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Time to update my pinned post youtu.be/SaI1AfQ59-M?si…

@cosmopterix Beautiful.

A late gm. I have perfoliate bellwort (Uvularia perfioliata) for you today, an eastern North American woodland native with stems that appear to pierce through its leaves.

Conclusion: So when they say "defend democracy," now you know what they mean: Defend liberal institutional control... cosmopolitanism, supranational authority, "modernity"... over what your elected leader can do. Not elections. Not your vote. Not the Constitution. Their values. Their definitions. Their rules about what counts as "democratic." They redefined the word. And once you see it, you can't unsee it. The resistance. The lawfare. The protests. The "guardrails." The overseas playbook aimed at your country. It's not a conspiracy. They told you. On camera. At Brookings, NED, the German Marshall Fund, Harvard, and the New York Times' own forum. They just assumed you wouldn't look up what "democracy" means to them. Now you know. THREAD END.

Going on a cruise next week. Looking for a book recommendations to read by the pool.

@lecternleader @comednDRichards 's book Whiskey, Cancer & Bad Decisions

Benson Oversaw SPLC While It Allegedly Funded Nazis @downi75 enjoyer.com/benson-oversaw…

This is how institutions get captured. Stars and Stripes was supposed to be non-partisan. Congress created specific safeguards in the 1990s to keep it journalistically independent from the Pentagon. But what happens when that independence becomes a shield for ideological capture? When the “veil of virtue” is weaponized to push an agenda instead of serving the troops? Let’s not soften it: In recent years, Stars and Stripes became a left-leaning ideological rag. Much of its coverage had little to do with the actual concerns of our service members. Don’t take my word for it, read their reporting from 2023 to early 2026. The shift is obvious. If we actually care about preserving real independent journalism, then removing the people who turned it into a partisan vehicle isn’t an attack on principle. It’s simple a defense of it.

Nothing. Seriously, nothing… and I live in a supposed “sun down town.” Most right-leaning white folks are friendly as hell to me. It’s the left-leaning white folks who remind me on a daily basis that Democrats be Democratin’. If it weren’t for the fact that it would probably take 20+ of them to tie me down and string me up, I’d be on a t-shirt right now with angel wings air painted on it (or devil horns… I’m working on it…) Maybe stop looking at folks’ skin color to determine how triggered you are and instead, touch grass and realize that racism is a construct that can be defeated.

@marcorandazza Rot.

Why do they always look like this?

When the Southern Poverty Law Center is attacking people, @detroitnews uses their name in the tweet When it faces federal charges, it’s a nameless “civil rights group” Honesty would be a better approach to news, try it

can you imagine your child and mate both dying in child birth? can you imagine getting a cut and dying of infection? can you imagine breaking your leg and being eaten by a sabertooth cat? Can you imagine being filled with parasites? can you imagine poverty being universal?

Good morning!

Oncidium Leysa with summer red colourings 🌿 #orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation

@ChefReactions @bankal33 It's crucial and not fully understood yet. Every single process in our bodies is dependent on it. Also, it starts in the mouth. 🙏

@neerdontwell @bankal33 @ChefReactions Yup. Praying it's much sooner though.

@bankal33 @ChefReactions 50 years from now everyone will be saying it’s gut health.

@bankal33 @ChefReactions Yeah, it's a much bigger deal than most realize.

@ChefReactions This might sound dumb but have you tried improving your gut health? I'm convinced from my own experience that they are extremely linked. Love your videos and thank you.

The GOP and corporate America might THINK they have a grasp on the simmering anger Americans have for this country being taken over by foreigners. I’m warning both entities now: You have no idea. Get on the right side of this issue quickly.

Climate change never seems to burn down a mosque.

Great job, Rachel!

This came up in FB memory today. Anyone remember Marlena Hackney from Holland, MI? @MIAttyGen @DanaNessel and @GovWhitmer Arrested her To Keep Her Off Tucker Carlson show! Marlena Pavos-Hackney testified Wednesday in front of the Michigan House Oversight Subcommittee on 'The Weaponization of Michigan State Government.' Pavos-Hackney's attorney showed copies of emails they had of MI AG Dana Nessel being notified that Marlena Pavos-Hackney was being interviewed by @FoxNews @TuckerCarlson Show, and Nessel wanted Marlena arrested, BEFORE she could appear. Marlena Pavos—Hackney owned Marlena's Bistro & Pizzeria in Holland, MI. Although she was ordered to shut down during COVID-19, she stayed open, as did many restaurants, including in Shiawassee County. MI County and local police Refused to arrest her. @MichStatePolice, in a swat-type operation, arrested her in her driveway. Instead of taking her to her County jail, they transported her to Lansing, Ingham County jail. Nessel wanted her to serve 93 days. The Lansing Judge said she could not be let out until she paid the $15,000 in penalties and fines that Dana Nessel Dept had imposed - in Full. Marlena had to sit in jail for 4 days, over a weekend before being able to go free. The Chairperson of this Subcommittee, MI Rep. Angelas Rigas, was also persecuted by Whitmer & Nessel during COVID-19. Regas was a Beautician at that time, and helped put on the event at the Capitol, where Barbers and Beauticians came together to cut hair, Defying @dananessel and @GovWhitmer MI Lock-Down mandates. The committee learned that Nessel and Whitmer weaponized the MI State government against all that would Defy Whitmer's rulings. They especially targeted any that would take Whitmer to court. Barber Karl Manke beat her in the Michigan Supreme Court 7 - 0. *Marlena is a legal Polish immigrant. Whitmer & Nessel were financing an Illegals Invasion at the SAME TIME in MI ... While jailing Marlena; A HARDWORKING, TAX-PAYING LEGAL IMMIGRANT. #Hypocrisy Friends Community News Group, Tom Manke, April 23, 2025. Michigan House Oversight Committee @MichiganDems @MIGOP