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Next time a stranger at a bar asks if you're a patriot, do not say yes.
Chase Hughes walks through a hypothetical recruitment, and it starts with someone telling you he loves your podcast and then asking whether you'd consider yourself a patriot. That first yes is what he builds everything else on - your identity.
Next he asks if you'd be willing to look at something that might be uncomfortable. Then he shows you your browsing history and webcam captures from your phones and computers, offers to keep it all out of the public eye, and puts $20,000 a month on the table. All you have to do is keep a few people off the show and leave a few things out, for your country.
What gets me is that the protection covers more than your reputation. It also hands you a story you can live with, where every concession counts as service.
"They don't build influencers. They find the ones who are already successful and recruit them."
Apparently the benefits package includes getting to keep calling yourself independent.
So be honest, has anybody here ever been approached with an indecent proposal?
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Thrifty Ice Cream Memories (1970s–80s) 🍦
There was a stretch of years when a trip to the drugstore wasn’t just about prescriptions or shampoo—it ended with that unmistakable cylinder of ice cream. 🥤✨
Thrifty started in 1929 in Los Angeles as a cut-rate drugstore built for everyday families during hard times. By the 1940s they were making their own ice cream, and somewhere along the way they introduced a special metal scoop that pressed the ice cream into a neat, flat-topped cylinder instead of a rounded scoop. It wasn’t just for looks. The shape gave every customer the same consistent portion (roughly 2¾ ounces) without relying on how hard someone pushed or twisted. Kids with pocket change got the same fair serving as everyone else. 🪙👧
Chocolate Malted Krunch, Rocky Road, Mint ’n Chip, and a handful of other flavors became the ones people still talk about. A single cone could cost a nickel or a dime for years. Parents handled errands; kids walked out holding something that felt like a small reward. By the 1970s and early 1980s, those counters were destinations across the West Coast—hundreds of stores where the ice cream was as much a reason to go as the pharmacy. 🍦🏪
Rite Aid bought the parent company in 1996 and the Thrifty drugstore name slowly faded. The ice cream brand itself kept going because the taste and that odd cylinder shape had already locked into people’s memories. One look at the scoop and the whole store comes back: the smell of the fountain, the cold metal, the sound of the register, and the feeling that a little extra money could still buy something simple and good. ❤️
For a lot of West Coast kids in the ’70s and ’80s, that cylinder wasn’t fancy. It was just there—reliable, affordable, and part of the ordinary rhythm of growing up. 🍦✨
#ThriftyIceCream #70sMemories
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Do you celebrate Halloween? 🎃👻
Decorations, lights, candy...all the typical Halloween stuff?
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Day 1, he was a hero. Day 4, he was the suspect.
July 27, 1996. Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta. Thousands of people are at a late-night concert. A security guard named Richard Jewell spots an unattended backpack under a bench.
He doesn't ignore it. He alerts the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and starts moving people away. Minutes later, the backpack, a pipe bomb, explodes.
Two people died: Alice Hawthorne, and a Turkish cameraman, Melih Uzunyol, who had a heart attack rushing to the scene. More than 100 were hurt. His quick action is credited with saving many lives.
He was praised on national TV. Then the story flipped. Within days, news reports said the FBI was looking at the "hero" guard as a possible bomber. Agents searched the apartment he shared with his mother. Reporters camped outside. Late-night comedians made him a punchline.
He had done nothing wrong.
On October 26, 1996, federal prosecutors formally cleared him. Years later, Eric Rudolph was arrested and, in 2005, pleaded guilty to the Olympic Park bombing and other attacks.
Jewell went back to work in law enforcement. He died in 2007 at 44. The man who saved lives spent the rest of his life trying to get his name back.
Before you share the accusation, ask whether you'd share the apology just as loudly.
Disclaimer: Richard Jewell was never charged with any crime, and prosecutors formally cleared him on October 26, 1996. Injury counts vary by source (about 111 hurt). Eric Rudolph pleaded guilty in April 2005 to the Olympic Park bombing and three other attacks. Jewell died in August 2007 of heart problems related to diabetes.
Photos: Warren LeMay (CC0); ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (CC0), via Wikimedia Commons
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In September 1994, a 23-year-old teacher named Erin Gruwell walked into Room 203 at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach. What she found was a classroom of freshmen who had been placed in the lowest-track classes and labeled “at-risk.” Many could barely read at an elementary level. The administration warned her not to waste resources on students who probably would not graduate.
Her first day was a struggle. Some students ignored her, others walked out, and a few threw books. Erin started paying attention to what they were going through. One incident changed her approach. A student passed around a racist drawing. Erin stopped the lesson and asked how many had ever been shot at. Every hand went up. She asked how many had lost friends to violence. Every hand stayed raised.
She abandoned the standard curriculum and brought *The Diary of Anne Frank* into the classroom. She invited Holocaust survivors to speak. Then she gave each student a journal. No grades, no red marks. Just a place to write honestly about their lives. At first many pages stayed blank. Gradually they began to write about violence, loss, and survival. As they shared, the hostility in the room began to weaken.
The school would not fund field trips or better books. Erin took on three jobs and paid for them herself. By senior year all 150 students were on track to graduate. Their journals became a book, *The Freedom Writers Diary*, published in 1999. In 2007 the story became the film *Freedom Writers*.
Many of the students went on to college, some becoming the first in their families to do so. Erin founded the Freedom Writers Foundation to help other teachers use writing and storytelling. When she walked into that classroom she was a first-year teacher facing students the school had largely given up on. She gave them journals and refused to accept that being labeled “at-risk” meant they could not succeed.
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This girl is apparently a "brand influencer" and she says...
"Name one thing white people do better than black people." 🤨
It's sad that these younger people want to keep our country divided.
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This family had a get together for the 1 year olds birthday, and while inside, got to witness a drunk driver smash their moms car in the parking lot.
Drunk or not, dont keep going forward. At some point, you have to realize backing up is easier....
Explain this one in court...
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Why does Ilhan Omar go by TWO DIFFERENT names?! 😮
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On October 27, 1915, Ernest Shackleton gave the order to abandon ship. He was stranded on the ice of Antarctica's Weddell Sea, with 27 men, and nobody in the world knew where they were.
His ship, Endurance, had been trapped in pack ice for months. Now the ice was crushing her. The men climbed down onto the frozen sea with lifeboats, tents and whatever food they could carry. A few weeks later, on November 21, Endurance slipped beneath the ice.
They camped on drifting floes for months. When the ice finally broke up, they rowed three small boats to Elephant Island, a bare rock nobody would ever search.
So Shackleton went for help himself. He and five men sailed a 22-foot lifeboat, the James Caird, about 800 miles across the Southern Ocean, one of the roughest seas on Earth, to South Georgia island.
They landed on the wrong side. So they hiked across the island's unmapped mountains and glaciers to reach a whaling station.
It took four attempts to get back through the ice to Elephant Island. On August 30, 1916, a ship finally reached them.
Every single man was alive.
In March 2022, explorers found Endurance about 3,000 meters down in the Weddell Sea, upright and so well preserved you can still read her name on the stern.
He lost the ship, the mission and the expedition. He didn't lose one man.
Disclaimer: Distances are approximate (the James Caird voyage is usually given as about 800 miles, roughly 1,300 km), and the wreck depth is given as about 3,008 meters. "Every single man was alive" refers to the 28-man Endurance party; three men from the expedition's separate Ross Sea party died on the other side of Antarctica.
Photos: Frank Hurley (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons / State Library of New South Wales
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Gosport locals stood on the waterfront last night and told the next boat load they weren’t welcome. RNLI brought ~150 people ashore anyway. Police lines, scuffles, arrests. Council and MP already said the town is unsuitable. Home Office won’t rule out more.
Same story in Paris, Italian cities, and towns across central Europe the last several days: protests turning into clashes, blocked streets, and locals openly rejecting the arrivals while their governments keep the policy. This is what happens when central governments ignore the people who have to live with the results.
American voters have watched the southern border version of this for years and kept returning the same politicians.
European voters have done the same for two decades. At some point “the politicians failed” stops being the whole explanation.
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This really gives me the itch to get back to my ocean fishing. A day in the life of a Los Angeles commercial fisherman. This guy is catching Rock Heads. Im sure it can be a lucrative business.
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Call me crazy, but I think the United States would benefit from a law like this. I get that we are free to choose what we eat and how we eat, but the truth is, we are all paying the price through healthcare. Also, who doesn't want to live healthier?
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‼️ READ👇 14 ICE VANS ROLLED INTO THE DARTMOUTH MASSACHUSETTS MALL PARKING LOT LAST MONTH. DEM SENATOR ED MARKEY CALLED FOR ICE TO BE ABOLISHED. DEM GOV MAURA HEALEY SAID THE DETAINEES WERE ‘HARDWORKING’ , ‘TAX-PAYING RESIDENTS’…
‼️ HERE’S THE TRUTH : CHILD PREDATORS, STRANGLER, AND EXTORTIONIST NAMED IN SOUTH COAST DARTMOUTH RAID THAT DREW OUTRAGE FROM MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATS
‼️ via MASS DAILY NEWS : THIS WEEK ICE RELEASED SEVEN NAMES, INCLUDING FOUR MEN CHARGED WITH CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE… 14 ICE vans rolled into the Dartmouth Mall parking lot last month. By the time the agency finished the operation, 82 illegal immigrants were in federal custody, among them four men charged with child sexual abuse, one previously deported before he allegedly strangled a family member, and one accused of running a five-count extortion ring.
‼️ Massachusetts Democrats condemned the operation while it was happening. Senator Ed Markey called for ICE to be abolished. Governor Maura Healey said "the overwhelming majority of these folks are hardworking, tax-paying residents" and demanded the agency release names. New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell said ICE was "overreaching" and that the early detainees had only "minor motor vehicle violations."
‼️ ICE released the names this week. Seven, with mugshots and charge sheets, filed to its newsroom site Monday morning and rolled out across @ EROBoston on Tuesday afternoon.
‼️ The three-day enforcement surge ran the week of Sept. 21. Agents staged the Dartmouth Mall operation before fanning out across New Bedford, Dartmouth and Fall River. The U.S. Coast Guard provided logistical support
‼️ Several of the 82, ICE said, had been released from local jails earlier this year after sanctuary jurisdictions declined to honor the agency's detainer requests. They were picked up again during the September surge
‼️ Acting ICE Boston Field Office Director Joseph Sher pushed back on Beacon Hill in his statement:
"Time and time again, sanctuary politicians in Massachusetts have made the dumbfounding choice to prioritize dangerous criminal illegal aliens rather than their law-abiding American citizens. While these politicians continue to waste valuable time, energy and resources passing embarrassingly performative legislation such as the Protect Act, ERO Boston will continue to proudly protect Massachusetts communities from these dangerous criminals."
‼️ Local Democrats had picked sides when the vans arrived. State Rep. Chris Hendricks, who represents New Bedford, urged residents to report ICE ‘misconduct’. Immigration attorneys interviewed during the raids called the sweep "cruelty and callous behavior." New Bedford Public Schools Superintendent Andrew O'Leary said the enforcement had hit "an unacceptable level of fear and concern" in the schools…
MDN first covered the operation last month, when the arrest count stood at 31.
#JustTheFactsAn #TrumpTruths #TrumpTruths1776 #Murch
READ MORE 👇 at MDN:
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A Jeep plunged into a massive sinkhole and flipped upside down, trapping two people underwater with just six inches of air left to breathe. Nobody driving past could even see them. But nearly two miles away, an 18-year-old flying his drone suddenly noticed something strange on his screen.
It happened near Brighton, Colorado, after flooding caused part of a road to collapse, swallowing the Jeep and leaving a couple trapped inside.
18-year-old Josh Logue was flying his drone when he spotted something unusual near the damaged road. Zooming in, he realized a vehicle had fallen into the sinkhole.
Josh rushed to the scene and alerted others. Inside the overturned Jeep, the couple were struggling to survive as muddy water filled the vehicle, leaving only a tiny pocket of air.
Rescuers faced a terrifying challenge. The Jeep was upside down, partially submerged, and difficult to reach.
Using a pickup truck, chains, and tow straps, they worked to lift the vehicle high enough to reach the trapped couple.
Against incredible odds, both were pulled out alive.
Had Josh not spotted that Jeep with his drone, nobody might have known the couple was trapped beneath the road.
Let’s give this young hero and everyone who helped save them the recognition they deserve.
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Drunk or not drunk this is a Democrat showing her true self, and she’s running for office. Interesting how this was covered but not the way it would have been covered if she was a Republican.
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🚨 153 REPORTED KILLED IN DEVASTATING ABYEI DRONE STRIKE!
A crowded market in the disputed Sudan–South Sudan border region reportedly turned into an inferno.
South Sudan blames Sudan's military, which has received military support from Iran and Turkey.
Who supplied the drone? Who is financing this bloodshed?
Innocent civilians are paying the price. America must stay out of another war.
🇺🇸 Decode Conflict
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A 24-year-old with a camera and a simple concern for where our tax dollars actually go just stood in the Oval Office next to the President and received the first check under a new federal whistleblower program.
Nick Shirley’s Minnesota daycare videos last year showed facilities that appeared empty or inactive while still receiving public funds. That work helped trigger state and federal scrutiny, closures, and at least one guilty plea. Today the administration turned that citizen-level accountability into a structured incentive: a $25 million program that pays tipsters whose information leads to charges or enforcement, with awards typically in the $10,000–$30,000 range.
What stands out is the shift in incentives. For years the people who noticed problems in government programs had little reason—and sometimes real risk—to document them. Now there is a formal channel and a reward for verified results. Shirley’s own words capture the practical point: the money that gets siphoned off is money that no longer reaches the families and children the programs were meant to serve.
This does not replace professional oversight or due process. It simply adds more eyes and a reason for ordinary people to speak up when something looks off. Protecting limited public resources so they reach the people who need them is basic stewardship—whether the motivation is fiscal, civic, or rooted in the idea that we are accountable for how we handle what is entrusted to us.
One young investigator with a phone helped move the conversation from viral clips to an official program. That is the kind of practical accountability worth watching.
🚨 JUST IN: Nick Shirley just dropped this line in the Oval Office flanked by President Trump, and it's PURE GOLD
"I want people to think about what is happening right now...me as a 24-year-old, I went out and exposed the fraud. I just was concerned about the well-being of our tax dollars. And right now, I'm standing next to the President of the United States." 🔥
"There's never been an incentive for anyone to ever expose fraud [until now]...when you expose fraud, you help save America. People understand that these fraudsters take from the poor needy who actually need the services that we all work hard to pay for, and we take that, and they then buy Mercedes!" @nickshirleyy
WELL-DESERVED FOR NICK.
A year ago, legacy media mocked him as a right-wing propagandist
Today he walked into the Oval Office with the first check for exposing fraud that the media IGNORED!!
Camera, microphone and passion for saving America. Let's freaking go.
