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@JoanneMason11 Why exactly do they have to spit on their hands? That’s just gross.

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and start slitting throats." --H. L. Mencken

@itsrosesm I think I’d get another dog, maybe a happy little toy poodle and fly a few more American flags. And start barbecuing a lot of pork. I was also going to say fly a Christian flag, but decided that was inappropriate for my intentions.

if a Muslim neighbor demands you remove your dog to respect Islam, what would you do?

@realMaalouf What brilliant work and exemplary achievements is he referring to, pray tell. The main thing I’ve heard about was the rape gangs and getting cops to go along with it.

STARMER: “I want to congratulate the Muslim community for their brilliant work and exemplary achievements in the UK. Islamophobia is the problem in the country, and I’m utterly committed to eradicating it from society!” Is he right?

@PolitiBunny See, even birds know there comes a time when the baby has to leave the nest!

Sitting on the back porch with the dogs this morning and saw a mama bird push a baby bird out of the nest. In real-time. I panicked a little. Trixie woofed under her breath. Casper snored. Just as I was trying to think of ways to protect the baby bird from my vicious, man-eating corgs throughout the day, the baby bird jumped around, and took flight. Not a long flight, just a short one. Heard mama bird squawk. Baby bird bounced around some more. Trixie woofed under her breath again. Casper slowly opened one eye. Baby bird took flight across the yard … about two feet off the ground. Mama bird squawked again. LOUDER. Baby bird bounced a LOT, like maybe halfway across the yard, and took off. Just look that. It was a little low and all over the place but baby flew out of the yard. I almost clapped. Being a mama bird is hard.🩵 The little things … 🐦💛

@Herschey279 @CptAllenHistory No, evil begets retaliation. You’d think Palestinians would learn not to kick the bear. But no, their desire to destroy Israel and all Jews outweighs any hope for peace.

@CptAllenHistory You know that each time you mention an act of barbarism against Israelis you’ll be answered with reports and evidence of similar or even worse cowardly acts against innocent Palestinians, the only difference being these will be on a larger scale. Evil begets evil.

This Day (May 8) in 2001, the walls of a remote cave in the Judean Desert were covered with the blood of two Jewish boys — deliberately smeared there by their Palestinian killers in a final act of barbaric triumph. Koby Mandell (13) and Yosef Ishran (14) had gone hiking near their homes when they were ambushed. The terrorists bound their hands, stabbed them repeatedly, and beat them to death with rocks. The mutilation was so horrific that forensic teams needed dental records to identify the bodies. This was no random act of violence. This was the sadistic murder of two innocent Jewish children during the early days of the Second Intifada — the terror campaign Yasser Arafat deliberately launched after rejecting Ehud Barak’s generous peace offer at Camp David (a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital). Just months earlier, Arafat had chosen the path of blood instead of peace. Koby and Yosef paid the price with unimaginable cruelty. Seasoned Israeli investigators were shaken to their core. These weren’t soldiers. They were children, simply hiking near their village in their ancestral homeland. Their mothers waited in agony as the search dragged on. When the bodies were found, the scene was almost unspeakable. Nothing about this is or has ever been “resistance.” Aiming to destroy the world's only Jewish state and wipe out all Jewish men, women and children has been the goal. Never forget Koby Mandell and Yosef Ishran.

@MrPitbull07 @LABeachGal1 Gives me goosebumps!

May 15, 1963. Astronaut Gordon Cooper climbed into a capsule barely larger than a phone booth and launched into space aboard Faith 7. The mission was simple on paper: Orbit Earth 22 times. Stay in space for a full day. Come home alive. For most of the flight, everything worked perfectly. Then, on the 19th orbit, the warning lights came on. First, a faulty sensor falsely reported reentry. Then the electrical system failed. One by one, the automated controls died. Guidance system: dead. Orientation system: dead. Reentry calculations: dead. At 165 miles above Earth, Gordon Cooper suddenly had no functioning instruments to bring him home. And reentry is unforgiving. Too shallow, and the capsule skips off the atmosphere into space forever. Too steep, and friction turns it into a fireball. The difference between life and death was fractions of a degree. Mission Control could only watch. So Cooper became the computer. He drew reference marks on the capsule window with a pen. He stared at the stars he had memorized before launch and used them to orient the spacecraft by eye. He strapped a wristwatch to his arm and timed everything manually. Then he did the math in his head. No autopilot. No navigation system. No backup computer. Just a man, a watch, and the stars. At exactly the right second, Cooper fired the retrorockets manually. The capsule dropped into Earth’s atmosphere. For several minutes, communication vanished as plasma wrapped the spacecraft in fire. Nobody on Earth could contact him. Then the parachutes opened. Faith 7 splashed down just 4.4 miles from the recovery ship USS Kearsarge — the most accurate splashdown of the entire Mercury program. Later, Cooper described it simply: “I used my wristwatch for time, my eyeballs out the window for attitude.” That’s it. In one of the most dangerous moments in early spaceflight history, a human being outperformed the machines. We live in a world obsessed with automation and software. But Gordon Cooper’s flight is a reminder that when everything breaks, the final backup system is still the human mind. Calm under pressure. Thinking clearly. Making the call when nobody else can. It was true in 1963. It still is.

Praying that happens! Save my Granny’s country!

@openshutter21 Beautiful!

Nothing has me more awestruck than stars reflecting off of the water.

A man saved 24 Jewish lives in Nazi occupied Tunisia in 1942. He hid them on his farm for four months. He never told his own children what he had done. His name was Khaled Abdul-Wahab. You have probably never heard it. In November 1942, German troops landed in Tunisia. It was the only Arab country directly occupied by Nazi Germany. The orders came fast. Yellow stars. Confiscated property. Jewish men sent to forced labor camps. 5,000 of them. Then the soldiers started moving into Jewish homes and pushing the families out into the street. Khaled was 31. A Tunisian Arab. Muslim. Son of a wealthy landowning family. He had Jewish friends his whole life. Tunisia had been home to Jews for 2,000 years. He spoke German. The officers liked him. They invited him to dinner. December 1942. Mahdia. A coastal town. Khaled is sitting at a table with German officers. One of them is drunk. He starts bragging. He says the Germans have set up a brothel in town. With Jewish women. Forced into it. He says he has picked one for himself. A pretty Jewish woman. Already married. A mother. He doesn't care. He says her name out loud. Odette Boukris. Khaled knows the name. The Boukris family are old friends of his father. He keeps his face still. Pours the officer more wine. Smiles. Eats. Then he makes an excuse. Drives the drunk officer home. Then drives straight to where the Jewish families are hiding. He bangs on the door at midnight. Tells them everything. The brothel. The officer. Odette. Tomorrow night. He says: pack now. Bring nothing. Come with me. He takes 24 people. The whole Boukris family. The Ouzzan family. Cousins. Children. Babies. He drives them 20 miles through the night to his farm. He hides them in his olive press. In his stables. In his storage rooms. Then he keeps them there for four months. Hiding 24 Jews under Nazi occupation was not a single act of courage. It was 120 days of it. He had to feed them in a country where food was running out. He had to keep babies quiet. He had to keep his servants quiet. Any one of them could have turned him in. He had to deal with German soldiers who came to the farm to count Jewish heads. When they came, the families put on their yellow stars. Stood still. Were counted. When the Germans left, the stars came off. One night a drunk German soldier wandered onto the farm and found the families. A girl named Edmee Ouzzan was 11 years old. She was hidden under a bed. She watched the soldier laugh and tell the families he was going to kill them all. Then Khaled appeared. She remembered him later as a guardian angel. He talked the soldier outside. Took his gun. Sent him away. Nobody on the farm died. In May 1943 the British liberated Tunisia. The 24 Jews went home. Some had homes left. Some did not. All of them were alive. Khaled went back to his quiet life. He got married. Had two daughters. Faiza and Papo. Painted. Traveled. Worked in government. He never spoke about what he had done. Not to his wife. Not to his daughters. Not to his neighbors. He died on September 4, 1997. Age 86. His daughters did not know. This is where the story should have ended. A man who saved 24 lives, buried in a Tunisian cemetery, the secret going into the ground with him. Then in 2007, his daughter Faiza was sitting in Paris reading a Sunday newspaper. She turned the page and saw an interview with an American historian named Robert Satloff. He was talking about a Tunisian Arab who had hidden 24 Jews in 1942. He was using her father's name. She had been alive 45 years. She had never heard the story. She read it twice. She cried. She tracked Satloff down and asked him: is this true? He told her it was. Anny Boukris, who had been a child hiding on Khaled's farm, had given him 83 pages of testimony before she died. Satloff had gone to Mahdia. Found the old people who remembered. Confirmed every detail. Faiza spent the next years finding her father's old friends. His old papers. His photos. Building the man she thought she knew into the man he actually was. She said: "I rediscovered my father." Satloff nominated Khaled to Yad Vashem for the title Righteous Among the Nations. Khaled would have been the first Arab ever recognized. Yad Vashem said no. Said he had not risked his own life enough. Said he had hosted the Jews, not hidden them. Faiza answered with one of the most devastating lines any daughter has ever spoken about her father: "My father opened his home to Jews. Yad Vashem did not open their home to us." The 24 people Khaled saved have hundreds of descendants today. In Israel. In France. In America. In Tunisia. Many of them light a candle for him every year. The little girl who was hidden under the bed grew up. Moved to Paris. Had children. Those children had children. None of them would exist if Khaled had kept eating his dinner. He was 31 years old. He spoke German. He had a quiet life and an easy farm. He had everything to lose and no reason to put any of it on the line. He did it anyway. Then he never spoke of it again. His own children did not know. Anny Boukris died weeks after handing over her testimony. The chain of memory almost broke a second time. Yad Vashem refused him the title. Most history books still do not include him. The world forgot him once when he was alive. Forgot him again when he died. Was about to forget him a third time. Now you know. If you do not tell someone, the silence wins again.

The American experiment of being the world’s “melting pot” has utterly and completely failed. It was never meant to include the third world who refused to assimilate. It was never meant to include Islam. Let’s just be clear about that.

@HazyHawg lol!

@DoMil123 Sticker shock

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@GavinNewsom That’s funny since there are ZERO Republican representatives from New England and it’s been that way long before Trump ran for office.

No vote in Tennessee (+1 GOP) No vote in Florida (+4 GOP) No vote in Missouri (+1 GOP) No vote in North Carolina (+2 GOP) No vote in Texas (+5 GOP) Virginia’s voter-approved maps thrown out. MAGA has rigged the system.

May 8, 1972. A Sabena Airlines plane is hijacked by four jihadists. They demand the release of over 300 convicted terrorists—or they’ll start killing hostages. Ninety passengers sit in terror at Lod Airport. Enter Bibi Netanyahu. Disguised as a technician, Bibi infiltrates the plane with his elite unit, Sayeret Matkal. In overalls and holding tools, they pretend to inspect the landing gear. Then—BOOM. They breach the cabin. In a brutal close-quarters firefight, the two male terrorists are killed, the two females are captured, and every single hostage is rescued. Not a movie. Not a myth. This is Jewish history.

@Natalia_yael4 Well, I do. Can’t speak for everyone else though.

I swear, 90% of people on X want the Islamic regime to collapse and Iran to finally be free. Am I right?

@RepJeffries Umm, you do realize that not overturning that vote would have disenfranchised almost all of the Republicans in Virginia, don’t you? You know, like what demoncrats have already done to New England. There are ZERO Rublican representatives there due to gerrymandering.

The decision by the Virginia Supreme Court to overturn the will of more than three million voters will not stand.

@mattvanswol Barak Obama

What’s the name of the person you believe did more damage to America than anyone else?

@PeriklesGREAT @Flame_442 Hawaii. Lived up to every thing I ever heard about it. A true paradise.

One place everyone should go?? 🤔

@Beno10_MFC D.

Strong eye test. Which stand mixer is different? 99% people failed.

@VividProwess But why? Maybe we should not have closed the insane asylums.

The most accurate photo on 𝕏.