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what's happening? is there a show today? please and thank you. @RealCandaceO
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EK, "I'm built different". LOL. Candace... she's not only stalking you, she secretly wishes she was you. Holy moly.
Yeah the writer of the article absolutely thinks Erika is dumb and saw right through the Christian grift meant to obscure the fact that Erika knows nothing about politics.
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I can’t begin to imagine the heartbreak you are enduring right now, but please know that you are not alone in this fight. It might feel like every odd is stacked against accountability, but they cannot be protected forever. No man can protect them from the retribution of the evil they have committed. The innocent blood of Charlie Kirk that was shed cries out from the earth for justice. Exposing the full truth of those who betrayed him is the only path toward true redemption and eternal peace for his memory. God always places the right people in the right positions when the time comes. Human power may attempt to conceal wrongdoing, but God always has the final word. Real accountability will prevail. Keep your faith up. Keep your eyes on God. Evil will be destroyed. God always wins. 🙏🏻 Galatians 6:7 "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows."
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That coach really earned their money.
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Quick! Pick an emotion! Oh fuck it, give them all the emotions!
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That's our God, I.e. incredibly, exceedingly, abundantly good. He does more than we can think or imagine. What an awesome God we serve. #ChristisKing
We asked Claude. There was an approximate 1 in 100 million chance that I ran into Justin Baldoni at an airport in Iceland on a Friday afternoon. Just incredible.
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Give this man his flowers 👏
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You don’t have to come from much to do much. You just need the willingness to answer God’s call. God doesn’t call the equipped—He equips those He calls. What an encouragement to remember that ordinary people, surrendered to God, can do extraordinary things. 🇺🇸 @AllenWest
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What this judgment means is that the whole administrative process and the decision to grant the exploration right is set aside, and thus the oil parties do not have the right to explore for oil. #EnvironmentalJustice
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At last we have been able to assert the rights of indigenous people over the profits of global corporations. This is a win not just for us as Indigenous People, but also for the environment and the planet. #WildCoast #CommunityRights #EnvironmentalJustice #ProtectTheWildCoast
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𝟲𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗠𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗣𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟰 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗰𝗼, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜 𝗔𝗺 𝗚𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗡𝗼 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹. I am a strategic realist. I do not read events by what people say. I read them by who gains, who aligns with whom, and what has been done before. Apply that to Ceuta and a very different picture appears than the one on your screen. The facts. About 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into Ceuta in a single day, 70% of the city's population. At least 34 are dead. Spain's prime minister calls it a violation of territorial integrity. Now the dots. 𝗗𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗲 Morocco is a government fully aligned with the United States and Israel through the Abraham Accords. 𝗗𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝘄𝗼 Spain's prime minister is firmly against Trump, against NATO increasing its spending obligations, against the war, and has spoken out against Israel's aggression in Gaza. 𝗗𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 Morocco controls this border like a tap. When Rabat wants the crossings stopped, they stop. When it wants them to happen, they happen. This is not opinion. In 2021, furious at Spain over Western Sahara, Morocco quietly stood down its guards and sent roughly 10,000 people into this exact city as punishment. It has used human beings as a lever of state pressure before, deliberately, and everyone understood the message. 𝗗𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗿 The tap opens again now, at the precise moment a Spanish leader is defying Washington and Tel Aviv on NATO, on the war, and on Gaza. A realist does not believe in coincidences that convenient. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗿𝗮𝘄 This is how power actually removes an inconvenient government in this era. Not a coup. Not an invasion. You use an aligned neighbour to open a crisis the target's own public will blame him for. A border collapse floods the news, splits the country, arms the opposition, and makes the sitting leader look like he cannot defend his own frontier. The pressure travels through a partner who denies everything, and the defiant government bleeds domestic support without a fingerprint left on the knife. In my read, that is exactly what is being done to Sánchez. 𝗠𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 No one signs an order for this, so no one can ever prove it. That is the design, and it is why almost no analyst will say out loud what the alignment plainly shows. An Accords state, a leader who crossed the US and Israel, a border that opens on command, and a documented history of using exactly this weapon. I connect those dots because the realist lens leaves little else to conclude. And the next time a government that defies Washington suddenly faces a crisis on its border, its streets or its currency, you will already know the shape of it. The knife is chosen precisely because it leaves no prints. If this gave you signal worth keeping, please bookmark, retweet and like. Consider following if you find my work worthy. 𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟, 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘!!
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗛𝗮𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿. 𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗗𝗼 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻. 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆. For ± 80 years, American soft power was Hollywood, the dollar, NATO, the IMF, and the State Department. Persuasion. Reward. Consequence delivered through institutions. Bookmark this. The Trump administration has revealed a new variant. Public destruction of allied heads of government who refuse alignment. NOT through coups. NOT through sanctions on the country. Through TARGETED political demolition of the individual leader using Truth Social, tariffs, visa revocations, and intelligence leaks calibrated for the foreign domestic press cycle. The case file is now too large to dismiss as coincidence. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲 ONE. @JustinTrudeau. Canada. Resigned January 6, 2025. Trump trolled him for months as "Governor Trudeau of the 51st state." Threatened 25% tariffs. Trudeau's deputy PM Chrystia Freeland resigned in December 2024 citing his failure to take Trump seriously. Trudeau's polling collapsed. His own party turned. He resigned. Trump posted within minutes "Justin Trudeau knew this, and resigned." TWO. @Keir_Starmer. United Kingdom. Resigned TODAY, June 22, 2026. Refused to join US military action against Iran at the Évian G7 on June 16. Trump publicly attacked him, called him "NOT Winston Churchill," attacked British military capability, demanded North Sea oil exploration reopen. Trump posted Starmer's resignation on @TruthSocial ± 18 hours BEFORE Starmer announced it. Per @washingtonpost. "An extraordinary foray into UK politics." THREE. @petrogustavo . Colombia. Sanctioned along with his wife, son, and interior minister in October 2025. Visa revoked. US aid cut. Tariffs threatened. Trump called him "illegal drug leader" and "sick man." Threatened US military operations on Colombian soil. Petro is term-limited but the Trump pressure has structurally collapsed his political coalition through the end of his term. FOUR. Nicolás Maduro. Venezuela. Captured in November 2025 in a US military operation alongside his wife. Sent to face federal drug conspiracy charges in American courts. This is NOT pressure. This is an actual ouster of a sitting head of state by direct US military action. FIVE. Olaf Scholz. Germany. Government collapsed November 2024 after Trump's election. Lost the February 2025 snap election. Replaced by @_FriedrichMerz under conditions explicitly framed by German press as "Trump-proofing" Berlin. SIX. Volodymyr Zelensky. Ukraine. Survived the February 2025 Oval Office blowup BUT Trump called him "a dictator without elections" and cut intelligence sharing. The pressure to hold elections under terms Trump dictates remains live. The architecture is the same. That is SIX cases in ± 18 months. NOT coincidence. A pattern. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺 The Trump method does NOT require formal sanctions. It does NOT require regime change. It uses FIVE tools. ONE. Public personal humiliation calibrated for the foreign domestic press cycle. The foreign electorate consumes the humiliation in real time and reads weakness in their own leader. TWO. Tariff threats targeted at the export sectors most politically sensitive in the foreign country (Canadian autos and lumber, UK financial services, Colombian flowers and coffee, German manufacturing). THREE. Visa revocations and asset designations against the leader's inner circle (the Petro family, Mandelson via Epstein files). FOUR. Coordinated leaks through American media that arrive in the foreign country as authoritative sourcing. FIVE. Public predictions of the leader's downfall that function as self-fulfilling prophecy because they signal Washington's preference to the foreign opposition. Each of the six leaders listed above faced ALL FIVE tools simultaneously. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 @MarkJCarney (Canada). Inherited Trudeau's fall. Knows it can happen to him. Canada now in recession. The vulnerability is structural. @EmmanuelMacron (France). Hosted the Versailles MOU. Knows refusal carries the same consequence. @_FriedrichMerz (Germany). Replaced Scholz. Knows the price of his job is alignment. @takaichi_sanae (Japan). Recently formed government under explicit Washington alignment terms. @GiorgiaMeloni (Italy). The European leader Trump has been least hostile to BECAUSE she preemptively aligned. These five governments are NOT operating under normal diplomatic conditions. They are operating under the structural awareness that @POTUS Trump can destroy them publicly if they refuse American strategic objectives. The awareness shapes EVERY decision before the conversation with Washington even begins. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 This is NOT the soft power of the Marshall Plan. This is NOT the soft power of the Voice of America. This is a NEW form of power that uses the foreign country's OWN democratic processes against its leader. Trump does NOT need to overthrow a Prime Minister. He needs the Prime Minister's OWN voters, OWN party, and OWN press to read Washington's signal and act on it. The signal travels through @TruthSocial, @FoxNews, and the coordinated leak architecture and social media. The action happens inside the foreign country's domestic political system. Washington's fingerprints are everywhere AND nowhere at the same time. This is signal that American soft power has evolved from institutional persuasion to targeted leader destruction, that the post-1945 architecture of allied autonomy is structurally over, that any allied government now calculates EVERY major foreign-policy decision through the filter of Trump's likely response, and that the leaders who survive this era will be the ones who preemptively align. The leaders who refuse will join the case file. Here is an in-depth analysis of this for those keen:ajsignalnotnoise.substack.co… I look beyond the headlines and make sense of the nuances. If this gave you signal worth keeping, like and consider following 🙏🙏 𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟, 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘!!
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𝟲𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗠𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗣𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟰 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗰𝗼, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜 𝗔𝗺 𝗚𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗡𝗼 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹. I am a strategic realist. I do not read events by what people say. I read them by who gains, who aligns with whom, and what has been done before. Apply that to Ceuta and a very different picture appears than the one on your screen. The facts. About 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into Ceuta in a single day, 70% of the city's population. At least 34 are dead. Spain's prime minister calls it a violation of territorial integrity. Now the dots. 𝗗𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗲 Morocco is a government fully aligned with the United States and Israel through the Abraham Accords. 𝗗𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝘄𝗼 Spain's prime minister is firmly against Trump, against NATO increasing its spending obligations, against the war, and has spoken out against Israel's aggression in Gaza. 𝗗𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 Morocco controls this border like a tap. When Rabat wants the crossings stopped, they stop. When it wants them to happen, they happen. This is not opinion. In 2021, furious at Spain over Western Sahara, Morocco quietly stood down its guards and sent roughly 10,000 people into this exact city as punishment. It has used human beings as a lever of state pressure before, deliberately, and everyone understood the message. 𝗗𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗿 The tap opens again now, at the precise moment a Spanish leader is defying Washington and Tel Aviv on NATO, on the war, and on Gaza. A realist does not believe in coincidences that convenient. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝗿𝗮𝘄 This is how power actually removes an inconvenient government in this era. Not a coup. Not an invasion. You use an aligned neighbour to open a crisis the target's own public will blame him for. A border collapse floods the news, splits the country, arms the opposition, and makes the sitting leader look like he cannot defend his own frontier. The pressure travels through a partner who denies everything, and the defiant government bleeds domestic support without a fingerprint left on the knife. In my read, that is exactly what is being done to Sánchez. 𝗠𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 No one signs an order for this, so no one can ever prove it. That is the design, and it is why almost no analyst will say out loud what the alignment plainly shows. An Accords state, a leader who crossed the US and Israel, a border that opens on command, and a documented history of using exactly this weapon. I connect those dots because the realist lens leaves little else to conclude. And the next time a government that defies Washington suddenly faces a crisis on its border, its streets or its currency, you will already know the shape of it. The knife is chosen precisely because it leaves no prints. If this gave you signal worth keeping, please bookmark, retweet and like. Consider following if you find my work worthy. 𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟, 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘!!
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PSA: Fauci didn’t get his ass handed to him by anybody. What you saw is him remaining above the law in an act of political theater. These hearings took place after the statute of limitations expired and he’s been pardoned. It’s a mistake to believe political theater is reality.
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We just made an UNBELIEVABLE discovery about the medical examiner who conducted Charlie Kirk’s autopsy. WHAT. THE. EFF. IS. GOING. ON. We also finally found a witness at Timpanogos Hospital and what they’ve confided to us about that day is positively shocking. Join us LIVE: youtube.com/live/iB-YtO3UZOg
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You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.
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