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Lover of hillbilly jazz. Working on conquering the fiddle. Appreciate clever thought and design. Praying our democracy survives TFG.

[Amazing Nature @AmazingNature00]

“The result is a miracle.”😲

[Viral Reel Addict @ViralReelAddict]

Fact 💯

Hunter Biden on Elon Musk:

“You’ve got some motherf-cker who’s made over $251 billion being a United States citizen, that got here and stayed here illegally before he got his citizenship, sitting here lecturing us on who we should allow into the US”

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In the 1990s, Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard made a groundbreaking discovery that challenged everything we thought we knew about how forests work. While studying managed forests in British Columbia, she noticed something puzzling: when birch trees were removed to promote the growth of valuable Douglas firs, the firs did not flourish as expected, they actually struggled and grew more slowly.

Determined to understand why, Simard traced the movement of nutrients using radioactive carbon isotopes. What she found was astonishing. Trees were actively sharing resources through vast underground fungal networks known as mycorrhizae. These delicate, thread-like fungi connect the roots of different trees across the forest floor, forming a complex web that allows the exchange of carbon, water, nutrients, and even chemical signals, sometimes between entirely different species.

She discovered that older, larger trees often serve as central "hubs" or "mother trees," supporting younger saplings by redistributing vital resources and helping the entire ecosystem remain resilient. When these key trees are removed, the underground network weakens, and the health of the remaining forest declines.

Simard’s research overturned the traditional Darwinian view of forests as battlegrounds of ruthless competition. Instead, she revealed a far more sophisticated reality: forests operate as highly cooperative systems where trees communicate, support one another, and even warn neighboring trees about threats like drought, disease, or insect attacks.

What appears to the human eye as a silent, still forest is, in truth, a vibrant, interconnected living network, built not on isolation and rivalry, but on deep connection and mutual aid.

[christine @christi91823779]

@sarrah_bellus

[Viral Reel Addict @ViralReelAddict]

A sitting congressman said this on the record. 👇

Ted Lieu on camera: "The Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped children."

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

The sitting president of the United States had his bank accounts closed for money laundering and it's barely making the news.

[Paul Jacobs @PaulJacobsMedia]

As Trump and Rogers try to define @AbdulElSayed as a scary terrorist, here's what might be the ad of the year.
And if you know where Livingston County is, it is a far exurb of Detroit - a swing district (actually, it's more Republican).
I wonder if the national news media will show this ad since it helps to begin to break the stereotypes about Abdul
@MSNOWNews @ScarboroughNow @CNN @brianstelter @FoxNews @nytimes @DeanObeidallah

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

What a masterpiece!!!

[Ed Lettis 🌻 @edbobgreen]

@byHeatherLong

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

“Trump allowed DOGE to dismantle the U.S. Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in the early days of his second term because Elon Musk helped get him elected - and now Iranian hackers are attacking our nation’s water supply and Trump blames it on Minnesota, instead of acknowledging the threat and protecting the American people.

POTUS did this while sitting next to Minnesota native son, Pete Hegseth, who did nothing to defend his home state or correct the Commander-in-Chief when his own government officials and F.B.I. had already admitted it was the work of Iranian-backed hackers.

Pilsner Pete sat there and smugly let him lie, another awful act in an ignoble tenure as Defense Secretary, making it painfully obvious to all why we are losing this war: he’s all hair gel, no heroics.

The kind of coward who would rather do bicep curls in the mirror of an air-conditioned gym than stand up to a real threat that is right in front of him.
Or protect the troops he was appointed to serve. The flag is merely a pocket square to men like Hegseth; a symbol, not something sacred. His patriotism is performative and designed to polish an allegiance with Trump, and cover for his own demons and inadequacies by being a caricature of the modern MAGA military man.

He has abused the military and led them to commit multiple war crimes, including the ongoing murder of the poor souls who find themselves on fishing vessels off the coast of South America, leading to the executions of at least 221 innocent people.

An Ecuadorean prosecutor, Gloria Alexandra Bravo Cedeño, who was actively investigating the U.S. military drone and boat strikes in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean, was also killed by a hitman on a motorcycle in June.

I have no doubt that there is a shadow paramilitary force backing up much of the actions of our nation’s new ‘warfighter’ imperialistic stance.
This would be nothing new for us, especially when it comes to Latin America.

What do you think the reaction of those who wish to do us harm is when they see such immature and feckless leadership from the President of the United States? The self-dealing and surreptitious side hustles? The sadism mixed with a sanctimonious Christofascist agenda?”https://t.co/2QqvFejhRM

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

25th Amendment.👇

[Linda Hill @bulldoghill]

At 9:23 this morning, the White House abruptly dismissed the press traveling with the president of the United States while he was away for the weekend at his private golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. With the cameras now gone, just three hours later at 12:32 p.m., Donald Trump would share the first of 42 posts on Truth Social in a span of less than 3 hours and 15 minutes. The president’s public meltdown began when he posted his disappointment with one of his appointees, “I don’t know what she was thinking?” before he jumped straight into more delusional and dangerous images. Among the flood of posts, he shared an AI-generated image of himself kissing Jesus on a golden crucifix. He shared a “TRUMP 2028” campaign poster, a fake image of himself walking beside a handcuffed alien on a military base, and a renewed threat to invade Greenland.

He didn’t stop there. He posted a painting of himself as the commanding general, leading Revolutionary War soldiers into battle with his mouth open in a battle cry, while flames consumed the battlefield behind him, and a battered American flag flew overhead. This is how he sees himself. Not as a president spending the weekend at his golf course, but as a warrior king leading his nation into battle, one he would have never had the courage to actually fight in. That fantasy is not harmless, because right now he is leading us deeper into a real war where real people have died.

He also shared a fake image of his face merged with President George Washington’s, split straight down the middle, under the words “250 Years / In God We Trust.” It was a deliberate attempt to place himself alongside the founder of the American republic. Because he sees himself as his equal and inseparable from the nation itself. He’s saying he is Washington and he is the republic.

He posted a map of South America with Venezuela filled in as an American flag and labeled “51st State.” He shared an actual photograph of himself stepping out of a golf cart, hunched forward, a white USA hat in his hand, looking every single day of his eighty years, but with the caption “President Trump ages in reverse!”

Then there was the created image of himself as Elvis Presley in his iconic white rhinestone jumpsuit, with a deep V-neck and with his chest exposed, and a bald eagle embroidered across his heart. In it, Trump, masquerading as Elvis, stands in front of a microphone as though he is about to perform for a waiting crowd. And I couldn’t help but think about the irony of Trump choosing Elvis in this moment, knowing that he spent his final years overmedicated and isolated, surrounded by enablers who told him what he wanted to hear while his body and mind deteriorated. And how Elvis died alone in a bathroom at Graceland while the people closest to him pretended everything was fine. If Trump was trying to choose a metaphor for where he is right now, he could not have picked a more accurate one.

He just kept going. He posted an image of himself as a young man in a military school uniform, seated across a table from present-day Trump, with the caption “Same Guy. Even more energy now!” Present-day Trump is staring adorably at younger Trump. But what the image actually shows is the distance between who he was and who he has become. The young man in the uniform is upright, sharp, but not too far away from bone spurs and draft deferments. The man sitting across from him is eighty years old, and struggling. The fact that he felt compelled to post this, to insist publicly that nothing has changed, tells us everything about what he is afraid of. People who are fine do not need to prove they are fine. People who are declining do.

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

anti-money laundering team

[Josh Rogin @joshrogin]

“An indictment filed Wednesday alleges a media company linked to six conservative influencers — including well-known personalities Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson — was secretly funded by Russian state media employees to churn out English-language videos that were “often consistent” with the Kremlin’s “interest in amplifying U.S. domestic divisions in order to weaken U.S. opposition” to Russian interests, like its war in Ukraine.”

The kindest analysis is that these guys were Useful Idiots. Also very possible they knew they were being paid to spread Russian propaganda. Either way, a total disgrace. They should give the money back.

@RubinReport @Timcast @bennyjohnson

[Jesse Livermore @Jesse_Livermore]

Hard to even process -- a president selling market-moving information to banks and wealthy investors in advance of everyone else, and personally pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars from it. This alone is more worthy of impeachment than 100 Watergate cover-ups.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇷🇺Russia is a terrorist state!

Yes or No?

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Anthropologist Margaret Mead was once asked by a student what she believed was the very first sign of known civilization. The student expected her to talk about a hatchet, perhaps fishhooks, the bow and arrow...

Possibly a building structure, clay pots or grinding stones and knives.

But no.

Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a thighbone that had been broken and then healed.

Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, your timely death is assured.

"You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal."

A broken thighbone that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery.

"Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts." Mead said.

We are at our very best when we truly help and serve others.

Be civilized. Be kind. Be helpful