Cheryl

I'm not a Defense Secretary, but I play one on TV.

[Cheryl @HoldingOn2Stars]

Never before seen anything like it

[Freedom 250 @Freedom250]

Greatest fireworks show in the world 🇺🇸🎇🇺🇸

[NASA's Johnson Space Center @NASAJohnson]

The day the Moon became a place humans could walk.

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 marked humanity’s first steps on the lunar surface marking a turning point in science, engineering, and global cooperation. As we celebrate this historic moment, we also look ahead to the Artemis missions that will return astronauts to the Moon and prepare us for future journeys deeper into our solar system.

[Cheryl @HoldingOn2Stars]

@chrispapst I’ve been having headaches since the smoke arrived, and I rarely get headaches.

[Cheryl @HoldingOn2Stars]

@fisher4maryland Wes Moore is robbing Maryland people and running the state economy into the ground.

[Cheryl @HoldingOn2Stars]

@Sarahhuniverse Oooh! They were fun to watch.

[Cheryl @HoldingOn2Stars]

@EricLDaugh @4ReUnitedStates Pawns of the CCP

[Bison @Bisontwting]

because I yeeted a tourist doesn’t mean I am that terrible that you had to put me in a conversation with a drunk animal🤨

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is a statue of the only man in Troy who saw the trap. He tried to warn everyone, and this is what the gods did to him because of it...

His name was Laocoön, a Trojan priest. When the Greek army vanished and left a giant wooden horse outside the city gates, all of Troy celebrated. Only Laocoön refused to believe it. He warned his people the horse was a trick and, to prove it was hollow, hurled his spear into its side.

In Virgil's telling, he spoke a line that has outlasted almost everything else about Troy: "I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts."

He was right. The horse was packed with soldiers, and Troy was hours from destruction.

This sculpture shows what he got for it. Two enormous sea serpents rise out of the sea and coil around him and his young sons, dragging all three down together. The father's whole body is knotted in the struggle, every muscle straining, his face locked in a scream. The gods wanted Troy to fall, and Laocoön was in the way.

The Trojans watched him die in agony and drew exactly the wrong conclusion: they decided the gods were punishing him for attacking a holy gift. So they pulled the horse inside their own walls, and that night, Troy burned...

The statue is called Laocoön and His Sons. It is the work of three Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes, Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus, and dates to the Hellenistic period, making it well over two thousand years old.

Buried for more than a thousand years, it was dug out of a Roman vineyard in 1506, and Michelangelo rushed across Rome to see it the day it was found.

It has been called the single greatest depiction of human suffering in the history of art, but it endures because of what it is really about: the man who sees the truth, says it out loud, and is destroyed for being right while the crowd watches...

It is one of the oldest patterns there is, and it has never stopped repeating.

There is nothing new under the sun.

[Robert Lang WBAL @Reporterroblang]

Here’s a fun game. Find the cat in this picture

[Cheryl @HoldingOn2Stars]

@NBCNews This is not the 1970s. We are not the same people.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Orwell's most brilliant observation in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was that reducing a person's vocabulary also reduces his capacity to think.

Reading old or difficult literature will unleash the full potential of your mind.

Great video 👇

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

DISCONNECTING THE DOTS: China’s 'multi-domain' influence operation was suppressed by striking references to the 2020 election and "massaging" intelligence reports for the President.

Friday, November 20, 2020: “We have deliberately massaged our one pending PDB (President’s Daily Brief) to avoid any direct links to the election."

- Strategic Intelligence Analyst, China & North Korea Strategic Assessments.

[Cheryl @HoldingOn2Stars]

There are mainstream news "journalists" who don't want to understand and explain complex matters, and then there is Catherine Herridge.

[Overton @overton_news]

“It’s espionage.”

Catherine Herridge reveals a terrifying possibility: China may have the ability to build a digital dossier on MILLIONS of Americans.

Herridge warns that China’s collection of data goes far beyond voter rolls...and the scariest part is what that information could be used for.

HERRIDGE: “China is one of the biggest collectors of data on the planet.”

“So if you take that 220 million voter rolls and you combine it with something called the SF-86, those are the security clearance applications that were compromised back in 2015, 22 million files.”

“And then you combine it with all the health information that’s been hacked…”

“You can really build this kind of digital composite of an individual and you can use that for, you know, voter registration fraud, you can use that for identity theft.”

“And significantly, you can also use it to recruit American citizens to your efforts.”

“So it’s not just about the collection of the data around the vote…”

PAVLICH: “It’s espionage.”

HERRIDGE: “Exactly.”

@KatiePavlich @C__Herridge

[Eastern Shore Undercover ® @ShoreUndercover]

This came in after we shut down, but wanted you guys to be aware - so here you go!

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Maryland Offers Liberal Leave Today Amid Heat and Poor Air Quality

The State of Maryland has announced that they are giving non-emergency essential employees who work outside liberal leave.

Liberal leave is in effect today, Friday, July 17, from 6:00 a.m. through the end of the day shift. Eligible employees just need to notify their supervisor before taking leave.

A few notes: telework-eligible employees should stick to their scheduled telework unless granted leave separately. Emergency essential employees are still expected to report as scheduled.

Stay cool out there, and check on your elderly neighbors and pets today.

[John Roberts @johnrobertsFox]

Wondering if the Senate will introduce an amendment to remove the tilt from the earth's axis so sunlight hours are consistent....?

[Cheryl @HoldingOn2Stars]

@WaltzingMtilda Respect

[Cheryl @HoldingOn2Stars]

@american_gal_99 ✋

[Cheryl @HoldingOn2Stars]

@Bisontwting I never thought it was in question.

[Cheryl @HoldingOn2Stars]

*sigh*

[BuffaloRon @BuffaloRon]

Me: I'm going to eat healthy

Lettuce: I'm going to give you explosive diarrhea

Oreos in the pantry: I would never do that to you

[Cheryl @HoldingOn2Stars]

@capitalweather Children don't go to school on those darkest of mornings because they either have holidays or snow days.