Gerrie Hoogland - Writer and Roman historian engaging in dialogue with the ever present ancient world. Rome was a gift. 🏛 ☕️https://xitter.cf/t.co/LOqb7jSM94
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Most people take this for oil. It is watercolour, and the water took me longer than the two of them did. That is Emma on the pier in the white dress, a few months after our wedding, and our friend Dahlström in the boat. I painted presidents later and was paid handsomely for it. Nobody ever asks about the water. They ask about the dress.
Anders Zorn, member since 1920
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Many within the AusRight have no idea what's coming now that Lula has won in Brazil.
These people are emboldened. Get ready.
Congratulations to my friend @LulaOficial on your election victory.
Australia and Brazil are great democracies, and we’ll keep working together and building on our partnership. 🇦🇺🇧🇷
LettersfromRome retweeted
In Britain, the boomers grew up more impoverished than zoomers can even imagine.
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A most divine story!
This is one of the most heartwarming stories I’ve ever seen.
Follow my friend @leannebombay on TT.
As a horse lover and the owner of my own horse, this one brought tears to my eyes.
Tears of joy! 🫶🏼🫶🏼
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BACPAC 2026: The Shared Struggle and Common Destiny of the Anglo-Celtic Nations - Harrison Pitt.
Keynote speaker @Harry_pitt , is an English writer and academic specialising in philosophy and intellectual history. Harrison is a Senior Policy Fellow at @RestoreBritain , a Contributing Editor at @EuroConOfficial , a Fellow of the @NewCultureForum and host of The Forge.
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I want to know why right wing journalists do not have a boot on the throats of left wing politicians. (This is a metaphor by the way for anyone who is an idiot.)
They should be forced to disavow far-left extremism.
Every time an establishment right wing journalist questions Labor on the Helen Haines dirt sheet is a missed opportunity to hold them accountable for the ongoing rise in left wing violence.
There is a clear opportunity to demand left wing MPs wash their hands of the deranged lunatics in their movement, but nobody is doing it. The MPs get off scot free once again.
I want every right wing journalist and every right wing politician to ask Anthony Albanese and his fellow MPs a very simple question,
"Do you disavow left wing extremism?"
Every single Labor MP should be forced to answer that question.
LettersfromRome retweeted
Italian patriots take to the streets chanting, “We will remigrate you all.”
Italians will not bow down.
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Is anyone in fedgov paying attention to this story?
🚨DataRepublican @DataRepublican just confirmed the quiet part out loud: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker is explicitly named in the videos as one of only two governors willing to green-light the “illegitimacy memo”—a playbook for declaring a duly elected President illegitimate after the midterms so Democrat governors can claim they are the only legitimate U.S. authority.
This isn’t abstract “resistance.” NSL4A (the retired military and national security officials operationalizing the plan) and Pritzker’s own Governors Safeguarding Democracy group have been working the same sequence of redlines, including treating lawful federal pushback against coordinated protests as proof of illegitimacy. Add the funding layer—his sister’s role in the Democracy Funders Network—and the coordination stops looking coincidental.
Imported regime-change tactics, billionaire governors, and ex-military networks drafting the conditions under which states nullify federal authority: that is the actual document trail.
DataRepublican has the receipts.🔥
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The attack on Helen Haines MP is appalling. It is however almost certainly a one-off. Don’t fall for the hysteria that political violence is rising in Australia.
It has been 32 years since the murder of John Newman MP. In all that time there have been no other comparable physical attacks on Australian politicians ... until the shock of this week.
Those who lust to control the free exchange of ideas are rushing to blame social media ... but since the advent of social media, there has been one violent attack on a politician. There is no correlation.
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BREAKING: Here's the metadata for the dirt sheet Albanese shopped around against Australian MP Helen Haines in the weeks leading up to the far-left terror attack on her life.
Metadata says it was written in Word on an Australian Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&C) system by the account "Lloyd, Joshua".
Joshua Lloyd is Deputy Director of Communications to the Prime Minister of Australia.
Great to know Josh spent 2 hours working on the document. Great use of my taxpayer money you bunch of fucking clowns. Thanks for toning down the temperature and uplifting the civility of our national body politic @AlboMP
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If you’re a ‘young person’ or have children or grandchildren who are young and wanting to build wealth for a deposit on a home, you MUST listen to this. 👇👇
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Objectively, the “Great Replacement” has already occurred
🇧🇪 Brussels
1955: 95% native Belgian background
2025: 21% native Belgian background
🇬🇧 London
1955: 97% native British background
2025: 36% native British background
🇳🇱 Amsterdam
1955: 98% native Dutch background
2025: 40% native Dutch background
🇩🇪 Berlin
1955: 98% native German background
2025: 57% native German background
🇦🇹 Vienna
1955: 95% native Austrian background
2025: 51% native Austrian background
🇸🇪 Stockholm
1955: 97% native Swedish background
2025: 65% native Swedish background
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Threats against Politicians aren’t new. They kept me gainfully employed and quite busy for over 30yrs with the AFP. Today’s politicians are now losing their minds over threats to their personal safety, but it’s selective when it comes to who they consider needs protecting..
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The world is in complete chaos.
If you can’t see that this is a scripted, coordinated operation, you’re either blind or retarded.
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“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace.”
– Milan Kundera
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I will not allow the Labor Government to weaponise the Helen Haines tragedy.
The government is already trying to push their agenda via the left wing media, despite a complete lack of detail surrounding the tragedy.
You will be told you are responsible for this heart breaking incident. You will be told to make yourself small and apologetic for the actions of a complete stranger. You will be told that social media is to blame. You will be told that advocating for right wing ideas is problematic and furthers division.
These are cynical tactics by a cynical left wing government.
The Labor Government will use any means available to undermine what we fight for.
When Naveed and Sajid Akram committed the Bondi Islamic Terrorist attack that left 15 innocent Australians dead, the Labor Government worked tirelessly to try and pin the islamic attack on “right wing extremism.”
They will try the same tactic again.
Hold fast and be ready. Do not give an inch because they will take a mile.