Charles 🇺🇸

🍔 Foodie from Colorado 🍻 | WW2 aviation history nerd ✈️ | Proud Irish American. Exploring all that life serves up, one adventure at a time! Psalms 82:3-4

[Charles 🇺🇸 @VoidPhantomCO]

Each and every one of you. Even if I don't agree with you.

[JB @jrb528]

Is it really wrong to pour a double bourbon before a 2-hour long All-Hands meeting?

Asking for a friend.

[Charles 🇺🇸 @VoidPhantomCO]

@LisaintheMtns See you say that, you basically summon Murphy's Law chompers lol

[Ronnie Lucero @RonnieLuceroNM]

Here's the difference between leadership and politics.

When Southern New Mexico ranchers raised concerns that border wall contractors were drilling new wells during a historic drought, @cunninghamfornm took those concerns directly to the Trump Administration. The administration responded by ordering contractors to stop drilling new wells and find other water sources.

Now that the decision has been made, @RepGabeVasquez and his supporters want to claim credit. But while Greg was working directly with the administration to get results, Gabe had nothing to say publicly when the administration announced the change. New Mexicans deserve representatives who solve problems, not politicians who show up after the fact to take a victory lap.

[Tim Carr @CowboyShepherd2]

16th build of 2026. Revell 1/48 FA-18C Hornet, built for a former shipmate who was a Plane Captain when I was flying with VFA-87. First model I’ve done with 100% homemade decals. 🤠

[Charles 🇺🇸 @VoidPhantomCO]

@ThoughtCrimes80 We the people, aren't respected in the Beltway anymore

[Coloradosearcher @Coloradosearch1]

👉@SenateGOP.

[Ronnie Lucero @RonnieLuceroNM]

When you have to edit a 5-second clip out of context instead of showing the full interview, it says everything.

The interviewer @EliasSisneros just called @RepGabeVasquez out for using manipulated footage in a political attack ad and released the full interview so voters could see the truth for themselves.

New Mexicans deserve honesty, not selectively edited clips designed to mislead them. Watch the full context before believing political attack ads. This is another reason we must get out and vote for @cunninghamfornm

[JB @jrb528]

GM!

[Jeff Hunt @jeffhunt]

Remember this picture whenever more businesses flee Colorado.
They claim they are only raising taxes on the rich by targeting people or corporations making more than $500,000.
A business that makes $500,000 is considered a micro-business or a solid owner-operated lifestyle business, typically employing just 1 to 3 people or run entirely solo.
Way to go, progressives! You're trying to raise taxes on mom-and-pop businesses. Nitwits.

[Hailey of Colorado @CivicSparks]

I just talked to a friend who is dealing with a case involving her underage granddaughters who were molested. The guy got a misdemeanor under Colorado Law!!! They are living in a different State right now and the out of State lawyers involved are baffled.

[Voices From Vietnam @VoicesfromNam]

The Instant Before Impact

On August 3, 1967, Japanese photojournalist Hiromichi Mine captured one of the most haunting images of the Vietnam War. A U.S. Air Force C-7 Caribou, serial number 62-4161, had been approaching the Special Forces camp at Ha Thanh in Quang Ngai Province when it crossed the trajectory of a 155mm artillery shell fired by an American battery.

The shell struck the rear fuselage and tore away the aircraft’s entire tail section. Mine’s camera froze the Caribou in its final seconds—the main fuselage rolling toward the ground with its landing gear still extended while the separated tail, marked with the squadron code “KE,” fell behind it. The aircraft had been carrying ammunition to the isolated camp.

All three airmen aboard were killed: Captain Alan E. Hendrickson, Captain John D. Wiley and Technical Sergeant Zane A. Carter. The tragedy led to tighter coordination between artillery units and aircraft operating over the battlefield. Copies of this photograph were later displayed in Caribou briefing rooms throughout Vietnam as a warning of the dangers created when aircraft and artillery shared the same sky.

The photograph made the crash famous. We remember the three men inside the aircraft.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

NY requires an ID to:

✅ Shop at a city-run grocery store
✅ Qualify for affordable housing
✅ Get a book from the library
✅ Shovel snow for the city
✅ Apply for food stamps
✅ Adopt a shelter pet
❌ Vote in elections

[AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_]

A suspect has been arrested in connection with the Old Trails Fire in Spokane, Washington. Aaron F. Farinacci has been charged with first-degree arson and is a convicted felon with previous arrests in Arizona for manslaughter and attempted murder.

[schotts - U.S. Citizen and Patriot @schotts]

No more tax increases.

#copolitics

[WindTalker @nmlinguaphile]

Most people have never heard of the Jicarilla Apache.

They call themselves Haisndayin — “the people who came from below” — or simply Dinde, “the people.” Their language, Abáachi mizaa, is an Eastern Southern Athabaskan tongue, related to Navajo and the other Apache languages but distinct enough that speakers of one couldn’t easily understand the other. It is still spoken today, though by fewer and fewer, and the tribe has been working hard to keep it alive.

Their ancestors were Athabaskan hunters who migrated south from the subarctic between roughly 1300 and 1500, eventually settling across the high country of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado.

Over time they formed two bands shaped by the land itself: the Olleros (“potters” or mountain-valley people) who lived west of the Rio Grande and leaned more toward farming and pottery, and the Llaneros (“plains people”) who ranged east toward the buffalo country. The two groups intermarried freely and saw themselves as one people, but the division still shapes ceremonial life.

Traditional Jicarilla religion centers on a deep connection to the land. Their chief deity, Hascin, was born of Black Sky and Earth Mother. All living things and natural features were understood as expressions of sacred power. Culture heroes like Killer-of-Enemies and Child-of-the-Water play major roles in their origin stories, and important ceremonies include the girls’ puberty rite, the Holiness Rite (sometimes called the Bear Dance), and the annual autumn relay race between the Olleros and Llaneros that was believed to influence the coming year’s food supply — plant foods if the Olleros won, animal foods if the Llaneros did.

What makes their story especially striking is how long they managed to stay free. While other tribes were being forced onto reservations in the mid-1800s, the Jicarilla largely avoided it. They intermarried with Pueblo and Hispanic neighbors, traded constantly, worked as scouts and guards, and stayed mobile enough that the government often lost track of them. They became nearly invisible by becoming essential to the frontier economy around them. Not until 1887 were they finally settled on a reservation in northern New Mexico, the last tribe in the United States to be forced onto one.

Quiet survival. Deep roots. A people who refused to disappear.

A group of Jicarilla Apache men photographed in 1899 by F.A. Rinehart.

[WindTalker @nmlinguaphile]

Too many are not reading this correctly. Idaho is 50th of the 50 states unarmed robbery. The lowest in the nation. Gun controlled D.C., Maryland trade 1, 2 & 3 for armed robbery.

[Ryan Schuiling @RyanSchuiling]

Really pathetic, sorry to say. No matter how much she panders, genuflects, or deflects - the woke mob is *still* going to hate and bully her, never accept or welcome her. And this is how she repays @sophaller having her back. Great.

[Charles 🇺🇸 @VoidPhantomCO]

@schotts His wife got a sweet gig for 400K a year as the spokesperson for those stores.

[R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts]

🚨#BREAKING: Democratic Socialist Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong required registration & photo ID to attend her Milwaukee campaign rally.