DuneDreaming

Film,books,music,arts,history,outdoor life & wildlife,sport,ret OR/ICU nurse💕Austin Butler & friends
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[DuneDreaming @austonic27]

@Vivek41246116 @butlerbliss_ They will be, once hurricane season is over..doing night shots & inside scenes in NY , NJ until late November, yes it’s movie magic🎥sometimes better not to know too much👍😉

[FeelGoodThoughts @feelgoodtale]

She didn't monetize her sacrifice—she answered the call.

The Senate hearing room went cold when the insult landed.
Tammy Duckworth sat across from J.D. Vance, waiting for him to answer her question. She'd come prepared with policy, with specifics, with the kind of detailed inquiry that veterans' issues demand. But instead of engaging, Vance chose a different route. He compared her to Forrest Gump.
Let that sink in for a moment. A sitting senator, facing a decorated combat veteran who'd left parts of herself on an Iraqi battlefield, thought a fictional character was the appropriate reference.
Duckworth's response was surgical. She didn't raise her voice. She didn't need to. When you've piloted a Black Hawk helicopter through hostile fire, when you've felt the explosion that tears through metal and bone, when you've woken up in a hospital missing both legs and part of an arm, petty insults from small men barely register.
November 12, 2004. That's the day her helicopter was hit by an RPG over Iraq. She was co-piloting, focused on her mission, when the world turned to fire and shrapnel. The rocket-propelled grenade destroyed her aircraft and nearly destroyed her. Most people would have let that be the end of their service story.
Duckworth spent a year in recovery at Walter Reed. She learned to walk again on prosthetic legs. Then she went back to work.
No book tour about resilience. No cable news circuit trading on sacrifice. She didn't monetize her Purple Heart or turn her injuries into a personal brand. She served in the Illinois National Guard, then ran for office to continue serving in a different capacity.
Retired Lieutenant Colonel. Combat veteran. Purple Heart recipient. The first disabled woman elected to Congress, then to the Senate. The first senator to give birth while in office, bringing her newborn onto the Senate floor because the rules hadn't contemplated a working mother who'd also taken shrapnel for her country.
When Vance tried his cheap shot, she treated it exactly like what it was: noise from someone who'd never answered a question he found uncomfortable. She'd faced real danger. She knew the difference between actual courage and performance art patriotism.
That's who Tammy Duckworth is. Remember it.

[DuneDreaming @austonic27]

@AbAussieGirl Happy Birthday 🩵🩷🌴

[DuneDreaming @austonic27]

@aussieV8girl @nvolpewild Nick will find out, but I am from southern 🇦🇺& have seen Huntsman spiders that colour( pale apricot colour)..they come in a few shades for camouflage..I have grey blinds/curtains and the huntsmen in my house are a charcoal grey😉🫢.

[DuneDreaming @austonic27]

@butlerrizz 🫢😳what!…I thought he was a pup, (well he looks like one, so well looked after )and all dressed up for 🎃👻🧡🖤… very cute.

[DuneDreaming @austonic27]

@skarsbutarms Well , it’s only People magazine..biggest load of gossip trash ever..not sure any self respecting sexy guy would care, especially the Nordic types💕

[DuneDreaming @austonic27]

@timritchie Like a fossilised Jurassic iguana looking across to the Galapagos.
And so surreal it’s been labelled A.I again🫣😂😂.

[DuneDreaming @austonic27]

@beautifulbutler @butlerrizz Very elegant💕

[DuneDreaming @austonic27]

@petarbphoto Looks like that fence post is a 🦔takeaway 🐜🐜, the landscape is definitely more familiar now, been a lot of storms around and nothing better than that aroma…top 📸as always👍.

[DuneDreaming @austonic27]

@beautifulbutler @afterdarkziggy What!…already, thats flown by☄️one moment destroying the garden, next cuffed & linked in the cold cells..lucky they get to sleep though, while the world goes mad💕🐢🐢.

[DuneDreaming @austonic27]

@SandyHorne61 Oh, thats the Mick Jagger of swamp hens & he knows it.

[DuneDreaming @austonic27]

@beautifulbutler @butlersgale @austinbennyfeyd Yep, they would want lots of takes too😉😂

[DuneDreaming @austonic27]

@beautifulbutler @butlersgale @austinbennyfeyd Would not like to be on the receiving end of 🥊from either of those guys, hope their timing is good🤪.

[DuneDreaming @austonic27]

@ABUnofficial100 Wake up call hopefully🫣always surprised by how loose security is on sets like this( noticed it with CS)..now real fans and curious onlookers may have to be “policed” more closely.
There are some nasty, hateful comments on SM that maybe should be 👀at.

[DuneDreaming @austonic27]

@ABUnofficial100 @beautifulbutler Now I would like to see the bloopers when they do this scene🥊🐊.

[DuneDreaming @austonic27]

@butlerrizz @butlersgale Is she a cooking guru??😔🤔🫣I don’t know either🥺

[DuneDreaming @austonic27]

@naydenlover @MyDearAus Good job Lauren, smiled the whole way through, thankyou🩵🩷👍

[DuneDreaming @austonic27]

@WeHateRetro_ @ChaosCrave_ Ai😖

[DuneDreaming @austonic27]

@ZeeGucci @Igbakajnr @ChaosCrave_ Ai🫩..This was just MBJ scene & they stuck an AI Austin in there…this account is crap.

[DuneDreaming @austonic27]

@butlerfilmz Avoid this account..all ai.