Jonathon Thomas

@tjmorris_bear Amen!!! Praise Yah for new family members. Congratulations TJ and fam

Welp, one less kiddo in the house. I’m proud of them. My Son in Law is badass.

Exactly

You no kings assholes better go find a fucking mirror

@DrFrankTurek The ISR scriptures is my go to but I have many different translations that I go through for context and contrast.

What is your favorite Bible translation?

@tjmorris_bear @refugemedical It was beautiful brother, I don’t know why I’ve never seen the parallels between the gospels and Psalms 23. Thank you for sharing it with us.

A friend snapped this while I was preaching at the @refugemedical Ruckus to benefit Kaleb House. I don’t usually preach. I’m told it was good. Well then, good, I suppose.

This is one of the hardest things we have ever had to share. We are not the kind of people who like to ask for help. We have always believed in putting our heads down, working hard, trusting God, and doing everything we can to carry the weight ourselves. But there comes a point where the truth is bigger than pride, and our customers, followers, supporters, and everyone deserves to know what is really happening. Right now, we are in a legal battle with a major meat processor. And while this fight has our name on it, it is much bigger than our family alone. Small producers, family ranchers, and farmers spend generations building something they are proud of, only to come up against an industry that too often protects power over people, profit over principle, and control over transparency. The effects do not stop with the people raising the food. They reach every person purchasing meat because corruption and lack of transparency in the beef industry affect the food system as a whole and the trust families place in what they buy and feed their loved ones. This fight has cost us deeply. Between personal health struggles and the weight of this battle, we have had to make sacrifices we never wanted to make. We have had to cut back on our restaurants and e-commerce. We have sold cattle to help pay attorney fees. We have carried stress, heartbreak, and pressure that, at times, have felt impossible to explain. But we are still here, and we are still fighting. We are fighting for our family, for our ranch, for the values we were raised on, and for every small rancher and farmer who has ever felt crushed under a system that was never built to protect them. So today, we are asking for help. If you believe in family ranches, quality food, hard work, and a more transparent, healthy, and clean food system, please stand with us. One of the best ways you can support us right now is by purchasing our beef at santacarota.com. We started a GoFundMe for those who want to be part of something bigger than our family alone. If you want to help us keep fighting, please consider donating and helping us fight for farmers, ranchers: gofund.me/5f9dbc127

@PrometheanActn This is brilliant journalism, so glad I found your page. Blessings to you and your team

Trump bombed Kharg Island's military targets — and deliberately left the oil infrastructure standing. That's not instinct. That's a doctrine. The "Iran Terror Premium" drained $10 TRILLION from the world economy. This week, it started dying. Full breakdown:

Trump moved on three fronts to break Lloyd's insurance blockade — but the bigger story is the Khamenei family money trail leading straight to London. And why Bolton, Carney, and the old imperial order are all standing outside the fence looking in...

@tjmorris_bear Amen to that brother, up before sun up, come home after sundown. Praise the Most High for His Sabbath or I might go crazy. Shalom brother

0500-2200 17 hours. Standard eNtRePrEnEuRsHiP day. If your goals aren’t big enough to motivate you through YEARS of that, dream bigger, or quit bitchin. Uncle Bear loves ya. 🐻😘

Unrealized gains tax for Gen-Z: You buy a Pokémon card for $50. Someone offers you $500 for it. You say no. You love that card. You're keeping it. The government says: "Cool, but that card is worth $500 now. You owe us $100 in taxes." You: "…I didn't sell it." Government: "Don't care. Pay up." You don't have $100 lying around. So you're forced to sell the card you love just to pay a tax on money you never received. Next month? That card drops back to $50. Your card is gone. Your money is gone. And the government shrugs. That's a wealth tax on unrealized gains. They don't pay you back the tax... Now picture this. Your mom calls you crying. She has to sell the house she raised you in. Not because she can't afford it. She's lived there 30 years. It's paid off. But some website says it's worth more now and the government says she owes $15,000 she doesn't have. So she sells your childhood home. The kitchen where she made you breakfast. The doorframe where she marked your height every birthday. Gone. To pay a tax on money that was never real. Now picture the opposite. Your dad put everything into his small business. For 20 years he built it from nothing. One year the business is "valued" at $2 million on paper. He owes a massive tax bill. He empties his savings. Sells his truck. Borrows money. Pays it. Next year the market crashes. His business is worth $200,000. He lost everything to pay a tax on a number that doesn't exist anymore. Does the government give him his money back? No. Does the government give him his truck back? No. Does the government care? No. They sold this idea as "taxing billionaires." But billionaires have armies of lawyers, offshore accounts, and trusts. They'll be fine. You know who won't be fine? Your mom. Your dad. Your neighbor with a small business. The farmer down the road who's had the same land for four generations and now has to sell it because dirt got expensive. You're not taxing wealth. You're taxing people for owning things. It's like getting a parking ticket for a car you might drive somewhere someday. They want you to own nothing and be happy. To fund the fraud, waste and abuse of the welfare state they created. There is enough money. More tax isn't needed. It's all a lie. But you've been gaslit into believing this is a rich vs poor debate. I hope you understand what's at stake.

@tjmorris_bear This band is right up your alley. The lyrics are undeniable and music is crushing. It’s about how the unrighteous and evil in this world should be handled. Shalom brother from one ex-heathen drummer to another. music.apple.com/us/album/comma…

Accelerationist Click-Bait Title | Bear Brief 11FEB26 BLUF: I don't give a fuck about politics. --- Medical & Training: RefugeMedical.com Promo Code "Bear Nation" for 10% off everything. Disaster Relief: GrindstoneMinistries.com Returning from Selmer TN ice storms today Refuge Ruckus: RefugeRuckus.com *** I NEED 1,000 OF YOU AT THE RUCKUS *** Countertrafficking: KalebHouse.org Privately funded by you; we do bad shit to bad people and rescue & restore juvenile human trafficking surviviors. We've been doing this since before it was cool... Patreon & Swag: BearIndependent.com All the things, all the links, in one place. --- BEAR INDEPENDENT BRIEF Date: 11FEB26 Analyst: Dance Monkey #3 Distribution: unlimited Attribution: Bear Independent Washington just hosted fifty-five countries to discuss breaking China's stranglehold on materials crucial for everything from smartphones to weapons systems. In Vice President Vance’s words, "We want to eliminate that problem of people flooding into our markets with cheap critical minerals to undercut our domestic manufacturers." The plan? Something called FORGE—Forum on Resource Geostrategic Engagement—which Vance describes as "a preferential trade zone for critical minerals protected from external disruptions through enforceable price floors." Thomas Scurfield from NRGI recently said, "We're already seeing US engagement reshape mineral flows out of Africa," but added that "it remains to be seen whether it can compete with China's scale and speed." Unsurprisingly, to keep mineral prices from dropping too low, the administration is willing to use tariffs. Last year, Beijing demonstrated exactly how much leverage it has when it rattled markets by withholding rare earths, leading to production delays and shutdowns at auto manufacturers in Europe and the US. The response was Project Vault, a strategic stockpile backed by ten billion from the Export-Import Bank and two billion in private funding. The administration announced over thirty billion in direct funding commitments for critical minerals in six months, with the government taking equity stakes in private companies. Vincent Rouget from Control Risks calls it "deploying financial firepower rather than industrial presence." The US is using offtake deals, where rights to a mine's output are secured in exchange for financing, instead of putting American operators in high-risk countries. This method basically amounts to state capitalism, leaving the taxpayer on the hook if these investments go south. The Democratic Republic of Congo is ground zero. Seventy percent of global cobalt comes from there, plus 3.3 million metric tons of copper in 2024. China already controlled almost fifty percent of DRC cobalt production by 2021, with eight of the fourteen largest miners described as Chinese-owned. But Gécamines, the Congolese state miner, is preparing to ship around 100,000 tons of copper to US buyers this year after renegotiating marketing rights with China's CMOC. Then there's the contrast in how companies operate. US-based KoBold Metals has staked over 3,000 square kilometers in the lithium and copper belt but won't advance projects entangled in disputes, stressing governance standards. Chinese operators have just proceeded on contested ground. At Manono, one of the world's largest undeveloped lithium deposits, KoBold says it won't move until ownership issues are resolved, even as Zijin advances infrastructure. In Guinea, the China-backed Winning Consortium Simandou pushed ahead with rail and port construction despite ownership disputes, effectively forcing Rio Tinto to fall in line. Whether this FORGE strategy works also depends on allies staying committed. Fifty-five countries showed up to the Washington meeting, which suggests that for now, reducing dependence on China matters enough. The US, EU, and Japan announced they'd pursue measures including price supports, market standards, subsidies, and guaranteed purchases, while Argentina separately agreed on a framework to boost copper and lithium exports. China's embassy in Washington offered the standard response about playing "an important and constructive role in keeping the global industrial and supply chains of critical minerals safe and stable." Of course, this is the same country that expanded export controls on rare earths, causing those production delays and shutdowns, and the same country that generated a lithium glut that stalled US expansion plans. Ahead of the ongoing Indaba mining event in South Africa, Scott Kennedy from the Center for Strategic and International Studies said, "This is a recognition by the United States that it must act in concert with others to reduce its vulnerability in areas where China has supply dominance." The question isn't whether China controls critical minerals. It does. The question is whether throwing tens of billions of taxpayer dollars at the problem by taking equity stakes, guaranteeing prices, and building strategic reserves can actually change that. Relevant Links Fun tool (note aspects like “smelter” vs “mine production”): apps.usgs.gov/critical-miner…

@carolmswain This is not the own that the left thinks it is.

Here’s the Trump-posted video that Christians are being asked to condemn. What are your thoughts after watching the full video?

@ScottRoberts Preach Christ, sometimes use words.

Preach a sermon in 3-5 words. I'll start: Jesus died to save sinners.

It’s not that nothing makes sense anymore; it’s that the frameworks by which we used to justify the nonsense no longer hold up to the reality of the situation.

People will trip out over observing the Biblical Sabbath, as well as the 7 appointed times outlined in Leviticus but will have no comment on the Catholic Church making up a feast for every other day in the calendar year. Sounds familiar….. #hypocrites #woeuntoyou #pharisees

@MikeWingerii AMEN!

The ultimate example for Christians is Jesus, not other Christians.

@shofar_mountain I feel the same, not near as much as the “experts” were saying. I guess there’s more coming supposedly?

Meh Western Ozarks

Let’s be brutally honest. If Democrats ever retake the United States Senate, the filibuster is gone anyway. Day one. No debate. No hesitation. They will pack the Supreme Court, erase every institutional guardrail, and give a Democrat president everything on their radical wish list to permanently reshape this country. And here’s the unforgivable part: while that threat is staring us in the face, President Trump’s America First agenda is dying right now in the United States Senate. Not because Democrats are stopping it, but because weak Republicans are. Republicans like John Cornyn refuse to fight. Refuse to use power. Refuse to do the very thing voters sent them to Washington to do: win. You don’t save the Republic by protecting Senate traditions while the other side burns them down. You save it by acting. By codifying the America First agenda into law now, while we still can. Texas didn’t send a Senator to Washington to manage decline. We sent one to stop it. If you won’t fight when it matters most, step aside. Texas is ready for leadership that will.

@tjmorris_bear It’s just such a terrible false equivalency. I’d like to believe he’s smarter than this but I’m starting to have my doubts. Also, the UK ain’t got the stones for that. They’re too busy jailing citizens for mean tweets.

Piers is an incredibly out of touch moron. A) you can’t afford it. B) you don’t have the might. C) if you want ass-kicking part 3, say when.

@piersmorgan What a stupid and nonsensical take. You’re smarter than this Piers, try harder

Britain should repurchase America. After all, it was ours once, and it would enhance our North Atlantic security. If you don’t sell it to us, President Trump, we’re going to impose tariffs on the U.S. and any country who supports you in resisting this very good deal. Fair?