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[Americus @americus1_]

A Fathers Blessing

May your trials lead you to the same place as your triumphs;

Into the divines embrace

May your heart remain open to the highest and your mind steadfast in your service of others

May your feet stay grounded so you may know your roots and your hands strong to help form your creation

May you learn to trust yourself

In times of doubt seek faith
In times of fear seek hope
In times of sadness, joy

Remember always

It is in giving of ourselves that we receive
It is in searching for ourselves we are found
It is in death that we are reborn anew

Fear not darkness and despair

For it is eternity, you are promised

Love always with intensity and grant forgiveness the same

Repose in the presence of the divine and attune to the language of the lord

Equanimity and silence

I am always here

Amen

#fathersprayer #sunday #prayer #god #bepeace

[Armada Athletics @ArmadaAthletic]

ATHLETICS TODAY — SEPTEMBER 22
GIRLS VARSITY GOLF
Imlay City
1:30 PM

Imlay City High School
BOYS VARSITY TENNIS — SENIOR NIGHT
vs. Yale - HOME
4:00 PM

FRESHMAN, JV & VARSITY VOLLEYBALL
@ Richmond
5:00 / 5:00 / 6:30 PM

[Armada Athletics @ArmadaAthletic]

ATHLETICS TODAY — SEPTEMBER 21

GIRLS VARSITY GOLF
Macomb County Tournament - Stoney Creek Metropark 8:00 AM

VARSITY BOYS SOCCER
Almont
4:30 PM
Field is just south of Orchard Primary School - 4664 Kidder Rd, Almont, MI 48003

Good luck to all our Tigers!

[Americus @americus1_]

@BobDinMI Bob…. lol come on man

[Americus @americus1_]

Why @Republicans you need to stop.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[Americus @americus1_]

@MJTruthUltra @grok when would this go into effect?

[Americus @americus1_]

What a hero 🇺🇸

[Orwell Day @OrwellDay]

New footage shows the arrest of Jevon Martinez (the man with the truck full of cut-down Flock cameras)

[Americus @americus1_]

@gretchenwhitmer be a hero 🇺🇸

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 Gov. Shapiro calls for a statewide ban of Flock cameras in Pennsylvania.

[Americus @americus1_]

Hell yeah!!

[Variety @Variety]

EXCLUSIVE: The Shane Gillis sitcom "Tires" been renewed for Season 4 at Netflix, a few weeks after the third season premiered on the streamer.

"'Tires' continues to deliver the unapologetic comedy and authentic point of view Shane, John and Steve's fans know and love, and Season 3 hitting its highest-ever Top 10 ranking proves this fandom just keeps growing," said Tracey Pakosta, Netflix's vice president of U.S. comedy. "We love working with this team and can't wait to see what's next for the Valley Forge crew in Season 4."

https://t.co/gWbMF9TeDr

[Americus @americus1_]

@wxyzdetroit lol

[Americus @americus1_]

How about we don’t #deflock #america

[Remarks @remarks]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Flock CEO says Americans must "compromise" on their privacy.

[Americus @americus1_]

What a hero @timburchett 🇺🇸

[Patrick Webb @Patrickwebb]

BREAKING: Rep. Tim Burchett calls for Flock cameras to be banned.

[Americus @americus1_]

@elonmusk @HedgieMarkets Thank you for doing this.

[Americus @americus1_]

@martyrmade Darryl you have smoved the Overton Window more than anyone else in modern history keep going brother!

[Americus @americus1_]

@martyrmade Hell yeah!

[Americus @americus1_]

Claude from the top rope.

[Americus @americus1_]

@StealthQE4 @grok explain this to me in an easy to understand way

[Americus @americus1_]

Happy Father’s Day

[Americus @americus1_]

@PageauJonathan Beautiful!

[Americus @americus1_]

@Cernovich Couldn’t agree more @Cernovich thanks for taking the time to check us out!