Michael Downing

Certified Home Inspector. outdoor enthusiast, married.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

That’s because fraud at scale takes time!

[Ashton Forbes @AshtonForbes]

This polarized light experiment is analogous to polarizing the vacuum to manipulate gravity.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher asks how the government is “failing the poor so badly” when he pays “60 PERCENT” of his earnings in taxes.

“Last week was tax day… I paid the government probably almost 60% of what I earn. That’s a lot.”

“And I… wouldn’t mind if Bernie Sanders would stop saying the rich don’t pay taxes.”

“The top 10% pay 72% of all federal income taxes. And the bottom half, 3%.”

“The Democratic Socialists talk about socialism like we don’t already have a lot: Social Security, unemployment, Medicare, nutritional assistance, Medicaid, Obamacare, disability, housing subsidies.”

“How can you be soaking the rich and failing the poor so badly? How can it be that the federal government alone took in over 5 trillion in taxes last year, and we still need that?”

“Are we really this incompetent and corrupt?”

[Randall Carlson @randallwcarlson]

The energy paradox at the heart of glacial termination is more precise than most people realize - and Randall makes the mathematics explicit. The greatest concentrations of thermal energy available on Earth are the subtropical deserts like the Sahara and the tropical oceans. Scientists calculated how long it would take to melt the entire North American ice mass if it could be moved to the most energy-rich environment on the planet - the tropical ocean. The answer was three times longer than the ice actually took to disappear.

That is not a minor discrepancy. The ice melted three times faster than the maximum thermal energy available from any known terrestrial source could account for. The problem was significant enough that a dedicated scientific conference was convened in 1973 to address it - the energy paradox. A follow-up conference in 1975 attempted to resolve what the first had identified. Neither succeeded. Randall states that plainly - the energy paradox has not been resolved. The question of where the thermal energy came from to melt that volume of ice that quickly remains open - and Randall’s research has consistently pointed toward the only two explanations that could plausibly account for it. A cosmic impact. Or the sun.

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[American Warrior for Christ @johnrackham82]

BREAKING NEWS: Seventy-Two Killed Resisting Gun Confiscation In Massachusetts.

A National Guard task-force detailed to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault-style weapons, was ambushed by elements of an anti-Government, para-military extremist faction.

Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.

Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement.

Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices. The governor, who described the group’s organizers as “treasonous criminals,” issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government’s efforts to secure law and order.

The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed wide-spread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault-style weapons.

Gage issued a ban on military-style assault weapons and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a meeting in early this month between government and military leaders at which the governor authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms.

One government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that “none of these people would have been killed had the extremists obeyed the law and turned over their weapons voluntarily.”

Government troops initially succeeded in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition.

However, troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington met with resistance from heavily-armed extremists who had been tipped off regarding the government’s plans.

During a tense standoff in the Lexington town park, National Guard Colonel Francis Smith, commander of the government operation, ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by one of the right-wing extremists. Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange.

Ironically, the local citizenry blamed the government forces rather than the extremists for the civilian deaths. Before order could be restored, armed citizens from surrounding areas had descended upon the National Guard units. Colonel Smith, finding his forces over matched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat.

Governor Gage has called upon citizens to support the state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and order. The governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops.

Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock, who have been identified as “ringleaders” of the extremist faction, remain at large.

And this fellow Americans, is exactly how the American Revolution began, April 19, 1775.

History. Learn it, or repeat it.

[Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard]

Many thanks to President Trump for bringing common sense action to the issue of psychedelics.

Too many of my friends I deployed with have come home with invisible wounds and when seeking help, are given bags of prescription drugs by the VA to try to numb the pain, only to make things worse.  Friends of mine like Medal of Honor recipient @dakotameyer have shared how receiving treatment with psychedelics have been nothing short of life changing and lifesaving.  

President Trump took historic action today by signing a deeply impactful Executive Order that will open the doors to advance psychedelics research and treatment for our veterans and all Americans battling addiction and post traumatic stress. Stanford studies of this kind of treatment show an 88% drop in PTSD symptoms, 87% in depression & 81% in anxiety—one month later, veterans went from moderate disability to none.

This action is long overdue and could save countless lives.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

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[Matthew S. DePerno, Esq. @mdeperno]

On January 6, 2021, I briefed Ulrich Brechbuhl, Counselor to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, inside a secure State Department SCIF about the 2020 stolen election.

No phones. No computers. No electronics. Paper only.

For several hours, I walked through forensic evidence. This was not about anything abstract.

It was always about fake ballots.

I showed him:
➔ Ballot run manipulations, ballot mapping schemes, who printed them, how they were shipped, routes they traveled, and how they were counted.
➔ Assignment of fake ghost ballots to registered voters through inflated QVF records.
➔ Variants of subversion, error rates and remediation patterns.
➔ Ballot anomalies, including off-site printing, irregular formatting, oversized internal blocks, and side marker manipulations.
➔ System vulnerabilities, including anonymous external connections with elevated privileges and hardcoded passwords such as "12345678."

Page after page. Data. Analysis. Forensics.

And we talked about a guy named "Ben Smyth."

He knew.

I was later indicted by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel because I filed a lawsuit in Antrim County in 2020. One of her prosecutors told me directly that I was charged because I "started the train rolling."

This is lawfare. And it was used to silence me.

The story is not being told by Michigan media.

That is about to change.

@POTUS @TulsiGabbard @jsolomonReports @WillCainShow @DaveBondyTV @Th_Midwesterner @Charlieleduff @MrJustinBarclay @mattgaetz

[Star @magastar2026]

🚨BREAKING:🚨The Maricopa County Board of Elections has come forward to issue an apology to President Trump, stating that elections officials in the county have now brought forth evidence alleging that then Secretary of State (now Governor) Katie Hobbs and then Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives Rusty Bowers PERSONALLY ORDERED THEM TO DESTROY TENS OF THOUSANDS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP and to count the TENS OF THOUSANDS OF BALLOTS THAT WERE CAST BY ILLEGAL ALIENS FOR JOE BIDEN in Arizona's largest county in the 2020 election. This was "outcome-determinative fraud" by the very individuals who were entrusted to conduct, oversee and certify the election and Hobbs and Bowers are both alleged to have been on the payroll of at least 3 hostile foreign governments, The George Soros Open Society Foundation and The DNC in exchange for RIGGING the 2020 election in Arizona. Put simply, there is now IRREFUTABLE AND INDISPUTABLE PROOF that President Trump WON the state of Arizona in that STOLEN election out of the mouths of the very people who counted the votes. LOCK THESE TREASONOUS CROOKS UP NOW! 💪🏻🔥🇺🇸

[Rep. Jim Jordan @Jim_Jordan]

It was a sham from the start.

The only thing we got wrong is that it is always worse than we thought.

God bless Tulsi Gabbard for declassifying this information.

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

Thomas Sowell 🗣️

“I don’t want people making decisions who don’t pay the price of their decisions. That’s what politics is all about—you don’t pay the price of your decisions.”

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

“Just as you don’t find eagles living in the ocean or fish living on mountain tops, so you don’t find leftists concentrated where their ideas have to stand the test of performance.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: In a massive moment, First Lady Melania Trump demands Congress allow Epstein's survivors to PUBLICLY TESTIFY about what happened to them, saying Epstein did NOT act alone

WOW! This is about to ROCK DC

"Now is the time for Congress to ACT. Epstein was NOT alone. Several prominent male executives resigned from their powerful positions after this matter became widely politicized!"

"Of course, this doesn't amount to guilt, but we still must work openly and transparently to uncover the truth."

"I call on Congress to provide the women who have been victimized by Epstein with a public hearing specifically centered around the survivors."

"Give these victims their opportunity to testify under oath in front of Congress with the power of sworn testimony."

"Each and every woman should have her day to tell her story in public if she wishes, and then her testimony should be permanently entered into the congressional record. Then, and only then, we will have the truth. Thank you."

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY CRAP! The FBI has arrested former US Special Operations and DELTA FORCE veteran Courtney Williams for violating the ESPIONAGE ACT

DOJ says she transmitted classified national defense intel to the media and put our warfighters at risk

This sends a message to leakers! FAFO! 🔥

Now find the leaker who put our troops at risk in Operation Epic Fury. NO MERCY.

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

November 3, 2020: Sedition against the United States government caught on audio recording:

“So when they said that, BOOM under the table.

Ruby Freeman… the ballots came out from under the table—cut the zip ties & scan those ballots… so the number would go up… so that was how the number was created… so after we scanned them—the number went up—we put them back under the table—we got our number.”

In other words: a mother and a daughter, caught on surveillance video and admitting on audio recording to committing sedition, got awards for it.

📝Let me tell you something: the Department of Justice is as corrupt now as it was January 19, 2025.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

🚨 President Donald J. Trump makes a statement on Iran: