Brent

My small team of volunteers will provide Christmas Dinner to as many Homeless Veterans as your generosity will allow.

[Brent @Bailsapotomous]

@Wisdom_HQ We can't give a sample from one bottle & wait 10 hours then give the second sample. Time would run out. Instead, give Sample 1 (S1) at Midnight.
S2 at 1AM
S3 at 2AM
Since it takes 10 hours:
10AM = S1
11AM = S2
12 Noon = S3
No effect = S4
If we start at midnight, we know by noon.

[Brent @Bailsapotomous]

@RepSaraJacobs It's not complicated. We need to LOWER the effective tax rate on Truck Drivers, Firefighters and Nurses.

[Brent @Bailsapotomous]

@GordonGChang My favorite tree in the county.
#PureMichigan
#CatalpaTree

[Brent @Bailsapotomous]

@GordonGChang Maybe late spring,
Maybe early June,
Is when Catalpa,
decides to bloom
For but a moment,
A few drops of time,
Beautiful blossoms,
Oh how they shine,
Then, it's over,
My how time flies,
White flower tears,
'cross green grass they lie,
Somber reminders,
Of the day Catalpa cried

[Brent @Bailsapotomous]

@codeofvets Looks like it is working!

[Brent @Bailsapotomous]

@BrandonStraka This we'll defend.

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[Brent @Bailsapotomous]

@Rach_IC But maybe now is the time for a tribute band? I'm thinking:
"Not Rilli Milli Vanilli".
Curtain opens, giant boom box as the backdrop. Hit the play button and start the lip-sync show. Maybe Splenda would be a sponsor since they aren't really sugar?

[SharrellAnne @SharrellAnne2]

This is probably a long shot, but if anybody happens to be in DC this weekend and plans on visiting Arlington, I would love to see a fresh photo of my husband’s grave in Section 60.

SSG Alan W. Shaw
Section 60, Grave 8451
B Co 1/12 Cav, 1st Cavalry Division
November 10, 1975 - February 9, 2007

There’s just something about knowing people still stop by, still say his name, still remember. 🇺🇸⭐🇺🇸

[Brent @Bailsapotomous]

@fasc1nate 4 items, 1 common thread:
The Charge of the Light Brigade, Battle of Balaclava (1854).
- Lord Raglan (sleeves), the commander
- Charge led by Earl of Cardigan (sweater)
- Balaclava (mask)→ named for the battle
- Iron Maiden’s song “The Trooper" about the doomed cavalry charge

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If they’re willing to die to assassinate, imagine what they will do if they gain political power

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

LOL - funny because it's true.

[Brent @Bailsapotomous]

@redsteeze Meanwhile, in an alternate universe...

[Brent @Bailsapotomous]

@WilliamShatner Routine Colonoscopy prep has begun Captain, so I am preparing to Boldly Go. Definitely not wearing a red shirt for this event. 🙂

[Brent @Bailsapotomous]

@XVanFleet @KimDotcom I regret that I have but only one "like" to give to your reply @XVanFleet! Well said!

[Joe Abraham @angeldadjoe]

.@GovPritzker, I saw your post honoring lives lost in Minnesota—standing publicly, naming Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and laying flowers in their memory.

But where was that same compassion on January 19, 2025?

That is the day my 20-year-old daughter, Katie Abraham, was killed here in Illinois. She was innocent. She did not knowingly put herself in the middle of an ongoing law enforcement situation. She was not making a dangerous choice.

She was simply living her life—and it was taken from her.

You have never said her name. You have never come to where she died. You have never acknowledged her publicly.

And beyond that—you have never even responded to me.

I sent you a simple, non-political letter. Not for attention. Not for headlines. Just a father asking for clarity, for answers, and for understanding of the state’s position.

You never replied.

And now, in the wake of another tragedy here in Chicago, your public display of compassion elsewhere—while remaining silent about victims in your own state—feels deeply disconnected from the reality families like mine are living every day.

Instead, you continue to defend sanctuary policies that create the conditions where preventable tragedies like hers can happen.

This is not about politics. It’s about leadership and accountability.

When you choose to publicly mourn some victims while remaining silent about others—especially those lost under policies you support—it sends a message.

Whether intentional or not, it tells families like mine that our loss does not matter the same way.

So I am asking you directly:

Where is your compassion for my daughter? Where is your acknowledgment of victims here in Illinois? And when will you take responsibility for the consequences of the policies you defend?

Say her name: Katie Abraham.

Stand where she died. Show the people of Illinois that every life matters.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I get tired of Democrats claiming to be on the “right side of history” when both their past and their present are so utterly sordid and destructive. So, if you are a Democrat, let me tell you about MY side of history and YOUR side of history.

My side of history is Cato the Elder, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Irving Babbitt and William F. Buckley.  Your side of history is Thomas Hobbes, Karl Marx, Josef Stalin, Mao’s Little Red Book and Noam Chomsky.

My side of history is George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.  Your side of history is Tories who fled to Canada, Jefferson Davis, Woodrow Wilson, Bull Connor, George Wallace and Nancy Pelosi.

My side of history is freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and spirited debate.  Your side of history is ThoughtCrime, Speech Codes, religious persecution and Cancel Culture.

My side of history is Brown v. Board of Ed., Loving v. VA, Gitlow v. NY, and Heller v. DC.  Your side of history is Dred Scott, Korematsu and Roe v. Wade.

My side of history is Jackie Robinson.  Your side of history is Colin Kaepernick.

My side of history is head held high, standing straight, hand over heart.  Your side of history is sullen glances at the ground, kneeling.

My side of history is the family as the foundation of society. Your side of history is mutilating confused children.

My side of history is the rockets’ red glare.  Your side of history is imagine no religion.

My side of history is firefighters going up the stairs into the Twin Towers.  Your side of history is 28-year-old men playing Call of Duty in their mothers’ basements.

My side of history is smoked brisket.  Your side of history is a no-foam, no-sugar, soy latte.

My side of history is Lincoln freeing the slaves and General Patton liberating Buchenwald.  Your side of history is Fort Sumter, the Gulag and Pol Pot’s killing fields.

My side of history is Mel Brooks.  Your side of history is Amy Schumer.

My side of history is all men and women are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.  Your side of history is critical theory and only some lives matter.

My side of history is 20-year-olds storming Omaha Beach. Your side of history is 20-year-olds in their safe spaces with adult coloring books.

My side of history is American men and women disabled by an IED.  Your side of history is American men and women disabled by anxiety.

My side of history is the Kentucky Rifle, the Springfield 1861, the M1911, the M1 Garand, the M14 and the AR15.  Your side of history is whimpering submission.

My side of history is Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers, Apollo 11 and Jonas Salk.  Your side of history is “global warming,” 100+ genders and porous cloth masks stopping viruses.

My side is of history is laughing babies.  Your side of history is selling aborted baby parts on the open market.

My side of history is the Sistine Chapel and Monet’s water lilies.  Your side of history is an inverted crucifix in a bottle of urine.

My side of history is construction.  Your side of history is deconstruction.

My side of history is civilization.  Your side of history is nihilism.

And, MOST OF ALL:

My side of history is liberty.  Your side of history is tyranny.

*finis*

[Steve Guest @SteveGuest]

THREAD: For 47 years, the Iranian Regime has been regularly targeting and killing Americans.

Here is a timeline of 50 plus examples of Iran hurting America and terrorizing the world.

1979: The Iranian regime took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran resulting in a 444‑day hostage crisis.

1983: The Iranian regime provided material support to Hezbollah for the Beirut Marine barracks bombing that killed 241 U.S. service members.

1984: The Iranian regime’s proxy Hezbollah kidnapped CIA station chief William Buckley in Beirut. Buckley died in captivity.

1984: The Iranian regime’s proxy Hezbollah carried out the truck bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, killing 24.

[Steve Guest @SteveGuest]

2012: Iranian regime and Hezbollah operatives carried out bomb attacks targeting Israeli embassy staff in India and Georgia.

2012: Investigators linked the Bangkok blasts to the same wave of suspected Iranian regime operations targeting Israeli diplomats.

2012: Israeli officials explicitly blamed the regime’s IRGC‑Quds Force for masterminding that diplomat‑targeting attack wave.

[Handre @Handre]

"In the economic sphere an act, a habit, an institution, a law produces not only one effect, but a series of effects. Of these effects, the first alone is immediate; it appears simultaneously with its cause; it is seen. The other effects emerge only subsequently; they are not seen." - Bastiat

Every brain-dead politician and their army of Keynesian cheerleaders obsess over what's "seen" - the shiny bridges, the welfare checks, the subsidized factories. They parade these monuments to their own magnificence while remaining willfully blind to the unseen carnage. The entrepreneurs who never started businesses because capital was diverted to government pet projects, the innovations that died stillborn because resources were misallocated by bureaucratic fiat, the prosperity that vanished into the black hole of state spending.

This is why democracy inevitably devolves into mob rule by economic illiterates. The masses see the government cheese and applaud, never connecting it to their stagnant wages, their inflated living costs, or their children's diminished future. The seen gets votes; the unseen gets buried in statistical noise and academic papers that nobody reads.