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[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

One of the highlights of the Warsh Fed has been watching stenographers posing as journalists, like the WSJ’s Nick Timiraos, reduced to reporting Fed backroom gossip because they’re incapable of performing real economic or monetary policy analysis without being spoon-fed.

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Family, help me give a BIG welcome to Orrin & Isabella of Canton, IL . These 2 amazing young leaders have stepped up to take on the 50 Yard Challenge, committing to mow 50 FREE lawns for the elderly, disabled, single parents, and veterans in their community

[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

Line to see @KenBurns this morning at the Chautauqua Institute. I am speaking here at the Chautauqua Institute today as well. Came here a lot as a kid my dad's best friend was Tony Merchant, @NatalieMerchant father, lived in Jamestown .
She played here last night! #Appalachia

[Father V @father_rmv]

The Blessed Martyrs of Nowogrodek were a group of Roman Catholic nuns belonging to the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth. They are also known as Blessed Mary Stella and her Ten Companions. These women lived and worked in the town of Nowogrodek, which at the time formed part of eastern Poland and is today known as Novogrudok in Belarus.

The sisters arrived in the town in 1929 at the invitation of the local bishop. They established themselves quietly among the people, teaching religion and practical skills, caring for the parish church, and supporting the community through prayer and simple acts of service. Over time they became deeply integrated into local life. Their peaceful routine was shattered by the successive occupations of the Second World War. First Soviet forces and later German forces brought repression, the systematic murder of the Jewish population, the killing of priests, and the arbitrary arrest of civilians.

In July 1943 more than one hundred local residents, many of them fathers of families, were seized by the Gestapo and scheduled for execution. The women of the town turned to the sisters and begged them to pray for the prisoners. After prayer and discussion the entire community of nuns offered their own lives to God in exchange for the release of those who had families to support. Their superior, Sister Maria Stella, conveyed this intention to the local pastor. Shortly afterward the plans for the prisoners were altered; some were released and others were sent to labor camps rather than being shot.

On the evening of 31 July 1943 the Gestapo summoned the eleven sisters to the police station. They spent the night in custody. The following morning, 1 August 1943, they were driven into the nearby woods, machine-gunned, and buried in a common grave. One sister who worked as a nurse in civilian clothes had been asked to remain behind to care for the church and the parish priest; she survived and later tended the martyrs’ grave in secret for many years.

The eleven women, ranging in age from twenty-six to fifty-four, died without resistance, having freely offered their lives so that others might live. Their remains were later recovered and now rest in the Church of the Transfiguration in Novogrudok. On 5 March 2000 Pope John Paul II declared them blessed, recognizing their deaths as true martyrdom. Their feast day is observed on 1 August, the anniversary of their execution. Their story continues to be remembered as an example of quiet fidelity, courage, and self-sacrifice in the face of totalitarian violence.

[Dr. Simone Gold @drsimonegold]

Fauci was wrong about virtually everything. We were right all along.

-Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine worked—safe, early treatments that were deliberately suppressed.

-Masks were theater, not science.

-Lockdowns caused far more harm than good.

-Remdesivir was, and remains, harmful.

-The mRNA injections carried serious risks that were never honestly disclosed.

-Six-foot “social distancing” was an arbitrary invention with no rigorous basis.

-PCR testing was massively overused and produced huge numbers of false positives that were treated as real infections.

-The case fatality rate for most people was low.

-COVID originated from the Wuhan lab, and NIH funding flowed into gain-of-function research there.

Fauci funded and defended that research while publicly denying it.

He lied to protect his position, his funding streams, and his power. He harmed ordinary Americans—patients, families, children—to advance his own money and control.

This man should face real accountability. Put the villain in prison.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Anthony Fauci is the perfect exemplar of why pride is the root of all of the seven deadly sins. He is swimming in an infinity pool of grandiosity and narcissism. His need for validation from the cool kids (Hollywood celebrities) was greater than his responsibilities as a public health officials. It is a tragic tale of astounding self-love.

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

The Harder They Fall….

The saga of Anthony Fauci is a now all too familiar example of narcissistic and bureaucratic insiders who start with a classic rise only to fall into utter destruction.

Think also John Bolton, James Comey, Jack Smith, and now Anthony Fauci.

Fueled by media flattery, and their over the top rhetoric, they posture as consummate “professionals.”

These egomaniacs convince themselves they are our untouchable defenders of the established Washingtonian order, as supposedly sober and judicious custodians of the government. And when warned where they are ultimately headed, and to tread lightly, they instead interpret such sound advice as the jealousy of the envious.

In the current decade that arrogance is best manifested as crusading against public enemy number one, Donald J. Trump.

So insidiously they up their Trump derangement rhetoric. They cite their titles and degrees as they vaingloriously skirt the law.

Finally drunk on leftwing media adulation, they delude themselves into believing that their megalomaniac behavior is exempt from any consequences.

And then what?

At the apex of their hubris, Nemesis strikes.

And they fall hard by their own overweening arrogance.

John Bolton could not just be content and thankful that he finally got a cabinet-level appointment without the need for Senate confirmation, and thus show some deference to his savior Donald Trump.

Instead, almost immediately like some rookie intern he began sending classified information over unsecure email—writing an on-the-job, tell-all book, timed to appear during the 2020 election and to sandbag his own president.

After all, who would dare to question much less cross the expert John Bolton as he rushed heading into felony convictions and self-implosion?

In 2016 FBI James Comey acted as if he was the godhead of American law enforcement.

As investigator, prosecutor, judge and jury he alone would adjudicate whether the classified document destroyer Hillary Clinton committed a felony.

Comey alone would launch a Steele-dossier witch hunt against Donald Trump, and crown himself the veritable arbiter of presidential elections.

And now?

His rendezvous with Nemesis rendered him a disgraced leaker and fired FBI director, claiming amnesia or ignorance 245 times under oath before a House committee.

Comey was finally reduced to the role of a social media pop philosopher. His final curtain call?

Comey was posting seashell “8647” infantile threats—and then denying as a former FBI Director that “86” had anything to with violent acts of expulsion.

Jack Smith was an obscure liberal fixture in DOJ circles for years—until he was coronated as special counsel—coincidentally three days after Trump, on November 15, 2022, announced he was running for president in 2024.

How strange that the same day, Letitia James was for some reason in the White House.

Nathan Wade, Fannie Willis’s paramour, was too, meeting with Biden’s White House counsel.

And on that day too Merrick Garland’s number three prosecutor Michael Colangelo (freshly hired from James’s prosecution team) announced he was leaving his billet, soon on spec to join Alvin Bragg’s lawfare.

The left began thinking Smith was godlike, a veritable new and improved Robert Mueller, similarly tasked with delivering the federal knock-out blow to Donald Trump.

Within months of his appointment, Smith became a holy crusader to the leftwing media.

That adulation and his hubris drove Smith to rush his absurd 44 indictments to get Trump as recklessly and quickly as possible—worried that Trump first might be elected and thus by Supreme Court case law immune as a sitting president from prosecution.

So the more the media deified him, the more maddened Smith became.

Smith finally was reduced to tapping the phone records of U.S. Senators and grabbing National Archive records of Trump’s text messaging, where he was surveying the private correspondence of more U.S. senators.

And now?

Nemesis reduced him from the heights of would-be Trump slayer to a failed, and unscrupulous prosecutor, omitting to report free and untaxed legal services from his own firm, abandoned by his media toadies, and soon to be facing criminal referrals.

You can add John Brennan, James Clapper, Mark Milley, and Robert Mueller to the same cast.

They too became intoxicated with government power, and believed they were divinely appointed to end Trump. And so they played out a Greek tragedy, consumed by hubris (overweening arrogance) that drove them to atê (mindless recklessness), only to end in Nemesis (cosmic retribution and destruction).

These egos never learned that the amoral leftwing media is a fickle flatterer (remember they even once deified the Stormy Daniels con artist and soon to be felon Michale Avenatti as presidential timber.)

These unelected legends in their own minds confuse their enormous government granted powers at their disposal as bureaucrats with some sort of regal right that will exempt them from any consequences of their lawless arrogance.

And so soon they lie under oath to Congress, or call up Chinese generals to warn them about their own president, or sign patently false affidavits attesting that the Hunter Biden laptop was the work of the Ruskies, or tap senatorial phones—or almost anything that would ensure their inevitable fall from grace and utter humiliation.

So too with the once celestial and now laughingstock Anthony Fauci (who once compared himself to Albert Einstein).

The common denominator?

The greater their arrogance, the harder they certainly fall.

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

Incredible opening by the historic Enoteca Pinchiorri in Florence, Italy 🇮🇹🍷

Of an extraordinary bottle of 1964 La Tâche from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti,

Using the red-hot tongs technique that snaps the neck of the bottle to avoid damage caused by the aged cork

[DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

Say what you want about the man, but Lindsey Graham served in Congress for 31 years under 5 different Presidents and only one of them had the decency to attended his funeral to show his respect.

President Trump and no one else.

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Family, help me give a BIG welcome to Andrew & Patrick of Southgate,Kentucky o. These 2 amazing young leaders have stepped up to take on the 50 Yard Challenge, committing to mow 50 FREE lawns for the elderly, disabled, single parents, and veterans in their community

[Natalie Winters @nataliegwinters]

Fauci in 2022: “I am very happy to testify before any congressional oversight committee.

I have nothing to hide. I can explain and validate everything that I’ve done.

I’m going to do what I need to do, and that is cooperate fully, because we have nothing to hide at all.”

[carpqueen @carpqueen]

@miles_commodore Yes w/ word number

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

We’re going to bring this heroic young man, and his family, into the White House with, perhaps, the boy he saved, to give him a High Civilian Honor. Very brave, he deserves it! President DONALD J. TRUMP

[Peachy Keenan @KeenanPeachy]

As everyone with a brain knows, the man who funded gain of function research at the WIV and created the Covid virus was also - incredibly, astonishingly - the same man put in charge of the "response," but he actually used that position of power to cover up, obfuscate, and hide the fact that he and he alone authored the pandemic.

He killed over 5 million people -- and blamed YOU for it if you didn't believe in masks (he didn't either).

And he's spent less time in prison than Martha Stewart.

[Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich]

While you were forced to let your grandparents and loved ones die alone in hospitals and nursing homes - or be away from your wife while she gave birth - members of the media were dining with Dr. Fauci. They knew there was a double standard and didn't care.

[Natalie Winters @nataliegwinters]

REVEALED: Here Are the Mainstream Journalists on China’s Payroll 🚨

I exclusively uncovered the identities of prominent U.S. journalists flown to China by a CCP-linked influence operation seeking “favorable coverage” and “positive messages” about Beijing. 🧵

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Leo of Bonduel , Wisconsin who is taking part in our 50 yard challenge is back in action . This is lawn 49 . 1 more left ! This was for a hero, a veteran !

[carpqueen @carpqueen]

@idahobeef CowLicky

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@BuzzPatterson Judy Collins

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Nathan, David & Sakari of Omaha,Nebraska who are taking part in our 50 yard challenge, mowed a new lawn .