind cannot fix itself by worrying more in bed. You have to get up and move. Most nights he walked 12 to 20 miles. A friend called it "violent walking." Dickens wrote that on these walks his wandering self had "many miles upon miles of streets in which it could, and did, have its own solitary way." Today, walking is one of the most powerful tools doctors have against depression. In 2012 a team of researchers pulled together eight high-quality studies of walking as a depression treatment. The effect was as strong as the antidepressants doctors actually prescribe. The biggest test came from Duke University. The SMILE study took 202 adults with serious depression and split them into four groups: supervised exercise, home exercise, the drug Zoloft, or a placebo pill. After 16 weeks, the people who exercised did just as well as the people on Zoloft. A 2024 review of 75 studies covering 8,636 patients confirmed it. Walking should be one of the first things doctors try. The reason is the thing Dickens stumbled onto in the dark. Depression runs on rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches. In 2015 Stanford researchers scanned people's brains before and after a 90-minute walk in a quiet park. The walkers had less activity in a part of the brain called the subgenual prefrontal cortex. That spot, deep behind your forehead, is the brain's worry loop. After the walk, the worry loop got quieter. The walkers said they felt less stuck inside their own heads. The brain scans agreed. A walking body shuts up a noisy mind. The street takes attention, the walking rhythm fills the head, and the dark spells lose their grip. Dickens called the streets his cure because they gave his brain somewhere else to be. The science 150 years later says he had it right. Depression hates a brain that is moving.
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John Cleese
John Cleese@JohnCleese·
To those of us who think that a civil war is brewing in Britain, it seems that this kind of appeasement merely postpones the start of it Maybe Labour are hoping they'll be out of power by then
Inevitable West@Inevitablewest

He was Russel group university student. He had his whole life ahead of him. But he was stabbed to death by a foreigner. He could have survived, but died in handcuffs, arrested, after his attacker falsely claimed he was "racist" to him. The media is silent on this story.

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Mike Netter
Mike Netter@nettermike·
Tomi Lahren just named the exact reason Gavin Newsom is paying 50 cents per diaper when Target charges 16 cents — the $20 million contract has to launder the money through his wife’s nonprofit network. Eric Daugherty surfaced the segment and Steve Hilton ran the math. Newsom’s office announced $20 million of California taxpayer money to send 100,000 babies 400 diapers each at 50 cents per diaper. The funds are going to a Los Angeles nonprofit called Baby2Baby. Baby2Baby’s co-CEO Norah Weinstein also sits on the board of California Partners Project, the nonprofit run by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the First Lady of California. Tomi Lahren explained: “They have to launder the money through the nonprofit that is not only filled with Newsom’s wife’s pals but Democrat donor pals and Hollywood elites. Anytime you see nonprofit, you should be very, very skeptical. If they really wanted to help out mothers, they would do it in the most cost-effective way possible. They would find a way to give vouchers or coupons. But they had to do it through Baby2Baby, through their friends and their pals and through co-CEO Norah Weinstein who also serves on the board of Jennifer Newsom’s California Partners Project.” This is the modern Democrat fundraising ecosystem in one transaction. The state writes a $20 million check that goes to a nonprofit whose co-CEO sits on the First Lady’s separate nonprofit. Mothers end up with the same diapers they could have bought at Target — at roughly 3x the unit cost. The other roughly $14 million of markup disappears into salaries, overhead, and the political-donor network that powers California Democrats. Tomi Lahren just laid out the entire Newsom grift in 90 seconds — and the math was Steve Hilton’s.
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