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She smiles at the man who shoots her and says she isn't mad at him. Clearly initiates the effort to leave when the aggressive agents arrive.
The question now (not that this was in question) isn't who's telling the truth. It's when DHS had this video and knew that what they were saying was a lie.
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🚨 NEW VIDEO 👇🏽This puts an end to all the lies. Horrific.

They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him.

Stop the lies.
January 9, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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Another of my father’s many memories and stories. This is from a time gone past in Terrace Road where I grew up. To set the scene, there is fierce storm the night before and somehow water has got into the ceiling from a hole in the roof and the following is my father’s description of what unfurled:
After the Deluge ... All night long, rain rattling above their heads on roof and windowpane, on their dreams and their dreamlessness and in the morning: silence and a strange, parched stillness. He lay studying the small rectangle of shadows in the portable TV: the mirror with grey-rosed wallpaper in, grey shelves, grey books ; the shrunken bed with him and her in it, grey and foetal, ten thousand fathoms deep...Through the gap in the blinds, treetops waved outside, signalling in: face-making leaves and branches with sky holes in and empty sockets of eyes: live leaves next to the curtains' still ones - a moving mass of chlorophyll and light and photosynthesis. The periscope hands of the Civic Centre clock tower had stopped. The tide was hill-high, the rows of rooftops, stepping stones leading down to and under it. Small, infinitesimal sounds returned: the breeze outside and the sound of her snore and something that wasn't there before: a slow, rhythmic pat pat pat...He tried to home in on it, at first thinking it might be the drainpipe outside or the guttering. Then there were two sounds: a pit and a pat in unison. Something struck the carpet. He looked up. Towards the foot of the bed and over the bookcase were two bulges in the ceiling paper a single drop of water welled at the bottom of each. He lay a moment, mesmerized, watching first one drop fall then the other, first one drop then the other...Then he galvanized into action, rolled out of bed, rushed downstairs and got two saucepans. Only a few old paperbacks had got wet, he was relieved to find when he returned, and the carpet was a bit squelchy, but other than that -. He aligned the saucepans directly under the drips, removed the books, put an old towel down on the damp patch and got back into bed. The pitterpats clanked on cold steel. He lay awake, counting the seconds between clank and clank, unable to go back to sleep for the din. His wife had begun to stir - a small hammer tap-tapping on the cast-iron wom…
January 6, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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Tooty at twenty(read the Alt text for short story)

Art and story by Alan Perry ©️2026 #alanperry #tooty #art #companion
Tooty at Twenty ‘The cat has had enough,' is winding down' you say as, for the fourth or fifth day in a row, she seeks out some new hiding place away from humankind: first under the bed then in the airing cupboard, then a sideboard drawer. Today it's somewhere else again. A strange place to go and die - in the small, round darkness of the Hotpoint, among all those knickers, bras and underpants. Maybe she wants to go back to the womb, to complete the cycle - like worn-out clothes that always return freshly warm and new. Turning in, you remind me she's for the Vet tomorrow - 'And whatever you do don't shut the Hotpoint door. Just like you to forget and spin-dry her.' All the same, I fall asleep in the big armchair watching the Late Night Film. When I come to I haven't forgotten her - tucked in her little pod, hatch half-open. I switch on the kitchen light to make sure but it's still night in there. I have to go down on all fours to listen to the blackness, to tell by her tiny purr she's still alive... ...and there she is light years away Floating in space behind a towel: cataleptic, a ravaged ball of fur imperceptibly breathing still. My mind at rest, I inadvertently close the door on her then quickly open it again. I put out Kit-e-Kat and water on the cold stone tiles then climb the stairs. Tonight, we'll sleep through her pain again, each in our own hermetic dark as we orbit together for one last time - compañeros of a score of years - space-trekkers in the long slow spin towards morning. Poem and illustration Alan Perry (Tooty is the one in the foreground, Dad, Mum, Cleo and Gypsy all captured by my dad in their front room)
January 5, 2026 at 7:01 AM
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Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation.

I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
January 3, 2026 at 7:41 AM
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Begs the question, which South American Country is next? Which country has the biggest Oil reserves? Or maybe Greenland is on the radar? Or maybe Mexico?
Was congressional approval sought before Putin like tactics were employed?
January 3, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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Happy New Year! The mountains in South of France near Valberg Watercolour ©️2026 Gareth Perry #pleinair #valberg #watercolor #garethperry #fwart #fwartist #welshmanintexas #art #painting #welshartist #dfwart #paintwhatyousee
January 2, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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The mountains in South of France near Valberg
Watercolour ©️2026 Gareth Perry
#pleinair #valberg #watercolor #garethperry #fwart #fwartist #welshmanintexas #art #painting #welshartist #dfwart #paintwhatyousee
The mountains in South of France near Valberg Watercolour ©️2026 Gareth Perry #pleinair #valberg #watercolor #garethperry #fwart #fwartist #welshmanintexas #art #painting #welshartist #dfwart #paintwhatyousee
January 2, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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Boxing Day Drawings from my dad from days gone passed. Cat on Hot Slate roof - 26th Dec. 2011 (mixed media on paper) and ‘Night Flight over Swansea Bay -26th Dec 2014 (mixed media on paper)
©️Alan Perry 2025 #alanperry #welshartist #swanseaartist #poet #writer #dad #boxingday #art #welsh
Boxing Day Drawings from my dad from days gone passed. Cat on Hot Slate roof - 26th Dec. 2011 (mixed media on paper) and ‘Night Flight over Swansea Bay -26th Dec 2014 (mixed media on paper) ©️Alan Perry 2025 #alanperry #welshartist #swanseaartist #poet #writer #dad #boxingday #art #welsh Boxing Day Drawings from my dad from days gone passed. Cat on Hot Slate roof - 26th Dec. 2011 (mixed media on paper) and ‘Night Flight over Swansea Bay -26th Dec 2014 (mixed media on paper) ©️Alan Perry 2025 #alanperry #welshartist #swanseaartist #poet #writer #dad #boxingday #art #welsh
December 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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This is one of my favorite pieces by my father. My father looking back at the viewer, with familiar objects on his desk, the oil lamp, the binoculars (featured in a Perkins story) and the two cats; Tooty and Cleo. The setting was our front room looking out to a stormy night over Swansea bay.
This is one of my favorite pieces by my father. I was twenty one when he drew this. My father looking back at the viewer, with familiar objects on his desk, the oil lamp, the binoculars (featured in a Perkins story) and the two cats; Tooty and Cleo. Tooty is the older black and white cate scraping at the window to be let in. The setting was our front room looking out to a stormy night over Swansea bay. Here my dad would sit with his art materials, a can of beer and either write or create wonderful artwork like this. (©️2025 Stormy Night/Alan Perry circa 1987/pen and ink on A3 paper) #alanperry #swanseaartist #swansea #welsh #welshartist #welshpoet #welshwriter
December 23, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Experimenting with Colour the other night. Using my watercolour palette to paint this doodle.
©️2025 Gareth Perry #colour #paint #Garethperry
December 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Happy Dada Christmas (by my Dad Alan Perry 1985 and updated 2012) ©️Alan Perry 2025 #dada #christmas #alanperry #swanseaartist #welshartist
December 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Amen Carter museum of American Art Fort Worth

Watercolor and Pen on watercolor paper 300gsm cold press

©️Gareth Perry 2025
#amencarter #fortworth #fortworthart #garethperry #art #fwart #fwartist #prunella
December 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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‘Prunella’ my feathered friend taking a breather while checking out whether there is anything for lunch. And in Watercolor form
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Terrific
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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One of my dad’s many paintings of Swansea bay. Looking out across the snow covered rooftop’s of Mount Pleasant disappearing across the Sandfields and into the bay. I used to wake up as a kid, wishing for snow for Xmas to see this Scene.
#Swansea #AlanPerry #Mountpleasant #Art #Painting
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Came across this beautiful Watercolour painting. The artist was unknown, which is a shame. I love the way they captured the expression and the colour and rendition is superb. Just a simple painting but not, a master class in Watercolour.

#cat #watercolor #watercolour #painting
November 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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There he goes again
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Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:
October 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing
October 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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This came up on my Dad’s Facebook memory feed. His college day’s on a Rag Parade. They were all dressed as Spartacus (Kirk Douglas’ movie must have been popular at this time) and chained together. Dad wrote the poem below as a tribute to two of his former college friends that had passed away.
October 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Costa Rica - watercolour under the trees

©️garethperry 2025
#costarica #watercolor #art #beach #painting #watercolour #sea #beautiful #fwart#texas #texasart #fwartist #texasartist #welshmanintexas #seasidedreams
September 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Cancelled Hulu and Disney, for Cancelling Jimmy Kimmel
September 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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The woodshed- a spring day in Fort Worth - oil on canvas, size 48 inches tall by 36 inches wide

#woodshed #summersday #oilpainting #painting #art #fwart #fortworth #fwartist #fwpainter #texasart #texas #texasartist #garethperry #welshmanintexas
September 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Portrait of an old man after mowing the lawn.

#watercolor #art #painting #watercolour # oldman #mowing #garethperry #welshmanitexas #honestportrait #texas #fw #fwart #fwartist
September 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Lighthouse watercolour based on Beachy Head lighthouse near Eastbourne.
#watercolour #art #painting #seaside # lighthouse #beachyhead #garethperry #fwart #fwartist #welshmanintexas #watercolor #texas #texasart #eastbourne #southcoast
September 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Wow - Jean E Carroll wins against Trumps appeal. Not only does Trump owe Jean E Carroll over $83 million dollars in Damages - it is official the ruling that Donald Trump is guilty of sexual assault still stands. The only President of the United States also guilty of sexually assaulting a woman.
September 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM