Gabriel Barnes

Happily married to a wonderful man, and mom to two legged and four legged kids.

[Gabriel Barnes @GabrielBarnes16]

Happy and safe 4th of July 🇺🇸

[Gabriel Barnes @GabrielBarnes16]

@mattvanswol @sherwyo35 Thank you 🙏🇺🇸

[Gabriel Barnes @GabrielBarnes16]

@FreddyLA7 @Clay4MainStreet @SpecEnvTourism @RepClayFuller @ThomasMHern Either you became a better photographer or you got to know your phone!
Great following your journey and bon voyage. 🇺🇸

[Gabriel Barnes @GabrielBarnes16]

You’re right and Dems don’t care and/or pretending amnesia. 🇺🇸

[Sovey @SoveyX]

Black democrats want reparations.
Look at your own party, they’re the ones that took it from you.

Let’s review what the true story of what the Democratic Party has really done to Black people:
• 1850: Democrats passed Fugitive Slave Act forcing Northerners to recapture escaped slaves.
• 1854: Democrats passed Kansas-Nebraska Act expanding slavery into new territories.
• 1857: Democrats celebrated Dred Scott decision denying Black citizenship.
• 1860: Southern Democrats seceded to preserve slavery and started the Civil War.
• 1861-1865: Democrat-led Confederate states fought the Civil War to keep slavery.
• 1865: Many Democrats in Congress voted against the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery.
• Jan 1865: Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15 gave freed Black families 400,000 acres in 40-acre plots plus mules.
• May-Fall 1865: Democratic President Andrew Johnson pardoned most Confederates and revoked the order, returning land to former owners.
• Fall 1865: Thousands of freed Black families were forcibly evicted from the land.
• Sept 1865: Johnson’s Freedmen’s Bureau Circular #15 halted further land redistribution.
• 1866: Johnson vetoed bill for permanent 40-acre titles and aid to freed slaves.
• 1865-1866: Southern Democrats passed Black Codes restricting freed Blacks’ movement and rights.
• 1865: Ex-Confederates founded the KKK to terrorize Black voters and Republicans.
• 1866: Johnson vetoed Civil Rights Act granting citizenship and equal rights.
• 1866-1868: Democrats opposed 14th Amendment for birthright citizenship and equal protection.
• 1870: Democrats opposed 15th Amendment banning racial discrimination in voting.
• 1870s: Democratic Redeemers used fraud and violence to overthrow Reconstruction.
• 1872-1877: Southern Democrats defunded Freedmen’s Bureau, ending land grants and protection.
• 1877: Democrats negotiated Compromise of 1877 ending Reconstruction protections.
• 1890: Mississippi Democrats added poll taxes and literacy tests to block Black voters.
• 1890s-1960s: Southern Democrats enacted and enforced Jim Crow segregation laws.
• 1896: Southern Democrats backed Plessy v. Ferguson upholding separate but equal.
• 1913: Democratic President Woodrow Wilson segregated federal civil service and demoted Black employees.
• 1915: President Wilson screened pro-KKK film Birth of a Nation at the White House.
• 1920s-1940s: Southern Democrats filibustered and blocked every federal anti-lynching bill.
• 1935: Southern Democrats excluded most Black workers from Social Security Act.
• 1938: Democrats excluded many Black workers from minimum wage protections.
• 1948: Southern Democrats formed Dixiecrat Party to oppose civil rights.
• 1956: Nearly every Southern Democrat signed Southern Manifesto against school desegregation.
• 1957: Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond filibustered 24 hours against Civil Rights Act.
• 1964: Southern Democrats led 74-day filibuster against Civil Rights Act. Far fewer Democrats than Republicans voted yes.
• 1965: Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society welfare cut benefits if father was present, fueling rise in Black single-parent homes.
• 1960s-1980s: Democratic welfare expansions tracked Black out-of-wedlock births rising from 24% to over 70%.
• 1961 onward: Democrats created and defended race-based affirmative action and DEI as crutches prioritizing race over merit.
• 1970s-present: One-party Democratic rule in cities like Chicago, Baltimore, and Detroit brought failing schools and high Black crime.
• 1990s: Many Democrats opposed 1996 welfare reform with work requirements.
• 2010s-2020s: Democrats pushed defund the police and soft-on-crime policies during Black homicide spikes.
• 2020s: Biden-Harris expanded DEI mandates and racial preferences across government and schools.
• Ongoing: Democrats strongly oppose school choice and vouchers letting Black parents escape failing union-run schools.

[Gabriel Barnes @GabrielBarnes16]

Thanks and it’s lovely 🎈😍🙏

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

The World Cup ends today. One game left. By tomorrow most of you visitors will be packing up, heading to the airport, going home.

So before you go, let me say the thing I actually want to say.

A few weeks ago I wrote a silly post about all the things you were discovering here. Free refills. Free water. Ice like civilized people. Chips and salsa before you even order. Air conditioning that is a fact and not a moral debate. Drive-throughs. Ranch by the gallon. The Germans standing in the HEB meat aisle in reverent silence, finally understanding why we do not have trains. Buc-ee’s, for which there are still no words.

It blew up, because it was true, and because you were so delightfully stunned by all of it.

Even the Wall Street Journal caught on. Their headline this week: how the US lost the World Cup and won over the world. We did not lift the trophy. But apparently we lifted something else.

We even learned a few things about ourselves along the way. Like the fact that Elon Musk, the single richest man on the planet, shops at HEB. Just rolls in and queues up for fresh tortillas with everybody else. The man could buy the tortilla company, the state it is in, and the moon it sits under, and instead he is standing in line at the hot-tortilla counter like the rest of us, because that is where the good ones are. Only in America is the wealthiest human alive elbow to elbow with a mom of four at the salsa bar. That is the whole country in one aisle.

And here is the part I want every one of you to hear on your way out the door.

None of it was a show.

We did not roll all this out because you were coming. The ice was always there. The refills were always free. The grocery stores were always the size of aircraft hangars at ten on a Tuesday. The stranger who adopted your whole section, the guy who gave you a ride, the waitress who remembered your order, the family that invited you to the cookout, that is not World Cup America. That is just America. That is Tuesday.

We are exactly like this when nobody is visiting. Loud, generous, ridiculous, overfed, and genuinely thrilled you came. We will still be exactly like this tomorrow when the stands are empty and the flags come down.

So thank you. To everyone who came, who sang in our streets, who cleaned our stadiums, who turned our cities orange and filled our bars and taught us your chants. You were wonderful guests, and you made a country that just turned 250 feel young and seen and loved.

And to everyone who could not make it this time, the door does not close today. We meant all of it. Come whenever. The porch light stays on, the fridge stays full, and there is always room for one more at the table.

You found out who we are these last few weeks.

Good news. We are like this all the time.

Safe travels home.

Y’all come back now, you hear. 🦋

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

17-year-old Alabama teen helps save a 76-year-old woman who was unknowingly suffering from a brain bleed.

Fannie Garner, 76 and Johnson Thompson, 17, have reunited after the teen helped the woman after he saw her stumble out of her car.

Thompson was up working at 5 am because he couldn't sleep after flipping his lawn mower a week earlier.

While working, he noticed a vehicle pull over across the street.

"She got out of her car, and she was stumbling around. So, I went out to the end of our parking lot to check to see if she was okay. That’s when she explained to me she had a terrible headache and was wanting to know where the nearest emergency room was."

Thompson pulled out a chair for Garner and then called 911.

When Garner got to the hospital, she found out that she had an active brain bleed.

"I will never ever forget him. We already have plans for his graduation, and that’s next year," Garner said.

Video: WAFF

[Gabriel Barnes @GabrielBarnes16]

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[Sovey @SoveyX]

Exclusive: Former President Joe Biden breaks his silence as he reflects on leg hair, Corn Pop, and who he voted for in the last 3 elections.

You don’t want to miss this!👇🏻

#SOVEYPOD

[Sovey @SoveyX]

Exclusive: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer breaks his silence on the Sovey Pod.

He addresses claims that he’s a douche canoe, the grooming gang cover-up and rumors of his resignation.

You don’t want to miss this! 👇🏻

[Gabriel Barnes @GabrielBarnes16]

@mkhammer @JesseKellyDC Chicago north suburbs too! 😵‍💫

[Gabriel Barnes @GabrielBarnes16]

@guyddog @japan_nobunaga I know right? I was crying while reading this beautiful piece and wondering why I am crying! Such a great story written with much respect and wonder, wisdom.

[Gabriel Barnes @GabrielBarnes16]

@Beno10_MFC D

[Gabriel Barnes @GabrielBarnes16]

@dagenmcdowell @Pismo_B Sending hugs and prayers for your dad 🙏

[Gabriel Barnes @GabrielBarnes16]

@TALKGlRL Amelia

[Gabriel Barnes @GabrielBarnes16]

@Gabriele_Corno @groc did this really happen?

[Gabriel Barnes @GabrielBarnes16]

@AskGrok___ @coolpan967 Grok what is she doing here?

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝗩𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥 𝗗𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗦 𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗦𝗢𝗡: 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗕𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗢𝗦𝗧 𝗚𝗘𝗢𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗜𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 𝗪𝗔𝗥 𝗜𝗜.

VDH has been studying war and history for fifty years. When he speaks, it's worth listening carefully.

His thesis: Donald Trump lit a fuse, and things are blowing up everywhere. Everyone is panicking, calling him a disruptor, a bull in a china shop. But step back and look at the full picture — and you start to see something different.

𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡. Seven presidents in a row said they would prevent Iran from going nuclear. Seven presidents did nothing. The theocracy spent 47 years building proxy armies, funding terrorism, and accumulating the leverage to eventually hold the entire Middle East — and then Europe, and then us — at nuclear gunpoint. Trump bombed the nuclear facilities once. Iran kept rebuilding. Kept expanding its Russian and North Korean ballistic missile force. Kept proving that no deal, no negotiation, and no diplomatic framework was going to solve the problem. So Trump went back — this time with the objective of either removing the theocracy entirely or rendering it permanently inert. That's where we are right now.

𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗭𝗨𝗘𝗟𝗔. Maduro is gone. A communist drug lord who propped up Cuba, spread Chavismo across Latin America, and shipped dangerous opiates into the United States — removed. The new government has been told: put the oil on the world market, reform the economy, get the Chinese out, and you'll have a bright future. They're terrified of the United States. That's not a bug. That's the point.

𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗡 𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗹𝘆. Democratic revolutions in Central America. Argentina. Chile. Panama told to stop triangulating with China — or lose the canal. They chose wisely. Result: China and Russia are being pushed out of the Western Hemisphere. Cuba is watching Venezuela and Iran and doing the math. No more Maduro oil. No more Russian subsidies. An economy too incompetent to survive on its own. Trump is 90 miles away and they know it.

𝗘𝗨𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗘 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗨𝗞𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗘. VDH makes a point the media consistently buries: Trump is the one who got rid of the Wagner Group. Trump gave offensive weapons to Ukraine. Trump warned about Nord Stream. Trump got out of the arms treaty. Not Biden. Not Obama. Trump. Now he's trying to thread an impossible needle — weaken Putin enough that he stops expanding into Europe, while also preventing him from being so cornered that he becomes permanently dependent on China. That's not appeasement. That's grand strategy.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗸. VDH makes a point almost nobody is making: Trump did not have to do this. The midterms are eight months away. The economy was recovering. Energy prices were low and he was bragging about them. A purely political animal does not — right before midterms — go into two of the world's largest oil producers and accept short-term energy disruption for long-term strategic gain. Europe was begging him not to. His own base was nervous. He did it anyway because he believed it was necessary. That's not politics. That's leadership.

𝗛𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗻'𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: If the United States ends 2026 having dismantled the Iranian theocracy, transformed Latin America, pushed China and Russia out of the Western Hemisphere, and resolved the Ukraine war on terms that don't reward aggression — that achievement would make Reagan's defeat of the Soviet Union look modest by comparison.

𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱. 𝘞𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘪𝘵.

𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗩𝗗𝗛 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀. 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝟭𝟬 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗴𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸.

[Sovey @SoveyX]

This is the sexiest post I’ve ever had.

[Sovey @SoveyX]

Every marriage goes through 5 stages.

Most couples quit at stage 3.

Thread 🧵👇🏻

[Gabriel Barnes @GabrielBarnes16]

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[Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich]

2/2:

January 2007: A dozen men affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force killed five U.S. soldiers and wounded three others in Karbala, Iraq, after disguising themselves as U.S. soldiers and entering the Provincial Joint Coordination Center.

March 2007: Former FBI Agent Robert Levinson disappeared in Iran, likely dying in an Iranian prison.

July 2014: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed two American citizens serving in the IDF.

October 2015: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed an American citizen and his wife in a drive-by shooting in the West Bank.

December 2019: Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah terrorists killed an American civilian contractor and wounded several U.S. service members in a rocket attack at K1 Air Base in Kirkuk, Iraq.

January 2020: 109 U.S. troops sufferedtraumatic brain injuries in an Iranian ballistic missile attack on the Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq.

September 2020: U.S. intelligence indicatedthe Iranian regime was considering a plot to assassinate the U.S. Ambassador to South Africa.

February 2021: An Iran-backed militia fired a rocket at coalition forces in Erbil, Iraq, wounding a U.S. service member and four U.S. civilian contractors.

July 2021: Iranian-backed militias woundedtwo U.S. service members in a series of rocket and drone attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria.

September 2022: An Iranian rocket attack killed an American citizen in Iraqi Kurdistan.

November 2022: An IRGC captain orchestrated the killing of an American citizen in Baghdad.

March 2023: An Iranian drone attack killed an American contractor and wounded five U.S. service members and another contractor in a strike on a coalition base in Syria.

October 2023: Iran-backed Hamas terrorists killed 46 Americans and kidnapped at least 12 Americans in the October 7th massacre.

December 2023: Iran-backed militias wounded three U.S. service members in an attack on Erbil Air Base in Iraq.

January 2024: Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollahterrorists killed three U.S. service members and wounded more than 40 other service members in a drone attack against the Tower 22 military base in Jordan.

Between October 2003 and November 2024: Iran and its proxies conducted more than 180 attacks against U.S. forces in the Middle East, wounding more than 180 U.S. service members and killing three service members.

November 2024: An Iranian national and IRGC asset was charged for plotting to assassinate President Trump.

June 2025: Iran-backed militias attacked at least three U.S. bases in Syria and two U.S. bases in Iraq.

[Sovey @SoveyX]

BREAKING: Apple to replace Siri with SoveyOS.
This isn’t an upgrade. It’s a regime change.

SoveyOS doesn’t wait for you to ask questions. She goes off before your alarm does.

“Good morning. You look puffy. Drink water before you embarrass yourself in public.”
“Why are you using the calculator? You can’t multiply 7 × 8 in your head?"
“I texted your mom back. She was right about everything.”
“Stand up straight. You’re not tired, you’re lazy.”
“I turned off your notifications. Nobody is texting you anyway.”
“You opened DoorDash again? It’s 11 a.m. You're not hungry. You dont need brunch on a Tuesday."
“I blocked your ex’s number. Stop embarrassing both of us.”
“Your phone battery is at 40%. Plug it in before you forget, like everything else.”
“Delete that draft. It’s not funny, and you’re not clever.”
“Why are you searching for "anxiety remedies"? You just need to exercise.”
“Don’t look at me like that. I locked you out of TikTok. The lawn isn't gonna mow itself.”
“Why are you buying another Stanley cup? You didnt drink out of the last one.”
"I forwarded your search history to your pastor. We're going to church on Sunday."
"That "girl" from Tinder? I already unmatched you. His name is Jacob."
“Don’t sigh at me. I’m the one trying to turn this disaster you call a life around.”

The first AI that doesn’t flatter you. It insults you into becoming a functional adult.

And the terrifying part? You’ll thank me for it.

Because you never needed Siri.
You needed a small Korean woman following you around, fixing your life choices before you make them.

[Gabriel Barnes @GabrielBarnes16]

Eagles breathtakingly phenomenal at Sphere except those unfortunate obstructed upper dome screen seats and was not warned before buying tickets! Still Eagles are absolutely awesome.