Nora

Coffee, sunsets & weekend adventures

[Nora @Nora21158]

I am sitting on a tatami mat, enjoying my food while watching the barista craft a matcha parfait topped with fresh strawberries and mochi. The shop is peaceful and sparsely populated, offering a perfect relaxing atmosphere. 🧍Children's animal puzzle

[Nora @Nora21158]

Banana Mint Smoothie: This minty smoothie is accompanied by the thought that the unique flight path of every shuttlecock makes each rally one-of-a-kind. Since no two moments in a game are identical, players must maintain constant focus and react flexibly. This unpredictability i

[Nora @Nora21158]

Carrot with honey and nuts. Bravely enjoy thrilling high-altitude water slide adventures. Gliding over bright water scenery enhances sensory excitement, making every rapid descent an unforgettable summer challenge.

[Nora @Nora21158]

Bright children's number cube Slow fine dining uncovers the warmth and creativity in food. Each exquisite dish reflects genuine devotion and meticulous craftsmanship.

[Nora @Nora21158]

Hamster Walk: The hamster and its cage. In the zoo's shrubbery, cute finches fly in groups, chirping crisply and adding a delicate, lively vitality to the ecological environment.🌎

[Sonja Shaw @realSonjaShaw]

Newsom sued our Chino district when we stood up for parents’ rights. He even passed a law to hide secret gender transitions from families.

Today the 9th Circuit sent him a clear message: children belong to their families, not the government.

My opponent is on the wrong side of this fight. We won’t back down. https://t.co/CK5JU5l0YK

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

🚨 Gavin Newsom caught taking bribes. He even laundered A MILLION DOLLARS of this money TO HIS WIFE JENNIFER NEWSOM’S NGO

Here are 3 examples of Gavin Newsom taking bribes and then doing favors:

1) Blue Shield gave a $20 million donation in September of 2020. A few months later, Gavin Newsom awarded the insurer a $15 million no-bid contract

2) Kaiser Foundation gave $10 million to the COVID-19 Response Fund in December 2020. Then by 2022, Gavin Newsom was signing off on another no-bid contract for Kaiser to manage Medi-Cal

3) A tribe gave $500,000 in April of 2024, just months before Gavin Newsom's office urged federal officials to reject a rival casino project. The same tribe gave another $500,000 in April of 2025, about a month before California sued to block the rival's project.

The casino donations is ESPECIALLY bad because he laundered the money into his wife’s NGO

500k in 2024 plus $500k in 2025 payments were made for opposition to the rival casino

The donations were behested payments explicitly requested by Gavin Newsom to his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s California Partners Project charity. $500k in April 2024 and another $500k in April 2025

How is Gavin Newsom not in jail????

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Mr. Pool @MrPool_QQ]

🔻 THE AIR INSIDE YOUR HOME IS 2 TO 5 TIMES MORE TOXIC THAN THE AIR OUTSIDE. THE EPA HAS KNOWN THIS FOR DECADES. YOU SPEND 90% OF YOUR LIFE BREATHING IT. NOBODY TOLD YOU TO OPEN A WINDOW.

You are inhaling formaldehyde right now. It is off-gassing from your couch. Your bed frame. Your kitchen cabinets. Your flooring. Every piece of pressed wood, particleboard, and laminate furniture releases formaldehyde continuously — for up to two years after purchase. The WHO classifies it as a Group 1 carcinogen. The same classification as asbestos.

You bought furniture. You brought a carcinogen into your bedroom. You sleep 8 hours with your face 12 inches from it.

97% of Americans have flame retardant chemicals in their blood. These compounds — PBDEs — are in your couch cushions, your mattress, your carpet. They are endocrine disruptors. They cross the placental barrier. They accumulate in breast milk. The chemical industry lobbied for laws requiring them — using the same playbook as Big Tobacco. They created fake fire safety organizations and paid scientists to testify the chemicals were safe.

They were never safe. They were profitable.

A former indoor air quality researcher — 9 years at a federal environmental health agency:

"We completed a residential exposure study in 2014. 2,100 homes tested. Every single home exceeded WHO guidelines for at least one volatile organic compound. 74% exceeded guidelines for formaldehyde. The correlation with respiratory disease, thyroid disruption, and cognitive decline was undeniable. The recommendation was a public advisory. It was rejected. The phrase used was 'economic disruption to housing and furniture sectors.' Study reference: REH-2014-0117. Never cited in any public guidance."

Your headaches. Your brain fog. Your child's asthma. Your thyroid medication. These are not genetic. They are architectural.

The "new furniture smell" is not freshness. It is formaldehyde, benzene, and toluene entering your lungs. The "new car smell" is the same thing. You were trained to associate poison with luxury.

Open your windows. 15 minutes, twice daily. Move your bed away from pressed-wood furniture. Remove synthetic carpet from bedrooms. The solution costs nothing. That's why no one sells it to you.

You sealed your home for "energy efficiency." You filled it with synthetic materials for "affordability." You closed the windows for "climate control." You built a gas chamber and called it home.

CODE: EPA-IAQ-2to5X / WHO-FORMALDEHYDE-GRP1 / PBDE-97PCT / REH-2014-0117 / 90PCT-INDOORS / 74PCT-EXCEED

⟁
The most dangerous room you enter every day is the one you sleep in. The air is free. They made sure you'd seal it out and breathe their products instead. Open a window tonight. Share this.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Why does Mary look younger than Jesus in Michelangelo's Pietà?

The answer is one of the most beautiful in art history...

Mary is holding the body of her 33 year old son, but she looks 20. Critics noticed it the moment the sculpture was unveiled in 1499. The mother of a man who has just been crucified would have been in her late forties or early fifties. Michelangelo had carved her as a girl.

His own biographer, Ascanio Condivi, was the one who finally asked him why. The answer Michelangelo gave is preserved in Condivi's Life of Michelangelo and has been repeated for centuries: "Do you not know that chaste women stay fresh much more than those who are not chaste? How much more in the case of the Virgin, who had never experienced the least lascivious desire that might change her body?"

Most modern critics treat this answer as a half-serious deflection. Michelangelo was famous for his sharp tongue and refused to explain himself to people he considered beneath his intellect.

The deeper answer is older, and it lies inside one of the greatest poems ever written. In the final canto of Dante's Paradiso, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux begins his prayer to the Virgin with one of the most extraordinary lines in Italian literature:

"Vergine madre, figlia del tuo figlio."
"Virgin mother, daughter of your own son."

Michelangelo, who knew Dante by heart, was carving that line into stone. Mary is younger than Jesus because Jesus is older than the universe... because she gave birth to her own creator.

But there is another reading, simpler than either of those, and it is the one I find myself thinking of today. Every mother who has held her child has held them at every age at once. The infant is still inside the toddler. The toddler is still inside the teenager. The young man on her lap, even dead, is also the boy she nursed and the baby she first carried home.

And maybe that's why Michelangelo did not carve Mary as the years had aged her. He carved her as love had kept her: outside of time, outside of grief, holding her son the way she had always held him...

Happy Mother's Day.

-- -- --

If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here:

https://t.co/hgJUdR0jlx

I write about beauty in all its forms. If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

mother’s day is every day

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

https://t.co/LH6vwKppAi

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Banger 😂

[LHGrey™️ @Grey_0G]

I have been asked for my opinion about Pam Bondi...so here it is...

Pam Bondi, in my opinion...was deployed as a precision instrument in a theater of institutional warfare where the Attorney General’s role is less about courtroom theatrics and more about reshaping the Department of Justice’s internal architecture from within a bureaucracy engineered to resist exactly that.

To mistake her fifteen-month tour for failure is to misunderstand the architecture of power itself.

Bondi entered the DOJ in February 2025 after Matt Gaetz’s nomination collapsed under its own weight.

She inherited an agency riddled with holdovers, careerist prosecutors, and institutional muscle memory tuned to the prior regime’s priorities.

Her mandate, executed with the cold ferocity of a Florida prosecutor who once stared down the Clintons and lived to tell it, was never to play the long public game of show trials.

It was to do the lethal, invisible labor:

purge disloyal elements, redirect investigative task forces, shutter the foreign-influence shops that had become political protection rackets, and...most critically...build the factual scaffolding of cases that could survive judicial scrutiny once the political headwinds shifted.

That is precisely what she delivered.

Under her watch the DOJ secured historic gang and cartel takedowns, first-ever Antifa terrorism convictions, and a string of Supreme Court victories that rewrote the operational rules of engagement.

Murder rates plunged to levels unseen in over a century.

Those are not the metrics of a lightweight.

They are the metrics of someone who understood that the real war is won in the grand-jury rooms and the classified briefings long before any defendant ever sees a courtroom.

The public theater...the Epstein files fiasco, the congressional grillings, the slow-bleed perception that “Trump’s enemies weren’t being prosecuted fast enough”...was the predictable noise generated by an entrenched apparatus that weaponizes leaks, redactions, and procedural sabotage the moment it senses its own exposure.

Bondi absorbed that fire so the next occupant of the office would inherit dockets already primed, evidence chains already hardened, and a bureaucracy already blooded and compliant.

She was the breaching charge.

The follow-on force...now under acting leadership that can move with fewer Senate constraints and fresher political capital...gets to deliver the kill shots.

This is not speculation; it is the pattern of every high-stakes Trump DOJ transition.

First-term chaos taught the lesson:

the Senate-confirmed loyalist who survives confirmation must serve as the institutional wrecking ball.

The public demands scalps; the law demands airtight cases. Bondi supplied the latter while the former were still being assembled.

Those who call her tenure “incompetent” reveal either their ignorance of how the executive branch actually functions or their desire to keep the machine broken so it can never be turned against its former masters.

She was never meant to be the permanent face of the Justice Department.

She was the architect who laid the rebar and poured the concrete under fire.

The structure now stands. The new tenants can furnish it with indictments.

That is not failure. That is lethal, disciplined statecraft.

And the critics who cannot see the difference have no business commenting on power at this altitude.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

💀⚖️

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Gavin Newsom caught in a money laundering operation for political donations

- Newsom gives $30 billion in taxpayer money to these in-home caregivers, including huge numbers of fraud
- These caregivers give money to the unions
- The unions give the money Back to Gavin Newsom

“In-home care providers give about $150 million a year to the labor unions, which are of course Gavin Newsom's, number one kind of political power base.

So it is a cycle of corruption

Newsom gives $30 billion in taxpayer money to these in-home caregivers, including huge numbers of fraud. These caregivers give money to the unions. The unions give the money Back to Gavin Newsom.

This is the dirty business of California and we've blown it wide open”

Gavin Newsom must be held accountable

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

It’s worse than we thought

Now only was Gavin Newsom informed and personally told about the skyrocketing hospice fraud 4 years ago

But the increase in hospice fraud was estimated at 1589%

“They even gave Newsom a map, quote, 210 active hospice agencies located within one mile of each other on van eyes in Los Angeles County”

“In fact, listen to this, the aged population increased 40% in California between 2010 and 2021, while the hospice agencies increased an astonishing 1589%”

1589% and Newsom DID NOTHING

“But it gets worse. The auditor notes that the California Department of Public Health had failed to issue regulations for its hospice licensing process, despite having had the authority to do so since 1991. And then listen closely to this, this quote, we reviewed cases in which public health became aware of possible fraud during the licensing process.

And instead of denying the licenses, this is Gavin Newsom's Health Agency. It GRANTED licenses to these hospice agencies. Why now the failure of Gavin Newsom's government paved the way for this”

It’s time to arrest Gavin Newsom. But not just Newsom, everyone who was involved and looked the other way

This is why the California Attorney General’s wife is trying to make citizen journalism illegal

[Joshua Hall @JoshHall2024]

🚨BREAKING:🚨The Trump administration is reportedly moving to REVOKE the citizenship of Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and initiate DEPORTATION proceedings to REMOVE her from our country. This is a part of their removal of temporary protection status for all Somalian illegal aliens and migrants in the state of Minnesota. The citizenship revocation proceedings against Omar are being initiated on the basis that Ilhan has committed major financial fraud, stealing millions in aid, along with immigration fraud by marrying her brother to illegally come to The United States. This woman is a radical Islamic jihadist who has always hated America and if she had it her way, we would all be living under Sharia law. SEND HER BACK. Do you agree that it’s time for Ilhan to GO? 👊🔥🇺🇸