maura barnes

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

Dont let go of the family at the center of yesterday's Supreme Court property tax ruling.

In 1991, Scott Pung bought a small three-bedroom home on half an acre for his wife and two children. It was their family home. When Scott died in 2004, his wife stayed there. When she died in 2008, their son and his family stayed. Same home, same family, more than two decades.

The whole time, it was their primary residence, taxed at the lower rate Michigan gives a family home. Then in 2010 an assessor decided, wrongly, that they should be taxed as if it were a second home. The family took it to court and won. The tribunal ruled they did not owe it.

The assessor's response, in her own words about the judge who ruled for the family: "I don't care what he says." She imposed the tax again. She left it off the original bill and added it later. When the family came in to pay, they brought a driver's license to prove it was their home, and paid what they actually owed.

It did not matter. Over roughly $2,242 that they did not owe and had already beaten in court, the county foreclosed. A trial court tried to give the home back over a notice failure. The county appealed to stop that. In 2018, after 27 years, the family permanently lost the home Scott Pung bought in 1991.

This is what the property tax can do. Not in theory. To a real family, over a bill that was never owed, because one official decided she did not care what the court said. And the Supreme Court said the Constitution will not make that family whole.

I reached out to the Pung family, and they gave me their blessing to share their story and this photo. My thanks to them, and my respect for the fight they carried all the way to the highest court in the land. It will help families they will never meet.

This is exactly why we are working to end the tax that made it possible.

Photo of Marc and Tia Pung at the U.S. Supreme Court, shared with their permission.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Imprisoned fathers at Angola Prison spend Father's Day outside of prison with their sons, thanks to Christian organization 'God Behind Bars.'

For some fathers, it was the first time they had ever spent a whole day with their sons.

62 boys got to fish, play sports, and BBQ with their dads, many for the first time.

"Each dad wrote his son a personal letter and handed him a Bible to take home. Words of love, apology, hope, faith, and legacy were shared face to face..." the organization said.

Awesome.

[YourFavoriteGuy @guychristensen_]

The average Roman didn’t know their empire collapsed they just noticed their roads stopped being repaired one day.

[General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn]

ARREST ANTHONY FAUCI!

If you believe you should get involved and you should, please REPOST this.

I am tired of waiting for "someone" to hold FAUCI accountable!

We The People can all file a complaint against his license. It’s fast, it’s free and all complaints must be investigated.

Please read this short missive below and please consider reposting.

Thank you @DNIGabbard

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

Maturing is realizing why he stood in front of the fox

[Jack Straw @JackStr42679640]

The most dangerous 77 seconds ever recorded by a psychiatrist just broke containment again.

Thomas Szasz, the man the entire profession tried to erase, looked straight into the camera and said:

“We do not have an epidemic of mental illness.
We have an epidemic of psychiatry.”

Too fat → illness
Too thin → illness
Too happy, too sad, too much sex, too little sex → all illnesses

No free will, no responsibility left — only “chemical imbalances” fixed by products you can advertise on TV while alcohol cannot.

This forgotten 1:17 clip is now exploding across every timeline for a reason.

Jacob

[Mr. Nobody @MmisterNobody]

In 1990, they removed beef tallow from our food.

In 2026, they’re selling it back to us for $24 a jar at Whole Foods.

The cow never changed.

The middleman did.

[maura barnes @misshell35]

@timburchett My neck of the woods

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

This needs to be turned into a Hollywood film

[Noodles @criptopaul]

Let's decode what actually happened here.

Axios reported that Trump exploded at Netanyahu. Called him "fucking crazy." Said "you'd be in prison if it weren't for me." Said "everybody hates you now."

The journalist is Barak Ravid again, we talked about it. Israeli. Based in Washington. Covers the Netanyahu-US relationship for Axios, and every latest deals to calm the markets.

This is the same journalist who wrote the exact same type of story about Biden. There is literally a book chapter about this pattern. It is called "Fuming Biden." The same reporter. The same format. The same function. Different president.

Now watch the response.

Mark Levin, a close ally of both Trump and Netanyahu, did not deny the story. He demanded an FBI investigation into who leaked it. When your defense is "this should never have leaked" instead of "this never happened," you have confirmed the call happened.

But here is the part that matters.

Why would Levin, a friend to BOTH men, confirm the most explosive account of their relationship ever published?

Because it serves both.

Trump gets to look tough. Not Netanyahu's puppet. Willing to put Israel in its place. His base loves it.

Netanyahu gets cover. He "paused" the Beirut strike, but not because Iran threatened him. Because his "friend" asked him to. His base loves it too.

And look at what actually changed on the ground. Nothing.

Israel cancelled the Beirut strike. But the ground invasion of Lebanon continues. The IDF is still miles deep. A soldier died today from a Hezbollah drone. Netanyahu's office said: "position unchanged."

The performance was perfect. Trump gets the headline. Netanyahu gets the cover. The deal gets another 48 hours of "progress." Markets get a reason to breathe.

And the war continues exactly as planned.

This is the same playbook. Every time public opinion turns against the war, a story appears showing the US president is "furious" with Israel. It creates the illusion of restraint while changing nothing.

Biden was "furious" for 14 months. The war never stopped.

Trump is "furious" now. The ground invasion is expanding.

The visible game is: Trump controls Netanyahu.
The real game is: both men are performing for their audiences while the machine moves forward.

Nothing has been signed. Nothing has stopped. The war is not winding down. It is being managed.

Neither one controls the other. They walk arm in arm. Know that.

[Ayanokoji @layeee09]

Le vieux du quartier m’a dit : « N’oublie pas que la boussole a été inventée avant l’horloge parce que la direction est plus importante que le temps. »

[Ele 🌻 @elenadesaa1999]

Cuando Virgina Woolf dijo: “Hay una especie de tristeza que surge cuando se sabe demasiado, cuando se ve el mundo como realmente es” describió perfecto lo que significa crecer.

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

Stop what you are doing and read this.
And then share it.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Amazon Ring died on May 22, 2026.

It just doesn't know yet.

One dad in Nashville, Tennessee built a free MIT-licensed app that watches your driveway, your porch, your baby monitor, your garage.

No cloud. No subscription. No cop ever gets the footage.

32,057 stars. 3,103 forks. Pushed today.

Here is the wildest part:

You: "How much is Ring Protect Pro?"
Ring: "$19.99 a month. $199.99 a year. Per house."

You: "How much is Google Home Premium Advanced?"
Google: "$20 a month. $200 a year. Per house."

You: "What do I get?"
Both: "We store your footage in our cloud. Ring already paid the FTC $5.8 million in 2023 for letting employees and contractors watch your videos without your consent. Google just raised Nest prices again in 2025."

You: "What does Frigate cost?"
Blake Blackshear: "Nothing. It runs on the Raspberry Pi already on your shelf. The footage never leaves your house. I have a day job."

Ring sells the camera. Then sells your fear back to you, monthly, forever.

Frigate sells nothing. Because Blake isn't selling.

He's a dad with 1,267 followers who got tired of Amazon owning his front door.

100% Opensource.
100% Local.
100% Yours.

The smart camera industry made one bad assumption.

That you'd keep paying rent on a camera you already bought.

That assumption just died in Nashville.

[Sal the Agorist @SallyMayweather]

If Russia spent $30M to unseat a congressman we’d never hear the end of it.

[Buckley Carlson @buckleycarlson]

Finally! Trump has a clear grasp of his base.

[Pax Tube @PaxTubeOfficial]

Massie's margins with young and working-age voters are impressive. The youth are alright. The Boomers, on the other hand, need to be separated from Fox News like a drug addict from crack cocaine.

[daz @MetamateDaz]

CONGRESS JUST ADMITTED $175,000 IS NOT ENOUGH TO LIVE ON, BUT THEY EXPECT YOU TO LIVE ON $14,000 A YEAR.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

getting paid after taxes