Brandon Caples

@bcaples.bsky.social

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Interested in data/analytics, frontend development, and marketing automation. Currently a nonprofit email developer.

A checklist of goals dated Jan–Jun 2026: 1. Buy a car (“pet” added to the end) 2. Save 10 000 (“000” crossed out) 3. Buy a new phone (“case” added to the end) 4. Live a happy life (“a happy life” crossed out) 5. Start my own business (“Start” replaced with “Mind”)
Three Washington state protesters have been found guilty of federal conspiracy charges for sitting in front of a bus taking people to an immigration detention center in Tacoma. Jac Archer, Justice Forral, and Bajun Mavalwalla II were three of a group of nine people who were arrested last June after responding to former City Council President Ben Stuckart’s request for protesters to block a bus from taking immigrants from one ICE detention center to another.
Was your flagpole damaged from beating a police officer on January 6th? You may be entitled to compensation from the $1.8 billion felon-to-felon slush fund. Apply today!
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In 2024, both the violent and property crime rates in Tennessee were higher than the US average.
SEARCH ENGINE RESULT: Insects are collected using methods such as handpicking, sweep netting, and trapping. They are then murdered gently with methods such as ethyl acetate in killing jars, freezing, or alcohol immersion.
Front cover of the children's book “Find Fergus” (by Mike Boldt) about a bear named Fergus who is terrible at hide-and-seek
REUTERS, 27 April 2026: US Congress Republicans push legislation to build, fund Trump's $400 million ballroom
If it's true that we err toward our own interests, that would extend to the interests of the groups we belong to—for example, our nation, our gender, our race, and so on. Depending on who possesses the power (and what form that power takes), that self-interest would come at a cost to people of other nations, genders, and races. This egoism might manifest some days as outright cruelty and oppression, some days as quiet resentment and fear.
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You can put beef tallow and salmon sperm on your face. But should you?
Trump Repeatedly Threatens to Commit War Crimes in Iran (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times)
Allen’s experience embodies a growing body of evidence that the tariffs that Trump said would help American factories are, in fact, squashing many of them. The problem could get worse as the administration scrambles to craft new tariffs to replace the emergency import taxes that the Supreme Court ruled illegal in February. Allen said he ran his company at a loss in 2025 because of tariffs. His payroll has fallen to 140 workers from a peak of 205. To get by this year, he has hiked prices by 8% to 10%, even though that might mean fewer sales.
They are more than partners in a cause. This is the core of Paul’s entire appeal: as fellow believers and as those who share life “in Christ” in the ecclesial body of Christ, they now have opportunities and obligations to one another that form a new socio-ecclesial reality, the new creation kingdom of God, most especially so because they are koinōnoi in ministry in Christ. In Philemon, Paul concentrates on mutually reciprocating life under the cruciform Lord Jesus, life established by reconciliation. It is not a stretch to see the term koinōnos/partner as forming the core of Pauline theology and ethics. This observation should inform contemporary discussions of Christian ethics. Unfortunately, love, fellowship, and reconciliation are often overlooked in favor of personal spiritual formation. Paul’s ethics are radically shaped toward ecclesial formation, and only within that ecclesial context does the individual Christian find personal formation.
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Comic panel from The Marvel Saga: The Official History of the Marvel Universe, where the Fantastic Four discover their powers and assign pseudonyms to themselves. JOHNNY STORM: I'm calling myself the Human Torch -- and I'm with you all the way! SUSAN STORM: Same goes for me... the Invisible Girl! JOHNNY STORM: There's only one still missing... Ben!! BEN GRIMM: I ain't Ben anymore -- I'm what Susan called me -- the Thing!! REED RICHARDS: And I'll call myself... Mister Fantastic!!
2026 State of the Union BINGO card that will be filled up quickly
“Deep down Graham fervently believed that the gospel he preached was not distinctively—let alone uniquely—American but applied to everyone. Over and over he assured international audiences that he came not as a white middle-class American nor as an ambassador of the United States or its interests. Rather, he came as a proclaimer of a message that transcended all boundaries—nation, culture, ethnicity, race, and gender. After all, the Bible promised that Jesus Christ was the same yesterday, today, and forever. And everywhere.” — Grant Wacker, One Soul at a Time: The Story of Billy Graham
Dear Fellow Conservative, The radical Left doesn’t just control the media, academia, and Hollywood. They are starting to gain a foothold in America’s historic sites. But it is not too late to preserve our nation’s history. That is why The Heritage Foundation launched our Guide to Historic Sites. You can explore the guide at the link below. https://historicsites.heritage.org/ The Heritage Guide to Historic Sites is an online interactive map that evaluates significant battlefields, presidential homes, museums, and other historic sites that have intrinsic value to U.S. history.
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A male American goldfinch eats bird seed from a feeder. He hasn't yet molted his winter feathers.
A female northern cardinal eats bird seed from a feeder.
A new status of Donald Trump is being created and will be placed at his golf club in Miami. A picture of a giant Trump statue made a year ago by artist Alana Cottrill (Instagram/alan cottrill)
An excerpt from Jonathan V. Last's February 2025 article titled “Meet Kevin Hassett: Conservatism’s Invincible Ignoramus” about the director of the National Economic Council: Everyone in journalism gets things wrong from time to time. Lord knows I’ve been wrong about plenty of things. But to be wrong not in an article, but at book length? And not merely wrong, but precisely, actively, the wrongest you can possibly be? To have the entire motivating idea of your book destroyed within 12 weeks of publication? This is the kind of error from which a career is not supposed to recover. By the time I had lunch with Hassett in 2007, he should have been a laughingstock. A cautionary tale. Instead, the conservative world had created a sinecure for him and helped bury Dow 36,000 to such a degree that it was considered gauche to mention in polite company. AEI had even gone to the trouble of standing up an in-house magazine as a perch from which Hassett and his coauthor (who was made the magazine’s editor) could publish economic illiteracies.
Top CDC vaccine adviser questions need for polio shot, other longstanding recommendations Chair of federal panel stresses need to protect individual rights over public health
Email from Heritage Foundation president Kevin D. Roberts on Jan 24, 2026, with subject line “You can help increase deportations”: Dear Fellow Conservative, There are at least 10 million illegal aliens residing in our nation. Their presence overwhelms government services, leads to higher crime, and is a fundamental afront to justice and our national security. And if we don’t act now to increase deportations, the radical Left could come back into power—using that power to legalize election fraud and register illegals to vote. We must act now. That’s why I am asking you to activate your Heritage Foundation membership today using the secure link below. https://secured.heritage.org/activate-your-2026-membership/ Your generous support will help The Heritage Foundation create policies and strategies that will increase deportations and remove roadblocks placed by activist judges. We will work directly with the Trump administration to implement these policies and get our country back on the right track. Please help Heritage tackle America’s illegal immigration problem by activating your 2026 Heritage Foundation membership with a tax-deductible gift using the secure link below. https://secured.heritage.org/activate-your-2026-membership/ This is one of the greatest crises facing America. Please show your support today. Sincerely, Kevin D. Roberts, Ph.D. President, The Heritage Foundation P.S. Please help fuel the largest deportation operation in American history by activating your Heritage Foundation membership for 2026: https://secured.heritage.org/activate-your-2026-membership/
SSA determined in its recent review that in March 2025, a political advocacy group contacted two members of SSA’s DOGE Team with a request to analyze state voter rolls that the advocacy group had acquired. The advocacy group’s stated aim was to find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States. In connection with these communications, one of the DOGE team members signed a “Voter Data Agreement,” in his capacity as an SSA employee, with the advocacy group. He sent the executed agreement to the advocacy group on March 24, 2025.
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JD Vance: Have you said thank you once?
Dear Fellow Conservative, Will you be activating your membership this year? The radical Left is pushing forward with their destructive agenda of socialism, the full range of woke policies, and the poison of “identity politics.” Leftists are openly hostile to our nation’s founding principles and are increasingly more radical and violent. If we want to save our country in this critical election year, we must act now to defend our founding principles. Will you help defend our nation by activating your Heritage Foundation membership for 2026?
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Your Merriam-Webster 2026 word: golden
Brad Pitt as Vanisher in Deadpool 2
“We do not need ships that are not optimized to provide lethality against the Chinese threat,” Montgomery said, adding that the new frigate has “zero tactical use” because it will not be equipped with a vertical launch system or the Aegis ballistic defense system. “That is not what these are focused on—they are focused on the president’s visual that a battleship is a cool-looking ship,” he said.
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The front and back faces of a proposed $1 coin featuring Donald Trump's profile on the front and his likeness raising a fist on the back
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What’s wrong with short-term plans? Health insurance, like many kinds of insurance, is based on a simple economic mechanism: many people pay into the insurance pool, but only a small percentage of them actually ever use it. When the ACA was first passed, it included an “individual mandate” that required most people — especially young, healthy people — to maintain individual insurance coverage or pay a penalty for noncompliance. The provision was originally an idea from the conservative Heritage Foundation to preserve private insurance in preference to state-run medical systems, but its inclusion in “Obamacare” made it a political football. When Congress failed to kill the ACA in 2017, Republicans and President Trump did the next best thing, which was to lower the individual mandate penalty to zero dollars.