Carpenter Carpentry

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[Dan Green @DanGreenMN]

I regret to inform Zohran Mamdani and the DSA that the Center-Left has officially found their short-form video content champion.

Emma Camp just might save America. 🇺🇸

[Geoff Graham @ggraham]

In 1855, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson founded a Bible school for free black children and slaves where he and other volunteers taught them to read. He taught there regularly until the war, then continued funding it until he was killed.

Among the six slaves he owned was one who asked Jackson to buy him so that he could more easily buy his own freedom at a later date (with Jackson’s encouragement, he did). Another was an older woman who also requested that he purchase her. A third was a young girl, likely with disabilities, who an elderly widow asked Jackson to purchase from her to secure the girl’s future. When Jackson departed for the war, he left instructions that she was to be cared. The other three came into his possession via marriage.

Plenty of firsthand accounts beginning long before the war and up to his death describe a humble, kind, dutiful, and charitable man, who was socially awkward and almost completely unconcerned with what other people thought of him.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

I found this map from 1950. Notice how Gaza belonged to Egypt and the West Bank belonged to Jordan, and there was no Palestine.

Jordan occupied the West Bank and Egypt occupied Gaza from 1948 to 1967, and during those years not once did ‘Palestinians’ try to establish an independent Palestinian state.

In fact, they only started calling for a Palestinian state after they joined forces with their Egyptian and Jordanian occupiers and lost the war they started against Israel in 1967, when Israel took over Gaza and the West Bank.

The whole Palestinian narrative is a lie.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Yes

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Well done to Wales! We should all follow their example!👏🏻👏🏻

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Trump Announces Plan To Annex Canada And Rename It ‘Gay North Dakota’ https://t.co/CwqDcaQgKR

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A timeline of one man's cunning inheritance tax scheme.

2008: Buy a thousand acres in Oxfordshire. Tell The Times that dodging inheritance tax is the critical thing. Scheme live.

2009 to 2018: Do absolutely nothing. A villager farms it on contract. Flawless.

2019: The villager retires. Rather than hire another one, decide to farm a thousand acres yourself, having never grown anything.

Also 2019: Invite a film crew.

2020: Rain for nine weeks. Profit on a thousand acres: £144.

2021: Broadcast the £144 to the largest streaming platform on earth, thereby informing the entire planet that farmland makes nothing.

2021: Open a farm shop. Acquire a queue down a lane and the undivided attention of West Oxfordshire District Council.

2022: Restaurant refused. Enforcement notice. Six weeks to take a barn apart.

2023: Lose the appeal. Lose it again.

May 2024: Accidentally get English planning law rewritten. Lawyers name it Clarkson's Clause.

August 2024: Open a pub selling only British food. Sell your own sausage at 74p against 18p imported, and eat the difference on every plate.

October 2024: The Chancellor caps agricultural property relief at a million. Scheme dead.

November 2024: Stand on a platform in Westminster in front of thirteen thousand farmers, drawing maximum national attention to the exact tax break you were supposedly hiding behind.

July 2025: Go down with TB. First calf ever born on the farm destroyed, pregnant with twins. Gate padlocked.

23 December 2025: Government retreats. The threshold goes from one million to two and a half. Five million for a couple.

March 2026: Farm declared clear.

July 2026: Drive four hundred miles to Scotland and buy more cows.

Eighteen years.

Planning law changed. Agricultural degree applications climbing. Cited in the Commons more times than most ministers manage. Half the estates that were going to be caught by the tax are no longer caught by it.

He was accused of buying a farm to dodge inheritance tax, and then spent eighteen months getting the relief raised for everybody else's.

Worst tax dodger in British history.

Best thing to happen to British farming in fifty years.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Just two legends who beat cancer and love farming.

[Ian Cone @conens46]

Yay!!

[FeelGoodThoughts @feelgoodtale]

A police officer stopped a young man's car and, upon checking it, realized that his driving license had expired.
The police officer asked him why he was driving with an expired license.
He answered:

«They just fired me from my night job, and the money I have is only enough for me to eat, pay rent, and my bills. I am from another state and I have come here to study at university. Plus, I have a job interview».

The police officer had the option of applying the law and prohibiting the young man from driving his car, but he decided to listen to his heart.
He parked his police vehicle, helped him tie his tie, got into the young man's car and accompanied him to the interview location.

They entered together. The police officer apologized and explained the reason for the young man's delay. They hired him!

The young man got the job and obtained a temporary driving license until he raised enough money to renew his license.

That's humanity!

[Easton Coleford | AI @ecoleai]

🚨 ELON MUSK JUST DROPPED THE TRUTH NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR 🚨

The guy who sends rockets to Mars, builds cars that drive themselves, and is creating the most powerful AI on the planet… just said something that'll chill you to the bone:

"I usually defend technology first… but I'll say it straight up:
THERE SHOULDN'T BE A SINGLE VOTING MACHINE IN EXISTENCE."
Period. No diplomacy. No filters.

Electronic ballot boxes aren't the future anymore.
They're an open door to total disaster.
With artificial intelligence growing at breakneck speed, any digital system can be hacked, manipulated, or controlled in silence.
No one would know… until the damage is already done.

This isn't a movie.
It's exactly what Musk sees coming.
And he's the only one with the guts to shout it in the world's face.
The only REAL way to protect elections is so simple it hurts:
✅ Paper ballot
✅ In-person voting
✅ Mandatory ID
Anything else is just handing power to whoever knows how to tweak some code.

Musk isn't some empty-speech politician.
He's the man who understands real technology the most in 2026.
And his message is brutal:
Either we go back to paper… or we lose control of democracy forever.
Don't wait until it's too late.
Share this NOW.
Demand paper ballots.
Demand in-person voting with ID.
Demand elections NO ONE can hack.

Your vote's future is on the line.
Today.

[CONSTITUTION X 🇺🇸 @ConstitustionX]

🚨 BREAKING: Nick Shirley just went FULL THROTTLE at the EPIC Islamic Center in Texas.
He showed up to film. Peacefully.
They didn’t debate him.
They didn’t welcome questions.
They hunted him down on their property and told him to get out.
A Muslim man follows him, pointing, demanding:
“Are you a Muslim?! This is NOT for you.”
Not “this is private property.”
Not “please stay on the sidewalk.”
Straight up: You’re not one of us. Leave.
Nick didn’t flinch. Camera rolling the entire time.
This isn’t a misunderstanding.
This is the mask slipping.
They built it. They control it.
And they just told America, on camera, that parts of Texas are off-limits unless you convert.
Cohabitation?
They just said the quiet part out loud.
Watch every second. This one is going to travel.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Everyone knows Washington, D.C.'s cherry blossoms came from Japan.

Almost nobody knows the story nearly ended in a bonfire.

In 1910, Tokyo sent 2,000 cherry trees to America as a gift.
Inspectors found them infested with insects.
President Taft ordered every single one burned.

Two thousand gifts. Ashes.

Imagine the diplomatic disaster. The wounded pride.

Here is what Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, actually did:

He apologized. For the condition of his own gift.
Then his city grew 3,020 new trees, healthier and finer,
grafted and inspected and perfect,
and sent them across the ocean again.

Not a word of resentment. Try again, properly.

Those are the trees you photograph every spring at the Tidal Basin.
Two of the 1912 originals are still standing.

But the story doesn't end there. It comes full circle.

The parent grove in Japan, on the banks of the Arakawa River,
was devastated during World War II.

So in 1952, America cut budwood from the Washington trees
and sent it back to Japan, to resurrect
the very grove the gift had come from.

When a flood damaged the Japanese trees again in 1982,
Washington sent more cuttings home.

Read that again.

The daughters of the burned gift saved their mothers.

Today the two rivers, the Potomac and the Arakawa,
are officially sister rivers.
Their trees carry each other's blood.

One hundred and fourteen years of two countries
quietly taking care of the same flowers.

That's what sincerity looks like
when you give it a century to bloom.

[The Epoch Times @EpochTimes]

🚨Texas Woman Arrested Over Facebook Post

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[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

At a public school board meeting in a quiet Ohio county, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of three stepped up to the microphone.

Her voice was calm. She opened a paperback book that she had pulled directly from the shelves of her ten-year-old daughter’s elementary school library.

She began reading the text out loud to the room:
Graphic, explicit descriptions of sexual acts and anatomical depictions written specifically for minors.

She didn't get through four sentences.

The school board president slammed his wooden gavel: "Stop! Cut her microphone! There are children present in this room! That language is inappropriate for a public forum!"

The mother looked at the silenced microphone, her face pale with righteous fury, and spoke with her raw, unamplified voice:
"If this book is too vile for adults to hear in a public meeting, why is it on the low shelf where my ten-year-old child can check it out without my permission?"

Two armed police officers stepped forward and escorted the mother out of the building.

Think about the sheer, upside-down insanity of that scene.
The school board allows the poison on the shelf for little children to read in private.
But the moment a mother reads that exact same poison out loud in front of the cameras, she is treated like a criminal and removed from the room.

They call parental oversight "book banning."
They call protecting children's innocence "extremism."

Look every mother and father in America in the eye and answer this:
When did school administrators decide that a parent’s natural right to protect their child’s mind is something to be silenced by security guards?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "Where did they find it?"

Activist: "Find it?"

Farmer: "The carbon. It was somewhere before it was in the cow. Where."

Activist: "In the grass, I suppose."

Farmer: "And the grass took it out of thin air in April. Nobody delivered it. Nothing was dug up for it."

Activist: "It's still ending up in the atmosphere."

Farmer: "It's going home. About twelve years and the methane's broken down back into what the grass borrowed in the first place."

Activist: "Then get rid of the cow and stop the whole thing."

Farmer: "The grass dies in October regardless. It rots in the field and the same carbon goes up out of the same acre, on its own, in the dark."

Activist: "That's not the same at all."

Farmer: "It is. One version of it puts a Sunday dinner in the middle."

Activist: "You're oversimplifying."

Farmer: "There's a hole in the ground in Yorkshire with carbon in it that hasn't seen daylight since before there were cows. That's the stuff you want. Mine was in the sky last Tuesday and it'll be back up there by Christmas."

Activist: "It's not that simple."

Farmer: "Borrowed and returned. If a circle's got you this worried, I'd keep away from rain."

[Carpenter Carpentry @carpenterpens]

Come get your new favorite pen!
Tonight on HSV Courthouse Square.
We will be across from Jimmy John’s.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Devastating: Francesca Hong Forced To Return Home And Spend Time With Her White Son https://t.co/SssiYCiEk2

[Farm Girl Carrie™️👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

How crazy is it, that Monty Python saw this coming before it actually came? 🤣