Margaret Manzi๐Ÿš›๐Ÿš›๐Ÿš›๐Ÿš›๐Ÿš›๐Ÿš›๐Ÿš› (@mostquiet) profile picture

Freelance designer. Art, science, nature, gardening, occasional political gripe.

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Joined February 2009
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We promised Bonnie she'd get her spark back ๐Ÿฅน Bonnie was used for breeding and denied a real life of her own. Today, she felt the ocean breeze, chased waves, and finally discovered what it feels like to just be a dog ๐Ÿฉท
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Funny how a constitutional republic works well with almost all other ideologies but these troglodytes.
Every American needs to hear this and understand whatโ€™s coming This is from โ€˜The Muslim Student Association at the University of Chicagoโ€™ "The mission of Muslims in the West is to reject democracy and implement Islamโ€ โ€œWe have to reject anything that is not from Islam. Any secular idea, both here in the West and in the Muslim lands, we must reject it. We do not compromise on the deen of Islam. We do not compromise on the hukm of Allah. We have full conviction that the only justice and the only true victory will come when Allah's hukm is implemented. But believe me, wallahi, when you do the work for the sake of Allah, you will be victorious, either in this life or the nextโ€ For those who donโ€™t know when he says โ€œeither in this life or the nextโ€ this means Jihad. This means in Islam if they die being a martyr to further the agenda of Islam they will be greatly rewarded We have to start mass deportations while we still can
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I tracked Americaโ€™s surveillance state from five years ago to today, and where it looks to be headed next based on whoโ€™s funding it. The same four sources of money keep showing up behind the cameras on your street, the databases holding your records and the AI going onto military bases. These are the investors I was told not to name on the Shawn Ryan Show. Theyโ€™re also behind the companies Ryan invests in, and their founders and partners were his guests 12 times in the year and a half before I sat down. Theyโ€™re all cashing in on the privatization of the American surveillance state right under our noses. Article is at Substack link in bio and it's free.
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md stands for Markdown. It's kind of a structured text file format popular among software engineers.
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Shameful indictment on the judiciary in this country. These judges have fallen so far from their pedestals.
Imagine being a federal judge looking at a Senate race where, according to the New York Times, people tied to Mary Peltola's campaign and the DSCC went digging through voter rolls to find a retired teacher from Petersburg named Daniel J. Sullivan, and he ends up on the same ballot as Senator Dan Sullivan in a ranked choice state that was already built to confuse peopleโ€ฆ and your answer is that nobody can do anything about it. That is what Judge Sharon Gleason just did. She threw out the DOJ lawsuit to set aside the ballots cast for the decoy Dan so the fraud could actually be investigated, and she did it for three reasons that should make every voter in this country sick. The federal government lacks standing. Separating those ballots would violate ballot secrecy. And it is too late to change anything this close to Election Day. Let me explain what that means in plain English. There is a federal criminal probe with grand jury subpoenas out, the Governor of Alaska ordered his own state investigation, and the court's answer is basically tough luck, the clock ran out, count them anyway. Too late? Too late for who? The people who planned this knew exactly when to run it, and they knew a court would say the words "too close to the election" because that is what courts say every single time the deck is stacked and the timing is the whole trick. And ballot secrecyโ€ฆ really? Nobody is asking to see who you voted for. They are asking to hold the votes cast for a candidate who may only be on that ballot because somebody went shopping for a man with the right name. How is protecting that a defense of democracy? How do you look the people of Alaska in the eye and tell them the system cannot pause for a scheme everyone can see? Peltola says she knew nothing. Maybe. But you have seen this movie before, the operatives do the dirty work, the candidate keeps clean hands, the judge says no standing, and the result gets certified long before anyone gets to the truth. Same same. This is institutional rot dressed up in a robe, and the only thing a federal court managed to protect today was the scheme itself. Judge Gleason, you were handed a chance to protect the integrity of a United States Senate election and you hid behind a calendar. DOJ, appeal it today and do not stop until every person who recruited that decoy is sitting under oath. Pray, Stand, Speak, ACT. Love, What all of you good people are thinking
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The things you can do when there is no dog in the backyard
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็พŽๅคง็”ŸใŒ่ฝใก่‘‰ใ‚’ไฝฟใฃใฆใƒชใ‚ฌใฎๅ…ฌๅœ’ใซๅˆถไฝœใ—ใŸๆžฏๅฑฑๆฐดใฎๅŒๅฟƒๅ††ใฟใŸใ„ใชใƒฉใƒณใƒ‰ใ‚ขใƒผใƒˆ ๐Ÿ“นAnatoly Prokopenko
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If I make it to age 96, I think I'll take up making sweets.
96 year old grandma chef has been making these nostalgic, grilled Japanese sweets for decades.
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This is beyond intense. Black belt in dance? Don't mess with this dude or it will be a severe case of F.A.F.O.!!! Pretty impressive. This is what dedication and hard work looks like. ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿฅ‹
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Paragliding witch takes Halloween to new heights
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๐ŸšจIlhan Omarโ€™s family appear to have been living in Moscow, Russia, at the time she claimed she was in Kenyan refugee camps with her father and 6 siblings, confirmed by family photos taken in Moscow Russia, posted to her brotherโ€™s Facebook account๐Ÿšจ In this picture Ilhan Omarโ€™s other brother Mohamed Nur โ€˜Dhay-Luleโ€™ (nicknamed Milkshakeโ€™) who lives in London in the United Kingdom posts a picture of himself in Moscow sometime in the 1990s when Ilhan claimed they were in a Kenyan refugee camp. Ilhan Omarโ€™s sister Leila Elmi then comments โ€œOld memoriesโ€ฆ hahaha it was like yesterdayโ€ indicating the family travelled on from Kenya, and spent time in Moscow, Russia, before reappearing in London and the United States. Far from being poor refugees, her brother appears well dressed, in what looks like designer clothing. Siad Barre loyalists like Ilhan Omarโ€™s father not only committed the brutal Isaaq Genocide, but fled with Somaliaโ€™s entire national reserves, central bank reserves, and private bank deposits. The very genocidaires and war criminals and their children then presented themselves as โ€˜refugeesโ€™ and โ€˜asylum seekersโ€™ in the West.
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Never let anyone block the windows like this again.
BREAKING: We now know who covered the windows at Detroitโ€™s TCF Center in the 2020 election. A Democrat poll challenger did it. New evidence from nearly one million Detroit 2020 election documents shows why the windows were covered at the TCF Center. Democrat poll challenger David Burcar led the effort to block GOP observers. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson later claimed Detroit Police covered the windows because they were being broken. Records show police did not do it and no windows were broken. The same review found only 132 actual military overseas ballots, yet officials processed thousands of ballots labeled โ€œmilitary,โ€ many tied to Detroit addresses. Volunteers are calling for an FBI and DOJ investigation. Developing....
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I just figure we're eating dinner at a fashionably late hour, like the Italians do.
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Lady Amherst's Pheasant
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An important story getting a little lost in all the election fervor.
Si Bukele rรฉussit en Haรฏti, ce ne sera pas seulement une victoire militaire. Ce sera un acte d'accusation. Contre l'ONU. Contre l'Europe. Contre toute l'industrie de l'aide internationale. Parce que la vraie question n'est pas "pourquoi ont-ils รฉchouรฉ ?". C'est "avaient-ils vraiment intรฉrรชt ร  rรฉussir ?" Regardez les incentives. Une mission qui rรฉussit est une mission qui ferme. Fin des budgets, fin des postes, fin des per diem, fin des carriรจres bรขties sur "la crise haรฏtienne". Une crise rรฉsolue ne rapporte rien. Une crise chronique, c'est un business model. Haรฏti en est la dรฉmonstration parfaite. La MINUSTAH : 13 ans de prรฉsence, des milliards de dollars. Elle part en 2017. Quelques annรฉes plus tard, les gangs contrรดlent la majeure partie de la capitale. Au passage, ce sont des casques bleus qui ont importรฉ le cholรฉra : prรจs de 10 000 morts. Six ans pour que l'ONU reconnaisse son rรดle. Aucune indemnisation des victimes, immunitรฉ oblige. Aprรจs le sรฉisme de 2010, des milliards promis. La Croix-Rouge amรฉricaine collecte prรจs d'un demi-milliard et construit... six maisons permanentes. ร€ peine un ou deux dollars sur cent de l'aide passent par des acteurs haรฏtiens. Le reste repart vers les consultants, les contractants et les ONG des pays donateurs. On appelle Haรฏti "la rรฉpublique des ONG". Personne ne rit. Dans ce systรจme, personne n'est mesurรฉ sur le rรฉsultat. Tout le monde est mesurรฉ sur l'argent dรฉpensรฉ. Et quand vous รชtes payรฉ pour gรฉrer un problรจme plutรดt que pour le rรฉsoudre, vous ne le rรฉsolvez jamais. C'est รงa, une caste. Milei l'a nommรฉe mieux que personne. ร€ Davos, devant toute l'รฉlite mondiale, il a dit aux entrepreneurs de ne se laisser intimider ni par la caste politique, ni par les parasites qui vivent de l'ร‰tat. Le parasite n'a aucun intรฉrรชt ร  tuer son hรดte. Il a intรฉrรชt ร  ce qu'il reste malade. Juste assez pour continuer ร  se nourrir. C'est exactement la relation que ces institutions entretiennent avec Haรฏti. Ce n'est mรชme pas un complot. C'est pire : c'est un systรจme oรน personne n'a besoin de conspirer. Jerry Pournelle en avait fait une loi : dans toute bureaucratie, ceux qui servent l'organisation finissent par prendre le pouvoir sur ceux qui servent sa mission. L'ONU, la Commission, les grandes ONG ne sont pas des exceptions. Ce sont des cas d'รฉcole. Et c'est pour รงa que Bukele les terrifie. Un petit pays, sans les budgets, sans les rapports de 300 pages, sans les colloques ร  Genรจve, qui a brisรฉ les gangs chez lui et prรฉtend faire pareil en Haรฏti. S'il rรฉussit, il prouve que le problรจme n'a jamais รฉtรฉ impossible. Il รฉtait rentable. Les gens le voient. Partout. L'รฉcart entre ce que coรปtent ces institutions et ce qu'elles produisent est devenu impossible ร  cacher. Ce systรจme est en fin de cycle. Le reset arrive, et il sera total. Et il faudra un Nuremberg 2.0. Pas de potences : des audits, des enquรชtes, des procรจs. Oรน sont passรฉs les milliards ? Qui a signรฉ ? Qui savait ? Que chaque responsable rende des comptes, nom par nom, dollar par dollar. Haรฏti mรฉrite au moins รงa.
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Doesn't the alpaca look like such a little snot!
The alpaca is kicking the sheep, the bull is hitting the alpaca, the cows are watching, and the sheep is playing helpless. It's a family that knows each other very well.
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Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a human cell (eukaryotic cell) ever produced. This groundbreaking model, often termed a "Cellular Landscape Cross-Section Through a Eukaryotic Cell," combines data from X-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy to map molecular structures in extreme detail.
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One thing I like about voting in person is running into people from my neighborhood while I wait in line.
WOAH ๐Ÿšจ I think we just figured out why Oregon is Blue. The state switched over to essentially 100% Vote-by-mail and Mail-in-ballot drop boxes โ€œHere in Oregon, there is no in-person voting. It's all done either through the mail or you drop it in a drop box. You don't go on election day and line up and go vote in a voting boothโ€ I looked it up and this is true, There are no traditional neighborhood polling places in Oregon where people line up on Election Day to vote in booths with machines or paper ballots provided on-site the way most other states do People use drop boxes, the mail, of you can go to a country election office and drop off your ballot The closest they get to in person voting is at a county elections office that provides a privacy booths where you can mark your ballot. But this is not the same as traditional Election Day polling-place voting with long lines at local schools, churches and community centers Oregon essentially eliminated in person voting and now is basically 100% mail and drop boxes This is INSANE. No wonder why Oregon is so deep Blue Again, all voting in Oregon is essentially - Mail in ballots by mail - Mail in ballots by Dropbox
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