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Margaret Holwill retweeted
The developer luxury housing project is on California Private Land on the border of Yosemite National Park. How can it give the developer "rare private access to the heart of the park"... When it doesn't even lead to Park Property? Here is a view of where the road would turn off Big Oak Flat Road just within the park boundaries. It will be built through existing Wildfire burn areas. Not "pristine old growth trees"...
Margaret Holwill retweeted
Let’s put this into the proper perspective on just how much is being considered and why
The proposal would transfer that sliver of park land—described as roughly a quarter-mile strip—to Kingsbarn Realty Capital, a Nevada-based real-estate firm that owns about 83 acres of undeveloped property immediately outside the park. The company wants to use the parcel to build a short private road connecting its land to a main park thoroughfare, avoiding a much longer existing route. In return, Kingsbarn would give the National Park Service land of equivalent value, either near Yosemite or elsewhere in California. theguardian.com
A quarter mile sliver to create a road to connect to the main thoroughfare
Margaret Holwill retweeted
Pure TDS-driven bullshit, as usual. 🙄
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Our enemy media lies again. The real Yosemite story is a tiny sliver of the western edge of the park is being traded for a new, more direct access road across private property. Our most crowded Natl Park is being *improved*, not sold off to developers. 🙄
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Margaret Holwill retweeted
"4 Things the Democratic Party Must Do to Make Tonight’s Shellacking Stick"
It starts by recognizing that most voters still hate them. 1/5
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Margaret Holwill retweeted
Just voted in commie NoVa. Showed up, checked in, were immediately told a mail in ballot had already been submitted for my husband.
I cannot overstate how important it is to show up today. This would not have been caught if we had not gone in person. We might not make much of a difference where we live, but like hell are we going to let them take what little voice we do have.
Margaret Holwill retweeted
I missed the WaPo story on this former aid.
Democracy dies in darkness.
Former El-Sayed campaign worker among anti-Israel activists indicted for terrorizing Michigan's Jewish community: feds trib.al/cIALyik
Margaret Holwill retweeted
Bill Maher Challenges Charlie Rose: “Islam is not like other religions. It is a unique threat.”
Bill Maher: I think liberals should stop booing me for pointing out that Islam is not like other religions, that it is a unique threat.
Charlie Rose: But it's not Islam you're against.
Bill Maher: Howard Dean said, “The people in ISIS... I'm about as Islamic as they are,” distancing the vast numbers of Muslims around the world from it. That's just not true.
Charlie Rose: It is true.
Bill Maher: It is not true, Charlie. There is a connecting tissue between
Charlie Rose: You mean behind every Muslim is a future member of some radical
Bill Maher: Let me finish.
There are illiberal beliefs held by vast numbers of Muslims that I don't think have
Charlie Rose: Vast numbers of Christians, too.
Bill Maher: No, that's not true.
Vast numbers of Christians don't believe that if you leave Christianity, you should be killed. They don't treat women as second-class citizens, and they don't believe drawing Jesus should get you killed.
Does ISIS kill people indiscriminately who aren't like them? Yes.
Would most Muslims do that or condone it? No.
But most Muslims in the world do condone violence just for what you think.
Charlie Rose: How do you know that?
Bill Maher: First of all, they say it. There's a Pew poll of Egypt where 82% said stoning was the appropriate punishment for adultery, and over 80% thought death was appropriate for leaving Islam.
So to claim this religion is like other religions is naive and wrong.
Saudi Arabia has also beheaded people for nonviolent crimes, including homosexuality.
Charlie Rose: They even cut the hands off a thief.
Bill Maher: Right. We're upset when ISIS beheads people, as we should be, but Saudi Arabia does it too, and they're our friends because they have oil.
This is the centre of the religion. In Mecca, non-Muslims aren't even allowed into the holy part of the city.
If people were being beheaded in Vatican City, don't you think there'd be a bigger outcry?
This is the soft bigotry of low expectations. When Muslim people do or believe things we consider extreme, it's somehow not discussed nearly as much.
Charlie Rose: I don't believe what we see with ISIS represents Islam. I don't think the Quran teaches them to do this.
Bill Maher: Well, you're wrong about that. The Quran absolutely has horrible things about how infidels should be treated.
And can we really say women are treated equally in the Muslim world?
Their testimony in court is often counted as half. They may need permission to leave the house, and women are forced to wear burqas.
And I hear liberals say, “Well, they want to.”
They've been brainwashed.
Margaret Holwill retweeted
The NYT's attack on Sen. Roger Marshall is outrageous.
Why are doctors the only people in the country who don't deserve to be paid? How about editors and reporters - why don’t they give their salaries to these layabouts on "disability" who demand medical services, and then refuse to pay?
The average OB/GYN sees a thousand patients a year. That means Dr. Marshall probably saw 25,000 patients and THE NEW YORK TIMES IS DISGUSTED that he submitted 700 unpaid bills to his lawyers.
SEVEN HUNDRED out of 25,000 - that means he pursued unpaid bills from LESS THAN 3% OF HIS PATIENTS.
I like the woman who refuses to pay for her C-section and complains she got served by a lawyer two years later WHEN SHE WAS PREGNANT AGAIN. Uh, miss — if you can’t afford to pay for the delivery of your first child, how about learning to use birth control?
Not only that, but she irresponsibly failed to sign up for Medicaid which would have paid all medical bills related to her pregnancy FREE. ("Free” meaning: "Ann Pays More.”)
Oops, she f-ed up, so the doctor doesn't get paid.
And this arrogant, entitled narcissist complains about having to pay for the birth of her child: "I had to choose whether I’d pay my electricity or pay $50 to a doctor who didn’t need it.”
After practicing obstetrics for a quarter century and being part owner of the hospital, Dr. Marshall’s combined salary was $780,000. What's Pinch Sulzberger’s salary? How about Maureen Dowd?
Why don't you guys pay for these slackers, instead of a rural doctor who delivered thousands of babies and -- unlike a lot of doctors -- accepted Medicaid patients.
Or Sarah Kliff -- who can't deliver babies, but DID review "thousands of pages of court records and interviewed eight people whom Roger Marshall sued over medical debt."
The Times should refuse to pay you for your work, Sarah.
It's bad enough that these layabouts think they have a God-given right not to pay doctors, but appalling that overpaid journalists think it's a moral crusade to back them IN NOT PAYING FOR SERVICES THEY ACCEPTED.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/2026/09/08/us/po…
Margaret Holwill retweeted
🔥 THEY SAID IT NEVER HAPPENS… UNTIL IT DID RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR FACES 🔥
A CNN panel just exploded.
Bush White House spokesman Pete Seat is sitting THREE FEET from Obama’s own strategist David Axelrod…
And he drops the nuclear truth:
“Barack Obama got on the 2008 Indiana primary ballot because Democrats in St. Joseph County submitted FRAUDULENT petition signatures. People — including the county Democratic chair — went to JAIL over it. He shouldn’t have been on that ballot.”
Axelrod freezes.
“How did that get determined?”
Seat doesn’t flinch:
“It was exposed TWO YEARS later. Went through the courts. People went to jail. That’s the problem… nobody caught it before he was already on the ballot.”
FACT CHECK: 100% TRUE ✅
In 2013, four Indiana Democrats were CONVICTED for forging those signatures — literally copying names off old petitions. Even a former governor’s name was forged. County Democratic Chairman Butch Morgan went to PRISON for orchestrating it.
The thing they swore “never happens”…
HAPPENED.
And a party chairman did hard time for it.
Election fraud isn’t a “conspiracy theory.”
It’s a documented crime.
And they got away with it long enough to change history.
Share this before they try to memory-hole it.
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Margaret Holwill retweeted
From another friend:
JFK'S Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60's when DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaulle said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as possible. Rusk responded, "Does that include those who are buried here?"
DeGaulle did not respond. You could have heard a pin drop.
When in England, at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of 'empire building' by George Bush. He answered by saying, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those who did not return."
You could have heard a pin drop.
There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying, "Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intend to do, bomb them?" A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: "Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships. How many does France have?"
You could have heard a pin drop.
A U.S. Navy admiral was attending a naval conference that included admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian, and French navies at a cocktail reception. He found himself standing with a large group of officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks when a French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, "Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?" Without hesitating, the American admiral replied, "Maybe it's because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies, and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German."
You could have heard a pin drop.
AND THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ABOVE...
Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At French customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on. "You have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer asked sarcastically. Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously. "Then you should know enough to have your passport ready." The American said, "The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it." "Impossible. Americans always have to show their passports on arrival in France!" The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained, ''Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single Frenchmen to show a passport to."
You could have heard a pin drop.
I am proud to be an American, and proud of this God given heritage!
Margaret Holwill retweeted
Former Stevens friend: “Haley betrayed us. What would her mother say?”
Haley’s mother:”I voted for Rogers.”
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Margaret Holwill retweeted
The park and course is supposed to have few trees you historical idiots. The only trees were to be around the edges for erosion control.
East Potomac Golf Course was designed by Walter J. Travis as a links-style course modeled on Scottish seaside links. These are characteristically open and largely treeless, with long sightlines, exposure to wind, and views across the course to the Potomac River, Washington Channel, and nearby monuments.
Margaret Holwill retweeted
🚨 ROOT CAUSE:
Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy says the Dan Sullivan ballot mess would NOT be happening without ranked-choice voting.
"We would not be having this conversation at all if we didn't have ranked choice voting."
He says jungle primaries mean you could have FIVE people with the same last name on the ballot.
Outside money pushed this system into Alaska.
Now it's being used to confuse voters and split the vote.
End ranked-choice voting.
Margaret Holwill retweeted
.@MaryPeltola "It should be a criminal offense to lie or mislead the electorate."
Running a spoiler might not technically be illegal, but any false statements to federal or state investigators about recruiting "Decoy Dan" could mean serious trouble.
Margaret Holwill retweeted
Because nobody was ever held accountable for Russiagate, the original lawfare operation, the whole machinery has only grown more brazen and sophisticated.
Marc Elias used the fake Steele dossier to push Russia collusion smears. In Alaska, his firm has taken the same playbook a step further, engineering a dirty trick and then turning to the courts to protect the result of that scheme.
Imagine Elias commissioning the Steele dossier and then marching straight into court, waving it around as evidence and demanding that a judge give legal force to the lies he had manufactured (back then, he used the FBI for that purpose, but now he simply cuts out the middleman and does it himself).
That's what happens when nobody is ever held accountable. They learn that there is no price to pay, so they keep escalating, growing bolder and more ruthless with every operation. And why wouldn't they? They've been taught that they can get away with anything.
The bigger revelation from the Alaska episode isn’t just that a decoy candidate was recruited. It’s that lawyers from Marc Elias’s law firm who were apparently involved in the scheme were also involved in the subsequent lawsuits aimed at challenging or suppressing the fallout.
I think the overlap between those orchestrating the operation and those litigating its aftermath deserves far more scrutiny than it’s receiving.
Margaret Holwill retweeted
A three star general sitting in a diner in Arlington with notes he took from a classified report, reading them out loud to a reporter who was writing a book… think about that for a second.
According to the internal investigation report Axios got its hands on, Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia, the man running strategy, plans and policy for the Joint Chiefs, admitted to leaking classified information on Iran and Ukraine to two reporters at two different outlets over about a year, and a U.S. official says he acknowledged it on video after he failed four polygraphs. It started as early as June 2025, it ran through Signal, and when one of those reporters lost Pentagon access he just moved the meeting to the Silver Diner. Then there is the Signal thread about Iran that he says he deleted by accident… investigators don't buy that and neither do I.
Now keep in mind the part the press is skipping. When Hegseth fired him, the Joint Staff put out a statement thanking him for 32 years of distinguished service, and according to a U.S. official it was acting Army Secretary Adam Telle's office pushing for that warm send off to limit the fallout. They pulled it once the full picture came out. So who exactly were they protecting, and why was the first instinct to polish the general instead of protecting the country he swore an oath to?
Here is the reality. This is what institutional rot looks like up close, a man with stars on his shoulders who decided the press was his chain of command, and the report even says he admitted being one of the 20 officials quoted in a story trashing Pentagon leadership. Rank was supposed to mean something. Honor was supposed to mean something. He traded both for a few pages in somebody else's book.
How many more of them are still sitting in that building? You already know the answer.
DOJ has the referral. Charge him.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! The Pentagon's Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia — who was just fired by SecWar Pete Hegseth — has ADMITTED to leaking classified Iran and Ukraine intelligence to *two reporters* at two different outlets, according to an internal investigation report obtained by Axios
AND SO THERE IT IS.
Hegseth and Trump are PURGING the leakers! Now, PROSECUTE.
He allegedly met one reporter at a Silver Diner in Arlington and read off notes from a classified report on U.S. aid to Ukraine ‼️
Officials also suspect he deliberately wiped a Signal thread with another reporter about Iran.
Sylvia, the Joint Staff's top military planner, reportedly confessed on video after FAILING four polygraph tests
The Pentagon has referred the case to the DOJ for possible prosecution.
The media fearmongered when Hegseth started cleaning house, and now we know why he did it!
@PeteHegseth did the right thing here. We don't want these people near our national security.