KASHAMI: These acts were not carried out by trained or confessed terrorists; they were carried out by everyday Muslims and almajiri. Many of them are still alive today in government and the military; some of them are your friends here online.

One gory feature of this genocide against Christians was the dumping of dead Christians into wells to hide evidence, reduce the reported number of casualties, and contaminate the water supply. --Kashami

I was shocked to my core when I discovered this.

There are "Death Wells" in northern Nigeria filled with the bodies of Christians.

The genocide and persecution of Christians, especially in the north and Middle Belt of Nigeria, did not begin today, and it did not begin with Boko… pic.twitter.com/kGHst0XHlx

— Ka sha mi (@welcomekashami) February 17, 2026

I was shocked to my core when I discovered this. There are "Death Wells" in northern Nigeria filled with the bodies of Christians. The genocide and persecution of Christians, especially in the north and Middle Belt of Nigeria, did not begin today, and it did not begin with Boko Haram, ISWAP, or Fulani jihadists. It began since the 1980s with ordinary, everyday Muslims who, at any opportunity, would start religious riots and kill Christians, people they knew and spoke to every day. Because Muslims were far more numerous than Christians in the north. While Christians believed in peaceful coexistence, many Muslims viewed Christians and Christianity as a threat. They saw Christians as infidels, Kafiri, Arne, common unclean things that needed to be removed. One gory feature of this genocide against Christians was the dumping of dead Christians into wells to hide evidence, reduce the reported number of casualties, and contaminate the water supply. This practice was common in places like Kano, Kaduna, and Plateau. After the killing was eventually stopped in many cases by the military, Christians were in some cases left with no choice but to turn those wells into the final resting place for their fellow Christians. After being lynched and butchered, they were also denied a proper burial. There are countless sealed-up "death wells" in the north filled with the bones of murdered Christians: children, women, and men who died at the hands of Muslims during various crises. Kano tops the list in this practice, but in one incident in Plateau, survivors recovered about 150 dead Christians from wells in one village alone, with some of them missing vital organs or limbs. Journalists and witnesses saw bodies dumped in wells and sewage pits. Survivors say the images and videos are so horrific they can traumatize a person for life. These acts were not carried out by trained or confessed terrorists; they were carried out by everyday Muslims and almajiri. Many of them are still alive today in government and the military; some of them are your friends here online. These stories can be confirmed online and are important for every Nigerian and every Christian to know. Because we cannot build any peace on a foundation of lies.

LOGAN LANCING: Cloward-Piven strategy. The destruction is intentional.

Still relevant. https://t.co/EjVjXP7RyW

— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) February 16, 2026

Thank you to J. Michael Waller. 

Here's a transcript.

DAVID PATRTIKARAKOS: I’ve just returned from Nigeria’s killing fields. Pastors burned alive. Entire villages erased. Yet the world is barely paying attention.

I’ve just returned from Nigeria’s killing fields.
Pastors burned alive. Entire villages erased.
Yet the world is barely paying attention.

My dispatch in today’s @DailyMail. https://t.co/v1PNKFehDN pic.twitter.com/n7rMLl7x5X

— David Patrikarakos (@dpatrikarakos) February 14, 2026

"Churches burned, fields destroyed and families slaughtered . . . the Nigerian Christians brutalized by jihadists--and the horrors I saw on the frontlines," David Patrikarakos, Daily Mail, February 13, 2026.

This is interesting.  Apparently Erik Prince, Blackwater founder, called out Pope Leo to fund Prince's private army to go and protect Nigerian Christians.

HARVEY C. MANSFIELD: But manliness is taking charge of things in a situation of risk and it's just for the few. So it's not the same thing as being a gentleman, which is being gentle though strong.

Harvey C. Mansfield on how intellectuals replaced priests. @audrey_unver

00:00 — Preview
00:35 — Is America too feminine?
01:01 — Men are unemployed
03:17 — What Simone de Beauvoir gets wrong
04:32 — Love vs. lust
06:08 — Do you want to be alone?
07:39 — How was Margaret… pic.twitter.com/B4qGsTOYWH

— University of Austin (UATX) (@uaustinorg) February 10, 2026

Harvey C. Mansfield on how intellectuals replaced priests.

@audrey_unver

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00:00 — Preview 

00:35 — Is America too feminine? 

01:01 — Men are unemployed.

[1:35]  Feminism is an opinion that there's no serious differences between the sex, between the sexes, meaning that your sex doesn't give you duties or rights or status in any way different from the other sex. So that's the kind of equality that feminism wanted which means that the two sexes we're pretty much the same.  In the 19th century, feminism was different.  In the 19th century, women declared that women were superior not just equal but superior to men, especially in morals and this was an opinion a traditional opinion long time to be seen.  You can see it in de Tocqueville's discussion of American women.  And since women were more moral, if they had the vote, they would improve our politics and they would take us out of the corruption of the Big City bosses and parties and male voters getting drunk.  And that to some extent succeeded, because we did give women the suffrage in the early 20th century.  But that wasn't good enough for Simone de Beauvoir, the author of present-day feminism.  She wrote a book called The Second Sex. 

03:17 — What Simone de Beauvoir gets wrong 

04:32 — Love vs. lust 

06:08 — Do you want to be alone? 

07:39 — How was Margaret Thatcher manly? 

[7:40] One of the themes of your book on Manliness is your extraordinary and I think correct respect for both sexes there is such conscientiousness and respect woven throughout your text and I wonder for those who haven't yet had the chance to read your book tell us what is Manliness and how is Margaret Thatcher manly.

My quick definition of manliness is taking charge of things in a situation of risk. So manliness is a quality, sometimes good, sometimes bad, of those who seek to take charge and handle dangerous situations or at least tricky situations, and don't hang back or just watch or ponder things.  So manliness is a quality of a very few men, not of most men or all men.  That's why I distinguish Manliness from masculinity, or what's called toxic masculinity. There is a certain toxic masculinity that goes with being a male. But manliness is an attitude especially of those people who are manly against those men who aren't.  It's not so much against women because they're excused from being manly. After all they're women.  But manliness is just for the few. So it's not the same thing as being a gentleman, which is being gentle though strong. A person can be manly without being very gentle or being gentlemanly.  So they're kind of levels of the quality of Manliness but it's also the case that there are exceptions and overlaps between men and women and Margaret Thatcher is an example of a woman who sought risk and suffered it in a manly fashion very bold and very durable, "The Iron Lady."

10:44 — Should conservatives police their ranks?

13:37 — Read John Locke 15:35 — Pluralism today 

19:36 — How have our elites failed? What do populists get wrong? 

25:43 — Anti-Americanism at Harvard 

29:50 — Can the universities be saved? 

30:41 — Why UATX? 

31:37 — Tocqueville's wisdom 35:59 — America's biggest long-term threat 

37:51 — Remembering Leo Strauss 

38:45 — Prof. Mansfield's intellectual adversary 

40:47 — Machiavelli's legacy 45:02 — What happens when intellectuals replace priests? 

47:06 — Should UATX be neutral? 

48:52 — How Prof. Mansfield wastes time 

49:07 — If mass culture poisons the soul, what should we consume instead? 

TAYLOR HATHORN: The CCP is inflicting hybrid, asymmetric warfare on the U.S. A lot of scary realities tied to China’s covert tactics.

Thank you to J. Michael Waller. 

The CCP is inflicting hybrid, asymmetric, mental, whatever academic word you want to call it on the U.S. and it’s easy to make jokes about things like TikTok, but there are a lot of scary realities tied to China’s covert tactics. @IWF pic.twitter.com/NRI8OMYjV2

— Taylor Hathorn (@TaylorHathorn) February 7, 2026

With students what is the long-term strategy here and talk to us about Chinese students and Scholars associations in the US.

So really there are two methodologies that you can have in any kind of mental warfare and really this is mental warfare, right.  So you've got your overt strategies and you have your covert strategies, and really what China is super good at is the covert strategies.  If they were focused on the overt strategies, you wouldn't have Prime Minister Carney in Canada talking about how they wanted to ally and align themselves with China moving forward with this values-based realignment that he talked about in Davos not too long ago. 

And so really you're looking at these covert strategies and covert tactics.  So what does that look like?  It looks like mental manipulation. Our society regrettably is incredibly susceptible to influence from the outside world.  Our youth, because of their involvement on social media, on web platforms, where they have access to information all around the world are incredibly susceptible to this influence.  I wrote a series of articles for Independent Women at the start of last New Year about the Tik Tok ban, "Tik Tok Ban: The Battle Is Not Over Freedom of Speech," Taylor Hathorn, Independent Women, January 26, 2025, and several of my friends were like, "Man, Taylor, you need to get over it.  It's not that big of a deal. It's not that big of an influence."  What a lot of people didn't realize is that the algorithms for Tik Tok in China students were rewarded, vastly rewarded, for looking at videos and watching what videos and promoting their algorithms focused on engineering, education, medicine, reading, literature.  They were promoted and rewarded for that, while the same algorithms in the United States existed for United States students they were promoted for doing Tik Tok dances and Tide pod challenges and their ratings went up for that.  So that is just one example of a covert strategy that has direct effects on the mental capacity, truthfully, and on the educational abilities of our students.  

J. MICHAEL WALLER: No coherent US national strategy on dealing with China

from the show notes,

Waller explains how the Chinese Communist Party is racing to dominate AI by 2030, using intellectual property theft, influence operations, and psychological warfare to undermine American institutions from within. The discussion covers AI-driven espionage, Chinese industrial strategy, academic infiltration, TikTok-style data harvesting, and the risks of letting adversaries set global AI standards.

The episode also explores how Western complacency, libertarian blind spots, and the absence of a coherent national strategy have left the U.S. vulnerable—while China accelerates nuclear power development, robotics manufacturing, and AI-enabled influence campaigns.

J. Michael Waller is Senior Analyst for Strategy, Center for Security Policy. Author of

Big Intel: How CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains

(Regnery/Simon & Schuster). Former Annenberg Professor of International Communication. American since 1621.

20:02  The real issue with China is that there's no coherent national strategy.  It's we'll arrest whatever spies we can arrest.  The FBI can.  I'm very critical of the FBI but they do a good job with the doctrine that they have in the resources that they have but if you have a multi-trillion dollar wholesale dollar wholesale theft of almost all of our technological development and Industrial Development billion dollar organization with a sliver of which is devoted to counterintelligence dealing with this for just being dealing with this because we're just being ripped off at every turn and we don't even realize it until long after it's happened even though we know that it's happening.

20:52.  Before Reagan told Mr Gorbachev to tear down that wall there was so much behind the scenes leading up to it right you had Richard pipes and Condoleezza Rice essentially crafting this strategy to deal with the Soviet Union right they were de velopment they were developing this coherent strategy we need that Gathering of the brightest Minds on the subject behind the scenes I'm actually surprised given the fundamental understanding of the problem that the president seems to have that there isn't an effort going on.

21:27.  I can't explain certain things that are happening I'm not even going to try very hard.  If you look at his first term Trump 45 he had a coherent strategy on China for the most part he held the Chinese Communist Party accountable at least at least rhetorically for the China virus.  Remember he called it that and it was the Chinese regime