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-Great Cultural Revolution
Playing Taps for the New World Order
[Clarice @ AT] President Trump has the world playing taps for the New World Order, and that’s a good thing. In the process, he dealt the UK’s Keir Starmer what appears to be a fatal blow. And in Minneapolis, a combination of communists and NGO-paid rioters is trying to replay the George Floyd Summer of Love and is instead showing why ICE’s work is essential to good order. The media is trying to help the rioters by concocting a “bait boy” fable.
Posted by: Frank G || 01/25/2026 13:32 || Comments || Link || [1763 views] Top|| File under:


Ms. Rachel Apologizes For Accidentally Spray-Painting 'Go Away Jews' On A Synagogue
[Bee] NEW YORK, NY — The woman behind YouTube's most popular and beloved educational content for children found herself in hot water, as Ms. Rachel issued a public apology for accidentally spray-painting "GO AWAY JEWS" on a synagogue.

The internet personality was embroiled in controversy after witnesses reported seeing her run angrily up to a local synagogue and spray-paint the antisemitic message on the wall of the building, an act she later said was completely unintentional.

"It was never my intent to do something hateful," Ms. Rachel said in a tearful video posted to social media. "When I spray-painted that antisemitic message on that synagogue, it was totally by accident."

According to the children's content creator, the apparent act of antisemitic vandalism was all a big misunderstanding.

"It never crossed my mind that this could be taken in a negative way by anyone," she continued as she wept. "I would never want the fact that I spray-painted ’GO AWAY JEWS' on a synagogue to make Jewish people think I want them to go away. That's not at all what I meant. I love Jewish people and everything they do to exert total and nefarious control over geopolitical affairs and industries. If I offended anyone by doing something really, really offensive, then I'm so sorry. Yay, Jews!"

At publishing time, Ms. Rachel issued a statement clarifying that her new YouTube video titled "The Holocaust Never Happened And Israel Is Evil" should not be taken as a derogatory commentary against Jews.

Spiked explains what the Babylon Bee was reacting to:
Don’t you just hate it when you accidentally like a social-media post calling for the ethnic cleansing of Jews? Poor Ms Rachel, the gurning kids’ entertainer, committed just such a digital gaffe this week. She liked a post by one of her followers on Instagram that said ‘Free America from the Jews’. She later put out a tearful vid saying it was all an innocent mistake. She’d meant to delete the neo-medieval cry for a new Jew expulsion, not ‘heart’ it. Her thumbs let her down.

Facebook Reel: Ms Rachel’s cousin is not impressed
Posted by: Frank G || 01/25/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1774 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  My first thought before opening the article was 'accidentally spray-painting...' "my ass!"

Then I opened the article, sighh I should've known it would be the BEE!

There goes another dollar into the jar.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 01/25/2026 1:06 Comments || Top||

#2  It's satire, but just a matter of time before they start smashing store windows out and filling the streets with broken glass.
The RW streamers haven't stopped and if anything, their publicity stunt in Miami got more American boys to tune in.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 01/25/2026 1:54 Comments || Top||

#3  The red side of the red-green alliance has been smashing shop windows for decades. The green side of things much prefers smashing people.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/25/2026 2:11 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
More conspiracy brain analysis: Tucker Qatarlson ally Mike Benz goes into J6 ‘Fedsurrection’
Watch enough of this stuff and you start to notice patterns. It's good to lay in a foundation so you can spot these when you see them. Never any solid proof, always "it must be this way","this is peculiar" and so on. Pile enough speculation together and it really appeals to a certain kind of person who is suffering. They've always got some kind of secret knowledge that nobody else has access to. They develop their own insider slang like fedsurrection, zogbots, shabbos guys and so on. This insures only insiders can even understand them. The CIA and Mossad are using orbital mind control lasers to force people to act like this. Look for key phrases like "one can only imagine" and "put the pieces together, people."

Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 01/25/2026 03:29 || Comments || Link || [1800 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Apologies, Jairong. That comment is yours, and should have been highlighted in yellow, not my periwinkle. Fixed, now.

One small correction: Shabbas goy is not in-group slang, but proper Yiddish. It means a gentile who performs basic work on the Sabbath forbidden to pious Jews, such as turning on and off lights, and lighting fires. It’s a term that dates back to the early centuries A.D. I understand that nowadays people generally use electronic timers rather than hiring someone or asking a friend to perform the small service — I’ve never known anyone who needs such a thing.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/25/2026 17:30 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian GRU invites
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[ColonelCassad] This blog will be of interest to non-Russian readers. The Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces invites foreign citizens to collaborate.

Russian military intelligence has opened a channel for communication with like-minded individuals abroad.

Remember: Russia needs your help, even if you are far from its borders. If you are ready to contribute to the fight against puppet regimes that oppress the peoples of their countries to please their masters overseas, your voice will be heard.

If you are located in territory controlled by the criminal Kyiv regime and want to provide the Russian army with any assistance it can in the fight against the Nazis, please contact us via the feedback bot

Information valuable to military intelligence will be paid for. A special Telegram bot has been created for contact: @Russian_GRU_bot .

Complete confidentiality and security are guaranteed. This team knows how to protect THEIR OWN. Now it's easier to start working for the intelligence services.

Posted by: badanov || 01/25/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1775 views] Top|| File under:


Open trials of Nazi criminals and their accomplices:'They are worse than animals'
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited

Text taken from the Telegram channel of militera/6099

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.

[ColonelCassad] Testimony of witness Viktor Fedorovich Fyodorov
The Leningrad Trial in the Case of Crimes Committed by Former German Army Servicemen on the Territory of the Leningrad Region During the Occupation. Evening Session, December 30, 1945


Chairman: Witness Fyodorov, what is your name, patronymic, year of birth, and where were you born?

Answer: Viktor Fyodorovich, born in 1886, from the village of Gnilino, Pskov District, a collective farmer.

Chairman: Comrade Prosecutor, I request that you begin the questioning of witness Fyodorov.

Prosecutor: Witness Fyodorov, please answer the following question:

Where did you live when the Germans were on the territory of the Pskov District?


Answer: At that time, I lived in the village of Rostkovo.

Prosecutor: When were the Germans last in your village and what did they do there?

Answer: This case was before the burning of the village.

Prosecutor: What did the Germans do the last time they were in your village

Answer: Comrade prosecutor, should I answer the questions or tell you everything in detail about what happened to me and my family?

Prosecutor: Tell us what happened to you, your family, and your village?

Answer: I want to tell you everything as it really was. I am already 58 years old, and I want to talk only about what happened and was done in our village.

In the evening, the village elder told us that we must report to work early in the morning; those who do not report will be given a few lashes and a fine of five hundred. Early in the morning, while it was still completely dark, we went to work, and not far from the village we met a multitude of German robbers who were riding in a cart, fully armed, along with their leader.

We asked: “Where are you going?”

They answered us: “We don’t understand, we don’t understand,” and drove on.

We, in turn, went to work. We had just started work when we heard shooting, our hands were withering, our souls felt that something was wrong in the village;

We saw them driving away our cows and all the livestock. Someone shouted, "Fedorov, they're burning Rostkovo."

Hearing this, we stopped working and ran to our village, which was six kilometers away.

I said, "Comrades, we won't make it anyway, we'll be exhausted, we have to go," and when we got there, we saw the entire village was on fire. We were stomping around in our felt boots, but it was no use. Not a single person was around.

We ran to another village, thinking that maybe our people had been driven there, but we didn't find a single person there. We only learned from the locals that all of our people had been burned in a barn, and the rest had been shot. We walked around and walked and went to neighboring villages to spend the night. After spending the night, the next morning we went back to Rostkovo to look for our relatives. Only ten of us remained.

In the village, we found only the corpses of those herded into a large barn. All of these corpses were burned, most of them still sitting. One corpse had only half its head and half its torso, but when we touched the head, it crumbled. Some had burned hands, others had burned feet.

Looking at them, we were overcome with fear, and we ran into the forest, where we sat all day, but our clothes weren't winter clothes: it got cold, so we went to another village, where the village headman gave us lodging. After spending the night there, we returned to the forest again, immediately dug ourselves a dugout, and so the 10 remaining survivors began to live in it.

At first, the partisans helped us, but then they began to forage for themselves, taking some of what remained in the village of Rostkovo. And so we lived until the arrival of our heroes, our Red Army.

Comrades! I had three sons, as tall, as handsome as you, and now I am left alone - an old man, and I live in a bathhouse. If I could, I would cut those robbers to pieces, I cannot look at them calmly for my ruined life.

I have nothing more to say, citizen judges.

Prosecutor: Tell me, who among those burned and shot were from your relatives?

Answer: From my family there was my good and beautiful wife, first of all, and secondly, my daughter-in-law, born in 1914, and a four-year-old granddaughter, like a doll, whom we cherished and pitied.

Prosecutor: Do you know which of the neighbors or residents?

Answer: There were 17 families in total. I know them all, but it is difficult to count now.

Chairman: And the children?

Answer: There were thirty-three children, and a total of 64 people died.

Prosecutor: Was it possible to determine whether they were burned or shot?

Answer: No. They were not shot, they were all burned in one barn, only in one other building we found three more bodies of shot people.

Prosecutor: So, from your family those who died were: your wife Maria Nikolaevna, 53 years old, your daughter-in-law and her daughter Inna, 4 years old.

Answer: Yes.

Prosecutor: I have no more questions.

Chairman: What date, month and year was this?


Answer: December 23, 1943.

Chairman: Who burned your village and its inhabitants? Do you know the German soldiers by name?

Answer: Citizens judges, I will not say who did the burning, they swooped down — the German punitive forces, and it is difficult to recognize them by sight.

Chairman: But it was German soldiers who burned them?

Answer: Yes, they are worse than beasts, citizen judges.

No statute of limitations.

Documents from open trials of Nazi criminals and their accomplices, conducted by the USSR in 1943-1947. : Coll. doc. : Vol. 2. 1944–1946 / ed. A. V. Yurasov; compiled by O. V. Lavinskaya, Yu. G. Orlova, compiled by E. V. Balushkina [et al.] — Moscow: Svyaz’ Epokh Foundation, 202 5. — 6 48 p. : [ 16] p. ill. — pp. 384–386.


Posted by: badanov || 01/25/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1767 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
'Husband No. 1' and 'Husband No. 2.' Poland capitulates to the 'Rainbow Plague.'
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
by Kristina Ismagilova

[REGNUM] In Poland, the terms "husband" and "wife" on marriage certificates will be replaced with "spouse #1" and "spouse #2." This is despite the authorities' outcry and vows to resist Brussels' latest blackmail and to uphold the Polish constitution.

The reason for this was the decision of the European Court in Luxembourg, which obliges the country to legally recognize same-sex marriages.

The story began simply.

Two Poles "married" in Berlin in 2018, returned home, and asked to register a German marriage certificate. But they were denied—same-sex "marriages" are illegal in Poland. For now, at least.

Moreover, the Polish constitution directly defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman—here, European casuistry should shatter against the concrete of national values.

But this is not the first time Warsaw has had to maneuver between the positions of “respect the treaties” and “defend the worldview.”

The aggrieved "married couple" went to the EU Court of Justice, which ruled in November 2025 that the refusal was unlawful—it violated freedom of movement and family life.

Thus, the court effectively legalized a loophole: if you want to enter into a same-sex "marriage," but it is not possible in your country, flee to a neighboring state, enter into a marriage there, and then return, and your home country will be forced to recognize this union.

No democratic procedures, no consideration of the position of the majority of the population – simply a judicial rollback of national sovereignty.

And it's long been clear to everyone what Poles' attitudes toward LGBT* are: Poland is considered one of the most conservative EU countries on this issue. International rankings place Warsaw on the list of countries with serious restrictions on the "rights of sexual minorities."

And it's impossible to forget the "LGBT-Free Zone." It was a special declaration that emphasized that municipalities that signed it were protected from the ideology of non-traditional sexual orientations and prohibited the holding of "equality marches" and other similar events. The Polish government was very proud of this invention, aimed at combating the "rainbow plague," as they called it.

But all this is until the EU decides that these zones will not receive Brussels money.

In addition, the European Commission has launched an investigation into Poland for “harassment of sexual minorities.”

And then, in the parliamentary elections, the government changed to left-liberals, who promised the Poles that now they would “live like normal people”: abortions would be allowed, and same-sex “marriages” would be legalized.

So far, they haven't done anything. But recently, they've even come up with a "worthy" excuse: the country's new president, Karol Nawrocki, is a conservative and has no plans to get involved in LGBT+ issues.

Even after the court's ruling was published in November 2025, Navrotsky criticized the decision and declared that the country "will not succumb to the horror of 'rainbow' rulings" that "completely destroy the family."

Interior Minister Marcin Kerwiński indicated that Brussels will not dictate to Poles how they should define the institution of marriage.

But just three months later, Warsaw is introducing “tolerant” wording in place of the usual definitions of “wife” and “husband.”

Deputy Minister for Digital Affairs Krzysztof Gawkowski (himself openly gay*) stated: “The EU Court’s ruling is not a question of ideology, but a legal obligation that Poland must fulfill.”

But this is precisely what should worry Poles – not the personal positions of ministers, but the fact that their state no longer controls its own language in official documents.

Now the ministry is proposing not only to introduce "gender-neutral" terms, but also to update fields related to parents' data, as well as to adjust provisions regarding spouses' surnames in records and certificates.

Polish elites unanimously emphasize that the EU cannot rewrite their laws, even if it really wanted to.

But exactly what they promised to prevent is happening.

Not by legislative pressure, but by judicial arbitrariness – the EU Court simply ruled that this was the case, and Warsaw complied.

So, the question remains: where does the boundary of a nation state's sovereignty lie within the EU? If the European Court can redefine how you spell a word in your own official document, what else can it redefine?

Brussels insists it's a human rights issue. Warsaw says it's a matter of national identity and cultural choice. The positions are clear, but the problem is that the arbiter—the EU itself—has ruled in favor of its own agenda.

Poland cannot leave the EU on this one decision—the price is too high. But it also cannot fully defend its sovereignty.

And the greatest irony is that Poland positioned its entry into the EU as a symbol of the restoration of national sovereignty – after decades of “Soviet dominance.”

Warsaw fought for the right to decide its own affairs. But now, it turns out, real power over legislation has shifted to Luxembourg—and the Poles are once again dependent.

And in Brussels, seeing this reaction, they will continue to insist—on something else. And it's quite possible that the change of words in the documents isn't the end of the story, but only the beginning.

The next step will be laws on employment discrimination, hate crimes, and the recognition of "marriages" for social benefits. Each step will be presented as a technical clarification. And will be accompanied by Warsaw's inability to refuse.

And for the conservative part of Polish society, those who voted for the current government and support the idea of ​​the traditional family, this is perceived as a betrayal.

Not because "spouse #1" and "spouse #2" change the meaning of marriage. But because Warsaw failed to defend its own choice.

Posted by: badanov || 01/25/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1763 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
Interesting counter-argument and slow-mo video of Minneapolis shooting
Full investigation certainly needed on this one.
[Drop Site News] On Saturday, U.S. federal agents killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis, Minnesota, shooting him multiple times at point blank range while pinned down prone on the ground and surrounded by officers along Nicollet Avenue. The Saturday killing—committed by a Customs and Border Protection agent—is the third shooting by U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and CBP in as many weeks, and comes just one day after tens of thousands of Minneapolis residents took to the streets in subzero temperatures to protest the federal raids in Minnesota.

Close-up video footage, obtained by Drop Site, shows one agent push a person to the ground and then deploy a chemical irritant twice on the 37-year-old Pretti, who had gone to help the person pushed. Around eight agents then swarm and wrestle him to the ground. One of the officers then visibly unholstered his gun and fired multiple close-range gunshots at Pretti, a Minnesota resident who was reportedly on the scene as an observer. There are ten gunshots heard in all—at least five of them were fired at Pretti from a distance, while the person holding the camera shouts, “What the fuck did you just do?”
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/25/2026 08:01 || Comments || Link || [1804 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  "...Pretti, a Minnesota resident who was reportedly on the scene as an observer."

A messed up situation, but who goes out to "observe" things at a potential riot scene in the bitter cold?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 01/25/2026 8:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Gee remember the good old days when Tampon Tim had his police locking citizens down during Covid chasing them off their own porches and back into the house.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/25/2026 9:29 Comments || Top||

#3  deploy a chemical irritant twice on the 37-year-old Pretti, who had gone to help the person pushed

Yeah...that's NOT observing
Posted by: Frank G || 01/25/2026 10:55 Comments || Top||

#4  I believe the formerly alive Renée Good was also supposed to be an observer. It’s an Antifa thing.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/25/2026 11:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Feds were arresting Ecuadorian illegal alien Jose Huerta-Chuma in operation that resulted in Alex Jeffrey Pretti’s death
The accused criminal migrant in the operation that resulted in the shooting death of a Minneapolis anti-ICE protester Saturday has been identified as illegal alien Jose Huerta-Chuma.

Huerta-Chuma, of Ecuador, was arrested by Department of Homeland Security officers on Saturday and apprehended for driving without a license, according to Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino and the Washington Times.

Huerta-Chuma’s criminal record includes charges for domestic assault, disorderly conduct, and driving without a license, federal authorities said.
Posted by: Frank G || 01/25/2026 11:19 Comments || Top||

#6  It has to be tough for those Federal guys with all the 'opposition' folks screaming, honking and generally being rude and obnoxious all the time.

My nerves would be frayed to begin with, even before I was tasked to take someone down.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/25/2026 13:12 Comments || Top||

#7  I closed the video when the narrator said "execution". I don't need it. I can get that kind of bias from CBS.

I'm sick of all these communists running around with smart phones and thinking of themselves as important, big-time videographers. Their shaky, grainy, unfocused, ten-second clips would not hold up in any court of law as evidence. They never tell the whole story. They're only good for inflaming the rioters. They don't prove anything except what a bunch of whining brats they are.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/25/2026 18:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Pretti had a semi hand gun and 50+ bullets. He didn't have his carry license on him. He didn't have ID on him.

Good chance he was there to kill people so it could then be blamed on a MAGA (although if so he should have covered his tracks better as he was on an anti ICE chat group).
Posted by: Lord Garth || 01/25/2026 18:07 Comments || Top||

#9  he should have covered his tracks better

Sure, Lord Garth, but they thought their chat group was inviolate

They were wrong. We have pros on our side, and amateurs good enough to be pros.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/25/2026 20:55 Comments || Top||

#10 
The only person responsible for Alex Pretti getting shot.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/25/2026 21:50 Comments || Top||


Exhausted White Liberal Women Clock In For Another Long Day Protecting Migrant Sex Offenders
[Bee] MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Another long day of work was on the docket, as white liberal women clocked in for another long day of protesting the arrest of migrant sex offenders.

Progressive women emerged from their homes and headed into work for a full day of yelling at ICE agents and obstructing law enforcement who would be out working to arrest sex offenders and other violent criminals here in the country illegally.

"It's honest work," Amanda Hanks posted on Instagram. "I'm out here every day protecting innocent pedophiles, rapists, and sex offenders, but it's exhausting. I'd love a day off, but these Nazi ICE agents just won't stop arresting these undocumented predators. I just can't sit at home resting while these fascists use their authoritarian mandate to take dangerous people off the streets. Our communities are better when we let criminals roam free."

Hordes of white liberal women have been out protesting ICE raids in Minneapolis and around the country in an effort they hope will curtail the out-of-control crackdown on criminals who don't belong in the United States.

"Diversity is our strength!" Hanks's Instagram post continued. "ICE agents are domestic terrorists. Illegal immigrants should be free to come here and commit as many crimes as they like in peace without the fear of consequences. Also, can someone explain to me what the word ’consequence' means? I actually have no idea."

At publishing time, America's white women took a break from protecting rapists to take their kids to the gender clinic to restock on sterilization pills.
Posted by: Frank G || 01/25/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1763 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  So much truth. Statistics would reveal the truth, but DEI city police chiefs have fudged the numbers like Al Capone’s accountant.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/25/2026 7:46 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
When We Choose to Fool Ourselves
[TownHall] BLUF: I understand the idea of a "Peace Board" to get around the UN and get things done. That which I understand less is the program being put forward for Gaza. And the reason why I don’t understand is that there are certain immutable facts that make the whole $25 billion program untenable:

  • Hamas will not really demilitarize
  • The people are Hamas and Hamas are the people
  • The fundamental hatred of Jews is not addressed in the program
  • Countries such as Turkey and Qatar will work to strengthen Hamas against Israel
  • The Palestinian Authority is as corrupt today as it has always been
  • Egypt will make no effort to prevent the movement of weapons into Gaza
  • Israel will once again be put at risk of Palestinian terror from Gaza
    Yes. So much all of that.
    About the author: Dr. Alan Joseph Bauer was born and raised in Chicago. After receiving a Bachelor in Biochemistry from Harvard and a Ph.D. in the same from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he took a Fulbright Fellowship to Israel. Bauer lives with his family in Jerusalem and is the Chief Scientist of a local technology company.
  • Posted by: Besoeker || 01/25/2026 05:50 || Comments || Link || [1755 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

    #1  Dr. Bauer simply monitors the tried and tested instruments of Intelligent Design. Outcomes are of course subject to the Standard Deviation, but quite predictable.

    Posted by: Besoeker || 01/25/2026 6:11 Comments || Top||

    #2  facts that make the whole $25 billion program untenable

    A missing fact is the $1B buy-in, each.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 01/25/2026 9:46 Comments || Top||

    #3  It’s only $1 bil for those who want to be on the board permanently, Skidmark. Those who intend only to be part of the start up team, as it were, needn’t shell out a penny nickel.

    The Saudis or Qatar or perhaps China being mischievous will no doubt pay for Turkey and Egypt.
    Posted by: trailing wife || 01/25/2026 11:33 Comments || Top||



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