Gerrie Hoogland - Writer and Roman historian engaging in dialogue with the ever present ancient world. Rome was a gift. 🏛 ☕️https://xitter.cf/t.co/LOqb7jSM94

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Most people take this for oil. It is watercolour, and the water took me longer than the two of them did. That is Emma on the pier in the white dress, a few months after our wedding, and our friend Dahlström in the boat. I painted presidents later and was paid handsomely for it. Nobody ever asks about the water. They ask about the dress. Anders Zorn, member since 1920
Sommarnöje (1886) Anders Zorn (Swedish, 1860-1920)
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Many within the AusRight have no idea what's coming now that Lula has won in Brazil. These people are emboldened. Get ready.
Congratulations to my friend @LulaOficial on your election victory. Australia and Brazil are great democracies, and we’ll keep working together and building on our partnership. 🇦🇺🇧🇷
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This is truly inspiring. Sadly, I can’t imagine the retarded governments in Australia would allow such a project. But…I believe it’s a worthy endeavour. I wonder how many people here could come together to start something like this? @JohnRuddick2
Rural Pennsylvania nuns are building massive stone monastery by hand: 'We had a vision' trib.al/b9JhQG0
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In Britain, the boomers grew up more impoverished than zoomers can even imagine.
Hey @grok, can you identify this mysterious device from 1962 ? 👀
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A most divine story!
This is one of the most heartwarming stories I’ve ever seen. Follow my friend @leannebombay on TT. As a horse lover and the owner of my own horse, this one brought tears to my eyes. Tears of joy! 🫶🏼🫶🏼
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With every fibre of our being, Western Civilisation must be defended 🏛
Western Civilisation must be defended.
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Hauntingly beautiful 💙
Adrift Everything is beautiful and I am so sad. This is how the heart makes a duet of wonder and grief. The light spraying through the lace of the fern is as delicate as the fibers of memory forming their web around the knot in my throat. The breeze makes the birds move from branch to branch as this ache makes me look for those I've lost in the next room, in the next song, in the laugh of the next stranger. In the very center, under it all, what we have that no one can take away and all that we've lost face each other. It is there that I'm adrift, feeling punctured by a holiness that exists inside everything. I am so sad and everything is beautiful ~Mark Nepo
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This conspiracy is massive 😳
🚨🚨 THE DEMOCRACY FILES / ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK, PART 8: THE COMPLICIT FEDERAL WORKERS 🚨 In Drop 7, we saw Paul Zeitz type during a Zoom call: "We are also starting to consult federal workers on how to do some blocking inside the govt agencies during emergency situations - but please do not put that on the form." Excuse me? Actively blocking the federal government during an "emergency situation?" And how are federal workers involved with Renew American Democracy (RAD), a group whose primary mission is to a fundamental rewrite of our Constitution? Turns out, a certain federal workers alliance, FWAD, is working closely with RAD on their goal to rewrite America. FWAD is the Federal Workers Alliance for Democracy, formerly known as "Federal Workers Against DOGE." RAD's published strategy lists FWAD among its endorsers. But FWAD isn't just an endorser. It is a founding partner of the Nationwide Deliberation Campaign (NDC). The goal is "a national People's Proposal of structural reforms" - which, in RAD's other videos and strategy documents, is planned to occur just after the federal government has been declared illegitimate. In a nutshell: with no federal government, a representative (read: DEI) panel of citizens will be assembled, their input collated and stitched into a new constitution for the Fourth Founding. But that is not the only path for restructuring. A concept note also proposes "Constitutional amendments," with "state ratification strategies." Either way, all evidence points to that the NGOs in the Block lane know their goal is to rewrite American governance. All the receipts are in this video. 👇 Note: two current federal workers were in the files. As they are not public figures, I withheld these names. I gave them over to contacts in their agencies instead.
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You will all find me here, in my Villa, courtesy of @grok 😁🏛
Stepping up a notch. Courtyard with stone columns, formal hedges, statues and fountain looking out over olive groves and hills. Refined interior with light frescoes, polished terracotta floors, solid table and fine pottery. Still authentic late Republican villa, just more prosperous.
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THE best decade🔥🔥🔥
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Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world.
BREAKING: 7 Christians killed in a church in Jordan after 2 gunmen attack a funeral. Security forces are chasing the attackers behind what seems to be an Islamist terror attack.
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This is Father Giannicola Maria Simone. Milan rioters insulted him and flipped him off twice. He answered like this, blessing them. Italian national hero.
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BACPAC 2026: The Shared Struggle and Common Destiny of the Anglo-Celtic Nations - Harrison Pitt. Keynote speaker @Harry_pitt , is an English writer and academic specialising in philosophy and intellectual history. Harrison is a Senior Policy Fellow at @RestoreBritain , a Contributing Editor at @EuroConOfficial , a Fellow of the @NewCultureForum and host of The Forge.
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Wow! 1300 people at an event today in Brisbane and not a single one of them clapped when Albanese was introduced 🔥🔥🔥 instagram.com/reel/De01tFtyk…
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If you want to understand the chaos. And how it will end. Watch this:
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I want to know why right wing journalists do not have a boot on the throats of left wing politicians. (This is a metaphor by the way for anyone who is an idiot.) They should be forced to disavow far-left extremism. Every time an establishment right wing journalist questions Labor on the Helen Haines dirt sheet is a missed opportunity to hold them accountable for the ongoing rise in left wing violence. There is a clear opportunity to demand left wing MPs wash their hands of the deranged lunatics in their movement, but nobody is doing it. The MPs get off scot free once again. I want every right wing journalist and every right wing politician to ask Anthony Albanese and his fellow MPs a very simple question, "Do you disavow left wing extremism?" Every single Labor MP should be forced to answer that question.
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Italian patriots take to the streets chanting, “We will remigrate you all.” Italians will not bow down.
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Is anyone in fedgov paying attention to this story?
🚨DataRepublican @DataRepublican just confirmed the quiet part out loud: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker is explicitly named in the videos as one of only two governors willing to green-light the “illegitimacy memo”—a playbook for declaring a duly elected President illegitimate after the midterms so Democrat governors can claim they are the only legitimate U.S. authority. This isn’t abstract “resistance.” NSL4A (the retired military and national security officials operationalizing the plan) and Pritzker’s own Governors Safeguarding Democracy group have been working the same sequence of redlines, including treating lawful federal pushback against coordinated protests as proof of illegitimacy. Add the funding layer—his sister’s role in the Democracy Funders Network—and the coordination stops looking coincidental. Imported regime-change tactics, billionaire governors, and ex-military networks drafting the conditions under which states nullify federal authority: that is the actual document trail. DataRepublican has the receipts.🔥
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His 59 advisors came up with this inexcusable coverup 🤦‍♀️
So…he thinks this admission of his dirty deed will fly? He hasn’t got a high opinion of Aus citizens if that’s the case.
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Hackers need to step their game up and delete everyone's loans, bad credit and mortgages.
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