Meg In The Middle

Middle. Believe in less government in my life all around- body, sex, health.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Olive Garden implemented the SAVE America Act more quickly than the US Senate.

[Trumps Nephew @ForgiatoBlow47]

Below is a list of people that did not receive AID from the American taxpayers.

1. Americans

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

.@nickshirleyy and @JamesOKeefeIII testified before the HSGAC with hard evidence of fraudsters stealing from hardworking taxpayers. Not one Democrat stuck around to hear it. That tells you everything about who actually wants the truth and who'd rather look away.

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[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

🚨 Data Centers in Ohio are preparing to discharge their water usage directly into lakes and streams and the EPA is working on permits to let them do it

“The Ohio EPA is drafting permits to let that wastewater flow straight into our lakes and streams. Five year permits, no guarantee of a sewage treatment plant on site, just straight into the river if that's what's nearby”

This is very real, the EPA is actually doing this, and there are real concerns:

Concerns raised by residents include

- Thermal pollution: Hot water can harm aquatic life.
- Chemicals: Potential for biocides, metals, or other additives.
- Massive withdrawals and discharges of water strain local water bodies, especially during droughts
- Environmental groups like Great Lakes groups warn of risks to drinking water, recreation and ecosystems

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

As a writer, it is becoming increasingly difficult to cover the WNBA with the distance the job requires.

That is not something I say lightly.

Any serious writer understands the responsibility of separating observation from emotion, evidence from outrage, and analysis from personal bias. But Cathy Engelbert and the WNBA are making that separation harder by the day.

The latest example is almost impossible to defend.

The commissioner released a statement that appeared far more concerned with protecting the image of Caitlin Clark’s attacker than addressing what happened to Caitlin Clark herself... a star player who was throat punched, kneed, and trampled in a sequence that had very nothing to do with basketball.

At some point, silence becomes its own statement.

At some point, selective outrage becomes evidence.

And at some point, the refusal to protect the league’s most important player stops looking like incompetence and starts looking intentional.

Caitlin Clark did not enter the WNBA asking to be a symbol. She came to play basketball. She came to compete. She came to join a league filled with players she once admired.

Instead, she has been asked to endure a level of hostility that no professional organization should tolerate.

The physical play is only part of the issue.

The larger failure is institutional.

The league has failed her. The Fever have failed her. Too many players have failed her. And now the commissioner has failed her publicly.

The next few days will be telling.

At a bare minimum, the Fever organization, its coaches, and its players should publicly support Caitlin Clark and make clear that what happened to her should never be normalized.

They do not need to attack anyone.

They do not need to escalate the controversy.

But they do need to stand beside their teammate.

Because if they do not, it becomes increasingly difficult to see a healthy path forward for Clark in a league where she is asked to absorb repeated physical punishment, public minimization, and institutional silence without visible support from the people closest to her professionally.

There is also a human element here that should not be ignored.

Clark is not just a basketball asset.

She is someone’s daughter.

Someone’s sister.

Someone’s friend.

And at some point, the people around her... family, representatives, sponsors, and trusted advisors... may need to ask whether any amount of money, fame, or professional opportunity is worth this level of physical and emotional strain.

Basketball is supposed to be demanding.

It is not supposed to be dehumanizing.

Clark has handled it with grace. That should be acknowledged.

But grace should not be required in the face of repeated mistreatment.

There comes a point when asking a young athlete to keep absorbing the blows... physical, public, and psychological... becomes indefensible.

For months, I dismissed calls for outside intervention as excessive.

I no longer feel that way.

If the WNBA cannot protect its own players fairly, then perhaps it is time for someone outside the league to ask why.

Fans, media members, former players, abuse survivors, and anyone who cares about basic fairness should speak up.

This is no longer just about basketball.

It is about workplace protection.

It is about institutional accountability.

It is about whether a professional league can allow one of its employees to be targeted, minimized, and publicly abandoned without consequence.

The WNBA does not need another statement.

It needs accountability.

And it needs it now.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just proved that ownership in America is a legal fiction.

Musk: “You get taxed on what you earn, you get taxed on what you buy, and you get taxed on what you own.”

Think about what property tax actually means.

You worked for decades. Paid it off in full. The deed is in your name.

Stop paying the government its annual fee. Watch them take it and sell it to someone who will.

You never owned that house. You were leasing it from an entity you never signed a contract with.

Income tax tells the same truth in softer packaging.

The government does not take a portion of your earnings. They decide how much of your own labor you are permitted to keep.

That is not semantics. It is a confession of who the system believes your time belongs to first.

Sales tax buries itself in the receipt. Two people exchange value voluntarily. A third party who contributed nothing takes a cut simply for allowing it to happen.

Now stack all three.

Taxed when you create. Taxed when you spend. Taxed when you hold. Taxed again when you die and try to pass it to your children.

At no point in that cycle does the system recognize your output as yours.

Because money is not an abstraction. It is crystallized human lifespan.

Every dollar taxed is an hour you already lived, already bled for, already gone.

The state is not managing an economy. It is claiming dominion over time you will never get back.

And spending it on systems you never asked for and actively oppose.

The institution extracting all of it faces zero obligation to perform. A contractor who delivers nothing gets fired. A bureaucracy that burns through trillions gets a budget increase the next fiscal year.

SpaceX pays taxes to the agencies that obstruct its launches. Tesla funds the regulators drafting rules to shield its competitors.

The builders are not subsidizing government. They are financing their own friction.

The tax code is 74,000 pages long. Not because the economy demands it. Because the extraction had to be buried in enough complexity that you would stop asking who it was designed to protect.

The past belonged to the people who taxed the world.

The future belongs to the people who build it.

[Brandon Fugal @BrandonFugal]

I find it interesting that there appears to be a total media blackout & suppression pattern regarding Fauci & the recent official Tulsi Gabbard ODNI releases with new communications, emails, and notes (NOT fringe claims) challenging Fauci's sworn statements, raising serious questions on funding, COVID origins & transparency. CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, NYT, & Washington Post: No prime-time segments, front-page treatments, or in-depth reporting in available searches & transcripts.

[Congressman Randy Fine @RepFine]

Guess we know how many illegals are registered now.

[Chris Masterjohn @ChrisMasterjohn]

If Fauci was an intelligence agent and lied about it under oath, that doesn’t just incriminate him on COVID.

It potentially questions his entire legacy:

1) He single-handedly suppressed everything controversial about AIDS.

2) He presided over the massive explosion of the vaccine schedule.

3) His arch-nemesis was the inventor of PCR who won the Nobel prize for it and who maintained that Fauci’s pioneering of using it to diagnose infectious disease was a completely illegitimate farce.

4) He consolidated NIH funding into a highly controlled good-ol-boys network which is part of how the incentive structure of academic science became completely perverted to emphasize institutional power and towing the line over scientific curiosity.

5) Asthma, allergies, and autoimmune diseases exploded under his leadership.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Harvesting just one kidney from 20% of America’s politicians would give a new kidney to EVERY SINGLE PERSON currently on the transplant waiting list.

[Meg In The Middle @mcaldwell123]

@itsharmanjot This is such valuable information!! Thanks.

[Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza]

Notice how socialists never talk about seizing the wealth of George Soros or any of the other multi-billionaires who bankroll their operations. They would be praising Elon to the sky, and vigorously protecting his wealth, if he were politically on their side.

[Ivory Hecker @IvoryHecker]

Five years ago today I called out Fox Corp live on air, then did several independent reports on how they’d become compromised:

⚫️Fox had threatened to fire me for covering the story they assigned me to cover, all because the true narrative was different from the “safe” narrative they had anticipated.

⚫️The true narrative was that four times more lives were being saved at a hospital that used a COVID treatment protocol that the CDC/FDA recommended against using.

⚫️Fox had been pushing its reporters to only tell people to do what the CDC/FDA said to do, rather than pursuing journalism which is: Go out and see what people are actually doing and cover what’s actually working and not working.

⚫️So when Fox sent me to a hospital to cover COVID treatment, they expected me to report the copy/paste version of what CDC/FDA said to tell people was happening.

⚫️When I adhered to journalism and covered what was actually happening there, Fox issued a letter for my files, lying about me, threatening to fire me, and they put me on a social media blackout—no posting anything unless it is “safe news” approved by management before the post.

⚫️All because I approached a COVID story the same way I approached crime stories: Go out there, be curious, ask the people’s questions, report what’s actually happening.

⚫️When Fox crossed the line and later sent their HR lady in Atlanta after me to tell me standing up for free speech is not something I’m allowed to do, I knew it was time to leave that compromised company. (I’ve posted all the receipts from this showdown in the past and still have more receipts I haven’t posted.)

⚫️I left the company and then found out there were Fox Corp employees all over the nation going through similar stories. I heard from staff at other news companies—ABC, CBS, etc.—with very similar stories.

⚫️It was much easier for me to leave and sound the alarm as a single girl who didn’t have a family to provide for. My heart goes out to those who have not left and are still within the compromised machine at news companies across the country.

⚫️May you find a way to take a stand, even if from the inside. Never compromise your conscience. Take a stand—even a small one—and God will protect you. Life’s too short not to.

⚫️We’re not in the pandemic anymore, but there are countless news stories where the corporations just don’t have the spine to tell the truth, and they’re ready to persecute their reporters for sticking with journalism.

⚫️Yes, COVID treatment was not the only story Fox was compromised on. I went on to cover how they hid anomalies related to elections to help viewers believe elections are always perfect. I covered how they acted as a PR team for vaccine companies rather than seeking answers to their viewers’ concerns about them. And I covered how they used crime coverage to deceptively pit races against each other in an effort to increase ratings.

⚫️I thank @JamesOKeefeIII and @Project_Veritas from the bottom of my heart for picking up my story and sending it so viral. I do believe it made at least a small difference in challenging news outlets to get back to honesty over “safety.”

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

The biggest scandal isn't just what happened during COVID.

It's that six years later, the evidence continues to emerge while many in government and the media still refuse to confront it.

I've spent years following the money and exposing the truth. The American people deserve answers and accountability.

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

The revelations six years later are pouring out so quickly that it is impossible to keep up much less mentally process all this:

* The Director of National Intelligence has documented 120 US-funded/owned biolabs in 30 countries many of which are manufacturing and manipulating infectious diseases.

* Senator Rand Paul's committee has released the receipts concerning US funding/backing of the manufactured SARS-CoV-2 virus/vaccine as part of this program.

* Senator Johnson has produced definitive evidence that US public health agencies knew of the grave dangers of the shot to everyone but said nothing.

* Many officials are privately admitting/proving that the whole point of lockdowns was to preserve population immunity for the shot and block other avenues toward wellness.

* Hardly any of this makes the national news and one wonders if the public mind has any awareness at all.

[Mandy @MarindaVannoy1]

Can someone please explain it to me like I'm five, why members of Congress are more upset that Elon became a trillionaire than they are that Somalis have defrauded our government out of hundreds of billions of dollars?

[U.S. National Intelligence @ODNIgov]

🧵 Here is the TRUTH: Dangerous gain-of-function research was funded by the U.S. government around the world, directed and approved by people like Dr Fauci. @DNIGabbard exposed that yesterday.

Using U.S. government data, put together and uncovered by career subject matter experts in the Intelligence Community and other government agencies, yesterday’s release highlighted one example of the many overseas biolabs funded by the U.S., the research conducted there, and the significant risks they pose to the world, especially when located in a country at war.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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[Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 @JasonJournoDC]

💥NEW: Stephen A. Smith: “I would give anything to be able to say something definitively in Karmelo Anthony’s defense. If there was a shred of innocence to the incident itself, I would say so. I don’t want to see another black young man going to jail.”

“But I don’t give a d*mn about what your race or ethnicity is. Just because you’re white and young doesn’t mean you deserve to be m*rdered. And just because you’re black and young … doesn’t give you a license to m*rder someone.”

“That’s what happened.”

[Brad Gerstner @altcap]

You are smarter than this Ro. Imagine if Bernie had taxed @elonmusk 100% on his PayPal capital gains. We would have no @Tesla or @SpaceX - none of those jobs or GDP. Who do you think allocated the capital better for society? He will already pay $100 B + in taxes - more than any human ever. I hope he donates some to kids via @TrumpAccounts to make every kid a shareholder in 🇺🇸 & continues investing all his heart, soul & money for the benefit of America & all humanity! 🇺🇸🚀🤍