Appalachian Wordsmith
@AppalachianPoet
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Writer, Observer, Recorder. Tree climber, ridge runner, crick jumper, cave delver, and fire builder, merely vibing to the music of the mountains.
Writer’s Roost, WV
Joined December 2024
MY FELLOW MEMBERS OF THE DEVILED EGG SQUAD WHERE YOU AT
Be honest here……. do you know anyone that genuinely ENJOYS deviled eggs? 🥚 🍳 ‼️
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Citizens United will be seen by future generations as what killed the United States
In 2008, during the last presidential election before the Citizens United decision, billionaires spent $16 million. During the 2024 election billionaires spent $2.6 billion.
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WVDOH has prominently installed signs banning through trucks longer than 55 feet from WV 61 between Montgomery and Oak Hill.
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I enjoyed the Green Day. Even though they made me feel old.
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At the state level America is increasingly acting like two parallel one-party states. Gerrymandering is not new, but the shamelessness is increasing, and every politician can always point to the shamelessness of the other side as justification. Duopoly politics in a nutshell.
BREAKING: Virginia Democrat lawmakers are seeking to pass a 10 Democrat, 1 Republican 2026 Congressional map.
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This is middle school civics class stuff we’re dealing with: Democrats are not going out on a limb saying ICE officers should have ID, or that the 4th amendment should be obeyed. It’s astounding to hear Republicans say our proposals are somehow “political” or “non-starters.”
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We don't live in a free country as long as we have mandatory citizenship checkpoints.
Stopping at a USBP Immigration Checkpoint is NOT OPTIONAL. A U.S. citizen learned that the hard way after speeding through a checkpoint and leading law enforcement on a pursuit in Las Cruces, NM. He ended up in cuffs and now faces federal charges for high-speed flight.
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This isn't AI, this is a real picture in a town about 30 mins from the city of Pittsburgh. The county library crew decided to have a good time 😂💀
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This is quite an exchange with @DavidAFrench about whether we are witnessing the emergence of a "dual state."
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I almost appreciate how Trump has exposed how vacant every single high profile conservative belief was: free speech, states’ rights, letting the market decide, NATO, right to bear arms, democracy, all of it. It’s been an empty, malicious political project for decades and decades
“For months, radical progressive politicians like Tim Walz have incited violence against law enforcement officers who are simply trying to do their jobs. Unsurprisingly, these calls to dangerously interject oneself into legitimate law-enforcement activities have ended in
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It doesn’t change the dumpster fire that Twitter is now, but hopefully this video makes you smile.
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On the contrary, packing a lunch for work every day is one of the best signs that you DO have a real job.
This “unpopular opinion" is just ridiculous. My fiancée is a firefighter paramedic for the LAFD. She packs a lunch along with first responders, blue collar workers, and many people trying to save money and eat healthier. Are they not real jobs? 🤔
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ICE disarmed that man and executed him, which is literally what every Republican politician has told us for years that Democrats would do to Americans if they got too much power. Turns out they were telling us their own plan all along.
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Trying to imagine what conservatives would have said if an Obama administration official said that legally carrying a gun near cops was a free pass for them to execute you in the street
If you approach law enforcement with a gun, there is a high likelihood they will be legally justified in shooting you. Don’t do it!
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Wake up, America. Open your eyes to what we’ve become.
If the Second Amendment does not apply to this exact kind of moment, what do people think it is for? A citizen can lawfully carry, see masked federal agents beating someone in public, move toward the scene to help, and then get erased with a hail of bullets because “he had a
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“Roving bands of masked federal agents with total immunity executing gun owners” is the kind of sweaty conservative fantasy we’ve heard over the last 20 years on cable news and now that it’s here, they love it
BREAKING: DHS tells @FoxNews the suspect was armed with a gun, which has been recovered by federal agents.
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It’s bad that federal government is flooding American streets with armed agents who claim the power to search American houses without warrants and create a terrorist database of Americans who observe, record, or criticize them.
ICE agent in Portland, Maine tells legal observer she is a domestic terrorist for peacefully recording him, adds her to "nice little database"
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We were excited to find an original Mason-Dixon Line marker on the border of Adams County PA and Frederick County MD (the “M” standing for the Maryland side). The property owner said it was placed in 1767 by surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon.
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