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I listened to Calley Means on Joe Rogan, and his allegations deserve serious scrutiny, not carefully crafted PR statements.
Ballard Partners issues a public denial, then disables replies. You cannot demand public accountability while shielding yourself from public scrutiny.
Where there is smoke, there is often fire. And when powerful interests start controlling the conversation rather than welcoming questions, people have every reason to keep digging.
Statement from Brian Ballard regarding recent allegations from Calley Means. @calleymeans @joerogan @FaceTheNation
Brazil can count over 100 million votes and announce nationwide results in a single day. Yet the United States, the world's technological superpower, supposedly needs days, weeks, or months to determine who won a congressional race?
And here comes PBS, BEFORE a single vote is cast, already conditioning Americans to accept overnight reversals and delayed results.
This as setting the stage for election cheating, not journalism. This is precisely why PBS deserved to lose its federal funding. It has become a propaganda arm that normalizes the electoral fraud machine instead of holding it accountable.
Stop preparing excuses for normalizing questionable election outcomes before Election Day. Start demanding an electoral system worthy of the American people.
If you go to bed on election night and don't know who won a midterm congressional race, that's normal. And if you wake up the next morning and find that a candidate who was behind hours earlier has since pulled ahead, that's normal, too. (via @PolitiFact) to.pbs.org/4zqnWBa
Of all the political contrasts I have seen in recent months, few capture the divide in priorities quite like this one.
Strip away the campaign slogans, political theater, and endless outrage, and the question becomes remarkably simple: Who is our government supposed to serve?
That should be the easiest question in American politics.
When Trump was under investigation, it was “No one is above the law.”
Now that the law comes knocking at her door, suddenly it is “political intimidation” and “I will not be silenced.”
All while turning off replies so nobody can challenge her narrative.
Apparently, accountability and free speech only work in one direction.
Jessica Tarlov has a fascinating superpower.
She starts with a fact, adds an assumption, then somehow the assumption becomes evidence.
But the fascinating part is her defenders. They swarm in to defend her honor, explaining that Jessica can apparently predict the future through “pattern recognition.”
Jessica has the crystal ball. Her trolls provide the mysticism.
The world is a little less bright today.
Dolly Parton didn’t just sing songs. She gave people a home in her voice and a place that was kind, honest, funny, and full of heart. From a one-room cabin in the Smoky Mountains she became one of the most beloved artists who ever lived, and she never forgot where she came from.
She wrote the songs that carried us through love, heartbreak, work, and hope. She built something lasting for children who needed books. She made millions of people feel seen.
Thank you, Dolly, for the music, the laughter, and the example of a life lived with generosity.
We will always love you.
Rest in peace. 🦋
France spent years tolerating disorder, weakening consequences, and calling anyone who warned where it was heading an extremist. Now hundreds are accused of setting fires while the country burns.
This isn’t bad luck. It’s what happens when a political class becomes more afraid of enforcing standards than of the consequences of abandoning them.
You don’t get a functioning civilization by endlessly excusing the people determined to destroy it.
French authorities have arrested 420 people, including 166 minors, accused of deliberately or accidentally starting fires amid the country’s worst wildfire season since World War II. teapaw.org/RapidReport2025/status…
Capitalism rewards the people who build, heal, and create.
Socialism puts a bureaucrat in charge of deciding what you deserve.
One system runs on effort.
The other runs on permission.
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I stood on Liberty Island and was reminded that the Statue of Liberty is more than a landmark. She is a declaration.
She does not celebrate comfort. She celebrates freedom.
She does not promise equal outcomes. She represents equal opportunity.
She does not stand for what government can give us. She stands for what free people can build when they are trusted to pursue their own future.
For nearly 140 years, she has welcomed dreamers, builders, risk-takers, and people willing to work for something better. That idea is what made America exceptional, and it is worth protecting.
Sometimes I wonder if we have forgotten what she actually symbolizes.
Standing there, I was reminded that liberty is never something to take for granted. Every generation has a responsibility to preserve it for the next.
What does Lady Liberty represent to you?
Heavy rain may have been the final straw, but let's not pretend those rooftop solar panels weigh nothing. They add significant dead load that engineers must account for. Whether they contributed to this collapse is exactly the kind of question that deserves a real investigation.
Dramatic video captures the moment part of the roof collapsed inside a New Jersey BJ's Wholesale Club.
The partial collapse happened Monday morning at the Ocean Township store during severe weather, with video showing water crashing through the ceiling as shoppers rushed to safety.
A large emergency response was launched after officials received reports that multiple people were trapped inside the building.
Officials said no one was injured, and the cause of the collapse remains under investigation.
Everyone is talking about the heavy rain, but did anyone notice the massive solar array on the roof? Those panels and mounting systems add thousands of pounds of permanent load. If the roof was already stressed, that's a question investigators should be looking at. It'll be interesting to see whether that gets discussed or quietly ignored.
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Do you know why I'm pissed off on this July 4th? Because I'm seeing the greatest country in the history of the world increasingly bathing in the infinity pool of parasitic suicidal empathy (as has occurred with much of the West). PLEASE activate your inner honey badger and defend American freedom. Do not take American Exceptionalism for granted. Fight! Fight! Fight!
Leftists scream ‘stolen land’ from Native Americans but push mass immigration & birthright citizenship flooding America with newcomers.
If presence defines belonging, long-established Americans are being displaced now. Your selective outrage is pure fucking hypocrisy.
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It’s Not Your Truck Anymore. Hey @Ford care to comment? youtu.be/ZWT1dzpQWqw?si=rHiI…
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When it comes to #cyber resilience, backups are your safety net – but only if they can’t be tampered with. The FBI recommends following the “3-2-1 rule”: keep at least three copies of critical data on two different media types, making sure that one copy is offline and immutable (can’t be changed or deleted). This helps protect you from attackers trying to destroy or encrypt your data during a breach.
Ransomware attackers often target backups early, so protect them like any critical asset. Secure backup platforms with strong authentication and separate admin accounts, limiting access to trusted devices. Plan ahead and know what you’ll need to restore—e.g., systems, configurations, and user access—and test restorations regularly. Backups lose their value if you can’t restore systems promptly when it matters most.
#FBI advisories have revealed that if your backups are poorly protected, ransomware actors will find and destroy them before encrypting your data. They even exploit vulnerable backup solutions for initial access and move quickly to delete built-in recovery options like shadow copies, making restoration harder.
Don’t give attackers the leverage they seek. Resilience depends on isolated backups and tested recovery—one of Operation Winter SHIELD’s 10 Key Cyber Defenses.
Learn more about #OWS – fbi.gov/wintershield. And discover how Akira ransomware actors target backups at ic3.gov/CSA/2025/251113.pdf
ALT Graphic showing 'Operation Winter Shield' with a shield icon and a folder symbol representing offline immutable backups and testing restoration.