mary hicks

Artist. Editor. Errant farmer, guided by almanac. Hindu Catholic. Committed American. One of 14 siblings. "Madcap" in Caitlin Hicks' "Theory of Expanded Love."

[mary hicks @MaryBimala]

For my brother Christopher who died a year ago. You were a truly good man.
Excerpted from the second book of the Bhagavad Gita:
The Blessed Lord spoke:
Truly there was never a time when I was not,
Nor you, nor these lords of men;
And neither will there be a time when we shall cease to be
From this time onward. ...
Know that that by which all this universe
Is pervaded is indeed indestructible;
No one is able to accomplish
The destruction of the imperishable.
Neither is this (the embodied Self)
Born nor does it die at any time,
Nor, having been, will it again come not to be.
Birthless, eternal, perpetual, primaeval,
It is not slain when the body is slain.
This, the embodied Self, is eternally indestructible
In the body of all, Arjuna. II 11-30
By devotion to Me he comes to know
Who I am in truth;
Then having known Me in truth,
He enters Me immediately.
Performing all actions,
He whose reliance is always on Me,
Attains, by My grace,
The eternal imperishable abode. XVIII 55-6

[THE Q STORM @e3z9b_qI1ytkw]

🚨: REMINDER‼️

The leaked video of Mark Zuckerberg where he warned his Facebook executives NOT TO GET VACCINATED with the mRNA (COVID) vaccines because "we don't know the long-term side effects of modifying people's DNA and RNA" 😳

Then he censored doctors, scientists, and sick people who denounced the GENOCIDAL "Vaccines" 🔥🔥🔥

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

Dr. Naomi Wolf: "PFIZER DELIBERATELY TRIED TO KILL US ALL."

"They killed the babies & they knew it. They poisoned the breast milk & they knew it...They lowered the sperm count & they knew it."

"This is satanic on a massive level...They knew they were doing this."

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

HORRIFYING: Yasmeen Khan, owner of a beauty salon, offered free courses to young Christian and Hindu women to lure them in. Once there, she drugged their drinks. When they lost consciousness, she called her husband Mohammed Khan, who raped them while she stood watch at the entrance.

They recorded the abuses to blackmail them and force them to have relations with more Muslim men. When questioned, Yasmeen justified the crimes by saying that helping to rape "infidel girls" would lead her to Paradise.

This is Islam.

[jay plemons @jayplemons]

Victor Davis Hanson: In collapsing California, Karen Bass is backed by two groups — ultra-wealthy elites safe in their bubbles and subsidized poor who are living better than back home.

The financial trap closes on the working class. The carpenters, electricians, and delivery drivers keeping the cities functional pay the highest gas and income taxes in the continental United States. They fund the programs but receive none of the benefits. They earn too much to qualify for state subsidies but lack the millions required to buy their way into secure zip codes.

Time for Spencer Pratt.

[Layden Robinson @LaydenRobinson]

@EricLDaugh

[Old Salty Marine @BamaSaltyMarine]

27 million Black people are still owned as slaves today in Islamic countries.

No Liberal ever complains about that!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! President Trump just dropped this video of a Nigerian pastor speaking over SLAUGHTERED CHRISTIANS in Nigeria, and says "watch what's next"

"No games!"

47 has just ordered a strike on an Islamist in Nigeria

"THEY ARE KILLING CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA."

"Tell Trump to save our life in Nigeria!"

And it seems MORE is coming 👀

47 just got back from China and is going off! I voted for this! 🇺🇸

[Tosca Austen @ToscaAusten]

⚖️🚩Reduced charges against a Guatemalan illegal alien accused of raping a 13-year-old girl

𝐈𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦?

The Soros prosecution model is blazing across blue cities: criminal-first, citizen-last ‘justice.’”

We see it playing out over and over.

Rep. Brandon Gill dropped the hammer in yesterday’s House Judiciary hearing while grilling Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano — a Soros-backed activist prosecutor.

How can Descano’s office justify reduced charges against a Guatemalan illegal alien accused of raping a 13-year-old girl?

Their office openly admits weighing “collateral immigration consequences” —whatever that means, before charging, pleading, or sentencing — giving illegal offenders sweetheart deals.

Quick in-n-out processing, dropped felonies, a hot cup of coffee and it’s early release —straight back into our neighborhoods.

This is the Soros Left blueprint.

Blue jurisdictions have been infected with this injustice for years. Can’t risk offending a key voter bloc—so legal citizens are forced to endure the fallout.

Rep Brandon Gill is right. Americans are done being told that wanting safe streets and real accountability is “extremism.”

Defund the Soros DA pipeline.
Put victims and citizens first. 🇺🇸

[Marilyn Muller @1in5advocacy]

🚨 Reading scores will stay in the gutter and parents will NEVER have real power over the classroom as long as teachers are systematically indoctrinated in U.S. Colleges of Education.

The problem isn’t a few ‘bad apples’ — it’s the factory producing them 👉 https://t.co/cNXXo3zW6b — and the U.S. government knows it.

Trump needs to demand that Congress overhaul America’s failing, taxpayer-funded Colleges of Education. These institutions have been captured by Marxist ideology, churning out activist teachers instead of competent educators — all on our dime.

Time to defund the indoctrination factories and restore real teacher training!

[Giggling Ganon @GigglingGanon]

Routine traffic stop for Ohio Trooper turns into massive arrest of high ranked Ms13 gang leader.

An Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper pulled over a silver SUV for a simple tailgating violation.

Inside were three people: a driver, a woman in the back, and a man in the passenger seat who claimed he didn’t speak English.

​What started as a routine check quickly spiraled. As the trooper ran their information, the "passenger" was revealed to be Edenilson Velasquez Larin, known in the underworld as "Agresor."

He wasn't just a gang member—he was a national leader of MS-13’s "Fulton" clique.

Just two weeks after this video was filmed, a massive 48-count federal indictment was unsealed. It turns out "Agresor" had been running a reign of terror from New York.

The charges were staggering:

​Racketeering & Murder: Authorizing and participating in gruesome machete killings of teenagers.

​Drug Trafficking: Moving massive quantities of cocaine and marijuana.

​Money Laundering: Funneling street money into high-end assets.

While Velasquez Larin pleaded not guilty, the evidence was overwhelming.

His fiancée, Blanca Garcia (the woman in the back seat acting as a translator), was also swept up in the federal case, charged with money laundering conspiracy for her role in hiding the gang's blood money.

​Current Status (May 2026)

​Edenilson Velasquez Larin: Following a high-profile 10-week trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn found him GUILTY on all counts, including four murders. He is currently being held in a federal maximum-security facility awaiting his formal sentencing, where he faces a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole.

​Blanca Garcia: After being processed through the New York federal courts for her role in the gang's financial operations, she has remained in the U.S. justice system.

​Gabrielle Lopez: The driver was originally detained for immigration violations. Unlike the leaders, he was not a primary target of the murder trial and was handled through administrative immigration proceedings.

​A simple traffic stop in Ohio ended up delivering justice for victims thousands of miles away.

Karma caught up with these criminals that day.

[Carl DeMaio @carldemaio]

Before you vote, check out the Reform California "Plain English" Voter Guide! Simple descriptions of every ballot measure - and we only endorse candidates who are proven FIGHTERS, not the sellouts who betrayed us!

[Kenny Carmody @KennyCarmody]

This is what a decade of mouth breathing does to you.

Your nose is literally designed as the first line of defense. Nasal breathing filters dust/pollens/pathogens, warms and humidifies air, and releases nitric oxide, which opens blood vessels, improves oxygen uptake by up to 20%, and kills bacteria/viruses on contact.

Mouth breathing bypasses all of it.

Cold, dry, unfiltered air hits your lungs directly. It dries out your mouth (raising cavity and gum disease risk), triggers chronic inflammation, fragments sleep, increases snoring and apnea, and over years, literally reshapes your face (narrower palate, recessed jaw, forward head posture, “adenoid face”).

Kids who mouth-breathe show measurable craniofacial changes. Adults pay with brain fog, fatigue, and worse recovery. Mouth taping at night is the simplest fix: it retrains your body to nasal-breathe while you sleep, restoring nitric oxide flow and letting your detox and repair systems actually work.

If you’re mouth-breathing right now…
it’s already inside you.

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟖, 𝟖𝟓𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐉𝐄𝐖𝐒 𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐁 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐒𝐑𝐀𝐄𝐋 𝐀𝐁𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐁𝐄𝐃 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐒 𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐍𝐒 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐁 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒 𝐊𝐄𝐏𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝟕𝟕 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒

The receipts, country by country:

“𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘲: 135,000 𝘑𝘦𝘸𝘴, 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥, 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 2,600 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴. 𝘐𝘯 1950 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 50 𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦. 𝘌𝘨𝘺𝘱𝘵: 75,000 𝘑𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘶𝘦𝘻 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴. 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘺𝘢, 𝘠𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯, 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘰, 𝘛𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘢, 𝘈𝘭𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢: 140,000 𝘑𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘚𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘑𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦. 𝘈𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘑𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘵𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴: $263 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯.”

What Israel did with the refugees. 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥. 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲. 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐢𝐳𝐫𝐚𝐡𝐢 𝐉𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐢 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 — 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲, 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭. Today Mizrahi Jews and their descendants are more than half of Israel’s population. “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘨𝘦𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘐𝘴𝘳𝘢𝘦𝘭 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘥? 𝘚𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.”

What Arab states did with Palestinian refugees, in their own jurisdictions, 77 years later: 𝐋𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟑𝟗 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. Half a million people still in slums, still stateless. Egypt, Syria, the Gulf states: no citizenship, no path forward, generation after generation born with nowhere to go. Jordan granted citizenship then slaughtered 10,000 Palestinians in Black September 1970.

𝐈𝐒𝐑𝐀𝐄𝐋 𝐓𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐈𝐍 𝟖𝟓𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐉𝐄𝐖𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐑𝐄𝐅𝐔𝐆𝐄𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌 𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐍𝐒 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐁 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒 𝐊𝐄𝐏𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝟕𝟕 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 𝐁𝐘 𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐈𝐂𝐄

𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 @𝘏𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨

[Alexander Duncan @AlexDuncanTX]

This is Islam: “We did not come here to coexist. We are superior to everyone else. If other religions want to live with us, they have to worship Allah.”

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

This is as crazy as it gets! Transgender Minnesota State Representative Leigh Finley opposes age verification for Porn website because they are educational for Kids! 😳

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Elon just endorsed it.

Gad Saad dropped the hammer on Fox this morning.

We now live in a world where:

- Rape victims get less sympathy than their rapists
- Homeowners get less than the squatters breaking in
- American vets get less than illegal migrants
- Repeat felons with 186 charges get 200 more “chances” because “society made them do it”

This isn’t kindness.

This is suicidal empathy.

Universities spent decades teaching our judges, leaders, and elites that personal agency is a myth if you check the right oppression boxes. So criminals become victims, victims become bigots for complaining, and the whole system rots from the inside.

[Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorian]

How our schools’ foolishness is courting ‘civilizational failure’ | Rich Lowry, New York Post

We’ve been having a debate about “book bans” in recent years, but given the steep decline in student literacy, the deeper question is how any child would even notice whether a book is available in a school library or not.

The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford recently published an eye-opening study documenting steep declines in student test scores, especially in reading.

Over the past 10 years, reading scores have declined in 83% of America’s school districts.

What looked like a COVID-driven catastrophe is, instead, part of a long-running trend.

Reading scores were falling at a similar clip prior to the pandemic, in 2017-2019, and continued to fall into 2024.

In a third of school districts, kids are reading a full grade level below where they were in 2015.

This follows what had been a steady increase in test scores from 1990 to the 2010s.

The ability to read is foundational to a child’s development.

It enhances verbal fluency, memory, concentration, and executive function.

It’s associated with academic success and sundry advantages throughout life.

That our schools are falling down so badly on such an elemental matter is nothing less than a civilizational failure.

Our children aren’t learning to read, in part, because we’ve forgotten how to teach them.

We decided to jettison a common-sensical, tried-and-true method of reading instruction — phonics — for faddish theories that haven’t worked.

It’s notable that states that showed improvement between 2022-2025 embraced phonics, which now goes under the rubric “the science of reading.”

And it also can’t be a coincidence that these harrowing trends are playing out against the backdrop of ubiquitous screens in schools.

Schools are starting to ban mobile phones, but the screen that they take away with one hand, they give with the other.

According to a New York Times survey, 80% of teachers say that students at their schools have a device assigned to them; it was only a third in 2019.

More than 80% of those in schools where devices are used said that kids get them . . . by kindergarten.

It would have been comparable educational recklessness if schools had decided at the outset of the television age that every schoolchild needed a personal TV.

Parents struggle to get their kids off devices at home, then send them to school — where they read “To Kill a Mockingbird” on an iPad.

Now, books haven’t disappeared from classrooms, but they aren’t nearly as prevalent as they should be.

A new study by the Rand Corporation found that most English teachers assigned at least one full book during the school year, although 9% didn’t assign any; roughly two-thirds assigned only a bare minimum, between one and four.

Engaging with a whole book in print is so important because not all reading is equal.

One analysis found that “digital reading does improve comprehension skills, but the beneficial effect is between six and seven times smaller than that of print reading.”

So, too, reading a book is better than reading a series of extended passages; it requires more attention and greater immersion.

As education expert Robert Pondiscio of the American Enterprise Institute points out, it’s a mistake to think of reading as solely a technical skill.

Reading comprehension also depends on what the great educational theorist E.D. Hirsch called “cultural literacy” — the basic facts about history, civics, art and the like that form our common pool of knowledge.

To our great detriment, schools have downgraded this, too.

The worst-case scenario is that we have become a screen culture that’s only capable of producing screen kids.

A report last year in the journal iScience found that reading for pleasure steadily declined from 2003 to 2023.

On top of evidence that reading had also fallen from the 1940s to 2003, this makes for an 80-year decline.

The poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky said, “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

And not being capable of reading them is even worse than that.

https://t.co/m0R7enfMYm

[Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 @Bubblebathgirl]

Gavin Newsom is handing out a no-bid contract worth millions for his new “free diapers” program.

Instead of a competitive bidding process, California taxpayers are on the hook as the contract goes straight to Baby2Baby — the nonprofit with close ties to Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom.

The program has also been exempted from standard parts of the Government Code, Public Contract Code, and State Administrative Manual that normally require competitive bidding to protect taxpayers.

This $12.5 million+ deal raises serious questions about favoritism and waste while California families struggle with high costs. Critics note that the diapers are ultimately costing the state significantly more per unit than if families simply bought them at stores like Target.

Is this the best way to help California families?

(Video: AI)

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

They can’t win on the merits. They can’t win with thirty million illegal alien votes. They can’t win with ballot harvesting and dead voters. Even three assassination attempts didn’t do the trick.

So, hey, why not just shred the constitution and simply take over?

#Democrats