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“Free Palestine.” I grew up on those words. In Lebanon, most people around me wanted a free Palestine for a very practical reason — to send the Palestinian refugees back. The civil war that tore my country apart was ignited in no small part by the Palestinian armed factions who turned Lebanon into their launching pad. “Free Palestine” meant: free us from them. In Damascus, where my father’s family lived, the sentiment was different but equally self-serving. Palestine must be returned to the Arabs, its righteous owners. No one asked follow-up questions. No one was expected to. Palestine was central to Islam, most Arabs are Muslim, therefore supporting the Palestinian cause was reflexive. A non-brainer in the most literal sense — no brain engaged at all. Nobody stopped to point out that Palestine is not an Arabic word. Nobody found it strange that Jerusalem, the supposedly third holiest city in Islam, is not mentioned once in the Quran. Not once. Nor is Palestine. The entire theological and political architecture of this cause rests on a foundation that their own scripture doesn’t bother to acknowledge. What was actually happening was indoctrination. A systematic, generational rejection of Jewish sovereignty — and frankly, of any minority sovereignty. Jews, Christians, Druze, Kurds, Assyrians, Yazidis — the Arab world has been remarkably consistent in how it treats people who are different. We just don’t talk about that. Instead, in the West, we talk about Palestine. In the West, a civilization that has elevated human rights to its highest moral currency, the Palestinian cause has become the one exception to every rule. In the queue of human suffering, Palestinians cut the line every time. Homosexuals executed in Gaza and hanged from cranes in Iran? Palestine first. Women imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for campaigning for the right to drive — a right they were denied until 2018 — girls sold into marriage in Afghanistan, women erased from public life entirely under the Taliban? After Palestine. Political dissidents ground into dust in Syrian and Egyptian prisons, journalists disappeared in Libya, children starving in Yemen while their rulers wage proxy wars, entire populations hollowed out by hunger in Sudan? All of it waits. Christians ethnically cleansed from Iraq and Syria, the Arab world methodically emptied of every Jewish community it once held — a demographic erasure carried out across a century with surgical patience and near-total Western silence? Palestine is still first. So let’s end where we started. Free Palestine. Which Palestine, exactly? The Roman invention? The British administrative line? The British Mandate covered the entire territory of what is today Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan. In 1921, 78% of that mandate was handed to the Hashemite family — a dynasty imported from Hijaz in present-day Saudi Arabia — and became the Kingdom of Jordan, which it remains to this day. A foreign royal family, on the majority of historic Palestine, ruling it as a monarchy. Nobody protests that. No flags, no chants, no encampments. The remaining 22% was designated for the Jews, became Israel, and is the only part that any pro-Palestinian activist has ever had a problem with. So when you say Free Palestine, you mean that 22%. You mean the Jews. And free it from whom? From a people with a three-thousand-year-old documented presence in that land, to restore the glory of a name coined by Roman colonizers, a name lifted from the Torah, a name that has no roots in Arabic, no mention in the Quran, and no history as a sovereign state? You are not chanting for liberation. You are chanting for colonialism — the Roman kind, repackaged for social media. Free Palestine is not a cause. It is a colonial term, coined by invaders, recycled by the indoctrinated. The least you can do is have the intelligence to understand it and the decency to reflect on your position. 📍#Israel

진짜 화나는 건, 이 “오리입 질경” 디자인이 거의 180년 전 만들어진 거라는 점임. 그리고 더 빡치는 건 그 탄생 배경. 1845년 미국 의사 제임스 매리언 심스가 흑인 여성 노예들을 마취도 없이 반복적으로 생체실험하면서 만든 도구가 지금까지 표준처럼 쓰이고 있다는 거. 당시엔 이미 마취제가 존재했는데도 “흑인은 고통을 덜 느낀다”는 인종차별 논리로 여성들 몸을 실험대처럼 사용했고, 그 과정에서 나온 게 지금의 금속 질경 디자인임. 근데 문제는 2020년대가 된 지금도 본질이 별로 안 바뀌었다는 거. 환자가 얼마나 차갑고 아픈지, 얼마나 수치스럽고 긴장되는지는 뒷전이고, “의사가 보기 편하다” “병원이 비용 적게 든다” 이 이유로 그대로 유지돼온 거잖아. 실제로 여성 디자이너들이 통증 줄인 실리콘 질경, 꽃잎처럼 부드럽게 펼쳐지는 디자인 같은 대안을 계속 내놓고 있는데도, 의료계는 “기존 것도 되는데 굳이?” 하면서 변화 속도 엄청 느림. 결국 여성들이 수십 년 동안 말해온 “아프다” “무섭다” “검사 자체가 트라우마다” 이 목소리가 의료 시스템 안에서는 너무 쉽게 사소한 불편 정도로 취급돼왔다는 게 제일 답답함.

Interesting way of writing "his penis"

This is the point that needs now loudly to be made. Women were told, "use a lockable cubicle if you wish to avoid the blokes". Now that men are once again required to use the men's, trans-claiming men should be told "use a lockable cubicle if you wish to avoid the blokes". Karma.

@TracyEdwardsMBE @blablafishcakes @IsleLesbos I don’t even think she made it into the box.

@blablafishcakes @IsleLesbos I don't think she's the sharpest tool in the box

Oh Stella. The incident you describe here in your video was, at best, part of this man's humiliation and/or urine fetish, and you fully took part in it. Ever get the feeling you've been had?

MAJOR EXCLUSIVE: Bondi shooter Sajid Akram was the subject of two National Security Hotline tip-offs — in 2007 and 2014 — placing him on the radar of authorities almost two decades before the Bondi terror attack. It’s understood that both of the tip-offs to the National Security Hotline were received, triaged and passed onto ASIO and the Australian Federal Police. The tip-offs were discovered in classified files in the wake of the Bondi Chanukah massacre. More details on my Sky News program TONIGHT at 8pm. skynews.com.au/australia-news…

For anyone who missed this compilation (major props to the person who compiled this), this is the TQ+ movement, in all its glory. Do watch. They don’t want you to see this, so please DON’T upset them by RTING it. You’ll hear the histrionic conniptions from Waikiki…

Please stop scrolling and read this: This child was groomed aged 12. In November 2004 (aged 14–15) she was taken to a hotel room, plied with alcohol, and raped during an “Eid party.” When the gang had finished, they threw curry powder over the girl and left. The police managed to bring a charge against just one of the gang, even though there was CCTV evidence of the gang escorting the child in to the hotel. But just one day before the trial was due to start, the CPS dropped the case. The Muslim London transport bombing had taken place 3 months before the trial date and anti Muslim hate was on the rise. I accuse the Blair government of dropping the trial for political reasons. This family are still fighting for justice, please sign their petition now. #sign" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7672…

Israel produced forensic evidence, videos, and 1000s of photos documenting the sexual violence of Oct 7. The world stayed silent. A handful of activists get off a boat making up sexual abuse claims against Israel. And it becomes headline news. Make it make sense.

I have refrained from talking about Henry Nowak so far because I was too angry. I remain too angry. I'm angry at the scumbag who stabbed an 18-year-old boy to death. Who drove a blade into the back of his legs to stop him from running, then finished him by skewering him through the chest with an 8-inch blade. All while that poor boy tried desperately to escape. I'm angry that the same scumbag then cried "racism" to cover his tracks, claiming self-defence after pursuing and butchering an innocent boy who just wanted to get home. I'm angry at the parents who tried to hide the murder weapon and shield their killer son from justice, putting blood loyalty above any sense of right and wrong. I'm angry at the police who handcuffed a bleeding teenager while he cried "I'm dying" and "I can't breathe," and let him bleed out in the street. All because his attacker cried racism. I'm angry at the judge who has introduced manslaughter as an alternative verdict before the jury even had a chance to decide. Robbing Henry's family of the proper verdict on what was clearly cold-blooded murder. I'm angry at a nation that grants religious exemptions so minorities can carry deadly blades in public while locking up natives for far less. A nation that has opened the floodgates to migrants who want us dead and now watches its own young bleed out in the name of "diversity." I'm angry that we've allowed it to happen. I'm angry.

This case strikes me as extraordinary, both for the police behaviour and judge's apparent direction to the jury. Carrying an 8" knife is illegal with very limited exceptions which do not include "self defence". The Criminal Justice Act makes that plain, and the Sentencing Council says in terms "carrying a knife or other weapon for protection is not a lawful reason. " The Attorney General should be reviewing both this case and the case of the two teenage rapists ASAP. I don't know what is happening with our justice system at the moment, and I am not alone in that concern. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐃: 𝐎𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 𝐓𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐢 𝐇𝐚𝐬 𝟖𝟏𝟓 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐈𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union can reveal that Oranga Tamariki has 815 more staff than children in care, with 4,822.4 FTE staff and 135 contractors, compared to 4,142 children in care. The Official Information Act request also shows: In December 2025, 32 children aged 6 to 16 were not enrolled in a school, while 510 records could not be matched to a school enrolment. In 2025 there were also 995 missing instances lasting at least 48 hours, involving 414 children in care. Taxpayers’ Union Investigative Lead, Rhys Hurley, said: “OT now has more staff and contractors than children in care. That is 1,512 more staff than in 2017, yet vulnerable kids are still going missing and falling through the cracks.” “When an agency has 815 more staff and contractors than kids in care, taxpayers are right to ask what all those people are actually doing.” “With 1.2 staff for every child in care, there is no excuse for children going missing for days or not being enrolled in school. Keeping these kids safe and in education is the bare minimum.” “The answer cannot always be more money, more staff, and more bureaucracy. At some point, taxpayers need to ask whether this agency is actually focused on children or growing the bureaucracy around them.”

'Take your BBC pension, salvage whatever shred of morality you can muster from the depths of your sorry little life and disappear from public life forever.' @BenLeo slams reports that disgraced former BBC presenter Huw Edwards is in talks to front a Channel 4 documentary.

Follow the logic. Women are deluded and naive for thinking predatory and violent men can be kept out of women-only spaces. ‘They can rape you anywhere.’ However, trans-identified men can only be safe in women-only spaces, because no abuser would ever follow them in there.

A University of Kentucky epidemiologist convinced 678 Catholic nuns to donate their brains and their entire life records to science, and the autopsies he performed quietly rewrote everything modern medicine thought it knew about Alzheimer's disease. The findings have been published in JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine. Almost nobody outside the field of neurology has heard of them. His name was David Snowdon. He was a young epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in 1986 when he had what most of his colleagues considered a crazy idea. He wanted to study Alzheimer's disease the way it had never been studied before. Not through brain scans of confused 80-year-olds in a hospital. Not through self-reported family histories. He wanted to find a group of people whose entire lives were on paper, from their twenties to their deathbeds, and then look inside their brains after they died and see what the autopsies actually showed. He chose 678 Catholic sisters from the School Sisters of Notre Dame congregation. The choice was not random. Nuns lived almost identical lifestyles. Same diet. Same housing. Same daily schedule. Same medical care. No smoking. No drinking. No pregnancies confounding the hormonal data. They were, statistically speaking, the cleanest research population on Earth. And they had something no other study population had ever offered. Their entire lives were already documented. Every nun in the order had written a one-to-two-page autobiography in her early twenties, before taking her final vows. The essays had been sitting in convent archives for 60 years, untouched, waiting to be discovered. Then Snowdon did the part most researchers would never have agreed to. He asked the nuns, in person, one at a time, if they would donate their brains to science after they died. They said yes. All of them. The study ran for over 25 years. Annual cognitive tests. Annual physical exams. Detailed medical records. And at the moment of death, every single brain was carefully removed and analyzed under a microscope. The findings broke modern neuroscience. The first thing the autopsies showed was that many of the nuns had brains riddled with the classic plaques and tangles of full-blown Alzheimer's disease. Severe damage. The kind of damage that, in any other patient, would have produced complete dementia. But while they were alive, these particular nuns had shown no symptoms at all. They had stayed sharp until the day they died. They had taught classes. They had run errands. They had recognized everyone. Their brains were destroyed. Their minds were intact. Something was protecting them that nobody had ever measured before. Snowdon called it cognitive reserve. The brain, he argued, can absorb extraordinary amounts of damage without showing symptoms, as long as it has been built thick enough beforehand. The nuns who stayed sharp had brains that had been so well-developed over a lifetime of learning, teaching, reading, and thinking that they could afford to lose huge sections of tissue and still keep functioning. Then he found the second thing. The one that made the study famous. He pulled the autobiographies out of the archives. The essays written by the same nuns 60 years earlier, when they were 22 years old. He measured a single linguistic feature called idea density. How many distinct ideas a writer packed into each ten words of prose. Not vocabulary. Not grammar. Not style. Just the raw informational compression of a young mind. The result was so clean it should be illegal to ignore. The nuns who had the lowest idea density at age 22 were 59 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's by age 85 than the nuns who had the highest idea density. Snowdon could predict with roughly 80 to 90 percent accuracy who would develop dementia 60 years before it happened, from a single essay written before the woman had even taken her vows. The detail that should disturb every adult reading this is what happened when the researchers controlled for the obvious objections. When they controlled for education, the effect held. When they controlled for occupation, the effect held. When they controlled for the age at which the nun entered the convent, the effect held. The cognitive complexity of the 22-year-old mind, measured in a single autobiographical paragraph, was a stronger predictor of Alzheimer's six decades later than any other variable Snowdon could find. Then he ran the second analysis. The one that almost nobody quotes. He measured the emotional tone of the same autobiographies. The frequency of positive words like joy, gratitude, hope, love, contentment. The nuns who wrote about their lives in positive emotional terms at age 22 lived an average of 10.7 years longer than the nuns who wrote in neutral or negative terms. Same convent. Same diet. Same medical care. Same prayer schedule. The lifespan was being shaped by something invisible. Something that had been written down before the nun had any way of knowing it would matter. The paper landed in JAMA in 1996. It has been cited thousands of times since. Almost no one outside academic neurology has heard of it. The reason most people resist this finding is that it sounds like a sentence handed down before adulthood even began. If the architecture of your old-age brain is being built by what you do with your mind in your twenties, and your emotional resilience is being calibrated by the words you use about your own life, then your eighties are being shaped right now by patterns you cannot even feel yourself making. Snowdon argued the opposite. He said the data showed cognitive reserve could be built throughout life. The nuns who continued to learn languages, teach courses, read difficult books, and engage in complex conversations in their 60s and 70s also showed slower decline. The brain does not stop responding to mental work just because you got older. It only stops responding when you stop asking anything of it. The most uncomfortable part of the research is the contrast Snowdon repeatedly emphasized. Two nuns could have identical brain damage on autopsy. Identical plaques. Identical tangles. Identical genetics. One would have lived her last years confused, frightened, and lost. The other would have lived her last years lucid, joyful, and intact. The only meaningful difference between them was the depth of the cognitive and emotional architecture each had built across the decades before the damage arrived. The brain you will have at 85 is being constructed right now by the books you choose not to read, the conversations you choose not to have, and the words you choose to use about your own life. The dementia that arrives at 80 is not a verdict. It is the bill for a structure you either built or did not build between 22 and 60. Almost nobody walks through the window because almost nobody knows it is open. You can be the one who does.

Man, you could practically hear the collective groan in every newsroom across America. For about 12 glorious hours, the San Diego mosque shooting was absolute catnip for cable news. Two teenage white boys attack a mosque, three innocent people dead ... the “right-wing domestic terrorism” script wrote itself. Chyrons blazing, panels booked, every anti-MAGA hack already sharpening their knives. Then the manifesto dropped. And everything went dead quiet. Turns out Cain Clark and Caleb Vazquez weren’t exactly card-carrying conservatives. These two pathetic Jew-obsessed incel weirdos titled their murder diary “Sons of Tarrant” and filled it with deranged pages of “IT’S THE JEWS” on endless repeat. They weren’t right-wing, weren’t MAGA, weren’t Trump fans ... nah, they proudly called themselves Third Positionists who worshipped Nationalist Socialism and Eco Fascism. One was autistic and marinating in online poison. The other got force-fed mandatory “ethnic studies” classes that spent the first two weeks hammering “whiteness” and “white privilege” until he started hating himself and his own mixed-race family. Oh, and the system had been warned for over a year: FBI knew about Vazquez, 5150 psych hold, gun seizure attempt, the works. Mom was blowing up police phones for two straight hours while short-staffed cops treated it like a runaway kid case. But once the full, messy, politically inconvenient picture hit the internet? The 24/7 coverage didn’t just slow down. It died. Nothing kills a beautiful partisan morality play faster than facts that refuse to cooperate. The media isn’t in the truth business ... they’re in the narrative enforcement business. And this one didn’t confirm shit. (article below)

Great work. People have been trying to sound the alarm about Jess Taylor for the better part of a decade, but still she gets a new book deal and space on breakfast TV sofas. She's a menace and it's bewildering why anyone gives her any time.

Click. Lie. Repeat? Inside The Claims of A Self-Styled Trauma Psychologist Who Markets Online Read my new Substack article: open.substack.com/pub/kerrydayne…

Judges are decriminalizing rape and pedophilia.