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Belvedere In Black ๐ท๐ฑ The 1956 model may have been the most aesthetically beautiful of the Plymouth Belvedere line. #MonochromeMonday #MinimalMonday #MotorHeadMonday #CircleShapesMonday #WeekJforJetBlack #AlphabetChallenge #originalcontent #photography #shareyourparadise #samsung #S23Ultra
Yes. It was. Just THAT.โคต๏ธ
I've enjoyed visiting Utah for decades, but these kinds of agreements are sad, alarming, and infuriating. They're anti-American. I have no desire to visit again. Utah: The Behind State.
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A 'threat to lives and health': Ex-CDC heads gang up on RFK Jr. with brutal op-ed
Released on a written promise? Bless his heart! He's been accused of serially violating written and verbal promises... and he walked. He must be a real charmer. For his next act, will he attempt to disappear from three different county courtrooms at the same time? Don't touch that dial!
"The president made no mention of why he has not, or refuses to, share information he has already seen with RFK Jr." ๐ค (Psst! Hey, Bub... it's because neither he nor RFK Jr. has a clue why or why not and doesn't care either way; he just wants an optic and something else to twist).
In a world of dishonesty, expect dishonest governments to remain dishonest. It may be the closest thing offered as solid ground. www.wired.com/story/charle...
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Excellent display of truthful knowledge.
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
ITโS ALL NATIVE LAND!
Marco Rubio sold his soul for just a little bit more power.
Instead of posting the Ten Commandments in public places letโs post the 25th Amendment
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Lickspittle is seldom hired for its brilliance.
The name of the game is tyranny. Pray the soldiers rebel for the absolute dishonor and abuse that it is.
He was seldom actually playing golf (if he had ever truly played the game at all). Cheating at golf isn't playing golf. It's pretending to do or be what he never will... just like most of his life.
โI am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt,โ wrote Retired Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling in an op-ed published Saturday in The Bulwark. โShe did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.โ www.rawstory.com/ashli-babbit...
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Knee deep in more than one generation of fools, the hard lessons must be relearned at the cost of millions... souls, not dollars. The dollar cost will be astronomical.
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
#ArtOfResistance
WHY TARIFFS HURT EVERYONE - This is a must-read for every U.S. citizen. The complexity makes compliance nearly impossible. The pain and cost are 100% destructive to the businesses involved. That's no accident. It's intentional. It exists to erode both the business, the economy, and weaken people.
0% = New Normal. Those who voted for it call it "greatness." Isn't that just great?
Right. Same thing as 2020 [see below].Through 2 debates and a session on Economics in Chicago during the 2024 campaign I never heard a reporter bring up the cost of the 2020 tariffs & the bailout to farmers WE paid for to cover Trumpโs tariff folly. Iโm sick of it. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
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Doggies, Uncle Jed. That barrel full of Epstein shore does seem to take on the life of one of Ellie Mae's critters.
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2 A Gun.
George The Cat and The Green Feathern strategize. Happy #Caturday. (No, I was merely granted audience by the neighbor cat for a dramatic moment. The dog shall certainly be a non-dog after this brief word from our sponsor). #cats #CatsOfBluesky #gato #originalcontent #photography #photographerlife
'Splains a lot. It do 'splain a lot. Arkansas must ha'been full that day.
Nazshville: Where west coast pricing meets east coast inaffordability to make unaffordable housing great again for everyone.
Yet, the fake White House administration is efficiently fleecing that nation and the world.
Is it possible that 'Lawsuit' may soon become the most popular female name worldwide?
As long as the benefits and Scooby snacks keep coming, they're dandy with it.
Pay close attention to her wording of why she's leaving: "...the best path for me to REBUILD the conservative MOVEMENT... is NOT AS A MINORITY MEMBER of the Court" (emphasis mine). Someone has made her a deal in a bigger, brighter position?
Just walking around... a bit like the CIC just walking around on the White House roof b/c he doesn't know why he's there, either.
Arresting those complying with the law. Again. It's when there's no question that the "worst of the worst" are the thugs policing for the regime... not for the law, the Constitution, or The People. www.kuow.org/stories/wife...
Welch: He claims that he's the law and order president. But we all know that's a lie because he's a convicted felon. He pardons convicted felons, he surrounds himself with obsequious people that kiss his all day, every day
I find it disturbing that the platform has no revenue stream this late in the game.
Past tense: protected. Maybe they can find a way to continue, but for now... past tense.
I'm an outsider looking in, but he seems to be all-in for the game right alongside his mentor. When a world leader, pretend or not, is inept enough to seriously believe he has some actual pull on the issues it marks him culpable, not just the stooge of a con.
Ua kaulana ka สปลlelo Hawaiสปi.
#FederalDigitalTelevision
๐จ๐จ๐จShelton, WA, firefighters stopped by ICE. Representatives from 3 indigenous tribes were included in this shake down. Additional information on the following post. 1/2
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IGBOK. It's all been run through X AI and Grok which created a flawless project plan that told Leon to go eff himself. That sciencey technology is, surely, well-trained and solid.
The Boring jerks are already drilling in Nashville โ WITHOUT APPROPRIATE STUDIES OR APPROVALS (Gov. Lee is acting much like Abbott to save the city from itself and provide a traffic tunnel between downtown & the airport FOR TESLA TRAFFIC ONLY)! No grift or overreach there. None but total.
... raised deep-sea bottoms from the depths into the high peaks of the Alps. Science also confirms that supposed savage, uncivilized civilizations moved when warned in their times. And not just for the hell of it. The earth is speaking, not asking for money. Yet, we sit. Grifting. Unprepared. /๐งต
... somehow smart and powerful enough to stop the earth from its own processes. It's more prudent to think like Egyptians and prepare for a 500-year drought, unknown events that turned lush forests into the Sahara desert, and other recorded yet unclear catastrophes that ... /4
... with flood control. We move populations to higher ground. We elevate shipping ports. We develop and modify how and what we farm. Archaeological science has proven that the ancients did this. Yet, here we are assuming that current generations stupid enough to feed authoritarianism are... /3
... that the collapse is caused by man and the presumed human cause(s) can be controlled. So we throw billions upon billions at presumed solutions to an apparently cyclic problem of unknown cause. That is just as likely a fool's errand that enriches grifters and solves little. WE KNOW HOW DEAL... /2
๐งต The article confirms that scientists know an AMOC collapse has occurred in the past. Instead of throwing money at a problem mankind truly does NOT comprehend, why aren't we PREPARING for the inevitability of a very likely cyclical recurrence in nature? Instead, we assume (correctly or not) ... /1
So much isn't being reported by the group whose existence is explicitly protected by the First Amendment. The life raft is right there, within the same reach as their pens, yet they're paying ransom to remain drowning.
They can see the Cracker Barrel logo without ever visiting. Effortless. Opening a bible and reading requires work. Actually doing something requires more. No. Most will remain as unfazed as they have for centuries.
Trump wants it, too. He performs for his faithful: those he and his cult have blinded. His lies and their choices may have left them with eyes permanently incapable of seeing.
"Bad people make bad prosecutors."
At 21, Steve Vilchez is much like any other senior at Illinois State University.
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Yet, nothing done by the Dems. Absolutely nothing.
There is no heart beating in the White House. I fully suspect the act is politically staged and focused against the left. Regardless, the WH may use it to order military occupation of the state and city, both of which would be named seats of violence and death that only the WH regime can save.
Gramps does seem to ramble non-stop these days.
But WAIT! There's more! OKC legendary tower will (perhaps briefly) appear more manly than Brother Bob's Erection in Tulsa. Even televangelists thought smaller in the seventies, but today? Whad'ya bet ORU paints their's gold?
Oklahoma is the perfect place to build the tallest tower. With its raging heat, earthquakes 'neath its feet, and winds that scream across the plains... just orient it to fall from the capitol all the way to Norman. That way, you'll have a new mid-state shortcut to honoring the state's fallen glory.
Friendly neighborly tip: #VoteByMail
So... when will the current regime, the most unlawful in U.S. history, take heed to its own message?
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Bravo.
We used to call such efforts "heroic." Apparently, no longer.
Yeh. We could've used that sleepy "militia." Will it yet wake to rise up against the federal troops that are assaulting and arresting citizens and stealing their property? The WH is itching fot it.
Trump wants harsher penalties for flag desecration โ yet pardoned a man who beat Capitol police with an American flag. The hypocrisy is staggering. #BlueCrew #Resist #ProudBlue #TruthWarriors #StrongerTogether
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National Guard, Feds & ICE Flood DC Streets, Random Bag Searches in Minority Communities Spark Outrage
It's a strange, strange, world where it seems much of the world has only assumed how to govern rather than knowing how to govern.
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Yes, it's down but the scale of the graph offers unfortunate drama. The change against a JPY is still less than 1/2 of 1%. Not great, but is such a sneeze of an adjustment even a statement? Change over the past 30 days is roughly 1/3 of 1 percent. Overall? He wants a crash. Not world crashing, yet.
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Depends upon the price of fool's gold at that time.
Great. A Third-World Pulte Home.
Nooze on Not Quite Ambassador Gargoyle (confirmation was deadlocked) and it's a real hoot. She's a social media ambassadorette that even knows how to quote "science" of what keeps Greeks health. (I was so impressed I shouted "O-PA" and broke a couple of plates)! greekcitytimes.com/2025/08/15/k...
So... just what does "appropriate" look like applied to a child trafficker and sex offender... that he was so professional at the work that he was its poster boy? At that, she may have been sharing a Truth.
Full Blown Incompetency. Much like ICE, but may also be allowed to wear Jedgar's silky undies.
Correct beast, but covering one's face with a towel is the defense b/c the beast will only see you if you can see it. (๐ค Thatโs probably the reason for ICE's face coverings, too).
Truth Art! #arresttrump #art
Trump is deploying the National Guard simply because he has the power to so. That is abuse of power. Period.
Hypothetically, diplomacy first. Always. Realistically, the plan currently in progress uses diplomacy only to buy time for the inevitable double-cross.
Lessons from Texas in its rapid descent from long and tall to all hat and no cattle. @defiance13.bsky.social substack.com/@defiance13/...
Every politician who calls this โfreedomโ should be dragged back to the dirt roads they forgot. We are not the fringe. We are the foundation. The working class is not your ATM, your cannon fodder, or your political theater. We are the muscle behind the myth โฆ and we are wide awake now.
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His heart and head are in the right place for his nation, but not for a continued career in his nation's military. Reason: No longer fiction, both the U.S. military and its civilian government are now under the control of the Heritage Foundation's fascist regime. substack.com/@democraticw...
Because it is a declaration of war by the red hats. The acts are provocative steps to incite violence.
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=pvT3...
True story: Most of his youth was spent abandoned and abused. He's gone farther than anyone in his family line. Opinion: That same life experience molded him into 100%, top-grade cult material and he's perfectly at home there.
Michellemm 