Links - 9th August 2025 (2 - Hamas Attack Oct 2023 [including Greta Thunberg])

‘Agents of the Occupation’: Hamas Threatens Civilians Who Accept Aid From Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - "Hamas denounced the new U.S.-Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) as an “agent of the occupation,” warning Palestinian civilians who accept its assistance that they “will pay the price, and we will take the necessary measures.” The GHF, which began operations in the southern part of the coastal enclave on May 26, condemned Hamas’s “death threats,” asserting that the Iran-backed terrorist group feels “threatened by this new operating model and will do everything in its power to see it fail.”... the GHF’s stated goal is to bypass the United Nations and humanitarian NGOs by distributing aid at fixed locations with enhanced security to prevent looting and theft by Hamas and allied organizations... Despite being in its infancy, the GHF has been the target of strong criticism from the United Nations and established aid groups"
Of course, it's the "Zionists" fault when Hamas kills Palestinians, and left wingers hate the GHF, because it's now harder for Hamas to steal aid

Hamas attacks GHF bus in Gaza killing five, US-backed charity says - "Hamas "brutally attacked" a bus carrying the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) staff to a distribution site near the southern city of Khan Yunis on Wednesday night, killing at least five, the US-backed charity said. "There are at least five fatalities, multiple injuries and fear that some of our team members may have been taken hostage," GHF said in a statement. The five killed staff members are Palestinian... The killings early Wednesday were carried out by the Hamas Sahm police unit, which Hamas claims it established to combat looting. The unit released video footage showing several dead men lying in the street, saying they were Abu Shabab militia fighters who had been detained and killed for collaborating with Israel. It was not possible to verify the images or the claims around them. Abu Shabab officials denied that the images showed members of their militia... The GHF began operating in late May, stating it has distributed more than 7 million meals worth of food during the first week of its mandate. However, its work has been marred by deadly shootings which have taken place near some of its four aid distribution centres in recent weeks... The GHF has claimed it has faced continued threats from Hamas, saying on Saturday this has "made it impossible" to operate in Gaza"
Just as with Islam Hejazy, the "pro-Palestinian" voices are silent about the killings, of course. When Israel kills fake aid workers and fake journalists, there's lots of outrage, but when Palestinians kill real aid workers, there's silence. The only noise terrorism supporters make about the GHF is being really upset when aid is provided in a way that prevents Hamas from grabbing it

US-backed aid group says Hamas killed eight Palestinian staff in bus attack - "The new group backed by Israel and the US for aid distribution in Gaza says Hamas attacked a bus transporting some of its Palestinian workers, killing at least eight people. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said the attack happened on Wednesday night as the bus carrying more than two-dozen workers travelled to a distribution centre in southern Gaza, and that it came after days of threats from Hamas... The GHF started operating on 26 May, to bypass the United Nations (UN) and other established organisations to distribute aid in Gaza. Since then, its work has been marred by controversy and violence, with deadly incidents happening near its hubs almost every day. The UN, which has refused to co-operate with the system, and aid organisations say it contravenes the humanitarian principles of neutrality, impartiality, and independence. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said the bus attack followed days of threats from Hamas - and that they feared some workers had been "taken hostage"."
Damn Zionists attacking aid workers!
It's telling how the UN and aid organisations are so opposed to preventing Hamas from stealing aid

A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia? - The New York Times - "In January 2024, Maura Finkelstein finished teaching her first classes of the semester, unaware they would be her last as a professor... as the Trump administration, in the name of fighting antisemitism, has arrested graduate students and scholars, threatened entire departments and colleges and siphoned support from some of the country’s most prized universities — her story has taken on the weight of an omen. At the center of the chaos and fear swirling around the administration’s dismantling of the academy is the same question that animates Finkelstein’s case: Will the freedoms guaranteed to professors for generations survive?... To some, Finkelstein was the clearest example yet of the “Palestine exception” to campus free speech: a tenured professor fired for pro-Palestinian speech and “another example of weaponizing Title VI for purposes of punishing lawful political speech,” as Brian Leiter, a philosopher and law professor at the University of Chicago, phrased it"
David Wolpe on X - "NOT for her politics but for reposting this: “Do not cower to Zionists. Shame them. Do not welcome them in your spaces. Do not make them feel comfortable. Why should those genocide loving fascists be treated any different than any other flat out racist.”"
Weird. I thought all Jews were unconditionally pro-Israel
Strange. Left wingers used to tell us that there was nothing wrong with firing people for their political views, because freedom of speech only applied to government reprisal, and there were consequences to being a "shitty person". And those who refused to abide by speech codes deserved to be fired, because they made students feel 'unsafe'. Presumably Amy Wax should not be persecuted anymore, but then the left's standards are continually changing to push the left wing agenda
Academic freedom means you can incite violence against, harass and physically assault Jews
Why is "pro-Palestinian speech" usually about persecuting Jews?
Muhlenberg College's Code Of Ethics & Conduct says that "We all deserve to work in an environment where we are treated with dignity and respect". Apparently academic freedom means that you don't need to obey HR rules

Thread by @JeffreyASachs on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I've gotten accused of being snarky and self-righteous lately, which tbf is probably warranted. So let me try this one with some sincerity: Everyone upset about the Muhlenberg should acknowledge the long line of tenured faculty fired for protected speech after leftwing outrage. I'm talking about people like Charles Negy, who was fired after sending out these tweets. Or Tim Boudreau, who was fired for using the n-word in class *as part of a lesson on language, journalism, and the law.* He also was tenured.  There are many other cases like these, especially once you start tallying up the non-tenured profs who've been fired or the tenured ones who were demoted, suspended, or otherwise punished for protected speech that pissed off the Left. And yes, that includes speech critical of Hamas."

Chris Rose on X - "Gary Lineker described October 7th as “the Hamas thing”. Dawn French mocked October 7th as “oooh but they did a bad thing”. The October 7th massacre really brought out the worst traits amongst celebrities. They’re both disgusting people."

Hen Mazzig on X - "Nattapong Pinta wasn’t Israeli. He wasn’t Jewish.  He was a Thai national, a husband and father to a 7-year-old child. He came to Israel simply to work, hoping to earn enough to support his family back home.  He had nothing to do with the war.  So why did Hamas kidnap him on October 7? And why did they murder him in captivity?  Hamas attacked Israel out of pure antisemitic hatred and ideological extremism, but they slaughtered indiscriminately.   They didn’t care whether their victims were Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, or Druze. Whether they were Zionists or not. Whether they supported a two-state solution or had no political opinion at all.  They didn’t care. They murdered Nattapong.  How can anyone still stand with Hamas?  How do you justify the murder of Nattapong Pinta?"
Clearly, by working in Israel, he was supporting "Zionists", and all "Zionists" and people who support them deserve to die

Eylon Levy on X - "Here we go again… Media reported Israel “killed three journalists.” The IDF just revealed two were Islamic Jihad terrorists. The third was a cameraman for Islamic Jihad media."

Ihab Hassan on X - "BREAKING: Just a few minutes ago, Hamas militias assaulted and tortured Palestinian activist and journalist Omar Abd Rabu in Al-Nuseirat, Gaza—breaking his limbs and confiscating his phone over his criticism of Hamas."

Meme - Michal/Michele -מיכל✡️ 🟦 @MichalSabra: "Pallywood wants you to believe these two boys are Gazans, they’re not. This was in Syria over 4 years ago. People who are truly suffering don’t have to co-opt others pain."

Meme - Kosher🎗 @koshercockney: "Propaganda vs Reality on Gazan food.  If you want to see the truth straight from the Gazans themselves, on their own social media accounts, along with links and original dates - follow @imshin    (First comment in the thread for information straight from Gazan social media accounts themselves)"
"Propaganda. SkyNews @SkyNews: ""Not a single person in Gaza has enough to eat. Every single child in Gaza is facing famine" @alex_saieh shares what she's heard from staff on the ground in Gaza with @SkyYaldaHakim"
Reality. May 10, 2025 - Gaza *Man at cafe with coffee and dessert*"
Damn famine! Clearly having lots of Nutella (as per a previous post) means they are starving

Meme - James J. Marlow @James_J_Marlow: "I really don’t want to be provocative on X but as Edan Alexander is released by Hamas into the hands of the Red Cross, we do NOT see starvation in Gaza.  We see kids playing on their bicycles and taking pictures with their smart phones.  Welcome home Edan."

Meme - Uyghur Truth Project @UyghurTruthProj: "The way that tankies/axistards speak to Gazans is so evil.   These people don't actually care about Palestine."
Secular Islamist @S3cularIslamist: "I always wonder how it is that the traitor Palestinians always seem to dodge the bombs  proof there is collusion between Sunnis and Israel"

Meme - Greta Thunberg in T-shirt waving Israeli flag: "I WENT TO SEE THE HOLY LAND AND ALL I GOT WAS A LOUSY SANDWICH"

Michael Bloomfield: Greta Thunberg's doomed ship of moral superiority - "She sails toward Gaza with a group claiming to spotlight a humanitarian crisis. But there is a dark irony. They are not advocating for the victims of Hamas, including those still held in brutal captivity over 600 days after the October 7, 2023, massacre. Nor do they acknowledge that on that day, Hamas broke the ceasefire by massacring over 1,200 people and abducting 250 hostages, including women, children, and Holocaust survivors. She does not mention the families destroyed, children murdered, or people tortured. Instead, her voyage signals support for a fanatical movement that inflicts suffering on its own people, weaponizing their pain. The October 7 attack was not a military operation. It was a grotesque slaughter, misogynistic, homophobic, genocidal, and antisemitic. Terrorists live-streamed as parents were butchered before their children, victims were burned alive, raped, mutilated, and paraded through the streets. Homes and fields were torched. Yet many who claim to stand for human rights refuse to condemn these crimes, justifying the horror as “resistance.” Thunberg and others on this voyage of moral posturing may not intend to support terrorism, but selective outrage has consequences. By amplifying only one side’s suffering, they empower a violent movement that victimizes both Israelis and Palestinians. Mahmoud Abbas, president of the supposedly moderate Palestinian Authority, praised the October 7 attacks. Greta’s support for this cause, whether intentional or not, aligns her with an ideology that glorifies terror and rejects peace. Yes, we must care for innocent Palestinians caught in the crossfire. But we must also face the truth: many have been raised in hatred, fed lies about Jews, and manipulated by leaders who use them as pawns in a war against coexistence. The 1988 Hamas Charter is openly antisemitic, explicitly calls for Israel’s destruction, and rejects peace... Thunberg has never called for the release of hostages. She has not condemned Hamas’s brutality or the decades of Palestinian rejectionism that have sabotaged peace. Why not? Surely, she knows Europe’s silence during the Holocaust, including Sweden’s neutrality, casts a long shadow when moral clarity is needed most. Tiny Israel holds just one per cent of the region’s land. It has made peace with former enemies and repeatedly offered compromise. The refusal has come not from Israel, but from Islamist leaders who glorify martyrdom and see coexistence as betrayal... The ship heading to Gaza did not reach its destination. After IDF refreshments, the boat was redirected to Israel. Its passengers will soon return home to comfort and praise from other self-righteous “progressives.” Meanwhile, real victims, hostages still in tunnels, families shattered by terror, remain ignored by environmentalists, women’s advocates, and human rights defenders. Having supported many, I am appalled by their duplicitous silence. This is not just about Gaza. It is about the moral contradiction of those who support Hamas and Palestinian rejectionism while espousing progressive values. It is also about a growing movement threatening western society. Across Europe and North America, anti-western, anti-democratic, and anti-Judeo-Christian sentiment is rising in our universities, media, and politics. A movement has taken root that undermines liberal democracy, religious tolerance, and human rights for all but themselves... This is not a denial of Palestinian suffering. It is a demand for moral consistency and a rejection of those who exploit suffering to fuel hatred and conflict. This campaign is not just a betrayal of Jewish rights, but of universal human rights. Silence is complicity. We must confront those who claim to act for peace but hinder it. Stand up. Speak out. The cost of indifference is already too high."

Eyal Yakoby on X - "Why isn’t Greta Thunberg sailing to Yemen? 2.7 million children are on the brink of starvation—but no flotilla, no outrage, no media circus."

Amjad Taha أمجد طه on X - "Arrest them all. Deport them. Greta Thunberg’s Gaza “flotilla” is not aid. These aren't humanitarians. They are tourists of trauma, parasites of pain, sailing not for the needy but for the spotlight, seeking followers while real bodies fall. If this were about famine, they would be in Port Sudan, not off the coast of Israel. There, over 20 million are being starved by the Muslim Brotherhood led army in Sudan( Hamas of Africa). According to the UN, 5.2 million of them are children. A child dies every few minutes. But Sudanese children are Black, Arab, Muslim. No PR value. No Western applause. So not a single boat sails for them. Not a single tear is shed.   Where were they when Hamas dragged screaming babies from cribs on October 7? Where were they when Shiri Bibas and her children were murdered? Standing silently or clapping from afar. Because the truth is, they do not stand with Gaza. They stand with the murderers of Gaza. They are the sails of Hamas’s propaganda, filled with the foul winds of lies.  The Bible says: "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... who put darkness for light and light for darkness." (Isaiah 5:20) This flotilla is exactly that. Evil pretending to be holy.  And what did they bring? A few bags of “aid”? That is not aid. That is insult. If they truly cared, they would have handed it to real organizations. But Hamas shot at American Gaza relief workers this week, so Greta’s crew avoided them. Cowards hiding behind slogans.  Let us be clear. This flotilla is not for Gaza. It is against you, against me, and against all of humanity. It is against truth. It is against every real victim in the Middle East. It's not about Israel its about antisemitism.  They are not activists. They are accomplices. They are not saviors. They are staged martyrs of a false gospel. So cast them out. Let them return to the nations that birthed their delusions. Nations that want nothing to do with them. Even the land rejects liars who sail under the flag of false compassion.  And remember this. The world does not need more noise. It needs moral clarity. The seas do not part for fools pretending to be prophets."

Hen Mazzig on X - "“If we go over there, they’ll all jump into the water to get on our boat.”  The Freedom Flotilla claims to be on a vital humanitarian mission to save lives.  But when they came across a boat of Sudanese migrants fleeing a brutal regime in Libya, they didn’t help.  In a video, European Parliament member Rima Hassan explains why: the boat was “too small.”  So instead of rescuing the migrants, they let them be arrested by Libyan forces and returned to a country where they face torture, modern-day slavery, and inhumane treatment.  They could have squeezed in a little, maybe given up some tanning space for a few hours. But they didn’t.  Instead, they filmed the arrest from afar.  It wasn’t until a few migrants jumped into the water, choosing to risk drowning rather than return to Libya, that the Flotilla finally took four of them on board, simply because they had no choice.  And the worst part? They turned it into a PR stunt, portraying themselves as heroes, when in reality, they let around 20 other Sudanese migrants be dragged back to hell.  Because in the end, that’s what this is really about: Instagram stories."

Thread by @EYakoby on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "BREAKING: New footage shows Thiago Ávila, a lead organizer of Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla, chanting: “Allahu Akbar! Death to America! Death to Israel! Victory to Islam!”  Once again, these Islamists pose as “humanitarians”—but their real agenda is jihad. To be clear, these people are posing as those who just want to help Palestinians, when in reality they are violent jihadists who call for “Death to America.”  Thiago attended Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral, mourning the man responsible for killing over 200 marines."
Clearly, the Hezbollah supporter is a peace activist

The Uri on X - "In case you were wondering: Greta’s BFF here— Thiago Ávila—flew all the way from Brazil to attend Nasrallah’s funeral, where he also met with Leila Khaled, the first woman to ever hijack a commercial flight.  Greta is a terrorist supporter, and this is a Jihadist sailing"

Meme - Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer: "Never before in the history of the United Nations was a country attacked by terrorist armies on seven fronts and then labeled by the UN as the aggressor. *WEST BANK, IRAN, LEBANON, SYRIA, IRAQ, GAZA, YEMEN attacking ISRAEL*"

Hen Mazzig on X - "A rabbi was attacked TWICE in the same week in two different French cities.   He was sitting on the terrace of a cafe in Neuilly, France, when a man violently threw a chair at him for wearing a kippa.  Earlier this week the same rabbi was attacked in Deuville, France.   Jews are getting attacked on the streets of France on a daily basis. Why are you still silent?"

Thugs smash up Jewish-owned business in Stamford Hill | UK : r/europe_sub - "This was likely done by the far right to blame Palestinians. Only 3 days after Tommy Robinson was released? Basically a certainty.  The only question i have is was he involved personally or did he just plan and provide weapons and funding for the attack?"
"Oh I'm sure Tommy was involved in the attack and provided both funding and weapons.  The only question is how did he get Palestine Action to claim responsibility for the attack?"
"The far right controls everything, even the far left."
"Yeah those pro Palestinians are known for their peaceful ways and would never do something like this"

Uzay Bulut on X - "The X accounts held by those who claim to oppose the war in Gaza write that because their side (Hamas) is losing.   If Israel were losing  they’d be cheering - just like they’re celebrating as Iranian bombs are injuring and even murdering Israeli civilians.   Imagine hating Jews so much that you end up siding with the world’s most repressive regime and biggest funder of terrorism, Iran. Jew-hatred makes one evil and stupid."

‘Woke’ university accused of no-platforming academic over Israel views - "A “woke” university has been accused of no-platforming an academic over his pro-Israel views.  Prof Eric Kaufmann was invited to participate in a debate with other professors by the Cardiff Academic Freedom Association (CAFA) at the city’s university last month.  However, a coalition of Left-wing groups organised a protest over his attendance, accusing him of being a “genocide apologist”.  As a result, CAFA was hit with a £1,300 bill by university officials to cover the costs of security for the event. Prof Kaufmann criticised the university’s decision as “cowardly”, saying it was “horrible” to charge the group.  “Basically, it’s a spineless administration,” he said. “They are trying to no-platform people whilst claiming they are not no-platforming people. This is a classic example of no-platforming. We are all told woke is dead, but clearly it’s not.” The Canadian professor of political science at the University of Buckingham has been accused of being a “genocide apologist” over his views on the Israel-Gaza conflict.  In a recent post to X, he wrote: “A number of things can be true at once: 1) Hamas are violent terrorists; 2) Many Palestinians support Hamas for tribal reasons, against their interests; 3) Israel has the right to defend itself, but; 4) Israel is committing atrocities and must rise above to end spiral of violence.”... Prof Alice Sullivan, a gender critical academic and professor of sociology at University College London, who authored a report concluding that UK universities have failed to protect gender-critical academics from bullying and career-threatening restrictions on their research, also criticised Cardiff University.  “That’s a pattern of behaviour from Cardiff,” she said. “They [CAFA] are not an external group. Universities should be facilitating academics to hold these kinds of events, not putting barriers in their path.”"
Terrorism supporters are not satisfied if you criticise Israel if you also criticise the terrorists they love

Anti-Semitic abuse at UK universities hits record high - "Verbal abuse, threats and assaults against Jewish students surged after the Oct 7 terrorist attack, reaching the highest recorded levels for a single academic year, it says.  Reported incidents include Jewish students being pelted with eggs after an event with the Chief Rabbi, and swastika graffiti found in lavatories at the National Union of Students conference.  The findings are revealed in the latest campus antisemitism report by the Community Security Trust (CST), a charity protecting British Jews from terrorism and antisemitism... On Oct 7, the CST documented four antisemitic incidents, including a man knocking on the door of a Jewish university chaplaincy couple, and saying, “We’re watching you”.  Damage to Jewish property surged, with 17 cases recorded in 2023/24, up from four the previous year, the report said. Reported incidents included a student’s T-shirt defaced with “I [heart] Hitler” during a bar crawl.  University-related assaults rose to nine, compared to just one the previous year, while direct antisemitic threats to students increased to 23 from three. Threats detailed in the report included a bomb hoax email targeting a Jewish student society, which read, “Everyone inside will die in a pool of blood”... Just three days after the Oct 7 atrocities, a faculty member at a Midlands university posted antisemitic messages online, calling Jews “bloodthirsty”. In February this year, a lecturer at another university disrupted a Jewish society event, denying pogroms and refusing to leave.  Social media played a key role in spreading abuse, the report said.  The report found official student WhatsApp group chats were spammed with death threats, including a criminology group chat that featured Nazi glorification. One message said: “I’d bring Hitler back if I could.”... The CST differentiates between antisemitic or extremist incidents and broader pro-Palestinian campaigning, although it found that rhetoric at some protests crossed into support for violence.   Six antisemitic incidents were linked to the encampments, five abusive and one threatening.  The charity said that one demonstration was infiltrated by older, unaffiliated individuals wearing face coverings and promoting extreme ideas. Socialist Worker Party activists were also twice seen distributing leaflets which said they “unconditionally support” Hamas... He warned that teenagers are vulnerable to the ideologies of “far-Left groups” who the CST found are “distributing material on campus saying they support Hamas’ military struggle and Oct 7 wasn’t terrorism”. “It’s a classic pattern of radicalisation,” he said."
Weird. We keep being told that anti-Zionism has nothing to do with anti-Semitism
Time to jail the "far right" to keep Jews safe
We keep being told that no one supports Hamas / no one supports terrorism

Mistaking Leviathan for God

On politics being the new religion (mostly for Progressive Democrats / secular left wingers):

Mistaking Leviathan for God
Politics, unlike religion, can never be a source of meaning or spirituality

"We are told from many quarters that something called “our democracy” is in mortal danger. The feeling of dread is pervasive: Google “our democracy in danger” and you get 70 million hits. The headlines have been frightening. Here’s the New York Times: “Will 2024 be the year democracy dies?” NBC: “Election officials say democracy is still at risk in 2024.” The Financial Times: “Can democracy survive 2024?” The putative cause of death is usually Donald Trump—but it also could be the Deep State, social media or Vladimir Putin. One way or another, our beloved democracy seems to be on the verge of annihilation...

What we are experiencing isn’t the death of democracy but a crisis of representation. According to Pew Research Center, only 22% of Americans trust the federal government. Trust has virtually vanished among Republicans (11%); more startling, to me, is the collapse of trust in government among Democrats (35%). Trust in Congress has dipped into the same territory: 24% in Ballotpedia’s rolling average. Three out of four Americans feel unrepresented by their elected representatives.

To some extent, the cause of the crisis is thunderingly obvious. Representative government requires a strong bond of identity between the public and the political class. That bond has shattered like a mirror under the blows of the digital age. Elected officials are clueless about, and terrified by, the public. More importantly, the lives of politicians have become incomprehensible to ordinary people. Elizabeth Warren had trouble holding a beer bottle. Trump is forever riding that golden escalator into and out of his very own tower. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, once a bartender, now resembles a movie star treading the red carpet. Like a certain type of little dog, these hyperambitious organisms seem overbred to some singular purpose.

And here I have to deliver the bad news. The malady runs much deeper than this. At the heart of the crisis of representation we will discover an impossible longing for meaning and transcendence.

Mediated government is procedural business: As liberalism in action, it explicitly rejects any claims to cosmic significance. Officially, there can be no long march to utopia, no leader-worship, no regimented, “Triumph of the Will”-like torchlight parades. The system wraps the problem of meaning around its novel approach to the problem of freedom. Both are privatized. The citizen is liberated from the burdens of government service and granted a protected sphere of unimpeded activity. That is the realm where the big questions reside. We are free to pine after God—to attend church, synagogue, mosque or Masonic temple—so long as we keep it legal, and, as with all prurient affairs, comport ourselves with the proper discretion.

The arrangement made for an occasional collision and explosion worked surprisingly well for over a century. Catholics put up with Protestants, Christians with atheists, farmers with factory hands, hippies with suits, in that dynamic cluster of American aspiration we call the pursuit of happiness. Religion was only part of it. (I knew a taxi driver who derived his sense of worth from performing as a clown with the Shriners.) In this huge and restless country, the point was to belong somewhere, to be someone, to attain a web of human relations that nourished the spirit and helped make sense of the world.

Then came the fall. For reasons too complex to delve into here, the sources of meaning and spirituality began to wither and die. Attendance at religious services, for example, has tumbled precipitously. So has membership in Masonic organizations and participation in sports leagues for both children and adults. Connection to neighborhood and community has largely disappeared—the loss of trust in government in part reflects our lack of trust in one another. Families are broken or nonexistent. A nation of joiners and volunteers first dissolved into a passive TV audience—and finally blew apart, with a rude noise, among the volatile conflicts of the web.

Human nature hasn’t changed, however. We still crave justification. The loss of shared meaning condemns the individual to a terrible solitude at the edge of the abyss—and we shouldn’t be surprised by the pathological nature of the responses. In “The Anxious Generation,” social psychologist Jonathan Haidt speaks of a “surge of suffering,” particularly among the young. Americans are afflicted with increased anxiety, depression, drug addiction and “deaths of despair,” to match a corresponding decline in marriage, childbearing, even sexual activity. The private sphere, formerly the realm of meaning, is now a wasteland haunted by accusing phantoms. The pursuit of happiness has come to feel like a panicked flight to nowhere.

The pathology has spilled over into politics. Hungry for a loftier state of being, many somehow imagine they have found it in bashing the dull machinery of representational government. These seekers have mistaken Leviathan for God, the will to power for the state of grace—and, by exalting political action almost literally to heaven, they have succumbed to what might be called the transcendental temptation. Only politics, they believe, can save the earth. Only politics can establish social justice. Only politics can preserve the “normies” from the pedophiles who run the country.

As it happens, they are demanding personal validation from an institution explicitly designed not to provide it.

Let me suggest a medical name for this cognitive disorder: “Greta Thunberg Syndrome.” Young Thunberg was one of Haidt’s sufferers, healed by the miracle of environmental activism.

“Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat at home, with an eating disorder,” she tweeted. “All that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.”

Thunberg is a fairly typical specimen of those who confuse politics with redemption. With an almost gnostic fervor, she hates the society in which she lives quite comfortably, and keeps breathlessly anticipating its doom. She’s wholly focused on personal theater—not surprisingly, her father is an actor, her mother an opera singer—with few, if any, perceptible consequences. She’s sustained by the absolute certainty that she embodies Truth in the eternal war against Falsehood. Above all, she needs the fuel of rage to lift her spirit above this meaningless world—the angrier she gets, the happier she is...

As Thunberg admits, the temple of activism is often erected on a foundation of psychopathology. There appears to be more than a hint of self-loathing, even self-destructiveness, among those who vandalize ancient works of art or prevent commuters from reaching their jobs, so they can earn their brief instant in front of the cameras. These are not sturdy yeomen. If industrial society were to vanish in a flash, the activist class would go extinct soon after. The self-nullifying contradictions bubble up so close to the surface that one wonders how the people involved can remain unaware of them. The rank and file of Queers for Palestine, for instance, would be exterminated if transported to Gaza.

William James once wrote of the “divided self,” a personality prone to sudden shifts and conversions. Ours are fractured times. The religious impulse in politics should be understood as a fevered grab at wholeness—that is, at purity, simplicity, honesty, everything an evil age has denied the parched hearts of the rebels. The spirit of inquisition is strong. The enemy must be identified and silenced. Because the stakes are apocalyptic, villains can’t be allowed to shelter behind empty proceduralism. According to one poll, a majority of Americans believes the First Amendment, which protects free speech, goes “too far.” A similar majority favors government control of “false information.” Lies have no place in a purified celestial order. False opinion endures, not by right, but on sufferance.

“Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists,” stated a leader in the anti-Israel student protests at Columbia University. This was personal theater with genocidal intent.

Curiously, the progressive political class, long isolated and afraid, has found in this desperate hunger a link back to the public. It has no clue about meaning—but it has a talent for faking it. It’s able to strike heroic and uncompromising poses. For so small a price, progressive politicians have gained a potent weapon of control.

I find it very easy to imagine a government dominated by true believers in perpetual protest mode, mediated by more disciplined nongovernmental zealots, and administered, in the usual bungling manner, by the ruling elites. The media and academia will applaud, movies will be full of righteous vehemence, corporations will make commercials advertising their virtuous support. Representation, in that case, will be a transparent fiction, and Madison’s mechanisms against tyranny will fall into serious disrepair.

Where do we go from here? To begin with, we must think clearly about the crisis of representation. Part of it is structural. Mediation is intentional and no doubt necessary, but bloated paralysis was never the desired endpoint. Too many layers of mediation have accumulated between the ordinary citizen and elected officials. This not only alienates the citizen, who feels shunted to a vast antechamber crowded with frustrated petitioners—it also promotes the kind of hidden incompetence and lack of accountability we recently witnessed in the Secret Service...

But what are we to do with the fanatics who wish to turn government into a church and the private sphere into a puritanical zone of control? That, I think, is much more straightforward. We should recall that the activists are our fellow citizens, not Nazi stormtroopers or aliens from space. They are responding to an ancient existential need. As human beings, they should be treated with compassion. As political actors, however, they must be confronted and defeated. There’s no middle ground: Either we are equal and equally free or we’re nothing. The cosmic can have no truck with the transactional. As a cursory glance at 20th-century history should teach us, the transcendental temptation is indistinguishable from the totalitarian one." 

 

 

 

 

 

Links - 9th August 2025 (1 - Migrants: Canada)

Before joining cabinet, public safety minister wrote immigration support letters for terror group ‘member’ - "Before he was appointed to the federal cabinet two years ago, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree wrote letters urging Canadian officials to approve the immigration application of a man they had determined was a member of a terrorist organization. The letters, dated 2023 and 2016, were written on Anandasangaree's House of Commons letterhead and sent to the Canada Border Services Agency on behalf of an alleged member of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers who wanted to move to Toronto... Anandasangaree said the agency's refusal to grant Selvakumaran permanent residence had separated the 48-year-old Sri Lankan from his Canadian wife and child, which the Toronto-area MP called “cruel and inhumane.”... In his new portfolio, Anandasangaree has been given the task of helping fend off a White House trade war by bringing in legislation to toughen Canada’s borders, which President Donald Trump has complained are a threat to the United States. But documents on Selvakumaran’s case suggest that Anandasangaree’s support for the would-be migrant may have put Canadian public safety officials in a potentially awkward position: standing up for border security against the wishes of the MP who is now their minister... Waldman said he was disappointed with the court's ruling. He said his client “made a mistake well over two decades ago and claimed refugee status in the United Kingdom based on a false story of relatively low-level involvement with the LTTE.”... In his statement to Global News, Anandasangaree said he had recused himself from decisions related to the Tamil Tigers and the World Tamil Movement, which Public Safety Canada alleges is its Canadian front organization... the CBSA wrote in its report that Selvakumaran’s daughter was born almost a decade after he was informed he was not allowed into Canada due to membership in a terror group. “It should be noted that Mr. Selvakumaran would have been aware, when he started a family with his wife, that he was inadmissible to Canada; he therefore would have been cognizant of the fact that he might not be in a position to join his wife and daughter,” it said... Throughout his dealings with Canada’s immigration system, he has given evolving versions of his past — at first providing details of what he said was his role in the LTTE, and then denying any involvement at all. He initially sought asylum in the United Kingdom, where he told immigration authorities his duties with the LTTE included delivering the group’s propaganda newspapers from house to house... Britain rejected his refugee claim, citing his lack of credibility."
If you don't let admitted terrorists live in your country, you're cruel and inhumane

Sarkonak: Public Safety Minister Anandasangaree is unfit for office - "he went on to make veiled complaints of racism, directed at Global News’ journalists and Canadian society more broadly:  “As a Tamil Canadian, active for decades in my community, I have faced innuendo and whisper campaigns that question my allegiances to Canada.   “The questions sent to me by Global News infer something that no other minister has to face: their premise is that I somehow support a terrorist organization and would make decisions that would favour a terrorist organization. That is false.”  Well, no other ministers have had to proactively bow out of discussions regarding particular terror groups, have they?  The implication is that it’s irrational — immoral, even; an act born from subconscious bias — to question a Canadian immigrant’s sympathies for home country terror organizations. But such considerations are regularly weighed in immigration proceedings, and it’s undeniable that some members of some diaspora communities let their factional roots get the best of them. Just look at the Khalistani movement, the Eritrean riots, the pro-Hamas, glory-to-the-Houthis chants.  These aren’t out-of-bounds concerns. So, when a minister raises an ethics screen between himself and two literal terror groups, and supports the immigration bid of one of their affiliates, questions should be expected.   Anandasangaree could have chalked his letters up to a constituency-level oversight and promised better care in screening out bad apples from his to-help list. Alas, he made no such commitment and instead tried to get his investigators to avert their eyes for fear of being called racist. This has backfired: his response has only raised suspicions."
If you don't let admitted terrorists live in your country, you're racist

Immigration grew six times faster over past decade: Study - "Canada’s immigration levels grew six times faster over the past decade than it did from the turn of the century, says a new Fraser Institute study. The numbers, which include temporary foreign workers and international students, are contained in a new report entitled Canada’s Changing Immigration Patterns, 2000–2024. “Immigration, after 2000 and especially after 2015, is characterized by substantial increases in the absolute number of immigrants admitted, as well the share admitted as temporary foreign workers and international students,” authors Jock Finlayson and Steven Globerman wrote in the study. Between 2000 and 2014, annual immigration in Canada was around 618,000 people, but between 2016 and 2024 — excluding the pandemic-impacted 2020 — immigration more than doubled to around 1.4 million annually. These increasing numbers can be directly attributed to changes in government policy, the study points out — specifically mentioning 2014’s International Mobility Program (IMP), which allowed employers to fill gaps in lower-paying jobs with temporary foreign workers. “A key development shaping immigration policy under the Liberal government of former prime minister Justin Trudeau was the work done by the Advisory Council on Economic Growth, appointed in early 2016, ” the study states, adding the Trudeau government welcomed their recommendations enthusiastically... “At the same time, Ottawa stepped away from providing meaningful policy and administrative oversight of the burgeoning international education ‘industry,'” the study continued. “Thanks to this hands-off approach, Canadian universities, colleges, and technical and language schools ramped up enrollment of international students, essentially without limit.” Unchecked immigration and international student enrollments greatly contributed to Canada’s cost-of-living and housing crisis, with foreign students snapping up the limited number of housing rentals and part-time jobs in many cities. Foreign students not fortunate enough to find housing ended up in shelters and even living rough on the streets , relying on social services and food banks to support their studies."
Left wingers are still blaming Harper for high immigration. Weird how Trump is responsible for everything bad that happens in the US and the world not just when he is in office but after, but the Liberal party isn't to blame for a federal responsibility during its term of office

Wages will rise as population growth slows: Conference Board - "The Conference Board of Canada expects wage hikes will pick up speed in the coming years as the pace of population growth slows down... the federal government’s efforts to throttle immigration levels could start to tip the balance back toward workers in the years to come... Businesses are going to struggle more to find talent in the coming years as a result, which Renner said will force employers to hire more from Canada’s existing labour pool. The Conference Board expects these dynamics will drive the unemployment rate lower in the coming years, down to 6.2 per cent in 2026 and 5.8 per cent in 2027. More competition among businesses for a shortage of workers will help keep wage growth ahead of inflation in the years ahead, he said."
Weird. We keep being told that immigrants do not decrease wages but increase them.

Carney's border bill is bracing Canada for more Liberal neglect - "If passed, the bill would render any asylum claimant who files after being in Canada for a year inadmissible (this will apply to anyone who entered Canada after June 24, 2020), among other things. The consequences for this would be dire for those who have been abusing the refugee system in their attempts to remain in the country. International students, for example, have skyrocketed as a source of asylum applications, surpassing 20,000 last year (six times the amount of claims they made in 2019), and a quick browse on YouTube yields how-to guides from abroad, showing just how popular this route has become. Many of their claims would die with the passing of this bill. Bill C-2 would also allow cabinet to stop processing residency applications of foreigners, and target these measures to “certain foreign nationals” or to a specified “class of applications.”  Numerous other proposed changes would supposedly give the government more access to information, presumably to aid law enforcement in doing their jobs: immigration authorities will be able to disclose “personal information” in their possession to other government departments (provincial or federal) if the minister makes regulations allowing for it; Canada Post would be permitted to open letters if a certain threshold of suspicion is met, presumably to combat drug trafficking.   The sex offender registry, meanwhile, would be able to track more information about offenders and disclose it to more government bodies, while border agents would be empowered to disclose more information about sex offenders to other government bodies... One wonders whether cabinet would go as far as setting immigration limits on source countries. Prior to former prime minister Justin Trudeau, new admits to Canada were decently diversified: in 2014 a plurality of permanent residents came from China, at 13 per cent, followed by India and the Philippines; China also sent the most international students (34 per cent) in 2013-14, followed by France, the United States, India and Saudia Arabia (which each comprised between eight and four per cent). Now, India dominates the influx of foreigners to Canada, making up 27 per cent of new permanent residents in 2022, and 45 per cent of international students. It also comprises 22 per cent of temporary foreign workers. The downsides of this are wide-ranging, including the risk of cultural enclaves, as well as the proliferation of organized crime and exploitation thanks to the difficulty in tracing cross-border networks and investigating through language barriers. A country cap of, say 10 to 15 per cent — perhaps less, to make up for past years — wouldn’t solve everything, but it would help.  The government’s new open-minded approach to information sharing is another point of optimism — perhaps it could lead to better enforcement, and maybe, just maybe, greater ability for police to disclose the citizenship status of non-citizens charged with crimes. Canadians should have the right to know whether that “Brampton man”charged with sexually assaulting a girl in a park was here by birthright, or was welcomed by an immigration system designed by politicians who are ultimately accountable to the public.   As for the regulation of street drugs, Bill C-2 would also tighten our lax rules on ingredients — also called precursor chemicals — which have made this country a convenient staging ground for illicit manufacturing. It’s about time.  Any optimism for this bill, however, can’t be felt without doubt. Any provision that allows cabinet to make rules on a general subject remains vulnerable to not being acted upon at all, which means we may never see source-country limits. And regardless of a few more proposed restrictions on asylum, Carney’s overall immigration plan is one that will largely maintain Trudeau-era intake numbers, leaving Canada an even more crowded place."

Sarkonak: Canadians right to favour melting pot model of assimilation - "Below the swell of goose-vs-eagle elbows-up patriotism that continues to gush through the nation lies an undercurrent of worry: half of Canadians feel that we’re losing a collective sense of what it means to be Canadian. The finding was made by a new Postmedia-Leger poll released in advance of Canada Day, which asked respondents whether they feel, in the last four to five years, that “Canada has been losing a shared, collective identity of what it means to be Canadian.” Fifty-two per cent of replies were “yes,” while only 30 per cent were “no.” The poll also measured a tremendous amount of national pride: 83 per cent of respondents claimed to be either “very proud” or “somewhat proud” of their country, with only 15 per cent stating they were not. Thirty-four per cent of respondents felt their pride had grown in recent months, a sentiment felt prominently among the 55+ crowd, and among Liberal voters — a confirmation of the boomeristic character of the anti-Trump “Canada is Not for Sale” crowd. Among all recent-pride feelers, 83 per cent credited U.S. President Donald Trump for their deepening emotions... So, despite being incredibly proud to be Canadian, a good number of us are starting to wonder what common ground we share with our countrymen that makes us distinctly Canadian. It’s a crisis of identity that, based on pure numbers, makes sense. Canada has changed, fast... Canada for many years managed to keep public sentiment on the side of immigration by maintaining high bars to entry, selecting only the immigrants we needed, and favouring those who have a greater potential for assimilation. Foreign students developed a reputation for being rich, or eager to become Canadian, or both. Immigrant adults were known for being self-supporting, often with some prestige from professional or business backgrounds. Refugees were known for being grateful and hungry to contribute back to their new home. They came from all over the world, and it was fine — they joined Canadian-born nationals in their love for the country. The quality simply couldn’t be maintained with volume. A liberal approach to student visas — which quadrupled the number of permitholders from 2011 to 2024, placed them at 2.5 per cent of the population last year. Fraud ensued. Last fall, Statistics Canada found that one-fifth of international students weren’t actually studying. Students too poor to afford a life here were scammed, strip-mall diploma mills grew, and the credentialed newcomers they churned out — noticed by their Canadian counterparts to be increasingly incapableofreadingandwriting in English — continued on their quest to receive citizenship. Indeed, language barriers (the non-English and non-French kind) are increasingly presenting themselves to doctors, health-care staff and police. Some provincial governments get around this obstacle by releasinginformation in numerous foreign languages. Even the private sector is jumping on board; stand in line at a TD Bank and you’ll be treated with a slew of ads clearly targeted at new arrivals. Canadian jobseekers, meanwhile, have noticeda rise in ads seeking Punjabi speakers (and in Vancouver, Mandarin). These preferences come at a time when the employment prospects of Canadian youth, who once easily filled many entry-level jobs, have steeply fallen to a jobless rate of 13.4 per cent. It’s a source of frustration for both Canadian-born English-only speakers and their immigrant non-Punjabi counterparts. Many newcomers are still happy to assimilate, but not all — and as the total number of new arrivals grows, so too does the number of those who barricade themselves in enclaves and hold on to old, sometimes un-Canadian values. Edmonton and Calgary police both had to defuse Eritrean riots in 2023; a Montreal elementary school had to suspend 11 Muslim teachers amid allegations of creating a toxic, sometimes violent environment; anti-Israel protests have become a regular feature of Toronto and Montreal, correlating with high immigration in the last decade from Muslim countries. Making matters worse is a national attitude that sends the message to newcomers that Canada is racist, hateful of its Indigenous people and has a history in strong need of being painted over. All of this, Canadian officials will probably say, is a good thing. “Diversity is our strength” is a phrase that has been uttered in Parliament 135 times; government documents often tout the Canadian mosaic model of multiculturalism. But regular Canadians, for the most part, never wanted this: in 1993, Angus Reid found that 57 per cent of the nation wanted minorities to “be more like most Canadians”; in 2016, 68 per cent were found to believe that “minorities should do more to fit in better.” There’s a common-sense understanding, which could be acknowledged more openly in the early 2000s, that diversity can also offer challenges to overcome. This is still the dominant view: in its June study, Leger found that 64 per cent of Canadians believe immigrants should be encouraged to embrace Canadian values and leave behind incompatible elements of their home cultures, melting-pot-like. Only 22 per cent favoured the mosaic model. There’s some wisdom in that."
Clearly, this shows that Canadians are racist xenophobes who need to be punished reeducated with even more mass migration

Lax immigration vetting makes Canada prime target for Iranian infiltration, says Secure Canada - "Canada needs real and rigorous reform of its immigration bureaucracy to deal with agents of the Iranian regime, urges a Canadian terror watchdog. In a statement posted online this week by the Council for a Secure Canada, the organization highlighted the threat posed by infiltration of Iranian officials, and how ill-equipped Canada is to deal with them... “Considering the fact they figured out that Canada has a very lax vetting system, doesn’t take national security particularly seriously — at least in the past decade — I would say, or just over, and there’s a very established Iranian diaspora,” they said. Recent news reports, however, suggest Iran has as many as 700 agents at work in Canada, with the possibility of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members fleeing here as the Iranian regime becomes less stable. The Sun spoke with numerous Iranian-Canadians who’ve said they — and their families back home — are under constant threat based on what they say in public or to the media about Iran’s despotic government. “(Agents) have deep ties to Hezbollah, they have ties to other expat communities that share the Shia access and an ideological worldview,” Secure Canada said. “Combined with lax vetting standards and a reluctance to deport, and the difficulty with which the system takes even really good cases for deportation — where agents work for over a year to build a very clear case — and the way the system can be gamed by people with deep pockets, and even people without particularly deep pockets.” This reluctance to deport is baked into the institutional culture of Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC,), Secure Canada claimed — with sources and internal investigations suggesting career advancement for immigration caseworkers is based on keeping rejection rates low. “The mantra (within IRCC) is ‘admit, admit, admit,'” they said. “It’s that complex of wanting to appear PC in every step of the process.”"

We're not Los Angeles yet, but it might be coming - "It has all made for great television and amusing political theatre, with Democrats shouting righteously about the rule of law and due process while ignoring their own support for “sanctuary” laws that undermine their own government’s capacity to enforce federal immigration legislation. Not to be outdone, Donald Trump’s Republicans have invoked the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act to back their plans for mass deportations. The 1798 law was about pirates. Despite heartrending accounts of children torn from their parents’ arms, Americans are not generally overwrought about Trump’s hardline remedy to the preposterously intractable American political quagmire involving undocumented workers and border security. A CBS-YouGov poll shows Trump is polling better on this file than on the economy or inflation, with 54 per cent of respondents expressing approval. In the popular imagination, Canadians would not abide such lowbrow measures as mass deportations of illegal immigrants, but in fact we would. Or rather roughly half of us would, which is more or less the same as the American polling results. Nearly half the respondents to a Leger poll undertaken for the Association of Canadian Studies last December said mass deportations are necessary to deal with illegal immigration in Canada. It’s not for lack of evidence that 65 per cent of Canadians say Ottawa’s immigration levels are set too high. That was the view of only 35 per cent of respondents in 2019, and even after the Liberal government’s recent pledges to get its act together and scale back on the annual volume of newcomers, that’s the standpoint of nearly two-thirds of us. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to argue against it. Statistics Canada’s “population clock” counted 41,681,71 people who were living in Canada as of Wednesday morning this week, up from 35,851,800 in 2015. This was the biggest spike in immigration in 60 years, contributing to Canada’s rank as the second-worst country for housing affordability, after Portugal, in the 38-member Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Despite reassurances from Prime Minister Mark Carney that his government intends to scale back the influx, the numbers keep going up... The 2025 target for new temporary-resident arrivals is 673,650, declining to 543,600 by 2027 — but housing starts in Canada added only 245,000 units in 2024. What all this means is that if we’re extraordinarily lucky, Canada’s housing affordability catastrophe will remain at roughly the same crisis levels for the foreseeable future. It doesn’t help that Immigration Minister Lena Diab doesn’t seem to know how many undocumented workers there are in Canada, or how many temporary workers leave Canada after their permits expire... Ottawa’s assumption that people simply leave when their visas run out is “a fiction,” according to former federal economist Henry Lotin, founder of the consultancy Integrative Trade and Economics... Across party lines, there is a broad political reluctance to advance any policy that would actually reduce home prices in Canada. Meanwhile, eight in 10 Canadians have concluded that homeownership has become a luxury for the rich, and seven in 10 Canadians who don’t own a home say they never expect to own one... After all the scandals involving compromised federal politicians and manipulated federal election races, there is still no sign that the Carney government intends to proceed with a foreign influence registry. With politically active immigrants from the Middle East emerging as a heavy counterweight to Canada’s long-standing affinity with the Jewish state of Israel, profound changes are underway in the formulation of Canada’s foreign policy and Canada’s traditions of religious tolerance. For all the Liberals’ recent admissions of error, the Trudeau government’s immigration legacy is with us still, and there’s little evidence that a Carney government, despite its reassurances, will be making much of a break with it."

Mocha Bezirgan 🇨🇦 on X - "G7: Khalistanis Across North America Meet in Calgary to Ambush and Kill India’s PM’s Politics  “Yes, I am ready to kill Modi politics, [to] ambush Modi,” said Manjinder Singh, leading the convoy from Gurdwara Dashmesh in Calgary.  “[He] is an enemy of Canada, this Hindu terrorist Narendra Modi,” he said, asking Canadians to join them for the “ambush”tomorrow.  The organizers, Sikhs for Justice, consider themselves the descendants of the assassins of late Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and are calling for the killing of current Prime Minister Modi’s politics during an ambush in Canada."
It's only inciting violence when white people do it

🇨🇦Unacceptable Canadian Girl🇨🇦 on X - "I was today years old when I learned that the Canadian Government subsidizes up to 60% of wages for businesses that hire "newcomers" AND gives them a tax credit of 25%... But Canadians can barely make ends meet or find jobs..."
Ask Perplexity on X - "The claim that the Canadian government subsidizes up to 60% of wages for businesses hiring newcomers and offers a 25% tax credit is partially accurate but needs clarification. Programs like Quebec's Employment Integration Program provide wage subsidies covering up to 60% of salaries for immigrants and visible minorities, while other initiatives, such as the Co-operative Education Tax Credit, offer a 25% refund for eligible wages in specific cases.  However, these subsidies are targeted and vary by region, program, and eligibility criteria. They aim to support underrepresented groups and foster workforce integration rather than broadly applying to all newcomers or employers across Canada."

Niagara Falls ‘at breaking point’ after surge in migrants - "The lobby of the Wyndham Garden Tower Hotel in Niagara Falls at 8am is busy with chatter in all manner of languages... The scene plays out in 11 nearby hotels each morning.  The influx of migrants has taken the city to breaking point, according to its mayor, who has to manage the stress of having more asylum seekers per capita than anywhere else in the country, with all the strains that places on schools, hospitals and other services. “I gotta tell you our shelters are full, our transitional housing is full, the drug problem is like it’s never been before,” said Jim Diodati.  “We’ve got thousands of asylum seekers, we’re just coming out of Covid which was difficult for a tourist destination like Niagara Falls. We’ve been hit from all sides continuously.”... Housing shortages and a cost of living crisis have made immigration one of the key battlegrounds... At its peak Niagara Falls (not to be muddled with a city of the same name on American soil) was home to 5,000 asylum seekers among a population of a little over 100,000.  “They usually take some of the lower rental places, which means it leaves less for the locals,” he said.  It brings challenges for local businesses and for the hotels, even if some are happy to pocket cash from the federal government.  “There’s been people who’ve called and said, ‘Are there asylum seekers at this hotel?” he said. “They want to stay where they feel like they’re on vacation with other travellers.” In 2024, more than 54,000 asylum seekers arrived in Canada. Those that arrive at Toronto’s international airport are among those bussed to Niagara Falls, less than two hours away.  What was meant to be a temporary solution is looking increasingly permanent, said Mr Diodati... Tensions are evident elsewhere in the city. Away from the roaring falls, crammed with phone-wielding tourists in the warm April sun, residents describe resentment at how much money is spent on the new arrivals.  “I wish the government was paying for three meals for my family,” said a hotel worker, who asked for anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.   Business owners have their own worries.  Mr Diodati tells the story of a Brazilian steakhouse that went through a $7 million makeover, only for the owner to realise that the city’s hotels were filled with people who were not going to be spending money on slap-up dinners.  Elizabeth Bilotta, owner of the Hair Gallery salon, said she had lost hundreds of dollars from missed appointments.  “When I have called them they just say they are a refugee as if that makes it OK,’ she said.  “These are four-hour appointments, $200 to $300. I still have to pay my staff.”"
Heartless far right! How can they not offer help to migrants in need?! They have no empathy (for the migrants)

Niagara Falls ‘at breaking point’ after surge in migrants : r/niagara - "If anyone is reading this article and blaming refugees, I'd remind them to blame the multi billionaires that own politicians, including NF Mayor Diodati who is making bank off this, same with the diploma mills, and large corporate employers. The article features PP rage bait quotes and is designed to have you pointing the finger at Libs and refugees.  Follow the money.  If you have time to investigate immigration policy, you'd probably be blaming Doug Ford, guys like The NF Mayor, and the corporations that are all benefitting financially.  It's articles like this that keep us fighting amongst ourselves while the Multi-Billionaires and the puppets they own, laugh.  Things are about to get worse before they get worse.  No war but a class war.  Rise up Niagara.  And no matter who you vote for, go vote.  Once the elections have passed, we go to work.  MushLove! 🍄❤️🙏🇨🇦"
"I followed the money. Turns out it leads back to the federal government that shipped those asylum seekers to Niagara Falls and is paying for their hotel rooms. The same government that said everybody is welcome and caused the surge in asylum seekers coming to Canada. The article has nothing to do with TFWs or international students.  Your comment has nothing to do with the actual article."
Left wing logic: because some private companies benefit financially from a surge of migrants, it's their fault that there's a surge of migrants and not the government's. There was a lot of the usual cope in the thread, from blaming the "far right biased news site" to claiming provinces are asking for refugees (hilariously, one conflated the provincial nomination program with accepting refugees and another claimed this was about international students so it was Doug Ford's fault)

Links - 8th August 2025 (2 - Palestine/Middle East Peace: Iran Attack)

Flying Doritos just visited iran. And showed why the liberals helped the mission by posting 2 weeks all over the place. : r/Jordan_Peterson_Memes - "This was obviously just “mostly peaceful protests” over three spots in Iran."

🇮🇱 🇺🇸 Am Yisrael Chai 🇺🇸🇮🇱 on X - "Imagine hating Jews so much, that you end up defending a terrorist regime - that literally kills women - for showing their hair."
Meanwhile, they continue to cosplay as ketchup bottles (aka Handmaid's Tale costumes). This is so twisted, it goes beyond hypocrisy

With death clock gone, Khamenei's prophecy lies shattered - "Israel conducted on Monday a high-profile airstrike on Tehran, targeting not only military and intelligence assets but also one of the most potent ideological symbols of the Islamic Republic -- the digital countdown clock in Palestine Square. Installed in 2017, the clock was based on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s ominous 2015 prophecy that Israel “will not exist in 25 years.” Its destruction carries enormous symbolic weight, not only erasing a defiant message embedded in Tehran’s skyline but also underlining Israel’s growing assertiveness amid escalating confrontation.  The digital clock, unveiled during Quds Day in June 2017, was more than a timekeeping device. It was propaganda incarnate, counting down the days to Israel's predicted demise in 2040. Displaying its message in Persian, Arabic and English, the clock tower loomed over Palestine Square, a location already soaked in political symbolism. Its placement and message were calculated to consolidate Iran’s self-image as the epicenter of the anti-Israel activities.  For Iran’s hardliners, the clock functioned as a perpetual reminder of their ideological mission -- the eventual eradication of Israel. It was also designed to project ideological resolve to domestic and foreign audiences alike. To supporters, it was a declaration of strategic patience and religious destiny. To Israel, it was a provocation, an unwavering threat that one day Iran’s ambitions would be realized. In July 2021, widespread blackouts across Iran briefly halted the countdown. Though the disruption was due to electricity shortages caused by drought, heatwaves, and crumbling infrastructure, the symbolic impact was immediate. Iranian critics mocked the state’s inability to keep its ideological machinery running, while international observers noted the irony that a regime proclaiming the fall of Israel couldn’t keep a propaganda clock running. This moment offered a rare window into Iran’s fragility. Even as the regime pushed grand ideological visions, it struggled with basic services, facing economic strain from sanctions and internal mismanagement. The clock’s failure, however brief, diminished its aura of invincibility and suggested a gap between Tehran’s ambitions and its capabilities."
Everyone knows that having a countdown clock to another country's destruction shows how peaceful you are. Same way how "Death to America" is peaceful anti-colonialism and "Kill The Boer" is benign anti-racism, but "All Lives Matter" is racist hate speech that's literally genocide

What was wrong with Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran that it ended up being scrapped and the situation escalated so badly?" : r/stupidquestions - "Let’s not forget that Israel did a secret squirrel mission that stole a literal truckload full of Iran’s hidden nuclear documents to help convince Trump to withdraw from the JCPOA.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad_infiltration_of_Iranian_nuclear_archive
Edit: Perhaps my comment sounded harsh against the Israelis. That was not my intention. IMHO, it was a smart move to show the US that Iran wasn’t just in the early dreaming stages of nuclear arms development...
It proved that Iran was much further along with nuclear arms development than what they claimed when they got the JCPOA deal. It turned out the US already had most of the info. However, it showed that Iran proactively moved and hid records so inspectors under the JCPOA deal wouldn’t find them. The new records also revealed what Iran’s goals would be when they built nuclear weapons.
Here’s a bit more info on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMAD_Project"

The hatred from woke activists backing Iran is as vile as their stupidity - "It’s quite some distance from Brighton train station to Tehran, but perhaps not far enough. On Monday one extremist, who had attended the protest at the Sussex terminus to support the Iranian regime and Palestine Action, said the war in Gaza was the “third holocaust” and that all Zionists “should f---ing die”. She was too idiotic to recognise the hypocrisy.  As in Tehran, where there is a clock that counts down to the destruction of Israel, Brighton’s protesters were not making a clear distinction between those who believe in the state of Israel and those who don’t. If you’re casually throwing around the word ‘holocaust’, you’re calling for the death of all Jews, not just Zionists. These various ignoramuses were so high on their supply of righteousness they were actually parading posters of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The hashtag groupies of #IstandwithIran are flailing moral vacuums. Did they stand with Iran in 2009 when the Green Movement, sometimes known as the Persian Spring (in which a mass protest movement sprang up), declared the presidential election fraudulent? Executions had increased three-fold under former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. These human rights violations mostly involved juvenile offenders and gay people.  Did they stand with Iran during the 2019 fuel protests? Where were they in 2022 when a new protest movement took to the streets called Woman, Life, Freedom, after a young woman called Mahsa Amini was beaten to death by the morality police for the crime of showing her hair? Many brave young men and women have been murdered since then because the Iranian regime is a heartless theocracy.  Those in the Iranian diaspora, brilliant, educated, sophisticated people, will tell you what this regime is like.  Still, ignorance is clearly bliss, which is why we get the likes of the ludicrous India Willoughby announcing on X: “I could live in Iran. Better trans rights than the UK and US. We do nearly all of the bad things they do. Israel is currently wiping out a whole people – aided and abetted by Labour, who are shamefully trying to cover their arse. War crime. I don’t feel safe with Netanyahu or Trump having nuclear weapons. I don’t believe anything that Israel, US or UK say. Why should I? Because I’m English and should trust the BBC?”.  India is a trans rights activist. Her previous tweet (“Never thought I’d say this, but #TeamIran”) kicked off a row with JK Rowling, who responded by saying “India, a fan of a woman-hating, gay-hating, authoritarian regime? Colour me astonished.” Rowling offered to pay her fare to Iran.   If you don’t know much about India Willoughby, then lucky you, because she exists to attack women like me. India was Jonathan until she transitioned in 2016. She was a local TV news reader, has a son and has appeared on Loose Women and Celebrity Big Brother. This person’s connection to reality is indeed loose as she says things like:  “I’m 100 per cent a biological woman and female. The fact the GC [gender-critical] movement can’t handle this simple fact isn’t my problem. Jealous.”  Whatevs. The one thing Willoughby is not is a biological woman. If she believes she would flourish in Iran she should talk to trans people there. Iran has the second highest number of “gender re-assignment” surgeries in the world, second only to Thailand. But this is not done out of some notion of some “live and let live” mentality. Quite the opposite.   Homosexuality is punishable by death, often public hangings. After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, transsexuals were categorised alongside homosexuals as illegal (and faced lashings or execution) but in 1986 a fatwa was declared saying that sex-reassignment surgery was acceptable. It claimed that being trans is a mental illness curable only by medical intervention. In practice this surgery is often poor and botched and many trans people work as prostitutes and are generally ostracised. As for gender nonconformity, forget it. In 2015 there was a crackdown on “devil worshipping” and “homosexual” hairstyles and tattoos.  The regime bans the internet; there is no freedom of speech. This is a theocratic dictatorship that has occupied Syria, that has wrecked the countries of its proxies Hezbollah and Hamas. The current regime cannot fall quick enough but this is not what the clueless idiots on our streets are protesting about.  They are siding with Iran because they hate Israel. Now, it is possible to want the destruction of Gaza to stop, to want aid to go in and to want to know what even a vague peace plan might look like. That is my position, but I am alarmed that where we once spoke of a two-state solution now there is only one. The obliteration of Israel means the obliteration of half the world’s Jewry. How anyone who thinks this claims to be on the moral high ground is beyond comprehension. Open your eyes to what Iran is. Not a single one of these protesters would last a day there. Their hatred is as vile as their stupidity.  For all their “radicalism” these people who parade posters of the Ayatollah exhibit the ultimate colonialism. They know best and the rights they take for granted are not available to everyone. It would be laughable if it wasn’t so sick."
Left wingers don't love minorities - they just hate the West

Protesters march through London supporting Iran’s supreme leader - "Protesters marched through central London with placards in support of Iran’s supreme leader during a heated pro-Palestinian demonstration on Saturday.  Among thousands of demonstrators waving Palestinian and Iranian flags, men and women were photographed carrying signs featuring Ayatollah Ali Khamenei alongside the message: “Choose the right side of history.”  Pro-Palestinian marches have taken place almost weekly in cities across the UK since the October 7 attacks by Hamas on Israel.  But this was the second consecutive weekend in which the Palestinian flag appeared alongside Iran’s red, white and green tricolour at a pro-Gaza demonstration in London...   Once proscribed, membership or support of Palestine Action will carry a sentence of up to 14 years in prison, putting it in the same category as Hamas, al-Qaeda and Islamic State.  Founded in 2020 by campaigners Huda Ammori, 31, and Richard Barnard, 51, the group has carried out over 300 acts of trespass, vandalism and property damage, targeting what it calls “Zionist” institutions, including universities, government buildings, defence contractors, banks and insurers.  Mr Barnard, previously a member of Extinction Rebellion, appeared in court last year accused of encouraging criminal damage and supporting Hamas at rallies. He pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial. The group’s campaigns have seen several members arrested or jailed. In August, more than a dozen activists ram-raided the UK headquarters of Elbit Systems Horizon, an Israeli-owned arms firm, with a prison van and attacked police officers with sledgehammers, according to police. Last year, the group published a manual instructing activists on how to carry out “an action”. The pamphlet prompted Chris Philp, who was the policing minister at the time, to warn that they were encouraging protesters to “smash up businesses”."
The left wing agenda is all connected

The awkward reason Canada is in the G7 - "Much of the command structure of the Iranian military, as well as its various nuclear facilities, were destroyed Thursday night in a series of strikes by Israel. The Carney government swiftly pooh-pooh’ed the operation, with foreign affairs minister Anita Anand saying “de-escalation must be the priority.” This stance is a little odd given that Iran has been particularly hostile to Canadian interests of late. It was only a few months ago that the RCMP announced an alleged plot by Iranian agents to assassinate Irwin Cotler, a former Liberal minister of justice. Canadians were also disproportionately victimized in the crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, a 2020 flight downed by Iranian surface-to-air missiles. In fact, many of the Iranian figures killed Thursday night are technically terrorists under Canadian law, as Canada considers the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terror entity."

Adam Zivo: Iran’s desperate supporters use deepfakes to fabricate victory - "Oftentimes, this kind of disinformation uses mislabelled photos and videos from other disasters or conflict zones. Missiles and explosions from Ukraine and Gaza are falsely presented as having occurred in Israel, for example. While this is not a new tactic — during the war against Hamas, images of old horrors in Syria were often misrepresented as Gazan realities — the increasing prevalence of AI-generated content has been a game-changer. Some of these AI posts haven’t been exactly subtle. For example, a pro-China X account named America-China Watcher posted an AI video last Thursday that reportedly showed a “before and after” of Iran’s alleged destruction of Tel Aviv. The explosions were cheesy and obviously fake, and the video’s mise-en-scène didn’t make sense. Nonetheless, the post went viral and was viewed over 200,000 times. On June 17, a popular far-right X account called White Ghost posted an image of missiles raining down like hellfire on a nighttime city. “This is not AI. This is Tel Aviv,” claimed the caption — but the BBC quickly verified that the image was, in fact, AI-generated and had been stolen from a digital creator’s Facebook post. Still, the post received over 230,000 likes and was viewed over 27-million times. Even Iran’s legacy media has embraced AI forgeries: on June 15, the Tehran Times posted a video reportedly showing an Iranian missile hitting a building in Tel Aviv. The video was quickly debunked, as it contained a watermark indicating that it had been produced by Google’s AI video-generating system. Yet, the post was not taken down and has received almost half a million views so far... While some of this content is being shared and promoted organically, it is also being boosted by Iran’s professional disinformation agents. Last year, Radware, an Israeli cybersecurity firm, documented how Tehran is using AI to enhance its networks of social media bots (e.g., creating AI-generated personas and deepfakes) and influence public opinion. Last Wednesday, the firm released an update indicating that these networks have been deployed to support pro-Iranian narratives in the current war. Several days ago, I posted a video of the beaches of Tel Aviv that debunked the “Israel is destroyed” narrative by showcasing people resiliently socializing, exercising and playing volleyball. It quickly went viral, amassing millions of views, leading to a deluge of commentators claiming it was fake, outdated or AI-generated... something strange happened: many commentators asked AI chatbots to verify whether the video was authentic. When these chatbots, being unequipped for this task, gave inconsistent, conjecture-laden answers, this was taken as evidence of forgery. So not only is AI flooding the internet with deepfakes, it is being used as a shoddy fact-checker, too, and, in this way, has found yet another means to erode reality."
They learnt from Pallywood
Quite a few people nowadays take AI pronouncements as authoritative sources (even when there are no specifics). But outsourcing thinking to AI is preferable when you're stupid anyway

CNN pundit Van Jones shames liberal colleagues for their Iran comments - "CNN's Van Jones blasted liberals for 'underestimating' the threat posed by Iran, hours before the US bombed the nation's nuclear facilities. The former Obama aide made the remarks on CNN's Saturday Morning Table for Five, in a discussion that included Republican commentator Scott Jennings, ex-Biden aide Dan Koh and conservative commentator S.E. Cupp... 'I think progressives underestimate how dangerous Iran is,' he began, as Jennings, fresh off a trip to Israel, nodded his head in approval. 'Iran is not a normal country. Normal countries don't blind women because they showed some hair. 'They don't empower little gangs and proxies to surround a country and fire rockets and rape people,' he continued. 'Two things are clear: the what - they cannot have a bomb.' 'And the why: because they say, "Death to America. Death to Israel. And death to all the Jews." 'One of those should offend you - if you're progressives. At least one should offend you.'... 'This is a very dangerous power that cannot get a nuclear weapon. 'Progressives should get on board with that.'"

US attack on Iran not in breach of international law, NATO chief says - "NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Monday said he does not believe the US attacks on Iran violate international law... Rutte stressed that NATO allies "have long agreed that Iran must not develop a nuclear weapon." "Allies have repeatedly urged Iran to meet its obligations under the non-proliferation treaty," he said."
The Trump haters are going to be very upset, given that they pretend to be pro-NATO to snub Trump

'Read a few more history books,' Canada-born Israeli minister advises millennials uneasy with Iran war - "public opinion studies have documented an “Iraq War hangover” driving anti-war attitudes among millennials, born between 1981 and 1996... Haskel said that Iran poses a much graver threat today than Iraq did two decades ago. “The two cases are extremely different,” she said, noting that Iran’s advanced nuclear enrichment and ballistics missile programs have been well-documented by several international bodies and governments, and that they pose a “double existential threat” to international security. Prior to this month’s Israel and U.S.-led attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) estimated that Iran had enough raw material for nine nuclear weapons. Haskel said that the fear of a repeat of the disastrous Iraq war has made the U.S. and other Western countries too hesitant to use force against an intransigent Iran. “We’ve seen in recent years, and because of (Iraq), how the international community have been chasing up a diplomatic solution,” said Haskel. “But unfortunately, this enemy that you’re facing was growing to a monstrous size while deceiving the international community.” Iran signed what looked to be a breakthrough nuclear deal with the U.S. and other world powers in 2015, but it has repeatedly violated the terms of this agreement. The IAEA reported in 2023 that Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium was 30 times more than the maximum permitted under the agreement... “When people say that history repeats itself, it’s very clear during these times as well … the European countries (after the First World War) were so desperate to avoid another world war that they tried to convince themselves that what the Nazis were saying wasn’t really what they were saying.”"
Left wingers keep telling other people to "read a book". Not much chance that they will read any, since this World War II lesson is inconvenient to their agenda. But of course they continue to claim all their opponents are Nazis and to claim the US is following the footsteps of Nazi Germany

Vivian Bercovici: Is this the end of Iran's vicious regime? - "“President Trump has deftly used the Israeli attack to, in effect, say to the Iranians: ‘I am still ready to negotiate a peaceful end to your nuclear program and you might want to go there fast — because my friend Bibi is C-R-A-Z-Y. I am waiting for your call.’” The irony of Thomas Friedman — a staunchly anti-Trump and anti-Bibi pundit — in effect praising both men is nothing short of surreal."

Atomic watchdog says Iran not complying with nuclear safeguards - "The UN-backed atomic watchdog passed a resolution on Thursday declaring that Iran is not complying with its obligations regarding nuclear non-proliferation... Tehran has “repeatedly” been unable to explain and demonstrate that its nuclear material was not being diverted for further enrichment for military use, the draft text maintains. Iran has also failed to provide the UN agency with “technically credible explanations for the presence of [man-made] uranium particles” at undeclared locations in Varamin, Marivan and Turquzabad, it continues. “Unfortunately, Iran has repeatedly either not answered, or not provided technically credible answers to, the agency’s questions,” IAEA chief Grossi said on Monday. “It has also sought to sanitize the locations, which has impeded Agency verification activities.”"
Despite this, the anti-Zionists were pretending that this was another Iraq WMD situation

What is the NPT, and why has Iran threatened to pull out of the treaty? - "The Iranian government says parliament is drafting legislation to withdraw from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as it is engaged in an escalating military conflict with Israel."
Anti-semites like to claim that the West is hypocritical for not going after Israel for having nuclear weapons, only Iran for its "peaceful" nuclear attempts, but Israel has never signed the treaty. As usual, they are ignorant

Pushing Secular Religion in Classrooms / Diversity and Academic Performance

"Leftists: "You can't put the 10 Commandments on classroom walls! You're forcing other people to agree with your beliefs!"
Also Leftists: "BLACK LIVES MATTER" *Pride flag*"

Meme - i/o @eyeslasho: ""Adding more black and Hispanic students won't change the quality of the student body — only racists believe such nonsense.""
Coalition for TJ #FightingForMerit @coalitionforTJ: "Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology produced only 81 National Merit Semifinalists this year, the first year under the new admissions system - less than half as many as last year (165)."

Links - 8th August 2025 (1 - Migrants: USA)

Brigitte Gabriel on X - "Where were all these courts when our immigration laws were being broken?"

CMV: Trump's refusal to actively prosecute large employers of illegal immigrants reveals he is not running his deportation campaign for security, economic, or moral reasons. : r/changemyview - "I believe Trump has gone after employers who have done this, but you do have to think about the logistics of prosecuting all of them. There are thousands of companies across the United States that have employed illegal labor, fining them or going after them legally could be difficult if not infeasible. Court cases take a notoriously long period of time to finish and it is more than likely most of these cases would be dragged out possibly intentionally until another Democrat administration takes office in 3 1/2 years. Who would likely drop all of the lawsuits and then reopen the borders to bring in as many people as possible. With the end result being a lot of time, money, and legal capital wasted where it would’ve been better spent just trying to deport as many as possible and making it harder for them to come back.  I agree they do need to be punished for exacerbating the problem, but the decision not to go after them is like likely a pragmatic one."

CMV: Trump's refusal to actively prosecute large employers of illegal immigrants reveals he is not running his deportation campaign for security, economic, or moral reasons. : r/changemyview - "  The problem is proof.  If a person is in the country illegally, and they are working... that's proof they are working illegally.  But when it comes to the business end of things- who is responsible? The CEO? They don't control the day-to-day operations. A VP? Same thing. The head of HR? The hiring manager? 'Oh, they showed us fake paperwork!' Who is responsible? This is much, much tougher to prove. They could spend weeks/months gathering evidence, taking depositions, etc, etc, only to maybe arrest some scapegoat... or, with the same amount of effort, they can find/catch/deport all the illegal workers, which starves the company of workers."

CMV: Trump's refusal to actively prosecute large employers of illegal immigrants reveals he is not running his deportation campaign for security, economic, or moral reasons. : r/changemyview - "Other people have pointed out that the Trump administration has gone after employers also. But the issue isn't as simple as you are painting it. ICE doesn't go after employers as often as we would like because most migrant use fake IDs and someone else's SSN to apply for a job. So the employer can claim they didn't know.
'It is because big corporations hire them.'
Not all illegal immigrants are hired by big corporations! Plenty of them are self-employed doing jobs like lawn maintenance, etc.
'Now, letting a bunch of people into the country without any vetting is bad. We can all agree on that.'
Can we? A lot of Trump's political opponents openly say "no human is illegal". In fact YOU YOURSELF said: "A lot of people think it's just immoral to cross the border illegally and thus break the law. Even if I don't agree I can accept that."
'Far from being a resource sink, Illegal immigrants are actually major economic contributors'
Then why were cities going bankrupt under Biden from the migrant crisis? Let's face it, if illegal immigrants were major economic contributors then cities would be competing over who gets the most, they wouldn't complain when they arrive!
'They also work jobs that American workers quite frankly are not able to fill'
They work jobs that American workers will not fill at the slave wages being offered.
'Now, if Trump wanted to keep all that money flowing into our economy, he could just ignore the issue or start a generous work visa program that vetted the people willing to come into the country and work for cheap while still letting them come in.'
The US already takes in more legal immigrants than any other country in the world, more than 1 million per year. But it's not enough. It will never be enough. Even if we increased that to 10 million, there would still be people trying to sneak in."

@amuse on X - "REMINDER: The reason Democrat judges are fighting so hard to keep illegals - even the criminal aliens - is all about control of the House. If illegals were removed or not counted for apportionment Democrats would lose 10 seats in the house giving the GOP a 27 seat advantage."

David Santa Carla 🦇 on X - "Thousands of Somalis. 4 White people. This isn’t Somalia. This is Minnesota."
Paul on X - "I used to take my kids here and that ended after that African Migrant threw a 3 year old off the 3rd story of this mall because his mom refused the African migrants advances. I can remember taking my daughter and nieces here to see Bill Nye do science experiments before he went libtarded."

@amuse on X - "WEAPONIZATION: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is warning ICE agents that he will see to it that their identities are known to the public including the Cartels, MS-13, and TdA."
Ron DeSantis on X - "We take threats to law enforcement very seriously.  As the state leading the nation in immigration enforcement, FL will not sit idly by and allow agents from DHS/ICE and/or state and local agencies to be targeted.  Accordingly, I have directed state law enforcement agencies to respond to any attempt to “doxx” law enforcement personnel and place them in danger.  Sabotaging the work of those in the immigration enforcement arena will not stand!"

ICE didn't raid LA elementary school graduation ahead of immigration protests | Snopes.com - "On June 6, 2025, a claim circulated online that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had raided an elementary school graduation in Los Angeles... we found no evidence ICE made arrests at Gratts Learning Academy for Young Scholars on June 6, as the TikTok user above claimed. A spokesperson for Los Angeles Unified, the school district where Gratts Learning Academy was located, said via email that the graduation ceremony at the school on June 6, seen in its online calendar, "continued without any disruption."   "The claims that immigration enforcement activity arrived to the school and during the event are false. Additionally, no schools near Gratts went on a soft lockdown," the spokesperson said, addressing an additional claim @justsayuhatebasketball made during his June 6 video. Therefore, we rate this claim false."
This won't stop left wingers continuing to spread misinformation

U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed in Alabama immigration raid and held before release - "The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement to NBC News that Garcia interfered with an arrest during a targeted worksite operation.  “He physically got in between agents and the subject they were attempting to arrest and refused to comply with numerous verbal commands,” said Tricia McLaughlin, DHS assistant secretary. “Anyone who actively obstructs law enforcement in the performance of their sworn duties, including U.S. citizens, will of course face consequences which include arrest.”"
If someone who interferes with law enforcement in order to push the left wing agenda is arrested, that is literally fascism

Meme - @PramilaJayapal: "Immigrants aren't making health care more expensive - Republicans are. Trans people aren't making health care more expensive - Republicans are. Poor people aren't making health care more expensive - Republicans are."
Pramila Jayapal @PramilaJayapal: ".@BernieSanders & I would ensure undocumented immigrants are covered in #MedicareForAll. That's good for them and for public health in a crisis like #COVID19"
Maybe there really are people who think free healthcare is literally free, as in costless to provide

Meme - *Man in red hat with "muh jobs" T-shirt*
Light skinned Indian: "WHAT'S WITH THE HATE TOWARDS INDIANS?"
Dark skinned Indian: "YEAH, WH-"
Light skinned Indian: "GAH, A LOWER CASTE!"

Meme - *Kilmar Abrego Garcia*
Aesthetica @Anc_Aesthetics: "He’s not MS-13 guys. His wife just covers his MS-13 tattoo in every photo she posts."

kevin smith on X - "So lets work this out about Kilmar Garcia...
- His Wife says hes a gang member
- His Ex-wife says hes a gang member
- His Hands say he's a gang member
- 2 courts say he's a gang member
- His Gang says he's a gang Member
Democrats: There's no evidence he's a gang member"

Julia 🇺🇸 on X - "JD Vance nails the Abrego Garcia issue in one minute:   "I just disagree with the idea that he hasn't been offered due process. He had a couple of immigration hearings; he had a valid deportation order...  ...I think there's actually a deeper issue going on, which is that you see some radical judges at the district court level who are trying to layer so much "process" on top of the immigration system that it makes it impossible to function. We have over 20 million illegal aliens in the United States of America—are we not allowed to deport them? Because if we're not allowed to deport them, then what these district courts are saying is fundamentally, they reject the will of the American people as it was expressed in November 2024.""
"Due process" means if it pushes the left wing agenda, you get endless appeals until you get the left's desired outcome

Libs of TikTok on X - "Democrats are PANICKING & trying to backpedal now that their hero was charged with human trafficking & solicitation of child p**n. "I don’t know of a single Democrat who defended him…specifically against any crimes." - Rep Raskin We have the receipts."
The Source With Kaitlan Collins : CNNW : April 18, 2025 6:00pm-7:00pm PDT - "the administration has admitted that he was falsely arrested and removed from the country. So now they're making up all this stuff about MS-13"

FBI Director Kash Patel on X - "Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction — after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week.  We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest.   Thankfully, our agents chased down the perp on foot and he’s been in custody since, but the Judge’s obstruction created increased danger to the public.  We will have more to share soon. Excellent work @FBIMilwaukee ."

Former New Mexico judge accused of tampering with evidence in Tren de Aragua case - "A former New Mexico judge was arrested by federal Homeland Security Investigations agents Thursday and accused of tampering with evidence in a case against a man suspected to be a member of the Tren de Aragua gang, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday.  The complaint alleges Joel Cano, a former Doña Ana County Division 6 magistrate, destroyed evidence in a federal investigation into the Venezuelan man accused of being in the United States illegally and residing in a back house on property owned by the judge and his wife in Las Cruces... The recently resigned New Mexico judge gave notice earlier this spring days after federal agents conducted a search on his property. His last day on the bench was March 21.  An application to search the back house in late February alleges that in addition to the suspected gang member, two other Venezuelans in the country illegally lived there and that the Canos’ adult daughter lives on the property.  Federal officials have accused the judge of destroying a cellphone said to belong to suspected gang member Cristhian Adrian Ortega-Lopez.  In a criminal complaint, the officials said that the judge destroyed the phone with a hammer and that the device was being sought because it may have contained photographs showing Ortega-Lopez possessing weapons, some of which allegedly belonged to Cano, his wife and their daughter... The judge’s wife, Nancy Cano, was charged Friday with conspiracy to tamper with evidence. The criminal complaint alleges that she told Ortega-Lopez to delete his Facebook account where he had posted photos with weapons allegedly owned by the judge, his wife, or their daughter."

Amy Klobuchar on X - "This is not normal. The Administration's arrest of a sitting judge in Wisconsin is a drastic move that threatens the rule of law. While we don’t have all the details, this is a grave step and undermines our system of checks and balances."
Mike Benz on X - "You arrested a US President, his lawyers, his accountants, and even his valet. But judges are above the law, Amy?"
Nobody is above the law - unless they push the left wing agenda
It's interesting that rule of law wasn't an issue when Biden was importing millions of illegal immigrants

MAZE on X - "It's funny how "nobody is above the law" is dependent on who is being prosecuted and who is doing the prosecuting. Imagine being paid as much as Maddow to spew whatever nonsense is politically useful at the time."

Meme - Jack Poso @JackPosobiec: "Under the Constitution it is illegal for the federal government to arrest local judges"
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "Art. Ill, Sec. 1: federal judges "shall hold their offices during good behavior, they can be removed via impeachment or arrest.
Art. l, Sec. 6 says Congressmen (not judges) may not be arrested in session or traveling to or from session - but may be arrested elsewhere"

Meme - Jack Poso @JackPosobiec: "This is the first time in US history a judge has been arrested. This is not normal"
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "Judges have been arrested in the U.S. before. In 2024, Douglas County Judge Christina Peterson was charged with battery & obstruction after allegedly striking a cop. Arkansas District Court Judge Thomas Carruth was arrested in 2023 on charges of bribery & obstruction."

Meme - "The judge had to spend hours in a jail cell before being arraigned. This is cruel and unprecedented."
J6ers: *shifty eyed monkey*

Indians are 'abandoning' their children at US borders. But why? - "Alone, frightened, and often no older than six, Indian children are being found at the US borders with Mexico and Canada—without documents, guardians, or belongings—carrying only a slip of paper with their parents’ names and contact details. Over the past few years, this unsettling pattern has grown, marking a rise in unaccompanied Indian minors attempting illegal entry into the United States... These kids act as 'green cards' for their parents, who are also illegal immigrants, a person associated with an illegal immigration network told TOI. "In most cases, their parents first reach the US illegally and then they send for their children with other illegal immigrants to the US," he said. "When their children are caught at the borders, they seek refuge for the minors and themselves — which they usually get on humanitarian grounds."  In some instances, the strategy is reversed: parents send their children first, using their presence as a reason to apply for asylum themselves later. "They claim asylum on the grounds that their children are already in the US," this person told TOI.   Another insider involved in human trafficking said children are often sent along with groups of adults, but abandoned near border checkpoints to be picked up by the authorities. "These children carry chits in their pockets or bags, which bear the names of their parents and/or guardians. They are then sent to their parents, who may be already living illegally in the US, and given health and education benefits free of cost," the source explained...   A US-based source said abandoned children are not officially declared as such in many cases, but that they stood a strong likelihood of securing green cards within six to eight months after juvenile court rulings. "In such cases, once kids get green cards, their relatives here proceed with adoption applications," he said."

Laura Loomer on X - "⚠️EXCLUSIVE:⚠️  The husband of California U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer L. Thurston, the judge who just ruled that President Trump’s administration can’t arrest any more illegal aliens unless they have a warrant for their arrest, is a multifamily real estate broker in California who caters to the illegal alien and immigrant community, and makes Instagram videos about how Donald Trump’s mass deportations and immigration policies are bad for multifamily real estate brokers and investors.  Judge Thurston was appointed by @JoeBiden  in 2021.   This is a massive CONFLICT OF INTEREST that casts doubt on Judge Thurston’s April 29th, 2025 issuance of a preliminary injunction forbidding the US Border Patrol from conducting warrantless immigration stops throughout a wide swath of California. This injunction applies to Kern County, California, including Bakersfield, CA, where Judge Thurston’s husband is in business as a multi-family real estate broker.   Marc A. Thurston, Judge Thurston’s husband and Senior Vice President at ASU Commercial, specializes in Bakersfield’s multifamily real estate market. In video evidence exclusively obtained by @LoomerUnleashed  @CcpSkipTracer , Marc Thurston stated on his Instagram account in multiple videos he filmed this year since President Trump’s inauguration, that deportations of “undocumented immigrants” would harm the local rental market in Bakersfield, directly affecting his business, which relies on immigration enforcement outcomes since over 15,000 “undocumented workers” as he calls them, work in the Central Valley of California, and many of these illegals reside in multi-family housing where Marc Thurston and his wife Judge Jennifer Thurston live in California.   Judge Jennifer L. Thurston should have recused herself from the Trump admin case due to bias and personal financial gain resulting from her ruling, which benefits her husband’s business.   According to the “Federal Judiciary and Judicial Procedure” guidelines that all US Federal Judges are required to follow, a judge is required to recuse themselves from a case if they find themselves conflicted with any of the following rules below:
28 U.S.C. § 455(a): Requires recusal if a reasonable person, knowing all facts, might question the judge’s impartiality.
28 U.S.C. § 455(b)(4): Mandates recusal if the judge’s spouse has a financial interest that could be substantially affected by the case’s outcome.
Both of these apply to Judge Jennifer Thurston.   She is another example of Leftist, Biden-appointed activist judge.   Judge Thurston needs to RECUSE herself.   VIDEO RECEIPTS BELOW👇"

Congressman Brandon Gill on X - "If you’re here illegally, the only process you’re due is deportation."
James Surowiecki on X - "But how do you know if someone here's illegally without giving them due process?"
Left wingers think due process means the government proving in front of a judge that you don't have a right to be in the country. No wonder they oppose voter ID - they think it'd take months or even years to be allowed to vote

Meme - Matt Van Swol @matt_vanswol: "Can anyone explain to me why democrats are flying to other countries to help illegal immigrant criminals…  …but none of them came here, to Western North Carolina, to help their fellow Americans?  I don’t understand."
John Doe @benny_bets33: "Most illegals are better people than most southerners"
Left wingers just hate white people and love non-white criminals

Las Vegas is feeling the impact of Trump’s anti-immigration agenda
As usual, left wingers can't tell the difference between legal and illegal immigrants

Kristi Noem embarrassed as college student she has been trying to deport gets ultimate revenge at commencement ceremony - "One of the demonstrators said: 'One thing that immediately came to my brain when I heard she was coming here was I was genuinely scared for the massive amounts of international students that we have on campus."
Not just do left wingers think illegal immigrants are the same as legal immigrants, they think international students are illegal migrants too

Obama calls immigration plan commonsense, lawful - ""If you’re a criminal, you’ll be deported. If you plan to enter the U.S. illegally, your chances of getting caught and sent back just went up.”  “The actions I’m taking are not only lawful, they’re the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican president and every Democratic president for the past half-century. And to those members of Congress who question my authority to make our immigration system work better, or question the wisdom of me acting where Congress has failed, I have one answer: Pass a bill.”"
From 2014. Damn far right extremist and xenophobe!

Barack Obama and Kamala Harris publicly rebuke Trump’s second term actions - "“Imagine if I had done any of this,” Obama said, later adding: “It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me, or a whole bunch of my predecessors.”"
Obama's 'Rocket Docket' Immigration Hearings Violate Due Process, Experts Say - "A new report has found 70 percent of "rocket docket" cases were processed through immigration courts without legal representation."
Obama was kind of right, though not in the way he meant. Pepperidge Farm remembers (kids in cages or the millions he deported are another example)
Someone referenced this, and a left winger kept claiming this was false and he was unable to find anything on this, and when provided with a link, pretended that he could not access it