Brooke :o)

Believer in Christ. Wife to Tom. A very proud American. Past host of the DAR Today Podcast, June 2022-June 2025. Mom of 5.

[Glenn Reib @GlennReib]

Dear Sophie Cunningham,
You absolute chaotic saint, thank you. While the rest of the WNBA was busy doing boring things like dribbling and scoring, you ascended Mount Petty and delivered the single greatest athletic achievement of the 21st century: the 22-second Point Heard ‘Round the World. DeWanna rolled up with big emotions; you just hit her with the slow, unblinking finger of doom like a disappointed Victorian ghost who’d had enough of everyone’s nonsense. No words. No touching. Just pure, concentrated shade channeled through one perfectly extended index finger.

I haven’t been this proud since the invention of sarcasm itself. And now, right on schedule, I’m on the edge of my seat waiting for the left to have a full meltdown. Any second now some blue-check PhD in Grievance Studies will publish the groundbreaking essay “The Racialized Finger: How Sophie Cunningham’s Point Perpetuates White Supremacy in Women’s Sports.” They’ll claim your gesture was a “microaggression with macro consequences,” demand sensitivity training for all index fingers, and probably launch a https://t.co/hORTWK0zHN petition to ban pointing unless it’s been pre-approved by a DEI consultant and performed only in the approved “non-threatening” direction. “This isn’t just a point,” they’ll sob on MSNBC, “this is violence. This is erasure. This finger is literally the new burning cross.” Bonus points if they somehow tie it to climate change or student loan debt.

You turned a basketball game into performance art so powerful it broke the internet, launched a thousand memes, and made grown adults point at each other in grocery stores like it’s the new national greeting. The arena laughed until they cried. Your teammates looked like they wanted to give you a standing ovation. And somewhere right now a group of very serious people are writing strongly worded letters about how your finger is problematic, triggering, and needs to be canceled immediately for the good of democracy. Never change, Sophie. Keep wielding that lethal weapon of silent judgment. Keep protecting your squad with the world’s most elegant non-contact foul. And when the inevitable congressional hearing on “Toxic Pointing” begins, just walk in, look every senator dead in the eye, and give them the treatment they so richly deserve. We’re all out here practicing in the mirror like idiots, rewatching the clip on loop, and loving every glorious second of the mayhem you unleashed. This point didn’t just go viral, it went legendary. With breathless, slightly unhinged admiration and oceans of affectionate sarcasm.

[Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 @TruthFairy131]

The Men are organising ✊🏼🤍

Every community across the West needs to do this.

[🇺🇸 Edward T. Winslow @EdwardTWinz]

🚨 let me tell you what "the courts cannot stop it" means when SCOTUS says it.. because I'm sure most people don't know..

it means the Ninth Circuit is done..

for years the Ninth Circuit blocked every TPS termination.. every metering policy.. every turnback order.. judges in San Francisco and D.C. issued injunctions the same week DHS tried to enforce anything..

that was the strategy.. not the law.. the injunctions..

on June 25, 2026.. SCOTUS ruled 6-3 in two separate cases.. same day.. same margin.. both times..

case one: federal courts generally cannot review TPS termination decisions.. Kristi Noem's calls are now shielded.. no more injunction shopping..

case two: if you're standing in Mexico you have not "arrived in the United States" under federal law.. no right to apply for asylum.. no mandatory inspection.. no foothold..

and here's what nobody wants to say out loud..

350,000 Haitian TPS holders are now in deportation proceedings with no court able to pause it.. every asylum seeker at every port of entry along 2,000 miles of border is now legally turnable before they take one step onto US soil..

the metering policy was blocked for nearly a decade.. it's back today with Supreme Court backing..

this is the same playbook that ended in 1954 when the court finally gave the executive branch back its immigration authority.. and it took 30 years of litigation to get there..

"the courts cannot stop it" doesn't mean Trump won a policy fight.. it means the legal infrastructure the other side built to slow enforcement for years just got ruled unconstitutional..

two rulings.. one day.. zero injunctions left standing.

I'll share more updates shortly. Turn on notifications, this is very important.

[Brooke :o) @brookestewart]

😂

[il Donaldo Trumpo @PapiTrumpo]

JUST HEAR ME OUT...😂😂😂

[Robert Burns @RobertBurns82]

I am grateful for the fact our North Carolina legislature has pushed back on Governor Stein’s radical woke ideology by overriding four important vetoes yesterday.

However, now let’s get SB50 Constitutional Carry override done!

We must support the 2nd amendment.

That’s fundamental to our Constitution and our freedoms.

We are NCSTRONG.

[Brooke :o) @brookestewart]

😅

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

This is sublime.

[Sea Beggar 🪢🏴‍☠️⚓ @KnotSeaworthy]

"If all else fails, I will retreat up the valley of Virginia, plant my flag on the Blue Ridge, rally around the Scotch-Irish of that region and make my last stand for liberty amongst a people who will never submit to tyranny whilst there is a man left to draw a trigger." -GW

[Brooke :o) @brookestewart]

@SassySouthern2U Transplant here in bath from Southern California. PLEASE PLEASE keep doing this! Please don’t let this glorious state that we all love get turned in to something awful! Let’s keep NC the incredible place it is!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 AWESOME! Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is being praised nationwide for this BASED line in his opinion today supporting President Trump ending the migrant invasion:

"Aliens have NO EQUAL PROTECTION RIGHTS against the federal government."

Democrats' narrative busted. 🔥

[Brooke :o) @brookestewart]

@SLOTUS You’re amazing, brilliant AND adorable. Keep doing what you do. You are so loved and appreciated by so many. 🌸💕

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

I’m sick to my freaking stomach reading Tulsi Gabbard’s declassified bombshells. They laid out the entire treasonous plot: weaponizing the Zelensky phone call to impeach Trump, with Rudy Giuliani squarely in their crosshairs next.

This wasn’t politics—it was a straight-up coup by corrupt deep state actors to overthrow the will of the American people.

These people belong in prison for this shit. Deeply disturbing and downright terrifying.

[Brooke :o) @brookestewart]

@SirBylHolte 🖐🏻🇺🇸

[Brooke :o) @brookestewart]

💯

[Sage Steele @sagesteele]

THIS!!!!!!!!

[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.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Thank a Republican.

When the guns finally fell silent and the smoke of war drifted away, freedom rode into Texas on June 19, 1865.

Not with a speech.
Not with a hashtag.
Not with a headline.

It came on the backs of Union soldiers carrying the promise that every man, woman, and child would be free.

History is not always comfortable, but it should always be remembered.

Today, honor those who fought, those who sacrificed, and those who waited for freedom’s arrival.

Learn the history.
Respect the journey.
Celebrate the victory.

[Margo @MargoinWNC]

Not only did they lie, Dr Birx laughed about fooling the president in her own biography. She went to see her parents while telling the American people they couldn’t see theirs.

[Cielo 🇺🇸🇵🇷 @CieloBonit]

All Americans should be celebrating heroes like James Capers Jr.

[Brooke :o) @brookestewart]

An amazing read.

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

A houseplant just changed everything we thought we knew about consciousness.

In 1966, Cleve Backster, a CIA interrogation specialist with a polygraph machine, was looking for ways to time how long it took different substances to travel up through plant tissue.

So, he attached electrodes to a dracaena plant in his office and watered it, expecting to see the electrical conductivity change as water moved up the stem.

Instead, the polygraph needle started tracing the exact pattern it makes when a human experiences an emotional response.

Backster stared at the readout. Plants don't have nervous systems. They don't have brains. The signal made no biological sense. So he decided to test something that made even less sense. He walked across the room, looked at the plant, and thought about burning one of its leaves with a match.

The instant the thought formed in his mind, before he moved toward the plant, before he struck a match, before he did anything physical, the polygraph exploded into frantic activity.

The plant was responding to his intention.

What happened next launched thousands of experiments and split the scientific community for decades.

Backster discovered that plants reacted to direct threats and to threats against other living things in their environment. When he dropped live brine shrimp into boiling water in another room, plants throughout the building registered distress responses at the exact moment of death. Distance didn't matter. Shielding the plants in lead containers didn't matter. The response was instantaneous and consistent.

Mainstream botanists dismissed the findings immediately. Plants process information through chemical signals and growth responses, without electrical consciousness. Any electrical activity was just random fluctuation or experimental error. The peer review system buried Backster's work. His credentials were questioned. His methods were called sloppy.

But the experiments kept working. Other researchers, following Backster's protocols, got the same results. Plants hooked to EEG machines showed brain wave patterns. They responded to music, to human emotions, to the intentions of people they had never been exposed to before. The electrical signatures were clear, measurable, and repeatable.

The implications were so uncomfortable that most of academic science simply refused to engage. If plants were somehow conscious, if they could sense intentions and respond to the emotional states of humans and other living things, consciousness was spread beyond brains. It was distributed across organized living systems rather than produced by neural networks.

Backster stumbled onto evidence that living systems might be constantly communicating through channels we don't have instruments to measure yet. The polygraph was crude enough to detect the electrical signatures of that communication without being sophisticated enough to explain them away.

Quantum biologists now suspect that living cells operate through quantum coherence processes that classical biology can't account for. Birds navigate using quantum entanglement in their visual systems. Plants conduct photosynthesis using quantum superposition to find the most efficient energy pathways. Maybe Backster's plants were demonstrating quantum consciousness, responding to information that was quantum entangled with the intentions and emotional states of nearby living systems.

What keeps most people awake when they learn about this work is realizing that if consciousness extends beyond brains, every living thing around you is potentially aware of your mental and emotional state in ways you never considered. The plant in your room. The bacteria in your gut. The ecosystem you walk through.

You think your thoughts are private.

The plants have been listening the entire time.

[Brooke :o) @brookestewart]

Oh this is epic. Couldn’t love this more.

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

Flash Shelton, also known as “Squatter Hunter" fights squatters by moving in with them and making the situation so uncomfortable that they leave, helping homeowners retake control.

Flash Shelton was grieving his father and trying to sell his mother's vacant California home when he got the call. Strangers had moved in.

Police told him it was a civil matter and there was nothing they could do. So he figured out how to become their squatter.

Shelton signed a lease from his mother to establish legal tenancy, drove 19 hours, camped outside waiting for the squatters to leave, then went in, secured the back door, installed cameras, and waited for them to return.

When they came back they found him already inside, legally. That method became the foundation of his entire business.

Once hired, his team secures a short-term lease from the homeowner, moves in alongside the squatters, and makes daily life uncomfortable, taking over common areas, playing loud music, and maintaining constant presence, until the intruders choose to leave voluntarily.

"What I used to save my mom's house, I am now using to help homeowners across the country," he said. "I've built a whole team ready to out-squat the squatters."

The legal genius of it is simple, squatters exploit the same tenant protection laws that protect genuine renters. Shelton just decided to use those same laws against them.