So … it's now a federal crime to infiltrate and expose white supremacist groups? White supremacist groups are a protected class under this administration? https://t.co/Rf08VONUkp
I don’t know about you, but I would be extremely wary about ever putting any of my money or my organization’s money into the hands of anyone who was an active member of these groups.
As you may have noticed, these are not small sums of money. Whoever F-9 is, he allegedly made more than a million dollars from the SPLC over nine years! While the program reportedly began in the 1980s, the indictment lists wire transfers going up to April 25, 2023.
— Tired_of_all_the_bullcrap_99 (@DontBeStupid999) April 23, 2026
NEW CIVILITY WATCH:
When you listen to Hasan Piker speak it becomes very obvious why Lenin and Stalin killed so many people.
He appoints himself judge, jury and executioner – anybody who ideologically opposes him is guilty of vague crimes like “social murder” and can therefore be executed https://t.co/LHLaxvnCEk
Still, these voices are trotted out as “experts,” and we are to heed their directives as they declare that “the science is settled,” all because “there is scientific consensus” about global warming. That is, um, climate change. Well, actually, it is a Climate Crisis now. But be assured, every scientist agrees — they just do not agree on what to call it.
Welllllll — in actuality, it is really more the consensus of the media covering the scientific community — but this is serious stuff! So long as you don’t analyze their claims, that is. This is because in the mad rush to report on anything and everything that can be connected to planetary calamity, the people who tell us to follow the science never manage to actually do the research.
Beginning from the very first Earth Day in 1970, there were issues. Much of the propaganda and sermonizing coming from that event concerned us freezing to death from the inevitable approaching ice age. Also, famine was due to wipe out billions by the end of the century, pollution would block the sun, citizens would need gas masks, acid rain would kill all plant life, and we were on the verge of running out of oil… uh, 30 years ago. So far, most of the starvation has been due to Venezuelan political policy.
There are problems with the creation of this day beyond being 180 degrees out of phase in predicting what today’s degrees would be. Now, some may want to highlight how the founder of the event, Ira Einhorn, murdered his girlfriend, but it is important to understand that he lived by example — he did compost her body. He followed his own sermons, as it were.
It’s also worth pointing out the environmental revolution that had taken place at the beginning of the 20th century that “Earth Day” ignored. As Jimmy Carr told Joe Rogan in 2023:
Carr: You know what the biggest industry in the world was in 1903?
Rogan: Beavers?
Carr: Very close. I’ll pass you—I’ll give you a C. Whaling was the biggest industry in the world in 1903. And it disappeared almost overnight. In about a year and a half, it was gone. Those towns were just emptied because whale oil wasn’t required anymore. Suddenly, we discovered petrochemicals.
Rogan: Electricity too.
Carr: Petrochemicals was really the thing. Yeah—whale oil, electricity, Edison, all of that, Tesla. It’s really interesting how that industry just fell away. It’s like the story of horse manure in New York City. You know this?
Rogan: No.
Carr: So, horse manure—do you know why brownstones have steps up to the front door? Ever wondered why the ground floor isn’t actually on the ground floor?
Rogan: Why?
Carr: Horseshit.
Rogan: Really?
Carr: There was horseshit everywhere. They’ve always got those metal scrapers by the side—
Rogan: Yeah, to get the horseshit off.
Carr: Exactly. You know how old movies always talk about smelling salts? There are loads of references to them. The smell was horrific. If a horse died in the street, you had to wait for it to decompose before cutting it up and taking it away. New York was chaos—cobbled streets, metal wheels on carts, horses everywhere. So they made laws: “Right, we’ll tax horses.” Didn’t change anything.
Next year: “We’ll double the taxes.” Then more rules—if you have a horse, you have to do this, do that. They kept trying, over and over.
And what actually stopped it?
Henry Ford. Cars came along—[and then, horses in the streets] gone. Almost instantly. There are, what, five horses left in Central Park? That’s it. Whaling disappeared overnight. So did that whole system.
Despite the rise of computers and the Internet, most of my lifetime has been spent in what has otherwise been a time of technological stagnation, compared to the “golden quarter century” between World War II and the Moon landings. During that era, things were getting better at breakneck pace: Jet planes! Spaceships! The Pill! Antibiotics! Nuclear Power! Computers! The future was coming at us fast, and there was a sense that things would keep improving.
Still on the hand, “Earth Day” was and is definitely “stuff white people like,” as Norman Podhoretz wrote in 1970:
Happy Earth Day, if you’ve never read Norman Podhoretz’s column on how it is a WASP conspiracy, it’s really something.
“The environment … is the issue on which the WASP patriciate … hopes to reassert its primacy and to recapture the Republican Party.
Following an announcement that Infowars would soon be converted into a satirical news outlet, American media personality Alex Jones, known for his fringe conspiracy theories related to the Sandy Hook school shooting and homosexual frogs, expressed concern that people would start to think the stories reported by Infowars are fake.
According to Jones, Infowars had been at the forefront of every major story since its founding in 1999. Its writers, he said, were not afraid to report on news that other media companies won’t touch, like government-controlled weather weapons, juice boxes that turn kids gay, and Hillary Clinton eating babies. However, if the site is turned into a parody of itself, Jones feared readers won’t know what to believe.
“THOSE LITERAL VAMPIRE POTBELLY GOBLINS DON’T CARE ABOUT JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY,” he said during a live broadcast of The Alex Jones Show. “THEY WANT TO TURN THE NEWS GAY.”
The growth of batshit crazy is exponential. I could not have envisioned any of this 20 years ago.
Then again, just 2 years ago, I could not have envisioned the United States and Israel destroying IRGC nuke facilities, and decapitating the Islamic Republic, to the applause of the… https://t.co/z3vFzA1zg6
[I]f you want to find a country that younger Democrats really feel negatively about . . . look to the world’s lone Jewish state.
Among younger Democrats, when asked about Israel, “negative” scored 45 percentage points net; only Russia scored worse among this demographic, and even that was only 15 percentage points worse. Remember on Iran, among young Democrats, “negative” scored 40 percentage points net.
Young Democrats feeling negatively about Israel has been well-reported. But young Democrats feeling more negatively about Israel than Iran or China has not. Remember, the Iranian regime and its loyalists still use “Death to America!” about as frequently as commas.
Younger Democrats’ intense hostility to Israel was a serious outlier compared to other demographics; among older Democrats, “negative” scored 19 percentage points net. Israel is now a partisan issue; among younger Republicans asked about Israel, “positive” scored 11 percentage points net, and among older Republicans, “positive” scored 65 percentage points net.
You’d hope in the face of such disturbing allegations, including the possibility that the SPLC paid for criminal activity to take place, that Democrats would at least keep their mouths shut while this played out. But no, they’ve quickly, in conjunction with a compliant press, formulated a lie and are running with it. Instead of admitting what the indictment (which was returned by a grand jury) actually says, they are claiming the SPLC was just innocently paying “informants.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted for paying sources to infiltrate hate groups, a tactic federal agencies have used for decades. https://t.co/flekWop4XX
The DOJ uses paid informants all the time —why is it OK for them but not the SPLC? @splcenter plays a vital role in fighting hatred, yet has been unfairly targeted by Trump and House Republicans since day one.
I guess I’m going to have to explain this like I’m talking to a four-year-old, but the SPLC is not a law enforcement agency. The fact that the DOJ pays and uses informants to investigate crimes is not, in fact, relevant at all to what happened here. Yet, you’ve got Democrat Rep. Daniel Goldman (NY-10), ABC News, USA Today, the AP, and many others all running with this line that these were just payments to “informants.”
How exactly is allegedly paying someone who helped organize transportation to a neo-nazi rally just paying an “informant? What were they informing on? To who? About what? For what reason? That doesn’t even make any sense. The SPLC can’t indict anyone. They have no jurisdiction to investigate criminal activity, nor would they need “informants” to be able to say the Ku Klux Klan is bad.
I don’t know about you, but I would be extremely wary about ever putting any of my money or my organization’s money into the hands of anyone who was an active member of these groups.
As you may have noticed, these are not small sums of money. Whoever F-9 is, he allegedly made more than a million dollars from the SPLC over nine years! While the program reportedly began in the 1980s, the indictment lists wire transfers going up to April 25, 2023.
The defense, put forth by the likes of MSNOW contributor and former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance, is that “the use of paid informants was essential to the intelligence the Center was gathering on the groups they were members of, including intelligence that was shared with the FBI.”
But how do we know that? Yes, the bureau did say on its old website that “the FBI has forged partnerships nationally and locally with many civil rights organizations to establish rapport, share information, address concerns, and cooperate in solving problems,” and it listed the SPLC as one of those organizations. But based on all available evidence, FBI didn’t ask, or hire, the SPLC to go around recruiting informants. The FBI has its own undercover agents and its own funds for recruiting informants. The SPLC decided, on its own, that paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to these members of hate groups was worth it.
Exit questions:
OK.
Well, I have questions then.
Why is the SPLC acting like a federal law enforcement agency?
Were they explicitly understood to be a partisan para-governmental intelligence apparatus being used to surveil the American public?
I'm always flummoxed when mainstream news sources describe a lawsuit, indictment, or pertinent document without actually linking to it. The SPLC indictment isn't linked in New York Times, AP, BBC, The Guardian, or any of first 10 sources I checked. Just have to take their word…
We already knew that the “fine people” hoax was based on the lie that Trump called white supremacists “fine people,” instead of, as he did, condemning them. But until yesterday, we didn’t know that the white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville and whose protest led to the death of one person were bused there on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s dime, and were organized to be there by an SPLC “informer.”
A reminder than in 2022 SPLC (and the ADL 🙄) worked with PayPal to decide which "extreme" groups to remove from PayPal's service…all the while funding actually extreme groups. https://t.co/OyxFZKK6g1
The SPLC is one of the most powerful NGOs in the country. They have had the power to direct the federal government to go after groups and people. They had their grips on the censorship industry. They tell social media companies who should be silenced and who should be promoted. Local law enforcement listens to them. The media treats their “hate map” as gospel.
This one's wild. The SPLC paid a member of the National Alliance over one million dollars (!) in less than a decade.
At one point, the informant entered the headquarters of a presumably different organization and stole 25 boxes of their documents, which he delivered to the… pic.twitter.com/yrvMxJNJBv
Yesterday’s news also likely clears up this mystery:
Here is one of the MOST obvious examples of completely FAKE “white supremacists”. You would literally have to be a brain dead, ideologically constipated psychopath to believe for one second that this was real. Or your average worthless Soros-affinity-group moron. https://t.co/QHCGxXMkhP
The Critical Race Theory playbook demands that there be the appearance of virulent "right-wing" racism so that Woke crusaders have a justification to push "left-wing" racism — aka DEI.
The left's demand for racism outstrips the supply. So they just fabricate it. https://t.co/g7lNcGfsRD
One of San Francisco’s notable office towers was up for auction last week, a 20-story, 360,000-square-foot Class A building on one of the most coveted corridors in the North Financial District. Nobody who showed up to the stretch of sidewalk in the shadow of City Hall where the sale was held Thursday was there to bid on the polished, quietly assertive building that was once valued at over $320 million.
It’s a bit of a reckoning for the property at 600 California St., which was tied to a distressed $240 million loan and pushed into receivership after its former anchor tenant WeWork stopped paying rent three years ago. With no contenders stepping forward to offer bids, Dallas-based Lone Star Funds became the official owner of the property, after the private equity group paid roughly $130 million to acquire the debt in January from Goldman Sachs, the original lender.
The quiet transaction felt closer to a casual curbside deal than a high-stakes transfer of a notable piece of the city’s skyline. Some market participants pointed out that 600 California’s anticlimactic sale underscores continued weakness in the office market, challenging claims of full recovery.
On Tuesday, another news item dropped that will have conservatives (and probably a fair number of moderates) chuckling for the rest of the day. The Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, is fond of screaming about racists and white supremacists; they are vocally part of the school of thought on the left that a white supremacist is lurking around every corner, when in reality, they are pretty thin on the ground.
Now, we learn that the SPLC has not only been encouraging real white supremacist and racist groups, but they have been funding them. And now, they have been indicted on 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Acting AG Blanche and FBI Director Patel made the announcement:
🚨 HOLY CRAP! FBI Director Patel says leftist NGO Southern Poverty Law Center, which has now been indicted, was using donor to pay leaders of the KU KLUX KLAN to stage "HATE CRIMES"
"They used the FRAUDULENTLY raised money by lying to their donor network—THOUSANDS of… pic.twitter.com/wqTgNWEJsY
Given the DNC-MSM’s reliance on the SPLC for stories, as “Northern Barbarian” tweets in response to Rupar, “This is the point where they need guidance from higher on how to address this. The shitbag media, that is.”
Yesterday’s announcement potentially means:
Did the SPLC actually fund the freaking Charlottesville march???
As Zhou Enlai famously never said, “The French Revolution? It’s too early to say.” How much of the 2018-2020 color revolution was based on funds sloshing around the SPLC?
During the Great Awokening, they expanded "white supremacy" to encompass objectivity, scientific reason, literacy, and individualism. They also create a totally fake threat of the old style violent white supremacy.
Tweet continues, “Everybody well-informed knew thing whole thing was astroturfed from day one. But maybe not to this extent.” In 2022, Glenn wrote, “Both the SDS and the KKK used to say in the 1960s that the guy in your group calling for illegal activity was the FBI mole.” Or more recently the SPLC mole.
Incidentally, yesterday’s announcement sure casts the Atlantic’s hit piece on Patel in a different light:
Makes the timing of the anonymous sourced Atlantic hit piece a little bit more suspicious. pic.twitter.com/N7Z4MpA1Zz
“We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants.” — Bernard of Chartres
Two things happened in February that will change the world. The first is the Iran War.
The second is an event so obscure most Americans don’t even know it happened — the Feb. 12 repeal of the 2009 Endangerment Finding by the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This decision puts a knife into the kidney of all the major U.S. climate rules made under the Obama and Biden administrations. It was the legal underpinning for the Green New Deal.
Of the two events, the end of the Endangerment Finding is of a greater consequence, yet 21st Century conventional wisdom — curated and gatekept by social media, the most unwise medium ever invented — makes it hard to fit one’s head around this argument. But here goes.
The Iran War is costing about $1-2 billion a day in direct costs, and several times that in indirect costs from higher energy prices across most of Europe and Asia, though less so in the United States, which is increasingly energy independent.
Meanwhile, the 2009 Endangerment is one of those “regulatory state” workarounds when Congress doesn’t pass a law or the Supreme Court passes on a tough decision. This administrative decision is the foundation of ALL modern climate regulation and global climate diplomacy. Its reversal has the Trump administration crowing about the $1.3 trillion in savings over the next decade to American citizens through cheaper automobiles, among other things.
In the wake of the cancellation of yet another ridiculous “Star Trek” property, this time the hilariously cringe-inducing “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy,” sane audiences are once again asking the question “why can’t anyone get ‘Star Trek’ right?” The answer may be as simple as this… it’s because the studio’s leadership, as well as the creatives so far tasked with bringing new “Star Trek” stories to life, do not understand what “Star Trek” is, they only know what they wish it was.
These days, Hollywood creatives seem to want to write overtly about their own personal politics more than they want to tell great stories. In the Trump era many of Hollywood’s biggest writers, directors and actors believe deeply that the most important thing they can do with the positions in Hollywood to which they have ascended is to use their art to advocate for Progressive policies. It is the Great Cause which has finally brought meaning to their lives.
The problem is that this approach creates terrible drama every time it’s tried… a truth to which Hollywood has remained uniquely allergic over the last twenty years, in part because they believe “Star Trek” is an exception to this iron rule of story. To the modern Hollywood Progressive, the original “Star Trek” series was one which successfully combined exciting sci-fi adventure stories with constant Progressive political agitation. This is a tragic misunderstanding, but one in which Progressives believe so deeply, they have convinced themselves not only that “Star Trek” can continue to agitate for their preferred political outcomes while succeeding as a piece of popular entertainment, but that it must, because Progressive politics is built into the DNA of the “Star Trek” universe and you cannot have one without the other.
The original Star Trek was JFK’s muscular liberalism projected into space. The young JFK became the young Captain James T. Kirk. Kennedy’s “New Frontier” became “The Final Frontier.” Trek was gunboat diplomacy, in space. Gene Roddenberry and Gene L. Coon, his best writer-producer both served in WWII; Roddenberry would go on to become a Los Angeles policeman. Coon created Star Trek’s “United Federation of Planets” as the intergalactic equivalent of the United States of America.
As James Lileks wrote in 2007 in a piece titled, “A Conservative Trek,” “You could say [Capt. Kirk] did his part for God and Country, but of course Trek believed in neither:”
Nevertheless, the best Trek was conservative: it was rooted in the unchanging nature of man, be they hooting hominids on the plains of Earth throwing rocks at prey, or civilized spacefarers Money, power, lust, war: These were the constants, and Star Trek knew they’d follow us to infinity and beyond. At best we could find enlightened, savvy ways to avoid the pointless fights. But some people only understand a photon torpedo up the dorsal vent port, and we’d best be prepared to deal with them. The Federation, after all, had something called General Order 24, which called for the total destruction of a planet’s surface if the civilization was considered a threat to the Federation. As Vader might have said: Impressive.
Kirk actually invoked General Order 24, in “A Taste of Armageddon.” He used it as a threat, and didn’t carry it out. You can imagine his relief; the paperwork alone would have been a nightmare. But he would have done it if he had to, and not just for the reputation you get back home at the Officer’s Club. Not for Kirk the niceties of diplomacy: If he had to violate a treaty, he’d do it. If he had to save a civilization from the lifeless machinations of an ancient operating system, he’d harangue its computer until it smoked and crashed. In “The Arena,” Kirk didn’t win the battle against a rubber-suit Gorn because they hammered out a six-point Roadmap to Peace. Granted, he got the thumbs-up from the League of Judgmental Effeminate Aliens because he didn’t cave in the Gorn’s head with a stone. But prior to that, he nailed him in the chest with an improvised cannon that shot diamonds. In a cannon-free zone, no less.
All of which is a reminder of how closer to the center did the Kennedy era hug before his assassination, Vietnam, Nixon, and eventually an obsession with identity politics drove Hollywood Democrats completely insane.
UPDATE:
Starfleet Academy showrunner Alex Kurtzman said the cancelation "nothing to do with the quality of the show.”
Actor Robert Picardo reacted: "Not enough people had found us. He said, you know, that the the reason you'll hear is that we never cracked the top 10 shows in streaming.… pic.twitter.com/7zU22bQ9vR
Tweet continues, “Actor Robert Picardo reacted: ‘Not enough people had found us. He said, you know, that the reason you’ll hear is that we never cracked the top 10 shows in streaming. Maybe they wouldn’t have heard about it because there was really no advertising push behind our show.’ Are these Star Trek creators living in an echo chamber bubble?”
Having worked on the Rick Berman-era Voyager, Picardo has to know he’s gaslighting fans of that era Trek.
Canada and Australia: Charles is their monarch. They have parliamentary govt, with govenor generals appointed by the king who sign off on everything. It's symbolic, but it's there. Everything is royal this and royal that.
Exit quote: America “evolved in a very different direction, and upon separation, with some struggle, arrived at our own form of governance. With an emphasis on individual freedom our fellows in the greater Anglosphere lack. Once you notice all of that, a lot of it starts to make more sense.”
In 1973, Jean Raspail, who died aged 94 in 2020, published his dystopian novel The Camp of the Saints, for which he is now mostly remembered (certainly outside of France, though he was the author of many other well-considered novels and travelogues, and narrowly missed election to the Académie française). The Camp of the Saints is a book that refuses to lie down, so to speak, despite attempts to render it invisible or make it go away.
* * * * * * * *
Immigrants are not just immigrants. What they bring with them is as important as what they are offered by the host country. If what they bring with them is an evangelizing religion that claims, however fatuously, to be the answer to all of mankind’s little problems, a religion moreover that has a very strong hold over them and that is maintained by an effective system of social ostracism in the event of dissent, they will obviously have more difficulty integrating than if they have no such religion.
Raspail’s flawed novel is an illustration of an elementary political principle. For a liberal democracy to work, there must be a demos; for there to be a demos, there must be something more in common among them than living geographically cheek-by-jowl (without at the same time demanding an absolute uniformity). To import huge numbers of people who do not share, and indeed are resistant to sharing, the minimum that holds a demos together is inimical to liberal democracy.
In this most important sense Jean Raspail was visionary, even if he did not correctly identify the source of the greatest threat. Perhaps the most revealing thing in the book is his account, in the essay that precedes the novel, of how prominent political figures either ignored or repudiated The Camp of the Saints in public, but agreed with it in private. It proved to be a disastrous disjunction.
It’s the good Dr. Dalrymple, so read the whole thing.
An Amazon spokesperson told Blaze News, "We’ve resolved an error that briefly affected the availability of a paperback listing of The Camp of the Saints, and the title is now restored." https://t.co/bB0HF4flgX
CHANGE: “Alan Dershowitz … Republican? Yes. Not independent. Not disaffected. The famed appellate attorney and Harvard con-law professor has not just renounced his lifelong political affiliation, but Dersh has signed up for the other team. What happened?”
October 7th and the Corbynization of the Democratic Party spreading like wildfire are what happened. Read the whole thing.
For a contrarian take, Christopher Rufo has you covered:
We all know that Alan Dershowitz would still be a Democrat if he wasn't persona non grata at the Martha's Vineyard Farmer's Market.https://t.co/SAKYAelb6I
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) April 21, 2026
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
When the system turns on Logan, as it does for John Anderton in the similar “Minority Report” (2002), Logan basically takes Anderton’s two-word advice: Everybody Runs.
On the glittery surface, this sci-fi hit is very of its time but, even at its silliest (arguably the snow-crusted scene that bridges the second and third acts), “Logan’s Run” never lacks spectacle and, more importantly, rich ideas.
Anderson’s film is among the many futurist dramas with actors in jumpsuits, obvious special effects and a tendency to be campy. “Logan’s Run” is no different in that respect, as the crowd scenes resemble a ’70s-themed costume party.
However, the third act is so smart and surprising, it elevates everything that came before it and manages to keep this soaring until the end.
Given its underlying themes of overpopulation, famine, and zero population growth to explain why mankind was reduced to people under 30 living in bio-domes, Logan’s Run was the last of the 1970s films were sci-fi is used as a metaphor to explain all the woes that seventies-era doomsday leftists imagined awaited us on the road to the 21st century. While not ecology-oriented, George Lucas also had a leftist theme for Star Wars, but he was smart enough to bury it deep in the film’s subtext, and a result, his movie revolutionized Hollywood. After Star Wars, every major studio had movies with miniature spaceships filmed in front of green-screens for the next six years.
On Friday, I finally saw Project Hail Mary. Its efforts at detailed SF worldbuilding and distinct lack of a “Mary Sue” character stand in stark contrast to the Kathleen Kennedy-era Star Wars movies. Speaking of which, I wonder how Solo: A Star Wars Story would have turned out if Kennedy hadn’t fired its co-directors — who went on to make Project Hail Mary.
Rep. Elise Stefanik took Jake Tapper to the cleaners… just one look at his pouty, cranky, smug little face while she was going off about his claims that Trump had called for genocide against Iran, and you know she had him where she wanted him.
And where he did not want to be.
Watch this:
Rep. Elise Stefanik just DOG WALKED Jake Tapper on his own show: “This is TYPICAL CNN!”
Tapper tried to claim Trump was calling for genocide against Iran — Stefanik shut it down instantly.
TAPPER: “Is calling for wiping out an entire civilization bad or good?”
It’s still astonishing that anyone listens to a word Jake Tapper says, especially when he pushes claims like this that are completely made up. He was the one who first laundered the dossier into the public bloodstream. Before that, even the fake news wouldn’t cross the line of… https://t.co/igXddtjydYpic.twitter.com/4hLIsEcRUf
When I was a kid, I never thought so many of the Air Force planes of my youth — the C-130, the U-2, the Warthog, and of course the B-52, would still be flying well into the 21st century.
Michigan Democrats nominated Amir Makled, a radical Dearborn-based lawyer, for the University of Michigan Board of Regents over incumbent Jordan Acker, a Jewish board member who has faced intense backlash for his support of Israel.
Makled secured the nomination for one of the board’s two open seats at the Democrat’s convention on Sunday and will appear on the general election ballot in November. The eight-person board governs the University of Michigan, the state’s largest university and flagship public school.
Throughout his campaign, Makled argued that the university should divest from Israel. In recent years the left-wing lawyer has taken to praising the U.S.-designated terror group Hezbollah and attacking Israel in antisemitic terms on social media. In one since-deleted tweet, surfaced by the Detroit News, Makled described Hezbollah official Abu Ali Khalil, who was killed in a June 2025 Israeli airstrike, as “a martyr on the road to Jerusalem.” In another post, Makled referred to Hezbollah’s former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, as a “martyr.”
Makled also reposted and then deleted a message on X praising Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in June 2020. Makled used the honorific “Haj” ahead of Soleimani’s name, a title of respect given to a Muslim person who successfully completes the Hajj, a pilgrimage to Mecca. As commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, Soleimani directed terror operations that claimed thousands of lives across the Middle East and around the world.
Makled also reposted social media posts from far-right influencer Candace Owens, including one post in which Owens referred to Israelis as “demons.”
The 21st century isn’t turning out as I had hoped, to coin an Insta-phrase:
As Noah Smith said, Islamism is the future of American liberalism, and it will consume the Democratic Party like it has European left-wing parties.
This sucks, and I'm not looking forward to Democrats defending terrorists. https://t.co/5AWlMqrjD0
Fetterman does not hold a single position that wasn’t mainstream in the Democratic Party in 2020. Not one. That’s how fast the party embraced Islamo-Marxism. Stunning. https://t.co/SsocHIQhHk
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