Remember the name Kaylub Giamanco. A carpenter. A father. An armed citizen who heard gunfire and went toward the danger.
According to reporting, the 36-year-old father of two was driving home for lunch when he heard shots near Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, where his children attend. Carrying a concealed firearm with a permit, he followed the gunman inside and fatally shot him, ending the attack. In those terrible moments, an ordinary working man accepted an extraordinary risk to protect children.
That deserves recognition without hesitation or embarrassment. Responsible gun ownership has a human face. Here, it is the face of a father who had both the means to intervene and the courage to act. The right to keep and bear arms includes the ability to defend innocent life when danger arrives and every second matters.
Three children, ages 5, 8 and 11, and a teacher were killed. A seven-year-old child who uses a wheelchair was shot in the face and hospitalized. Those losses and injuries must remain at the center of this story. No tribute can erase the suffering of these families.
According to his brother, Giamanco is struggling with guilt because he could not save more people. That is a heartbreaking burden for a man who risked his own life to stop the killing.
Kaylub, the responsibility for this atrocity belongs to the person who committed it. You deserve gratitude, support and the time and care needed to live with what you witnessed.
We cannot know how many additional lives your intervention protected. We can recognize the courage it took to enter that school and confront an armed attacker.
America should honor that courage. Defending the Second Amendment and protecting children belong in the same conversation. So do secure schools, responsible firearm storage, effective law enforcement and the determination to confront threats before families are left grieving.
A carpenter went out for lunch and found himself facing a nightmare. He stepped forward when innocent people needed help.
You are a hero, Kaylub. May your community stand beside you with the same resolve you showed when you stood up for its children.
Now the truth finally comes out that the state of New York wants the Amish people‘s properties and land so they can build their data centers. How disgusting 🤮
 The Amish of Central New York told the seditious Governor Kathy Hochul they would pack up, abandon their farms and leave if the Governor tried forcing vaccines on their children. The Governor fined them over $100,000 and demanded they comply anyway.
When the Amish decided to fight back, taking the wicked Governor to court, Hochul's minion Senator Fahy drew up even more legislation to pressure them to leave, attacking their children again, this time through an anti-homeschooling bill.
Tens of thousands of acres of cleared Amish farmland are at stake. The Amish have spent decades clearing their land by hand and horse. The hard work has been done.
But if the Governor has her way, the Amish will be forced to sell that cleared land to the solar farms and data centers knocking on the doors for it.
Who will help the Amish stand up to this maniacal Governor? We need to expose this on social media and we need to get the right people involved to represent the Amish and help them fight This evil demonic power and control of New York. 
@CrySlyFly@realstewpeters But the guy with a bullhorn wasn’t being disruptive? Charlie didn’t have him removed. He embarrassed him by winning an open non-scripted debate in front of the student body.
@YoMamaBootyskin@LemmeReact@ParodyAoc Also, people may be willing to overlook Blake’s slip of tongue if ppl didn’t salivate at the thought of CO mispronouncing anything at all, ever!
@YoMamaBootyskin@LemmeReact@ParodyAoc Technically, blatant is not an implication. It’s obvious, flagrant, unmistakable. So he was correct in his usage of the word, you just wanted to be a dick.
@FreeBrianCole@LaneB7777 Your class and poise inspire me! I can tell by listening to you and your husband that y’all did a great job with your children. The world needs more people like you!
@LaneB7777@FreeBrianCole Candace is one of the largest platforms online. Of COURSE she’s grateful for the spotlight being shown on his case! This is her SON! She has ONE CHANCE to bring him home!! Grow up.
@FreeBrianCole I pray for Brian and your family often! This is wrong and cannot stand! It’s time for our government to do the right thing and bring him home!!
@56Peanuts@omegabirdx@Mr_Husky1 Mortgage rates may have been higher, but the avg cost of a home was 1/3 of the median household wage vs. 1/2 today. Healthcare, childcare, vehicles. EVERYTHING has outpaced wages way faster than the 1980s.
It has been months in the making, but today I launched the 2026 Midterms Candidate Due Diligence website.
https://t.co/1aNdeB8x7s
For far too long we have not had a comprehensive side-by-side picture of who is funding our candidates, who pays for them to get elected, their stance on issues we care about, and many more important factors.
So, I built what I could not find: a page for every single person on your ballot, showing exactly who is paying for them.
Pick your state and you get your voting rules, issues on your specific ballot this midterm, a map of your congressional districts, the measures on your ballot and what they actually do, and a profile on all 2,517 candidates for governor, Senate and House.
For each candidate it shows where their money came from and who wrote the checks, what outside groups spent for them and against them, the companies and nonprofits they own out of their own financial disclosure, and where they stand on the issues with the vote or the quote behind it.
Every number links back to the filing it came from. If something is missing or something is wrong, tell me and I will fix it.
Finalizing some of the smaller elections now, but it's 80% done.
It is free and the site doesn't ask for donations. But if you would like to support my work you can subscribe to my Substack (link in bio) or buy me a coffee at https://t.co/NOYK2TE0kk
I hope you enjoy!
“You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him.” (John 8:44)
May the Lord rebuke you @netanyahu, you are a coward of a man. Your actions in Gaza are of your father, not of God.
I will not stop speaking on behalf of the men, women, and children your army indiscriminately eviscerates through uncontrolled violence. Today’s first reading speaks of you, who have rejected the Master of the vineyard.
“The vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his cherished plant; he looked for judgment, but see, bloodshed! for justice, but hark, the outcry!” Isaiah 5:1-7
I implore you, repent and cease this genocide.
”Wednesday afternoon I was driving west on I-40 when my blood sugar dropped to a dangerous level. Luckily a Burger King restaurant was at the upcoming exit. As I stumbled through placing my order I mentioned to the voice on the speaker that I was diabetic and in need of food. Low blood sugar makes it difficult to think or act. I pulled up to the first window in order to pay for my food. I was shocked to see Burger King employee Tina Hardy running toward the front of my car. She squeezed between the front of my car and the building just to bring me a small serving of ice cream. Tina later explained that her husband was also diabetic and she could tell that I needed help. After paying I pulled up to Tina’s window where she gave me my food. She instructed me to park across the driveway so that she could keep an eye on me until I felt better. After eating I waited for a break in business so that I could return to Tina’s window. I then took this picture and spoke with Tina’s supervisor, telling him what she did for me. If you appreciate what this special woman did please share this story. Hopefully Tina Hardy will receive the recognition that she truly deserves from the public and from the big bosses at Burger King.”
Credit : Rebecca Boening
Trump somehow went from the most relatable, down-to-Earth President we’d seen in decades to possibly the most out-of-touch, annoying President in U.S. history.
He’s basically just a billionaire socialite who enjoys meeting with rich and powerful people.
Every press conference he does, it’s like he’s talking directly to his yes men or country club friends who might enjoy his stories.
President Xi said I’m great! All the tech billionaires say the economy is perfect! I’m crushing!
It’s actually wild to watch. But no one is allowed to tell him differently or else they get kicked out of his circle.
Trump acts like the average truck driver won’t care about Diesel being high because his billionaire donors told him how important the Iran War is.
The average worker getting crushed by inflation really cares about hearing the Reflecting Pool story for the 100th time and how much prettier it is now than during Obama.
The average family getting screwed is super excited that Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, Musk and Huang all love the “Super Intelligence” rebrand.
Trump is like an obnoxious, spoiled rich kid galavanting into every interview like he just left a golden mansion and wants to tell the country how wealthy his circle is getting.
As someone who was obsessed with Trump for a few years, he is easily the most repulsive person I’ve ever seen in the White House on par with Joe Biden.
🚨#BREAKING: Six "jailers" have been FIRED after a White inmate in a South Carolina jail run by a Black man DIED OF THIRST on the floor of his cell... covered INCHES-DEEP IN FECES, with the water to his sink SHUT OFF.
He drank out of his OWN TOILET to survive
He wrote letters to his father pleading for help because he was being tortured because he was White.
His name was Gary "Bubba" Blair, he was 43.
He was the caregiver for his own elderly father. He had two nephews he adored and a dog named Scrubby.
So why was he in jail?
In February, Bubba showed up at his sister's house wearing a sheriff's office golf shirt, a security badge, handcuffs, and pepper spray. Deputies arrested him for impersonating a police officer.
A judge found he wasn't mentally competent to stand trial and ORDERED the state to place him into treatment on June 3.
The South Carolina Office of Mental Health never followed through.
Bubba sat in that jail for 181 days waiting for a spot.
He passed away 51 days after a judge ordered them to get him help.
In April, he write a letter to his father:
"I've lost about 90 pounds so far. I'm starving to death in here; only two meals a day, that's it... you starve, and I also have to drink from my toilet and no mattress to sleep on, only a hard ground."
"I’ve been abused by staff and assaulted by everyone on the unit; I had to go 28 days without a shower... no help for a white man"
"The staff is very nasty to white inmates thanks to Troy Ellerbe and James Dixon."
Then in May, Bubba did something that will haunt me.
He wrote a letter to a CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE begging for help.
The letter had a bad address. It was returned. It never arrived.
Meanwhile, sources say the water to his sink was SHUT OFF. His cell floor and walls were covered in feces INCHES DEEP. He was alone. Never let out.
Other inmates, who got a few hours out of their cells, told the news they watched Bubba drink toilet water.
So they took an empty potato chip bag and filled it with water and pushed it through the food slot in his door!!!!!
Most of it spilled before it ever reached him.
On July 24th, jailers found him dead on the floor.
49 days later, the autopsy came back.
Cause of death: profound dehydration due to DEPRIVATION OF WATER.
Manner of death: HOMICIDE.
The report also found bed sores on his HEELS, consistent with a man lying on a concrete floor for days at a time.
Acute bronchial pneumonia.
Profound weight loss.
Physical evidence that he had been INGESTING TOILET WATER.
He had lost so much weigh and was in such poor condition, his sister and aunt went to the funeral home to see him... they did not recognize his body.
The sheriff fired the Black jail administrator 5 days after Bubba died, and refuses to say why.
Bubba Blair sang to old folks in nursing homes. He took care of his daddy.
He deserved so much better than dying of thirst on a concrete floor.
PEOPLE BEING FIRED IS NOT ENOUGH!!!!! THIS IS CRIMINAL!!!!!!!
Say his name. Gary "Bubba" Blair.
WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!
If republicans really wanted to win they would have prosecuted the Epstein class, ended or never started the war in Iran, refused funding from AIPAC, kept gas prices low, ended the war in Ukraine, withdrawn from NATO, not tried to bribe Americans with $5K in socialist checks, not alienated revered leaders like MTG and Massie, not ended investigations into Kirk assassination or Butler attempt on the President, not appointed and then refused to fire Kash Patel, not kept 90 percent of the same people in intelligence that were there during the Biden administration, ended insider trading, brought justice to Fauci and the vaccine class, held China accountable for covid instead of inviting half a million of their spies to study at our universities, ended h1b visas, reduced inflation, passed a balanced budget instead of record spending, drained the swap, eradicated the deep state, or deported more illegals than Obama.
But they didn’t do any of those things.
Anyone who blames me or other conservative voters for republicans losing the midterms can f*ck all the way off.
@DabbKen I totally agree with all of these social points. The problem is for 2 years R have had the majority & nothing has changed beyond EO. Families are bleeding dry here & we’re focused on problems across the world. I voted for relief, not war.