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Robert Weiter
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Retired pastor, theologian, retired therapist (MSW, LCSW), former broadcaster. Currently freelance journalist, commentator, opinion writer. Editor, "𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀" substack (https://is.gd/PmyRI4).
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#BreakingNews - @aljazeera.com reporting that several explosions and low flying aircraft have been heard in Venezuela's capital Caracas. Meanwhile, @cnn.com "all access" continues to rerun their pre-recorded night time discussion programs. #Venezuela #attack #DonaldTrump #bombs #war
Screenshot of Al Jazeera English. Chiron reads: "Loud noises were heard and the Venezuelan capital Caracas and you're a major military base."
January 3, 2026 at 6:50 AM
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#BreakingNews -- Israel will award its highest cultural honor, The Israel Prize, to President Trump in 2026. This is the first time the prize will be awarded to someone who is not in Israeli.
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#Israel #IsraelPrize #MiddleEast #Gaza #DonaldTrump #news
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December 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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🍜 Early morning hearty #breakfast. "Farmer's Frittata" (duck egg, #local smoked gouda, original seasoned Tender Belly® Thick Cut Bacon , baby bella mushroom, green pepper, red pepper, Umami Powder Seasoning (Shiitake mushrooms, koji rice, black garlic, ramps, sea salt) whole milk buttermilk
#food
The upper left hand corner is a mug of coffee containing coffee and Member's Mark Irish cream, a bowl of corn flakes with non homogenized, low heat pasteurized whole milk, sweetened with grade a dark robust organic maple syrup and frittata. Ingredients are listed in the post.
December 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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🍜 #Seafood #Supper - teriyaki glazed salmon, #homemade sweet potatoes and fresh collard greens with pork jowl, spices and seasonings.
#food #SoulFood #HomeCooked #dinner:#ScratchMade #cooking
A paper plate containing teriyaki glazed salmon, homemade sweet potatoes and a bowl of homemade fresh collard greens with pork jowl
December 23, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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@nytimes.com headline and sub header about the renaming of the Kennedy Center to #TrumpKennedyCenter.

Thoughts?
#Music #dance #arts #Trump #artistic #culture #KennedyCenter #theater #politics #Entertainment
December 19, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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🍜 From Monday: Southwestern salad (honey chipotle beef, romaine, green pepper, red pepper, carrots, jalapenos, grape tomatoes, green peppers, black olives, spicy ranch dressing, chunky salsa, sour cream, French bread croutons, completely #homemade Bloody Marys (with Pearl cucumber vodka).
#food
A vibrant Southwestern taco salad topped with honey chipotle beef, romaine lettuce, green and red bell peppers, carrots, jalapeños, grape tomatoes, black olives, spicy ranch dressing, chunky salsa, sour cream, and French bread croutons. Served alongside two homemade Bloody Marys made with Pearl cucumber vodka, garnished with herbs and spices.
December 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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I remember that I watched it as a little kid and I must have really liked it because I had the View-Master reels. It was one of those #FamilyFriendly #CrimeDramas that ABC aired. The concept didn't work well. The show was canceled after one season on June 7, 1972.
#HenryFonda #RonHoward #TVhistory
View-Master reels for The short-lived ABC TV series The Smith family that was canceled on June 7, 1972. View-Master reels for the Smith family, an ABC television series is that lasted one season and was canceled on June 7th 1972.
December 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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#Trump posted THIS crap in response to the tragic murder of Rob and Michelle Reiner. Many #MAGA supporters objected and begged #POTUS to delete this from his #TruthSocial account. As of 5 minutes ago, it's still there even though police have arrested #NickReiner. #RobReiner #MichelleReiner #murder
Screenshot of Donald Trump's post in reaction to the murder of Rob and Michelle Reiner. Screenshot taken slightly before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, May 15, 2025. His post reads: "A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!" This was posted earlier in the day by President Donald j Trump.
December 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Speaker Johnson did not send me a message that he needs me to read.
I imagine many of us are getting these phishing texts supposedly from prominent Democrats or Republicans. (Mine are always addressed to Marianne -- that isn't me!) But I wonder how many people fall for these?
Skim text message screenshot DO NOT DELETE ============{ Speaker Johnson sent you a priority message they need you to read please. [URL] Stop=End]
December 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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🍜 I'm up late working. It's frigid outside. Perfect weather for homemade roasted chicken vegetable soup served with fruit punch. #homemade #food #soup #chicken #HomemadeStock
(This turned out so delicious then I'm having difficulty resisting getting a second bowl. I usually portion control.)
To the left a clear glass with ice and red fruit punch in it. To the right a small 8 oz bowl containing homemade chicken vegetable soup.
December 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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One of the students at Brown University is a survivor of the Parkland shooting. She's going through this -- another mass shooting -- a second time. How horrible!
#SchoolShooting #BrownUniversity #violence #massshooting #news @cnn.com #JimSciuto #ZoeWessman #ParklandSchoolShooting
Jim Sciuto interviewing Zoe Wessman, a Parkland school shooting survivor who is on lockdown at Brown University where she is currently a student because of the mass shooting.
December 14, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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🍜 Dangerous, frigid temperatures here, great for a hot and hearty meal: 8 oz of Shepherd's Pie paired with garden salad (romaine, carrots, grape tomatoes, baby bella mushrooms, green pepper, red pepper, black olives, pickled beets and bacon ranch dressing. #homemade #dinner
#food #FoodSky
December 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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🍜 Letting my inner child out. #Dessert - crisp chocolate chip cookies baked last night with a glass of whole milk. #cookies #food #sweets #Baking #HomeCooking #InnerChild #FoodSky
December 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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🍜 Smoked mushroom kabobs for #lunch. #Locally sourced #mushrooms. [Oyster mushroom, lions mane mushroom, king oyster mushroom, shio koji, miso (soybeans, sweet potato, rice koji, sea salt)].
Tasty #food at home. #BuyLocal #LocalFarmers
Smoked mushroom kabobs on a blue designed rim paper plate. Oyster mushroom, lions mane mushroom, king oyster mushroom, shio koji, miso (soybeans, sweat potato, rice koji, sea salt)
December 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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🍜 Temperatures dropped from 60° yesterday to below freezing today. Great night for pulled pork in a bourbon barbecue sauce on a toasted locally baked plain buttered bagel, collard greens with #locally raised, harvested pork jowl and steamed turnips (salted butter, salt and pepper). #Hearty #food.
Pulled pork with bourbon BBQ sauce on a locally baked, toasted plain buttered bagel Open face on a paper plate. Above the paper plate on the left is a bowl containing buttered steamed turnips with salt and pepper and a bowl on the right containing homemade collard greens with locally sourced pork jowl. Collard greens and locally sourced pork jowl in the instant pot. The pork jowl in its original packaging from the local meat processor and the local farm that raised the pork.
December 11, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Well..
With the exception of the bipartisan law requiring release of the #EpsteinFiles, the current #Republicans are generally acting like an American Duma. What the Great Leader, Trump wants, he gets. #Congress #DonaldTrump #authoritarianism #politics #government #Duma #artwork #legislation
AI created image of Trump with American flags dressed in the style of a traditional Russian aristocrat. (Created by GrokAI).
December 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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🍜 Tonight's #dessert - Thanks to a guest, a chocolate yule log. I should have taken a picture of the whole thing with the beautiful decorations instead of just my slice. I served it with a nice glass of vat pasteurized, non-homogenized whole milk & coffee.

#holidays #Christmas #food #chocolate
On a fancy emerald rimmed China plate, a slice of a chocolate Yule log next to a glass of ice cold whole milk and in the distance, behind the milk, a cup of coffee is barely visible.
December 9, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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🍜 White Pekin duck breast, basil green beans with almonds and cranberries, sweet potatoes, sage sausage dressing, local steamed turnips with butter, salt and pepper, cranberry sauce and fresh ground coffee.
Restaurant quality #food made from scratch at home.
#duck #homemade #dinner
December 9, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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🍜 #Lunch earlier. Dierbergs® hard salami, macaroni, chilled vegetables, black olives, crimini mushrooms, cucumber, green pepper, grape tomatoes, mozzarella, parmesan and Italian dressing.

Good #food at home.
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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🍜 #Dinner at #Midnight - ribeye, baked russet potato with butter, sour cream, Knorr UK Aromat, fresh ground pepper, green beans, almonds and cranberries, salad with romaine, tomatoes, green pepper, carrot, cucumber, bacon ranch dressing croutons freshly ground sea salt and black peppercorn.
#food
Fresh ribeye after seasoning but before air frying. Ribeye, green beans baked potato with butter and sour cream next to a garden salad with my bacon ranch dressing.
December 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🍜 #Dinner: Maccheroni con verdure miste, funghi freschi, polpette di tacchino all'italiana e marinara abbinate a un'insalata italiana. (Macaroni and mixed vegetables with Italian-style turkey meatballs and my marinara sauce topped with parmesan paired with an #Italian salad).
#homemade
#food
The left, an Italian Style salad with locally hydroponic romaine, green pepper, fresh carrot, cucumber, cremini mushroom, Italian dressing, tomatoes, french bread croutons. On the right, a big bowl with mixed vegetables and turkey meatbala over macaroni, topped with marinara and Parmesan cheese.
December 4, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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🚨🚨 🅑🅡🅔🅐🅚🅘🅝🅖 🅝🅔🅦🅢
𝗖𝗡𝗡 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲.

@cnn.com has called the race in #Tennessee Congressional District number 7's Special election for Republican Matt Epps with 93% of the estimated vote counted.
Considering the district, Democrat Aftyn Behn did better than expected. #elections
#politics
Infographic red blue and white. Here's what it says: breaking news Tennessee house 7 special election. Van Epps 89,523 (53.2% of the vote.). Behn, 77,033 (45.7% of the vote) Van Epps winds by 12,590 volts with 93% of the estimated vote counted. Source CNN.
December 3, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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🍜 #Lunch smoked ham and vegetable Mac and Triple Cheese (local #Missouri hickory smoked ham, #Wisconsin sharp cheddar and low moisture mozzarella, mixed vegetables, basil, oregano, marjoram, thyme, rosemary, sage, dried garlic, salt, dried onion, and chili pepper. #homemade
#ComfortFood
#food
December 3, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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🍜 Tonight's #dinner -- First time I've had to cook since Thanksgiving.
#Local #Missouri hickory smoked ham, buttered Yukon Gold mashed potatoes, roasted cabbage and seasoned Italian green beans paired with brewed Southern style sweet tea
#BuyLocal #food
Locally smoked ham next to Yukon Gold potatoes, roasted cabbage and seasoned Italian green beans on a white plate next to a glass of fresh brewed southern style sweet tea.
December 2, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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🍜 2 / on #Thanksgiving, there was a choice of pecan pie or strawberry rhubarb pie.
#food #dessert
Below is a picture of the strawberry rhubarb pie and a mug of coffee with Irish cream
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Strawberry rhubarb pie on a beautifully rimmed, green and red with blue accents and shaped symbols dessert plate next to a mug of coffee with Irish cream.
December 2, 2025 at 5:38 AM