Thos Swans

Si Kaddour Benghabrit was an Algerian religious leader who worked for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris. During World War II, Benghabrit saved the lives of over 500 Jews from the Nazis by hiding them in the Mosque of Paris during roundups.
We salute his bravery and heroism!

Nutritional shakes and baby formula that were meant for Gaza’s children were withheld from them and stashed by Hamas terrorists in ‘Gaza Ministry of Health’ warehouses.

Instead of helping Palestinians, Hamas hoarded essential supplies. The people of Gaza deserve better. Free Gaza from Hamas.

When herd mentality goes wrong

Adam Louis-Klein @adam_louis52328 The global media spectacle of Gazan suffering—its algorithmic circulation, its obsessive repetition, its detachment from the causal chain that produced it—was not an unforeseen byproduct of the conflict but the predictable and desired outcome of Hamas’s strategy of mass martyrdom. The movement understood that images of Gazan death would dominate international consciousness. The moral reflex of humanitarian outrage could be relied upon to overwhelm legal reasoning, collapse the distinction between intent and consequence, and convert any Israeli act of self-defense into prima facie evidence of genocidal intent. In this environment, mass martyrdom becomes the mechanism through which the genocide libel is manufactured and disseminated. The spectacle of civilian suffering supplies the necessary evidentiary cues, and the accusation gains force precisely because the strategic agency behind that suffering remains invisible. Dirk Moses’s framework reinforces this misattribution: by presuming that sovereign self-defense is always a form of collective punishment, it automatically positions the state as culpable and the non-state actor as victim. This presumption displaces responsibility from those who deliberately construct civilian vulnerability and thereby reproduces the very martyrdom logic that Hamas relies upon for political leverage. By essentializing Hamas as the perpetual victim, such frameworks ultimately ratify Hamas’s erasure of the line between civilians and combatants and become complicit in its effort to sacralize all Gazan deaths as collective martyrdom.

The global media spectacle of Gazan suffering—its algorithmic circulation, its obsessive repetition, its detachment from the causal chain that produced it—was not an unforeseen byproduct of the conflict but the predictable and desired outcome of Hamas’s strategy of mass martyrdom.

200+ celebrities want Marwan Barghouti freed. But the man they’re calling a “Palestinian Mandela” is a convicted murderer.

CNN’s Gaza “Investigation” Delivers Verdicts Without Evidence | HonestReporting CNN's investigation in Gaza relies on sweeping accusations rather than conclusive evidence, crafting a pre-determined narrative.

CNN presented a Gaza “investigation,” but it relied on anonymous claims and Hamas-linked sources while ignoring evidence that Hamas dug the mass graves. The report delivered a narrative, not verified journalism. honestreporting.com/cnns-gaza-in...

YouTube video by Matrixdotorg How the new Swiss Open Source Law EMOTA strengthens Digital Sovereignty

🇨🇭 How does a country turn open source into a national strategy?

At #MatrixConf2025, @maemst.bsky.social shared how Switzerland uses open source to enable digital sovereignty — EMOTA mandates gov software to be open source, while @matrix.org and projects like openDesk are being tested nationally.

Ignore antizionist Jews.

Giom at Open Source Experience in Paris today where we're part of the European Village 🇪🇺

Come and say if you're there 👋

A small but quite telling example of why the GD still has a way to go until it could become a successful, stabilized dictatorship👇🏻

Senaki regional court judge acquitted Balda Canyon investment protester, local man Indiko Bzhalava, of charges that he threatened the wife of the investor.

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"Artificial blocking of pedestrian walkways"🙄

All these 🤡s think about is #GeorgiaProtests that "does not even exist"

“If there’s no protest, then why are you banning it?”

Day 377 of daily #GeorgiaProtests

Deepfakes of the UK Prime Minister are flooding TikTok.

An apparent network of 73 TikTok accounts has been posting thousands of AI deepfakes of U.K. PM Keir Starmer supposedly announcing controversial policies, from exorbitant new taxes to chilling authoritarian measures.

Grandma Nino, the one whom young men shielded on a famous video from the November 2024 crackdowns, still protests, on Day 377 of #GeorgiaProtests

Our elderly generation not living to see a free Georgia after all they’ve been through is one of my biggest fears and regrets.

Putin declared Kupiansk captured. Ukrainian forces are now conducting clearing operations inside the town

With their supply route under Ukrainian fire control, trapped Russian soldiers are signaling surrender via drone

euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/09/f...

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

China is far behind the US in AI chips, and the House committee warns that selling NVIDIA’s H200 to China would help Beijing close that gap. They say China would use the chips for military and surveillance power, then rip off the tech and mass produce it to undermine Nvidia.

Ukrainian defenders show harsh weather on the front in a new social media trend.

When Kyiv feels like being in a movie ✨

Oligarchs will always put personal profit above their country’s interests.

Huang and Musk illustrate this well

💡𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧?

Join us on Thursday, 11 December (14:30 CET) as we present the findings of the SIMODS study, a 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜, 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬-𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 on how six VLOPs are performing against disinfo.

🗣️ Emmanuel Vincent, from Science Feedback
🔗 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

👀 Join @sciencefeedback.bsky.social and @disinfo.eu on Thursday, 11 December to find out more about the first results of the #SIMODS consortium!

More about the SIMODS project 🔗 checkfirst.network/project/simo...

A reminder to those still buying Russia's line that they have no intention of anything beyond Ukraine.

500 years of history say otherwise.

It all makes sense.

Short-term profit over national security should be Nvidia’s and MAGA’s slogan

LIVE NOW: ASP Geolocation Workshop! The American Sunlight Project on Substack

Right now @benmshultz.com of @americansunlight.org is kicking off a geolocation workshop with a fun holiday theme- join us now to learn about this open source investigation method; no previous knowledge required!

substack.com/live-stream/...

Tucker Carlson: Ritual piercing of the body. The shedding of blood. The promise of salvation. John Leake explains the religion of vaccines, and why its adherents are dangerous. (0:00) The Vaccine Hesitation Heresy (8:11) The Bribing of Churches to Promote the Covid Vaccine (14:20) The Religious Annunciation of the Vaccine (21:03) Vaccine Worship (33:58) Why Do Vaccine Developers Have Legal Immunity? (39:26) Tyrannical Humiliation Rituals (45:49) The Demonic Forces at Work in the Medical Industry (1:07:25) Lucifer, Pride, and Tribalism (1:25:44) Man's Attempt to Replicate the Language of God (1:31:46) Are We Changing People's Genetic Code? (1:48:46) The Original War on Handwashing

'Vaccines as demonic tools' rhetoric from one of the thought leaders of the Republican Party.

Nearly all antivax arguments are persistent tropes traceable to opposition to the smallpox 💉. They'd mostly dropped the extreme religious bodily-purity ones, but maybe they'll make a comeback.

X just got fined $140M under the EU Digital Services Act for trying to evade transparency requirements, including failure to provide researchers with access to public data.

Our CEO, @imranahmed.bsky.social in @cnet.com ⤵️
https://cnet.co/4pm87GN

USAID Hired the Right-Wing Influencer Responsible for Its Decimation Mike Benz was brought aboard to find evidence for his claims that the agency is secretly a spy operation.

Mike Benz, the pathological paranoiac who never did find the 22 million tweets Stanford supposedly censored, or explain how the CIA ran me as an asset, is now “investigating” USAID — the agency he boasts about being instrumental in killing — from the inside.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Does anyone speak Czech natively and want to help a girl out?

December 9 photo!