Kelly G. Spencer

Certified Professional Soil Scientist, Professional Geoscientist, Texas A&M '91 (Gig 'em!), Ham Radio Operator (KD5S), Rockhound, & Christian-- all in one!

[Kelly G. Spencer @aggiedirtdoc]

"Growing up in the backwoods of East Texas is what makes me warm and relate-able." -- Sheldon Cooper #BigBangTheory

[Ty Clevenger @Ty_Clevenger]

SETH RICH UPDATE: Today an attorney for the government told me that I would soon be getting confirmation that several hundred pages of documents related to Seth Rich were found in a previously-hidden room at FBI headquarters. You may recall that on July 30, 2025, Fox News Digital reported that newly-installed FBI Director Kash Patel and his leadership team had located an unmapped / sealed area within the J. Edgar Hoover Building's SCIF.

Last year’s Fox report described "burn bags" that contained thousands of pages of classified files intended for destruction, and those files were linked back to the 2016 "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation. Now it appears the Seth Rich records were among the files designated for destruction.

Mind you, I don’t have anything in hand yet. I don’t even know whether the FBI will agree to release a single page of what it found. Nonetheless, any confirmation that the files were in the secret SCIF raises a lot of questions. At the very least, some very high-level people had something to hide.

The FBI originally told me in 2017 that it had no records whatsoever about Seth Rich because it was not involved in the investigation of his death. We were told he died in a “botched robbery” and only the local police were investigating it.

Since that time, the FBI has gradually admitted to possession of several thousand pages of documents about Seth, his work laptop, an image of his personal laptop, and another DVD. Nonetheless, on June 15, 2026, I had to file yet another motion (https://t.co/FsVfNU9rMo) explaining how the FBI is withholding records in violation of court orders.

If the FBI is still fighting transparency so hard on other fronts (and it is), then why would it acknowledge that records about Seth had been hidden in the SCIF? I don’t know. Maybe Joe DiGenova’s grand jury investigation in Miami is putting some heat on the players in DC?

I can tell you this much for sure: nobody on Capitol Hill has been willing to touch this subject with a ten-foot pole. The murder of Seth Rich – and the resulting cover-up – is as radioactive as any topic I’ve ever seen. I hope that changes soon, and I’ll post updates as soon as I know more.

BTW, I’m not suicidal. I feel great.

[Gizmo Memes @GizmoMemes]

Mitch McConnell showing up to vote against the SAVE America Act 😭

[Kelly G. Spencer @aggiedirtdoc]

…and a video to boot! #IndependenceDay

[Kelly G. Spencer @aggiedirtdoc]

Will I post some obligatory fireworks photos? Oh yeah! #IndependenceDay

[Kelly G. Spencer @aggiedirtdoc]

Parade time! #IndependenceDay

[Kelly G. Spencer @aggiedirtdoc]

It’s getting close to being fireworks 30. That’s what you call dark 30 on #IndependenceDay. 🇺🇸🎆

[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

I remember it well… 🙋‍♀️

[Declaration of Memes @LibertyCappy]

Did he want his well done?

💀

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Today we salute you, Mr. Gas Generator Tesla Owner.
You dropped serious money on an electric car, then immediately solved range anxiety the old-fashioned way — by towing a roaring Honda generator behind it.
Stuck in Texas traffic on I-10? No problem. Just fire up the fossil fuel and let ‘er charge while you roll. Pure electric… with a side of gasoline.
Real Men of Genius.

[Texas 🇺🇸 @MustangMan_TX]

What a great point!

At least you’re moving on the back roads…

[Kenny Webster @KennethRWebster]

I tried to warn y’all:

@JohnCornyn and Matt “Venmo” Mackowiak are actively trying to flip Texas blue.

[Michael Quinn Sullivan 🇺🇸 @MQSullivan]

Three years ago, on May 27, 2023, the crony establishment in the TxLege House impeached @KenPaxtonTX.

Today, he is the GOP nominee for the US Senate, having defeated a four-term incumbent in 252 of the states 254 counties.

Vindication.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

In 1868, a bankrupt Louisiana banker with a ruined plantation and no income took some pepper seeds of unknown origin, mixed the mash with salt mined from underneath his own property, aged it in barrels, and bottled it in cologne bottles because manufacturing specialty glass after the Civil War was impossible.

That bottle shape has not changed in 156 years...

Edmund McIlhenny had lost almost everything in the Civil War. His banking career was gone. The Avery Island plantation he had married into was destroyed. When his family returned in 1865 they found the fields in ruin and allegedly a few volunteer chile plants still surviving in the wreckage. Nobody knows exactly how McIlhenny obtained the Capsicum frutescens pepper seeds that became the foundation of his sauce.

What is documented is that he crushed the ripened peppers into a mash with rock salt mined from the natural salt dome underneath Avery Island, aged the mash in barrels, blended it with French white wine vinegar, strained it through cloth and bottled it in small cologne-type bottles with sprinkler fitments, sealed in green wax. Workers on the plantation used small red sticks called le petit bâton rouge to identify peppers at exactly the right stage of ripeness. In 1869 he sent exactly 658 bottles to grocers along the Gulf Coast at one dollar apiece. He secured a patent in 1870, and the sauce sold out immediately.

Manufacturing specialised glass was essentially impossible in the post-Civil War South so McIlhenny used what was available. The sprinkler fitment on a cologne bottle turned out to be the perfect delivery mechanism for a concentrated pepper sauce best applied in dashes rather than poured. That practical wartime improvisation became one of the most recognisable pieces of packaging in the world. The original recipe, Tabasco peppers, Avery Island salt and vinegar, has not changed in 156 years. The salt still comes from underneath the same island. Every pepper seed used in production worldwide still originates from Avery Island.

A bankrupt banker's post-Civil War improvisation, bottled in repurposed cologne bottles, became one of the most globally distributed food products in history.

© Eats History

[I am Ken @Ikennect]

Meanwhile, here in Texas.

[Mrgunsngear @Mrgunsngear]

Jennifer Combs of Trinidad, Texas was reportedly arrested and charged with a felony for a FB post about poor local water quality.

Trinidad police claimed she posted “false information that creates fear, panic, or unnecessary emergency response within a community.”

Even if that was true, which it doesn't seem to be, arresting her for the post is still a gross violation of her 1st Amendment rights.

She's currently suing the city but that won't prevent something similar from happening again. All of the officers involved with her arrested need to be criminally charged for deprivation of civil rights under the color of law.

Would be a shame if the DOJ's Civil Rights Division was tagged in this post and they looked into this. A shame I say...

#rural #1st #CivilRights #police #trinidad #texas #1stAmendment #corruption #cops #water

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

Dan Crenshaw. Gone

Bill Cassidy. Gone.

John Cornyn. You’re next.

[Kelly G. Spencer @aggiedirtdoc]

Yep… $250 is about what it will cost me to check out. 😝

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

“GOOD RIDDANCE! After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that “Climate Change” is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!” - President DONALD J. TRUMP 🇺🇸

[Geoffrey P. Johnston😎😷🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦💉 @GeoffyPJohnston]

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