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Isabella1968 retweeted
Today I want to honour brave Serbian soldiers who fought in WWI. Almost 28% of the Serbian population died in that war, some on the front, others from disease, famine and brutal slaughter by Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian forces.
Uninformed people like to claim that "Serbia started WWI". The truth is that Austro-Hungary was a brutal oppressor, who dehumanised Serbs in a campaign of violence and murder that later gave rise to catastrophic genocide that was inflicted on us by our neighbours the Croats. Croats, being Austro-Hungarian subjects, were coopted into the murderous campaigns in and before WWI, and it all happened because Austria-Hungary was furious that they couldn't subjugate Serbs the way they were used to subjugating Croats and Slovenians. They wanted to rule the Balkans, but Serbs, who just chased out the Ottomans, were not having another parasite on their backs. Serbs were a warrior nation, with deep-seated tradition of fighting and resistance, and they fought Austria-Hungary too. It was the other side that declared war and started attacking, and Serbs fought with everything they had, suffering catastrophic demographic losses, but ultimately emerging victorious.
From this victory over oppressors in the Balkans - first the Ottomans, then the Austro-Hungarians - emerged first Yugoslavia - the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, under the Serbian dynasty Karadjordjevic.
Our neighbours like to claim they were "oppressed" but the truth is, Serbs were the biggest and most widespread nation in the Balkans and they generously shared the land and freedom they alone won, while fighting those same neighbours who had little choice but to fight on the side of the oppressors. And instead of calling the entire territory "Serbia" - as was their right to do - they embraced brother nations, amnestied their crimes and tried to build a life in which all of us Balkan slavs can finally have freedom and dignity.
This sadly did not work out. First chance they got, Croats enacted genocide in WWII, murdering close to a million Serbs. The hatred sown by the Austro-Hungary clearly continued to run deep. They were aided by Muslim converts in Bosnia, in whom hatred toward the freedom-loving Serbs was sown by the Ottomans.
And still, despite being the only Balkan nation, apart from the Greeks, that fought on the side of the allies, Serbs amnestied the crimes of their neighbours and attempted to live with them in Yugoslavia 2.0.
That too didn't work out in the same way, with our neighbours taking the first chance they got in 1990s, to finish what they started in WWII, by completing the ethnic cleansing of Serbs on the territory now known as "Croatia", and returning to the quasi-vassal relationship with their old masters. They all have different names and euphemisms for it now, but essentially, this is history repeating.
WWI is the time of the greatest bravery, and the start of the biggest golgotha for the Serbs. We are endlessly proud of our ancestors, but also desperately sad about the way it played out, and aware that to this day our nation has not fully recovered from the violence and hatred they stood up to defend us from, hoping their descendants will have better lives.
Picture below is a famous 1915 photo of a father sleeping next to his Serbian soldier son, on the outskirts of Belgrade.
Isabella1968 retweeted
What a surprise! The troll who smeared Iranians and Jews as “Israeli foreign interference” for criticising JD Vance’s policies is now facing a lawsuit alleging he took hundreds of thousands of dollars from Qatar in possible violation of federal law.
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Isabella1968 retweeted
Debora Cahn, the creator of Netflix's The Diplomat, just confirmed something viewers caught in episode six of the new season.
In the scene, the housekeeper at the US embassy in London talks about her father, who fought in World War II. She says that during the Allied advance through Belgium, a live grenade rolled to his feet, and a soldier named Hershel Polin from Richmond, Virginia, grabbed it and threw it. It exploded next to his hand. He lost the arm. He saved her father's life.
Hersh Goldberg-Polin was born in Berkeley and grew up in Richmond, Virginia, before his family moved to Israel. On October 7, 2023, he was at the Nova festival when Hamas attacked. He lost part of his arm to a grenade while sheltering with friends, was taken hostage into Gaza, and was murdered in captivity in August 2024. He was 23.
Cahn told Mako the reference was intentional. "Yes, it's true," she said. She said his mother, Rachel Goldberg-Polin, called it a tribute, and that she loves that word. In her words, it was just a small footnote so people remember everything they went through.
A show watched by millions put his name in a story where a man from Richmond gives up his arm to save someone else's life. That is who Hersh was. Did you catch it when you watched?
Reporting by Dudi Caspi, Los Angeles, for Mako (mako.co.il), published November 9, 2026.
Isabella1968 retweeted
Qatar is a gas station that bought President Trump and his administration.
Isabella1968 retweeted
Indeed it does. That said, many of them have no clue what they’re doing. They’re thoroughly indoctrinated and brainwashed. I’ll keep posting it. 👀👇
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I had a productive conversation with Qatari Ambassador @Amb_AlThani this morning to discuss the strategic partnership between our two nations.
Mutual prosperity begins with learning and listening.
Isabella1968 retweeted
TERRIFYING: Muslims set fire to the entrance of a Catholic school in Roubaix, France. The terrorists are on the loose.
While Muslims want everyone to be obsessed with Israel and the fake Gaza genocide, they literally try to murder Christian children.
Isabella1968 retweeted
She has been screaming the truth for months. America still refuses to hear her.
Please follow her!
Qatar has brokered deal after deal in the Middle East but few have paused to ask whether its record passes muster.
That's the question I ask in my latest for @WashTimesOpEd. The answer isn't as convenient as policymakers might like.
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Isabella1968 retweeted
Hamas leaders, including Yahya Sinwar, admitted digging up irrigation, water and sewage pipes left by Israel after the 2005 Gaza withdrawal to build rockets. Hamas videos show the process; early rockets were often called "sewage pipes with wings."
No drainage? Blame Hamas.
Isabella1968 retweeted
🚨🚨 THE ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK / THE DEMOCRACY FILES: A PRIMER 🚨
I will be using this thread to track all drops, so bookmark it.
I spent most of yesterday backing everything (now 312 gigabytes) up in various sources and getting the materials out to others. I also produced an AI video (below) to explain the whole thing to others are not on 𝕏 - feel free to distribute.
Here's the primer:
USAID, the foreign aid agency, had a democracy office. Inside the agency, it was called DRG.
Officially, DRG administered "democracy assistance." They'd go inside countries they thought were sliding into authoritarianism and help the opposition there. That assistance included election monitoring, judicary support, independent media, and civil society building.
You may have heard the term "color revolution." The model comes from Serbia in 2000, where trained student activists brought down Milosevic with the help of Western governments, after sustained protests. With the help of USAID's democracy office, this model was implemented in many other countries to topple governments: Georgia's "Rose Revolution" in 2003, Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" in 2004, and many more.
Then last year, DOGE shut down USAID. But the USAID democracy office didn't stop. They formed a group called the Democracy Renewal Group, the same initials as their office (USAID Democracy, Human Rights, Governance). Their goal: apply their own playbook to the United States itself.
This goal became a plan, called Renew American Democracy (RAD). It invoked the "4 B's" framework. Block - use lawfare and protests to make life harder for the Trump administration. Bridge & Belong - control dialogue and win people over. The final and most important B is Build. Build means redesigning the American government itself, and the crisis is the opening.
In their own words:
"We can take that breakdown moment and leverage it for a big structural reform, you know, refounding moment." - Danielle Reiff, DRG lead.
Calls show DRG working alongside DSA on ideas of creating a different government, one that does away with the Constitution itself.
DRG does not run the Block operations. They hand it to UDA, the United Democracy Alliance. One organizer calls it a "huge galaxy": lawsuits, street protests, non-cooperation. They list No Kings, Indivisible, MoveOn, 50501, and many other mega-activist NGOs among their members.
Another organizer calls UDA Erica Chenoweth's project. Chenoweth is the Harvard professor behind the three-and-half-percent rule of regime change: get that share of a country's populace onto the streets, and historically, the movement wins.
The UDA is very "hush-hush." They have no website, no roster, no filings.
Then come the red lines: things the Trump administration could do, such as calling the Insurrection Act on protesters, that would mean that the federal government, in their words, "crosses the threshold into illegitimacy." Nobody voted on those lines. There was no public debate. These red lines were developed within secretive working groups, and in a paper addressed to governors and staff.
In the words of Reiff/DRG:
"So that if there is a red line crossed in terms of a Constitutional crisis, like everyone's already pre-organized. And so Mike Smith actually said, he goes, oh, you guys have the day after tomorrow plan."
Cross a line, and the paper's options include states refusing to lend their resources to federal officials, and governors convening what it calls a "Third Continential Congress."
Running the UDA's Insurrection Act working group: Rear Admiral Mike Smith (RET) of National Security Leaders of America (NSL4A). NSL4A is also credited with operationalizing UDA, the blocking operations. NSL4A consists of about 1,600 ex-officers, spies, diplomats. They're turning red lines into indicators and running a situation room to monitor them throughout the midterms and beyond.
The NSL4A's lawyers told them to stop recording meetings in case of subpoenas. But the rest of the network continued to record. DRG works in conjunction with Renew to Thrive (R2T), which ended up accidentally publishing 400+ calls and thousands of documents. These calls and documents were never meant for our eyes, but it's them, on tape.
Thousands of NGOs and billions of dollars are involved in this endeavor. Most of them believe they're saving democracy. The problem is that people who spent their careers deciding when other countries' governments had lost their legitimacy wrote that test for ours, in private, and planned for what comes after.
Who decides when your government is legitimate?
Isabella1968 retweeted
“Water is for Mexicans, not for Zionists."
That is what signs at a large protest in Mérida 🇲🇽 read. You see, after an ongoing and serious issue with water quality in Mexico's Yucatán state, six Israeli companies decided to attend an expo in the area, showing off technology that they believe could fix the problem.
Some locals decided that this meant Israel wanted to steal their contaminated water.
Logic isn't exactly Free Palestine's strong suit, as you can see.
ALT A crowd of people gather in an arched corridor, with several holding signs and canes raised in the air. One person speaks into a microphone. A sign with a crossed-out noose is visible among the crowd, along with a person holding a megaphone.
Isabella1968 retweeted
By Shira Lankin Sheps :
This latest antisemitic nightmare is personal.
Let me explain: A bicycle rally planned for November 8 in Philadelphia is targeting six local restaurants under the label “Zionist establishments.”
The flyer says, “No business for Zionists! These Zionist establishments must go! Not in our city!”
The businesses named include Israeli restaurants associated with chef Michael Solomonov, as well as American Jewish-owned businesses such as Mac Mart and Schlesinger’s Deli.
Not all the owners of these establishments are Israeli. Some of them are American Jews. The only thing that ties these places together is that their owners are Jewish.
There is a network of explicitly anti-Zionist activists, who are treating Israeli cultural visibility or Jewishness as a target for hatred.
Let me say it again: American Jews who own neighborhood businesses are being told that their establishments must leave their city. The city of brotherly love.
I was born in Philadelphia. I was visiting last week.
I have a large family who live and work there, our roots go back several generations.
My own grandfather was a baker, and had a Jewish bakery in Philadelphia.
A city close to my heart, and honestly this story makes me sick.
The date of the "bike rally" is disgusting.
Nov 8. The day before the anniversary of Kristalnacht.
You know, the night where the Nazis destroyed Jewish businesses and synagogues in Germany.
Don't tell me the organizers of this disgusting event didn't choose that date on purpose. Of course they did.
My grandmother on the other side of the family witnessed Kristalnacht with her own eyes- the night of the broken glass.
When Jewish livelihoods were targeted and Jewish life in Germany shattered, never to recover.
I grew up believing that America was a place where our family could build a life and belong.
Now Jewish business owners in the city where I was born are being told they must go.
I want their neighbors to answer.
I want the people who eat at their tables, work beside them, and walk past their doors to make it clear that these families belong here.
Jewish families should not have to be the only ones defending our place in America.
When they tell Jews to leave, everyday Americans need to stand shoulder to shoulder with us.
If they don't, America has a much bigger problem.
Isabella1968 retweeted
Just... for love of god, remove the priceless art they still have in their museums and their nukes. Return them only after all the barbarians are expelled or jailed.
Isabella1968 retweeted
This is the most important post I have ever written
I’ll also add it as an article. It’s long but I think I’ve identified how this has happened.
Identity politics has produced the rush to eliminationist rhetoric against Jews and Israel because its binary logic cannot accommodate a group that was the paradigmatic victim who went on to acquire agency.
The three switches as detailed by M.S Hiebert are the mechanism by which the model has ‘corrected’ this anomaly.
The three switches as discussed by Maureen Hiebert in Constructing Genocide and Mass Violence describe how elites reconceptualise a group so that its continued existence becomes a threat that must be solved.
Switch one places the group outside the political community as foreigners.
Switch two recasts its mere presence as a mortal danger whose existence itself is the problem.
Switch three dehumanises the entire group so that ordinary restraints no longer apply.
These are not automatic features of conflict.
They are activated when a pre-existing ideational framework supplies the categories that make this reconceptualisation coherent.
Identity politics, as it consolidated in Western institutions after the 1960s, supplies exactly this framework.
It sorts groups into fixed categories of oppressor and oppressed according to historical narratives of colonialism, race, and power.
The sorting is not driven by present-day individual outcomes or by the internal complexity of any group.
It requires that the paradigmatic victim remain powerless, non-agentic, and structurally unable to improve its condition without external intervention.
Jews fail each requirement.
They were the central victims of the twentieth century’s most systematic genocide, yet in the postwar West they achieved high average socioeconomic outcomes and disproportionate representation in fields the framework treats as sites of power.
In the Middle East they were refugees from Arab countries as well as survivors of Europe, but they built a state that defeated repeated attempts to destroy it. Agency and success after victimisation are not supposed to occur.
When they do, the framework has two options:
Revise the model or reclassify the group so that its success is reinterpreted as evidence of original or ongoing guilt.
The second option has predominated, and the reclassification proceeds through the three switches.
Switch one follows directly.
Once Jews are no longer legible as pure victims, their presence becomes anomalous.
In the West they are coded as white or adjacent to whiteness, which places them on the oppressor side of the binary even though European antisemitism is recent and extreme.
In the Middle East the same group is coded as European settler-colonials, which erases continuous Jewish presence and the expulsion of roughly 800,000 Jews from Arab countries after 1948.
Either coding removes them from the legitimate circle of peoples entitled to self-determination.
The collective is redefined as an interloper whose membership in the political community is conditional, threatening, or fraudulent.
Switch two is required to preserve the model’s explanation of disparities.
The framework treats unequal outcomes as evidence of oppression by the powerful.
Jewish success demands an account that does not revise the binary.
The available accounts are that Jews (or Israel) exercise hidden control,
that their success is extracted from others and that their collective existence itself is the obstacle to justice.
The last of these is the switch: the continued presence of a Jewish state, or of Jews as a distinct people with agency, is framed as the reason other groups remain disadvantaged.
Policy disagreements are subordinated to the claim that the world or the region would be fairer if the Jewish collective did not exercise sovereignty.
This is the content of the eliminationism:
“If Israel didn’t exist the world would be better.”
Isabella1968 retweeted
The biggest silver lining of yesterday is this coward, appeaser will not be president now most likely.
He will mention anything but his buddies pouring billions into our universities and pushing massive demographic change (look at Texas, for example).
The war of course played a role. But the war is temporary (assuming you guys stop doing 95% "negotiations" that get pushed back every 2 weeks for months). Those that were for the war didn't think you, Mr. VP, would play so much into our enemy's hand. We didn't think you would go hard for effectively 5 seconds and then spend 8 months doing next to nothing. If we knew that was your "strategy," then you should have waited until after the midterms.
You are a coward who cares more about cozying up to "friends" who hate you and trash you than you do about doing your job. I hope last night was enough to permanently push you to the side.
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.