shellennessee • Retweets are Not Endorsements.

Child of God, Servant of Jesus, Mom, Grandma, Patriot, Copy Editor, Author of “Master Fibonacci: The Man Who Changed Math”

[shellennessee • Retweets are Not Endorsements. @shellennessee]

I added this PowerPoint presentation to my website today. I am hoping many people will find it helpful.

Law of War Manual: Chapter 11 - Military Occupation

https://t.co/0i0hJpZsXb

Please feel free to share.

#DepartmentOfDefense
#LawOfWar
#belligerentoccupiers

[Qᴀɢɢ.ɴᴇᴡꜱ @qaggnews]

Ok new site is live. I have Oklahoma and Massachusetts loaded (two easiest). Will work on more over the coming days and hopefully have them all loaded by the weekend.

Feel free to play around and test them out and let me know if anything doesn't seem to work right or something could be made more obvious.

https://t.co/OuHZiKjsQH

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

Because of the nice feedback we got on our first YouTube video, we decided to make another one!

In our new video, we take you along on our visit to the Texas State Fair in Dallas, where we spent two days trying different foods, exploring the fair and seeing what there is to discover.

Sorry for the long wait on this one, but we only have time to edit in the evenings when we get back to the hotel, so it takes some time.

We’re trying to make one longer video every week to show you a bit more of our trip and the things that are hard to share in just a few tweets.

Next week’s video will be about our search for German heritage in New Braunfels and Fredericksburg!

But for now, here’s our Texas State Fair video. Hope you like it!

Link: https://t.co/G9u3QWpnua

[shellennessee • Retweets are Not Endorsements. @shellennessee]

Beautiful! 🕊️

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

You know what shook me when I was Muslim?

The story of Hosea: In it, God tells a prophet to marry a woman He KNOWS will betray him.

She does. She runs to other men. She ends up enslaved, sold, and used up. Essentially, she is worthless to the world.

Then, God tells Hosea to go BUY HER BACK, to pay money for his own wife who cheated on him, and love her again. (Hosea 3)

I thought it was the most humiliating command in the Bible. Bro, why would any man do that!?

Then I realized I was exactly like the wife.

I gave my heart to everything but God. I chased other masters and I sold myself cheap. In a way, I made myself worthless.

But, God looked at me, the betrayer, and didn’t say “you’re not worth it.” Instead, He said, “Name the price. I’m buying her back.”

What's beautiful about this is, that’s the entire Gospel. God doesn’t wait for the unfaithful to come crawling back clean.

He pays to redeem them while they’re still dirty.

Islam told me to make myself WORTHY of God.

Hosea showed me an amazing, present God who pays to redeem the unworthy. The cross was Him naming the price.

Praise the Lord!

Follow for more Christian apologetics that doesn't stop at winning arguments but equips you to actually reach people!

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

There's a little mysterious detail in the Noah's Ark narrative that many Bible readers miss.

In reality, it is one of the most encouraging things any Christian will ever learn.

[Qᴀɢɢ.ɴᴇᴡꜱ @qaggnews]

Dustin Stover Bowles, 42, of West Virginia, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for aggravated sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12.

According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, between September 2006 and December 2006, Bowles sexually abused a minor while he babysat her at his home. The victim disclosed the abuse to several trusted adults in 2020, as well as Army criminal investigators. Bowles was later charged under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act. At the time of his criminal conduct, Bowles had been on active duty with the Army stationed in Hanau, Germany. https://t.co/Atbk3DXcsD

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

🚨 TEXAS!

Early Voting, in-person, opened in the Great State of Texas TODAY, October 19th. If you have a mail-in ballot, return it immediately and, if not, GO VOTE at the Polls RIGHT NOW, and get everyone you know to VOTE FOR THE REPUBLICAN IN EVERY RACE, UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT!

Whether you VOTE early, absentee, by mail, or in-person, Republicans must SWAMP the Radical Left Dumocrats with massive turnout! In Texas, you can cast your early Vote, in-person, all the way through October 30th. SO IMPORTANT — PLEASE GET OUT AND VOTE. MAGA! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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[shellennessee • Retweets are Not Endorsements. @shellennessee]

Truth
God’s Word
Bread of Life
🕊️

Is it TRUE that Noah’s Ark Has Been DISCOVERED “100% Confirmed”? (ft. Je... https://t.co/fhZYxKIjtc via @YouTube

[Michael Johns 🇺🇸 @michaeljohns]

Week of October 19, 1776:

**In New Rochelle, New York, a major escalation looms as thousands of new British and Hessian troops arrive to corner Washington and the Continental Army.

**In Philadelphia, the Committee of Secret Correspondence prepares to dispatch Franklin to Paris on a covert mission to solidify a military alliance with Louis XVI and France.

[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

Long after Musk and DOGE left, Trump admin still cleaning up USAID fraud and abuse https://t.co/1VhiBNUpIQ

[Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry. @naomirwolf]

Why does the whole world seem not to care about these persecuted Christians?

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you.

I come from your future.

In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream.

Here’s what it looks like from the inside. France hasn’t passed a balanced budget since 1974. Our debt is above 3,300 billion euros. Interest on that debt is becoming one of the biggest items in the national budget. Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them.

The promise was protection. The result is stagnation.

The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. One more program. One more regulation. One more tax to fund it. Each step alone makes sense. Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe.

I love America because it’s the one place on earth where people still believe they can build something from nothing. I came to Silicon Valley as a self-taught kid and it changed my life. That spirit is the most precious thing your country has.

Before you vote, ask yourself one question: is the program you’re voting for making America more like America, or more like France?

Trust me. You don’t want to be France.

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

PASTOR FRIENDS: Heads up, your people WANT YOU to remind them to vote.

Just in our state (Texas) an estimated ~8M Christians will forget to vote in midterms and it will be decided by a projected ~300k votes.

So, we built a website to help solve this problem. Anyone in any state can text the word "VOTE" to the phone number 20411 and they'll get...

1) A text reminder when midterm voting begins

2) A link to this site we built that can tell them WHERE to vote in their county and WHAT to bring in their state. Works in all 50 states.

Pastors, you can put something like I scripted in the next tweet (for our church) in your announcements for a couple weeks leading up to midterms and leverage the site we built.

[shellennessee • Retweets are Not Endorsements. @shellennessee]

THIS is a good use of SI (Grok). 😊

TRUMP ENDORSEMENTS: Texas

for the November 3, 2026, midterm elections, primarily via Truth Social and X/Twitter

High-Profile Statewide / U.S. Senate
**********************************
Ken Paxton (R) — U.S. Senate (challenger)

Greg Abbott (R) — Governor (incumbent)

Dan Patrick (R) — Lieutenant Governor (incumbent)

Mayes Middleton (R) — Attorney General (open seat; won primary runoff)

Don Huffines (R) — Comptroller of Public Accounts

Dawn Buckingham (R) — Land Commissioner (incumbent)

Sid Miller (R) — Agriculture Commissioner (incumbent; lost primary)

U.S. House of Reps (TX Districts)
*******************************

TX-1: Nathaniel Moran (incumbent)
TX-2: Steve Toth
TX-3: Keith Self (incumbent)
TX-4: Pat Fallon (incumbent)
TX-5: Lance Gooden (incumbent)
TX-6: Jake Ellzey (incumbent)
TX-8: Jessica Steinmann (open)
TX-9: Alex Mealer (open; runoff)
TX-10: Chris Gober (open)
TX-11: August Pfluger (incumbent)
TX-12: Craig Goldman (incumbent)
TX-13: Ronny Jackson (incumbent)
TX-14: Randy Weber (incumbent)
TX-15: Monica De La Cruz (incumbent)
TX-17: Pete Sessions (incumbent)
TX-21: Mark Teixeira (open)
TX-22: Trever Nehls (open)
TX-23: Brandon Herrera (challenger; runoff; earlier endorsement of Tony Gonzales who withdrew)
TX-24: Beth Van Duyne (incumbent)
TX-25: Roger Williams (incumbent)
TX-26: Brandon Gill (incumbent)
TX-27: Michael Cloud (incumbent)
TX-28: Tano Tijerina (challenger)
TX-31: John Carter (incumbent)
TX-32: Jace Yarbrough (open)
TX-34: Eric Flores (challenger)
TX-35: Carlos De La Cruz (open; runoff)
TX-36: Brian Babin (incumbent)
TX-38: Jon Bonck (open; runoff)

The full set is extensive and best cross-checked against Ballotpedia or Trump’s posts for completeness.

* image and list generated by Grok

[shellennessee • Retweets are Not Endorsements. @shellennessee]

100% agree
😢❤️🤍💙

[Sarah Fields @SarahisCensored]

My God. I listened to the entire thing.

I’m certain now. It should be livestreamed.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Nine Days From The Dark: What Sixty Million People Learned About Water, Warmth, And Medicine During Spain's Ten-Hour Blackout https://t.co/RJQ3LCGBdo

[shellennessee • Retweets are Not Endorsements. @shellennessee]

🧐 THIS explains A LOT.

NDAS/CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENTS

— Protect defined confidential information (trade secrets, business data, etc.). NDA clauses are often inside settlement, severance, or separation agreements.

— Resolving civil disputes (employment, commercial, personal injury, harassment claims, etc.), confidentiality provisions commonly restrict:

• settlement amounts and other terms.
• existence of the settlement itself.
• underlying facts of the dispute or allegations.
• party identities or identifying details (ensuring anonymity).

Non-disparagement clauses (often mutual) prohibit
negative, critical, or harmful
statements about the other party, its people, products, or practices—even if truthful.

> EVEN IF TRUTHFUL <

“No publicity” or limitations-on-public-statements clauses bar
press releases,
media contact,
advertising the settlement,
or social media discussion
of the matter.

Some versions require a scripted response (e.g., “The matter has been resolved to the parties’ mutual satisfaction”) if asked.

BREACH

— Triggers liquidated damages, clawback of payments, or further claims.

— Standard carve-outs usually allow disclosure to spouses, attorneys, tax/financial advisors, or as required by law/subpoena/regulator.

OTHER AGREEMENTS

• Confidentiality / Confidential disclosure agreements (CDAs): can restrict discussion of relationships, negotiations, or sensitive topics beyond pure trade secrets.

• Standalone or embedded non-disparagement agreements/clauses: explicitly bar negative commentary (common in employment, celebrity, and commercial settlements).

• Protective orders and sealing orders: court-issued (or stipulated) limits on disclosure of discovery materials, settlements, or case details during or after litigation. These are not purely contractual but achieve similar practical effects.

• Non-publicity clauses: Restrict announcements or media engagement regarding a deal or relationship.

• Anonymity or non-identification provisions: Parties agree not to disclose names or identifying facts.

• Joint defense/common interest agreements: Used among co-parties or aligned litigants to share privileged information without waiving privilege.

In practice, these tools are heavily used because they buy
• privacy,
• reputational protection, and
• finality for the paying party (and sometimes privacy for the claimant).

They are contractual, so remedies are typically damages or equitable relief rather than criminal penalties.

Enforceability depends on jurisdiction, the precise wording, public policy, and whether the information was already public.

Q #1
How many DEALS do you think have been made in the last few decades?

Q #2
What do you think hundreds of thousands of attorneys do every single day?

[𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @Old_But_Gold50s]

This is a hilarious and creative percussion performance by The Bands of HM Royal Marines, recorded at the 2019 Mountbatten Festival of Music at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

The two percussionists combine exceptional musical skill with a distinctly British sense of humor. Alongside their regular percussion instruments, they use unexpected objects, such as pipes, to produce unique sounds. The result is a performance that showcases impressive musicianship while delivering plenty of clever and entertaining moments.

[shellennessee • Retweets are Not Endorsements. @shellennessee]

Fibonacci Sequence
- which was expounded upon by Leonardo de Pisano ~ 1200

[Mathematica @mathemetica]

The spiral that never quite finishes begins with two ones.

Each new square is the sum of the two before it. Stack 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34… and the side lengths form rectangles whose aspect ratio climbs toward φ = (1 + √5)/2 ≈ 1.618. The same constant that solves φ² = φ + 1.

Quarter-circles drawn inside those squares trace a path that looks smooth but is only an approximation. The exact curve is the logarithmic spiral r = a e^{bθ} where b = (2 ln φ)/π ≈ 0.306. Every 90° turn multiplies the radius by exactly φ.

What appears continuous is the limit of pure addition, converging to an irrational that keeps showing up wherever growth is self-similar.

[Peter Navarro @RealPNavarro]

COVID wasn't Fauci's first time playing with fire. Ten years earlier, it was bird flu.

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