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Was a Mortgage lender in AZ for 18 years now in Ohio raising cows and mini donkeys. Life is Great!

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

If you are fortunate to be with elderly parents, then this is golden advice

[ScottSS @ScottSS69081520]

@ZeekArkham @AngelaBelcamino This is the best thing I’ve read on the internet in weeks! Great job!

[Playteaux @Playteaux1]

This is why I don’t support Candace Owens…

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

Iran's 10-point response to Trump’s deadline tonight repeats the same pattern that led to America’s first international war, which many Americans don’t know about. Just like today, Europe had bowed to radical Islam, paying a tax to the Barbary Pirates in return for safe shipping routes. But Thomas Jefferson wouldn't play that game. He knew the radical Islamists beliveved religiously they had the right to tax and enslave infidels. They would never stop. So while Europe decided to pay the ransom and buy more time, the United States refused. But Jefferson warned that if we do not finish this war, the radical Islamists will come back and we will have to fight what may be America's final war. That rings all too true today.

[The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub]

Boomers on Facebook getting duped by AI slop

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

“Is it a little bit homophobic to focus on the straights of Hormuz rather than the gays of Hormuz?”

No Kings protester, completely serious: “Yes, absolutely, I agree.”

[Inspirenaire @Inspirenaire]

This will neveR not be funny.😂🫢

[Today Updates 🇺🇸 @TodayUpdates0]

All these workers picking strawberries on this farm in Florida are here LEGALLY

There are 140 workers brought here on the ‘H-2A visa program’ specifically meant for temporary US agricultural workers

Don’t ever let Democrats lie and tell you illegal labor is our only option

Do you firmly support this?

A. Huge Yes
B. No

IF Yes, Give me a THUMBS-UP👍!!

MAKE THIS GO VIRAL ON 𝕏. LET’S GO 👏

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

BRUTAL: Stephen A. Smith just told Democrats to “SHUT UP” and stop “bitching” about voter ID.

“You should have a damn ID [to vote]. You need an ID for every damn thing else.”

“And to the progressive left, shut the hell up!”

“You got a mayor in New York City that required TWO IDs for you to shovel snow.”

“You ain’t in no position to be bitching about how [Trump] wants IDs and the GOP wants IDs for votes. Shut up! Nobody wants to hear that.”

[ScottSS @ScottSS69081520]

@EvasTeslaSPlaid Rick James Bitch! lol

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

🔥 TOM HOMAN: “To the people out there who don't like what ICE is doing … take it up with Congress … They're enforcing laws enacted by Congress … And there will be zero tolerance. If you interfere, impede, assault ICE officers — you will be arrested.”

[Savanah Hernandez @Savsays]

New footage shows that Alex Pretti was a menace to society who previously vandalized an ICE vehicle in an attempt to escalate violence with agents.

Color me shocked

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Are you overweight and completely unqualified? Starfleet is looking for cadets like you!

[Dave Rubin @RubinReport]

Every word of this. 🇺🇸💪

@TaefBrian

[Sovey @SoveyX]

Apparently, I should start listening to Adam Carolla.
He nails it.

[Tahmineh Dehbozorgi @DeTahmineh]

The Western liberal media is ignoring the Iranian uprising because explaining it would force an admission it is desperate to avoid: the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself, and that fact shatters the moral framework through which these institutions understand the world.

Ideally, to cover an uprising is not just to show crowds and slogans. It requires answering a basic question: why are people risking death? In Iran, the answer is simple and unavoidable. The people are rising up because the Islamic Republic of Iran has spent decades suffocating every aspect of life—speech, work, family, art, women, and economic survival—under a clerical system that treats liberty as a crime. There is no way to tell that story without confronting the nature of the regime.

Western media refuses to do so because it has fundamentally misunderstood Islam. Or worse, it has chosen not to understand it.

Islam, in Western progressive discourse, has been racialized. It is treated not as a belief system or a political ideology, but as a stand-in for race or ethnicity. Criticizing Islam is framed as an attack on “brown people,” Arabs, or “the Middle East,” as if Islam were a skin color rather than a doctrine.

This confusion is rooted in historical illiteracy. Western liberal media routinely collapses entire civilizations into a single stereotype: “all Middle Easterners are Arabs,” “all Arabs are Muslim,” and “all Muslims are a monolithic, oppressed identity group by white European colonizers.” Iranians disappear entirely in this framework. Their language, history, and culture—Persian, not Arab; ancient, not colonial; distinct, not interchangeable—are erased.

By treating Islam as a racial identity rather than an ideology, Western media strips millions of people of their ability to reject it. Iranian protesters become unintelligible. Their rebellion cannot be processed without breaking the rule that Islam must not be criticized. So instead of listening to Iranians, the media speaks over them—or ignores them entirely.

There is another reason the Iranian uprising is so threatening to Western media is economic issues.

As you know, Iran is not only a religious dictatorship. It is a centrally controlled, state-dominated economy where markets are strangled, private enterprise is criminalized or co-opted, and economic survival depends on proximity to political power. Decades of price controls, subsidies, nationalization, and bureaucratic micromanagement have obliterated the middle class and entrenched corruption as the only functional system. The result is not equality or justice. It is poverty, stagnation, and dependence on government’s dark void of empty promises.

Covering Iran honestly would require acknowledging that these policies are harmful. They have been tried. They have failed. Catastrophically.

This is deeply inconvenient for Western media institutions that routinely promote expansive state control, centralized economic planning, and technocratic governance as morally enlightened alternatives to liberal capitalism. Iran demonstrates where such systems lead when insulated from accountability and enforced by ideology. It shows that when the state controls livelihoods, non-conformity becomes existentially dangerous. That lesson cannot be acknowledged without undermining the moral authority of those who advocate similar ideas in softer language.

Western liberal media prefers not to hear this. Acknowledging it would require abandoning the lazy moral categories that dominate modern discourse: oppressor and oppressed, colonizer and colonized, white and non-white. Iranian protesters do not fit. They show that authoritarianism is not a Western invention imposed from outside, but something many societies are actively trying to escape.

That is what terrifies Western liberal media. And that is why the Iranian people are being ignored.

So the silence continues.

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

The following is a post someone made to People Magazine that puts it all into perspective.

She was a 37-year-old woman, a mother of three kids. It’s the middle of a work week. The father of those children is deceased. She is her children’s only living parent. The one job she has above every cause, every protest, every headline, is getting home to her kids.

And what is she doing instead?

She’s out of state, in the street, in her car, blocking federal agents who are doing their job. Her partner is right there, too, filming her like this is some brave little documentary moment. Around them: whistles blaring, people yelling, pure chaos…manufactured chaos, so agents can’t do their lawful duty.

Her window is down. She hears the orders. She understands the orders. She ignores the orders. I think this person sums it up perfectly

Then, she puts the car in reverse. Still doesn’t comply.
Then, she puts it in drive, NOT park! She moves forward into the agent.

Now, put yourself in the agent’s shoes for half a second. A driver is already in an unlawful act and refusing commands in a hostile, chaotic scene, and now that driver uses a vehicle to move toward you.
You get a split second.
You don’t get the luxury of “Maybe she’s just stressed.” You have to assume the worst. You have to think of protecting other people because if you assume the best and you’re wrong, you don’t go home and maybe others are injured or killed.

So, the agent fires after she makes an intentional and aggressive move toward him, because he has no idea what her intentions are, and she just demonstrated she’s willing to escalate.

Now…imagine her three kids.
At school,…sitting there like any other day. Not knowing their mother is out playing street-hero games for criminals.

She didn’t think about them.
She didn’t think, “If I get arrested, who picks my babies up?”
She didn’t think, “If I get hurt, who takes care of them?”
She didn’t think, “If I die, who raises them?”

She thought about protecting criminals. She thought about interfering with federal agents.
She thought about the camera.
She thought about the crowd.
She thought about the moment.

There is no amount of evidence, money, tears on TV, or news spin that can make this make sense.

As a mother: NOTHING about this makes sense.

At minimum, she knew her actions could get her arrested. And, she still chose it. She chose strangers. She chose chaos. She chose lawlessness.

Make it make sense, because the only thing I see is three kids who just got abandoned by the only parent they had left, not by accident… but by a series of deliberate choices.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Rumor has it right before Maduro was frozen in carbonite Mamdani said “I love you,” and Maduro said “I know.”

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Trey Gowdy , South Carolina Congressman, recently responded to a reporter about the military in response to a question from a CNN reporter about the DoD ban of transgenders from joining the U.S. armed forces. As Trey typically does so very well, he nailed it rather succinctly.

Question: How can President Trump claim to represent all U.S citizens, regardless of sexual orientation, when he banned transgenders from joining the military? Isn't that discrimination?

Trey Gowdy's Response: " Nobody has a right to serve in the Military. Nobody! What makes you people think the Military is an equal opportunity employer? It is very far from it - and for good reasons - let me cite a few."

"The Military uses prejudice regularly and consistently to deny citizens from joining for being too old or too young, too fat or too skinny, too tall or too short. Citizens are denied for having flat feet, or for missing or additional fingers." he went on to explain: "By the way, poor eyesight will disqualify you, as well as bad teeth. Malnourished? Drug addiction? Bad back? Criminal history? Low IQ? Anxiety? Phobias? Hearing damage? Six arms? Hear voices in your head? Self-identification as a Unicorn? Need a special access ramp for your wheelchair?"

"Can't run the required course in the required time? Can't do the required number of push-ups? Not really a morning person? and refuse to get out of bed before noon? All can be legitimate reasons for denial"

"The Military has one job: Winning War. Anything else is a distraction and a liability. Did someone just scream? That isn't Fair? War is VERY unfair, there are no exceptions made for being special or challenged or socially wonderful"

"YOU must change yourself to meet Military standards and not the other way around."

"I say again: You don't change the Military - you must change yourself. The Military is not about being fair, it is about taking advantage of others and about winning.

The Military doesn't need to accommodate anyone with special issues. The Military needs to Win Wars and keep our Country safe - PERIOD!"

"If any of your personal issues are a liability that detract from readiness or lethality... Thank you for applying and good luck in future endeavors."

"...any other questions?"