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Joe Murgia

12,377 views • 7 months ago

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Amy Mek

83,969 views • 4 months ago

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Amy Mek

458,866 views • 4 months ago

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Avelyrah

10,877 views • 23 days ago

Here’s the full clip. A few things I’d please like you to note. 1. It’s a comedy show. Where three comedians make jokes as we review the next day’s newspapers. 2. This story was about the response of Trump to a Bishop who’d given a self-righteous sermon in front of him. After he’d just taken action to protect women and children being harmed by gender ideology. 3. A minor point, but I want to highlight that all three comics come from across the political spectrum, all providing a different take on the story. Even though I disagree with some of the Bishop’s ideology, I acknowledged her bravery. 4. Still. Thinking this was a bit rich coming from a Bishop, and being a comedian, on a comedy show, I made a joke about paedophilia in the church (bit hack), connecting it to the wrong ‘uns in the + that she was seemingly advocating for. A point I and other advocates for LGB rights have repeatedly made before. I then quote from their website “It talks about the full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons, I just want to say that that includes pedos! If you’re talking about the FULL inclusion!” And how we laughed and further riffed off the back of it. 5. This is the most important point: notice how in the seven second clip that’s making the rounds, they deliberately cut out that final….”If you’re talking about the FULL inclusion.” Because that makes clear that I’m talking about the + end of the scale. The point, my intent, the context, are all much clearer with those words included. And a deliberate and conscious choice was made to cut them out because it didn’t fit what they wanted to pretend I meant. As opposed to what I actually said. 6. Who would do such a thing? To what agenda? Here’s a fact. The Good Law Project, who edited and put out the clip, is the same organisation that took the UK’s only exclusively gay rights charity to court. And lost. And now they want to chuck out accusations of homophobia? Anyway. Headliners. Every night at 11pm. Only on GB News.

Josh Howie

275,723 views • 1 year ago

🚨 RED STATE ALERT: Florida Is Funding Its Own Islamization — Tampa Marketed as ‘70% Arab’ in Recruitment Video This Arabic-language recruitment video, translated and subtitled by RAIR Foundation USA, openly instructs Muslims how to relocate to Tampa and live entirely within Muslim Brotherhood institutional networks. This is not my analysis. This is their plan, in their own words. 🔴 “The first place we will visit is the mosque, and from the mosque we will learn about the situation of Arabs through the imams there.” That statement matters. In Muslim Brotherhood doctrine, the mosque is not simply a place of worship. It is the organizational gateway, where population strength is communicated, trust is established, and families are routed into aligned schools, businesses, and services. The featured mosque is Masjid al-Qassam, named after Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, the ideological forefather of Hamas. 🔴 “The population of Tampa was 10,000 in the year 2000. Now it is 175,000 from the Arab community… 70% of the population present are Arabs.” This claim is being used as a recruitment signal, telling incoming families the infrastructure is already in place and that assimilation will not be required. 🔴 “I certainly advise anyone looking for Islamic schools… who wants an Arab and Islamic environment.” This is the next step in the Brotherhood model. Directly across the street from Masjid al-Qassam sits the American Youth Academy (AYA), one of Florida’s largest Islamic schools, now receiving taxpayer funding through Florida’s voucher programs. AYA is the rebranded continuation of the Islamic Academy of Florida, founded by individuals later convicted in federal court of providing material support to Palestinian Islamic Jihad. 🔴 “I have visited 28 states and have not seen anything like this. This school gives you the feeling of your homeland, as if you are still in your country.” That is not supplemental education. That is continuity by design. For years, Muslim Brotherhood operatives themselves have described schools as the primary long-term asset, where identity is shaped, loyalty is reinforced, and future voters, candidates, and institutional leaders are cultivated from childhood. That doctrine is visible here. Then comes the economic spine. 🔴 “Everything an Arab household needs, you will find it right here.” Markets beside the mosque import 90% of products from Palestine, promote BDS boycott alternatives, ship nationwide, and operate entirely within halal, Sharia-regulated commerce — a closed economic loop. Then comes permanence, underwritten by taxpayers. 🔴 “The insurance is the marketplace insurance… it is subsidized by the government… there are people who pay $0.” Government-subsidized healthcare is openly advertised as a relocation incentive. Mosque. School. Markets. Halal economy. Taxpayer subsidies. Interstate expansion. This is institutional replication, consistent with the Muslim Brotherhood’s own documented strategy: schools first, population consolidation second, political influence third. This exact model is now operating within Brotherhood-aligned networks across Florida and Texas, with additional red states under investigation. 🚨 What was outlined in the Muslim Brotherhood’s 1991 Explanatory Memorandum is now operational. In Tampa, this infrastructure is advancing through networks tied to the daughter of a senior Brotherhood leader; in Texas, it is being carried out by an operative explicitly named in the document — both now operating within Islamic school systems. 🚨 Despite this evidence being brought forward, neither Florida nor Texas officials have commented or taken any action. None. Americans are not being told this in English. But the strategy is being broadcast clearly in Arabic. RAIR Foundation USA will continue to expose this threat. See the full report here: ⬇️

Amy Mek

608,217 views • 8 months ago

🚨REPORT: PATTERN OF VIOLENCE? Father Charged After 11-Year-Old Shot - Son Previously Arrested in Brutal St*bbing in Midlothian, Texas. A Midlothian family is now tied to multiple violent felony cases. Mark Robert Nienhuis, 37, is currently in custody at a hospital following a shooting that left an 11-year-old child injured. According to the Midlothian Police Department, he is facing aggravated As*ault with a Deadly Weapon Causing Serious Bodily Injury (1st Degree Felony) and EIGHT counts of Aggravated As*ault with a Deadly Weapon (2nd Degree Felony) Police say the incident began as a family altercation before escalating into gunfire. One round struck an 11-year-old child. (Christopher Nienhuis’ little sister). Investigators report that Mark Nienhuis left the scene, returned, and a second armed confrontation occurred before officers arrived. He was taken into custody after refusing commands while armed. This is not the first violent felony case tied to the Nienhuis name in Midlothian. Some of you may remember my exclusive reporting In 2025, when Christopher Robert Nienhuis, 18, was arrested and charged with two counts of Aggravated As*ault Causing Serious Bodily Injury with a Deadly Weapon (2nd Degree Felony) and one count of As*ault Causing Bodily Injury (Class A Misdemeanor). Christopher is the son of Mark Nienhuis. My past reporting and video showed Christopher verbally harassing a minor female in a public parking lot, repeatedly calling her a derogatory term more than a dozen times. The situation escalated when he slapped her in the face before pulling a knife and stabbing her boyfriend - 17-year-old Dylan Almanza - who had attempted to intervene. Almanza suffered severe injuries, including damage to his kidney and lungs, and significant blood loss before being transported between hospitals. Following that incident, activist Dominique Alexander publicly described the case as “self-defense” and has a pattern of framing similar incidents through that lens, usually claiming “racism” and turning the accused into victims. Recently, I exposed career criminal Dominque Alexander of NGAN (again) after reporting him to DPS for running a fraudulent security team for Karmelo Anthony. TX DPS found him in violation, which includes a charge and a fine. Christopher’s father, Mark Nienhuis, previously posted bond for his son following the 2025 arrest. However, Christopher’s bond was later revoked after he failed to comply with bond conditions, and he is currently back in custody. I have also obtained video footage showing Christopher Nienhuis making disturbing and inappropriate comments outside his school, which will be included in this reporting. Two separate incidents in one year.. the same family name now appearing in back-to-back violent cases. The investigation into the latest shooting remains ongoing. I will continue to follow this case closely and will provide updates once Mark Nienhuis is released from the hospital and additional court documents - including affidavits and records - are obtained. Stay tuned.

Sarah Fields

164,196 views • 5 months ago

‼️EXPOSED: The Hollywood-to-Huachuca PIPELINE—Andrew Kolvet’s INTELLIGENCE Ties Exposed 👀 Andrew Kolvet, the current TPUSA spokesperson, admits his path to Charlie Kirk began in Hollywood, working with Celebrity Apprentice producer Marc Burnett. As Jimmy Dore points out, reality TV is the perfect training ground for manipulating American minds. Is TPUSA a youth movement, or just another live-action roleplay (LARP) designed by the Second PsyOp Division? The Fort Huachuca Connection: A Family Affair 📡 Kolvet was caught playing dumb, referring to Fort Huachuca—the Army's premier Intel/AI hub—as "some fort in Tucson" while trying to botch an alibi for Erika Kirk. Why the lie? Because his family dynasty is embedded there. His brother, Lt. Col. Kurt Kolvet, commands a unit that trains at Huachuca. His other brother, Robert Kolvet, is a business manager for US Army Netcom—headquartered at Fort Huachuca—focusing on global comms and cyber intelligence. The Romanian Link: Charities, Military Bases, & Trafficking 🇷🇴This is where it gets dark. Andrew’s brother, Kurt, was deployed to Romania, overseeing military police on a NATO base. He was stationed less than 30 minutes from where Erika Kirk’s charity, "Romanian Angels," operated an orphanage now tied to human trafficking allegations. Coincidence? Or is this the same dynastic network operating child brothels under the guise of "charity"? Zionist Embedding & The Ultimate Removal 🛡️🇮🇸Before TPUSA, Andrew Kolvet was a media contact pushing massive pro-Israel campaigns. Now he’s the face of American conservatism. The Theory: Was Charlie Kirk living in a "Truman Show," surrounded by Mossad and Zionist assets because he opposed the war with Iran and refused their bribes? The base is demanding the TRUTH. If you have tips, DM us or email me at [email protected] Be sure to FOLLOW the Great and Powerful wizard of comedy Jimmy Dore and well as my bro Travis. Also if you want to learn the full Kolvet family history then I highly suggest you watch Jimmy's FULL video linked down below. 👇

Project Constitution

87,511 views • 4 months ago

🚨ACTION ALERT TEXAS - PARENTS BEWARE THIS IS HOW ISLAMIZATION ENTERS YOUR SCHOOLS. Today at Wylie East High School, an Islamic outreach group called “Why Islam” set up a major booth at the front of the school DURING THE SCHOOL DAY — and began targeting students. They were: 🔺 Handing out hijabs to girls across the campus 🔺 Distributing free Qurans 🔺 Passing out pamphlets about Sharia law 🔺 Giving students “gift bags” packed with Islamic propaganda The student who confronted them - Marco, President of the High School Republicans - said something chilling: - They were trying to provide hijabs to as many girls as possible. - This was DAWAH - Islamic proselytizing - aimed directly at your children inside a taxpayer-funded school. 🔺And here’s the part they don’t want you to know🔺 is an official outreach project run by ICNA (Islamic Circle of North America). Not a local mom-and-pop group or harmless “community outreach.” 🔺ICNA isn’t showing up in schools to “teach kids about Islam.” They’re showing up to build the next generation of converts, activists, and institutional leverage. 🔺This isn’t a random “faith booth.” This is an Islamic pipeline tied to the same ideological network that birthed the Muslim Brotherhood - the mother movement behind Hamas and global jihad. 🔺ICNA is the American affiliate of Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamaat’s militant wing owned the compound where Osama bin Laden was hiding when he was killed. 🔺 Their model is infiltration, then normalization and public schools are one of their primary battlegrounds for long-term capture. 🔺 The Muslim Brotherhood’s own internal strategic memo described this exact strategy as “civilization jihad” destroying the West from within. ICNA was named as part of that U.S. network. 🔺 They don’t need to storm the gates. They just need access to your kids, your schools, and your institutions and the system lets them walk right in. 🔺 What looks like “free gifts” is actually ideological recruitment - sharia hijabs, Qurans, Sharia pamphlets, and the soft-power method of conquest. 🔺 This is how you get institutional power: start with youth recruitment, then pipeline into media, law, politics, and government. So ask yourself: ❓ Why are public schools allowing Islamic proselytizers to operate on campus - when Christian groups would NEVER be allowed to pass out Bibles during lunch? ❓ Who approved this booth? ❓ Who gave them access to minors? ❓ Why is Sharia propaganda being distributed in an American high school? This is how it starts. Not with force. With “free gifts.” With “education.” With “tolerance.” And then one day, parents look up and realize the institution was captured right in front of them. 🚨 TAKE ACTION: DEMAND ANSWERS FROM WYLIE EAST HS Contact the Principal of Wylie East High School: Tiffany Doolan Principal, Wylie East High School 📧 [email protected] ☎️ 972-429-3155 ⚠️ Texas - your schools, your STATE, are ground zero. WE MUST DEMAND OUR CHILDREN ARE OFF LIMITS! DON'T SHARIA MY CHILDREN!

Amy Mek

1,395,763 views • 7 months ago

The great Dr Jordan B Peterson praises my work exposing corruption in elite academia, but expresses concern, even opposition, to my work reforming New College of Florida. He's wrong. Let me explain why. First, Peterson implies that "political control" over universities is illegitimate. It is not. New College of Florida is a public university, and public universities are the creation of the state—that is, they belong to and should reflect the values of the public. In Florida, voters elect their representatives, who, in turn, charter, fund, and govern the public universities. The takeover of New College was, in this manner, an expression of the democratic will, moving the public university in line with the wishes of the public. It was always this way. When Thomas Jefferson wrote the charter for the University of Virginia, the first public university in the United States, he explicitly stated that the university should promote the virtues of the broader society and that the ultimate authority rested with the legislature. The university's leadership, he insisted, "should at all times conform to such laws as the legislature may from time to time think proper to enact for their government, and the said University should, in all things, and at all times be subject to the controul of the legislature." As Jefferson might remind Peterson, the alternative to "political control" of the universities is not enlightened self-government but bureaucratic rule. The laissez-faire attitude of legislators, who, in recent decades, ceded control of the public universities to unelected administrators and faculty departments, created the precise problem we are now trying to resolve. It is not a betrayal of classical liberal values to insist that political leaders, rather than permanent bureaucrats, govern public institutions—it is, rather, a restoration of those values. Second, Peterson is concerned that creating a "new conservative university," as he characterizes New College of Florida, could represent "an equivalent error on the more conservative side" to that made by “radical leftist universities." No: The equivalent error would be to propose that conservatives rule all of the universities, systemically exclude progressives from faculty positions, and use academia as a vehicle for political activism. We have done nothing of the sort. We have, instead, created a balanced faculty, fostered debate, and revived classical liberal principles at the state’s smallest university—not an equivalence in degree or in kind. I would interrogate Peterson's position a step further. Does he believe that the status quo of left-wing domination is somehow more legitimate than our reforms? Does he think that Florida voters, who elected Governor DeSantis in a landslide and whose taxes bankroll public universities, should be denied a public education system that represents their values? Why should they be compelled to subsidize DEI and gender studies rather than the classical liberal arts? Third, Peterson warns that the ideological should not permeate the educational. On this, I would agree, but with a twist: America’s public universities are too ideological, but insufficiently political. In other words, we should absolutely reject the status quo of activist pseudo-scholarship and cheap left-wing partisanship, but we should remember—and embrace—the fact that public universities are inherently political institutions, with a duty to promote citizenship, cultivate virtue, and pursue the public good. It is not by accident that Aristotle's theory of education appears in the final book of the Politics. Jefferson concurred. The imperative of the public university, he insisted, is to educate the young, and, in particular, the leadership class, into the political regime. He envisioned America’s universities as a place "[t]o form the statesmen, legislators, and judges on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend." And he saw clearly that this would require strong leadership, able to maintain the republican character and transmit political knowledge from one generation to the next. This brings me to my final point: prudence. Peterson is intimately familiar with the crisis of the academy. Yet, he hesitates to embrace even the most modest reform. He apparently prefers the posture of the critic and, as a result and perhaps inadvertently, defends the status quo. This is regrettable. The prudent line of action, consistent with the principles of classical liberalism—not to be mistaken for non-interventionism—is to support reforms that restore public trust, rebalance the faculty, and reorient the universities toward truth, rather than power. Read the full essay at City Journal:

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️

587,901 views • 2 years ago

Two and a Half Minutes That Defined a Decade The moment that “bum-ba-bum-BOOM” drumbeat hits, the whole stage seems to light up. Three young women stand under the lights, towering beehive hairdos, dark outfits, microphones in hand, moving and singing with pure energy. Ronnie is in the center—her voice sharp yet warm, those “whoa-oh-ohs” soaring without any strain. Backup dancers move behind them. The audience cheers. It’s just over two and a half minutes, but it feels like the entire 1960s has come alive right in front of you. The Ronettes came out of Spanish Harlem and Washington Heights in New York. Veronica “Ronnie” Bennett, her sister Estelle Bennett, and their cousin Nedra Talley started singing together in the late 1950s, drawing inspiration from doo-wop groups like Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. They performed at the Peppermint Lounge, appeared in a twist movie, and released a few modest singles. The turning point came when Estelle called Philles Records. Phil Spector heard Ronnie sing “Why Do Fools Fall in Love” and immediately knew that was the voice he’d been looking for. The three of them signed with his label in 1963. “Be My Baby” was written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, and Phil Spector. Ronnie later said the song captured the explosive feeling of those early days between her and the producer. The recording sessions took place in July 1963 at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles. Ronnie flew out to California alone. The other two Ronettes weren’t called in. Background vocals came from the Blossoms, Cher (her first time in a studio), Sonny Bono, and Nino Tempo. The session musicians—later known as the Wrecking Crew—included Hal Blaine on drums, multiple pianos at once, guitars, bass, brass, and a full string section. It was the first time Spector used a full orchestra at Gold Star for one of his records. The studio was packed. They rehearsed for hours before rolling tape. Hal Blaine later explained that the legendary opening drum pattern came from an accident—he dropped a stick and missed the second beat. He kept the “mistake,” and it became the unforgettable signature. Ronnie spent three days recording her vocals. Between takes she would slip into the ladies’ room to practice those “oh-oh-ohs,” partly because the acoustics were great in there and partly so the musicians wouldn’t get distracted. Spector built his Wall of Sound by layering instruments thickly and using Gold Star’s famous echo chamber, creating a dense, almost symphonic sound he called “little symphonies for the kids.” The finished track felt both powerful and intimate, grand and personal at the same time. Released in August 1963, “Be My Baby” climbed to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, held strong for weeks, hit No. 1 on Cash Box, and reached the top five in the UK. Dick Clark called it “the record of the century” on American Bandstand. It sold millions of copies in its first year. The song became an icon of the 1960s for several interlocking reasons. The Wall of Sound delivered a sense of scale that matched the energy and ambition of a young generation growing up with radio and television. The lyrics were simple teenage romance, yet Ronnie delivered them with confidence and a subtle sensuality that created a compelling tension. At that moment, girl groups were reshaping how female artists appeared on stage—confident, stylish, magnetic. “Be My Baby” captured that shift and elevated it. The impact was immediate. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys heard the song for the first time while driving. He had to pull over to the side of the road, completely overwhelmed. He later called it the greatest record ever made and said no one would ever top it. Wilson bought multiple copies, played them over and over, and studied every layer. He wrote “Don’t Worry Baby” as a kind of answer song, originally intending it for the Ronettes, before keeping it for his own group. John Lennon loved Ronnie’s voice too. Later generations kept drawing from that drumbeat, that sense of space in the production, and the direct emotional charge of the track. Every time I watch the performance clip again, it still feels fresh. Ronnie smiles, sings, and moves across the stage as if the song had been written the day before. Nothing feels forced. The energy comes from the three of them, from the hidden orchestra behind them, and from the way the record was built. It’s a moment when pop music learned how to create something large inside a small frame. More than sixty years later, the recording still stands among the most important songs of its era, inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. Sitting with the video, what comes through clearest is pure joy. No long explanation needed. Just that opening drumbeat, then Ronnie’s voice stepping in, and suddenly you remember why this song remains tied to the 1960s—because it caught the pulse of its time, because it was made with such care that it became a standard, and because it still makes people want to sing along, move along, and believe every word.

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