#HotSprings #Arkansas 12/
"And the enlisted sailors and Marines on that ship knew immediately it was wrong. They fought it. They went to JAG. And they were overridden. ...
This is a top-down moral collapse under Pete Hegseth and whoever in the Trump orbit green-lit these illegal strikes. And let’s be clear: if a private citizen killed 85 people with no legal authority, we wouldn’t debate terminology — we’d call it murder."
"And the law — U.S. law, military law, international law — could not be clearer: you document everything. You collect biometrics. You record medical status. You keep chain-of-custody logs. You do not delete evidence. You do convene a competent tribunal. None of that happened.
Instead, someone — almost certainly above the Admiral level — ordered everything wiped."
"Nick [Paro]— Army sergeant, trained interrogator, expert on detainee procedures — breaks down just how profoundly illegal all of this is. The United States is not in a congressionally authorized armed conflict with Venezuela. No war declared, no authorization, no oversight, no nothing.
Which means every person seized at sea is legally a civilian until proven otherwise, not some magically self-justifying 'narco-terrorist.'”
Chip Butty
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Winning some battles against renewable energy, losing the whole war...
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/11/19/someone-is-losing-the-war-on-renewable-energy-bigly/
#renewableenergy #renewables #sdg7 #greenenergy #cleanenergy #gogreen #greeneconomy #greenfuture #energytransition #wind #solar #sustainable #sustainbility #us #arkansas #windfarms #windinudstry #uswind
Winning some battles against renewable energy, losing the whole war...
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/11/19/someone-is-losing-the-war-on-renewable-energy-bigly/
#renewableenergy #renewables #sdg7 #greenenergy #cleanenergy #gogreen #greeneconomy #greenfuture #energytransition #wind #solar #sustainable #sustainbility #us #arkansas #windfarms #windinudstry #uswind
bhaugen
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That destruction is crystallized and illustrated in the starkest way possible in his razing of a wing of the White House to build a guilded ballroom as he chooses to withhold support for food to hungry families and children.
Please don't tell me you can justify all this in the name of Jesus Christ.
Because you can't.
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #Arkansas #women #abuse #MAGA #cruelty #immigrants #children #food #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom
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That destruction is crystallized and illustrated in the starkest way possible in his razing of a wing of the White House to build a guilded ballroom as he chooses to withhold support for food to hungry families and children.
Please don't tell me you can justify all this in the name of Jesus Christ.
Because you can't.
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #Arkansas #women #abuse #MAGA #cruelty #immigrants #children #food #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom
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White Christians own the Trump presidency, having voted — across the board from evangelicals to mainline Protestants to Catholics — three times in the majority for Trump.
And for his cruelty visited on children, immigrants, his critics… And for his destruction of longstanding norms of decency and respect for the Constitution that keep democracy going.
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #Arkansas #women #abuse #MAGA #cruelty #immigrants #children #food #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom
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"Arkansas is religiously an evangelical Christian state; Southern Baptists are the largest evangelical denomination in existence; and 80 percent of evangelicals countrywide vote MAGA. …
I am not a MAGA supporter. I think MAGA is an abomination and scourge on not only the Republican Party but America, and certainly evangelical Christianity."
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #Arkansas #women #abuse #MAGA #cruelty #immigrants #children #food #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom
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She answers her critic thoughtfully, refusing to cede ground on the well-documented fact that a very large percentage of white evangelicals are the core support of Donald Trump and the cruelties he is visiting on so many people. As she states,
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #Arkansas #women #abuse #MAGA #cruelty #immigrants #children #food #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom
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In the essay I've just linked, Falkenberry responds to an Arkansas man who emailed her a lengthy response to her previous statement about spiritual abuse, saying that, in effect, she's painting with a broad brush, that not all Christians and not all Southern Baptists are like what she's describing.
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #Arkansas #women #abuse #MAGA #cruelty #immigrants #children #food #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom
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Arkansas writer Gwen Falkenberry, who grew up Southern Baptist in Arkansas, recently published an essay in which she speaks about the "spiritual abuse" she and others, notably women, have endured in Southern Baptist churches.
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #Arkansas #women #abuse #MAGA #cruelty #immigrants #children #food #ballroom #EpsteinBallroom
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https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2025/oct/30/opinion-gwen-faulkenberry-origins-of-toxic-beliefs/
I'm kind of aghast at this, and at the spectacular ignorance and malice displayed by the police and ICE officers involved.
(But—as a retired pharmacist who studied drugs of botanic origin decades ago—I once got to handle a sample of raw Turkish opium. The perfumiers at YSL absolutely nailed the odour, to a first approximation: if the cops had some sort of drug familiarization training it's almost an understandable mistake—at least until it goes to the lab for testing.)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:c7ozmxoc5b2ky4iam2o36uic/post/3m2a5gcc3rs2h
There's an update to the story and arrest video footage here. It does not appear that the police actually opened the bottle to smell it.
The police video shows it to have been a sample bottle.
Some things to know if you want to apply (you can't just buy — you have to apply!) for membership in this all-white enclave in small-town Arkansas:
1. You MUST be all-white (or you must imagine you're all white).
2. You MUST prove you're all-white by filling out a questionnaire about your ancestry and, if asked, by providing photos of your relatives.
Did I forget to mention the other important point as you try to qualify for membership in Return to the Land? You MUST be Christian — you MUST be a white Christian!
No one else need apply.
P.S. This is EXACTLY what the Nazis did in their reign of terror, demanding that people have proof of their pure Aryan ancestry generations back on hand when asked by the authorities to show that proof.
Debra Kamin reports on the formation of "a community strictly for white, heterosexual people called Return to the Land in northArkansas
It's in the small town of Ravenden, 94% white in a county that's 92%+ white.
All-white communities and communities that deliberately exclude and terrorize non-whites are not new to Arkansas, particularly not new to the almost all-white northern counties of the state.
Some things to know if you want to apply (you can't just buy — you have to apply!) for membership in this all-white enclave in small-town Arkansas:
1. You MUST be all-white (or you must imagine you're all white).
2. You MUST prove you're all-white by filling out a questionnaire about your ancestry and, if asked, by providing photos of your relatives.
"It’s against this backdrop that much of this week’s news is taking place: Trump’s minimizing of chattel slavery; the federalization of D.C. police and the deployment of red state national guards to a plurality Black city; the phasing out of support for non-native English speakers in school; new hoops for legal immigrants to jump through; and a gauntlet of other indignities and slights that preference white citizens."
#Trump#Republicans#MAGA#WhiteSupremacy #racism#WashingtonDC
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Debra Kamin reports on the formation of "a community strictly for white, heterosexual people called Return to the Land in northArkansas
It's in the small town of Ravenden, 94% white in a county that's 92%+ white.
All-white communities and communities that deliberately exclude and terrorize non-whites are not new to Arkansas, particularly not new to the almost all-white northern counties of the state.
Alex Akselrod
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‘Whites-only’ group draws bipartisan rebuke over potential move to #Missourihttps://missouriindependent.com/2025/07/31/whites-only-missouri-lawmakers/?emci=b0b4c1c7-4b6e-f011-8dc9-6045bda9d96b&emdi=0a47d745-be6e-f011-8dc9-6045bda9d96b&ceid=136240#Arkansas#HateSpeech
‘Whites-only’ group draws bipartisan rebuke over potential move to #Missourihttps://missouriindependent.com/2025/07/31/whites-only-missouri-lawmakers/?emci=b0b4c1c7-4b6e-f011-8dc9-6045bda9d96b&emdi=0a47d745-be6e-f011-8dc9-6045bda9d96b&ceid=136240#Arkansas#HateSpeech
#Wavellite crystals #Arkansas#USA
Aluminum basic phosphate mineral with the formula Al₃(PO₄)₂(OH,F)₃·5H₂O, typically appearing in green to yellowish-green hues.
It was named in 1805 by William Babington in honor of Dr. William Wavell, a Devon-based physician and naturalist.
Wavellite commonly forms in fractures of aluminous metamorphic rocks.
📷 Golden Hour Minerals
#Geology #GeologyPage#Nature#Minerals#Crystals#Gems#Nature#NatureLovers#NaturePhotography#Photographer#RockPorn
