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What you’ll read here sounds insane. That’s because the West lost common sense and we’re here to bring it back.

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If you really think about what these pictures mean, it breaks your heart. Berlin, Madrid, Brussels, Milan, Paris. Shop owners nailing plywood over their windows on a Friday afternoon because they know that on Saturday, neither the police nor the courts will protect them from the hordes coming to loot them. Hard to believe Europe could fall this low, this quickly.
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Can Greta and Macklemore explain this?
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Meet @oscar_puente_, possibly the most shameless politician on the planet. He's Spain's Transport Minister, but he's better known for insulting people and blocking them on X than for doing his job. In 2024, he said Spanish trains were going through their best moment ever. In January 2026, 46 people died in the Adamuz train crash. He refused to resign and said the chance of it happening again was "extremely low." Last week, he was on a TV show joking about trains in Spain. Today, more than 64 people died in another crash on the same line. And again, he refuses to resign. This morning, he was busy tweeting that the left is morally superior to the right.
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Europe in 2026: The highest taxes in the world. African salaries. Indian trains. The Third Worldization of Europe is almost complete.
🇪🇸 Details are coming in about what happened when two high-speed trains collided near Toledo, Spain An express train operated by Iryo was halted at a signal when it was struck by a high-speed train operated by Renfe As of now, at least 46 people have been killed in the crash.
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There’s a new way to rig an election, and it’s perfectly legal. Socialists Lula and Sánchez have mastered it, and it’s coming to a country near you. Here’s their twelve-step playbook.
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You love to see it.
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What did y’all think globalizing the intifada meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays? Losers.
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This is so funny once you know they asked social media companies to censor content and block their services today.
The boys at @visegrad24 angling for a job at a local French rag, breathlessly reporting from every city they can name. Rubbing sticks every 40 minutes for 24 hours. Still no heat. Rough Saturday night it must be.
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Aaron earned more than $400 million in his career, so he could just fund the whole team for a decade with a fraction of his earnings.
#Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers says the rise of flag football is excellent, but says the pay for the women of the national flag football team is "very scant" and "not equal," and he's "not a big fan of that." "I think that there should be some better pay for some of these individuals, especially the U.S. women's national flag football team."
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This is called the socialist tax.
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This might be the most shameless islamist rewrite of history a French president has ever made. A racist terrorist allegedly killed a man in Trappes today. Macron just called it "the first time" anyone in France was targeted for their religion. After more than a decade of Islamist attacks: Merah, the Hyper Cacher, the Bataclan, Nice, Samuel Paty.
« Ce qui s’est passé aujourd’hui c’est un tournant. C’est la première fois qu’il y a un acte terroriste planifié pour tuer nos compatriotes, nos enfants, a raison de leur couleur de peau ou de la religion qu’on leur donne » « Ne baissez pas la tête » Emmanuel Macron à Trappes.
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Ce que dit E. Macron est faux 2012 Toulouse Merah tue 3 enfants parce qu’ils sont juifs 2015 Coulibaly assassine 4 pers à l’Hyper Cacher, demandant aux clients s’ils étaient juifs 2016 le père Hamel égorgé dans son église + nb autres ex. actes "planifiés" déjoués ou non fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attentats… bbc.com/news/world-eur… fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prise_d%2… leparisien.fr/faits-divers/9… franceinfo.fr/faits-divers/a…
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They inherited the safest, richest era in history and spent it on summits, slogans and surrenders. Here’s how a generation of leaders with the geopolitics of a ten-year-old left the West on fire.
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They tell you noncitizens can't commit voter fraud. Meanwhile, someone who should never have been naturalized made it all the way to Congress. It's worse than you think.
Meet Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the man Ilhan Omar married in 2009. All signs point to him now being a PhD student at Bristol University in England. In a paper he published in 2026, he writes: "As a gay man of the East African diaspora, my fieldwork was never neutral." His thesis? "Bravery amidst Brutality: A Queer Resistance to Violence and Criminalisation in Contemporary Kenya." The British government is paying for it with a full scholarship. His big idea is that Western research needs "decolonising." He's arguing that from a Western university, on Western taxpayers' money. From October to December 2025, he helped curate an African LGBTQ+ art show at a gay and lesbian archive in Johannesburg.
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You can give socialists everything they ask for. It will never be enough, because socialism runs on envy and destruction.
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France is your reminder that when you don't have a border, everything inside becomes a border. 📸 @Frontieresmedia
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This is what Japan and Germany looked like after WWII. Yet socialists want you to believe young people in the West riot because life is too hard.
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They want open borders, no prisons, fewer police and more “understanding.” Then they want to know why they can’t walk home alone at night anymore.
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The most elegant insult of the year.
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If you think you’re dumb, imagine believing these people burning down their own city are fighting for better education.
Video of looters clearing out a French Christian Dior store in under a minute
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