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.@OmahaPolice have provided an update regarding the officer-involved shooting at 1606 S 72nd Street earlier today. The suspect was identified as Noemi Guzman, 31. The Omaha Police Department is asking any independent witnesses who may have observed or recorded any actions of Ms. Guzman during this incident to please contact the department directly at 402-444-4877. Please reference Report Number: AA31063 when calling. Your information could be valuable to the ongoing investigation. (1/2)

Jesus wept.

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@SharkFloppKing 46 no grandkids, can’t say that about my younger cousin 😆

42 with zero grandspawns

@JeffMG68 The XJs & Blazers are real bummers. Lots of fun off roaders junked.

Even 17 years later, that still pisses me off

@timsoret I’d take people like you any day over here.

Frankly I hope I can join your ranks one day. I'm done with the morally smug, economically illiterate, declinist mindset here. We think we're so cultured & so smart, but it's mostly masturbatory. Americans keep demonstrating their uniquely actionable & pragmatic intelligence.

As a European, I apologize to Americans for all the idiocy coming from our side. You save your pilots no matter the cost. You send humans to the moon. You fight authoritarianism head-on. It's truly inspiring. We're on the wrong side of the moral equation.

From Martin Iles, reposted: Having lived in the USA for nearly two years, I've realised something. The USA and the remainder of the Western world are no longer aligned. We all laugh and mock when the Americans say, "Freedom!" because we truly think we're as free as they are. Wrong. We're not. Not even close. The laws, the mindset, and the behaviour, is totally different in this regard. Most of all, the governments are totally different. The USA's convictions around core freedoms are on a scale we do not share. Meanwhile, Donald Trump wins the popular vote, the electoral college, the House, and the Senate... a man who, in every other Western country, is held in open derision, if not contempt. For these and other reasons, we are not the same. Yet the West, including Australia, fully expect to rely on the USA for our very survival. If the world turns bad (which will happen - only a question of time), then the whole West, without America, is toast. So, you may ask - if we're not very aligned ideologically, then it must be that we bring something to the party militarily? Well, no... actually... we don't matter that much militarily. The USA has about 470 ships in its navy, including 11 aircraft carriers, 69 submarines, 75 destroyers... plus 110 new ships in the pipeline. Australia has about 30, including 3 destroyers, 7 frigates and 7 outdated submarines. The UK does a little better, with about 60. Meanwhile, the US has over 14,000 military aircraft. A staggering number. Australia has 252 military aircraft. The UK has 556. The US army has just shy of 1,000,000 uniformed personnel in its military. Australia has about 45,000. The USA spends 3.4% ($968 billion) of its GDP on defence. Australia spends 2% ($36.4 billion). The US spends as much as the next 15 largest military-spending countries (including China) combined. The USA has a fighting culture. The men shoot things (a lot) and hunt things, the veterans get favoured in everything from parking spots to boarding planes. A uniformed young man is thanked in the street a dozen times a day. "Oh, the Americans and their guns!" we say, in our smug way. Yes, they have a warrior culture. We do not. We don't have to, because we're a leech on theirs. How many young British men are willing to fight for their country? Now ask the same regarding young American men. The difference is about as wide as it could be. Militarily, we don't offer squat. Meanwhile, look at the way Australia works against America's interests by loving on China. China made us rich and we stay close. This is a Marxist regime with expansionist aims. Again, you have to spend time in the USA to realise just how vast a gulf there is between us on China. Europe, too. They let China have their way everywhere from Germany to Greenland, all the while importing Islam and sending their own people to court for saying hurty words. Somehow, we have landed the deal of a lifetime with the USA that says, "when the baddies come, you'll save us ok?" Because we can't save ourselves. And we live in peace. But we keep gnawing away at freedoms, keep enabling China, and get flabby and disinterested about our military because Uncle Sam's got it. And, let's be honest, Americans are widely looked down on. To add insult to injury, we don't think that highly of our protectors. So, the USA is finally saying "enough." I am here, I can tell you what the vibe is, and that's it. Trump is doing what people want in this regard. They're over it. And we come across all shocked and hard done by. We behave like people with no self-insight at all. Yes, the global alliance system is all over the place now. From America's perspective, it's about time. And I must say, though I be a proud Australian, I am forced to agree. Something has to change.

Jesus rose from the dead and the first person He went to was His brother who thought He was crazy. Not Peter. Not John. Not the twelve. James. His kid brother. The one who grew up sharing a room with God and didn’t know it. Think about James for a second. His older brother is Jesus. Not “Jesus the Christ.” Not “Jesus the Savior.” Jesus the guy who worked in the carpenter shop and came home smelling like sawdust and sweat. Jesus who snored. Jesus who ate too fast. Jesus who their mother treated different and James never understood why. Because Mary kept her mouth shut. Luke 2:19. She kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. Angels showed up at His birth. Shepherds fell on their faces. Wise men brought gold. And Mary told nobody. She just watched her firstborn grow up in a ghetto in Nazareth and kept the secret in her chest like a coal she couldn’t put down. James didn’t know his brother was God. He knew his brother was weird. He knew his mother looked at Jesus different. He knew Joseph moved the whole family to Egypt when they were little and never fully explained why. He knew that one time his parents lost Jesus at the temple and found Him three days later arguing with rabbis like He owned the place. Twelve years old. Already gone. Then Jesus grew up. Worked the shop. Paid the bills. Because Joseph died — the Bible doesn’t say when but Joseph disappears from the story — and in Jewish custom the eldest son takes over. So Jesus wasn’t posing for paintings in that carpenter shop. He was feeding His family. Putting bread on the table for His mom and His brothers and sisters in a town so poor Nathanael said “can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Then one day He left. Walked away from the shop. Walked away from the family. Left James holding the hammer and the bills and the responsibility for a widowed mother. James was pissed. Mark 3:21. His own family went to collect Him because they said He was out of His mind. That’s James. That’s the brothers. Showing up to bring the crazy one home before He embarrasses the family worse. John 7:5. His brethren did not believe in Him. His own blood. Ate dinner with Him for thirty years. Didn’t believe. Then Wednesday happened. The brother James thought was insane got arrested at night by temple guards. Got beaten until His face swelled shut. Got whipped until His back looked like raw meat. Got nailed to wood and hung up on a garbage hill outside the city. And James had to stand somewhere — maybe in the crowd, maybe at home, maybe hearing it secondhand — and process the fact that the brother he called crazy just died like a criminal. Three days and nights of silence. Three days of James sitting with the guilt of every eye roll. Every argument. Every time he told people “I don’t know what’s wrong with Him.” Every time he showed up to drag Jesus home because He was embarrassing the family name. Then Sunday morning. Jesus rose. Conquered death. Walked out of the tomb. And He went to James. 1 Corinthians 15:7. He appeared to James. Not in a crowd. Not at a distance. He went to His brother. The one who didn’t believe. The one who thought He was crazy. The one who was pissed that He left the family behind. He showed up and let James see the holes in His hands. Matthew 28:10. Go tell my brethren. Not my servants. Not my followers. My brethren. John 20:17. My Father and your Father. My God and your God. He rose to the highest position in the universe and His vocabulary didn’t change. Most men get a promotion and stop returning phone calls. Jesus conquered death and called the brother who doubted Him family. James went from “He’s out of His mind” to leading the church in Jerusalem. James went from trying to drag Jesus home to writing a book of the Bible. James went from skeptic to martyr. They threw him off the temple wall and when he survived the fall they beat him to death with a club. He died for the brother he once thought was insane. That’s what happened when Jesus showed up after the resurrection and said brother. One word changed everything. He’s not calling you servant today. He’s not calling you subject. He’s calling you what He called James. Brother. The same James who didn’t believe. Who rolled his eyes. Who showed up to take Him home. Who sat in the dark for three days choking on regret. He went to THAT guy first. If He went to James, He’ll come to you.

Europeans don't understand that America has been the world's daddy for the last 80 years out of idealism, not self-interest. Americans genuinely believe in defending freedom and democracy, and they elected Trump because they're tired of receiving only hate and contempt in return for their sacrifices.

@Spinest2017 @realMozzz @Jack_Bbt Come on over anytime to us “hicks” and will show you what we’re about. Nice sticker collection by the way.

@realMozzz @Jack_Bbt Est ce que les bouseux qui ont propulsé Trump au pouvoir ont fait cette Amérique ? Bien sûr que non. Ils profitent et abusent d'une puissance qu'ils n'ont pas créée.

Les US organisent simultanément un débarquement au Vénézuela, une attaque aérienne depuis la mer sur l'Iran et une mission derrière la Lune, pendant que des nations qui ne sont pas auto-suffisantes en dentifrice nous parlent tous les jours depuis 50 ans du déclin américain.

@senatorbabet You sound like a bitch

If you have a fake anon account and you use it to express opinion on X you are the lowest form of pond scum. Every bad thing happening in the west is your fault. You are a coward. Unfollow me.

@AzPetrich Coat tailing your Uncles service. Also nice sticker collection you fucking dork. Get back to jerking off dudes behind the 7-11

We are at war. An American pilot is missing somewhere in iran. The President is silent. The Secretary of Defense is silent. Congress is on vacation. The United States government is a joke. Signed, A nephew of a U.S. veteran.

@DailyMail You’ll never get it, will you. Don’t fuck with Americans. You really have no idea what we’re about.

vapes are a psyop to condition us to enjoy sucking robot dick p.e.n.i.s. = personal electronic nicotine inhalent system real eyes realize real lies

Old enough to remember when they didn’t screen for HIV.

@JesseCohenInv Honestly the worst take of what could happen. Finland & NATO going into Russia 😆. I want whatever this dude is on.

This viral 4chan post from mid-2025 predicted WW3 and Alien Invasion. Scary thing is it's been kind of accurate so far.

@Shadzey1 100%, unfortunately my fathers been in the hospital for almost two weeks. Totally fine than boom, here comes the ambulance. It’s fucking tough, like you said if you can talk.

I know some can’t, some aren’t on good terms, but the ones that can and are I plead with you too. I promise he will want to hear from you, and there will come a day you’ll beg God to let you do it again.

Hey y’all, if you can, call your old man today.

@brim006 Honestly your spot on with this. I think people who hadn’t had them in their area until recently think they’re great, if you grew up with one around you think they are so-so.

Culver’s is the Yeti tumbler of burger joints. Overhyped, overpriced and average. I said what I said

@ClaudesBBQ @goodbreffis They still have a couple loose meat places around my house. People are diehards for their particular place & style.

@goodbreffis Bro, loose meat burgers used to be a thing here too.

MISSISSIPPI FOLKS - please explain the Wards chili burger. Thanks, Grits