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This is the operating principle of mainstream media now: Report only the news that motivates the correct public response. Suppress news that might raise doubts or undermine obedience.
Michael Bates ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฆ๐บ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ retweeted
One MP signature so far.
Me.
Michael Bates ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฆ๐บ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ retweeted
Welcome to general contracting! The most โconservativeโ industry in the country until you ask them if their subs are here legally. They wear Old Glory as a skin suit.
These guys donโt care about their nation; they care about low taxes, cheap labor, and profit margin.
"I was a big part of the blue wave.."
That's Lee Haight, president of RRCA (Roofing & Reconstruction Contractors of America) in Naples, Florida, defending his illegal immigrant crew from ICE and saying they're "necessary," not a burden on society.
In the same video he complains the insurance company steered jobs to his competitors, then brags about an $85,000 stone-coated steel roof on the water and a claim he says could top $150,000.
Cheap labor works out GREAT for the guy at the top. LMAO
Michael Bates ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฆ๐บ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ retweeted
Imagine ALL the problems that would be solved by just saving sex for marriage.
Michael Bates ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฆ๐บ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ retweeted
Speed matters because life is finite. If you take 10 years to learn what could take 2, youโve lost 8 years of compounding.
Michael Bates ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฆ๐บ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ retweeted
The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was destroyed in March 2024. As of August 2026, MD was still *accepting bids* to complete demolition of the old bridge, with hopes of finishing demo this year. "REPAIR" is written & released four years bf one bridge is REPAIRED in MD. Projected reopening is 2030, but I'm sure that won't be done by then. ONE BRIDGE.
REPAIR is an honest look at where our country stands now, what's broken, what we need to rebuild completely, and what we can't lose sight of.
Our future won't repair itself. We have to be the ones who do it.
Preorder your copy today: premierecollectibles.com/wesโฆ
Michael Bates ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฆ๐บ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ retweeted
I just heard from another young guy in his 30s who has stage four colon cancer (it's usually more aggressive in younger patients.) For a YEAR he couldn't get GI doctor to approve colonoscopy and a CT and MRI missed it.
WHY is it so hard to get colonoscopies when GI cancers are exploding in younger populations and are the fastest-rising group of early-onset cancers in the US and it is now the leading cause of cancer death under age 50?
@RobertKennedyJr can MAHA do something here? So many young people are needlessly dying for want of colonoscopies!!!
Michael Bates ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฆ๐บ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ retweeted
Some of you may have read when I wrote about one of my closest friends who got 2 shingles shots around 2021 and immediately got a case of shingles.
Then she got a second case of shingles.
Well I just saw her over the weekend and she reported she recently got a third case.
In her 60s. Never had shingles... until she got the 2 vaccines. Since then, she's had three cases.
I asked her if each case was a little less severe. She told me no, each case was worse than the last.
To her knowledge, her providers didn't report any of this to VAERS (the vaccine adverse event database that we learn about adverse events from).
Michael Bates ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฆ๐บ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ retweeted
Nothing says โterrific leaderโ like losing nine seats, including in deep red states like Mississippi and South Carolina.
America cannot afford one more day of John Thuneโs โterrificโ leadership.
The too-online don't like @LeaderThune. They need to understand that their anger telegraphs a lack of basic understanding about the Senate and the Constitution, John Thune is a terrific man and terrific leader. The @SenateGOP is lucky to have him.
Michael Bates ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฆ๐บ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ retweeted
I remember the first time I visited Rush in NYC after his radio show was nationally syndicated and I stayed in his one-bedroom apartment on 60th between Columbus and Amsterdam, right across from Fordham.
In slept on the couch in the living room and in the middle of the night his printer started receiving tons of docs, which were the main papers, WaPO, NYT, etc. coming through via Compuserve.
Compuserve? Yes, you heard me right. But no one can fairly call Rush a Luddite. So you go to war with the army you have and you access the digital world with the technology available.
Fun fact: Paul Shaffer lived in that apartment building and I ran into him in the elevator one time. Also Macaulay Culkin, though I never saw him.
I randomly ran into celebrities quite a bit when I visited NYC, such as Diana Ross, Iman (model and wife of David Bowie), Timothy Dalton, Charles Bronson, Mr. T., who jumped out of his limo to yell at a beggar to "Get a job" LOL, John Cusack -- at Mickey Mantle's Restaurant and Bar, that's before I knew Cusack was a mean-spirited liberal, Steven Wright (comedian), Robert Vaughn (Man from Uncle), and many others. Good times.
Michael Bates ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฆ๐บ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ retweeted
Scum. I hate the Oklahoma swamp
๐จReport: Oklahoma Senator Alan Armstrong is blocking President Trump's Oklahoma District Court Nominee Zach West
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is working behind the scenes against Zach West as well because Zach West supported the Catholic charter school.
West already held his confirmation hearing.
Armstrong didnโt say why he is opposed to West.
However, James Lankford supports West.
Kevin Hern will take over Armstrong seat on November 30th.
Source: National Review
Michael Bates ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฆ๐บ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ retweeted
The best reading of this is that the author wants the church to be cognizant of visitors, widows, orphans, singles, etc. But the more probable reading is that he has bought into the "idolization of family" motif popularized by Keller and company. The church is a spiritual family, and we are to "love one another," but that does not destroy the commonality of familial bonds and the care that mothers and fathers are to have for the liturgical training of their children during the service. Worship is a form of liturgical education; it's the culmination of all learning.
Additionally, many of these concerns would subside if families lived as church-friendly entities rather than living in competition with the church. This would result in self-aware family units who would actually invite widows and orphans and singles into their pews to share in their psalms and hymns, Eucharist, and hospitality.
"As Julie and I discussed it, we thought it was worth calling Christian couples to re-imagine what itโs like walking into church on your own, and then to think of church less like a date and more like a deployment."
โDave Moore
au.thegospelcoalition.org/arโฆ
Michael Bates ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฆ๐บ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ retweeted
One week ago tonight, we packed the Arvest Convention Center in Tulsa and celebrated a win that Oklahomans fought hard for. We earned every vote, and we won it the right way.
People said a businessman and former state senator couldnโt take on the political establishment and win, and we proved them wrong. We won because volunteers knocked on doors in all 77 counties, because families put signs in their yards and prayed over this campaign, and because Oklahomans decided they were done settling for less than excellence.
Noel and I are fired up and ready to lead. Weโre going to fix how our kids learn to read, put money back in your pocket, and cut the waste out of a state government that has grown too big and too comfortable. Oklahomaโs best days are ahead, and weโre going to make sure of it.
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Glad to be quoted here pointing out the numerous, dangerous flaws in the NPV compact that seeks to hijack the Electoral College.
Electoral College coming to an end? Blue wave gives Democratsโ decades-old scheme new life theblaze.com/news/electoral-โฆ
Michael Bates ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฆ๐บ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ retweeted
I didnโt have a lot of military contact as a kid. So if #VeteransDay was on my radar, it was mostly, โWow, look at those men who went to war.โ
Ryan joined the Navy five years ago. Now itโs โLook at those boys who have been sleeping on a submarine instead of in a dorm.โ I go to the base or the ball and I see kids who could be my kids and who traded the conventional and comfortable pathways to adulthood for trial and tribulation.
And generations of veterans have been doing it for more than 200 years.
I know thereโs a full spectrum of opinions on our country, from enthusiastic patriots to people who feel disgusted by our history or this administration.
But however you feel about the country, you would not be able to have the life you want or the life you feel this nation deserves without the armed forces. War and conflict are far more common in human history than peace. And the peace we do get to experience does not arrive through โimagining thereโs no country.โ It is secured by real people who leave their homes and leave their families for a month or a year or forever.
Their career choice secures your career choice. Sleeping away from their home protects your ability to sleep in peace. You have abundant choices at the Apple Store or the hardware store because they steward stores of munitions along global shipping lanes. You can relax. Because they didn't.
Wherever you are on the political spectrum, take a minute today to thank someone whoโs served. Call them, text them, or look them in the eye and say, โThank you.โ They chose to do what we couldn't, or wouldn't. And that deserves recognition.
Michael Bates ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฆ๐บ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ retweeted
China has the Great Wall.
India has the Taj Mahal.
Italy has the Colosseum.
And here in Massachusetts?
We have this...
Michael Bates ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฆ๐บ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ retweeted
Nothing says โprincipled Republicanโ like endorsing Kamala Harris in a deep-red state and then crowing when the party he claims to belong to gets wrecked. Bold.
Michael Bates ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฆ๐บ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ retweeted
Walmart and Kroger are quietly rolling out an internal store technology across America that could either modernize retail or bankrupt the middle-class family budget.
Starting across thousands of locations heading into 2027, traditional paper price tags are being ripped off grocery shelves and replaced with cloud-connected digital screens. Raise the price of bottled water by 20 percent the second the afternoon temperature hits 90 degrees. Surge the cost of ground beef, milk, and sandwich bread between 5 PM and 6 PM when exhausted commuters are rushing home from work. Drop prices at 10 AM on a Tuesday, then hike them right back up the minute the after-school crowd walks through the sliding doors.
Every price change happens wirelessly in seconds from a central corporate dashboard. No store employee has to touch a single shelf.
Walmart has already signed a massive deployment deal with VusionGroup to wire 2,300 American supercenters with EdgeSense digital shelf rails by 2027. Kroger is expanding its own Microsoft-backed system called EDGE across hundreds of supermarkets. Over 60 million digital price tags are already blinking on US grocery aisles right now.
This is not supply chain inflation. This is Uber-style surge pricing built directly into the shelves where Americans buy baby formula, eggs, and medicine.
Last week I sat down for coffee with a former retail pricing director who spent 14 years building supermarket margin algorithms before leaving the industry. What he shared over the table completely changed how I look at a grocery aisle.
"Retailers just turned static shelves into live stock tickers. The question is not whether grocery chains will use instant price changes, because they already spent billions installing the hardware. The question is how much extra money a family of four will lose every week simply because both parents work until 5 PM and cannot shop during off-peak hours."
Here is how the digital grocery pricing system actually works, how it tracks you in the aisle, and the exact phone settings and checkout playbook you need to beat it.
Another lousy Stitt appointment. I am very curious to see if there's a pattern to Stitt's appointments pointing to his post-political career.
nationalreview.com/bench-memโฆ
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