TRH

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[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Caught at the border. Released.

Caught again in Chicago. Released again.

Arrest warrant issued. No one came.

Three years later
he put on a ski mask,
hid behind a lighthouse,
and shot an eighteen-year-old college girl in the back.

She was looking at the skyline with her friends.

She died on the concrete.

This was preventable.

Every. Single. Piece. Of this. Was preventable.

March 19, 2026. Chicago.

She's a freshman. Eighteen.
Flew in from a small town in New York
to chase a bigger life.

Just after midnight, she walks out of her dorm
with five friends. Laughing. Whispering.

Someone heard the northern lights might be out.
They want to see the skyline from the pier.

Just kids. Just a Thursday night.
The kind of stupid beautiful thing
you do when you're eighteen
and the world still feels safe.

She walks ahead of the group.
Reaches the lighthouse first.

Behind it,

in the dark,

a man is waiting.

Black clothes. Black ski mask. A handgun.

She turns.
Whispers to her friends —
someone's back there.

He steps out. Gun raised.

They run.

One shot.

It hits her in the back.

Her friends hear her drop.

They come back.
She's on the ground. Bleeding.
Eighteen years old and dying
on a concrete pier
because she wanted to see the city lights.

Now here's the timeline
that should make your blood boil.

May 2023.
He crosses the border illegally.
Border Patrol catches him.
Has him in custody.
Releases him into the country.

June 2023.
One month later. Chicago.
Arrested for shoplifting.
They have him. Again.
Release him. Again.

He's told to show up to court.
He never does.
A judge issues a warrant for his arrest.

And nobody comes.

Nobody knocks on his door.
Nobody runs his name.
Nobody picks him up.

For three years,
a man with an active arrest warrant
lives freely in Chicago.
One block from a college campus.

One. Block.

You want to know what makes this
more than just a tragedy?

The state of Illinois has a law.
The TRUST Act.

It tells local police:
Don't help ICE.
Don't hold anyone for them.
Don't even tell them
when you let someone go.

A man gets caught at the border —
released.

Gets caught committing a crime —
released.

Skips court, warrant goes active —
and the law says don't look for him.

That is not a broken system.

That is the system doing exactly what it was built to do.

Read that sentence one more time.

The system worked perfectly.

And an eighteen-year-old girl is dead.

Her parents flew in from New York.

Stood on the pier where their daughter was killed.

Threw flowers into Lake Michigan.

Stop for a second and picture that.

A mother. At the exact spot
where her child bled out on a school night.
Throwing flowers into black water
because there's nothing left to do.

Her mother told the cameras:
"We've got to make changes."

Her father:
"There are definitely policies
that contributed to this happening."

They didn't scream. They didn't rage.
They stood on cold concrete
and asked this country, quietly,
to do better.

This country has not answered them.

She was studying business.
She was part of a Christian fellowship on campus.
Her family said she made people feel seen.
She made people feel valued.

She was someone's entire world.

And she was just trying to look at the skyline.

She should be packing up her dorm room right now.

She should be fighting with her roommate
about who gets the mini fridge.

She should be texting her mom
about what to bring home for summer.

She should be alive.

She should be alive.

She should be alive.

A border that held him would have saved her.
A jail that kept him would have saved her.
A warrant someone bothered to serve would have saved her.
A state that let its police do their damn jobs
would have saved her.

Four doors.
Four chances.
Every single one — left wide open.

And a girl who wanted to see the skyline
walked to the end of a pier
and never came back.

God bless every parent
who drops their kid off at college,
drives home with an empty back seat,
and has no choice but to trust
that this world will bring them back alive.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

When Jimmy Carter purchased the teachers’ union’s endorsement in 1979 by establishing the Department of Education, the USA was #1 in education.

46 years and $4.1 trillion dollars later, the USA is #40. We are, however, #1 in cost per student.

[Tony @1st_12151791]

@WallStreetMav He created Department of Education that educates no one and the Department of energy that produces no energy. Both of those should be eliminated entirely.
Education was better before, and our energy was made secure by private industry, improving fracking techniques

[OzzyTiger @Dwood1x]

@4thOfJuly365 I saw this earlier and sums it all up.👇🏻

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

EVEN EVEN MORE HILLARY

In the summer of 1997, Bill Clinton visited Denmark. We landed on AF-1 in Copenhagen, boarded Marine One for a night time tour of the coast en route to Kronborg Castle, for Shakespeare the “home of Hamlet.” We landed at around midnight and were welcomed with open arms by the queen and her staff.

Beautiful, historic castle. I was put up in the Scottish Military suite. Beautiful room with a fully appointed spread of meats, cheeses, breads, fruit, and a full bar. All served, of course, with fine china and crystal.

After a phone call with my wife, I made sure POTUS was down for the evening and went to bed.

The next morning, the queen had a breakfast spread for Clinton and the staff. Again, first class.

As we headed to the motorcade to leave for an event and the flight home, I was pulled aside by the Danish military aide.

“Buzz, we have a problem. Your staff stole the china and crystal from their rooms. And took other things as well.”

I was stunned and chagrined. I apologized profusely and told him I’d handle it.

I talked with Hillary and the White House chief of staff and told them what had happened.

They both shrugged their shoulders. No apology. Nobody held accountable. No repayment.

Just another day in the Clinton White House and a group of Ugly Americans.

I don’t want to hear a damn word from @HillaryClinton about White House decorum. Not a word.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

@HillaryClinton

Ma’am, I was the Air Force Lt. Colonel who carried the nuclear football for your husband inside that “people’s house” you’re suddenly so precious about. I saw it all up close for two years.

While Bill was getting blow jobs in the Oval Office from an intern and groping female Air Force enlisted crew on Air Force One, you and your staff treated the military with open disdain, like we were the help, not the men and women sworn to protect this nation. The disrespect for anything non-Clinton was palpable.

You lecture about “respect for the institution” while your husband lost the nuclear codes and shrugged it off.

And when you finally slinked out in 2001? You and your crew trashed the place—vandalism, theft, glue in drawers, obscene messages, stolen property, and filth left behind for the next administration. The GAO confirmed it. Classy exit from the “people’s house.”

The White House belongs to the American people, not your grifting dynasty. They just elected a fighter who actually respects the military and the office. Keep ripping off poor kids in Haiti, selling your merch and clutching pearls.

Sit down, bitch. The adults are back in charge.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Mitch McConnell voted against the SAVE America Act.

Against his constituents.

He has no clue where he is.

So who actually voted?

He’s been in the Senate for 40 years.

He’s the embodiment of everything wrong with Congress.

Congress is not meant to be a crooked nursing home.

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[TRH @TRTharris]

@rod101_ @HowieDoThings @MrGreen96385653 @sjs856 @kimKBaltimore 😂😂😂

[TRH @TRTharris]

@MaxineBergen @kevhill @nick_field90 😂😂😂

[TRH @TRTharris]

@drifterdetroit @jo_col4 @cliftonaduncan And CC’s teammates did almost nothing to help protect her as well. So many instances where retaliation would have been warranted and they did nothing.

[TRH @TRTharris]

@_oRyca_ @1Nicdar 😂😂😂

[Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes]

That's better.

[TRH @TRTharris]

@kknapieralski @IndianaFootball Thank goodness! Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!!

[TRH @TRTharris]

@kknapieralski @IndianaFootball @CCignettiIU You throw out a garbage tweet like you did and you’re upset at the responses? Maybe you should try and be better.

[TRH @TRTharris]

@CoachAdragna Totally agree Tony. I can’t say I’m a big fan of only 35 seconds, but would absolutely be behind a 45-50 second clock for HS. Could be a good compromise for those that don’t want a shot clock and those that want 35 seconds. 45-50 still gives teams time to run a good offense.

[TRH @TRTharris]

@dgibbs1974 @ClayTravis Today’s Democrat party in one paragraph

[TRH @TRTharris]

@KyleNeddenriep I would have been for a shot clock but 35 seconds isn’t enough. I could get on board with 45-55 seconds but not 35. Give coaches and teams an opportunity to run and offense and force teams to play good defense longer. Instead the idiots at the IHSAA are going to allow NIL. Dumb!!

[TheMicahBeckwith @MicahBeckwith]

I received a message this morning that stopped me in my tracks.

A hardworking Hoosier. A teacher. Fifteen years invested in shaping young lives. A master’s degree. A second job just to make ends meet.

And yet, after a 20% property tax increase, they’re being forced to leave the profession they love because they simply can’t afford to live anymore.

Let that sink in.

This isn’t just bad policy.
This is morally wrong.

Property taxes punish people not based on what they earn, but on what they own… often something they’ve already paid for, sacrificed for, and worked their entire lives to secure. Your home should be your sanctuary, not a perpetual bill from the government.

When the government can effectively tax you out of your home…
When it can force a teacher out of their calling…
When it demands more while giving no regard to your ability to pay…

That’s not just inefficient.
That’s unjust.

At its core, property tax says: you never truly own your property… the government does.

And that violates a basic principle of a free society and our God-given right to property.

We should be rewarding hard work, stability, and homeownership… not penalizing it.

No Hoosier should have to choose between staying in their home and staying in their profession.

This fight isn’t abstract anymore. It’s personal. It’s real. And it’s happening right now.

Enough is enough!

It’s time to rethink… and ultimately eliminate… a system that is pushing people out of their homes, their communities, and their callings.

Keep this in mind when you go to the polls tomorrow. The State Senate had a chance to fix this last year and they wouldn’t. Vote for new state senators and then we’ll get this fixed.