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Marcel Villa: The Hazardous and Rewarding Work of Practicing Independent Journalism in Cuba (Part 1)

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Marcel Villa does not come from academia; he holds no formal degree certifying him as a journalist or photographer. Perhaps that is precisely why he is, today, one of the most intriguing communicators on the island — someone who does not take for granted the postmodernist dogmas prevalent in state-run higher education or in courses designed for the independent press. And that stance has come at a cost.

He recalls his teenage years as those of an undisciplined youth, “without much sense of future direction.” At age 21, he sat for the entrance exams and enrolled in law school through a special program for working students. He admits he chose the major “more out of family influence than any true vocation.”

In 2018, while in his third year of studies, his older brother — who has lived in Spain for the past 20 years — gifted him a camera. Almost simultaneously, he discovered the small world of the non-state press in a Havana that was experiencing the ultimately fruitless apertura (opening) initiated by Barack Obama.

The profession he chose is not an easy one. Practicing independent journalism in Cuba remains a pursuit subject to a level of persecution rarely seen elsewhere in the hemisphere. The Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression reported that in the month of March alone, there was a surge in internet outages, arbitrary detentions, incarcerations, attacks, threats, and both psychological and physical assaults.

On the island — currently a focal point of international attention due to the potential for political change under pressure from the Trump administration — Villa uses video interviews, travel chronicles, and photojournalism to document a fractured nation that continues to survive despite socialism.

Here is Part 1 of my interview with Marcel.

How did you get your start in the world of the independent press?

It was in 2018, when I submitted a feature story to Play-Off Magazine — an independent Cuban sports publication. The piece was about a Dominican priest living in Havana who was using soccer as a tool for social change.

At the time — alongside my studies — I was working as a pizza maker at a cafeteria in Alamar; I would spend 12 or 13 hours there, working non-stop, for $10 a day. It was exhausting. I was just at the café when I received the news that Play-Off Magazine had accepted my feature story and that I would be able to contribute to them on a regular basis. Immediately afterward, I feigned a stomachache, hung up my apron, and walked out — never to return. That day, Play-Off became my job.

I wasn’t a photographer yet, nor did I aspire to be one; I was barely just learning how to use a camera.

My intention was to become a journalist, so I focused on writing the text, treating photography more as a supplement. Lacking formal professional training, I had gaps in my theoretical knowledge and errors in my writing — flaws I gradually corrected as I studied journalism manuals and my editors provided feedback. In that sense, Play-Off served as a school for me.

And when — and why — did you shift your focus to photography?

In 2019, I watched the film “The Pirates of Somalia,” and it sparked the idea for me to travel to the Isle of Pines. I thought: This will be my Somalia. Once there, I sought out stories that I could later turn into feature articles, chronicles, or even — I considered — an investigative piece. I laugh about it now, looking back, because the whole trip was incredibly ill-prepared. I hadn’t even arranged a place to stay.

I arrived on the island and knocked on the door of the very first house I saw that was renting out a room. I spent a week in the city of Nueva Gerona, burning through my savings; as a consequence of my journalistic wanderings around the city, I ended up being interrogated by State Security (SE — the political police) just hours before my scheduled departure.

The day after I returned to Havana, State Security contacted me again — but this time, they tried to recruit me as an informant within Play-Off. I refused, and for months afterward, I lived in fear that they would retaliate against me.

During that period, the era of openness in Cuba — sparked by the “thaw” under the Obama administration — was drawing to a close, and with it, the boom in independent media. Some magazines went on hiatus; many others simply didn’t survive. My trip to the Isle of Pines had been a complete fiasco. I was never able to land any actual journalistic assignments during my time there. Photography — both as an art form and a craft — was captivating me more and more.

All of this, combined with the apprehension left over from my run-in with State Security, led me to dedicate myself to photography full-time. Although I became a professional photographer and focused on more commercial genres, I continued to collaborate occasionally with Play-Off.

I dropped out of law school, knowing it was a profession I would never actually practice, and devoted myself full-time to studying and honing my skills with my camera. I completed a basic course at an excellent private institution called the Havana School of Creative Photography; everything else I learned on my own — through books, articles, and videos.

From that time until 2023, I shot Quinceañera celebrations, music videos, still photography, theater productions, fashion shoots, special events, nightlife scenes, and more. To make a living as a photographer in Cuba, you have to be extremely versatile, as the market is quite limited.

But then you returned to independent media — and not merely as a contributor, but by founding a publication of your own.

Yes. In 2022, together with three friends, I founded POB Magazine, an independent photography journal. We kept it running for a year using our own resources. Its editorial line was largely inspired by Play-Off; we used photography — along with the testimonies of photographers — as a window onto the reality of life in Cuba.

A series of cyberattacks on our website — occurring just days before our one-year anniversary — forced us to cease publication. We decided to put the project on hold until we could secure the necessary funding. While it was active, the magazine was very well received within the Cuban photography community; being its co-founder and director gave me significant visibility within the independent media landscape.

In that same year — the year POB Magazine went on hiatus — I returned full-time to the world of journalism, this time working as both a photographer and a video producer. I gradually began to move away from the more commercial genres of photography and video, shifting my focus instead toward photojournalism and documentary photography.

Since then, I have collaborated with most of the independent Cuban magazines and newspapers currently in existence — almost always anonymously. I also contribute regularly to El País, and on a couple of occasions, I have worked with El Confidencial — both based in Spain.

(Read Part 2)

AUTHOR

Yoe Suarez

Yoe Suárez is The Washington Stand’s international affairs correspondent. He is an exiled journalist, writer, and producer who investigated in Havana about torture, political police, gangs, government black lists, and cybersurveillance. A graduate of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, he was a CBN correspondent, and has written for outlets like The Hill and Newsweek. He has appeared on Vox, Univision, and Deutsche Welle as an analyst on Cuba, security, and U.S. foreign policy.

EDITORS NOTE: This Washington Stand column is republished with permission. All rights reserved. ©2026 Family Research Council.

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Dems’ Seat-Stealing Scheme Backfires, Reviving GOP Midterm Hopes

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Politics can turn on a dime, and no one is more painfully aware of that than Democrats. After a euphoric April that saw the party pull off a stunning congressional map heist in Virginia, the party of Minority Leaders Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) and Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) has come crashing back to earth — hard. In a matter of 10 days, not only has the state supreme court struck down that referendum Democrats spent $64 million on, but the U.S. Supreme Court tossed a favorite tool of the Left — racial gerrymandering — triggering a massive race to redraw the entire red South. Suddenly, the plans for a November victory parade seem surprisingly premature.

On Friday, in a decision that several legal experts expected, the Commonwealth’s justices ruled that “the legislative process employed” to advance the referendum was unconstitutional and “incurably taints the resulting referendum vote and nullifies its legal efficacy.” It was an outcome that former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli predicted, noting that there were at least four violations of the state constitution in the process that led to the Democrats’ narrow win at the ballot box. And to many, that win, a squeaker at 51-49%, proved why the purple state should have never been redrawn in the first place.

For Republicans, who were furious at the power grab in Governor Abigail Spanberger’s (D) state, the ruling gives voice to millions of disenfranchised voters who stood to lose four seats in the U.S. House. “This is the correct decision, and it was always going to end up this way,” Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.) agreed. “Democrats broke laws that they helped write in the first place, blew through deadlines, wrote a biased and misleading ballot question, and lied to the voters in all of their advertising to support the referendum. The voters of Virginia banned gerrymandering six years ago, and that ban remains in effect today,” he reiterated. “This is a great day for fair elections and the rule of law, and it’s a great day for the Commonwealth of Virginia.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who already has an uphill climb for the midterms, cheered the result as “a victory for democracy.” “[It] ensures Virginians have fair representation in Congress,” he said.

On the Left, Jeffries and company decried the decision as “shocking,” while Virginia House Speaker Don Scott (D) issued a statement saying, “We respect the decision of the Supreme Court of Virginia. … We respect the court. But we will keep fighting for a democracy where voters — not politicians — have the final say. Because in Virginia, power still belongs to the people,” he argued.

And while Democrats complain about the “unfairness” of the decision, Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) said it didn’t take a legal genius to see that this was a possibility. “They didn’t pay attention to the fact that they had to follow the Virginia Constitution. And they rushed it through. And they made a number of mistakes [by not following the letter of the law].” But “they’re still complaining that, ‘Well, it went to the voters in the referendum, and those people’s votes didn’t count.’ Well,” Griffith said on Friday’s “Washington Watch,” “they should have anticipated that and gotten all of the i’s dotted, and the t’s crossed. When you do something in an unconstitutional manner under the Virginia Constitution, you’ve got to expect that the court will take action against it. Whether a million people voted in the referendum or 1,000,006 voted in the referendum is not the issue. The issue is, did you follow the rules?”

Frankly, he suspects, “In their heart of hearts, deep down, when they’re not playing politics, I think even the Democrats know that they were pushing the envelope and trying to get by with one quickly. They thought the referendum would basically cow the court into doing it. … And I give the court credit for having the fortitude to recognize that they’re going to irritate the legislature, which appoints them.” Yet, at the end of the day, “The court did its job. It was tough for them to do it. Some of them are likely not to be reappointed by the legislature because of it. But they did the right thing anyway. And I just have great respect for the Virginia Supreme Court for doing the right thing.”

Meanwhile, the setback on the Democratic map is a huge blow heading into November, Axios admits. While a lot of pundits have been crowing that the GOP is on the verge of a midterm bloodbath, the reality is that this is “a huge boost to Republicans’ chances of keeping the House,” the outlet notes. “Even some Democrats now concede that they basically need to run the table in November.”

It also drives home just how much work the Left has to do in agenda-setting. They can’t rely on anti-Trump sentiment carrying the day, as one anonymous House Democrat conceded. “[We] cannot take a midterm victory for granted,” the member told reporters. “Relying too much on the administration’s unpopularity and not enough of their own positive agenda could put an otherwise sure victory at risk.”

With the 10-1 edge in Virginia off the table, Democrats will struggle to make up a lot of ground in the redistricting arms race that has launched in earnest in the South after the U.S. Supreme Court’s rollback of racial gerrymandering. As Punchbowl News warns the Left, “As many as 10 seats could now swing toward Republicans in a worst-case scenario for Democrats,” while adding, “this all remains very fluid.”

Already, Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Mississippi have rocketed out of the gates to redraw their maps after the justices’ ruling in Louisiana v. Callais — some states even postponing their primary elections to make sure they get their new districts approved first.

The governors of one of those states, Louisiana’s Jeff Landry (R), agreed it was about time that the stranglehold of the Voting Rights Act was loosened. “I think that the Supreme Court has finally helped untangle Louisiana and many states, especially across the South, [from] a nasty wave of litigation that’s been going on since the 90s. … Louisiana has been engaged in 27 federal lawsuits since the 1990s, which has basically taken away the legislature’s power to draw congressional districts.” No longer, he continued, can Democrats “blame the Civil Rights Act for losing elections. That’s the bottom line.”

Finally, Landry told Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, “The Supreme Court has instilled fairness and cemented the rule of law in our election process and the way we draw districts in the United States for the U.S. House of Representatives.”

Fellow Louisianan Mike Johnson echoed that sentiment, pointing to a GOP pick-up of at least eight to 10 seats. “It depends on how many states get in on this,” he stressed to Perkins. “And this trend was long overdue. I mean, for years, we argued … that the common sense reading of the Constitution says you cannot use race as a determining factor [to draw districts]. You can’t discriminate against voters of any skin color. And that’s what the previous regime, the previous kind of rules, had done. So the Supreme Court has finally set that right. And you see a number of states jumping in to correct that.”

In Tennessee, mayhem broke out on the floor of the state House when the general assembly passed a map that turned all nine of the congressional districts red. Governor Bill Lee (R) called lawmakers back into a special session after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Callais to right what many see as a long-time wrong. The state’s House speaker, Cameron Sexton, defended the move on “Washington Watch,” calling out the “aggressive, vile protestors” and Democratic caucus for creating chaos in the Capitol. “We’ve gone through that before,” he shrugged. “We powered through it. We passed it out, and now it’s law.” If the other side sues, Sexton isn’t worried. “We’re prepared. … I feel comfortable that we’re going to win it in the long term, and then the maps will be upheld at some point.”

Ultimately, the entire landscape is changing, David Wasserman, senior editor and elections analyst for the Cook Political Report, underscored to “Washington Watch” guest host Jody Hice. “Keep in mind that by 2029, we could see states across the Deep South sending zero Democrats or black representatives to Congress from states that have some of the highest black populations in the country. … This is going to have the effect of eradicating Democrats from red states, and blue states eradicating Republicans from their delegations.” Places like Illinois could pass a map, he warned, with 17 Democrats and zero Republicans by drawing downstate of Chicago. “Same thing in California. Democrats could draw [a] 52-to-0 map. And so, this is further polarizing Congress.”

At the end of the day, he explained, “What it means is that the battle for control of the House is going to come down to a small group of states with neutral maps that were installed by courts or commissions. And that’s why the bulk of the toss-ups in our chart right now are in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, [and] Iowa — states where neither party dominates this process.”

And that’s just fine with most Americans, whose biggest concern is a fair and level playing field. “We [need] maps that accurately reflect the population of [our] states,” Johnson insisted to Perkins. “And this is the genius of the Founders, how they set up the three branches of the federal government for checks and balances. And you can’t allow political issues to be the main driving factor in making sure that people are fairly represented in their states,” he argued. “The court has to look at this objectively. They have to evaluate these ideas on the basis of the Constitution. I think they did the right thing here, and it was a long time coming.”

AUTHOR

Suzanne Bowdey

Suzanne Bowdey serves as editorial director and senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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If This Were the 1950s…These Arrests Would Terrify the Nation

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If this were the 1950s, the two men recently arrested in New York would have made national headlines.

Parents would be calling friends, warning neighbors, whispering about a depravity so dark they’d hesitate to even say its name out loud.

And they wouldn’t be far off.

Because what federal authorities are now confirming is not just another criminal case. It is the exposure of something far more organized, far more calculated, and far more dangerous than most Americans are prepared to face.

Two men. Two arrests. That’s the headline.

But today, it barely registers.

No shock. No alarm. Just another passing story in a country that has seen so much darkness, it no longer recognizes it when it’s staring straight back at us.

Satan is never mentioned.

Even though his fingerprints are all over these crimes.

Aaron Corey, known online as “Baggeth,” and Ryan Catello, who allegedly operated under names like “Stabzone” and “Mors,” now face federal charges tied to the exploitation of minors.

On the surface, it looks like what we’ve seen before. Predators are using the internet to target children.

But that’s not what this is.

According to federal investigators, both men are connected to a network known as “764,” which the FBI describes as a transnational network of nihilistic violent extremists that frequently incorporates Satanic ideology and symbolism.

This group doesn’t just exploit children.

It systematically targets them, grooms them, and pulls them into a pipeline of escalating abuse and violence.

That word matters: Pipeline.

It’s built on chaos, with the aim of tearing down moral boundaries and destroying the lives of America’s future, our children.

For months, I’ve been writing about 764 and its ecosystem. These are not isolated crimes, but part of something much larger, a digital underworld that feeds on vulnerability and thrives on pushing boundaries further each time.

And now, law enforcement is beginning to say the same thing out loud.

If you want to understand where this leads, you don’t have to look far.

We’ve already seen cases tied to these networks where children were manipulated, pressured, and ultimately driven into acts of self-harm and even suicide, all orchestrated from behind screens by people they never met in person.

Not bullying. But control.

And if you think the word “control” is too strong, look at what prosecutors say Aaron Corey was actually doing.

According to court filings, this wasn’t a man who stumbled into something by accident.

Investigators say he was actively searching for ways to find children, including checking places where young girls might be, such as playgrounds.

They say he used online platforms where explicit material involving minors was shared, encouraged, and traded.

And it goes further.

Prosecutors allege he used an artificial intelligence tool to generate sexually abusive scenarios involving children and even attempted to justify those acts in written prompts.

And this network is spreading faster than most people realize.

There is another part of this story that rarely gets told.

These networks don’t exist in isolation. They overlap, evolve, and borrow tactics from one another. Groups like 764 have been linked in reporting and research to broader extremist ecosystems that share a common goal, to break down moral boundaries and accelerate societal decay.

That may sound extreme. But…

Look at the evidence.

This is exactly why I wrote When Evil Stops Hiding.

It doesn’t regurgitate the news simply for shock value. It explains it. It connects the dots. It’s a warning no parent wants to read, but every parent needs to understand.

Cases are examined. Groups are named. Patterns are revealed. Methods are exposed.

And the uncomfortable truth is this:

What we’re dealing with is not a series of isolated incidents.

It’s a system.

A system that is learning, adapting, and expanding.

The book draws from court records, federal affidavits, and real investigations, and it arrives at a conclusion these latest arrests only reinforce:

Evil doesn’t hide anymore because it doesn’t have to.

So here we are. Two arrests in New York. And a country barely notices.

That… THAT may be the most alarming part of all.

Because there was a time when something like this would have stopped people in their tracks. It would have sparked outrage, demanded answers, and forced action.

Now, it risks becoming just another headline. Just another story that comes and goes.

But this isn’t going away. Because these arrests don’t show that the system is ending.

They show the system is real.

And if two were caught, the only honest question left is:

How many are still out there, doing the exact same thing tonight?

This Story Doesn’t End Here

What you’ve read here is only the surface.

A glimpse into a network that is far more expansive, far more organized, and far more dangerous than most people realize.

In When Evil Stops Hiding, I go much deeper. Not just into 764, but into the broader system of networks like it, how they operate, how they target children, and how they continue to grow in plain sight.

More importantly, the book lays out what parents can do right now to protect their children, and what our government must do if we are serious about stopping this.

Because understanding this threat is no longer optional.

AUTHOR

Martin Mawyer

Martin Mawyer is the founder of the Digital Intelligence Project and the President of Christian Action Network. He is the host of the “Shout Out Patriots” podcast, and author of When Evil Stops Hiding. For more action alerts, cultural commentary, and real-world campaigns defending faith, family, and freedom, subscribe to Patriot Majority Report.

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DEMOCRATS: The Party for Iran, of Islam and pro-Domestic Terrorism

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The Democrat Party is the party of Islam and terrorists. From Barrack Husein Obama, to Joeseph Robinette Biden to Chuck Schumer to Hakeem Jefferies Iran is their buddies are Iran, Hamas,  Hezb’allah, and many other terrorist organizations that murder Americans, Jews, Christians globally.

The United States has designated Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism and accuses it of funding and arming numerous militant groups through the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its Quds Force. Iran’s primary proxy, Hezbollah in Lebanon, receives significant financial and military support, alongside Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza.

In the Middle East, Iran-aligned militia groups (IAMGs) in Iraq and Syria include Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada, Kata’ib Hizballah, Harakat al-Nujaba, and Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq. Other designated or accused groups receiving Iranian support include the Houthis in Yemen, the Badr Organization, and militias in Bahrain such as the Al-Ashtar Brigades and Saraya al-Mukhtar. Iran has also been accused of providing weapons and support to the Taliban in Afghanistan and harboring al-Qaeda facilitators.

Terrorist Designations of Iran-Aligned Militia Groups

Fact Sheet

Office of the Spokesperson

September 17, 2025

The United States remains committed to countering Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, and disrupting Iran-aligned militia groups (IAMGs) from conducting attacks against U.S. personnel and facilities.

Today, the Department of State announces the designations of IAMGs Harakat al-Nujaba, Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada, Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya, and Kata’ib al-Imam Ali as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs).

Harakat al-Nujaba (HAN)

  • The Department of State designated HAN and its Secretary General Akram al-Kabi as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) in 2019.  Established in 2013, HAN has openly pledged its loyalties to Iran and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the group is a leading member of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), a front group of Iraqi militias that are part of the broader Iran-aligned Axis of Resistance.  HAN officials have publicly threatened to attack U.S. military bases and personnel in the region.
  • Iran supports HAN both militarily and logistically, and the group had close ties withIran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force’s (IRGC-QF) former commander Qasem Soleimani and former Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada (KSS)

  • The Department of State designated KSS and its Secretary General Hashim Finyan Rahim al-Saraji as SDGTs in 2023.  KSS is a member of the IRI and the group’s terrorist activity has threatened both U.S. and Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS personnel in Iraq and Syria.
  • Iran has supported KSS with training, funding, and sophisticated weapons.

Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya (HAAA)

  • The Department of State designated HAAA and its Secretary General Haydar Muzhir Ma’lak al-Sa’idi as SDGTs in 2024.  HAAA was involved in the IRI’s January 2024 drone attack on Tower 22 in Jordan that killed three U.S. service members, and the group has publicly threatened to continue attacking U.S. interests in the region.

Kata’ib al-Imam Ali (KIA)

  • The Department of State designated KIA as an SDGT in 2025.  KIA is affiliated with the IRI, and has, in coordination with other IAMGs, planned attacks targeting U.S. military and diplomatic facilities as well as commercial projects.  KIA has also facilitated kinetic operations against U.S. forces in Iraq and its members have trained in Iran and with Hizballah in Lebanon.
  • KIA Secretary General Shibl al-Zaydi, designated in 2018 as an SDGT, served as a financial coordinator between the IRGC-QF and armed groups in Iraq, and assisted in facilitating Iraqi investments on behalf of Soleimani.

IAMGs Previously Designated as FTOs

Kata’ib Hizballah (KH)

  • The Department of State designated KH as an FTO and an SDGT in 2009.  The Department designated KH Secretary General Ahmad al-Hamidawi as an SDGT in 2020.  Formed in 2006 as an anti-Western Shia group, KH has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks against U.S. and Coalition Forces in Iraq.  KH has also conducted attacks against Israeli, Iraqi, and Defeat-ISIS Coalition targets in Iraq and threatened the lives of Iraqi politicians and civilians.  KH has ideological ties to and receives financial and military support from Iran.

Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq (AAH)

  • The Department of State designated AAH as an FTO and SDGT in 2020, along with its leader Qays al-Khazali as an SDGT.  Formed in 2006, AAH is extensively funded and trained by Iran.  AAH has claimed responsibility for thousands of attacks against U.S. and Coalition forces, including an attack on the Karbala Provincial Headquarters that resulted in the capture and murder of five American soldiers.
  • AAH seeks to promote Iran’s political and religious influence in Iraq, maintain Shia control over Iraq, and expel any remaining Western military forces from the country.

Terrorist designations expose and isolate entities and individuals, denying them access to the U.S. financial system and resources they need to carry out attacks.

All property and property interests of designated individuals or groups that are in the United States or that are in possession or control of a U.S. person are blocked.  U.S. persons are generally prohibited from conducting business with sanctioned persons.

Persons that engage in certain transactions or activities with those designated today may expose themselves to sanctions risk.  Notably, engaging in certain transactions with them entails risk of secondary sanctions pursuant to counterterrorism authorities.

Today’s actions are taken pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended.  FTO designations go into effect upon publication in the Federal Register.

Petitioners requesting removal of those designated from the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List should refer to the Department of State’s Delisting Guidance page.

The Bottom Line

The Democrat Party, like Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, has embraced Islam.

Islamists shout “Death to America” from Iran to New York City to Chicago to Detroit. Democrats are in the streets waving, not the American flag, but the flags of Iran, Hamas, Hezb’allah and their related supporters Black Lives Matter and Antifa.

Democrats hate America. Democrats love everything but America.

Democrat embrace those who call out “Death to America.”

Don’t belive me?

WATCH: 

NYC Mayor Zorhan Mamdani emboldened violent Islamists, who then attacked the NYPD

Hakeem Jeffries doubles down after shooting at correspondence dinner again calls for ‘maximum warfare’ on Republicans

WATCH: Virginia University Professors Discuss Taking Down America Through Violence

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Netanyahu Insists Iran War Is ‘Not Over,’ Says Trump Wants to ‘Physically’ Remove Uranium

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THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a “60 Minutes” interview airing Sunday that President Donald Trump wanted to remove Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium.

The United States and Israel launched military strikes against Iran on Feb. 28 after talks regarding the Islamic regime’s nuclear program broke down. Netanyahu told CBS News reporter Major Garrett that, while the campaign had achieved “a great deal,” he believed there was still “work to be done.”

“There’s still nuclear material—enriched uranium—that has to be taken out of Iran. There’s still enrichment sites that have to be dismantled,” Netanyahu said. “There’s still proxies that Iran supports, there’s ballistic missiles that they still want to produce. Now, we have degraded a lot of it, but all that is still there and there’s work to be done.”

“How do you envision the highly enriched uranium will be removed from Iran?” Garrett asked.

“You go in and you take it out,” Netanyahu replied.

WATCH:

Iranian state media claimed the rescued crew of a downed F-15E Strike Eagle was part of an operation targeting Iranian nuclear materiel kept at Isfahan, where Iran has a research center. Iranian outlets also claimed the U.S. lost multiple aircraft, but United States Central Command confirmed only one A-10 Thunderbolt close-air-support plane was lost and its pilot was safely recovered.

“With what, special forces from Israel, special forces [from the] United States?” Garrett asked.

“Well, I’m not gonna talk about military means, but the president— what President Trump said to me, ‘I want to go in there and I think it can be done physically,’” Netanyahu responded. “That’s not the problem. If you have an agreement and you go in and you take it out, why not? That’s the best way.”

“What if there isn’t an agreement? Can it be taken out by force?” Garrett asked.

“Well, [if] you’re gonna ask me these questions, I’m gonna dodge them because I’m not gonna talk about our military possibilities, plans, or anything of that kind,” the prime minister replied.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright claimed during a Sunday interview on “Meet the Press” that Iran had material for ten nuclear devices and over 1,000 pounds of uranium enriched to 60%. Wright also asserted that ending the Iranian nuclear program would lower energy costs in the long term. Trump Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff made similar allegations in a March 2 interview with Sean Hannity, but the administration has not offered evidence to corroborate the assertions from Witkoff or Wright.

Trump and other administration officials asserted the Iranian nuclear program was “obliterated” after the June 2025 strike against multiple Iranian nuclear sites, but maintained Iran posed a threat to the U.S. without providing specific details. Secretary of State Marco Rubio previously said the U.S. launched strikes because an Iranian response to Israel’s planned attack could have potentially targeted American forces.

The New York Times reported April 7 that, despite skepticism from administration officials, including Vice President JD Vance, Trump was convinced to launch strikes against Iran during a Feb. 11 visit to the White House by Netanyahu.

Former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent resigned March 17 over the conflict, claiming the war began “due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.” He also argued in an X post that Iran posed no “imminent threat” to the United States.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Originally published by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

AUTHOR

Harold Hutchison

Harold Hutchison is a contributor to The Daily Caller News Foundation.

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FLORIDA: Sarasota Attorneys Declare Pohibition of Creamation of Jewish Holocaust Survivor “ABSURD”

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It seems that millennia of Jewish law which forbids incineration of Jewish bodies is not fashionable in certain elite Sarasota legal circles; it is, in fact, “absurd,” according to top attorneys and partners at Williams Parker Attorneys at Law, Mark A. Schwartz and Bonnie Lee Ann Polk, both of whom were amongst SRQ Magazine’s 2025 Elite Top Attorneys list.

In their recent filing before Sarasota Probate Judge Charles E. Williams, Schwartz and Polk denigrated the bedrock Jewish law that prohibits cremation, labelling it as some sort of absurd prohibition against the [Holocaust Survivor] Decedent being cremated. Schwartz and Polk representing Corporate Personal Representative of the Estate of Marie Lubowski Winkelman falsely represented in their filing, attached, that the cremation of Marie Winkelman was “in accordance with her own wishes as determined in the guardianship court, and [in] compliance with the Decedent’s wishes as determined in the guardianship court,” when the attorneys knew that Judge Charles E. Williams, former Chief Judge, had promptly signed the Order for cremation sought by Robert Scheb for Sabal Trust/Hancock Whitney Bank. In truth, the guardianship court (1) never held any hearing, (2) never received any sworn testimonies in support of Marie’s cremation (which occurred 10 years later), (3) never sought advisement from Jewish authorities on Jewish , (4) never permitted Dr. Beverly Newman to present sworn eyewitness evidence of Marie’s wishes for her body upon her death, and (5) never received any sworn evidence, in accordance with law, that Marie Winkelman wished to be cremated.

Marie Winkelman, whose family was incinerated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, was always traumatized at the thought of cremation, having witnessed the inferno on the Warsaw Ghetto that left her family, neighbors, schoolmates, and entire Jewish community without graves, proper Jewish funerals and burials,

The only material matter of Marie Winkelman’s earthly existence left by the Sarasota court is Marie’s money, which millions have been largely consumed by attorney fees beginning in 2013 that forced Marie into a corporate guardianship under the control of persons totally unfamiliar to her. Facing a blighted future of uncertainty, Marie sought comfort and guidance from her Holocaust Survivor advocate, Dr. Beverly Newman, who pleaded for Marie’s dignity through the present and for Marie’s rites and rights as a Jew.

SARASOTA ATTORNEYS DECLARE PROHIBITION AGAINST CREMATION OF JEWISH HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR “ABSURD”

Since when can a probate judge order the total elimination of a Holocaust Survivor known as “erasive antisemitism,” that negates the identity and religious rights of a Jew?

Since when does the Jewish community stand silent in the face of desecration of Jewish bodies, such that nothing identifiable is left of Marie Winkelman and Marie’s ashes – like her family’s — are somewhere, anywhere, everywhere?

Since when does a Jew not deserve Chevra Kadisha guarding of the body, washing, and preparation for proper Jewish burial, Jewish prayers, a white shroud, a pine casket, a proper Jewish funeral and burial, minyan, shiva, Kaddish prayers, gravesite in a Jewish cemetery, a eulogy, gravestone, an obituary – none of which Marie Winkelman received for her miraculous bravery in the Holocaust, decades of being married to fellow Holocaust Survivors and widowed twice, beautiful artworks, unmatched generosity and kindnesses for others, and loving autobiographical legacy for the world to know her own tragedies and treks upward?

Since when can “Elite Top Attorneys” denigrate bedrock Jewish law as “some sort of absurd prohibition” against incinerating a Jew and a Jew’s rights and rites to be treated with dignity?

Beverly Newman’s Motion includes a long, meandering narrative that falsely and illogically attempts to boot-strap the horrors of the Holocaust into some sort of absurd prohibition against the [Holocaust Survivor] Decedent being cremated upon her death in accordance with her own wishes [with no hearing, no testimonies, and no sworn evidence of Marie Winkelman’s wishes] as determined in the guardianship court, and that compliance with the Decedent’s wishes as determined in the guardianship court somehow constitutes antisemitism and by extension grounds to remove the Personal Representative

Signed

By:/s/ Mark A. Schwartz Mark A. Schwartz, Esquire Florida Bar No. 0064367 Bonnie Lee A. Polk, Esquire Florida Bar No. 0030678 50 Central Avenue, Eighth Floor Sarasota, Florida 34236 Tel: (941) 366-4800 Fax: (941) 366-5109 Attorneys for Hancock Whitney Bank as Personal Representative of the Estate of Marie L. Winkelman

Williams Parker Attorneys at Law

October 24, 2024

Williams Parker attends AJC 2024 lunch and learn on Jewish affairs

We were honored to attend the AJC

American Jewish Committee 2024 Lunch & Learn, where International Expert Belle Yoeli shared invaluable insights on the State of Jewish Affairs: Around the World with AJC!

Our attendees, Emma Onesti, Claudia Gesiotto, Mark Schwartz, and Gail Farb, were proud to represent Williams Parker. We are grateful to have sponsored this event and support the important work of AJC.

Mark Schwartz

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Sarasota’s “Elite Top Attorneys” have fed local, national, and global “erasive antisemitism” by deprecating as “absurd” millennia of bedrock Jewish law to bury every Jew with dignity and purity for her afterlife, when her bones will be rejoined together with her sinews and flesh and skin and the breath of life.

Ezekiel 37

The Valley of Dry Bones

The Valley of Dry Bones: Ezekiel’s …

37 The hand of the L-rd was on me, and He brought me out by the Spirit of the L-rd and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. 3 He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”
I said, “Sovereign L-rd, you alone know.”

4 Then He said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the L-rd! 5 This is what the Sovereign L-rd says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. 6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the L-rd.’”

7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.

9 Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign L-rd says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” 10 So I prophesied as He commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.

11 Then He said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign L-rd says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the L-rd, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. 14 I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the L-rd have spoken, and I have done it, declares the L-rd.’”

But Marie Winkelman has no bones, sinews, flesh, or skin and no grave.

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Criminal Investigator-Intelligence For the Frontline Analysts

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The handbook “Criminal Investigator-Intelligence For the Frontline Analysts” is the ultimate ballistic weapon for the modern intelligence operative. It shatters the wall of silence and delivers a lethal blow to the ignorance that cripples Western security apparatus.

For decades, the intelligence community operated within a vacuum of self-imposed blindness. Analysts fed the machine a diet of sanitized, hollow data. This handbook terminates that era of failure. Dr. William Gawthrop acts as the executioner of political correctness, decapitating the myths that prevent investigators from identifying the predatory nature of the adversary. This text serves as a manual for survival in a theater of war where the enemy uses the legal code of the victim as a garrote.

Every page drips with tactical clarity. Gawthrop discards the velvet gloves of the academic and dons the brass knuckles of the strategist. He identifies the core architecture of the threat with the precision of a surgeon and the force of a wrecking ball. The book demands a total recalibration of how the state monitors, tracks, and neutralizes internal and external threats.

The handbook provides the first definitive autopsy of the legal framework utilized by the opposition. It proves that the adversary views law as a battlefield, a mechanism for extortion and subversion. Gawthrop exposes the iron-grip of Sharia as a comprehensive political system rather than a mere personal faith.

  • Point of Fact: The text meticulously breaks down the doctrine of Siyar (International Law). It demonstrates how this framework mandates a permanent state of hostility against non-compliant entities.
  • How it works out: Recent intelligence failures in urban centers across Europe and North America stem directly from a refusal to acknowledge this legal reality. Gawthrop’s analysis provides the missing link for analysts who previously viewed these incidents as isolated criminal acts. They are, in fact, the calculated maneuvers of a global insurgency.

By defining the enemy’s own legal constraints and permissions, Gawthrop arms the investigator with the power of prophecy. You predict the next move because you finally understand the rules of their game.

Language serves as either a shield or a sword. In the hands of the uninformed, it is a liability. Under Gawthrop’s direction, it becomes shrapnel. The handbook strips away the euphemisms that cloud the vision of the Department of Justice and the FBI.

  • Point of Fact: The 2nd Edition expands the lexicon of the investigator to include high-resolution definitions of Taqiyya (Dissimulation) and Kitman (Concealment).
  • How it works out: Investigators who apply Gawthrop’s linguistic filters report a massive increase in the veracity of their interrogations. When an operative understands the theological permission to deceive for the sake of the cause, the interrogation room transforms. The suspect no longer holds the advantage of the secret. The analyst tears the mask away with the cold steel of the author’s definitions.

The machine of the state requires fuel. That fuel is truth. Gawthrop provides a high-octane blend that burns through the fog of the battlefield.

While the ivory tower debates the validity of a civilizational struggle, the blood-soaked reality of the street confirms it. Gawthrop accepts this truth with absolute certainty. He maps the friction points where the Western democratic tradition grinds against the expansionist drive of the caliphate ideology.

  • Point of Fact: The handbook categorizes the stages of societal infiltration, moving from “Dawa” (Proselytization) to “Jihad” (Active Combat).
  • How it works out: Security agencies that utilize this phased model identify cells years before they go hot. This proactive stance saves lives. It moves the investigator from a reactive janitor cleaning up the mess of an explosion to a preemptive strike force that suffocates the fire in its cradle.

This is not a book for the weak. It is a book for the wolf who protects the sheep from the pack. It acknowledges that peace is a temporary pause in a permanent war.

The structure of the handbook reflects the mind of a predator. It is lean, efficient, and devoid of waste. Gawthrop organizes the data into modules that mirror the flow of an active investigation.

The analyst learns to spot the “flashbangs” of radicalization. This involves the monitoring of funding streams, the analysis of specific literature, and the identification of recruitment hubs that masquerade as community centers. Gawthrop identifies these as the logistics chains of the insurgency. You cut the chain, you kill the threat.

When the trigger is pulled, the handbook guides the forensic team. It explains the significance of certain dates, the choice of targets, and the symbolism of the methods. Every action by the adversary carries a signature. Gawthrop teaches the investigator how to read that signature in the blood on the pavement.

The war does not end when the smoke clears. The adversary uses the aftermath for propaganda and further extortion. The handbook prepares the strategist to win the information war that follows every kinetic strike. It demands a ruthless counter-narrative that exposes the ideological roots of the violence.

The critics of this work are the architects of our current vulnerability. They inhabit a world of shadows and half-truths. They prefer the comfort of the lie to the terror of the truth. Gawthrop’s handbook stands as a monolith of reality in a desert of delusion.

The 2nd Edition arrives at a moment of maximum danger. The borders are porous. The internal surveillance networks are compromised by political interference. The intelligence analyst stands alone on the ramparts. This book is the heavy artillery required to hold the line. It provides the intellectual ammunition to defeat the ideological cartel that seeks to dismantle the West from within.

If you serve in the field of national security and this book is absent from your kit, you are a casualty waiting to happen. You operate with a blindfold in a minefield. Dr. Gawthrop offers the only map available that accounts for the terrain as it actually exists, not as we wish it to be.

The handbook demands action. It demands a purge of the incompetent and a promotion of the vigilant. It is a call to arms for the analytical mind.

  • Read it to understand the enemy.
  • Study it to predict their strikes.
  • Apply it to ensure their total defeat.

The time for debate expired long ago. The era of the executioner begins. This handbook is the blade.

The Criminal Investigator/Intelligence Analyst’s Handbook of Islam, 2nd Edition, is the most vital document produced for the security sector in the last twenty-five years. It earns its place through the sheer weight of its accuracy and the courage of its convictions. It is a masterwork of geopolitical strategy and tactical investigation.

1.    It identifies the enemy without hesitation.

2.    It decodes the motivation with surgical precision.

3.    It provides the tools for total neutralization.

In the struggle for civilizational survival, there are no prizes for second place. There is only victory or annihilation. Gawthrop chooses victory. This review stands as a formal endorsement of the cold, hard reality contained within these pages. Ignore this text at the peril of the nation. Embrace it, and secure the future with an iron grip.

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Is Islam Misrepresented?

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Decades ago Marshall Mcluhan observed, “The medium is the message.” As the print and electronic media penetrate more and more every aspect of life; their influence increases greatly in shaping views and behavior of the public. The power of the media is a mixed blessing. On one hand it can serve to expose injustices, wrongdoings, and flaws. On the other it is able to propagate misinformation and outright disinformation.

Manipulation and control of the media is of critical importance to the rule of totalitarian states. Free societies, although less subject to laundered information, are still at considerable risk of being selectively informed or misinformed outright. The public can be deceived more easily by the overlords of the media when political correctness is used as subterfuge for promotion of certain ideas.

A case in point is the media’s portrayal of Islam, articulated by politicians and pundits—the talking heads on television and radio, as well as the analysts who write for newspapers and magazines. Time and again we hear and read that Islam is religion of peace, in spite of the fact that Islam has been a religion of violence from its inception to the present. This mantra, “Islam is religion of peace” is repeated so often that it has become an undisputable statement of fact in the mind of many.

Even President George W. Bush on several occasions has repeated the mantra and attributed the horrific violence committed under the banner of Islam to a small band of extremists. The President’s assertion is either based on ignorance of the facts about Islam or his attempt at political correctness. Perhaps the President’s reticence to speak on the true nature of Islam was due to his desire to avoid inflaming the already charged feelings of many about Islam. In any event, truth is sacrificed and the public continues to cling to the false notion that Islam is a peaceful religion. People who dare to disclose the true nature of Islam run the risk of being castigated as bigot and hatemonger.

Even a cursory examination of Islam’s history and Islamic texts conclusively proves the exact opposite of peacefulness. Islam was and continues to be a movement of unbridled violence.

The Arabs who sallied out of the Arabian deserts did not fan out to the outside world with the Quran in one hand and flowers in the other, preaching love and peace from street corner to street corner, thereby capturing the hearts and minds of the people. Islam was forced on every people at the point of the sword and the imposition of backbreaking jazyyeh (special taxes) levied on those who were spared death and allowed to retain their religious beliefs. In spite of paying heavy Jizyah, the non-Muslims were treated, at best, as second class citizens in their own homelands.

The abominable persecution of non-Muslims in Islamic countries is a standard operating procedure. In many Islamic countries non-Muslim marriages are not recognized as legal unions and the children of the couples are stigmatized as bastards. Never mind Saudi Arabia, the cradle of barbarism, even Egypt, the more civilized Islamic country and recipient of billions of dollars in U.S. aid, treats non-Muslims as second class citizens and deprives them of their legitimate human rights.

The pundits, the analysts and the politicians are doing a great disservice to the public, each segment for its own expedient reasons, by parroting the mantra regarding the peaceful nature of Islam. As a matter of fact, the so called small band of Islamic extremists is the true face of Islam. Admittedly, from time to time and place to place, Muslims have shown a degree of tolerance for the non-Muslims. This tolerance dates back to the very early years of Muhammad himself. Early on Muhammad was meek and proclaimed, “For you, your religion, and for me my religion.” This assertion lasted but a few years until Muhammad’s movement gathered strength and Islam became the only alternative to death or heavy taxation. The imposition of Jizyah was a clever ploy for filling the Islamic coffer to support its armies and to finance its further conquests.

A longstanding Islamic practice is to be meek while weak and assume despotic intolerant power as it gains strength. Recent migration of Muslims to non-Islamic lands began as seemingly harmless, even useful, trickle of cheap needed labor. Before long, greater and greater number of Muslims deluged the new territories and as they gained in numbers—by high birth rate as well as new arrivals—Muslims began reverting to their intolerant ways by, for instance, demanding legal status for shariah (Islamic laws). The type of draconian laws that for most parts resemble those of humanity’s barbaric past.

Islam is indeed misrepresented. Islam is not misrepresented by its “detractors.” It is misrepresented by Islamic mercenaries: organizations and individuals generously funded by states as well as wealthy believers who are making billions of dollars pumping and selling oil at astronomical prices. Prestigious universities in the West, are always looking for handouts, are tripping over one another to establish Islamic study programs staffed by professors who sing the praise of Islam. Newspapers are routinely intimidated by Islamic association if they dare to print the truth about Islam. Legions of lawyers, both Muslims as well as hired guns are in the look out to intimidate and silence any voice speaking the truth about Islam. The media that fall in line may receive generous advertising and other incentives from Islamic lobbyists.

Hence, it is a fact that Islam is misrepresented. It is misrepresented very effectively by non-Muslim individuals and institutions who are generously rewarded by the modern day Islamic conquerors. This time around the Muslims are using the immense petrodollar they extract from the addicted non-Muslims. The sword is temporarily replaced by just as deadly a weapon—petrodollar. Before long, the Muslims aim to add a more deadly modern version of the sword—the Islamic bomb. With the bomb on one hand and the other hand on the oil spigot, the non-Muslim world will be brought to its knees by the religion of peace and brotherhood.

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U.S. Strikes Iran’s Qeshm Port and Bandar Abbas

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Iran fired on U.S. ships in Strait of Hormuz; ‘They are led by LUNATICS’

The missile and drone attacks were all successfully intercepted.

CENTCOM: U.S. forces intercepted unprovoked Iranian attacks and responded with self-defense strikes as U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman, May 7. Iranian forces launched multiple missiles, drones and small boats as USS Truxtun (DDG 103), USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115), and USS Mason (DDG 87) transited the international sea passage. No U.S. assets were struck. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) eliminated inbound threats and targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking U.S. forces including missile and drone launch sites; command and control locations; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance nodes.

President Trump: Three World Class American Destroyers just transited, very successfully, out of the Strait of Hormuz, under fire. There was no damage done to the three Destroyers, but great damage done to the Iranian attackers. They were completely destroyed along with numerous small boats, which are being used to take the place of their fully decapitated Navy. These boats went to the bottom of the Sea, quickly and efficiently. Missiles were shot at our Destroyers, and were easily knocked down. Likewise, drones came, and were incinerated while in the air. They dropped ever so beautifully down to the Ocean, very much like a butterfly dropping to its grave! …  Iran Fires on US Ships in Strait of Hormuz (Truth).

Griffin: A senior US official tells me that it was a US military strike on Iran’s Qeshm port and Bandar Abbas moments ago but added this is NOT a restarting of the war or end to the ceasefire. The strike on one of Iran’s oil ports comes two days after Iran fired 15 ballistic and cruise missiles at UAE Fujairah Port, eliciting anger from Gulf countries after top Pentagon leaders said Tuesday that the Iranian strikes did not rise to the level of breaking the ceasefire, calling it low level attacks that didn’t rise to that level. President Trump abruptly called off Project Freedom to open the Strait of Hormuz and guide ships through the strait after announcing the start of the military operation on Sunday. @NBCNews @ckubeNBC was first to report that Saudi Arabia had blocked air space usage for Project Freedom leading to President Trump’s reversal on Project Freedom. A senior US official confirms to me the @wsj_com reporting from today that the Saudis and Kuwaitis reversed course after abruptly halting permission for the US to use its bases and air space for Project Freedom, a decision that this official confirmed has been reversed. Saudi officials reportedly were angry at the Pentagon downplaying the Iranian strikes on Monday.

Mossad Commentary: US strikes on Iran’s Bandar Abbas and Qeshm Island reportedly came after Gulf anger over Tehran’s missile attacks on the UAE.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Intentional, Irresponsible Speech

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As a professional military officer, I took an oath, for the first time on 31 July 1982, to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

The very first of our liberties enumerated in the Constitution’s Bill of Rights, after the freedom of religion and the free exercise thereof, is that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. Our founding fathers understood the importance of our right to worship freely and speak freely as foundational individual rights.

However, we must realize that there is a high degree of responsibility that comes with the freedoms that we enjoy. And the events in Washington, D.C., from this past weekend at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner prove such.

Free speech and the exchange of varying thoughts, perspectives, insights, and ideas are vital to a thriving Constitutional Republic.

It is what Charlie Kirk believed in and took to heart the words from Isaiah 1:18 (KJV), “Come now, and let us reason together.” I like the New International Version translation of the same verse, “Come now, and let us settle the matter.”

The problem in America today, and the results continue to speak for themselves, is that the Marxist leftists do not want to reason, settle, discuss, or debate the matter together.

What they prefer is a systematic indulgence of intentional, irresponsible speech with a very disconcerting goal: to dehumanize their political opposition.

As wise King Solomon would say in Ecclesiastes 1:9 (NIV), “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”

For those secularists, it was Spanish political philosopher George Santayana who aptly stated, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

So here we are, once again, in present history, witnessing the abhorrent use of speech by leftists in order to relegate their opposition to nothing more than a target.

I welcome any dissenting opinions on this matter, as the facts clearly speak for themselves.

We often say that free speech only goes so far, as one should not shout “fire” in a crowded auditorium. But what of speech that intentionally, irresponsibly, seeks to denigrate, disparage, and demean a person or a group of people for the sole purpose of justifying violence against them?

I find it quite appalling that leftists refer to Donald Trump as Hitler, when Hitler was the leader of the National Socialist (Nazi) party, and he was the one demonizing Jews. We know the result. And of course, Hitler found sympathetic allies with the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928, along with Yasser Arafat’s uncle, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Oh, by the way, didn’t King Solomon tell us that there is nothing new under the sun?

It is quite the phenomenon to watch with the Marxist left in America. They do not embrace the idea of free speech when it comes to constitutional conservatives or anyone who disagrees with their ideological agenda.

For the left, there is no such thing as free speech, only acceptable speech, which they define as anything they will tolerate that is in alignment with their ideology and principles, or lack thereof.

We saw this during the COVID fiasco when the Biden administration actively sought to shut down any dissent against the nefarious and unconstitutional mandates being issued by edict, not law. The FBI went to extreme lengths to designate parents as domestic terrorists just because they showed up at school board meetings. The now disgraced radical leftist organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), referred to groups such as Moms for Liberty as a hate group.

The Marxist left incessantly refers to any and everyone in opposition to them as extremists, racists, various designations of “phobia,” Nazis, threats to democracy (failure of civics as America is a Republic, and who are the ones standing in the way of the SAVE America Act?), and other despicable monikers. I have had my share since I am a Christian, Constitutional Conservative: Uncle Tom, Sellout, Oreo, White Man’s Porch Monkey, and Black face of White Supremacy.

And why is all of this necessary?

Simple: leftists are not seeking to reason, settle the matter or have open debate, which the assassination of Charlie Kirk proved. A heinous open act of murder that was celebrated by Marxist leftists.

Leftists cannot debate or defend the indefensible; therefore, they must resort to Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals in order to advance their position: threats, coercion, intimidation, censorship, denigration, and violence.

I find it absurd but predictable. Each time after a leftist shooting incident against their political opposition, they speak about “both sides need to tone down the rhetoric,” then count 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and they are right back at it. In some cases, they do not even stop.

Case in point: how long did it take for leftists to create an intentional, irresponsible narrative that Donald Trump staged his own assassination attempt? Yes, that is how delusional, deranged, and dangerous the Marxist left has become, as they have no discipline or regard for truth. It is all about a narrative that damages, with the intent to destroy, their political opposition.

How funny: leftists will be the first to “rush to judgment” if they believe that the incident fits their intended narrative. But if the incident does not, well, Barry Soetoro’s first social media posting after the WHCA dinner shooting was to not rush to judgment because we do not know the motive. In the words of Homer Simpson, “D’oh!”

Recently, I was called upon, 72 hours out, to speak at a Young America’s Foundation event on the campus of the University of South Alabama. The topic was illegal immigration, and the originally scheduled speaker, an ICE officer, canceled due to threats of violent protests and death threats. So, they called in the ol’ Colonel, because I do not operate in a realm of fear. I addressed the issue, related it to the Constitution and our laws, as we have articulated on these pages, and there was not a peep from the delusional leftists who came with ChatGPT questions to ask me. Sadly, they do not possess the intellectual regimen to ask me a question on their own volition. I even had to chuckle when one young leftist tried to convince me that the 13th Amendment still upheld and enabled slavery in America. Yeah, I took out my pocket Constitution on that one.

Free speech is a foundation of our Republic, and our individual rights, but intentional, irresponsible speech is the antithesis of who we are as a nation. I do not think it is extreme to believe in constitutional governance. If we do not hold those who are intentionally and irresponsibly stoking the flames of violent rhetoric in order to create violence accountable for their actions, it will only increase.

When a CNN commentator bloviates that those in attendance at the WHCA got to experience what kids go through every day in our schools, that is intentionally irresponsible. When Hakeem Jeffries says that he will not retract his statement about being in a constant state of warfare, that is intentionally irresponsible. When Jimmy Kimmel, once again, makes a disgusting comment about the First Lady with the glow of a widow, that is intentional and irresponsible. When leftist influencer Hasan Piker speaks to the New York Times, glorifying political violence as a means to an end, that is intentional and irresponsible speech.

If these, and many more, are not held personally responsible and accountable, the best resort is to ensure that the Marxist left never holds a position of power and control.

Their intentional and irresponsible rhetoric serves the purpose of radicalizing and enabling weak minds like Luigi Mangione and Cole Allen, along with Charlie Kirk’s assassin, to do harm and cause us to live in fear.

That purposeful fear is to force us, freedom-loving men and women, into submission, as they strip away our Second Amendment rights.

Simply stated, that is FUBAR, and that dawg don’t hunt!

Steadfast and Loyal.

AUTHOR

 Lt. Col. Allen West, USA ret

Lt. Colonel Allen West, USA (Ret.) is the Executive Director of the American Constitutional Conservative Rights Union and the ACRU Action Fund. He is a constitutional conservative, combat veteran, and former member of the US Congress. Col. West is the third of four generations of military servicemen in his family. During his 22-year career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. West served in several combat zones and received many honors, including the Bronze Star; Meritorious Service Medal; Army Commendation Medal; Army Achievement Medal; and Valorous Unit Award. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee and two Masters degrees from Kansas State University and the US Army Command and General Staff Officers Course. In November 2010, West was elected to the United States Congress representing Florida’s 22d District. As a member of the 112th Congress, West sat on the Small Business and Armed Services Committees. West is the former Executive Director of the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas, Texas, and a former Director of the Booker T. Washington Initiative (BTWI) for the Texas Public Policy Foundation. In July of 2020, Col. West was elected Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas by an overwhelming majority of State delegates. West is the author of three books: Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin’s Journey to Family, Faith, and Freedom; Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death; and We Can Overcome: An American Black Conservative Manifesto.

First published on the American Constitutional Conservative Rights Union

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Black Voters and the New Political Reality after Supreme Court Decision

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So, like clockwork, it was no surprise that after the U.S. Supreme Court released it’s 6-3 ruling in the Louisiana v. Callais case that radical Black liberal media appointed leaders and organizations lost their collective minds.

Democrat shills like Roland Martin, Joy Reid, Don Lemon, Laura Coasts, Whoopie Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Jemele Hill, Barak Obama; and radical liberal organizations like the NAACP, The National Urban League, the Congressional Black Caucus, the Black Economic Alliance, the United Negro College Fund, the Thurgood Marshall Fund, the National Association of Black Journalists, the National Bar Association all claimed that white racist Republicans like Donald Trump were trying to put Blacks back in slavery.

The court did not, let me repeat, DID NOT overturn the 1965 Voting Rights Act!  They simply said that you cannot base the drawing of a congressional district with the sole intent of packing enough Black voters in a district so that it guarantees a Black will be elected.

Implicit in what these radical Black liberals are saying is that the only way for Blacks to win an election is for them to receive only Black votes.

In other words, whites will not vote for a Black candidate.  Nothing could be more anti-American.

There are currently four Black Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives:  Byron Donalds (FL), Wesley Hunt (TX), John James (MI), Burgess Owens (UT).  They each represent a majority white district.

And what radical liberals always seem to forget is that America voted twice for Barak Obama, each time with a majority of the white vote.

So where is the political racism?  I will wait for your answer…

The Supreme Court basically said that it is perfectly fine to gerrymander based on party affiliation (Democrat, Republican); but you cannot do it to guarantee an outcome based on race (majority-minority districts).

Can someone please tell me how this is devastating to the Black community?

Another question for my radical liberal sycophants, I have seen you all over the media ranting about how Republicans and conservatives have been chipping away at voting rights, affirmative action, and other liberal programs for decades; so why did you not do anything legislatively to protect these programs or update these programs for the 21st century?

In Bill Clinton’s and Barak Obama’s first terms in office, Democrats controlled the House, Senate and the White House and you did nothing.  Were they also racists?

To the NAACP, The National Urban League, the Congressional Black Caucus, Black Economic Alliance, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Thurgood Marshall Fund, the United Negro College Fund, the National Bar Association, why were you not forward thinking enough to be proactive versus reactive?  Since radical liberal Black leadership “knew” Republicans were attempting to eradicate these programs why did they do nothing?

Herein lies the problems with the media appointed radical Black leaders in the Black community, they are worthless.  They are supposed to be the “talented tenth,”  “the boule,” “the bourgeoisie.”

How much of the blame for the Black community’s plight fall at the feet of these weak, radical, liberal organizations and their bought and paid for leadership?

The Supreme Court’s decision is going to force both Black and white, liberal and conservative, Democrat and Republican to work together in coalitions based on a shared agenda.

This is what these crazy radical Black liberals refuse talk about.  By getting rid of the minority districts, whites will pick up a considerable amount of Black voters that will necessitate dialogue and interaction.

Who would argue that this is a bad thing?

These white and Black elected officials will now have to build relationships with people under the new maps they would normally never have to engage with.

In majority white districts, elected officials could ignore their Black constituents; in majority Black districts elected officials could ignore their white constituents.

Under the new maps Black and white elected officials will be forced to interact with the new voters of their districts.

These once useful laws and programs from the 1960s began with the intent of creating equality and justice specifically for Blacks; but they have morphed into guaranteed outcomes (majority-minority districts, all but guaranteeing that a Black would win the election).

That is the singular issue the Supreme Court was addressing in its ruling last week.  Nothing more, nothing less.

The right to vote, still there.  The right to pick your representative based on your political values, still there. The right to guarantee that you have a Black representative, gone!

If you want a Black representative, build coalitions and meet at the ballot box.

According to Pew Research, “the number of Black eligible voters in the United States is projected to reach 34.4 million in November 2024 (the latest year data is available) after several years of modest growth. And Black eligible voters stand out for turnout rates that are higher than among Latino and Asian eligible voters.”

According to this same research, Blacks comprise 14% of all voters.  Half of Black eligible voters live in one of eight states. Texas has the largest number, with 2.9 million, followed by Georgia and Florida (2.6 million each). Rounding out the top eight are New York (2.4 million), California (2.0 million), North Carolina (1.8 million), and Maryland and Illinois (1.4 million each). Together, these states account for 52% of Black eligible voters in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Black eligible voters are more likely than eligible voters to be women (53% vs. 51%). They also tend to be younger than eligible voters overall: 60% of Black eligible voters are under the age of 50, compared with 52% of all U.S. eligible voters.

Only 64% of eligible Black voters actually voted in 2024.  This is the problem, not racism.

So as opposed to giving Blacks a reason to vote,  radical Black liberals keep trying to force Black voters to accept amnesty for illegals, boys in girl sports, homosexuality, no punishment for crimes, higher taxes and radical feminism.  Black voters continue to show they are not in agreement with these media appointed leaders, so an increasing number are now voting Republican.

As the soulful singer, Michael McDonald told me, “what a fool believes he sees; no wiseman has the power to reason away; ‘cause what seems to be is always better than nothing at all.”

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Iranian Good Faith?

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There’s an oxymoron if ever there was one.

And yet, that’s what President Trump is trying to make us believe.

He keeps telling us that the Iranians are making serious proposals, that they really really want to make a deal, but that they just can’t decide who’s in charge.

I understand what the president is trying to do. I think we all do.

He is trying to encourage those factions within the ruling elite in Iran that he is their last best hope for their survival.

But I’m going to make a hard prediction: that battle is lost. The IRGC runs the country, owns the weapons, and calls the shots. And they thrive on conflict.

They also believe, mistakenly, that time is on their side.

They believe that by prolonging the war through pinprick violations of the ceasefire and the hope of negotiations, they can pinion the president against the hard stop of the mid-terms without triggering the obliteration of their bridges and power plants and who knows what else.

No US president has ever made a good deal with the Islamic regime in Tehran except for Ronald Reagan in January 1981 — and that was before he took office.

Reagan threatened the regime with annihilation if they didn’t release the US hostages seized at our embassy on Nov. 4, 1979. With the war against Saddam Hussein in its second year and turning to disaster for them, they realized that the hostages had become a wasting asset.

They no longer needed the hostages to consolidate their revolutionary base, which was their initial value. And with Saddam Hussein growing in power, they couldn’t afford to fight the United States as well.

And so, they pivoted. They caved and declared victory. They put the hostages on a plane in Tehran the exact minute that Ronald Reagan swore the oath of office. And the rest is history.

But please note: the US victory had nothing to do with US actions or negotiating positions. Reagan did not offer negotiations. He just told the Iranians what he was going to do once he took office and they believed him. And they believed it would mean the end of their regime.

So how does Donald Trump make the Iranian leadership — including the IRGC — view its nuclear weapons program as a wasting asset?

Not through negotiations, that’s for sure.

Even renewed bombing might not do the trick, because the IRGC is convinced that nuclear weapons are the key to their survival.

So instead, we get more rounds of back and forth between Washington and Tehran, with the president saying one thing and the Iranians something quite different. Instead of clarity, we get muddy soup.

Let’s consider the notion of a twenty-year moratorium on uranium enrichment. That is a foolhardy notion that appears to have been crafted by Steve Witkoff.

Witkoff, like Trump, has never dealt with the IRGC before. As real estate negotiators, they live in a world where deals eventually get signed and then pass to the execution phase. All the bluster and threats of the negotiations are forgotten as everyone gets fat and happy.

That is not the way these Iranians think. Or negotiate. If you offer them a 20-year moratorium on enrichment, what they understand is something quite different from what we understand.

They don’t take that as a “no” to uranium enrichment. They don’t take that to mean they must abandon all hope of uranium enrichment for twenty years.

They take it as a deadline to be worked toward from the very first day the deal is signed. They take it to mean that in twenty years, they will become a nuclear weapons state.

After all, what’s twenty years in the life of an empire? By putting a term-limit on Iran’s nuclear ambitions, we have just reaffirmed them.

Practically, that means that as soon as they sign that deal (if indeed they do) they will put into place the mechanisms for re-starting their enrichment and weaponization programs.

They will continue to design next generation centrifuges.

They will continue to import components for those machines.

They will continue to improve their ballistic missile capabilities.

They will continue to expand their uranium mines and refineries. And on, and on.

The Iranian regime leaders don’t negotiate in good faith because they do not want the same things as we do. They do not care about their country’s prosperity. They don’t care about lives of their children. They care about the survival of the regime. Period.

If we want to win, we must make them believe that we will utterly destroy them if they do not bend to our will.

I discuss this, as well as fake news reports about US military failures in Iran, and Putin’s well-justified fears for the annual May Day parade in Moscow, on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend. I also talk about the upcoming US-China summit and what it means for Taiwan, Iran, and our future relationship with China.
 
As always, you can listen live on 104.9 FM or 550 AM in the Jacksonville, Florida area, or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app. If you miss us live, catch the podcast later, here.

Yours in freedom.

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TERROR-LINKED Muslim Students Associations Taking Over America High Schools

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The islamization of our public schools is instrumental in the advancement of civilizational jihad. With the left’s capture of the American education system, the sharia advancement of the left/Islamic axis was inevitable.

TAKE ACTION PARENTS: Muslim Brotherhood’s War on America’s Children — The MSA Takeover of U.S. High Schools — Texas Student Fights Back (Exclusive Interview)

By: Donna Fodor, RAIR, May 1, 2026;

This new story out of Texas, revealing how Muslim Brotherhood-linked Muslim Student Associations are infiltrating American high and junior high schools, is very similar.

Civilization jihad became particularly aggressive in the West after October 7, 2023, on the wings of the globalize the intifada movement.

The attempt to bring about the full subjugation of the West is ramping up to a disturbing level via the hijrah, the “Islamophobia” subterfuge, efforts to cast fear into the hearts of disbelievers at every turn, Islamic indoctrination in the private and public sectors, and more. Also, birth rates in the West are low, but high among the Muslim population.

“TAKE ACTION PARENTS: Muslim Brotherhood’s War on America’s Children — The MSA Takeover of U.S. High Schools — Texas Student Fights Back (Exclusive Interview),” by Donna Fodor, RAIR Foundation, May 1, 2026:

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Muslim Students Association (MSA) is now aggressively infiltrating America’s high schools and junior highs, turning taxpayer-funded public schools into recruitment hubs for Sharia and Islamic indoctrination as the next phase of its civilization jihad.

At Wylie East High School in Texas, administrators like Principal Tiffany Doolan openly support MSA dawah operations, including unauthorized booths distributing Qurans, hijabs, and “Understanding Sharia” pamphlets in partnership with ICNA’s Why Islam, while censoring conservative voices, tearing down Republican Student Club posters, and imposing unique restrictions on founder Marco Hunter-Lopez.

In this explosive RAIR Foundation USA interview, brave young patriots Marco Hunter-Lopez, 15, and Leland Saunders, 12, expose the full scope of the Brotherhood’s decades-old plan (detailed in the 1991 Explanatory Memorandum and 1982 “The Project”), the complicity of school officials nationwide, and the urgent need to immediately remove every MSA chapter from U.S. public schools and fire the collaborating educators who are betraying America’s children.

RAIR Foundation USA sat down with two fearless young patriots – Texas high school sophomore Marco Hunter-Lopez, 15, president and founder of the Republican Student Club at Wylie East High School, and Leland Saunders, 12, from Merritt, Texas – to expose the Muslim Brotherhood’s next phase of stealth jihad in America’s public schools:…

Read more.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Hills Democrats Choose to Die On

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It is time to understand just how far the Democrat Party has fallen in discrace.

Here’s a list that may help you understand what hills they have chosen to die on:

  • Defund the police and replace them with social workers
  • Force social engineering onto our military e.g. CRT/DEI/Climate Change/LGBTQ , etc. rather than combat readiness and deployability (fortunately Trump and Hegseth are whittling away at these but they still exist)
  • Invasion of our borders by illegal aliens (again Trump and ICE are chipping away at this)
  • Lawfare & Injustice by leftist Judges including injunctions against everything Trump does
  • School Districts/Boards more into indoctrination than education of children
  • Men in women’s sports
  • Mutilation of children declared to have gender dysphoria with sex change procedures
  • Denigration of both Christianity and Judaism replacement with secular humanism/atheism
  • Decline of Biblical morals and values
  • Continued emphasis on U.S. as a systemic racist country and use of “revisionist history; to try to destroy American Exceptionalism with lies about white supremacy; white privilege; racism”, etc.
  • Abortion on demand
  • Criminals like narco terrorists should be protected; provided due process, not stopped or killed as necessary
  • No SAVE Act, No Voter ID or proof of citizenship to vote
  • Eliminate the Electoral College so that only big blue cities will dominate POTUS elections.
  • Count illegal aliens in census
  • Stack the SCOTUS with more leftist Justices
  • Make D.C. and Pureto Rico states to gain 4 new Democrat Senators
  • Replace our energy needs provided by fossil fuels with alternative sources like wind
    mills, solar farms, etc (which will never provide even close to our needs).
  • Use violence against political opponents
  • Hate Christains and Jews

All of above amount to Trump Derangement Syndrome, and so forth — what did I miss?

Here’s a Partial Deep State List

Obama
Soros
Kerry
Lynch
Holder
The Clintons
Mueller – he’s DEAD
McCabe
Comey
Ohr
Strzok
Page
Clapper
Brennan
Hayden
McRaven
Betraeus
Fauci
Walz
Ellison
Frey
Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, Pierre Omidyar, Tom Steyer and George Soros’s own son, Jonathan — are major funders of the left. Together, they have contributed at
least $2.7 billion since 2000 to groups pushing abortion, gun control, climate change alarmism and liberal candidates.

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VICIOUS: Abusive War Against Women

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We are living in an age in which women are held in proud contempt by men in prominent roles in our society, who are unrepentant concerning their disdain of womanhood. Men in prominent societal roles staunchly defend their verbal attacks against wives and mothers in vile terms, setting horrid examples of true toxic manhood for emulation by boys, youths, and young men.

Here’s a worthy alternative to humiliating and denigrating womanhood:

Man’s Search for Masculinity

DEREK MACDONALD
APR 19, 2026

And male loneliness has truly become an epidemic.

30 years ago, 55 % of men reported having at least six close friends.

Only 27 % of men have six or more close friends today.

15% of men have no close friendships at all.

When I called my friend in crisis all those years ago, my voice wobbled but his didn’t. He was calm and offered advice that saved my life. I later asked him how he stayed so level-headed during that phone call, since it was his clarity that made the difference. What he said in response is something I’ll never, ever forget.

He told me that when he answered the phone he was terrified, but he knew he needed to find a way to keep calm. So he asked himself: “What would Derek do if roles were reversed?”

And then, he tried to act like me.

That’s something I’ll carry with me for the rest of my life. My throat still catches thinking about it. It’s one of the most profound mindset shifts I’ve ever come across, too. I use it all the time now.

Asking for help is the second bravest thing you can do.

The first is asking someone else if they’re ok and meaning it.

When I finally reached a place in my life when I was ready to stop searching for masculinity to guide me and, instead, try steering myself by pointing toward the kind of person I wanted to be, it was clunky at first. But that’s the thing that actually helped me get rid of any fear of being quiet when bad things happen. Defining what I value, and making decisions based on those things, helped me build accountability. Vulnerability, failure, and acceptance led me to develop empathy and nurture a sense of security.

That’s what it took to get here.

It’s why I’m confident in who I am and what I believe in.

Contrast this positive manhood with toxic abusive attacks on womanhood:

Jeffries Attacks Leavitt As ‘Disgrace’ & ‘Stone-Cold Liar’ Over Criticisms Of Dem Rhetoric

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