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Here’s the problem. The liberal political class wants us to treat atrocities like Belfast as single, random, isolated incidents. “Yes, it’s horrific, but don’t overreact,” they say. “Let the police do their job. Justice will be delivered. Let’s remain united,” and so on. But the public can see that such incidents *aren’t* random or isolated. They are, in fact, all the consequence of massive state failure in the area of asylum and immigration. All roads lead back there. That’s why people are angry.. They are sick of the platitudes that get trotted out after each fresh incident. They don’t want to hear them anymore. They know that the decisions of establishment politicians have brought us to this current pass, and they don’t trust those same politicians to fix things, especially when some of them refuse to even recognise that the public’s anger is justified. There has been a huge vibe shift in recent years. Imagine - God forbid - there were another 7/7. Does anyone think the public response would be anything like as restrained as it was then? We are in really dangerous territory. The public don’t want flowers and candles and “Don’t let them divide us.” They want someone who says, “I recognise that the state has failed abjectly. We have allowed far too many people to settle in the country without knowing who they truly are. It has disrupted your communities. Your anger is justified. And I will do everything in my power to put things right.” Any politician unwilling to articulate that message, fully and sincerely, is effectively sanctioning more years of growing social disharmony and discord. Things cannot heal until those in power recognise the extent of the problem and what it will take to fix it. And, on both counts, most of them don’t. That’s why the next few years are going to be very, very turbulent.

Just today? Russian on Russian violence in the name of Russia

Keep ignoring reality, zigger. x.com/Toriadus/status/179297…

In today’s Vatnik Soup, we’ll introduce Russian propaganda operations around military targets like Starobilsk. For over a decade, the Kremlin has used similar strategies, combining crisis actors, “independent journalists” and fabricated evidence. 1/13

These two giant tortoises have been fighting each other for over 120 years. According to the zoo, one tortoise stole the other’s food 120 years ago, and from that day on they became enemies. There hasn’t been a single day where they haven’t fought for a while

Trump and sons to be ‘forever’ exempt from tax audits ft.trib.al/ca4OS8P

The Huffman family moved to Russia from Texas in early 2025, admiring "traditional values" and "life without Western propaganda." The family has been documenting their experience on social media and doing interviews with the Russian media outlets. Recently, Derek Huffman was sent to the war in Ukraine. He was promised Russian citizenship and service in the rear. And just several weeks after signing the contract, he was sent to the front lines. His wife complained that Derek's unit is being taught in Russian although he doesn't speak Russian well, so he's barely getting any training. She added that he hasn't received any payments, as well.

Marco Rubio Has Discovered That NATO Exists Marco Rubio stood at a podium recently and said, with the confidence of a man who has never read anything, that if NATO can’t be used to “project to other contingencies,” then “we have a problem.” He is correct. There is a problem. The problem is Marco Rubio. Article 5 of the NATO treaty has existed since 1949. It says, in language so simple a golden retriever could grasp it, that an attack on one member is an attack on all. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. You don’t need a law degree. You barely need literacy. What Article 5 does not say, and what no page of the NATO founding treaty has ever suggested, is that 31 sovereign European nations signed up to serve as a strategic parking lot for American military adventures on the other side of the planet. Denmark did not join a defensive alliance in 1949 so that, 75 years later, it could help Washington bomb a country it got bored looking at. NATO is a shield. Not a sword. Not a taxi service. Not a valet for whatever impulsive geopolitical tantrum is trending in Washington this quarter. The Americans have now spent 15 months confused by this distinction. Their finest minds, their cabinet secretaries, their very best people, staring at the treaty like a dog watching television. Ears up. Deeply engaged. Understanding absolutely nothing. The good news is that Europe has finally understood something too: you cannot outsource your survival to people who find a single sentence intellectually challenging. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Oh shit! Look how AWKWARD Mehdi Hasan looks when International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan says that there is NO EVIDENCE of Genocide in Gaza. Look at Mehdi squirm.

The Battle for the Bismarck | stopmotion cgi youtu.be/QxIkRDRvQpY?si=0l6l… via @YouTube @almurray

A compilation of SAM ROCKWELL'S great moves every time he walks onto Jimmy Fallon. x.com/SendTheClips/status/19…

@Bushra1Shaikh listen to this, you Pakistani Muslim bitch👇👇👇

Heba Muraisi found enough energy to screech “intifada” from her cell. I’m sure she will be fine. She could always choose to eat.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission just found DNA building blocks on asteroid Bennu. 🧬☄️ ✔️ 14 amino acids ✔️ All 5 DNA nucleobases ✔️ Signs of ancient seawater Life’s ingredients were in space before Earth even existed. So… how rare is life, really? 👀

What do your constituents want?

“just SPEAKS OUT against genocide”🤡

I always say Israel is losing the PR war, but have a read at this...……. Mitch Schneider October 10 at 12:09 PM “I keep hearing that Israel "lost the PR war." And you know what? Fine. Sure. Whatever. The world thinks we're monsters. The UN passed over 30 resolutions condemning us. College campuses exploded with protests. "Genocide" trended on Twitter for 700 days straight. We lost the PR war. Congratulations to everyone who won it. Now let me tell you what we won instead. Two years ago, my country was surrounded. Hezbollah had 150,000 rockets aimed at us from the north. Hamas controlled Gaza with an army in tunnels beneath it. Iran was months from a nuclear weapon. The Houthis were firing missiles at our ships. Assad's Syria was an Iranian highway. Iraqi militias were itching for war. We called it the "ring of fire." Iran spent 40 years building it. Billions of dollars. Endless weapons. Thousands of fighters. All of it designed for one purpose: to destroy Israel in a coordinated attack. October 7th was supposed to be the beginning. Hamas attacks from the south, Hezbollah from the north, militias from the east, Houthis from the sea. The final war. You know what happened instead? Israel dismantled the entire thing. Piece by piece. Threat by threat. Not in some distant future. Not "eventually." In two years. Nasrallah spent 32 years building Hezbollah into the most powerful non-state military in the world. Israel killed him in his bunker and took out his entire command structure in weeks. Hezbollah isn't weakened. It's finished. Iran built a nuclear program for decades. Israel set it back years. Killed their top scientists. Destroyed their facilities. Made the regime so weak that its own people are revolting. Assad survived a civil war, Russian intervention, and American strikes. He couldn't survive losing his Iranian backers. His regime collapsed. The land bridge is gone. The Houthis thought they could close the Red Sea. Israel crippled their long-range capabilities and neutralized the threat. Hamas? Sinwar died in rubble clutching a stick. Haniyeh was eliminated in Tehran. Deif is gone. The tunnels are destroyed. And this week, Hamas agreed to a ceasefire and the release of all hostages. Read that again. The terrorist organization that started this war by massacring 1,200 people just agreed to release every hostage and accept a ceasefire on Israel's terms. So yeah. We lost the PR war. I'll take that loss. Because here's what we gained: My kids don't have to run to bomb shelters anymore. The north is being rebuilt. Hezbollah's rockets are gone. Iran's nuclear threat has been pushed back years. The tunnels under Gaza are rubble. The "ring of fire" is extinguished. And now? The hostages are coming home. There's a ceasefire. The fighting can finally end. Two years ago, we were facing an existential threat. Today, we're the dominant power in the Middle East. Here's the thing about the "PR war" - it's a luxury. It's what people with security worry about. It's optics. It's perception. It's whether someone with a blue checkmark likes you. Israel doesn't have that luxury. We never did. When people scream "genocide," we're preventing one. When they cry "disproportionate," we're stopping rockets. When they demand "ceasefire," we're rescuing hostages. While the world was busy judging us, we were busy surviving. And not just surviving. Winning. Fundamentally, decisively, historically winning. Iran's 40-year plan to surround and destroy Israel? Over. The axis of resistance? Shattered. The greatest coordinated threat in our history? Defeated. So let me ask you something: Would you rather win the PR war and lose your country? Or lose the PR war and secure your existence for the next 50 years? Because that's the actual choice. And Israel made it. Again. The world can have its hashtags. We'll take our sovereignty. They can have their protests. We'll take our security.

Oops. Footage from Greta’s boat shows a crew member misfiring a flare, which lands back on the boat. Meanwhile, they are claiming they were “attacked by a drone” 🙄 Tragedy tourists cosplaying as victims