FreedomLover aka BarbRNFedUpInTN

Perm 🐥 banned 1/21/21. 1 Timothy 2 1-2, 1 Peter 2:17, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Psalm 2:10-11, Proverbs 11:14, Acts 5:29 Forever grateful to God 🙏🏻 1st responders

[𝔉🅰𝒏 Karoline Leavitt @WHLeavitt]

A man who beat 1-year-old Kai Tesoro to death got probation after Judge Jacqueline Bluth approved the deal.

Mainstream Media silent on these tragedies.

Execute the monster & jail the judge?

A. Yes
B. Nah

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

You are not gonna believe this…

Ayanle Siad Barre, the son of former Somali genocidal dictator, Mohamed Siad Barre, operates a taxpayer-funded home healthcare company in Columbus, Ohio

He was his father’s national security advisor.

It just never ends

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

USAID gave its fake HIV/AIDS workers secret code phrases like “I have a headache” to alert USAID if the fake aid workers thought counter-intelligence agents discovered the truth that the USAID-funded AIDS prevention workshops were a secret front.

[Erikaaa @ErikaCA47]

🚨 REPORTED 911 Dispatch regarding Sen. Mitch McConnell:

Dispatched 8:36 to his home in DC on June 14th... Requesting EMS stating “unconscious and needing ALS (advanced life support).”

Is Mitch McConnell even alive? We the people deserve to know.

[BanksyCat @Banksycat]

A 17 year old girl offered a lad a lift. That's it. That's her whole crime. Being kind. He got in. Then three more climbed in after him.

FOR SIX HOURS, police say, they raped her. Over and over. Driving her round Sydney in her own car like she was a thing, not a child.

Then they dumped her back in the driver's seat and walked off like they'd done nothing. She's SEVENTEEN and she has to live with this for the rest of her life.

That's one of them being marched out of a house in cuffs. The only one of the four old enough to be named. The rest hide behind their age. They were 14, 16 and 18.

Listen to the family screaming at the police. Why are you arresting him. Why him. Shut your mouth, don't say a word. Not one of them screaming for her.

Here's what police say happened, because it's worse than people know.

Half five on a Sunday. Liverpool Westfield, southwest Sydney. A 16 year old she'd never met starts chatting, all friendly, follows her to her car and talks his way in and while he's allegedly attacking her, police say he's on a video call to the others. Filming it. Sending it round. Calling them in.

So no, this wasn't something that just got out of hand. They were watching, allegedly, before they even turned up.

He asks for a lift to a park. She says yes, thinking he'll get out when they arrive. He doesn't. Two more are waiting. A fourth pulls up in another car. And then, police allege, they took control of her own car and drove her round the suburbs while it carried on.

The detective leading the case didn't hold back. She said it beggars belief that men would act this way over six hours and then the line that sticks. In all those six hours, not one of them stopped and said to the others, this is wrong. Not once.

Six hours. Till half eleven at night, when they allegedly left her in the car and walked off. She rang a mate, who drove her to the police station and this is the part that should make people sit up.

That girl, after all of that, gave police a detailed statement over several days. The detective called it the strength of the victim. She is the reason they had the evidence at all. She handed them the case.

Look at the charges if you think it's being overblown.

The 16 year old on his own faces 24 of them. Nine counts of sexual intercourse without consent. The 14 year old, ten more.

A dedicated unit, Strike Force Dungannon, was set up to chase it down and they didn't rush it for a headline. They waited SIX MONTHS to arrest the two older ones, quietly building the case so it would hold.

The moment they knew they could throw the book at them, they moved. When they did, they needed the riot squad to get them out of the houses and none of it happened last week. This was December 2024.

That girl has carried it for over a year already. And it's only grinding through court now, in 2026. Still going. Still not done. She's still waiting.

She was kind for thirty seconds. They took six hours and the rest of her life for it. Four of them. One girl and over a year on, she's STILL waiting for justice to catch up.

That's the world we're handing our daughters.

So remember her. Because the system already wants you to forget and ask yourself what kind of country leaves a child waiting this long.

[Today In History @URDailyHistory]

1 July 1863: The Battle of #Gettysburg begins during the U.S. Civil War. The battle resulted in the largest number of casualties of the war and is said to be a turning point for the Union due to their decisive victory. Ultimately, this devastating three-day engagement dashed Confederate General Robert E. Lee's hopes of successfully invading the North. #History #otd #ad https://t.co/rlMu2w9xj0

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

Who Nominated Amy Coney Barrett?

The straightforward answer, of course: Donald Trump nominated her.

He’d put her on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in 2017 and had her on a shortlist well before Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September 2020.

But if you’re asking who was actually pulling the strings behind the scenes, the real engine was Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society network.

Leo had been running the conservative judicial pipeline through the Federalist Society for decades.

He wasn’t some passive observer — he personally curated Trump’s Supreme Court shortlist, and Barrett was on it from the jump. When RBG died, Leo and the White House counsel’s office had already gamed out the replacement. Barrett was the pick within days.

A few key players in the machinery:

- Leonard Leo — The architect. Co-chair of the Federalist Society, longtime executive at the group, had more influence over judicial nominations than any unelected person in modern history.

- Pat Cipollone — White House Counsel at the time, drove the internal process.

- Mitch McConnell — Made the political calculation to jam the confirmation through before the election (same guy who blocked Merrick Garland for almost a year on the “election year” principle, then reversed himself completely here).

- White House Counsel’s office / McGahn before him — Don McGahn had built the judicial selection operation that Cipollone inherited.

- Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans — Graham, Cruz, Hawley, et al. pushed it through on a party-line vote.

Lindsey Graham played a pivotal role. As Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time, he ran the confirmation hearings. This was the guy asking Barrett softball questions about her judicial philosophy while theatrically ripping up his own 2016 promise to never confirm a Supreme Court justice in an election year.

His 2018 statement was explicit: “If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait until the next election.” RBG died 46 days before the 2020 election. Graham didn’t wait. In fact, he sped up the process.

His actual contribution:

- Scheduled and chaired the four-day hearing starting October 12, 2020, while multiple Judiciary Committee members had COVID (Mike Lee, Thom Tillis). Graham himself had been exposed but pushed forward anyway.

- Framed the narrative — pitched Barrett as a Scalia protégé, an originalist, a working mother of seven, deflecting attacks on her Catholic faith and her past writings on Roe.

- Delivered the committee vote — all 12 Republicans voted yes, all 10 Democrats boycotted the committee vote in protest on October 22. Graham pushed it through anyway by suspending the rule requiring two minority members to be present.

Graham’s role was less “kingmaker” and more “bouncer at the door.” Leo and the White House picked the nominee. Graham made sure she got through committee without a scratch. He did exactly what he was supposed to do — and the Barrett hearings were arguably the smoothest part of that entire chaotic confirmation sprint.

The Barrett nomination was the culmination of a decades-long project. The Federalist Society spent 30+ years building a farm team of young conservative lawyers, getting them clerkships, grooming them for judgeships, and waiting for the right political moment. Trump was the vehicle; Leo and company were the drivers.

RBG’s death was the trigger they’d been waiting for.

The nomination was announced September 26, 2020 — eight days after Ginsburg died — and confirmed October 26, just over a month later. That speed tells you the infrastructure was already in place. The ‘fix’ was in!

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

After working for 40 years, the average Social Security recipient gets $1850/month.

After being in America for 40 minutes, the average illegal “refugee” gets $3874/month.

And red or blue, that should PISS EVERYONE OFF.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Easy to see this coming. What do they have on these justices?

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

Well, @Hellmanns
WHY DON’T YOU JUST START MAKING REAL MAYONNAISE AGAIN?
GET RID OF THE TOXIC BIOENGINEERED GOO?!!

[Brenden Dilley @WarlordDilley]

The government is still pretending it's totally normal for a sitting United States Senator to be rushed to the emergency room three weeks ago, and give zero updates into his health since that time.

Truly Banana Republic type bullshit.

[Publius @OcrazioCornPop]

🚨 ROBERTS' CORRUPTION EXPOSED: Justice John Roberts spent a week at left-wing activist Norm Eisen’s 150-room Prague palace, where they worked on American and European rule of law issues while Roberts was Chief Justice AND while Eisen was Obama’s ambassador.

SHOULDN'T HE BE REMOVED FOR PARTISAN CORRUPTION?

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Mike Davis Reveals Amy Coney Barrett LIED During Her Confirmation Hearing, DEMANDS She Resign from Court:

"I think it was the biggest mistake imaginable supporting Amy Coney Barrett. She is a disaster for the Supreme Court."

"She is a rattled law professor with her head up her ass and she thinks she's the smartest person in the room, she's not — she is a junior varsity justice"

"She auditioned as a Consitutional Conservative. She is a FRAUD. She LIED."

"She should RESIGN, She is NOT up to the job."

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Apparently, Freddy deactivated his account. Looks like too many people got upset about him enjoying the US. What a shame. Liberals (here and there) ruin all the fun. This is sad.

It was fun, Freddy. Have fun and travel safely! ❤️🇩🇪

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this day in 1775, America tried to solve a terrifying problem. They had just created an army, but what they actually had was thousands of armed farmers, hunters, and tradesmen with no rules, no discipline, and a habit of going home whenever they felt like it. So on June 30, Congress did something that doesn't get statues but absolutely won the war: they wrote the rulebook.

The Continental Army was barely two weeks old. Congress had voted it into existence on June 14 and handed George Washington command right after. But an army on paper is just a mob with muskets. These men elected their own officers, ignored orders they disliked, wandered off, drank heavily, and fought each other along colony lines. New Englanders and Virginians barely trusted each other, let alone took orders together.

So Congress passed 69 Articles of War, a full code of military law to turn that chaos into a fighting force. Rules on obeying officers, standing your post, not deserting, not plundering civilians, even rules against drunkenness and profanity and orders to attend church. Punishments were spelled out, from lashes to death. For the first time, an American soldier could be told exactly what he could and couldn't do, and what it would cost him if he crossed the line.

This is the unglamorous machinery of how a country actually gets built. No bayonet charge, no flag in the smoke. Just a committee deciding that if these thirteen squabbling colonies were going to take on the British Empire, their soldiers had to stop behaving like a town meeting with guns. Washington, who was obsessed with discipline, leaned on these rules constantly to forge the army that would survive Valley Forge and stand at Monmouth.

Every functioning military, including the modern US one, traces its DNA back to ordinary moments like this. Revolutions aren't only won in the dramatic battles. They're won by the boring people who sat down and wrote the rules that made winning possible.

[Pepe Deluxe 🐸 @deluxe_pepe]

I'm going to read the FIRST prayer delivered to the Continental Congress and it's going to blow your mind. Why have they fought so hard to erase this? Allow me to answer this question 🇺🇸✝️

https://t.co/gd3m4txtvG

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

Hey ESPN,

Any reason you post about Muslims praying but you won’t post a SINGLE time about the USMNT praying after every match?

I’m sure it’s not because of an agenda or anything... Probably just a mistake, right?

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 JUST IN: Sen. @BernieMoreno pledges to run former Democrat Senate Leader Harry Reid’s EXACT 1993 bill ELIMINATING birthright citizenship for children of illegals

Harry Reid NAILED it 🔥: "If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. citizenship and guarantee FULL ACCESS to all public and social services this society provides."

"NO sane country would do that, right?! Guess again."

"Is it any wonder that two-thirds of the babies born at taxpayer expense at county-run hospitals in Los Angeles are born to ILLEGAL ALIEN mothers?" 🎯

(GREAT job finding this bill @BillMelugin_)

[History Calendar @HistoryCalendar]

July 1, 1776 — The Continental Congress resumed debate on independence. John Adams passionately argued that Britain had already forced America into war, while John Dickinson warned the colonies were not yet prepared to stand alone.