Jeannie Patch

proud boy mom/development researcher/MLIS grad. fan of libraries, technology, sports, music, kids, animals, HGTV, Brits, chai tea & FUN!

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🫡 Pompeo 2028

[Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo]

I want to thank the IDF, Mossad and Israel for killing the Hezbollah leaders who have killed so many Americans. Tough, dirty work. America and the world are safer because of your sacrifices.

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@TheMaineWire Get the EPA in there and fine Bangor for every day they enable this unhealthy situation! Is this not pollution⁉️☢️🚨

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@LBC 🗣️Hypocrite‼️

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𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦

Jeremy Clarkson has never pretended to be anything other than exactly what he is

Brutally honest. No oil painting. A pot belly, a lifelong smoker, a drinker. Not exactly the modern alpha male or is he?

And somehow that is the whole point

I have watched him for most of my life
First as a motoring journalist who could make you want a car you would never own and never need
Then as something bigger
The loudest, funniest, most unfiltered mouthpiece the ordinary person ever had
A man who said the thing everyone was thinking while the rest of television tiptoed around it

From Top Gear he built something that should not have worked
Three middle aged men, The Stig, a track and a chemistry you cannot manufacture
James May the patient one
Richard Hammond the brave one
And Clarkson the force of nature dragging both of them into chaos and somehow back out again

When it all fell apart at the BBC he could have disappeared
The fracas was not his finest hour and he never pretended it was
He owned it, apologized and carried on
No reinvention, no groveling tour, no carefully managed comeback
He just kept being himself and let the work speak

The move to Amazon and The Grand Tour proved something I think a lot of people missed
The format was never the magic
The men were
You can take three friends out of a studio and drop them anywhere on earth and the loyalty between them travels with them

But it is Clarkson's Farm where the whole picture finally comes into focus

Here is a man with nothing left to prove walking into a field he barely understands and refusing to fake competence he does not have
He has run that farm at break even and then at an outright loss in full public view
No editing it into a success story
No pretending the numbers work when they do not
His farm manager hands him one brutal truth after another and he sits there and takes it

A whole season swallowed by drought even after he leaned into robotics and the most advanced farming money could buy
Technology was supposed to be the answer and the weather did not care
He showed that too
Most people would have cut it

And through all of it he has done something quietly remarkable
He has dragged the plight of the British farmer into the light
The paperwork, the council, the margins that vanish, the weather that ruins a year of work in a week
People who had never thought about where their food comes from suddenly cared because he made them care

And then there is the part nobody warned me about
Men who raise animals for meat and still love them
Who name them, worry about them, sit with them
Who treat them with respect and dignity right up to the moment they cannot keep them
And feel the full weight of sending them off

He does not hide that
He lets the camera sit in the discomfort of it
The grief of a man who knows the deal he made and still finds it hard

That is not weakness
That is honesty most people are far too afraid to show

We live in an age that rewards the polished, the curated, the carefully built personal brand
And here is a scruffy, swearing, chain smoking farmer who has done the opposite of all of it and won
He stayed exactly who he was while the world begged him to become a product

That is the whole secret
There is no act
There never was

And that is exactly why we keep watching

Praying for a full recovery mate, looking forward to another season of Clarkson's Farms!

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A huge congratulations to @CasperRuud98 & Maria on their marriage 💒

We wish you all the happiness in the world ♥️

Photo credit: Eline Jacobine 📸

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Alex Eala after beating Elena Rybakina in Berlin

Petkovic: “Who did you call on the phone right now?”

Alex: “I called my dad. I don’t know. I said ‘Oh my God.’ We were just screaming. 😂 My mom was there too. I’m really happy. I’m a little foggy right now. I think I’m still shaking. I was shaking on match point. I’m really happy with today. It could’ve gone either way. There were really tight moments in both sets. Of course she’s an amazing player. She’s the one to beat. I’m happy to have been able to share the court with her again.” ❤️

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@DisneyPlusHelp “Some users” 🙋🏻‍♀️ You just billed me today 🫠

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@status_is_down Yes I am! And they just billed me today 😡

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@realfromearth @TheMaineWire Surely there’s a 🇺🇸 on Hannibal Hamlin Hall? 🫡

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@TheMaineWire @UMaine your alumni and donors would like a word: Surely there’s a 🇺🇸 in this building?! 🤨 Giving you the benefit of a doubt 🐻💙

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@itsfoxyjohn @TheTennisTalker In doubles only, mate!

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@TheTennisTalker 🗣️Dan Evans‼️

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@josemorgado Poor Korda: it’s hard on the back caddying for your sister! 😢⛳️🏌️‍♀️

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@prestondawkins @josemorgado Maybe he’s caddying for his sister? 🤔⛳️🏌️‍♀️

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@pavyg Always thought he was a weirdo! The dynamic with his daddy is not healthy…and his tennis shows! I almost forgot he plays tennis 😒

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@KingAlfred88 @JakeWSimons Super majority? Who’s that: you and your 310 followers? 🤡🥴

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@GarboLeftists @JakeWSimons Rubio 2028🇺🇸

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@JakeWSimons I heard he just published a new book: Hillbilly Eulogy 🫠

[Matthew Feinberg @thewebbie]

An Israeli friend that wishes to remain anonymous wrote this. Please share.

The Letter Israel’s Prime Minister Cannot Write

Mr. President of the United States,

There are things the Prime Minister of Israel cannot say to you.
He’s bound by diplomacy.
He’s committed to alliances.
He must measure every word.

I, on the other hand, am not restricted by these things.

I write to you as an Israeli citizen who happens to also be an American.
As a former soldier whose friends have children who are also active soldiers.
As a someone with strong roots in the north.
As a person who lived in a country that has buried soldiers, children, families, neighbors, and friends, and still stands tall.

And therefore, Mr. President, when you speak about Israel as if it owes you its very existence, perhaps it is time to bring you back down to earth.

Israel did not begin with Donald Trump.

Israel was not born in the White House.
Israel was not established because of a tweet, a speech, a deal, or a press conference.

Israel was built from the blood of generations.
From pioneers who buried children and kept plowing.
From fighters who fell so others could live.
From mothers who waited for sons who never returned.
From families who were burned, slaughtered, expelled, returned, and built a home here.

So, thank you for your support.
Thank you for your friendship.
Thank you for the moments when you stood beside us.
But do not be confused.

You did not save Israel.
Israel is saved every day by the soldiers of the IDF, the intelligence services, the security forces, the citizens who remain dedicated to living on the borders, and this people that refuses to disappear.

And then you tell the world that a Syrian rebel leader turned president can deal with Hezbollah better than Israel.

Really?

If what you mean is that he can do what Israel will never do, slaughter without warning, erase without checking, turn an entire village into a “security solution,” then yes, he is probably faster. Barbarians always work quickly. They do not pause for morality, for children, for uninvolved civilians, or for conscience.

But do not call that victory. And do not compare that to the IDF.

Because the Israel Defense Forces does not need a lesson in security from someone who mainly knows the language of blood & violence.

The Jewish people do not need permission to exist from any leader in the world.

Mr. President,
In the north of Israel, there is no “theoretical”.
No committees.
No PR headlines.

There are empty homes.
There are children who have not returned to their childhoods.
There are communities that have lived for years under threat.
There are families who received a knock at the door.
There are soldiers who fell so Northern towns can live.

And when you say “enough,” when you speak as though this can be wrapped up because it interferes with your agenda, you are not talking about some place on a map.

You are talking about our home.

Israel values alliances.
Israel knows how to say thank you.
Israel does not forget who stood by its side.

But Israel is not a puppet state.
It does not wait for permission to defend its children.
It will not abandon its border because it is convenient for Washington.
And it will not apologize for refusing to die quietly.

Mr. President,

Perhaps you have grown accustomed to thinking that everything begins and ends with
you.

It does not.

The people of Israel were here before you.
The State of Israel will be here after you.
And our north will not be a playing card in your game.

If you think you can explain to us who will guard our home better than our own children, then perhaps you truly have lost your north.

We have not.

And we do not intend to leave or lose the north no matter what you say!