Links - 9th May 2026 (1 - History Extra Quoting)

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: everything you wanted to know | HistoryExtra - "'They vary sometimes from one list to another but the most popular I'll tell you you are the Great Pyramids at Giza, particularly Khufu pyramid which is the biggest and the first, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon which may or may not have existed but we can have a chat about that, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus in what is now modern day Turkey, the statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus which is now called Bodrumbut it was an ancient city again on the coast of Turkey. The Colossus of Rhodes which was this enormous statue that towered above the harbor at Rhodes but only stood for 50 years or so and was was felled by an earthquake and then this is where it gets controversial is that in a lot of the later lists it was the Lighthouse of Alexandria, this extraordinary lighthouse in the city of Alexandria but in a number of the ancient lists that doesn't appear and it's sometimes the walls of Babylon or an obelisk that's in Babylon and in later lists you know people talk about the Colosseum but the Lighthouse of Alexandria is one of the most popular of the seventh. So that's what I've made the Seven Wonders...
Alexandria… loved lists because it was following on from Aristotle's philosophy which is a lot about kind of being rational and having a taxonomy. It was kind of obsessed with to-do lists and lists of the biggest, the best, the oldest, the greatest. So lists were were a thing that Alexandria did and so the earliest surviving examples that we've got of the lists of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World come from the city of Alexandria and they were written on papyrus scrolls and there's the most brilliant bit of detective work that we've had to do to try to find these earliest lists because they were written on papiery [sp?], this was often then reused to mummify animals or humans so to find these lists you have to go to this thing called cartonnage which is what's used to wrap up mummies and kind of read it incredibly carefully. Obviously we can now do this with laser scans and sometimes even with AI...
These ancient tourists who went. Pliny the Elder who's you know a very famous Roman author who sadly was killed with the eruption of Vesuvius but he was a kind of general, a scientist um, a traveler, he writes about the the wonders. Alexander the Great almost certainly visited all of them apart from the Lighthouse of Alexandria which was built after he died… These Seven Wonders lists were often written as a kind of you know guide book… people in times which are really tough, you know that disease and famine and military attack is often just around the corner, but people take time out of their busy, ,difficult dangerous lives to go and literally go and sightsee'
'Water engineering is the kind of new buzzword around around the pyramid itself and for instance there must have been some incredible pulley system in Ephesus when when the Temple of Artemis was built, because the lintel was so heavy, the the you know the sort of top bit of stone that people said it couldn't have been done by humans and the goddess herself lifted it up overnight, so you know even then they were going: like how did they do that, you know, that's amazing. So we're pretty certain that that was a sophisticated series of pulley systems'"
Damn racism! They wouldn't have said that Artemis lifted the lintel if the temple had been built by white people!

Stonewall: the 1969 fight for gay rights | HistoryExtra - "‘The first real evidence of a backlash to the Stonewall riots came from other gay people. It came from the more conservative elements in LGBT activism at the time, the homophile movement who saw this as a disaster. They were horrified at a riot breaking out that queer people had rioted, they had thrown bottles at the police, that the rioters themselves had been people that these homophile activists didn't want associated with them. They were drag queens, they were, they were street kids, they were transvestites. They were the people that were so lacking in dignity and in respect in polite society, that the calls that they were making, the homophile activists were making, for greater respect for homosexual people, it would never gain them respectability if these calls for homosexual rights were associated with these terribly disrespectful drag queens and and flame queens’"

Victorian death rituals | HistoryExtra - "‘One of the things that we've forgotten with the huge advances of Medical Science in the 20th century is that you could be dying. Ongoing process for a very long time, for years potentially. Whereas now we think of it as: you're well, you're ill, you're dead. Those are three stages and they're all relatively swiftly followed one on the other. Whereas in the pre-antibiotic, premedical science age you could say have scarlet fever as a child, and recover from it. Except that before antibiotic scarlet fever badly damaged people's hearts. So 40 years later you could die, having been very ill often all the way through those 40 years. Or, you could be diagnosed with tuberculosis. There was basically no cure for tuberculosis some people recovered but that was fortuitous, it wasn't a cure. So you knew you were going to die. But it might take years'...
‘For many years there was this theory amongst historians who one can only imagine had never lost a child or knew anyone who had lost a child that because children died so frequently and so young, their parents didn't care about them. That they did not invest emotion into these very small lives that might soon be lost. And I think that if you actually read the few scraps we have of the working classes and their response to the death of their children this is so evidently not true. While it's also so evidently so silly I mean it's just absurd, we see silence. we see parents reusing the same names again and again of children who had died for the newer children who are born. And previously this has been interpreted as simply not caring. But it seems to me so obvious that particularly for the most impoverished in a society, particularly in the earlier 19th century where permanent gravestones were not common amongst the poor, this is a memorial. This is the only way they can memorialize their lost children, who they loved, because people do love their babies. We don't actually have to be terribly smart to know that. And so what you see is very often a silence because they couldn't bear to talk about it’...
‘Photography in particular brought around this idea of taking photos of people either in their last days or on their deathbed which to us again can seem creepy or unexpected’...
’Well it was creepy and unexpected but that's because we have all lived a lifetime of having our pictures taken. So, when, particularly in the early days of photography, very often there would be no photograph. So if you had to have a photograph of the person taken on their deathbed or occasionally, not often, but occasionally after death, then you would do that because that was all there was. If you had to save up to have a photograph taken, you know, and your child died at two or three, you almost certainly would not have a photograph of them. Particularly in the early days of photography when long exposure times meant that it was almost impossible to take a photograph of a very young child, because they couldn't sit still for long enough. So there would be no image there's one photograph that a historian found that is just heartbreaking. It's a photograph of a little straw hat and it's got a name and some dates on a band around it and on the back it says, that this child died aged five and because his parents had no photograph of him they had a photograph taken of his hat’...
‘The two most important things to say about Victoria and her mourning were that today I think many people think that it was the norm and many people think that the rest of society approved of her mourning. Neither of those things are true... I actually talked to a specialist in grief and mourning that Victoria suffered from what was what is today called disordered mourning or grief, that she was psychologically destroyed by this death... more than 30 years after Albert's death… Victoria would not allow the young women of the household to wear lavender because she thought lavender was too close to pink and pink is too cheerful... there was this discussion of her photographing and cataloging everything in their home so that it could be kind of frozen in time. She had this very strange fixation on things she liked, things and over the years after Albert's death certainly anything that he had done or anything that he had touched could not be touched and anything that was fragile, so if he had overseen the decor of a room it was photographed, it was catalogued, everything had to be kept exactly the way it was but also things like curtains and carpets and upholstery which ultimately would fade and wear, they had duplicates made so that when the curtains faded they could be replaced with the identical curtains. Nothing could be altered... Victoria came to the throne in 1837, coronation’s 1838. She dies in 1901, the next coronation is 1902. No one could remember what had been done in 1838. I mean everyone was long dead, no one had any idea. So basically In 1902 everything is made up’"

Joan of Arc: life of the week | HistoryExtra - "‘It's a burning… It's linked you know to the sort of purging of the soul and all that kind of thing but there is another element for women. It's interesting that it's a way of, no person kills her, if you think about. It, it's the smoke and the flames that kill her. So there's a respect for women ironically in some of this as well. There was also the idea of the destruction of the body of the heretic and also they were trying to avoid any idea of sort of relics and things of this sort and therefore the body is disposed or was probably thrown in the river’"

Tying the knot: 500 years of wedded bliss and marital misery | HistoryExtra - "‘Lots of people think that the first person to get a divorce was Henry VII and in fact, he doesn't get a divorce in the modern sense at all. All of what are usually referred to as his divorces were annulments. But there is a sort of change in ideas about marriage at this particular time, so the Protestant Reformation has kind of thrown up a whole ferment of ideas about marriage and divorce, and across Europe, every country that adopts the Protestant Faith also introduces divorce in the 16th century apart from England and Wales... Be very careful in interpretating comments in the past, because you have people in the 1790s complaining that divorce is so common these days. You can still count the number of divorces on your fingers, but it's all relative to them’"

Saladin: life of the week | HistoryExtra - "‘Saladin’s legacy in the West is quite interesting because as the man who recovered Jerusalem in the short term, he is held out as as the son of Satan, there's a wonderful image of the seven-headed beast of the apocalypse and Saladin is head number six... This man and I think his brother a bit blended in comes across with all the qualities that Western Europeans like about themselves. Chivalry is the great cultural driver of the 12th century... you’ve got people calling their son Saladin in Oxfordshire in the 1240s… you've got him also taking a place in romantic literature… he can disguise himself and come to the West, seduces Western women. He auto baptized himself on his deathbed which is complete nonsense of course… while he was very generous was personally quite austere, he was not somebody who who luxuriated in personal wealth and that's held up as an example of the transience of worldly wealth in sermons in England in the 17th century...
I was talking in Detroit where there's a big Syrian refugee population and this young woman came up and said I'm from Hama and you need to know that Saladin was the screen saver on all our mobile phones’"

Slavic myths: vampires, werewolves – and cabbages | HistoryExtra - "‘A lot of your book is dedicated to vampires and werewolves and I just wondered if that was because they are predominant in modern frames of reference as well as in Slavic myth or if they're actually the most important in Slavic folklore’
‘I think that's really the first two things that come to mind that the general public is aware of but doesn't probably know that they're of Slavic origin… what's interesting is in historical Slavic sources they're actually one and the same creature called a vukodlak but vukodlak was a word that was so scary that you weren't supposed to say. It it was a bit like Voldemort in Harry Potter. So instead you could say vampir. And the stories behind vampires and werewolves split only much later, it's really in the 19th century imagination that they split into two separate creatures whereas historically they're melded into one super monster if you will’...
‘The definition of folktales that Marina Warner uses that I think is apt is, stories for whom there's no author given, so they emerge to us, we don't know where they come from and they're passed down usually in a spoken manner and usually from women to women. For example the Brothers Grimm actually hired a little girl to listen to stories told by an old woman who would only tell them to children, and then she passed on the stories to them so that they could write them down. So what are the original stories we really don't know. What we have in almost every case is a 19th century, codified version of them, they become fairy tales or myths if they have to do with explaining the natural world and origins and have have a component linked to religion whereas fairy tales are usually not based on a specific religious practice, and we have them written down in a context of two things that are completely different from what their origins would have been. One is Christianity, so they're they've been Christianized or rather they've been told within a Christianized context and two we have the Spring of Nations, we have the 19th century time where the Slavic Nations which were previously functioning under the auspices of larger Empires particularly the Habsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire are starting to say we want independence, and a lot of their independence was based on language, that we don't speak German at home, we speak our local Slavic language and that's what unites us as a people, and trying to put into context these ancient stories that were Christianized and then made to seem like origin stories that would provide a foundation for these new nations to go independent. And we have examples like the story of Libuše who is a queen who has a foundation story for the city of Prague... my guess is it wasn't important in the ancient world or it wasn't particularly important but it became so because it was effectively assigned the origin story role for why Prague is the capital of the Czech people’"

Rudyard Kipling: life of the week | HistoryExtra - "‘When Disney made the second film of the Jungle Books, the one that came out in 2016, do you know it broke all box office records in Mumbaim even for Bollywood? I think quite a lot of Indians don't even know that it's by Kipling. I think that's the ultimate compliment’...
‘His reputation grew among critics during the 60s, they tended to concentrate on his fiction. It's very interesting actually. Up to about 1940 if anybody writes anything about Kiping it’s usually about the poetry. After about 1960 it's almost always about the fiction, his reputation is still ambivalent’"

The Roman army: everything you wanted to know | HistoryExtra - "‘A mark of how strong the Roman army and the Roman Empire is is that they can, this for 250 years before it goes really really bad and they lose the Western Empire, but there's an irony in those later periods that for a Roman army you're more likely to fight a big battle against another Roman army than you are against a foreign opponent, so that tends to dominate how it's organized, how it's deployed’...
‘You know on any documentary about the Romans in any period you will have reenactors with the segmented armor… marching up and down in the background because that's what most reenactment groups do. That stuff, there seem to be some people still making it in Spain but not very well in the 4th Century but was gone long ago and was never universal in the first place but it's something that we think of as that's a Roman soldier, you know jumps out straight away, has gone. On the other hand there's probably a lot of tradition… at the end of the 6th Century AD we have a manual that's known as Maurice’s Strategikon, produced by the Eastern Roman Empire, the Byzantines, and it's nearly all about cavalry tactics and all the things we don't associate with the Romans but they're doing now, and it's also written in Greek because Greek is the language of the Eastern Empire but the words of command are in transliterated Latin. So you're still telling people to, you don't tell them to turn left, you tell them to turn towards their shield or right, they turn towards their spear because they think in a slightly different way, but you're doing it in a language that nobody speaks anymore because that's how the Army's always done it but there's that sense of continuity in the same way you've got Emperors who are still calling themselves Caesars and Romans even though they don't control Rome anymore’...
'The great melting pot… Rome is the only Empire that goes out and does that to the people they occupy so every Roman army at any period is never more than 50% Roman and Roman gets defined pretty broadly as time goes on'"

Plague, leprosy & murder: unlocking the secrets of medieval bones | HistoryExtra - "‘The Fish Event Horizon. It's basically about the amount of fish that people were eating in the first millennium and we can use different isotopes to look at people's diet, and we can use isotopes of carbon and nitrogen to, and and this is from the bones this time, to look at the levels for instance of the cereal plants that people were eating versus other kind of plants, and then also um terrestrial versus marine protein. And when you say marine protein most of the time you're talking about fish. So interestingly what you can do is see a difference or you you can detect a difference between populations who are largely kind of Scandinavian in origin and eat quite a bit of fish, I mean it's just sort of Viking thing to eat fish, and I got slightly obsessed with Vikings and fish, um in that chapter actually, because you can pretty much match the Viking diaspora onto the distribution of cod in the North Atlantic, to the extent that I think that probably the Viking diaspora is about, is almost driven by cod, in a strange way in that I think you've got the development of deep sea fishing techniques and boats that will take you to those particular fisheries that is helping to drive that migration. Also the development of preservation techniques particularly drying fish to make it into stockfish because then you've got something which you can take with you on long sea Journeys so you've not only got the boats that will carry you there, but you've got the the food that will stay preserved on those on those long voyages. So there's a really interesting story to be told about cod and Vikings. Anyway so we can see a difference between Anglo-Saxons in Britain and Vikings in terms of fish eating up until the Fish Event Horizon. And then at the Fish Event Horizon the Anglo-Saxons start eating fish as well, so then you can't do it anymore’...
'I'm slightly allergic to that that whole kind of description of what people thought in the past when it's just one thing. You know the Romans believed in this or the Anglo-Saxons thought this and it's like, come on, people are diverse. We don't, you know, across Britain today, we don't all believe in the same thing or react in the same way to to different challenges in our own lives or or to other people, so I think it's always diverse. And what's interesting when you start reading the literature is that you you do see a range of opinions about leprosy. You do see it being described as a scourge and a punishment for sins, but you also see it being described as something which is bringing the sufferer closer to God and therefore there's an idea that the the sufferer of leprosy is is somehow holy. You also see doctors being very very careful about diagnosing leprosy and one physician in particular who who says you know he's very very careful about diagnosing someone with leprosy because he knows there's a stigma associated with it’"

WW1's eastern front: everything you wanted to know | HistoryExtra - "‘The Hapsburg Empire has been you know largely written off as this kind of power that that's really useless. It's it's its Army is undoubtedly weak, there's no doubt about that. It's weak in firepower, as I mentioned its artillery is is very light compared to other ,armies they don't have that many guns and so it goes into battle largely based on infantry firepower, rifles. It is also the most fragmented ethnically so you know you have all different types of speakers in the Empire and I think that gives it a fragility and a lack of commonality, now there's the the language of the officers of the, across the Empire should be either Hungarian or German but obviously once those officers get killed or wounded which they do quite rapidly when the war breaks out, you you have that breaking of those bonds between the men and the officers and often you get replacements who maybe don't speak the regimental language of that unit, and so Austria is fragile and and very quickly Austria, it struggles to coordinate operations to attack properly and you know they have places where they perform very well, they perform quite well on the Italian front against the Italians because they're they're in good defensive positions and they show a kind of cohesion and a a kind of fighting spirit that's often lacking in other places but really by 1915, 1916 the Austrians are increasingly indebted to the Germans who are, who are beginning to take over that army so they occupy key positions across the Army usually the chief of staff of any major unit, and they begin to filter in selected German officers and NCOs, German equipment into those divisions which only becomes more prominent as the war goes on and so by 1916 you have kind of unified command where the Austrians have basically you know been taken over by the Germans. If we look at the Germans you know the Germans have by common consent the best army in the world in 1914’"

British Redcoats: everything you wanted to know | HistoryExtra - "'For most of this period right up until 1870 when it was abolished there was something known as the purchase system which effectively meant you had to buy your commission and that ensured that only people with a vested interest in the status quo, people of property and people of wealth, could become officers and this was felt to be, you know, not only would you get the right educated capable people into the Armed Forces as officers, they would also have an interest in as I say keeping the status quo so you would have political stability as well. I mean remember all through this period one of the big fears of the governing classes is that the military might try to take over as of course they had done with Cromwell during the dictatorship of the 1650s so there was a determination that the Army would remain outside politics and one of the ways to do that was by making sure that the officers the leaders of the army came as I say from this class that had a vested interest in the status quo…  You would have very wealthy people able to buy commissions and there were a lot of scandals actually and you get this extraordinary situation where even some of the very capable commanders like Wolfe would become Battalion commanders in their young 20s and this was felt that if you're just going to allow people with wealth and interest to get to these relatively high positions it was a bit of a problem. Well there were a couple of safeguards against that. One of them was that you couldn't buy a commission beyond Lieutenant Colonel so as soon as you went to you know Brigadier or Major General status that had to be a selection process. Now admittedly it was often based on how long you'd serve for but nevertheless there was an opportunity to get the right people into the right positions for senior command. And slowly but surely during this period there were some reforms that made the system a little bit more meritocratic'...
‘The Royal Navy played a absolutely vital role as we know during the whole of this period. It of course protected sea lanes, it helped to launch amphibious attacks and it opened up new areas of trade. But you also needed the Army to fight on land. Only a land force as professional, flexible and effective as the British army could have won these three great conflicts’"

The EU: from Maastricht to Brexit | HistoryExtra - "‘The European Coal and Steel Community… this was a very narrow area of cooperation, establishing a common market for coal and steel. Now the focus on those sectors is very deliberate because the idea was that it was going to take the ingredients of warfare and put them under common governance. It would be next to impossible for France and Germany to go to war with each other if they were governing their coal and steel sectors collectively’...
‘People like Goldsmith described the European Union as a vehicle for globalization that was going to destroy national identity and leave the EU vulnerable to global competition, to movements of migrants and unable to protect its own borders. So that sort of discourse is new in the 1990s and it takes off very rapidly’"

History Behind the Headlines: ageing politicians & new names for the London Overground | HistoryExtra - "‘It might be interesting to reflect on the age of politicians… in a lot of cultures, certainly you know China in the premodern era, you know going way way back centuries but also actually I think in the the wider European context too, it's relatively recently that tends to make this sort of fetish of youth. The idea that being young, frosty, vigorous and all of that is something that is to be praised. So the Confucian tradition… always made a great virtue of those in charge being older. There's a a famous part of the Analects, one of the writings of, set down of thoughts attributed to Confucius, which argues that you know when you're in your 20s you really don't know much, when you come to 30, you can make your stand and it's only by the time you're about 60 or so that you can begin to have the kind of wisdom that will make you into a proper sage, a philosophical sage and although that's a very long time ago, it's worth noting that well into the 19th century, even the the early 20th you find in China the idea that looking after older people and making sure that you attest to the wisdom of older people is really something that should be valued. It's really only the early 20th century that in China you get this new idea that actually thrusting youth is something that is to be to be valued and that comes partly because the influence of certain strands of Western thought in particular Social Darwinism, the idea that human beings are in sense in competition with each other… it's worth noting that the US Constitution does prescribe minimum ages for how old politicians should be'...
‘I'm sitting right now in St John's in Oxford which was founded in 1555 and before that it was the Hall of St Bernard so was a Cistercian house. Um and and we have that sense of of sort of different ways in which this space has been used over the centuries, kind of emerging as you as you walk through the college and you have a really kind of clear consciousness of the ways in which the functions obviously have changed but they don't erase one another they're all there as we move through, in St John's one of the most amusing examples of that is that when it was refounded as the College of St John the Baptist, it was decided not to get rid of the Statue of St Bernard over the front of the college from when it been the Hall of St Bernard but simply to give it a loin cloth and a beard and that way it could become St John the Baptist a bit of money saving but also a nice sense that places evolve, you don't erase what happened before... There's at least one example from the old Soviet Union of I think the designers trying to make absolutely sure that no one could could forget what uh was being commemorated and that was the full name of the Leningrad Metro which I think officially was called the Leningrad VI Lenin Metropolitan Railway system named after VI Lenin… these days I don't think he's actually named there at all so it shows how quickly memory can fade’"

Links - 8th May 2026 (2 - Palestine/Middle East Peace)

Zionism And Anti-Zionism | Facebook - "The PLO was following a model which had been successful for the North Vietnamese and which was recommended to the PLO directly by Ho Chi Minh’s chief strategist. David Meir-Levi (Meir-Levi, D. 2007. History upside down: The roots of Palestinian Fascism and the myth of Israeli aggression. Brief Encounters) describes it:
"Arafat was particularly struck by Ho Chi Minh’s success in mobilizing leftwing sympathizers in Europe and the United States, where activists on American campuses, enthusiastically following the [propaganda] line of North Vietnamese operatives, had succeeded in reframing the Vietnam war from a Communist assault on the south to a struggle for national liberation. Ho’s chief strategist, General Giap, made it clear to Arafat and his lieutenants that to succeed, they too needed to redefine the terms of their struggle. Giap’s counsel was simple but profound: the PLO needed to work in a way that concealed its real goals, permitted strategic deception, and gave the appearance of moderation: [emphasis mine] ‘Stop talking about annihilating Israel and instead turn your terror war into a struggle for human rights. Then you will have the American people eating out of your hand.’"
Christopher Fish quotes advice from Algerian Minister of Information Muhammed Yazid to Yasser Arafat:
"… wipe out the argument that Israel is a small state whose existence is threatened by the Arab States, or the reduction of the Palestinian problem to a question of refugees; instead present the Palestinian struggle as one for liberation like the others. Wipe out the impression that in the struggle between the Palestinians and Zionists, the Zionist is the underdog. Now it is the Arab who is oppressed and victimized in his existence because he is not only facing the Zionists but also world imperialism."
This is the story which began to appear in academic journals in the 1970s and grew for decades, on the shelves of university libraries. It was not crafted or created as scholarship by scholars, but as political activism pushing a useful myth built around kernels of truth, aimed at the destruction of a nation, yet manipulatively couched as the liberation of a heterogeneous population continuous with all those around them, elevated into the status of a newly invented people. The narrative and analysis in the pages of these journals was the KGB OP SIG narrative and analysis, originating from its influence operation in the Islamic world. As I will describe later in this book’s chapter The Secret Story of the First Palestinian State, just a few years before the Palestinians already had a state of their own and squandered it on endless war but this was flushed down the memory hole as far as these journals were concerned. Once journals start showing up on university library shelves, publications in those journals automatically become a sort of academic "truth" and they set the Overton Window - the boundaries of acceptable conversation or socially appropriate opinion. If a peer-reviewed journal article on a university shelf says something is history, or that a political analysis has been "peer reviewed," it is hard for anyone on the outside to say it is not history or that the review was shabby and slanted. From this point, activists posing as scholars can easily make the case that there should be faculty publishing in them, so the local departments can have expertise in the "emerging field" and its "knowledge." Once enough of this publishing activity gets going, it is easy to make the case it is an "important" study area and there should be dedicated departments to it. To make that happen, the only thing missing is money. Enter Qatar."

Lynn Riley on X - "Why is it ok for terrorists to bomb Israel but NOT ok for Israel to bomb terrorists?"

Oli London on X - "Georgetown University set to host evening with Palestinian TERRORIST who blew up a 17 year old Israeli teen. In 2019, Ribhi Karajh carried out a terror attack using an explosive which killed 17 year old Rina Shnerb (pictured below) and injured her father and brother. Georgetown Law will host the terrorist who they describe as a ‘student activist & former prisoner’ next week."
From 2025. What Israeli "hostages" look like

Jizyah (Tax) - WikiIslam - ""I call you to God and to Islam. If you respond to the call, then you are Muslims: You obtain the benefits they enjoy and take up the responsibilities they bear. If you refuse, then you must pay the jizyah. If you refuse the jizyah, I will bring against you tribes of people who are more eager for death than you are for life. We will then fight you until God decides between us and you." (Al Tabari, Volume XI) - Khalid bin Al-Waheed (Muslim General, 632AD)"
Muslims boast that they are eager to sacrifice their lives for the cause, but it is considered an atrocity when they get what they want

Meme - Hamas Atrocities: "When you see people posting these heart wrenching scenes with Gazan children carrying water... Always remember Hamas boasted about digging up water pipes to transform them into rocket launchers"
Time to demonise Israel for not allowing pipes into Gaza and blame them for making Gazans die of thirst. They should just give Hamas rocket launchers so Hamas won't be forced to dig up water pipes. Not giving Hamas rocket launchers is literally genocide

Meme - "Laundering antisemitic slaughter as political opposition proves that antizionism is not about politics"
craig.hill.brisbane: "So the younger shooter, in a video submitted to the court today, claims the shooting was aimed at the Zionist policies of Israel as a state. This is quite distinct from being an attack against Jewish people as a group. Once again the pro-Zionist coalition and right wing media jumped the gun and got it wrong."
Of course, the cope is that Israel labels all criticism anti-Semitism, so they are responsible for people attacking Jews to protest Israel
Comment: "No idea who Craig Hill is but by his logic if a terrorist butchers a dozen Muslim 3rd graders in Paris but they’re doing it to protest against Isis - it’s OK? Got it."

أميرة ح | Amira H on X - "1952: UNRWA already employs 6000 Palestine Arabs to run their operations. Attempts at integrating or resettling displaced 'refugees' are already being challenged and will soon be abandoned. Already at this early stage, a persistent problem was that people 'pass a newborn baby from family to family' to register them and also have a 'surreptitious burial' to avoid reporting a death. As each birth registered also means an allocation of funds to that particular area for medical care, food and housing, there was always an incentive among local Palestinian UNRWA employees to allow it. UNRWA aid was always on sale in the supermarkets of Gaza because the number of people on the rolls was always lower than the actual number. By 1961, UNRWA estimated from statistical analysis that around 100,000 deceased persons were on their rolls, around 10% of the 'refugees'. That would not of course be including all the falsely registered births. Any attempt to investigate was met with extremely hostile reactions. The Palestinian Authority has never conducted a census. Israel gives out ID numbers based on what is reported to them. In 2016, UNRWA reported they served 450,000 Palestine Arab 'refugees' in Lebanon, not including 32,000 Palestinians recently displaced from Syria. The following year the Lebanese government performed a census of them. It turned out there were only 174,422. This is a wider issue, though of course has implications concerning the Hamas death statistics."

Dan Burmawi on X - "This is how the existence of Israel has protected the West: By refusing to submit to the Islamic project and insisting on a sovereign nation-state, Israel forced the region to accept the legitimacy of nation-states. Without Israel, without a single sovereign, non-Islamic state planted in the Middle East, the path to reestablishing a caliphate would have been wide open. A caliphate is more dangerous than the Nazis ever were. The caliphate once stretched from Spain to India, launching invasion after invasion into Europe. If the Ottoman Caliphate had simply been replaced by an Arab one after its collapse, the West would have lived under constant threat. That’s why Israel’s existence matters. Its very presence blocks the return of the caliphate. That is also why they are obsessed with erasing Israel: without Israel, the dream of resurrecting the caliphate becomes possible again. This is why the free world must stand with Israel, not just for Israel’s survival, but for its own."
The non-Muslim anti-Semites just might hate the Jews so much that they rather an Islamic caliphate than Israel

Moshe Emilio Lavi on X - "There is a genre of October 7 commentary that works by constructing a historical arc so compressed and so selective that the conclusion becomes inevitable. A people wronged, hemmed in, their world dismantled across generations. Rage follows. What else would you expect? The history offered in support of this arc is not really history. It begins where it needs to begin, omits what complicates it, and arrives at a destination that was chosen before the argument started. The Arab population of Mandatory Palestine never held sovereignty that was taken from them. There was no state. A significant portion immigrated to the land only in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The land passed from Ottoman to British control, and two national movements competed within that framework. One of them, the Jewish national movement, was not a colonial project arriving from outside. Jewish communities had existed without interruption in Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed, Gaza, Tiberias, the Galilee and elsewhere, through centuries of pre-modern colonial empires, Roman, Byzantine, several Arab Caliphates, the Crusaders, and Ottoman, and long before any of them emerged. The Zionist movement was a national liberation movement of a people with three thousand years of documented connection to that land, rejecting the exile that was imposed on many of them, and building upon a presence that had never left. The other national movement, the Arab Palestinian one, crystallised largely in reaction to Zionism rather than predating it, which is why the sovereign state being projected backwards into history as ancient and continuous is itself part of the inversion, not a foundation for it. Arab leaders, who rarely called themselves Palestinians then and most of whom saw themselves as part of greater Syria, rejected partition in 1937 and again in 1947. That rejection, and the violence that accompanied it across the three decades of the Mandate period, is precisely what this genre of argument leaves out. What does the enforcing are films like "Palestine 36," marketed as historical drama about the bloody Arab Revolt, but functioning as something closer to historical replacement. They strip Jewish indigeneity and continuity from the record, recast a people with millennia of connection to that land as recent colonial arrivals, and present the conflict as a simple story of indigenous resistance to foreign imposition. The purpose is not to inform Western audiences about a complex national conflict. It is to recruit them to a conclusion: that Jews and Israel are an illegitimate implant in the region, that the appropriate remedy is dismantlement, and that what would follow, the imagined state from the river to the sea, would be a tolerant, secular, democratic alternative, where Jews can live in peace under their Arab Palestinian Muslim rulers, not as a national group but as a religious minority. That last part is perhaps the most dishonest element of the entire narrative. The movements driving that agenda in the Middle East are neither democratic nor secular, and whatever secular veneer some of them maintain is precisely that, a veneer. The model being implicitly promised has no precedent among Muslim-majority states in the region, and sits in direct and unacknowledged tension with the political and religious character of the organisations whose cause these films are made to serve, like Hamas. Without all of this, October 7 cannot be made to look like the inevitable product of accumulated injustice. It looks instead like what it was: a brutal, sadistic rampage by Arab Palestinian Islamist terrorist organisations, and the civilians who joined them, to murder, rape, and kidnap Israeli citizens, residents, and foreign nationals. No historical narrative, however artfully constructed, changes what happened that morning. It only changes who the audience is willing to hold responsible for it. This is the genre James represents, and he is far from alone in it. It is not engagement with history. It is the use of a selective version of it to launder a conclusion that was held before the argument began."

Meme - Isabella Moody @IsabellaIsMoody: "Dear Zionists: You cannot cancel us. You've lost control of the narrative and that's why you all are spiraling. Winter is coming."
Luana Fabri @LuanaGoriss: "You're the ones spiralling. Zionism - the Jews' right of return to Israel - is stronger than ever. Unstoppable."
Isabella Moody: "Shut up jew"
When you scratch an "anti-Zionist", you find an anti-Semite underneath

Meme - kourtneelynne: "I will never vote for someone who has;
>taken money from AIPAC.
>is married to a jew.
>is a jew.
>has one or more jewish children.
>supports Israel.
>is a zionist.
>has ever kissed the f*cking wall.
If any of those criteria are met, I will not vote for them."

UN Watch on X - "U.N. Special Rapporteur Ben Saul: “I have of course condemned sanctions on Cuba.”
Also Ben Saul: “Sanctions would be an appropriate response on Israel.”"

Meme - naz_hashem: "25-year-old Palestinian woman Amana Jawad Mona appears in court for the murder of a 16-year-old Israeli boy, smiling as she defiantly declares, "I am proud." She groomed him online, posing as "Sally," a Jewish immigrant from Morocco, and spent months gaining the trust of 16-year-old Ofir Rahum. Eventually, she convinced him to meet. Believing he was meeting someone safe, he got into her car, unaware he was being led into a trap. She drove him to the outskirts of Ramallah, into Palestinian-controlled territory, where Fatah militants were waiting. He was shot at point-blank range. She watched. This wasn't random. On October 12, 2000, in Ramallah, she witnessed the brutal lynching of two innocent Jewish men, Vadim Norzhich and Yossi Avrahami, and wanted to be part of that violence. In 2009, she was released in the Shalit deal. Today, she is still praised in some circles as a "political prisoner.""

Meme - "Caroline"
"Hi"
"Hi"
"Do you support Palestine"
"This typically how you start a conversation?"
Degen, CPA: "Dating is so fun now a days."

Thread by @KyleWOrton on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Al-Jazeera style guide:
- ISIS, Al-Qaeda not "terrorists" or even "Islamists"
- Muslim Brotherhood not "an Islamic/Islamist group"
- Armenian massacres not "genocide", but Srebrenica is
- "jihad means an inner spiritual struggle"
- Muslims not "fundamentalist"; Christians can be
Al-Jazeera style guide:
- Never refer to Israel as "the Jewish State"
- "never refer to [Jerusalem] as the capital of Israel"
- When Israelis go to the Temple Mount call it an "incursion": "Don't call it a 'visit'."
- Not allowed to refer to IDF
- Post-2005 Gaza "is occupied"
Al-Jazeera's style guide says #Israel's requests for delays on reporting soldiers' deaths so families can be told should be defied, but #China's belief that Taiwan "is not a country" should be rigorously adhered to and #Iran's Press TV must not be called "State TV". Not exactly a revelation, but it is nice to see in black-and-white the extent to which Al-Jazeera is a propaganda platform masquerading as a news outlet."

Jon Levine on X - "Al-Jazeera's style guide mandates its staff take only the most hostile possible approach to all issues relating to Israel
-Settlements are always to be referred to as "illegal"
-Israel cannot be called "the Jewish state"
-Gaza is to be called "occupied" even though the occupation ended 2005
— Hamas terrorist boss Yahiya Sinwar is a "political leader in Gaza""

Meme - "A few interesting facts about U.N. resolution 181 of November 29, 1947 - Partition Plan for Palestine:
The term "Jewish State" appears in the resolution 30 times.
The term "Palestinian State" or even the word "Palestinians" does not appear in the resolution' even once.
That's because back then and until the 1960s, the word "Palestinians" referred to both Jews and Arabs who lived in Mandatory Palestime. The resolution explicitly mentions the "two Palestinian peoples": Jews and Arabs.
This why the UN partition plan is about separating the land into a Jewish state and an Arab state."

Meme - "Israel should exist."
"Zio, Zionazi, colonizer, settler-colonialist, occupier, apartheid, apartheid-supporter, supremacist, ethno-supremacist racist, fascist, imperialist, proxy, expansionist, land-grabber, land-thief, oppressor, aggressor, war-criminal, baby-killer, child-killer, genocidal, ethnic- cleanser, segregationist, tyrant, enforcer, illegal-settler, colonial- Israel should exist. apartheid-apologist, puppet."

Threads - "Many people are curious why we Filipinos are mostly Pro-Israel. It's very simple. It is because our overseas workers in Israel have been treated with love and respect by their Jewish employers. There is no highly publicized report that a Filipina/Filipino in Israel have been beaten, raped nor killed in Israel.On the other hand, Filipinos working in Arab countries suffered horrific abuse from their Arab employers. Not all, but many instances of beatings, rapes, torture and murder."

Cenk Uygur on X - "The way Israelis have treated Palestinians is the biggest crime against humanity in my lifetime. It's not an isolated terrorist act. It is a sick, tyrannical oppression that has lasted 78 years. First, they ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians in 1948. They slaughtered them ..."
shevereshtus on X - "In the last 78 years, you’ve had
- Mao-era China (Great Leap Forward, purges, etc., 1949–1976): 20–70 million dead
- Cambodian Genocide (Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979): 1.4–3 million dead
- Bangladesh Genocide (1971): 300,000–3 million dead
- Biafran Genocide / Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970): 500,000–3 million dead
- Second Congo War & related atrocities (1998–2003+): 3–6 million (war-related, including mass killings)
- Indonesian Mass Killings (1965–1966): 500,000–1 million dead
- Rwandan Genocide (1994): 500,000–1 million dead
- Darfur Genocide (2003–present): 200,000–500,000 dead
- East Timor Genocide / Occupation (1975–1999): 85,000–200,000 dead
- Bosnian Genocide (1992–1995): 100,000–200,000 (total war deaths, with genocidal acts)
- Guatemalan Genocide (peak 1981–1983): 100,000–200,000 dead
- Rohingya Genocide (2016–present): 25,000–100,000+ (direct killings + related deaths)
Cenk doesn’t care, because he only cares about Jews. Specifically, hating Jews."

Christian JB on X - "The Guardian: Even tho a bakery which had a Jewish founder is a British business (technically, we guess), it’s clearly an act of aggression for a Jew-store to open near a salt-of-the-earth independently owned Palestinian cafe."
So much for anti-Zionism being separate from anti-Semitism

Hamas should NOT be treated as terrorists, says Green Party's 'Zionism is racism' policy mastermind as she claims violent group was banned in UK to 'delegitimise armed resistance' to Israel : r/europe_sub - "I love how half of the left is like "we don't support Hamas, that's a lie, we just support Palestinian civilians" and the other half is like "of course we support Hamas, they're a legitimate resistance group fighting against oppression!""
We'll still be told that no one, much less any left wingers, support Hamas

Cenk Uygur on X - "There is approximately a zero percent chance Israel will abide by a ceasefire."
Amit Schandillia on X - "Israel signed peace with Egypt in 1979. Not a single Israeli bomb on Egypt since then. Israel signed peace with Jordan in 1994. Not a single Israeli bomb on Jordan since then. Israel signed peace with UAE in 2020. Not a single Israeli bomb on UAE since then (not that it did before). Israel signed peace with Bahrain in 2020. Not a single Israeli bomb on Bahrain since then (not that it did before). Israel signed peace with Morocco in 2020. Not a single Israeli bomb on Morocco since then (not that it did before). Israel signed peace with Sudan in 2020. Not a single Israeli bomb on Sudan since then (not that it did before)."
Ringo 🇮🇱🎗✡️ on X - "Israel signed the Oslo Accords in 1993, Israel signed the Paris protocol 1994 as a continuation of the Oslo Accords, in 1995 the implementation began. In 1996, buses and restaurants began to explode in Israel, and hundreds of Israelis were killed and injured. Who was to blame?"

HonestReporting | Facebook - "The Knesset voted 62-48 passing a controversial law to allow the death penalty for terrorists convicted of deadly attacks. Much of the media coverage framed it as though it would target Palestinians broadly or could apply to thousands of existing prisoners. That’s not what the law says. The death penalty, a death by hanging, would apply only to terrorists convicted of murder in deadly attacks. It is not retroactive and applies only to future cases. Claims that thousands could now face execution are false. Egypt condemned the law while maintaining the death penalty. In countries like Iran and Yemen, same-sex relations can carry the death penalty under law. Under Palestinian law, selling land to Jews can be treated as treason, resulting in the death penalty. Inside Israel, the law is largely contested, passed narrowly, and will likely face Supreme Court scrutiny. Judges can still issue life sentences instead. We're not here to debate the law. We're here to deliver the facts."
Comment (elsewhere): "The new statute does not call for the death penalty for Palestinians, nor does it say that only Palestinians are eligible for this death penalty. The new statute calls for the death penalty for the terroristic deliberate killing of a person with the intent of “negating the existence of the State of Israel.” If there were a Jew, or an American Tourist, or anyone else in the territory who committed a terroristic murder with the intent of "negating the existence of the State of Israel", that person, too - even if not Palestinian - would be subject to the death penalty. While I am generally against the death penalty, it is hard to make the argument that this particular death penalty is unfair to Palestinians...unless you take the position that Palestinians cannot help but commit terroristic murder with the intent of negating the existence of the State of Israel. For Palestinians who are concerned about this, one good way of avoiding this penalty is to refrain from committing terroristic murder. (If anyone wants to take the position that such people cannot help it, then that is the subject of another discussion.)"
Terrorism supporters tell on themselves with their lies

On Jews as the Most Victimised by Hate Crimes Per Capita in England and Wales

Despite the moral panic in the UK over "Islamophobia", the group that is subject to the most hate crimes per capita, at least in England and Wales, is Jews, with a whopping 106 religious hate crimes per 10,000 population (vs 12 for Muslims).

Naturally, there is all sorts of cope from Islamists, left wingers and other anti-Semites, including:

- Criticism is Israel is considered a hate crime, so the statistics are inflated
- Anti-semitism is overused
- A Jew reported this news, so it must be fake (too bad the UK government says exactly the same thing)
- Anti-genocide protests are classified as hate crimes
- "It's called "noticing"" or similar (which presumably means that Jews are evil so it's right to commit hate crimes against them)
- Mossad is responsible (presumably this means that they are all false flags)
- The Jews are responsible for mass migration of Muslims to the UK, so they deserve it
- Anti-semitism is good
- Netanyahu's Israel's crimes are responsible for anti-Semitism
- The definition of hate crimes is arbitrary
- The data is unreliable because it excludes met police data
- The data is unreliable because it is self-reported
- They don't live in the UK so they can't be victims
- Nobody cares
- Jews move like demons
- The numbers are too low
- *Anti-semitic memes*

There're too many (mostly bad faith) arguments to debunk, so I will just deal with one in particular - that this is misleading because it measures criticism of Israel (or similar speech).

In Hate crime, England and Wales, year ending March 2025: data tables, the Home Office helpfully provides a breakdown of the types of hate crimes recorded against Muslims and Jews. While their infographic gives a rough idea, the exact numbers are given in Bulletin Table 4: Proportion of religious hate crimes targeted against Jews and Muslims, by offence type, England and Wales, year ending March 2025 (in the ODS file).

The categories are:

Public fear, alarm or distress
Criminal damage and arson
Malicious communications
Assaults with and without injury
Stalking and harassment
Other

To zero in on the hate crimes involving physical actions (and thus cannot be dismissed as "criticism", whether of Israel or otherwise), we can narrow the categories down to "Criminal damage and arson" and "Assaults with and without injury"

17% of anti-Jewish hate crimes fall under "Criminal damage and arson" and 10% under "Assaults with and without injury". The corresponding numbers for Muslims are 7% and 18% respectively. So 27% of anti-Jewish hate crimes are physical, and 25% of anti-Muslim ones.

Applying these proportions to the raw number of hate crimes recorded against each group, we get 776 physical anti-Jewish hate crimes and 1,120 anti-Muslim ones.

However, there were 271,000 Jewish people in England and Wales in the 2021 Census, while Muslims numbered 3.9 million.

So there were 28.6 physical anti-Jewish hate crimes per 10,000 population, and only 2.9 physical anti-Muslim hate crimesper 10,000. If anything, narrowing the focus down to physical hate crimes makes Jews look even more disproportionately targeted for hate crimes than Muslims.

Of course, some of the existing copes like Mossad being behind false flag hate crimes cannot be disproven by data, and new ones can be invented, like nefarious Jews lying about being victims, but anti-Semitism is a boundless force of nature, so I will not be attempting to address the other copes in this post.

Links - 8th May 2026 (1 - Trans Mania)

Brazilian Veterinary Student Faces 10 Years in Prison Over Gender Ideology Comments - "A Brazilian woman, Isadora Borges, is facing criminal prosecution after posting comments on social media expressing her views on gender ideology, exposing her to a possible prison sentence of four to ten years.   In November 2020, Isadora Borges made two posts on X (then Twitter), peacefully expressing her views against gender ideology. One comment stated that “transgender” women “were obviously born male.” Another stated: “A person who identifies as transgender retains their birth DNA. No surgery, synthetic hormone, or clothing change will change this fact…”   Her comments quickly gained attention online, and prompted Erika Hilton, a self-described “transgender” politician, to report Borges for “transphobia” to the federal police."

Alec Lace on X - "🚨 MULTIPLE posts are saying the shooter at Pawtucket Hockey Rink was a Transgender lunatic who eliminated his ex wife and at least one child. A Good Samaritan tackled him, wrestled gun away — but shooter had backup weapon. Daughter claims: “He suffers from mental illness.”"
No Name Given on X - "Hilarious to see when it was first reported that liberals on FB and insta immediately went the following places:
1. It was a white male
2. It wasnt an immigrant
3. America has gun violence program 4.
It was ice’s fault
5. Trump caused this"
Now I’m getting random suggested posts from liberal hockey moms saying “it could’ve been my kids, they play there, I’m devastated”.. really? Could’ve been your kids?? Are you married to a trans man who wants to kill you and them? If not, then it’s not a “could’ve been us” moment"

The Patriot Oasis™ on X - "🔥🚨 BREAKING: New data reveals the staggering number of MINORS who underwent "Gender Transition" surgery or "care" under Joe Biden's administration.
- 5,747 Childern underwent Surgical Mutilation
- 8,579 Childern recieved Hormones and Puberty Blockers
- 13,994 Minors underwent SEX CHANGE Treatments
-62,682 Sex Change prescriptions were written for childern."
Weird. We keep being told this wasn't happening. The new cope is that almost all of them were actually cis kids being treated for non-trans-related conditions

Jason Jones on X - "This is pure evil. A trans comedian jokes about k*lling children and the audience erupts in cheers. “I think we should start k*lling kids until they let us use whatever bathroom we want.” The violence is a feature of the trans cult, not a bug."
Jason Jones on X - "People are saying the trans comedian clip was taken out of context. Here’s the lead up to his “joke” about k*lling kids.  I also included his next “joke.”  “Hey sir, how many kids would you k*ll for trans rights? Hundreds? Give it up for him everybody!”  More cheers. More applause. More evil.  The context is perfectly clear. If you don’t participate in their delusions, they’ll do exactly what he’s suggesting.  Just like they’ve been doing."

Devon Stack on X - "In the 1990s SNL did a sketch about a jewish doctor that sadistically gave every male baby sex change surgery, presumably because he hated white men. The liberal New York audience in attendance laughed at the absurdity."
Denny Burk on X - "There was a time when destroying the healthy reproductive organs of minor children was considered by everyone to be macabre and farcical. This is from SNL in the 80’s. It’s incredible given what our culture has devolved to today. I couldn’t laugh at this."
Rod Dreher on X - "This. Is. Incredible. "Macabre and farcical" -- we thought so in the 1980s. Now it's "compassion"."

We Are Not in Kansas Anymore - "I do not believe in “transgenderism” as a coherent biological reality. I believe it reflects a profound psychological disorder that, in recent years, has become a social contagion encouraged and normalized by elements of the far left. What is remarkable is not merely the phenomenon itself, but the political machinery that has rallied behind it. The modern left increasingly builds policy atop contradiction, sustained by organized cognitive dissonance. In philosophical terms, it claims to have resolved Descartes’ mind-body duality entirely in favor of the mind: feelings are sovereign; biology is incidental. When the body becomes negotiable, chromosomes become irrelevant and reality becomes optional. That shift is not benign; it is destructive—especially for individuals struggling with genuine gender dysphoria. Their suffering is real, but instead of careful treatment and compassion grounded in truth, political forces elevate and weaponize their distress. The individual becomes secondary; the movement becomes primary. The goal is not healing but cultural, institutional, and legal power—severely troubled people become symbols, and symbols become tools. This is the grand illusion of our moment: the promise of “freedom” for a tiny minority, not by allowing individuals to live as they choose and accept the consequences, but by compelling the majority to affirm what it does not believe. We are told that dissent itself is harm and reality must yield to affirmation. Just as Dorothy clicked her ruby slippers and returned from Oz to Kansas, society must now believe a man can simply declare himself a woman and “return” to a state of being that never biologically existed—and that society must not merely tolerate this claim but codify and enforce it.  We are most definitely not in Kansas anymore.  The term “Orwellian” is overused, but it applies... When reality becomes fluid, law becomes elastic—and elastic law expands power.  Democrat Rashida Tlaib proposed a “Transgender Bill of Rights” but when government creates a new protected class, it must define that class. What is “transgender”? A medical diagnosis? A self-declaration? A temporary emotional state? Law cannot function without definition. If something is illegal or protected, “X” must be defined, codified, interpreted, and enforced. Once defined, that definition will evolve through courts, agencies, and bureaucracies. Each ruling refines “X” and each case expands its boundaries. The permutations multiply, and with each permutation, power shifts from individuals to institutions. Follow that logic to its endpoint. In a society governed increasingly by regulatory detail, identity becomes something to certify. To claim rights attached to a category, one must prove membership in that category. If government dispenses rights on the basis of identity, government must adjudicate identity. The state becomes the arbiter of who you are. That is not liberation; it is administrative control.  This dynamic exposes a deeper issue: whether law alone can sustain social order. There are two forms of control in any society—external and internal. External controls are laws and regulations. They define behavior and attach consequences. They matter and they deter, but they are not sufficient...  Internal controls are values—moral standards, cultural norms, conscience... The American constitutional system assumes such internal restraint. It is rooted in the concept of natural law—immutable standards beyond the reach of passing political fashions. Remove that foundation and governance becomes arbitrary and arbitrary governance cannot sustain legitimacy; it can sustain compliance only through coercion. Government by fad or whim is arbitrary and capricious, and arbitrary power, if pushed far enough, ultimately rests on force."

Mia Hughes on X - "Me: "Why did you sign a statement calling 'gender affirming care' for minors medically necessary?"
Godfather of evidence-based medicine: "WHAT! That's RIDICULOUS! If you can find the words medically necessary in my statement I'll have to jump off a bridge."
Me: *pulls up his statement and reads the paragraph where it says "gender affirming care" is medically necessary*
Godfather of evidence-based medicine: "Oh, I didn't read that part."
Surely one of the most humiliating moments in all of podcast history."

Andy Ngo on X - "The "gun person" accused of firing upon a Border Patrol agent in New Hampshire on Feb. 21 is revealed to be a trans nonbinary suspect named Blu Daly, previously Cullan Daly. He's been federally charged with attempted murder.   Last year in neighboring Vermont, another trans person named Teresa Youngblut allegedly shot and killed a Border Patrol agent named David Maland. Youngblut is a member of the Zizian trans death cult."

John Thomson on X - "I recognize that things have changed since I stopped working in healthcare, but the idea that a medical school would promote ideological nomenclature over proper anatomical names should legitimately scare people about the future and quality of our healthcare.
Doctor: “I’m sorry but you have cancer in your internal gland.”
Patient: “Oh no! Which one?”
Doctor: “I’m sorry but if I tell you and it doesn’t conform to your self-identified gender reality then I may be subject to a $750,000 fine.”
Patient: “But shouldn’t I know which one ?!”
Doctor: “Probably, but that’s where we are for not speaking out about this nonsense.”"

CBN News on X - "A group of military families at Fort Bragg is expressing deep concern about a teacher at their children's school who identifies as a transgender wolf. One mother said her daughter expressed fear, saying, "Mommy, I'm scared he's going to come eat me," referring to statements the teacher made about turning into a wolf at night.   Another child reportedly said, "Mommy, Ms. Roxxie says he was born in a male's body, but he's actually a woman, but he likes boys!"  Liberty Counsel is fighting to have the teacher removed, citing several names the teacher purportedly uses, including "Roxxanne Wildheart," "Kiera Blackheart," "Lilith Deathhowl," "Captain Roxxie," "Artemis Deathhowl," "savagebeastqueen" and many others."

Defiant L’s on X - "Scott Jennings: "If I can’t trust you not to put a boy in a teenage girl’s locker room, how will I ever listen to your plan for taxes and the economy?" "I will not, because I’ve already concluded you’re a lunatic.""
Boar On The Shale Floor on X - "This is precisely how I feel. I have a friend in NYC who keeps saying things like “You guys keep getting distracted by the transgender debate”. No we don’t. It’s a litmus test. If you’re insane enough to think that transitioning children is a good idea, you don’t belong in a decision making role in society. There’s literally nothing left to discuss with you after you make an insane statement like that."

Have any other teachers noticed a link between non binary students and autism? : r/Teachers - "This post is not intended to offend or make fun of anyone in the lgbqt or autistic community. I’m a huge advocate for these students and any hateful comments will not be tolerated. This is simply just an observation that I’m curious to see if any other educator has witnessed.  I have been teaching middle and high school for 7 years. Every student (this is also not an exaggeration, literally every student) I have taught that uses they/them pronouns or classifies themselves as non binary, is also on the spectrum (not me diagnosing them, professionally diagnosed on paper). I am not a special education teacher either. As a German/French language teacher, my population of students is quite broad.  I’m curious if this is just a coincidence, or if any other educator has noticed this trend, and if so, do you think there is any causation?"

Transgender trailblazer turned criminal: ex-lawmaker admits to child sex abuse charges - "The first elected openly transgender lawmaker in New Hampshire pleaded guilty to child sex abuse charges last week.  Stacie-Marie Laughton, a biological male who identifies as a woman, entered a guilty plea in a federal Boston court for charges related to their participation in the creation of child sexual abuse material. Laughton, 41, served as a Democratic state Rep. in New Hampshire from 2020 until 2022. Laughton resigned after being arrested for stalking.  Laughton was first elected to the New Hampshire legislature in 2012, but resigned before taking office because of a previous felony-level credit card fraud conviction. The state representative and his romantic partner, Lindsay Groves, were indicted on three counts of sexual exploitation of children in August 2023.  Groves, who worked at a daycare in Tynsborough, Massachusetts, took naked photos of some of the children between the ages of three to five in the daycare bathroom and send them to Laughton.  The couple sent thousands of text messages about the children with Laughton requesting access to have sex with them"

Meme - Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter: "Jessica Kant complains that the right-wing is stirring manufactured outrage about transgender people.  Two weeks ago, the first detransitioner lawsuit to go to trial reached a $2M verdict and then the ASPS came out against youth gender surgeries. She makes no mention of either of these major events.  I gave about 20 interviews to TV, radio and podcasts about covering the trial for @thefp . All of the requests came from conservative or heterodox media. All of them.  So my question for Jessica is this: Why is the liberal media ignoring one of the biggest stories in trans medicine of the past few years? She says this is all a moral panic. But what is the flip side of that phenomenon? It’s when there is actual news and journalists choose to ignore it."
Andrew Perfors: "The anti-trans propaganda push is one of disinformation in action."
Jessica Kant: Part 3: "The astronomical rise in stories about trans people that I'd collected over the previous year told a different story. This massive, messy dataset was brimming with increasingly vile headlines that only seemed to metastasize with time. ... two years later we know how the story turns out."
"Welcome to the anti-trans outrage factory - Jessica Kant. When I first wrote Anatomy of a moral panic in February 2024, I had only a faint ..."

Meme - James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames: "It only mainstreamed because radical feminists were so hellbent to use gender ideology to deconstruct sex roles. Memes like this are actually designed to try to whitewash that fact and hide the pivotal role (sex- positive) radical feminism played."
Dr. Calum Miller @DrCalumMiller: "Basically true"
"THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF GENDER IDEOLOGY WERE ALL VIOLENT PEDOPHILES. Volkmar Sigusch, Michel Foucault, Alfred Kinsey, John Money"

Meme - "Feminists are right, every man is a potential rapist"
"Transgender man who was born biological female 'sexually assaulted woman with prosthetic penis', court hears"
Transmen may be trans, but they're still men, so feminists hate them. Too bad.

Meme - Olive Genesis: "I personally know several trans people who've been murdered for being trans. Fuck you"
Lorie Martin: "Name them so we can look up the cases."
Olive Genesis: "I'm not going to but Nazi Germany openly killed trans people during the Holocaust and you can look up a list of people killed for being transgender on Wikipedia and cross reference the cases by name"
TRAs always make things up. But their whole worldview is made up, anyway

Study weighs up impact of different drug dosages for men and women - "Men and women experience disease differently, including how they develop, the length and severity of symptoms, and the effectiveness of treatment options.   The same concept applies to treatment, with many men and women often responding differently to the same prescribed medication.   In fact, women are up to 75% more likely to experience adverse reactions to prescription drugs compared to men, according to a newly published study from Australian National University (ANU).   A range of differences in traits between males and females were identified in the study, partly debunking previous theories that adverse reactions were mainly due to differences in body weight, and validating the authors’ calls that this should be considered when prescribing medicines for treating diseases...  Prior to the study, lead author Dr Laura Wilson said it had been assumed that the results from such ‘pre-clinical’ trials would apply equally to males and females, but the results revealed otherwise.   ‘It is clear females aren’t just smaller versions of males – meaning drug reactions are unlikely to be alleviated by simply adjusting the dosage for body weight,’ she said.   ‘Our analyses showed sex differences in many traits that cannot be explained by body weight. For example, iron levels and body temperature, morphology traits such as stored fat, and heart rate variability."
Women are overmedicated because drug dosage trials are done on men, study finds - "Scientists and medical professionals have long known that women experience more adverse side effects than men, even when drug dosages are adjusted for body weight."
A left winger was claiming that unless your medical condition is directly linked to your genitals, sex is irrelevant, so there's no need to know someone's biological sex for medical purposes

Heart Disease: 7 Differences Between Men and Women - "Men and women have differences in heart and blood vessel size.
Men and women experience cholesterol buildup in different areas.
Men and women have different symptoms of a heart attack.
Women may have diseases that mimic a heart attack.
Men and women may have different risk factors for a heart disease.
Men and women require different diagnostic heart care.
Men and women may require different treatments for heart disease."
The left winger claimed heart attacks were one area where "the procedure for treatment is the same. Or at least not different enough where it matters whether you're a biological male or female."

wokeandwoofing on X - "Everyday tasks we take for granted can be a real struggle for Trans women, due to their massive hands. For example, many Trans women find it difficult to converse with legacy women on social media without slipping and accidentally typing out death threats to them."

Meme - CDN_Karma @cdn_karma: "Just gonna leave this here...   All ages drag show in Peterborough next week.. "all ages and all stages" allowed..   Encouraging kids to become drag queens and perform..."
"Drag Me To OPEN STAGE Casting Call. All Ages and stages welcome. TICKETS $6.00. REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE. FEBRUARY 18TH 2026. HOSTED BY BETTY BAKER & LUG STRANGE"

Meme - "TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN *censored*"
iFunny deleted or blocked this the first time I uploaded it. Blogger deleted this as part of the October 2024 post, "2024 Biology Textbooks / Trans Women Are / June Is..." and again as a solo post when I posted the full transcription (so I'm truncating it now)

Taiwanese public largely rejects gender self-identification, survey finds - "Gender self-identification, particularly for transgender individuals, is a contentious issue in Taiwan, despite the progressive stance on LGBTQ rights in other areas. The Gender Recognition Act mandates proof of sex-reassignment surgery (SRS) for legal gender change on identification documents. This requirement has faced backlash, with debates intensifying after a 2021 court ruling allowed a transgender individual to change their gender on official documents without SRS, provided psychiatric evaluations were submitted...   The survey revealed overwhelming opposition to gender self-identification among the respondents. A surprising 91.6% of participants disagreed with all 14 survey statements, indicating strong resistance to the idea that transgender women should be granted rights and access typically afforded to cisgender women. For instance, only 6.1% agreed that transgender women should use women’s public toilets, and 4.2% supported their participation in women’s sporting events.  Female respondents, parents, and older individuals (≥ 36 years) showing stronger opposition compared to their counterparts. While respondents with a college degree and those without showed no significant differences in their levels of opposition, supporters of same-sex marriage and teaching gender identity had higher agreement scores but still exhibited low overall support. Open-ended feedback emphasized concerns about women’s safety, rights, and the impact on children, with only a minority supporting gender diversity and opposing rigid gender binaries. These findings suggest that any legislative changes in this area may encounter significant public resistance."

Links - 7th May 2026 (2 - SPLC Indictment)

LionsofLaw on X - "If you are paying the Grand Imperial Wizard, the Exalted Cyclops or someone called the Fuhrer, you are not intelligence gathering from an informant. You are funding the organization’s activities."

Zach Jones - Secretary of Psyops on X - "BIDEN DOJ PARTNERED WITH SPLC TO GO AFTER THEIR TARGETS; BANKS FLAGGED SPLC TO DOJ AND BIDEN SHUT DOWN INVESTIGATION WHILE STOKING WHITE SUPREMACY NARRATIVE This just goes to show you that the Democrats can’t exist without racism and the American people aren’t racist at all which is why they’re having to pay to create their own enemy."

Cosmin Dzsurdzsa on X - "The Canadian Anti-Hate Network are utter morons. "We weren't really modeled after the SPLC!" Lmao. You took the startup cash, called yourselves SPLC lite & copied the entire playbook. Same antifa-adjacent trash, different country"

Rick de la Torre on X - "The NGO funding machine is getting harder to ignore.  USAID funneled $27 million through the Tides Center, with some of it going directly into the Southern Poverty Law Center.  For years, the liberal left inside the federal government hijacked nonprofits as pass-through vehicles; a legal loophole to launder taxpayer dollars into partisan left-wing networks like SPLC.  Tides operates as the perfect hub: it receives massive federal grants, buries the ultimate recipients behind multiple layers of 501(c)(3)s, and quietly re-grants the money to activist allies.  The American people didn’t authorize this. It needs to end now."

Meme - "r/conspiratard, 9y ago
Alex Jones: Charlottesville was a false flag run by SPLC operatives who hired actors to pose as Nazis
Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/conspiratard
[deleted]: How much do you have to pay an actor to kill people and take a murder charge?"

Meme - "When you realize you never got your SPLC check
*Pensive Rudolf Höss in Zone of Interest*"

Meme - *Brown girl running screaming from KKK member in white hood with torch*
SPLC: "Stop the far right!!"
*Brown girl nonplussed to see that KKK member in white hood with torch is a puppet on the hand of the SPLC*

Meme - Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo: "How the NYT covers the indictment against the SPLC for alleged wire fraud and money laundering to pay neo-Nazis, alt-right organizers and KKK members."
"Justice Dept. Charges Prominent Civil Rights Group With Financial Crimes. Republicans have accused the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is best known for investigating hate groups, of unfairly targeting conservative and Christian organizations."

The Southern Poverty Law Indictment - WSJ - "SPLC says the allegations are false and that the indictment is another case of Mr. Trump weaponizing the Justice Department against his opponents. But the investigation started years ago in the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Middle District of Alabama. SPLC interim CEO Bryan Fair said in a statement the program was necessary because dealing with hate groups is “among the most dangerous work there is” and this program “saved lives.” Using informants to warn about threats of violence may be defensible. But the charges, if true, reveal a problematic symbiosis between the SPLC and its informant sources. One informant was allegedly the member of a chat group that helped plan the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va. The source, who was paid $270,000 between 2015 and 2023, “made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC,” the indictment says. The Charlottesville protests proved to be a great fund-raising event for the SPLC, with sizable donations from George Clooney, Apple Inc., and others. The indictment also says at least two SPLC field sources, including a former chairman of the National Alliance and a leader of the National Socialist Party of America, were featured as “Extremist Files” on the SPLC website at the same time they received money from the SPLC. One received more than $140,000 between 2016 and 2023 while the second received more than $70,000 between 2014 and 2016. SPLC’s business model is to monitor hate groups, and the profiles it creates for media and public consumption are part of its marketing to donors. The complaint notes that one field source from the KKK applied to “take part” in Adopt-a-Highway but was denied. During the informant’s litigation seeking to join the program, the SPLC paid more than $3,500 to the source. Was the SPLC helping encourage the litigation? The donations to hate groups are all the more suspect because in recent years the SPLC has itself spread hate. The outfit has diversified its definition of extremist groups to include mainstream and nonthreatening conservative groups like the Alliance Defending Freedom, the Family Research Council and Do No Harm, which works against race preferences in medicine. To the extent the money encouraged or sustained the racist groups, tacitly or otherwise, SPLC benefited from perpetuating racial division. A court will decide if that’s illegal, but it’s certainly disreputable."    

Southern Poverty Law Center Indictment: SPLC Was Always Awful | National Review - "Engage in a hypothetical and assume, purely for the sake of argument, that absolutely everything alleged in the indictment is completely false. Even if the SPLC neither committed financial crimes nor helped orchestrate bogus “hate” events to create bad optics for conservatives, the organization has long been deserving of ire. The SPLC is societal poison dedicated to disparaging any individual or group perceived as even mildly right-wing. Rather than bashing the SPLC because it allegedly misrepresented its organizational activities and use of funds, we should emphasize that the SPLC misrepresents everything all the time.  For those unfamiliar, the SPLC is well known for awarding the “hate” label to certain organizations or individuals. While these designations might seem negligible, they have facilitated actual hate: Floyd Lee Corkins II was motivated to attempt a mass shooting and “kill as many people as [he] could” at the Family Research Council’s headquarters, in part because he had identified the organization as anti-gay from the SPLC website.  One might have hoped such an awful incident would have prompted the SPLC to reconsider its “hate” labels, and that the mainstream media would refrain from referencing such designations carelessly. However, high-profile publications routinely cite the SPLC-issued “hate” badge as if it is some sort of assessment grounded in a rigorous methodology. An article will read as follows: “[Right-Wing Organization], which has been named a “hate group” by the SPLC, blah blah blah.” (See here for an example about the Family Research Council in the New York Times, which was published after the terrorist attack on the organization.)   But only a quick skim of the SPLC’s profiles exposes that the “hate” classification is often applied prejudicially and then hastily defended with examples that undermine the claim. For example, in its summary of the supposed “hate group” the Alliance Defending Freedom, the SPLC notes that a member of its legal counsel publicly declared the following: “Allowing males to compete in the female category isn’t fair and destroys girls’ athletic opportunities. Males will always have inherent physical advantages over comparably talented and trained girls—that’s the reason we have girls’ sports in the first place. And a male’s belief about his gender doesn’t eliminate those advantages.” Not only are these statements entirely reasonable and based on fact, they are perfectly respectful and wholly lacking animosity.  The SPLC promulgates falsehoods — or what progressives might call “misinformation” — not only when borderline defaming individuals and organizations, but in its attempts to refute the claims set forth by those people and groups. In one article, the SPLC insists that “sterilization” is merely “an alleged medical risk” (emphasis mine) of “gender-affirming health care for children,” which is based on “myths, pseudoscience, and flawed historical comparisons to eugenics.” The SPLC further asserts that children are not receiving procedures that would render them infertile, nor does hormonal therapy pose fertility risks. This is difficult to reconcile with the fact that a reality-television show revealed to the world that Jazz Jennings, a male, underwent (botched) surgeries to construct a pseudo-vagina before age 18. Then there’s all the scientific data and personal anecdotes about how hormonal therapy can lead to infertility. Even Planned Parenthood produced materials for students as young as middle-schoolers conceding that puberty-blocking drugs may have long-term fertility consequences, saying they “might change someone’s body permanently, like affecting whether they can get or cause a pregnancy when they are older.” In another post, the SPLC claims that “anti-transgender” and right-wing individuals rely on “junk science” and “disinformation” — ignoring piles of evidence to prove that the so-called studies in support of medicalized gender interventions are not only wrong, but entirely nonsense...  But in my view, the most frustrating aspect of the SPLC is its apparent inability to construct a reasonable argument and defend it. Consider some of the SPLC’s “Hatewatch” posts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. An article titled “Attack on public education and free speech rights of educators after Kirk killing” states, “Key leaders [‘of the hard right’] blamed ‘left-wing extremism,’ railed against ‘radical left lunatics’ and suggested that universities had fostered a climate hostile to conservative thought.” Naturally, the SPLC neglects to explain how assassinating a right-wing commentator does not qualify as “left-wing extremism” committed by a “radical left lunatic.” (Nor does the SPLC attempt to suggest that academia does welcome right-wing perspectives.) Weirdly, the supposed extreme threat to free speech identified in the article is people saying mean things about leftist professors and suggesting some of them should be fired from their university positions in light of their statements about Kirk’s killing, whereas the obviously more dire threat to free expression on college campuses was the assassination of a man for his views. In fact, the SPLC identifies Kirk himself and Turning Point USA as villains against free expression on campus, in part because the organization maintained a “Professor Watchlist,” a site currently under maintenance. But the “Professor Watchlist” was not too different from the database the SPLC itself has compiled of “hate” perpetrators: Both were designed to describe and summarize an individual’s general ideology, in part by citing public statements and previous controversies. But of course, the SPLC is terribly unfair when it presents the views defended by others. For instance, in one post, the SPLC criticizes “the myth of a ‘trans shooter’ phenomenon” and rejects how “right-wing influencers and news outlets” have attempted to associate Tyler Robinson with “transgender ideology.” Yet it is public information that Robinson had a trans-identifying lover, while Robinson’s mother told law enforcement that he was “becoming more pro-gay and trans-rights oriented.”  Curiously, there isn’t a “Hatewatch” post dedicated to explaining how the assassination of Charlie Kirk itself was a hate incident. Then again, the SPLC has overlooked plenty of hate: It reported in 2016 that 40 percent of the more than 10,000 teachers who responded to its survey “have heard derogatory language directed at students of color, Muslims, immigrants and people based on gender or sexual orientation,” but omitted the finding that about 20 percent of educators affirmatively answered that they “have heard derogatory language or slurs about white students.”... Whether or not the SPLC’s agents dubiously orchestrated “hate” demonstrations, the organization has a long track record of promoting hate. It erroneously brands organizations and individuals as malicious, it espouses blatantly false claims about them, and it consistently pushes ridiculous narratives that our untrustworthy legacy media then embrace and weaponize against conservatives broadly. "    

ColonelTowner-Watkins on X - "Just when you thought you'd seen it all:  "The U.S. Department of Justice released FBI documents indicating that the Southern Poverty Law Center engaged in undercover surveillance of Oklahoma militia groups in 1995 before and after the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building. The local FBI team, which should have obtained a warrant to dispatch real FBI agents, criminally conspired with SPLC agents to get around Attorney General Janet Reno’s legal limitations on domestic spying. Because the conspiracy was criminal, the espionage was illegal."  Embedded in the Oklahoma militia group was a German tied to their Gladio program who was allowed to leave the country. He was training the 'militia.'"    

Blake Neff on X - "Extremely detailed, high-quality post about the SPLC fraud case. Explains why the SPLC is almost certainly in deep trouble, but even more importantly, it describes at length how the SPLC became a de facto bank regulator, exercising quasi-governmental power over who was given access to the financial system.  SPLC delenda est."
Hunter Ash on X - "Fascinating article on the SPLC indictment. Basically, they managed to make themselves a pseudo-regulatory agency that could debank anyone they deemed a hate group. So when they wanted to pay members of hate groups, they had to lie to banks, which is a crime."    

Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud - "The financial industry understands itself to be an arm of the government. We were inducted into this service other-than-willingly through the ordinary operation of law and regulation.  This is uncontroversial and unsurprising to insiders.  A claim which will be more surprising: some regulated financial institutions have delegated authority for account- and transaction-level decisioning to a non-profit.  Another: that non-profit includes a private intelligence agency, which runs covert assets, publishes intelligence estimates, develops target lists, and communicates them to decisionmakers.  Still another: the non-profit organized a coalition of the willing as an outgrowth of its intelligence agency. The willing non-profits, that is. The coalition engaged in a years-long campaign to coerce financial infrastructure and other firms to give them the ability to direct accounts to be closed. The infrastructure built to do this against domestic terrorists was applied to an American politician’s fundraising efforts, and no one seemed to think that was odd... Al Capone infamously went down for the tax evasion because it was easier to prove than the murders... Bank fraud is a specified unlawful activity... If you were to have a thousand conversations in the financial industry about non-criminal clients you don’t want to do business with, you would hear the SPLC cited more than any other group or data product... What is the public interest in candidly recounting the exercise of power over Nazis? Because they did not stop once they achieved power over the Nazis... Industry participants were repeatedly told that if they did not accede to demands they would be profiting from evil, complicit in the death of innocents, or benefitting from white supremacy. The innocents claimed to be at risk were often specifically identified as black, including during a period of intense societal concern for the lives of black Americans specifically. Industry participants were told that they wanted this. That they were taking “blood money”. Industry participants repeatedly felt personally attacked, in ways and using language not normative in their professional experience.  On the account of multiple industry participants, coalition participants explicitly held individuals in the meeting personally responsible for the actions of their employers. This was aimed at individuals with substantial influence and authority in companies, and also at junior employees.  Industry participants describe the coalition participants as threatening their employers, openly and by implication. The most commonly described threat was coordinated negative public messaging with the goal of causing reputational harm to the industry participants... Industry participants were repeatedly told that if they did not accede to specific demands, they would share the blame for future deaths... Industry participants characterize the coalition participants as asserting that speech was inseparable from conduct. Free speech concerns were dismissed and, industry participants report, mocked, including with the dismissive rendering “freeze peach.”"        

Thread by @DataRepublican on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "🧵🚨 THREAD: How the Charlottesville rally and SPLC birthed an entire billion-dollar-plus "democracy" ecosystem 🚨      
11 federal counts. Wire fraud. Money laundering conspiracy. But here's what the SPLC headlines are missing:      
• The indictment describes a paid informant in the leadership chat that PLANNED Unite the Right
• That informant "helped coordinate transportation" to the rally... at SPLC's direction
• There is ONE publicly identified organizer whose documented role was transportation coordinator
• His Discord posts about running over protesters were made 26 DAYS before Heather Heyer was killed by a car
• The indictment says postings were made "under the supervision of the SPLC"
• Charlottesville then became the founding event for a billion-dollar political machine
• SPLC installed itself as that machine's definitional gatekeeper
I report. You draw your own conclusions.      
It is NOT confirmed fact that Chesny, who appeared to be encouraging running over protesters, was SPLC's informant.  But the indictment (paragraph 11a) describes informant F-37, and it matches Chesny:      
• Member of the online leadership chat that planned Unite the Right
• Attended Charlottesville (at SPLC's direction)
• Made racist postings (under SPLC's supervision)
• Helped coordinate transportation for attendees      
Now here's why this matters beyond the fraud charges.  Charlottesville became the single most consequential founding event in modern American political infrastructure. Every one of these organizations says... in their own words.... that they exist or were transformed because of August 12, 2017.  👇      
Stand Together (Koch network):  "August 12, 2017 was a tipping point."  Koch. Soros. Ford. ADL. In one coalition. Because of Charlottesville. ADL founded "Communities Overcoming Extremism: The After Charlottesville Project." Literally named after the event. Listen First Project: "The tragic events in Charlottesville, VA compelled Pearce to leave his marketing job and invest full time."  First event? "Listen First in Charlottesville." Integrity First for America. Founded 2017. Single purpose: sue the Unite the Right organizers. Backed at founding by LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman ($1M+). Won. Wound down. One event. One lawsuit. One entire organization. UVA Democracy Initiative (now Karsh Institute). $12.9M from 17 donors. "Direct response to the white supremacist attacks in Charlottesville."      
All of that traces back to one event. Then in September 2022, Biden held the "United We Stand" summit. Merrick Garland launched "United Against Hate" the same day.  Three days before the summit, SPLC wrote a letter to Susan Rice asking to "define the terms and goals of our continued collaboration." And the ecosystem listened.  National Civic League webinar: "Mapping America's Healthy Democracy Ecosystem." Over 10,000 organizations cataloged. An audience member asks how they decide who gets excluded.  Listen to the answer. Spoiler: it's SPLC.      
The org that defined who was a hate group asked the White House to make that role permanent.  The org that set the standards the entire ecosystem adopted is now charged with paying the people it was tracking.  The org whose informant was allegedly in the planning chat for the event that justified building the machine raised $132 million in the fiscal year that included Charlottesville.      
We need to ask...  If the organization at the center of America's entire post-Charlottesville "democracy" infrastructure had a supervised informant (or worse, agent provocateur) inside the event that justified building that infrastructure...  ... what does that make the infrastructure?"