Laura Brooks

Wrangell-St. Elias

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Took the triplets to a desolate beach for their birthday. Had them build rock people. Promised them we will go to Internet to choose who made the best rock person. Drop a comment: Kid A Kid B Kid C Winner gets to plan itinerary tomorrow.

@Justa_Guy907 Yes. Invest in a bunch of starts that die a slow death while you weed for dayz.

Every Year.... 😅☠️

There is a very real and unbridgeable divide in this country. I have experienced it first hand. I have hob nobbed with the most Libbed out Libs at happy hours and ball rooms in DC, and I have attended get togethers around bonfires in deep red rural Virginia. One group wants to be left alone, and one group, in a very real sense not an abstract one, wants the other eliminated. I’m pro doing whatever we can to secure our safety for as long as we have to.

@EricLDaugh @GreerStandsFree Next do government employee health insurance for us. At the same rate, since we fund the government’s.

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump officially launches the "TrumpIRA" program opening up a low-cast IRA account for MILLIONS of Americans This means they can get MATCHING FUNDS from the federal government in that retirement account "Beginning at the start of next year, every American will be able to go to TrumpIRA(dot)gov and open a new low-cost IRA account." "You'll then be able to access the same type of retirement accounts that federal employees enjoy through the thrift savings plans, which are incredible." "As part of the federal savings match program, low-income Americans will be eligible to receive up to $1,000 per year in matching funds deposited directly into their accounts." "For millions of Americans who lack employer-sponsored plans, this will be really revolutionary because they'll be covered. Nobody thought that was possible!" 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@GrageDustin Do it!

Ron DeSantis probably just won us the House majority for a second time. Next, we appoint him to the Supreme Court.

@afringedgentian @CynicalPublius Yup. My circle is small. Most of my favorite people are Bernie Bro's or in the Black Jesus camp. The cognitive dissonance is nearly unbearable. I can't get to where they are. I want to connect.

@laura___brooks @CynicalPublius And some people whom I love still think he's Black Jesus.

You lying filth. The decision literally and explicitly bans establishing legislative districts along racial lines. It's an anti-racist decision. Why do you Democrats always call the truth lies and lies truth? 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12: "And with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness."

@afringedgentian @CynicalPublius Cursed is he that causeth discord among brethren.

@laura___brooks @CynicalPublius I think he is as awful a president as Carter and Wilson were.

@bonchieredstate I love Trump but this is who I planned to vote for.

It took DeSantis two days to get this done. Dude is simply a legend.

@Tanyaelisabeth (He was way smarter, which is what I really cared about)

@Tanyaelisabeth We were so damn in love that I never noticed I was an inch taller until I met one of his best friends who ribbed him that "oh, she's taller than you." Man enough to pull it off without me even noticing.

My husband and I met online. I am a tall woman so after a few times of meeting someone for a date who I was taller than, I made it policy to ask so that we might avoid the awkwardness. When we were talking I asked him how tall he was making it clear that I was tall. This man would not tell me. He just told me don’t worry. I got you. This is how he is, just tons of confidence, even when unwarranted 😂 To me he made it sound like he was so tall I had so much clearance so of course I wore heeled boots, I mean why not right?? Well dear reader we met and we were the same height, it was the funniest thing I have ever experienced, we both died laughing He thought I was exaggerating over how tall I was and I thought he was making it clear he was so tall there was no way a woman would be that height. It worked out cause now we are married and all our kids are very tall thanks to me.

@Notwokenow I got all but the sewing shit.

Every woman should know how to shoot, drive a stick shift, sew a little bit, and make homemade biscuits.

@grey4626 I appreciate this alternative perspective. Thank you for sharing.

I have been asked for my opinion about Pam Bondi...so here it is... Pam Bondi, in my opinion...was deployed as a precision instrument in a theater of institutional warfare where the Attorney General’s role is less about courtroom theatrics and more about reshaping the Department of Justice’s internal architecture from within a bureaucracy engineered to resist exactly that. To mistake her fifteen-month tour for failure is to misunderstand the architecture of power itself. Bondi entered the DOJ in February 2025 after Matt Gaetz’s nomination collapsed under its own weight. She inherited an agency riddled with holdovers, careerist prosecutors, and institutional muscle memory tuned to the prior regime’s priorities. Her mandate, executed with the cold ferocity of a Florida prosecutor who once stared down the Clintons and lived to tell it, was never to play the long public game of show trials. It was to do the lethal, invisible labor: purge disloyal elements, redirect investigative task forces, shutter the foreign-influence shops that had become political protection rackets, and...most critically...build the factual scaffolding of cases that could survive judicial scrutiny once the political headwinds shifted. That is precisely what she delivered. Under her watch the DOJ secured historic gang and cartel takedowns, first-ever Antifa terrorism convictions, and a string of Supreme Court victories that rewrote the operational rules of engagement. Murder rates plunged to levels unseen in over a century. Those are not the metrics of a lightweight. They are the metrics of someone who understood that the real war is won in the grand-jury rooms and the classified briefings long before any defendant ever sees a courtroom. The public theater...the Epstein files fiasco, the congressional grillings, the slow-bleed perception that “Trump’s enemies weren’t being prosecuted fast enough”...was the predictable noise generated by an entrenched apparatus that weaponizes leaks, redactions, and procedural sabotage the moment it senses its own exposure. Bondi absorbed that fire so the next occupant of the office would inherit dockets already primed, evidence chains already hardened, and a bureaucracy already blooded and compliant. She was the breaching charge. The follow-on force...now under acting leadership that can move with fewer Senate constraints and fresher political capital...gets to deliver the kill shots. This is not speculation; it is the pattern of every high-stakes Trump DOJ transition. First-term chaos taught the lesson: the Senate-confirmed loyalist who survives confirmation must serve as the institutional wrecking ball. The public demands scalps; the law demands airtight cases. Bondi supplied the latter while the former were still being assembled. Those who call her tenure “incompetent” reveal either their ignorance of how the executive branch actually functions or their desire to keep the machine broken so it can never be turned against its former masters. She was never meant to be the permanent face of the Justice Department. She was the architect who laid the rebar and poured the concrete under fire. The structure now stands. The new tenants can furnish it with indictments. That is not failure. That is lethal, disciplined statecraft. And the critics who cannot see the difference have no business commenting on power at this altitude.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 💀⚖️

We had a black president for eight years and not one white racist Republican redneck took a shot at him. Ever.

@Here_s_Hoping Could you incorporate them into a quilt? Something you would use but not be compelled to launder into premature oblivion?

@AuthorJannyB More of this, please.

Dear Author, I have just set your book aside. Why? Because you insisted on using plural pronouns to describe one person. Everybody else has normal ones. This person is a "they" and "them." I know why you did it. But it sounds stupid. And wrong. And it is. Both. Bye. 🙄

Another ad for homeschooling just dropped

Dialogue in movies has not only regressed overall, but become embedded in noise and action as an afterthought. We are becoming more pictoral than linguistic culturally. Being of a certain age, I absorb stories and information with language much more than pictures. Subtitles on.

I'm the type of person who needs subtitles when watching a movie. I understand it a hell of a lot better. Do you turn them on? Or keep them off because they annoy you?

@BigBrainInvestt Even if I paid of my mortgage with it’s 2.55% interest rate I would still owe $1400 month in taxes and insurance. I’ll rent my own home from the government until I die.

Dave Ramsey explains why paying off your mortgage early is the fastest path to millionaire status: A caller who's debt-free except for his house and has $90,000 in savings asks Dave what to do next. Dave walks him through his framework before getting to the real insight. "What we teach is a thing called the baby steps where you're debt-free everything but the house and have an emergency fund. That's one, two, and three." After that comes saving for kids' college (the caller has $75,000 across 529 plans for his two kids). Then comes the step where it gets interesting: "Pay off the house early. We would say throw everything at the house, which is the $90,000 that's in discussion here unless you don't have an emergency fund." But why? Dave points to the data: "We just completed the largest study of millionaires ever done, over 10,000 of them. 79% inherited nothing and somewhere in the neighborhood of 90% inherited not enough to make them millionaires." So 90% of millionaires aren't wealthy because of inheritance. It's because of their habits. And the two habits Dave sees at the first million or two of net worth are simple: a maxed-out 401k and a paid-for house. Here's what millionaires are NOT doing: "We do not find them saying, 'I'm going to borrow as much 3.5% money as I can borrow because I can invest it and make a better rate of return.' We do not find them doing that." Instead, they kill the mortgage and redirect that cash flow into investing. Dave projects the caller's future: "If we fast forward 5 to 7 years... you'd have about a million and a half net worth of which 700,000 is your house. You would be a typical case study of the representative statistically of the typical millionaire." Skip the payoff, and you become an outlier: "If however you didn't pay off the house you might still reach millionaire status, but you would be very unusual among that group." Then Dave gets to the deeper reason, the one that isn't on a spreadsheet: "100% of the foreclosures occur on a house with a mortgage. And when you have zero mortgage and you walk in the backyard and the grass feels different under your feet, 'it's mine by God,' kind of thing, it changes the way you operate the rest of your money because you're standing on such a more solid foundation to live your life."