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This is what the barbarians just burned down in France.
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People before they have kids think they have a clue about parenting
The whole concept of allowing a baby to throw their food around while they eat is so foreign to me. When I have a children, I will handfeed them myself until they have the motor skills required to feed themselves without making a huge mess.
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Neal Spackman retweeted
“WHY?” It is very heartbreaking to read this handwriting letter. That was the last question 25-year-old Majid Nikandish asked the night before the Islamic Republic executed him: “Tonight, I feel like a little child terrified of an injection. Only one question is on my mind: Why?” We, the people of Iran, are living in horror. Every day, another execution. Another mother destroyed. Another life stolen. In his final letter he asked his mother to smile at his funeral. “I, Majid Nikandish, leave the few belongings I have in prison as keepsakes for my family. Hello, my dear Mom. I know you have had a very difficult life. I’m sorry if I wasn’t a good son. Please forgive me. Please don’t be sad. Stay strong, and please be happy at my funeral. Take care of Mahnaz, Abolfazl, and Razieh. Tonight, I feel like a little child who is afraid of getting an injection. There is only one question left in my mind: WHY? To my sisters, Mahnaz and Razieh, I love you so much. To my brother, Abolfazl, I love you so much. I miss you all. My final wish is that you take care of one another and stay together, no matter what.” Why did he have to die? Why was his life stolen? Why must another mother bury her child? I have no answer for his mother. We have no answer to his brother and sisters. But let’s ask this question to the leaders of the democratic world: Why are you silent? Why don’t you stop legitimizing the regime that is hanging innocent protesters every day? Don’t look away. Don’t leave the people of Iran alone with their executioners. Say his name. Majid Nikandish. And make the world answer his final question: WHY? #MajidNikandish #StopExecutionsInIran
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Neal Spackman retweeted
My dear American friends, Someone just quoted my post saying "the anti-fascists are bringing more fascism." He's more right than he knows. Let me tell you the history of that word, because nobody teaches it to you. "Fascism" comes from Mussolini, Italy, 1919. "Antifascism" was born there a few years later, among his opponents: socialists, liberals, Catholics, communists. At that moment, the word meant something real. Then Moscow took it. In the late 1920s, the Comintern, Stalin's international arm, adopted a doctrine called "social fascism." The idea was simple: the moderate left, the social democrats, were fascists too. If you weren't with the Communists, you were a fascist. The word stopped describing an ideology and became a label for enemies. In 1932, the German Communist Party launched "Antifaschistische Aktion." Look at its logo: two flags in a circle. It's the same logo you see on Antifa banners in American cities today. Same symbol, almost a century later. Back then, that movement spent as much energy attacking the Social Democrats as attacking the Nazis. While the left tore itself apart, Hitler took power. After the war, the Soviet bloc made "antifascism" its official state religion. East Germany officially named the Berlin Wall the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart." A wall built to keep its own people from escaping. Called antifascist. That's the whole trick. Whoever controls the word "fascist" decides who is allowed to speak. Orwell saw it in 1946, when he wrote that "fascism" had come to mean little more than "something I don't like." Real antifascists existed. The French Resistance. The soldiers who landed in Normandy. They fought fascism with their lives. They didn't need the word as a brand. Today, you live in a world of inverted words. Censorship is "fighting misinformation." Burning cities is "mostly peaceful." Disagreement is "hate." And the person screaming "fascist" at everyone who disagrees with him is usually the one who wants power without debate. So here's the test. When someone calls himself an antifascist, ignore the label and watch what he does. Does he want to silence opponents? Cancel speakers? Get people fired, banned, deplatformed? Then the label is a costume. I'm French. We've lived this. For decades, anyone in France who questioned immigration, taxes, or the size of the state was called "far right" or "fascist." Half the country has been labeled that way. The result was no debate, only exclusion. And a country that stopped growing. This vocabulary is now the vocabulary of the American left. Every Republican is "a threat to democracy." Every opponent is "fascist." And once your opponent is a fascist, everything becomes permitted against him. That's the logic of 1932, recycled. So, my American friends, before you vote, ask yourself one question: who wants to argue with you, and who wants to silence you? The answer tells you who the real fascist is.
THIS !!!! Heed the warnings folks. The anti-fascists are definitely bringing more fascism.
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Amazing. The enrollment in Seattle Public Schools is the same as it was in 2014, but there are an extra 1000 full-time employees on the payroll, and the budget has doubled. All while test scores have declined considerably.
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Neal Spackman retweeted
What's the best video of all time?
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Socialists discovered that corporations have too much power and proposed merging your employer, landlord and grocery store into one institution with a police force and military.
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I used to live in Egypt. Studied Arabic in Alexandria and then had a few work trips there over the years. It’s gotten worse the last few decades—there was a time I’d have considered taking my family there but not anymore.
Egyptian Copt Augustinos Samaan gets 5 years hard labor for comparing Christianity and Islam "He needs our prayers — and our action.The persecution of Christians in Egypt is intensifying. Take the case of Dr. Augustinos Samaan, for example, an Egyptian Coptic Christian scholar and YouTuber sentenced to five years of hard labor under the country’s blasphemy law for creating educational videos comparing Christianity and Islam on his channel, which has over 100,000 subscribers." Read more at the link in the next post.
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We did this this week.
1/ About a decade ago, I became a fan of something called the tranched fundraising round. I was revisiting one of my old blog posts on it recently, and I'm still a huge fan today. Read on >>
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IYKYK I've had variations of this conversation what feels like hundreds of times, but it's probably only dozens.
I'm not sending my deck anymore 😂
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No one with dual citizenship should be allowed to hold office in the USA. And American should be smart enough to never vote for a dual citizen.
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed admits to dual citizenship in Egypt.
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More individualism and less tribalism is good for everyone.
“Black kids don’t benefit from the inclusion of white kids.” I completely disagree. My Black students can learn from white students. My white students can learn from Black students. Neither group is here to “fix” the other. They’re here to learn, grow, build relationships, and become better young men together. These boys are going to inherit a world filled with people who don’t look like them. I’d rather teach them how to understand, respect, and work alongside each other now. I’m not preparing them for a Black world or a white world. I’m preparing them for the world they actually have to live in.
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Neal Spackman retweeted
IRGC Spokesperson: "When we say 'Death to America,' we mean death to the policies of killing, plundering and bloodshed, death to those who hold such ideas." "The reason they consider the IRGC a terrorist organization is that the IRGC stands in the way of plundering in Iran and the region."
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The BBC refused to cover this. The British Parliament refused to discuss it. Ask yourself why. This is an official Hamas video showing children in Gaza being armed and trained to become terrorists. They received aid from Islamic Relief in Britain.
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Put these ladies in prison for a long time
2 Muslim doctors have been performing illegal surgeries on young girls in Minnesota as part of “Shia Muslim religious practice” “Security camera footage, some taped phone conversations and the testimony from 2 very young girls who say they were taken to that clinic where they experienced unthinkable pain” They were performing Female Genital Mutilation, “it will be in that hearing when more will be presented about religion, culture, tradition versus federal law that prohibits the cutting of the genitals of young girls to keep them from being sexually active later in life.” “They do have a very strong religious belief.” The doctors say the surgery was a “Shia Muslim religious practice” ‘“Shia Muslim religious practice” or rite-of-passage ritual’
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This political cartoon is 22 years old
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Neal Spackman retweeted
Washington needs a good power washing top to bottom. Five things I would do today to end corruption in Washington across all three branches of government: 1. Ban all stock trading. 2. Ban all participation in prediction markets. 3. Mandatory retirement at 75 years old. 4. Mandatory blind trust for individuals with a net worth more than $1 million. 5. Ban all foreign gifts to public officials, including foreign investments in their businesses or other entities.
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Neal Spackman retweeted
Six good things hiding in plain sight:
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