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Why would a sitting U.S. Congresswoman take pictures with a legitimate war criminal? Because it was a family reunion and a good place to leak classified information.
Ilhan Omar spent the Christmas season of 2022 in Somalia at a Puntland, government event alongside General Mohamed Said Hersi Morgan, the notorious “Butcher of Hargeisa.” Morgan commanded Somali government forces during a brutal military campaign against the Isaaq population. Human Rights Watch documented the bombing of civilian neighborhoods, mass killings, poisoned wells, destroyed crops, and forced displacement. An estimated 50,000–60,000 people were killed during the campaign. Roughly 80% of Hargeisa was destroyed. Ilhan's father, Nur Omar Mohamed, was a colonel in dictator Siad Barre's military. That is the same regime Morgan served, although no evidence establishes her father's involvement in Morgan's atrocities. Ilhan Omar's sister, Sahra Noor, posed with Morgan. Ilhan Omar’s brother described Morgan as an “uncle” and a longtime family friend. Morgan's victims never received justice. Yet more than three decades later, he was seated at a Somalian government event honoring U.S. congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Why was a commander accused of overseeing the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians welcomed at an event honoring Omar? #IlhanOmar #Citizenship
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Ilhan Omar spent the Christmas season of 2022 in Somalia at a Puntland, government event alongside General Mohamed Said Hersi Morgan, the notorious “Butcher of Hargeisa.” Morgan commanded Somali government forces during a brutal military campaign against the Isaaq population. Human Rights Watch documented the bombing of civilian neighborhoods, mass killings, poisoned wells, destroyed crops, and forced displacement. An estimated 50,000–60,000 people were killed during the campaign. Roughly 80% of Hargeisa was destroyed. Ilhan's father, Nur Omar Mohamed, was a colonel in dictator Siad Barre's military. That is the same regime Morgan served, although no evidence establishes her father's involvement in Morgan's atrocities. Ilhan Omar's sister, Sahra Noor, posed with Morgan. Ilhan Omar’s brother described Morgan as an “uncle” and a longtime family friend. Morgan's victims never received justice. Yet more than three decades later, he was seated at a Somalian government event honoring U.S. congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Why was a commander accused of overseeing the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians welcomed at an event honoring Omar? #IlhanOmar #Citizenship
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This man is why Third Worldism exists in Libertarian spheres. Letting him take control is how we got Scott Horton and all of his disciples. We must push back!
Replying to @LudwigNverMises
Rothbard blamed Britain for getting us into WWI & WWII, then blamed Israel for getting us into wars in the Middle East after the Israeli War of Independence. He literally said that in every war of the 20th century America and Britain were in the wrong, or more wrong, than any of our enemies. He blamed Israel for the Six Day War. And, of course, he blamed us for the Cold War, too. Rothbard blamed us (America & Britain) for WWI, WWII, the Cold War, the Korean War, Vietnam War, the Falklands War, the IRA's campaign against the UK, etc. Of course, Germany started WWI, WWII (with Japan), Stalin started the Cold War, the Communists (North Korea, Soviets, & Red China) started the Korean War & the Vietnam War (North Vietnam instead of North Korea), Argentina started the Falklands War, the IRA (with Soviet backing) started the Troubles, etc. He blamed Britain for Germany's invasion of Poland, and even blamed Finland for its invasion by the Soviets. Rothbard made DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) his only method of foreign policy analysis. He had a perfect record of claiming the exact opposite of the truth in these matters. There isn't a totalitarian regime whose propaganda he wasn't willing to parrot approvingly on this, whether it be Hitler's, Stalin's, Kim Il-Sung's, Ho Chi Minh's, Nasser's, the Junta's, etc. I've never seen any Rothbardian make the argument you cite about American economic might making us secure enough to withdraw from the rest of the world. Instead, his followers adhere with absolute loyalty to his demented foreign policy positions.
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Reminder: 2 human types become a libertarian. One type loves himself and humanity, and wants to see the human potential fulfilled. The other type sees libertarianism as a way to show the finger to the world. Libertarianism is just an avenue for their contrarianism. How libertarians today deal with the ‘jewish question’ is a good way to tell the one type from the other.
Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe criticizes any comparison between Gaza and the Holocaust, citing the lack of forensic evidence and the nature of the Nuremberg trials in contrast to the videos of Israeli criminality. “Nothing like this happened in WWI. Nothing like this happened in WWII.”
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A devastating summary of Chairman Mao by his own physician who was close to him for over 20 years: "all these and other political upheavals seemed to arise for a variety of reasons. In reality, there was only one fundamental cause: Mao wanted to retain total power."
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A just-released FT Investigation found that Donald Trump Jr. secretly went on a hunting trip to Mongolia with Kremlin-linked oligarch Umar Kremlev (the one who paid for his wedding) and Arthur Martirosov, a partner in the US-sanctioned venture fund Voskhod. ft.com/content/f41fc704-c9e6…
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Tim Starr retweeted
Spain is one of the main EU countries that welcomes the 800k Russians who got travel visas alone in 2025. Who could have anticipated something like this though?
Russia is preparing for war in Europe, and they continue to be issued visas. Spanish police have arrested a former Russian soldier after discovering an illegal weapons operation in Catalonia, near the French border. Investigators uncovered a concealed workshop inside a rented warehouse in Figueres, approximately 25 kilometers from France. The facility contained 644 firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, silencers and weapons components. The seized arsenal is estimated to be worth €5 million.
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🚨 WHY DOES OBAMA AVOID CONFRONTING PUTIN? WHAT IS HE AFRAID OF? 🇺🇸🇺🇦 In his October 2026 campaign speeches, Barack Obama attacks Donald Trump over Iran, corruption and economic policy — but where is Ukraine? Where is Putin? Where is the outrage over Russia's aggression? Remember the Obama–Russia RESET. Remember his secret microphone moment in 2012, promising Medvedev greater flexibility after his reelection. Remember 2014, when Putin seized Crimea and Obama imposed sanctions but refused to provide Ukraine with lethal weapons. And now, in 2026, Ukraine is once again conspicuously absent from his major campaign attacks on Trump. WHY? I want Obama to explain his extraordinary caution toward Putin. Did political calculations influence his Russia policy? What explains his continuing reluctance to make Ukraine a central campaign issue? Allegations of Russian election manipulation in Obama's favor or Putin holding kompromat against him remain unproven — but his political choices deserve serious scrutiny. MR. OBAMA, WHY DON'T YOU MAKE PUTIN AND THE WAR AGAINST UKRAINE CENTRAL TO YOUR CRITICISM OF TRUMP? Ukraine deserves answers. Europe deserves answers. 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 — Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn | Chairman, Austrian Committee for NATO Enlargement #Obama #Putin #Ukraine #Russia #Trump #NATO #StandWithUkraine #RussiaUkraineWar #PaxEuropeana #Fehlinger @BarackObama
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Tim Starr retweeted
Before we freed anyone, we were slaves. ⛓️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 After 1066 most of us were serfs. Owned with the land. 🏚️ 1348: the Black Death killed half of us. ☠️ Suddenly our labour was worth something. ⚒️ 1380: the king taxed every head. 👑 1381: the serfs marched on London. 🔥 Mile End. The Tower. The Archbishop's head. ⚔️ Smithfield. The promises torn up. 📜 But serfdom never came back. 🌱 By 1500 it was gone. 🕊️ Four hundred years later we sent a fleet to end slavery for everyone else. ⚓ Help us tell the world the TRUE story of Britain.👇 Proudofus.co.uk/support Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
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Tim Starr retweeted
Hey @grok. Redraw this chart to mark the point when the Supreme Court struck down IEEPA tariffs.
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The worst thing about American interventionism is knowing that if the US hadn’t intervened, nobody else would. The world would’ve remained peaceful & stable. The Ottomans, Russia, China, Iran, the Islamic empires, Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany were deeply committed to minding their own fucking business.
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"So-called Holocaust" When people tell you who they are, believe them.
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October 25 is Thanksgiving Day in Grenada, an official holiday to celebrate our liberation of that country from communism in 1983. nowgrenada.com/2026/10/today…
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Joseph Goebbels was an outright economic Marxist who deviously cloaked his Marxism with Germanic ethnocentrism. He called for a "class struggle" and said "once we have taken over the state, Germany will become a state of labor, a workers’ state." He yearned for a "labor state" (no different than the one in Soviet Russia) and linked his anti-Semitism to his anti-capitalism, saying the two "go together": "As socialists we are opponents of the Jews because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation’s goods." He wanted to alleviate Jews of their capital so that he could socialize it and use it for German state projects. But he was also against non-Jewish capitalists so the "Jewish" thing was a foil for his generic hostility to business owners and "capital" like any Marxist. Since his anti-Jewish stance was schizophrenic and shapeshifting, he also attacked them on the grounds that they led Marxism even though he was a closeted Marxist who echoed Marxist rhetoric about capitalism. In his 1939 screed against England, he framed the war with England as a war between capitalism (England) and socialism (Germany): "England is a capitalist democracy. Germany is a socialist people’s state. And it is not the case that we think England is the richest land on earth. There are lords and City men in England who are in fact the richest men on earth. The broad masses, however, see little of this wealth." He gave away the game in a 1925 speech in a beer hall, in which he declared Lenin the "greatest man" next to Hitler and argued there were only "slight differences" between Communism and Hitlerism.
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On this day in 1983, U.S. forces invaded the Caribbean island of Grenada in a major military operation aimed at countering the growing influence of communism in the region.
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Ken Paxton sued and made this happen. Need another great reason to vote for @KenPaxtonTX ? This is one for the record books! Liberal Democrats hate Ken for suing Texas Children’s Hospital, and forcing them to obey our State law. This is the SAME state law that Talarfreako voted against which bans childhood mutilation and castration in Texas. Shame on anyone who votes for James Talarico. He is a radical liberal who believes in mutilating children and claims to be a Christian- a preacher at that! Talarico is a total heretic. We must get Republicans in Texas to the polls for Ken! Please do whatever you can (legally) to help Paxton defeat Talafreako.
🚨Today, Texas Children’s Hospital has officially launched their Detransition Clinic 🚨 Under the settlement, TCH must provide multidisciplinary detransition-related care FREE OF CHARGE for five years, including endocrinology, surgery, primary care, fertility counseling, mental health services, social work, and speech pathology. I extend my heartfelt gratitude once again to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and my attorneys at the Burke Law Group for their extraordinary dedication, sacrifice, and tireless efforts throughout this fight. Their commitment helped turn a painful and difficult chapter into an opportunity for meaningful change. @KenPaxtonTX @BurkeLawTweets I think of all the detransitioners who have suffered in silence, been dismissed, and fought desperately to have their voices heard. This win is for them. I hope TCH’s admirable effort to fund and launch Americas first detransition clinic becomes a turning point for the entire country. That this clinic is not the exception, but the first of many. Today’s a good day. ❤️ Link⬇️
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Tim Starr retweeted
Did I not warn you about this guy?
Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe criticizes any comparison between Gaza and the Holocaust, citing the lack of forensic evidence and the nature of the Nuremberg trials in contrast to the videos of Israeli criminality. “Nothing like this happened in WWI. Nothing like this happened in WWII.”
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Libertarians, take note. The guy is walking right up to the line and maybe even crossing over it into Holocaust Denial. Which lines up with what failed Libertarian Party candidate Michael Recentwald has said about Hoppe: that he's "one of us," that he "knows" the Holocaust didn't happen.
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Oh look, the guy who cites David Irving positively believes the same crap as Irving believes. I am bewildered, astonished, flabbergasted, astounded, dumbfounded, thunderstruck, stupefied, gobsmacked, blindsided, staggered, shaken to my core, and utterly overwhelmed by the complete and total absence of anything even remotely resembling surprise. Please, never surprise me like this ever again. I dont think I could handle it.
Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe criticizes any comparison between Gaza and the Holocaust, citing the lack of forensic evidence and the nature of the Nuremberg trials in contrast to the videos of Israeli criminality. “Nothing like this happened in WWI. Nothing like this happened in WWII.”
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The Libertarian Party candidate for North Carolina state senate is currently in the midst of an armed chase and shoot-out with the cops, keeping us posted with live tweets:
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