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Beautiful

My Ten-Gallon Troubadours and I are hitting the recording studio later this month to begin recording an EP of honky Tonk heartbreak songs. Here’s just a small snippet of our original song “Heaven Knows”.

Anyways, here’s wonderwall… #cowpoke #yodel #country #western #tengallonhat

This yodeling gets you right in your soul. The hat is just right.

🚨Breaking. There's been a pneumonic plague outbreak at a BSL-3 lab in Siberia, Russia.🚨 "Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague" - Moscow Times This is fact, and also the inciting incident in my book BIOLOGICAL WAR: A SCENARIO, which is unnerving. Will post more as I learn more, including from Russian speaking sources🧵 shorturl.at/De4kW

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

Significant. @TruckersuniteNW interviews truckers at a truck stop in VA about whether they’re striking on Oct 1st & 2nd and cost of diesel. One owner/operator driver (Bull Hauler) mentions he gets 4.2 miles/gallon & he’s striking. O/O in video below is shutting down for 2 weeks.

T ruck Strike Oct 1st? Diesel $6 ?? x.com/i/broadcasts/1yJAPwNaE…

Amen.

It blows my mind that we collectively sit back and say nothing. Theo Von at least has the courage to use his platform to call it out.

May we learn to love God above all things and to selflessly love one another.

It’s only a matter of time before we take casualties on one of our naval ships or a U.S.-contracted vessel, some of which may be carrying U.S. personnel. The chances of a mass casualty event happening on a ship are much higher than on a land base, because it’s obviously much harder to evacuate sailors from a ship. They’re sitting ducks. This would be a catastrophic and tragically avoidable loss of our sailors, & certainly wouldn’t get us any closer to achieving our objectives in Iran—whatever those may be at this point. A more callous perspective, but which seems to be the one that gets a response out of Washington, is that it would be disastrous before the midterms, in that it would force the President to escalate a very unpopular war. To eliminate this risk, we have to remove our ships & bases from the region. The President can say he ended & won the war ahead of the November midterms. Then, use the potential of unfreezing funds along with measured sanctions relief to incentivize the Iranians to open the SOH.

If you’re still in the administration and are truly opposed to the Iran war, you might as well publicly resign & speak out—because at this rate no one is ever going to know or care that you were quietly against it, whispering to the media. The loudest people encouraging Trump to continue this foolish war are the same neocons who gave us the Iraq war, and who now are gleefully cheering on the destruction of MAGA while telling Trump they’re the only ones who see his brilliance. Trump is sharing an article by Marc Thiessen, a Bush speechwriter, a week after Trump accurately labeled Bush a failure. Thiessen is attacking all who tried to warn Trump that this war would be a disaster in order to keep Trump in state of siege. The neocons’ ultimate goal is to ensure this war escalates so it can fulfill its purpose of destroying Trump’s historic movement & pushing out those around him who believe in putting America first instead of prioritizing foreign interests & personal gain.

Happy Constitution Day. “[It’s] a republic if you can keep it.”

"And the cost to those who responded was high: in the post-9/11 wars, more than 15,000 U.S. military members and contractors died in combat, and some 1.8 million became disabled. And from 2012 to 2021, four times as many active-duty or veteran military members died by suicide as died in combat" foreignaffairs.com/united-st…