30 yr tech company peon. Raises goats & chickens for sanity, eggs and milk. Came for Clif notes and found a few others worth engaging. Most not so much.
🚨HUGE BREAKING UPDATE - 🚨The holdout juror broke his silence by speaking with an INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST, Fugitive TV Podcast, this evening! 👏👏👏 HERE IS A FULL DETAILED WRITE-UP.
The holdout juror is NOT an immigrant. According to marriage and divorce records, he married a Haitian immigrant. She was illegal. He did not know this when he married her.
He did not show his face. He is keeping to himself since his name was doxxed on X. His life has been threatened, and people have stalked his house. NBC Boston did not give you the full story.
Michael, the juror, is now divorced. He filed for divorce first. The marriage was fraudulent because she was not a citizen. When he did this, everything hit the fan. She didn’t want a divorce. His ex-wife filed a counterclaim a couple of months later. He was denied his divorce petition because she was not an American citizen.
The incident with the nephew - according to the juror, there is a lot of information that many do not know. For example, the nephew is 6-foot-2, and Michael is only 5-foot-7. This obviously does not give anyone the right to hit anyone. But I think it is safe to say that we do not know all of the facts of the matter. Michael stated the truth will come out.
None of this matters when it comes to what happened in the courtroom. He filled out his paperwork appropriately. He did not lie on his paperwork. He was asked if he had ever been arrested, and he checked the box “yes” and afterward had to describe what happened.
He even took the stand, and the prosecutor asked him questions. He was questioned about his past arrest. He was then selected. I would like to make it very clear that this is something that happens with all of the potential jurors present. Which means that the jurors who have already been interviewed could have said this at any point, but they chose to keep that information from the public.
Michael told Fugitive TV that from day one, eight of the jurors automatically wanted to go for not guilty.
The eight jurors were “activists,” according to Michael. He said every day they voted, and the eight who were convinced that she was not guilty were doing their best to convince the other four that she was not guilty.
At the very end, it was him and another juror. She was also voting guilty. At the last minute, she caved. He said he knew she was guilty based on the EVIDENCE.
He was open about what he believed and what he said. He said the other jurors are telling half-truths or just outright lies.
He’s never been convicted of a crime. His past should not matter. He said that the entire time, his ex-wife was just trying to get status and citizenship to live in the U.S.
Michael said that the report on him that went viral, where they said they spoke with his family members, did not report exactly what was actually said. He said that the family members they spoke to were likely family members of his ex-wife, and he does not even speak with them. Therefore, they cannot know what actually happened in the jury room. Who DID NBC Boston speak with? According to Michael, it was not one of his own family members.
Michael stated that he believes he’s being targeted because he is a Republican - a Black Republican with conservative values. He believes that he was on a juror panel with a large number of Democratic voters. And he knows exactly what’s happening right now, and I think that you all do as well.
A Black Republican stood his ground. It is not surprising that he is now being dragged through the mud.
This is a very bad precedent for people who will serve on a jury in the future for a national case. No one wants to do this when, based on their decision that they say is based on the evidence, they are crucified online for their political beliefs. You have all seen it. You have seen the threats that I get on a daily basis. I cannot imagine what this man is going through.
But for now, I stand with the Black conservative Republican juror.
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@EastTNMama You can also dehydrate organs, grind and put in capsules. It's a bit of work but if you're worried about commercial products it's an option.
@PeggiBosquez You can indeed can onions and it's very convenient. Use jelly or half pint jars. Mince or quarter. Saves time on prep for a lot of meals too. I can potatoes because I live in very high humidity and heat too.
Last year I gave away 500 sourdough starters.
There is a counter in my farmhouse kitchen that spends much of the year covered in jars. Neighbors kept asking to buy one, and when I finally sat down with the rules, I discovered that selling a jar of living sourdough starter was so tangled in regulation that I would save money by giving it away. So I gave it away. 500 jars in a year. 500 families baking bread at home because the law could not decide what a living thing was.
I laugh about it, mostly. But I have been thinking about that counter full of jars all year, because something is coming that will make it matter far more than it did.
First, let me tell you who I am. I'm a wife, a mother, and a grandmother. I live on 22 acres in Indiana that four generations of my family share: my parents, my husband and me, our children, and our grandchildren. Thirty years ago this land was a cornfield.
Today it's gardens, a vineyard, an orchard, sheep on pasture, and grandbabies in the garden rows. I planted a food forest behind my parents' house at 15, opened my first community garden and brought home dairy goats at 22, and learned stonework at 30 so I could build a little Tudor cottage with my own hands. I've spent my whole life making things at home and teaching other people, mostly women, to do the same.
And in all those years I've learned one thing above the rest. The women of this country do not need to be taught to love their homes. They need permission to let their homes earn.
The oldest workplace in the world
For almost all of human history, the household was where things were made. The kitchen was a bakery. The barn was a workshop. The front room was a schoolhouse. The garden was the grocery. The women who kept those households were not decorative, and no one thought they were. They were producers. Our word "economy" comes from the Greek for household management. The home was not a corner of the economy. The home was the economy.
That arrangement did not fail. It ended because we industrialized, and then, having industrialized, we wrote a tax code and a zoning code that assumed the factory was the only serious place to make anything at all. For 100 years those codes have treated the home as a bedroom attached to a driveway, and the homemaker as a consumer of what strangers make far away.
The home was the economy.
You can feel the tide turning.
Women are coming home. We homeschool in numbers nobody predicted. We bake, we garden, we keep chickens, we sew, we put up food in August the way our great-grandmothers did.
The homestead is no longer a curiosity; it is a longing shared by millions of women who suspect, correctly, that the modern arrangement shortchanged them. But let one of those women try to sell her extra bread, her eggs, her soap, or her herbs, and she meets the codes standing in the doorway: the permit, the filing, the zoning letter, the polite warning from the county.
And now the wave. The factories are being automated. The offices are being automated. Artificial intelligence has already come for the paperwork, and the humanoid robots are coming for the warehouse floor. Much of that work is dull or dangerous, and I would rather a robot do it than a father who never gets home before his children are asleep. But a country that lets the factory and the office empty out without opening another door has made a terrible mistake, and it will have made it on purpose. The one workplace no robot can take from us is a family working with its own hands on its own ground. We have to move the barriers before the wave arrives, not after….
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@EastTNMama I love my AA but it is too heavy for a glass top. I used it on a propane burner outside which was actually nice because it was low w no lifting. Presto works fine. Used for years. Electric is nice but power outage & you have to can a freezer full...
@FlagAndFire Yep mine took over protective detail on my granddaughter when she was born. Now she babysits the new goat kids when they wander away from the nannies. She gave up herding them back & just hangs until they return to mama.
@TheKanehB Private equity firms buying out vet clinics but also didn't want people using on themselves. People getting savvy on DIY and we can't have that!
@DRanchLife@LaNativePatriot One of the best defenses I ever read about was planting things most don't recognize as food. Hidden among flower beds and edges of buildings. I've served many salads w "weird" things.
@iatzhi@GlammaSooz@IHateNYT@AHenry39284302 I materially support 4 generations of my family. Y'all want to take $ from old people, euthanize them, and talk about anal emissions. I don't think you have the high ground here. Maybe some reflection on why you're perceived as you are is in order.
It's been cool seeing things people like @BasedTorba have been building so figured I would share a little project I've done. Basically it's a whole Archive and map of all things High Strangeness. So Cryptids, Giants, Megaliths, Aliens, Hauntings, etc.
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