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Steward The Earth | Revive The Heartland | Become a Force of Nature | Lucky husband of @the_ladypunk

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@ChristianHeiens Conservatives/Reactionaries/Revivalists for the next 100 years:

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@karankendre “Okay Claude run the prompt.” - US Military

Claude:

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@romanhelmetguy “A history of the Butlerian Jihad”
By Skuttlebutt420

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@DudespostingWs His thighs everywhere the salty denim rubbed.

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@BoundingComics We were robbed of Gundam-erica.

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@MAGAVoice So is Nick Shirley a millionaire now?

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@ChivalryGuild True Knights Defend The Innocent

Title or no.

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@beaverd Love beavers, but

[BuffaloRon @BuffaloRon]

So one divides the message about Bison.  This might help.

First is the valuable part they play in the environment.  They are able to help restore thousand of acres of land which have experienced various forms of neglect.  The land is healing and the Bison are the first step.  Several areas in various states have experienced the healing power of Bison land management.   Think of your Bison fibers being added to ones garden.

Second the Bison restore the circle of life in that all the natural order of wild animals across the lands.   They also requires less chemical to remain healthy no antibiotics.  Other animal were are dependent on the bison soil management methods.  Served as warning sign when things and how it goes bad it can be fixed.  The ranchers who raise the respect the animals and the land.

Third They taste great and serve as a valuable high protein source too.  thanks to the managements skill of thousands of ranchers.

Fourth a source of economic diversity, candles, soap, jewelry, hides, socks you have a list

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@NatureUnedited Sorry but we all know the red ones are hostile

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@HonorAndDaring Quick somebody write an X article titled “America as Religion”

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@Mericamemed “The graveyards are filled with important men.
Who could not be spared.
But were, in the end.”

Everything hangs on exactly what it means to spared and from what.

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@DanielleBFranz I initially misread this as “lost those places”

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Disappointing development.

[American Conservation Coalition @ACC_National]

No one likes hearing about bison being removed from the prairie, especially in Montana, where they’re part of our national story.

But the DOI’s decision to revoke bison grazing permits in Phillips County raises a question about how we manage public lands. Here’s some context:

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You can endure the storm.

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Fortitude in the depths of winter.

[Election Wizard @ElectionWiz]

In the bitter winter of 1937, deep in the snow-bound forest of the Butovo firing range outside Moscow, another truckload of prisoners arrived under cover of darkness. Among them were priests, some young, some aged, including an old bishop whose beard glittered with frost.

The Communist NKVD guards, faces muffled against the cold, marched them to the edge of a long trench already half-filled with the fallen. The ground was frozen solid; the pit waited like an open wound in the earth.

As rifles were raised, the bishop lifted his voice in the Paschal troparion:

“Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death…”

The other priests joined without pause, their hymn rising clear and unbroken against the wind: no cries, no begging, only the ancient proclamation of resurrection.

An officer shouted for silence and struck the bishop across the face. Blood stained the snow, but the old man met his gaze steadily.

“We forgive you, my children,” he said quietly, “for you do not know what you do.”

The shooting began. As each priest fell into the trench, the next took up the hymn exactly where it had left off, the melody passing unbroken from voice to voice until only the bishop remained.

He made the sign of the Cross over the executioners, sang the final line alone, and stepped forward. The last shot echoed into silence.

This particular scene, of chained singing and whispered forgiveness at the pit’s edge, circulates as pious legend among the stories of the New Martyrs. It may not be a verifiable historical fact in the strict sense.

What is certain is far grimmer: at Butovo, during the Great Terror of 1937–1938, more than 20,000 people were executed and buried in mass graves. Among them were hundreds of Orthodox clergy, priests, monks, and bishops, rounded up in waves, accused of counter-revolutionary activity for their faith, and killed with ruthless efficiency. The brutality was real: night transports in “black ravens,” firing squads, shallow trenches layered with bodies, no mercy shown.

A church now stands over the site, its foundations holding small crosses and relics recovered from the earth, a quiet testimony to Christians who were murdered for refusing to renounce their Lord.

Their deaths, whether sung in legend or borne in silence, proclaim the same truth: death could not silence the resurrection.

Christ is risen. Indeed, He is risen! ☦️

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@OldHollowTree @ACC_National Like this, but buff and chad and just a little scary.

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@djboise2004 @benonwine Wee Lassie - Scotland
Amelia - England
_______ - Wales
_______ - Northern Ireland

We’re halfway to a mahō shōjo anime about reclaiming the UK

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@j21090 @AetiusRF Thanks, I try.