
Today’s recipe also has pecans, caramel, and chocolate… Caramel Pecan Brownie Bites!

Ingredients
Mini Brownies
1 package dark chocolate brownie mix
ingredients to prepare mix
1/2 cup pecan chips
Topping
1/4 cup pecan chips
1/4 cup caramel topping
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Prepare a mini muffin pan with vegetable pan spray.
In a large bowl, combine brownie mix, ingredients to prepare mix, and 1/2 cup pecan chips. Mix according to package directions.
Divide batter evenly among pan cavities, filling muffin cups about 2/3 full. Sprinkle with remaining 1/4 cup pecan chips.
Bake for 14-16 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the brownies comes out almost clean. Let cool almost completely on a cooling rack.
Use a spatula to carefully loosen brownies from the pan then remove to the rack to cool completely. Drizzle brownies with caramel ice cream topping and enjoy!
Good Morning All
60* and partial sunny skies so far. hubby says hot, hot, hot this week.
I’ve been putting out the jelly feeder and waiting till the bird gather in the tree off the side deck and I’m not going back inside right away. Seeing who will come and eat while I stand there. So far, only a small female grosbeak has been bold enough to come…lol. the males are all chittering in the tree, but i stayed put…lol
I’ve got an early haircut appt. this morning.
see what today brings…
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Good Morning Pat!
Safe Travels 🙏
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Good Morning Gina!
thank you! hopefully there’s no trees or limbs in the driveway…lol or it will be a short ride.
May God Bless you!
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Morning, Pat! Hot, hot, hot is right – at least here! I was out there at 6:30 this morning mowing – gotta get it done before it gets too hot. Already up to 84 w/a stiff breeze & bright sunshine. My yard looks sooooo good right now! I also took a load of cardboard boxes to the city office and went by to pay Mark & Jerry for the work on my truck and mower. Mark said he didn’t know how my truck was still running – the pulley assembly literally fell apart as he took it off – yeah, the bearing was completely gone! So I guess it’s worth keeping considering how long it’s held together. Mark was very pleased to get paid so quickly. In the past, I’ve had to pay him in installments but since I’ve got a few CCs now to fall back on, I can pay him immediately.
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Morning Filly!
I wondered where you were! glad you’re okay!
you got a lot done already!!
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Initially, I was only going to mow the front yard but it was still nice and cool, with a strong breeze, so I decided to just get it all done. Otherwise, I would have posted a heads up. Your hair grows really fast! I can make do with getting mine cut twice a year!
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OH MY!
nope, color every other month, cut EVERY month. She tells me I’m job security…lol.
my own super power–I grow thick hair quickly.
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same goes for the fridge!
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Just The News: “The United States and Iran will reportedly “stand down for now” after a weekend of military skirmishes in the Strait of Hormuz, and both sides will try to reboot peace talks in Qatar this week. Officials told multiple news outlets, including Axios, CNN and Fox News, that there was an easing of tensions after several days of exchanging fire near the Strait.
“Technical talks are slated to continue on all areas of the MOU. Both sides will stand down for now and vessels can move freely,” the White House told Fox News.
Axios reported that the two sides will resume talks in Doha on Tuesday.
U.S. Central Command conducted strikes on multiple targets in Iran after Tehran attacked a Panama-flagged tanker near the Strait of Hormuz. Iran responded Sunday by launching strikes against Kuwait and Bahrain, angering both Arab neighbors.
Meanwhile, on another war front, Bloomberg News reported that Russia expects American negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to travel to Moscow to continue talks on ending the war in Ukraine as soon as tensions ease with Iran.”
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America grows tired of the iranian games.
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I know I am but I’m worse than most when it comes to patience!
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the lies, the talking out of both sides of their mouth…America is growing weary. it needs to end one way or the other.
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More and more people are just going to get so disgusted, they check out completely and won’t pay attention any more.
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Just The News: “The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that federal election law did not overrule state laws permitting election authorities to count ballots postmarked by Election Day, but received days later.
“Three federal statutes set the day for the election of Representatives, Senators, and the President. A Mississippi law permits the counting of absentee ballots postmarked by election day but received up to five days later,” wrote Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. “We must decide whether the federal election-day statutes preempt Mississippi’s law. They do not.”
24-1260_g3cn.pdf
Mississippi passed a law in 2020 in response to the COVID pandemic that allows mail-in ballots to be counted so long as they are postmarked by Election Day and received within five days of it. Multiple national and state conservative groups sued, arguing the law clashed with federal law, which establishes Tuesday after the first Monday in November as Election Day in 1845.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit agreed with the challengers of the law, and the full court of appeals rejected the state’s petition to rehear the case. The state took it to the Supreme Court, which agreed in November to review the lower court’s decision, SCOTUS blog reported.”
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with all the drop boxes and the ability to drop it off at election centers, this decision is bogus. You get your mail in ballot in enough time to drop it off or mail it in time to get there by ELECTION DAY.
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I agree but….🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
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I don’t think SCOTUS wanted to chance everything going one way. this is another stupid decision imo–like the not certifying the carrol case. he still has another case against her they are still deciding if they want to hear. He wanted them to decide on both cases at once, but they did not.
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“Epstein, North Korea, Uranium One”
Clandestine, Jun 28, 2026
⚠️ALERT⚠️
“I just made a MIND-BLOWING connection about Epstein, and it has nothing to do with the trafficking stuff… it’s about North Korea and Uranium One!
According to a 2013 email exchange between Epstein and French diplomat, Olivier Colom, Epstein was “very” interested in North Korea. Stay with me, it will all add up at the end
Colom emailed Epstein and asked if he was “interested in N Korea?”, to which Epstein replied, “very.” Then Colom says, “I have something for you then. Huge. Ultra Confidential. Come to Moscow with me in January?”
Keep in mind, this email exchange took place on December 6, 2013, less than 2 months after the Uranium One deal was completed and Rosatom (Russia) took 100% ownership of Uranium One.
Then after Epstein says he “likes the idea” of North Korea as a potential location for whatever they were planning, Colom says, “Issue is very sensitive. Have to meet you.”
A LOT of connections here, but wait, there’s more.
Then in a January 2017 exchange between Epstein and NYTs journalist, Landon Thomas Jr., Epstein and Thomas Jr. discussed everyone’s panic and fear of Trump being inaugurated, as well as North Korean diplomacy and North Korea’s nuclear missile program.
There’s not much here in this email exchange that suggests Epstein was directly involved in North Korea’s nuclear missile program, but I found it interesting that Epstein brought it up unprompted.
But wait, it gets better…..”
https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/epstein-north-korea-uranium-one
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This is the horrific scene that Rodney has been telling us about…..pure evil!!!
Just The News: “In a grisly discovery, the remains of more than 100 dogs were found at a northern California animal sanctuary during an investigation into suspected animal cruelty, authorities said. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department said the remains were found during an investigation Friday into suspected animal cruelty and a search warrant was executed at an animal sanctuary in Fortuna, Calif.
“During the excavation, investigators recovered 117 intact canine remains from two dig sites. An additional 21 canine skulls, hundreds of bones, and six loose microchips were located in another dig location near where the intact animals were discovered,” the sheriff’s department revealed.
Sheriff’s investigators said they also found an area inside a barn believed to be where the dogs were likely killed”This investigation is just getting started. There is a tremendous amount of data to process, witnesses to interview, and evidence to examine,” Sheriff William F. Honsal said. “The Major Crimes Division is laser focused on this case and will continue working with our state and federal partners to examine every lead.”
“We are grateful for the investigative teams from the county, state, and federal government. We are also grateful to the private forensic veterinarians who performed the necropsies on site. The determination all of these professionals showed while working through this horrific scene is something we will not forget,” he added.”
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is it terrible I suspect muzzlims are involved?
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No, actually, it’s natural to think that! But I don’t think that’s the case here.
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I just can’t picture anyone hating dogs as much as they do…and who else would have motive?
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Sadly, it happens often with small rescue groups – you know the old saying about ” your eyes being bigger than your stomach?” Same thing applies – people start out truly wanting to help but don’t use discipline and quickly get overwhelmed. It’s a bigger task to take on than people realize, unfortunately.
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I don’t get the tracking chips. couldn’t a vet use those to determine the owner of the dog and have them come get it?
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If they have them and they’re still active it can provide a hint at least. But many don’t have trackers.
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“To Stop the Marxists, We Must Expose the End Game of Their Islamist “Partners” — As has been the case throughout history, the “powerful” friends of the Islamists will eventually learn who has really been in charge the whole time.”
JD Rucker, Jun 29, 2026
EXCERPT: “There is a script for what happens to a revolutionary left that decides political Islam makes a useful ally, and the American left appears determined to perform every act of it. The Democratic Socialists of America have spent 2026 becoming the most consequential force in Democratic politics, and they have done it while binding themselves, cause by cause and candidate by candidate, to an Islamist political project whose ultimate vision of society would erase the very people now lending it their energy.
The fastest way to halt the Socialist ascent is not to debate the marginal tax rate or the rent freeze. It is to make plain where the road ends for the junior partner, because the experiment has already been run, and the junior partner does not walk away from it.
The name for this arrangement is the Red-Green Alliance, and it is not a coinage of the fever swamps. Scholars at King’s College London and Bryn Mawr documented it more than a decade ago in the journal Terrorism and Political Violence, describing how radical leftists and Islamists, despite worldviews that ought to make them enemies, converge on shared frames of anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism to build a common front against the West.
Red stands for Marxist and socialist radicalism. Green stands for Islamism, the political ideology that wants Sharia to be the law of every land. To see this alliance operating in a (slightly) more advanced stage than we’re seeing in America, just look to Europe. Unless there is a massive and/or divine intervention, the continent is already captured.
Let’s cover the obligatory “not every“ caveats:
What Holds Opposites Together
On paper the two halves of the coalition want incompatible worlds. Marxism is materialist to its marrow, atheist by founding conviction, and carries a century of gulags, shuttered churches, and martyred believers as its record on Christianity. Islamism is theocratic, supremacist toward rival faiths wherever it has held power, and contemptuous of the secular permissiveness the modern left treats as sacred. They should repel one another.
What binds them are the enemies they share. Both regard Western constitutional order, free markets, the nation as an object of loyalty, and above all the Christian moral inheritance that underwrites Western liberty, as the structure that has to come down.
The Marxist attacks it in the vocabulary of class, colonialism, and oppression. The Islamist attacks it in the vocabulary of civilizational grievance and religious resistance. The targets line up even when the languages do not…..”
https://jdrucker.substack.com/p/to-stop-the-marxists-we-must-expose
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EXCERPT: “Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who served as head cheerleader in the left’s failed attempt to keep Donald Trump off her state’s 2024 Republican primary ballot, now faces a lawsuit alleging she broke the state constitution in permitting non-residents who have never lived in Colorado to vote in its elections.
Griswold, the leftist tool of the far-left machine that defiled the U.S. Constitution, is now accused of ignoring the Centennial State’s charter.
“Yet again, Democrats are trying to let people vote in a state where they’ve never lived,” Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters said in a statement. “Jena Griswold is ignoring Colorado’s Constitution and allowing non-residents to cast ballots in Colorado elections.”‘Residency is not Inherited’
The RNC filed the lawsuit on Friday in Denver District Court, joined by Rep. Jeff Crank, R-Colo., and Douglas County Clerk and Recorder Sheri Davis. According to the court filing, the action seeks an injunction against Griswold, a Democrat with a checkered record on the law running for Colorado attorney general. A primary election is slated for Tuesday.
“In direct contravention of this constitutional command, the Colorado Secretary of State has issued guidance permitting individuals who have never resided in the United States, let alone in Colorado, to register and vote in Colorado elections based solely on the residency of a parent, legal guardian, or spouse,” the lawsuit states.
Griswold notes as much in a Uniformed and Overseas Electors Frequently Asked Questions page on the Secretary of State’s website.
Griswold’s guidance follows a bad state law, the lawsuit asserts, that also permits voters who have never lived in Colorado to vote in the state’s elections. The law and Griswold’s guidance are in “direct conflict with the residency requirements set forth in Article VII of the Colorado Constitution,” the complaint asserts…..”
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/29/rnc-sues-colorados-tds-afflicted-elections-chief-for-violating-state-constitution/
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i think i brought this yesterday too…i was floored by her ignorance or duplicity. she had to have known that inviting people who’ve NEVER lived in Colorado to vote there would be scrutinized when sane people got in charge again.
what on earth is her logic???
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I wondered if you had….it did seem familiar but I figured, WTH, better to post it than not! LOL – and there is no logic!
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you can live overseas and have an uncle who once voted in there and you can register. that is madness!
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EXCERPT: “Planned Parenthood’s expansive exploitation of minors and women through sex-rejecting treatments and abortion services should compel Congress to extend funding restrictions on the abortion goliath through budget reconciliation — a last-ditch effort to rectify what should have been accomplished at the start of the session.
Last year Congress had the exceptional opportunity to pass a 10-year funding ban on abortion providers. They botched it, approving only a one-year ban instead, set to expire July 4. Congress had another opportunity to extend funding restrictions in April by attaching an amendment to “Reconciliation 2.0.” It failed.
Congress now has very little time to act to block hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars from once again funding the nation’s leading abortion and sex-rejecting treatment provider. The coming week will determine how representatives in government work to protect or misdirect the money placed at their disposal.Taxpayer Funding Continues
Planned Parenthood raked in more than $700 million in 2023-24 taxpayer funding, acquiring unprecedented wealth as a not-for-profit. Federal funding of the organization took a significant hit when the Trump administration halted Medicaid payments for abortion providers under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 4, 2025. Restrictions on Title X funds and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling directing abortion reimbursements to remain in states’ hands have also contributed to cuts.
But revenue is still coming in. A report by the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) and the American Principles Project found that Planned Parenthood has expanded into the lucrative “transgender medicine” business in a big way, capitalizing on sex-rejecting treatments and mutilation of gender-confused youth.
In fiscal year 2024-2025, Planned Parenthood “reported receiving approximately $832 million in ‘Government Health Services Reimbursements & Grants,’” according to the report…..”
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/29/congressional-laziness-about-to-restart-taxpayer-funds-for-biggest-u-s-abortion-and-transgender-kids-mill/
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there was an article last week i think about DeWine and the Haitians…
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SD fleshes out a SCOTUS decision
FTA
Justice Clarence Thomas filed a dissenting opinion. ALITO filed a dissenting opinion, in which GORSUCH joined, and BARRETT also filed a dissenting opinion.
This is a rather goofball decision when you consider the previous issues with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the high court prior ruling that President Trump can remove the head of the agency.
Additionally, if Lisa Cook does not work for the President of the United States, meaning if she doesn’t work for the Executive Branch, then who exactly is she working for? She doesn’t work for the legislative branch, and she doesn’t work for the judicial branch. Therefore, a de facto mysterious 4th branch of government is created.
Writing the majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts said if the Trump administration were correct, it “would in effect transform the Federal Reserve’s for-cause protection into at-will employment, an leap out of step with the statute Congress enacted and our Nation’s tradition of central banking protected from political interference.”
Justice Clarence Thomas said the 5-4 ruling was “incorrect.” “Although the Court expresses concern that the President removed a Board member for ‘the first time in the Federal Reserve’s 111-year history, it expresses no such concern that it today upholds an injunction [here] against the President’s removal of an executive officer for the first time in the Constitution’s 237-year history.”
If the Federal Reserve Board of Governors are not subject to the plenary power of the executive branch, then who controls it? If no one, then the Federal Reserve Board (FED) exists to control the American economy without any oversight from any mechanism within the U.S. Constitution.
The federal reserve is a fourth branch of government?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/06/29/supreme-court-5-4-ruling-creates-fourth-branch-of-government-trump-v-cook/
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eilert (@guest_1624728)
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June 29, 2026 12:44
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i believe it would be THAT bad!
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they like the pond too. yo can always tell when they’ve been in it. the irises around the edge are bent over.
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“Arizona sisters give birth to baby boys on the same day at the same hospital with the same weight”
Not The Bee, Harriet Rigby, June 28, 2026
“Arizona sisters Rylee Rumsey and Kayla Strickland were surprised to discover they were pregnant at the same time, with due dates just a week apart, but they never expected to give birth on the same day.
Then on June 7, Rumsey went into labor spontaneously, and less than 2 hours later, so did Strickland.
Their mom, Stephanie, told ABC 15,
Thankfully, she didn’t have to go back and forth very far because her two daughters were just down the hall from each other at the same hospital, with the same doctor and delivery team.
Strickland said of her mom,
She also only had one birth weight to remember, because both of her grandsons ended up weighing in at exactly the same weight of 8 pounds, 6 ounces.As for the sisters, they’re excited to continue the parenting journey side-by-side with their baby boys, who will probably grow up feeling more like twins than cousins.”
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TheseTruths(@thesetruths)
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June 29, 2026 13:39
This win is YUGE.
JUST IN: Supreme Court Overturns Landmark Humphrey’s Executor Case, Says Trump Can Fire Biden-Appointed FTC Commissioner – Trump Responds!
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WeThePeople2016
June 29, 2026 1:40 pm
Some good news today.
The Colorado Supreme Court has blocked a Democrat-backed redistricting plan that would have resulted in the party gaining three additional seats in the U.S. House.
https://truthsocial.com/@justthenews/116834583362976502
Colorado Supreme Court blocks ballot initiatives to redraw House maps
https://justthenews.com/node/184421?utm_source=mux&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=social-media-autopost
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35 years ago today, I married the love of my life!
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thank you!
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I don’t think I’ll show hubby this one…he might rethink the whole thing…LOL
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ROFL – as you wish!
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We can rebuild him. We can make him better than he was.
What do those folks do for a living there?
The Force was with him
Stand next to a collapsing building, and you might eat a brick
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maybe they fish???
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Most likely!
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they can keep them! yuck!
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Comfortable Corner
Have a seat
Water Dog
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i would NOT sit there (at the water’s edge) if you paid me a million bucks!
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I would for a limited length of time – the ambiance under the right circumstances is awesome!
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but Filly…things crawl out of the ocean to get you!
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LOL – not very often!
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enough to keep me away!!!
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Hey honey, lets take the Dornier out for a spin
Redheads Festival, held annually in Dublin, Ireland.
Leggy
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beautiful smile on that redhead–gorgeous hair too!
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Thug Life
Massive
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Dad’s forever in her heart
Serious Sailor
What a creature!
Green Machine. That thing is insanely beautiful.
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awwwwwww she’s a little cutie!
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Night Wolf
Take that away from him before he hurts himself or someone else
Monster Machine
Honey Badger Don’t Share
Letting it all hang out
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More mud, more fun
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without those white teeth, I’d think it was a statue!
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IKR? LOL
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Filly? sent an email.
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TheseTruths(@thesetruths)
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June 29, 2026 16:18
Wayne Root advises giving up on SAVE America and says PDJT must sign a “National Security Emergency for Elections.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/wayne-root-supreme-court-just-legalized-stolen-elections/
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Good night!
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Good Night Filly!
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Good night All!
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