Cali Benson🇺🇸

Country livin, foodie, animal lover.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@SecVetAffairs: "I am tired in a country where I see we're 'giving veterans this,' we're 'giving veterans that,' and 'haven't we given them enough?' I have one thing to say... We do NOT 'give' our veterans anything. They have EARNED everything that they have gotten!"

[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement @ICEgov]

Allegations that ICE took a third grader into custody to be placed in detention are FALSE, and any suggestion otherwise is a depraved attempt to smear our ICE law enforcement officers and undermine the work of President Trump and Secretary Mullin to protect children.

On November 5, a man claiming to be the child’s uncle took him to an ICE check in. Because the alleged uncle could not establish legal guardianship in accordance with Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) requirements, the minor was determined to be an unaccompanied alien child (UAC). To ensure the child’s safety, ICE placed him in the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.

The child was initially illegally brought into the United States with a man who alleged to be his father, who was previously removed to Mexico by CBP and has never been in ICE custody.

Since you want to talk about immigrant children, let’s talk about the 450,000 unaccompanied children the Biden Administration lost or placed with unvetted sponsors. How much oxygen did you devote to these children before Biden was booted from office?

Secretary Mullin is leading efforts to rescue these children and stop their exploitation. Unlike the previous administration, President Trump and DHS take the responsibility to protect children seriously and will continue to work with law enforcement to reunite children with their families.

[Golden State Warriors @warriors]

The Minivan’s been rolling the last three games 🚐

12.3 PPG
70% FG
60% 3PT

[Erika Kirk @MrsErikaKirk]

To see leftist podcasters, comedians, and commentators laugh about political assassination as though it’s entertainment and the destruction of a human life is a punchline, is beyond disgusting.

My husband, Charlie Kirk, was killed in an act of political violence, something our two children and I will live with every day for the rest of our lives.

A culture that laughs at assassination is one of profound moral decay. It threatens the very foundation of our country and the principles that hold our democracy together.

You do not have to agree with someone’s politics to recognize the value of their life. This should not be so hard.

Political violence must never be something this country tolerates, excuses, or celebrates.

[Basket-Infos @Basket_Infos]

« Il est talentueux et vraiment très intelligent. Il rend littéralement tous les joueurs meilleurs sur le terrain. »

Steve Kerr à propos de Georges Niang

« Je l'ai toujours adoré. Je l'aimais déjà à sa sortie de la Draft, il y a dix ans. Il avait participé à notre training camp cette année-là, ou peut-être l'année suivante, et on voulait déjà le garder.

Je l'ai suivi au fil des années. Il possède une excellente lecture du jeu. Hier soir, on jouait l'un de nos systèmes habituels. Il reçoit le ballon, le transmet à Draymond, puis pose un écran pour Steph, qui se retrouve complètement ouvert à trois points et marque. Cette action n'avait pas été annoncée. C'est simplement du basket basé sur des principes de jeu.

Georges est le genre de joueur sur lequel tu peux toujours compter pour créer quelque chose à partir de rien, parce qu'il sait jouer. Il sait faire circuler le ballon, poser des écrans, couper vers le panier et créer le mouvement nécessaire pour obtenir des tirs ouverts.

Il est parfait contre les défenses de zone. Hier soir, Miami jouait en zone et on venait d'avoir deux possessions compliquées. Je l'ai fait entrer et on a immédiatement obtenu un bon tir.

Il est talentueux et vraiment très intelligent. Il rend littéralement tous les joueurs meilleurs sur le terrain. »

[Chris Hassel @Hassel_Chris]

Kyle Konrardy is closing in on Cyclone Mount Rushmore. He’s never not come thru. And the kicks are always right down the middle.

[ESPN College Football @ESPNCFB]

Iowa State walks it off against No. 24 Oklahoma State! 😮

[Big 12 Conference @Big12Conference]

the most perfect Halloween Night jersey matchup in the history of jersey matchups of any Halloween in history.

📺 FOX

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

HELLO! HOW DO YOU DO!

Nothing Polite about this throw and catch

[Iowa State University Alumni @isualum]

Iowa State alum Spencer Allen is now a World Series champion. Congratulations, coach!

[Conscious Caracal 🇿🇦 @ConCaracal]

FARM ATTACK: Another South African farmer attacked and brutally tortured on his farm this week.

Cattle farmer, Donovan Marx, from the North West province, had his ears cut off on Wednesday morning during a farm attack.
He was also shot in the shoulder and stabbed (with a sharp object) in the leg.

And, for the umpteenth time, as far as I can determine, not a single article on any English media platform about it. This gross coverage disparity between the Afrikaans and English media when it comes to farm murders is what makes it possible for so many politicians and commentators to get away with their disgusting farm murder denialism.

You know what's even more infuriating? History and research shows, if the victim was black and the torturers were white, we would see this story on every front page and news channel for weeks. Debates, panel discussions, political party statements - the works! The president would even come out and condemn the attack.

Again, I refuse to accept the twisted, psychopathic standard that dismisses a farmer having his ears cut off as "just normal crime."

[Captain Eli @TheCaptainEli]

Legacy media will never run this list, so I will.

2018, Flint, Michigan: Elon funded filtration systems for schools with unsafe water. Over $480K.

2018, Thailand: SpaceX engineers built a mini-submarine within days to help rescue a boys' soccer team trapped in a flooded cave.

2020, COVID: He sourced and delivered ventilators and supplies to hospitals for free.

2021: He gave Tesla shares worth about $5.7 billion to charity.

2021: He funded a $100M XPRIZE for carbon removal, one of the largest incentive prizes ever.

2022: Starlink kept Ukrainians connected when their networks went down.

2022, Tonga: Starlink helped reconnect the island after a volcano cut its undersea cable.

Wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes: Starlink terminals keep showing up for rescuers and families.

And the biggest one, the one that's easy to miss: he's spent his fortune and 20+ years building clean energy, safer cars, and a future for humanity among the stars.

They call him a villain. The record says otherwise.

[Mike Green @Beener1435]

Good luck to former Cyclone Spencer Allen (1999-2001) on his quest to win a World Series ring. Allen is the first base coach for the Milwaukee Brewers. Allen batted .270, tallied 130 hits and 31 doubles in his 3-year Cyclone career.
#OnceACycloneAlwaysACyclone

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

The thing that I’ll never understand is how there are so many people in America who hate what it means to be an American,

yet expect all of the freedoms & privileges that come from citizenship.

I hope the people that love America vote this November.

[Rich Toronto @rich_toronto]

So people keep going back to “Israel invaded the land” and “Israel stole the land” and “Nakba-this” and “Nakba-that” and all sorts of other stories about why they justify Oct 7 and why Israel is in the wrong.

Let’s clear a few things up.

The land that is now Israel was lived in by both Muslims and Jews for a long time. If you want to get technical about who was there first, it was the Jews. How do we know this for a fact? Well, first of all, Jews have been around for about 2000 years longer than Muslims.

Not enough for you?

OK. How about the fact that the word “Israel” is mentioned in the Quran about 43 times. Palestine? Never once.

Jewish people have been around longer than Muslim people have – fact.

Jewish people were living in the place where Israel is much longer than Arabs have – also fact.

In about 1250 BCE, the Jewish people went to what was then called Canaan – where Israel sits today. This is when they escaped slavery in Egypt, and wandered the dessert for 40 years. 1250BCE. About 1860 years before the founding of Islam.

Fast forward to modern times. 1940s. Yes, there were both Arab-Muslims and Jews living on the land that is now called Israel. And yeah, there was fighting. On both sides.

After the Holocaust, the push for the Jewish people to have their own country intensified. During WWII, too many countries turned their backs on Jews. A Jewish homeland would ensure that Jews always had somewhere to go. There could never be another Holocaust, another ethnic cleansing of Jews.

Additionally, the UK was tired of dealing with all the fighting in the British Mandate of Palestine (what Israel was called before it was Israel), and wanted to wash their hands of it.

So what did they do?

They offered to split the land amongst the two groups living there. The Arab-Muslims and the Jews. Sounds fair, right? Each could have their own State, completely autonomous. Pretty good deal, wouldn’t you think?

I think it was a good deal. The Jews thought it was a good deal. Do you know who didn’t think it was a good deal? The Arab-Muslims. Do you know why? Because they didn’t want the Jews to have anything.

So the day after Israel became a nation, the Arabs attacked. 5 Arab nations attacked, in what would be known as the Arab-Israeli war.

Do you know what else it became known as? The Nakba. Nakba for catastrophe. Because they lost. The Arab world says it’s because Arabs were displaced. But they chose to be displaced. Because they chose not to accept their own nation. They left. They ran away. Because they thought the Jews would lose and they'd be able to go back.

The Arabs have been fighting ever since. At some point in time in the 1960s, the Arab-Muslims who were trying to claim Israel as theirs, started to refer to themselves as Palestinians.

Land has been offered. A Palestinian state has been offered. All that the Palestinians had to do, was accept Israel’s right to exist. To stop attacking and trying to destroy them.

Why don’t the Palestinians have their own State?

Because they refuse to. They refuse to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist.

Muslim nations in this world, take up 29.13 million square km.

Israel is 21,671 square km.

Jews have 0.1% of the land that Muslims have.

And according to the Radicalized Muslims, that’s too much.

This isn’t about the land.

This is about Radicalized Muslims not wanting Jews to exist.

[Jamie Pollard @IASTATEADE]

Sixteen years ago we played Utah in Jack Trice Stadium. Coach Rhoads selected our son James as one of his team captains. James was going through cancer treatments at the time. Coach Rhoads ultimately created what is now a game day tradition - Having a Kid Captain.

[CBS Sunday Morning 🌞 @CBSSunday]

An oral history project organized by former schoolteacher Matthew Rozell to interview World War II veterans uncovered little-known stories from the conflict, including the liberation by American troops of 2,500 Holocaust survivors from a so-called "death train" in April 1945.

@sethdoane talks with Rozell (author of "A Train Near Magdeburg"), historian James Bulgin, and filmmaker Mike Edwards about preserving the memories of WWII vets, and the importance of society learning the stories we must never forget. https://t.co/aAecb1wDUn

[FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash]

11,100 CHILDREN FOUND.

Let that number sink in.

In just the last 18 months, this FBI has helped locate 11,100 missing children — a 21% INCREASE.

Senator Blackburn noted that under the Biden administration, north of 300,000 children could not be found.

Every number represents a child. A family. A life that matters.

-DKP🇺🇸

[Iowa State Volleyball @CycloneVB]

In 1990, Rachel Van Gorp’s late mother Janice Ninemire became the second Cyclone with 1,000 digs. Tonight, Rachel joined her mom in the 1,000 digs club.

[St. Louis Cardinals @Cardinals]

One last detail before Yadi's speech!