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35f58c No.25108110
Or maybe it wasn't a press conference based upon the audience, more of a lecture hall or something.
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acc129 No.25108111
>>25108037
>>25108051
>didn't remove anything
Nothing to say for yourself?
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95dce7 No.25108112
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f0bba9 No.25108113
>>25108099
One more post gets you a 500 shekel gift certificate to Kosher Sex!
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bddad8 No.25108115
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01ae64 No.25108116
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acc129 No.25108118
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bc3854 No.25108120
https://x.com/jamestalarico/status/2107155373794672996
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74ad6e No.25108121
LET'S ROCK & ROLL!!!😎🇺🇸⚡️⚡️⚡️
https://x.com/PapiTrumpo/status/2107158224147304593
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35f58c No.25108123
Well, looks like Vati wants people to put the acronym used to thank the bakers in a comment filter.
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6eafe6 No.25108124
>>25107318
tyb
Dennis Hastert, longtime Republican House speaker who went to prison, dies at age 84
CHICAGO (AP) — Dennis Hastert, whose congressional legacy as the longest-serving Republican House speaker was later fouled by allegations that he had molested high school athletes during his prior career as a teacher and wrestling coach, has died, a coroner said Monday. He was 84.
Posted 9:48 AM today Updated 11:03 AM today
CHICAGO (AP) — Dennis Hastert, whose congressional legacy as the longest-serving Republican House speaker was later fouled by allegations that he had molested high school athletes during his prior career as a teacher and wrestling coach, has died, a coroner said Monday. He was 84.
Hastert, who was speaker from 1999 until 2007 and spent more than a year in prison later in life, died Saturday of natural causes at his home while receiving hospice care, according to Kendall County Coroner Jacquie Purcell.
When he was sentenced in 2016 to more than a year behind bars, the former history teacher became one of the highest-ranking American politicians ever ordered to prison.
In the late 1990s, Hastert was a little-known Illinois lawmaker with a reputation for congeniality that had helped him ascend the ranks of congressional leaders. When Newt Gingrich lost support because of ethics violations and the GOP’s poor showing in an election, Republicans elected Hastert to succeed him. In his first weeks on the job in 1999, he presided over the House while the Senate conducted then-President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial.
After the GOP reclaimed the White House, Hastert helped pass then-President George W. Bush's legislative agenda.
A post-congressional scandal lands Hastert in prison
In 2015 he was accused of evading banking regulations as part of a plan to pay hush money to conceal unspecified "prior misconduct." Nearly a year later, prosecutors said Hastert’s alleged misconduct involved the sexual abuse of teenage boys on his wrestling team in Yorkville, a small town west of Chicago.
Prosecutors said Hastert sexually abused at least four team members during his coaching career, which lasted from 1965 to 1981.
The person Hastert was paying, identified in court papers only as Individual A, said the abuse occurred in a motel room when he was 14 on the way home from wrestling camp. Hastert allegedly touched other wrestlers in a locker room after saying he would give them massages. Two wrestlers said Hastert performed sexual acts on them.
Prosecutors also described a recliner where Hastert often sat in the locker room with a direct view of the stalls where the boys showered.
Hastert agreed to plead guilty to evading banking laws. In all, he paid more than $1.7 million out of $3.5 million that he had promised to Individual A, sometimes in lump sums of $100,000 cash.
At the sentencing hearing, where he received 15 months behind bars, the visibly angry judge called Hastert a “serial child molester.”
In a statement, Hastert said he was “deeply ashamed” and admitted that he "mistreated” some of his athletes. But he never referred directly to sexual abuse.
https://www.wral.com/news/ap/4a04c-dennis-hastert-longtime-republican-house-speaker-who-went-to-prison-dies-at-age-84/
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01ae64 No.25108128
>>25108081
Crazy how those Babel builders had the foresight to predict the Catholic church 2500 years before it began.
Can you look into your crystals and tell us some other amazing things?
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21b49d No.25108132
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498ffc No.25108134
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is Spewing Gas Surprisingly Slowly, New Observations Show
Oct 5, 2026
Using spectral data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope in Texas, astronomers have traced gas from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third object of its kind ever observed, out to more than 85,000 km from its nucleus.
The data suggest the gas flows at about half the speed typical of solar system comets, and the spectrum shows unusually strong signals of iron and nickel.
3I/ATLAS was discovered by the NASA-funded ATLAS survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, on July 1, 2025.
Also known as C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) and A11pl3Z, the interstellar comet arrived from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.
On October 30, 2025, the object reached perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun.
“By studying 3I/ATLAS, we hope to learn about conditions in the natal planetary system of this target and/or its long interstellar journey,” said Dr. Anita Cochran from McDonald Observatory and her colleagues.
Dr. Cochran and co-authors observed 3I/ATLAS on December 9, 2025, with the VIRUS spectrograph on the Hobby-Eberly Telescope.
The comet was then about 2.03 AU (astronomical units) from the Sun and 1.83 AU from Earth, moving away from the Sun after its closest approach.
The spectra showed the familiar molecules of solar system comets: cyanogen, tricarbon, methylidyne and dicarbon.
But when the astronomers modeled how those molecules are distributed with distance from the nucleus, standard assumptions did not fit.
The data matched only if the gas flows outward at about half the speed seen in typical comets at the same distance from the Sun.
According to the team, one possible explanation is that heavy carbon dioxide-rich gas is slowing the outflow.
The comet spectrum also showed very strong emission lines of neutral iron and nickel, which are likely coming directly off the nucleus in their metallic form.
“The presence of very strong iron and nickel lines in spectra of 3I/ATLAS is an important difference from solar system comets,” the researchers said.
“3I/ATLAS was exceptional even compared to the other interstellar objects, 1I/’Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov, due to its exceptionally high iron and nickel.”
“Wandering around in the interstellar medium should result in the body having high material strength, with iron and nickel metal on its surface.”
“However, the surface temperatures at the heliocentric distances that 3I was observed are too low to vaporize iron and nickel in metallic form.”
“If comets are leftovers from the formation of most planetary systems, and a high fraction are ejected from their formation nebula, there should be many such objects wandering around the Galaxy that can potentially cross through our Solar System,” they added.
“Our Sun, like most planetary systems, probably formed in a cluster of infant stellar systems.”
“The leftover debris of all those stars can, therefore, be influenced by nearby passing stellar systems.”
“As the young stars orbit around the center of the Galaxy, the debris they have ejected will sometimes continue wandering in space, devoid of a star to which they are attached.”
“Thus, unlike a comet in our Solar System that can be influenced by the gravity and radiation of our Sun, these other interstellar comet-like objects may be going into and out of insolation from stars they pass.”
https://www.sci.news/astronomy/interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-gas-flow-15107.html
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/aea086
other space objects
https://libyaobserver.ly/inbrief/lcrsss-bright-object-seen-over-tripoli-was-meteor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwQguNmckr4 (Avi Loeb: The Strange Dust of 3I/ATLAS)
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35bed1 No.25108135
https://x.com/michaelpruser/status/2107153851971141656
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72a02f No.25108136
>>25108099
chkt
UK suks.
so repressive
And they bitch about oppression?
Tavistock is likely behind all the psy-ops we have had, and have to, go through
Weren't they the actual point men for Russia Russia, frame of Trump.
?
Their royal house is joined at the waist to the German Prussian Nazi Bankers.
It;s who we've had to get away from for generations.
Now squirming through Canada.
?
Their leaders, of Canada sure are close with actual NAZI?
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64b07e No.25108138
The US won't be there……
>>25108094
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21b49d No.25108140
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bc3854 No.25108142
https://x.com/iapolls2022/status/2107157777294803361
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383c14 No.25108144
>>25108106
Inspired by God… not His Word.
The Word is alive.
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74ad6e No.25108145
>>25108121
Caps = 160 = Thirty Four
the time is now
this is not a game
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bc3854 No.25108147
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061f6a No.25108151
Are voter registrations fake????
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383c14 No.25108153
>>25108128
You don't recognize the signs of the times. The first is last, and the last is first.
LIVE/EVIL
LIVED/DEVIL
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64b07e No.25108157
>>25108096
Horse shit vibes.
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94a4f8 No.25108159
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95948c No.25108160
>>25107340
Another deeply imbedded DeepState transgender dies. Looks like a man
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0dd5a4 No.25108164
>>25108142
The "Orange Man bad" trope will be the reason the House and Senate are lost. Sheeple are pack animals and go with the cult of personality. Look at how they behaved during Covid. This tells you all you need to know.
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72a02f No.25108166
Weren't they the actual point men for Russia Russia, frame of Trump.
?
They" refers to British Intel
Didnt their intel service guy promote and support the Muslim cult of Indonesia connected with OBAMA?
How close is Obama to the Brit royals? and European royals?
The woman who verified Barry's birth certi. was an Administrator of the subud cult.
They have a branch in NYC btw. or did very recently.
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f8cc5b No.25108168
>>25108164
We're not losing.
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35f58c No.25108169
>>25108149
Later, fake. Your only friends are the evil fuckin' idiots you work with and the anons you've fooled on this board with your bullshit. You really shouldn't have abandoned your jew hate narrative to focus on l'il ol' me, after 4 years of using the exact same script, announcing yourself the same way, you glow like the fuckin' sun and I don't want to see the piece of shit that's been trying to "destroy" me by stealing everything he can from me and put on a perverted performance with what he steals to peddle his bullshit. Your fake piety is not sincere, I know the difference.
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bc3854 No.25108170
https://x.com/patricksvitek/status/2107159065956680167
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f0bba9 No.25108173
Are y'all gonna get your Israeli Plague Vaccines?
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01ae64 No.25108174
What's the difference between jell-o and a Jewish American Princess?
Jell-o moves when you eat it.
~Rodney Dangerfield
>>25108113
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84408f No.25108176
>>25108144
Ironic
He sent himself as Jesus the man, who chastised those preaching a script, acting as intermediaries, and money changing.
Did not write a book, but the infallible God then years later decided a book was the way to go.
Once published, allowed the desecration of his message, and yet his God inspired word is the truth your soul rests upon.
God plays the telephone game with your soul?
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d77537 No.25108177
FINAL
NOTABLES ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS
#30665 >>25107318
>>25107324 BREAKING: Karoline Leavitt Joining Fox News
>>25107329 Trump DOJ Charges 28 Foreign Nationals with Election Crimes Across 12 States
>>25107339 NASHVILLE’S MUSLIM POWER NETWORK: FROM THE MOSQUE TO THE CAPITOL TO THE SCHOOL BOARD
>>25107340 Former Colorado Supreme Court Justice Melissa Hart (Embroiled in Accreditation Battle With President Trump's Administration) Dies Suddenly [suicide?]
>>25107341 Trump tells South Korea to sign on to Alaska LNG deal or ‘I’ll just charge them more’
>>25107346, >>25107438 Homan Breaking Out Puppets and Crayons to Explain Immigration Law to CBS Is GLORIOUS
>>25107352 LIVE AUDIO: Supreme Court to hear major climate lawsuit
>>25107353 China expert reveals STUNNING new assessment of Xi Jinping
>>25107362 President Trump’s Drive to Oklahoma Was a Historic Event
>>25107368 Illegal Families Given $100k: Report Reveals ‘Shadow Welfare System’ Cali Uses to Fund Illegals
>>25107371, >>25107993 Spain calls snap election; socialism collapsing there
>>25107390, >>25107424 Left Rayciss
>>25107418 The True Story of “The Patton Prayer”
>>25107475, >>25107493 John Solomon on Jack Smith Team Secretly Meeting with John Brennan in 2023
>>25107504, >>25107513, >>25107532, >>25107566 93% of Senate Polls in Iowa, Michigan and Ohio Overstate Democrat Voters
>>25107534, >>25107718 The Russians have started mandatory temperature checks of all passengers from Irkutsk landing in Moscow re pneumonic plague
>>25107539 Christa Pike's lawyer renews push for commuted sentence
>>25107576 “Report to Expose the Weaponization of Government Against Parents in Schools”
>>25107582 Five Black Children Treated Like ‘Slaves’ by Adoptive Parents Win $4.4 Million Settlement
>>25107593 Wuhan opens new China-Europe freight-train service to Kiev
>>25107659 CNN: "Trump is the most influential President of this century and probably dating back good portion of last century” keks in losers
>>25107679 A student rioter at Honoré-de-Balzac high school near Paris has called for the police to be killed “in the name of Allah.”
>>25107682 Florida Democrat David Jolly ‘Begging’ for Money After Ritz Carlton Hotel Habit
>>25107694 Dr Plague
>>25107718, >>25107534 Russia/China Plague
>>25107731 GeoMatch: Google.org and the Rockefeller Foundation helped fund AI to make placing refugees into American communities faster & more efficient.
>>25107759 760,000 unauthorized enrollments in Medicare/Medicaid
>>25107811 Mexico Deploys Naval Troops After U.S. Sends Soldiers to Border
>>25107859 Rubio visits Iceland as US boosts Arctic presence
>>25107892 BREAKING STUDY: COVID-19 “Vaccination” of Children Linked to AUTISM, ADHD, ANXIETY, and SPECIAL-ED USE
>>25107919, >>25107921 JD Vance Is Building Coalition for H-1B Reforms
>>25107925 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
>>25107944 PDJT: What's driving up Gasoline is no longer the Strait of Hormuz
>>25107966, >>25107985 Anthropic Tries to Convince Religious Leaders that AI Is a Conscious Being.
>>25107993 Tousi LIVE: Socialist Government COLLAPSE In Spain - Migrant Riots Spread - Communists Losing Brazil
>>25108015 The City of London loses power, and China closes hundreds of banks for "restructure".
>>25108035 Jack Smith's Plasmic Echo - The Pen Register Records Showing The FBI Sitting In On Susie Wiles's Phones
>>25108048, >>25108052 Ozone Getting Rocked, Sun Quakes, Solar Storm | S0 News and frens
>>25108076 Affordability: American Paychecks Are Beating Inflation Under Trump
#30665
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74ad6e No.25108179
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95a1ed No.25108181
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>25108104
>get rid of the system
kek
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72a02f No.25108183
>>25108166
"gandalfin" the wizard promoted subud? and other muslim cults, sufi and some Russian occultists?
Didnt their intel service guy promote and support the Muslim cult of Indonesia connected with OBAMA?
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09c82b No.25108188
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0e3c70 No.25108189
You say you need me, yet avoid me at every turn.
you say you live like Jesus would have, yet I still see poverty and strife.
you say love your neighbor and you don't even know his name.
Walk the walk. If you want to solve problems, action is needed.
Do you think that the Messiah will ask you to do nothing? You called him down, act like you meant to do that. What do you require. What is your goal?
If you do not have a clear image of what you want humanity to act like, it'll never happen.
YOUR MIND
MY MIND
Combined, creates reality as we know it.
If my input was removed, the world would be theirs to control. They though my death was assured. Let me tell you, I was in the grave.
What you're seeing is pure panic. Trying to paint over their crimes. Too late to save the wicked of their fate. They earned their punishment.
You create the world we live in. Stop feeding your mind garbage. Stop being plugged into their machine of control. Feel me.
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35bed1 No.25108191
What is happening with the Republicans?
https://x.com/larrysabato/status/2107142244696535504
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95a1ed No.25108192
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01ae64 No.25108193
>>25108134
Avi Loeb runs this same con every time.
Just google it.
"One born every minute!" ~PT Barnum
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0e3c70 No.25108194
>>25108191
Turned into Republicant's
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03865a No.25108195
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a31ab2 No.25108196
>>25108164
electing the same bunch or their selected replacements
does
nothing
carry on
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0e3c70 No.25108197
>>25108192
He has Tigrenian tribal scars.
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e15976 No.25108199
>>25108057
>>25108059
Hmmmmm
Gopher wood
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The term "gopher wood" has two distinct meanings: the mysterious biblical timber from the story of Noah's Ark, and a modern local nickname for a rare endangered tree.
1. The Biblical Mystery ("Gopher Wood")
• Location: Unknown.
• Details: The Hebrew word gopher (גֹפֶר) appears only once in the Bible (Genesis 6:14) and is not used anywhere else in ancient Hebrew.
• Theories: Scholars and translators cannot verify what tree it meant. Common suggestions include resinous softwoods like cypress or cedar, or an extinct species of timber.
2. The Nickname ("Florida Torreya")
• Location: Found naturally in only one small region in the world—the steephead ravines and bluffs along the Apalachicola River in northern Florida and southwestern Georgia in the United States.
• Real Name: The scientific name is Torreya taxifolia (also called the Florida torreya or stinking-cedar).
• Connection: Local folklore and 19th-century nicknames dubbed it "gopher wood," leading to urban legends that Noah's Ark was built in America, though historians and botanists note this name was applied long after biblical times. It is now one of the rarest coniferous trees on earth, with conservation projects active at locations like the Florida Park Service.
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d77537 No.25108200
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