Links - 23rd May 2026 (3 - Islamophobia in the UK)

Some Christians believe homosexuality is a sin – get over it - spiked - "This is the news that Labour lefties and gay-rights activists are shocked – shocked, I tell you! – that Labour leader Keir Starmer visited a Christian church that adheres to Christian doctrine on sexual matters. On Good Friday, Starmer swung by Jesus House in Brent in London and praised its mostly black congregation for the good works they have done in helping to roll out the Covid vaccine and running the local food bank. Instantly the identitarian set went into meltdown, because Jesus House is home to Christians who, get this, actually believe what it says in the Bible.  Pink News freaked out, as it always does. Starmer should not be mingling with ‘notorious’ homophobes, it said. The Labour Campaign for LGBT+ Rights said Starmer’s visit to Jesus House was ‘unacceptable’. Owen Jones slammed Starmer for associating with a ‘rampantly homophobic’ church. This is the same Owen Jones who spent the past five years as a prominent supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, who frequently met with hardcore Islamists and called Hamas his ‘friends’. If Jones is shocked by black Christians in north London who write letters to newspapers opposing same-sex marriage, he is going to collapse when he hears what Hamas does to gay people. (It kills them.) This is literally what Jesus House is being hauled over the coals for: opposing same-sex marriage. Just look at the Guardian’s headline: ‘Keir Starmer criticised over visit to church where pastor opposed same-sex marriage.’ By the same token Starmer should also never set foot in a Catholic Church, given the Vatican recently reiterated its hostility to same-sex marriage. (The church cannot bless same-sex unions, because God ‘does not bless sin’, it said. Ouch.) Or a mosque, for that matter. Although it will of course be a cold day in the hell that Jesus House thinks is populated by gay people before leftists and identitarians criticise someone like Starmer for meeting Muslims who disapprove of homosexuality. The only standards these people have are double standards... Starmer eventually apologised for his visit to Jesus House. The spineless one also took down the video of the visit, which showed him meeting black Christians who have done some great work in their local community. They’re the wrong kind of blacks in the eyes of the woke scolds; shove them down the memory hole... We need more tolerance in society. But tolerance doesn’t mean nodding along with everyone’s views or lifestyles. That’s moral relativism, not tolerance. What it means is that Jesus House can think what it wants but it must also tolerate the existence of homosexuality and gay culture because it operates in a free society. And it means politicians will frequently meet with individuals and groups whose views they disapprove of because we live in a pluralistic society in which all sorts of outlooks must be allowed to flourish. There was nothing wrong with Starmer’s visit to Jesus House. It’s his apology that was immoral, and which potentially sets a dangerous precedent."
From 2021. Time to ban Christianity for homophobia, and crack down on "anti-Muslim hatred"

Nick Dixon on X - "This is hilarious. Dominic Grieve says everyone in the Working Group who came up with the new definition of so-called ‘anti-Muslim hatred’ all agreed it would do no harm…and they were all Muslims!"

Imtiaz Mahmood on X - "Christopher Hitchens predicted in 2009 that the term ‘Islamophobia’ would eventually be used to criminalize any speech that is critical of Islam. The whole concept of ‘Islamophobia’ is about implementing Sharia blasphemy laws in the West. - @realMaalouf"

The good and bad news about Labour’s leaked social cohesion strategy | The Spectator - "the new strategy is clear-eyed that Islamism – responsible for three-quarters of the police’s counter-terror workload and 94 per cent of all terrorist deaths in the last quarter-century – is the country’s greatest extremist threat. And it recognises Islamism’s institutional strength...   A section entitled “resetting the social contract” makes clear that “those who come here must make a genuine effort to integrate into and engage with our shared way of life” and must speak good English, as almost a tenth of the non-white population do not: “the ability to use and understand our shared language should be a fundamental basis for participating in society and an expectation of those who wish to call the UK home.” Perhaps the same principle could be extended to Green Party election leaflets?...   The risk, of course, is that the bad things in the strategy happen, and the good ones do not. As one colleague put it, the document reads like “Morgan McSweeney’s last hurrah.” That underlines that there is likely to be significant pushback from the left against some of the proposals.  The Government is unstable and has a record of policy reversals. If Starmer falls, Prime Minister Angela Rayner and Communities Secretary Wajid Khan are unlikely to take the same view. And at the operational level, the strategy suffers from the classic delusion that any objective can be achieved by setting up new boards and committees. These will almost certainly end up stocked with the same identity-politics activists, woolly-minded councillors and forty-watt policemen who helped bring about the mess we are in now. Previous efforts at resets, including by Tony Blair’s government, failed for the same reason. As the saying goes, personnel is policy.   The creation of an “anti-Muslim hostility” tsar, with his or her government megaphone, constantly finding tendentious new examples of “hostility,” constantly pressuring for new restrictions, constantly present on Radio 4, could alone cancel out a significant part of the good which the strategy’s other policies would do."
Can the report's authors be prosecuted for anti-Muslim hatred?

Wall Street Apes on X - "Criticism of Islam is now effectively illegal in the UK
“Today is a dark day for the UK. Labour have made a move that doesn't just undermine free speech. It entirely removes it in an unprecedented way  The only chance of Islam reforming was through scrutiny, debate, and pressure from the government, and now Labour have made even having this conversation potentially unlawful using this definition, prejudicial stereotyping of Muslims and treating them as a collective group defined by fixed and negative characteristics with the intention of encouraging hatred against them, irrespective of their actual opinions, beliefs, or actions as individuals.   It has removed the ability to not just robustly debate Islam, but even criticise individual Muslims, irrelevant of their behaviour. This unbelievably clever wording means any negative view of Islam or indeed individual Muslims can now be silenced as stereotyping from a place of prejudice and make any criticism of Islamic ideology illegal as it would be treating Muslims as a collective.   I've been working all day to find a way round, and there is none as if those thresholds fail. There is always the possibility of being seen to be encouraging hate, as it is impossible to prove that wasn't your intention as it is entirely in the eyes of someone else.   It is now impossible to even in a respectful or intellectual manner, discuss any negative aspect of Islamic ideology or behaviour of any Muslim without the risk of persecution. This is a stance I never thought Labour would go as far as implementing, and especially whilst singling out only Islam.   This offers no protections to any other religious group and places Islam, not just on a pedestal, but in some cases above the law. If I find a video like I often do of a Muslim expressing entirely unacceptable views, that in some way happens to align with the Quran or Islamic ideology, I cannot share this or discuss it in a negative light without appearing to be spreading hostility.   Coming from a place of prejudice or indeed highlighting fixed and negative characteristics of said ideology, I will take some time to decide where I go from here, but my aim has only ever been to share what I consider to be the truth and my personal perspective and not to break the law, and I'm not sure that is possible to do anymore. Well played Labour well played. You haven't just bought in de facto blasphemy laws. You have gone a whole lot further.   If it wasn't terrifying, it would be impressive, but it is a reminder to us all how fragile freedom is and how quickly it can be taken away as it has been today.”"

The war on dogs is barking mad - spiked - "Has Britain become ‘too dog-friendly’? Apparently, even as war rages in Iran and an energy crisis bites at home, the question of whether too many public spaces are welcoming to dogs is one that BBC News felt it had to address this week.  ‘From coffee shops, restaurants and retailers… dog-friendly spaces are becoming easy to come by’, opens a news report from BBC Wales. ‘But people who are allergic to dogs, or afraid of them, say that the rise of these dog-friendly spaces is a concern’, the reporter continues... as more than a few people have pointed out on social media, there could be more to the BBC’s story than a concern for cynophobes. It could, some have suggested, be yet another reflection of the growing influence of Islam in the UK – a religion that considers dogs to be impure. This might sound like a bit of a stretch, but the link is not entirely tenuous. Indeed, the UK government itself has been leading the anti-dog discourse, seemingly on behalf of British Muslims. Earlier this year, when the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) outlined how it planned to make the English countryside ‘less white’, it claimed that dogs are one of the main impediments to ethnic-minority Britons enjoying rural England. ‘A lot of Muslims find dogs very difficult’, a Labour Party adviser and advocate of the policy told GB News.  Nor has DEFRA been the only state body with dogs in its crosshairs... Camden Council in London has also proposed banning dogs outright, leashed and unleashed, from several of the parks under its control. It was surely only a matter of time before the culture warriors came for man’s best friend. After all, everything else that the British people love and cherish, from football to the national flag to the local pub, has long been considered fair game.  Still, if the powers-that-be think Britons will give up their dogs without a fight, then they really must be barking mad."

Drive to ban 'racist' dogs from the Welsh countryside to make the outdoors more 'inclusive' - "Labour-run Wales has been told to ban dogs from parts of the countryside to help make the outdoors 'anti-racist'.   The devolved administration has vowed to end racism in the country by 2030 and ensure 'all areas' of public life are transformed.  According to a report funded by the Welsh government to help steer its 'anti-racist' policy, dog-free zones should be set up to make outdoor areas more inclusive... Others include creating more urban allotments where people can grow their own food and handing out grants and subsidies to students, members of ethnic minorities and asylum seekers to help them 'commit more to environment and climate change issues'.    The taxpayer-funded report has been widely slated online and was described by Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies as 'virtual signalling nonsense'.   'This kind of outdated virtue signalling nonsense is completely out of touch with the needs of the people of Wales,' he told the Telegraph.  'Labour is stuck on yesterday's thinking, the kind that is being roundly rejected globally. Time to turf them out.' On the basis of reports provided to date, the Welsh Government has concluded that ethnic minorities face 'barriers' to the outdoors created by 'exclusions and racism'.   The reason why dog-free areas would help tackle racism is not explained in the report, which will be used by the government to 'support policy teams' that are 'developing and implementing' Wales' anti-racist plans.   Climate Cymru BAME was set up by Climate Cymru, a larger environmental campaign group made up of 370 organisations from across Wales.   Climate Cymru BAME consists of around 20 members made up of students and professionals who have interest in environmental preservation and protection, who work with North Wales Africa Society (NWAS), Sub Sahara Advisory Board (SSAP) and the Northwest Wales Climate Action Group.  A separate set of recommendations submitted by the NWAS also called for 'dog-free areas'.   It said that during one of its focus groups, 'one black African female stated that she feels unsafe with the presence of dogs'. Others also kept 'seeing dog fouling on the floor', the report added. The NWAS report said that barriers to outdoor activities include the perception that growing food in gardens or allotments is 'dominated by middle-aged white women'.   Its authors also informed the Welsh government that people from ethnic minorities were upset about the 'low quality' of local green spaces.   One person complained that 'the green spaces are not respected in areas where there is a bigger population of ethnic minority people'.  Other problems flagged included lack of public transport to non-urban green spaces and poor air quality in towns and cities. The report also found that some BAME who provided evidence had 'concerns of the lack of understanding and relationships by the wider white population particularly in rural areas'.   It added there were  'concerns of the lack of understanding and relationships by the wider white population particularly in rural areas, from personal experiences'."

Eyal Yakoby on X - "Convicted terrorist Shahid Butt, who is currently favored to win the race for Birmingham MP in the UK: “Don't take Christians and Jews as your friends; non-believers cannot be trusted. Stick with the Muslims.” The UK is committing suicide."
If you criticise him, that's Islamophobia

Michael Deacon: The Islamists are winning - "On the evening of July 7, 2005, Tony Blair sought to reassure a shattered nation with the following promise. The terrorists, he vowed, would never win. “When they try to intimidate us, we will not be intimidated,” declared the then prime minister. “When they seek to change our country or our way of life by these methods, we will not be changed.”  Stirring words. Sadly, however, they proved to be flatly untrue. Two decades later, it’s becoming ever clearer that the terrorists are indeed winning, that we are indeed intimidated, and that they have indeed succeeded in changing our country and our way of life. And if anyone doubts it, let me point out that we are about to pass the fifth anniversary of one of the most contemptible episodes in modern British history: the driving from public life of the Batley schoolteacher.  In March 2021, a Religious Studies teacher in West Yorkshire was said to have shown his pupils a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad during a class discussion. After furious protests and death threats, the teacher and his family were forced into hiding – where they remain to this day. Five whole years later.  What the teacher did may have been unwise. But it wasn’t illegal. So why was an innocent man deprived of both his livelihood and his liberty? The answer is as simple as it is shameful. No, it’s not – or not primarily – to do with political correctness. It’s to do, above all, with fear. Whatever they may claim, the truth is that our elites, from politics to policing, are pursuing a policy of spineless appeasement towards Islamist extremists – because they’re utterly petrified of what will happen if they don’t... The lesson, for the people of Britain, is that we must obey the rules of a foreign religion, or else.  Which is why I say the terrorists are winning. The aim of terrorism is not just to kill. It’s to gain and exert power – through fear of further terrorism. And it’s working. Our elites, it seems, will do almost anything to avoid arousing the ire of Islamist fanatics – because they remember not only 7/7, but also the murder of Lee Rigby, the Manchester Arena bombing, the 2017 Parsons Green train bombing, the 2017 Westminster attack, the London Bridge attacks of both 2017 and 2019, the murder of Sir David Amess, the attack on the Manchester synagogue… And no doubt, at the time of the protests against the Batley teacher, they were panicking about a possible repeat of what had happened in France, less than six months earlier. In October 2020, during a lesson about freedom of expression, a schoolteacher named Samuel Paty had shown his class a caricature of Muhammad. Ten days later, after word of his transgression had spread, an enraged Islamist beheaded him in the street. So, in the desperate hope of preventing more bombings or beheadings, our feeble powers-that-be perpetually pander and placate. What else can we conclude, when we see a man dragged through the courts for setting light to a Qur’an, or Israeli football fans being banned from Birmingham, or schools in the North of England being warned that children’s drawings could be deemed blasphemous under Islamic law?  Such an approach, however, is not just humiliating. It’s counter-productive. Just ask Sir Salman Rushdie.  “This is quite simply a lesson we learn in the school playground,” he said in 2012. “If you appease the bully, you make sure that he will bully you some more. Not less. It doesn’t solve the problem. It makes the problem worse.”  Every child knows this. Shame so many politicians don’t."

Row over ‘Islamic prayers’ at Church of England primary school - "A Church of England school is at the centre of a row after claims that children were asked to participate in a Muslim prayer.  Richard Tice, the deputy Reform UK leader, has written to Dame Sarah Mullally, the Archbishop of Canterbury, over allegations that a primary school in his Lincolnshire constituency encouraged seven-year-old pupils to kneel and bow their heads in the style of an Islamic prayer. Mr Tice received a complaint from a parent in his Boston and Skegness constituency last week, who claimed that seven-year-old pupils were “coerced, manipulated and cajoled” into the act “despite none of the children in the classroom being of the Islamic faith”.  The father claimed his seven-year-old daughter’s class was shown a video of people kneeling on prayer mats in the direction of Mecca and reciting a prayer to Allah during a religious education lesson last Wednesday, before being told to “have a go” themselves.  He said he was shocked when he was putting his daughter to bed last week and she said: “We did prayers to Allah yesterday.”... a different Church of England primary school invited a Muslim speaker who compared the war in Gaza to the Holocaust to teach pupils how to pray to Allah.  Mark Khadim Jackson, a white Muslim convert, spoke to pupils aged seven and eight at Chester-le-Street Church of England school, in Co Durham"
If you object to living under Sharia Law, that's anti-Muslim hatred
Time to abolish Church of England schools to prevent Theocracy

Dr. Maalouf ‏ on X - "There are over 500 mosques in London, but they chose to pray on the grounds of Westminster Abbey, the most sacred site in the Anglican Church. Why?"

Is public prayer un-British? - "“Too many are too polite to say this,” Timothy wrote. “But mass ritual prayer in public spaces is an act of domination. Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions.”  While he was not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square was an Islamist, he continued, “the domination of public spaces is straight from the Islamist playbook.” He said the event was “an act of domination and division” and “shouldn’t happen again”... Public expressions of faith tend to receive a cool reception. A YouGov poll in 2012 found that 67 per cent of Britons thought religion should be a personal matter with no place in public life. More recent polling is more divided: a 2024 survey by the Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life found 42 per cent saw religion in the workplace as positive, against 41 per cent who disagreed. Views also vary sharply by faith: 80 per cent of Jewish respondents said Britain is a Christian country, compared with 64 per cent of Christians, 63 per cent of Hindus and just 38 per cent of Muslims. In 2012 there was a similar row in Spitalfields, when hundreds of Muslim men assembled in the street for the Salat al-Jummah (Friday prayer) at the same time as Bideford council lost a High Court battle over the right to begin meetings with Christian prayer.  The ongoing success of the Trafalgar Square event reflects a growing confidence among Muslims in Britain about public displays of faith. Since 2021, the Premier League has allowed breaks during Ramadan so Muslim footballers can end their fast with liquids and energy gels once the sun sets. Nadhim Zahawi, the former Conservative chancellor, who was raised in a Muslim household, said prayer should be done in private. “It makes me feel deeply uncomfortable that fellow Muslims feel they have to do this in the middle of the street,” he told journalist Harry Cole. “The place for God is inside the house of worship. Don’t bring it into politics. Don’t make it into something that is a symbol of defiance.”"
"Christians have prayed publicly in the past, so it's okay for Muslims to do that today. But of course, if Christians do that today, that's theocracy"
Some Islamic sources say you shouldn't pray in public, too. Obviously they're Islamophobic

Claire Coutinho on X - "A hijab used to hide the abuse of 10-year-old Sara Sharif at the hands of her father.  Women forced into cousin marriages while the NHS praised its ‘benefits’.  Children groomed by gangs while police and social workers looked the other way.  In each of these cases public services turned a blind eye to the harm of women and girls because they were scared of being called Islamophobic.  Labour’s Islamophobia definition will make this worse.   If we put one group on a pedestal and make it harder for public services to do their jobs, then we will only foster more inequality and resentment."
Liza Rosen on X - "British Parliament stunned by the following speech of a female MP refusing to bow down to the narrative about Islam benefiting and enriching British society.  Please listen to the powerful speech and share it to remind everyone that women and girls deserve protection from Islam’s norms and practices."
Justin on X - "There can be no doubt in anyones mind that Labour are doing nothng to protect women and girls. This week another example: 40m GBP gifted to protect mosques. 1m GBP from the home office for extra policing for women and girls. Mosques are not under serious or constant attack. The occiasional idiot. More churches and Synogoges are attacked than Mosques.    Thats beyond a joke."

Labour won’t say it, so I will: Islam has an anti-Semitism problem - "Anti-Semitism is a disease in the soul of British Islam today. The religion I grew up in was one of gentleness and deep spirituality. But the first thing I noticed when I came to Britain from East Africa was the fractured nature of ethnic minority communities here.  In Kenya – where I grew up – Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims shared religious events together, ate together, and regularly socialised together. In the England of 1983, though, I came to realise that identity politics was the norm and each community viewed the other with suspicion and hostility.  This sectarian tendency has worsened over the past four decades, and one of the nastiest expressions is the anti-Semitism that has infected British Islam – spread by Islamists and their useful idiots.  Merchants of hate have repeatedly used the Palestinian issue as a recruiting tool to encourage hostility to Jews, while successive British politicians have over decades failed to challenge and call out the anti-Semitism within the small but significant parts of my religious community. The reason is for fear of being called “divisive” or “racist” or “Islamophobic”.  As someone who set up Tell MAMA, the first government-backed national monitoring centre on anti-Muslim hate, I can tell you that there is nothing “Islamophobic” about calling out Jew hate; in fact, after six national anti-Semitic incidents in the last five weeks, we are all duty bound to call out what we see. I have known for years that Islamist campaigners and activists have used support for Palestine as a rallying call to promote a set of repugnant and poisonous views. This has included calls for the Islamic takeover of Israel and the subjugation of Jews.  We are now seeing the decades-long effects of a supine unwillingness to challenge Muslim anti-Semitism for fear of a community backlash, or because of a passive unwillingness to “rock the boat”. With little challenge to these narratives, it was only time before anti-Semitism became a reality on the streets of our country. Another indicator of the depth of anti-Semitism has been the range of conspiracy theories that have percolated among my co-religionists. One of these conspiracy theories is the idea that Mossad spreads disinformation within Muslim communities to control them.  Or consider the mad idea about 9/11 and 7/7 being the work of “Jews”, and the notion that terror attacks by Muslim perpetrators were conducted by Israel to smear Muslims.  You would have expected that such conspiracies would have fizzled out some decades ago, but in the two decades of working with Muslim communities I have had these ideas whispered to me, as though I was a “fellow brother in the fight against Israel”.  Little did they realise that I thought that such people needed to be locked up.  We have heard Sir Keir Starmer speak about the scourge of anti-Semitism, and the need for communities to stand with Britain’s Jews. I applaud and commend him for these public calls. However, have you ever heard Starmer speak about the other elephant in the room? The giant one that has “Muslim anti-Semitism” written across it? Given the problems affecting Labour, and the real possibility of a range of independents being elected who see their world through the prism of Palestine, I suspect that Starmer will continue to dodge the obvious.  He can’t say it, but I will. Whilst the vast majority of Muslims are an asset to our country, unless we have a root and branch rejection of Muslim anti-Semitism, calls for commiserations with British Jews are futile. Jews deserve much better than that; they deserve the truth."

NDP and Al-Quds Day / Suffering due to Islamic Jihadists

"TORONTO PROTEST
AL-QUDS DAY
يَوْم القدْس

NO WAR ON IRAN AND LEBANON
SATURDAY MARCH 14 3 PM
US CONSULATE, 360 UNIVERSITY AVE"
Yves Engler: "With efforts to shut this down everyone in Toronto should be attending"
Henry Lowi: "A team-building event for supporters of IRGC and Basiji. No place for antiwar supporters of peace and freedom for Iranians and Palestinians."

Surprise, surprise. The NDP supports terrorism as usual. Of course if it was a "far right" protest he'd be cheering its ban.

"The people in Gaza are suffering because of Islamic jihadists (Hamas).
The people in Lebanon are suffering because of Islamic jihadists (Hezbullah).
The people in Iran are suffering because of Islamic jihadists (IRGC).
Maybe the problem is Islamic jihadists."

Links - 23rd May 2026 (2 - Women)

Meme - "My ex really set the bar high for the next nigga. he got me flowers every week , took me on lunch dates outside on a blanket w/ my favorite wine, cooked for me ALLL the time. I'm literally not dealing w/ less."
"So why is he an ex ?"
"Cus he wasn't cute.. I was trying sum. different"

Meme - "When I ask him "boobs or butt?" and he says "personality" but I have mental problems and fantastic boobs"

Meme - Endymion @EndymionYT: "This you?"
Sine. @sneminaj: "Treat men like dogs
more men need to be told they're fucking losers
Men are so evil and mean
I believe in treating men like shit idc."
sine. @sneminaj: "Men aren't obsessed with women anymore & it's weird."

Meme - "as a woman on twitter you have guys like AryanHitlerWomanDestroyer being like "wow jana what a nice pie you baked i hope you have such a lovely day!" and then Tom, Democrat, father of 3 girldad wifeguy will be like "FUCK YOU WHORE! i hope you fucking DIE" for no reason"
Gothic Rapist @guenoncore: "You're very sweet Jana I'm proud of you. Keep up the positivity! Don't let them get you down!"
jana @janapilled: "thank you Gothic Rapist!"

Instagram - "how girls expect their man to react to their new dress"

Sharing ex’s nudes with employer was in public interest: CRT - "A woman who took her ex-partner to B.C.’s Civil Resolution Tribunal over his sharing of intimate images she sent him has lost her bid for compensation under the province’s Intimate Images Protection Act.  The images in question depicted the complainant “exposing different private parts of her body and engaging in sexual acts,” and the respondent acknowledged sending those images to the complainant’s employer, but CRT member Megan Stewart ruled that the images did not qualify as “intimate” under the act, for a very specific reason... MR sent photos and videos of herself to SS during their relationship that were taken “while the applicant was at work, and during regular business hours.”  After their relationship ended, SS sent the images to MR’s employer, which is not named in the decision.  “The respondent says he shared the images with the applicant’s employer to alert her superiors to her ‘workplace misconduct,’” Stewart’s decision reads.  “The applicant says the respondent acted with malicious intent to cause her embarrassment and reputational harm.”  Under the Intimate Images Protection Act, the definition of an intimate image includes two components. First, the image must depict the subject engaging in a sexual act, nearly nude or exposing their genitals or breasts. And second, the subject of the image must have had a reasonable expectation of privacy when the images were taken.  In this case, Stewart ruled that the first part of the test was clearly met, but the second part was not. “The evidence suggested at least some of the images were taken in parts of the office that were accessible to the public or other employees,” the decision reads... “A person who takes otherwise intimate recordings of themselves at work does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in those images to the extent they are shared with their employer for the purpose of investigating alleged misconduct, whatever the sharer’s motives,” the decision reads... Even if the images had qualified as intimate under the act, Stewart found damages would not have been warranted in the case.  One of the possible defences the act sets out for those accused of sharing another person’s intimate images is the argument that distributing the images “was in the public interest and did not extend beyond what was in the public interest.”  “I find it was in the public interest for the respondent to share the applicant’s images with her employer,” the decision reads.  “The applicant took the photos at work, on the employer’s property, during business hours … The evidence suggested the locations where the images were taken were not always secure and private, including one photo that was undisputedly taken while the applicant was at the ‘front counter.’ I find even on a strict interpretation of what is in ‘the public interest,’ these specific circumstances are captured.”"
If you don't let women take nudes at work in open areas, that's misogyny

Meme - Jay @therealjayber: "The most insufferable and least fun women to date are women between 30-40 years old. At that age, they know the window of opportunity to secure a husband and start a family is fast closing, it's now or never! So they're perpetually stressed out and rushing you through everything, so she can still fulfill her stupid timeline and hit her life milestones by her deadline. Women that age finally realize that marriage is a game of musical chairs there are only so few marriageable men to go around yet so many single women looking for their beta bucks."

Meme - Single Woman: "I MAY BE SINGLE. BUT I'M NOT ALONE *hugs dog and 2 cats*
Couple: "AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
Woman: "LET'S GO FUCK"
Man: "YES!!!"
*Sad Single Woman*

Meme - Leonarda Jonie @leonardaisfunE: "For all my ladies asking, "Am I ugly?" Here's how you know:"
"4. Asian"
Adam Fagusea @AdamFagusea: "The last point is legit hilarious. When I started working at a top marketing firm 10 years ago, my boomer superior got drunk at a party and told me that we don't use attractive asian women in commercials. I ask why "They trigger white women who control 85% of household spending""

Meme - alidenoire: "I used to believe in Domestic violence real bad and one interaction changed that. I was dating a man in the Air Force. He started playing in my face. I caught him hiding his phone a few times. Etc. I confronted him and he basically told me I was being insecure. So I reached up and slapped his face with all my might. This man sat on the edge on the bed calmly and looked at me and said "You know I'm trained to kill people". I have not dated a man in the military or hit a man since."
Most non reciprocal violence in relationships is from women, but left wingers refuse to believe that fact. If you don't think women have a blank cheque to be as abusive as they want, you're a misogynist

I married the typical, had my fun and want to settle down girl. : r/sexlessmarriage - "  I found out 6 months ago that my wife had over 100 partners. She lived in a frat house in college. She would give guys bjs in the middle of a party. Run around naked at parties. Bragged about guys finishing on her face. She use to compare guys to how much shot in the back of her throat.  Then she turned 35, wanted a family. Found me and lied for 5 years. She won’t even make out with me. She refuses to do oral. She refuses to even be naked. We only had sex for a kid. But I was a safe bet.  I hate myself."

Meme - "Wormwood @Wormwood >be told women have been kept out of literature for centuries
>have to use initials/ publish anonymously to be taken seriously
>modern day
>they finally dominate the book scene
>8/10 best sellers are women
>it's all pornography"

Anti Woke Memes on X - "Liberal Woman said this to a Pro-Life Woman. “She’s so pretty, why don't we just let her get r*ped...” Why are so many White Liberal Women deranged??"
Michael Orthodox ☦ on X - "No amount of incel chud rage even comes close to the hatred women have for prettier women"

Gen Z Hybristophilia: The Role of tiktok in Young Women’s Attraction to Deviant Men - "This research explores hybristophilia (an individual’s sexual interest in and attraction to those who commit crimes) among Generation Z women, particularly through investigating how Gen Z female users interact with and feel about hybristophilic content and how this content impacts their attraction to offenders. Study 1 involved a content analysis of 66 videos and 91 comments on TikTok, identifying seven main themes: The Halo Effect, Actor-Offender Transference, Sympathy, Romance and APD, Protection and Loyalty, “I Can Fix Him,” Gen Z Irony, and Victim Fantasy. Study 2 used a cross-sectional survey with 95 women aged 18–27 to measure exposure to and engagement with hybristophilic content, hybristophilia scores, dark personality traits, and empathy levels. The results indicate that participants’ engagement with hybristophilic TikTok content positively predicted their hybristophilia scores, which were also predicted by Machiavellianism and psychopathy. These findings highlight the need for targeted interventions to mitigate the influence of digital content on young women’s perceptions of offenders, addressing the influence of power dynamics associated with Machiavellianism and psychopathy. Moreover, they provide a solid foundation for future research and clinical practice regarding hybristophilia, with the proposed Hybristophilia Scale being a promising tool for use in clinical settings upon further validation."
Aka women liking criminals

Meme - "Women hate men. Women hate themselves. Women hate other women. What do women even like?"
"Charging their phone, being bisexual, eating hot chip and lying."

Meme - SCRUMMY: "We go through a lot just to look good for men"
Milo: "Men hate these long artificial nails. So no..."
Weird. I thought women "do it for themselves" or "do it for other women"

Meme - kaseyma: "Women asking for financial stability aren't materialistic. We're just done parenting grown men."
calibredtwan: "You're literally asking to be parented as a grown woman"

I think I got reverse catfished last night : r/relationship_advice - "  I matched with this girl on Tinder. She was significantly bigger than girls I normally date. But we have literally everything thing in common so I figured I’d give it a shot. So after talking for a few days we decided to meet up at this nerd bar last night.  I get there and pick a table. After waiting a few minutes this beautiful woman comes over and starts trying to flirt with me. That’s very strange so I assume she must be after something. Free drinks, drugs, my kidneys, I don’t know.  So I explain to her that I’m actually waiting for someone and I don’t want to give a bad first impression by chatting up some other woman when she walks in.  That’s when she springs it on me that she’s actually the one I’m waiting for. She told me how she’s lost about 130lbs over the past couple years and she wants to make sure guys are actually interested in her and not just her body.  And she was also testing me to see if I would ditch the fat girl if someone hotter showed up. So here’s the thing, I don’t know how I feel about being “tested”. I don’t want to live my life questioning every decision I make like she might jump out from around the corner at any minute.  But she’s also really attractive and very cool otherwise. I’m not sure how I should proceed.
Edit: I didn’t expect this to be downvoted so much. I guess people just prefer the standard “I just walked in on my fiancé and my father, brother, and best friend all had their penis’ inside her at the same time. Should I still go through with the wedding?”"

'I fell for Egyptian toyboy 35 years younger - I should never have got on the plane' - "A 61-year-old grandma who says she fell in love with a 26-year-old Egyptian toyboy she met online has said she 'blames herself' after their relationship broke down. Jacqueline Dube fell in love with the young pastry chef after meeting on TikTok, and despite a 2,500 mile distance and 35-year age gap, she claims the pair spoke every day. After 16 months of talking, she flew out to meet him for the first time in September, where she says they declared their love for each other. But after her second trip a month later - during which he proposed to her and they began planning a wedding, she claims - she realised the relationship might not be all she had hoped... The man was approached for comment and said: "This woman is crazy.""

Asian Americans - the worst of both cultures with the benefits of neither : r/thepassportbros - "Dated a couple of Asian American women and they sucked. Small sample size I know but in my experience, Asian Americans/Canadians/Aussies are the worst of both cultures with the benefits of neither. They have;
- Western entitlement
- Asian immaturity
- Western stubbornness, argumentativeness, feminism, body counts and overly strong opinions on everything
- Asian hypergamy and still wanting "a provider"
- Western obsession with being strong and independent
- Asian controlling parents/lack of freedom
- Western victim complex
- Asian nationalism for the fatherland/arrogance about race
Would genuinely rather date a white westerner than another western-raised Asian.
Thoughts?"
Could describe Singaporean women too

Saavni Srivastva 🍁 on X - "Dear boys, suppose your wife accidentally becomes pregnant by another man. As a good husband, what would you do?"
When women say they want a "good man"...

Meme - "Back in the day Halloween costumes were meant to scare you... Today they're meant to give you a boner."

Cinemas Keep Finding Cucumbers After 'Fifty Shades Darker' Screenings - "Ushers have been finding them since the first Fifty Shades flick was released, almost exactly two years ago. One unidentified worker sent his or her friends a pair of Snapchats showing two cucumbers resting in two separate seats... And then there are those who don’t even bother with sneaking outside food into a screening. In February 2015, a woman in Sinaloa, Mexico was arrested after getting caught masturbating during the movie. (La Verdad helpfully pointed out that she was an unmarried 33-year-old, which obviously explains everything)."

Meme - anabel: "Has any other woman noticed that men are no longer persuasive?? Once they ask you out on a date and you say no it's over"
georgie @BeefyGorilla: "If I wanna play games I have a play station"
When a lady says no, she means...

Meme - Elsa Moreck @elsamoreck: "Most men give up after 3 rejections. They mistake temporary discomfort for permanent failure. The breakthrough comes at approach 30, not 3."

Elsa Lauren Moreck | Facebook - "Think you’re bad at approaching women? Or have you just not done it enough? Most guys approach three times, get rejected three times, and quit. They convince themselves it’s not working. That they’re not cut out for it. That approaching isn’t for them. Wrong. You’re not failing. You’re warming up. Three rejections is nothing. That’s not even scratching the surface. Your first 10 approaches will be rough. Your next 10 will be better. By approach 30? You’ll be confident, smooth, and unfazed. But most men never get there. They quit at three and spend years wondering “what if.” Champions know the truth: Rejection isn’t failure. It’s repetition. And repetition builds mastery. You’re not getting rejected. You’re getting practice. #dating #datingadvice #makemenstrongagain #flirtlikeapro"

S'PORE GIRL SAYS LOCAL DATING SCENE TOO JIALAT, NOBODY CAN MEET HER STANDARDS - "22F and the dating scene makes me despair.  Me: 22F, active lifestyle, all sorts of hobbies ranging from trading card games to martial arts, lowkey chatterbox, honours year NUS student.  My standards: decent shape, has hobbies and interests he is able to talk about, and is in a position that I’m not likely to be the main breadwinner in the long run. idgaf if he’s a poly grad with a side hustle, another student in my faculty, a fresh grad with fresh grad pay, whatever. Have something going on.  I am very very lucky if I can find someone who even hits 2 of those. Went on so many blind dates. One of the better dates was another TCG nerd who I could talk with all night, but wasn’t physically attractive for me – alamak, what to do, close two eyes also cannot.  Then got the pretty boys who have interests but cannot talk.  Then got those who cannot present themselves well, but can talk… however, it is only about work."
Women like to boast about having high standards. Probably they think that having high standards makes them more of a catch

natalee🍒🌸 ✪ on X - "It’s not the same thing. Women dating older men is normal. Men dating younger women is just weird. Sorry."

HK Influencer, 33, Comes Out As Mistress Of 66-Yr-Old Bank Chairman; Says “Money Is More Important Than Marriage” - "Hong Kong influencer Rachel Zhong aka Ng Sok, 33, and 66-year-old Patrick Ma Ching Hang, the chairman of Tai Sang Bank, were recently snapped locked in a passionate kiss at a restaurant by the paparazzi.  Ng Sok later admitted to being the mistress of Ma.  According to reports, Ng Sok grew up poor. She resolved to live a wealthy life, and as such, only chose to date men with net worths exceeding 100mil.  At 18, she tied the knot with the heir of a wealthy family. However, her husband’s family reportedly cut her off, and Ng Sok left him, taking their only child with her.   She then got acquainted with the married Ma at a high society gathering...   Ng Sok once revealed that she spent HK$2mil (S$351K) on a trip to Europe. She also claims to own over 300 luxury cars and has 60 dogs and 60 helpers.  She also said she travels a lot via helicopter, so we guess those 300 cars don’t get used much at all...   She also reportedly declared: “The mistress has more money than the wife. Money is more important than marriage!”  When asked why she loves money so much, she simply replied: “Who doesn’t love money?”"

Speaking as a gay man, why are women taking over all of the *very* few spaces we have? : r/MensRights - "I am a gay man and have watched our very few male-only safe spaces being taken over by straight women over the years and have had enough. Let me list some I have personally experienced:
1. Dating apps  These apps are created specifically, and only, for LGBT+ men are now being overrun with women. Feel however you’d like about transgender male-to-female (mtf) women, and this post is not about them, but I have encountered mtfs who identify as women but choose to have sex with gay men then being upset for being misgendered as a man … while on apps for gay men. Nothing against mtfs but that started a chain reaction of straight, biological women sliding into these same apps and complaining to the app creators about “uninclusivity” and guess what? Apps designed for gay men seeking male companionship have to navigate women who for whatever reason are in the apps looking for gay bffs? Make that make sense, but I’ve seen this happen in several dating apps. A girl sent me chest pics once ON AN APP FOR GAY MEN. Our limited dating potentials are gone, meanwhile several lesbian apps exist that absolutely would not allow male users to enter the website at all. Guess those safe spaces are gone.
2. Gay bars/clubs  The few gay bars we have, which exist in order to meet or network or whatever with other MEN, are packed with groups of straight women usually acting obnoxious and overruning the venue. If I come to meet a man I have no interest in rejecting the women sexually objectifying or hitting on me all night (who shouldn’t even be there). Same with the nightclubs. My city recently had a “men’s leather night” and masculine butch lesbians actually showed up. Meanwhile, several lesbian bars, “ladies nights,” “book club event X,” and even the Tea phone app exist and would burn any man to the ground who even thought about attending these female-only events. I went to a blind date event last year and women showed up confused why gay men were not interested in them. So, if I were single, I suppose I would also have no luck meeting gay and single men.  Other male-only spaces I have seen overrun with women that are not exclusive to the LGBT-community are Cub Scouts (which allow girls but discriminates against boys attending the Boy Scouts), or masculine women going into male-only Barber shops and tuxedo shops. Meanwhile, women-only spaces are everywhere and “made by women” product sales are soaring. The Tea app exists (straight men I am so sorry for that) and there are always women-only event X occurring in my city. The cause of rant for this post? I went to a men’s stag meeting for addiction and a woman showed up and stayed. The f? If any of us went to a female-only meeting we would be forced to leave and slandered. Why is this acceptable? Oh, but speaking out about this only causes social rejection, I learned this the hard way."
It seems as time goes on there won’t be any male-only spaces left. At what point is enough enough?  Thanks for reading if you made it all the way. Hope my LGBT brothers can relate."

Wade Wilson 'Deadpool Killer' gains twisted fan following after murders - "Wade Wilson confessed to the savage murders of two women, yet even that brutality failed to repel admirers. The so-called "Deadpool Killer" instead became the focus of a twisted, cult-like following, luring hundreds of women into pledging their loyalty to him.  "I’ve covered a lot of criminals and brutal murderers, but this is a remarkable phenomenon that circles him," Brian Ross, the co-director and producer of "Handsome Devil: Charming Killer," told Fox News Digital.  "Wade Wilson had hundreds of women who seemingly fell in love with him, wanted to marry him, even have his children — despite knowing some of the horrific details of his two murders," Ross said. "That, to us, was something that required a deep look. And the more we dug into it, the crazier it seemed."... On Oct. 7, 2019, the Florida man strangled Kristine Melton, 35, as she slept the morning after meeting her at a bar. Later that day, he beat, strangled and ran over Diane Ruiz, 43, with his car after spotting her on the street... Wilson’s mugshot exploded across social media, sparking a wave of online fixation as many women openly romanticized his looks. That obsession intensified when he appeared in court dressed in colorful suits with his hair slicked back, turning the legal proceedings into a viral spectacle. His appearance drew widespread attention for its severity — his head and face were heavily tattooed, including swastikas etched on both and a grotesque, stitched-on smile inked around his mouth.  An intense fan base developed on social media, specifically TikTok. Wilson basked in the attention, fielding a steady stream of jailhouse calls from ghoulish groupies, known as "Wade’s Wives," who fawned over his voice and looks. One woman demanded "marathon sex," while another pleaded for him to impregnate her... Ross said that at one point, Wilson received about $100,000 through a fundraising site created by a supporter, as many women rushed to send him money. While they claimed the funds would help pay his lawyers, Wilson splurged on pizza and chocolate bars, Ross said. During his years behind bars, Wilson received hundreds of love letters and explicit photos."
This is why women choose the bear

Data Centre Moral Panic

The Panic Industry’s New Target - WSJ
A generation coached to fear climate change is now fretting over AI and data centers.

When Eric Schmidt, speaking last week to the University of Arizona’s graduates, rhapsodized about the coming artificial-intelligence revolution, some in the crowed jeered. “I know what many of you are feeling about that,” the former Google CEO said. “I can hear you.” Mr. Schmidt then continued with his prepared remarks: “There is a fear in your generation that the future has already been written, that the machines are coming, that the jobs are evaporating, that the climate is breaking, that politics is fractured, and that you are inheriting a mess that you did not create.” He went on to urge graduates not to let fear rob them of personal agency—a fine, saccharine message.

Where does Mr. Schmidt think young people got the idea that “the climate is breaking”? Where did the “fear” he laments come from? In part from the scores of climate-panic groups to which the Schmidt Family Foundation’s 11th Hour Project has granted hundreds of millions of dollars over the last 20 years. One detail particularly amuses: When 11th Hour first appeared, in 2006, it funded screenings of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” a documentary designed to terrorize viewers with 90 minutes of bleak prophecies, now happily exploded. The outfit, like scores of others founded and funded by other progressive billionaires, spends its resources opposing fossil-based energy and trumpeting the dangers of a warming world.

Mr. Schmidt exemplifies the propensity among a few tech titans to pretend they’d never urged anyone to panic about a coming climate apocalypse. Last year Bill Gates posted an essay on his website purporting to scold alarmists and express his own moderate view of the climate question, namely that it is a “very important problem” but doesn’t doom civilization. You have to wonder, then, why Mr. Gates has sent so much of his money to Arabella Advisors. Arabella, a pass-through entity now called Sunflower Services, funds a dizzying array of groups that exist to alarm the public over an imminent climate apocalypse and to portray carbon-emitting energy as an existential threat to humanity.

Messrs. Schmidt and Gates may think they can allay the fear and despair they’ve helped to inspire by issuing a few oracles on the unwisdom of catastrophism. But nobody staffing the multibillion-dollar ganglion of climate nonprofits and activist groups plans on taking a more measured view of the coming cataclysm. The prospect of annihilation keeps the money flowing.

Having taught a generation of liberal-minded Americans to live in fear of global ruin, Silicon Valley’s big shots now feel exasperation that those same Americans think artificial intelligence menaces their families and livelihoods.

Hence the panic over data centers. A Gallup poll published last week concludes that 7 in 10 Americans oppose the construction of data centers in their area. Actually Gallup asked if respondents would support or oppose “the construction of a data center in your area to support artificial intelligence.” Leave out AI and the results would likely run in the opposite direction. Explain further that data centers enable cloud computing—somewhere inside one is that season of “The Pitt” you just watched—and attitudes may further soften.

You would think, from some of the shoddier press coverage, that data centers and AI arrived in tandem yesterday. In fact, modern data centers first appeared in the 1990s, when companies learned the benefits of fast internet connectivity and information storage. Today they support the apps on your phone and provide backup power to hospitals and banks during outages.

The rise of AI technology, which requires far more energy than ordinary computing, has occasioned data centers’ dramatic numerical growth. The centers’ association with artificial intelligence has in turn generated suspicion of them among ordinary Americans, who, for entirely valid reasons, dislike the idea of college kids using chatbots to write papers and terrorists using them to build dirty bombs. And most people feel at least some apprehension about smartphone addiction and social media use among the young.

But the people showing up at county council meetings to protest the construction of a data center didn’t for the most part come by their convictions the old-fashioned way, by reading and thought. These activists, many of them attached to 501(c)(3) organizations, got their talking points from national nonprofits supported by some of the same moneyed outfits the Schmidt and Gates foundations spent the last two decades bankrolling.

Call it the Busybody Economy. Organizations designed to worry about future calamities can be counted on to find new calamities to worry about. Data centers serve that purpose nicely: Like all large-scale building projects, they ruffle local feathers; and their purpose, unlike an airport or a shopping center, requires explanation and so lends itself to conspiratorial Facebook posting. That several big-name progressive nonprofits now call for a moratorium on data center construction—Bernie Sanders’s group Our Revolution, Greenpeace USA, Friends of the Earth, among others—does not surprise.

Tech billionaires—Laurene Powell Jobs, Jeff Bezos and Steve and Connie Ballmer come to mind—never guessed that the network of climate groups on which they lavished their millions would eventually turn on their industry. A truth too inconvenient to foresee.

Time to ban religion for making young people panic over hell, which is literally child abuse

If billionaires lobby about something, that means that must be wrong and propaganda. So can we finally ignore climate change hysteria?

Links - 23rd May 2026 (1 - Climate Change)

Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 on X - "On April 1st our Government is still going ahead with increasing the Industrial Carbon tax from $95 per tonne to $110 per tonne. We are in a cost of living crisis, yet these scum don’t care that it will make much of our life more expensive. These are the industries affects:
Oil and gas
Mining
Electricity generation (utilities)
Pulp and paper
Chemicals & petrochemicals
Fertilizer (nitrogen) production
Cement and lime
Iron and steel
Base metal smelting and refining
Potash and mineral processing
Food processing
Other Industries that are affected indirectly by the industrial carbon tax include:
Retail and services
Restaurants and food services
Construction
Agriculture (especially fuel-intensive operations)
Our Government tells us it makes them more competitive. This is because Carney and his friends created this system to make themselves wealthier than they you can imagine."

Al Gore on X - "Twenty years ago, after the release of “An Inconvenient Truth,” I invited 50 people to gather on my family farm outside Nashville, Tennessee. We came together, empowered by science and concerned about the dangers posed by the climate crisis. We believed then, as I do now, that informed and determined citizens can help drive the transformative solutions our planet urgently needs.  That gathering was the catalyst for The Climate Reality Project.  Over the past two decades, I have watched with deep gratitude as thousands of Climate Reality Leaders stepped forward to become champions for science-based solutions, inspiring others and driving climate action around the world.  Now, 20 years later, we’re returning to Nashville, Tennessee.  On May 1–2, I invite you to join me and Climate Reality as we celebrate this milestone and recommit ourselves to the necessary work ahead. And as part of this anniversary year, we’ll also gather and train leaders in Chile and Singapore to continue building momentum worldwide.  The climate crisis demands courage and commitment. Join us in Nashville and help shape the next chapter of climate leadership.  Register here: https://bit.ly/nashville2026"
Chris Martz on X - "20 years ago in your film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” you predicted that:
- The Arctic Ocean would be “ice-free” by 2013. That didn't happen.
- There'd be no more snow on Mount Kilimanjaro by 2016. That didn't happen.
- Polar bears would be dying out. That's not happening; in fact, most populations are relatively stable.
- Lake Chad would dry up due to global warming. It is drying, but decreasing water levels are mostly due to growing population and increased drawdown.
- The melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets would cause sea levels to rise by 20 feet in the “near future.” That didn't happen, it definitely won't happen anytime soon, and is pure exaggeration.
I could go on and on. . . The only thing you got right was that it has continued to get [marginally] warmer since your movie came out, and that the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) level has risen to over 400 parts per million (ppm). Almost everything else is pure exaggeration, if not an outright lie."

Maurice Cousins on X - "Listen to Sir Alex Younger, the former head of MI6. He is one of the most astute establishment figures we have right now when it comes to grand strategy. His warning that America’s defence shield has “infantilised” Britain and Europe needs to be taken really seriously.  Creation of hard power is absolutely central to grand strategy. But decades of security dependence have trained European leaders to treat it as someone else’s job.  Politicians like Starmer, Miliband and Ed Davey do not seem to grasp that hard power has to be built, funded, and maintained. It is fundamentally incompatible with many of their cherished agendas.  The same criticism applies to every single Conservative leader since Thatcher. They talked a good game about defence, but too often governed as if the strategic environment would remain benign forever. This was unforgivable post-2014.  To be fair to Kemi Badenoch, she seems to understand this better than her predecessors. And Nigel Farage, whatever people think of him, has a much sharper instinct for the reality that power ultimately rests on productive force.   For me, the clearest example of Westminster’s complacency and recklessness is Net Zero, renewables, the war on domestic fossil fuels and the steady march of deindustrialisation. We have treated our industrial base as expendable, as if our national prosperity and security can survive without cheap, reliable energy and carbon-intensive industry.  I am hoping Trump’s behaviour over Greenland finally forces a fundamental rethink of the national security assumptions that have dominated British politics, the media, and boardrooms for far too long.  This complacency has to stop, and quickly. We need late 1930s levels of urgency, determination and seriousness."
Sinan Ulgen on X - "The claim that industry cannot survive and therefore hard power cannot be maintained without carbon heavy energy is an angle that links security and defense to green transition and in a negative way. The inevitable conclusion is that return of geopolitics dooms climate efforts."
Sinan Hanioglu on X - "An astute observation. However, I would contend that rather than doom, the “return of history” is simply forcing Europe to rediscover some modicum of realism in energy policy. Chancellor Merz’s recent admission on the mistake of gutting Germany’s nuclear plants is one example of this.   For the past decade Europe has prioritized low-carbon above all, at the willing expense of energy security and economic competitiveness. Credible security threats are finally forcing a painful reset to that approach."

Meme - Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX: "The same exact weather that occurred 48 years ago in February 1978 is apparently caused by climate change today. The ignorance and arrogance of climate alarmists never cease to amaze me. *metereological map* *winter scene*"
Climate Power @ClimatePower: "Climate change isn't just extreme heat and rising temperatures. It's this too. Yes, this is climate change, too. *winter scene*"

Meme - "CALIFORNIA SHATTERED THE MYTH THAT RENEWABLES AREN'T RELIABLE: STUDY FOUND THAT FOR 98 OF 116 DAYS, CA MET 100% OF ELECTRIC DEMAND FOR 10 HOURS USING ONLY RENEWABLES. CALIFORNIA NOT ONLY KEPT THE GRID STABLE BUT EVEN PRODUCED A SURPLUS OF ENERGY. SOLAR IS WINNING."
"And what did they use for the other 14 hours that day?"
"There could be no "surplus" until 100% of demand was met for 116 of 116 days and for 24 hours for each of those days."
"If you move the goalposts anyone can make a field goal"
At this stage, you have to wonder if renewables promoters are stupid, dishonest or both

Meme - Phil Labonte @philthatremains: "this isn't exclusive to climate hysteria. this can happen with every issue the left claims to care about. because "the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution""
"AOC''s Former climate activist Reflects on the moment she realised climate activism was bullshit"
She admits she got her identity from climate change, and to be a good person you couldn't question the narrative and had to atone for your sin
As Richard Dawkins observes, the retreat of Christianity has opened the way to worse. Politics becomes religion for many secular left wingers

Nina Schick on X - "The problem with Net Zero is that countries like the UK and Germany (both former nuclear leaders) traded energy sovereignty for dependency on China in an ideological race to go Green.  Assume you could go completely Green without nuclear? The entire hardware supply chain for green energy (solar panels, batteries, wind turbines) is Chinese-dominated.  China controls over 80% of every manufacturing stage in solar: polysilicon, wafers, cells, modules. In batteries, CATL and BYD together hold over 55% of the global EV battery market.   In wind, Chinese manufacturers took the top four global positions in 2024, the first time Western firms have ever been shut out of the top three.  And the raw material underpinning all of it? China refines over 80% of the world’s lithium, cobalt, and graphite.  Even on nuclear: as we see with Hinkley, the UK can’t build a reactor without Chinese money and expertise. And China is building nuclear faster than anyone. They have 33 reactors under construction right now.  The irony: while EU leaders lecture on saving the planet, China will go further and faster on clean energy than any European nation.   It has strategic reasons to diversify away from fossil fuels, and the industrial capacity to act on them.   In 2024 alone, China added 277 GW of solar to its grid, more than the entire cumulative installed capacity of the United States.   It has already built enough panel manufacturing capacity to meet global demand through 2032. A single province (Xinjiang) produces 40% of the world’s polysilicon.  The lesson is brutal. Decarbonise without owning your supply chain and you don’t become a clean energy leader. You become a vassal state.  This is much more than “go woke, go broke.” It’s a surrender of national sovereignty."

Nina Schick on X - "This proves my point exactly.  Norway has gone 98% green domestically, powered by hydroelectric (which is unique to its geography), while remaining one of the world's largest exporters of oil and gas.  Its fossil fuel exports have surged since the Ukraine war. Norway is already Europe's top gas supplier.   Over 75% of all gas imported into the UK comes from Norway. It supplies over 50% of all pipeline gas entering the EU. Germany, Europe's largest economy, relies on Norway for 45–48% of its national gas consumption.  In 2023, the Norwegian government approved 19 new oil and gas field developments worth over $18 billion, extending production for decades.   Petroleum still accounts for 40–50% of total Norwegian exports and supports around 200,000 jobs. Norway's exported fuels create ten times more CO₂ emissions abroad than the country produces at home.  Norway is held up as the green role model, but the full picture reveals it has made a coldly sovereign calculation: green at home, fossil fuel profits abroad, emissions exported out of sight.    These are the facts, whether or not they fit your worldview."

Possum Reviews on X - "Green Party pushes to ban nuclear power. Wind and solar fail to deliver on promises. Germany becomes dependent on Russian energy. Russia invades Ukraine, making it politically untenable. Germany tears up the countryside mining coal. Germany is now doing more environmental damage than they were before the Green Party banned nuclear power.  Germans still vote for them."

Oliver Groß on X - "Unreal numbers 👀⚡️ "JPMorgan estimates that, had Germany not phased out nuclear power, the country would have generated 50% less electricity from fossil fuels and 84% less electricity from natural gas in 2024. Electricity prices in Germany would have been around 25% lower, and the country would have imported half as much electricity..""

Chris Martz on X - "This is fun! Four years ago, The @Guardian reported that Spain and Portugal are becoming too dry because of [man-made] climate change. 🏜️ But, after the devastating floods in the fall of 2024, The Guardian changed their tune. They now say Spain is too wet thanks to climate change. 🌧️  The real-world data, however, tells a consistent story. A study published in Nature last March analyzed long-term rainfall data in the Mediterranean and found that no statistically significant trends exist in the region as a whole.
🗨️ “𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑀𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 1871 𝑡𝑜 2020, 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖-𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦… 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑡𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐 𝑑𝑦𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑠, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦.”  🔗 https://nature.com/articles/s4158 6-024-08576-6
Interestingly, in Spain, there has been little trend in rainfall since 1871. However, if the analysis starts in 1951, there is a significant decrease (p <0.05), while starting in 1981 yields a statistically significant increase (p <0.05).  This just goes to show that people (like the writers at The Guardian) can manipulate data to get a desired trend to suit a specific narrative."

Bruce Anderson on X - "83% of Global GDP is produced in places that have net zero targets. Pierre Poilievre thinks Canada should join the other 17%. My new column on what message Conservative leader took to Europe (where all 27 EU countries, plus the UK) have net zero goals."
MikesMoneyTalks.ca on X - "Forget Poilievre - this is text book progressive dogma - ie all talk - no action.  83% counts countries that have made declarations or long-term pledges, not countries that are actually reducing emissions at scale or enforcing binding policies.  When you look at binding, enforceable, near-term action, the share of global GDP covered drops to 20–30% at most (EU + a few others). While major companies/financial institutions like BlackRock, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, BP, Shell all scaled back or withdrew from Net Zero."

REACTION: Emissions cap not worth the job and economic losses, MEI says - "The federal oil and gas emissions cap will cost tens of thousands of well-paid jobs for very little environmental impact, points out an MEI researcher in response to the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s analysis published this morning.  “This analysis from the PBO confirms what we have long been saying at the MEI: that this emissions cap will prove costly for Canada’s workers and its economy,” says Gabriel Giguère, senior policy analyst at the MEI. “The emissions cap only makes our economy weaker at a time when it’s already under threat.”  Last November, the federal government published a set of regulations capping Canada’s oil and gas industry’s emissions at a level 35 per cent lower than in 2019, starting in 2026.  A newly released analysis from the PBO estimates such a policy would reduce our collective prosperity by $20.5 billion in 2032 and result in 40,300 fewer jobs than there would otherwise be.  The researcher notes that the jobs in the oil and gas sector are among the highest paid in the country. The average salary of workers in oil and gas extraction is $151,461, which is almost 2.4 times the average Canadian salary.  Given the global nature of the oil and gas industry, he also notes it is unlikely that Ottawa’s attempts to curtail production will lead to lower global emissions.   “Whatever this federal government believes, it is clear that there’s a significant and sustained market demand for energy products throughout the world,” explains Giguère. “Every time Ottawa tries to legislate to keep Canadian energy in the ground, other jurisdictions with lesser environmental standards pick-up the slack and simply sell more oil and gas.  “This policy is all economic pain and no environmental gain.”"
From 2025. When left wingers sabotage the economy, then blame everyone but themselves

Steve Guest on X - "UNHINGED: The LA Times just published a fundamentally anti-human essay that pushes communist ideas as the solution for climate change. The “climate anxiety” riddled author writes: “I find myself questioning whether I could ever justify bringing my own children into this world.”"
James Lindsay, anti-Communist on X - "Are you paying attention yet? "To fix climate anxiety (and also climate change), we first have to fix individualism." –LA Times To fix their mental illness about the climate, we have to let the mentally ill people control us. That's what that literally means."

Meme - Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet: "Eye-opening chart. The US, with its energy independence, will weather the current energy crisis. Europe, after decades of left-green self- destruction, will tumble into a crisis. Choices have consequences. Will Europeans get it now, or will they stick to their Net Zero?
Benchmark Europe vs US Gas Future
*Europe price as 6x US price*"

Meme - @BjornLomborg: "The difference in global temperature if Canada goes net-zero by 2050 or not. Unmeasurable even by 2100 (0.018 degrees C difference) Run in the UN's own climate model, MAGICC."
"TEMPERATURE IF CANADA GOES NET-ZERO IN 2050 OR NOT. Change in degrees Celsius. Likely path. Likely path, but Canada net-zero"

Meme - "Green Transition $14+ trillion. From 2004-2024, the world has squandered at least $14 trillion on green. That is 100+x what we spent on avoiding hunger through World Food Programme. Costs are rapidly increasing and underestimated - this counts only pure costs of renewables, electric cars, heat pumps, hydrogen, carbon capture, and power grids; ignoring considerable growth losses from higher energy costs."

Meme - Clare Hymer @ClareHymer: "Just Stop Oil co-founder Roger Hallam just got sentenced to five years in prison. His co-defendants got four. The crime? Appearing on a Zoom call."
Readers added context: "They were convicted due to blocking the M25 over 4 days, causing 51,000 hours of driver delays, two vehicles to collide, a police motorcyclist injury, missed exams and medical appointments, and an estimated cost of over £1,800,000. The zoom call was used as evidence."

National Trust net zero drive in doubt after profits plunge - "The National Trust’s net-zero drive has been thrown into doubt after its renewables profits fell by almost half.  The charity brought in solar panels on visitor centres and biomass boilers behind outbuildings at some of its 500 historical houses and on its 25,000 hectares of land to reduce its carbon footprint and generate income.  However, the latest accounts are reported to show that profits at National Trust Renewable Energy, the renewables arm of the trust, have fallen sharply... The charity has been criticised for “reinventing itself as a nature and climate charity” over its renewable energy arm.   Cornelia van der Poll, of Restore Trust, a forum for concerned National Trust members, claimed the charity was straying too far from its original mission and relying on income streams that are too risky.  She told the newspaper: “In recent years, the Trust has been reinventing itself as a nature and even climate charity. Our worry is that it’s neglecting pressing concerns of a more immediate kind. When you go around properties, you see a lot of damage and you see things that are not being fixed.”... The direction of the National Trust continues to spark division and debate. Some critics claim the charity’s increasing embracing of environmental and political campaigning falls outside of its original role of conserving historic places."

Storing Green Energy To Last Germany 10 Days Would Require A 60-Million Tonne Battery - "Energy expert Staffan Reveman presented a plausibility calculation for making Germany self-sufficient (without fossil fuel plants or imports). The results are sobering...   A simulation for the Traunstein district showed that self-sufficient supply via wind, solar, and batteries would increase wholesale electricity costs from 6 cents to 217 cents per kwh.  Moreover, a 240-hour battery (12,000 GWh) would require an area of approx. 600 square kilometers (roughly two-thirds the size of Berlin)."

Electroverse on X - "Germany currently has about 26 GWh of battery storage. Most of it sits in home batteries, with only 4.3 GWh actually serving the grid.   Building that storage has already cost more than €10 billion. And at national demand levels, it only covers roughly 30 minutes of summer electricity usage.  The winter months bring what's known as “Dunkelflaute” — cold, dark, windless periods (and higher energy usage).   To survive a 10-day winter lull (the minimum realistic requirement), Germany would need about 12,000 GWh of batteries — 470 times today's storage.  Such a system would weigh roughly 60 million tonnes, and would be made from vast quantities of lithium, nickel, graphite, copper, aluminum, and steel — all requiring intensive mining.  At current battery prices, the system would cost trillions of euros. And batteries last only 10 to 15 years, meaning the entire system would need constant replacement.   The conclusion is unavoidable:  Wind and solar require reliable backup power. Renewables need oil, coal, gas, and nuclear."

Climate change is actually making days last longer : NPR
The Earth is spinning faster than ever and it's making our days shorter : NPR - "Some scientists say it's climate change"
Climate change is so powerful and damaging that it's making days shorter and longer at the same time. If you disagree, you're an ignorant climate change denier and need to Trust the Experts!

Nature Communications Creates a Scientist Blacklist - "Below is a letter from the National Association of Scholars (NAS) to the editors of Nature Communications. The controversial article, written by Alexander Peterson, Emmanuel Vincent, and Anthony Westerling seeks to "juxtapose 386 prominent contrarians with 386 expert scientists by tracking their digital footprints." (Emphasis added). The authors hope that by listing these contrarians journalists and editors will instead choose expert scientists for stories on climate change. They essentially seek to deplatform and censor all 386 climate change contrarians."
Trust the Experts! Science is dispassionate and the correct views always end up amplified!

Labour is blaming wreckers for the energy crisis they created - "Sure, the war in the Gulf may have sent the price of oil and gas soaring. And yet, it is Britain’s own idiotic energy policies that have left us uniquely vulnerable. We have run down our domestic energy industry, while moving too slowly to build the solar, wind and nuclear alternatives that could replace it. And we went into the crisis with among the most expensive industrial energy in the world – twice the cost in France and four times the United States – leaving our factories at the mercy of the global markets.  There are so many practical, supply-side solutions to our current problem. True, none of those measures would deliver more, or cheaper, energy immediately. But they would have demonstrated that we had a government willing to do whatever it takes to keep the lights switched on, and the vans and trucks moving, even if it meant casting aside some ideological baggage. After all, in a real crunch it might be possible to get new or re-opened North Sea oil fields running within a few months, and, of course, in return for zero taxes, their operators could agree to sell all the production within the UK instead of exporting it. Likewise, nuclear plants could potentially be delivered in world record time: keep in mind that the technologies are all well-developed.  A solution that would genuinely ease consumer pain tomorrow would be to slash tax on fuel duties. Britain has some of the most over-levied energy in the world. Easing government-imposed costs on producers and consumers would at least stabilise the cost of energy – but it would also mean the Government losing out on lucrative tax revenue. Here again we can see Labour’s ideological blinkers. A tax cut can only be sustainably funded through a cut in spending, and Labour backbenchers have already made clear they’ll revolt over any plan to touch our bloated welfare bill. Instead, we will have to witness the shameful attack of an industry that already pays some of the highest taxes in the world, and that has been regulated to the point of extinction, to try and cover up a failed energy policy."

Links - 22nd May 2026 (3 - Voting & Elections in the US)

Arthur MacWaters on X - "This is banana republic-level insanity:
> in 41 states, you literally only have to "promise on penalty of perjury" that you're a citizen to register to vote
> in 14, you don't even have to show any ID at the polling place
> this is completely insane for the most powerful  country on the planet
If the Senate can't figure out how to nuke the zombie filibuster and pass the SAVE act, I'm not sure we can fix this in a few years Not a partisan issue, literally just a civilizational IQ test Electoral security has broad support and every ethical person wants our elections to be sacred and effective, with only citizens voting."

Arthur MacWaters on X - "Let me get this straight:
> 27 million people registered to vote without any proof of citizenship, right before 2020 election
> the victory margin of every presidential race in the past 30 yrs has been <10m
> the vast majority of Americans want required proof of citizenship in order to vote
> the SAVE act would require in-person registration with documentary proof of citizenship, yet is *still* stuck in the senate
If we don't get this done, it's crystal clear that our elections are not, in fact, secure."

Cernovich on X - "Republicans in Indiana made a deal with Maryland. You don't redraw congressional districts, and we won't. Maryland agreed and then said, "Sike!" This is why all talks of "immigration reform in exchange for border security" are a no-go. Democrats will always betray the deal."
Theo Wold on X - "One of Aesop's most famous fables is the story of the Farmer and the Viper. A farmer finds a frozen viper and brings it back to life-- only for the snake to bite and kill him. Why? Because it's still a snake. Attempting to make a deal with Democrats is the real life equivalent."

Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 HOLY CRAP! CNN was just forced to report 83% PERCENT of Americans are with Nicki Minaj and want nationwide voter ID This *includes* 71% of Democrats. 🔥 In fact — support for voter ID is at its highest level in YEARS! THERE IS NO EXCUSE. Pass the SAVE Act.
"Photo ID to vote, and the American people are with @NickiMinaj!"
"Look, I got all this polling on the screen going back since 2018. You'll notice on all of it, it's all north of 75%, 76%, 76%, 76%, 81%, and then 83% in the last year of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj they favor photo ID to be able to vote."
"You got 95% of Republicans, pretty much all of them, but even 71% of Democrats favor photo ID to vote."
"So again, Nicki Minaj posting that on X. And what you see is that the American people, actually, it's not really all that controversial!"
"The American people are with Nicki Minaj, whether they are Republican or even if they are Democrats. We're talking about 7 in 10 Democrats agreeing with Nicki Minaj that you, in fact, should show a voter photo ID to vote.""

Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 BREAKING: In a stunning blow to Democrats, 76% PERCENT of BLACK Americans want nationwide voter ID — in other words, the SAVE America Act
White voters: 85% want it
Latino voters: 82% want it
Another leftist narrative just got decimated. Pass voter ID. GET THIS PASSED. 🇺🇸"

Michael Smith | Facebook - "Democrats love and depend on identity politics. It’s class warfare waged through mostly immutable characteristics—race, ethnicity, gender identification. They create political separation between groups and pit them against one another for gain. But there is one class that unifies all Americans, and it’s the one identity Democrats will fight to the death to ignore: The legal American citizen. Why? Because only legal American citizens have the right to determine who wins elections. That’s why election integrity is the reason for the SAVE Act. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship—such as passports, birth certificates, or naturalization papers—when registering to vote in federal elections. Critics argue that more than 21 million Americans lack easy access to these documents and that non-citizen voting is extremely rare. But the critics are losing. Given that we already need ID to do just about everything, nobody seriously believes that 21 million people can’t obtain one—especially when states offer them for free. That last point matters, because it ties directly into the protests against ICE. One of the most common narratives coming out of Democrat attacks on immigration enforcement is the paired claim that legal immigrants now fear detention and deportation (because, according to Grammy nominees and unhinged Democrats, even citizens are being deported), and that ICE showing up anywhere near polling places is some Trump plot to intimidate POC out of voting. So here’s where intersectionality—another favorite word of the left—pulls it all together. Progressivism isn’t popular, mostly because it fails. Yet progressive politics remain overrepresented in government because Democrats are overrepresented. The hard truth is that Democrats can’t win national elections without corruption or manipulation, and they know the SAVE Act closes their biggest opportunity to cheat. Schumer gave the game away when he said the bill would pass the Senate over their dead bodies—despite 71% support from the very group Democrats claim it will harm the most. They know it will pass because it’s supported by a vast majority of Americans. Harry Enten reported this week that a Pew poll showed 83% overall support for requiring ID to register to vote—95% of Republicans, 71% of Democrats, and across racial lines: 85% of whites, 82% of Latinos, and 76% of blacks. They have no legitimate argument against it. The SAVE Act has already passed the House, will pass the Senate, and Trump will sign it into law. There’s also a strong case it will survive constitutional review if it reaches SCOTUS. This Act is such an existential threat to Democrat political futures that they can’t allow it to stand. So how do they try to kill it? They’ll go to court to tie it up for the rest of Trump’s term. You can bet your sweet arse that if they don’t already have one lined up, they’re recruiting a group—or an individual—of brown-skinned legal citizens from an inner-city apartment complex willing to claim they were too afraid to get an ID for fear of deportation. A lawsuit will be filed by Mark Elias and funded by some Soros- or Reid Hoffman–adjacent “community activist” organization. The gambit is simple: stall SAVE until 2028, retake Congress, install a Democrat in the White House, repeal the law, and return to business as usual. That’s the real way intersectionality works."

Rider on X - "Democrats can finally define a Woman: Those who are too stupid to obtain an ID"

Thread by @fleshsimulator on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "There’s literally no voter fraud ever BUT absolutely under no circumstances can we require people to show a passport or birth certificate to register to vote, because it might disenfranchise irresponsible retards who not only lost their birth certificate but also do not have $25
I am so unbelievably unsympathetic towards anyone disenfranchised by this. You are NOT SUPPOSED TO LOSE your birth certificate. You are SUPPOSED TO HAVE ONE. If you some how do not have one and are for whatever reason unable to come up with $25 to replace a critical government document, not only should you not be allowed to vote, we ought to burn you as fuel"
Clearly, requiring criminals to pay outstanding fees and fines before they can vote again is a poll tax and is unconstitutional

Janet Elaine Parks | Facebook - "Let’s Explain the “Poll Tax” Claim Like You’re 10 ..Part 2.
In Part 1, we walked through the whole “married women won’t be able to vote” panic… Spoiler alert: Marriage certificates exist. Documentation works. Women are not helpless. But somehow the media and certain lawmakers have succeeded in fear-mongering women into believing they’re about to lose their right to vote. My first post broke down just how inaccurate and frankly how ridiculous ..that claim is. If you need that breakdown, the link is in the comments…
Now let’s move on to the next scare tactic: “They’re bringing back a POLL TAX!” Deep breath. Let’s explain what a poll tax actually was. A poll tax was when the government literally charged you money to cast a ballot. As in: You show up to vote. They say, “Pay up or go home.” It was used historically to block poor Americans ..especially Black Americans …from voting. It was discriminatory by design. And it is illegal. The 24th Amendment banned poll taxes in federal elections. The Supreme Court extended that ban to state elections. So no …Congress cannot just “bring back a poll tax.” Now here’s the argument being pushed: “If someone has to pay for a copy of their birth certificate to prove citizenship, that’s basically a poll tax.” Let’s slow this down. If that were true, then:
• Paying for a driver’s license would be a poll tax.
• Paying for a passport would be a poll tax.
• Paying for a marriage license would be a poll tax.
• Paying for a Social Security card replacement would be a poll tax.
Because all of those cost money. And we require those documents for normal adult life. Here’s the difference: A poll tax = paying to cast a ballot. Documentation fees = standard administrative costs that apply to navigating adulthood in America. You are not paying to vote. You are proving who you are. And let’s be honest. If someone is a U.S. citizen living in modern America, they already have one of the following:
• A birth certificate
• A passport
• A REAL ID
• Naturalization papers
This isn’t some brand-new “voting permit.” It’s basic documentation. We require ID for:
• Boarding a plane
• Opening a bank account
• Buying a house
• Getting a job
• Driving a car
• Buying alcohol
Are those discriminatory? Or are they standard safeguards? You can believe in voter access AND believe in voter verification.. Those two ideas are not enemies. The real question is: Is verifying citizenship before registering to vote the same thing as charging someone money to cast a ballot? No. One is identity verification. The other was intentional discrimination. Calling them the same thing is either misunderstanding the law… or intentionally trying to scare people.
Part 1 addressed the name-change narrative. Part 2 addresses the “poll tax” narrative. Both fall apart when you apply basic logic. To the lawmakers pushing this narrative: you don’t need fear to win people over. If that’s your strategy, it’s no surprise voters are walking away… Paperwork is not oppression. Verification is not discrimination. And fear-based messaging doesn’t make something true. That’s Part 2… Faith. Family. Freedom. 🇺🇸"
Left wingers assume it's unreasonable to think that people keep their marriage certificates

Meme - "In May 2025 a REAL-ID started being required for flying. Did women and minorities stop flying?"

Meme - Skeptic Research Center Team @SkepResCenter: "Only one political group in American society believes, in the majority, that voter ID laws are racist: those identifying as “Very Liberal.”  Check out our graphs below. Data comes from this study:"
"Requiring an ID card to vote is a racist practice. Agreement by Political Orientation
Very Liberal 53.0%
Liberal 37.3%
Moderate 20.8%
Conservative 12.9%
Total Agreed 20.5%"
Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer: "The SAVE Act is Jim Crow 2.0. It would disenfranchise tens of millions of people.   If Trump is saying he won’t sign any bills until the SAVE Act is passed, then so be it: there will be total gridlock in the Senate. ..."

Zeek Arkham 🇺🇸 on X - "Dear Chuck Schumer,
Hi. Black dude here. I can trace my family ancestry to slavery. I even know where they were slaves. My mom experienced Jim Crow. I think I’ve watched every episode of “Eyes On the Prize” when I was younger.  With that said…  Can you directly explain to me how the SAVE Act is “Jim Crow 2.0?” Literally every black person I know has ID. Literally every black person I know has a car or at least a ride. Literally every black person I know knows how to vote (well… except the ones with felonies… but they don’t count).  With your advanced white liberal thinking, you must know more than me. Apparently, as I experience daily on this app, white liberals are experts on being black; even more so than actual black folks. Perhaps you could explain it like I’m five. I’d look it up on the internet, but Kathy Hochul has already told me I don’t know what a computer is and Joe Biden said I can’t navigate it, anyway.  Looking forward to your answer.
No hugs. Zeek"

Illegal immigrants from Africa, India and China are voting in US elections — here's how they're doing it - "A Mauritanian illegal immigrant marked for deportation since 2002 has continued to live in the US and is a registered Democrat who has voted in every election since 2008, authorities claim.  Mahady Sacko, 50, who goes by the nickname “Sacko Scorpion,” was busted last week in Philadelphia for allegedly falsely claiming citizenship to cast a 2024 ballot.  He was picked up in a joint operation between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the FBI, which charge he “falsely represented that he was a US citizen in order to vote and register to vote” in the last presidential election, according to a press release... Sacko’s arrest was one of nearly a dozen uncovered by The Post of non-citizens allegedly voting in US elections, sometimes for decades, with many remaining listed as active voters on state rolls, even after their convictions.  “The reality is aliens are voting in American elections,” J. Christian Adams, president of Public Interest Legal Foundation, who has spent decades working on election integrity, told The Post, noting no one is quite sure how widespread the problem is.   There were about 14 million people who are in the country legally but who are not citizens in 2023, according to the Pew Research center. While they may have work permits and visas, they can’t vote.  “It’s way worse than the left says, but it’s way better than some others say,” he added.  Pennsylvania, a crucial swing state, stands out for disastrous alien voter registration, said Adams. The Keystone State has admitted a glitch in its “motor voter” program, which registers voters at the DMV, inadvertently has allowed approximately 100,000 non-citizens to register to vote, though some state officials dispute this number.  Another Pennsylvania voter, Indian citizen Kaushalkumar Patel, 47, of Allentown, will stand trial this month for allegedly voting illegally in the 2020 election... Canadian Denis Bouchard, 70, pleaded guilty to two counts of making false claims he was a US citizen to vote in 2022 and 2024 elections in North Carolina and faces 10 years in prison.  An investigation by The Post revealed a man of the same name and age had voted in every election since 2004 and was not registered with a political party. That man was removed from voter rolls in that state after Bouchard’s conviction.  In one shocking case, Chinese national Haoxiang Gao, 19, who was a student at the University of Michigan, was charged on June 3 last year with illegally voting in the 2024 election, but fled to China before he could face justice.   At arraignment, Gao surrendered his Chinese passport to the judge but then boarded a flight from Detroit to Shanghai using another passport with a different serial number, according to the FBI. Gao remains wanted in the US, which does not have an extradition treaty with China.  The Post found Gao is still registered as an active voter in Michigan.  An October 2025 sweep in Arkansas picked up Cecilia Casellanos, 59, a Cuban national and registered Democrat who had a pending order of removal by immigration enforcement dating back to 1999. Casellanos also had three prior felony convictions in New York for grand larceny and attempted forgery, according to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette... Arkansas also nabbed Zlata Risley, 50, of Kazakhstan, who had registered as a Republican, and Nigerian citizen Chi Baum, 59, of no party affiliation. Both were lawful US residents, but not citizens, who illegally voted in the 2024 election, officials said. Risley pleaded guilty and received probation. Details of Baum’s case were not immediately available.  In Florida, two Ukrainian women — mom Svitlana Demydenko, 53, and daughter Yelyzaveta Demydenko, 22, both registered Democrats — cast ballots in the 2024 general election after coming to the US in 2021 on nonimmigrant visas, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida...   Adams said the main problem is aliens being invited to register to vote, usually through the mail, at the DMV or via third-party groups.  “At times, it’s an organic process of aliens getting sucked in unwittingly. Maybe they’d been whipping down Modelos [beers] at a festival and they’re doing some guy a favor who is in their face with a clipboard. Or they’re at the DMV and get these pop-up windows asking them to register. They think, ‘I must be allowed.’ ”  He added: “I wish it were a conspiracy plot because it would be easier to bust. This is systemic failure.”   The Post found illegal voters span the political spectrum...   Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who co-sponsored the SAVE Act in the upper chamber, told The Post he wants voters to keep the pressure up to get the bill passed.  “Every few weeks, we learn that ‘the thing that never happens’ has happened again,” he said, referring to illegal voting. “In tight down-ballot races, even hundreds of illegal votes can swing an election, and every illegal vote cast is an attack on a legitimate vote cast by a real citizen.”  Ilustrating that point, on Friday, after a recount, Boca Raton, Florida’s new mayor won by just five votes, flipping the mayorship to a Democrat in the Republican stronghold.   “It may surprise many Americans to learn that the Supreme Court — wrongly, in my view — has interpreted the law to forbid states from checking citizenship for voter registration. The SAVE America Act would reverse this situation,” Lee added, speaking about a 2013 decision that required only a sworn affirmation of citizenship for voter registration...   Polling shows the SAVE Act is extremely popular with voters, getting over 70% support, with even half of Democrats in favor."
Weird. We keep being told this never happens

Senate, FBI probe alleged Chinese plot to influence Biden's election with fake IDs - "Allegations that the Chinese Communist Party manufactured fake driver's licenses and shipped them to the U.S. in a scheme to influence the 2020 presidential election in favor of Joe Biden are being investigated by the Senate Judiciary Committee after the FBI revealed its own probe into the potential bombshell Monday night.  FBI Director Kash Patel located and declassified the document at the request of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley in late May and transmitted it to the committee Monday evening.  Grassley, R-Iowa, is demanding further information about the document, which alleges the plot sought to deliver fake driver's licenses to Chinese sympathizers in the U.S. who would cast a vote for candidate Biden. The document does not say whether any ballots were cast as part of the scheme... "explain why the FBI under your predecessor required the original IIR to be destroyed, whether this practice is consistent with the FBI’s past and current practice, and how it comports with federal record preservation requirements."   The FBI reporting document came just a month after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the International Mail Facility at Chicago O'Hare International Airport seized nearly 20,000 fraudulent driver's licenses.   From January 2020 through June 30, 2020, CBP officers at that location reported seizing 1,513 shipments of fraudulent documents that included a total of 19,888 counterfeit US driver's licenses.   "The majority of these shipments were arriving from China and Hong Kong," CBP posted in a July press release."

Wilfred Reilly on X - "Got to clarify here: PROVEN voter fraud is "vanishingly rare," because there is almost no way to prove fraud if ballots can be sent in by mail from the projects or trailer court, and no ID is required to vote in person. Fairly large-scale voter fraud, like (thinking back to my mom and Chicago) unions sending in proxies to vote for absent members, or mass "mistaken" registration of aliens via MotorVoter, is almost certainly very common."

Iraqveteran8888 on X - "If showing an ID to vote is voter suppression, then requiring a 4473 to buy a gun is infringement on the 2nd Amendment. 💁🏻‍♂️"

Rafael A. Mangual on X - "I’ve always been annoyed by the inconsistency on the left illustrated by their complaints about “burdens” (having to get an ID or prove your citizenship) on the right to vote. Why don’t those arguments apply to the Second Amendment, in their view? What principle precludes the imposition of any cost on one’s exercise of the right to vote, but has nothing to say about ammunition taxes, or the fact that it costs hundreds of dollars just to acquire a license to carry a firearm in states like New York?"

Meme - "Democrats constantly claim that their voters are more educated than Republican voters. Democrats also claim their voters are too stupid to obtain a voter ID. So which is it? Are they scholarly or stone cold stupid?"

Shiloh Marx on X - "Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) won in Massachusetts by 676,248 votes. Massachusetts had 744,880 duplicate registrations."

Pakistanis Who Have Never Been to US Are Voting in California Elections from Inside Pakistan - "San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Captain says voting records show people outside of the country, in Pakistan, are allowed to vote in the California elections."

Liz Harrington on X - "“Fulton County records show 22,534 more Absentee ballots cast than voters credited with casting a ballot.” That’s almost twice the 2020 margin alone."
Patrick Colbeck✝️ on X - "MI SoS official voter history records in Michigan indicate that there were over 353,000 more ballots cast in #2020election than voters...in a Presidential race reportedly decided by 154,188 votes."
Patrick Colbeck✝️ on X - "BTW...The number of missing voters changes every month despite a statutory requirement to preserve this data for 5 years (MCL 168.509q). The LATEST figure is 499,850 more votes than voters during the #2020Election in Michigan. For those keeping score at home, that is over 3.2X greater than the reported margin of victory for Biden (i.e. "significant").  H/T to data whiz Tim Vetter for his continued database prowess ;) @realLizUSA  @RealLindellTV  @timlovesann  @DeluxePsypher  @mifairelections  @AGPamBondi  @HarmeetKDhillon  @EdMartinDOJ  @PatrickByrne  @GenFlynn  @realMikeLindell"

Joey Mannarino 🇺🇸 on X - "Japan has 123.8 million people living there and they were able to count their votes in about 8 hours. They voted and the results were out that very same day. Why does it take blue states in America weeks to count votes?"

Lauren Chen on X - "If requiring ID to vote infringes on people's Constitutional rights, you shouldn't need to present ID when buying a firearm. Am I doing it right?...
The difference between voting and buying a gun is that the Founding Fathers didn't think everyone should be able to vote but they did think everyone should be able to buy a gun"
Left wingers' response is just to tell people they're stupid, because they're unable to come up with an argument when their NPC programming is challenged

🌪️ TAZ 🌪️ on X - "Liberals: “You shouldn’t need an ID to vote! It’s in the constitution”
Also, liberals: “An ID, background check, and waiting period isn’t enough! We need stricter gun laws”"

Terrell The Leftist🌹✊🏾 on X - "The Electoral College was a Moderate Compromise that gave states that never wanted to abolish slavery a leg up in Federal elections instead of relying on the popular vote. The Electoral College was created to appease racists. We can't continue to keep making these type of compromises."
Wait till left wingers find out why non-citizens count for apportioning House seats