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Evangelical Protestant, History Buff, Came third in a science fair once, Moody Blues & Genesis Enjoyer, Romans 8:18-30 | Isaiah 33:17

[Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn @GunterFehlinger]

Fidel Castro was a brutal communist dictator.

He did not liberate Cuba. He replaced one dictatorship with another and built a one-party police state around himself.

His regime executed opponents, imprisoned dissidents, crushed independent media, outlawed genuine political competition, persecuted critics, and sent people—including gay men, religious believers and conscientious objectors—to forced-labor camps.

For decades, Cubans were denied basic political freedoms while Castro was celebrated abroad as some kind of revolutionary hero.

Enough with the romantic mythology.

Dictators are not heroes.
Political repression is not liberation.
Communist tyranny is still tyranny.

Remember Castro for what his regime did to its victims—not for the propaganda built around him.

Free Cuba. Democratic Cuba. European values: freedom, pluralism and human dignity.

#Cuba #FidelCastro #Dictatorship #Communism #HumanRights #Freedom #Democracy

[NASA @NASA]

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.

Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl

[Ante D. Luvian @uncle_deluge]

Eden Standard Time

[Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn @GunterFehlinger]

We won!
#ExRussia is defeated!
Watch the strategy to defeat @MedvedevRussiaE online at
https://t.co/iADq7XhWT7 @freenationsrf @TFRmod

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

Your party just elected an Attorney General for my state who said he wanted to shoot the GOP Speaker of the House of Delegates and murder his two little children.

Shut the fuck up.

[Patrick Casey @restoreorderusa]

REMINDER: Donald Trump has the Mandate of Heaven. You are struggling to get out of Bronze in League of Legends.

Know your place.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

New Jersey would be very competitive politically if all the Republicans who moved to FL from NJ since I‘ve been governor were still voting in New Jersey.

Bad leftist policies drive out center/right voters and leave the remaining electorate even more left.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

I think it's idiotic to overreact to a couple of elections in blue states, but a few thoughts:

1) Scot Pressler, TPUSA, and a bunch of others have been working hard to register voters. I said it in 2022, and I've said it repeatedly since: our coalition is "lower propensity" and that means we have to do better at turning out voters than we have in the past.

2) We need to focus on the home front. The president has done a lot that has already paid off in lower interest rates and lower inflation, but we inherited a disaster from Joe Biden and Rome wasn't built in a day. We're going to keep on working to make a decent life affordable in this country, and that's the metric by which we'll ultimately be judged in 2026 and beyond.

3) The infighting is stupid. I care about my fellow citizens--particularly young Americans--being able to afford a decent life, I care about immigration and our sovereignty, and I care about establishing peace overseas so our resources can be focused at home. If you care about those things too, let's work together.

[Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187 @ScottMGreer]

Average conservative influencer after any minor setback

[Mike Crispi @MikeCrispi]

BOMBSHELL 🚨

New Jersey Governor Candidate Mikie Sherrill got BUSTED cheating her way through the Naval Academy.

It was so bad she did NOT walk with her Graduating Class.

Clueless fraud then, clueless FRAUD now.

VOTE @Jack4NJ!

[johnny maga @johnnymaga]

Trump-endorsed Jack Ciattarelli is cooking Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill in the NJ Gubernatorial debate:

“In the 7 years that she’s been in Congress, she’s tripled her net worth… While you were sitting on the House Armed Services Committee, you were trading defense stocks.”

[JD Vance @JDVance]

If we want to stop political violence like what happened to Charlie Kirk, we have to be honest about the people who are celebrating it and the people who are financing it.

My closing remarks on today's episode of the Charlie Kirk Show:

[JD Vance @JDVance]

A while ago, probably in 2017, I appeared on Tucker Carlson's Fox show to talk about God knows what. Afterwards a name I barely knew sent me a DM on twitter and told me I did a great job. It was Charlie Kirk, and that moment of kindness began a friendship that lasted until today.

Charlie was fascinated by ideas and always willing to learn and change his mind. Like me, he was skeptical of Donald Trump in 2016. Like me, he came to see President Trump as the only figure capable of moving American politics away from the globalism that had dominated for our entire lives. When others were right, he learned from them. When he was right--as he usually was--he was generous. With Charlie, the attitude was never, "I told you so." But: "welcome."

Charlie was one of the first people I called when I thought about running for senate in early 2021. I was interested but skeptical there was a pathway. We talked through everything, from the strategy to the fundraising to the grassroots of the movement he knew so well. He introduced me to some of the people who would run my campaign and also to Donald Trump Jr. "Like his dad, he's misunderstood. He's extremely smart, and very much on our wavelength." Don took a call from me because Charlie asked him too.

Long before I ever committed (even in my mind) to running, Charlie had me speak to his donors at a TPUSA event. He walked me around the room and introduced me. He gave me honest feedback on my remarks. He had no reason to do this, no expectation that I'd go anywhere. I was polling, at that point, well below 5 percent. He did it because we were friends, and because he was a good man.

When I became the VP nominee--something Charlie advocated for both in public and private--Charlie was there for me. I was so glad to be part of the president's team, but candidly surprised by the effect it had on our family. Our kids, especially our oldest, struggled with the attention and the constant presence of the protective detail. I felt this acute sense of guilt, that I had conscripted my kids into this life without getting their permission. And Charlie was constantly calling and texting, checking on our family and offering guidance and prayers. Some of our most successful events were organized not by the campaign, but by TPUSA. He wasn't just a thinker, he was a doer, turning big ideas into bigger events with thousands of activists. And after every event, he would give me a big hug, tell me he was praying for me, and ask me what he could do. "You focus on Wisconsin," he'd tell me. "Arizona is in the bag." And it was.

Charlie genuinely believed in and loved Jesus Christ. He had a profound faith. We used to argue about Catholicism and Protestantism and who was right about minor doctrinal questions. Because he loved God, he wanted to understand him.

Someone else pointed out that Charlie died doing what he loved: discussing ideas. He would go into these hostile crowds and answer their questions. If it was a friendly crowd, and a progressive asked a question to jeers from the audience, he'd encourage his fans to calm down and let everyone speak. He exemplified a foundational virtue of our Republic: the willingness to speak openly and debate ideas.

Charlie had an uncanny ability to know when to push the envelope and when to be more conventional. I've seen people attack him for years for being wrong on this or that issue publicly, never realizing that privately he was working to broaden the scope of acceptable debate.

He was a great family man. I was talking to President Trump in the Oval Office today, and he said, "I know he was a very good friend of yours." I nodded silently, and President Trump observed that Charlie really loved his family. The president was right. Charlie was so proud of Erika and the two kids. He was so happy to be a father. And he felt such gratitude for having found a woman of God with whom he could build a family.

Charlie Kirk was a true friend. The kind of guy you could say something to and know it would always stay with him. I am on more than a few group chats with Charlie and people he introduced me to over the years. We celebrate weddings and babies, bust each other's chops, and mourn the loss of loved ones. We talk about politics and policy and sports and life. These group chats include people at the very highest level of our government. They trusted him, loved him, and knew he'd always have their backs. And because he was a true friend ,you could instinctively trust the people Charlie introduced you to. So much of the success we've had in this administration traces directly to Charlie's ability to organize and convene. He didn't just help us win in 2024, he helped us staff the entire government.

I was in a meeting in the West Wing when those group chats started lighting up with people telling Charlie they were praying for him. And that's how I learned the news that my friend had been shot. I prayed a lot over the next hour, as first good news and then bad trickled in.

God didn't answer those prayers, and that's OK. He had other plans. And now that Charlie is in heaven, I'll ask him to talk to big man directly on behalf of his family, his friends, and the country he loved so dearly.

You ran a good race, my friend.

We've got it from here.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord.

[Manlet King ☩ @TheManlet_King]

Hmm? Sorry what was that about Christian Media?

[JD Vance @JDVance]

@iamtomskinner Hang in there, my friend. Remember that 90 percent of people attacking your family look like this:

[DAKKADAKKA @DAKKADAKKA1]

Borzoi disinformation on the timeline 😔

[Seamus (FreedomToons) @seamus_coughlin]

liberal looking at irrefutable evidence that their worldview is bullshit: errmmm ...okay.... soo..... this is kinda like.... errrrrmmmmmmmm..... yucko???? eereeeeeeerrrrrrmmmm.... putting on my thinking cap... ermmmmm this is all a little icky yucko????