Missouri State Mammal: Missouri Mule

Nature, State Animals 1 Minute

On May 31, 1995, Governor Mel Carnahan signed a bill designating the Missouri Mule as the official state animal. The mule is a hybrid animal, the offspring of a mare (female horse) and a jack (male donkey). The mule was introduced to the state in the 1820s and quickly became popular with farmers and settlers because of its strength and hardy nature. It was an appropriate choice for state animal as it reflects Missouri’s history as a large rural community, and as the “gateway to the West” the state was frequently the location where immigrants bought and filled the wagons – often pulled by mules – that would take them westward.

The high demand for the hardy animal prompted Missouri breeders to develop a larger draft mule. For decades, Missouri was the nation’s premier mule producer. At one time forty-five percent of Missouri farmers were involved in the use or breeding of mules. The average farmer’s income at the turn of the century was around $700 a year. A pair of mule foals could be sold for $500 at this time so not only were they strong workers, but breeding mules was a lucrative side business for many farmers. Missourians marketed the mule to the Cotton Belt and to the lead, coal and logging industries. In addition, the Missouri mule played a critical role during both World Wars in moving troops and supplies. Eventually new technology diminished the mule’s importance and by 1940 the tractor had largely replaced the mule on the family farm.

The prestigious term, Missouri Mule, was said to have been coined at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis when locally bred animals swept the competition in the six-mule wagon team. More than 1,000 mules were exhibited at the 1904 Fair from numerous states.

Associated with strength, endurance and honesty, the Missouri Mule is a symbol of the rich agricultural beginnings of the Show-me State. Today they are primarily used for recreation, although some are still used to work farms and forests.

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    2. Morning, Pat! It didn’t get nearly as cold as predicted, thankfully – only -1 this morning! Not sure if this is already posted but:

      Just The News: “President Joe Biden on Monday, just hours before he leaves office and Donald Trump becomes president, pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the Jan. 6 committee.

      None of those pardoned are known to have been found guilty of any pardonabe crimes, but Trump has vowed to take “revenge” on certain political rivals in his next administration, according to The Associated Press.

      Milley was the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who called Trump a fascist and criticized Trump’s behavior during the Jan. 6 2021 riot.

      Fauci was the leader in coordinating the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and has come under scrutiny for how he handled the role.” 

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  5. TheseTruths(@thesetruths)

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    January 20, 2025 01:13

    James Woods:

    The 2024 election was a deliverance. Had the left stolen one more national election, America was gone forever.

    But now…

    The sun will blaze in the heavens like a beacon of hope for generations to come.

    God bless President Trump.

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    1. STOP the money laundering kajillion$ going to Ukraine and re-route it to USA – to restore storm and fire destroyed US cities and neighborhoods…and to rebuild American infrastructure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      We must restore American dams and bridges!

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  8. eilert (@guest_1398519)

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    January 20, 2025 02:00

    Regarding yesterday’s report by Gateway Pundit https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/vivek-ramaswamy-expected-step-down-trumps-government-efficiency/ sourced from Politico and CBS of all. How many times do people fall for this for peet sake. It is Politico, they are not reporting Truth and Facts, they exist only for propaganda to sow division.

    News Nomad

    Trump debunks the DOGE exit rumors here:

    Thanks for your personal sacrifices to cut the administrative state and restore power to the people.

    https://x.com/The_Nomad_News/status/1881145387186290778

    James Jinnette

    @james_jinnette1

    BREAKING: President Trump just CONFIRMED Vivek Ramaswamy is still apart of the DOGE team alongside Elon Musk

    https://twitter.com/james_jinnette1/status/1881113380955795700

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  13. an arsonist from Oregon obtained a decommissioned fire truck (at auction? stolen? the story doesn’t say) but he showed up in the evacuated zone in CA in the truck and tried to gain access to the area presumably to loot. they found tools in the vehicle that could be used for that purpose. he (and his wife) also used the phony truck and clothes to get lodging (for free) at hotels.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/pulled-palisades-fire-fire-engine-001837395.html

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  15. Good Morning, Pat and Filly!

    My Grandpa always had mules on his farms. His last mule was named Maude. He would take us for a ride downtown in his wagon to show us off to his friends who gathered under the big oak trees surrounding the court house to talk over the events in the city, county, nation and world.

    We grew up using 20 Mule Team Borax for household chores!

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  16. Donald Trump gets his natural blonde coloring and business acumen from his paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Christ Trump, born in Bavaria – who was also a businesswoman and real estate developer – who carried on her husband’s real estate business after his death in 1918 – one of many who died in the flu epidemic. 
    The business was then called E. Trump & Son – her son was Fred Trump – Donald J Trump’s father.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Christ_Trump

    Note – the flowers the tan coat that Ivanka wore to the wreath laying ceremony at Arlington yesterday, are very much like those on her Great-grandmother’s dress.
    https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ivanka-trump-wears-3d-floral-213530440.html

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  18. “The Stage is Set”

    Clandestine, Jan 19, 2025

    “Why will this time be different?

    Because in 2017, the MSM still had control of public perception, and Trump was hamstrung by the Russia/Mueller hoax.

    In 2025, the People no longer believe the MSM, and they support Trump’s agenda. They believe Trump now.

    Back in Trump’s first term, the overwhelming majority of the public didn’t know that a Deep State existed, all of social media was corrupt and still censoring the truth, and the MSM controlled the narrative. How could Trump convince 300+ million Americans that they are brainwashed, living in an Orwellian dystopia, and that he is not actually a Russian asset/Hitler?

    He had to prove it.

    So over the last 8 years, Trump proved it. All of his narratives turned out to be true, and the MSM got caught in lie after lie. The border. The corruption. The fake news. Everything. And in their attempts to stop Trump, the Deep State exposed their existence, and now hundreds of millions are awake.

    None of this is possible without Elon buying Twitter and allowing the free flow of information, which allowed the People to circumvent the corrupt media. Now thanks to X, the People control the narrative, and the MSM has been neutralized. They no longer control public perception. Their lies don’t work anymore.

    So now when Trump does what is necessary, the public won’t fall for the MSM saying he is a dictator. Now Trump has the political ammunition, the optics, the precedent, and the public support, to utilize his full power as POTUS, without worry of the MSM causing civil unrest.

    The stage is set.”

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  19. Washington Governor Orders Flags at Full-Staff for Trump Inauguration Despite Mourning Period for Jimmy Carter

    Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson, a Democrat, has ordered flags to fly at full-staff on Monday for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration…despite the official order by President Biden after the death of former President Jimmy Carter on Dec. 29 that flags at all government and public buildings and grounds across the country fly at half-staff for a 30-day mourning period, which just happens to include Inauguration Day.[…]

    Ferguson joins California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis as the Democrats who have broken tradition and ordered flags to be raised for Trump’s inauguration before the mourning period ends Jan. 28.

    The orders from the Democratic governors follow several Republicans who have directed flags to be raised on Monday, including Idaho Gov. Brad Little, North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

    House Speaker Mike Johnson also ordered flags at the U.S. Capitol to be flown at full-staff on Inauguration Day. – Fox News

    Our Take: More than 11 governors have ordered their flags to fly full-staff today, in defiance of Joe Biden’s official order. This includes three democrats, all of whom are rumored to be running for president in 2028.

    I think by the end of the episode, the real story is going to be who kept the flags at half-staff. This could be an interesting political tell at the most local levels, a data point for which shops you should continue patronizing into the golden age. Is that petty or properly America First?

    Regardless, it’s going to be a good day. – Ashe in America

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  22. OhNoYouDoNot

    January 20, 2025 8:54 am

    FLASHBACK VIDEO. Remember when Adam Schiff said this?

    “The precedent of giving blanket pardons, preemptive blanket pardons on the way out of an administration, I think, is a precedent we don’t want to set.”

    FLASHBACK VIDEO. Remember when Adam Schiff said this?

    “The precedent of giving blanket pardons, preemptive blanket pardons on the way out of an administration, I think, is a precedent we don’t want to set.” pic.twitter.com/qWuwaJ75vR

    — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 20, 2025

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  24. “Seven Reasons Biden Was One Of Our Worst Presidents

    By: Jeffrey H. Anderson, January 20, 2025

    Joe Biden

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “As he leaves office, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. appears to have amassed a strong case that he deserves the title of “worst American president.”

    As Joe Biden prepares to leave office, it’s worth reflecting on where he ranks among the 45 men who have served as president of the United States. By combining Carter-level incompetence on economic and foreign policy, radical leftism on social policy, and a singular disregard for the Constitution, Biden has perhaps earned the 45th and last place on the historical list.

    The Biden presidency has had no widely recognized major accomplishments — at least none that have risen to the level of an historic achievement — while it has been marked by at least seven major failings. Let’s take these in reverse order.

    7. He leaves the world a far less secure and safe place.

    Few would say that the world seems a more peaceful or orderly place than it was when Biden’s presidency began. To whatever extent one ascribes blame to him for the wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East, he clearly bears responsibility for the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, perhaps America’s most embarrassing foreign policy moment since the fall of Saigon.

    That debacle had a major and lasting effect on Americans’ perceptions of Biden’s competency. Prior to August 2021, when the Afghanistan withdrawal was completed, Biden’s approval rating in Gallup’s polling was always at least 50 percent. After August, it was never higher than 45 percent. (As of December, it sat at 39 percent.)

    6. He presided over the worst inflation in four decades and ran up the national debt.

    Over the past century, Jimmy Carter is the only president who presided over worse inflation during his first three years in office than Biden did. According to the latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, $100 when Biden took office is now worth just $82.88. Relatedly, Americans’ credit card debt has risen 51 percent under Biden (through last September), to $1.166 trillion, the highest tally on record.

    What’s more, the federal government racked up more deficit spending during just the first half of Biden’s presidency than it did during the four years of World War II — even after adjusting for inflation (see “Chart”). With such massive quantities of borrowed money sloshing around in the economy, inflation predictably ensued, with everyday Americans paying higher prices for items ranging from groceries (a “thrifty” food plan costs 46 percent more now, per the federal government, than when Biden took office), to Big Macs, to airline tickets, to cars, to homes. Speaking of homes, 30-year mortgage interest rates rose from 2.8 percent to 7.0 percent on Biden’s watch.

    5. He aggressively pushed an “equity” agenda that divides Americans.

    On his very first day in office, Biden issued an executive order on “equity.” Asserting that America is a land of “unbearable … systemic racism” — a claim unsupported by the evidence — Biden launched “an ambitious whole-of-government equity agenda.”

    This radical agenda informed Biden’s entire presidency — from his refusal to enforce federal immigration laws (which are said to disadvantage non-citizen “people of color and others who have been historically underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent poverty and inequality”), to his rejection of the colorblind ideal in favor of race-consciousness and favoritism, to his insistence that boys and men should be allowed to play girls’ and women’s sports and use ladies’ locker rooms, and that anyone who says otherwise is a “bigot” whose views should be suppressed by the federal government and/or its social media allies. This radical leftist social agenda, which defies both basic notions of equal treatment for all and basic recognition of biological truths, became a hallmark of Biden’s presidency.

    4. He appointed judges who disregard the rule of law and rejected our nation’s founding principles.

    Biden has rejected the view that judges should construe the Constitution based on the original meaning of the actual text, as understood by those who ratified the document and its amendments. Instead, he basically wants judges to read into the Constitution whatever they need to in order to get out of it whatever they want. This promotes lawlessness and invites judges to usurp legislative powers.

    Beyond that, Biden has sometimes appointed judges who don’t believe in America’s founding ideals. Perhaps the most famous sentence in the English language reads, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” When Biden’s sole Supreme Court appointee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, was asked by Senator Ted Cruz during her confirmation process about these revered notions, which mark the core of the American political creed, she replied, “I do not hold a position on whether individuals possess natural rights.”

    3. He likely surpassed all previous presidents in abuse of the pardoning power.

    After frequently reassuring voters that he wouldn’t pardon his dissolute son, Hunter, President Biden did just that shortly after the election. This rampant nepotism was self-serving both in a familial sense and in a more personal one, as further legal action against Hunter might have exposed more embarrassing or condemning information about “The Big Guy.”

    Biden then more or less closed down death row at the federal level, commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 death-row inmates. These commutations weren’t based on mitigating circumstances in individual cases; rather, Biden commuted the sentences of essentially a whole class of federal convicts based on his own idiosyncratic view that the death penalty should apply only in cases of “terrorism” or a “hate-motivated mass murder.”

    In doing so, Biden narcissistically substituted his own views on the death penalty for the views of Congress and of hundreds of jurors who had unanimously agreed (as the law requires) that the death-penalty sentences in those case were just, given the heinous nature of the crimes committed. In all, 96 percent of Biden’s uses of the pardoning power came after the 2024 election, demonstrating his clear desire to skirt the will of the voters.

    2. He repeatedly usurped legislative powers by issuing kingly mandates.

    The federal courts routinely had to rebuke Biden for issuing kingly mandates that usurped legislative power. Examples include his vaccine/mask decree at the expense of private workers; his transportation edict requiring Americans to wear masks on planes, trains, and buses; his proclamation that federal employees had to get one of the experimental Covid vaccines or else be fired; and his ploy, via executive fiat, to transfer some $400 billion in student-loan debt from borrowers to taxpayers as a whole.  

    (After being rebuked by the Supreme Court in the latter instance, Biden declared that “that didn’t stop me,” as he went around the verdict and transferred much of that student loan debt anyway.)  Each of these monarchical decrees was struck down by the federal courts on the grounds that Biden exceeded his lawful authority. 

    Not content merely with usurping legislative power, Biden also took it upon himself to try to rewrite the Constitution. On literally the last official federal workday of his presidency (the Friday before Inauguration Day), Biden — in opposition to a recent statement from Colleen Shogan, his own appointee as the Archivist of the United States — declared that the Equal Rights Amendment, a proposed amendment whose ratification window expired more than 40 years ago, somehow is now “the law of the land” and “has become part of our Constitution” — per his decree. 

    1. Biden disregarded the core responsibility of the executive — to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed”— in his unprecedented refusal to enforce immigration laws.

    Never was Biden’s disrespect for the law of the land more apparent than in his unprecedented refusal to enforce federal immigration law. Prior to Biden, illegal aliens generally at least had to evade the authorities to get into the United States. Under Biden, they simply had to turn themselves in at the border and say the magic word: “asylum.”

    Then the Biden administration would usually let them into the U.S.—in defiance of federal law, which requires that aliens be detained until their asylum claims can be processed. Team Biden alleged that there wasn’t enough detention space, even while continually asking to have funding for detention space be cut further. In addition, border agents were so busy processing asylum claims that they couldn’t effectively police the wide expanses of open border, so millions of illegal aliens crossed that way as well.

    The border crisis was a crisis by design. It was a part of Biden’s “equity” agenda, as his Department of Homeland Security indicated. Biden prioritized that agenda over his constitutional duty to enforce the law as written, which should have resulted in his impeachment and removal — but Republicans never came close to making the public case for such action, and Democrats refused to break ranks. As a result, roughly 10 million illegal aliens entered the U.S. on Biden’s watch, more than enough to populate a new Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Miami.

    America has had many presidents who were either largely ineffective or nearly irrelevant, but it’s hard to think of any other chief executive who did as much harm, especially in the absence of corresponding benefit, as Biden. Barack Obama first put in motion, at least at the presidential level, the leftist project of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” but Biden recklessly hit the accelerator on that effort and lacked Obama’s competence and even his moderation.

    Lyndon Johnson launched the “Great Society” programs that are now bankrupting us and was partially responsible for our failures in Vietnam, but Johnson didn’t show as much outright disregard for the Constitution as Biden did, and he did sign into law the Voting Rights Act to help secure a long-neglected constitutional right.

    Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan may not have done much to avoid the Civil War, or to prevent the spread of slavery into the territories, but Congress and the Supreme Court seemingly bear more responsibility for those failings. Carter was incompetent, but Biden was that and so much more.

    It’s always hard to have adequate historical perspective as events are unfolding. Perhaps the Biden administration will age better than expected. But as he leaves office, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. appears to have amassed a strong case that he deserves the title of “worst American president.”

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  26. I taught a little junco to go the feeder! there’s about 4 of them and they scuttle on the deck looking for seeds but never go to the feeder. Since i began seeing them, I threw a few seeds by the railings where i saw them frequently. So this one started waiting there in the morning, so i started scattering a few in the direction of the feeder. At first only the nuthatches took those, but then the junco did too.

    so I scattered some under the chair and then on the arm of the chair. He sat on the arm of the chair and watched the other birds at the feeder. Now he sits on the tray and takes the seeds that lay there.

    he hasn’t pulled any from the feeder yet…but i think he might!

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  29. For Kea…..from News Center Maine:

    JACKMAN, Maine — As anyone who’s ever had a beagle – or hunted with one – knows, once they get on a scent it can be very hard to pull them off it. “Everybody has that story. For sure. And I know some stories that have turned out really bad,” Bill Gilboe said. “And I’m really glad, and very appreciative, to anyone that had anything to do with getting him home.”

    Gilboe is the owner of the Jackman Motel. He also owns 13 beagles, and five of them joined him for a New Year’s Day rabbit hunt. But when it was time to head home, his best dog, Rider, was nowhere to be found. “As one of the guys hunting with me said: It was like the perfect storm,” Gilboe explained. “It was getting colder, the wind was getting worse, I lost tracking and couldn’t track him. And it was brutal. It just kept getting colder. The wind blew so hard we couldn’t see tracks.”

    Search efforts lasted three frigid days with no signs of Rider, until, about 30 miles out from Jackman, the dog miraculously caught the eye of “Yamaha Dave” Marsh—a well-known local snowmobiler. He’s known as Yamaha Dave because he owns 15 Yamaha snowmobiles and wears a blue throwback Yamaha snowsuit that “you can’t get no more.”

    “I come up to this road and stop. Usually I go right and take the long way back to Jackman. I decided to go straight,” Marsh said. “But I just stopped, looked over to my right, maybe I’ll see some moose in the clear cut. And I look back in the corner of my eye and see a flicker— I really thought it was a fox. All I could see was the back of it. He popped out from behind this stump that was out there, and lo and behold it was a beagle. It had a collar on and a tracker.”

    “He went right around my legs and literally tried to climb on my snowmobile. He was whimpering, crying. He had snow on his snout and his head, and it was frozen on the back of his neck, so I knew something was wrong,” he continued. “It’s just too cold for that stuff. And you could tell his stomach was caved right in. I’m thinking this dog has been out here a little while. At least maybe starving is what I was thinking.” 

    Marsh hugged Rider to his body and tried to zip the dog up with him in his jacket, but his jacket couldn’t fully fit them both. Fortunately, Jeff Masse and Doug Anderson happened to pass through on their snowmobiles and stopped to help.

    “It was shaking like I’ve never seen a dog shake before,” Masse recalled. “The thing literally looked half frozen, you know what I mean? It was kind of coming back around I guess, but you could tell the dog’s been through a lot.”

    Masse had an extra snowmobile jacket they could use to wrap Rider up. “I’m like, that’s the least I could do. I love animals. I have a dog of my own. I’d do anything for a dog, you know?” he said. “So, the decision was simple at that point. I was like, I’ll just catch up with you in the future sometime and you can get the jacket back to me.”

    The decision to save the dog was simple, but getting him 30 miles back to Jackman on a snowmobile was not.

    “I know it sounds opposite of what you think, but the faster you go, the more of a workout you’re getting and you stay warm,” Marsh explained. “But when you’ve got to drive with one hand the whole time and not move, that’s a long ride. It would’ve normally taken me 35, 40 minutes but it took me about an hour and 45 minutes to get out of there.”

    Meanwhile, Jeff Masse sped home and posted a photo he took of Dave and Rider to Jackman Facebook forums, in hopes of finding the owner. “I know a lot of people in the area and stuff like that,” Masse said. “I’m like someone’s gotta know this Yamaha Dave guy. How many guys are wandering around named Yamaha Dave, ya know? So that’s why I posted it.”

    “By the time I got to town it was just blowing up everywhere, and I’m like, how do these people even know this? I’m not even out of the woods, you know what I mean?” Marsh said with a laugh. “I’m thinking I’m on my own, I’m gonna go to town, I’m gonna go to the local store because I know everybody in there and I’m gonna say listen, who’s missing a beagle in town? That’s what my plan was. It was a nice picture, I thought it was great. It just blew my mind because I was like, huh? What are you guys doing? I’m not even out of the woods yet!”

    Rider finally made it home, about 3 pounds lighter than he was when he went missing. It was a heartwarming reunion.

    “Our son is the nicest young man that I’ve ever come into contact with, and it’s not just because he’s my son. Everybody knows Wesley; everybody loves Wesley because he’s always happy,” Gilboe said. “As soon as he got him, he started crying. He loves them all like I do, except he’s super emotionally attached. He was crying. I told him relax, he’s home. He’ll be fine.”

    “He was very emotional at the time, and I don’t blame him. I was almost crying watching him take the dog. I’m a dog guy, so I was like, that’s the reaction I want to see. Not ‘Yeah, get in the truck dog, where you been,’” Marsh chuckled. “You never know, some people are like that. I don’t treat my dogs that way but, you know. He was very happy. I mean I thought he was going to squish the dog trying to hug him to death. I was like, easy the dog’s a little fragile right now. He was and I was like, alright, not my dog, I can’t say nothing ya know. But yeah, it was a good ending. People in town were very happy about it too.”

    The parties involved in the rescue agree that their efforts were reflective of the Jackman community and the outdoors community as a whole.

    “Jackman’s a small community. Any time anything bad happens, this town pulls together like no other town that I have seen,” Gilboe said. “But a lot of small towns in Maine are like that. You don’t even have to like someone to help them out if the cause is right. It’s a nice feeling, it really is.”

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  32. Freedom Ring

    January 20, 2025 10:49 am

    🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: ASYLUM SEEKERS CAUGHT WITH 30,000 ROUNDS OF AMMO IN ARIZONA, INCLUDING 10,000 .50 CALIBER BULLETS

    Cochise County deputies seized a staggering cache of 10,000 .50 BMG rounds and nearly 20,000 AK-47 rounds, found stuffed into vehicles transported by asylum seekers.… pic.twitter.com/7vAgmeVUL8

    — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 20, 2025

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  34. Awesome! A Nebraska choir is performing inside the rotunda!!! SMH – some chose not to participate for “political reasons!” They are NOT true Nebraskans!!! But it’s the University choir so many probably aren’t even from NE.

    “Today, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s University Singers choir is performing at the inauguration of President Donald Trump in Washington D.C. Directed by Peter Eklund, the choir consists of 124 members who will sing a prelude at the U.S. Capitol. The choir was invited to perform by Nebraska Senator Deb Fischer, who praised the students for showcasing the spirit and excellence of Nebraska to the nation. Donors helped cover travel costs for the students, and the choir has been rehearsing at various locations in Washington D.C., including the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Some choir members chose not to participate due to political reasons, but many are excited about the opportunity to perform at this historic event.”

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  35. Yeah, you go right on ahead and email him evidence for a lawsuit….

    “The one takeaway I got from yesterday’s festivities – aside from laughing at his dance style – was The Village People embracing Trump and the concept of making America great once again. That is such a weird – albeit wonderful – juxtaposition from what you’d assume would be their view of a conservative Republican President. I guess resurrecting their careers isn’t a bad thing after all…”

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  38. “Statement from the Independent Medical Alliance, Formerly FLCCC Alliance, on the Pardon of Anthony Fauci — The entire world is asking why Anthony Fauci needed a pardon if he’s supposedly done nothing wrong?”

    Independent Medical Alliance, Jan 20, 2025

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    Statement from the Independent Medical Alliance (IMA), Formerly FLCCC Alliance, on the Pardon of Anthony Fauci

    (Washington, DC) – Below is the statement from Lynne Kristensen, spokesperson for the Independent Medical Alliance (IMA) formerly the FLCCC Alliance, in response to the pardon of Anthony Fauci.

    The entire world is asking why Anthony Fauci needed a pardon if he’s supposedly done nothing wrong? In fact, Fauci led the ivory-tower medical establishment in a shameful COVID response which served as a wake-up call to front-line doctors across the globe. Just remember what happened:

    • Accomplished doctors were silenced and threatened with loss of their practice and financial ruin if they spoke out against Fauci’s mandates.
    • Government agencies collaborated with social media companies to silence any opposing views about the vaccine and COVID-19 response.
    • Millions were coerced, with the threat of loss of job and livelihood, into taking an untested, experimental, and dangerous vaccine which, despite Fauci’s insistence, did not stop people from getting COVID-19.
    • Families were threatened with the removal of their children if they did not take the vaccine.
    • Effective alternatives such as ivermectin were blacklisted by Fauci’s team, denying millions of Americans a low-cost, readily available life-saving alternative.
    • Family members were denied the right to say goodbye to their dying loved ones.
    • Schools were closed, causing generational harm to children.
    • The very fabric of public trust in the medical community was shredded by Fauci

    But it was never about ‘getting’ Anthony Fauci. Our goal is to ensure this never happens again. We commend Acting HHS Secretary Dorothy Fink for her even-handed approach to examining these events, and we look forward to working with President Trump and Secretary Nominee Kennedy to fully investigate the COVID-19 response. We need to ensure there are safeguards in place to prevent someone like Anthony Fauci from having the raw power and dictatorial mandates to ever again undertake such horrific and shameful actions.

    About IMA (Formerly FLCCC Alliance)

    The Independent Medical Alliance™ is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization and coalition of physicians, nurses, and healthcare professionals united by a mission to restore trust and transparency in healthcare. The organization’s mission is one driven by Honest Medicine™ that prioritizes patients above profits and emphasizes long-term wellness and disease prevention through empowerment of both physicians and their patients. With a focus on evidence-based medicine, informed consent, and systemic reform, IMA is driving a movement to create a more compassionate and effective healthcare system.

    For more information about the Independent Medical Alliance, visit http://www.IMAhealth.org“

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  40. And one more slap in the face before he departs…..SMH

    Just The News: “President Joe Biden pardons brother Jim Biden and other family members on Monday.

    “My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics,” Biden wrote in a statement. “Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end.”

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        1. well the discussion was like this…what prevents a president from using his underlings to commit CRIMES with the promise of a blanket pardon as he leaves the office. that is clearly NOT what was intended in the pardon power.

          it is meant for persons convicted of crimes and in special circumstances.

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          1. Oh, I agree….I’m just not optimistic at this point. We’ll see….I expect there will be a LOT of interesting things happening! LOL

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  45. Bewildered but resilient

    Bewildered but resilient

    January 20, 2025 1:53 pm

    BREAKING: It’s official. The Trump administration has canceled the CBP One cell phone app parole program used by Biden to allow more than 900,000 migrants to enter the US. Existing appointments have been cancelled. This is the notice on CBP website. Term undocumented alien used. pic.twitter.com/CdMXX8i6Rn

    — Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 20, 2025

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  47. TheseTruths(@thesetruths)

    Online

    Wolf

    January 20, 2025 14:12

    Libs of TikTok:

    The port of entry in El Paso, TX was closed today:

    “Unauthorized entry beyond this point will result in arrest, prosecution”

    It’s happening

    The port of entry in El Paso, TX was closed today:

    “Unauthorized entry beyond this point will result in arrest, prosecution”

    It’s happeningpic.twitter.com/D3RdaDI3Hj

    — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 20, 2025

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  48. that’s RIGHT! we’re a Republic!

    JustTheFactsPlease

    JustTheFactsPlease

    January 20, 2025 1:53 pm

    I liked the way that the singers marched into the room, singing The Battle Hymn of the Republic. It was interesting and a bit dramatic, but also respectful.

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  49. “JOE BIDEN’S ‘GET OUT OF JAIL FREE’ CARDS ARE WORTHLESS – His Preemptive Pardons: Hunter Biden, Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley, Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, the J6 Committee and The Biden Crime Family

    ANALYSIS: Through the lens of RICO and Throckmorton, Joe Biden’s preemptive pardons aren’t worth the paper upon which they’re written.”

    Political Moonshine, Jan 20, 2025

    EXCERPT: “While everyone was engaged in the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 47th President of the United States, the 46th and illegitimate President of the United States did this:

    That should about wrap it up for the Biden Crime Family since Hunter was the first to be pardoned. The Biden Crime Family is a criminal enterprise which is why we call them The Biden Crime Family. Joe Biden pardoned them.

    Hunter was the drug-addicted Biden Crime Family bag man with a sexual appetite of the same magnitude; both of which made him easier for China to flip than a mattress worn-out by Eric Swalwell and Fang Fang.

    Many of Hunter’s crimes were evidenced to a large extent by his laptop of which I was in possession long before the spies lied and which Joe’s Oval Office and the Intelligence Community/Pentagon/NATO/State Department conglomerate attributed to “Russian disinformation” in their laptop censorship operation…..”

    “…..There may be a valid reason not to panic about the blatant and obvious motivation behind Biden’s preemptive pardons and that reason is the Throckmorton doctrine, which applies to RICO crimes, which applies to both COVID-19 and the stolen 2020 election.

    It’s a simple as this:

    The Throckmorton dctrine [UNITED STATES v. THROCKMORTON] holds that, “There is no question of the general doctrine that fraud vitiates the most solemn contracts, documents, and even judgments.”

    The significance of both RICO and Throckmorton is explained in these:….”

    https://politicalmoonshine.substack.com/p/joe-bidens-get-out-of-jail-free-cards

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