Bobcats

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Graceful and stealthy, this North American cat is an extraordinary hunter and can thrive in regions from Canada to Mexico. And yes, their offspring are called bobkittens. Read on for more fascinating facts about bobcats.

Bobcats got their names because of their tails.

Though many felines have long, sinuous tails, an adult bobcat’s averages just 6 to 7 inches in length; the word bobcat is a reference to this stubby appendage. (In barbershop lingo, hair that’s been cut short is sometimes called “bobbed.”) Other names for these animals include bobtailed cats, wildcats or bay lynxes.

Bobcats and Canada lynx are not the same thing …

While bobcats are actually a type of lynx in North America, the term is more generally associated with the Canada lynx. On the surface, these two species look very much alike. Both, after all, are similarly proportioned, mid-sized cats with stumpy tails and pointed ears. Still, some noticeable differences do exist between them.

First, the Canada lynx is slightly bigger with longer limbs and larger feet. Another key dissimilarity lies in the fur: Bobcats have short, reddish-brown coats with well-defined spots while lynx are shaggy, gray, and have faded spots. If you were to compare their hindquarters, you’d notice that a bobcat has black bands on its tail, whereas a lynx’s tail only displays a solid, black tip. Also, lynx ears have longer tufts.

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Canada lynx

But where these felines truly deviate from each other is in their lifestyle preferences. The lynx is a cold-weather cat that lives further north and at higher elevations. Their enlarged paws act like snowshoes, enabling these hunters to pursue such game as snowshoe hares with relative ease. Bobcats, in contrast, are built for warmer environments. Also, while lynx mainly eat hares, bobcats have a more varied diet and will readily hunt birds, small mammals, reptiles, and deer. Here’s another noteworthy tidbit: Bobcats tend to be much more aggressive—in fact, some zoo keepers call them the “spitfires of the animal kingdom.”

But bobcats and Canada lynx can mate.

The Canada lynx is found throughout its namesake nation and some northern parts of the U.S. (as well as Colorado). Since bobcats and lynx belong to the same genus (which, confusingly, is named Lynx), the two species are very similar at the genetic level. Over the past 15 years, a handful of confirmed hybrids have turned up in the northern U.S. The mix-matched predators tend to display a bobcat’s general build and the pointier ears of a lynx. In keeping with the tradition of giving delightful portmanteaux names to hybrid animals, these critters are now known as blynx.

Bobcats tend to hunt at dawn and dusk.

Wild bobcats do the majority of their hunting in low-light conditions. The animals usually wake up three hours before sunset and then go back to sleep around midnight; they wake up again roughly an hour before dawn. In the early morning, the felines return to their slumber and the whole cycle repeats itself.  Bobcats are at their most active during the twilight hours, when potential targets like eastern cottontail rabbits tend to forage. In the wintertime, though, food gets scarcer, which prompts some of the cats to change their schedules: Throughout the colder months, bobcats in northern states will often adjust their sleep regimen so that they can spend more time tracking down prey in broad daylight.

Adult bobcats can bring down animals that weigh much more than they do.

Fully grown bobcats can weigh up to 33 pounds. For the most part, they eat rabbits, birds, rodents, and other fairly small creatures. However, the cats are also extremely adept at killing adult white-tailed deer. Although they generally hunt fawns, they have been known to kill adults, which can weigh 250 pounds or more. To slay such a large herbivore, a bobcat will jump onto its back and bite through the throat.

Bobcats are excellent climbers and jumpers.

When threatened by a bigger carnivore, these cats will usually head for the safety of the nearest tree. Climbing among the branches also affords bobcats the opportunity to dine on nesting birds every so often. The felines have also been known to pounce onto unwary deer from overhanging tree limbs.

They’re also incredible jumpers. Able to clear 12 feet in a single bound, the cats can easily jump across narrow waterways. One of them went viral in 2020 after it was filmed leaping across a yawning gap in a Louisiana dock that had partially collapsed. According to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, bobcats can jump fences over 6 feet tall.

Bobcats like to cover their kills.

Bobcats can’t always consume their prey in one sitting. Sometimes, the carnivores use dirt, snow, leaves, or grass to bury the uneaten pieces of especially large corpses, and will return periodically to dig up their leftovers. This behavior is known as “caching,” and it’s also practiced by the North American mountain lion. Unfortunately, burying a corpse won’t guarantee that it won’t be discovered or nibbled on by other carnivores. Ravens, coyotes, bears, and those aforementioned mountain lions won’t hesitate to raid a bobcat’s secret stash if the opportunity arises.

Invasive pythons are a major threat to Florida’s bobcats.

Being a hunter doesn’t guarantee that you, in turn, will never be hunted. Owls, foxes, and coyotes regularly make off with bobcat kittens. Cannibalism is another big problem for these helpless infants, which are sometimes gobbled up by wandering adults (usually males) who belong to their own species. Fully grown bobcats don’t have many natural predators, although mountain lions have been known to kill those that encroach on their territory.

But in recent years, the short list of carnivores that eat bobcats has grown one entry longer. Since 2000, a Burmese python epidemic has been constricting the Florida Everglades. For decades, exotic pet owners have released a steady stream of these Asian snakes into the region, where they now thrive. Capable of weighing 200 pounds, the pythons are large enough to consume dogs, deer, and even alligators. Perhaps unsurprisingly, at least one euthanized specimen has been found with a bobcat corpse in its stomach.

Pythons are also devouring the animals that bobcats depend upon for survival, including rabbits, raccoons, and rodents. Not coincidentally, the number of bobcat sightings in the Everglades fell by 87.5 percent between 2003 and 2011.

Bobcats can run up to 30 mph.

Lynx rufus can sprint faster than any human being, but the cats also know when to slow things down. In 1966, two naturalists reported seeing a wild bobcat take 13 minutes to crawl across just 3.28 feet of ground. At the time, the predator was sneaking up on a cotton rat—which it was able to capture thanks to its patient approach.

Bobcats make a wide range of sounds.

We’re talking hisses, snarls, and meows, to name a few. When mating season rolls around, the cats may emit a screaming cry known as a “caterwaul” in a bid to attract partners. This vocalization is very loud, with the sound traveling as far as a mile away.

Bobcats can swim.

Bobcats don’t mind getting their feet wet while hunting beavers. The felines happen to be good swimmers overall, and they’ve been filmed or photographed paddling across lakes in such places as Illinois, Maine, and the Kentucky-Tennessee border.

Bobcats and coyotes compete for some of the same food sources.

The two carnivores hunt some of the same prey animals, meaning the coyote-bobcat relationship can be hostile. An influx of coyotes into a given habitat may result in fewer bobcats living there. However, this doesn’t always happen. In certain ranges, it appears bobcats and coyotes peacefully coexist. Interactions between them are of great interest to field biologists.

Bobcat tracks usually don’t have claw prints.

Individual pawprints are about two inches long from end to end. At first glance, they might resemble the tracks of a coyote or domestic dog. But while those canids leave claw marks behind, the bobcat usually doesn’t. That’s because the felines have retractable claws, something dogs and coyotes both lack. Other differences include the general shape of each track; dog and coyote prints are more likely to be longer than they are wide—which isn’t the case with bobcats.

Bobcats come in different colors.

In Bobcat: Master of Survival, Kevin Hansen writes that in 1978, naturalist Stanley Young “described an albino bobcat that survived four years in the wild before being captured and placed at a Texas zoo.” On the other end of the color spectrum, there are melanistic bobcats with fur that’s almost entirely black. They mostly occur in Florida, where at least 10 black bobcats have been trapped over the years.

Bobcats are part of the same cat subfamily as cheetahs.

Of course, we’re talking about the Felinae.  This group includes bobcats, cheetahs, ocelots, cougars, and domestic house cats. The only other major cat subfamily is the Panterinae, to which the really, really big species—like lions and tigers—belong.

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  1. Morning All!
    we had a heck of a thunderstorm move thru early this morning…once it gets light it will be interesting to see what’s what out there…
    CM? I hope things are going well for you and Mrs Mama!!

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      1. they are!!!
        and seeing the prints, I can say now they are here in the winter. we’ve seen those prints in the snow.
        hubby has actually seen bobcats several times–when he was traveling to and from work–so early morning, late afternoon. but i have never seen one at the house.

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    2. Good afternoon! Things have been very busy around here lately. It has not rained all month, so we have to haul water to some of the outlying gardens every other day it seems. Working little by little on the house we are supposed to stay in here at our relatives place. Still waiting for offers on our house in TN. It has only been listed for about 11 days.

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  12. we should get EVERY PENNY BACK! somalis–mostly mooseslimes
    FTA
    The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced charges against 47 Minnesotans Tuesday for allegedly defrauding the federal government’s child nutrition programs of $250 million in a little over 20 months.

    “These 47 defendants engaged in a brazen scheme of staggering proportions,” U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger said during a press conference, describing the $250 million total as just the “floor” because the federal investigation continues.

    At the center of the charges is Aimee Bock, the founder and executive director of Feeding Our Future, a nonprofit whose offices were raided in January. Tuesday’s press conference marked a dramatic escalation in the case as the federal government spent the eight months since the raids preparing six indictments against 47 individuals for charges ranging from conspiracy and wire fraud to money laundering and bribery.

    https://alphanews.org/staggering-proportions-47-charged-in-alleged-250-million-feeding-our-future-scheme/

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  13. fishing expedition on behalf of dominion…
    entire article
    The Deep State cabal that participated in the theft of the 2020 election has taken their abuse of power to a new level with attacks on Mike Lindell and others who contend the election was stolen. They even went to the ludicrous degree of claiming computer crimes and identity theft as predicates for their warrants, but as newly released documents tell us, this all has to do with Dominion Voting Systems.

    According to Law a Crime:

    A search warrant for a company-issued cell phone used personally by Mike Lindell says the U.S. Department of Justice wanted to search the MyPillow CEO’s mobile device for information involving possible identity theft and computer crimes. Lindell and a collection of others who have espoused various conspiracy theories involving the 2020 election are listed in the document as “subjects” of a federal probe into those possible offenses.

    A copy of the warrant was filed around midday on Wednesday by Lindell’s attorneys as an attachment to a lawsuit filed the night before in U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. The attachment was curiously not submitted contemporaneously with the original filing.

    As a “subject” of the investigation, Lindell and others listed on the warrant are being classified as just short of “target.” That means that they aren’t just being looked at as possible witnesses. The FBI is fishing for crimes to pin on these people, and it appears that Dominion is the key to all of it.

    All records and information on the LINDELL CELLPHONE that constitute fruits, evidence, or instrumentalities of violations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1028(a)(7) (identity theft), 1030(a)(5)(A) (intentional damage to a protected computer), and/or 371 (conspiracy to commit identity theft and/or to cause intentional damage to a protected computer) — (the “SUBJECT OFFENSES”) — those violations involving Tina Peters, Conan James Hayes, Belinda Knisley, Sandra Brown, Sherronna Bishop, Michael Lindell, and/or Douglas Frank, among other co-conspirators known and unknown to the government (the “SUBJECTS”), since November 1, 2020[.]

    Everyone listed on the warrant has denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election. It’s assumed that all in some way have participated with Lindell in trying to uncover the truth about the various forms of voter fraud used in the massive, widespread operation. The article continues:

    All of the named individuals have in various forms and venues complained about or denied the outcome of the 2020 election. Peters, Knisley, and Brown are already tied up in election-related cases in Colorado. Bishop is reportedly U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-Colo. 3) former campaign manager. Frank is reportedly Lindell associate. Hayes is reportedly a surfer who developed a line of athletic clothing — a business he subsequently sold — and who claims the election that installed Joe Biden was botched.

    The warrant contains a 24-point list of data the FBI was authorized by U.S. Magistrate Judge Tony N. Leung to seize. Leung was appointed by the district court in 2011.

    The first item on the list is this: “[a]ll records and information relating to damage to any Dominion computerized voting system, including any impairment to, or attempt to impair, the integrity or availability of data, a program, a system, or information.”

    The feds were also seeking information “relating to the attachment of any peripheral to any Dominion computerized voting system, including any USB flash storage drive or other external media storage.”

    The FBI also wanted to see if Lindell’s phone contained evidence that “any software, program, application, or code” was “used to obtain information about the configuration, security features, contents, or vulnerabilities of any Dominion computerized voting system.”

    As to Hayes specifically, the warrant says the feds were looking for information “relating to Conan James Hayes’ use of another person’s name, photograph, credentials, or other identifying information or documents.”

    Further sought were “records and information” that could lead agents to the “geographical location” of any subject of the probe, information about any subject’s “state of mind,” and data about whether a subject attempted to “conceal . . . involvement” with the cited offenses.

    What the article is unwilling to say without direct evidence, we’ll go ahead and say for them. This reads like a movie script in which an evil company leans on its connections in the FBI to use law enforcement as a weapon against those who may implicate both the company and the FBI itself in past crimes. In this case, it seems Dominion has not been satisfied with strongarming anyone who questions the legitimacy of the election. They need to silence anyone who’s still looking into it, and that includes Lindell and his cohorts.

    But this isn’t just about Lindell’s efforts. He was specifically chosen as a high-profile election denier to send a message to anyone else who continues to question the results. It has been nearly two years since the election was stolen and nobody has been held accountable. The Deep State and everyone else involved wants to keep it that way, not just to stay out of trouble but to enable similar voter fraud in the future.

    https://thelibertydaily.com/the-fbis-seizure-of-mike-lindells-phone-was-a-fishing-expedition-on-behalf-of-dominion-under-the-guise-of-identity-theft/

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  14. dems in house judiciary committee vote to allow illegals to VOTE in federal elections
    entire article
    “There it is,” quipped one political commentator on social media. “There’s the way they turn illegal aliens into Democrat voters.”

    The House Judiciary voted to allow non-citizens to vote in an amendment to the amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 8770 today. As Tweeted by House Judiciary GOP:

    Judiciary Democrats just voted to support NON-CITIZENS voting in our elections. There’s no hiding it. Democrats WANT non-citizens voting in our elections.

    There’s no hiding it.

    Democrats WANT non-citizens voting in our elections. pic.twitter.com/ecdfgZ6exh

    — House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) September 21, 2022

    Before anyone gets too concerned, this still has a long way to go before it ever becomes law and almost certainly never could. But the sheer fact that Democrats are openly pushing for it now after years of pretending that wasn’t a motivating factor for them being so soft on the border is telling.

    https://thelibertydaily.com/house-judiciary-votes-for-allowing-non-citizens-to-vote-in-federal-elections/

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  17. Not sure if the link will work so I’ve copied the e-mail from CHD:

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    Children’s Health Defense (CHD) is announcing Children’s Health Defense Publishing — an imprint we created in partnership with Skyhorse Publishing. In the era of government-captured technocrats, Pharma-funded media and feckless herd reporting, Skyhorse embraces topics that other publishers deem too controversial.

    Despite a virtual media blackout, readers have bought over 1,000,000 copies of “The Real Anthony Fauci.” The book exposes the deep corruption at the heart of NIH-sponsored medical science. But there is more to the story. My new book, “The Wuhan Cover-Up,” will uncloak the true origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, the damning collaboration among public health and intelligence officials from the U.S., Great Britain and China — and the world’s leading virologists, academic institutions and scientific scholars — to hide its origins and the epidemic of media and social media malpractice that sustained the deceptive propaganda putsch.

    We carefully choose books bearing the CHD logo to align with our missions of medical and press freedom, civil and constitutional rights and public health. These titles promise to empower readers by providing crucial information that consumers will not find elsewhere. Our titles include the recently released “A Letter to Liberals,” about the censorship of legitimate science in the age of COVID-19, and the soon-to-be-released “Profiles of the Vaccine-Injured,” a compilation of nine heartbreaking stories of injury in children and adults.

    Four of our favorite compelling reads are:

    “Underestimated: An Autism Miracle” follows the inspirational journey of a non-speaking teen with autism who finds a life-altering method of communication which allows him to finally reveal his voice. His miraculous journey dispels the misconception that nonspeaking individuals are “mentally retarded.” In reality, they can be fully capable, free-thinking, brilliant human beings.

    “The War on Informed Consent” chronicles how the Oregon Medical Board targeted the beloved pediatrician, Dr. Paul Thomas, in revenge for publishing his objective, peer-reviewed data, revealing that unvaccinated children are healthier than vaccinated children.

    “Vaccine Court 2.0” exposes the dark, corrupt nightmare that occurs when those who are injured by vaccines attempt to seek restitution from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP).

    “The Measles Book” discloses thirty-five facts suppressed by the media and government about the measles virus and the measles vaccine that will have readers questioning whether measles truly constitutes a “public health emergency” that justifies draconian mandates.

    Information and communication are the building blocks of revolution. Our imprint keeps Children’s Health Defense at the forefront of the civil war over freedom and children’s health.

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    https://childrenshealthdefense.salsalabs.org/bookstore

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  20. Entire Article: “Former White House advisor Jared Kushner criticized Ron DeSantis over the Florida Governor’s migrant flights to to Martha’s Vineyard, claiming he was ‘troubled’ by the situation. DeSantis carried out one of the greatest political stunts in modern history last week when he sent 50 illegal Venezuelan migrants to the wealthy, elitist island.

    After completely wetting the bed over the development and declaring a “humanitarian crisis,” political leaders ensured the migrants were swiftly deported to a military base within 48 hours. Apparently, diversity isn’t a strength when it happens in their backyard. The backlash against DeSantis by frothing leftists then began, with the Florida Governor being accused of human trafficking and placed under criminal investigation.

    However, a somewhat unexpected critic of DeSantis is Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a former White House advisor. Kushner appeared on Fox News’ Outnumbered to blast DeSantis over the stunt.

    “I personally watch what’s happening, and it’s very hard to see at the southern border, I also—we have to remember that these are human beings, they’re people, so seeing them being used as political pawns one way or the other is very troubling to me,” said Kushner.

    However, he didn’t have much criticism for Joe Biden for using migrants as political pawns to flood America, 4.9 million of whom have crossed the border since he came to power, paving the way for demographic changes that will permanently alter the country.

    Kushner’s comments only further drive suspicions held by many Trump supporters that he was a globalist plant within the Trump administration all along. The New York Times noted how Kushner “washed his hands of Donald Trump before Jan. 6,” while a book claimed that the advisor “hid from Trump” after the riot.

    In the final days of the Trump administration, Kushner was reportedly looking forward to returning to his former life.

    https://summit.news/2022/09/22/jared-kushner-criticizes-ron-desantis-over-marthas-vineyard-migrant-flights/

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  21. Entire Article @ The Federalist: “The House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday to overhaul the 1887 Electoral Count Act and re-write election rules to benefit Democrats in presidential contests.

    The bill, proposed by GOP Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat from California who is under Cheney on the Jan. 6 Committee, reforms the 135-year-old law to narrow the grounds for objections to presidential electors and open the door to late-day voting.

    Cheney’s “Presidential Election Reform Act” became the Democrats’ answer to their failed effort to override state election laws in H.R. 1, which Senate Republicans blocked last summer. The legislation carries some of the same provisions of the doomed election bill at the top of Democrats’ congressional agenda. Just nine Republicans supported the bill, all but one of whom supported President Donald Trump’s second impeachment and are either retiring or have lost their primaries.

    New York Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney, who co-chairs the Election Integrity Caucus, condemned the bill as “the latest attempt from House Democrats to stack the democratic process in their favor” and complained that the proposal did not go through the proper legislative process. The text was only released days before the Wednesday vote and received no bipartisan hearing or markup in committee.

    “It is nothing more than a partisan messaging bill intended to score cheap political points weeks before an election,” Tenney said in a press release outlining the legislation’s flaws.

    “The bill broadly defines a ‘catastrophic event,’ which could be used to extend balloting for up to five days after the polls close in a presidential election,” Tenney said. “It also tramples on the core principle of state sovereignty and directly contradicts the United States Constitution. The legislation also creates broad private rights of action in a backdoor to empower Democrat election lawyers and partisan operatives.” The congresswoman from central New York called on her colleagues to outlaw the private takeover of elections through “Zuckerbucks” and boost security at the ballot box.

    Illinois Republican Rep. Rodney Davis similarly condemned the bill’s expedited passage through the lower chamber on the House floor and highlighted the hypocrisy over electoral objections. “Democrats have objected to every single Republican presidential win in the 21st century,” Davis said. In 2017, Democrats objected to more states certifying President Donald Trump’s win than Republicans did four years later for Joe Biden.

    “I believe what the House Democrats and the Jan. 6 Committee are doing is irresponsible and wrong,” Davis said. “They have allowed their dislike for one man, President Trump, to cloud their judgment and guide their actions — no matter the consequences to this institution or the Constitution that they claim to want to uphold.”

    According to Axios, similar legislation in the upper chamber has already drawn support from the 10 Republicans needed in the split Senate to circumvent a filibuster.”

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  22. EXCERPT: “Dubious “fact checker,” Malaysian technology news and information website Techarp explains in 10 points why Rodrigopulle could not have possibly died from his numerous gene vaccinations. The pro-vaccine site, started by Adrian Wong, claims that Rodrigopulle died of “natural causes.” However, on the page linked as evidence, there is a statement that he died of a congenital heart defect. There is no evidence for such a preliminary diagnosis.

    Furthermore, the “fact-checkers” declares that Covid “vaccine” side effects always occur immediately and that the spike protein is only in the body for a few days. However, this is not a fact that is in evidence anywhere; on the contrary, it is not known when the side effects of the various gene therapy shots are no longer dangerous.

    Wong’s site, widely sourced by left-wing media, claims the deceased’s family would not have blamed the vaccination and that any connection to the injections can be ruled out. However, this so-called fact check is astonishingly irresponsible and dangerous and used by Covid vaccine advocates to spread disinformation.

    The facts show: The young man was vaccinated and died unexpectedly of heart problems, just like hundreds of thousands of other young people worldwide. Some may be congenital defects; others may not. Only an autopsy could provide clarity, but this is usually refused and not often encouraged by medical professionals. As a result, scores of people suspected of dying due to the gene therapy injections are being cremated shortly after their death.”

    https://rairfoundation.com/vaccinated-and-boosted-tv-reporter-24-dies-suddenly-and-unexpectedly-video/

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  24. EXCERPT: “Among Friend’s allegations:

    – The Washington, DC, field office is “manipulating” FBI case management protocol and farming out J6 cases to field offices across the country to create the false impression that right-wing domestic violence is a widespread national problem that goes far beyond the “black swan” event of Jan. 6, 2021. As a result, he was listed as lead agent in cases he had not investigated and which his supervisor had not signed off on, in violation of FBI policy.

    –  FBI domestic terrorism cases are being opened on innocent American citizens who were nowhere near the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, based on anonymous tips to an FBI hotline or from Facebook spying on their messages. These tips are turned into investigative tools called “guardians,” after the FBI software that collates them.

    –  The FBI has post-facto designated a grassy area outside the Capitol as a restricted zone, when it was not restricted on Jan. 6, 2021, in order to widen the net of prosecutions.

    –  The FBI intends to prosecute everyone even peripherally associated with J6 and another wave of J6 subjects are about to be referred to the FBI’s Daytona Beach resident agency “for investigation and arrest.”

    –  The Jacksonville area was “inundated” with “guardian” notifications and FBI agents were dispatched to conduct surveillance and knock on people’s doors, including people who had not been in Washington, DC, on Jan. 6, 2021, or who had been to the Trump rally that day but did not go ­inside the Capitol.

    Friend says he was punished after complaining to his bosses about being dragged into J6 investigations that were “violating citizens’ Sixth Amendment rights due to overzealous charging by the DOJ and biased jury pools in Washington, DC.”

    His top-secret security clearance was suspended last week because he “entered FBI space [his office] and downloaded documents from FBI computer systems [an employee handbook and guidelines for employee disciplinary procedures] to an unauthorized removable flash drive.”

    In a Sept. 16 letter from the head of FBI human resources, he was told he was losing his security clearance also because he “espoused beliefs which demonstrate questionable judgment [and demonstrated] an unwillingness to comply with rules and regulations.”

    Reprisals from bosses

    In his whistleblower complaint, Friend describes “reprisals” from his supervisors after he voiced his conscientious objections. He says they ignored his complaint about “manipulative casefile practice [which] creates false and misleading crime statistics, constituting false official federal statements.

    “Instead of hundreds of investigations stemming from an isolated incident at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, FBI and DOJ officials point to significant increases in domestic violent extremism and terrorism around the United States. At no point was I advised or counseled on where to take my disclosure beyond the reprising officials above; the threatened reprisal constituted a de facto gag on my whistleblowing.”

    On Aug. 19, he first told his immediate boss, Supervisory Senior Resident Agent Greg Federico, that he believed “it was inappropriate to use an FBI SWAT team to arrest a subject for misdemeanor offenses and opined that the subject would likely face extended detainment and biased jury pools in Washington, DC.

    “I suggested alternatives such as the issuance of a court summons or utilizing surveillance groups to determine an optimal, safe time for a local sheriff deputy to contact the subjects and advise them about the existence of the arrest warrant.”

    Federico told him it would have been better to just “call in sick” rather than voice his objection and “threatened reprisal indirectly by asking how long I saw myself continuing to work for the FBI.”

    https://nypost.com/2022/09/21/fbi-hero-paying-the-price-for-exposing-unjust-persecution-of-conservative-americans/

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    1. so all the stuff they accused REALPOTUS of doing with vindman, they did.
      all the accoutrements afforded blasey ford (or whatever the hell her name was) are NOT accorded to an actual gov’t employee…
      disgusting.
      get rid of the agency…raze the building…salt the ground

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        1. when vindman came forward–remember the dems screeching about whistleblowers HAD TO BE PROTECTED???
          now, it’s fire them, remove their clearances…
          damn bunch of hypocrites

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  25. Entire Article @ AT: “Are Democrats Deliberately Choosing Impaired Candidates?
    By M.B. Mathews
    Once could be excused. Twice is suspicious. Three times seems like a strategy. Are Democrats choosing infirm, intellectually challenged, feeble people to run for office so that they can be easily manipulated?

    Joe Biden was and is clearly infirm, physically, psychologically, and cognitively.

    John Fetterman is also clearly infirm due to two things: He has had a recent stroke which seems to have left him cognitively impaired, and he also has a rather prominent swelling on the back of his neck, which could be the sign of several very serious conditions.

    Kamala Harris is intellectually suspect, linguistically incontinent, and verbally incoherent. Why are these people being chosen by the Democrat Party for the highest offices?

    My observation leads me places I would rather not go. With Joe Biden in the White House, he is clearly doing what he is told by others. This much is clear; he simply does not have the stamina, the wisdom, or the political acumen necessary to be an effective President of the United States. His gaffes, his verbal dyslexia, his delusional prevarications, his garbled verbiage, and his ability to reliably make statements his handlers have to mop up afterward, are all deeply troubling. No political party would run such a candidate unless two things were happening: One, the election would be guaranteed to affect a win for the candidate, and two, the candidate would simply be a figurehead for the real powers behind the throne. Biden would have to know that others would be running his presidency. Were he and Jill that easy to roll?

    If someone offered a Democrat the most powerful position on the planet and told him, “Don’t worry, we will do all the hard work, you just relax and sign the papers,” wouldn’t most Democrats close the space between them and a pen at the speed of light? Biden would have to have assumed that his old buddy, Barack Obama (and his underlings) would be doing the heavy lifting, allowing Lunchbucket Joe to cruise, basking in the reflected glory without lifting a finger.

    The bulb in Kamala Harris’ attic is also known to be a little dim. She is supremely arrogant, lacking in leadership and a decent work ethic. She is lazy, entitled, and is unable to keep staff due to her abrasive and very ambitious personality. She was not even able to get enough votes from her own party in 2020 to get on the ticket for POTUS and is so impaired on so many levels that no one wants much to do with her. So imagine our surprise when she was chosen by the Democrat Party as Biden’s running mate. The most unpopular Democrat candidate gets to be vice-president without having a single thing to offer except her well-documented pliability. Kamala’s myriad word salads and bizarre rants about “working together” and the “passage of time,” to name just two, reveal a vapidity that is hard to explain unless her intellectual betters viewed her as malleable in return for the perks of being Veep. She is a mental cipher now a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

    John Fetterman’s candidacy seems to be another cruelty perpetrated on the American public in the name of winning at all costs. The candidate for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania has physical and mental problems that preclude coherent statements and reactions to the pressures of running for office. He has already revealed he is not up to the job.

    Yet Fetterman is another case where the Democrat Party has chosen the weakest, not the strongest, candidates. It is almost as though the party has made a decision to deliberately choose impaired, malleable, but ambitious people who have failed in their past attempts at wielding power or who are recognized as those who might sell their souls for some power. Were the candidates told, “Don’t worry, we’ve got this”? Were they told, “We’ll handle the voting aspect of this, you just do what you’re told and you’ll cruise your way to power”?

    It would make sense if this were indeed the case, because we already know that the Democrats’ insatiable lust for power creates new cynical methodologies: Choose the weak to represent the stronger powers behind the thrones. A malleable winner is preferable to a strong, self-sufficient winner who may not take orders from the real powers behind the thrones. That the Left has an agenda is clear; it involves weakening the populace through policies such as a national gun registry. But they cannot put those policies in place unless the selected leaders promote those radical agenda items which further the leftist cause.

    George Soros, the Obamas, Susan Rice, Valerie Jarrett, and many other wealthy, elite, no-borders, one-world Marxist climate zealots have an iron grip on the Democrat Party from bottom to top. Are the elites deliberately choosing weak people so as to control them from behind the curtain? We know they have done that with Biden, Kamala, and Fetterman. Is this their new modus operandi; choose the weak who will bow to the strong because the weak are more palatable to voters than the strong?

    After all, why run candidates with minds of their own when you can run a candidate who has a mind that can easily be hijacked for radical leftist causes?”

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    1. fetterman never had a job–took daddy’s money till he was 50. got elected mayor in a town of less than 2000 and it’s worse now than before…and he thinks that qualifies him to be in the senate?
      HELLS TO THE NO!

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  26. EXCERPTS: “Monica Leal Cline was graduating college at the peak of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1990s. At the time, she wasn’t a Christian but was “driven by compassion” and wanted to play a part in bettering society.

    It was that set of circumstances that led Leal Cline to begin volunteering with an LGBT organization working to raise awareness about HIV prevention — a step that set her trajectory for many years to come, until her career was interrupted by an unexpected pregnancy.

    “In my eyes, at the time, with my very worldly worldview … I thought it was fantastic,” she recently explained on CBN’s “Quick Start” podcast. “I’d never seen anything like it. It was bold. And they were, in my eyes, making a difference. The government was funding this, so I fully trusted it.”

    In the succeeding years, Leal Cline said she allowed herself “to be groomed” by leftist organizations — including Planned Parenthood — into teaching sex education, first in minority and at-risk communities and eventually with children after she moved from a volunteer to a paid position.

    “They quickly hired me on as soon as I graduated, and then they let me know that it was time to learn how to share this message with children, and they had let me know that children were also sexually active, and that they needed this education to keep them from getting HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases or becoming pregnant,” she recalled. “So they sent me to Planned Parenthood, where the director of sex education of the greater Texas area … sat me down and became my mentor.”

    Leal Cline said the Planned Parenthood director trained her in how to talk about sex with minors.

    After a decade in the field, Leal Cline began to realize not only the incredible damage such sex education was doing to children but also how the industry’s philosophy “was permeating vulnerable populations” and “how they were grooming people who were very vulnerable, not only to educate them within the community but also to even recruit them into working with the agency.”

    “They knew — as well as the funders knew — that if this education was being taught by people in the community to people in the community, then they would be more likely to use those services,” she said. “It was all under the guise that we would be helping the community. But in reality, many years later, I began to see things differently, and I began to realize we were just slowly killing off these communities.”
    —————-
    As for Leal Cline, it wasn’t until she found herself with an unplanned pregnancy that she began to see the havoc this kind of content was wreaking on younger generations. At the time, she was so inculcated in the world of sex education she believed abortion was her only option. In her mind, it was a black-and-white issue: You get pregnant, you get an abortion, you move on.

    “It was really someone very close to me from my past that humanized my child and I eventually decided to cancel that abortion and have my son and did become a single mom,” she said, acknowledging that it was hard, especially when she struggled financially without the support of her parents. Ultimately, her family came to her aid.

    “Once I became a mom, I was a fully committed mom,” Leal Cline explained. “Everything changed, even to the point of finally deciding … to become a Christian when my son was just one year old. When that happened, I started to see things very differently,” she continued. “All of the sudden, I started listening to the kids [in my sex education classes] in a very different way.”
    —————-
    Leal Cline has since started her own ministry, It Takes a Family, in which she raises awareness about what sex education actually entails, alerting parents to the things their children are often being taught in the classroom. To learn more about her work and to find resources, click here.”

    https://www.faithwire.com/2022/09/20/planned-parenthood-trained-sex-educator-finds-jesus-abandons-career-after-having-child/

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  27. Entire Article @ Epoch Times: “Warning: Gene-Edited Meat Products Coming to Supermarkets Near You
    BY KAREN SANDERS TIMESEPTEMBER 21, 2022

    Sure, we know that most conventionally produced meat isn’t the healthiest food. For instance, numerous studies linked the consumption of meat – loaded with toxic chemicals and synthetic antibiotics – to cancer and heart disease. Even “leaner” meats seem to be healthy only when eaten in moderation, because of the toxicity already mentioned.

    Moreover, the meat industry is pretty rough on the planet, contributing to ozone depletion, antibiotic resistance, and animal cruelty. Supposedly to fix some of those issues, innovators have pushed gene-edited burgers for years now. Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has heard their requests and has just approved the first gene-edited cattle.

    Gene-Edited Meat: Is It a Good Thing?

    These cows have shorter, slicker coats. The thinking? Those coats will help them withstand heat better. That will lead to less stress and higher meat production – but is that a good thing? Like the fake meat revolution, gene-edited meat products aren’t necessarily a beneficial replacement for the natural version. On the contrary, the processed substitution strips out vital nutrients that help you successfully digest foods that were meant to be eaten whole.

    What else? They’re often grown in conditions that harm the environment, such as those that use pesticides. In addition, they lack the synergistic health qualities that natural, heritage, whole foods bring to the table. If that’s not enough, nothing is saying gene-edited cattle will be grown in more human conditions once their DNA is tweaked. The very point of the modification seems to be packing cows “comfortably” into close quarters.

    Synthetic Foods: Not All They’re Cracked up to Be

    The new green light has also missed several critical steps in a safe approval process. These include:

    – Streamlining the approval process and skipping normal review factors
    – Failing to conduct long-term safety and toxicity studies
    – Not adequately safeguarding our genetic stock for the future

    Gene-Editing Leads to Unintentional Consequences

    This decision also ignores information showing that changing DNA in one area is not necessarily contained to that area. Instead, it may lead to long-term changes in cattle DNA. Brazil, for instance, was working toward herds of genetically dehorned cows. They used the same CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) technology approved by the FDA to adjust their cows’ genes. Then they discovered unintended DNA errors cropping up.

    Also, as COVID-19 has shown us, when one organism’s DNA changes, it can significantly impact another organism – i.e., human health. We can’t afford simply to ignore this.

    Here Is a Better Way to Meat

    Like meat? Want to have less of an impact on the environment? There’s a better way. For one thing, study after study conducted by luminaries such as the Rodale Institute has shown that organic food can feed the world. The argument that we need conventional and genetically engineered foods to address the planet’s food crisis is overblown, if not outright false.

    For another, there is plenty of environment-friendly meat to be had. We don’t need to purchase meat loaded with toxins, pathogens, parasites, and antibiotics. We can say no to Big Meat by refusing to buy fast food and avoiding synthetic and/or conventional meats at the grocery store and deli.

    Instead, patronize Earth-friendly, human, regenerative farms – which offer 100% grass fed beef products, from locally sourced smaller farms. These raise meat healthy for humans, honor our genetic heritage, protect breeding stock for the future, and tread lightly on the planet.

    It’s not too late to vote with our dollars. So say yes to better beef today.”

    Republished from NaturalHealth365

    Sources for this article include:
    ChildrensHealthDefense.org
    Wired.com
    RodaleInstitute.org

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  28. Excerpt @ TownHall: “Speaking during an event with The Atlantic Wednesday morning Dr. Anthony Fauci, the federal government’s highest paid employee, justified draconian shutdowns and using school children as collateral damage.

    “Sometimes when you do draconian things, it has collateral negative consequences. Just like when you shut things down, even temporarily, it does have deleterious consequences on the economy, on the school children, you know that, but you have to make a balance,” Fauci said.

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  29. Entire Article @ TheRightScoop: “I know you guys are probably tired of seeing so many DeSantis posts, but this is another great one. Yesterday DeSantis schooled a reporter on why Florida doesn’t allow the teaching of CRT or the 1619 Project.

    https://rumble.com/v1kuqn7-fl-teaches-the-truth-about-american-history.html

    Another masterful response by DeSantis to a ludicrous allegation that Florida doesn’t allow students to learn about slavery.

    I love how he pointed out why the American Revolution was fought and that everything after our founding, including slavery, had to be reconciled with our greatest founding principle, that we are endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights.

    He says point blank that no one questioned slavery before we established that founding principle and credited it with the reason why slavery ended up being abolished later on.
    Watch the entire video for much more….”

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  30. Entire Article:

    BATON ROUGE, LA – This year, parents and guardians stood together in opposition to the COVID-19 shot being required for their children to attend school. As a result of their coming together, the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) decided to rescind the mandate for Louisiana students. As of yesterday, it has officially been repealed.

    In light of this victory for parents and their children, Attorney General Jeff Landry has filed a motion to dismiss the Crews v. Edwards case, wherein he sought to have the vaccine mandate enjoined and issued the following statement:

    “Today is the culmination of hard work by so many concerned parents throughout Louisiana. This is the direct result of moms, dads, grandparents, and guardians fighting for what is right. I thank Representative Raymond Crews, Health Freedom Louisiana, the Bayou Mama Bears, Town Hall Baton Rouge, Children’s Health Defense, and all those from across Louisiana that stood with us for parental choice.

    Child medical decisions should be made by their guardians, not the government. I hope this health freedom victory reminds everyone what can happen when we all work together. When citizens are engaged and get involved, their government will listen.” -Attorney General, Jeff Landry, Sept 21, 2022

    Some history on this historic event:

    December, 2021 – I went down to Baton Rouge Louisiana with the Children’s Health Defense team on short notice to help Health Freedom Louisiana, the physician and nurses’ advocacy group Louisiana for Medical Freedom, Representative Kathy Edmonston, and Attorney General Jeff Landry by supporting testimony opposing the Louisiana Department of Health move to mandate the unlicensed and still experimental Pfizer vaccine be taken by Louisiana school children. I wrote about that trip here.

    Then last April, Health Freedom Louisiana wrote about their continuing fight to stop the mandates, with a pleas for everyone to reach out to state legislators. I went back down to Baton Rouge in early May, 2022. to testify in front of a Senate Committee hearing about vaccine mandates for children, in support of HCR 3, which would stop the governor’s mandated COVID vaccination – the only one left in the country. At that time, the bill did pass.

    But the Governor that state continued pushing the mandates through the Louisiana Department of Health … until finally they didn’t. I think we can all take this as a win. A BIG WIN!

    It took a huge effort on the part of AG Jeff Landry, who never gave up. Louisiana for Medical Freedom and Representative Kathy Edmonston who has continued in this fight to stop the mandates and frankly, so many of us. Children’s Health Defense and Robert F Kennedy, Jr. who has also been there working behind the scenes to make this happen.

    Thank you everyone. One step, one state, one nation – medical freedom. Medical Freedom is just part of being free. Freedom for all was what this great nation was founded on. Never forget.”

    https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/case-dismissed-victory-for-parents

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  32. Entire Article @ NotTheBee: “18-year-old Cayler Ellingson was attending a street dance in McHenry, North Dakota, when he encountered a drunken 41-year-old, Shannon Brandt. At some point, they began to argue about politics, and when the street dance was over, Ellingson started walking home.

    But Brandt was waiting for him. Ellingson’s mom said that the teen called her and asked that she come and get him because Brandt was chasing him through the small town with his SUV, but by the time she arrived, it was too late. Brandt had run down and murdered her son.

    Brandt called the police himself to inform them that he had helped them stop a Republican extremist, and that they could come pick up the suspect. Video interviews show Brandt visibly confused over why he was the one being arrested. The guy really did think he was doing a good thing killing a conservative kid.

    A judge ordered Brandt held on $50,000 bail, which he objected to, saying he’s not a flight risk.

    “I have a job, a life and a house and things I don’t want to see go by the wayside — family that are very important to me,” Brandt told the judge.

    Brandt has so far been charged with vehicular homicide and faces a minimum of 10 years in prison because of a previous DUI on his record. The maximum is 20 years. The police are still interviewing witnesses at the street dance and have not ruled out adding further charges due to the intentional nature of the crime.

    Can we really be that surprised that it has come to this? When the president of the nation is calling conservatives extremists and saying that they are an existential threat to the nation, and 80% of Democrats are on board with that messaging, why wouldn’t someone like Brandt feel justified in stopping a threat to the nation?

    As a parent, my heart is heavy for Cayler Ellingson’s mother. I cannot imagine the pain she is going through. It can’t bring back her son, but there is a GoFundMe me set up to help with his funeral expenses. Please pray for their family and the future of our country.”

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  34. Entire Article @ EpochTimes: “Former First Lady Melania Trump felt “very violated” after FBI agents raided her Mar-a-Lago home last month, according to former President Donald Trump.

    “She felt very violated. I mean, this is a terrible thing. They go into her closet, they go through her dresses, and who knows what else, and it wasn’t left the way they found it,” Trump told Newsmax in a phone interview on Sept. 20. Trump added, “I didn’t walk into mine and say, ‘Oh, this is exactly so nice, the way they put it back.’”

    The former president, who was in New York City when the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, recently returned to his Florida residence. After his return, he took to his Truth Social platform to say that the residence “was ransacked” and the FBI agents “didn’t even take off their shoes in my bedroom.”

    “I think it’s a disgrace that a thing like this could happen,” Trump told Newsmax. Days after the FBI raid, Trump criticized the FBI agents for having “rummaged” through Melania’s “clothing and personal items” during their search of the Florida residence. Earlier in September, Trump also disclosed how the FBI had also searched his 16-year-old son Barron’s room.

    The Aug. 8 raid ended with FBI agents seizing a total of 11,179 documents and other materials that weren’t marked classified, along with 103 documents marked classified, including some marked as top secret, according to an inventory released earlier this month.

    “I didn’t do anything wrong. There was nothing done wrong,” Trump continued. “You take a look at the Presidential Records Act. That’s what you have to go by, I guess. I mean, that’s what I’m told.” Trump reiterated his claim that the raid was politically motivated. “They’re trying to make such a big deal because what they want to do is politicize everything,” Trump said.

    Court

    Also on Tuesday, Trump’s legal team told the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit that the Mar-a-Lago probe is “unprecedented and misguided” and “at its core is a document storage dispute that has spiraled out of control,” according to a court filing.

    Trump’s lawyers made the filing in response to the Department of Justice’s motion for a partial stay of an order entered by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who appointed a special master to review the seized materials and ordered the government to halt using the seized records for “investigative purpose.”

    The DOJ asked the court to allow it to continue using classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago for a criminal investigation into Trump. “The Government wrongfully seeks to criminalize the possession by the 45th President of his own Presidential and personal records,” the court filing states. Trump’s lawyers also said that the decision to appoint a special master was made in “the public interest, the principles of civil and criminal procedure, and the principles of equity.”

    Cannon has appointed Judge Raymond Dearie, a Brooklyn-based senior judge who is a Reagan appointee, to serve as special master to review the documents. Dearie said he didn’t want to see seized materials that were marked classified, during a hearing at a Brooklyn courthouse on Sept. 20.

    “Let’s not belittle the fact that we are dealing with at least potentially legitimately classified information. The government has a very strong obligation, as all of us, to see it to that that information doesn’t get in the wrong hands,” Dearie said. He added, “If I can make my judgments without—I don’t want to see the material—it’s presumably sensitive material.”

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  36. Entire Article from Emerald Robinson:

    “Mike Lindell’s Lawsuit Against The FBI Is Here! According to the MyPillow CEO, FBI agents violated his rights. A lot of them.

    Emerald Robinson
    12 min ago

    MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has filed a lawsuit against the FBI and the Department of Justice for illegally seizing his cell phone. Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray are listed as defendants.

    Lindell’s lawsuit explains how the FBI violated his First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights. The document is 20 pages long and images of all the pages would exceed the space allowed on Substack — so I’ve included the opening pages and a few of the most pertinent passages here.

    Page 2

    Let’s get to the meat of the arguments. Item 25 on page 6 reads as follows:

    The FBI declined to allow Mike Lindell to call his lawyer. That’s illegal.

    The FBI would also not allow Mike Lindell to leave the fast food restaurant parking lot — which constitutes an arrest, even though he was not under arrest. That’s illegal.

    Here are items 68 – 74 on Page 15:

    The FBI illegally detained Mike Lindell, and then illegally asked him questions while illegally denying him the chance to call his lawyer. They failed to read him his Miranda rights — which is also illegal.

    How did the FBI locate Mike Lindell in the first place? Did the FBI obtain a search warrant to find Mike Lindell? Or was the U.S. Government illegally tracking the movements of Mike Lindell all the time? If the U.S. Government did not obtain a warrant prior to putting Mike Lindell under surveillance — and who really believes that it did? — then his rights were violated.

    It looks like the FBI conducted an illegal and improper raid on Mike Lindell. The question is: why? We all know the reason: because Mike Lindell cares about election fraud.”

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  37. brought from tcth

    Carrie
    September 22, 2022 11:46 am

    If you drive your car through a Christmas parade full of people and if you drive your car into a conservative and kill him you have the option of bail. If you walk into the capital and take selfies you get solitary confinement and no bail for a misdemeanor.

    — Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) September 22, 2022

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  38. Entire Article by Michelle Malkin @ Vdare: “All the world’s a stage, especially two heated months before Election Day. So you’ll have to forgive me for not joining the theatrical media frenzy over Martha’s Vineyard being overrun by illegal aliens. It’s just another naked open-borders exhibition by both political parties that makes a miserable mockery of our country’s immigration policies.

    Yes, I said both parties.

    Sure, Republican governors are exposing the grand hypocrisy of limousine liberals who preach diversity and tolerance while walling off their exclusive colony. Rah-rah, sis-boom, ha-ha-ha. Hilarity abounds. So many memes and viral videos! What a riot giggling about which Democratic city illegal aliens should be sent to next.

    Of course, mass-migration-pimping Democrats are as guilty of ”human trafficking” as their counterparts now acting as travel agents for the Third World cheap-labor pipeline. Don’t need to tell me. I’ve written three bestsellers and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of columns on the subject over the past 30 years.

    But whether it’s Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis dumping Venezuelans on Martha’s Vineyard or Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott shuttling Mexicans to the Big Apple and D.C. swamp or former Democrat President Barack Obama chartering illegal alien flights to military bases across New England (a story I first broke back in 2014), the script is always the same:

    One side claims to be tough on borders. The other screams ”racism” and ”xenophobia.” Then leaders in both parties pocket big donations from the same globalist special interests—Big Agriculture, Big Business and Big Tech—and pretend to join hands on ”immigration reform.” All the illegal alien pawns settle in for the long haul—collecting driver’s licenses from Democrat and Republican governors, sanctuary status from both Democrat and Republican mayors, in-state tuition discounts across the country, bountiful health, welfare and legal services, and eventual amnesty, green cards, U.S. citizenship, entitlement benefits and voting rights.

    That’s bipartisan America Last stuntsmanship for you. Not so funny anymore, is it?

    I can hardly stomach cable news anymore. Two decades ago, when I guest-hosted for Bill O’Reilly and worked as a contributor to Fox News, the illegal alien invasion I reported on was taken seriously. Now, I’m persona non grata in ”America’s newsroom,” while two-faced snakes like Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio score prime Fox News headlines for bashing the Biden administration’s illegal immigration chaos.

    ”This is what happens when you have an administration that basically is telling people if you come into this country illegally, you’re going to get to stay,” Rubio complained.

    Now, that’s funny. Rubio is a ”Gang of Eight” darling of open-borders millionaires and billionaires who soaked up money from Facebook’s foreign labor-addicted lobbying group FWD.us and furiously flip-flopped on amnesty like a swamp circus clown on meth.

    Reminder: Facebook founder Zuckerberg personally donated to Rubio, as did pro-H-1B expansionist Silicon Valley CEOs from Oracle, Cisco and Seagate. Microsoft, founded by leading foreign tech-worker H-1B visa/illegal alien amnesty cheerleader Bill Gates, was Rubio’s No. 2 corporate donor for years. Paul Singer, the treacherous hedge fund billionaire, was also a top Rubio backer. Singer helped fund the National Immigration Forum along with fellow hedge fund billionaire George Soros. NIF propped up a faux ”grass-roots” initiative of religious conservatives, dubbed the Evangelical Immigration Table, to lobby for the Gang of Eight amnesty mob.

    Not to pick on Little Marco, but since his open-borders hypocrisy is representative of the vast majority of election-year politicians, it is worth pointing out that while he lambastes the Biden administration for providing incentives to Venezuelan illegal aliens to stay, he whitewashes his own all-star role in sponsoring such chaos-creating inducements. His Senate office has clogged my email box for years with press releases touting his support for endless ”temporary protected status” designations, renewals and expansions for illegal aliens from Haiti, Ukraine and, yes, Venezuela.

    As I’ve reported repeatedly, the TPS program signed into law by GOP President George H.W. Bush in 1990 was supposed to provide short-term relief and shelter to people from foreign countries hit by natural disasters, environmental catastrophes, civil war, epidemic diseases or other ”extraordinary and temporary conditions.” They were always expected to go back home when those conditions improved. But three decades and dozens of bipartisan extensions later, nearly a half-million beneficiaries have turned TPS into TINO: Temporary in Name Only. Illegal aliens from El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua were added to the list, followed by citizens of Haiti, Nepal, Syria, Angola, Sudan, Yemen, Montserrat and more. To date, we’ve granted sacrosanct TPS status to more than 400,000 people from a total of 22 countries who have grown increasingly entitled to automatic renewal of their ”temporary” protections.

    But ignore the immigration anarchy. Swamp Democrats and Republicans are both raising gobs of campaign cash over Martha’s Vineyard mayhem. Their media sycophants are raking in clicks and giggles for ”owning” each other. And end-stage America keeps getting owned. The joke’s on us.”

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  39. Revealed: US Military Bought Mass Monitoring Tool That Includes Internet Browsing, Email Data

    The “Augury” platform includes highly sensitive network data that Team Cymru, a private company, is selling to the military. “It’s everything. There’s nothing else to capture except the smell of electricity,” one cybersecurity expert said.

    Multiple branches of the U.S. military have bought access to a powerful internet monitoring tool that claims to cover over 90 percent of the world’s internet traffic, and which in some cases provides access to people’s email data, browsing history, and other information such as their sensitive internet cookies, according to contracting data and other documents reviewed by Motherboard.

    Additionally, Sen. Ron Wyden says that a whistleblower has contacted his office concerning the alleged warrantless use and purchase of this data by NCIS, a civilian law enforcement agency that’s part of the Navy, after filing a complaint through the official reporting process with the Department of Defense, according to a copy of the letter shared by Wyden’s office with Motherboard.

    The material reveals the sale and use of a previously little known monitoring capability that is powered by data purchases from the private sector. The tool, called Augury, is developed by cybersecurity firm Team Cymru and bundles a massive amount of data together and makes it available to government and corporate customers as a paid service. In the private industry, cybersecurity analysts use it for following hackers’ activity or attributing cyberattacks. In the government world, analysts can do the same, but agencies that deal with criminal investigations have also purchased the capability. The military agencies did not describe their use cases for the tool. However, the sale of the tool still highlights how Team Cymru obtains this controversial data and then sells it as a business, something that has alarmed multiple sources in the cybersecurity industry.

    “The network data includes data from over 550 collection points worldwide, to include collection points in Europe, the Middle East, North/South America, Africa and Asia, and is updated with at least 100 billion new records each day,” a description of the Augury platform in a U.S. government procurement record reviewed by Motherboard reads. It adds that Augury provides access to “petabytes” of current and historical data.

    Motherboard has found that the U.S. Navy, Army, Cyber Command, and the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency have collectively paid at least $3.5 million to access Augury. This allows the military to track internet usage using an incredible amount of sensitive information. Motherboard has extensively covered how U.S. agencies gain access to data that in some cases would require a warrant or other legal mechanism by simply purchasing data that is available commercially from private companies. Most often, the sales center around location data harvested from smartphones. The Augury purchases show that this approach of buying access to data also extends to information more directly related to internet usage.

    Team Cymru says on its website that its solution provides “access to a super majority of all activity on the internet.”

    https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pnkw/us-military-bought-mass-monitoring-augury-team-cymru-browsing-email-data

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  40. EXCERPT: “On Wednesday evening, the House passed a bill that aims to modify the process in which the Electoral College certifies its votes during an election season.

    The Presidential Election Reform Act, or HR 8873, passed in the house chamber in a 229-203 vote, with nine Republicans voting alongside Democrats in the days, according to the Washington Post.”

    The bill, which was written by Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and Democrat California Rep. Zoe Lofgren, specifically invokes the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021 and former President Donald Trump as reasons that the Electoral Count Act of 1887 should be amended “to prevent other future unlawful efforts to overturn Presidential elections and to ensure future peaceful transfers of Presidential power.”

    The bill states that no “person acting under color of law shall willfully fail or refuse to tabulate, count, or report any vote that is timely cast and is otherwise valid under applicable State and Federal law; or certify the aggregate tabulations of such votes or certify the election of the candidates receiving sufficient such votes to be elected to office.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-house-votes-to-pass-bill-modifying-electoral-college-certification-process

    The usual suspects:

    https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022449

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  42. Entire Article @ breaking911:

    PALM COAST, FL – 59-year-old Robert William Orr, the President of the Las Brisas Condominium Association within the Matanzas Shores community faces four felonies for installing a video camera inside a condominium without the owner’s permission, focused on the master bedroom. The initial charges were filed on September 19, 2022.

    The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) was first notified of this incident on August 30, 2022 from a female victim who did a weekend stay at a condo. As she was packing up to leave, she discovered a plugged-in USB camera hidden inside of an indoor flower pot located in the master bedroom she was sleeping in. FCSO’s Major Case Unit examined the camera and found that it contained video of two people in various stages of undress inside the condo, including the female who filed the report and a male who was also staying in the condo that weekend. It also contained videos of Orr testing the camera inside his own condo before it was placed in the flower pot.

    “This pervert installed video cameras in a condo that he was a caretaker for so that he could view people inside without their knowledge or consent,” said Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly. “It’s a disgusting invasion of privacy. Our Major Case detectives did great work to get this pervert in handcuffs and taken to the Green Roof Inn.”

    The condo owner told detectives that the condo is usually unoccupied but she does allow people to stay there at times as guests. The condo owner confirmed that Orr was allowed access to that condo to check on its condition since she lives out of state. Detectives obtained a search warrant for Orr’s residence where they found several spy cameras along with other kinds of electronic devices. Those devices are being analyzed by FCSO’s Digital Forensics Unit.

    Orr was re-arrested Monday night (September 19, 2022) by FCSO’S Major Case Unit on five additional felony charges after detectives learned of a third victim who was caught on another hidden video camera planted by Orr. During a forensic analysis of the electronic equipment seized from Orr’s apartment, investigators found multiple videos and photos of the third victim in various stages of undress and using the bathroom. Some of the images date back to 2018.

    FCSO detectives contacted the third victim and she informed the detectives that she was not aware of being recorded and that she would like to pursue charges. Orr has been charged with three counts of video voyeurism and two counts of unlawful use of a two-way communications device. He has since left the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility after posting $25,000 bond.

    “I’m urging anyone who has allowed Orr unsupervised access into their home to check for secret recording devices and to contact us right away if they find anything suspicious,” Sheriff Staly added. “At this time, the evidence suggests that Robert Orr acted alone.”

    Matanzas Shores Property Management has cooperated fully with FCSO in this investigation.

    Orr has no prior criminal record in Flagler County.”

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  43. “Saving the planet is beautiful….” (gif of windmill on fire)

    “You’ll shoot your…..oh, nevermind!”

    “At 1:00 AM, Fred, touched by the holy spirit, starts speaking in tongues”

    “Good morning, America! We are here!”

    “Racist cop profiles during stop, Owl Jolsen to sue”

    “While my guitar gently weeps…..”

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  48. updates on the raid suit

    OhNoYouDoNot
    September 22, 2022 2:16 pm

    JUST IN: Judge Cannon has responded to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals stay decision by striking aspects of her order appointing a special master.

    JUST IN: Judge Cannon has responded to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals stay decision by striking aspects of her order appointing a special master.https://t.co/tttZG7qBz7 pic.twitter.com/vROBSuypSu

    — Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 22, 2022

    UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
    SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
    WEST PALM BEACH DIVISION
    CASE NO. 22-81294-CIV-CANNON

    DONALD J. TRUMP,
    Plaintiff,
    v.
    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
    Defendant.

    ORDER FOLLOWING PARTIAL STAY

    THIS CAUSE comes before the Court following the Eleventh Circuit’s Order granting the Government’s Motion for Partial Stay Pending Appeal. See Trump v. United States, No. 22-13005 (11th Cir. Sept. 21, 2022). The Eleventh Circuit’s Order stays the Court’s Order [ECF No. 64] to the extent it enjoins the Government’s use of the approximately one-hundred documents bearing classification markings and requires the Government to submit those documents to the Special
    Master for review. In accordance with the Eleventh Circuit’s Order, it is hereby ORDERED AND ADJUDGED as follows:

    1. The term “seized material” in the Court’s Order Appointing Special Master [ECF No. 91] is modified to include all materials seized on August 8, 2022, except the approximately one-hundred documents bearing classification markings [ECF No. 91 ¶ 2].

    2. Paragraph 5(b)(i)(bb) of the Order Appointing Special Master is hereby STRICKEN [ECF No. 91 ¶ 5].

    3. Paragraph 6 of the Order Appointing Special Master is hereby STRICKEN [ECF No. 91 ¶ 6].

    DONE AND ORDERED in Chambers at Fort Pierce, Florida this 22nd day of September 2022.

    AILEEN M. CANNON
    UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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    1. OhNoYouDoNot
      September 22, 2022 2:35 pm
      Reply to OhNoYouDoNot

      II. REVIEW OF SEIZED MATERIALS

      The following deadlines and procedures shall govern the parties’ and the Special Master’s review of the Seized Materials.

      No later than September 23, 2022, the parties shall agree upon and contract with a document review vendor that will host the Seized Materials in electronic form.

      No later than September 26, 2022, the government shall make available to Plaintiff and the Special Master copies of all Seized Materials in electronic format with each page bearing a unique Bates number.

      The government shall also provide an electronic spreadsheet that: (1) correlates the Bates numbers of each document with the pertinent item in the Detailed Property Inventory; (2) for each document, specifies whether the Privilege Review Team has designated the document as potentially privileged; and (3) for any such potentially privileged document, identifies the nature of the potential privilege.

      Plaintiff shall provide the Special Master and the government with an annotated copy of the spreadsheet described above that specifies, for each document, whether Plaintiff asserts any of the following:

      a. Attorney-client communication privilege;

      b. Attorney work product privilege

      c. Executive privilege that prohibits review of the document within the executive branch;

      d. Executive privilege that prohibits dissemination of the document to persons or entities outside the executive branch;

      e. The document is a Presidential Record within the meaning of the Presidential Records Act of 1978, 44 U.S.C. § 2201, et seq. (“PRA); see id. § 2201(2); and/or

      f. The document is a personal record within the meaning of the PRA; see id § 2201(3).

      Plaintiff’s designations shall be on a document-by-document basis. For any document that Plaintiff designates as privileged and/or personal, Plaintiff shall include a brief statement explaining the basis for the designation …

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  49. if REALPPOTUS has to pay for the special master merely to regain his LEGAL papers which the fib was not allowed to take…I would sue to recover the cost…unlawful search and seizure…and at least recover that cost. that’s BULLSHIT! they used a general warrant to confiscate medical records, tax returns and his will–NONE of that is within the scope of classified anything.

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