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[Brendan M. Jones 🇺🇸 @brendanmjones]

Big accounts: time to take #SaveSnuggles national the same way you took #SaveLucy national.

Get behind this fight. It's about freedom.

It's time to let Snuggles go home. It's damn time.

@catturd2, @atensnut, @TomiLahren, @LauraLoomer, @SaraGonzalesTX, @AmyMek, @GuntherEagleman

[Wayne Hsiung @waynehhsiung]

Ridglan is closing down, and all the dogs should soon be freed! I just posted this to our rescuer network.

This would not have happened without our supporters on social media. Y'all were a key part of this—and will be a key part of the victories to come!

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I am some beautiful news today!!!

I can confirm that the Amish are STILL working here to rebuild Chimney Rock NC businesses after Hurricane Helene...

...a stunning 620 DAYS AFTER THE STORM!!!

It's one of the greatest untold stories of all time.

GOD BLESS THE AMISH!!!!!!! ❤️

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Oh, Hillary. Hillary, Hillary. You ignorant slut.

As the Senior Military Aide to President Bill Clinton, YOU’RE military aide — the officer who carried the nuclear football in and out of the White House every single day — I saw the “people’s house” up close alongside you. @HillaryClinton

Spare us the sanctimonious lectures. And turn on your replies, coward.

When you and Bill left in January 2001, your staff ransacked the place. Remember?

“W” keys ripped off every keyboard. Phone lines cut. Desk drawers glued shut. Obscene voicemails and vulgar graffiti left behind.

Presidential seals and silverware stolen. Furniture damaged. The GAO confirmed the vandalism and theft. It wasn’t “transition friction” — it was a disgrace.

You trashed the People’s House on your way out the door and now you’re clutching pearls over Trump?

I remember, Hillary. I was there. Remember?

The hypocrisy is Olympic-level, Ms. Clinton. And you know it! You of ALL people know it!

The American people have long memories. Especially this one! Me!

We remember who actually looted the place.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Shut up and color.

[US Oil & Gas Association @US_OGA]

Hello Senator....

This November it will be 50 years since you were first elected to Congress, so we want to be the first to say .

"Happy 50th Anniversary of drawing a taxpayer funded salary."

That is quite an achievement.

In fact - you are 2nd longest-still serving member in Congress.

It has been a long time since you held a private sector job.

AND yes 50 years ago - in 1976 (it was America's Bicentennial that year) - people still punched clocks back then. The world has changed a lot.

During your 50 years in Congress - you watched as the creators and inventors and producers changed the world, creating trillions in new wealth, millions of new jobs and dramatically raising living standards for everyone rich and poor alike.

And for 50 years you have voted to raise taxes and regulate and oversee every move of the private sector.

You have never created or invented or produced. Just taxed and regulated and outraged.

But thank you for using the platform the "TRILLIONAIRE class" has provided to the entire world for free to tell us all how disgusted you are.

We would never know otherwise.

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

[Angela Stanton King @theAuntieAngie]

It’s obvious the ghetto has made it to Congress, so let’s get on some ghetto shit.

Hey @JasmineForUS,

I heard you were looking for the bastard of the King family.

You got the wrong King.

That isn’t Dr. Alveda King.

It’s me.

I’m the one.

And unlike what you intended, I wear that title proudly.

I didn’t choose this life, but I am grateful for it and the family, the legacy, and the movement I’ve been blessed to be connected to.

The King family helped change America. Their legacy is bigger than politics, bigger than parties, and certainly bigger than playground insults masquerading as congressional debate.

So if you’re looking for the bastard of the King family, stop looking.

You found her.

And while you’re throwing around labels, I’ll be over here carrying the King name with gratitude, defending the family, and honoring the sacrifices that came before me.

Proud Bastard.

— Angela Stanton King

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

Tragic loss in South Philly; KiIIers still on the run.

22-year-old Penn State senior Billy Schmidt was kiIIed early Saturday just yards from his home. He was walking back from watching the NBA Finals when two black men tried to rob him for his phone. Billy chased them and one turned and shot him in the chest. He died at the hospital. No arrests yet. Police are seeking tips.

If mainstream media cared, they would help find this young man's kiIIer.

Heartbreaking. Rest in peace, Billy.

[Kate @kate_p45]

Republican Senators, for the love of God…
STOP POSTING.
You’ve been in the Senate Majority for 15 months. WE THE PEOPLE gave you everything. We gave you the House and Senate so YOU ALL would unite behind President Trump and tram through the entire America First agenda, confirm every nominee, and crush radical Democrat obstruction.
Instead, because YOU chose John Thune as Senate Leader, everything is stalled, watered down, and sabotaged.
We don’t need more tweets about what “needs to happen.”
You have the power. Use it. Pass the agenda.
Confirm the nominees.
Stop the radicals.
STOP POSTING AND ACT.
The American people are watching.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Dottie, a bottlenose dolphin who lived 39 years at SeaWorld, died this week without ever feeling the rhythm of the ocean, or the freedom she deserved.

SeaWorld describes Dottie as a devoted mother of four calves, but they separated her from every single one of them. That is not devotion, that is the reality of captivity, where profit determines family bonds.

Dottie was born into concrete tanks and died in them. She never experienced the open sea. She spent her life performing for tourists, not because it was natural or enriching, but because SeaWorld's business model depends on it.

SeaWorld positions itself as an institution rooted in marine science. They know, because the science is unambiguous, that cetaceans are highly intelligent, wide-ranging, socially complex animals. They know that no tank, however large, can meet the physical or psychological needs of a dolphin. And yet they continue their breeding program, ensuring that more animals like Dottie will be born into the same captive cycle, never knowing the life they were meant to live.

Dottie's story should not end with a tribute post. It should end with change.

SeaWorld must end its dolphin breeding program now. No more calves born into captivity. No more mothers separated from their young. No more lives defined by performance and concrete walls.

Dottie deserved better. The dolphins who come after her deserve better.

[BlinderFan @LR2Rules]

@CateN28971059 @waynehhsiung How do you know what she does?

[Congressman Nick Langworthy @RepLangworthy]

My wife first told me about the abuse of animals at Ridgland Farms. She was blunt. "You have a voice. Use it." So I did. Joined passionate protectors of animals who want to ban testing of dogs and cats at Ridgland and Marshall Farms. Together, we will work to shut them down.

[Wayne Hsiung @waynehhsiung]

The UK is making it a crime to advocate for dogs.

The creator of Save the Dogs UK, a campaign based on our rescue effort at Ridglan Farms, was raided and arrested for merely MAKING A WEBSITE to condemn the torture of dogs at MBR.

Here is his statement.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

He’s the President of the United States — not your ex, not your personal villain, and not the cause of your misery. You don’t have to support him. That’s America.

But if someone is simply backing the sitting President and it makes you rage, cut people off, attack families, or act like garbage — you are the problem.

You’ve turned politics into a personality disorder: nonstop outrage and toddler meltdowns online. Grow up. He won. The sky didn’t fall. Pay your bills, care for your family, touch grass, and move on.

[Wayne Hsiung @waynehhsiung]

Pharma giant Merck, which previously was implicated in injecting Ridlgan beagles with rabies, is STILL buying dogs from Ridglan as recently as 5/18.

30 pups were purchased and sent to a Merck facility in Kansas. This is corporate criminality, and it must be stopped.

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[Joe Abraham @angeldadjoe]

Senator Kim, my youngest daughter is dead.

You will never know, or probably care, how exhausting it is to watch you, and others like you, perform for applause, camera time, blind ideological loyalty and political power.

Is that why innocent victims never seem to warrant mention from politicians like you?

You’ve shown a great deal of interest in inspecting detention centers with your phony concern and political grandstanding.

Any interest in inspecting the graves of Katie Abraham and others like her?

Katie was 20 years old.
An innocent American who should still be alive today.

Selective empathy is not compassion.

It’s self-serving moral grandstanding.

The endless sympathy for those who broke our laws, while families like mine are left standing at gravesites, is deeply disrespectful and impossible to ignore.

My daughter and other innocent victims deserved far better than politicians like you.

Your hollow performances, and the reckless policies you continue to support and defend that helped create tragedies like Katie’s.

[White Coat Waste @WhiteCoatWaste]

BREAKING:

Trump’s EPA chief Lee Zeldin just took another huge step to END animal testing.

We exposed Fauci’s cruel beagle experiments five years ago.

Now, we’re dismantling the dark legacy of dog tests across the government.

WCW President Anthony Bellotti declared we’re leading the charge to “eliminate outdated EPA red tape that forces companies to poison puppies” alongside Rep. Michael Cloud.

“Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to bankroll big-government bureaucrats who mandate beagle torture, butcher bunnies, force animals to inhale firearm emissions in bizarre gun-control experiments, or make animals eat lard and breathe smog.”

The EPA announced its bold plan to phase out all testing on mammals during Trump’s first term, but we exposed how Biden’s administration cancelled the plan.

Now, the EPA is back on track to shut down animal testing by 2035.

Other Trump agencies like the NIH should follow EPA’s lead.

Thank you EPA for setting a bold example!

@theblaze @candace_phx @RepMichaelCloud @anthonybellotti @epaleezeldin @andrewrwheeler

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Father of 22-year-old Logan Federico screaming at Democrats in Congress after his daughter was dragged from bed, forced on her knees, and executed...

...by a man arrested 39 TIMES with 25 FELONIES...

May be the most powerful and heartbreaking video I've ever watched.

Everyone who let this demon walk freely, should be in prison.