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[aashe @aashleighbc]

It was a beautiful day. 🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂

[Daily Gondor 📰 @DailyGondor]

Hobbit-hole owners across the Shire ordered to surrender their oaken doors to provide emergency heating for the 'vibrant youth from Isengard and Mordor'.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I cannot take my kids to most public spaces in the big cities of North Carolina anymore.

- Stabbings on public transit
- Drug addicts shooting up at the parks
- Homeless tents in the playgrounds
- Fountains used as showers

Every parent I know feels the exact same way.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: The 11-YEAR-OLD BOY who was stopped by police, FINGERPRINTED, and ordered to court for riding his dirt bike to go FISHING 300 FEET FROM HIS OWN HOUSE...

...has just pleaded NOT GUILTY in court

The 6th-grader MISSED SCHOOL because the State of Florida is prosecuting him for a misdemeanor.

His name is Cade Kirchner, he's 11.

He built and sold squirrel tables all summer and saved $900 and bought a little electric dirt bike with his own money.

On Labor Day he grabbed his fishing pole and rode toward the pond at Sweetwater Park.

Police pulled him over, fingerprinted, ticketed, and then TOWED HIS DIRT BIKE AWAY.

The day before court, Cade said: "I'm feeling very scared. I'd rather be in school instead of being at court."

His dad called the State Attorney's Office on Monday hoping they'd drop it.

Their answer: they're pursuing charges.

So Tuesday morning at 9 a.m., Cade missed class and walked into Seminole County Court with his mom, his dad, and a lawyer.

He stood there for less than two minutes.

The judge told him to come back December 2nd.

His dad's words after: "How ridiculous that he had to miss school for that."

New bodycam video came out this week. The officer, on camera, told an 11-year-old:

"You're getting one ticket today. You could have gotten six criminal violations, but I'm giving you one."

Six criminal violations, for a kid with a fishing pole.

Did Cade technically break the law? Sure. The bike has no pedals and the state of Florida law calls it a motorcycle and even Cade's own parents have said he shouldn't have been on the road.

The argument is that we have VIOLENT CRIMINALS who are being released every single day by the court system all the time who are constantly let off with warnings...

But this kid is getting the full weight of the justice system brought against him.

Now prosecutors are spending taxpayer money to keep the case going into DECEMBER.

Cade's lawyer says he expects it to be resolved soon.

It should have been resolved on the side of the road with the words "go home, kid."

This is so stupid... we are destroying childhood freedom for kids and no one seems to care.

This is not the America I want for my kids.

[aashe @aashleighbc]

This gives me hope

[WWG1WGA🇺🇸♥️ @WWG1WGA_QQ]

School officials are in panic mode over kids revolting against “Pride Day”

Kids refused to wear colors and some even chanted that their pronouns are USA

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: Six "jailers" have been FIRED after a White inmate in a South Carolina jail run by a Black man DIED OF THIRST on the floor of his cell... covered INCHES-DEEP IN FECES, with the water to his sink SHUT OFF.

He drank out of his OWN TOILET to survive

He wrote letters to his father pleading for help because he was being tortured because he was White.

His name was Gary "Bubba" Blair, he was 43.

He was the caregiver for his own elderly father. He had two nephews he adored and a dog named Scrubby.

So why was he in jail?

In February, Bubba showed up at his sister's house wearing a sheriff's office golf shirt, a security badge, handcuffs, and pepper spray. Deputies arrested him for impersonating a police officer.

A judge found he wasn't mentally competent to stand trial and ORDERED the state to place him into treatment on June 3.

The South Carolina Office of Mental Health never followed through.

Bubba sat in that jail for 181 days waiting for a spot.

He passed away 51 days after a judge ordered them to get him help.

In April, he write a letter to his father:

"I've lost about 90 pounds so far. I'm starving to death in here; only two meals a day, that's it... you starve, and I also have to drink from my toilet and no mattress to sleep on, only a hard ground."

"I’ve been abused by staff and assaulted by everyone on the unit; I had to go 28 days without a shower... no help for a white man"

"The staff is very nasty to white inmates thanks to Troy Ellerbe and James Dixon."

Then in May, Bubba did something that will haunt me.

He wrote a letter to a CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE begging for help.

The letter had a bad address. It was returned. It never arrived.

Meanwhile, sources say the water to his sink was SHUT OFF. His cell floor and walls were covered in feces INCHES DEEP. He was alone. Never let out.

Other inmates, who got a few hours out of their cells, told the news they watched Bubba drink toilet water.

So they took an empty potato chip bag and filled it with water and pushed it through the food slot in his door!!!!!

Most of it spilled before it ever reached him.

On July 24th, jailers found him dead on the floor.

49 days later, the autopsy came back.

Cause of death: profound dehydration due to DEPRIVATION OF WATER.

Manner of death: HOMICIDE.

The report also found bed sores on his HEELS, consistent with a man lying on a concrete floor for days at a time.

Acute bronchial pneumonia.
Profound weight loss.
Physical evidence that he had been INGESTING TOILET WATER.

He had lost so much weigh and was in such poor condition, his sister and aunt went to the funeral home to see him... they did not recognize his body.

The sheriff fired the Black jail administrator 5 days after Bubba died, and refuses to say why.

Bubba Blair sang to old folks in nursing homes. He took care of his daddy.

He deserved so much better than dying of thirst on a concrete floor.

PEOPLE BEING FIRED IS NOT ENOUGH!!!!! THIS IS CRIMINAL!!!!!!!

Say his name. Gary "Bubba" Blair.

WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!

[aashe @aashleighbc]

@tuuu28283 I’ve had the ones that are little mushrooms, super yummy and cute.

[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

🔥🚨LATEST: These Black men pulled up on a 6-year-old autistic child after they found out he was getting bullied at his bus stop so they stepped in.

[Gator Gar @gatorgar]

I know everyone has already reposted this and made the same comment I’m about to.

But I just want to say this clip was the most pleasant surprise I’ve had in a long time. As a musician who’s really struggled to “fit in” with other musicians for the last decade, and only recently found my faith, Billy’s words here had me crying manly tears of gratitude.

The fact that he posted it himself on his own account? Enlightening and inspirational. God bless @Billy. Thanks man. Thanks for being a real role model. Mary Star of the Sea (Zwan) is my favorite alternative rock album of all time. It all makes sense now.

[aashe @aashleighbc]

@japan_nobunaga God made Elon the richest man in the world and he knew what he was doing. I firmly believe he help save my beautiful country from libtards.

[Brian Onorio @brianonorio]

The North Carolina Barbecue divide is real. Here's the East/West map complete with a DMZ.

The battle lines are drawn between whole hog v. shoulder, tomato-and-vinegar v. just vinegar and spices.

But we all agree: barbecue is a noun, not a verb. And it's always pork. Always.

[Allen Mashburn @RealMashburn4NC]

We need to “Florida-ize” North Carolina.

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

McDonald's is spending 8.5 billion dollars to find out why families stopped coming.

I can save them the 8.5 billion.

They took out the playground.

The plan, announced Wednesday at investor day. Better food, faster service, new equipment, AI tools, hospitality training, and a bigger push into chicken and beverages. They call it Next. The goal, they say, is making customers feel more comfortable.

Wall Street loved it so much the stock fell 5 percent to its lowest since 2022.

Over five years McDonald's shares are down 3 percent. Burger King's parent is up 14. The owner of Taco Bell and KFC is up 13.

This is not a hamburger problem. This is a McDonald's problem.

So let us talk about who used to eat there.

Parents. That was the whole business. Parents at 5:40 on a Tuesday with three kids in the back and nothing thawed at home.

You did not go for the burger. You went because your kids could run screaming through a plastic tube for 40 minutes while you sat with a coffee and experienced silence.

That was the product. The food was the cover charge.

The first PlayPlace opened in 1971 in Birmingham, Alabama, and for fifty years it did one job. It made small children demand to go to McDonald's.

Then 2020 arrived, every play area in the country closed, and a great many never came back. The equipment came out during a remodeling program named Experience of the Future.

The Experience of the Future turned out to be a touchscreen.

Their own chief executive said he did not know if ball pits were in their future.

Sir, you were not selling ball pits. You were selling forty minutes.

So now there is no counter, no playground, and no reason for a seven year old to want to go. A screen, a window, and a bag.

And for that we pay prices that require a moment of reflection in the parking lot.

For thin, overcooked, oddly uniform pucks that taste like a memory of beef.

I did not love them because they were good. I loved them because I was eight and there was a slide.

And have you seen the new buildings.

The old ones were unmistakable. Red roof, yellow arches, legible from a highway at 70 to a child who could not yet read.

The new ones are a flat gray box with a small logo and a drive through wrapped around it. A regional claims office with a fryer.

They removed the color, the characters, the counter, and the playground, and then hired consultants to find out why it no longer feels like anywhere.

Which is why, when I have to eat fast food, I go to Chick-fil-A.

Not for the politics. For the competence.

They have led the customer satisfaction index for fast food eleven years running, and average 8.5 million dollars per location against McDonald's 4 million.

More than double, while closed on Sundays. Fifty two days a year with the lights off, and still double.

A seventeen year old hands you a bag and says my pleasure and means it about 70 percent, which is 70 percent more than a touchscreen has managed.

McDonald's is spending 8.5 billion on hospitality training.

Chick-fil-A earns 8.5 million per restaurant by just having some.

So here is my consulting proposal, free of charge, on behalf of mothers everywhere.

Put the playgrounds back.

Not a nostalgia campaign. Not a retro cup. The structure. Tubes, slides, a door the kids cannot open from the inside, and a bench where a tired woman can sit.

And understand what you are buying, because it is not lunch.

A six year old does not know your food is bad. He has no basis for comparison and no functioning palate. He thinks the burger is incredible because he is standing in a castle made of tubes.

That is the window. That is the only window you get.

You catch them before the taste buds arrive, and thirty years later they drive past your sign, feel something they cannot explain, and pull in anyway.

That is not a menu strategy. That is imprinting, and you shut it down in 2020 to save on cleaning.

Eight and a half billion dollars for AI tools and hospitality training.

Or a slide.

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[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING Outrage is erupting after an 11-YEAR-OLD BOY was stopped by police, FINGERPRINTED, and ordered to court for riding his dirt bike to go FISHING...

...300 FEET FROM HIS OWN HOUSE!!!

They TOWED HIS BIKE with a city WRECKER.

An officer warned him he'd get a WARRANT if he didn't show up, he'll have to miss school for it.

His name is Cade, he's 11 years old, a sixth grader in Oviedo, Florida.

His dad helped him start a little summer business selling squirrel tables and Cade worked all summer long, he saved up $900 and he bought that bike himself.

An 11-year-old entrepreneur, in 2026.

We should be putting this kid on a FREAKING POSTER!!!!

On Labor Day, Cade grabbed his fishing pole and rode toward the pond at Sweetwater Park, he was on the shoulder of the road, about 300 FEET from his house.

Why not the sidewalk?

His answer: "If I go on the sidewalk, I can only go 10mph, and also it's going to scare the pedestrians."

An 11-year-old thinking about pedestrians' safety!

Then, an Oviedo police officer pulled him over.

Asked him for his license, his registration, his proof of insurance.

THE KID IS ELEVEN.

Then they fingerprinted him.

Wrote him a citation with a mandatory court date and told this little boy, on camera, "You have to show up, OK? Or they're going to put out a warrant for you."

Then they called in the city tow truck!!!!!!

His dad's words: "They called in the city wrecker for this little, tiny electric bike and winched it on up there."

Next Tuesday, Cade has to skip school to stand in front of a judge.

Yes TECHNICALLY the police have a point under Florida law, but where was the common sense?!!!!

Cade now says: "Now I'm kind of scared to ride my dirt bike."

A Virginia mom got a criminal record for letting her son walk to a pond, two little girls in Pennsylvania got hauled into court over a broken swing, and now an 11-year-old in Florida gets printed for riding to go fishing.

We are criminalizing childhood in this country.

Even THE TOWN MAYOR called Cade a "good kid." She's right.

...and for the love of God, somebody give this kid his bike back.

WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!

[GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE @GOP_is_Gutless]

They keep arresting truck drivers! A major crackdown along I-26 and I-85 in South Carolina ended with 114 arrests in just three days.

ICE and local agencies stopped 145 vehicles while targeting fraudulent CDLs, illegal licenses, immigration violations, and unsafe commercial operations. Authorities also conducted 77 inspections, issued 89 traffic and safety citations, and placed 22 drivers and vehicles out of service.

The operations reportedly uncovered 10 kilograms of cocaine worth approximately $200,000 and resulted in both criminal and administrative arrests.

Are these crackdowns finally cleaning up trucking—or is enforcement becoming too aggressive?

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting in Charlotte NC after a Black woman who ran a RED LIGHT, hitting a 25-year-old White man out for a run, and DROVE AWAY while he DIED ON THE STREET...

...was sentenced to ONLY 30 DAYS in jail.

Yes, you read that right... THIRTY DAYS.

His name was Lance Sotelo.

Lance grew up in Dalton, Georgia, and was a cross-country MVP in high school.

He came to Queens University of Charlotte and ran cross country and track and field for SIX YEARS.

He was the student body president.

On January 14th, Lance was doing the thing he loved most, he was out for a run in Charlotte NC

At 5:47 in the evening, police say 28-year-old Q'Laundra Hood was ran a red light and she hit him, hard.

...and then she drove away.

She left him in the road and kept going.

Lance Sotelo died right there on the streets of Charlotte.
He never even made it to a hospital.

He didn't have life insurance, his family had to start a GoFundMe just to bury their son.

Hood turned herself in and pleaded guilty to felony hit-and-run and involuntary manslaughter.

And on Tuesday, a courtroom packed with Lance's family and friends watched the judge hand down the sentence.

30 days in jail. And probation.

Thirty days and $765 restitution.

WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!

[Myron Gaines Updates @WyronGaines]

♦️Myron absolutely COOKS and IQ-mogs a bunch of arrogant Muslim students who claim that America is NOT a Christian country!😳🫣☪️✝️

“This is a Christian fvcking country! Respect where you’re at! Why the fvck are you here!? Wanna hear adhan 5 times a day!? Go to a Muslim country!”

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

In 1946, World War II veterans in a small Tennessee town armed themselves, laid siege to the county jail, and forced a corrupt local government out of power. It is one of the only times in modern American history that citizens took up arms against their own officials and won.

Paul Cantrell's machine, tied to Memphis boss Ed Crump, had run McMinn County since 1936 on a fee system that paid deputies per arrest. Returning GIs got picked up and fined repeatedly. In May 1946 they formed the GI Non-Partisan League and ran their own slate.

On election day, Sheriff Pat Mansfield brought in some 200 out-of-county deputies at $50 a day. One shot a Black farmer, Tom Gillespie, in the back for trying to vote. When the polls closed, deputies carried the ballot boxes into the jail and barricaded themselves in.

The veterans broke into the National Guard armory, surrounded the jail, and fought a six-hour gun battle before using dynamite. The deputies surrendered around 3:30 a.m. Nobody died. The ballots were counted in public.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Inside the Tokyo Imperial Palace lives a pine tree
that is 81 centimeters tall.

It is about 550 years old.

When this tree first sprouted, Columbus had not yet sailed.

It's a bonsai. And for five and a half centuries,
someone has watered it. By hand.

Not most days. Every day.
Through every summer and every winter
since around the time the printing press was invented.

Four hundred years ago, this exact tree
was the personal treasure of Tokugawa Iemitsu,
the shogun of all Japan.

One of the most powerful men in Japanese history
ruled the entire country by day,
and pruned this little pine with his own hands.

It is named after him: "The Third Shogun."

The shogun died in 1651. The tree didn't notice.
Someone else picked up the watering can.

Then someone else. Then someone else.

Fifteen, twenty generations of caretakers,
every single one of them fully aware of the deal:

You do not own a bonsai.

A bonsai is never finished, so it cannot be owned.
You keep it alive, you make it a little more beautiful,
and you hand it to the next pair of hands.

You are not the artist.
You are one brushstroke in a painting
that started before your great-great-great-grandparents
and will continue long after everyone forgets your name.

Today, imperial gardeners tend about 600 bonsai
at the palace. They water them every morning.

The shogun who loved this tree
has been gone for nearly four centuries.

The tree doesn't know.

Someone still comes with water,
every single morning.

Somewhere in that,
is everything I love about this country.

[Clown World ™ 🤡 @ClownWorld]

Federal investigators uncovered a massive fake nursing diploma operation that ran through Haitian immigrant networks in South Florida, selling credentials to people who never completed the required nursing coursework or clinical training.

Investigators say the broader scheme involved roughly 15,000 fraudulent nursing diplomas and $250 MILLION.

Many buyers then took nursing board exams, obtained licenses and went to work in healthcare facilities across America.

Forget the money for a second. How many patients were treated by people who never actually completed nursing school?