Cindy B

Wife, mom, sister, daughter. Loves to travel.

[John Bundick @DesperadoPro]

Medicare is a government-run insurance program conceived of in the 1930s. For the Abdulrahman voters in attendance, that's over 90 years ago.

Medicare most assuredly does not mean you can get access to medical care. It can help pay medical costs if you're lucky enough to find a licensed MD who accepts it.

Pro Tip: the Dr. El-Sayed who can't treat patients and his licensed doctor/wife are not on the 'We Accept Medicare' list.

In summary: this guy is lying about his policy prescriptions just like his newest bestie, Barack, did when the Democrats rammed through Obamacare.

Weird, innit?

[John Bundick @DesperadoPro]

Putin is a war criminal responsible for the carnage in Ukraine, and Zelenskyy is a hack in way over his head.

The logistics and demographics of this war dictate that Ukraine will lose if this conflict continues.

End the killing now, and rearm Ukraine to a level that makes future Russian aggression unrealistic.

[Logan Hall @loganclarkhall]

Can’t stop thinking about this.

[Johnny Appleseed ➕ @Johnnypatriot26]

If this doesn’t melt your heart see a cardiologist immediately because you might be a liberal Karen 😉🇺🇲

On Insta search dog_adoption_day 🐶

[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

STOYSTOWN, Pennsylvania — Not far from the entrance to the Flight 93 National Memorial, a quiet stretch of hillside rises gently along the Lincoln Highway. If you drive by too quickly, you might miss it entirely. Yet, this plot of Pennsylvania farmland has transformed into a living sanctuary. It honors not only the souls lost in the catastrophic crash 25 years ago today, but every American service member who has fallen in the subsequent global fight against terrorism.

The mornings across the Appalachian ridges often start heavy and overcast, but today the gray yields to a brilliant, piercing blue sky, punctuated only by light clouds riding the mountain crests.
Standing before this memorial, known as Patriot Park, visitors are met by an overwhelming sea of American flags.

Thousands of small banners are secured to white sleeves over metal stakes driven deep into the Earth. When a sudden gust crests the ridge, the entire hillside shifts in unison, producing a gentle, rhythmic rustling that mimics the sound of a sudden downpour on a tin roof.

There are just over 7,000 flags in total. Every single one represents a real person. Tied to each stake is the name of an American service member who made the ultimate sacrifice in the years following Sept. 11, 2001.

Linda Musser stands near the entrance, holding watch. As a dedicated volunteer and committee member, she spends her springs hammering these stakes into the dirt and her autumns taking them down. The memorial exists because her husband, Randy, envisioned a place where the post-9/11 generation of heroes would never be forgotten. They acquired this 15-acre plot to guarantee it would serve a sacred purpose. https://t.co/u43dLNmjSK

[Alex Hollings @AlexHollings52]

Three weeks ago now, I decided to cut my caffeine intake to one coffee per day and cut out alcohol completely.

Today, I am still fat, but I’m also really tired and could use a drink.

[John James @JohnJamesMI]

I’m a descendant of slaves.

I’m also a veteran, job creator, have 2 masters degrees & am the result of the American Dream.

Jocelyn Benson’s record: multiple racial discrimination lawsuits + ties to the SPLC paying $4.1M to the KKK for robes & cross burnings.

We can’t go back.

[John Bundick @DesperadoPro]

There are roughly 2.1 million active-duty, reserve, and guard personnel in the US military.

Right now, today, my guess is 98% wish they'd chosen dentistry school or something similar over a military career.

Being in the military is a privilege, and it involves pain and sacrifice that only military personnel and their loved ones will ever truly understand.

Investigate if necessary, but for fuck's sake, stop trying to make members of our all-volunteer force your pets so you can 1. deflect and 2. make it about Trump.

[John Bundick @DesperadoPro]

In Federalist No. 10, Madison argued that a pure democracy cannot protect against the "mischiefs of faction" when it comes to guarding minority rights. He was right, of course.

When your "rights" depend solely on the goodwill of a 50% plus 1 vote majority, the truth is that those rights only exist until that majority gets around to voting them into oblivion. The continued assault on the right to keep and bear arms is an example of this phenomenon.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

See it here: https://t.co/9xooainKnf

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

In April 1967, a 20-year-old farm boy from South Dakota did something that would change the Vietnam War—he fell off his ship.
Seaman Douglas Hegdahl was standing on the deck of the USS Canberra when the recoil from a five-inch gun knocked him overboard into the Gulf of Tonkin. He treaded water for five hours, then swam for seven more. When fishermen finally pulled him from the sea, they handed him to North Vietnamese forces.
The interrogators didn't believe his story. They thought he was a spy, a commando, someone important. They beat him and threw him into the Hanoi Hilton—the most notorious prison of the war.
But Hegdahl made a choice that would save hundreds of lives. He became "The Incredibly Stupid One."
He played up his country accent. He stared wide-eyed at things he'd never seen before. When they ordered him to write a confession, he claimed he couldn't read or write. The guards, used to illiterate peasants in their own country, believed him completely. They even assigned someone to teach him—who eventually gave up, convinced Hegdahl was hopeless.
What they didn't know was that Hegdahl had a photographic memory and the discipline of a soldier.
Because they thought he was harmless, the guards let him sweep the prison yards. He walked between cellblocks. He memorized the layout of the camp and the route into Hanoi. He even sabotaged enemy trucks by adding dirt to their fuel tanks.
But his real mission was gathering intelligence.
With the help of fellow prisoner Joe Crecca, Hegdahl set out to memorize something impossible: the names, ranks, Social Security numbers, and personal details of over 250 fellow American prisoners. How do you remember 250 names under torture, starvation, and the constant threat of death?
He used "Old MacDonald Had a Farm."
Every day, Hegdahl repeated the names to the tune of the children's song. Over and over. Names became melodies. Data became memory. While the guards laughed at the "stupid" American humming in the prison yard, he was conducting one of the most important intelligence operations of the war.
When North Vietnam offered early release as a propaganda tool, Hegdahl initially refused—prisoners had sworn an oath to leave together or not at all. But his commanding officer, Captain Dick Stratton, ordered him to go. "You're carrying the names," Stratton told him. "Their families need to know they're alive."
On August 5, 1969, Hegdahl walked out of the Hanoi Hilton.
When he returned to the United States, he recited every single name. Every rank. Every identifying detail. His memory transformed 250+ missing men into confirmed prisoners of war. At the Paris Peace Talks in 1970, he confronted North Vietnamese negotiators with firsthand accounts of torture—and the pressure he brought helped secure the eventual release of all American POWs.
That farm boy who "fell off a ship" had just freed an entire army.
Decades later, in 1998, Hegdahl stood before an audience of veterans and families at the Richard Nixon Library. Thirty years after his release, he stood and sang—to the tune of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm"—the names of 256 men he'd memorized in captivity.
Not one name forgotten.
Sometimes the most dangerous people are the ones your enemy thinks are harmless. Sometimes genius wears the mask of stupidity. And sometimes, a child's lullaby becomes the most powerful weapon of all.
Ever know anyone that smart that could play that dumb for that long?
Amazing!

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

In her concurrence in Hemani, Jackson called for overturning the major Second Amendment opinion in Bruen. The reason? It is too demanding to have to determine the historical intent of the provisions as opposed to simply declaring an evolving meaning... https://t.co/HhIqQtHZxU

[Marc Thiessen @marcthiessen]

Correct. Trump buried Iran’s nuclear material so deep that, senior officials tell me, Iran has indicated the United States will have to dig it up because it can’t reach it to hand over. He also took out over 85 percent of Iran’s defense industrial base; sank its navy; grounded its air force; damaged its centrifuges; and decimated its ballistic missile capabilities, conventional military forces and infrastructure of repression. He not only eliminated Iran’s supreme leader, he also took out dozens of other senior Iranian officials. That is in addition to Qasem Soleimani, Iran’s terrorist mastermind, whom Trump killed in his first term. Today, thanks to Trump, Iran’s top leadership has been annihilated, the regime can no longer project power in the Middle East and it possesses only a “nuisance” capability, according to Adm. Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command. No president in 47 years has done more damage to the Iranian regime than Trump has.

More here: https://t.co/5tY8xsXykr

[Gina Milan @ginamilan_]

🥰 Watch this precious little girl belt out the National Anthem with so much heart — it’s pure magic and guaranteed to put a big smile on your face! 🥹❤️🇺🇸

[John Bundick @DesperadoPro]

Jon Karl: Pool Boy

Can the Pulitzer Prize be far behind?

[John Bundick @DesperadoPro]

The stuff you find cleaning your basement... from my 'hometown' paper.

[Cindy B @GiftedStoryTelr]

@SharylAttkisson Someone in the room with me knew the answer, w/o looking it up. He wonders what he has won - maybe bragging rights! Johnbundick@desperadopro

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

This wasn't allowed in public incase it offended anyone.
So please don't retweet it. Thanks 🙏https://t.co/1stbtsOxvz

[Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_]

BREAKING: DC based federal judge Ana Reyes (Biden appointee) has just blocked DHS from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 350,000+ Haitians in the U.S. whose legal status was set to expire *tomorrow*, which would have opened them up to deportation and a loss of their work authorizations.

In a scathing opinion, Judge Reyes says DHS Secretary Kristi Noem doesn’t have the law or facts on her side, and writes that it is “substantially likely” that Noem has “hostility toward nonwhite immigrants.”

Judge Reyes writes that the plaintiffs who sued DHS aren’t “killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies,” and says that they are a neuroscientist, a lab assistant, a nurse, and an economics major who were all facing deportation.

I am reaching out to DHS for comment/reaction.

[Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132]

As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.

What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.

Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.

This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.

The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.

I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.

Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.

We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.

Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.