Gerrie Hoogland - Writer and Roman historian engaging in dialogue with the ever present ancient world. Rome was a gift. 🏛 ☕️https://nitter.gq/t.co/LOqb7jSM94
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LettersfromRome retweeted
On 31 October 1917, the 4th Light Horse Brigade rode into history.
Bayonets in hand, they launched the famous charge at Beersheba, securing a victory that became one of Australia’s most iconic military actions.
Today we remember their courage and legacy.
Lest we forget.
LettersfromRome retweeted
Between 1917 and 1922, the Bolsheviks killed more Christians than the Romans did in three centuries of persecution.
Why does no one talk about this?
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You're wired to do hard things. Neuroanatomically, your brain gets stronger not by avoiding suffering, but by enduring it.
@hubermanlab has been discussing this lately, and Romans 5:3-4 + Isaiah 48:10 told us long ago: hardship refines and strengthens us.
As an Iraq war vet and bereaved father, let me encourage you: press through. Everything good is on the other side of something hard.
#selfbrainsurgery
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Is anyone in power listening?
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We currently have a narcissistic, ego maniac, low iq, pathological liar who is currently in control of our country.
Let that sink in.
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They just keep getting better…
Rent Free - Please Explain youtu.be/jpgM0fQtLHk?si=H14Q…
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There are no technological solutions to perennial human difficulties.
This includes our present-day political technologies.
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In @Apple iOS 27, on all adult phones (not just kids accounts) they have rolled out active image and video scanning.
This is on by default. Accidentally show too much cleavage during a FaceTime and it blurs out the image and cuts audio, then reports it back to Apple.
Those “encrypted” and personal messages, calls, photos and videos you thought were private? ALL BEING PROCESSED BY BIG BROTHER.
The instigator? Well you can thank eKaren and the Labor government who met personally with Apple and in association with other globalists like the EU, felt they had a right to intercept your personal data and communications without a warrant.
Ai is being used to get around human laws by nefarious governments.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
On-device ML can detect nudity in FaceTime and blur/pause with a warning. Apple doesn’t receive or access the media unless the user reports it. In Australia, adults who haven’t confirmed age 18+ have Communication Safety on by default.
support.apple.com/en-us/105069
support.apple.com/en-us/126781
LettersfromRome retweeted
Most people take this for oil. It is watercolour, and the water took me longer than the two of them did. That is Emma on the pier in the white dress, a few months after our wedding, and our friend Dahlström in the boat. I painted presidents later and was paid handsomely for it. Nobody ever asks about the water. They ask about the dress.
Anders Zorn, member since 1920
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Many within the AusRight have no idea what's coming now that Lula has won in Brazil.
These people are emboldened. Get ready.
Congratulations to my friend @LulaOficial on your election victory.
Australia and Brazil are great democracies, and we’ll keep working together and building on our partnership. 🇦🇺🇧🇷
LettersfromRome retweeted
In Britain, the boomers grew up more impoverished than zoomers can even imagine.
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A most divine story!
This is one of the most heartwarming stories I’ve ever seen.
Follow my friend @leannebombay on TT.
As a horse lover and the owner of my own horse, this one brought tears to my eyes.
Tears of joy! 🫶🏼🫶🏼
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BACPAC 2026: The Shared Struggle and Common Destiny of the Anglo-Celtic Nations - Harrison Pitt.
Keynote speaker @Harry_pitt , is an English writer and academic specialising in philosophy and intellectual history. Harrison is a Senior Policy Fellow at @RestoreBritain , a Contributing Editor at @EuroConOfficial , a Fellow of the @NewCultureForum and host of The Forge.
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I want to know why right wing journalists do not have a boot on the throats of left wing politicians. (This is a metaphor by the way for anyone who is an idiot.)
They should be forced to disavow far-left extremism.
Every time an establishment right wing journalist questions Labor on the Helen Haines dirt sheet is a missed opportunity to hold them accountable for the ongoing rise in left wing violence.
There is a clear opportunity to demand left wing MPs wash their hands of the deranged lunatics in their movement, but nobody is doing it. The MPs get off scot free once again.
I want every right wing journalist and every right wing politician to ask Anthony Albanese and his fellow MPs a very simple question,
"Do you disavow left wing extremism?"
Every single Labor MP should be forced to answer that question.
LettersfromRome retweeted
Italian patriots take to the streets chanting, “We will remigrate you all.”
Italians will not bow down.
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Is anyone in fedgov paying attention to this story?
🚨DataRepublican @DataRepublican just confirmed the quiet part out loud: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker is explicitly named in the videos as one of only two governors willing to green-light the “illegitimacy memo”—a playbook for declaring a duly elected President illegitimate after the midterms so Democrat governors can claim they are the only legitimate U.S. authority.
This isn’t abstract “resistance.” NSL4A (the retired military and national security officials operationalizing the plan) and Pritzker’s own Governors Safeguarding Democracy group have been working the same sequence of redlines, including treating lawful federal pushback against coordinated protests as proof of illegitimacy. Add the funding layer—his sister’s role in the Democracy Funders Network—and the coordination stops looking coincidental.
Imported regime-change tactics, billionaire governors, and ex-military networks drafting the conditions under which states nullify federal authority: that is the actual document trail.
DataRepublican has the receipts.🔥
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