Rogue Print Shop

20 years of experience printing.
Serving East Texas.

[Morbid Knowledge @MorbidKnowledge]

Aaron Tucker had been out of prison for seven days. He had less than $2 in his pocket and one shot at turning his life around, a job interview that morning. Then he saw a car flip over and catch fire from his bus window.

He asked the bus driver if he was going to help. "No, but if you get out I'm going to leave," the driver replied. Tucker got out anyway.

He sprinted toward the upside-down, smoke-filled car and found the 61-year-old driver covered in blood.

He unbuckled the man's seatbelt and dragged him clear as the car started to catch fire.

He pulled off his own dress shirt and used it to stop the man's head wound from bleeding, telling him: "You're going to be all right. Your family wants to see you. Keep your eyes open."

The bus left. Tucker missed his interview.

When the story got out, strangers set up a GoFundMe that raised over $50,000 in three days. He also received multiple job offers in construction.

"I feel like a job can come and go, but a life is a one-time thing," Tucker said. "The job just wasn't in my mind at that time."

[狗鷲イヌワシChapter II @emoemo78354888]

ワンちゃんたちが守る❣️🤗😱😘

[Frank Brown @FrankBr05713205]

I teach auto shop at a small high school. We work on students cars, teachers cars, students parents cars and some community people cars. We only charge for parts and not labor, so we saved some people a lot of money last school year. This last school year we did 126 oil changes, 68 brake jobs, 85 alignments, 4 steering racks, 22 tune ups, 32 struts, 20 shock absorbers, 4 transfer cases, mounted and balanced 82 new tires, 4 timing chains, 15 valve cover gaskets, 14 thermostats, 4 radiators, 12 in tank fuel pumps, 8 EVAP canisters, 6 exhaust manifolds, 4 mufflers, 15 AC repairs including evacuate and recharge, 8 alternators, 22 batteries, 9 starters and so much more! Proud of those students I am!

[Love Music @khnh80044]

The only person the Royal Guards’ horses allow to touch them is a Native American who can truly connect with their souls...❤️

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is a brand new package of Jimmy Dean bacon

The marked weight on the package is 12 ounces

If you take the unopened package and put it directly on a scale the weight is only 10.6 ounces, and that’s with the package

I looked up the law. In the United States the marked net weight on bacon packages must reflect only the weight of the bacon itself, excluding the packaging

Under FDA rules the packaging must be excluded

We are being robbed blind

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

Todd had terminal ALS and just ordered a wheelchair—then DMSO gave him his life back

His brain fog vanished. Breathing crises stopped in 3 days. He dragged 340-lb beams across a road. His reflexes healed.

His recovery shocked his doctors—but ALS is far from the only thing DMSO helps.

James Miller MD found roughly 80% of neurological issues people see neurologists for simply go away once he gives them DMSO.

Approximately 2500 studies support its use for conditions ranging from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s to strokes, MS, paralysis, chronic pain, spinal injuries, depression, epilepsy, and Down syndrome.

Here, I will show how DMSO can cure many "incurable" neurological disorders.🧵

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Nobody asked them to do it. Nobody trained them for it. They were just two teenage boys — the kind you pass on the sidewalk and barely notice — leaning on their bikes in the summer heat when they saw something no child should ever have to experience.

A man walked away with 5-year-old Jocelyn Rojas. She was supposed to be playing outside. She was supposed to be safe.

And in that single, awful second — while most of us would have been paralyzed, reaching for a phone, waiting for someone with a uniform and a badge to show up — these two boys made a choice.

They got on their bikes and they went after him.

No hesitation. No waiting for permission. No "someone else will handle it." Just two pairs of legs pumping hard through the streets of Lancaster, eyes locked on a stranger who had a little girl that wasn't his.

They tracked him. They stayed close. They didn't let him disappear into the afternoon like something that was never going to be found.

And then they confronted him.

Two teenagers. On bikes. Against a grown man who had already done the unthinkable. They forced him to stop.

He let Jocelyn go.

"The entire thing lasted only minutes." — Lancaster Police
Minutes. Because two boys closed the distance fast enough to interrupt it. Because they were raised — by someone, somehow — to believe that other people's emergencies are your business too.

When reporters asked one of them afterward why they did it, he gave the most deflating, most beautiful, most teenage answer imaginable.

He shrugged.

"I just felt like it was the right thing to do."
No speech. No GoFundMe. No press conference. Just a kid who saw a little girl in danger and couldn't make himself look away.

Jocelyn went home. She was reunited with her family. She got to grow up.

Because of two boys on bikes who hadn't been asked, hadn't been trained, hadn't been paid — and did it anyway.

[Harman @itsharmanjot]

10 LINKS THAT WILL CHANGE HOW YOU LOOK AT THE INTERNET FOREVER.

Save this list. Most people will never see it.

1. https://t.co/UnDnW16EM2
Shows every data breach your email has ever leaked in.

2. https://t.co/DWPtjQdmaY
Reveals every social profile and login tied to any email address.

3. https://t.co/b0di40J0mR
Tells you how trackable your browser fingerprint really is.

4. https://t.co/3oOgXHyaCp
Checks if your VPN is actually working or silently exposing your real IP.

5. https://t.co/M49l1nqMGf
Direct links to delete your account from any major service.

6. https://t.co/s6MXurFwoY
Scans any file or link against 70+ antivirus engines in seconds.

7. https://t.co/LHTmczBjTS
Shows if your face was used to train AI models without consent.

8. https://t.co/rF6OanX5a0
Exposes every piece of data your browser leaks to websites.

9. https://t.co/2AUNi4oSDr
Tells you which apps on your PC are bloatware or spyware.

10. https://t.co/7SLjuIK4GR
Removes paywalls from news sites so reading stays free.

Thanks me later.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

You can crash your yard's mosquito population without spraying a single chemical with a Mosquito Bucket of Doom.

Fill a 5-gallon bucket about two-thirds with water. Drop in a handful of grass clippings, leaves, or hay. Let it sit for a day, then drop in a Bti dunk (also called Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, sold at any hardware store as "mosquito dunks," about $10 for six).

Mosquitoes are powerfully attracted to fermenting water and will lay their eggs in your bucket. Bti is a naturally occurring soil bacterium that produces a toxin that kills mosquito, blackfly, and fungus gnat larvae only.

This method doesn't harm bees, butterflies, fireflies, fish, frogs, birds, pets, or people. BTI dunks are EPA-approved for organic use and safe in animal water troughs and birdbaths.

One dunk lasts about 30 days. Top off the water as it evaporates. Cover with 1/2-in Mesh Hardware Cloth to prevent animals from getting trapped and put the bucket somewhere shady where pets and kids won't get into it.

The bucket becomes a mosquito magnet and a dead end. Compare that to fogging the entire yard with pyrethroids, which kills every insect in it, including the predators that eat mosquitoes.

Doug Tallamy's Homegrown National Park has been running the "Mosquito Bucket Challenge" since 2021. The more buckets in a neighborhood, the bigger the dent. One bucket per yard is a great start.

[INTERIOR PORN @INTERIORPORN1]

wait hold on… this is actually very impressive

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

This is what an Emmy awards acceptance speech looks like. Kudos

[Unlimited L's @unlimited_ls]

🚨NEW: Texas mother who was arrested for posting photos of her city’s “unsafe” brown drinking water is suing police for violating her First Amendment rights

Independent journalist Jennifer Combs has filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Trinidad, Texas, its police chief, an officer and a city councilwoman...

...after she was arrested over Facebook posts showing discolored water inside the city

Combs had posted photos of brown-looking water in a bathtub and asked residents to contact her if they experienced water quality issues or illnesses they believed were connected

Days later, Trinidad police responded online saying they had not received any confirmed reports of illnesses tied to the water system and reminded residents that filing a false report is illegal

About two weeks after Combs’ post, the city issued a boil water advisory

Weeks later, Combs was arrested on a charge of sending a false alarm

A grand jury later declined to indict her, and she is now suing the city and police, accusing them of targeting her to cover up the town’s water problems

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear.

The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day.

After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this.

Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017.

The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around.

Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.

[Irene Mavrakakis, M.D. @IreneMavrakakis]

BE OUTRAGED.
PROMISES NOT KEPT.
Shame on you @POTUS

Also, no one should need an exemption for a medical procedure including a vaccine since we are free beings and should just be able to say no.

You cannot have informed consent without the free ability to decline. Any declination can’t be tied to civil liberty infringement.

Employers should not be even allowed to ask if you had a vaccine or not.
Your medical information is private.

[Thomas Massie for Congress @MassieforKY]

I filed with FEC for the 2028 House race.

This allows me to raise funds to continue my political operations supporting my position as a current office holder and as a potential candidate for federal office.

I haven’t made a final decision about which office to seek, if I run.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[Fight With Memes @FightWithMemes]

Multiple societies in the world still can't do this.

[hunter @hxxntrr]

There's a federal tax law that lets you rent your own house to your own business for $5,000 a day

The business deducts the rent as an expense
You receive the rent personally as tax-free income
This is fully legal under IRC Section 280A(g) and every smart business owner in america uses it

It's called the Augusta Rule and 90% of business owners have never heard of it

Internal Revenue Code Section 280A(g), commonly called the "Augusta Rule," allows a homeowner to rent their personal residence for up to 14 days per year and receive the rental income completely tax-free. The rental income does not need to be reported as income on your personal tax return

The provision was originally written to protect homeowners in Augusta, Georgia who rent their homes to spectators during the annual Masters Tournament. The IRS recognized that 14 days a year of rental income shouldn't trigger reporting requirements for an otherwise personal residence. The rule applies nationwide to anyone who rents their residence under 14 days

Critical mechanic for business owners:

If you own a business (LLC, S-Corp, C-Corp), the business can rent your personal residence for meetings, events, retreats, or any legitimate business purpose. The business pays you market-rate rent. The business deducts the rent as a business expense (reducing the business's taxable income). You receive the rent personally tax-free under Section 280A(g)

Result:

Business's taxable income: reduced by the amount of rent paid
Your personal taxable income: not increased (rent under Section 280A(g))
Net effect: cash moves from business to your personal account, fully tax-deductible on one side and fully tax-free on the other

This is a tax-arbitrage between the business entity and the individual that the tax code explicitly permits

The math:

Suppose your business is an S-Corp with $300,000 in annual taxable income. Your business is taxed at the corporate level (or flows through to you at personal rates depending on structure)

Without the Augusta Rule: business pays roughly $90,000-$120,000 in combined taxes on the $300K (depending on state and structure)

With the Augusta Rule: business rents your home for 14 days at $2,500/day = $35,000 in rent

Business taxable income reduces from $300,000 to $265,000
Tax savings on the $35,000 expense: roughly $10,500-$14,000 (at 30-40% effective business tax rate)
Personal income from $35,000 rent received: $0 (tax-free under 280A(g))

Net effect: $10,500-$14,000 in actual cash savings per year, just for renting your own house to your own business for 14 days

What is "market rate" rent:

The IRS requires the rental to be at a "fair market rate" for similar properties in your area. You can't rent your $400K home for $50,000/day. You also don't need to charge $200/day for a $2M property

Realistic market rates for short-term residential business rentals:

Modest home (under $400K): $400-$800/day
Mid-range home ($400K-$1M): $1,000-$2,500/day
Luxury home ($1M-$3M): $2,500-$5,000/day
High-end estate ($3M+): $5,000-$15,000+/day

You're typically renting your home for "executive retreats," "client meetings," "strategic planning sessions," "board meetings," etc. Market rate is what similar properties would charge as event venues or short-term executive rentals

How to support the market rate:

Get 3-5 comparable rental quotes from event venues, AirBnB executive rentals, or boutique meeting spaces in your area
Document the comparable rates in your business records
Use the median or 75th percentile rate, not the highest

If you can document that comparable executive retreat venues in your area rent for $3,000-$5,000/day, charging $3,500/day to your business is defensible

The execution:

Step 1: write a rental agreement between your business and you personally

The agreement should specify:
Dates of the rental (14 specific days per year max)
Rental rate per day
Purpose of the rental (business meeting, retreat, client event, strategic planning, etc.)
Standard rental terms (similar to commercial rental agreements)

Step 2: have a legitimate business purpose for each day of rental

Quarterly executive retreats (4 days/yr)
Annual strategic planning summit (3 days/yr)
Client appreciation event (2 days/yr)
Board meetings (3 days/yr)
Investor presentations (2 days/yr)
= 14 days/yr at $3,000/day = $42,000 in tax-free transfer

Step 3: document the business purpose with meeting minutes, agendas, attendee lists, and photos

Step 4: the business issues a 1099-MISC to you for the rental at year-end

Step 5: you report the rental on Schedule E of your personal tax return, then claim the Section 280A(g) exclusion (under 14 days = $0 reportable income)

Step 6: the business deducts the rent as an expense on the business tax return

Documentation requirements:

The IRS occasionally audits Augusta Rule claims because some taxpayers abuse the provision (renting at inflated rates, claiming days without legitimate business purpose, etc.). To survive audit:

Maintain calendar evidence of the 14 days
Maintain meeting agendas and minutes
Maintain attendee lists (employees, contractors, clients)
Maintain photos of the events
Have a written rental agreement
Have documentation of market rates

If you can produce all of this, the IRS audit defense is straightforward

The tax savings at scale:

Small business with $200K profit, rents at $1,500/day for 14 days:
Annual rent: $21,000
Tax savings at 35% effective rate: $7,350
Tax-free personal income: $21,000

Mid-size business with $500K profit, rents at $3,000/day for 14 days:
Annual rent: $42,000
Tax savings at 40% effective rate: $16,800
Tax-free personal income: $42,000

Large business with $2M profit, rents at $5,000/day for 14 days:
Annual rent: $70,000
Tax savings at 45% effective rate: $31,500
Tax-free personal income: $70,000

The savings scale linearly with the business size up to the 14-day limit. At the $5,000/day rate for 14 days ($70K), most business owners hit the practical ceiling

Compounding effect over time:

Using the Augusta Rule every year for 20 years on a mid-size business:
Annual tax savings: $16,800
Total over 20 years: $336,000

The Augusta Rule alone produces a third of a million dollars in extra wealth over a 20-year career for a single business owner

Other tax provisions stack with this:

Section 179: immediate expensing of equipment and vehicles purchased (up to $1.16M in 2024)
Bonus depreciation: 60-100% accelerated depreciation on assets
QBI deduction (Section 199A): 20% deduction on qualified business income
Section 121 home sale exclusion: $250K-$500K of profit on personal residence sale, tax-free
Health Savings Account: $4,150-$8,300 in pre-tax contributions, grows tax-free, withdrawn tax-free for medical

A business owner stacking all these provisions properly pays an effective tax rate of 12-18%. The same business owner without sophistication pays 28-35%

The difference is roughly $40K-$80K per year in saved tax. Over a 30-year career: $1.2M-$2.4M in extra net worth

The Augusta Rule is just one of about a dozen highly-leveraged tax provisions that ordinary tax filers never hear about because they're operating in W-2 reality. Every business owner with sophistication uses these provisions. Their accountants know about them. Their tax attorneys know about them. The IRS published them in the tax code

The middle-class American working a W-2 job has access to ZERO of these provisions. The W-2 employee can deduct standard items (mortgage interest, charitable giving, state and local taxes) but cannot:

Deduct vehicle expenses (no Section 179)
Deduct rental income from personal residence to employer (no 280A(g))
Get QBI deduction (W-2 income doesn't qualify)
Deduct home office (since 2017 W-2 employees lost this)
Strategic planning of capital gains (income is fixed by employer)

Almost everything that lets the wealthy reduce taxes requires you to be a business owner (or capital owner). The W-2 path categorically excludes you from the entire tax optimization layer

This is by design. The tax code rewards capital, business ownership, and asset accumulation. It punishes labor. The reward is approximately 20-30% lower effective tax rates for business owners using sophisticated strategies vs W-2 earners

The Augusta Rule is one of the simplest, lowest-effort tax savings available. Cost to implement: zero (if you already own a home and run a business). Time: maybe 4 hours per year for documentation. Annual savings: $7,000-$31,500

Most American business owners don't use the Augusta Rule. They don't know it exists. Their accountants might mention it once but never set up the structure. The provision sits in the tax code from 1976 waiting for someone to invoke it

You can be that someone. You need a home, a business, and 4 hours of paperwork per year

(if you want to fix your credit and qualify for the 0% APR business credit that helps you build the business that uses the Augusta Rule. link in bio)

[Texas2AAttorney @CJGRISHAM]

My client, Jennifer Combs has set up a GoFundMe to help cover expenses in lawsuit against Trinidad. This money is not for me, but to pay for depositions & expert witnesses. Please find it in her heart to help us help her. We are a small, but determined firm!

https://t.co/8ytaEojItz