Shanthyer

I believe humans have a deep need to believe in something greater than themselves. When what you believe in fails you, your world comes crashing down in a crisis of faith. To get out of that hole, you must find something to believe in.

@wakeupusa No

DEBATE: Should pork be removed from school cafeterias out of consideration for Muslims?

@LeaderJohnThune Senate Republicans, If you stay in DC — while democrats flee for a paid vacation — you can pass the SAVE America Act with a simple 51 quorum & unanimous consent.

🚨WOW: A new poll finds 48% of Muslims living in Britain feel they don’t belong in the UK. Many claim that the rise of “Islamophobia” is making them consider leaving Britain immediately. What is your message to those who wish to leave? [Source: muslimcensus]

🚨BREAKING: Elon Musk just reposted on 𝕏 to his 237 Million followers supporting Congress passing - Voter ID - Paper Ballots - Same Day Voting - Proof of citizenship THIS NEEDS TO BE OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY Do you support this? YES or NO? IF Yes, Give me a THUMBS-UP👍!

@ScottPresler @MomLush6 @LeaderJohnThune Sen Thune. Hold the line. The President knows what he is doing. Just came thru TSA at LaGuardia to catch a flight. This was the TSA area. Zero wait.

@LeaderJohnThune This is day 83 of asking @LeaderJohnThune to pass the SAVE America Act.

Today is day 39 of Democrats’ DHS shutdown. Tens of thousands of TSA employees are working without pay, our nation’s airports are under significant strain, and it’s only going to get worse from here. Democrats’ political games must stop.

Our taxes. Were buying farms. For non citizens. FARMS FOR FOREIGNERS.

Liberal academic @Musa_alGharbi's observations when he moved to Manhattan: "One of the first things that stood out to me is that there’s a racialized caste system here that everyone takes for granted. You have disposable servants who will clean your house, watch your kids, walk your dogs, deliver food to you... mostly minorities and immigrants and disproportionately women... And this is basically taken for granted in New York, that this is the way society operates. And yet... this is not how things are in many other parts of the country. Most other places, the person buying a pair of shoes and the person selling them are likely to be the same race — white — and the gaps between the buyer and the seller are likely to be much smaller. Even the most sexist or bigoted rich white person in many other contexts wouldn’t be able to exploit women and minorities the same way as the typical liberal professional in a city like Seattle or New York; the infrastructure simply isn’t there. It’s these progressive bastions associated with the knowledge economy that have these well-oiled machines for casually exploiting the vulnerable, desperate and disadvantaged. And it’s largely Democratic-voting professionals who take advantage of them. A few months after I arrived at Columbia, Trump won. I expected this to happen, but for most people, that was not the expectation. So here at Columbia, the day after Trump won, a lot of the students claimed to be so traumatized that they couldn’t do tests or homework. They needed time off. Now there are two things striking about that to me. First, these are students at an Ivy League school, overwhelmingly people from wealthy backgrounds — and even if they don’t come from wealth, they’re likely to be well-positioned... [but these] students seemed to view themselves as somehow uniquely vulnerable to Trump and his regime, as being especially threatened or victimized. And so they demanded all of these accommodations for themselves. Meanwhile, there was this whole other constellation of people [mostly minorities and immigrants] around them who seemed to be literally invisible to them. The people doing all the work on the campus... these ignored laborers — the people with the most at stake in this election — [were not] saying they needed time off because they were too traumatized. They showed up to work the next day and did their jobs. They weren’t making a scene, sobbing as they scrubbed rich kids’ mess out of the toilets. The juxtaposition was sobering... When I left campus, walking around the Upper West Side, or other affluent parts of Manhattan, similar scenes were playing out. Nor was New York City unique in this regard. Other knowledge economy hubs had similar scenes playing out. And the same drama that was playing out in Columbia was unfolding at colleges and universities across the country. This is precisely what I found so troubling, so difficult to shake off: It wasn’t about my own school. It was about this broader disjuncture between knowledge-economy elites, their narratives about the world, and the realities on the ground."

Islamic imam explains the plan to take over America: “Big change is coming to America. First, we nominate a Muslim mayor. Then, we nominate people to the school board of education. That’s how demographic change begins. We have the most children. Soon, a Muslim president.”

Invader starts a fight with the King's Guard of Norway and finds out. Deport.

I had an amazing employer-provided PPO that cost me next to nothing. You stole it. You stole my doctor. My brother just died of cancer. He had no health insurance because he could not afford your premiums. It was cheaper to take the tax hit. You are a disgusting, fetid liar who did more to harm America's health than anything since tuberculosis.

A Muslim man in the U.K. makes a disturbing claim rejecting coexistence. “We aren’t here to co-exist. We’ve been sent here to dominate and wipe you out.”

'Splitting From The Norm' — my sixteen-year-old little brother just blew my mind with this incredible piece he made for his senior art project. Jake has always been the "difficult" kid in our family, the one who got suspended for arguing with teachers and spent more time in detention than anyone should. Mom was constantly getting calls from school about his attitude or his refusal to follow directions. But apparently, all that rebellious energy found the perfect outlet in woodworking class this semester. He spent three months planning and building this split dresser, working after school every day and refusing to let any of us see it until the big reveal at the school art show last night. When we walked into that gallery and saw this massive, impossible-looking piece of furniture that actually functions perfectly, I literally got chills. Each drawer opens smoothly despite looking like it should topple over, and the craftsmanship is honestly better than furniture I've seen in expensive stores. The best part was watching him explain his technique to visitors, confident and articulate in a way we never see at home. His art teacher told us he's already got colleges interested based on photos of this project, and there's been talk about him potentially selling custom furniture pieces. I've been encouraging him to document his process and maybe start small with some simpler designs online, where there's actually a market for young artists doing unique woodworking. Seeing him find something he's genuinely passionate about and incredibly talented at has been the best surprise of this whole year — turns out our "problem child" was just a creative genius waiting for the right outlet.

Dear Feminists, This is called Forced Marriage.

Jamie Foxx, on the day Robert Downey Jr. proved that to be a superhero, you don’t always need special effects. “My daughter was four years old when she said to me, ‘Daddy, do you know Iron Man? It’s my birthday… can you make him come?’ And God… what wouldn’t I do for my daughter? I laughed and replied, ‘Of course I know him.’ Without thinking too much, I sent a message to Robert. I said something like: ‘My daughter loves Iron Man. If you have a little time—even if it’s just to stop by quickly…’ It was Saturday. Her birthday was on Sunday. Honestly, I didn’t think anything would come of it. So, just to be safe, I invited other friends too. Some time later, he replied: ‘Does noon work for you?’ At that moment, I realized he was serious. He didn’t make excuses, didn’t ask for anything, didn’t make a fuss. He just showed up. For my daughter, it was Iron Man arriving at her birthday party. For me, it was a friend taking time out of his life to make a four-year-old girl’s world real. There are big stars… and then there are great people.”

Having raised goats for over 20 years in Texas, I can confirm: 1. The boys are mostly smelly and single-minded 2. They are chaotic at feeding time 3. They provide comic relief 4. They are selective in what they eat. 5. The babies look like little angels and their behavior is absolutely hilarious 6. They have a positive impact on my pastures which are too small and irregular for crop farming 7. They are talented escape artists

What people think goats are: - Smelly - Chaotic - Vaguely amusing - An environmental liability - The sort of animal that eats tin cans What goats actually are: - A four-legged scrub management system that runs on invasive vegetation - Browsers, not grazers: evolved to consume woody, lignified plant matter that nothing else will touch - Capable of extracting nutrition from bramble, thistle, gorse, and dock: all invasive species, all a problem without them - Operating a biological cycle: scrub in, milk and manure out, manure feeds grass, grass grows scrub, scrub feeds goat - Producing milk with exceptional fat content that becomes cheese four miles away - Doing all of this without a grant application, a consultation period, or a conservation strategy document They have not attended a rewilding workshop. They arrived at the same conclusions by being goats. The chaos is real. The chaos is also, largely, the point.

The City of Zumbrota in Minnesota just voted to REJECT the state flag that Tim Walz changed to look like Somalia They will replace the current Minnesota state flag with the old one outside of City Hall

And the train was full of all of her friends and family 😭😭😭😭 A proposal in Dallas is drawing attention after a man turned what appeared to be a casual night out into a fully coordinated moment, leading his partner onto a passing trolley that had been arranged in advance. Inside, the space was filled with her friends and family, creating an intimate setting that reframed the moment as something far more deliberate than it first appeared. He then got down on one knee inside the trolley as she realized what was happening, her reaction unfolding in front of the people closest to her as the moment became about more than the question itself shaped by the presence of those who have been part of their story all along.

The favorite day of the week.. 😊