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We can't legislate away evil, but we can remove every obstacle to self-defense. No school, no church, no movie theater in America should be left defenseless. More good guys with guns means less crime. Period.

THE GIRLS WON! Big settlement to punish the school who punished the kids! You ask why girls don’t just refuse to play when a team sneaks a boy on it? Well, this school did. They even gave up their basketball playoffs. They sat out. But the state punished them severely. The principal’s association banned the entire school from any athletic competitions in the whole state. No team. Nothing. Not even spelling bees or science fairs. When the hammer of this ideology comes down it comes down hard. Any kid who might be facing a college scholarship for sports? Banned. Shut out. They did this to make an example of the school and terrify any other girls from refusing to participate. These were high school girls, children really, and the state made them pariahs in the school. Imagine how much guff they got from everyone else. Well, last year an appeals court told the school they couldn’t do that. But that was 2 years later. 2 years of banishment. The state just settled a lawsuit against it and thank goodness they won! Of course, it won’t cost the people anything who did this to high school kids. No, it will be taxpayers who pay. Ultimately, the families of the kids who got shatter. There is a lot of power behind this movement. Power, and bitterness, and abuse.

There is a new movement in America by UnifyUSA Media to organize Flag Runs throughout America There are already reports of 700,000 people joining the movement to run with flags for social media posts to inspire unity and patriotism America needs this There are plans for a nationwide tour with half marathons. It’s expanding city by city

🚨 HOLY CRAP. A DEVASTATING line of questioning from Rep. Brandon Gill totally exposes abortionists for who they are GILL: What's your favorite type of abortion? LIB: I don't have one GILL: Suction abortion. This is when the cervix is dilated, and a strong suction, 29 times the power of a household vacuum cleaner, tears the baby's body apart and sucks it through the hose into a container. "Do you prefer THAT METHOD?" LIB: I stand by my former testimony. GILL: That sounds kind of gross, doesn't it? Sounds pretty gruesome. Do you agree? This one is called dilation and curettage. After dilation of the cervix, a sharp looped knife is inserted into the uterus. You prefer that method? LIB, PANICS: What I believe we are here to talk about today is the FACE Act! We are not here to talk about the legality of abortion. GILL: You're a pro-abortion advocate. I'm asking if you prefer the dilation and curettage method. You don't you don't want to talk about abortion itself. Why is that? "Forceps are inserted into the uterus, grabbing and twisting the baby's body to dismember him or her. If the head is too large, it must be crushed in order to remove it. Do you prefer that method?" LIB: "I would prefer to talk about the reason the hearing was called and the basis of my expert testimony." GILL: "The baby's skin is burned off. The baby ingests the solution and dies of salt poisoning, dehydration, and hemorrhaging of the brain. Do you prefer that method?" "It's uncomfortable to hear this, isn't it? It is." "How about this one? It's called the saline injection. It's when a 20% salt solution is injected through the mother's abdomen into the baby's amniotic fluid." LIB: I would prefer to talk about the subject of the hearing. GILL: This is the subject of the hearing. This is about protests outside of abortion clinics. I'm asking you about abortion. LIB: I stand by my prior testimony. GILL: I wouldn't want to talk about this either if I were you because it is barbaric and evil. 🫳🏻🎤

Eduardo was sheared in May. He stood, as he stands every May, with the patience of a camelid who has done this nine times. He hummed once. The glossary lists it as "acknowledgement of necessary inconvenience." He did not move. He did not flinch. His fleece weighed three point eight kilograms. The fibre measured 22 microns. Sheep's wool from a typical British breed sits between 28 and 36. Eduardo's wool is finer than cashmere. No lanolin, so no chemical scouring. Hollow-cored, so it traps more warmth per gram than the wool of any sheep on this island. It does not pill. It does not itch. It sheds water in a way that synthetic fibre engineers have spent forty years trying, and failing, to replicate. The vegan alternative is acrylic. Acrylic is petroleum. Polyacrylonitrile, derived from crude oil, polymerised in a chemical plant using a hydrogen cyanide catalyst, dyed in processes that have, on more than one occasion, made the news. An acrylic jumper sheds approximately 730,000 microplastic fibres per wash. Into the rivers, the seas, the food chain, the placentas of unborn children, the lungs of the rest of us. Eduardo's jumper sheds nothing. At the end of its life, it goes back to the soil. The acrylic jumper goes to landfill for two thousand years. Now. The suffering question. Eduardo was, for eleven minutes, mildly inconvenienced. He stood still. He tolerated the sound of clippers he has heard nine times before. He was handled by a shearer whose hands he recognises by smell. Afterwards, he was lighter, cooler, and visibly relieved. He hummed twice in the register the glossary lists as "satisfaction with current arrangement," walked to the geometric centre of the field, and kushed. If he had not been sheared, the fleece would have grown through summer and caused him to overheat. By autumn it would have felted against his skin, harbouring parasites. The shearing is not the suffering. The shearing is the relief. The fleece is in Powys. Eduardo is humming. The summer is properly underway.

Happy Learing Day 🎉 Today the Learing Center and 21 other fraudulent businesses were raided by the FBI. Here's what this means: - There was enough evidence to get search warrants - Tim Walz reversed his previous statements, confirming the fraud is real - Fraudsters across America are now on alert - Our tax dollars are being saved ARREST THEM ALL

@Crazymoments01 That’s great. However, what breed has mauled all the children I have seen mauled enough to end up in the hospital admitted? This breed.

Brave Pitbull Becomes Hero Protecting Baby During Strong Earthquake ❤

The excuses coming out of the Senate are unacceptable. Pass the SAVE America Act.

There’s a reason this isn’t being talked about…

In 2023 the girls' basketball team at a Vermont Christian school refused to play against a team that had a "transgender" (male) player. The state banned them from competing as a punishment. They've just won their lawsuit and the state has been ordered to pay out $566,000.

You are total moron who doesn’t understand anything about the healthcare system. Let me help you out. Picture a town with 1 hospital. A doctor wants to open a clinic across the street. He has the money. He has the patients. He needs one thing first… Permission from the hospital he’s about to compete with. That’s not a joke. It’s called Certificate of Need. Thirty-five states still do it. The hospital that’s already there gets to vote on whether the new one exists. They always vote no. That’s why your local hospital can charge $4,000 for an MRI that costs $400 in cash at an independent clinic two states away. There is NO competition because regulations has strangled it. It gets worse. The AMA caps how many doctors America trains every year. On purpose. They’ve done it since 1997. We have a shortage they manufactured. A nurse practitioner who could handle 80% of what a GP does is banned from doing it solo in half the states. Why? Because doctor lobbies wrote the laws. Hospitals lobby to block hospitals. Doctors lobby to block doctors. You don’t have a market. You have a cartel. Every wall in this maze was built by someone who profits from you being lost in it. The fix isn’t complicated. It’s just illegal in too many places. 1) Kill Certificate of Need. Let anyone build a hospital. Let surgery centers open across the street from the big systems. Watch prices drop DRAMATICALLY. 2) Uncap residencies and medical schools 3) Let nurse practitioners and pharmacists practice to the full scope of their training in every state. Most of what you go to a doctor for doesn’t need a doctor. 4) Untie insurance from your job and make individual plans fully tax-deductible. The reason healthcare is a shit show is because there is ZERO competition because it is strangled by regulations and funded by the government. Everything that is funded by th government goes this way. Look at college tuition… same route. The best thing you can do for prices is to pull out the government in every possible area.

Worth a read! 😍 My mom wanted to send me homemade pickles. But I said ‘no’. I was 27, living in New York, working on Wall Street. I didn't need pickles shipped across the world. The shipping would cost more than buying them here. Three years later, I read the psychologist take on what I'd actually done. When you reject someone's offer to help, you're not just declining assistance. You're declining their need to matter to you! Benjamin Franklin figured this out in 1736. He had a rival in the Pennsylvania legislature who hated him. Instead of trying to win him over with favors, Franklin asked the rival to lend him a rare book. The rival agreed. They became lifelong friends. It's called the Ben Franklin effect.When people do something for you, they convince themselves they must like you. Otherwise, why would they help? My mom didn't want to send pickles because I needed them. She wanted to send them because SHE needed to feel useful to me. To feel like despite the ocean between us, she still had a role in my life. Every time I said "I'll manage," I was taking that away from her. Here's what I learned after a decade of living away from home: → Accepting small favors isn't about you needing help. It's about letting people you love feel needed. Your dad wants to transfer ₹5000 even though you earn well? Let him. Your friend wants to pick you up from the airport even though Uber exists? Say yes. Your partner wants to make you tea even though you can make it yourself? Accept it. The people who love you don't want to solve your big problems. They want to matter in your small moments. Let them. #lifelesson

A creature smaller than your fingernail just solved the hardest problem in evolutionary biology. This male peacock spider weighs less than a grain of rice. His brain contains roughly 100,000 neurons. For comparison, a honeybee has a million. Yet this tiny spider executes a courtship routine so intricate that human choreographers study his movements. He raises his abdomen like a neon billboard, revealing patterns that shift from electric blue to golden yellow. His front legs wave in perfect synchronization while his third pair of legs vibrate at frequencies that create substrate tremors only the female can detect. The entire sequence lasts exactly 47 minutes and involves over 300 distinct movements performed in precise order. Get one step wrong and she eats him alive. Sexual selection created the cruelest performance review in nature. The female peacock spider doesn't just judge his dance. She measures his genetic fitness, his neurological precision, and his ability to execute complex motor functions under lethal pressure. Every movement broadcasts information about his DNA quality, his developmental stability, and his cognitive processing speed. What breaks your brain is the computational load. This spider must simultaneously control eight legs in different patterns, monitor her behavioral cues, adjust his display intensity in real time, and maintain perfect rhythm across nearly an hour of continuous performance. His nervous system is processing sensory input, motor output, and decision trees at a speed that would challenge supercomputers. Evolution built a microscopic performer capable of calculations that required millions of years to perfect, all contained in a brain you could barely see without magnification. The universe keeps hiding its most sophisticated engineering in the smallest packages.

@AmericanFirstQ @LeaderJohnThune 👍

Reach around and give yourselves a big pat on the back folks.. you did it, they heard you The pressure to get a vote on the Save Act worked, but we still have our work cut out Raise your hand ✋️ if you want @LeaderJohnThune to get it passed, he's tagged, let him know.. 👇

@AmericanFirstQ @LeaderJohnThune What is the thing with older women wearing white dress suits, like Queen Consort here, and H R Clinton also.

Excellent point

There is a region in southeastern Spain called Almería. If you pull it up on satellite imagery, you will assume the screen has glitched. A vast, blinding white scab where a landscape used to be. It's not a glitch. It's 64,000 acres of plastic greenhouses. So much plastic sheeting that it is, genuinely, visible from space. The entire region has been wrapped in industrial farming film to grow tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and lettuce for European supermarkets in January. The plastic has created its own microclimate. The reflective surface is so vast it has measurably lowered local temperatures by bouncing sunlight back into the atmosphere. Scientists have a name for it. The Albedo effect of Almería. The only place on earth where human activity has cooled the local climate, and they did it by accident, while building the world's largest open-air plastic factory. The plastic itself is single-use agricultural film. It sits in UV light for three to five years, degrades into microplastics, blows into the Mediterranean, and ends up in the ocean and the soil. Every year, 45,000 tonnes of plastic waste is generated just from replacing degraded greenhouse covering. Every year. Just the covering. Inside, workers from Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa labour in 45°C heat for €30 a day. No contracts. No rights. Spraying crops with pesticides at concentrations that would be illegal on outdoor fields. Ventilation: minimal. Chemical exposure: constant. The aubergine looks lovely. The groundwater underneath Almería is so contaminated with agricultural runoff that it has been declared unusable. The region now imports water from elsewhere in Spain while sitting on top of a poisoned aquifer it created. The land that was meant to feed Europe more efficiently has become a place that needs water flown in to keep the show running. And this is what supplies your fresh vegetables in January. Grown in plastic factories. By exploited workers. Using groundwater they have already destroyed. Wrapped in more plastic. Shipped across Europe. Refrigerated the whole way. So a person in Manchester can have a tomato in February that tastes of nothing. But sure. Cattle grazing on Scottish hills are the environmental problem. Pull the satellite up. Have a look. Then tell me which system is the one that needs explaining.

HOLY CRAP! Karoline Leavitt is calling out Democrats BY NAME who SPARKED the rhetoric leading to Saturday's attempt on President Trump's life 🔵 "Rep Hakeem Jeffrey just THIS MONTH said, 'we are in an era of maximum warfare everywhere all the time.'" 🔵 "Governor Josh Shapiro said heads need to roll within the administration." 🔵 "Senator Alex Padilla said people are DYING because of fear and terror caused by the Trump administration." 🔵 "Senator Elizabeth Warren: President Trump is making the country look like a 'FASCIST STATE'" 🔵 "Senator Adam Schiff saying President Trump using a dictator playbook" Senator Ed Markey calling President Trump a dictator, saying that this administration's actions are authoritarism on STEROIDS" 🔵 "Governor JB Pritzker: 'Never before in my life have I called for mass protest disruptions. These Republicans cannot know a MOMENT of peace.'" 🔵 "Rep. Pressley saying we'll see you in the streets." 🔵 Monica M McIver, a Democrat representative on Capitol Hill, we will "not take this sh*t from Donald Trump. He thinks he's a DICTATOR. We are at WAR!" "These are Democrat elected officials calling for WAR against the president of the United States and his supporters."

Michigan voters—this is where things start to get dangerous… Secretary of State @JocelynBenson is pushing a new set of election rules, and they’re not small changes—they affect how our elections are actually run behind the scenes. Here’s the simple version: These rules would give more control to the state and less control to your local clerks—the people in your own community who know your voters and run your elections. At the same time, they change how ballots are checked and how concerns can be raised. Here is what this means: ▪️Fewer opportunities to question problems at the local level ▪️More decisions being made from the top down ▪️And a system that becomes harder for everyday citizens to follow or challenge We’ve already seen courts step in before when proper procedures weren’t followed. That should raise a red flag for everyone. Because when you: ➡️ Take power away from local oversight ➡️ Make verification less strict ➡️ And push it all through quietly without full public debate You don’t get more secure elections—you get LESS transparency and LESS accountability. And with the 2026 midterms coming up, that’s the last direction we should be going. This isn’t about politics—it’s about trust. If the rules are harder to understand, harder to question, and controlled by fewer people… how are voters supposed to have confidence in the outcome? It’s clear what Jocelyn Benson is trying to do here: Rewrite election rules while she herself is on the ballot. That’s a dangerous combination—because the person shaping the system shouldn’t also be a candidate in it. Is she worried she can’t win on her own merit? 🤔 I hope @JohnJamesMI, @PJQualityGuru, @Mike_Cox, @SenAricNesbitt, and @MayorMikeDuggan are all paying close attention.