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

Joined February 2026
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If you think the left can't get any dumber, wait until you see this. Sánchez and his union allies have shut down Spain in a strike "against the opposition." He's been in power for eight years. It's probably the first time in history a government has paralyzed its own country to protest against the opposition.
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Diversity requires hypocrisy.
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There’s nothing worse than a socialist who thinks he’s being generous with taxpayers’ money while saddling New Yorkers who haven’t even been born yet with debt. NYC has $110 billion in debt. Florida’s state government has $14.6 billion. NYC is projected to pay nearly 12 times as much in annual interest. Since when did mortgaging future generations to fund today’s incompetence become the moral high ground?
It’s a fair point. New York and Florida are basically the same, except for our 24/7 subway system, one of the nation’s largest public hospital systems, a higher minimum wage, stronger worker protections, universal 3-K, paid family leave, paid sick leave, and paid prenatal leave.
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The most impressive thing about @JMilei is that he's the only politician who might actually want less power.
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“Everything within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” That was Mussolini’s vision of fascism. Funny how familiar it sounds to today’s self-proclaimed antifascists.
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"No one knows anything, even when it looks obvious."
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Congress will become a miniature United Nations, every country will have someone fighting for its interests. Except America.
We made history. 🇵🇸
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The left has taken over universities, and it's making young women more depressed than ever. Among women aged 18 to 40, only 12% of liberals are completely satisfied with life, compared with 37% of conservatives. Marriage and faith explain half the gap, and elite campuses teach young women to distrust both. College used to teach kids how to think. Now it teaches them what to think, and they come home lonely.
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If you think you're stupid, imagine being a liberal who believes these votes will deliver their progressive agenda.
This is the early voting line in Dearborn, MI. Like it or not, demographics are destiny.
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Thomas Sowell was so right: “Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, social justice.”
Latest Subway Takes: “My take is that white people should stop having weddings and stop having children.” Kamala Harris, Tim Walz and Zohran have all gone on Subway Takes before. It’s a hugely popular mainstream left wing Instagram account with millions of followers. They haven’t even won the mid-terms yet. Leftists are so confident in their coming political victory that they are going right back to the worst excesses of “Woke 1.” They aren’t moderating. They fundamentally hate most white Americans. Buckle up.
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They’re burning restaurants in Paris to protest for Gaza. Meanwhile, this is what a restaurant in Gaza looks like.
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If you think you're stupid, imagine being a liberal woman voting for him.
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If you ever feel stupid, just remember there are socialists who think looting a phone shop is a protest for better education.
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Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam found that in more diverse communities, people trusted their neighbors less, even people from their own group. A 2020 review of 87 studies found the same thing: more diversity in a neighborhood goes with lower trust between neighbors..
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The people claiming to speak for the workers almost never are workers
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The sad realization: every Christmas movie we love is 30 years old because Hollywood traded Christmas for diversity.
buongiorno è il 1 novembre
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If you really think about what these pictures mean, it breaks your heart. Berlin, Madrid, Brussels, Milan, Paris. Shop owners nailing plywood over their windows on a Friday afternoon because they know that on Saturday, neither the police nor the courts will protect them from the hordes coming to loot them. Hard to believe Europe could fall this low, this quickly.
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Can Greta and Macklemore explain this?
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Meet @oscar_puente_, possibly the most shameless politician on the planet. He's Spain's Transport Minister, but he's better known for insulting people and blocking them on X than for doing his job. In 2024, he said Spanish trains were going through their best moment ever. In January 2026, 46 people died in the Adamuz train crash. He refused to resign and said the chance of it happening again was "extremely low." Last week, he was on a TV show joking about trains in Spain. Today, more than 64 people died in another crash on the same line. And again, he refuses to resign. This morning, he was busy tweeting that the left is morally superior to the right.
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Europe in 2026: The highest taxes in the world. African salaries. Indian trains. The Third Worldization of Europe is almost complete.
🇪🇸 Details are coming in about what happened when two high-speed trains collided near Toledo, Spain An express train operated by Iryo was halted at a signal when it was struck by a high-speed train operated by Renfe As of now, at least 46 people have been killed in the crash.
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