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Mike Sawyer

@raftersranch17

Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death! Damn the virus, full speed ahead! After four years in Twitmo, I'M BACK!

Modoc Plateau, CA Katılım Şubat 2016
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Pretty Chauhan@pretty_sarlin·
How many cubes are on the trailer?
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Mike Sawyer@raftersranch17·
@Sob916 @CAgovernor Everything we do here is taxed excessively. I feel trapped with our ranch and taking care of my wifes parents. My wifes siblings are a bunch of selfish shitheads, off elsewhere "living their best lives," waiting for the old folks to die so they can liquidate their ranch.
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@CAgovernor We just got back to California after visiting family out of state their gas was $3.45 and they were complaining how much it had gone up😂😂 then we get back to California and it’s $6.25! Thanks, Gavin😡
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Eric Daugherty
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh·
🚨 IT’S OFFICIAL: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass installed over 450 signs declaring public property “OFF LIMITS” for ICE But the U.S. Attorney has deemed them 100% NULL AND VOID Karen Bass is pathetic! Vote Spencer Pratt! ICE agents will go ANYWHERE they need to arrest illegals 🇺🇸 🎥 @MattSeedorff
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Mike Sawyer@raftersranch17·
@JBarrORConserv @TinaKotek "Safe and secure" for criminals. Arguments against clean voter rolls and precinct voting with ID required are because democrat voters can not get their shit together and allegedly may be disenfranchised. Could that be because the bulk of democrat voters don't exist?
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Tina Kotek
Tina Kotek@TinaKotek·
Ballots are hitting mailboxes in Oregon. Our vote-by-mail system has delivered safe, secure elections for over 25 years, and even with President Trump trying to dismantle it, we are not going backward. Democracy is not a spectator sport. Be sure to cast your vote by May 19.
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Anish Moonka
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up. He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour. Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself. Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it. Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows. Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result. Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing. The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.
George Mack@george__mack

Winston Churchill used to lay 200 bricks per day to keep his mind busy when feeling down. Depression hates a moving target.

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Mike Sawyer@raftersranch17·
@VinceEEllison Desegregation and integration 2.0 from race hustlers has just occurred. If we really care about people no matter their skin color, we'll take on the poverty pimps next.
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Vince Everett Ellison
Vince Everett Ellison@VinceEEllison·
The Black Caucus is panicking because the Supreme Court just put race-based districts in serious trouble. Democrats said they wanted a colorblind society. Now they may actually get one. And suddenly the race hustlers are screaming “Jim Crow 2.0.” No. This is political accountability.
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Mike Sawyer@raftersranch17·
@mrddmia @rockyrules1234 CA'S Mexican hyphenated Mexican, foreign national represented Congressional districts should be eliminated too.
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Will O'Neill
Will O'Neill@RealWillONeill·
Every CA Democrat endorsed a gerrymandering scheme that disenfranchised millions of Californians, split streets in half, and created districts that look like this. Newsom then campaigned for Virginia’s scheme. No moral authority on “what democracy looks like.”
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Mike Sawyer@raftersranch17·
@Shane_BSer @SenValladares @CAProblemSolver The special blends have their place in LA, Bakersfield, Redding, late summer. If we burn less where they're not needed, there's more refining capacity/supply for those who do need them.
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Senator Suzette Valladares
Senator Suzette Valladares@SenValladares·
California’s last major oil shipment is here. After this, we’re short about 200,000 barrels a day—and no one has explained the plan to replace it. @CAProblemSolver asked two weeks ago. Still nothing. You can’t run the fifth-largest economy on “we’ll figure it out.” latimes.com/environment/st…
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Mike Sawyer@raftersranch17·
@Shane_BSer @SenValladares @CAProblemSolver I've argued this, too. We don't all need the special blends. The nearest metro area my exhaust could possibly effect is Winnemucca, 177 miles to the east. Or maybe Lovelock or Gerlach? 😆 It's insanity.
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Juanita Broaddrick
Juanita Broaddrick@atensnut·
Is Michelle Obama on the Ozempic bandwagon too? She looks very thin.
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Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes·
California to begin sending out mail in ballots for the California Governor’s race tomorrow May 4th Every single registered voter statewide will be mailed a ballot Even thought voter regulation is “on the honor system” and you don’t need to be a citizen to register, all you have to do is check a box Gavin Newsom also made checking ID when voting illegal Here we go, another rigged California election for Democrats. Unlimited mail in ballot fraud with no way to verify anything The Federal Government needs to step in and stop these stolen election in California. Everyone knows they’re rigged. Everyone knows illegals are voting
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Mike Sawyer@raftersranch17·
@Ivory_Towerz @paulsperry_ @joelpollak "Oopsie, I made an honest mistake," will be off the board if they add knowingly bad registrations back. "The safest, most secure election EVER. " That won't fly anymore, either. They will be busted in a criminal conspiracy to add fraud into the election.
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Paul Sperry
Paul Sperry@paulsperry_·
BREAKING: Settlement of a Judicial Watch lawsuit has forced the review and removal of some 800,000 ineligible voters from Oregon voter rolls
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Dr Douglas G Frank
Dr Douglas G Frank@DrFrankModels·
“The Oregon Shuffle” I have several copies of Oregon’s state voter rolls, and have been helping grassroots patriots there to understand the shenanigans their state is pulling with their voter rolls. First, when the SoS claims to be removing inactive voters from the rolls, you should ask him, “OK… but how many *new* registrants have you added?” Like your bank account… you take some money out, and put some money in. What matters is the *net* balance. Second, who’s checking up on him? Certainly not the county clerks; most of them don’t even have the capability. But I do, and I am. Here are the basic numbers: In January 2025, there were 3.8 million people in the rolls, with 3.04 million of them considered “active.” (Strange, since they only have 3 million voting age residents.) In March 2026, there were 3.74 million people in the rolls, with 3.08 million active. (Strange again… the voter rolls have been growing much faster than the population since 2014.) Between January 2025 and March 2026, the SoS removed 331,000 voters from the county rolls: 139,000 active and 192,000 inactive. But between January 2025 and March 2026, the SoS added 253,000 voters to the county rolls, essentially replacing the removals. We call this “voter roll churn.” The average churn in the county voter rolls since 2021 is 74%. Did the county populations change that much? No… but the voter rolls did. (We can track every registrant in the rolls.) On April 29, 2026 the primary election ballots were mailed with excessively dirty voter rolls… again. This wastes LARGE amounts of money (about one-third of the ballots do not have a legitimate destination) and makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate the outcomes of Oregon elections. (It provides a credit line with lots of wiggle room.) This will continue until citizens and counties stand up and refuse to comply with the illegal and unconstitutional election system that is being imposed on them by the state.
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WindTalker
WindTalker@nmlinguaphile·
Why socialism can never work: Econ 101: if you penalize something, you get less off it; if you reward something, you get more of it. Socialism penalizes success and rewards freeloading. Quod erat demonstrandum
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