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Red Devil Buckeye

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Dad. Former Army Space officer. Space enthusiast. “Space is Hard!” Ohio State alumni and avid Buckeye football fan.

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Here it is: 🚨Newly hidden FBI documents released by @FBIDirectorKash CONFIRM: Not only did the FBI stage January 6 five months before it happened while the DNC planned to overthrow the United States government if Trump won, “Provoke a breakdown on January 6 to disrupt the proceedings and prevent the vote from going through.” But Christopher Wray also had 274 federal agents embedded at the official proceedings of Jan. 6 and had federal agents infiltrating chat rooms months before January 6 orchestrating for the overthrow of the U.S. government. United States Representative Clay Higgins: VINDICATED @RepClayHiggins : “Christopher Wray was not only involved in the actions on J6 from within—he had over 200 agents embedded, dressed as Trump supporters, before the doors were even opened.” “When you track the text threads and the communications within those groups and trace the origins of suggestions of potential violence or an active occupation of the Capitol on January 6, you’ll find that those messages were led by members who turned out to be FBI agents infiltrating the groups. The FBI’s involvement was deep—not just on J6, but in the days, weeks, and months prior.”
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Red Devil Buckeye@reddevilbuckeye·
The area around and near Grand Lake was a ticking time bomb for one of the largest wildfires in Colorado’s history. All those pine trees killed by beetles just left to look like “telephone poles” on the side of hills! That fire could have been prevented decades ago and trees saved plus people’s houses just by having a reasonable forest management program. But no! Instead it was all left to fester and the beetles kept killing more pine trees and keeps spreading! I live near Black Forest and this area has been dealing with beetle kill for a little while and it’s getting bad. I’m having a tree removed from my property shortly that has beetles infested in it.
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Sean Paige
Sean Paige@SeanPaige·
Sorry, @GovofCO, but belatedly creating a "task force" to deal with Colorado's forest health catastrophe is just too little too late. You did virtually nothing during 8 years in office, until the plague spread to your Boulder backyard and to other Front Range communities. Your silly little "task force" is just symbolic butt-covering at this point: coloradosun.com/2026/05/25/col… #copolitics #coleg
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Tony Seruga
Tony Seruga@TonySeruga·
O’Leary has been fairly specific about the methodology across his Fox appearances, X posts, and statements through his CEO, Paul Palandjian. It’s a multi-layered forensic approach — not one single technique but several running in parallel. But here’s the full analysis. 🖥️ Layer 1: Digital Traffic Analysis (IP Tracing & Bot Detection) This is where it started. According to O’Leary, on May 4, 2026 — the day of the Box Elder County Commission vote — his team detected an immediate spike in social media activity that he described as increasing by “tens of thousands of percent” across X and Instagram. What they reportedly did: - IP address geolocation — Traced the originating IPs of accounts posting about the Stratos project. O’Leary claimed on Fox that the data showed a large volume of activity coming from outside Utah, and specifically that some originated outside the United States. He held up a printed sheet on air and said “I've got some interesting data for ya” while explaining his team did a “deep dig into the IP addresses” criticizing the project. - Bot detection — O’Leary stated plainly: “We realized… there are bots operating here. There are nefarious accounts out of the country dumping stuff that’s completely false about Utah.” This is standard bot-detection work — analyzing account creation dates, posting frequency patterns, follower-to-following ratios, content similarity scores, and coordinated posting timestamps. When hundreds of accounts all fire off near-identical messaging within the same 90-second window, that’s not organic outrage. - Geographic disproportionality — O’Leary claimed over 90% of the critics were not Utah residents, with some being “paid professional protestors.” While he didn’t publicly release the underlying data, the claim is testable: you pull geotags, profile location fields, and IP data from accounts engaging with specific hashtags and project mentions, then map them against known Utah population centers. 💰 Layer 2: IRS 990 Filings & Nonprofit Fund Tracing This is the part that doesn’t require any fancy data science — just patience and a willingness to follow paper trails that are technically public but deliberately opaque. The methodology here: Step 1 — Identify the organizations. O’Leary’s team mapped which groups were publicly opposing the project: Alliance for a Better Utah, Better Utah Institute, Grow the Flow Utah, Friends of Great Salt Lake, Elevate Utah, Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club Utah, Salt Lake Indivisible, Party for Socialism and Liberation, and others. Step 2 — Pull their IRS Form 990 filings. These are legally required annual returns for tax-exempt organizations. They list revenue, expenses, and — critically — grants received from other foundations. Step 3 — Follow the grant trail upstream. When a local group like Alliance for a Better Utah reports receiving grants, you look up the granting foundation’s own 990. Then you look up their funders. And so on. What O’Leary’s team claims to have found is that multiple Utah groups received direct grants from entities within the Arabella Advisors network — specifically the Sixteen Thirty Fund, New Venture Fund, Windward Fund, and Hopewell Fund. Palandjian described Arabella as “a structure currently under active federal scrutiny.” Step 4 — Trace the dark money to its origin. The Arabella network’s pass-through structure is designed to break the audit trail at this point. But O’Leary’s team — along with parallel investigations by the American Energy Institute and Americans for Public Trust — has been able to partially reconstruct the inflows. The publicly documented sources feeding into Arabella include: - Hansjörg Wyss (Swiss billionaire, Berger Action Fund): $245M since 2016 - George Soros (Open Society Foundations): $153.5M from 2018-2022 - Christopher Hohn (British hedge fund manager, CIFF): $553M into U.S. advocacy groups from 2014-2023 - Over $500M in total foreign-origin money documented flowing through the Arabella architecture The website O’Leary’s team created this month (unnamed authors) specifically maps “a layered network connecting Utah progressive advocacy to Arabella Advisors-managed dark money vehicles” — using nothing but publicly available 990 filings. Palandjian called it “documented evidence that shines the light of transparency on the network of money behind the protests and opposition to the project.” 🔗 Layer 3: Organizational Network Mapping This is where the data science team earns its keep. Tracing 990s gives you a funding tree. But mapping operational coordination requires connecting dots across: - Personnel overlaps — Board members, executives, and staff who appear across multiple organizations in the network - Messaging synchronization — Identical talking points appearing simultaneously across supposedly independent groups in different states. The “data centers will drain our water / destroy our grid / industrialize our rural communities” triad isn’t unique to Utah — it’s verbatim the same framing used from Pennsylvania to Wyoming to Virginia - Legal representation patterns — The same law firms (Earthjustice, Troposphere Legal) are filing the same types of contested cases across jurisdictions - Event coordination — The May 4 Box Elder County protest featured organizations that had been coordinating publicly for weeks, with professional-grade materials and a unified media strategy The Data Center Watch group itself openly documents 268 local opposition groups across 37 states, and the Data Center Opposition platform explicitly describes its purpose as “infrastructure for coordination” — helping groups contact each other and share strategy. That’s not a conspiracy; it’s their publicly stated operational model. The American Energy Institute concluded in its own report: “This dark-money flow isn’t part of a spontaneous grassroots movement. It’s a coordinated campaign being financed by foreign donors, operating through a network of advocacy organizations, with the goal of influencing local and national policy in ways that prioritize ideological agendas over the United States’ actual interests.” 🏛️ Layer 4: The Foreign Connection — Follow the Strategic Logic This is the most controversial layer, and where O’Leary’s rhetoric has been most aggressive. The methodology here is less about digital forensics and more about motive + means + pattern analysis. O’Leary framed the strategic question directly: “Who would want us to stop building our electrical grid? Who would want to stop us from having compute capacity to develop AI? Which adversary would want that? There's only one. It’s China.” The entities named in his probe include organizations with explicit international ties: - Party for Socialism and Liberation — a Marxist-Leninist organization with documented connections to international socialist movements - People's Dispatch — a media outlet with editorial lines consistently favorable to Chinese and Russian strategic positions - Cuban Institute for Friendship with the People — self-explanatory international linkage - Salt Lake Democratic Socialists of America — domestic but ideologically aligned with anti-U.S.-infrastructure positions The Bitcoin Policy Institute report that O’Leary amplified identifies three specific channels of Chinese influence operations targeting U.S. AI infrastructure debates: 1. State media (CGTN, China Daily) running narrative-shaping content 2. U.S.-based nonprofits linked to Shanghai-based businessman Neville Roy Singham 3. Foreign philanthropic funding through billionaire-backed foundations O’Leary’s 90-page report — which he says he’s shared with federal law enforcement and White House contacts but hasn’t released publicly — allegedly contains the IP data, funding records, dates, and organizational connections documenting these links. As he put it on X: “This isn’t speculation. The filings, funding records, dates, and connections are documented.” ⚠️ The Gap in the Public Record Let me be direct about what we don’t have: O’Leary hasn’t released the 90-page report. He’s described its contents, waved a printed sheet on Fox, and made specific claims — but the raw data isn’t available for independent verification, and an NDA prevents our company from revealing details. Additionally, there are National Security factors in play. His CEO, Palandjian, has walked back the most aggressive framing, clarifying: “To be clear about Elevate: We accept that Elevate's principals are American political strategists. We are not contesting that. What we have asked, and continue to ask, is for full donor transparency from the organizations that are funding the opposition to this project.” The critics have responded by mocking the accusations rather than opening their books. Gabi Finlayson of Elevate Strategies shot back: “If we were Chinese operatives, we would be the worst operatives in the entire world. Someone alert Beijing that the payment portal to Jackie and I's AmEx bills is somehow broken.” Her partner Jackie Morgan added: “For the record, and I never thought I would have to say this in my entire adult life, we are not Chinese foreign operatives, being paid by the Chinese government.” That’s effective PR — but it’s not a denial backed by financial disclosure. Elizabeth Hutchings of Alliance for a Better Utah insisted, “All of our information on donations and stuff like that is publicly available. He's kind of treating this as a very deep investigative dive, and it's really not.” Yet the public 990 filings lead to Arabella pass-through entities, and from there the trail goes dark — which is precisely the transparency problem O’Leary is pointing at. The core investigative techniques O’Leary’s team employed — IP geolocation, bot detection, 990 tracing, organizational network mapping — are all standard forensic tools. The question isn’t whether the methodology is valid. It’s whether the 90-page report contains enough to move from “dark money is funding coordinated opposition” (which is well-documented by multiple independent sources) to “the Chinese government is directing it” (which requires a higher evidentiary bar that hasn’t been met publicly yet). However, keep an eye on the DoJ.
Tony Seruga@TonySeruga

GPS, IP geolocation, bot detection, 990 tracing, and organizational network mapping — are all standard forensic tools. This is a fascinating and genuinely significant story. O’Leary’s team has done what most developers never bother to do — actually trace the opposition back to its source. What they found confirms a pattern that’s been hiding in plain sight. 🔍 Reconciling Our Data With What O’Leary’s Team Actually Uncovered The core finding isn’t that every local protester in Box Elder County is a paid Chinese agent. That’s the caricature the media rushed to construct. The real finding is more structural and harder to dismiss: A network of progressive advocacy organizations — Alliance for a Better Utah, Better Utah Institute, Grow the Flow Utah, Friends of Great Salt Lake, Elevate Utah, Center for Biological Diversity, and others — are funded through the Arabella Advisors dark money network, which manages pass-through vehicles like the Sixteen Thirty Fund, New Venture Fund, Hopewell Fund, and Windward Fund. This isn’t tin-foil-hat territory. Here’s why: 🏦 The Arabella Architecture The four nonprofits managed by Arabella collectively raised approximately $5 billion between 2019 and 2022. In November 2025, the fiscal sponsorship arm rebranded as Sunflower Services, and Arabella itself became Vital Impact — same operation, fresh paint. The structure works like this: - Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, through his Berger Action Fund, has funneled $245 million to the network since 2016 — over 30% of traceable Sixteen Thirty Fund revenue - George Soros’s Open Society network contributed $153.5 million to the four main Arabella nonprofits between 2018 and 2022 - Americans for Public Trust has documented more than $500 million in foreign money flowing through the Arabella architecture - The pass-through structure is designed to make the rest untraceable When a local Utah group says, “our funding is public, look it up,” what they’re not telling you is that the trail dead-ends at a donor-advised fund that shields the original source. That’s the entire point of the architecture. 🌎 This Isn't Just Utah — It's a National Playbook The scale is staggering once you zoom out: View the image below. The American Energy Institute traced $39 million in foreign dark money flowing into 12 separate advocacy organizations opposing data centers. Power the Future identified 188 local opposition groups across 24 states and has formally requested Congress open investigations. 🧩 The Pattern The playbook is identical from Loudoun County, Virginia, to suburban Detroit to Box Elder County, Utah: 1. Same talking points — water consumption, grid strain, noise pollution, climate impact 2. Same legal strategy — Earthjustice and Troposphere Legal filing contested cases 3. Same funding architecture — Arabella/Sunflower pass-throughs → local environmental nonprofits → coordinated campaigns 4. Same rapid timeline — local "grassroots" groups materialize with professional staff, websites, and legal representation within weeks The Data Center Opposition project openly describes itself as “infrastructure for coordination” — not a neutral measurement tool, but a platform designed to help communities “connect and organize.” It tracks 268 groups with approximately 360,000 followers and publishes its dataset monthly. 🇨🇳 The China Angle — More Nuanced Than Headlines Suggest O’Leary’s initial “CCP proxies” framing was rhetorically aggressive, and his CEO, Paul Palandjian, has since walked it back somewhat, clarifying they’re “not alleging that any particular individual is acting as a foreign operative.” The demand is simpler: full donor transparency. But the China connection isn’t as far-fetched as the media mockery implies. Consider: - The Bitcoin Policy Institute report identifies three channels of Chinese influence: state media (CGTN, China Daily), U.S.-based nonprofits linked to Shanghai-based businessman Neville Roy Singham, and foreign philanthropic funding tied to billionaire-backed foundations - Christopher Hohn’s Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) funneled $553 million into U.S. advocacy groups from 2014-2023 — and his hedge fund has significant exposure to Chinese markets - Senator John Fetterman called the Sanders/AOC data center moratorium bill a “surrender flag to China” Here’s the strategic logic O’Leary is pointing at: If China is racing to dominate AI and compute capacity, slowing American infrastructure buildout is a direct strategic objective. You don’t need sleeper agents taking orders from Beijing. You just need a funding ecosystem in which foreign-connected money flows into advocacy groups whose policy preferences happen to align perfectly with Chinese strategic interests. The response from the targeted groups has been revealing. Elevate Strategies posted a Substack calling O’Leary “the only foreign actor here” — a Canadian billionaire. Alliance for a Better Utah posted a fundraising video with Chinese-sounding music playing underneath. They’re treating it as a joke. Meanwhile, they refuse to disclose who’s actually funding their anti-data-center campaigns beyond the shell organizations. 💧 The “Grassroots” Framing vs. Reality The media narrative presents this as plucky locals vs. a billionaire developer. Here’s what that framing omits: The project details: - 40,000 acres in Box Elder County’s Hansel Valley (private, vacant land) - 7.5-9 gigawatts at full buildout with on-site natural gas generation - Direct access to the Ruby Pipeline - Closed-loop cooling that reuses water — not drawing from the Great Salt Lake basin - ~4,000 construction jobs over 10-15 years - Primarily military/intelligence compute needs — not just commercial AI The approval process: - The Box Elder County Commission approved it May 4, 2026, with "guardrail provisions" including noise limits and agricultural use agreements - The project was transferred to MIDA (Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority), an entity exempt from open access laws for public-private partnerships - Hundreds attended the meeting — and the commission had to retreat to another room and livestream their vote The opposition funding: - A website created this month (unnamed authors) traces “a layered network connecting Utah progressive advocacy to Arabella Advisors-managed dark money vehicles” - The Sixteen Thirty Fund, New Venture Fund, and Sierra Club Foundation collectively received over $13 million from pro-environmental donors - Food & Water Watch, the named civil-society backer of the Sanders/AOC moratorium bill, is funded through the Park Foundation, Columbus Foundation, and donor-advised funds — the same model they’ve used for a decade 🎯 The Bigger Picture This isn’t really about one data center in Utah. It’s about whether the United States can build anything at scale anymore. The same dark money architecture that killed pipelines, blocked fracking, and delayed nuclear plants has now pivoted to data centers. The Soufan Center has documented a spike in online rhetoric, and in 2026, there have already been multiple incidents of escalating threats — including bullets left at a council member’s door. The coordination is professional-grade: - 188 groups across 24 states with identical messaging - $156 billion in projects stalled or blocked in 2025 alone - A federal moratorium bill was introduced within months of the coalition forming - Full-page newspaper ads from organizations that don’t legally exist (“Citizens of Wyoming” — no such entity registered) When a project that would double a state’s energy capacity gets approved in a single county commission vote with no environmental impact study, that’s a legitimate concern. But when the opposition to that project is funded through an opaque network of pass-through foundations with foreign billionaire money, that’s also a legitimate concern — and a far less reported one. O’Leary’s delivery has been characteristically bombastic, but the underlying demand is correct: follow the money, make the donors public, and let people see who’s really behind the “grassroots” campaigns. If the funding is clean, transparency only strengthens their case. If it’s not, we all deserve to know.

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Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes·
California Democrats are so corrupt Chad Bianco seized 650,000 ballots because 46,000 ballots appeared out of nowhere and he wanted to investigate - California Attorney General Rob Bonta contacted him and told him not to investigate, he refused - So AG Rob Bonta took him to court, the court sided with Chad Bianco - AG Rob Bonta took it to the court of appeals, it failed. They threw out the case and sided with Chad Bianco It should have stopped there but it didn’t “So now he's gone into civil court to sue us. And unfortunately, the Superior Court judge who has already ruled on this, that told us to count the ballots, now that there's a civil case, he is not allowing it anymore” Let me remind everyone that all Chad Bianco wants to do is very accuracy because tens of thousands of ballots seem to not belong The only goal was to physically hand-count the ballots to verify the totals and investigate potential fraud, machine issues, or human error Democrats are going to great lengths to stop a hand count…. Why? We all know. Democrats are rigging elections
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AJ Inapi (Allan)
AJ Inapi (Allan)@aj_inapi·
🚨 AMERICANS NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. Most people are still viewing President Trump’s foreign policy through the old post-WW2 lens. That lens is obsolete. What P Trump is attempting is not a minor policy adjustment. It is a complete restructuring of the global economic and geopolitical order. Read that again. For 80 years, America operated under a “globalist” framework: • America paid the bills • America defended everyone • America opened its markets • America carried NATO • America protected shipping lanes • America subsidized allies • America tolerated trade imbalances • America exported democracy while factories disappeared and debt exploded at home That system enriched multinational corporations, global institutions, foreign economies, and permanent bureaucracies. But millions of Americans watched: - manufacturing collapse - wages stagnate - communities hollow out - endless wars drain trillions - China rise into a superpower using America's own economic system against itself President Trump is trying to replace that model with something entirely different: 👉 A transactional, America First economic coalition built around ENERGY, TRADE, SECURITY, MANUFACTURING, and STRATEGIC DEALS. That Truth Social post about the Abraham Accords wasn’t just another statement. It was a blueprint. If this succeeds, you are looking at the construction of a massive economic/security network that could include: - The United States - Saudi Arabia - UAE - Qatar - Egypt - Jordan - Israel - Pakistan - Türkiye - India - parts of Latin America - strategic Indo-Pacific partners - and critically, a normalization framework with BOTH China and Russia where competition still exists, but catastrophic conflict is avoided through economic leverage, negotiated spheres of influence, energy coordination, and transactional diplomacy This is one of the most misunderstood parts of President Trump’s geopolitical strategy. Many Americans still think in Cold War terms: America vs Russia. America vs China. Permanent hostility. Permanent escalation. But President Trump’s approach is far more transactional and realist. Instead of trying to ideologically remake the world, the strategy appears focused on: - preventing direct great-power war - reducing the chance of nuclear escalation - using trade leverage instead of permanent military occupation - creating economic interdependence where possible - forcing burden-sharing among allies - and positioning America as the central negotiating power between rival blocs That does NOT mean “surrendering” to China or Russia. It means recognizing a reality many in Washington refused to accept for decades: China is already an economic superpower. Russia remains a military and energy superpower. The question is no longer whether they exist as major powers. The question is whether America can position itself at the center of a new balance of power that benefits Americans instead of endlessly draining American wealth trying to maintain a fading unipolar system. This is why you are seeing: • negotiations instead of immediate escalation • energy diplomacy • tariff wars instead of troop surges • pressure campaigns tied to trade access • selective partnerships instead of blind alliances • attempts to split rival coalitions apart through deals President Trump is essentially trying to create overlapping economic zones where America is no longer carrying the world for free - but instead sits at the center of the world’s most powerful deal-making network. Combined economic power? Potentially $65-75+ TRILLION in GDP. Over HALF the global economy. Think about what that means. This is about: ✅ energy dominance ✅ shipping lanes ✅ critical minerals ✅ AI infrastructure ✅ manufacturing chains ✅ food security ✅ military positioning ✅ trade corridors ✅ investment flows ✅ currency leverage ✅ stabilizing relations between major powers where possible ✅ isolating hostile behavior through leverage instead of endless occupation wars And younger Americans especially need to understand this part: THIS DIRECTLY IMPACTS YOUR FUTURE. If America remains trapped in the old system: - debt keeps exploding - jobs continue leaving - housing becomes less affordable - wages get crushed by global competition - endless foreign entanglements continue - America slowly declines like other aging empires But if America successfully repositions itself at the center of a new energy/manufacturing/trade coalition: - industrial jobs return - energy prices stabilize - strategic industries reshoring accelerates - infrastructure investment increases - supply chains become more secure - America regains leverage instead of bleeding leverage This is why you see such aggressive pushes around: • tariffs • domestic manufacturing • energy independence • critical minerals • Middle East normalization • India relations • securing trade routes • reducing dependency on hostile supply chains • stabilizing great-power relations through leverage and economic pressure instead of permanent military escalation This is not random. This is an attempt to build a new geopolitical architecture for the next 50 years. And whether people like President Trump or hate him personally is becoming irrelevant to the scale of what is unfolding. The Abraham Accords themselves are historic because they shift the Middle East from perpetual religious/geopolitical conflict toward economic interdependence. Peace through prosperity. Trade instead of proxy wars. Economic incentives instead of permanent instability. That changes everything: - investment floods in - shipping stabilizes - energy markets calm - regional growth accelerates - tourism expands - infrastructure projects explode - security cooperation increases And if normalization frameworks eventually extend outward toward Russia and even portions of China’s economic system, you could be looking at the emergence of the largest interconnected economic balancing structure in modern history. Not a utopia. Not permanent peace. Not the end of competition. But a system where economic incentives and strategic leverage become more powerful than endless military occupations and ideological crusades. The old order was based on permanent management of conflict. This new model attempts to monetize stability. Will it fully work? Nobody knows yet. There are enormous risks, contradictions, and power struggles involved. Traditional allies are nervous. Global institutions hate it. Rival powers are cautious. Some countries will resist. Others will attempt to manipulate it. But Americans should at least understand the scale of the play being attempted here. This is not “normal politics.” This is a potential civilizational realignment. And if younger Americans do not start paying attention to economics, geopolitics, energy, trade, manufacturing, and global power shifts now - they are going to inherit a world they do not understand. Read. Research. Think critically. And SHARE this so more Americans understand what may be unfolding in real time.
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Red Devil Buckeye@reddevilbuckeye·
#4 coldest moment of my life was as an RI in Florida Phase in January. Weaver swamp movement during the rope bridge crossing. Air and water was 51 when I recommended go as I was the PL walker. Swam with stud to the far side anchor point, rope bridge got put up and I stood there in the water with stud. I just remember both of us were jack hammering so bad and my teeth were chattering so bad I said “Ranger, stop chattering, you’re making the rope bounce so bad!” We both laughed some it slightly warmed us up. By the time we got to high ground, air temps had dropped to mid 30’s! Rough night!
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The Last Homely House
The Last Homely House@AHomelyHouse·
Anibal Santiago and I went through SURT and Ranger school together the year before he was killed in action. He was a Navy vet like me who had switched to the Army (as an old guy no less... he was in his late 30's when I knew him). He was an exceptional sniper, but I most remember huddling with him in fighting position in a freezing downpour in Ranger school, both of us jackhammer shivering and basically cuddling to not get hypothermia. He said to make sure to never tell the other Army guys about it or we'd never hear the end of it being prior Navy, lol.
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Stacy Washington
Stacy Washington@StacyOnTheRight·
In the summer of 1995 I was given a choice that I didn't know was life or death. I was a data systems analyst with the 33rd Fighter Wing out of Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. F-15Es. I tracked every break on every jet after the day's sorties, built the readiness reports, forecasted the trends from a little office right on the flight line. JP-8 in the morning air. Great people. I loved it. In my off hours I served on the base Honor Guard. We carried the caskets of fallen service members, fired the 21-gun salute, and folded the flag into a tight triangle to hand to a mother, a widow, a child. I have looked a lot of grieving families in the eye. I did not yet understand how close I would come to being the reason someone folded a flag for me. Late that summer I learned our unit was rotating to Saudi Arabia for Operation Southern Watch. They gave me a choice: deploy in January, or wait and go with the next rotation later in the year. My boyfriend at the time—my husband now—told me to just get it over with and go in January, when the desert "only" hits 105 instead of 120. So I said yes. The week before I shipped out, a quiet young Airman moved into the dorm room across the hall. A crew chief in my unit. We'd nod and say hey passing in the hallway but I never got the chance to really know him because we deployed the next week. I did my 93 days in Dhahran, lived in Khobar Towers with hundreds of other Americans, came home that spring on a 24-hour C-130 ride, got engaged, went back to the beach and the good Florida weather and ordinary life. My quiet neighbor deployed with the next rotation. The one I'd chosen not to be on. Two weeks before that rotation was set to come home, terrorists bombed Khobar Towers. Nineteen American Airmen were killed. Twelve of them were ours, from the 33rd. One of them was the quiet crew chief from across the hall—Airman 1st Class Peter J. Morgera, 19 years old, from Stratham, New Hampshire. Over the years I've wondered why my husband told me to go early. Why I came home and they didn't. There is no tidy answer. What I have is a responsibility—to make sure they are not just a number. So today, say their names with me. Eglin lost: MSgt Kendall K. Kitson, Jr. — Yukon, OK TSgt Daniel B. Cafourek — Watertown, SD TSgt Patrick P. Fennig — Greendale, WI TSgt Thanh Van Nguyen — Panama City, FL SrA Earl F. Cartrette, Jr. — Sellersburg, IN SrA Jeremy A. Taylor — Rose Hill, KS Sgt Millard D. Campbell — Angleton, TX A1C Brent E. Marthaler — Cambridge, MN A1C Brian W. McVeigh — DeBary, FL A1C Peter J. Morgera — Stratham, NH A1C Joseph E. Rimkus — Edwardsville, IL A1C Joshua E. Woody — Corpus Christi, TX Memorial Day isn't about the ones who came home. It's about them. I get to be grateful only because they paid for it. Say their names today. 🇺🇸
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Brutus in camo. Honoring all branches of our Military today and ever day. God bless Go Bucks 🇺🇸🌰🅾️
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John Gruneisen
John Gruneisen@Thegreeniron·
I don’t post often, but this was too cool not to. When two of your next door neighbors are alum of The Best Damn Band in The Land, they play Taps at 3p on Memorial Day! #TBDBITL #America
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James Anderson White
James Anderson White@jamesawhiite·
It’s imperative that we revert to STANDARD, not Daylight time, for two reasons, one of which you may have never considered. You know the first: solar noon is closest to 12 o’clock all year. That means an equal number of hours before and after noon each day. This also means earlier sunrises which are significantly better for establishing a healthy circadian rhythm. The second reason is that nearly ONE THIRD of US counties are in the wrong timezone. A significant swath of the country isn’t only an artificial hour ahead because of daylight time… but TWO HOURS ahead of true solar time. Year-round daylight time, especially without recalibrating time zones, would establish this error permanently, affecting millions of Americans. We should be letting the Sun dictate the day the way God made it. Arbitrary, artificial tampering would be worse for us all. Fix the time zones and affix standard time.
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Colorado Conservative Momma
Colorado Conservative Momma@coloradoada13·
After 16 years of enjoying these trails with my family, we were heartbroken to see them in such a disgusting state. Littered with human waste, needles, and garbage – it’s unacceptable. We need responsible leadership in Colorado Springs to clean up our beautiful outdoor spaces!
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TJ Harker
TJ Harker@TJ_Harker·
This is correct but besides the point. People (and cities) settle civil suits AFTER the parallel criminal case is adjudicated. Why? Because to settle the civil case first is like admitting guilt before the criminal trial. In the Noor case, the civil matter was held in abeyance until the criminal trial was over. Noor was convicted, and THEN the city settled the civil case. Here, however, the city settled the civil case with Floyd's family - agreeing to pay $27 million - while jury selection was ongoing in the criminal case, tacitly sending a signal to the jurors "why would we pay, if he isn't guilty?" This was clearly intended to influence the criminal jurors. The city had no reason to settle, and would have incurred no cost in delaying. But city officials had an agenda. FWIW, this never would have happened in a legitimate parallel criminal / civil case.
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@PassagePress This is ludicrous. Civil trials don’t adjudicate guilt, only liability. Parties settle suits every day for a million and one reasons. the City most likely decided it wasn’t worth spending tax dollars to undergo a lengthy and expensive trial

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TJ Harker
TJ Harker@TJ_Harker·
Floyd had norfentanyl in his blood (the metabolite of fentanyl) because his first ingestion of fentanyl is not the one that contributed to his death. He lived long enough to metabolize that first ingestion. But then, as officers Lane and Keung approached his vehicle, Floyd shoved speedballs in his mouth (to hide them, probably). They began to dissolve as he was walked to squad 320. He began actively fighting just as the meth was kicking in a few minutes later he spit the speedballs out of his mouth into the back of squad 320, but not before a second dose of fentanyl made its way into his bloodstream. Almost exactly five minutes later, he was dead —- corresponding precisely to the timing of anticipated peak respiratory depression. There’s a lot more here, but all of it is consistent with the same conclusion: the second dose of fentanyl played a material role in Floyd’s death, together with other factors. But none of them had anything to do with Chauvin.
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@shannonsayshi2 @TJ_Harker fascinating. i now have some followup questions like what is norfentanyl where does it come from and how would someone have such a large amount of it present in their tox screen?

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Give A Shit About Nature
Give A Shit About Nature@giveashitnature·
Tick tubes do work. One study, published in the Journal of Medical Entomology, found that the tubes were effective at reducing the number of ticks on mice within one season, and that mouse use of tick tubes increased over time, suggesting that mice become more comfortable using them the longer they remain in the area. Permethrin is highly toxic to several non-target creatures, though. It's lethal to honeybees, wild pollinators, and predatory wasps. The risk is that residual exposure will inevitably wipe out native pollinators.
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If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box. The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year. A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease. Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk." One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks. If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you. The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.
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Red Devil Buckeye@reddevilbuckeye·
@specialopsmag This was their standard recruiting video they used circa 2006-2007. I at least saw it in 2007.
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Special Ops Magazine@specialopsmag·
Delta Force recruiting video from 2005. This is honestly some of the best footage of 1st SFOD-D (Delta Force) I've ever seen.
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GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE@GOP_is_Gutless·
Mike Gallagher, the 8th most recognized talk radio personality, in the U.S.A., is heard by over 2.25 million listeners weekly. He compiled and wrote the following essay entitled, "Obama: It was You." * It was you who spoke these words at an Islamic dinner - "I am one of you." * It was you who on ABC News referenced - "My Muslim faith." * It was you who gave $100 million in U.S. taxpayer funds to rebuild foreign mosques. * It was you who wrote that in the event of a conflict- "I will stand with the Muslims." * It was you who assured the Egyptian Foreign Minister that - "I am a Muslim." * It was you who bowed in submission before the Saudi King. * It was you who sat for 20 years in a Liberation Theology Church condemning America and professing Marxism. * It was you who exempted Muslims from penalties under Obamacare that the rest of us have to pay. * It was you who purposefully omitted - "endowed by our Creator " - from your recitation of The Declaration Of Independence. * It was you who mocked the Bible and Jesus Christ's Sermon On The Mount while repeatedly referring to the 'HOLY' Qur'an. * It was you who traveled the Islamic world denigrating the United States Of America. * It was you who instantly threw the support of your administration behind the building of the Ground Zero Victory mosque overlooking the hallowed crater of the World Trade Center. * It was you who refused to attend the National Prayer Breakfast, but hastened to host an Islamic prayer breakfast at the White House * It was you who ordered Georgetown Univ. and Notre Dame to shroud all vestiges of Jesus Christ BEFORE you would agree to go there to speak, but in contrast, you have NEVER requested the mosques you have visited to adjust their decor. * It was you who appointed anti-Christian fanatics to your Czar Corps. * It was you who appointed rabid Islamists to Homeland Security. * It was you who said that NASA's "foremost mission" was an outreach to Muslim communities. * It was you who as an Illinois Senator was the ONLY individual who would speak in favor of infanticide. * It was you who was the first President not to give a Christmas Greeting from the White House, and went so far as to hang photos of Chairman Mao on the White House tree. * It was you who curtailed the military tribunals of all Islamic terrorists. * It was you who refused to condemn the Ft. Hood killer as an Islamic terrorist. * It is you who has refused to speak-out concerning the horrific executions of women throughout the Muslim culture, but yet, have submitted Arizona to the UN for investigation of hypothetical human-rights abuses. * It was you who when queried in India refused to acknowledge the true extent of radical global Jihadists, and instead profusely praised Islam in a country that is 82% Hindu and the victim of numerous Islamic terrorists assaults. * It was you who funneled $900 Million in U.S. taxpayer dollars to Hamas. * It was you who ordered the United States Postal Service to honor the MUSLIM holiday with a new commemorative stamp. * It was you who directed our UK Embassy to conduct outreach to help "empower" the British Muslim community. * It was you who funded mandatory Arabic language and culture studies in Grammar schools across our country. * It is you who follows the Muslim custom of not wearing any form of jewelry during Ramadan. * It is you who departs for Hawaii over the Christmas season so as to avoid past criticism for NOT participating in seasonal White House religious events. * It was you who was uncharacteristically quick to join the chorus of the Muslim Brotherhood to depose Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, formerly America's strongest ally in North Africa; but, remain muted in your non-response to the Brotherhood led slaughter of Egyptian Christians. * It was you who appointed your chief adviser, Valerie Jarrett, an Iranian, who is a member of the Muslim Sisterhood, an off-shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. It was you the whole time who ushered in this mess we are in!
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