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@dissproportion I’m going to make the jello based corn beef salad on principle. Please send more pages!

Decades ago the old ladies in my family printed their favorite recipes into a little booklet as part of a church fundraiser or something. I just opened it to a random page of “Soups & Salads.”

@billybinion Anyone who allows themselves to be the subject of a New York times article like this deserves to be mercilessly mocked. She held herself up as an example, and thus an example she will be, and deserves to be. Just not the example she wanted. Let the mocking continue.

I didn’t like USAID. But watching people gleefully mock a woman for having to start over at ~60 is bleak. You can disagree with someone’s politics without losing basic empathy. The internet has broken a lot of brains.

@Patriot840116 @SwiftYouTube_ Lay off the poor kid.. this is terrible

@SwiftYouTube_ See the resemblance? Same haircut too

Cheating: bad. Cheating and naming your son after him: insane. Cheating and naming your son after him then flexing about it publicly online: diabolical.

@SwiftYouTube_ This poor kid. 5 years old and no idea that he’s world famous. Even if it’s not true this will haunt him his whole life. Sickening & really unfair to him. I wish we could put it back in the bottle. We need to figure out how to get the references to him to disappear. @elonmusk

@Markemrl @elizaorlins @grok - is this true?

@elizaorlins LOL this judge is well know for this. It will be completely overruled by the VSC.

I read the full court order on Virginia's redistricting. A judge didn't pause the vote. He declared it void from the beginning—seven independent constitutional violations. Everyone is either celebrating or panicking. Almost nobody has read the order. I did. Full breakdown below:

@minori_noen Love this!

なんか気付いたら 海外の方にすごいフォローされてる！ 私日本語しか話せないけど… 翻訳してくれるから海外の方からの 応援コメント全部読めてます 本当にありがとうございますっ！ 日本の秋田県男鹿市で米農家してます 良ければ米の収穫まで見守って下さい🌾 マイブームは小顔体操です！

@clancyoneill @JDVance Australia- lol

Vance, don’t try to spin this to your advantage. You and the president are and have been consistently on the wrong side of history. You have not only facilitated the largest cover up in history when it comes to rapist elites that have violated little girls. But you’ve also been complicit in murdering the innocent school children of Iran. The Pope says what he says. As an individual he follows the teachings of Jesus Christ. Time and time again you and your administration find yourselves on the wrong side of right and rightfully so.

I am grateful to Pope Leo for saying this. While the media narrative constantly gins up conflict–and yes, real disagreements have happened and will happen–the reality is often much more complicated. Pope Leo preaches the gospel, as he should, and that will inevitably mean he offers his opinions on the moral issues of the day. The President–and the entire administration–work to apply those moral principles in a messy world. He will be in our prayers, and I hope that we'll be in his.

@minarchismnow @EricLDaugh Anarchist from Kenya cares about the American taxpayer…. lol

@EricLDaugh How much is that one destroyer of tax payers money ? Will those that put that kind of money at risk pay any price if they make a wrong decision ?

🚨 US GEN. DAN CAINE just went full AMERICAN MIGHT, praising the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers DOMINATING Iran! "Over 500 feet long they displace 9,000 tons and it is the sports car of the United States Navy." "They stand nearly 10 stories tall and their four gas turbine engines can drive the ship at 30 plus knots." "These ships are armed to the teeth with surface-to-air missiles, land attack cruise missiles, anti-ship missiles, anti-submarine rockets, torpedoes, five-inch naval guns, multiple electronic warfare systems, embarked helicopters extending the reach and capability of each and every one of these destroyers." "But far and away the most important weapon on board these ships is the American sailor. Over 300 warfighters are the heart and soul of these warships." Bless the troops 🇺🇸🇺🇸

@johnwconserve @ClayTravis We all believe you lol

@ClayTravis Trump has lost it. I voted for him twice. I would never vote for him again FOR ANYTHING. No reason for our gas prices to be this high, be in a war with Iran, and his post are ABSOLUTELY DISRESPECTFUL. I now consider him a POS!

President Trump gets McDonald’s door dashed to him, gives her a $100 tip to focus on no tax on tips, and then has a press conference on Iran with the grandma door dasher standing beside him.

@realhomerhickam Space X already figured this out.

One lesson learned (I hope) on Artemis II is this is no way to recover a crew on the ocean. I'm sure they were indeed "green" by the time they got them out and then dragged out of a raft in rotor wash and hung out over the sea... no, we need to do better there, a lot better.

@tglass @ZitoSalena Grant was considered a failure until he won his first battle. There are plenty of Americans who will rise to any occasion.

@ZitoSalena Hard pressed to find a national leader of Grant or Lee's qualities in America today. Sad.

APPOMATTOX, VA. — On April 9, 1865, Gen. Robert E. Lee strode onto the porch of a two-story brick home and stared out at a lawn filled with Union soldiers, his Confederate staff of two, and his horse Traveler. Still wearing full military dress, Lee raised his gloved hands and punched his left fist into his right palm. The sound of leather meeting leather echoed in the unsteady silence. Then, as Lee mounted Traveler, Major Gen. Ulysses S. Grant emerged from the house onto the porch. Now facing each other, Grant raised his hat, as did Lee. It wasn’t a salute, but clearly an acknowledgment of the moment. As Lee turned towards the dirt road and headed east towards his troops, the 198th Pennsylvania Infantry played “Auld Lang Syne.” The Civil War was over. “As the sun rose that morning neither man would know by mid-afternoon the war, for all intents and purposes, would end that day,” explained Ernie Price, a park ranger and director of education at Appomattox National Park. But by mid-morning, Lee knew the Confederate cause was finished. He sent a message to Grant to meet for the purpose of surrender, and the Appomattox home of grocer Wilmer McLean was chosen for the moment. When they met, Grant was poorly dressed, his uniform rumpled and covered in mud from the ride the night before. Years later in his memoirs, he admitted that he had no idea what he was going to ask from Lee in the surrender. Yet, once he sat down at a small spindle desk in McLean’s front parlor, words of reconciliation poured out. “Grant knew that the Confederate soldiers from that moment on were going to be US citizens again,” said Price. “Instead of placing them in prisons in the North he sends them home. His reasoning is: The sooner the South’s economy rebounds, the sooner the country can reconcile, so he paroles them.” Grant also allowed Lee’s men to keep their personal sidearms and animals, knowing they would desperately need rations to survive. Today marks the 161st anniversary of Appomattox, and tourists from around the world still come to the McLean home to remember this singular moment, which kept our nation whole after a bloody, brutal war. When I visited last month, parents, students and children listened to different park rangers tell the story of the two generals, and were surprised by the emotion they felt. The best and the worst of our country’s past sometimes happens side by side. The journey to understand who we once were isn’t always a road to perdition. Sometimes it’s a path toward inspiration. Between the first shots fired at Fort Sumter in April 1861 and Lee’s surrender here, more than 800,000 soldiers died from fighting, starvation and disease. Five days after the war’s end, President Abraham Lincoln was dead, having paid the ultimate sacrifice for his steadfastness to preserve the union. Afterwards the country was thrown into both mourning and uncertainty about its future as it faced reconstruction. All of which should prove to folks who often moan that we live in the worst time possible for this country that, indeed, we do not. As the two generals waited for their treaty to be prepared in McLean’s parlor, Grant introduced Lee to his staff, including Lt. Col. Ely Parker, a Seneca Indian, who later recalled their exchange. “It’s good to see one real American here today,” Lee told him. “General, we are all Americans today,” Parker replied. Grant and Lee understood that a divided nation is a toxic nation — and that moment 161 years ago should serve as a reminder for all of us, to not just look to the bad and condemn, but to look to the good and apply it to our lives today. instagram.com/reel/DW6Q6ikjm…

@deusimpera Account from Europe - ignore the troll

I pray for the speedy downfall of MAGA and its supporters. Excommunicate every “Catholic” who supports this evil regime.

@TradVat2 The Vatican has no spiritual sword, just a lot of victims and bankruptcies due to decades of systematic and organized abuse. American catholics understand this. We take what the pope says with many many grains of salt. Epstein was an amateur compared to the Catholic Church

I remember being mocked some months ago when I suggested that the Admin in fact cares what the Holy See says about its policies and that it ought to try to open up channels of communication. Turns out, the Admin does (rightly and obviously) care what the Holy See says. I think if reports are true, the Admin is going to find out that crossing swords with the Pope is a bad idea. Trying to browbeat the Holy See isn't going to work and will backfire. After all, it is just an eternal truth that the civil sword is subordinate to the spiritual sword. You can fight against that proper order, and find out, you will lose. Or you can try to work with that power, and find out your ability to rule will be greatly enhanced.

@CatholicArena The Vatican make’s Epstein look like an amateur. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlemen…

BREAKING 🇺🇸 Pope Leo XIV met today with former Obama strategist David M. Axelrod

@ChadowskiIsBack Here is some info for you. Over 30 dioceses in the US have declared bankruptcy due to abuse by clergy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlemen…

I'll clarify my position; - I would rebuke the Trump administration officials if they did what the media has claimed they did (it's not likely that this story is even true) - I will continue to rebuke the Vatican's hypocrisy in how it interacts with the Trump administration

@Catholicizm1 I was lucky that Father Brennan was just a drunk and not a pedo during CCD growing up. Most Catholics in the US feel the same way. The rest were abused.

A lot of Catholics who say awful things about the Holy Father have undying loyalty to Trump. Very strange.

@MarkSimonHK @NiwaLimbu1988 @HolySeePress @TheFP @PillarCatholic I think it was the papal nuncios assistant- Cardinal Steele, from the UK who is behind this. He has a whole dossier.

@NiwaLimbu1988 @HolySeePress now changing its story is sad. - And it confirms it was Cardinal Pierre who made it up - Destroys @TheFP story.. -- @PillarCatholic

UPDATE: I have just gotten off the Phone with Cardinal Christophe Pierre and it was suggested that there is a media blackout regarding this topic with His Eminence commenting, “I would prefer not speak”. Similarly today at the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni declined to comment on the Pentagon meeting.

@ChristopherHale Odd timing given the Vaticans psyop yesterday to discredit President Trump.

NB: There’s no indication of what Axelrod and Pope Leo XIV talked about. They are both Chicago natives.

NEW: Pope Leo XIV met with David Axelrod this morning. Axelrod was chief strategist for President Obama in his 2008 and 2012 presidential campaign. As I reported last month, there are early talks between Vatican officials and President Obama’s circle about a meeting between the two men. Donald Trump hasn't even spoken to the pope. Obama may meet him first. thelettersfromleo.com/p/obama-wants-…

@ddeanetheology This thing is reaching Russian collusion psyop levels. I think the the anonymous Vatican source leaking this is Cardinal Steele from the UK. Pitiful

I would be shocked if the story about the Nuncio being threatened and scolded at the Pentagon is true. “We can do what we want, get on side or else” just sounds too idiotic. Maybe a discussion (prob. requested by the Nuncio) happened, but the reports of it are surely fiction.

@infantrydort The source was Cardinal Steele from England is what I’m hearing…

“Pentagon bullying the Pope” might be the cleanest IQ test on the internet right now. The results aren’t great.