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Retired to Mindanao, living the dream, aside from typhoons, mosquitoes, dengue, malaria, earthquakes and volcanoes.
Dual-sport is my religion.KTM gets my tithe

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

There is a version of this story that is easy to romanticize. A famous man stays loyal to his wife. People applaud. The end.
But the real version is much harder, much quieter, and far more honest than that.
Jay Leno, 75, spent more than two decades as one of the most recognized faces on American television, hosting The Tonight Show night after night for millions of viewers. His wife, Mavis, stood beside him throughout all of it — not as a background figure, but as a woman of genuine accomplishment in her own right. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for her advocacy work supporting women living under Taliban rule in Afghanistan. She was fiercely independent, deeply curious, and someone who loved to travel and explore the world.
Then, in 2024, Jay filed for conservatorship over her estate. The reason was that Mavis had been diagnosed with advanced dementia and was progressively losing capacity and orientation.
Their life changed completely.
The restaurants they once visited together are now off the menu. The travel Mavis always loved is no longer possible. The conversations they used to have in the evenings have narrowed and shifted in ways that are hard to fully explain to someone who has not lived it. Dementia does not just take memory. It slowly changes the shape of every moment two people share.
Jay has spoken publicly about the hardest part of the journey, and it is not what most people would expect. For years, every single morning, Mavis would wake up believing she had just received news that her mother had died. She experienced that grief fresh, as if hearing it for the first time, every day. Her mother went through that process of dying over and over again, for about three years. Each time, Mavis cried. Each time, Jay held her through it. He described it as truly tricky, and genuinely hard.
But he did not leave.
He rearranged his life around her needs. He only takes work that allows him to be home the same day or at most one night away. He comes home every evening and cooks her dinner. They watch television together, animal shows and travel documentaries on YouTube since real travel is no longer an option. When he carries her to the bathroom, he has a name for it. He calls it Jay and Mavis at the prom, the two of them dancing back and forth down the hallway, and she thinks it is funny. She still laughs. He still makes her laugh on purpose, every single day.
She still knows who he is. She looks at him and smiles. She tells him she loves him.
When someone asked Jay if he was going to get a girlfriend now, he was genuinely surprised by the question. He told them he already had one. He was married. Forty-five years. That was not something he considered walking away from.
What he said next is the part that has stayed with people.
He said that when you get married, you take vows. You say for better or worse. And most people, he noted, never really expect to be called upon to actually act on those words. They say them and hope the worse never arrives.
For Jay, it arrived.
And he is passing the test.
He has said he hopes his situation draws attention not just to his own story, but to the 50 or 60 million people in America who are quietly doing the same thing for a parent, a spouse, a sibling, and doing it completely without recognition. Nobody sees them. Nobody is interviewing them. They are just showing up every single day for someone who needs them, because that is what love actually looks like when it is no longer a feeling but a choice you make again every morning.
Jay Leno still makes his wife laugh. She still has the fire, he says. She still growls at the television when something offends her. She still smiles when he walks into the room.
For better or worse is not a promise you make on a beautiful day in a beautiful place with everyone watching.
It is what you do on a Tuesday evening when you carry the person you love to the bathroom and call it the prom, just to make her smile.
That is the whole story.

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

This newly released body cam footage from the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace shows the insane resistance Trump faced from day one.

As Edward Coristine (aka Big Balls) told Jesse Watters last year, this was the “least peaceful” of all the agencies to deal with, and that it used taxpayer funds for private jets, an armory filled with weapons, and contracts with the former members of the Taliban (!!)

These are grown adults in full meltdown mode because they realized the gravy train was coming to an end. They referred to lawful orders as "jackbooted police state actions" while refusing to vacate the premises after President Trump issued an order firing them and sending in his DOGE team to clean house.

What you see in this video isn’t democracy, it’s an insight into how wild and entitled the DC swamp had grown.

Even the officers who were on the scene to ensure order became impatient after realizing these defiant bureaucrats weren't even USIP employees when one said, "we're their lawyers" who were trying to regain access to "classified information" pertaining to "other cases" outside of USIP’s purview.

George Foote, one of the lawyers there, even pushed to have Trump officials arrested as "unauthorized intruders."

Elon Musk later revealed on X that USIP's chief accountant attempted to wipe over a terabyte of financial data in a desperate cover-up - but DOGE recovered it, and it's now with the DOJ for review.

Unelected ideologues fleecing taxpayer dollars shouldn't block the people's choice. This is what draining the swamp looks like, and it’s horrifying just how out of control it had all become.

H/T: Footage FOIA’d by Marisa Kabas at The Handbasket Co.

[John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. @MrJohnJnr]

🚨 RED ALERT: EPA Chief LEE ZELDIN Confirms Stratospheric CHEMICAL SPRAYING — “Sulfur Dioxide Into the Sky, Health Risks Are Real” (What used to be called “conspiracy” is now called official policy.)

💥 EPA Chief Lee Zeldin confirms that dangerous chemicals, including sulfur dioxide, are being released into the sky for geoengineering. Health risks are real. Environmental damage is guaranteed. This is no longer conspiracy — it’s official.

Geoengineering Gone Rogue: The U.S. Government Has Funded It. The Skies Are Full of It. And Now the Truth Is Official.

🚨 THE CONFESSION THEY NEVER WANTED YOU TO HEAR

FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Touchdown

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸🔥

[A Man Of Memes @RickyDoggin]

PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN PREDICTED TODAY’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN 1964 – IT’S CHILLING

A TIME FOR CHOOSING, also known as THE SPEECH, was a speech presented during the 1964 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN by FUTURE PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN on behalf of REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE BARRY GOLDWATER.

A TIME FOR CHOOSING launched FUTURE PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN into national prominence in politics.

He uses antithesis and rhetorical questions to convey a serious tone to the audience.

DATE: October 27, 1964

TYPE: Televised Campaign Speech

PARTICIPANT: RONALD REAGAN

[Milei in English - Official Account @jmilei_english]

150K followers. Thank you! The cultural battle continues. LONG LIVE FREEDOM, DAMN IT!

[SmedleyButlersGhost @XRPwail]

@DianeKazer Fight those parasites

[Paul Dans @PaulDans4SC]

Five years ago today, I was permitted a final, ten minute visit to say goodbye to my Dad who lay “dying of COVID” in the Covid Ward.

We were required to put on “Moon Suits” to step in and pray over Dad. As my sister (in attached photo) prayed aloud from memory several prayers, and we all desperately tried to tell Dad of our love and evoke his deep faith, we knew Dad could hear us. A priest had come earlier to give Dad Last Rites.

We were not allowed to even wet his mouth with ice chips, the apparent “medical” reason being to lessen contact with him, he being administered only IV fluids. He was clearly suffering. It was truly seeing your father nailed upon a cross.

Dad did not die until 5 days later. We were not permitted to visit him again over those days, but we were assured we could join by iPAD and Zoom to be with him in his final moments.

My father was a Great Man of Medicine. He spent his life healing the sick and protecting us from disease. He was a professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Vietnam Veteran with a Distinguished Career in the U.S Public Health Service fighting Infectious Disease. My father served at the National Institutes of Health at NIAID, the same Institue that Anthony Fauci later directed. They had several run ins over the years, and Dad considered Fauci a slick phony.

Before Covid, Dad had been living with Parkinson’s in Assisted Living. He still had his faculties and managed for himself, but needed occasional care. For the past year in 2020, we had been permitted limited contact with him, sometimes only getting to see him on a balcony.

To be sure, Dad had medical issues, but COVID was not one of them. Admitted because of an intestinal infection, he had tested negative for COVID three times, but positive on the Fourth test. That test had been 10 days prior, but the Doctors refused to retest him so that he might be moved out of the COVID ward. He had not received his regular Parkinson’s Medicine during his admission, the natural result being he would decompensate. Which he did. We were told that’s the COVID.

COVID was a BIOLOGICAL WEAPON, and the response to it, was a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY. It is hard not to conclude that many segments of the population were targeted to die. We need leaders in Public Life who will never permit this to happen again and who are committed to bring justice to the millions who were victimized like Dad.

My fellow South Carolinians, as your next U.S. Senator, I WILL NOT STOP UNTIL FAUCI AND HIS COCONSPIRATORS ARE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE. I will get Americans the justice and compensation they deserve. COVID and its response, including forcing people to take the jab against their will and/or on the basis of fraudulent medical directives demand attention of the U.S. Senate.

I pledge to work with @SecKennedy in order to bring accountability. We need fighters and I am committing to YOU today, on my honor, that I will get to the bottom of this, and put FAUCI IN AN ORANGE JUMPSUIT. We cannot simply forget and move on. What happened was EVIL.

It’s personal for me.

[SmedleyButlersGhost @XRPwail]

@TrumpDailyPosts @LeaderJohnThune @WhiteHouse I'm an American living in The Philippines. My Pinay wife has to show her government issued photo-lamininated voter ID to vote AND her fingertip is dipped in methylene blue dye to prevent access to other polling places on election DAY. U.S. needs this too.

[SmedleyButlersGhost @XRPwail]

@SamuelBLeeMD Book

[SmedleyButlersGhost @XRPwail]

@Matt_Pinner All 20. Age seventy. I remember as a kid being the first family on the block able to watch all three TV broadcast networks on the latest thing--color TV. The year was 1965. I was 10.

[SmedleyButlersGhost @XRPwail]

@Wisdom_HQ Sorry, the IRS garnished it for back child support. Call them.

[SmedleyButlersGhost @XRPwail]

@Lauren3veMemes @littlememzz @WarlordDilley

[Brenden Dilley @WarlordDilley]

🇺🇲Good Morning America🇺🇲

[X-Art ☀️ @Dogeh8er]

“Get up” energy only!
Get up, stack conviction.
#XRP isn’t a vibe, it’s a mission.
@bgarlinghouse kept building when the room was loud.
🫡😎

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

Legal immigrants are enraged because people think they should have compassion on illegals who cheated the system

“You think that my taxpayer money that I work so hard for, my salary gets cut, you think that money should go to people who cheated the system and are here illegally being a criminal?! You think I should pay for their healthcare? Are you out of your freaking mind?!”

[SmedleyButlersGhost @XRPwail]

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