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And finally, new rules. Since yesterday was Israel's birthday, having become a nation on May 14th, 78 years ago, everyone must either wish her a happy birthday or admit they're anti-Semitic. Now, it's everyone's right in a free country to be anti-semitic. But enough with hiding behind Israel or Zionism or Netanyahu. If you think, as so many do now, that when it comes to human rights, Israel is the monster country of all time, you either don't read or you don't care about your own hypocrisy because there are so many worse places. But that's where we are these...

Screencap of YouTube video. People in the left are absolutely frothing at the mouth over the decision by the Virginia Supreme Court that tore down their effort to gerrymander the state. Hasan Piker, an America-hating, self-proclaimed communist and streamer, who Democrats just can’t seem to get enough of, has alsready suggested violent revolution as a fix for the problem. It’s just amazing how political violence has become so normal for people on the left. They just want their way and will do anything to get it. FOX News reports: Leftist streamer calls violent revolution ‘inevitable’ as Democrats explode over Virginia...

Three days before a 31-year-old male stormed the White House Correspondents Dinner, hoping to assassinate President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet, the New York Times published a 35-minute video titled: “‘The Rich Don’t Play by the Rules. So Why Should I?’ Why petty theft might be the new political protest.” In it, a Times editor interviewed two other members of the media aristocracy about the moral code shared by a large swathe of young Americans. That code justifies theft—and even violence—when harnessed to a fashionably left-wing cause. None of the participants—podcasting celebrity Hasan Piker, New Yorker writer Jia...

Piker tells Democrats to be the 'anti-Israel party,' calls Zionism a racist ideologyHasan Piker, the controversial, far-left Twitch streamer known for extreme anti-Zionism rhetoric, sat down with a Jewish publication to challenge the notion that he is antisemitic while suggesting the Democratic Party should be "the anti-Israel party." Piker participated in a video call with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, which bills itself as a publication "founded to tell the stories about Jewish people and Jewish communities that no other publication would," for an interview published Monday. Piker, who was raised a Muslim, has repeatedly rejected claims he is antisemitic,...

As I spent the evening scouring the internet for information on the assassination attempt last night, I ran across a ton of posts from lefties claiming that it was either staged—a fan favorite—or that the motive might never be known. Hasan Piker was quite angry that people pointed out that he, just the other day, talked about harnessing the left's assassination fantasies as a way to organize followers. That is a fairly common theme in the social media posts of leftists, as are complaints that the various people who have tried to kill Trump don't have good enough aim. And,...

Watch this exchange and understand: 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡. A Cambridge student confronts Hasan Piker about the October 7th massacre at the Supernova Music Festival. Piker’s response? “𝘋𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦’𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮∗𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴?” “𝘠𝘦𝘴. 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴.” The student pressed him to unequivocally condemn the m∗rders, the mutilations, the r∗pes. His answer? “𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯’𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴.” When told the Houthis he platforms have “𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐞𝐰𝐬” 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐚𝐧, he shrugged: “𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸. 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭.” This is the man who 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬...

“It is so hard to live ethically in an unethical society.” That lament heard this week from New York Times opinion culture editor Nadja Spiegelman could well be the Democratic Party’s epitaph. Spiegelman was interviewing two left-wing influencers about how everything from shoplifting to murder may be excusable today in light of the unfairness they see in society. “It is so hard to live ethically in an unethical society.” That lament heard this week from New York Times opinion culture editor Nadja Spiegelman could well be the Democratic Party’s epitaph. Spiegelman was interviewing two left-wing influencers about how everything from...

Hasan Piker is an antisemite, a terrorist supporter, and a communist millionaire. He supports violence, up to and including the murder of his political opponents. And Democrats are in love with him. Piker, who makes a living as a Twitch streamer, was brought on by the New York Times for an interview about why stealing from businesses is good and justified. Inevitably, the defense of lawlessness by Piker (and the New York Times) turned to the murder of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson. Piker declared that Thompson was guilty of “social murder,” and that his murder was therefore understandable and possibly...

Is robbing the Louvre a good idea? Left-wing influencer Hasan Piker and New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino did a much-discussed video interview with the New York Times this week on the ethics of theft, and came out four-square in favor of stealing things, including artwork from the Louvre. SNIP When asked about the propriety of hitting up the Louvre, Tolentino heartily endorsed it. Piker explained, “Yeah, I think it’s cool. We gotta get back to cool crimes like that. Bank robberies. Stealing priceless artifacts, things of that nature.”

In 1995, ‘Adam’ Hisham Hamawy testified for the defense in the trial of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman: the Egyptian Islamic terror leader linked to the World Trade Center bombing. Now, Hamawy is running for Congress in New Jersey while promising to defund the military, abolish ICE, and dismantle the Department of Homeland Security. Hamawy, an Egyptian Muslim currently working as a plastic surgeon in New Jersey, has been in the news more recently for his Gaza advocacy, demanding that Israel stop its military campaign against Hamas, and in his recent interview with Hasan Piker, a Turkish social media influencer who...

A recent poll showed current Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who had worked in Cuba with the Marxist Venceremos Brigade trailing Councilwoman Nithya Raman, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Only 24% of Los Angeles residents approve of the job that Bass is doing, which included the worst wildfires in the city’s history, while 47% disapprove. If disappointed voters replace Bass with an even more extreme version, that will be in line with what happened in New York City where a widely despised former Mayor Bill de Blasio was, after a one term break to make room for...

Edmund Fitton-Brown @EFittonBrown Oh dear. Iskandar323 picked the wrong jurisdiction in which to become one of the world’s leading pro-Hamas propagandists. The #UAE takes a dim view of foreigners who abuse their hospitality by supporting terrorist groups. It would be a pity if the Emiratis learned his identity. Quote WikiBias @WikiBias · Mar 23 Investigations have revealed that Iskandar323, the recently banned editor, who worked to rewrite Jewish history and whitewash the Iranian regime and Hamas, is an English journalist based in the United Arab Emirates. Our eyes are wide open for all others. More to come.

Amir Makled, who introduced El-Sayed at an event with Hasan Piker, represented Michigan students who faced criminal charges related to the school’s anti-Israel encampment The left-wing candidate for Senate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, campaigned this week with a man running for the University of Michigan's board of regents who shared since-deleted X posts that celebrated late Hezbollah leaders as "martyr[s]"

The Mexican Navy announced on Thursday that it has begun a search-and-rescue mission in the Caribbean Sea for two sailboats carrying "humanitarian aid" to Cuba. Reuters describes the vessels as "sailboats" and says they left Isla Mujeres, in the Mexican Caribbean state of Quintana Roo, last week. They did not arrive in Havana as scheduled on Tuesday or Wednesday. The journey is about 300 to 350 miles, depending on the route. Combined, the two boats had nine people on board, including eight adults and a four-year-old child. The Mexican navy said Thursday that it was searching for two boats transporting...

Socialists from the US and Europe put on a concert in Cuba — just as the country was plunged into third blackout this month Saturday. A convoy of socialists — including streamer Hasan Piker, the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar, members of Code Pink and lefty Irish hip-hop group Kneecap — is in Cuba with the goal of supporting Cuba’s oppressive communist regime. But Piker and others have been dogged by criticism for staying in a 5-star hotel in Havana, and Kneecap played a concert in the capital city as the rest of the nation of 11 million people faced...

The news just keeps getting more disgusting from the Sandalista Spring Break crowd, descending on Cuba to show 'solidarity' as President Trump halts its "free" oil from Venezuela, and creating a boatload of misery for Cuba's socialism-impoverished locals. It wasn't just gawking at people's poverty from state safari-style tour buses while singing 'Guantamanera' at them, which I wrote about here. Alberto de la Cruz @albertodelacruz "This is how the foreign communists visiting Cuba get around...like they're on a safari through a theme park. Then they ask us to resist in the name of their criminal ideology. They're all immoral." It...

A New York City 9/11 family condemned Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani for his ties to Hasan Piker, who once said “America deserved 9/11.” Wendi and Sal Turturici, both EMTs connected to the attacks, called Mamdani “unfit for mayor” and endorsed ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo instead.

Six days before polls closed in the New York City mayoral primary, and hours after former Mayor Michael Bloomberg injected an extra $5 million into former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's mayoral PAC, a group of Muslim Americans began mobilizing nationwide. A few donors told ABC News they knew they couldn't match Cuomo's donors, but believed a small jolt might give Zohran Mamdani a final push in the Democratic primary.

Yeah, they literally call it "the swastika sword" and decided to have @Idubbbz pose with it while wearing Palestine colors around his neck in a video addressed to a Jew.These are the "good guys." https://t.co/kvcX4m8iV4— SirD (@Sir_Dammed) April 25, 2025

Left-wing darling Hasan Piker has been booted from the streaming platform Twitch after he suggested that the killing of two Israeli Embassy diplomats in Washington, DC looked like it could be a “false flag” operation. Piker, 33, claimed his account, which has more than 2.8 million followers, was suspended because of his “critical examination” of the manifesto of suspected terrorist Elias Rodriguez, who was charged with executing embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim outside the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night. He said the attack had all the hallmarks of a “false flag operation,” a term used for an...