2026-04-14T14:51:53Z https://yabu.me Nostr notes by ChemTrailsMN ✈️ ChemTrailsMN ✈️ https://yabu.me/npub17ccjqr83vjxeqfwp2lf8u33f3zs8px5ske0c8tc4ej2y4z0ht9vqadgmu7 https://www.minds.com/icon/737692121632350222/large/1501255507/1715105081/1660028401 https://www.minds.com/icon/737692121632350222/large/1501255507/1715105081/1660028401 https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9h03m3wgc3clnmtxavmfcaxf94408699au5dpq3wg396mh967vsgzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s93mlk3 LINK!?!?? 👍 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr2psl27d56xkm3ys7u65g00rfcwh2henxcswp0n5xna3rtkppl2cda5fpu'>nevent1q…5fpu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>LINK!?!?? 👍 2026-05-01T21:36:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswzy23s8eruj4dd946s5ykmhz4lwmpqtwm6fpf0p6kqulcwrf3j8qzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s3k3c6p His LAST show! He definitely seemed off, like he knew something ... His LAST show! <br/>He definitely seemed off, like he knew something up. He was in a good mood midway through but he did get a lot of taunting in the chat.<br/>Another UFO expert and Trump antagonist mysteriously dead...<br/><br/>🚨 Tragic news: David Wilcock, 53, prominent UFO researcher, author &amp; disclosure advocate has reportedly died by suicide on April 20, 2026 near Nederland, Colorado. <br/><br/>Boulder County Sheriff’s Office: Deputies responded to a 911 call at ~10:44 a.m. on Ridge Road. A man in mental health crisis, outside a residence and holding a weapon, used it on himself within minutes of contact. He was pronounced dead at the scene. <br/><br/>Wilcock was a major voice in ufology. Not a traditional field investigator, but a prolific researcher, lecturer, filmmaker and New York Times bestselling author (The Source Field Investigations). He co-hosted Cosmic Disclosure on Gaia, claimed telepathic ET contact, and was seen by some as Edgar Cayce’s reincarnation. He also served as Director of Advanced Technology and board member at Stavatti Aerospace, where he promoted next-gen military fighters, exotic propulsion and advanced aerospace concepts.<br/><br/>A polarizing figure who inspired millions in the alternative community. What’s your take on his legacy?<br/>I say this was MKULTRA mind controlled programming triggered.<br/><br/>@BlackHawk287<br/>4 hours ago<br/>Dude was NOT suicidal. I don’t buy this one bit. It’s always “suicide”.<br/><br/>345<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>7 replies<br/><br/>@OriginalHologram<br/>4 hours ago<br/>1:33:13 He says &#34;Please don&#39;t be stupid, natural (death) is the only way to go.&#34;<br/><br/>308<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>18 replies<br/><br/>@beautifulandbbold<br/>4 hours ago<br/>David would not. No way. Justice for David!<br/><br/>387<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>21 replies<br/><br/>@glaff792<br/>4 hours ago<br/>David wasn’t suicidal. I’ve known David for a while now and he was always wondering “when are they gonna come for me to hush me up” it was always in a joking manner. Now look.<br/><br/>468<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>35 replies<br/><br/>@trudyhandelman<br/>4 hours ago<br/>There is more to this Story. RIP David<br/><br/>172<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>2 replies<br/><br/>@Erhudreamer<br/>5 hours ago<br/>Murder! Right out Murder!!<br/>He did say people were after him. He was not suicidal and you all know that!!!<br/>Call it for what it is!!<br/>So devastating for all of us.<br/><br/>215<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>18 replies<br/><br/>@wilso3697<br/>3 hours ago (edited)<br/>He would never never never do that....JUSTICE FOR DAVID PLEASE<br/><br/>76<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@kellyann3112<br/>3 hours ago<br/>I don&#39;t want this to be real. We know he wouldn&#39;t do this.<br/><br/>83<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>2 replies<br/><br/>@MygirlsGJPB<br/>6 hours ago<br/>I came here to see if it was true. RIP David, you didn’t know me, but you comforted me on many Sundays and I spent many hours with you.<br/><br/>223<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>15 replies<br/><br/>@axelhasto6580<br/>3 hours ago<br/>No way did David commit suicide! I listened to David every Sunday and I don’t believe for one minute that he hurt himself. He was over the target…….🙏<br/><br/>147<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>3 replies<br/><br/>@jemineyeincantations5712<br/>5 hours ago<br/>Just heard the news that David passed. I got to be his hair stylist for a few years and have followed him since the early 2000&#39;s. I have so much respect for him and will miss his genuine love for humanity and God. We are so lucky to have his legacy in books and videos. I know he is with God now and having an amazing reunion with God. RIP Brother. 🌟🙏🌟<br/><br/>225<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>11 replies<br/><br/>@sonjarobinson501<br/>4 hours ago<br/>He was not suicidal. They either murdered him or he is in witness protection.<br/><br/>76<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>8 replies<br/><br/>@Patriciamoran68<br/>5 hours ago<br/>I can’t believe it! I am in shock! I have a hard time believing the story. May God keep him in his glory. I feel lost without his inspiration.<br/><br/>178<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>6 replies<br/><br/>@mayasuz6216<br/>4 hours ago<br/>No way. No way. I&#39;m not buying this. Not for 1 second. No way he would do this now. No way he would call the cops just to do it. Don&#39;t tell me mental health issues. That doesn&#39;t equate to suicidal. Nope. Somethings up. God bless you David/Edgar/Micheal wherever you are.<br/><br/>155<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>7 replies<br/><br/>@escapematrixenterprisejacq7810<br/>4 hours ago<br/>I DONT believe the story<br/><br/>128<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>2 replies<br/><br/>@Dealman1776<br/>5 hours ago<br/>Rest in peace my brother David. We know they did something to you. You would not have done this under your own free will. We love you<br/><br/>133<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>7 replies<br/><br/>@ddesignsolutions<br/>3 hours ago (edited)<br/>We listened to part of his show Sunday live. He seemed upbeat &amp; excited about loosing weight &amp; looking forward to a possible relationship in the future. He had health issues as he had mentioned but nothing that he would eliminate himself at all. I have been watching him since 2010. There’s no way! “He just said it was an exciting time to be alive on earth!”<br/>Hopefully the white hats have him undercover. Otherwise he was taken from us because he spread truth. He was a scientist too. He talked Sunday about all the scientist “disappearing”. We love you David!! Thank you for ALL your hard work to humanity. I learned so much from you. May God be with you always. You will be very much missed! ️<br/><br/>58<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>1 reply<br/><br/>@natureswayglass<br/>3 hours ago<br/>My heart is in turmoil...! David literally says, &#34;he&#39;s doing okay &amp; he&#39;s going to make it,&#34; that &#34;somehow we keep making it through all this,&#34; &amp; things like &#34;there&#39;s a pathway to peace&#34; (in the affirmative) &amp; &#34;give gratitude for the present moment.&#34;<br/>He was feeling good about his weight loss, so much so he states he doesn&#39;t want to lose any more weight. He was excitedly playing his &#39;daddy&#39; character... I&#39;m just saying all this to say, my intuition tells me there is Much, Much more to this than what&#39;s being said. ...Something tells me he did not just &#34;clock out&#34;.... gosh this sucks... <br/><br/>41<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@vickycrewfuller<br/>4 hours ago<br/>David did not commit suicide.<br/><br/>47<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@LoriOtto<br/>1 hour ago<br/>David Wilcock—this one hurts. You were an amazing human being: brilliant, funny, thoughtful, and profoundly insightful. Your diaries revealed a depth of understanding that connected hidden knowledge from the past to the world today. You should have received many more awards for your talents and contributions. You are loved and will never be forgotten.<br/><br/>23<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@ChrisAthanas<br/>5 hours ago<br/>Rest in Peace David, you made my life better, you will be missed.<br/><br/>64<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@Emily-pm5gr<br/>3 hours ago<br/>There&#39;s no way. We all know that. David had so much passion and desire to be a part of great things - that is the opposite of what suicidal people are like.<br/><br/>30<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@revivahealing8437<br/>2 hours ago<br/>A person who is giving gratitude is not one who is going to unalive themselves.<br/><br/>74<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>6 replies<br/><br/>@jillmaxwell9094<br/>3 hours ago<br/>I’ve spent almost every Sunday with him for years, this is devastating thinking that he won’t be there anymore 😭<br/><br/>35<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>4 replies<br/><br/>@sherigilford7700<br/>2 hours ago<br/>DAVID WILCOCK WOKE ME UP....I WILL BE FOREVER GRATEFUL<br/><br/>41<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>2 replies<br/><br/>@r3m3mb3r-m3<br/>2 hours ago (edited)<br/>Part of my Grok [AI] inquiry about the legitimacy of reports of David&#39;s recent passing:<br/>&#34;Some online speculation includes mental health struggles, conspiracy angles (e.g., ties to &#34;UFO scientists&#34; or foul play), or even hoax/psyop theories, but the core reports consistently describe a self-inflicted gunshot during a welfare check. His biographer Wyn Free reportedly died just days earlier (April 18), which has fueled additional discussion.&#34;<br/><br/>I didn&#39;t know his biographer passed only two days prior!? Seem awfully fishy to me!<br/>For the record, I don&#39;t think he killed himself.<br/><br/>12<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@violetsparkles8527<br/>4 hours ago<br/>Breaks my heart. I met him and had the honor to hug him and his energy was beautiful and kind. Hope he’s at peace wherever he is. So sad.<br/><br/>42<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@zena_missunderstood666<br/>4 hours ago<br/>Sundays will never be the same. I hope you found peace David. Thank you for years of entertainment and interesting shows. Such a sad tragic way for things to end. ❤ Namaste.<br/><br/>66<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>2 replies<br/><br/>@Gold-q6r<br/>5 hours ago<br/>I am crying at the news of your passing. Your books had a huge impact in my life. Thank you so much for being you. I am so sorry that you were suffering so much. You deserved to be happy and joyful with how much love you gave. I hope that you are happy now, in spirit. Back Home with God ❤️<br/><br/>52<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@3ddgemi997<br/>4 hours ago<br/>Omg they got him.<br/><br/>73<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>6 replies<br/><br/>@Alaytheia<br/>3 hours ago<br/>I believe he took a deal. We won&#39;t hear from him again but he gets to continue his work. RIP David it&#39;s truly been a pleasure. You&#39;ll be GREATLY missed and your work will survive time.<br/><br/>27<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@WellnesswithJuju<br/>3 hours ago<br/>After doing this episode seems like he was hit, so something he said here triggered them.<br/><br/>19<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@TeeK3313<br/>2 hours ago<br/>This one hurts 😔<br/><br/>30<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@JohnPAdv<br/>5 hours ago<br/>REST I PEACE DAVID, YOU WERE STUCK IN THAT VICIOUS CYCLE, NOW YOUR FREE WITH GOD❤<br/><br/>34<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>1 reply<br/><br/>@lorraineofalbion369<br/>4 hours ago<br/>In shock, just caught the last part of his show Sunday. I don’t believe he took his own life. RIP David, you will be sorely missed.<br/><br/>19<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@MJAce85<br/>2 hours ago<br/>This is one of the people who Red Pilled me, around 2019-2020, in the early days of Covid. And ever since then, I&#39;ve been watching his video....I can&#39;t accept this, something is up<br/><br/>18<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>1 reply<br/><br/>@skyborne.333<br/>1 hour ago<br/>He has been telling us for years that he would never do it, and has known for a long time that eventually they may come for him.<br/><br/>9<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@katiecat5500<br/>5 hours ago<br/>Doesn’t sound suicidal to me. Hope it’s not true.<br/><br/>22<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@connorwilford2553<br/>6 hours ago (edited)<br/>Rest in peace to one of the most influential figures of the UFO and Consciousness communities. We can now only pray that David Wilcock is in the loving arms of Father-Mother-God and that he has found the peace that he so lacked in life. Namaste.<br/><br/>192<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>23 replies<br/><br/>@brittanydishong4333<br/>4 hours ago (edited)<br/>I’m speechless 😢 I’ve followed his work for decades - he was truly a bringer of light ✌️💛 you will never be forgotten, friend!<br/><br/>13<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@AmyElTobgy<br/>5 hours ago<br/>I can&#39;t find any official announcements from reliable source. Coroner&#39;s hasn&#39;t announced the name! Praying not David<br/><br/>29<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>2 replies<br/><br/>@markstephenson9280<br/>5 hours ago<br/>I hope you have found some peace David. I’ll miss you.<br/><br/>33<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@axlrusss<br/>3 hours ago<br/>I just heard the news and I am bawling my eyes out!!! David we love you and you will be missed. You changed so much of our lives. You&#39;ve made the biggest impact. I became much more spiritual with your guidance. I miss you already. Love you David. Rip on the other side<br/><br/>17<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@creatorsofnewearth369<br/>3 hours ago<br/>Why are so many people buying this news? Something is highly suspect!!!<br/><br/>20<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>1 reply<br/><br/>@Serenityfor1<br/>1 hour ago<br/>David was in deep debt to the IRS for millions of dollars. If they were getting ready to take his home that could have sent him over the edge. May the Most High wrap him in his eternal love and heal every issue he had, he was very loved by many in the Spiritual community. 😢❤<br/><br/>10<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@EDungarian<br/>6 hours ago<br/>The character he played isn&#39;t what is important in this time now, it is that a real person behind the mask was suffering. RIP David.<br/><br/>18<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@cherylkelley5228<br/>4 hours ago<br/>David. Sign of life please.<br/><br/>35<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>1 reply<br/><br/>@quadq6598<br/>6 hours ago<br/>Big loss, RIP.<br/><br/>39<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@joseedore2955<br/>5 hours ago<br/>Oh my god , I am in shocked 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😭😭😭😭💔<br/><br/>24<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@elijahmetatronfunk2887<br/>2 hours ago<br/>He is stronger then ever. Your light was one of the brightest. Your knowledge is priceless, will see you soon ❤️<br/><br/>8<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@MattRodell<br/>1 hour ago<br/>I hope this gets figured out and nobody may know what really happened theyll never tell the full story. This stream was unique if it was his last 🙏 RIP DW<br/><br/>7<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@Brandizzle1982<br/>4 hours ago<br/>THIS IS SO SO SADDENING. RIP DAVID. IF I WOULD HAVE KNOWN ABOUT YOUR CHANNEL, I WOULD HAVE WATCHED ALL THE TIME. NOW I WILL BE GOING BACK AND WATCHING EVERYTHING. THANK YOU FOR GIVING US SO MUCH OF YOUR WISDOM. I AM PRAYING FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY...<br/><br/>12<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@highvibes77<br/>1 hour ago<br/>We love you David. I’m heartbroken. 💔<br/><br/>9<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@RajivB.<br/>1 hour ago<br/>24:38 - I look forward to getting back out into society<br/><br/>24:53 - I’m investigating the possibility of not eating salads<br/><br/>30:46 - I’m worried it might be some type of pre-diabetic symptoms <br/><br/>32:37 - I may need to check myself out<br/><br/>49:50 - staying alive is more important and you gotta keep that going<br/><br/>50:33 - I hope nothing bad is going to happen<br/><br/>54:22 - one of the things I’m looking at is pancreatic infection from Hannah disease<br/><br/>56:16 - I really wish there were other influencers out there doing global meditations but it seems that I’m the only one. I don’t want to be a single point failure if anything happens to me, god forbid<br/><br/>1:00:05 - heal people by saying I love you I’m sorry forgive me thank you. People got discharged<br/><br/>9<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@notmyname-w8o<br/>4 hours ago<br/>What a sad ending. Hope you found peace, David.<br/><br/>10<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@5thElement555<br/>4 hours ago<br/>May your journey be peaceful. Thank you for all you taught🕊🙏🏼<br/><br/>12<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@neuphoria11<br/>4 hours ago<br/>Link to confirmation of the news. Anyone?<br/><br/>14<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>1 reply<br/><br/>@_EBL<br/>3 hours ago<br/>In the words of my brother.. &#34;What!?!? Another hero silenced - brutal.&#34;<br/>We all owe David for so much 💔 💔 Please let it not be so<br/><br/>8<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@devapriya2245<br/>5 hours ago<br/>Ive noticed that David has appeared unwell for quite some time. The news of his passing is disturbing, saddening, shocking....<br/>Rest well good buddy, im sorry youve been under so much pressure. Your Service to humsnity will not be overlooked....😢❤🙏<br/><br/>26<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>11 replies<br/><br/>@Iam-Mr.T_11<br/>2 hours ago<br/>His death... very suspicious. I would need to see the bodycams... Rest in peace. Miss you already!😢<br/><br/>6<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@ChristinaLove117<br/>5 hours ago<br/>I can&#39;t believe you are gone. Many are exiting right now during these tumultuous times 🙏<br/><br/>18<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>2 replies<br/><br/>@KellyHart<br/>5 hours ago<br/>Wow I’m so sad! He was so influential in the community. I’m sorry for his pain or what led to this tragedy . RIP David you will be missed 💔<br/><br/>12<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@DAHBOO77<br/>2 hours ago<br/>RIP, We wont stop until we get the TRUTH~<br/><br/>10<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>1 reply<br/><br/>@honeybeerustytobi<br/>5 hours ago<br/>Rest in Power David. Thank you for your dedication to your mission in this life.<br/><br/>12<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@Jboy-o5v<br/>4 hours ago (edited)<br/>RIP David 💙🙏🏼 you were an important figure and I’m glad to have witnessed a lot of your great work. I’ve spent hours and hours watching your talks and you helped me open my mind. This seems too hard to believe as you mentioned they were after you a few times. Your knowledge and passion for the truth will live on through us all. We will win. Thank you David. 🕊️ 🌍<br/><br/>12<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@jasmins4353<br/>5 hours ago (edited)<br/>If this is true…This breaks my heart. So long, David! Thank you for all that you have shared with us. Until then…..<br/><br/>13<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@sakura_sun<br/>1 hour ago<br/>David THANK YOU for everything. ❤ The world is heavy today. Love you always.<br/><br/>6<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@JZK75<br/>5 hours ago<br/>I’m so saddened. You were one of the first I learned from. I wish the news wasn’t true 🙏🏻♥️<br/><br/>31<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@fhcooks<br/>2 hours ago<br/>I hope there’s some streaming memorial for David that we can all attend online. He deserves recognition of his life’s work and contributions to the awakened community and the world at large. A great truther! One of the original pioneers….<br/><br/>6<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@tarahpitner3158<br/>5 hours ago<br/>David was informing us too much…. What a beautiful person/soul…. I am saddened but also happy for him 🙏🫂<br/><br/>8<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@inirvanax<br/>3 hours ago<br/>Really sad news.... You will be missed David! 😢<br/><br/>7<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@fhcooks<br/>4 hours ago<br/>David, my brother in spirit, RIP and be with our Divine Creator. You lived and led a full life with purpose and resolve, to make this planet a better place for all of us. You will always be in our hearts and always remembered for your hard work! We love you and appreciate all you did for us 🙏!<br/><br/>8<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@Clara-s8m<br/>4 hours ago<br/>I am shocked and devastated at the news of our dear Brother&#39;s passing. I looked forward to Sunday&#39;s to listen to his podcast and see his beautiful tender heart. He was incredibly sweet, thoughtful, sensitive, funny, genuine and a Brilliant Scholar. You will be missed, my Sweet Angry Daddy. You will be sorely missed and will never be forgotten. Thank You, David for exhibiting the true characteristics that we seek in each other. Love you Always Clara (somehow, I pray that you went into hiding, oh please God, let it be so.)<br/><br/>7<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@666voyager666<br/>4 hours ago<br/>Mankind needed you... Im so sorry.<br/><br/>7<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@cherihealy2996<br/>3 hours ago<br/>I’m in shock what a tragic loss … I loved watching him truly finding the WAY<br/><br/>5<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@SunflowerHeart1<br/>2 days ago<br/>If you do get food from people, don’t forget to pray over it before you partake. You never what intentions people might have. Sad but true.<br/><br/>25<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>3 replies<br/><br/>@SallyAndersonmn<br/>2 hours ago<br/>My heart is broken. God bless us everyone.❤😢<br/><br/>6<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@aumbonda<br/>5 hours ago<br/>R.I.P.<br/><br/>22<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@vengaboysarchivalproject<br/>2 hours ago<br/>He was &#34;Suicided&#34; by Mind Kontrol &#34;MK&#34; Ultra Technology!<br/><br/>6<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@tammyroutley9368<br/>1 hour ago<br/>Prayers for all of us, ❤️<br/>David and Corey and families, all you have been through so much ❤<br/><br/>5<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@robinmead5826<br/>1 hour ago<br/>Should we add him to the growing list of dead or missing scientists?? Something is up.<br/><br/>6<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@dodhisattva<br/>4 hours ago<br/>David you had so much courage...you told me to not fear. I trust you are at peace now. I will never forget our time together.<br/><br/>6<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@damija123<br/>5 hours ago<br/>I hope it is not true… if so R.I.P to a legend<br/><br/>12<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@evanhudson881<br/>5 hours ago<br/>RIP David. Thanks for your work on behalf of humanity.<br/><br/>6<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@aka-Liz<br/>5 hours ago<br/>David, I’m going to miss you so much! You are a beautiful soul, praying you are at peace in your new realm of existence… ❤always 💫<br/><br/>9<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@jameswilson103<br/>6 hours ago<br/>Keeping you in my prayers David<br/><br/>17<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@LightBumble<br/>57 minutes ago<br/>David helped me have hope again. Why did this have to happen? God Bless You David🥰<br/><br/>5<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@eniigmv<br/>4 hours ago<br/>Wow, if the headlines are true, this one hurts.<br/><br/>6<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@345RightTri<br/>35 minutes ago<br/>49:49 “…staying alive is more important and you gotta keep that going”<br/><br/>4<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>1 reply<br/><br/>@mysteryislandstreasureches2847<br/>2 hours ago<br/>My Condolences...I&#39;ve been on video crews for David many times...he was a major headliner for<br/>Contact in the Desert and Conscious Life Expo. He always filled the rooms...Namaste<br/><br/>5<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@lucidperspective111<br/>2 hours ago<br/>Who else is here after learning what happened? He didn&#39;t do it!!!!<br/><br/>5<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@stacyramstad1177<br/>3 hours ago<br/>David was not suicidal!<br/>I want justice for David!!!<br/>So heartbroken right now<br/><br/>4<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@yogawithdenise<br/>3 hours ago<br/>They are sending a message guys… they r offing everyone who is communicating about our higher source, consciousness, advancement of technology….No way!! I can’t believe this!!! He was a perfectionist, he loved his life and so proud of his followers and going live every Sunday!! He had a purpose to live and he believed in consciousness!!!!<br/><br/>13<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>2 replies<br/><br/>@lindabalcazar2550<br/>2 hours ago<br/>What in the MK ultra happened to David???<br/><br/>6<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@daisyque8189<br/>12 hours ago<br/>A warring angel since we are in a spiritual war.<br/><br/>6<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@mazzd4908<br/>5 hours ago<br/>RIP 🙏 david<br/> cant belive it so sad<br/><br/>8<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@Beejee17<br/>4 hours ago<br/>My heart hurts😢<br/><br/>5<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@samantha1795-v2w<br/>4 hours ago<br/>God Bless You Always David For All Your Help &amp; Information for All of Us Now You are Working from the Other Side Guardian Angel<br/><br/>6<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@janisfaye3043<br/>3 hours ago<br/>He started off the video with “starting off with a bang” starting off with a bang! Twice then look right at camera<br/><br/>5<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@Brownmanifesting<br/>5 hours ago<br/>I CANNOT BELIEVE IT!!<br/><br/>7<br/><br/><br/>Reply<br/><br/><br/>@Dealman1776<br/>4 hours ago<br/>Someone who is an expert in sleuthing, please investigate this. Things are not adding up. We will need the body cam footage as well.<br/><br/> <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1893525515113865216">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1893525515113865216</a> 2026-04-22T03:14:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw82t6mkdg3q3efpt9nydq835algpecgu90kvxuhx7yzedjtd6wlqzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4stvmmau HEMP WOULD HAVE SOLVED ALL OUR NEEDS, BUT THEY OUTLAWED IT IN ... HEMP WOULD HAVE SOLVED ALL OUR NEEDS, BUT THEY OUTLAWED IT IN 1937 FOR GREED AND PROFITS. <br/> <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1890054768814985216">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1890054768814985216</a> 2026-04-12T13:22:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrfyplq8t9mv3atkcm0uly5zv5q82rytneed67tze8xmxqmxf6s7gzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sstuhq9 NASA = FAKE When I look at the pretty perfect condition Artemis ... NASA = FAKE <br/>When I look at the pretty perfect condition Artemis capsule that splashed down in the Pacific- then compare it to the Space Shuttle - I feel like we have gone backwards 60 years. <br/>Am I the only one who feels this way?<br/> <br/>It’s like Boeing released the Dreamliner as a prop biplane with canvas wings.<br/><br/> Look at this thing, its crispy mint condition, there is NO WAY this thing was outside of earth&#39;s orbit, it would have Burn or Scorch marks from re entering earth&#39;s atmosphere! <br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1889777713099575296/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1889777713099575296/xlarge/</a><br/> 2026-04-11T19:04:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrdg9q2xkd6hy220e3dc0napf86aee03l3mr5kpd5nj4qk0zcztjszyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sqaawa2 Nostr event nevent1qqsrdg9q2xkd6hy220e3dc0napf86aee03l3mr5kpd5nj4qk0zcztjszyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sqaawa2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst9wf6x7dqpa5yetu6a8z43nztzr5qwclv9earkf4e8j0s95a5qccjt682y'>nevent1q…682y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1888707225245978624?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1888707225245978624:1888709645705879552:0:0:1888716309213421568">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1888707225245978624?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1888707225245978624:1888709645705879552:0:0:1888716309213421568</a><br/><a href="https://www.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1888716303460474880">https://www.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1888716303460474880</a><br/> 2026-04-08T20:44:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstquyk853kcj50q42a7tc2a3ye59pj0ynfymmxj49ufr36w47xcngzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sqeu2dj marsha...marsha..... 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MARSHA! <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1888707225245978624">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1888707225245978624</a> 2026-04-08T20:08:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrqexhnq03glzrkqm5hgf8f7ct84h66n0gv7c50jeykmydd5l0g6qzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s2hn0cd Nostr event nevent1qqsrqexhnq03glzrkqm5hgf8f7ct84h66n0gv7c50jeykmydd5l0g6qzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s2hn0cd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs84c8nv0rpu04suvve6nplq6zccn8fc6ma5nps8r06pjgswu7648sywmx27'>nevent1q…mx27</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1886775344900349952?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1886775344900349952:0:0:0:1887307881506672640">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1886775344900349952?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1886775344900349952:0:0:0:1887307881506672640</a><br/><a href="https://www.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1887307872610557952">https://www.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1887307872610557952</a><br/> 2026-04-04T23:27:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspufskrj4pa0s332d48hetewpqjcxpqfehqy5522uwmq7fst4nt5szyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4slw844j Nostr event nevent1qqspufskrj4pa0s332d48hetewpqjcxpqfehqy5522uwmq7fst4nt5szyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4slw844j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswc8eyvx5rytfhw6c94x6fh6a9h4vtvr8ny9yk9ck0027e7lrydgqh3mac5'>nevent1q…mac5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1887197996633235456?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1887197996633235456:0:0:0:1887199799229292544">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1887197996633235456?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1887197996633235456:0:0:0:1887199799229292544</a><br/><a href="https://www.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1887199789439787008">https://www.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1887199789439787008</a><br/> 2026-04-04T16:18:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2gez98axa4zjyxzdmqc3utc30xwdmx5u5kxusa4mu9a6yv54ul9czyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sa60xxw TOM DELONGE AND HIS ENCOUNTER WITH GENERAL NEIL MCCASLAND THE ... TOM DELONGE AND HIS ENCOUNTER WITH GENERAL NEIL MCCASLAND<br/><br/>THE GUILLOTINE OF SILENCE: FROM &#34;SUICIDED&#34; INVESTIGATORS TO &#34;MISSING&#34; GENERALS<br/><br/>In the world of deep intelligence, retirement does not exist; there is only &#34;containment,&#34; &#34;nullification,&#34; or &#34;neutralization.&#34; For decades, the UAP phenomenon has left a trail of bodies and disappearances that the system has conveniently labeled as &#34;accidents&#34; or &#34;mental health crises.&#34; But in recent years, the strategy has mutated.<br/><br/> The &#34;Black Hand&#34; of private contractors and shadowy entities that pull the strings in the United States no longer just eliminates the curious; they are now &#34;disappearing&#34; the very Custodians of the Extraterrestrial Secret.<br/><br/>The Evolution of Neutralizing Messengers and Witnesses<br/>There was a time when the objective was to kill or disappear the external messenger. We remember names that today serve as grave warnings:<br/><br/>James Forrestal (1949): The first U.S. Secretary of Defense, who &#34;fell&#34; from a 16th-floor window at Bethesda Naval Hospital while attempting to warn about the Majestic-12 group.<br/><br/>Morris K. Jessup (1959): The astrophysicist who connected the dots of the Philadelphia Experiment, found dead in his car just before a crucial meeting.<br/><br/>Phil Schneider (1996): The underground base engineer who went public with remnants of ET technology and was found dead with a catheter hose wrapped around his neck. &#34;Suicide,&#34; they claimed.<br/><br/>On the chessboard of the U.S. &#34;Shadow Government,&#34; pieces are not retired from the game; they are swept off the table. What we are witnessing between 2025 and 2026 is not a streak of statistical bad luck, but a surgical purging of the scientific and military vanguard. Today, the threat to the military-industrial complex no longer comes from the &#34;external messenger,&#34; but from within. The focus has shifted from journalists and researchers to Generals and former officials with direct access to reverse-engineering and its derivatives.<br/><br/>The Protocol of &#34;Forced Retirement&#34; or Witness Extermination?<br/>When a key informant—such as General Neil McCasland in his relationship with Tom DeLonge—begins to show a &#34;tendency to speak,&#34; the Institutional Containment protocol is activated. This is not a random disappearance; it is a surgical extirpation.<br/><br/>The thesis is chilling in its simplicity: if a man or woman who has guarded the secrets of Wright-Patterson or other classified facilities for years begins to experience a crisis of conscience or age-related cognitive changes, they become the ultimate public relations nightmare for the Pentagon. The industry of secrecy cannot afford to have the final piece of the puzzle—the confirmation of bodies and craft in the possession of private contractors—end up in a viral YouTube video.<br/><br/>1. The McCasland Case and the Looming Cascade Effect<br/>The recent and strange disappearance of General Neil McCasland (February 2026), under the pretext of a &#34;Silver Alert,&#34; fits this pattern perfectly. A man of his caliber, monitored by a constant surveillance &#34;shadow,&#34; does not simply get lost on a walk. The probability that we are facing &#34;secrecy management&#34; is at least 80%.<br/>2. The Purge of the &#34;Hardware&#34; Engineers<br/>Containment is not limited to those in uniform. <br/>The architects of technology that &#34;should not exist&#34; are being erased from the public eye with surgical precision:<br/>Monica Jacinto Reza (NASA): An aerospace engineer and co-inventor of Mondaloy, a specialized metal designed for advanced propulsion that defies conventional thermal limits. Missing since June 22, 2025, in the U.S. Southwest. If you possess the formula for a craft to withstand UAP physics, you become an asset the government cannot leave at large.<br/>Melissa Casias (53): An employee of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the epicenter of nuclear and exotic materials research in New Mexico. Her recent disappearance adds another layer of shadow to the place where the atomic secret—and possibly the secret of zero-point energy—began.<br/>3. The Physicists of &#34;Light&#34; and Energy<br/>If you control energy, you control the world. These names were one step away from making oil obsolete:<br/>Nuno Loureiro (MIT): Director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center. An expert in plasma physics and fusion energy (the power source of the sun... and UAPs). Murdered in his home on December 15, 2025, in Brookline, Massachusetts. Who benefits from nuclear fusion remaining a &#34;20-year dream&#34;?<br/>Carl Grillmair (Caltech): An astrophysicist specializing in exoplanets and dark matter. Shot dead on February 16, 2026, in Llano, California. Grillmair was searching for &#34;homes&#34; outside our system. Perhaps he found a coordinate he wasn&#39;t supposed to share.<br/>4. The Biological Connection: The ET &#34;Software&#34;<br/>Reverse engineering is not just metallurgy; it is biology.<br/>Jason Thomas (Novartis): Assistant Director of Chemical Biology. Disappeared on December 12, 2025; his remains were found on March 17, 2026. His focus on drug discovery and chemical biology suggests a link to the study of non-human biological samples. If the &#34;occupants&#34; of these crafts possess a different chemistry, Thomas was the man to decode it.<br/>A Final Reflection<br/>We are witnessing a race against time. Former officials from companies like Lockheed Martin are attempting a &#34;strategic exit&#34; to clear their consciences, or simply because some cannot harbor such secrets for so long—especially secrets that could improve the life of every human being on the planet or lead to their irrevocable extinction.<br/>But the system is voracious, and its greed, like any sickly craving for profit, is malignant. In the era of Palantir’s global surveillance, any unauthorized movement is detected within minutes. It is no coincidence that Washington D.C. is reviewing these links in secret. The concentration of these deaths and disappearances between June 2025 and March 2026 points to deliberate coordination.<br/>We are facing an aggressive &#34;Management of Secrets.&#34; The secrecy industry has decided to &#34;drop the guillotine.&#34; This isn&#39;t just about national security; it’s about the trillions of dollars sustaining the defense contractor mafia and U.S. geopolitical hegemony. If these scientists—driven by age, redemption, or the expiation of conscience—had shared their findings, the global financial system would have collapsed in favor of an era of cheap, technological abundance for all humanity. These &#34;disappearances&#34; ensure that the truth remains submerged under the weight of those black budget trillions.<br/><br/>My final thought: The Pentagon prefers to manage &#34;corpses, the insane, and the missing&#34; rather than world citizens liberated from established systems thanks to unlimited energy. The message for those still on the inside is clear: the truth has a price, and it is paid with one’s life. The pattern is undeniable. We are watching the lights of brilliant minds directly linked to the extraterrestrial phenomenon being extinguished, so that we remain in the dark. The truth of what is happening does not always need to be leaked by former officials, journalists, or ufologists; sometimes, for the curious like me, it is enough to watch how the shadows move when someone turns on a light.<br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1885539336997310464/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1885539336997310464/xlarge/</a><br/> 2026-03-31T02:21:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg6gvufqxw8ztjnq7l4pg7up66ueuckqjk8r97380546a8kgdua5czyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4ssmwxuc Nostr event nevent1qqsg6gvufqxw8ztjnq7l4pg7up66ueuckqjk8r97380546a8kgdua5czyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4ssmwxuc <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1883642819164246016">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1883642819164246016</a><br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1883642812822458368/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1883642812822458368/xlarge/</a><br/> 2026-03-25T20:44:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswzs0un9zzjxa2wfg7ktrzh0gpsqxwuus4ra887luw8fmzw92pwrczyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4svr9mjm Nostr event nevent1qqswzs0un9zzjxa2wfg7ktrzh0gpsqxwuus4ra887luw8fmzw92pwrczyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4svr9mjm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8hqu4vwqkznulslm7sf0f7rrsdrtpnz4pl8v0fqm4perk98cud2qkg89j3'>nevent1q…89j3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1881930564674985984">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1881930564674985984</a><br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1881930508686856192/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1881930508686856192/xlarge/</a><br/> 2026-03-22T08:00:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfecejemam6drp84wk44fwqmt97254wajnjq29lwx26zrt7hl8c7gzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s2hlalf What began as a routine traffic stop in Nevada for driving a few ... What began as a routine traffic stop in Nevada for driving a few miles over the posted speed limit turned into a major dr*g trafficking arrest in February 2024. Deputies from the Mineral County Sheriff’s Office pulled over a Houston, Texas, woman — later identified as Tatiana Ruiz — on U.S. Highway 95, about 10 miles south of Hawthorne, after noticing her vehicle exceeding the speed limit by approximately 5–10 mph. <br/>During the stop, deputies became suspicious of Ruiz’s behaviour and called in a K‑9 unit to assist with the investigation. When the dog gave a positive alert, officers conducted a more thorough search of the vehicle. Hidden inside six large duffel bags in the car, they found 298 pounds of mari**ana concealed from plain view. The quantity of ca**abis seized was significant, and according to estimates from the D*ug Enforcement Administration, its potential street value was approximately $1.2 million. <br/>Ruiz was arrested at the scene and booked into the Mineral County Detention Center on charges including ma**uana trafficking, possession of another individual’s credit or debit card, and basic speeding violations related to her driving. <br/>Law enforcement agencies routinely emphasise that even seemingly minor traffic infractions can prompt further investigation when officers’ observations raise suspicion; in this case, a simple speeding stop led to one of the larger roadside narcotics seizures in the region.<br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1881860080337424384/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1881860080337424384/xlarge/</a><br/> 2026-03-21T00:00:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs85qk2r9rh2p6hqxfnp4zh4gg6t7ezcvsydsxrtywd9xjj2nlhrxszyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sdvsjt0 https://www.minds.com/joker_satx/ @joker_satx SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR ... <a href="https://www.minds.com/joker_satx/">https://www.minds.com/joker_satx/</a> @joker_satx<br/><br/>SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR MORE WOW IN YOUR NEWSFEED! 2026-03-20T12:54:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxp7f7nfv3uxzf9g27cqzqn8hufw9qd4suwsgga2uv64skng73tmszyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sf2ama6 Dumpster Dive King · Well thats not something I find everyday ... Dumpster Dive King<br/> <br/> ·<br/>Well thats not something I find everyday 🙄. What would you do in this situation? Im pretty sure it was from an apartment clean out because the dumpster had tons of old clothing, old furniture, some old bags and luggage bags and more junk it it. <br/><br/>#money #dumpsterdiving<br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1880633666015600640/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1880633666015600640/xlarge/</a><br/> 2026-03-17T13:27:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp0gjqcy00uw95rla9w8lclsx6ayyc0jmys4zqz8wz770ga4vg69qzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s5ssctr He died with $57,000 in the bank. The FBI believed he&#39;d ... He died with $57,000 in the bank.<br/><br/>The FBI believed he&#39;d hidden $300 million.<br/>They never found a dollar.<br/><br/>When Meyer Lansky died in 1983, federal agents thought they&#39;d finally get answers. For forty years, they&#39;d chased his money through a labyrinth of offshore accounts, shell corporations, and coded ledgers that stretched from Havana to Switzerland to the Bahamas.<br/><br/>They knew he&#39;d controlled hundreds of millions. They had testimony. They had witnesses. They had decades of surveillance.<br/>But when they opened his estate, they found $57,000.<br/>A modest condo in Miami Beach. A twelve-year-old car. A small life insurance policy. That was it.<br/><br/>Either Meyer Lansky was the greatest con artist in American history—or the greatest magician.<br/><br/>The truth is probably both.<br/><br/>Meyer Lansky was born Maier Suchowljansky in 1902, in Grodno, then part of the Russian Empire. His family fled anti-Jewish pogroms and arrived in New York when Meyer was nine years old. They settled on the Lower East Side, one of the most violent, desperate neighborhoods in America.<br/>Meyer was small, skinny, and brilliant. He didn&#39;t look like a tough guy. He didn&#39;t act like one either. While other street kids used fists, Meyer used his brain.<br/>By age fourteen, he&#39;d figured out something the older gangsters hadn&#39;t: gambling was more profitable than stealing, and organization was more powerful than violence.<br/>He formed an unlikely partnership with a hulking Italian kid named Salvatore Lucania—who the world would later know as Lucky Luciano. Meyer was the brains. Lucky was the muscle. Together, they started running dice games, then protection rackets, then bigger operations.<br/>But Meyer saw something no one else did.<br/>In the 1920s, when Prohibition turned alcohol into liquid gold, gangsters across America were slaughtering each other over territory. The streets ran red with mob wars. Bosses were assassinated weekly. It was chaos.<br/>And chaos, Meyer understood, was bad for business.<br/>So he proposed something revolutionary: what if organized crime actually got organized?<br/>What if, instead of killing each other, the gangs formed a corporation? What if they divided territories, shared profits, and settled disputes through votes instead of violence? What if crime operated like General Motors—with divisions, accountants, and shareholders?<br/>His partners thought he was insane.<br/>But Meyer Lansky had a gift: he could make numbers sing. He showed them the math. The profit potential of cooperation versus competition. The compound growth of reinvestment. The efficiency of syndication.<br/>In 1929, Meyer Lansky helped create the National Crime Syndicate—a nationwide network that united Italian, Jewish, and Irish gangs under one rule: business first, bloodshed last.<br/>It was the most sophisticated criminal organization in American history. And Meyer was its CFO.<br/>While Al Capone grabbed headlines and Tommy guns, Meyer grabbed spreadsheets. While Bugsy Siegel built flashy casinos in Las Vegas, Meyer built the financial systems that made them profitable. While other mobsters bought mansions and Cadillacs, Meyer bought anonymity.<br/>His greatest skill wasn&#39;t stealing money. It was making money disappear.<br/>In the 1940s and 50s, Meyer helped transform Havana, Cuba into the Monte Carlo of the Caribbean. He partnered with Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista to build a gambling paradise that generated millions. The Hotel Nacional, the Riviera, the Capri—these weren&#39;t just casinos. They were money-laundering masterpieces.<br/>Cash came in from illegal operations across America—gambling, loan sharking, labor rackets. It went through the casinos in Havana, got &#34;cleaned&#34; as gambling winnings, then flowed into legitimate investments worldwide.<br/>The system was elegant. Nearly untraceable. And staggeringly profitable.<br/>But Meyer knew it couldn&#39;t last forever.<br/>In 1959, Fidel Castro&#39;s revolution seized Cuba. Overnight, the casinos were shut down. Millions in assets—gone. Other mobsters panicked.<br/>Meyer didn&#39;t.<br/>Because the money wasn&#39;t in Cuba anymore.<br/>By the time Castro took power, Meyer had already moved his fortune—through Swiss banks, Bahamian shell companies, and numbered accounts that existed only in ledgers that only he understood.<br/>The FBI knew what he was doing. They just couldn&#39;t prove it.<br/>For the next two decades, federal investigators became obsessed with finding Meyer Lansky&#39;s money. The IRS assigned entire teams. The FBI put him under constant surveillance. Prosecutors offered deals to anyone who would testify about his accounts.<br/>They got nothing.<br/>Swiss bankers claimed attorney-client privilege. Shell corporations led to other shell corporations led to dead ends. Every financial trail Meyer left evaporated like smoke.<br/>In 1970, facing indictment, Meyer tried something desperate: he fled to Israel and claimed citizenship under the Law of Return, which grants automatic citizenship to any Jew.<br/>The irony was devastating.<br/>Meyer Lansky—son of Jewish refugees, survivor of pogroms, a man who&#39;d donated millions to Israel&#39;s founding—was rejected. Under pressure from the United States, Israel refused him. After two years of legal battles, he was forced to return to America.<br/>The promised land turned him away.<br/>Meyer returned to Miami Beach in 1972, a 70-year-old man with failing health. Federal prosecutors immediately indicted him for tax evasion. But even then, they couldn&#39;t make the case stick. In 1974, he was acquitted.<br/>He spent his final decade living quietly. He walked his dog every morning. He ate at the same diner. He lived in a two-bedroom condo worth maybe $100,000. Neighbors described him as a polite old man who talked about the weather.<br/>If you didn&#39;t know his history, you&#39;d never guess he&#39;d once controlled criminal operations that generated more cash than many Fortune 500 companies.<br/>On January 15, 1983, Meyer Lansky died of lung cancer. He was 80 years old.<br/>The FBI immediately moved to seize his estate, certain they&#39;d finally find the hidden millions.<br/>His official net worth: $57,000.<br/>No Swiss accounts. No offshore holdings. No buried treasure.<br/>Either the greatest financial mind in organized crime history had died broke—or he&#39;d pulled off the greatest vanishing act in criminal history.<br/>So where did the money go?<br/>Theory One: It&#39;s Still Out There<br/>Some investigators believe Meyer&#39;s fortune is sitting in numbered Swiss accounts, untouched since his death. Swiss banking secrecy laws were nearly impenetrable in the 1980s. If Meyer died without giving anyone the account numbers, the money would simply sit there forever, earning interest that no one can claim.<br/>Theory Two: He Gave It Away<br/>Others believe Meyer transferred everything before he died—to family members, to trusted associates, to Israel (despite their rejection of him). Some reports suggest he made massive anonymous donations to Israeli causes throughout his life. Maybe his revenge on being rejected was to give them millions without them ever knowing it came from him.<br/>Theory Three: It Never Existed<br/>A few skeptics think Meyer&#39;s fortune was the greatest con of all—not stealing money, but making everyone believe he had far more than he did. His reputation as a financial genius created the myth of hidden millions. The reality might have been more modest.<br/>Theory Four: He Spent It<br/>Perhaps the simplest answer: Meyer lived a long life funding expensive operations, paying lawyers, supporting a large extended family, and maintaining a criminal empire. Maybe $57,000 was all that was left.<br/>We&#39;ll probably never know the truth.<br/>But here&#39;s what makes Meyer Lansky&#39;s story extraordinary:<br/>He built a criminal empire so sophisticated that law enforcement couldn&#39;t dismantle it. He created financial systems so complex that the IRS—with all its resources—couldn&#39;t crack them. He lived through the golden age of organized crime and died of natural causes, in his own bed, never spending a significant day in prison.<br/>And in the end, he took his secrets with him.<br/>Every mobster who ever lived dreamed of getting away with it. Meyer Lansky actually did.<br/>His greatest crime wasn&#39;t what he stole.<br/>It was that no one could ever prove where any of it went.<br/>Somewhere in the world, there might be accounts with hundreds of millions of dollars sitting untouched. Or there might be nothing at all—just the ghost of a fortune that existed only in ledgers that burned long ago.<br/>Meyer Lansky made money disappear so completely that even death couldn&#39;t reveal where he hid it.<br/>That&#39;s not just criminal genius.<br/>That&#39;s art./<br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1879976731069997056/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1879976731069997056/xlarge/</a><br/> 2026-03-15T17:56:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8rphlhtnchxl49arvsgdxz0vn4q83mcrxmv2z3qd26pm23zzyvqgzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4swzrw6c BONNIE AND CLYDE The car that carried Bonnie and Clyde on their ... BONNIE AND CLYDE <br/>The car that carried Bonnie and Clyde on their final journey was a 1934 Ford V8—fast, powerful, and perfect for the high-speed escapes that had kept them ahead of the law for years.<br/><br/>But on May 23, 1934, that same car became their tomb.<br/>As they drove down a quiet rural road near Gibsland, Louisiana, a group of law enforcement officers lay waiting in ambush. When the Ford slowed, the officers opened fire, unleashing a hail of bullets that tore through the vehicle in seconds. The outlaw couple never had a chance to escape.<br/><br/>By the time the gunfire stopped, the once-sleek Ford was riddled with holes, its shattered body a silent witness to the violent end of America’s most infamous criminal duo.<br/><br/>Today, that bullet-scarred 1934 Ford V8 remains one of the most chilling relics of the Great Depression’s outlaw era—a haunting symbol of how the legend of Bonnie and Clyde came to a sudden, violent end.<br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1877388027446169600/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1877388027446169600/xlarge/</a><br/> 2026-03-08T14:30:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvt94sa7zp29teu46q0hjwnrgjap4zc03nv5pzr79xtw9y7vnn2cszyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sfjywux Star Wars: Rebel Pilot Chuck Norris ... 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His fellow Rangers thought he ... The Comanches thought he was dead.<br/><br/>His fellow Rangers thought he was dead.<br/><br/>When Cicero Rufus Perry finally opened his eyes in the darkness of August 1844, lying in a shallow depression of rocks and brush where his companions had hidden his body to keep the wolves away, he discovered that everyone had been wrong.<br/><br/>He was still alive. Barely.<br/><br/>Three arrows had found him during the ambush on the Nueces River. One had burrowed into his left shoulder. Another had pierced his stomach. The third had driven into his temple—so deep that he would later need surgery to remove the arrowhead.<br/><br/>He had lost so much blood that his companions, believing him beyond saving and fearing another attack, had done the frontier equivalent of a burial: they&#39;d cached his body in rocks and brush and ridden hard for San Antonio, planning to return later to give him a proper grave.<br/><br/>But death had misjudged Cicero Rufus Perry.<br/>The man they called &#34;Old Rufe&#34; had been surviving the unsurvivable since he was a child. Born in Alabama in 1822 or 1823, he had moved with his family to Bastrop, Texas at the age of eleven—right into the heart of a land still being contested by Mexican forces, Native American tribes, and Anglo settlers who had staked their futures on this wild frontier.<br/><br/>By the time he was thirteen, Perry was already in the thick of it. He accompanied his father at the Siege of Bexar, one of the pivotal early battles of the Texas Revolution. Some accounts suggest he was at San Jacinto as well. At fourteen, he joined Captain William W. Hill&#39;s company of Texas Rangers and fought in a skirmish with Native Americans at Yegua Creek.<br/><br/>This was not a childhood. This was a crash course in survival.<br/>Perry learned early what the frontier demanded: constant vigilance, physical endurance beyond reason, and the stubborn refusal to accept defeat even when defeat seemed inevitable. He was wounded for the first time in 1839, while serving under John H. Moore. He would be wounded many more times before his story ended—twenty times by arrow, seven by bullet, according to the accounts of those who knew him.<br/><br/>But nothing in his brutal education had prepared him for the night he woke up alone in the Texas darkness, his body torn apart, his companions gone, and 120 miles of hostile territory between him and safety.<br/><br/>He started crawling.<br/><br/>Perry later described the agony of that first movement—struggling out of the rocky cache where he&#39;d been left, every motion sending fresh waves of pain through his punctured body. He couldn&#39;t stand, not at first. He could barely see. Blood had crusted over his eyes from the wound in his temple.<br/><br/>It took him from nightfall until daylight to reach the Nueces River—a distance of maybe 200 yards. He dragged himself to the water and drank, knowing that dehydration would kill him faster than his wounds if he let it.<br/>Then he began to walk.<br/><br/>The journey from the Nueces River near present-day Uvalde to San Antonio was approximately 120 miles. Perry covered it in seven days, unarmed, with three arrows having recently been removed from his flesh, eating nothing but six apples he found along the way.<br/>He walked at night when he could, resting during the worst heat of the day. He drank from muddy creeks. He slept under whatever shelter the land provided—thorn trees, rocky outcroppings, shallow gullies that might hide him from anyone who wished him harm.<br/><br/>Every step was a rebellion against the death that should have claimed him.<br/>Every mile was an argument with the universe about what was possible for a human body to endure.<br/>When Perry finally staggered into San Antonio at dusk on the seventh day, the men who had left him for dead were preparing to ride back to the Nueces to give him a proper burial. According to historical accounts, they were &#34;astounded&#34; to see him walking toward them—a ghost made flesh, a dead man who had refused to stay dead.<br/><br/>&#34;I was like one risen from the dead,&#34; Perry later recalled.<br/>He spent three months recovering. A surgeon removed the arrowhead that had been lodged in his temple. And then, because this was Cicero Rufus Perry and he apparently didn&#39;t know how to stop, he went back to work.<br/><br/>The decades that followed only added to his legend.<br/>Perry continued serving as a Texas Ranger through some of the most violent years of frontier conflict. He rode with famous commanders and fought in battles whose names have mostly faded from public memory but which shaped the Texas we know today. In 1873—nearly thirty years after his impossible walk from the Nueces—he was still in the saddle, coming to the assistance of a party led by Dan W. Roberts at the Battle of Deer Creek.<br/><br/>The following year, Perry was appointed Captain of Company D of the Frontier Battalion. He was over fifty years old by then, his body carrying the scars of twenty-seven separate wounds, and he was still leading men into danger.<br/>His contemporaries described him with something approaching awe. John Holland Jenkins, who served alongside him, remembered Perry as &#34;tall, muscular, erect—a perfect specimen of the strong and brave in young manhood,&#34; with black hair and &#34;dark eyes, bright with the fires of intelligence and enthusiasm.&#34;<br/>But it wasn&#39;t just his physical presence that impressed people. It was his endurance. His refusal to quit. His apparent inability to accept that anything—any wound, any setback, any circumstance—was truly insurmountable.<br/><br/>Perry finally retired from the Rangers in 1886, having served Texas in various military capacities for half a century. He died on October 7, 1898, at Johnson City in the Texas Hill Country, surrounded by the rugged landscape he had spent his life defending.<br/>He was approximately seventy-five or seventy-six years old. He had outlived most of the men he&#39;d fought alongside and most of the enemies he&#39;d faced. He had survived wounds that should have killed him a dozen times over. And he had walked 120 miles through hostile territory with three arrows in his body when any reasonable person would have simply laid down and died.<br/>The newspapers of the time noted his passing with the respect due a Texas legend. The Beeville Bee called him &#34;one of the oldest Texas Rangers, and perhaps the most remarkable Indian fighter that ever figured in the fierce battles on the frontier of the Lone Star State.&#34;<br/><br/>But remarkable doesn&#39;t quite capture it.<br/>What Cicero Rufus Perry demonstrated on that seven-day walk from the Nueces to San Antonio was something beyond ordinary courage or toughness. It was willpower in its purest, most elemental form—the kind that looks at impossible odds and refuses to accept them, the kind that keeps moving when the body screams to stop, the kind that treats death not as an inevitability but as an opponent to be outfought.<br/><br/>His fellow Ranger, Christopher Acklin, who had also been left for dead in the same ambush, made a similar trek on foot and arrived in San Antonio just one day after Perry. Two men, both gravely wounded, both abandoned, both walking over a hundred miles through territory where danger lurked behind every rock and tree.<br/>They made it because they decided to make it.<br/><br/>That&#39;s the lesson of Cicero Rufus Perry&#39;s life, and it&#39;s a lesson that doesn&#39;t require embellishment or exaggeration. The documented facts are extraordinary enough.<br/>A man was shot, stabbed, and pierced by arrows over the course of his career—twenty-seven documented wounds in all. A man was left for dead in the Texas wilderness with three fresh arrow wounds, including one to the temple. A man walked 120 miles without weapons or provisions through hostile territory to reach safety.<br/><br/>And then that same man went back to work, fought for another forty years, led companies of Rangers, and died of old age in his own bed.<br/>Most people today have never heard his name.<br/>But picture it: the August heat of Texas in 1844, the dust and thorns and endless miles, the wounds that should have killed him, the seven days and nights of walking toward a destination that must have seemed impossibly far away.<br/>Picture a man deciding, in that moment when he woke up alone and abandoned, that he was not going to die.<br/>Not today.<br/><br/>Not yet.<br/><br/>Picture Cicero Rufus Perry standing up from his own grave and starting to walk.<br/><br/>That&#39;s not legend. 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I DON&#39;T CARE WHO YOU ARE....<br/>THAT RIGHT THERE, IS FUNNY! <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1856432288431087616">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1856432288431087616</a> 2026-01-09T18:39:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyxyel6j7n9kcx8w53parnupspu66ayujkfgg303ygxthpf9ym0qgzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4syfnxh3 Nostr event nevent1qqsyxyel6j7n9kcx8w53parnupspu66ayujkfgg303ygxthpf9ym0qgzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4syfnxh3 <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1856056499477405696">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1856056499477405696</a><br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1856056492099624960/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1856056492099624960/xlarge/</a><br/> 2026-01-08T17:45:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsygshnu8pxhp0rlptz7ex24596m930wvs8467md32k83xqx9vkjtgzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sg9qe9r His last words to Buddy Holly had been: &#34;&#34;I hope your ... His last words to Buddy Holly had been: &#34;&#34;I hope your plane crashes.&#34;&#34;<br/>&#34;The tour bus had no heat.<br/><br/>It was January 1959, and the Winter Dance Party Tour was zigzagging across the frozen Midwest—twenty-four cities in three weeks, distances between venues that made no logical sense, performers crammed into a bus that had broken down so badly they&#39;d burned newspapers to stay warm.<br/><br/>The drummer, Carl Bunch, was hospitalized with frostbitten feet. Everyone was getting sick. The Big Bopper had the flu. They were exhausted, freezing, miserable.<br/><br/>By the time they reached Clear Lake, Iowa, on February 2, Buddy Holly had had enough.<br/><br/>&#34;&#34;I&#39;m getting a plane,&#34;&#34; he announced. &#34;&#34;I&#39;m done with this bus.&#34;&#34;<br/>He chartered a small Beechcraft Bonanza to fly ahead to Moorhead, Minnesota—400 miles away—for $36 per seat. Three seats available. Buddy took one. That left two.<br/><br/>Waylon Jennings, Holly&#39;s 21-year-old bass player, was supposed to go. So was Tommy Allsup, the guitarist. They&#39;d agreed to pay for the seats—a chance to arrive early, sleep in a real bed, do laundry.<br/><br/>But then The Big Bopper, a large man at over 250 pounds who could barely fit in a bus seat, approached Jennings backstage. Richardson was sick, feverish, desperate.<br/>&#34;&#34;Can I have your seat? I need to rest.&#34;&#34;<br/><br/>Jennings gave it up without hesitation.<br/><br/>When Buddy Holly found out Waylon wasn&#39;t flying, he teased him. &#34;&#34;Well, I hope your ol&#39; bus freezes up again.&#34;&#34;<br/>Waylon grinned back, tired, joking: &#34;&#34;Well, I hope your ol&#39; plane crashes.&#34;&#34;<br/><br/>Nobody laughed.<br/><br/>They were exhausted. It was late. Those were just words between friends.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, 17-year-old Ritchie Valens—the kid with &#34;&#34;La Bamba&#34;&#34; climbing the charts—asked Tommy Allsup for his seat.<br/>Allsup didn&#39;t want to give it up. But Valens kept asking. Finally, the guitarist said: &#34;&#34;Fine. We&#39;ll flip for it.&#34;&#34;<br/><br/>Bob Hale, the local disc jockey emceeing the show that night, flipped the coin in a side room backstage.<br/>Ritchie Valens called it.<br/>He won.<br/><br/>Years later, Tommy Allsup would open a bar in Dallas called &#34;&#34;Tommy&#39;s Heads-Up Saloon&#34;&#34;—named for the coin toss that saved his life.<br/><br/>At 12:55 AM on February 3, 1959, the Beechcraft Bonanza lifted into the snow.<br/>Buddy Holly, 22 years old. Ritchie Valens, 17. J.P. &#34;&#34;The Big Bopper&#34;&#34; Richardson, 28. Pilot Roger Peterson, 21.<br/>The temperature was 15 degrees. Winds gusted at 36 mph. A cold front was moving through. Visibility was terrible—snow, darkness, no horizon.<br/><br/>Minutes after takeoff, the plane banked. The tail light descended.<br/>Then it vanished.<br/><br/>At dawn, a farmer found the wreckage scattered across a frozen cornfield near Mason City, Iowa. The bodies were thrown from the aircraft. All four were dead on impact.<br/><br/>Back on the tour bus, Waylon Jennings learned the news.<br/>His last words to Buddy Holly had been: &#34;&#34;I hope your plane crashes.&#34;&#34;<br/><br/>He was 21 years old. And those words—said in jest, said in exhaustion, said without thinking—would echo in his mind for the rest of his life.<br/>&#34;&#34;For years I thought I had caused it,&#34;&#34; Jennings later confessed. &#34;&#34;I still hear that joke in my head every single day.&#34;&#34;<br/>The tour continued. Waylon barely made it through the remaining two weeks. He was offered a spot in the reformed Crickets after the tour ended.<br/>He turned it down. He went back to Texas with &#34;&#34;no intention of ever playing another note.&#34;&#34;<br/>But Buddy Holly&#39;s story doesn&#39;t end in that Iowa field.<br/>He was only 22, but he&#39;d already changed music forever.<br/>Before Buddy Holly, rock and roll artists didn&#39;t write their own songs. They didn&#39;t arrange them. They didn&#39;t produce them. Record labels controlled everything—told performers what to sing, how to sing it, what to wear.<br/>Buddy Holly said no.<br/><br/>He wrote his own material. He arranged his own songs. He produced his own records. He wore thick-rimmed glasses when everyone said rock stars had to be conventionally handsome. He layered vocals, experimented with studio techniques, created a sound that was sophisticated and raw at the same time.<br/>He made rock and roll look intelligent.<br/>The Beatles named themselves after Holly&#39;s band, The Crickets. John Lennon and Paul McCartney both said Buddy Holly changed their lives, showed them what was possible. McCartney eventually bought the publishing rights to Holly&#39;s entire catalog—that&#39;s how much he meant to him.<br/>Bob Dylan said hearing Buddy Holly for the first time altered his entire trajectory.<br/><br/>&#34;&#34;That&#39;ll Be the Day.&#34;&#34; &#34;&#34;Peggy Sue.&#34;&#34; &#34;&#34;Oh, Boy!&#34;&#34; &#34;&#34;Maybe Baby.&#34;&#34; &#34;&#34;Rave On.&#34;&#34;<br/>These weren&#39;t just songs. They were blueprints for everything that came after.<br/><br/>And Buddy Holly created them in just eighteen months of stardom.<br/>Eighteen months. That&#39;s all he got.<br/>Ritchie Valens was even younger—just 17. He&#39;d brought Mexican-American culture into mainstream rock and roll with &#34;&#34;La Bamba,&#34;&#34; sung entirely in Spanish when that was unthinkable. He was a trailblazer, breaking barriers, paving the way for Latino artists in American music.<br/>He had everything ahead of him.<br/>The Big Bopper—charismatic, larger-than-life, a radio DJ turned musician with &#34;&#34;Chantilly Lace&#34;&#34; climbing the charts—was 28. Building momentum. Just getting started.<br/><br/>Three lives. Three trajectories. All ended in a frozen field because a coin landed on heads instead of tails.<br/>In 1971, singer-songwriter Don McLean released &#34;&#34;American Pie&#34;&#34;—a song about loss, nostalgia, and the end of innocence. The phrase he used for the crash became permanent:<br/><br/>&#34;&#34;The day the music died.&#34;&#34;<br/><br/>Don McLean was a paperboy in 1959. He learned about Buddy Holly&#39;s death while delivering newspapers that morning. The line in his song—&#34;&#34;February made me shiver / with every paper I&#39;d deliver&#34;&#34;—was literal.<br/>A generation mourned. The happy innocence of the 1950s ended in that Iowa cornfield. Everything after felt different.<br/>But here&#39;s the thing about Buddy Holly&#39;s legacy: the music didn&#39;t die.<br/>It transformed.<br/><br/>Every artist who writes their own songs, who produces their own records, who refuses to let labels control their vision—they&#39;re walking a path Buddy Holly cleared at 22 years old.<br/>Every kid with glasses who picks up a guitar and realizes they don&#39;t have to look like Elvis to change the world—that&#39;s Buddy Holly&#39;s gift.<br/>Every boundary broken, every genre blended, every rule questioned—he showed that it was possible.<br/>Waylon Jennings eventually found his way back to music. He became a legend of outlaw country, refusing to compromise, doing things his way. He carried Buddy Holly&#39;s influence—and his guilt—for the rest of his life.<br/><br/>He never forgot the lesson his friend had taught him: be true to yourself, no matter what anyone says.<br/>The Winter Dance Party Tour of 1959 should have been just another forgettable tour through small Midwestern towns.<br/>Instead, it became the night music transformed from performance into legend.<br/><br/>Because sometimes genius doesn&#39;t need a lifetime. Sometimes it just needs a moment—brief, brilliant, unforgettable.<br/>Buddy Holly got eighteen months of stardom.<br/><br/>And he used them to build a legacy that will never die. &#34;<br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1856017990030462976/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1856017990030462976/xlarge/</a><br/> 2026-01-08T15:15:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqkwt5qd9jjaggty6kgfa7g3x5g4p8hgqjhhqfx4qkfky4n9rtf9qzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sysfd2j Nostr event nevent1qqsqkwt5qd9jjaggty6kgfa7g3x5g4p8hgqjhhqfx4qkfky4n9rtf9qzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sysfd2j <a href="https://radio.biocentric.org/listen/national_alliance_radio_network/listen">https://radio.biocentric.org/listen/national_alliance_radio_network/listen</a><br/><br/>PRO WHITE CONSERVATIVE RADIO - <br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1855627112323997696/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1855627112323997696/xlarge/</a><br/> 2026-01-07T13:19:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszmgff6xzq6fveqjdtstlpfvqap349d6tgtmqnsu46hkvptaf4cvszyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4strpd2c Congressional Reform Act of 2025 President Trump is asking ... Congressional Reform Act of 2025<br/>President Trump is asking everyone to share this in the next three days, which would result in most U.S. citizens reading the following message. This is an idea that should be shared, regardless of your political affiliation.<br/><br/>Congressional Reform Act of 2025<br/><br/>1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they&#39;re out of office. And no more perks go with them.<br/>2. Congress (past, present, &amp; future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.<br/>3. Congress must purchase their own retirement plan, just as ALL Americans do.<br/>4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise at the same rate as the COLA for monthly Social Security recipients minus 1% if having a budget balance deficit.<br/>5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system (Medicare) as the American people.<br/>6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people (i.e. NO MORE INSIDER TRADING!!!).<br/>7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women. Congress made all these contracts by and for themselves.<br/><br/>Serving in Congress is an honor and privilege, NOT a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators should serve their term(s), then go home and go back to work - not get all kinds of freebies. 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NEVER FORGET, NEVER FORGIVE.<br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1855311676019056640/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1855311676019056640/xlarge/</a><br/> 2026-01-06T16:27:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx3hua4kvus884clsvvffcsy3vhn8ply52pvxyq26uc605a5zr56qzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sdvj9da much more peace since I blocked dski .... In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs85lgy7ahed3yx8rz84h0h4a0z3ymgr677p40q2lhnev790chfd0gtlkrte'>nevent1q…krte</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>much more peace since I blocked dski .... 2026-01-06T13:29:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx357krgaa8xce4n68503zm0e9pg9e09wk02wt4tdm4atwwa7dcvqzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sjkfvvn &#34;&#34;Well, I&#39;ll tell you—nineteen pounds is ... &#34;&#34;Well, I&#39;ll tell you—nineteen pounds is cock.&#34;&#34;<br/>&#34;She was Hollywood&#39;s most beautiful woman. She married Frank Sinatra—after he left his wife for her. When a reporter asked why, she gave the most infamous answer in Hollywood history.<br/>Her name was Ava Gardner, and she lived exactly as she pleased—consequences be damned.<br/><br/>Born on December 24, 1922, in Grabtown, North Carolina, Ava Lavinia Gardner grew up barefoot on a tobacco farm, the youngest of seven children in a family so poor they sometimes didn&#39;t know where the next meal would come from.<br/><br/>Her life changed because of one photograph.<br/><br/>In 1941, her brother-in-law, a professional photographer in New York, took a picture of 18-year-old Ava and displayed it in his shop window. An MGM talent scout happened to see it. He contacted the studio. They asked for more photos.<br/><br/>When MGM executives saw those pictures, they didn&#39;t care that she had no acting experience, no training, no connections. They sent for her immediately.<br/>&#34;&#34;She can&#39;t act. She can&#39;t talk. She&#39;s terrific,&#34;&#34; one executive reportedly said.<br/><br/>They signed her to a contract based purely on her extraordinary beauty. Then they tried to mold her into a proper Hollywood starlet—teaching her to walk, talk, and behave like a lady.<br/>Ava hated every minute of it.<br/><br/>For years, MGM gave her tiny roles—unnamed characters, background parts, blink-and-you-miss-her appearances. She was eye candy, decoration, a beautiful face in the background while other actresses got the real parts.<br/><br/>Then in 1946, she was cast as Kitty Collins in &#34;&#34;The Killers&#34;&#34;—a seductive femme fatale who destroys men without even trying.<br/>It was like the role had been written for her.<br/>Ava Gardner became a star overnight. And Hollywood would never be the same.<br/><br/>But it was her personal life, not her film career, that made her legendary.<br/><br/>At 19, Ava married Mickey Rooney, one of Hollywood&#39;s biggest stars. She was madly in love. He was a serial philanderer who gambled away money and cheated constantly.<br/>The marriage lasted one year. Ava filed for divorce, heartbroken but wiser.<br/><br/>Three years later, she married bandleader Artie Shaw—a brilliant musician and insufferable intellectual snob who treated her like she was stupid. He gave her reading lists, criticized her lack of education, and belittled her in front of friends.<br/><br/>That marriage lasted one year too.<br/>Then came Frank Sinatra.<br/><br/>In 1949, Sinatra was married to his first wife, Nancy, with three children. His career was in decline. His records weren&#39;t selling. His film career had stalled. He was yesterday&#39;s news.<br/>Then he met Ava Gardner.<br/><br/>Their affair was immediate, passionate, and utterly destructive. Sinatra left his wife and children for Ava—a scandal that rocked Hollywood and turned his Catholic fan base against him. His career tanked even further. Columnists called Ava a homewrecker. Fans sent her death threats.<br/><br/>Ava didn&#39;t care. She was in love.<br/><br/>They married in 1951. It should have been a fairy tale ending.<br/>Instead, it was six years of jealous rages, screaming fights, thrown furniture, infidelities, and passionate reconciliations. They were both fiery, both stubborn, both incapable of backing down.<br/>One night, a reporter asked Ava a question that had been on everyone&#39;s mind: Sinatra was rail-thin, barely 119 pounds soaking wet, diminutive next to Ava&#39;s statuesque beauty. Why was she so obsessed with him?<br/><br/>Ava&#39;s answer became Hollywood legend:<br/>&#34;&#34;Well, I&#39;ll tell you—nineteen pounds is cock.&#34;&#34;<br/><br/>The quote scandalized Hollywood. It was vulgar, shocking, inappropriate—everything a proper movie star wasn&#39;t supposed to say.<br/><br/>It was pure Ava Gardner.<br/><br/>During their marriage, Ava became pregnant twice. She had two abortions. &#34;&#34;MGM had all sorts of penalty clauses about their stars having babies,&#34;&#34; she later explained in her autobiography. The studio controlled every aspect of her life—including whether she could become a mother.<br/><br/>Despite their explosive relationship, Ava and Frank never stopped loving each other. They divorced in 1957, but they remained close friends until her death. Sinatra would call her regularly, send her money when she needed it, and reportedly kept a photo of her for the rest of his life.<br/><br/>But Ava&#39;s scandals went far beyond Sinatra.<br/><br/>She had a tempestuous affair with billionaire Howard Hughes, who became obsessed with her and had her followed constantly. She dated bullfighters in Spain. She drank heavily, partied relentlessly, and refused to play by Hollywood&#39;s rules.<br/><br/>Studio executives tried to control her. She told them to go to hell.<br/>Male costars tried to seduce her. She chose who she slept with, on her terms, and wasn&#39;t ashamed of it.<br/>Gossip columnists tried to shame her. She gave them more material.<br/><br/>Yet beneath the scandals and the wild behavior was something deeper. Ava Gardner was a woman ahead of her time—refusing to be controlled, apologizing for nothing, living authentically in an era that demanded women be submissive and proper.<br/><br/>She was also a staunch supporter of civil rights. Growing up in North Carolina, she&#39;d witnessed segregation&#39;s cruelty firsthand. As a child, she sat with Black children in the segregated sections of movie theaters, defying the rules even then.<br/><br/>As an adult in Hollywood, her personal assistant was Rene Jordan, an African-American woman. Ava regularly took Rene to whites-only clubs, daring anyone to say something. When they did, Ava made scenes, refused to leave, and forced establishments to serve them both or lose her business.<br/><br/>In 1955, tired of Hollywood&#39;s judgment and scrutiny, Ava left America entirely. She moved to Spain, then later to London, living as an expatriate for the rest of her life.<br/><br/>She continued acting—appearing in &#34;&#34;The Barefoot Contessa&#34;&#34; (1954), earning an Academy Award nomination for &#34;&#34;Mogambo&#34;&#34; (1953), and giving a haunting performance in &#34;&#34;The Night of the Iguana&#34;&#34; (1964). But her roles became less frequent as she aged and Hollywood&#39;s interest in complex, mature women faded.<br/>Her later years were marked by health problems. Decades of smoking had destroyed her lungs, leaving her with emphysema. She suffered strokes. Her legendary beauty faded.<br/>But she never regretted anything.<br/><br/>&#34;&#34;I haven&#39;t lived a perfect life,&#34;&#34; she once said. &#34;&#34;I haven&#39;t even lived a careful life. But I lived.&#34;&#34;<br/><br/>Ava Gardner died on January 25, 1990, in London, at age 67. She&#39;d outlived both Mickey Rooney and Artie Shaw. Frank Sinatra, her great love, would outlive her by eight years.<br/><br/>At her funeral, Sinatra reportedly broke down and wept.<br/><br/>Ava Gardner&#39;s legacy is complicated. She was beautiful—objectively, stunningly, impossibly beautiful. But reducing her to just beauty misses the point entirely.<br/><br/>She was a woman who refused to be controlled by studios, husbands, or society&#39;s expectations. She said what she thought, slept with whom she wanted, and lived on her own terms in an era that punished women for doing exactly that.<br/><br/>She was called a homewrecker for loving Frank Sinatra. But he left his wife—that was his choice, not hers.<br/><br/>She was called a drunk and a party girl. But male actors who drank and partied were called &#34;&#34;charismatic&#34;&#34; and &#34;&#34;fun-loving.&#34;&#34;<br/>She was told she couldn&#39;t act. Then she was nominated for an Academy Award.<br/><br/>She was told to behave like a lady. She told them where to shove it.<br/><br/>Ava Gardner proved that you don&#39;t have to be perfect to be legendary. You just have to be yourself—unapologetically, defiantly, completely.<br/><br/>She was Hollywood&#39;s most beautiful woman.<br/><br/>She married Frank Sinatra after he left his wife for her.<br/>When a reporter asked why, she gave the most infamous answer in Hollywood history.<br/><br/>Because Ava Gardner didn&#39;t answer to anyone but herself. &#34;<br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1855265718554583040/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1855265718554583040/xlarge/</a><br/> 2026-01-06T13:26:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9ft59an4ju0z5a3hhmkszves67x845v5dgdedw9l8sr9jsf2my8qzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sdugzvx Happy New Year! ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz 😝 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg5f0lal5t38s29xj9pqyrx0uqauyj4fz8xnjz893nz3l4wwhn4rg8s6ltd'>nevent1q…6ltd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Happy New Year! 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WWII Japanese Infantry Never Expected 12-Gauge American Shotguns in the Assault.<br/><br/>The Pacific Theater, 1942 to 1945. The dense jungle undergrowth of the Pacific Islands created a unique combat environment where engagements often occurred at ranges of less than 30 yards.<br/><br/> In these conditions, the United States Marine Corps deployed a weapon that would challenge every assumption Japanese forces held about modern warfare, the 12 gauge pump-action shotgun.<br/> While the historical record of specific combat employment remains limited, the presence of Winchester Model 1897 and Model 1912 shotguns in marine units throughout the Pacific campaign represented a tactical capability for which Japanese military doctrine had made no provision. The Imperial Japanese Army had spent decades preparing for war against Western powers.<br/> Their training manuals addressed British rifles, American machine guns, French mortars, and Soviet submachine guns. But shotguns, weapons they considered tools for hunting birds rather than implements of war, never appeared in their tactical considerations. This oversight would prove significant as American forces brought approximately 25,000 Model 97s and 60,000 to 80,000 Model 12s into military service during World War II.<br/> Japanese military doctrine in 1942 centered on sation spiritual power that would overcome material disadvantage. This philosophy wasn&#39;t merely propaganda but a calculated response to industrial reality. Japan produced less steel in a year than America produced in a month. The Imperial Army&#39;s solution was to make each soldier superior in close combat where spirit and training would prevail over mechanical warfare.<br/> The tactical expression of this doctrine was the night infiltration attack followed by close quarters combat with rifle and bayonet. Japanese infantry trained extensively in these tactics which had proven successful against Chinese forces. British troops in Malaya and American defenders in the Philippines. The standard engagement sequence was clear.<br/> Approach under cover of darkness, infiltrate enemy lines, then overwhelm defenders at close range, where Japanese superiority in hand-to-hand combat would prove decisive. American shotguns invalidated this entire tactical framework. At the close ranges, where Japanese doctrine anticipated dominance, a marine with a Winchester Model 97 could fire six loads of 000 buckshot in approximately 2 seconds using the weapon&#39;s slamfire capability.<br/><br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1850379612257787904/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1850379612257787904/xlarge/</a><br/> 2025-12-24T01:48:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs09yav0sg83ep243genwtf7nhresafwmsuyh4qfch0kk3n5fkyerqzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s87utl7 A Mob Boss Made a Joke About Dean Martin’s Mother — His Calm ... A Mob Boss Made a Joke About Dean Martin’s Mother — His Calm Response Shocked Everyone.....<br/><br/>The Sands Hotel was packed on the night of November 3rd, 1955. Dean Martin was three songs into his set, the audience eating out of his hand when Anthony Big Tony Castiano walked in. Big Tony wasn&#39;t just any customer. He was a capo in the New York crime family with ties to every major casino in Vegas.<br/><br/> He was loud, he was crude, and he was drunk. and he wanted everyone to know he was there. Dean was in the middle of a ballad when Big Tony&#39;s voice cut through the room. Hey Dean, sing something with some life in it. My grandmother could put more energy into a song and she&#39;s been dead for 10 years.<br/><br/> The audience laughed nervously. Dean smiled, keeping his composure.<br/><br/>Well, sir, if your grandmother sings as well as you behave, I&#39;d love to hear her sometime. <br/><br/>More laughter, this time more comfortable. Dean had handled the heckler perfectly, acknowledged him, made a joke, moved on. He continued with his set. But Big Tony wasn&#39;t done. 20 minutes later, Dean was telling a story about growing up in Stubenville, Ohio, about his mother, Angela, and how she&#39;d taught him to always be polite, always respect others, always conduct himself with dignity.<br/><br/>It was a sweet story, one that humanized Dean and connected him to the audience. People were smiling, nodding along. That&#39;s when Big Tony stood up, his voice booming across the showroom. Dean, your mother taught you manners. Shame she didn&#39;t teach you how Vegas really works. The room went silent. Every person there understood what had just happened.<br/><br/> Big Tony hadn&#39;t just heckled. He&#39;d insulted Dean&#39;s mother. In Italian culture, in any culture really, that was crossing a line. but especially for Dean, whose mother had died when he was young, whose memories of her were sacred. This was personal. The band stopped playing. The spotlight operator didn&#39;t know where to point the light.<br/><br/> The audience held its breath because everyone knew Dean Martin had two choices. He could ignore it and look weak, or he could respond and potentially start a war with a mobster who had the power to end his career in Vegas. Dean stood at the microphone perfectly still. He wasn&#39;t smiling anymore, but he wasn&#39;t angry either.<br/><br/> His face was calm, contemplative. He took a slow breath, and when he spoke, his voice was quiet, but somehow reached every corner of the room. Sir, I want to thank you for bringing up my mother,&#34; Dean said. &#34;Because she&#39;s actually the perfect example of what I&#39;m trying to explain.&#34; Big Tony smirked, thinking he&#39;d won. His crew laughed, but Dean wasn&#39;t done.<br/><br/> My mother came to this country from Italy when she was 17 years old. Dean continued, &#34;She didn&#39;t speak English. She had no money. She had nothing except her character and her values. And you know what? She taught me. She taught me that the way you treat people when you have power over them tells you everything about who you really are.<br/><br/>The room was completely silent now. Dean&#39;s voice remained calm, almost gentle, but there was steel underneath. &#34;My mother cleaned houses for rich people,&#34; Dean said. She scrubbed their floors, washed their clothes, cooked their meals, and some of those people treated her with respect. They said, &#34;Please and thank you.<br/><br/>&#34; They saw her as a human being who was working hard to feed her family. But some of them, Dean paused. Some of them treated her like she was invisible, like she was nothing, like being poor and working with your hands meant you didn&#39;t deserve basic human dignity. Big Tony&#39;s smirk was fading. He could sense where this was going.<br/><br/> &#34;And you know what my mother told me?&#34; Dean asked. She said, &#34;Dino, the people who are cruel when they have power are the weakest people in the world because they need power to feel strong. They need to make others feel small so they can feel big.&#34; Dean&#39;s eyes were locked on Big Tony. Now she said, &#34;Real strength is being kind when you could be cruel.<br/> Real power is lifting people up, not tearing them down.&#34; The audience was transfixed. This wasn&#39;t entertainment anymore. This was something deeper. &#34;So when you make a joke about my mother,&#34; Dean said, his voice still calm, still measured. &#34;You&#39;re actually proving exactly what she taught me. You&#39;re showing everyone in this room that you need to insult a dead woman to feel powerful.<br/><br/> You need to mock someone&#39;s mother to get attention. And sir, that doesn&#39;t make you look strong. That makes you look desperate. Big Tony&#39;s face was red now. His crew had stopped laughing. People at the surrounding tables were looking at him with expressions that ranged from pity to disgust. Now, you said my mother should have taught me how Vegas really works, Dean continued.<br/><br/> Let me tell you how Vegas really works. Vegas runs on money. Sure, Vegas runs on power. Absolutely. But you know what makes Vegas actually function? It&#39;s the dealers and the waitresses and the janitors and the performers. It&#39;s the people who show up every day and do their jobs with dignity, even when people like you treat them like they&#39;re nothing.Dean took a step forward on the stage.<br/><br/>My mother understood something that you clearly don&#39;t. Power without character is just bullying. Money without decency is just greed. And making jokes about someone&#39;s mother doesn&#39;t make you clever or funny or powerful. It makes you small. The silence in the room was absolute. Dean had just called out a mobster publicly, thoroughly, devastatingly, without raising his voice, without cursing, without threatening.<br/><br/> He&#39;d simply held up a mirror and shown Big Tony exactly what he was. So, here&#39;s what I&#39;m going to do, Dean said. I&#39;m going to continue with my show. I&#39;m going to honor my mother&#39;s memory by treating everyone in this room, including you, with the respect and dignity she taught me, even when they don&#39;t deserve it.<br/> Even when they&#39;ve disrespected her. Because that&#39;s what real strength looks like. That&#39;s what real class looks like. And that&#39;s how Vegas really works when you understand what actually matters. Dean turned to the band. Let&#39;s pick it up with something cheerful. How about that&#39;s Amore? The music started. Dean sang and Big Tony sat there visibly shaken as the entire room watched him.<br/><br/> He&#39;d come into this showroom to assert his dominance, to remind everyone of his power, to put Dean Martin in his place. Instead, he&#39;d been made to look like exactly what he was, a bully who needed to hurt others, to feel important. After the show, Dean was in his dressing room when there was a knock on the door. It was one of Big Tony&#39;s associates, a man named Mr. Martin.<br/><br/> Big Tony wants to speak with you. He&#39;s waiting outside. Dean&#39;s manager looked terrified. Dean, don&#39;t go. Let me call security. It&#39;s okay, Dean said calmly. I&#39;ll talk to him. Dean walked outside to the parking lot where Big Tony was leaning against a Cadillac smoking a cigarette. His crew was there, but they kept their distance.<br/><br/> Big Tony looked at Dean for a long moment, then spoke. &#34;You made me look like an ass in there.&#34;<br/><br/> &#34;You made yourself look like an ass,&#34; Dean replied evenly. &#34;I just pointed it out.&#34; <br/><br/>Big Tony took a drag on his cigarette. You know, I could make things very difficult for you in this town. I know, Dean said. You could probably end my career in Vegas.<br/><br/> You could make sure I never work here again. You have that power. So, why did you do it? Big Tony asked. Why risk everything to defend your dead mother&#39;s honor? Dean thought about it for a moment. Because some things are more important than a career. Some things are more important than money or success or staying safe.<br/><br/> My mother gave everything so I could have opportunities she never had. The least I can do is defend her memory when someone disrespects it. Big Tony was quiet for a long time. My mother died when I was 12. He finally said she was a good woman, better than I turned out to be. He looked at Dean. What you said in there about how people treat others when they have power? My mother used to say something similar. I forgot about that.<br/><br/>I forgot a lot of things she taught me. It&#39;s not too late to remember. Dean said quietly. Big Tony laughed, but it was a bitter laugh. Yeah, it is. I&#39;m too far gone. I&#39;ve done too many things. He flicked his cigarette away. <br/><br/>But you, you&#39;re the real deal, Dean. You stood up there and spoke truth to me without being disrespectful.<br/><br/>You defended your mother without attacking mine. You made me look small without humiliating me. <br/><br/>He paused. That takes more guts than pulling a gun.<br/><br/> That takes real strength. It&#39;s just who I am, Dean said.<br/><br/> No. Big Tony corrected. 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MMMM I FORGOT. <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1847718749013020672">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1847718749013020672</a> 2025-12-16T17:34:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0qdza9wj597nf7endvcr77huqun2rhpqj3ghe0dx9mdw5tufmsuszyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4svk7rp4 A GOOD QUESTION FOR NASA FANS - THINK ABOUT IT... 🔥 IT&#39;S ... A GOOD QUESTION FOR NASA FANS - THINK ABOUT IT... 🔥<br/>IT&#39;S JUST COMMON SENSE, BUT THAT&#39;S A RARE THING THESE DAYS. ... IT NEVER HAPPENED!!! 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VIET NAM HERO<br/>They called him Pits, but the men who served beside him had another name they used when he was out of earshot—<br/>“the one you prayed was next to you when everything went to hell.”<br/>On April 11, 1969, deep in the tangled jungles of Vietnam, that truth would be tested with terrifying clarity.<br/>William H. Pitsenbarger was a 21-year-old Air Force pararescueman—one of the elite rescuers whose motto was “That Others May Live.” To him it wasn’t a motto. It was an oath.<br/>That afternoon, Charlie Company walked straight into an ambush so violent that men fell before they even heard the gunfire. Trees erupted like grenades. The jungle floor churned into mud streaked red. Radio calls crackled in fragments of fear:<br/>“We’re hit—heavy casualties—need help now!”<br/>Pitsenbarger didn’t hesitate.<br/>He volunteered—volunteered—to be lowered by cable from a hovering helicopter directly into the kill zone. The pilot warned him, “It’s too hot down there.”<br/>Pitsenbarger replied,<br/>“Those boys need help. Send me down.”<br/>The canopy swallowed him as he descended.<br/>He hit the ground already moving.<br/>For the next several hours, Pitsenbarger navigated a living nightmare—rounds snapping past his head, explosions shaking the earth—but he wasn’t searching for shelter. He was searching for the wounded.<br/>He dragged men to cover, ripping his own uniform into bandages. He splinted shattered legs with branches. He pressed canteens to the lips of the dying, whispering, “You’re not alone. I’m right here.”<br/>When an explosion tore a soldier’s arm from his body, others recoiled in shock. Not Pitsenbarger. He retrieved the severed limb, cleaned it as best he could, wrapped it carefully, and carried it with him—through mud, vines, and fire—because he refused to leave any part of a man behind.<br/>The gunfire intensified. Helicopters tried to return, but the air was too thick with bullets. One pilot shouted through the radio:<br/>“We can’t get in. It’s suicide.”<br/>Pitsenbarger faced a choice: evacuate with the last helicopter, or remain with men who were running out of ammo, out of stamina, out of hope.<br/>He didn’t even look back.<br/>He waved the helicopter away.<br/>A survivor would later say, voice breaking,<br/>“He had a chance to get out. He stayed for us.”<br/>As dusk closed in, the battle only grew more desperate. Pitsenbarger crawled from man to man, gathering ammunition from the dead and handing it to the living. When he’d exhausted his medical supplies, he fought—firing back at enemy lines, shielding wounded soldiers with his own body.<br/>He was still helping others when a burst of enemy fire hit him.<br/>Even as he collapsed, men swore they saw him try to push himself upright—still reaching for a wounded soldier who cried out nearby.<br/>He died on the jungle floor, surrounded by the men he refused to abandon.<br/>When reinforcements arrived the next morning, they found his body in a circle of scattered rifles, empty medical kits, and survivors who owed their lives to everything he had done.<br/>One soldier said,<br/>“If not for Pits, half of us wouldn’t have made it.”<br/>Another added,<br/>“He didn’t just save lives. He gave us the will to keep fighting.”<br/>For decades, those men fought for him—writing letters, giving testimony, refusing to let his courage fade into silence.<br/>In 2000, thirty-one years after his death, William H. Pitsenbarger was awarded the Medal of Honor.<br/>As the citation was read, a veteran he’d saved whispered,<br/>“He earned this a thousand times over. We’re here because he was there.”<br/>Some heroes live long enough to hear the world thank them.<br/>William H. Pitsenbarger gave his life so others could keep theirs.<br/>And every heartbeat of the men he saved remains part of the legacy he never saw—<br/>a legacy carved out of courage, sacrifice, and love stronger than fear.<br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1843739042449989632/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1843739042449989632/xlarge/</a><br/> 2025-12-05T18:00:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz29zmvuxzggn0aeak7qzx9fk74dva8skze3f4r0y6xujlhzp62tqzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s7lyrzt A CHRISTMAS STORY FULL MOVIE ... A CHRISTMAS STORY FULL MOVIE<br/> <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1843738917153542144">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1843738917153542144</a> 2025-12-05T18:00:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyxl6fcetpmqh8sg7uaqqzdp9ljhu6am3g6yntdxl9ap7wd9fcvwszyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s4z30mu Nostr event nevent1qqsyxl6fcetpmqh8sg7uaqqzdp9ljhu6am3g6yntdxl9ap7wd9fcvwszyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s4z30mu <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1843350315559030784">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1843350315559030784</a><br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1843350309357871104/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1843350309357871104/xlarge/</a><br/> 2025-12-04T16:16:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8y4gkpq87jmjspjgjs85uemctun97xtcs8ukune8cnyc572dw6xqzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4se5dmyf TONIGHT! The final Supermoon of 2025 arrives on December 4th, and ... TONIGHT! <br/>The final Supermoon of 2025 arrives on December 4th,<br/>and we won’t see a Moon rise this high again until 2042.<br/>This is more than an astronomical event —<br/>it’s an emotional closing of a cycle you’ve carried for years.<br/>This Supermoon brings:<br/>• deep reflection<br/>• sharp clarity<br/>• truth rising to the surface<br/>• release of old emotional weight<br/>• a powerful ending before 2026 begins<br/>It’s a rare moment where the sky mirrors your inner shift.<br/>Because this Full Moon is in Gemini,<br/>expect realizations, conversations, and decisions<br/>you can no longer avoid.<br/>This Moon ends what can’t continue.<br/>And reveals what must rise next.<br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1843350098466050048/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1843350098466050048/xlarge/</a><br/> 2025-12-04T16:15:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxf4ddrtxxjqraclwuyj776auhaakpfpk77azk40dyaxd6zqj260czyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sayjyed WWII TRUE STORY: Gregory Pappy Boyington once stunned a roomful ... WWII TRUE STORY:<br/><br/>Gregory Pappy Boyington once stunned a roomful of Marine officers when he calmly pointed to a map of the Pacific and circled the most dangerous sector on it, then said he wanted to take the pilots no one else trusted and fly straight into the center of that airspace. The room thought he was joking. He was not.<br/><br/>Boyington never behaved the way a model officer was expected to.<br/><br/>He drank too hard.<br/>He argued too loudly.<br/>He broke rules with the confidence of a man who believed discipline mattered only if it served the mission.<br/>But when he talked about air combat, every pilot in the room listened. He understood dogfighting with an instinct that looked closer to sixth sense than training.<br/>Before the Marine Corps ever let him form a squadron, Boyington had already survived the brutal skies of China with the Flying Tigers.<br/>He learned how Japanese fighters climbed.<br/>He learned how their pilots reacted when surprised.<br/>He learned that hesitation led to the loss of life faster than bullets.<br/>He returned to American ranks carrying secrets and scars no manual could teach.<br/>When he finally built VMF 214, the Black Sheep Squadron, he pulled together the pilots other commanders considered too young, too reckless, or too raw.<br/>Boyington looked at them and saw potential.<br/>He drilled them until they could fly in tight formation at impossible angles.<br/>He pushed them until they could read his intentions from the tilt of his wing alone.<br/>What the Marines had dismissed as misfits became one of the most feared air groups in the Pacific.<br/>Boyington led by demonstration.<br/>He attacked with frightening aggression.<br/>He used altitude like a weapon.<br/>He dove into enemy formations three times the size of his own and came out laughing.<br/>Pilots described flying beside him as trying to keep up with a man who had already fought the battle in his mind before ever starting the engine.<br/>In January 1944, luck broke.<br/>His Corsair was hit.<br/>He ditched in the ocean and woke to find himself aboard a Japanese submarine.<br/>His war continued in a prison camp where food was scarce, disease was constant, and the days blurred into a long fight to stay alive. He watched men collapse from starvation. He watched brutality delivered with procedure. He held on by replaying air battles in his memory.<br/>When the war ended, he emerged gaunt but unbroken.<br/>He learned he had become America’s top Marine ace with twenty eight confirmed victories.<br/>He received the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross.<br/>Crowds cheered the legend they had invented while he was locked behind bars.<br/>Life after combat was not simple.<br/>He battled alcohol.<br/>He battled the memories that refused to quiet.<br/>But he spoke to young pilots with honesty rather than glory, warning them that courage was not the absence of fear but the decision to keep flying despite it.<br/>Gregory Pappy Boyington was never the polished hero the military liked to advertise.<br/>He was something rarer.<br/>A leader who could turn chaos into strategy, doubt into loyalty, and a handful of overlooked men into a squadron that rewrote the expectations of what was possible in the air.<br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1843342512509427712/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1843342512509427712/xlarge/</a><br/> 2025-12-04T15:45:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdf2fv5qpdpp7p990weam4d46kztxu5xdu88jtp07yyalatfqzplgzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4swl2utj The lawn chair cost $109 from Sears. Sturdy aluminum frame, ... The lawn chair cost $109 from Sears. Sturdy aluminum frame, waffle-pattern webbing, armrests that could hold a beer. Nothing about it suggested aeronautical capability. But Lawrence Richard Walters, age thirty-three, truck driver from San Pedro, California, had spent two decades convinced that with enough helium and determination, anything could fly.<br/>Larry had wanted to be a pilot since childhood. At Hollywood High School, he&#39;d done a science project called &#34;Hydrogen and Balloons&#34;—his teacher gave it a D. The U.S. Air Force rejected him for poor eyesight. He&#39;d served as a cook in Vietnam instead of flying missions, then returned to civilian life driving trucks through Los Angeles traffic, watching planes overhead, nursing a dream that refused to die. At age thirteen, standing in an Army-Navy surplus store, he&#39;d seen weather balloons hanging from the ceiling and thought: those could carry a person.<br/>By 1982, the thought had become a plan. Larry and his girlfriend Carol Van Deusen bought forty-five eight-foot weather balloons from a surplus store, obtaining helium tanks from California Toy Time Balloons using a forged requisition that claimed the balloons were for a FilmFair Studios television commercial. He purchased the lawn chair. He gathered supplies: a pellet gun to pop balloons for descent, a CB radio, an altimeter, a camera, sandwiches, two liters of Coca-Cola, beer, water jugs for ballast, and a parachute—just in case.<br/>He called his creation Inspiration I.<br/>On the morning of July 2, 1982, in the backyard of Carol&#39;s mother&#39;s house at 1633 West 7th Street in San Pedro, Larry attached forty-two of the balloons to his lawn chair, filled them with helium, and strapped himself in. His ground crew—Carol and a couple of friends—watched skeptically as he donned his parachute, adjusted his supplies, and gave final instructions. The chair was tethered to his Jeep with three ropes. The plan was simple: hover at about 100 feet for an hour, enjoy the view, contact the FAA to explain what he&#39;d done, then gently descend by shooting a few balloons.<br/>When police had spotted them inflating suspicious quantities of giant balloons the night before, Larry had waved them off, claiming they were shooting a commercial. Now, on a clear Southern California morning, everything seemed ready. Larry sat in his lawn chair suspended beneath forty-two cream-colored weather balloons, gave the signal, and his friends cut the first rope.<br/>The chair didn&#39;t drift lazily upward. It rocketed.<br/>The remaining ropes snapped under sudden tension. Larry shot skyward at more than 1,000 feet per minute, the ground shrinking beneath him with terrifying speed. He&#39;d planned for 100 feet. At 500 feet, he was already far beyond his target. At 1,000 feet, he began to panic. At 5,000 feet, he realized he&#39;d entered the flight path of Long Beach and LAX airports. At 10,000 feet, the temperature dropped and the air thinned. At 13,000 feet, he struggled to breathe. At 16,000 feet—roughly three miles high, the altitude where small commercial planes cruise—Larry Walters in his lawn chair leveled off.<br/>Below him, Los Angeles spread out in impossible detail. He could see the orange funnels of the Queen Mary. He could see Howard Hughes&#39;s Spruce Goose. He could see Catalina Island in the distance. The Pacific Ocean stretched blue and opaque toward the horizon. Up there, in the thin, freezing air, suspended beneath balloons in a $109 lawn chair, Larry experienced something close to peace.<br/>&#34;It was peaceful, beautiful, like nothing else,&#34; he would later say. The higher he&#39;d gone, the more he could see, and it was awesome. The sea was blue and opaque. He could look up the coast like, forever.<br/>Then a TWA pilot radioed air traffic control: &#34;TWA 231, level at 16,000 feet. We have a man in a chair attached to balloons in our ten o&#39;clock position, range five miles.&#34;<br/>Air traffic controllers initially thought it was a joke. Then more pilots reported the sighting. A lawn chair. Balloons. A man waving. At 16,000 feet. In controlled airspace.<br/>Larry grabbed his CB radio and contacted REACT, a citizens band radio monitoring organization. The recording of their conversation would become famous:<br/>&#34;The difficulty is, ah, this was an unauthorized balloon launch, and, uh, I know I&#39;m in a federal airspace, and I don&#39;t know how to get down.&#34;<br/>REACT: &#34;What information do you wish me to tell them at this time as to your location and your difficulty?&#34;<br/>Larry&#39;s toes felt frozen. His teeth chattered. He was dizzy from thin air. His girlfriend&#39;s voice crackled over the CB, begging him to come down. But Larry had waited twenty years for this moment. &#34;No way in heck,&#34; he thought. &#34;After all this—my life, the money we&#39;d sunk into this thing—just come down? No way in heck. I was just going to have a good time up there.&#34;<br/>After forty-five minutes aloft—forty-three minutes longer than he&#39;d planned—Larry finally accepted he needed to descend. He picked up his pellet gun and carefully aimed at the balloons in the outer ring, trying not to unbalance the chair. He fired. Pop. A balloon deflated. He fired again. Pop. Another balloon. Seven balloons successfully shot. The chair began dropping.<br/>Then a gust of wind jerked the chair forward. Larry didn&#39;t fall—but his pellet gun did. He watched it tumble end over end toward the earth, taking with it his only means of controlled descent.<br/>Now he had only the water jugs. He began slicing them open with his pocketknife, pouring out ballast, trying to control his descent speed through weight adjustment alone. The remaining balloons were slowly leaking helium from the cold altitude. Between the leaking helium and the dumped water, Larry descended—but he couldn&#39;t control where.<br/>The chair drifted southeast from San Pedro toward Long Beach, covering about ten miles. After ninety minutes total flight time, Larry approached the ground faster than he wanted, the water jugs now empty, watching the earth rush up with no way to slow down further.<br/>At 432 East 44th Way in Long Beach, the dangling cables from his balloons snagged power lines. The line broke with a sharp crack. The neighborhood went dark—a twenty-minute blackout affecting dozens of homes. Larry hung there, suspended a dozen feet above the ground, still strapped into his lawn chair, swaying slightly, alive.<br/>He climbed down using a stepladder that residents brought. Waiting at the bottom was the Long Beach Police Department.<br/>They arrested him immediately.<br/>A reporter shoved a microphone in his face: &#34;Why did you do it?&#34;<br/>Larry, still catching his breath, replied with five words that would define him: &#34;A man can&#39;t just sit around.&#34;<br/>The FAA inspector, Neal Savoy, was less amused: &#34;We know he broke some part of the Federal Aviation Act, and as soon as we decide which part it is, a charge will be filed.&#34;<br/>Larry initially faced a $4,000 fine for violating federal aviation regulations, including operating an aircraft within airport traffic areas without establishing two-way communication with control towers, and flying an unregistered aircraft. He appealed. The fine was reduced to $1,500 after the FAA conceded that lawn chairs don&#39;t technically require airworthiness certificates. The case made legal history: How do you prosecute a man for piloting a lawn chair?<br/>Overnight, Larry became &#34;Lawnchair Larry,&#34; a folk hero whose audacity captured imaginations worldwide. He appeared on Late Night with David Letterman ten days after his flight. He quit his truck driving job to become a motivational speaker. Timex featured him in a print advertisement. He received the top prize from the Bonehead Club of Dallas. The Darwin Awards gave him an honorable mention.<br/>But fame was fleeting and unprofitable. Larry never made much money from his celebrity. He gave his famous lawn chair to an admiring neighborhood boy named Jerry—a decision he&#39;d regret when the Smithsonian Institution asked him to donate it to their museum. He hiked the San Gabriel Mountains. He did volunteer work for the U.S. Forest Service. His fifteen-year relationship with Carol ended. He found sporadic work as a security guard.<br/>&#34;It was something I had to do,&#34; Larry had told reporters right after landing. &#34;I had this dream for twenty years, and if I hadn&#39;t done it, I think I would have ended up in the funny farm. By the grace of God, I fulfilled my dream. But I wouldn&#39;t do this again for anything.&#34;<br/>On October 6, 1993, at age forty-four, Larry Walters hiked into Angeles National Forest and shot himself in the heart. The boy who&#39;d dreamed of flight, the man who&#39;d achieved it impossibly, died alone among the trees.<br/>Twenty years after his death, Jerry contacted Mark Barry, a pilot who&#39;d documented Larry&#39;s story. The lawn chair was still in Jerry&#39;s garage, still attached to some of the original tethers and water jugs. The chair was loaned to the San Diego Air and Space Museum in 2014, then donated to the Smithsonian. Today it&#39;s displayed at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.—a $109 Sears lawn chair elevated to the status of historical aircraft.<br/>Larry&#39;s flight inspired cluster ballooning as an extreme sport. Kent Couch flew 240 miles in a lawn chair in 2007. David Blaine reached 24,900 feet using balloons in 2020, with proper licenses and oxygen equipment. The 2003 Australian film Danny Deckchair told a fictionalized version of Larry&#39;s story. The musical 42 Balloons premiered in 2019. Pixar&#39;s Up, released in 2009, features a house lifted by balloons—an image that traces directly to Larry Walters floating over Los Angeles in his lawn chair.<br/>Larry never got to be an Air Force pilot. He got a D on his balloon science project. He spent his adult life driving trucks through traffic. But on July 2, 1982, for ninety minutes, Lawrence Richard Walters flew higher than most small planes, looked down at the Pacific Ocean from three miles up, and lived a dream that everyone said was impossible.<br/>The line between bravery and madness might be only forty-two balloons thick. But sometimes, when a man can&#39;t just sit around, that line stops mattering. Sometimes the only rational response to an irrational dream is to strap yourself into a lawn chair, grab some beer and sandwiches, and see what happens when you let go of the rope.<br/>Larry Walters saw what happens. And for twenty years after his death, the world is still looking up, still laughing, still wondering—could I do that? And more importantly: should I?<br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1841313208388820992/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1841313208388820992/xlarge/</a><br/> 2025-11-29T01:21:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxm3sxpr6hkevfk5cywqejz52p08g9anqe68jpfhcnvrqq38c5a8czyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s40rx6t Oh, Timmy boy, bless your heart—or whatever’s left of it ... Oh, Timmy boy, bless your heart—or whatever’s left of it after all the grift you’ve shoveled. You stand there in your pressed suit, flapping your gums about President Trump “distracting” from his problems? That’s rich coming from the guy who’s turned Minnesota into his personal ATM machine, siphoning off billions through your DFL mafia’s daycare scams, COVID cash heists, and election-rigging side hustles. Fraud cases? Those aren’t “isolated incidents,” you hack—they’re the tip of the iceberg you personally welded to the hull of this sinking state. And now you’re clutching your pearls over TPS for Somalis? Spare us the sob story about “civil war” in Somalia. We didn’t sign up to bankroll your imported vote farms and welfare pipelines, all while you let the real crooks—your donors, your appointees, your nonprofit parasites—pick our pockets clean. Trump’s not the distraction; you’re the damn arsonist lecturing the fire department on smoke signals.<br/>As for you, Fox 9—wake the hell up. “Walz responds to Trump’s fraud criticisms: ‘He’s distracting from his own problems’”? What is this, a DFL press release with lipstick? That’s not a headline; that’s a sedative. Where’s the gut punch? “Walz Dodges Fraud Firestorm That Could Torch His TPS Tantrum”? Or “Governor Gaslights on Graft While Minnesota Bleeds Cash”? You’ve got the footage of this weasel squirming right there—use it to expose the syndicate, not tee up his deflection. Minnesotans aren’t tuning in for softball tosses; they want the truth hammer, not your kid-gloves fluff. Step up or step aside—your “unwillingness to confront hard facts” is just another enabler in the conga line.<br/>This isn’t about race, Tim. It’s about racketeering. Behaviors. You and your crew exploiting every loophole, every loophole you wrote, to loot us blind. From the beginning—your “progressive” fairy tales were cover for the heist. Knowingly or not, you’re neck-deep in the harm now, and the suffering you’ve caused? It’s a ledger longer than your list of excuses. President Trump sees through your BS because guys like him built empires spotting snakes like you. Time to sweat, Governor. The whistle’s blown, the audits are coming, and 2026’s got my name on the ballot to dismantle your whole rotten network. Minnesotans deserve better than your thievery—we deserve justice.<br/>For interviews or to get the real dirt on Minnesota’s crime syndicates:<br/>• Phillip C. Parrish, Candidate for Governor of Minnesota 2026: phillip@parrish4mn.com<br/>• Campaign Manager Heidi Wanty: heidi@parrish4mn.com<br/>• Phone: 1 (612) 460-1717<br/>Follow the fight: @phillipcparrish on X, parrish4mn.com, and tune into Freedom Talk with Phil @parrish4mn. Let’s drain this swamp—for good.<br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1840448656820527104/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1840448656820527104/xlarge/</a><br/> 2025-11-26T16:06:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqka9gz0fvvftgw44sjpextfdyu9f4kt6qqfh5y26xhwxp2d7st5gzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s2hd4wq The Mission Beach Beauty Contest, San Diego July 1982 ... 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Sophomore class officers of Marymount College, 1971.<br/>which one got the job?<br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1833907089129463808/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1833907089129463808/xlarge/</a><br/> 2025-11-08T14:52:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvu3l5w0p4qaly0wslyysqfljfuyv3lup3nv0zeuv2tuwrs635rvszyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sgfctgt AMAZING PERFORMANCE COVER OF QUEEN&#39;S BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY! WOW! ... AMAZING PERFORMANCE COVER OF QUEEN&#39;S BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY! <br/>WOW! 😘 <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1833746370853462016">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1833746370853462016</a> 2025-11-08T04:13:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyymwdea8pkpkjzx2qww3e4d2gasqqjkelv8c6zgw6zj63pkd5j2szyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4stnpn3t ULTIMATE MEGA FAIL DARWIN AWARD WINNER COLLECTION! ... ULTIMATE MEGA FAIL DARWIN AWARD WINNER COLLECTION! <br/> <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1833220604304564224">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1833220604304564224</a> 2025-11-06T17:24:11Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvetx66q2s5a5y3cvxepkpaa06dh36gp5h65jmazvazav6lpajp2czyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sjzc06n 🌕 November 6 — The Moon and the Seven Sisters 🌕 Tonight, ... 🌕 November 6 — The Moon and the Seven Sisters 🌕<br/>Tonight, the heavens come alive in a rare celestial waltz — the Super Beaver Moon rises alongside the Pleiades star cluster, known as the Seven Sisters.<br/>This luminous encounter bridges science and story — a cosmic alignment seen and celebrated since the dawn of time.<br/>Across ancient myths, the Seven Sisters symbolized connection, love, and renewal — and tonight, the Moon joins their silent dance across the stars.<br/>✨ When to Watch: Shortly after sunset<br/>📍 Where to Look: Eastern sky<br/>📸 Tip: Capture it with a steady shot — the Sisters will shimmer faintly beside the golden Moon.<br/>🌌 Though separated by 400 light-years, their shared light reaches us together — a timeless reminder that distance cannot dim belonging.<br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1833187949439737856/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1833187949439737856/xlarge/</a><br/> 2025-11-06T15:14:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8hr7qts563xmkfwqdszt0xvfj7z6wr7pz7jp70e0p0spzuyxv7cgzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4smn49hp LES PAUL He built a guitar from a fence post in his garage—and ... LES PAUL<br/><br/>He built a guitar from a fence post in his garage—and accidentally invented the sound of rock and roll. Today marks what would have been the 110th birthday of a man whose name you might not know, but whose inventions you&#39;ve heard in every song you&#39;ve ever loved. June 9, 1915. <br/><br/>Waukesha, Wisconsin. Lester William Polsfuss was born into a world where music still meant orchestras, pianos, and acoustic instruments that could barely be heard past the third row. <br/><br/>Electric amplification was science fiction. Recording studios didn&#39;t exist. The idea that one person could layer their voice or instrument multiple times on a single track? Impossible. Young Lester didn&#39;t know he was supposed to accept those limitations. As a teenager in the 1920s, while other kids were playing baseball, Lester was in his garage building his own amplifiers from radio parts and telephone components. <br/><br/>He taught himself guitar by listening to records and slowing them down to figure out how the notes worked. When existing guitars couldn&#39;t produce the sounds he heard in his head, he started taking them apart and rebuilding them. His neighbors thought he was strange.<br/><br/> His mother worried he&#39;d electrocute himself. He was just getting started. By the 1930s, performing as &#34;Les Paul,&#34; he was playing jazz clubs and radio shows. But he had a problem: acoustic guitars were too quiet. Even with a microphone, they got drowned out by drums and brass. And the hollow-body electric guitars that were starting to appear had their own issue—they fed back and howled when amplified too loud. <br/><br/>So in 1941, working in his garage in Queens, New York, Les did something that seemed absurd: he took a 4x4 piece of solid railroad pine—basically a fence post—attached a guitar neck to it, mounted some pickups, and connected it to an amplifier. It looked ridiculous. Musicians laughed at it. He called it &#34;The Log.&#34;But when he plugged it in and played, something magical happened. The sustain was incredible. The tone was clean. No feedback. No unwanted vibrations.<br/><br/>Just pure, amplified sound that could cut through any band and sustain for days. The Log was the first true solid-body electric guitar. And it sounded like the future. For years, Les tried to convince guitar manufacturers to produce it. They all said no. A solid chunk of wood with strings? That&#39;s not a guitar. Nobody would buy it. In 1952, after rival Leo Fender released the Telecaster and started selling solid-body electrics successfully, Gibson finally approached Les Paul. They asked him to help design and endorse their version of a solid-body guitar. The Gibson Les Paul was born.<br/><br/> Today, it&#39;s one of the most iconic guitars in history. Jimmy Page played one. Slash plays one. Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Gary Moore, Randy Rhoads—some of the greatest guitar moments in rock history came from that instrument. And it all started with a fence post in a garage. But Les wasn&#39;t done revolutionizing music. In 1947, he married Mary Ford, a brilliant singer and performer. Together, they started having hit records in the 1950s—&#34;How High the Moon,&#34; &#34;Vaya Con Dios,&#34; songs that sold millions of copies and topped the charts. But something about those records sounded... different. Impossible, actually. Mary&#39;s voice would harmonize with itself. Multiple guitar parts would interweave in ways that shouldn&#39;t be possible for one person to play. <br/><br/>The sound had depth and dimension that no one had heard before. Here&#39;s why: Les Paul was inventing multitrack recording in his home studio. He built his own 8-track recorder by stacking tape machines and synchronizing them. He pioneered overdubbing—recording one part, then playing it back while recording another part on top of it. He developed tape delay effects. He invented close-miking techniques. He experimented with phasing and reverb. <br/><br/>Every single one of those techniques is standard in every recording studio today. Every pop song, every rock album, every podcast uses methods Les Paul invented in his garage in the 1940s and 50s.The Beatles&#39; &#34;Sgt. Pepper&#34;? Built on Les Paul&#39;s techniques. Every hip-hop track with layered samples? Les Paul&#39;s multitracking. That guitar solo that gives you chills? Probably played on a Les Paul guitar, recorded using Les Paul&#39;s methods. In 1988, Les Paul was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a performer. In 2005, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his technical innovations.<br/><br/> He&#39;s the only person ever inducted into both. Think about that. Celebrated equally as an artist and an inventor. A musician who could hang with the best jazz players in the world, and an engineer who held multiple patents for audio technology. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame&#39;s permanent exhibit about him calls him an &#34;architect of modern music.&#34; That&#39;s not hyperbole. That&#39;s exactly what he was. Les Paul kept performing until he was 93 years old, hosting a weekly show at a jazz club in New York City where legends would drop by to jam with the man who&#39;d invented the tools they used. <br/><br/>He died August 12, 2009, at age 94.But here&#39;s the thing about Les Paul: he never really left. Every time you hear a power chord ring out at a concert, that&#39;s The Log—his fence post guitar—echoing through time. Every time a singer records harmonies with themselves, that&#39;s Les in his garage, figuring out how to layer tape tracks. Every time a guitarist bends a note and lets it sustain into infinity, that&#39;s the solid-body design he pioneered. Most people who shaped the 20th century did it through politics or war or wealth. <br/><br/>Les Paul did it from a garage in Queens with a soldering iron, a 4x4 piece of wood, and an unshakeable belief that if he could imagine a sound, he could build a way to create it. He proved that you don&#39;t need a laboratory or a corporation or a fancy degree to change the world. You just need curiosity, determination, and a willingness to look ridiculous building a guitar out of a fence post while everyone tells you it&#39;ll never work.<br/><br/> Today would have been his 110th birthday. The best way to celebrate? Turn on any song you love. Listen to the layered vocals. The sustaining guitar notes. The way each instrument occupies its own space in the mix.<br/><br/> That&#39;s all Les Paul. That&#39;s his gift to every person who&#39;s ever loved music. 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War Of The Worlds - Original 1938 Radio Broadcast · Orson Welles<br/>The War of the Worlds 1938 refers to a Halloween radio broadcast on October 30, 1938, by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air company. Presented as a series of simulated news bulletins, the dramatization of H.G. 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Keep that in mind . The main ... HILTON hotels no longer take cash. Keep that in mind . The main shareholder is Blackrock. 2025-10-19T20:17:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2laf7nd8e895kuxddlwqc008d4tas4ww8avwacjzp33zlhf5tltgzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s67rpes Nostr event nevent1qqs2laf7nd8e895kuxddlwqc008d4tas4ww8avwacjzp33zlhf5tltgzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s67rpes <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1826644341737656320">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1826644341737656320</a><br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1826644333818810368/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1826644333818810368/xlarge/</a><br/> 2025-10-19T13:52:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvz6vgcwaq24fn3vczspuhfcqj5qc7c37paktgrnrqeefudqgjekqzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4swgn59j 1970s girls. Not fat, not covered in tattoos, no phones. What ... 1970s girls. Not fat, not covered in tattoos, no phones.<br/>What happened?<br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1826335117312790528/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1826335117312790528/xlarge/</a><br/> 2025-10-18T17:23:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2dqjrre39hk63rnz0hpwjre30fmxqsmt6n56jpp5y8estdh4ydeqzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s0ngwwc In 1968, during the intense and grueling battle near Khe Sanh, ... In 1968, during the intense and grueling battle near Khe Sanh, Vietnam, a U.S. Marine was photographed operating an M2 .50 caliber machine gun outfitted with a top secret scope—an uncommon but highly effective battlefield modification. The M2, nicknamed the “Ma Deuce,” was a powerful heavy machine gun capable of firing large-caliber rounds at long range, often used to defend fixed positions or provide suppressive fire.<br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1825877479441571840/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1825877479441571840/xlarge/</a><br/> 2025-10-17T11:06:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstmj85vhgta3gasc824c79ej5tuyc8hr2qr6trryh8ntzt9629m3qzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4szhek06 Nostr event nevent1qqstmj85vhgta3gasc824c79ej5tuyc8hr2qr6trryh8ntzt9629m3qzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4szhek06 <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1825877452705095680">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1825877452705095680</a><br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1825877445492871168/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1825877445492871168/xlarge/</a><br/> 2025-10-17T11:05:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2r0ld6prsn6wkyqv0ys6um7sjvsgax59l9slwpaz5csl0ky33xaczyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sdtx58d Nostr event nevent1qqs2r0ld6prsn6wkyqv0ys6um7sjvsgax59l9slwpaz5csl0ky33xaczyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sdtx58d <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1825199676467453952">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1825199676467453952</a><br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1825199667982376960/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1825199667982376960/xlarge/</a><br/> 2025-10-15T14:11:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0c8d06h73ahgchvmf0gja8ky9tpnxukgz6qxcwv9fkq0lx0jj3rczyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s934azg Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jugs - Oktoberfest ... Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jugs - Oktoberfest <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1824284851432329216">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1824284851432329216</a> 2025-10-13T01:36:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqpvpd2r2jw9t3png5h8387kfu0f4fwv46tcsgwlezzp9z6cnhskczyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sdzv74q https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1824116352921755648 <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1824116352921755648">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1824116352921755648</a> 2025-10-12T14:27:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8dnhdddh2h09dajezvjty9zhe8vu0z5404myesthn8vmkh8mcmggzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sxnz6dw KING CRIMSON - In the Court of the Crimson King is the debut ... KING CRIMSON - In the Court of the Crimson King is the debut studio album by English progressive rock band King Crimson, released on 10 October 1969, by Island Records.<br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1823387063322533888/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1823387063322533888/xlarge/</a><br/> 2025-10-10T14:09:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9dk808hq5ryjytk6lyl4aqh5xqwl3vq7k3xaeecyh69nwa8k5xugzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4slwkwn4 Nostr event nevent1qqs9dk808hq5ryjytk6lyl4aqh5xqwl3vq7k3xaeecyh69nwa8k5xugzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4slwkwn4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvt0eekyf5xjp50ngq84a3nrzt5v6qfts4yh9hftpktz9xgl6lc8cnf8kqh'>nevent1q…8kqh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1821859992827863040?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1821859992827863040:0:0:0:1821934682273603584">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1821859992827863040?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1821859992827863040:0:0:0:1821934682273603584</a><br/><a href="https://www.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1821934672010141696">https://www.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1821934672010141696</a><br/> 2025-10-06T13:57:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0r23eetyeq4x5a2vfnx2k7zn5r5eudkan4ld48urw5fg8ra3qwfgzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s6hmgzr THE GODFATHER The life of Vito Corleone was loosely based on ... THE GODFATHER<br/>The life of Vito Corleone was loosely based on Lucky Luciano, known as &#34;Don Turiddu&#34; to his compari in his borgata.<br/><br/> Here are 12 examples to prove that Vito Corleone&#39;s life is about Lucky Luciano. <br/><br/>1. They both were from Sicily.<br/>2. They both landed at Ellis Island when they came to America.<br/>3. They both were diagnosed with smallpox upon arriving in America as children.<br/>4. They lived in Manhattan&#39;s Little Italy neighborhood when they moved to America from Sicily.<br/>5. They both were poor as children and even as young adults.<br/>6. They both created America&#39;s version of Sicily&#39;s Honored Society. <br/>7. Vito and Lucky worked with other ethnicities and were sometimes criticized for working with non-Italians by members of other families. Corleone made his Irish American foster son the Consigliere. Luciano worked with Jewish mobsters Meyer Lansky and Benjamin Siegel. Lansky was like a brother to Lucky.<br/>8. They both put up with an evil Black Hand leader in their neighborhood. Those leaders viciously preyed upon innocent Italians. For Vito, it was Don Fanucci. For Lucky it was Don Masseria. <br/>9. They both killed the evil Dons from their neighborhood.<br/>10. They both were very intelligent.<br/>11. Vito had a crooner that he helped reach to the highest level of stardom as an entertainer, and Lucky did as well. Vito had Johnny Fontane and Lucky had the Chairman of the Board. <br/>12. They both were powerful leaders.<br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1821758538335133696/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1821758538335133696/xlarge/</a><br/> 2025-10-06T02:18:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2tgkmr8c4ljreaklztsjz39a5jj6qr2707gqdckguanwyqpad9eczyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s45h386 666 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx6ks2fdmedmkq8lfnfksr8qsaxz23zvft54wy5k73dtvw2x7npdge5m4gr'>nevent1q…m4gr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>666 2025-10-04T12:56:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx82wcpvmqtnjp62dx35e3r5duztwkw5x4h34lszdq762jwrgdk0qzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s9udste Nostr event nevent1qqsx82wcpvmqtnjp62dx35e3r5duztwkw5x4h34lszdq762jwrgdk0qzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s9udste <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1821194064144490496">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1821194064144490496</a><br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1821194053778149376/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1821194053778149376/xlarge/</a><br/> 2025-10-04T12:55:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvrtx8zs8amj8c727eghasa2558wkayqs4c9l37mna8vtt94skq8gzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s5j0sey Nostr event nevent1qqsvrtx8zs8amj8c727eghasa2558wkayqs4c9l37mna8vtt94skq8gzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s5j0sey <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1820159865557880832">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1820159865557880832</a><br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1820159857517404160/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1820159857517404160/xlarge/</a><br/> 2025-10-01T16:25:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxhnn0e5y9mwxw2a5wnetf3m8pm0jlz0ym0rs0dtkl8fdr6elpa5qzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s2hffgg Nostr event nevent1qqsxhnn0e5y9mwxw2a5wnetf3m8pm0jlz0ym0rs0dtkl8fdr6elpa5qzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s2hffgg <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1820159834262200320">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1820159834262200320</a><br/><a href="https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1820159827412901888/xlarge/">https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1820159827412901888/xlarge/</a><br/> 2025-10-01T16:25:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs04m2rpq0ngvdcdqg27tr0l2u46zyhszqgft30hfjs5f6rl7ezcsqzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sf0tyvm SPEAKER JOHNSON: &#34;Democrats did something that is rather ... SPEAKER JOHNSON: &#34;Democrats did something that is rather shocking to us.&#34;<br/>&#34;They prioritized taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens over keeping the government open for American citizens.&#34; <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1820139996175142912">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1820139996175142912</a> 2025-10-01T15:06:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszcm0ahmjghvyn4h4fhlt2a0xyd698rw2pgvrwgtqfcasezq29hqgzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4sguxqzj BLACK SABBATH - Paranoid ... BLACK SABBATH - Paranoid <br/> <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1819515853023076352">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1819515853023076352</a> 2025-09-29T21:46:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqst9d9f5wucqvjk58r9f0wsgpxe022c3hg3mzk32vnfhhvmjkxthyszyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4stfaw9f nasa is fake In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszt6saukafer9tu6ptt85e9nuzwjce8m2pw4c5jyl58dktl7k3r8szwleex'>nevent1q…leex</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>nasa is fake 2025-09-27T13:01:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8t3exxq8c4hgqsdtp9ryje29hyx0kyfrm50yakv776cazkynuajqzyrmrzgqv79jgmyp9c9tayljx9xy2quy6jzm9lqa0zhxfgj5f7av4s0nzjwd HEBOON &amp; SHEBOON CHIMPOUT Cam Higby 🇺🇸 @camhigby · Sep ... HEBOON &amp; SHEBOON CHIMPOUT<br/>Cam Higby 🇺🇸<br/>@camhigby<br/>·<br/>Sep 24<br/>This is the EXTREMELY civil discussion that the riot at Tennessee State (HBCU) started with.<br/><br/>In this video you watch the mob grow, begin shouting, destroying our stuff, possessing weapons, blocking our way out, and screaming racist epithets. <br/><br/>All because of this civil convo. <a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1818309575669977088">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1818309575669977088</a> 2025-09-26T13:53:05Z