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[Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews]

The black mother who made her family walk out on a $300 restaurant bill in Orlando, Florida, has been identified as Adeliah Jones, a resident of Flint, Michigan, who is vacationing in Florida.

It would be a shame if we ended their vacation.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Stack some rocks in a sunny corner of your yard this weekend and you'll have created an unexpected habitat.

A rock pile built directly on the soil creates something most suburban yards have none of: thermal mass with gaps. Rocks absorb heat during the day and release it slowly at night, which makes the interior warmer than the surrounding air after dark and cooler during the hottest part of the afternoon.

That temperature stability, combined with the dark enclosed spaces between stones, is exactly what lizards, snakes, toads, ground beetles, and overwintering insects are looking for.

Skinks and fence lizards use the warm surface rocks for basking and the gaps underneath for cover. Garter snakes and ring-necked snakes use the lower layers as hunting ground and shelter. Ground beetles move in to hunt at night. Native bees nest in the soil underneath where the rocks keep the ground from drying out too fast.

The build is simple. Larger flat rocks on the bottom, stacked with smaller ones between them to create gaps and chambers. Put it where it gets morning sun and some afternoon shade, the south or southeast facing side of a building or fence works well. Don't mortar it. The gaps are the habitat.

A brush pile does similar work and costs nothing at all. A rock pile does it with less maintenance and lasts indefinitely. If you have both, you've built a wildlife corridor in a corner of your yard most people would have left empty.

[CONSTITUTION X 🇺🇸 @ConstitustionX]

🚨 BREAKING: TRUMP JUST ENDED THE WAR WITH IRAN 🚨
In a historic bombshell announcement, President Trump declared TOTAL VICTORY — a massive settlement is DONE. Documents are being finalized for signing, possibly in Europe!
Iran has AGREED: NEVER develop nuclear weapons. The core mission is COMPLETE.
Trump revealed glowing talks with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE & regional leaders — paving the way for EXPANDED ABRAHAM ACCORDS and LASTING PEACE in the Middle East! 🔥
This is bigger than you think. Timed perfectly with the World Cup and America’s 250th birthday.
The Golden Age is HERE.
What a time to be alive.
#Trump2028 #MiddleEastPeace #HistoricVictory 🇺🇸
(Repost the video and spread this far and wide — the world needs to see it!)

[Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 @KarluskaP]

Kudos to the producer over at FOX split screen showing antifa throwing garbage and causing havoc while the dumb ass governor is spewing her bullshit

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 BREAKING: MAJOR clashes underway between NJ police and anti-ICE rioters in Newark

SUPER physical fights

WE NEED NATIONAL GUARD!

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

For 8 years, people at Morgan Stanley called Rick Rescorla paranoid.

Then September 11th proved he was right.

Rick was a decorated Vietnam veteran who became Head of Security for Morgan Stanley at the World Trade Center.

In 1990, he walked through the underground parking garage and quietly warned:

“Someone could park a truck bomb here and bring this whole place down.”

Executives dismissed the concern as excessive.

Then came February 26, 1993.

A truck bomb exploded in the World Trade Center parking garage almost exactly where Rick predicted.

Six people died.
Over 1,000 were injured.

The evacuation was chaos.

Rick watched terrified employees stumble through smoke-filled stairwells for hours with no real preparation.

Afterward, he made a decision.

Morgan Stanley employees would practice evacuation drills every three months.

All 2,700 of them.

No exceptions.

People hated it.

The company occupied floors 44 through 74 of the South Tower.

That’s a very long walk down when you have meetings, deadlines, and places to be.

Employees complained constantly.

“He’s obsessed.”
“This is unnecessary.”
“He’s paranoid.”

Rick didn’t care.

He timed every evacuation.
Studied bottlenecks.
Adjusted routes.
Ran the drills again.

And during the drills, he sang old military songs to keep people calm while they descended the stairwells.

For 8 years, people rolled their eyes at him.

Then came September 11, 2001.

8:46 a.m.

The North Tower was hit.

An announcement in the South Tower told people to remain at their desks because the building was secure.

Rick ignored it.

He grabbed a bullhorn and ordered:

“Everyone out. Now.”

Then he personally directed employees through the stairwells floor by floor.

And he sang.

The same songs people once mocked during drills suddenly became the sound keeping frightened people calm as they escaped.

At 9:03 a.m., the South Tower was struck.

Rick was still inside helping people evacuate.

His coworkers begged him to leave.

He refused.

“As soon as everyone’s out.”

By 9:45 a.m., nearly all 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees had escaped safely.

Rick could have saved himself.

Instead, he turned around and went back up.

Searching for anyone left behind.

Before the tower collapsed, he called his wife one final time.

“If something happens to me, I want you to know you made my life.”

At 9:59 a.m., the South Tower collapsed with Rick still inside.

Final numbers:

Morgan Stanley employees inside that morning:
~2,700

Survived:
~2,687

Most of the 13 lost were in the direct impact zone where no evacuation could have reached them in time.

Rick Rescorla died alongside members of his security team while trying to save others.

But here’s the important part:

Rick didn’t save those people on September 11th.

He saved them for 8 years before it happened.

He saved them every time he forced another evacuation drill.
Every time people mocked him.
Every time he prepared anyway.

The coworkers who thought he was paranoid went home to their families because one man refused to stop taking danger seriously.

Sometimes preparation looks ridiculous until the day it looks like survival.

And sometimes the people everyone dismisses are the only ones truly paying attention.

Rick Rescorla died in the stairwell doing what he had trained for nearly a decade.

And thousands of ordinary lives continued because he never stopped preparing for the day nobody believed would come.

[James Wester @jameswester]

I genuinely feel like we missed out on recreating one of the more enjoyable parts of the the bicentennial celebrations from 1976: painting fire hydrants.

[Kennedy @KennedyNation]

When American POWs tried to sneak her notes with their personal information to tell their families they were still alive, she gave them to the North Vietnamese. Some of them were beaten to death. You are both commies and you can both fuck off.

[Turbine Traveller @Turbinetraveler]

The NTSB later found that the N110AA DC-10 disaster began weeks before the AA191 crash during a maintenance procedure at American Airlines’ Tulsa facility.

McDonnell Douglas recommended removing the engine and pylon separately, but American, Continental, and United used a faster shortcut by removing them together to save time and labor hours.

During maintenance on Flight 191’s aircraft, a slight forklift misalignment jammed the pylon against the wing, creating a small structural crack that went unnoticed.

Over the next 8 weeks, the crack grew with every flight cycle until the pylon finally failed during takeoff rotation, causing the entire engine to tear away from the wing.

Fleet inspections afterward found similar damage on other DC-10s as well.

[Arlene Conaway 🇺🇸 @ArleneCona74591]

Cathedral Rock is a sacred Native American Indian site. Desecrating or defacing sacred sites is illegal in America. Arrest them and prosecute them!!

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

These Indian men just defaced a sacred Native American site known as Cathedral Rock in Sedona, Arizona.

Deport them.

[JOKAMRREDPILLZ @JOKAQARMY1]

This virus is the new Covid and this is the only way to protect yourself from it. Ticks

[Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews]

U.S. Forest Service law enforcement is now asking for the public’s help identifying a group of Indian nationals seen defacing Cathedral Rock in Sedona, Arizona, a sacred Native American site, with furious Americans demanding their immediate deportation.

[ustonymc @ustonymc]

AMERICAS WARS
Dead

Revolutionary War: 25,324
War of 1812: 15,000
Mexican War: 13,283
Civil War: 620,000-800,000
Spanish-American War: 5,585
World War I: 116,516
World War II: 450,000
Korean War: 36,574
Vietnam: 58,220
Gulf War: 294
Iraq: 4,431
Afghanistan: 2,459

250 Years of American Heroes.

[sar. @maketheapex]

The results of Kyle Busch's cause of death were released. He started with a sinus infection a couple of weeks ago, he had a cough. He kept racing, because that's what drivers do. It turned into pneumonia. Pneumonia is treatable, 450 million people get it a year. So he kept racing.

But then it turned into sepsis. Sepsis can be fatal in a matter of hours.

He was in the racing sim when things went badly, they took him from there directly to the hospital. Within 24 hours one of the biggest racing legends was dead at just 41 years old. From something that was treatable, something he raced through.

Losing Kyle has been a hard hit to the racing community, reminding everyone how real these drivers are.

But now all I keep thinking is how our guys in F1 do the same thing. Motorsport puts tremendous pressure on drivers to compete and show up every week.

In the 2022 Monza race weekend, Alex Albon drove through 2 practices Friday, felt terrible, was diagnosed with appendicitis, went into surgery Saturday, something went wrong and caused respiratory failure, then put on a ventilator and into a medically induced coma. ....And 2 weeks later was back racing in Singapore.

In 2023, Max Verstappen was sick and missed media day in Saudi Arabia, but came back to drive through all sessions in the race weekend, revealing later he was so sick it felt like he "was missing a lung."

Lando in 2024 was so sick in a way that wouldn't go away, he coughed and hacked his way through every single lap on the track for nearly 2 months.

This video from Singapore last year, moments before getting in the car for one of the most physically exhausting races of the season he had to sit down on the grid, his team saying he was so sick he looked green. But Lando was fighting for a championship. If he hadn't driven through it, he wouldn't be the 2025 World Champion.

And now we've lost the most winningest driver in NASCAR history, holding an all-time record of 234 career victories across the sport's top three national series, because he kept driving. He won a race less than a week before he died. He drove through it.

I don't know what we do about that. I don't know what could ever change to make that any less horrifying.

But I think its worth talking about. If nothing else, Kyle Busch's legacy deserves it.

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Southwest Airlines Flight Attendant, Michele Carpino, who is known for posting Anti-Trump garbage, decided to post “We need better assassins” after the WHCD failed attempt.

I wouldn’t want to be on a @SouthwestAir flight with her…… would you?

[RX Rat @rat452]

@alphafox Mice hate Irish spring

[RX Rat @rat452]

@1Nicdar It is a clothesline tightener.
Rope goes through the middle of and is pulled taught. The other rope is tied through the loops.

[🇺🇸 𝓐𝓟𝓡𝓘𝓛 𝓢𝓟𝓐𝓡𝓚𝓢 🇺🇸 @AprilSpark1890]

💯💥💪🏼More of this please.💪🏼💥💯

Woman walks into a Paterson, New Jersey mosque to let them know their call to prayer is a nuisance to the neighborhood.