Links - 20th October 2026 (Cornell "Rape")

CBS Mornings on X - "If Jane Doe’s case against seven members of a Cornell University fraternity goes to trial, prosecutors will show “a mosaic,” that may include the text messages Doe sent to at least two of the fraternity members accused of sexual assault, CBS News legal analyst @CarolinePolisi says. Polisi breaks down the “textbook trauma response” Doe exhibited in some of those text messages, and what could come next as the legal process continues to play out."
Phil Holloway ✈️ on X - "I’ve personally handled countless cases of SA in various roles in the justice system. There is no such thing as a “textbook trauma response”. This is made up wording that serves as a euphemism for prior inconsistent statements"

Rich Lowry on X - "Even if you disregard all the initial text messages, you still have Jane Doe’s sworn statement *a month later* when she’s had time to process what happened and decided it was very bad, and her detailed account of the night still doesn’t include anything that constitutes sexual assault—this is the ultimate flaw in the case and most media coverage and advocacy pretend that it doesn’t exist. You can assume everything in that statement is truthful and correct, and you still don’t get a rape case."

OutspokenSamantha on X - "Jane Doe: I had sex with several men at once!
Feminists: You go girl!
Jane Doe: But I'm ashamed...
Feminists: You were raped!!"

Liz Wheeler on X - "She read on forums that she was a slut and felt ashamed. Then someone on the forum suggested she consider it sexual assault and report it. Then she was disinvited from the frat Halloween party. So, she was ashamed (she should be). She felt violated (she was, even if she consented). She was mad (about being disinvited to the party). This is key— She’s also dumb because she had zero knowledge of the definition of rape when she went to police. Regret over your horrendous behavior is not rape. She’s a double dose of dumb actually, because apparently she told police accurately about what happened (not rape, she consented), which demonstrates that her claim of rape is false. But she’s been raised in a culture where it’s only a baby if you want it to be, and boys can be girls if they feel like it, so why shouldn’t she think it’s rape if she’s decided it’s rape? Leftist ideology at work. Instead of taking responsibility for her horrendous behavior, she wants to celebrate herself as a victim. In other words, she’s being nasty and vindictive trying to whitewash her shame with false allegations. But the real story here is deep down EVERYONE involved and everyone who’s now following this case recognizes that what happened was disgusting, immoral, and sexually deviant. Which means we as a society actually do recognize that sex isn’t just a handshake, and the morality of sex can’t be reduced to just consent. God was right all along. Imagine that. Sex is holy and belongs within marriage. Otherwise, sexual depravity reigns and everyone is hurt. She should go to confession not the police station."

Meme - "The raped lioness returns to ask for more ketamine. *skinny lioness with ribs showing*"

Meme - "WE ARE ALL JANE HOE. WE STAND WITH A LIAR"

Meme - "First, it was "Same, Lindsay." Now it is "I am Jane Doe." The number of women who admit to letting 7 guys run a train on them and killing their kids is astounding."

Meme - "I am Jane Doe. I was having sex with my wife when she touched my butt without consent. I was 57."

Meme - "If you're going to call yourself Jane Doe at this point I'm just going to assume you like drugs and orgies."
It's so revealing that so many women are proud to proclaim that they lie about rape

Meme - "WOMEN WHEN FRAT GUYS HAVE SEX WITH WHORES *Bart Simpson with telescope*
WOMEN WHEN RAPIST IMMIGRANTS GET: INTO THE COUNTRY *Blind Bart Simpson with sunglasses and cane*"

Meme - "Imagine being so eager to hate someone that when you find out a girl wasn't assaulted, you STILL insist she was, instead of being happy she wasnt."

Meme - Savanah Hernandez: "Craziest part about the Cornell 7 story is how Lucy Craig was so embarassed about everyone at Cornell knowing she was such a huge HOE, that she made up fake rape accusations that backfired so badly, that now the entire NATION knows she's a huge HOE. Crazy work"

Meme - Snow White to Seven Dwarves while on her bed: "Alright, who wants to do some Ketamine?"

Thread by @JonathanTurley on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Michael S. Roth, the president of Wesleyan University, is calling for fraternities to be forced to admit women to change the culture. It is a call that is feeding a familiar mob forming over a case before any charges or evidence is established. Many politicians, pundits, and professors are replicating what occurred in the Duke controversy and refusing to wait for any charges, let alone a conviction, in the alleged Cornell rape case. Roth notably does not call for the compelled admission of men into sororities. It is the type of virtue-signaling move that Roth has made into a virtual signature of his tenure at Wesleyan. Calling neutrality “a retreat,” Roth previously led calls for universities to reject “institutional neutrality” and officially support Kamala Harris."
Left wingers are going to call Jonathan Turley a rapist/rape apologist/dinosaur

Meme - "EVERYTHING IS MEN'S FAULT. the adult-toddler's guide to explaining all of her whore choices" *woman going down playground slide*

Meme - Doge lawyer: "Your honor, she couldn't consent to sucking his dick because of the ketamine she had just sorted off it" *sad female dog*
Women are calling men who point out facts about the case red flags. Which is very telling.

Meme - *Daily Dilemma*
"Cry rape but change your statement after cops advise you its illegal to make false accusations
Cry rape 2 years later in civil court where you'll get paid for lying
WHORING YOURSELF OUT SO BAD THE ENTIRE CAMPUS IS TALKING ABOUT IT"

Meme - "HOW IT BECAME A CRIME
her own timeline, then the rewrite
01 She went there intoxicated.
02 She was invited to group sex and went.
03 She snorted K off a guy she didn't know.
04 She BRAGGED to her friends about snorting K off a guy's D.
05 She BRAGGED that she let the frat run a train on her.
06 She told everyone she was looking forward to the next party (Halloween).
07 She told people to get over it. It's a sex thing.
08 A feminist published an opinion piece claiming she was raped.
09 The frat banned her after members were called rapists.
10 The guy she liked ("King") rejected her over it.
11 Now it is a crime.
consent, then regret, then a lawsuit"

Meme - Savanah Hernandez @Savsays: "The Cornell 7 case is another litmus test for whether or not you'll fall for the most debunkable propaganda imaginable. Lucy Craig (aka Jane Doe) is not a victim. She's a false accuser and instead of women putting this HOE in her place, they're going to back her. Making it even harder for real rape victims to ever be taken seriously in the future. Anyone calling Lucy Craig a victim is an idiot who clearly can't read or think for themselves."

Meme - "Cornell Case: Reported Message Timeline
1. Oct, 21-22, 2024 (about 2 days after alleged incident)
"super clouded too" "none of the sexual stuff was illegal" "I really liked being with u"
Reported by ABC News / CBS New
2. Oct. 23, 2024 (about 4 days after alleged incident)
"Bro everyone knows." "RUINING my life temporarily" "my reputation is destroyed and I'm utterly ashamed." 'You're right it'll get better and [you] think everyone's jealous of us. But also like everyone needs to grow up cause sexuality and sex is changing and stuff like this is going to become more common." "also really open minded"
Reported by TMZ, attributed to ABC News / NYT reporting
3. Late October 2024 (before Halloween party)
"chi phi is your house and you are weleome here." "thank u i really appreciate that. <3 i'll bring my cigs tomorrow."
Reported by NYT-based coverage / TMZ
4. Late October / Early November 2024 (after party invitation withdrawn)
"I knew this was going to happen. The woman will always get the short end of the stick." "Yall aren't my friends. Yall are covering your asses."
Reported by NYT-based coverage / TMZ
5. Nov. 3, 2024
"Let's be clear that 90% of what happened that night was not consensual."
Reported by ABC News
6. Nov. 7-8, 2024
Nov. 7: Hospital forensic exam reported. Nov. 8: Report made to Cornell Police.
Reported by NBC News / other national reporting"

Meme - *Kombucha girl*
"Regret sex
Accuse him of rape"

Meme - shoe @shoe0nhead: "tldr- whats crazy is if you actually read the case she verbally consented to everything that occurred. she said no to some things (like anal, 4some) so they DID NOT DO those things. she said yes to some things (like 3some & KETAMINE DICK) so they DID those things. consent was literally respected through *the entire thing*. it was literally just a sloppy freak orgy she (understandably) regretted because it was fucked up, she felt ashamed. then when she didnt get invited to a halloween party at that frat & her “reputation was ruined” she called it rape. also she was literally pre-planning accusing these guys of rape in the middle of the fuckfest bc she realized real life isnt like porn and stuff like this is actually weird & gross & made her uncomfortable (she never passed out btw people keep repeating that). i see a lot of “high/drunk people cant consent” all the dudes were high and drunk as fuck too, worse than her! they were passing out and throwing up! and is she a rapist too? if you want to debate the MORALITY of having a ketamine gangbang thats a whole other story. we can get into that. we can talk about stuff like bonnie blue and the consequences of consent based morality. but the legality is- it was not rape. i’m convinced the hivemind blob that downloads their opinions from tiktok havent actually read any of the case or texts"

Meme - MR. OBVIOUS @ObviousRises: "The saddest part of the Cornell 7 case is the BF. Imagine finding out your GF had trains run on her in college. Then she accuses 7 men of drugging/assaulting her. And then it turns out she lied about the whole thing and consented to all of it and made false allegations. 💀"

Meme - GD44 @GD44vh: "The Cornell woman is ugly and also extremely boring holy shit."

Meme - "Breaking News: Jane Doe has been named"
"eCourt Records. Jane Doe (Lucy Craig) v. Cornell University, Inc. et al."
"It's Lucy H. Cr of Birmingham, Alabama. Don't blame me - the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently."

Meme - "YOU ARE JANE A CLOWN. AND SO IS REST OF YOUR MURDER CLUB TRYING TO CONVERT WEAPONIZED CONSENT CASE INTO .A RAPE CASE, JUST LIKE YOU DID WITH LINDSAY CLANCY, TURNING TRIPLE HOMICIDE INTO MOTHER'S HEALTHCARE STORY."

Meme - Liz Mar @LizMair: "If he had a hard on I'm pretty sure he wasn't so drunk he couldn't give consent. Just saying."
Collin Rugg @CollinRugg: "NEW: Cornell 7 frat brother Matthew Ingalls is accusing 'Jane Doe' of r*ping him, citing that he was too intoxicated to give consent. Ingalls reportedly told Cornell investigators that he was too intoxicated from alcohol and ketamine to give consent...."
The Grateful Red @gratefulred1: ""If you don't have a penis, you are not allowed to have an opinion on this" -Feminist rules, but for men"

Meme - FlippeR FlappeR @FlippeRFlappeR6: "Rape apologists are showing themselves more"
FlippeR FlappeR: "So its okay for the woman to say if he is hard that means he must give consent?"
Kylo-Ren Faire: "when did that happen?"
FlippeR FlappeR: "Maybe if you actually read, you'd know when did that happen"
Allison Floyd: "This fucking pig. Also I'm aware lots of men don't understand women's bodies but it's not a naturally dry area to begin with"
Elder of Salem: "She wouldn't be wet if she didn't want it"
Liz Mair: "If he had a hard on I'm pretty sure he wasn't so drunk he couldn't give consent. Just saying."

Meme - Natalie Jean Beisner @NJBeisner: "Lol I LOVE that you guys successfully community noted this one. Involuntary bodily functions are NOT a stand-in for consent! Imagine if people said "oh I I felt her get wet so she was enjoying it no matter what she said." Everyone would be up in arms, but somehow it's acceptable to say this about men. A man's erection isn't consent, and a man's erection doesn't mean he was sober enough to consent."
LetsGoBoston @TypicalBoston69: "Men can consent by achieving an erection. In fight or flight moments, such as if they didn't consent to being raped, arteries would constrict and blood would be kept close to the heart..."
Readers added context: "Erections are involuntary physiological responses that can occur during non- consensual sex, including under fear, stress or fight-or-flight conditions, and do not indicate consent."
I too saw feminists claim this, or to claim that when both the man and woman are drunk and have sex, the man is the rapist. This is also related to the claim the left love, about "homophobes" being secretly gay

Meme - WPL @WomenPostingLs: "What do you mean you're married and go to frat parties"
@FAZEannefrankk: "MY! HUSBAND!"
₍ᐢᐢ₎ @FAZEannefrankk: "I do cocaine. I go to frat parties. I get drunk. I don’t deserve to get gang raped."

Meme - shoe @shoe0nhead: "i’m done i give up. good luck out there single people"
shoe @shoeOnhead: ""yes means no". got it thanks"
NKY Lefty @NKY Leftist: "In many cases, that's correct. It's actually insane if you can't understand that"
Weird. Feminists keep telling us that consent is very simple. Like a cup of tea, even (or that stupid FRIES acromym)
She gets called a pick me for exposing female/left wing irrationality, of course

Meme - "We are all Jane Doe!"
"We literally know. We understand you all have the capacity to make a bunch of mistakes and bad choices and not take any responsibility for it. Thats the whole problem."

Meme - Golf course sign: "PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE WHORES KETAMINE"

Meme - *Mulan*
"Local sorority thot
>ever changing story
>text receipts
Now all of China knows you're a whore"

Meme - Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @CathyYoung63: ""professional misandrist" in bio lol. Imagine proudly announcing that you hate half of humanity and criticizing someone else for bad opinions"
Maya-Claire 🥀 @ofclmayaclaire: "I cannot fathom being so male-centered that you write a “in defense of rapists” article. Believing other women is out the window for Jacques if it means she can get an op-ed published!"
"The 'Cornell 7' haven't been charged. The mob doesn't care I Opinion. What's most troubling in the Cornell University rape allegations is that onlookers have already made up their minds about who is to blame. Ingrid Jacques USA TODAY"
Feminists don't care about evidence - just the narrative

Meme - Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @CathyYoung63: "Interesting how when it suits them, progressives are just as likely as the far right to play the "your views are invalid because of your immigrant background" card, even when the immigrant has probably been American longer than their shitty little selves have been alive"
Bulma @mcapel4: "Anyone who sends out those texts without consent and especially along with a photo is breaking laws and rules of conduct. Add the high levels of intoxication and campus justice in the Cornell case doesn't seem skewed. Ex-USSR have a unique breed of internalized misogyny."
A woman who doesn't go along with the feminist narrative that men are evil has internalised misogyny. Telling.

Meme - Chicken with gaping orifice representing ran-through woman: "WE ARE ALL JANE DOE"

Meme - Brooke Teegarden @theletsnotdate: "Men speaking out against the Cornell rapists are not automatically safe. Predators understand the value of looking like shelter."
valhalla1976: "This just gets better, lol. "Why aren't men speaking out?!" Man speaks out. "Why are men speaking out?!" The womanliest behavior eva."
Naturally, he got told to shut up, because he's a man. Of course, feminism is about equal rights and is for men too. Feminists pretend that men matter too, but they're only allowed an opinion if it pushes the left wing agenda
On the one hand, an "ally" is a useful idiot who will always be hated because of who he is. On the other hand, virtue signallers are often insincere
This won't stop the feminists demanding men virtue signal. They believe white men are guilty even when proven innocent, women never lie when sliming men and accusations by a "minority" against a "majority" are proof after all

Meme - ShitlibSupreme: "If the Cornell 7 were immigrants, brown, or black guys you know all the rightoid chud freaks currently doing endless rape apologia would be sounding like the world's biggest feminists right now."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "Several of the Cornell 7 accused have non-white or immigrant/international backgrounds, including Korean national Winston Lee and others with Hispanic/Portuguese surnames and family details."

Meme - Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou: "Leftists will laugh at 9/11 and cheer on October 7 mass murder and rape but then suddenly demand public beheadings when it comes to the Cornell 7 Can anybody explain this phenomenon to me - I initially assumed that it was because the accused were white men, but half of them are non-white, so what’s the go here? Is it just cause college frat boys are coded white in the progressive imagination?"
"I'm sorry i raped a girl for seven hours" *written in repeat like a punishment*
"REMOVE THEIR HEADS IN A PUBLIC SETTING, IT'S THE ONLY ANSWER."

Meme - Covfefe Anon @CovfefeAnon: ""It's not fair but if you don't want to be charged with arson, don't make a woman upset so she makes up a story about you committing arson then everyone pretends to see a burned down building that you were responsible for!" -statement made by the utterly cowardly and evil"
Covfefe Anon: "This could be one of the most servile and evil statements that exist "if they didn't want to be accused of rape and expelled they shouldn't have done something that made a girl mad!""
Covfefe Anon: "The thing about saying that this girl has some level of virtue because she didn't lie in the initial police report is that it doesn't put that in the context of her later actions which reveal how she understood her actions at the time ..."
Things Rust wouldn't say: "No, their behavior was immoral and degenerate and now they are dealing with the consequences of engaging in immoral behavior. It may not be fair, but its the natural result of making bad decisions."

Meme - Milli Hill @millihill: "New substack piece on #cornell"
"It's time for women to stop taking any responsibility for our safety. We might as well - because the call is safety coming from inside the house."
Diana Villiers @Dianavilliers1: "Sorry - but your story is full of lies. Three guys had sex with her. Three. Not 7. And by every imaginable standard she consented to those 3. It wasn't "seven hours gang raping her" You are blaming 50 guys for not responding to a chat that went around at 2 in the morning."
Dyssinius on X - "In order to do this, women would first have to *start* taking responsibility for their own safety. Or for anything else, for that matter. Instead, the Sisterhood is on a months-long quest to prove to the world that women bear no responsibility for anything they do."
No surprise she got blocked. Left wingers cannot stand dissent
Feminism can be understood as an outgrowth and evolution of the feminine inability to take responsibility

Meme - *Clown putting on makeup meme*
"Engage in Ketamine fueled threesome"
"Text guys after saying that nothing illegal happened and you enjoyed it"
"Tell investigators that you were excited about them possibly "being gay" around you during threesome"
"OMG I was raped!"

Heather Mac Donald on X - "An unambiguous case of consensual sex. The aftermath of the Cornell group sex episode is a peerless example of the hypocrisy of the feminist movement, which proclaims the oppressiveness of any remaining traces the chivalric code. Females deliberately drink themselves blotto in order to lower their sexual inhibitions, voluntarily participate in sex, and then, after the regrets set in, deny their agency and put exclusive responsibility for their drunken encounter on their male partner, on the grounds that they are helpless to take care of themselves."
Comments (on a related post): "Yes, they basically say "women are vulnerable" to male "manipulation" and cunning and therefore, men must always be restrained around them. This literally places them as the "weaker" and lesser being of the species."
"Absolutely true, if a man is drunk but sees a women making bad decisions (like having a 3some) he is expected to take away her body automity and force her to sit in a room by herself until she understands that she is wrong and he knows her body better then she does..."

Willis Eschenbach on X - "Folks keep telling us we're supposed to "believe all women". Here is what Jane Doe told the DA in a sworn statement under penalty of perjury, immediately after the Cornell incident.
"Jane Doe’s sworn statement in November of 2024 did not allege that she was drugged against her will or gang raped. On the contrary, Jane Doe’s statement described her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual. My office obviously did not and could not have based our November 2024 decision on the allegations in a civil lawsuit that would not be filed until nearly two years later. Furthermore, I have never been contacted by Jane Doe’s attorneys. Not to inform me the original statement was inaccurate and not to ask me to reconsider our decision. Rather, I reached out to Jane Doe’s attorneys after the lawsuit was filed to understand the discrepancy between the original statement and the lawsuit’s allegations and the proper path forward in light of the lawsuit’s allegations."
The DA goes on to say:
"Jane Doe provided a six-page, single spaced, typewritten statement to the Cornell University Police Department. Jane Doe made more than twenty hand-written notations to the six-page document. The signature page of the statement contains the following language: “I have read this statement consisting of 6 pages and the facts contained herein are true and correct. I understand that making a false written statement is punishable as a class A Misdemeanor pursuant to §210.45 of the Penal Law of the State of New York.” As I explain further below, the statement – especially as it relates to the legal definition of “lack of consent” – provides a different narrative and set of facts of the events of October 19, 2024 than those alleged in the lawsuit."
OK, I believe her sworn statement … what's next? I see that Governor Hochul has decided the boys are guilty. She makes the following false claim:
"She spoke to the police. She sat for hours and told them exactly what happened to her. And according to new reports, she could not have been clearer that she was 100% confident that she had been raped. Yet, shockingly, those words never made it into the account that the Cornell police sent to prosecutors."
That is a FLAT-OUT LIE. Jane Doe signed a six-page document after making a number of hand-written notations on it and she NEVER said she was raped, much less that she was 100% confident about it. In any case, Gov. Hochul has appointed Letitia James as Special Persecutor to handle the case … so I figure it's only a matter of time until she indicts Trump as a co-conspirator. "Believe all women", indeed …"
The same people who demand "due process" for illegal immigrants, i.e. get endless appeals even though it's been proven that they have no right to be in the country, demand that the Cornell Seven be jailed without a trial despite no evidence they did anything legally wrong. Left wingers are hypocrites

Links - 19th October 2026 (2 - Brexit)

Farage: Burnham reopening Brexit debate is gift for Reform - "Nigel Farage has said Andy Burnham has given him a “gift” in reopening the Brexit debate.  The Reform UK leader said a referendum on rejoining the EU would “bitterly” divide the country, and accused the Prime Minister of contradicting his own plans for devolution.  It comes after Mr Burnham said a second Brexit referendum was a possibility as part of his review of Britain’s relationship with the EU... Mr Burnham, who until June was the mayor of Greater Manchester, previously promised to “rewire the state” by moving power away from London.  The Reform leader said: “This is the pro-devolution prime minister…to even consider rejoining the single market, the customs union, let alone the European Union itself, is the opposite of devolution.  “A massive transfer of huge powers up to an authority, whereby there’s nothing Parliament could do to change any of it.  “So I find the whole thing totally contradictory.” When Mr Burnham stood in the Makerfield by-election that propelled his return to Parliament, he promised not to “rerun” Brexit arguments and said he was “not proposing that the UK considers rejoining the EU”.  The Prime Minister’s constituency of Makerfield voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU in 2016, at 65 per cent. Other parts of the Red Wall – historically a cluster of Northern Labour-voting, working-class constituencies – voted in favour of Brexit, with 59.2 per cent in the West Midlands and 58 per cent in the North East opting out of the EU."

Rachel Gilmour, MP for Tiverton & Minehead on X - "From today, EU citizens have a legal right to know when they're talking to a bot or looking at a deepfake, backed by fines of up to €15m. Thanks to Brexit, we're missing out on this protection."
Pro EU people think national legislatures are unable to introduce their own legislation. This is without even getting into whether it's a good idea

Brexit was supposed to limit immigration – it did the opposite - "Why, having promised more control over immigration, did net migration rise so much, an episode now sometimes described as the Boriswave. A small part was a bounce-back from the pandemic, but most of it was a result of policy decisions by the government and others.  First, the government opened new humanitarian routes for Ukrainians fleeing the war there and for some Hong Kongers in response to the new national security law there which was felt to violate earlier agreements between the UK and China. These actions were unconnected to Brexit and were broadly politically popular. But the government also made a number of other changes to work and student migration visas which led to a very large increase in numbers.        It made care workers eligible for work visas, with numbers issued far exceeding predictions. The implementation of this visa was incredibly poor: for example, 275 visas were issued to a care home that did not exist and 1,234 visas issued to a firm that had only four employees. In 2023 over 100,000 visas for care workers were granted.  The skilled worker visa was extended to medium-skill jobs (as recommended by the Migration Advisory Committee – full disclosure, I was Chair at the time), but the government also decided that jobs deemed to be in shortage should have lower minimum salaries for visas, in some cases only slightly above the minimum wage. From an economist’s perspective, responding to a shortage in workers by lowering wages was a bizarre decision.  At arm’s length from the government, NHS England decided to incentivise the hiring of migrant nurses by giving hospitals more money (£7,000) if they hired a migrant than a British nurse. I think the cash was meant to compensate for the extra cost of overseas recruitment, but it may have over-compensated, as over 60,000 visas for migrant nurses were issued over the years 2021-23. In total 337,000 work visas were issued in 2023 to people overseas, who brought with them 279,000 dependents.  On student migration, the government introduced the Graduate Visa, giving all international graduates and their dependents an unconditional right to work in the UK for two years after course completion. They chose to ignore the MACs previous advice to be cautious about this because of the potential to create a demand for degrees (especially short Master’s degrees) that was based not just on the value of the qualification but on the subsequent temporary right to work in the UK (note: I was Chair when that report was written so might be biased). The results were predictable – an explosion in student numbers, concentrated in less selective universities, in one-year Master’s course, with more dependents. In 2022 and 2023, over 900,000 student visas were issued together with 275,000 visas for their dependents (for context, in 2019 there were 270,000 visas with 16,000 dependents). Each of these liberalisations to the managed part of migration may have made some sense taken individually but taken together, they added up to a level of migration which meant that the UK’s population grew at the fastest rate in more than a century. So why did this happen when more control had been promised?   Part of the reason may have been the pandemic. Coming out of the pandemic vacancies were very high, the media was full of stories about terrible labour shortages and employers in many countries (not just the UK) used the opportunity to push for more liberal immigration policies. But more than that, I think the UK government at the time was simply incompetent. Within government the usual dynamic is that some departments push (backed by industry lobbies) for more liberal migration policies, and the Home Office pushes back. But some of the home secretaries at the time talked tough about immigration in public but simply did not do the day job. And the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was hardly renowned for his attention to detail. So a raft of policies, many now partially or wholly reversed, followed.   But there was one other part of migration that was also rising at this time – asylum claims including those crossing the English Channel in small boats. Asylum claims rose from about 40,000 a year pre-pandemic to 100,000 afterwards. The number of people arriving by small boat crossings rose from 1,800 in 2019 to peak at over 45,000 in 2022 (in 2025 there were 41,000). Although a rise in Channel crossings would likely have occurred even if the UK had stayed in the EU, Brexit probably reduced control over this type of migration. With Brexit, the UK lost access to the Dublin convention on returns (imperfect though it was), cooperation with European countries was no longer automatic, and, perhaps most importantly, the UK lost access to databases about past claims and criminality of those claiming asylum in the UK. Brexit has made the UK an appeals court for some asylum-seekers in the EU whose claims failed – though we lack good data on how many.  And here perhaps is the greatest irony. Brexit ended free movement with the EU giving the UK more control over work, family and student migration even if its government has not chosen to exercise much control at times. But Brexit has given the UK less control over asylum and unauthorised migration, the types of migration that trouble voters the most."
UK. Time to call Brexiteers racist for wanting to reduce white EU migration and ramp up brown and black non-EU migration

Meme - Chris Rose @ArchRose90: "10 years ago since this gem."
Matt Gallagher @MattyWTF1: "Right I need some damn sleep. Good to see we'll be staying in the EU. If I wake up to Nigel Farage's smiling face I'll kill myself #EUref"
Matt Gallagher @MattyWTF1: "Oh my fucking god"
The Farage @TheFarage2016: "wakey wakey *Nigel Farage's smiling face*"

I have no Brexit regrets, and nor should you - "So had it all been for nothing? I never once doubted the common sense of the electorate if they were given the facts. Yes, they might think that Brexit had been a failure. But did they really want to return to the EU? Would they embrace free movement once more, including an almost indefinite number of non-European migrants legalised by various EU states? Would they welcome the euro? Would they happily resume paying a budgetary contribution perhaps now amounting to £1,000 per family? Would they allow the EU again to make British laws, and impose damaging restrictions on industry, agriculture and science?  These questions the EU lobbies avoided, but I was quite sure what the public’s answers would be. An opinion poll this month confirmed it: only 27 per cent would be willing to give up rule-making powers in return for greater single-market access. Many people have a stake in Brexit’s failure: nationalists wanting to break up the Union, diehard Rejoiners, culture-war activists portraying British history as hateful, and Labour politicians eager to make Brexit the excuse for the damage done by their own energy and tax policies. They may still manage to tie us to an increasingly troubled EU.  Yet in reality, the anti-Brexit case is increasingly discredited. None of the predictions of disaster made by Project Fear have come true. Even though pro-EU voices and the Labour Government still keep repeating that the economy has been devastated by Brexit, their arguments are not persuasive. Most European countries have suffered similar and sometimes worse problems, and the electorate is seeing this. Total trade with the EU (imports and exports) to a great extent recovered after short-term disruption, and ending the contribution to the EU budget compensates for any overall loss. The UK remains the most popular destination for foreign investment. Our advanced technology sector is third in the world (behind the USA and China) and was recently estimated to be worth more than double that of Germany and three times that of France, hampered by EU restrictions. Predictions that Brexit would make the UK friendless and marginal were disproved by its help to Ukraine, by its rapid negotiation of commercial treaties with the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and by the strategic AUKUS pact. Above all, Brexit has given us back the power, and the obligation, to govern ourselves, just like the Japanese, the New Zealanders, the Swiss, the Norwegians and indeed most peoples in the democratic world. That so many found this a daunting prospect shows how debilitating EU membership had been for our system of government, and also how little confidence Rejoiners have in their own people... Brexit proved that our democratic instinct is still alive."

How Britain can finally make Brexit a success - "The truth is that it is impossible to assess precisely what the impact of Brexit has been because so many other things have been going on at the same time: Covid and the associated lockdowns, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the spike in inflation and interest rates, a major hit to the aerospace and automotive industries; a four year period of uncertainty about whether the UK would eventually leave the EU and on what terms; and a period of acute political uncertainty which culminated in the election of a Labour government for the first time for 14 years.  A simpler guide is provided by looking at how the UK economy has performed relative to its neighbours. It hasn’t done outstandingly well, of course, and this is one in the eye for uber-optimistic Brexiteers who believed that we only had to leave the EU for prosperity to descend upon us like manna from heaven. But equally our performance has been incomparably better than what was envisaged by the Treasury and other uber-pessimists.  Indeed, the UK economy has grown at about the same rate as France, and much faster than Italy, Germany and Japan. Admittedly, in per capita terms, its relative performance comes out a bit worse. But it has still done better than Canada and Germany. In practice, although I reckon that the damage was probably relatively minor, I suspect that Brexit has delivered some sort of blow to UK GDP. After all, we knew that Brexit would make trade with the EU more difficult, with more bureaucracy and delays at the border. Potentially offsetting this, there were gains to be had from free trade agreements (FTAs) with countries around the world, from the saving of contributions to the EU budget, and from a wave of deregulation.  We have been fairly successful in securing FTAs, although their impact is unlikely to be huge. More concretely, we have saved our annual contributions to the EU budget, amounting to about 0.5pc of UK GDP, and this number will increase.  The greatest failure, however, is that we have not deregulated. On the contrary, even under the last Conservative government, never mind the present Labour one, new regulations have continued to spew. One area where being outside the EU has brought regulatory advantage is artificial intelligence (AI)... If current trends persist and the UK continues to be a major force in AI while most of the EU languishes, then all those people currently saying that Brexit was a disaster will have to eat their words."
Left wingers want to regulate AI till it doesn't exist, so good luck

Meme - "All Under One Banner. SCOTLAND IS SCOTTISH, NOT BRITISH"
Lord of the Rings memes with politically incorrect themes: "Leaving the United Kingdom to join the EU whilst under the leadership a West-hating, unpatriotic follower of the religion of peace. You've brought a whole new dimension to the word, 'Nationalist'"

World Economic Forum ‘rigged data’ to make Brexit look like failure - "Klaus Schwab, the face of the Davos conference in Switzerland for years, allegedly intervened in the WEF’s annual Global Competitiveness Report, which ranks countries on productivity and long-term prosperity.  In the 2017/2018 report, the UK’s ranking improved from seventh to fourth after a change in methodology.  But Mr Schwab, 87, wrote to staff that the UK “must not see any improvement”, as otherwise it would be “exploited by the Brexit camp”.  The final report published in 2017 showed the UK had dropped one place to eighth... Allegations that Mr Schwab ordered the figures to be changed were made in an internal WEF investigation, launched after a whistleblower accused him of misusing funds, making suggestive remarks to younger staff, and manipulating research.  Switzerland’s SonntagsZeitung newspaper obtained some of the preliminary findings... During the preparation of the same report, according to the investigation, Mr Schwab allegedly ensured that India did not drop 20 places in the ranking.  He was hoping to convince Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, to join the conference in the Swiss Alpine ski resort, which is attended by about 60 world leaders every year... The investigation carried out by Homburger, the law firm, also looked into some £836,000 in expenses submitted by Schwab and his wife Hilde. SonntagsZeitung reported the expenses allegedly lacked sufficient links to WEF activities.  It is also alleged Mr Schwab sent suggestive emails and had “embarrassing interactions” with younger WEF staff. The final results of the investigation have not yet been published... Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, told The Telegraph: “Every conspiracy theory about Klaus Schwab now turns out to be true. He is a dangerous globalist manipulator.”  Richard Tice, deputy leader, added: “No surprise the globalist WEF appears to have distorted facts to prevent sovereignty and independence being seen as a good thing. They are a dreadful organisation that Reform will have nothing to do with.” Lord Frost negotiated the Brexit deal that took the UK out of the EU when Boris Johnson was prime minister.  He said: “It’s rare we get such clear direct evidence of the global establishment’s hostility to Brexit. Schwab’s alleged deliberate downgrading of Brexit Britain in his Global Competitiveness Report, directly contrary to the actual evidence, shows how deeply embedded distrust of national independence is, and how determined so many people are to suppress any discussion of its benefits.”  He added: “Labour’s continued denunciation of our trade agreement with the EU, and their refusal to acknowledge that their trade deals with India and the US would have been impossible without it, are the direct descendants of Schwab’s censorship: ideology before evidence, belief before fact.”... The term “Davos Man” was coined 20 years ago by political scientist Samuel P Huntington to describe an elite who “have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past.”"

Starmer to bring back 76 EU laws - "Sir Keir Starmer is set to bring 76 European Union directives back on to the UK statute book as the Government seeks closer alignment to the single market.  The Prime Minister will introduce new legislation in the King’s Speech in May to allow Labour to transfer swathes of European regulation covering the agriculture and food sectors."

Starmer’s ‘Brexit betrayal’ after handing Gibraltar border controls to EU - "Sir Keir Starmer has agreed a Brexit deal that hands control of Gibraltar’s border to the EU.  The Prime Minister was accused of plotting to undo Brexit after negotiations to keep the border with Spain open finally ended after almost four years.  Under the terms of the deal, Spanish border guards will have the final say on whether a UK citizen can enter the British Overseas Territory."

Brexit was not an economic catastrophe. Here’s the proof - "Since 2007, UK productivity has been broadly flat, breaking a more than 200-year history of productivity improving every decade. This catastrophically poor performance is, from the evidence, nothing to do with our membership or otherwise of the EU, and everything to do with poor government policies from 2008.  The Government has damaged our largest and most productive sector, financial services, by increasing taxes and adding layers of onerous regulation. In addition, governments have disincentivised entrepreneurial enterprise and investment with increasingly intrusive regulation, together with a large influx of cheap labour both before and after Brexit. From an economic perspective, both the political and managerial classes have got the EU completely wrong.  The EU is a large, protective trading bloc, erecting high barriers to trade with outsiders by a combination of explicit tariffs and very high regulatory compliance requirements. Until 2020, the UK was an insider, and now we are an outsider."

Brexit causes tumble dryer shortage in Northern Ireland - "Shoppers wanting a tumble dryer in Northern Ireland have been left high and dry after new EU rules restricted what can be sold.  Under the Windsor Framework, Northern Ireland follows hundreds of EU rules that the rest of the UK does not have to abide by.  Laws in Northern Ireland were changed earlier this year to align with the EU’s eco-design and energy labelling regulations, which are meant to make appliances easier to recycle and more green.  That means Northern Irish consumers cannot buy certain types of condenser tumble dryers and will be forced to purchase more energy-efficient models, such as those with a heat pump... Mr Allister said that the Brexit deal was designed “for the purpose of breaking up the UK economy and forming an all-Ireland economy.”"

The UK is now a sectarian state - spiked - "People who blame Brexit for everything assume that everything in the world was going swimmingly until Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016 – or until we left officially in January 2020. Just as ignorantly, they think the rest of the world has blossomed since then, while the UK alone has been plunged into poverty and financial distress. But things were never fine here, and things everywhere else have continued to get worse. It’s not just that our current problems have plenty to do with Labour’s decision to torpedo the economy with tax hikes – the fortunes of European countries have hardly ever been worse, either. France is in an even more precipitous state of political turmoil than we are, while Germany is experiencing its longest economic slump since 1871. Their respective crises are clearly nothing to do with Brexit, and instead owe far more to the effects of the Covid pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The bogus conjecture that Brexit is to blame for the UK’s weak economy has its origins in a prediction made in October 2021, when Richard Hughes, then chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility, said that Brexit ‘would reduce our long-run GDP by around four per cent’. That qualified prognostication is still routinely regurgitated as a fact. Only this month, a letter in The Times repeated that ‘as a direct result of our leaving the European Union’ there had been a fall in the United Kingdom’s GDP by four per cent. Not content to spread their own ‘misinformation’, EU diehards and a grasping Labour government are now reduced to quoting prophecies from yesterday’s soothsayers."

Europe is becoming a Remainer fever dream - "Andrej Babiš, squillionaire agri-business tycoon and former prime minister, has clinched a coalition between his ANO movement, the motorists party Motoristé sobě, which translates roughly as Motorists for Themselves (love the name, guys), and the far-Right Freedom and Direct Democracy party. Together they now control 108 seats in the 200 seat lower house.  This is not a simple tyre refit. It is a complete engine replacement for Czech politics. The resulting programme appears to be a blend of screw Ukraine, protect borders, cherish spark plugs, and give the European Commission palpitations. What does this mean for Czechia? Should we even worry? They are, after all, allowed to vote for who they like. And Eastern Europe right now is entitled to look at Western European management of, say, migration, and think: Pfff.  However, this does affect us, deeply. And here’s how: this is yet another EU country shifting further to the Right – but this huge tectonic movement has yet to register on British political radars.  As we all know, ever since June 2016 British politics has been painfully divided between Leavers and Remainers. Generally, the Remainers are on the centre/centre-Left, from Starmer down. Most of them are desperate to rejoin the EU. And they will try soon enough. But what happens when they finally realise that the cosy, social democratic, solar-power-loving EU that we exited has gone, and the hard-Right is in or sharing power in Hungary, Italy, Belgium, Finland, Slovakia, Bulgaria? And they might soon be joined by Germany, France, and others? Put it another way, what will happen to the fey, earnest EU flag wavers at the Last Night of the Proms, when that sweet circle of EU stars has a big nasty imperial eagle in the middle?"

Immigration is to blame for Britain’s productivity woes, not Brexit - "the OBR has been consistent with its analysis of Brexit’s impact since 2016. Imbedded into its forecasts for years has been the suggestion that it would reduce productivity by 4pc and trade intensity by 15pc relative to remaining a EU country. They also believe that most of this productivity impact has already happened. It would take a lot to say they had underestimated this impact in any meaningful way... Business investment is key driver of productivity. And there’s not much in the recent figures to suggest a change is needed, given that business investment rose through 2023 and early 2024 before weakening again.  And the OBR already includes this weaker business investment in its current forecast. They could reduce this still further, but it is hard to see how they can do so because of Brexit when business investment has been low by international standards for a long time.  The truth is that Britain’s productivity problems predate Brexit by years. Productivity growth collapsed after the 2008 financial crisis and has never recovered. There was no sudden or dramatic fall after the 2016 referendum. Instead, we just saw a continuation of the long period of weak productivity growth that has sadly been a defining feature of our economy.  Then there’s immigration. It is this, and not Brexit, that has really confounded things.  High levels of net migration have meant that firms could do without investing in either training or productivity enhancing technology. As such productivity per worker has grown slowly. Brexit hasn’t made that any worse. While workplace investment in training has continued to fall, this decline has been persistent for more than a decade and definitely not caused by Brexit... The OBR has also promised to look at Labour’s Employment Rights Bill next month, something they say will most likely have a “net negative” impact on productivity."

Times Radio on X - "“I’m fed up with going away to Europe and apologising…you feel embarrassed.” Lorraine Kelly says queues at passport control post-Brexit make her feel like a “untermensch.” @reallorraine | @HugoRifkind 📻"
Thread by @admcollingwood on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "We underestimate the power of this. A certain class of Britons -- the sort who Orwell said would feel more embarrassed to stand for the national anthem than to steal from the church poor box -- did not like being or feeling English, but still needed to feel part of something bigger than themselves (man cannot live by bread alone). The EU gave them the opportunity to feel part of a grand and noble project that rose above pretty and abhorrent nationalism, while enjoying a facsimile of patriotism. Given they had always preferred European cultures to English (per Orwell, it was easy enough to do. Brexit took that away. Now, every passport queue is a reminder that they're no longer 'citizens of Europe.' To imagine this pain, think how you'd feel if Britain was conquered and colonised."
We're still told that left wingers don't hate their countries
All these supposedly worldly people can't conceive of a world outside of the EU, where you need a passport

The EU is no friend of working people - "[The EU] inflicted crippling austerity on a desperate Greek economy, cutting public services and ruining lives. At the peak of the Greek crisis, more than one in four people were unemployed. And all this was done over the heads of the Greek people, who explicitly voted against the EU’s outrageous bailout terms in 2015, only to have an even worse deal thrust on them by Brussels.  It’s the same EU that limits state aid and the ability of national governments to intervene in their own economies. This ties their hands when trying to rescue failing industries and save livelihoods.  It’s the same EU that repeatedly sides with big business over small firms, putting the fate of millions of workers in the hands of the super-rich.  And, most importantly, it’s the same EU that denies individual countries – and therefore their voters – the right to decide what rights their workers must have. This is where the heart of the problem lies. From the Remainer perspective, it is better for the EU to dictate our working conditions from on high than it is for workers in our own country to determine them for themselves.  Diehard Remainers claim to be protecting the rights of the working class. But, in truth, they do not trust the public to elect the right government. It is in part for this reason that supposed left-wing ‘Eurosceptics’ ended up backing the EU when push came to shove. For them, we could not risk leaving the EU while the Tories were in power. They reduced a generation-defining decision to the question of which party was in power at that particular moment.  These leftish Remainers prefer to outsource important political decisions to Brussels, where they are protected from interference by the masses. In the name of prioritising workers’ rights, they would deny those same workers the right to decide their own political futures. They think they are keeping workers safe from a rapacious Tory government, but they are really just trying to keep them safe from themselves.   This points to one of the key problems with the contemporary left: it sees working-class people as victims rather than agents who are capable of forging their own futures. It offers high spending on public services, but very little that will empower the working class as citizens of a democracy. There is also a strange tendency among Remainers to treat the EU as the source of all goodness. But many of our most valuable rights were not won by the EU, but rather by the determination of the British working class and the labour movement."

Lucy Craig (Jane Doe) Surrounded / Cornell 7 as 911 for Women / Lindsay Clancy Holdout Juror

*Piper Perri Surrounded*
*Lucy Craig (Jane Doe) with Cornell 7 around her*

*Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York*
*One alight, due to Lindsay Clancy*
*Cornell 7 truck about to crash into intact tower which is 'Women'*

Normal person: "A black man has a history of domestic violence."
NPC: "Shut up, racist."
Normal person: "He's got a restraining order against him."
NPC: "Silence, bigot."
Normal person: "His landlord is trying to evict him for $12K in unpaid rent."
NPC: "Qulet, Nazi."
Normal person: "He's the 12th holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy case."
NPC: "DERRRR !!! JAIL THAT FUCKING NIGGER !!!"

Links - 19th October 2026 (1 - General Wokeness [including APA])

Diana S. Fleischman on X - "Candice Hargons is the incoming president of the American Psychological Association, the main professional organization of US psychologists. Here are some of her publications"

Benjamin Ryan on X - "These are the 10 most recent papers of the new APA president, Candice Hargons:
1. “That’s Probably What Euphoria Feels Like”: Nonbinary Black Womxn’s Gender Expression in an Antitrans (and Anti-Black [Womxn]) America American Psychologist, Sept. 2026 https://researchgate.net/publication/41 3684513_That's_Probably_What_Euphoria_Feels_Like_Nonbinary_Black_Womxn's_Gender_Expression_in_an_Antitrans_and_Anti-Black_Womxn_America
2. “Hard to Remember, then Hard to Forget”: A Qualitative Exploration into the Attitudes and Lived Experiences of Black People With Black Names Journal of Black Psychology, Oct. 2025 https://researchgate.net/publication/39 6909040_Hard_to_Remember_then_Hard_to_Forget_A_Qualitative_Exploration_into_the_Attitudes_and_Lived_Experiences_of_Black_People_With_Black_Names
3. A Content Analysis of Cultural Mistrust Among African Americans in Therapy Settings Journal of Black Psychology, Oct. 2025 https://researchgate.net/publication/39 6882965_A_Content_Analysis_of_Cultural_Mistrust_Among_African_Americans_in_Therapy_Settings
4. “People Already Don’t Know What the Fuck I’m Saying”: Nonbinary Black Womxn Perspectives on Sharing Their Gendered-Racial Identity Journal of Counseling Psychology, Oct. 2025 https://researchgate.net/publication/39 6831816_People_already_don't_know_what_the_fuck_i'm_saying_Nonbinary_Black_womxn_perspectives_on_sharing_their_gendered-racial_identity
5. “It’s an honor to be in this body”: A Black feminist grounded theory of embodiment through yoga among Black womxn Body Image, Oct. 2025 https://researchgate.net/publication/39 6564713_It's_an_honor_to_be_in_this_body_A_Black_feminist_grounded_theory_of_embodiment_through_yoga_among_Black_womxn
6. Brief Report: Naloxone Decline Among African American Kentuckians Substance Use & Addiction Journal, July 2025 https://researchgate.net/publication/39 3785046_Brief_Report_Naloxone_Decline_Among_African_American_Kentuckians
7. “Nobody Ever Sat Me Down to Talk About That Kind of Stuff”: A Thematic Analysis of Heterosexual Black Men’s Genital Hygiene Messages Health Communication, May 2025 https://researchgate.net/publication/39 1904305_Nobody_Ever_Sat_Me_Down_to_Talk_About_That_Kind_of_Stuff_A_Thematic_Analysis_of_Heterosexual_Black_Men's_Genital_Hygiene_Messages
8. “God Did for Me What I Couldn’t Do for Myself”: Understanding Religiosity, Spirituality, and Locus of Control Among Black Americans Who Use Opioids Journal of Religion and Health, Feb. 2025 https://researchgate.net/publication/38 8793550_God_Did_for_Me_What_I_Couldn't_Do_for_Myself_Understanding_Religiosity_Spirituality_and_Locus_of_Control_Among_Black_Americans_Who_Use_Opioids
9. Understanding Coping Strategies and Sociocultural Context in Black Americans’ Mental Health Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, Feb. 2025 https://researchgate.net/publication/38 8769360_Understanding_Coping_Strategies_and_Sociocultural_Context_in_Black_Americans'_Mental_Health
10. The Nonbinary God: Disaggregating Spirituality and Christian Religiosity Among Nonbinary Black Womxn (NBBW) Journal of Counseling Psychology, Jan. 2025 https://researchgate.net/publication/38"

J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨‍💻 on X - "Yes. "Asked by the APA how she defines scientific integrity, Ms. Hargons wrote that she "reject[s] the positivist paradigm's assertion of objectivity." Absolutely inane, delusional. Stupid individual."

Thread by @Tyler_A_Harper on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Every time I write something critical of how elite academia is captured by bizarre ideologies, people claim that these are minor tendencies. Yet experts on things like the “liberatory potential of pilates for minoritized womxn” keep getting put in charge of major scholarly orgs. So you have this woman in charge of the American Psychological Association, Rouse over at the American Anthropological Association, etc. It’s just not tenable to claim this stuff is minor or a right wing fever dream when these people keep getting put in charge of major orgs."
Left wingers claim that if you deny climate change is the most important problem the world faces, you are a climate change denier and need to be ostracised and banished from polite society, then go on and proclaim that the idea of there being two sexes is wrong

Jamil Smith جميل كريم on X - ""This woman" is a widely recognized expert in her field. You can worry all you like about how intellectually dishonest people on the right view people like Carolyn Rouse—but questioning her qualifications based upon her opinions while undermining her expertise is a chump move."
Niko Nadeau on X - "The only people among whom she is widely recognized as an expert are people who also hold batshit false opinions, and who also did not believe in any sort of objective reality."
Brandon Warmke on X - "Rule 1 of captured disciplines: You're never actually supposed to assess the work. And they are never willing to defend it. Instead:
-Who are you to criticize this work--seriously who are you and who cares what you think?
-If you criticize the work, you undermine the author's expertise. They are experts and so shouldn't be criticized
-Qualifications settle the matter of quality, end of story.
-Since you're criticizing you must have bad motives. Stop being so mean.
These fields truly believe they should be immune from external criticism. They cannot handle it, they know that, and resort to a series of red herrings because they have no patience for addressing criticism. They publish research asking only that you celebrate it. These are very unhealthy academic norms. The refusal to accept external criticism is precisely why these fields have such low standards and devolved into identititarian obsession and progressive advocacy. What else is there to do?"
Left wingers think "qualifications" insulate you from criticism. And since they easily DEI each other "qualifications" too, that's supposed to make them immune to criticism
At least when Richard Dawkins was criticising the leprechology argument, it was in principle possible to learn about leprechology and challenge leprechologists on their own terms. But with the left, they just proclaim that experts who push the left wing agenda are infallible

Geoffrey Miller on X - "Why men -- especially conservative men -- won't go to therapy: The weird thing about the American Psychological Association (APA) is that every objective observer has known that it's been ideologically captured by the Left since the 1970s. That's the main reason why the Association for Psychological Science split off back in 1988, to form a more-scientific, less-politicized version of APA. Yet, here we are, 40 years later -- with APA still the main accrediting body that gives its seal of approval to PhD programs that train the vast majority of licensed clinical psychologists in America. APA sets the agenda. It determines what gets covered in graduate courses. It runs the most influential journals and conferences. It sets the whole political and ideological tone for psychological research. For decades, it has pushed political correctness, 'affirmative action', wokeness, DEI, and Leftist political causes. APA also ignores, censors, and/or demonizes the psychological research areas that are politically incorrect, but that replicate well (e.g. intelligence research, behavior genetics, evolutionary psychology, sex differences). There are alternatives. For example, the Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation System (PCSAS) focuses more on the real science -- evidence-based treatments and interventions -- rather than on the Leftist activism of APA. But, for the moment, the APA's ideological agenda still dominates American clinical psychology. This partly explains the feedback loop between clinical psychology becoming so feminized (with women getting about 80% of clinical psychology PhDs), and clinical psychology becoming so radical-Leftist in its politics. And it explains why it's pretty difficult to find licensed clinical psychologists who are actually sympathetic to men, conservatives, and/or Christians. This is one big reason why men won't go to therapy -- they don't want to deal with a (probably female, probably liberal) therapist who has been indoctrinated into wokeness for 5-6 years throughout her graduate training."

Steve McGuire on X - "BREAKING: An advisory panel on accreditation has recommended that the Department of Education suspend the American Psychological Association (APA) for 12 months amidst concerns about ideological standards on DEI, gender-related treatment, and especially antisemitism. After hearing from several groups during a meeting yesterday, the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity’s (NACIQI) voted to make the recommendation. The recommendation now goes to the Department of Education for a final decision."

Bernie on X - "This is an absolute DISGRACE of an article by the BBC! Any white woman who dares to paint her nails in a colour is framed as committing cultural appropriation… and if she has nude nails, or no colour the BBC prints the claim that this can perpetuate “white supremacist standards of beauty”. They actually printed that! So basically, no matter what I do to my NAILS I fail because I’m white? Why should I ever be forced to pay for an organisation that prints stuff like this?"

Meme - constans @constans: "I feel like some of these writers just finished a sociology degree and think they’re the first person to figure out that western social class norms code muted styles as higher class and loud, garish styles as lower class. Yes, congratulations on your discovery"
detty @0ddette: ""one 25-year-old tells the BBC, adding, "also, I lift weights in the gym, so I don't want to snap a nail and waste money." But there are those who think the trend - or the way it's being discussed by some - belies something more sinister.” Spend $120 on nails or you’re classist?!"

Rafe Heydel-Mankoo on X - "The Bank of England DELIBERATELY FIXED the fake "public vote" to remove ALL historical figures from bank notes & replace them with nature images. Freedom of Information requests by the Telegraph revealed the decision to remove historical figures was based on a "focus group" of a mere 119 people. The Bank LIED because it previously claimed the decision was based on a "public vote". In truth, however, even this vote was FIXED. Instead of having HISTORY v NATURE, the bank deliberately split the "history" category into 3 sections: historical events, historical figures, architecture & landmarks. That was the only way that "nature" could win. However, of course bank notes always combine at least two of those history categories. For example: Churchill & Parliament or Wellington & Waterloo. The Bank's actions are indefensible and questions should be asked in the House. The Bank of England has clearly been captured by progressive woke ideology. A visit to the Bank of England with its permanent exhibition on slavery makes that clear This is part of the wider war on British history. It's an attempt to create a NEW BRITAIN, based on ridiculous myths that "Diversity Built Britain" and that Britain has always been multicultural. Remember: the Bank of England issued a 50p coin (held aloft by Rishi Sunak) which was imprinted with the nonsensical statement: "Diversity Built Britain" Anyone who lived behind the Iron Curtain will find all of this eerily and scarily familiar. The pulling down of statues, the renaming of streets and schools, the rewriting of history, denigrating heroes, changing bank notes etc....these were all tactics of the communists. Severing the connection between a people and their history is the best way to demoralise a society and prepare them for the imposition of new myths."

LeeKuanYewRespecter on X - "Amber Schultz, an Age and Sydney Morning Herald reporter who has been covering the alleged dangers of social media believes the algorithm showed her manosphere-adjacent content presented by women to “soften her up” and test her receptiveness before serving her more extreme Andrew Tate content. That requires a conspiratorial theory of how social media works. Does she really believe these companies built vast, multi-billion-dollar engagement platforms to run teenage boys through an ideological induction funnel in service of Andrew Tate? Remember when they said this about Ben Shapiro and YouTube? The obvious answer is no, the algorithm is testing what keeps her watching. Even if you pause for a second. Engage with one type of content and it serves you more content popular with the same audience. It doesn’t need to “soften you up”, test your ideological readiness or guide you towards a predetermined endpoint. Tate gamed those algorithms with his content Ponzi scheme which flooded social media with clips, while saying politically incorrect things at the height of peak woke which obviously made him extremely effective engagement bait. How can you report on social media like this and not understand the basics of the attention economy?"

Meme - Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno: "There is nothing racist about any ethnic or religious group wanting their own homeland. The problem is if this desire is at the expense of another people. Zionism in practise meant "a homeland at the expense of Palestinians". It's really not hard to grasp this basic point!"
Prof Cosmic Feathers @BudgieSAGEE... @Prof CosmicF...: ""There is nothing racist about any ethnic or religious group wanting their own homeland." @Owen If that group that ethnic group was whites calling for their own homeland, you would call it racist. Why is it different if it Jewish people?"
Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno: ""The problem is if this desire is at the expense of another people.""
Prof Cosmic Feathers @BudgieSAGEE... @Prof CosmicF...: "So you wouldn't call those white nationalists who build whites only villages in back woods of the US Midwest racist?"
Owen Jones: "Clearly violates what I said"
Funny Logic @7thTimeCharmer: "So Whites have no right to an ethnic homeland unless we include everyone? You think it's a human right for the entire world to live with White people."
Keith Woods on X - "Great illustration of how leftists think about sovereignty. Every ethnic group is entitled to a homeland, but no White people anywhere can have as much as a neighbourhood to themselves because that violates the right of every non-White person on earth to have access to Whites."
Left wingers hate both white people and Jews, so this tracks

Don't Divide Us on X - "Below is a letter in The Spectator from September 4th, from Professor Alan Lester who tries to defend reparations. But his case is is based on two linked - unproven, possibly unprovable - assertions: (1) that slavery was the most economically transformative factor in British industrial success and that (2) slavery 'in the Atlantic' is the reason for present day social inequities. This ignores the real historical & social differences between America and Britain, and the fact that, in Britain, there are contemporary sources of social inequities that have nothing to do with historic slavery but much to do with important political, sociological and cultural shifts in the post-war period:"
Dr Colin Green ن on X - "1 is obviously false. No human labour, not even enslaved, matched steam engines for efficiency. Enslavement, for that very argument, is about efficient productivity in a specific landscape. Steam & coal had the more transformative efficient productive role in the broader economy."

Pro-Palestine photographer, friend killed by Muslim man in Tucson anti-LGBTQ hate crime - "A Muslim man shot and killed a pro-Palestinian photographer and his friend as they were leaving an Arizona gay bar before turning the gun on himself in what cops say was a hate crime. Ousman Ceesay unleashed the violence in Tucson around 12:30 a.m. Monday — targeting two men he did not know, Tucson Police confirmed. Cameron Davis Capara, 33, and Vincent Anthony Siqueiros, 42, were in the parking lot of Venture-N when they were confronted and then shot by Ceesay, according to cops... The gunman was carrying a note with a list of other gay-friendly businesses in the area, but cops said he never tried to enter the bar near where he committed the heinous crime. A second note in his home found by detectives “indicated he acted alone and that this shooting was a targeted attack motivated by hate toward the LGBTQIA+ community,” the department said. Ceesay, originally from The Gambia in West Africa, had no prior contacts with the police department and had only just moved to the area from Oklahoma City... He and his wife were facing money troubles after racking up more than $76,000 in debt that forced them to declare Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2018, according to the outlet. Ceesay previously worked as an Uber driver and was a practicing Muslim who prayed five times a day... Capara was a photographer who spent years documenting LGBTQ nightlife, campus demonstrations, rallies over Gaza and protests against ICE. “He cared deeply about people in Tucson or those thousands of miles away. People who were marginalized, overlooked, or misunderstood,” said his father, Jeff Capara. "
Damn Mossad!

I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 on X - "Three days ago a gunman opened fire outside Venture-N, a Tucson gay bar. Two men dead. The shooter dead. Police now call it a targeted hate crime. He had a list of LGBTQ businesses on him. You probably even didn’t heard about it. Because the shooter wasn’t the approved villain. He WASN’T a white Christian nationalist. He was Ousman Ceesay, 44, a Muslim immigrant born in The Gambia. He confronted two men in the parking lot and started shooting. One of the victims was Cameron Davis Capara, a well-known local photographer and left- wing political activist who spent years documenting pro-Palestine marches, anti-ICE actions, anti-Trump, anti-fascism rallies, and anti-capitalist “No Kings” circles. The other was Vincent Anthony Siqueiros. Both were killed where they stood. Police didn’t rush out a mugshot package. Some coverage danced around the shooter’s background. National cameras never really showed up. No wall-to-wall specials. No Democratic officials lining up at podiums to denounce homophobia and demand action. The story dropped fast. That’s the tell. When the facts don’t fit the script, the outrage machine stays quiet. Two men get murdered outside a gay bar, the killer leaves a target list, and the same people who never miss a chance to lecture the country about hate suddenly have nothing to say. If that doesn’t show you how selective the media and the virtue-signal crowd really are, nothing will."
Micro2Macr0 on X - "No wonder this went under the rug. He was a Muslim killing the gays. That is VERY MUCH against the mainstream narrative. When will people wake up?"

The i Paper on X - ""Britain is turning on people who look like me, but white allies are silent" says Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. "We need our white allies to speak up otherwise, I dread to think what this country will become.""
Stand Up To Marxism on X - "Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Anti-White racist quotes:
1.) BBC World, 4th June 2006: Presenter Gavin Esler asked, “What’s wrong with white guys, by the way?” Yasmin Alibhai-Brown replied, “I don’t like them. I want them to be the lost species in a hundred years.”
2.) The Wright Stuff (Channel 5), 25th August 2008 In a discussion about employment/jobs: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: “Don’t apply. It would be great if you went away, White, middle class men.” Host Richard Bacon replied: “Is that not a racist comment?” Alibhai-Brown: “Of course.”
3.) The Independent, 5th January 2009: “Spare me the tears over the white working class”
4.) The Independent, 30th August 2015: “I like Corbyn, but let’s face it, we don’t need another white man at the head of a political party”"
An "ally" is a useful idiot who no matter what he does will always still be despised for who he is

Jamie Sarkonak on X - "It has come to my attention that I have been denounced by @Advocates_Soc for criticizing judicial decisions — and yes, individual judges. Here's the thing. When someone, for example, spends her lawyerly career writing op-eds in favour of migration and calling herself an activist, and then becomes a federal judge, and from that seat allows all sorts of undesirables to remain in Canada on weak grounds, people are free to draw a connection from A to B. When a judge, for example, spends his lawyer years advocating fiercely for more race-based law, and then later throws out gun charges of black men on his (unsupported) assertion that police were racist during their arrests, people are free to question whether he's really a fair adjudicator. When a judge, for example, says that a ban on drug trafficking is unconstitutional, and then *applauds* vigilante drug dealers for their self-proclaimed safe supply program — applauds them for supporting the business of organized crime and feeding the addictions of street people — that's beyond the pale. You're worried about democracy being poisoned? Worry about the judge who threw out Parliament's law against selling heroin because she felt it was "common sense" that it was supported by science. I agree that it's not right to criticize a judge personally for impartially applying the law and coming to an unpopular decision (which they may even privately disagree with). But when their professional history, or their conduct in court, suggests allegiance to a cause that they happen to be ruling softly on, it will get noticed. Bringing the administration of justice into disrepute is a two-way street, you know."
Freedom of speech is for threatening Jews with death, not to critique the judiciary who are infallible

David Knight Legg on X - "A couple of Canada’s activist judges just got busted by journalist Jamie Sarkonak @sarkonakj for some particularly gross views of hard drugs and two-tiered racial views of defendants.
- B.C. judge Catherine Murray decided she would praise two hard-drug traffickers, and invent a Charter right to deal those drugs.
- Ontario judge Faizal Mirza thought the law should have a race-tiered application in sentencing Canadians, then deployed it.
Disgusting ideas. Thankfully not Canadian law. So when these activist judges tried to impose them, Jamie called them out. Great journalism. But then the “Advocates Society” wrote a letter to defend the judges. They made two points and both backfire: First, these judges “make their decisions on the facts and the law – not popular opinion or political expediency.” Second, journalists “vilifying judges who make unpopular opinions or demanding their removal is not accountability. It’s pressure.” Nice try. First, these activist judges didn’t apply facts or the law. They applied personal views not found in Canadian law. Second, calling them out and demanding their removal isn’t ’vilifying’, its asserting a democratic fact: activists don’t get to hi-jack the bench to impose drug dealing and two-tier race screens that Canadians haven’t consented to through legislation. If Catherine and Faizal wish their weird views were the law, they can resign and try to get a legislature to agree. That’s what politics is for. But thats not how jurisprudence work. Activists don’t get to hi-jack the bench for their personal ends just because they sit on it. The Advocates Society knows this. Great journalism by Jamie @sarkonakj defending Canada from activist judges whose bizarre ideas make everyone less safe and less equal before the law."

Jemele Hill on X - "America was built on the institution of slavery. It is how America became a world economic power — the buying and selling of people being tied to the economy. That is effectively white supremacy, since it was a race-based system. Fast forward to other economic policies that were guided by race — housing, employment, etc. There were rules that prevented Black people from equally participating in the free economy. In fact, one of the most glaring features of American capitalism is racial inequality. The racial wealth gap exists because specific policies were put in place to suppress economic participation. So yes, capitalism is tied to white supremacy."
Corey Walker 🇺🇸 on X - "It's amazing that a person can be so confidently incorrect like this and not feel any embarrassment. She will still be invited on cable news to share her "expertise." This is an absurdly idiotic take. If slavery made the US into an economic superpower, then why isn't the south richer than the north? America experienced its most robust economic growth after the abolition of slavery. Industrialization, manufacturing, railroads, technological innovation, migration from Europe, and free labor markets accelerated the US to the top of the global economic hierarchy. Slavery arguably stunted the economic growth of the south due to underinvestment in human capital, weaker incentives to invest in education and public infrastructure. Slavery was not only a moral atrocity it was also a terrible economic system which only served to enrich the small wealthy slave-owning class."

Muslim Brotherhood has its sights set on Canada | National Post - "I attended a closed-door meeting with foreign intelligence officials to discuss the growing influence in Canada of the Muslim Brotherhood, the powerful transnational Islamist movement that is the ideological root of all modern Islamic terrorism. The Brotherhood’s objective, I was told, is two-fold: to achieve a paralyzing effect on the ability of Canadian policymakers to act against it; and to steadily expand its influence in Canada. Indeed, the Gaza war has mobilized and emboldened the Islamist group’s “white-collar jihadists” in the country to advance its strategy of “civilizational jihad” — gradual institutional transformation, rather than violent overthrow. The officials also revealed that their analysis of internal Hamas documents — the Palestinian offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood — showed that the terrorist group views Canada as vital to its plans. “They love you guys,” one of them quipped. Last year, a Global News investigation revealed that roughly 450 individuals with various roles inside Hamas have ties to Canada. In another private briefing in Washington, D.C., a senior U.S. national security official made it clear that the Americans are also acutely aware of Canada’s growing Muslim Brotherhood problem. The message was unambiguous: the United States government views the Muslim Brotherhood as a transnational threat, and it is deeply concerned that Canada’s immigration policies are severely undermining broader North American counter-terrorism priorities (a recent C.D. Howe Institute report, which found that 24,599 asylum claimants were accepted by Canada without being asked a single question between January 2019 and February 2023, was cited)... Across Europe, governments are increasingly recognizing the Brotherhood as a serious political and security challenge. France released a government report describing the group as a “threat to the nation,” with lawmakers urging the European Union to classify the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. Dutch legislators have called for a ban on the group. Sweden has launched an investigation into alleged Islamist infiltration, while Belgian officials are raising alarms about the alleged Brotherhood-linked capture of some municipalities. Like Europe, the U.S. sees Canada as both a terror target and an incubator of terrorist threats. It considers it unacceptable that its northern neighbour serves as a logistical, financial and recruitment hub for Islamist groups. However, Canada, unlike Europe, appears determined to avoid the conversation altogether, despite CSIS warning in its latest public report that the threat is “particularly concerning.” This disconnect was on full display when Prime Minister Mark Carney, in his much-awaited speech on combating antisemitism, invoked “Islamophobia” while failing to acknowledge the principal driver of the anti-Jewish hatred across Canada: Islamist extremism. That reluctance is becoming harder to justify. Recent reporting on the annual convention of the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC), an organization that openly praises the Muslim Brotherhood’s philosophy, raises troubling questions. According to Melanie Bennet of Juno News, a youth workshop at the convention displayed the phrase “Jew free” in a word cloud under the prompt: “What kind of community/Ummah/world do you want to help build?” At another session, an audience member reportedly asked how young Muslims could enter politics to “infiltrate the western wolves.” During the same session, Anas Altikriti, an alleged Muslim Brotherhood associate who was effectively denied entry into Canada but attended virtually, seemingly rejected the very idea of Muslim integration into western society, describing it as “a tool to beat the Muslim community with,” and insisting that Muslims only need to “abide by the law.” Despite the controversy surrounding the event, there has been effectively no political condemnation from Ottawa. That silence matters because MAC benefits from taxpayer-supported charitable status and, according to Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) records, received over $38 million in public funding between 2020 and 2024. Canadians are entitled to ask whether organizations that annually platform Islamist ideologues — including individuals denied entry into the country — and promote deeply divisive rhetoric should continue receiving taxpayer funds. The question becomes even more pressing when contrasted with the CRA’s decision to revoke the charitable status of eight Jewish non-profits over the past three years. The double standard is hard to ignore... The problem in Canada is not simply political Islam itself. It is the persistent unwillingness of political leaders, media institutions and public officials to discuss the issue honestly. Fear of accusations of racism or Islamophobia has created a climate in which legitimate national security concerns are too often dismissed before they can even be debated. A healthy democratic society cannot afford political taboos around questions of extremism, foreign ideological influence or institutional infiltration. Canadians deserve transparency about Islamist networks operating in the country, including their sources of funding, political relationships and their degree of influence within public institutions. The Carney government has a responsibility to confront this threat with decisiveness rather than denial. The longer Canada avoids acknowledging the dangers posed by the Muslim Brotherhood, the more entrenched its networks become — and the harder the consequences will be to reverse."
To fight Islamophobia and spite the US, Canada needs to welcome the Muslim Brotherhood and become a Muslim country

Links - 18th October 2026 (2 - Hamas Attack Oct 2023 [including Hamas Media Coordination])

Mossad Commentary on X - "🚨 GAZA PHOTOGRAPHER ADMITS HE WITHHELD OCT. 7 FOOTAGE
Prominent Palestinian photographer Motaz Azaiza says he filmed Israeli hostages being abused by crowds on Oct. 7, but deliberately did not publish the footage because he feared Israel could use it to identify and target those involved. He also delivered unusually harsh criticism of Hamas:
• “Show me one Palestinian in Gaza who was protected by Hamas’s weapons. No one.”
• He says Hamas had a chance by Oct. 11, 2023 to accept a deal involving disarmament that could have prevented massive destruction and loss of life.
• He describes a Hamas-run WhatsApp mechanism used to intimidate journalists, circulate their personal details, and coordinate attacks against anyone who crossed the organization.
• Gaza photographers, he says, learned to lower their cameras whenever civilians criticized Hamas because publishing such footage could make them targets.
Azaiza was named to TIME’s 100 most influential people and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Now he is describing, in his own words, how much of Gaza’s story never made it onto your screen."

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib on X - "Motaz Azaiza is forcing a reckoning the “pro‑Palestine” movement never anticipated. Because he’s celebrated by activists, politicians, and journalists and can’t be smeared as a “Zionist shill,” his admission carries weight: Gaza’s journalism space functioned under Hamas’s control, and any reporter who deviated from the group’s narrative risked “disappearing behind the sun.” That single truth reshapes how we understand the stories pushed out of Gaza since October 7 and explains why dissent against Hamas’s rule never surfaced publicly. Western journalists and outsiders, unaware of this coercive ecosystem, ended up amplifying Hamas’s information warfare rather than scrutinizing it."

Leslie Kajomovitz on X - "Listen to Motaz Azaiza in an another interview call Jews dogs, and be more explicit about his excitement at seeing the hostages being brutalized in the streets of Gaza on October 7th. In this interview, he is more explicit also on how the only reason he didn't participate was because he was afraid of Israel, not because he didn't want to. In the same interview he speaks of many things, but in it, he does something he didn't do in his last interview. He confirms he was a member of Hamas before he went to university and joined Fatah. Later he "realized" he "can't be affiliated to any group," because neither faction "works for the sake of Palestinians" @StateDept @SecRubio did Motaz Azaiza disclose his membership with a terror organization in his immigration forms? Why is Motaz Azaiza in America?!? FYI: @EFischberger @EYakoby @chalavyishmael @MaxNordau"

S Sebag Montefiore on X - "BOMBSHELL: Gaza Photojournalist Reveals Hamas Ran a WhatsApp Group to Control War Coverage Motaz Azaiza — once the face of Gaza's war reporting, with nearly 20M followers — says a Hamas-linked WhatsApp group called "Smart" directed media coverage and organized attacks on journalists who broke from its line."

Eyal Yakoby on X - "Motaz Azaiza just admitted that Gaza’s journalists were all in a Hamas WhatsApp group called SMART—where they “managed the discourse and the narrative.” Journalists coordinating the narrative with Hamas should be a massive international scandal. Instead, there’s not a word."
Josh Wolfe on X - "This is INSANE. should be front page news of every US paper. Chance the NYT even mentions it once?"

Eitan Fischberger on X - "So it turns out that Hamas runs a WhatsApp group with all of Gaza’s journalists, where Hamas “managed the discourse and the narrative.” These outlets have "journalists" in Gaza: Reuters, AP, NYT, CNN, Wapo, PBS, NPR, BBC, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and Drop Site News"
Eylon Levy on X - "Hamas won the information war. Now it’s bragging. Because it’s already won. And nobody will admit they got duped."

Nazi Hunters on X - "“Women here!” “Take off your pants!” “Take off your clothes!” “Spread your legs!” “Don’t make trouble!”
This is the translation guide that Hamas terrorists carried and used during the October 7 massacres, helping them to pronounce these instructions in Hebrew so they could kidnap, rape, and slaughter Jews more efficiently. Never forget."

Alessandra on X - "After 9/11, I believed what they said that Muslims didn’t support. Religion of peace they said. 10/7 seeing so many cheering it on showed me muslim communities have a large scale problem with support for violence & terrorism & hatred of non Muslims which they refuse to address"

Meme - "GENOCIDE? UNRWA, the United Nations agency responsible for Palestinian refugees, released its report on the number of Palestinian refugees
IN 2022 REPORT BEFORE THE HAMAS ATTACK ON ISRAEL THERE WERE 5,747,065 PALESTINIAN REFUGEES REGISTERED WITH UNRWA
IN 2025 REPORT THERE WERE 5,795,136 PALESTINIAN REFUGEES REGISTERED WITH UNRWA
48,071 MORE THAN IN 2022
SOURCES FOR THE NUMBERS
UNRWA, "UNRWA in Figures 2022" (Accessed July 2022)
UNRWA, "UNRWA in Figures 2025" (Accessed July 2025)
IF THE UN'S OWN NUMBERS ARE SHOWING THAT THE PALESTINIAN POPULATION IS GROWING, HOW ARE PEOPLE CLAIMING THAT THERE IS A GENOCIDE?"
The terrorist supporter cope is that genocide isn't defined by killing everyone in sight. But given how loosely genocide can be defined nowadays, wanting to destroy a group and giving one member of it a condom and telling him to use it is also "genocide"

Meme - Barak Ravid @BarakRavid: "Netanyahu: "Israel rejects the Gaza Board of Peace 15-point document. The IDE will not make any withdrawal until Hamas disarms. I mean the heavy weapons, the less heavy weapons, all the weapons. And we are talking about real disarmament, not fictitious disarmament""
Ilan Goldenberg: "There's no example in history of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration working when one side insists on the other's total surrender before taking any steps. This isn't a recipe for "real disarmament." It's a recipe for perpetuating the stalemate in Gaza. Bibi knows it."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "Germany and Japan are a counterexample: both surrendered unconditionally in 1945, after which Allied-led demilitarization and reintegration succeeded, producing stable democracies. This contradicts the claim that no DDR has worked after a demand for total surrender."
Everystein Singleberg Timeowitz

Uri Kurlianchik on X - "I'm so tired of hearing Gaza was a defenseless ghetto. At 40,000+ militants, one of the world's largest military tunnel networks, and thousands of rockets, Gaza had a bigger and stronger military than most European states. Gaza was never a concentration camp. It was a fortress."
David Boxenhorn on X - "A fortress, supplied by its enemy. Who would believe it?"
Uri Kurlianchik on X - "To quote he who should not be named, "if all the water in all the seas was turned into ink and all the trees into paper, this would still not be enough to write down the madness happening in Israel every day.""

Meme - Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain: "One of the “children of Gaza” Israel killed, shown in this video doing what all children his age do, firing RPGs on Israelis. Wait, why?"

Meme - "Sacrificing your own Civilians on purpose to build a narrative. #GazaGenoLIE"

Meme - Aizenberg @Aizenberg55: "Hamas' May 2026 Gaza fatality list shows an even higher share of combat-age males among claimed war deaths, at a ratio to females. Hamas' own data, which includes some natural deaths and fatalities caused by Hamas itself, sharply contradicts any notion of "genocide.""
"Gaza War Fatalities Per Hamas - May 2026 by Age & Sex
72,835 fatalities as of May 2026
75% of fatalities ages 13-55 are male representing 26,000 excess fatalities
High teen male deaths = child soldiers
69% of fatalities ages 13-17 are male representing 2,900 excess fatalities"
When terrorist supporters go on about how Israel is killing "children", they're really admitting that Hamas uses child soldiers. But of course, Israel is to blame

Meme - Aizenberg @Aizenberg55: "13-year-old Muhammad Al-Qattani was portrayed as an innocent child killed in an IDF strike. But he was another child soldier recruited by Islamic Jihad, probably at age 12. The militarization of Gaza's children by Hamas and PU is never mentioned by those "NGOs" and "experts.""
When terrorist supporters accuse Israel of killing children, at least some of those "children" are actually enemy combatants. But of course, self defence is "genocide" if left wingers hate you, because they want you to be murdered by your enemies as they cheer

Eitan Fischberger on X - "For nearly three years, CPJ helped push the incendiary narrative that Israel was systematically slaughtering journalists. Now CPJ just announced that it has removed another 22 people from its database. Twenty were removed after new research established “engagement in combat," meaning terrorism. That’s on top of 8 it had already removed after determining they were Hamas or PIJ combatants. So CPJ has now removed 28 supposed journalists for literal participation in hostilities. And understand how absurdly narrow CPJ’s standard is. Affiliation with Hamas or PIJ doesn’t disqualify you. Even membership in an armed group doesn’t automatically disqualify you. CPJ only draws the line at actual engagement in combat. Yet even by that ridiculous standard, 28 names failed their test. The review began after Hamas and PIJ themselves published obituaries identifying supposed “journalists” as combatants. And those obituaries keep coming. CPJ’s credibility should be in tatters — for good."

Dr. Maalouf ‏ on X - "I was today years old when I learned that an estimated 20,000 deaths from natural causes in Gaza are counted as genocide victims. Apparently, Hamas hasn’t released the natural death numbers since 2023 and automatically includes anyone who dies in the total ‘genocide’ figure."

Olivia Kelly 💋 on X - "96% of Jews in Poland were murdered by the Nazis. That is genocide. 3% of Gaza’s population, mostly male combatants, died in the war they started. That is not genocide."
The cope is that genocide isn't defined by killing everyone in sight. Given how loose the definition of genocide is these days, if you make comments about destroying members of a group and then give one member of the group a condom and sternly tell him to use it, that is also "genocide".

Open Source Intel on X - "NEW: Footage from central Gaza shows an armed operative using a child to carry weapons into a residential building."
AG on X - "Worth noting that the human shield strategy would be pointless if they believed Israel was willing to just target indiscriminately. The only reason to do this is because Hamas/PIJ believe that having a child act as a human shield makes an Israeli action less likely."
Clearly, the fact that the IDF kills some children shows that they're guilty of "genocide"

Senior Hamas official sparks outrage in Gaza after referring to war casualties as 'material calculations' - "A senior Hamas official has drawn widespread anger from Gaza residents after referring to the high death toll in the Strip as “material calculations.” In a recent interview, Qatar-based Hamas senior official Sami Abu Zuhri remarked that the number of births in Gaza — around 50,000 — exceeds the number of war casualties, which he claimed demonstrates that the losses do not reflect the broader picture of the conflict. He added, “The martyrs [killed in the war] — the wombs of Gaza’s women will give birth to twice as many. This is the price that must be paid. If we thought in material terms, we would not be able to hold onto our land.”... During an anti-Hamas protest held yesterday in Khan Younis, demonstrators directly condemned Abu Zuhri’s remarks, chanting: “Oh Abu Zuhri, you disgrace, even the child wants to live.”"
Clear proof that Israel wants to kill as many Palestinians as possible

Barry Andrews MEP on X - "The updated @Google satellite images of #Gaza are quite incredible, for all to see..."
Gravimetric on X - "I'm glad you posted this because I just spent an hour on google maps, looking at Gaza. It showed me that you and the rest of the "Free Palestine" crew are clearly cherry-picking images and only posting images of the destruction. I made sure that every image I looked at was taken in 2026 and what I saw is that the majority of Gaza remains untouched by Israel. I encourage anyone reading this to look for yourself and you'll see that these liberal lunatics are lying and only posting images that back up their "genocide" nonsense. Has Israel blown shit up, yes. But it's nowhere near as bad as they're saying it is."
Edward Baker 🐇 on X - "You know what's weird? Use GoogleEarth and scan up the seaside. No destruction (a few marine ports, yes), but basically untouched. Why? You can't tunnel near the sea. Water table is too high."

Meme - "GERMANY 1945
LOSING A GENOCIDAL WAR YOU STARTED, DOESN'T MAKE YOU THE VICTIM OF ONE
GAZA 2026"

Gazan Maastricht University student faces no criminal investigation over October 7 video - " A Gazan student at Maastricht University who appeared to suggest in a video that he had been involved in the October 7 attack on Israel will not face further criminal investigation. The Public Prosecution Service (OM) and police found no reason to investigate the matter further. After reviewing the video, authorities concluded that no criminal offenses had been committed, including involvement in a terrorist attack, glorification of terrorism, or incitement. Media outlets reported that the student published a video to Instagram on September 26 in which he was watching footage of the attack on TV and saying “this is me” when masked Hamas fighters were on screen. The video has since been deleted."
Time to import more Palestinians

Pro-Palestine protesters defy police over Oct 7 march - "Pro-Palestinian protesters are planning a “provocative” pro-Palestinian march on Oct 7 in defiance of the police... A spokesman for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “Organising a march on the anniversary of the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust is an outrageous provocation. “It is impossible not to remember how Palestine activists demonstrated on the day of the attack back in 2023 before Israel had even responded. “That’s because the motivation of these hate marches has always had less to do with solidarity with Gaza than with hatred for the world’s only Jewish state. “Almost 60 per cent of Jews would not feel comfortable disclosing their Jewish identity at university, according to our representative polling. This event will do nothing to alleviate those concerns. We are writing to several institutions, including the universities involved, to demand accountability.” Last year, hundreds of students across Britain held Pro-Palestine protests on Oct 7, chanting “long live the intifada”, “from river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “occupation is a crime, get your hands off Palestine”. The march took place six days after a terror attack at Heaton Park synagogue, which caused the death of two people and the perpetrator."
The cruelty is the point

Ghadi Abou Mjahed on X - "Japan and Germany were completely destroyed in WW2, yet their kids didn’t become terrorists. Stop making excuses for Arabs."

Facebook - "In 1945, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Berlin and Dresden lay in ruins. Millions were dead and millions more were homeless. Within a generation, Japan and Germany had become two of the richest, most peaceful democracies on earth. Suffering is real. It has never forced anyone to become a terrorist. Rebuilding is a choice, and so is killing."
Comments: "And they weren’t perpetual refugees"

Kamel Amin Thaabet on X = "The savagery of October 7 caused too much cognitive dissonance with the progressive image of noble white-hearted Palestinian and wicked Israeli. They NEED the genocide narrative as a psychological corrective to return equilibrium to their internal worldview."
David Bernstein on X - "It's also why they tore down Israeli hostage posters. They have a psychological need to see Palestinians only as victims, and Israelis only as perpetrators."
It's also why many terrorism supporters, if they're not praising it as "resistance", claim that Oct 7 was done by the IDF and go on about the Hannibal Directive. Of course, some of them switch between the two, so it is literally "this is not happening, and it's good that it is", as is usual for left wingers

Meme - "How it started
We are so powerful. Allah akbar.. we will kill you! *Bodybuilder Muslim man with green headband with intact surroundings*
How it ends
Ya allah. Look what they did to us. It's genocide *Sad emaciated Muslim man with turban sitting in ruined city*"

Meme - "BY 1944, THE NAZIS HAD FIRED OVER 11,000 ROCKETS INTO ENGLAND. WHEN CHURCHILL RETALIATED, HE WAS CALLED A WAR HERO
BY 2024, HAMAS HAD FIRED OVER 32,000 ROCKETS INTO ISRAEL. WHEN NETANYAHU WAS RETALIATED, HE WAS CALLED A WAR CRIMINAL
OH, THE HYPOCRISY"

Leviathan on X - "The students of Rick Hansen Secondary School @RHSSStormPDSB in Mississauga are being encouraged to wear their keffiyeh to school to commemorate the October 7th terrorist attacks."
Clearly, schools are just teaching their students "empathy", and no one supports terrorists or terrorism

Mark Changizi on X - "Iranians show footage of piles of bodies to document the January massacre by the Islamic Republic. Because that’s what one does when documenting mass killing. The Holocaust? Mass graves and piles of corpses. Rwanda? Mass graves and human remains. Cambodia? Killing fields filled with skeletons. Srebrenica? Mass graves — so many bodies that investigators could reconstruct how perpetrators dug them up and moved them to secondary graves to hide the crime. Mass killing leaves bodies. But Gaza? Again and again, the visual evidence offered for “gEnOciDe!” is… buildings reduced to rubble."
It's the only genocide in history where the population keeps rising, of course

Jeremy Diamond on X - "We found 24/40 deaths can be traced back to Israeli military actions. That includes direct IDF strikes/gunfire, but also when Israeli military actions led captors to kill their hostages. That's not just us saying that: the IDF has acknowledged that in many of these cases"
Mehdi Hasan on X - "A majority of the hostage deaths can be ‘traced back to Israeli military actions’! Good job Netanyahu! Good job IDF defenders in the West! 👏🏽👏🏽"
Julie Roginsky on X - "This take is embarrassing. Every single hostage death can be traced back to Hamas taking these people hostage."
Terrorist supporter logic: if you try to rescue hostages and the terrorists kill them, it's your fault

Universities finally sound ready to tackle campus antisemitism: Ivison | National Post - "The macabre spectacle of planned pro-Hamas vigils at universities across Canada on Wednesday “honouring our martyrs” may wipe away the last vestiges of public trust in our seats of higher learning. The fact that remembrance on October 7 is being devoted to the perpetrators of murder and rape, rather than their victims, is a sign of how far universities have allowed a Marxian secular worship of “the oppressed” to justify bullying, intimidation and harassment of Jews in Canada... as a review of antisemitic incidents at Toronto Metropolitan University last year by Justice Mary Lou Benotto found, the absence of clear enforcement, combined with ambiguity around free expression, has contributed to the perception that disruption and discrimination carry few consequences. It is possible that individual students were sanctioned after the TMU review, which followed on from the violent disruption of two Jewish-linked events. Pages of the report were redacted on privacy grounds. But the Benotto review concluded that the deteriorating campus climate was the result of the absence of decisive action by the university. The consequences of this inaction are evident in the findings of the Campus Anti-Semitism and Student Experience (CASE) report, commissioned by the federal government. It found 84 per cent of the 900 Jewish students interviewed said antisemitism on campus is a serious problem; 95.7 per cent said they had experienced or witnessed it; 70 per cent said their university does not take antisemitism seriously; and 68 per cent said their campus is not a safe or inclusive place. More than half of those students avoid wearing or displaying Jewish symbols — a damning statistic in a country that trumpets its diversity credentials... York University removed an anti-Israel encampment almost immediately, while other campuses, such as McGill, tolerated them. They quickly became the focal points for antisemitism."

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib on X - "Is Hamas Becoming a Global Identity Vehicle? Support for Hamas has morphed into a transnational phenomenon that is not just about being “pro-Palestine.” Instead, Hamas and what it represents have become a form of rebellious identity expression and a vessel for a sprawling mix of grievances: ideological, economic, cultural, and psychological. Its jihadist violence is being repackaged as a catch‑all outlet for anti‑Western, anti‑capitalist, anti‑white, and antisemitic politics. Whether it is leftism or Islamism, the “resistance” narrative that Hamas ostensibly represents has become quite a normalized interpretation of how to think about October 7 and the past two decades in Gaza, while erasing Palestinian agency, responsibility, and accountability. The inability to truly understand the complexities and actual details of the Israel and Palestine conflict is why so many support Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and the Iranian regime, all of whom are somehow seen as correcting or challenging white-centric dominance and colonialism. The third anniversary of October 7 exposed the scale of this shift. Large crowds in American and European cities used the worst day for Jews since the Holocaust and the most disastrous day in Palestinian history to flaunt their support for violent Islamist extremism. To understand the extent to which the “pro-Palestine” industrial complex has mutated and created out-of-control monsters, consider how incredibly damaging and self-sabotaging the pro-Hamas rallies and actions were. They deliberately chose to brand the Palestinian cause as inseparable from the bloodshed, hostage‑taking, and fascistic jihad of 10/7. These Western pro‑Hamas demonstrators are erasing any distinction between Palestinians and a terror organization that has devastated Palestinian society far more than it ever harmed Israelis. Their behavior naturally triggers an instinctive backlash: a hardening of attitudes, a dismissal of Palestinian suffering, and a collapse of sympathy for legitimate Palestinian grievances. Compounding the problem is the statistically confirmed fact that large segments of the Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian diaspora communities have been unable or unwilling to counter this trend. Some have joined it outright, embracing the “resistance” narrative or hiding behind slogans like “this didn’t begin on October 7” to avoid confrontation with the anti‑Zionist machinery that dominates the “pro‑Palestine” space and to not be called “Zionists” or “traitors” by other members of the community. With diaspora communities paralyzed, universities compromised, and basic civic norms eroded, national‑level responses are now essential. Support for Hamas remains strong three years after October 7 and is growing more entrenched. Think ahead five or ten years: persistent economic strain, deeper ideological radicalization, and expanding networks of Islamist and far‑left extremism. What happens when those marching for Hamas begin entering governments, militaries, financial institutions, and other levers of power? What happens when already‑radicalized youth, with no off‑ramps, continue believing the West, Jews, and Zionists are their mortal enemies? Even if a tiny fraction – less than one‑tenth of one percent – turn to violence, the resulting instability could eclipse that of ISIS and al-Qaeda combined. A coordinated national strategy is overdue – not to suppress legitimate debate on Israel and Palestine, but to draw firm boundaries and stop tolerating the intolerable. This video shows just a small sample of pro-Hamas rallies in major US and European cities two days ago, on October 7."
We are still told that no one supports Hamas

Thread by @MorEdge_Insight on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Someone asked me on DM what roof tapping is. This is what it is. Israel fires a small warning shot onto the roof of a building Hamas is using. No warhead meant to bring it down. Just the knock. Get out. Then the calls, the texts, and the leaflets. Then, if the fighters are still in there, the real strike. This clip is Al Jazeera, live from Gaza, a correspondent in a press vest, and the knock lands on the tower behind her while she is on air. She ducks. The building is still standing. That’s the whole point of the tap. No other army does this. Not the Americans. Not the British. Not the Russians. Not the Arabs who spent the day firing the rockets. Hamas puts the launch sites and the commanders in the apartments, and Israel still knocks on the roof before it hits them. Then the same footage gets played as proof of a war crime. Watch it again. The warning is the explosion. And then come the leaflets. After the knock on the roof comes the paper. The whole sky fills with them. Arabic on one side, a map on the other, the block you are in, the road out, the time you have. So many millions are dropped you can film them falling and write “the whole sky is leaflets” across the clip. Phone calls. Texts. Roof taps. Then this. Israel tells the entire building to empty before it hits the men who turned the building into a launch site. Hamas tells the building to stay, films the paper coming down, and calls the warning a war crime. No other army on earth drops a sky full of instructions on the people it is about to strike. The leaflets are the proof. They just get edited out of the story."