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Citizen journalist Nick Shirley is proving to be worth his weight in gold when it comes to exposing the truth about people in power.
His latest investigation led him down the road of a 10-year-old grant from USAID to Malia Obama that "fact-checkers" said was "misinformation."
"The only misinformation was the system and the media trying to cover for her," said Shirley on his podcast, "Public records from FOIA don't lie."
Shirley says he plans to present his evidence to both the FBI and his congressman, Jim Jordan.
"Taxpayers deserve answers."
What's your response to this......??👀
MAKE THIS GO VIRAL ON X. LET’S GO 👏
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Chuck Schumer told FBI Director Kash Patel that he needs to "call off the dogs" he says are harassing Democrat senators.
"Your Autopen Task Force is a witch hunt, and Senators Warren, Schiff, and Sanders deserve a break from the asinine questions," said Schumer, "Show some respect."
In response, Patel showed the Senator page after page of logs from the device, showing the three United States Senators' unique digital footprints directing it.
"The law doesn't stop being the law because Chuck Schumer says so."
What's your response to this......??👀
MAKE THIS GO VIRAL ON X. LET’S GO 👏
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Senator John Fetterman had the perfect response when he was attacked by fellow Democrat Jon Ossoff for "not following the chain of command" in the Senate.
"What you mean is, not voting the way I'm told to vote by Chuck Schumer or Liz Warren," said Fetterman, "Adam Schiff tried to give me marching orders, and I've been a Senator longer than him."
Fetterman made it clear that he doesn't work for some back-room group of career politicians.
"I work for the people of Pennsylvania, and I vote in their best interests."
What's your response to this......??👀
MAKE THIS GO VIRAL ON X. LET’S GO 👏
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🔻THIS IS HUGE !
Naomi Wolf nails it: The biggest shocker in the Pfizer docs isn’t the side effects we’ve been aware of, it’s that the vaccine is designed to target human reproduction, not the respiratory system, and they’re obsessed with it, 360 degrees of it, as revealed in a stunning revelation.
She explains how the lipid nanoparticles are engineered to penetrate every membrane, including the placenta. This causes calcifications that stop babies from getting nutrients and oxygen. The outcome? Midwives say placentas are falling apart, leading to premature births, horrific maternal hemorrhaging, and a 40% spike in maternal mortality in the West.
Pfizer knew the nanoparticles would invade the testes of baby boys in utero, degrading the Leydig cells that produce masculinity and fertility. Even if never vaccinated themselves, they may never develop normally.
An andrology report confirmed the vaccine stops sperm motility in men. Most damningly, Pfizer warned male trial participants not to have intercourse with unvaccinated women or to use two forms of contraception, defining “exposure” through semen, skin contact, and breath.
Out of 270 pregnancies in the trial, records on 234 were “lost.” But of the remaining 36, more than 80% ended in the loss of the baby.
Pfizer knew it. Why was it the main focus of their research?
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Karoline Leavitt fired back at Reverend Al Sharpton after he called her a "white nationalist" and a "fake Christian."
"My family came here specifically to worship freely, and then we fought bravely for the Union to end slavery," said Leavitt, "Yours came from Trinidad about 20 years later."
Leavitt went on to remind Sharpton that there are two union forts named for her family and a 150-year-old battleship called the USS Leavitt moored in Boston.
"I think my credentials are solid."
What's your response to this......??👀
MAKE THIS GO VIRAL ON X. LET’S GO 👏
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🔥🚨 JAW-DROPPING BETRAYAL! 🚨🔥
Hakeem Jeffries was asked POINT-BLANK if a Democrat-controlled House would BRING BACK the illegal aliens Trump already deported to third countries (like Africa):
Reporter: “Will the Congress under your leadership bring back the [illegal aliens] deported to third countries?”
Jeffries NODS YES repeatedly 👀 and says: “We do.”
Then drops this bombshell:
“Trump’s mass deportation machine does NOT get a DIME.”
Translation? Hand Democrats the gavel in November and they’ll DEFUND ICE, halt deportations, and try to REVERSE the ones already done — flying people BACK into America on YOUR dime while families struggle with groceries, rent, and crime.
This is the plan. Out loud. No hiding it.
If they take the House, this is what “repair work” looks like to them.
VOTE. SHARE THIS. Don’t let them undo the border security Americans demanded. 🇺🇸
#Midterms #DefundICE #AmericaFirst #Jeffries #BorderCrisis
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American Pastor John Amanchukwu was forcibly removed by police from the Statesville school board meeting in North Carolina for reading from a book called Push that was in their library
He says there are 453 graphic pornographic books being offered to little kids in the library. For trying to raise awareness about this, he was removed by police
“I'm fighting to remove the pornographic books. There are 453 in this district. The books stay, but I get removed.”
The passage he’s referring to that he wants to read was extremely graphic material about a 6 year old knowing about a man ejaculating inside a woman (but in much, MUCH, more graphic detail)
Other books include minors describing participating in sexual acts and also becoming transgender
This is so sick and evil. I’ll include a bunch of examples at the end of the clip
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A warning to the U.S.:
My dear American friends,
I say this with love, as someone who has lived among you and owes you a great deal: your midterms are on November 3rd. And the same alliance is growing inside your Democratic Party. The same far-left wing that treats disorder as protest and police as the enemy. The same activists who refuse to draw a line between legitimate dissent and those who openly despise the West. The same politicians who think tolerance means tolerating everything, including the people who want to burn it down.
It always starts with excuses. Then comes impunity. Then come the flames.
Same causes, same effects. If you create the conditions we created, you will get exactly what we got tonight.
France was the country of the Enlightenment, of cathedrals and town halls that stood for centuries. Tonight, one of them collapsed live on social media while the government called for calm.
My dear American friends, the only advantage you have over us is that you've been warned.
Vote like your city hall depends on it. Because one day, it will. “
Tonight, France burned. America, you should be watching very carefully.
Today, October 17, 2026, more than half a million people marched across France against the cost of living. By 8pm, around 400 had been arrested. In Paris, police turned water cannons on the crowds at Place de la République, and one march was stopped 150 meters from the Élysée Palace. Of the 195 people arrested in the capital by the afternoon, only one actually lived in Paris. Mobs forced their way into the city halls of Marseille and Lille. In Lyon, a tourism office was set on fire. In Rennes, barricades burned. Near Limoges, a highway was blocked and police cars were torched.
And then came Limoges.
A crowd of very young people stormed the city hall, a protected historic monument built in the 1880s. They flipped police cars in front of it and set them ablaze, then set the building itself on fire. The flames took the roof, the wedding hall, and the civil registry, the office that records every birth, every marriage, every death in the city. Tonight, the bell tower that has crowned Limoges for nearly 150 years collapsed.
The mayor's response: "It's a monument that is burning, not the Republic."
That is the problem in one sentence. Our leaders still think words can put out fires.
None of this came out of nowhere. For twenty years, the French political class has excused everything. Every riot was "anger." Every burned car was a "social symptom." Every attack on police was "a reaction to provocation." And the hard left, La France Insoumise, which officially backed today's mobilization, built its electoral machine on an alliance with political Islamism: refusing to condemn, refusing to name, trading secularism and public order for votes. In France we have a word for it. Islamo-gauchisme. Islamo-leftism.
Tonight you saw where that culture of excuse ends. A country where a mob can burn down a town hall, and the state arrives after the roof has already fallen in.
My dear American friends,
I say this with love, as someone who has lived among you and owes you a great deal: your midterms are on November 3rd. And the same alliance is growing inside your Democratic Party. The same far-left wing that treats disorder as protest and police as the enemy. The same activists who refuse to draw a line between legitimate dissent and those who openly despise the West. The same politicians who think tolerance means tolerating everything, including the people who want to burn it down.
It always starts with excuses. Then comes impunity. Then come the flames.
Same causes, same effects. If you create the conditions we created, you will get exactly what we got tonight.
France was the country of the Enlightenment, of cathedrals and town halls that stood for centuries. Tonight, one of them collapsed live on social media while the government called for calm.
My dear American friends, the only advantage you have over us is that you've been warned.
Vote like your city hall depends on it. Because one day, it will.
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Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749)
Elle parlait couramment six langues à l'âge de douze ans.
Elle a utilisé ses gains de jeu pour acheter des manuels de physique.
Elle a mené des expériences secrètes dans son laboratoire privé parce que les universités ne la laissaient pas passer.
Elle s'appelait Émilie du Châtelet – et elle est peut-être la scientifique la plus brillante dont vous n'ayez jamais entendu parler.
Née à Paris en 1706 dans l'aristocratie française, Émilie grandit dans une maison où scientifiques et mathématiciens étaient convives. Pendant que d'autres filles nobles apprenaient la broderie et l'étiquette, la jeune Émilie décortiquait leurs conversations sur les mathématiques, l'astronomie et la nature de l'univers.
Sa mère voulait l'envoyer dans un couvent.
Son père – qui a reconnu quelque chose d’extraordinaire chez sa fille – l’a plutôt protégée.
À douze ans, elle parlait latin, grec, italien, allemand et anglais. À l’adolescence, elle appliquait la théorie mathématique des probabilités aux jeux de cartes dans les salons parisiens, utilisant ses gains pour financer sa véritable obsession : la science.
À dix-huit ans, elle épousa le marquis du Chastellet, un officier militaire qui était parti en campagne pendant une grande partie de leur mariage. Ils ont eu trois enfants ensemble. Elle a répondu à toutes les attentes de la société aristocratique.
Puis, comme personne ne la regardait, elle retourna à ses équations.
Vers 1733, elle rencontre Voltaire, le célèbre écrivain et philosophe. Leur relation est devenue l’un des plus grands partenariats intellectuels de l’histoire. Ensemble, ils transformèrent le domaine de son mari au Château de Cirey en quelque chose de presque inimaginable pour l'époque : un paradis scientifique privé. Laboratoires. Télescopes. Une bibliothèque de milliers de livres.
Parce que si le monde ne la laissait pas entrer dans ses institutions, elle construirait les siennes.
Les découvertes sont arrivées.
En 1738, elle soumit un article sur la nature du feu et de la lumière à l'Académie française des sciences, affirmant que différentes couleurs de lumière transportaient différentes quantités de chaleur. Il a fallu attendre un siècle avant que les scientifiques ne confirment officiellement ce qu'elle avait déjà vu. Nous appelons désormais cela le rayonnement infrarouge.
Vint ensuite sa contribution la plus radicale à la physique.
À partir des expériences du scientifique néerlandais Willem's Gravesande, Émilie a laissé tomber des boules de plomb dans l'argile à différentes hauteurs et a mesuré les cratères d'impact avec une précision minutieuse. Les résultats ont été clairs : une balle se déplaçant deux fois plus vite n'a pas produit deux fois plus d'impact, mais quatre fois plus d'impact. Trois fois la vitesse signifiait neuf fois la pénétration.
Elle venait de prouver que l’énergie cinétique évoluait avec le carré de la vitesse – mv² – et non simplement avec mv, comme Newton et d’autres l’avaient supposé.
Il s'agissait d'une correction fondamentale de la physique du mouvement. Une découverte qui a jeté les bases de la loi moderne de conservation de l’énergie.
Elle l'a publié. L’establishment scientifique en a débattu. Et puis, peu à peu, le monde a reconnu qu’elle avait raison. Mais son plus grand travail était encore à venir.
Émilie s'est fixé une tâche presque impossible : traduire en français les Principia Mathematica d'Isaac Newton, le texte fondateur de la physique classique. Pas seulement le traduire. Illuminez-le. Elle a réécrit les preuves géométriques de Newton en notation algébrique moderne. Elle a ajouté ses propres commentaires, exemples et dérivations. Elle a clarifié des passages qui avaient dérouté les mathématiciens professionnels pendant des décennies. C’était, à tous points de vue, une œuvre de génie.
Et puis, à 42 ans, elle découvre qu'elle est enceinte.
Au XVIIIe siècle, une grossesse à 42 ans comportait un risque grave, souvent mortel. Émilie l'a bien compris. Elle ne se faisait aucune illusion sur ce qui allait arriver.
Alors elle a fait un choix.
Elle finirait d'abord la traduction.
Selon les témoignages de son entourage, elle a travaillé dix-huit heures par jour pendant les derniers mois de sa grossesse – écrivant, révisant, complétant des commentaires, surmontant un épuisement qui aurait arrêté la plupart des gens de la moitié de son âge. Voltaire, qui regardait de près, aurait été angoissé. Elle a refusé de ralentir.
Le manuscrit devait être terminé. Quoi qu'il lui soit arrivé.
Le 3 septembre 1749, Émilie du Châtelet donne naissance à une fille. Six jours plus tard, elle était partie. Elle avait 42 ans.
Son manuscrit achevé est resté inédit pendant dix ans.
Puis, en 1759, la comète de Halley est apparue dans le ciel exactement là où la physique de Newton prévoyait qu'elle se trouverait. Le monde a tourné son attention vers la mécanique newtonienne – et quelqu’un s’est souvenu de la traduction posée dans un tiroir.
La traduction française d'Émilie du Châtelet des Principia de Newton a été publiée cette année-là. C’est devenu la norme pendant plus de 200 ans.
Des générations de scientifiques français – des hommes qui ont remodelé la physique, l’astronomie et les mathématiques – ont appris la mécanique newtonienne grâce à ses mots, ses explications, sa clarté.
La plupart d’entre eux n’ont jamais connu son nom.
Lorsque l'histoire mentionnait Émilie du Châtelet, c'était généralement en note de bas de page : « la compagne de Voltaire ». Un personnage secondaire dans l’histoire de quelqu’un d’autre.
Elle a anticipé le rayonnement infrarouge d'un siècle.
Elle a corrigé la formule de Newton pour l'énergie cinétique.
Elle a rendu les Principia lisibles pour une génération de s scientifiques.
Elle a tout fait depuis un château privé, exclue de toutes les universités et académies de France, travaillant à toutes les heures que le monde lui laissait.
Et au cours de ses dernières semaines – sachant qu’elle était mourante – elle ne s’est pas reposée.
Elle a travaillé.
Parce qu'il fallait terminer la traduction. Parce que le travail comptait plus que la reconnaissance. Parce que certaines personnes sont simplement bâties pour faire avancer les connaissances, quel qu’en soit le prix.
Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749).
Mathématicien. Physicien. Traducteur. Pionnier.
La femme qui a couru vers la mort pour achever son chef-d’œuvre – et qui a gagné.
Publication de Isabelle Thibault
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There is so much misinformation around owning Teslas, even till this day:
• No, you don’t get range anxiety. With a wall connector at home, you wake up to a “full tank” every day, and Tesla Supercharger stations are everywhere.
• Teslas make the BEST road trip vehicles because of FSD.
• Total ownership costs are much lower than a comparable gas car when you factor in fuel, and maintenance.
• Tesla batteries are engineered for longevity. They’re designed to lose only 20% of capacity after 250K miles.
• A Tesla is ~8x less likely to catch fire than a gasoline vehicle.
• Tesla FSD can drive you from point A to point B anywhere in the US, including cross-country. It handles all our charging stops, parking, etc.
• With FSD, you just press a button on the display, and the car will drive itself to your destination. You literally just relax.
• On road trips, Tesla Superchargers are conveniently placed along your route in locations where you can eat, shop, and rest.
• Average charging stops take 10–30 minutes. You do not charge to 100%, as that isn’t the quickest way.
• The average price per kWh in the US is $0.18. Charging a Model 3 Premium RWD costs only $14.70 for over 360 miles of range. (Can be way less in some states)
• Tesla vehicles are among the best to drive in winter. Heat pumps warm the cabin quickly and efficiently, while instant torque and traction control provide excellent grip.
• The only maintenance typically required is cabin air filters, tires, and windshield fluid.
• New battery replacements for the Model 3 and Model Y start as low as $8,000 to $12,000, not the “$30,000 to $40,000” some “experts” claim. The battery itself costs about the same as (or less than) a typical engine replacement, but with far less labor involved. Full battery replacements are extremely rare.
• The electric motors slow the car by recovering kinetic energy and sending it back into the battery, so the physical brakes hardly ever get used. They can last onwards of 250K miles.
• Teslas get frequent OTA software updates that add new features, improve performance, and fix issues without a service cost.
• Tesla vehicles have the highest safety ratings in the industry, and rank among the lowest fatality rates. Cybertruck is the safest pickup truck, by far.
• Model 3&Y, and Cybertruck can power our home during an outage with the correct equipment.
Best cars ever.
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When the editor of the world’s most prestigious medical journal concluded that much of the clinical research it published could no longer be trusted, the problem was no longer abstract.
Marcia Angell, a pathologist who joined the New England Journal of Medicine staff in 1979, rose to executive editor and then served as interim editor-in-chief from 1999 to June 2000. She stepped down after more than two decades at the journal, formally to write a book. The deeper context was her growing conviction, formed from years of editing manuscripts, that pharmaceutical industry influence had compromised the independence of clinical research. She and previous editors had enforced strict conflict-of-interest rules, yet industry-sponsored studies continued to arrive with designs, analyses, and selective reporting that favored the sponsor’s product. Negative results were often suppressed, side effects minimized, and “academic” authors frequently carried undisclosed financial ties.
In a widely cited 2009 New York Review of Books essay, Angell wrote the line that crystallized her position: “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.” She described an industry that had shifted from discovering useful drugs toward marketing, co-opting academic medical centers, researchers, and even the journals that were supposed to serve as independent arbiters. Her 2000 editorial “Is Academic Medicine for Sale?” and later book The Truth About the Drug Companies expanded the critique, arguing that commercial priorities systematically distorted what research was done, how it was conducted, and what reached publication.
Angell’s departure marked the end of an era of tighter editorial resistance to industry influence at the NEJM. Her public statements afterward made clear that she viewed the problem as systemic rather than isolated: once the bulk of clinical research depended on commercial funding, journals could no longer function as reliable filters of medical evidence.
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WOW 🚨 California resident with a large diesel truck went in to get gas, he was excited because he was expecting to finally get a cheaper price thanks to Donald Trump’s Executive Order removing the tax
He was told by the gas station Gavin Newsom is BLOCKING the relief and it’s still full price
He’s right. Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14435, “Emergency Tax Relief on Diesel Fuel”
- Penalty waiver for dyed diesel on highways
- Deferral of the federal excise tax
- Treasury is directed to explore avenues to eliminate the obligation to pay the deferred taxes later
Gavin Newsom responded by not lifting the ban on use of red diesel on public roads and has not provided the matching state tax relief
By the way ‘Red diesel’ is chemically the same as regular highway diesel; the red dye is just a marker so authorities can tell the highway taxes haven’t been paid
So Gavin Newsom is blocking it ONLY to hurt Americans before midterms and not give any financial relief
Newsom is a criminal
Again,
- The California State Department of Tax and Fee Administration says that dyed diesel remains prohibited on California public highways (They will not lift the restriction)
- They refuse to suspend the diesel excise tax
- Newsom’s deputy press secretary dismisses Trump’s federal order as “more distraction and desperation”
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True story:
For twelve years, 95-year-old WWII veteran Frank Grasberger carried a folded piece of paper in his pocket everywhere he went.
It was a letter written to him in 2009 by a 9-year-old girl named Dashauna Priest:
"If it wasn't for you, we would never have freedom. I'm so happy you made sacrifices."
Through old age and failing health, Frank kept that note next to his heart every day. His final wish to his wife was simple: "Before I close my eyes, I have to find her."
The nursing home staff tracked her down.
When Dashauna walked into his room to surprise him, she wasn't just a former third-grader. She walked through the door wearing her own U.S. Army National Guard uniform. She had also kept the letter Frank sent her twelve years ago.
The institutions tell us this country is divided. They tell us patriotism is dead.
They are wrong.
The torch of liberty was passed from a 95-year-old warrior to a 21-year-old soldier who chose to stand on the line for freedom just like he did. As long as this spirit lives in our youth, America will never fall.
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Replying to @JohnStossel @curryja
Science does not care about consensus. All knowledge must be questioned continually to refine what we know. Sutting down people with evidence is not what it's about. It's about proving out disproving if a hypothesis is correct. Politics do not belong in science.
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Researcher @curryja was once a “rock star” in the climate change movement.
Then she discovered that some scientists conspire to hide data.
“A lot of really ugly things,” she tells me.
She reveals the “manufactured consensus” about climate change:
Judith Curry: How Climate “Science” Got Hijacked by Alarmists
Climate alarmists insist there’s a “scientific consensus” that says climate change is a crisis, and man causes it! Researcher Judith Curry tells me, “it’s a manufactured consensus.”
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.@KathyHochul and @ZohranKMamdani spent days defending Oscar Belgal, the criminal who pulled a machete on neighbors, robbed people at gunpoint, and was arrested selling fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin.
New York kept releasing him.
When the feds moved to take him off the streets, these politicians treated the agents like the criminals.
They called Belgal a “New Yorker” and a “good father”. They ignored the people he robbed, the neighbors he terrorized, and the drugs he was pushing.
This is not compassion. It’s a political class that sides with a criminals over the citizens they’re supposed to protect and calls law enforcement the problem when they do their job.
It’s also a disservice to the good, hard-working, law-abiding immigrants they claim to be protecting.
They failed the basic duty.
Protect the people who live here. Stop shielding the ones who prey on them.
Remember this on November 3rd.
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Democrats, November is coming! What's your plan for America? 🇺🇸
Serious question.
Because for the last 10 months all I've heard is "Trump is a dictator," "Trump is a fascist," "Trump is destroying democracy." Okay, we heard you. You put that on a t-shirt. Now what?
Blaming Trump isn't a platform. Complaining isn't a solution. Impeaching him for the 4th time isn't going to lower my grocery bill.
What are you actually going to DO differently?
What's your plan for inflation? What's your plan for the border? 12 million people crossed illegally under Biden and you called it compassionate. Now border crossings are at a historic low. Do you want to go back to open borders?
What's your plan for crime? You spent 4 years defunding police, electing Soros prosecutors who won't prosecute, and calling gangs "justice involved youth." Eden Prairie parents just watched a homecoming football game get shot up. Portland looks like a zombie movie. Do you want to go back to that?
What's your plan for boys in girls sports, men in women's prisons, $200 billion to Ukraine with no audit while East Palestine still doesn't have clean water?
Voters are not stupid. We remember. Under Trump: No new wars, cheap gas, secure border, America first.
Under you: $6 eggs, world on fire, boys beating girls at state championships, and you tell us that's progress.
So I'm asking honestly what are Democrats actually running on in November? Because "Orange Man Bad" is not going to cut it this time.
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Jeff Bezos says if Amazon ran like the New York school system, your package would take six weeks to arrive with the WRONG item inside.
NYC spends $44,000 per student. At 20 students per teacher, that’s over $880,000 per classroom.
But the teachers aren’t making anything close to that. So where’s the money going?
BEZOS: “How much of that money do you think is trickling down to teachers? NOT MUCH.”
This $44,000 per student figure is 30% MORE than Chicago, L.A., and Boston spend. And the kids aren’t getting better results.
Nearly HALF of NYC 4th graders can’t even read at a basic level. By 8th grade, 77% aren’t proficient in math.
Tax you more. Deliver worse outcomes. Make the bureaucrats nearly impossible to fire.
And they have the gall to demand more of your money.
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If the blinkered pro-Palestine crowd want to talk about ‘genocide’, they should start with Israel’s murdered mothers and mutilated children:
"You want genocide? OK, read the pathologists’ reports. A girl, around five years old, who has been shot through her body from her skull to the soles of her feet. A 12-year-old girl shot in the head and then decapitated. Teenagers who received a video on their phones of their petrified grandmother as she was about to be executed (Hamas got a kick from sharing their work).
Young women at the Nova peace festival, half-naked, strung up from trees the better to defile them. Vaginas rammed with knives and bottles. Twin baby boys, their mother slaughtered in the kitchen fetching milk for them, their father riddled with bullets as he struggled to keep the door of the safe room shut; the orphaned babies used as bait for 14 hours, little Guy and Roi, 10 months old, left to scream so they would lure neighbours to rescue them and those brave souls were then picked off by the terrorists lying in wait. I stood outside that house on Kibbutz Kfar Aza imagining all too well the panic of parents unable to protect their children; the number of bodies recovered was chalked on the wall. Yes, but…
Killing parents in front of their sobbing children, then setting the house on fire so those children are burnt alive and all that remains of that beautiful family is cremated remains. Can we at least agree that goes beyond the bounds of “wrong” to a place we haven’t quite got a name for? “Evil” feels too small a word. For three years, I’ve been struggling to find the words; some way, at least, of expressing what happened. Because I believe it should matter to anyone who cares about our civilisation; make no mistake, the foul fiends responsible will come for us all if we let them.
“They don’t just hate Jews, Allison, they hate freedom. They hate life.” That was Meirav Gonan, who I met in Tel Aviv after her daughter Romi was abducted at the Nova festival (Romi was held hostage for 471 days in Gaza). One thing I do know: the stories of suffering are seared on my soul. Yes, but…
And it was all deliberate, that carnival of cruelty. On October 7, 2023, Hamas did not just seek a military victory over the IDF soldiers at the border posts. They wanted to provoke Israel into a retaliation that would scupper any chance of an imminent peace accord with Saudi Arabia, which would thwart Iran’s ambitions in the region. So they used civilians as playthings to torture, humiliate, defile (even carrying helpful translations to instruct women to undress). Yes, but…
Who can forget one of the defining images of that day’s barbarity? Twenty-two-year-old German-Israeli Shani Louk, her body chucked on the back of a flatbed truck like a sack of potatoes, her leg obscenely twisted at a right angle, one of her murderers casually resting his boot on her naked flank. That beautiful young woman was a trophy of war, her corpse paraded through Gaza to the frenzied delight of the mob. Only a splinter of Shani’s skull was ever recovered. Yes, but…
Shame on every single person who marches on October 7 – they celebrate the suffering of families cremated in their own homes, of Shani Louk paraded as a spoil of war, of a mother murdered when she went to fetch milk for her babies. Roi and Guy, the twins, now four years old, are thriving. The aunt and uncle who adopted them don’t want the boys to be tragic figures. Like their country, they have to be resilient. They love life.
I am not Jewish, but I believe the Jews deserve and need a homeland. I hate their enemies because they are our enemies. So that makes me a Zionist. If you have any sense of where history teaches us, this leads you should be a Zionist too. No more “Yes, buts…”
Today of all days let us stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters."
-Allison Pearson, The Telegraph





























