Lisa Almstead🇺🇸✝️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🖌️🎬 🇮🇱

Seventh generation Texan. Award winning screenwriter and film maker. First novel, historical fiction, in progress. Texas y'all.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

One of the most difficult tasks for OBSESSION’s Curry Barker may have been raising the $750k budget to begin with. It is not an easy task to raise money for indie films.
If this was easy, I would have shot eight films in the past seven years instead of just three. Financiers who take a chance on indie films deserve every financial benefit they receive in success.
That success is not guaranteed at all. They are investing in an idea and a filmmaker. They take an enormous risk, so I’m happy they have the benefit of OBSESSION’s financial windfall.

[Tousi TV @TousiTVOfficial]

Student-led protests are spreading across Iran.

Demonstrations have now been reported in Tehran, Karaj, Isfahan, Shiraz, Mashhad, and other cities as young Iranians take to the streets against the regime.

Videos show protesters chanting: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, we are all together."

Despite the risks, Iranians continue to defy the regime. The message from the streets is clear: the fight for Iran's future is far from over.

[Sippi Cup @sippicup2]

I was unaware she was posting this. I was driving and she said “get ready for another influx of followers” and I was like “why?” She said “you’ll see”. NGL almost got me teary eyed when I read this. It is an honor ma’am ❤️

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

This one is for those who are going through a tough time:

🍂 Dum spiro, spero — “While I breath, I hope.”

[sidebartv @sidebartv180]

SIDEBAR with Nico and Jorge | June 6 https://t.co/VXgF3Rl1EX

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

Horæ momento, cita mors venit aut victoria læta — “In a moment comes either sudden death or joyful victory.”

[Sarah Fields @SarahisCensored]

Day 5 - Friday - Karmelo Anthony Trial Report Thread From Inside the Courtroom

I am so very tired.

It took me over an hour to type up my reporting from the day before, and I just cannot write anymore tonight.

Instead, I decided to do a video thread.

I love you all and appreciate every single person who has followed along with my reporting this week.

Here is 30 minutes of my notes and observations from inside the courtroom today.

Thank you for your patience as I work through everything. It has been an emotional and exhausting week, but I remain committed to documenting what is happening and sharing it with all of you as accurately as possible.

Day 5 video thread below. 👇

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

Venīte, accipite rēgnum — “Come, accept the kingdom.”

[Sarah Fields @SarahisCensored]

Track head coach Vincent Hooper was the next witness with Heritage high school.

He was asked about tents. He said you want your kids to stay in their camp. He said he had left the tent to go get batons from the car and then made his way back.

As he was walking back, he said everyone was running and panicking. He then saw Coach Tiffany who said “hey this kid stabbed someone don’t let him leave!”

He stated that he put his hands around Karmelo. karmelo said “he put his hands on me.”

The coach told Karmelo “you know if he dies, you just changed your whole life around”.

Karmelo responded and said “he’s not going to die”

He then passed Karmelo over to a Centennial coach. He said an African-American kid was chasing Karmelo and the kid said “he stabbed my brother. I’m going to get him!” But he was able to grab him and hold him back.

This particular individual is likely a witness and I do not know if it is a minor so I will not be identifying this person.

The coach then said he walked up to Austin … he said Austin was pale white and in a puddle of blood.

🚨 read on 👇 next witness is very hard to listen to

[CineAura @duygarena9]

Gentle, delicate, always smiling and forgiving… yet Melanie possesses the strongest quiet strength in the entire film. She doesn’t scream, scheme, or fight loudly — she simply loves unconditionally, believes in people, and stands as a pillar of grace amid the storms of war.

Olivia de Havilland once said: “Melanie was the woman I wanted to be.”

She didn’t just act the role — she poured her whole heart and personal values into the character. Because of that, Melanie became a timeless symbol of compassion, resilience, and dignity — values Olivia wanted to preserve for future generations.

#GoneWithTheWind #MelanieHamilton #OliviaDeHavilland #ClassicHollywood #GoldenAgeCinema #StrongWomen #QuietStrength #OldHollywood

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

22 years ago today, Ronald Reagan passed away

Here with Saint John Paul II ✨

Hard to find a cooler duo 🇺🇸🇻🇦

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

Over the past week I've seen so-called feminists, progressives and Woman Life Freedom activists hurl insane gender-based abuse at Princess Noor Pahlavi.

Why? Because she went to Norway to speak at a public forum for the suffering people in Iran, and meet with Norwegian politicians. During her trip, Princess Noor waved from a balcony while someone held her umbrella. Which is standard protocol for any high profile visitor.

This moment sent the Iranian Left into a wild rage and frenzy, attacking her in exactly same misogynist ways an islamic regime basiji would have done.

Suddenly it didn't matter that she is a highly accomplished businesswoman from a top American university, with years of experience despite having the choice to not work if she didn't want to.

It didn't matter that she has attended rallies, held speeches, engaged with new and legacy media, done interviews, and raised awareness globally for years, once again despite having the option to not do this.

The Left hurled slurs and abuse in her direction for simply being the daughter of the only true Iranian opposition leader, whose name was chanted by millions in January.

These same leftists ironically haven't done much of anything since WLF crashed and burned in 2022. They sit on their behinds and yell at a screen, while the Princess and her whole family are out there, doing something real, making a difference. They don't know what they want, beyond being a sick contrarian.

Leftism hasn't changed even a bit since it allied with Khomeini in 1979. It remains an ideology of the jealous, bitter and ugly.

Real people and real Iranians with a functioning brain are all beyond proud of her achievements.

Long Live Iran.
Long Live our Royal Family.
🇮🇷

[Byl Holte @SirBylHolte]

"In the Grey" was directed by super-feminist sellout Guy Ritchie, so I knew what to expect.

Sure enough, even though the poster pushes BIG MALE STARS Henry Cavill and Jake Gyllenhaal, the first sentence of the movie is Eiza Gonzalez saying “my name is Rachel Wild.”

In other words, another OBNOXIOUS WOMAN'S story.

She’s a “particular type of lawyer” who operates “in the gray.”

Her boss is another woman.

Her boss “Bobby” is FEMALE too (Rosamund Pike) and the two girlbosses argue about how to reclaim a billion dollar debt from a crimelord.

She has a plan involving the two male stars, which means THEY WORK FOR HER.

Half the movie is spent admiring how beautiful and brilliant she is while she narrates her genius strategies.

We even get a ridiculous scene of her making coffee with on-screen captions listing every ingredient.

Instead of action, we are forced to listen to her constant bragging about how much smarter than the men she is.

Then, once we do get to the male part of the movie, it's just Jake and Henry narrating what their plans and contingency plans are.

I checked out at 36 minutes out of sheer boredom.

This should have been a fun Guy Ritchie heist film.

Instead it is a boring, girlboss vanity project packed with pointless narration and stupid captions.

No wonder it was a massive box office bomb at just $5 million earned against a $70 MILLION dollar budget.

Guy Ritchie has completely lost it.

AVOID THIS PIECE OF CRAP AT ALL COSTS.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Reading the story of a couple who chose to abort their child solely because of the possibility of Down syndrome fills me with rage. These are the same people who fought tirelessly to save their dog from failing kidneys, exhausting every option to keep him alive.

Yet their own baby was denied the chance to even take a breath, all because of a potential disability.
It feels like dogs are granted more rights than unborn human babies. The idea that ending a pregnancy is acceptable as long as we don’t view the child as fully human is deeply disturbing.

All baby lives matter.

[Kristan Hawkins @KristanHawkins]

The New York Times reported (LINK below) that some prenatal genetic screenings are wrong nearly 80% of the time.

Not 8%. Nearly 80%.

Yet, families are handed these results in fear-filled moments and told to make life-or-death decisions about their children.

From Pew: Non-invasive genetic prenatal tests for 5 rare genetic conditions can return false positives 80% to 93% of the time. (LINK also below)

[Mr. Star Spangled MAGA @4thOfJuly365]

I watched my wife push three human beings out of her body like it was an Olympic event.

One labor lasted over 18 HOURS.

EIGHTEEN.

She wasn’t sipping iced lattes, she was white-knuckling through pain that would make a Navy SEAL tap out and ask for his mommy.

And that’s just the delivery part.

Now she runs a full-contact combat zone at home: chasing a toddler who doesn't stop singing, teaching a 10-year-old multiplication and division, and feeding an 8-month-old who thinks sleep is optional.

She does all that on repeat, every single day, while somehow keeping the rest of us alive and mostly sane.

And what recognition does the calendar give her and many other rockstar moms around country?

One measly day.

Mother’s Day.

Fathers?

We show up, provide, protect, and kill the spider the size of a small dog.

One day.

Father’s Day.

Veterans?

The ones who went to war, saw things that broke their bodies and minds, and came home missing pieces?

They get one day too.

Memorial Day gets a long weekend for the rest of us to grill and forget when we should be remembering, and not stuffing hot dogs down our throats.

We honor our fallen heroes for a three-day weekend max.

Jesus Christ?

One day, even though half the country turns it into a shopping spree with inflatable Santas.

Thanksgiving?

The one day we’re supposed to shut up, sit down, and actually feel grateful for the roof, the food, and the family?

One. Single. Day.

But the LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ community?

They get an entire MONTH.

Thirty glorious days of corporate worship.

Every sports team, every Fortune 500 company, every coffee chain, every candy wrapper suddenly explodes in rainbow.

Your cereal wants to be an ally.

Your gum, your coffee and even your cheeseburger.

They’re not just waving it in your face, they’re selling it, branding it, and guilting you into buying it.

Why do they get 30 days when mothers who literally created life get 24 hours?

Because it’s not about rights anymore.

It’s a marketing racket dressed up as compassion. MA tiny percentage of the population gets turned into a cash cow while the rest of us are told to sit down, shut up, and celebrate or else we’re bigots.

Why?

Because guilt sells.

Fear of cancellation prints money.

Companies don’t actually care about the community, they care about looking like they care while your wife who birthed three kids gets a $6.99 card from Walgreens and a “happy Mother’s Day” text from corporate HR.

Mothers built civilization in the delivery room and the kitchen.

Fathers held the line so the rest of it didn’t collapse.

Veterans paid for our freedom in blood.

Jesus Christ LITERALLY DIED FOR YOU, so you could live forever.

And we give them all one day.

But a lifestyle marketing campaign gets a month because nothing says “authenticity” like Target turning your toddler’s underwear into a pride parade.

Enough.

Give mothers the whole damn month.

Or veterans.

Stop pretending a corporate profit orgy is bravery. Real bravery is pushing a baby out after 18 hours of labor then doing it two more times because you love your family more than your comfort.

That’s not a marketing ploy.

That’s a legacy.

[Jared L Kubin @JaredKubin]

For all the parents out there dealing with a decision... let me give you another perspective

In 2018 my wife and I went in for our 20? week ultra sound at Beth Israel in Boston... the rep was very quiet the whole time, something seemed off. My wife & I were first time parents... didn't have much context. The doctor pulled us into her office and told us our sons nuchal fold was abnormally large... she went on to say there is a significant increased chance of Down Syndrome and even Turner's syndrome... talked about options to terminate the pregnancy. My wife was inconsolable, rightly so ... even thinking about it now brings back a lot of heavy emotions because of how hard of a day it was... hard...

I did a lot of research on the topic ... my wife & I prayed non stop about it. All we could do. The doctors wanted to do an amniocentesis which has its own host of risks..run more tests...

We came to the conclusion, which was not easy... it didn't matter... no amnio, no more tests.... I felt in my soul the Lord's plan was perfect and if our son was going to have Down Syndrome we would love him and shepherd him through this world the best we could. We get what we get. Anything from the Lord was a BLESSING and I was not going to point my finger at Him

Fast forward to today... our son is going to be 8 in the fall. He is perfect. Just hit a homerun the other day... a much better baseball player than I was at his age. My best friend

I share this deeply personal story for nothing more than to give just ONE parent hope... the Lord's plan is perfect... stay the course

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

Every single child with Down syndrome is a gift from God, who deserves life.

These children have just as much value, and deserve life just as much as a child without DS.

Down syndrome children aren’t a curse to parents.

Pass it on.

[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

Definitely follow Sarah and, Sippi too. They are covering the Karmello Anthony case and they are the only two trustworthy people who I follow for this information.

💀🖤💀

[Brittany Hughes @RealBrittHughes]

Just learned that the couple who aborted their baby for having Downs was a) documenting the story for weeks for clicks and b) has a disabled dog they've spent tons of $$ keeping alive. Anyone who pretends this is some morally gray issue rather that straight-up evil is either stupid or lying.