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This young fella was my dad. He passed away in February. Thinking of him today and every day. 🐣 🐇

@TheMaineWonk The Rose Garden doesn’t exist as a garden anymore and has few roses. It’s a patio now. Trump doesn’t understand tact or tradition or much of anything.

2026: F15 shot down in Iran with pilot missing. Trump says absolutely nothing. 1995: When Capt. Scott O’Grady’s F-16 was shot down over Bosnian Serb territory, President Clinton IMMEDIATELY held Rose Garden press event:

There is a US Soldier either dead, captured or laying low in Iran. And we’ve heard absolutely nothing from the President of the United States.

@ricwe123 Health labs. Like checking for cholesterol.

Well, well so the US Pentagon released a statement on its official website acknowledging that it has funded 46 Ukrainian biological facilities over the past 20 years. So Vladimir Putin was right all along..... defense.gov/News/Releases/…

@plav1951 @Maine_old_Man @ricwe123 You’d lose that wager.

@Maine_old_Man @ricwe123 We were led to believe covid originally came from China. I'd wager it was produced in a US biolab in Ukraine.

@Maine_old_Man @ricwe123 That’s not even logical. Many Ukrainians share similar genes to Russians. And many Americans have Russian genes. There aren’t differences enough for a virus to distinguish. There are no little gene labels that say “Russian.” No virus on Earth distinguishes like that.

@ricwe123 That was one reason Russia invaded was to shut down these labs. The rumor was that they we trying make a virus that would target only Russian genes.

@kuisinbody @catwithaura Very cool! We had a cat who lived to about 23 and another to about 20. Love our kitties!

@catwithaura That’s incredible！ In Japan, there’s a legend that cats who live past 20 years transform into a supernatural creature called “Nekomata” — a two-tailed cat spirit. It’s both mysterious and deeply respectful toward cats who live such long lives. Your cat is a true Nekomata！🐱

This is what a 29-year-old cat looks like🥺

Christina Koch was a firefighter at the South Pole at -111°F before she ever applied to be an astronaut. That was maybe the fourth most interesting line on her resume. She grew up in North Carolina, got three degrees from NC State, and her first real job was building deep-space instruments at NASA. Then she left for Antarctica. Spent three and a half years bouncing between the Arctic and Antarctic as a research scientist, including a full winter at the South Pole base. That means going months without sunlight or fresh food, with a crew of about 50 people and no way out until flights resume. While she was down there, she also joined the glacier search-and-rescue team. After coming back, she went to Johns Hopkins and built instruments for two NASA missions (one of them is still orbiting Jupiter right now). She figured out how to start a tiny vacuum pump that NASA designed for a future Mars rover. Johns Hopkins nominated it for their Invention of the Year in 2009. Then she went back to the field. More time in Antarctica and a stretch up in Greenland. A government research station in northern Alaska, near the top of the world. Then she ran another one in American Samoa, near the equator. In 2013, NASA selected her from 6,300 applicants. Eight people got in. Her first space mission was supposed to be a normal rotation on the International Space Station, but NASA extended it. She ended up staying 328 straight days and orbiting Earth 5,248 times, covering about 139 million miles (roughly 291 round trips to the Moon). Up there, she ran over 210 experiments, including tests of cancer drugs in zero gravity and 3D printers that can build structures close to human tissue. Six spacewalks, 42 hours floating outside the station. She learned Russian for the training. She flies supersonic jets. Right now, Koch is on Artemis II, heading for a flyby behind the far side of the Moon. The crew launched on April 1 and is on track to travel about 252,000 miles from Earth, which would break the all-time human distance record of 248,655 miles set by Apollo 13 in 1970. That record has stood for 56 years, and it was set during a disaster that nearly killed the crew. Fred Haise, one of the Apollo 13 astronauts, is 92 now. He told Koch: "I heard you're going to break our record." Nobody had left Earth's neighborhood since December 1972. Koch and her three crewmates are the first in 53 years, and they are coming home at about 25,000 mph. That is faster than any crewed spacecraft has ever come back through the atmosphere.

@native_am_pride @pameladubsky49 Happy birthday!!! 🎂 🥳✨

Happy Birthday ❤️🎂

@_Ochiedike They probably should have reread that part of the Bible before they did this.

Jesus has risen. Atheists don't laugh, please.

@bluesamk @MeidasTouch Ummmmm, welllllll

@MeidasTouch "Under the previous administration we looked like fools. Not anymore." -- DUI hire Pete Hegseth

NEWS: A second U.S. Air Force combat aircraft has gone down in the Persian Gulf region, per NYT. Officials say an A-10 Warthog crashed near the Strait of Hormuz, with the pilot safely rescued. This comes as an F-15E was shot down over Iran—one crew member recovered, search ongoing for another.

@Angry_Staffer @JuliaDavisNews Which should surprise absolutely no one.

There’s currently a frantic search taking place for two US pilots who were shot down in Iran, and this idiot is talking about taking the oil.

@Gkov1111 @earthcurated If you stand on the ground, the Earth is still round. You just don’t notice the curve because the Earth is huge, and you’re standing on such a small section. And local variations like hills and valleys can obscure the huge, gentle curve of Earth.

@aFirefly @earthcurated If I stand on the ground the Earth is flat If I look from altitude or space the Earth is round If zoomed in enough, Earth does not exist at all

NOT FLAT…

@browne_jacki @NicHulscher Because they’re effective.

@NicHulscher Why should they be forced on our healthcare workers!

Flu shots are a COMPLETE FAILURE — they increase your risk of dementia (+38%), Alzheimer's (+50%), AND the flu (+27%). The single LARGEST vaccine–dementia study ever conducted (n=13.3 million) finds common vaccines dose-dependently increase risk of dementia and Alzheimer's for a FULL DECADE. A major Cleveland Clinic study (n=53,402) found −27% flu shot effectiveness during 2024–25 flu season.

@DrNeilStone I don’t understand how all the anti-vax people point to the dangers of spike proteins in Covid vaccines yet completely ignore the fact that actual Covid infections produce far more spike proteins.

Nicolas Hulscher is one of the most prolific purveyors of medical disinformation out there This..likely everything else he claims..is not true

@RichardReeder75 @wideawake_media If they tried to take the vaccine manufacturers to court they’d have to go under oath and provide evidence via actual scientific studies. They won’t & can’t because that evidence doesn’t exist. That guy works for a company selling supplements. That’s his goal.

@wideawake_media Duh. And the sheeple graze along while the bio weapon administers go unpunished. The answer to obtain accountability would be the greatest gift to our citizens and become an example to the world what happens when you FAFO with US/us.

According to epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher, data from two large population studies show a 25% rise in cancer hospitalisations among mRNA "vaccine" recipients versus unvaccinated individuals.

This painting technique is something else

Spectacular lightning storm over Western Australia filmed in timelapse by photographer Geoff Green.

@Gkov1111 @earthcurated The Earth is round. The wide-angle Len might emphasize it some, but Earth’s curve is there. Notice the equipment in space doesn’t look all warped from the lens.

@earthcurated You see that curvature … is because the camera lens is round, so it creates a visual effect that Earth is round too

A professor of engineering who failed math all through school built one of the most popular online courses in history by figuring out exactly why her brain had been working against her the whole time. Her name is Barbara Oakley, and she did not teach herself how to learn until she was in her mid-twenties, after leaving the military with a head full of Russian and almost no useful science knowledge. What she discovered about her own brain eventually became a Coursera course that over 4 million people have taken, and the core insight she teaches has been sitting in neuroscience research for decades waiting for someone to explain it in plain language. Here is the framework that changed how I think about every hard thing I am trying to learn. Your working memory is an octopus sitting in your prefrontal cortex with exactly four arms. Those four arms reach out and grab pieces of information, hold them in place, and manipulate them while you are actively thinking through a problem. Four is the limit. When you try to hold more than four things in conscious awareness at once, the arms start dropping things and everything becomes a scramble which is exactly what you experience as confusion when learning something genuinely difficult. This is not a flaw. It is a design feature. And the entire game of becoming expert at anything is learning how to game this constraint. The mechanism is something neuroscientists call chunking, and it is the most underexplained concept in all of learning. When you practice something enough times that it becomes automatic a guitar chord, a grammatical structure, a mathematical procedure, a debugging pattern in code your brain compresses it into a single neural package stored in long-term memory. That compressed package now fits in just one of your four working memory slots instead of filling all of them. Which means once you have built enough chunks, your octopus can reach down into long-term memory, pull up an entire complex procedure in a single grab, and still have three arms free to work with new information on top of it. This is what expertise actually is. Not raw intelligence. Not natural talent. A library of compressed patterns that can be retrieved quickly and stacked together to solve problems that would overwhelm a beginner whose working memory is still occupied with fundamentals. The finding that Oakley emphasizes most forcefully is the one that sounds backward until you understand the mechanism. People with smaller working memory capacity those who can only hold two or three items at once rather than four are often forced to develop stronger chunking habits earlier and more aggressively than people with larger working memories, because they have no choice. Their constraint becomes their training. Over time, that aggressive chunking practice can produce more robust expertise than a larger working memory that never had to be disciplined in the same way. The most powerful practical implication is this: when you feel completely overwhelmed trying to learn something, that feeling is almost always your four-slot octopus running out of arms. The solution is not to concentrate harder. The solution is to stop, isolate one small piece of the problem, practice it until it compresses into a single chunk, and only then pick up the next piece. You cannot learn everything at once because your brain was never designed to hold everything at once. It was designed to build libraries of compressed knowledge and retrieve them on demand. Every expert you have ever admired is not smarter than you. They just have a bigger library.

🚨 let me tell you what just happened because I'm sure most people completely missed this.. Kamal Kharazi was Iran's lead negotiator.. the man actively working through Pakistan to arrange a backchannel meeting between Iranian officials and JD Vance.. the only active diplomatic channel that existed to prevent what Trump called a "2 to 3 week" strike window.. Israel just bombed his house.. his wife is dead.. Kharazi is in hospital.. and you need to pay attention to the timing.. this isn't the first time Iran's negotiators have been killed right before a deal could be made.. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was Iran's top nuclear scientist and the man considered most essential to any future nuclear negotiations.. he was assassinated in November 2020, widely attributed to Israel.. the nuclear talks were set back by years.. in 2012, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan.. a senior figure at Iran's Natanz enrichment facility.. was killed in a targeted car bombing in Tehran, also attributed to Israel.. the pattern holds every single time.. every time Iran and the US get close to talking, someone removes the people doing the talking.. Trump said 2 to 3 weeks.. someone in Iran was actively building the exit ramp from that window.. and today the man building that exit is in hospital and his wife is in the ground.. whoever bombed that house wasn't trying to win a war.. they were trying to make sure there isn't a peace.

Raskin: "It doesn't give me a lot of comfort that Todd Blanche is now the acting AG. This is the guy who transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from the higher security prison to the low security prison camp in Texas."