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During the January massacre, the regime’s murderous thugs were chasing a group of protesters through the streets of Iran. As they fled for their lives into a building, the brave Mohammad Jabbari stayed behind. He held the door shut with his own body for as long as he could, refusing to run, so others could escape to safety. The regime's thugs smashed against the door, then shot him at close range and murdered him on the spot. He gave his life without hesitation to protect his fellow Iranians. Mohammad Jabbari is one of more than 35,000 innocent people slaughtered in the January massacre. He was an honorable hero whose courage will inspire generations. We will never forget his name, or the countless other heroes who fought with unmatched valor against the enemies of humanity. Your sacrifice will not be in vain. Iran will be free.
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During the January massacre, the regime’s murderous thugs were chasing a group of protesters through the streets of Iran. As they fled for their lives into a building, the brave Mohammad Jabbari stayed behind. He held the door shut with his own body for as long as he could, refusing to run, so others could escape to safety. The regime's thugs smashed against the door, then shot him at close range and murdered him on the spot. He gave his life without hesitation to protect his fellow Iranians. Mohammad Jabbari is one of more than 35,000 innocent people slaughtered in the January massacre. He was an honorable hero whose courage will inspire generations. We will never forget his name, or the countless other heroes who fought with unmatched valor against the enemies of humanity. Your sacrifice will not be in vain. Iran will be free.

🇮🇷 Association of Iranian Royalists

180,001 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

🇨🇳🇮🇶 This is Ahmed Mohammed Jaber Alkalthoom, a 30-year-old from Iraq. The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 turned this child from a wealthy family into a displaced refugee. He left his homeland and went to Syria. He was only 9 years old that year. During the war, one of Alkalthoom’s eardrums was ruptured, leaving him with hearing in just one ear. Nine years later, conflict erupted in Syria as well. In the midst of the Syrian war, Alkalthoom not only endured emotional trauma but also suffered physical injuries. While out buying food one day, he was caught in crossfire and was shot. Afterward, Alkalthoom moved between Lebanon and Egypt before finally arriving in Ningxia, China. There, he began learning Chinese and adopted the name “Wang Lixuan.” The people of China were very kind to him, and he became one of the most popular food bloggers on Chinese social media, affectionately nicknamed “Iraqi Lao Wang.” Lao Wang said that when he first arrived in China, he would get startled whenever someone honked their car horn. On his first day, he fell into deep despair because he thought he heard “gunfire” and saw “troops gathering.” However, he quickly realized he had misunderstood. People around him explained that it wasn’t a military operation but students participating in military training exercises. During the 2024 Spring Festival, while recording food videos in Henan, he was eating at a barbecue stall when the sudden sound of firecrackers frightened him. For a few seconds, his eyes were filled with fear. “I thought it was the sound of a bomb exploding.” Once he realized he was safe, he let out a bitter smile, shook his head, and continued eating. Lao Wang says that so far, he has learned to write three Chinese characters: “爱” (love) and “和平” (peace).
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🇨🇳🇮🇶 This is Ahmed Mohammed Jaber Alkalthoom, a 30-year-old from Iraq. The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 turned this child from a wealthy family into a displaced refugee. He left his homeland and went to Syria. He was only 9 years old that year. During the war, one of Alkalthoom’s eardrums was ruptured, leaving him with hearing in just one ear. Nine years later, conflict erupted in Syria as well. In the midst of the Syrian war, Alkalthoom not only endured emotional trauma but also suffered physical injuries. While out buying food one day, he was caught in crossfire and was shot. Afterward, Alkalthoom moved between Lebanon and Egypt before finally arriving in Ningxia, China. There, he began learning Chinese and adopted the name “Wang Lixuan.” The people of China were very kind to him, and he became one of the most popular food bloggers on Chinese social media, affectionately nicknamed “Iraqi Lao Wang.” Lao Wang said that when he first arrived in China, he would get startled whenever someone honked their car horn. On his first day, he fell into deep despair because he thought he heard “gunfire” and saw “troops gathering.” However, he quickly realized he had misunderstood. People around him explained that it wasn’t a military operation but students participating in military training exercises. During the 2024 Spring Festival, while recording food videos in Henan, he was eating at a barbecue stall when the sudden sound of firecrackers frightened him. For a few seconds, his eyes were filled with fear. “I thought it was the sound of a bomb exploding.” Once he realized he was safe, he let out a bitter smile, shook his head, and continued eating. Lao Wang says that so far, he has learned to write three Chinese characters: “爱” (love) and “和平” (peace).

𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦

63,968 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

I keep thinking about one of the original moments that the Left really started targeting Charlie and making Turning Point the enemy and how Charlie never backed down. When we hired Candace Owens, I had the honor of it being the three of us traveling around quite a bit… we went everywhere. Between work and building organizationally, to putting her on tour for the very first time with Charlie, helping with her personal socials and website— just everything. Charlie wanted to do everything he possibly could to maximize her voice as he did with so many because he loved her and saw her ability to do so much good for America. But this was in the era of the rise of Antifa that was manufactured by the Left. The first real danger I think we ever experienced where we were just living our lives and it made us realize we were in for a larger long term war was when we were together, just eating breakfast before some meetings and suddenly outside our window a large gang of antifa had assembled and harassed us out of our meal and then, while shouting “fascists” over and over took us to the streets to surround us and scream in our faces. They poured water on us and I’m sure wanted to throw other things at us had the police not arrived on the street and got us out of there. Charlie never backed down, in fact, instead of getting angry or physical, he stood bravely and tried have a debate with these obviously paid antifa bad actors. My young and honorable friend, (he was always genuine in his desire to save every single person he could) stood there and gave those people as he did everyone the chance to talk about ideas and I personally witnessed how fearless he was many times in the face of dangerous, unhinged activists, early early on. He never once feared these people. He just wanted to do right by what he knew was right. He knew other bystanders were always watching and learning and there was no way he could back down and let these people lie and falsely frame America the way they were trying to do. I’ll never forget his smiling face, “have a wonderful day, enjoy your capitalist breakfast.” He would have tried to talk sense into anyone and everyone and that is what he did every single day. That is why Charlie won over America. He was honest, true and genuine. Never gave up and stood in the pocket in the face of paid agitators and evil.
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I keep thinking about one of the original moments that the Left really started targeting Charlie and making Turning Point the enemy and how Charlie never backed down. When we hired Candace Owens, I had the honor of it being the three of us traveling around quite a bit… we went everywhere. Between work and building organizationally, to putting her on tour for the very first time with Charlie, helping with her personal socials and website— just everything. Charlie wanted to do everything he possibly could to maximize her voice as he did with so many because he loved her and saw her ability to do so much good for America. But this was in the era of the rise of Antifa that was manufactured by the Left. The first real danger I think we ever experienced where we were just living our lives and it made us realize we were in for a larger long term war was when we were together, just eating breakfast before some meetings and suddenly outside our window a large gang of antifa had assembled and harassed us out of our meal and then, while shouting “fascists” over and over took us to the streets to surround us and scream in our faces. They poured water on us and I’m sure wanted to throw other things at us had the police not arrived on the street and got us out of there. Charlie never backed down, in fact, instead of getting angry or physical, he stood bravely and tried have a debate with these obviously paid antifa bad actors. My young and honorable friend, (he was always genuine in his desire to save every single person he could) stood there and gave those people as he did everyone the chance to talk about ideas and I personally witnessed how fearless he was many times in the face of dangerous, unhinged activists, early early on. He never once feared these people. He just wanted to do right by what he knew was right. He knew other bystanders were always watching and learning and there was no way he could back down and let these people lie and falsely frame America the way they were trying to do. I’ll never forget his smiling face, “have a wonderful day, enjoy your capitalist breakfast.” He would have tried to talk sense into anyone and everyone and that is what he did every single day. That is why Charlie won over America. He was honest, true and genuine. Never gave up and stood in the pocket in the face of paid agitators and evil.

Tyler Bowyer

25,495 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten

What happened to George Pickering, the man who held doctors hostage to save his son's life?🙏 The hospital had already declared his son brain dead. They had started the slow process of removing life support. They had even contacted an organ donation team. George Pickering II, the father, refused to accept any of it. He walked into the hospital with a 9mm pistol. He demanded more time. He was drunk, scared, and locked in for hours with SWAT outside. His other son disarmed him fast, but Pickering convinced everyone he had a second gun. He closed the curtain around his son's bed and waited. In those three hours, his son squeezed his hand three times on command. That was the proof Pickering needed. He surrendered peacefully. His son made a full recovery and now works alongside his father in their business. Pickering served around 11 months in jail. Both agree: it was out of love, and they would make the same choice again.
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What happened to George Pickering, the man who held doctors hostage to save his son's life?🙏 The hospital had already declared his son brain dead. They had started the slow process of removing life support. They had even contacted an organ donation team. George Pickering II, the father, refused to accept any of it. He walked into the hospital with a 9mm pistol. He demanded more time. He was drunk, scared, and locked in for hours with SWAT outside. His other son disarmed him fast, but Pickering convinced everyone he had a second gun. He closed the curtain around his son's bed and waited. In those three hours, his son squeezed his hand three times on command. That was the proof Pickering needed. He surrendered peacefully. His son made a full recovery and now works alongside his father in their business. Pickering served around 11 months in jail. Both agree: it was out of love, and they would make the same choice again.

✨Red✨

149,179 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

When 102-year-old World War II veteran Wally King asks you to have a beer at the Stop Bar in Sainte-Mère-Église in Normandy, you have a beer (or two) with Wally King at the Stop Bar in Sainte-Mère-Église in Normandy. What an honor! Wally flew 75 combat missions in the Second World War in P-51 Mustangs and P-47 Thunderbolts. He was shot down in April of 1945, parachuting out of his P-47 over Germany and becoming a POW before then evading both German and Soviet forces on his way to freedom. Legend! I’ve been fortunate enough to travel to Normandy with Wally three times for D-Day commemoration events with the Best Defense Foundation over the past few years. We always have a blast! 🇺🇸
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When 102-year-old World War II veteran Wally King asks you to have a beer at the Stop Bar in Sainte-Mère-Église in Normandy, you have a beer (or two) with Wally King at the Stop Bar in Sainte-Mère-Église in Normandy. What an honor! Wally flew 75 combat missions in the Second World War in P-51 Mustangs and P-47 Thunderbolts. He was shot down in April of 1945, parachuting out of his P-47 over Germany and becoming a POW before then evading both German and Soviet forces on his way to freedom. Legend! I’ve been fortunate enough to travel to Normandy with Wally three times for D-Day commemoration events with the Best Defense Foundation over the past few years. We always have a blast! 🇺🇸

Jack Carr

419,718 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

Claude Monet painted the same stretch of cliff more than ninety times. The place is Étretat, a small fishing village on the coast of Normandy, where the chalk cliffs fall into the sea in great arches and a single spire of rock, the Aiguille, stands alone in the water. Monet had known the place since childhood. He grew up in Normandy, and these cliffs were among the first landscapes he ever saw... He returned to paint them again and again. He worked through the 1880s in front of the same rock formations, and across that time he produced more than ninety canvases of them: the cliffs at dawn, at sunset, under storm, under calm, in winter light and in the gold of a clear evening. In his letters to Alice, the woman he would later marry, he described the agony of it: the weather turning, the tide rising, the sun moving, the colour he had begun to capture vanishing before he could finish. He often worked on several canvases at once, switching between them as the conditions changed, racing each one against the hour. In a letter to his friend Frédéric Bazille he wrote: "It is beautiful here in Etretat. Every day I discover even more beautiful things. It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all, my head is bursting. I want to fight, scratch it off, start again, because I start to see and understand. It seems to me as if I can see nature and I can catch it all." The cliffs of Étretat had stood for millions of years and would look, to most people, the same on any given day. Monet saw that they were never the same even for two minutes. He stood on that shore and tried to hold, on canvas, something that exists only for an instant and then is gone forever. And that's exactly what those paintings really are: 90 attempts to keep a single, vanishing moment of light from disappearing. As Dylan Thomas once wrote: "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." -- -- -- If you want a deeper dive into the craft of painting, I recently wrote a piece exploring it in detail. You can read it here: And if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible:
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Claude Monet painted the same stretch of cliff more than ninety times. The place is Étretat, a small fishing village on the coast of Normandy, where the chalk cliffs fall into the sea in great arches and a single spire of rock, the Aiguille, stands alone in the water. Monet had known the place since childhood. He grew up in Normandy, and these cliffs were among the first landscapes he ever saw... He returned to paint them again and again. He worked through the 1880s in front of the same rock formations, and across that time he produced more than ninety canvases of them: the cliffs at dawn, at sunset, under storm, under calm, in winter light and in the gold of a clear evening. In his letters to Alice, the woman he would later marry, he described the agony of it: the weather turning, the tide rising, the sun moving, the colour he had begun to capture vanishing before he could finish. He often worked on several canvases at once, switching between them as the conditions changed, racing each one against the hour. In a letter to his friend Frédéric Bazille he wrote: "It is beautiful here in Etretat. Every day I discover even more beautiful things. It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all, my head is bursting. I want to fight, scratch it off, start again, because I start to see and understand. It seems to me as if I can see nature and I can catch it all." The cliffs of Étretat had stood for millions of years and would look, to most people, the same on any given day. Monet saw that they were never the same even for two minutes. He stood on that shore and tried to hold, on canvas, something that exists only for an instant and then is gone forever. And that's exactly what those paintings really are: 90 attempts to keep a single, vanishing moment of light from disappearing. As Dylan Thomas once wrote: "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." -- -- -- If you want a deeper dive into the craft of painting, I recently wrote a piece exploring it in detail. You can read it here: And if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible:

James Lucas

57,710 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

On August 16, 1944, an American colonel Welborn Barton Griffith Jr. was given an order to target a Catholic Cathedral in France— which allegedly had Nazis inside. His gut told him this order was odd—so he questioned it, volunteering himself to cross enemy lines to see if the Nazis were in fact inside. Accompanied by another soldier, they learned that the intelligence they had received was wrong, the Cathedral was empty. They rang the Cathedral bell to signal to their fellow Americans not to attack. This is not the first time that Americans were inexplicably told to bomb and/or destroy Churches and monasteries at the end of the war… Yesterday we arrived 20,000 strong at the Chartes Cathedral, still standing. After having walked 60 miles in 3 days through rain, mud, and scorching sun, some arrived being carried by others—most of us limping with blisters and bruising. But what a sight. To see the spires of the Cathedral—the French citizens of this small town lined up on their lawns waving their flags, applauding to greet us, holding their children, and joining in Latin prayer is something I will never forget. 🇫🇷🇺🇸
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On August 16, 1944, an American colonel Welborn Barton Griffith Jr. was given an order to target a Catholic Cathedral in France— which allegedly had Nazis inside. His gut told him this order was odd—so he questioned it, volunteering himself to cross enemy lines to see if the Nazis were in fact inside. Accompanied by another soldier, they learned that the intelligence they had received was wrong, the Cathedral was empty. They rang the Cathedral bell to signal to their fellow Americans not to attack. This is not the first time that Americans were inexplicably told to bomb and/or destroy Churches and monasteries at the end of the war… Yesterday we arrived 20,000 strong at the Chartes Cathedral, still standing. After having walked 60 miles in 3 days through rain, mud, and scorching sun, some arrived being carried by others—most of us limping with blisters and bruising. But what a sight. To see the spires of the Cathedral—the French citizens of this small town lined up on their lawns waving their flags, applauding to greet us, holding their children, and joining in Latin prayer is something I will never forget. 🇫🇷🇺🇸

Candace Owens

1,332,843 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

Look at this smile. This is Yair Avitan, a lion of Israel, filmed just moments before heading into the heart of Gaza to defend our home. He wasn't walking into battle with fear; he was walking with a joy that only a true hero understands - the joy of protecting his family, his people, and his land. As a father, it’s hard to find the words. It is a terrifying mix of a trembling heart and infinite pride. To know that our sons go into the fire with such light in their eyes, fully aware of the price they might pay, is the ultimate testament to the Jewish spirit. Yair fell in battle, but that smile - that pure, holy devotion - will never be extinguished. He didn't just fight for a piece of land, he fought for our right to exist. We owe him, and all our fallen brothers, a debt we can only repay by living with the same courage they showed. Yair Avitan, your sacrifice is engraved in the heart of our nation forever. May your memory be a revolution of strength for all of us. 🕯️🇮🇱 💔
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Look at this smile. This is Yair Avitan, a lion of Israel, filmed just moments before heading into the heart of Gaza to defend our home. He wasn't walking into battle with fear; he was walking with a joy that only a true hero understands - the joy of protecting his family, his people, and his land. As a father, it’s hard to find the words. It is a terrifying mix of a trembling heart and infinite pride. To know that our sons go into the fire with such light in their eyes, fully aware of the price they might pay, is the ultimate testament to the Jewish spirit. Yair fell in battle, but that smile - that pure, holy devotion - will never be extinguished. He didn't just fight for a piece of land, he fought for our right to exist. We owe him, and all our fallen brothers, a debt we can only repay by living with the same courage they showed. Yair Avitan, your sacrifice is engraved in the heart of our nation forever. May your memory be a revolution of strength for all of us. 🕯️🇮🇱 💔

סקיצה מזרחית

198,794 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten