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@TonySeruga @realtinapeters Let's pray she lives til then...

Thank God! @realtinapeters will be free on June 1st! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@DonSurber2 Don, actually this is a real, and fun, debate. And while I have no special affinity for Desantis, I prefer his opinions over those of Ted Cruz. This post def not engagement farming.

It's engagement farming. DeSantis needs better social media aides

@DC_Draino Yes, if they let her live that long...

Tina Peters is almost Free

@Osint613 Hoping she survives until then...

Tina Peters, the Republican former election clerk imprisoned for crimes tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, will receive clemency from Colorado Governor Jared Polis (Democrat) and soon be released from custody, Polis told CNN.

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump just called on ALL Republicans to VOTE OUT Sen. Bill Cassidy in Louisiana tomorrow, May 16, and vote for Julia Letlow Cassidy voted to CONVICT Trump during his impeachment Scott Presler is also going all-out against Cassidy, a THUNE ALLY, as the SAVE America Act has not passed MORE FAFO COMING 🔥 "Election Day is tomorrow, Saturday, May 16th. Vote for Julia Letlow — She has my Complete and Total Endorsement, and will never let you down!" @ScottPresler @RepJuliaLetlow

@VoicesofWW2 They earned. All of it. More than that.

Everyone knows about the 1948 Berlin Blockade. Almost no one knows what happened in the SUMMER OF 1945. For two months after Germany surrendered, the Soviets locked the United States, Britain, and France out of Berlin entirely. What they did in those 60 days reshaped the 20th century. Per the Yalta agreement, Berlin was supposed to be jointly occupied, split into four sectors. Eisenhower had even pulled US troops back roughly 400 km from territory assigned to the Soviet zone, fully expecting Stalin to honor the deal. Instead, Stalin slammed the door shut behind the Red Army. The first thing the Soviets unleashed were the "трофейные бригады," or Trophy Brigades. These were specialized military units whose entire purpose was industrial theft on a continental scale. They had engineers, accountants, and demolition crews. They arrived with empty railcars. They didn't just take goods. They took the FACTORIES. AEG, Siemens, Telefunken, disassembled bolt by bolt. Machine tools, lathes, generators, turbines, entire production lines. Then they ripped up the railroad tracks the trains had just used to leave. Estimates suggest 2,000 to 4,000 industrial plants were stripped from the Soviet zone in those weeks. Thousands of kilometers of railway track. Power plant transformers. Telephone exchanges. They pulled the copper wire out of the walls. They took bathtubs. They took doorknobs. They took the Berlin subway, literally. Hundreds of U-Bahn and S-Bahn cars were loaded onto flatbeds and shipped east, where many rusted in Russian rail yards because the Soviet rail gauge was different and nobody really knew what to do with them once they arrived. But the stripping was almost the LEAST important thing they were doing. On April 30, the day Hitler shot himself, a Soviet plane landed outside Berlin carrying ten German communists who had spent the war in Moscow. They were called the Ulbricht Group, led by Walter Ulbricht. Their job was to install a communist administrative skeleton across ALL of Berlin before the Western Allies could arrive. Ulbricht's private order to his cadres became infamous: "It has to look democratic, but we must have everything in our hands." For two months they hand-picked mayors, police chiefs, judges, school administrators, and newspaper editors for every Berlin district. That INCLUDED the districts that would soon become American, British, and French sectors. By the time the Allies arrived, the bureaucracy was already pre-wired. Meanwhile, Soviet teams were hunting scientists. While the Americans were planning Operation Paperclip to grab Wernher von Braun, the Soviets ran their own version, seizing rocket engineers from Peenemünde's remnants, optical specialists from Zeiss, and physicists from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. They also seized something far more urgent: uranium. Refined uranium oxide from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute went straight into the first Soviet atomic reactor. The Berlin lockdown materially accelerated the Soviet bomb program by months, possibly years. Then there was the art. "Trophy Commissions," separate from the brigades, hunted paintings, sculptures, and manuscripts. They took pieces of the Pergamon Altar. They took Heinrich Schliemann's "Treasure of Priam," the Trojan gold, out of a bunker under the Berlin Zoo. Much of it is still in Moscow today. And then the part historians used to only whisper about. The mass sexual violence in Berlin was on a scale almost impossible to grasp. Antony Beevor's research and German hospital records suggest more than 100,000 women were raped in Berlin alone. Across the Soviet zone, the figure runs into the millions. Soviet command knew. For weeks they did almost nothing. Eventually, as the Allied arrival approached and propaganda concerns set in, officers cracked down. But the damage was generational. The anonymous diary "A Woman in Berlin" was so devastating that its author refused republication until after her death. Individual soldier looting became its own iconography. The famous photo of the Red Army flag raised over the Reichstag had to be airbrushed before publication, because the soldier holding the flagpole had multiple stolen wristwatches stacked up his arm. Watches became the currency of conquest. When US troops finally crossed into Berlin on July 1, 1945, with the British and French following days later, they entered a city that had been mechanically, politically, and demographically rearranged. The factories were gone. The administrators were Soviet-vetted. The trauma was fresh. Truman was furious. Churchill, who had been warning about exactly this for months, coined the phrase "iron curtain" less than a year later, in March 1946. But the curtain didn't fall in 1946. It fell in May 1945, the moment Stalin closed the gates of Berlin. The 1948 Blockade gets the headlines because of the airlift, Americans dropping candy from C-47s, a feel-good Cold War origin story. But the real Berlin lockdown happened three years earlier. And the West wasn't just blocked from supplying the city. It was blocked from seeing what had been done to it.

@60sPsychJukebox David Bowie's Young Americans album -- his breakthrough. His playing on the title track is fabulous.

Remembering David William Sanborn (July 30, 1945 – May 12, 2024) Alto saxophone soprano saxophone, keyboards, piano. David grew up in Kirkwood, Missouri, a western suburb of St Louis. He contracted polio at the age of three. He "accepted his fate stoically" and endured a "miserable childhood". He was confined to an iron lung for a year, and polio left him with impaired respiration and a left arm shorter than the right. While confined to bed, Sanborn was inspired by the "raw rock 'n' roll energy" of music he heard on the radio, particularly saxophone breaks in songs such as Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame" and Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" Sanborn was a highly regarded session player from the late 1960s onward and played with an array of well-known artists, including James Brown, Phil Woods, Bryan Ferry, Michael Stanley, Eric Clapton, Bobby Charles, Cat Stevens, Roger Daltrey, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Jaco Pastorius, the Brecker Brothers, Michael Franks, Kenny Loggins, Casiopea, Players Association, David Bowie, Todd Rundgren, Bruce Springsteen, Little Feat, Tommy Bolin, Bob James, James Taylor, Al Jarreau, Pure Prairie League, Kenny G, Loudon Wainwright III, George Benson, Joe Beck, Donny Hathaway, Elton John, Gil Evans, Carly Simon, Guru, Linda Ronstadt, Billy Joel, Kenny Garrett, Roger Waters, Steely Dan, Ween, the Eagles, Grateful Dead, Nena, Hikaru Utada, The Rolling Stones, Ian Hunter, and Toto.

@60sPsychJukebox Since you asked... Try taking this double album's best cuts and making a single disc. Then compare to BB, LIB, SF. Comes up short IMO.

May 12th 1972, The Stones release Exile On Main Street, a landmark double album recorded primarily at a villa in France, where the group is living to avoid British taxes (they are "tax exiles," thus the name). Exile on Main St. was originally met with mixed reviews before receiving strong reassessments by the end of the 1970s. It has since been recognized as a pivotal hard rock album, viewed by many critics as the Rolling Stones' best work and as one of the greatest albums of all time. Your Opinion?

@rupertsmom1 @MOSSADil The one anyone who thinks Witkoff is worth having in the room, is the ONLY one whose opinion matters. POTUS. Feel free to run for President if you disagree.

@MOSSADil If anyone thinks Steve Witkoff is relevant in this situation, think again. He has no use with these people. If he understand their culture, then he should just tell President Trump that nothing can be done with them.

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump is holding a high-level security meeting in the White House Situation Room on Iran after nuclear negotiations reportedly hit a dead end. According to senior US officials, renewed military action is now back on the table, with one official saying: “Trump is going to hit them a bit.” Participants include JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Gen. Dan Caine, and Steve Witkoff.

TRUTH! A MUST-READ!

@NASA_Tim @ProfMJCleveland I would add Presidents Garfield, McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt.

@ProfMJCleveland They have other alternatives that they turn to occasionally

PSA: Now that the Virginia plan has failed, keep in mind the last time Democrats were equipped with so few options they leveraged their access to the FBI and CIA to manufacture a false Russian conspiracy to try to unseat a President. So buckle up...

@sym4dvl Cover is a take of a Roxy Music album from 1974, Country Life.

I gave this album another listen. I like it much better now than I did when it came out. I especially like Too Tough. The guitars in the middle of this tune are great. If you haven't listened in a long time, give it another shot.

@XDex91 @CynicalPublius Pure self interest. Congress controls the purse strings. Congress was controlled by Democrats. Therefore to maximize appropriations to DoD, be a Democrat!

@CynicalPublius I spent almost my entire career surrounded by red blooded Americans. Almost all my young Soldiers were vocal Republican voters. Then I got to the Pentagon. Almost everyone in the office was a vocal Democrat voter with varying degrees of TDS. A nearly captured institution.

If you are a Millennial or later, you may be unaware of the near total domination Democrats had over American politics in the 60s, 70s, 80s and early 90s. Yes, the Dems and the GOP swapped Presidencies pretty routinely, but Congress tended to be overwhelmingly Democrat. When Newt Gingrich and his GOP team won a majority in the House in 1994, it was shocking and felt unbelievable. Now, in 2026, we are truly coming to understand that for decades Democrat electoral victories were built on: 1. Artificial, racist voting district constructs, ostensibly under the Voting Rights Act. 2. Complete control of votes and voting in most large cities. 3. Taxpayer dollars funneled to Leftist NGOs to promote Democrat policies. 4. A mass media with complete obedience to Democrats. 5. Illegal aliens, both for purposes of census district apportionments and illegal voting. 6. Highly questionable voting practices such as mail-in ballots, lack of voter ID, ballot dropboxes and ballot "harvesting." 7. "Errors" in census data that always pointed one-way. 8. The success of calling anyone who challenged their voting policies "racist." 9. Federal government employees "resisting" GOP policies while showing complete fealty to Democrat policies. Today, however, these electoral crutches are being kicked out one by one, and Democrats are becoming increasingly insane and violent as a result. Reality is being laid bare, and we are all coming to understand just how artificial Democrat power actually has been. In ten years they might be a powerless rump party, which suggests a third party supplanting the Democrats might soon be a reality. It's shocking, isn't it?

@HistoryNevada But with another woman in the car -- one bad move and they're Thelma & Louise!

Actress Rita Hayworth spent time in Reno, NV in 1951 to establish residency to obtain a divorce from her third husband, Prince Aly Khan. The couple reconciled briefly, but were divorced in 1953. This is Hayworth in Reno on May 10, 1951. tinyurl.com/4287hrx9

@HistoryNevada Looks like Taylor Swift in that picture -- face, not hair.

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The LA Mayoral Race Is About Far More Than Los Angeles Spencer Pratt winning would send shockwaves through the entire California political cabal. They would burn the house down before willingly surrendering power. This Los Angeles mayoral election carries consequences far beyond LA, or even California itself. It is becoming a symbolic battle for the soul of the country — between a decaying political class clinging to ideology, patronage, and moral theater, and a public increasingly exhausted by corruption, incompetence, censorship, and civic collapse. The real fear among the ruling class is not Spencer Pratt. It’s the possibility that ordinary people may finally stop obeying the script. Do we continue allowing ideological extremists and failed elites to hollow out American cities while demanding applause for the destruction? Or do citizens finally reclaim the right to question, dissent, and fight back against the systems failing them in plain sight?

@G80028Gamarra @historyrock_ Guess or you know? Curious.

@historyrock_ 1975 2026

Time passes, but the essence remains… Long Live The Rolling Stones! 🎸👅

@TeganMathis Think of the power centers. Eisenhower still very much alive. MacArthur, the only other living Military Titan, counseled against land war in Vietnam. No way Lemnitzer goes against those two. The only higher power is Room 8F. In that sense I could agree the CIA as patsies.

@MacTimred The CIA was a patsy, just like RFK was, for the exact same reason.

CORRECTION: I made a huge error yesterday when I said Harry Williams blamed Fidel Castro for the JFK assassination. In reality, Williams blamed the Mob. (READ ON.) Harry could not blame Castro for the JFK assassination because the blame-Castro scenario relies heavily on the notion that Castro killed Kennedy in response to the supposed assassination plots that the Cuban Exiles (including Williams himself) had attempted against Castro with the help of the CIA. The fake Almeida Coup plot comes to mind. Do you see the problem? Had Harry Williams blamed Fidel Castro for killing John F. Kennedy (like his co-conspirators did), then he effectively would have blamed himself and his precious Exile community. This is why Harry Williams fed the ridiculous Mob story to Thom Hartmann and Lamar Waldron. Harry may have played a similar game with Hartmann and Waldron with respect to Watergate. The Watergate burglary involved some of the same Exiles who killed Kennedy, so once again, the "real" perpetrators needed to be the Mob. Again, this assertion is totally ridiculous.

@TeganMathis 2/2 The direct connection between the US Army and LBJ are the Room 8F folks -- Defense Contractors, for whom land war Vietnam was a huge attraction. But the CIA never works for anyone -- FBI, Pentagon, LBJ all end up working for the CIA. So Haig important but one of several.

@TeganMathis But truly... 1/2 There is far too much smoke and too many tentacles for the JFK hit job to have been pulled off by anyone but the CIA. They utilized Mob, FBI, US Army, etc. And the genius is each party thought THEY did it.