Know-It-All Tuesday: Valentine’s Day

Trivia 1 Minute

Before “X” stood for a kiss, what did it represent at the end of a letter?

In Roman mythology, Cupid is the son of whom?

In the Victorian era, mean-spirited Valentine’s Day cards were called “___ Valentines.”

About how many roses are sent for Valentine’s Day each year?

Who invented the first Valentine’s Day candy box?

On average, how many marriage proposals are there on every Valentine’s Day?

What brain chemical is known as the “cuddle” or “love hormone?”

What insanely popular website debuted on Valentine’s Day in 2005?

How many people typically buy Valentines for their pets?

What major invention was patented on Valentine’s Day?

What fruit was once known as a “love apple” for its alleged aphrodisiac properties?

What is the Guinness World Record for the longest marriage ever recorded?

From where was the oldest-known Valentine’s Day message sent?

A single red rose surrounded by baby’s breath is called what by florists?

So, how did you do?

ANSWERS:

The Cross

Venus

Vinegar

50 million

Richard Cadbury

220,000

Oxytocin

Youtube

9 million

Telephone

Tomato

86 years 290 days

Prison

A signature rose

Until next month…stay sharp!

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  1. Well…..my furnace wasn’t working and the cold woke me @ 3 am….sigh…. turned on all 3 heaters & oven, then removed the panels on the front of the furnace to re-set it. After the 3rd time, it finally kicked on….that’s it….I WILL arrange to get a new furnace if it can just hold on until spring…..another sigh.

    Hmmm, headline was missing the “s” in Tuesday so I fixed that. Interesting that oxytocin is called the love drug – it is also what causes contractions during labor….my body kept shutting down labor because the cord was around HB’s neck (during contractions, her body secreted adrenalin, which signaled my body to stop) so they gave me pitocin, which is synthetic oxytocin. She gave me a massive dose since I had been in labor all day w/no progress and boy, did things move fast after that!!!

    Still no sign of Wheezer and I’m pretty sure he is probably gone, especially with this bitter cold. Ah, well, it was fun while it lasted. Then again, ya’ never know with strays! LOL

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    1. Morning Filly!
      gees!!! if you need help with the furnace, let me know!!
      thanks for fixing it!
      we are so much alike–the cord was wrapped around my son’s neck as well! I don’t remember what she gave me…but i went into the hospital at 8 in the morning and delivered at 12:25 that afternoon….so it wasn’t long at all.
      I hope Wheezer is just laying low somewhere warm. he disappeared once before for a little while, didn’t he?

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      1. Thanks for the offer but I think I can pull it together. You probably had pitocin – pretty common, I think – at least it was then. He has been gone for 2 days before, IIRC, but this time, with him being injured…..remember that Little Man just up and disappeared, too. That’s how it is with strays.

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  2. Just The News: “The FBI recently discovered a group of over what is being described as a tranche of 2,400 records, or reports, that consists of 14,000 still undisclosed pages of documents tied to the late President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Axios reported Monday. These records were never provided to the board that reviews and discloses the documents, 

    The discovery comes less than a month after President Donald Trump ordered the declassification of all records related to the assassinations of Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. The agencies have until March 9 to come up with a plan to release the information.

    The existence of the 2,400 records was reported to the White House on Friday. They were allegedly found during the FBI review under the declassification order. They were disclosed when the Office of the Director of National Intelligence submitted its plan to disclose the assassination records.

    It is not clear what the records detail, but experts told Axios that it is unlikely it will definitively prove whether the assassination was part of a broader conspiracy, or whether gunman Lee Harvey Oswald was acting alone on Nov. 22, 1963.

    “This is huge. It shows the FBI is taking this seriously,” said Jefferson Morley, according to Axios. Morley is an expert on the assassination and vice president of the nonpartisan Mary Ferrell Foundation, the nation’s largest source of online records of Kennedy’s assassination. 

    “The FBI is finally saying, ‘Let’s respond to the president’s order,’ instead of keeping the secrecy going,” Morley said.”

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        1. OK, how can you do that??? Wait….never mind….it’s all too complicated these days! But I don’t seem to have as many problems as most for some reason.

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              1. well i guess i said ti wrong–I have 2 tabs open for wp…i have others open as well. wolf’s is fine–same as always–but he has an upgraded plan. i will try posting at M’s-and see if that’s the same.

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  4. NF: I’m calling BS on them having no influence! Impossible not to! IDGAS about Megyn but Tucker? That is disappointing.

    Breitbart: “Red Seat Ventures, which hosts the likes of former Fox News stars Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly and popular true crime podcasts, has been acquired by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox.

    “It will operate as a standalone entity within Tubi Media Group and led by Tubi CEO Paul Cheesbrough,” according to Deadline. “The Red Seat Ventures executive team, led by founding partners Chris Balfe and Kevin Balfe, will continue to lead and operate the business.”

    Red Seat Ventures also includes Piers Morgan, Dr. Phil, and Bill O’Reilly among its list of talents. Its 17 creator-led shows reportedly drove over “200 million monthly active views in November 2024 and exists as a Top 10 podcast network in the US in terms of scale and reach.”

    “The creator economy is one of the fastest growing media categories worldwide by measure of reach and influence, and consumers are increasingly looking to get their information, insights and entertainment directly from the voices and brands they trust across these platforms,” said Paul Cheesbrough.

    “Working with two outstanding entrepreneurs like Chris and Kevin, we see tremendous opportunities to drive additional scale in genres such as sports, news and entertainment and look forward to supporting the continued growth of this business,” he added.

    Chris Balfe, CEO for Red Seat Ventures, likewise said that Fox will help to expand services “we provide to our creators, while continuing to maintain the independence and integrity of their brands, which is truly the best case scenario.”

    In a post on X linking to a Reuters article about the acquisition, Megyn Kelly emphasized that the hosts will operate independently of Fox’s Tubi Media Group.”

    https://x.com/megynkelly/status/1888999967747920087

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  5. EXCERPT: “As President Donald Trump moves forward with his plan to “own” Gaza and relocate its inhabitants, some citizens of the war-torn strip are expressing an eagerness to leave, citing a desolate living situation and an eagerness to live in “a country where you can hold your head up high.”

    The remarks stem from interviews conducted by the Center for Peace Communications, a New York-based nonprofit known for producing on-the-ground videos in Gaza, Syria, and other Iran-dominated areas in the Middle East. The group conducted those interviews in the 36 hours that followed Trump’s Feb. 4 joint press conference with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

    (Video)

    One interviewee, a young man in a backward cap, says he wants to leave “because there’s no life left here; life here is gone.” The man makes a direct plea to Trump, saying, “I’m asking Trump himself to relocate us as he suggested, and I’ll be the first one to go.”

    “I mean, just look around you—we simply can’t live here,” the man says.

    Others featured in the video call on Arab nations like Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia to “open the crossings” and take in fleeing Gazans. One man says that Gazans will ultimately agree to move to those countries if given the opportunity “because they want to live.”

    “In the end, people will accept reality,” the man says. “They’ll emigrate because they want to live. They want to live in a country that protects and supports them, meaning a country where you can hold your head up high.”

    “If our country isn’t looking out for us, where should we go?”

    The interviews stand in stark contrast to remarks aired by mainstream media networks in the wake of Trump’s press conference. ABC News, for example, aired remarks from residents of so-called refugee camps in the strip under the headline, “Inside Gaza, Palestinians say they will not leave.” One older interviewee said, “We will not leave even if we die here. This is our country.”

    Many younger Gazans, however, expressed a desire to leave the strip before Oct. 7 and the subsequent war between Hamas and Israel. A Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research poll taken just before Hamas’s terror attack found that 44 percent of Gazans between the ages of 18 and 29 were considering emigrating. Nearly a third of all Gazans agreed, according to the poll…..”

    https://freebeacon.com/israel/im-asking-trump-himself-to-relocate-us-gazan-citizens-say-they-want-out/

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  6. Free Beacon: “On Friday, the Trump administration made a first move in its efforts to defund DEI, canceling $15 million in federal grants used to underwrite diversity programs at three universities. On Monday, a fresh lawsuit provided the administration with a blueprint on how to charge forward.

    The suit, first reported by our Aaron Sibarium, accuses the University of Illinois Chicago of engaging in illegal race discrimination through a slew of race-based hiring programs that called on departments to hire people of color. The plaintiff, former professor of public administration and data science Stephen Kleinschmit, says he was fired for raising concerns about those programs.

    Kleinschmit’s complaint “argues his firing was both a form of retaliation and race discrimination,” writes Sibarium. “Though UIC claimed he was being fired due to budget cuts—which did not result in any other layoffs—those cuts came as his department was seeking to hire a scholar ‘from a community of color.’”

    While discrimination complaints have focused in large part on admissions processes, student privacy laws shield admissions files from public view, making such cases difficult to win.

    “The faculty hiring process, on the other hand, tends to produce a paper trail that is accessible through litigation and, at public universities, subject to public records requests. That could make programs like UIC’s easy pickings for private litigants and federal agencies amid the legal siege promised by the Trump administration, which has issued a series of executive orders targeting universities and DEI.”

    https://freebeacon.com/campus/university-of-illinois-sued-over-racial-hiring-quotas/

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  7. Morning All!
    we’ve got 9* out there currently. we decided to try to get out tomorrow and do errands–using the tractor and the Jeep. it’s supposed to be the best day this week without precipitation. fingers crossed!

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  11. TheseTruths
    TheseTruths(@thesetruths)Offline
    Wolf
    February 11, 2025 00:56

    George:

    BREAKING: Tom Homan just revealed that the DOJ may have identified the mole who leaked ICE’s deportation raids & the leaker will get CRIMINALLY charged.

    “They [the DOJ] have opened up a criminal investigation and they have promised that not only this person lose their job and lose their pension, they’re going to go to jail, they’re going to criminally prosecute. So we’re all over it.”

    Whoever the leaker is made the worst mistake of his or her life. They just entered the Find-Out stage.

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  12. TheseTruths
    TheseTruths(@thesetruths)Offline
    Wolf
    February 11, 2025 01:14

    Sean Davis:

    Random federal judges in blue state backwaters have no authority to unilaterally dictate who the President may talk to or what data he can access. John Roberts and SCOTUS have two options here: they can bring these inferior malcontents to heel, or they can get used to the President simply ignoring these inferior courts or Congress eliminating them entirely.

    Congress created these inferior courts so the Supreme Court wouldn’t have to deal with every federal case by itself. But if these rogue inferior judges are going to routinely issue lawless decisions that the Supreme Court has to deal with anyway, Congress would be well within its rights to just eliminate them.

    Roberts and SCOTUS can immediately put these lawless judges in their place, or Roberts can watch his caseload go up 1000x and his court’s precious perceived legitimacy crater overnight.

    The age of tolerating this nonsense is over.

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  13. TheseTruths(@thesetruths)Offline
    Wolf
    Reply to TheseTruths
    February 11, 2025 01:17

    Corrupt Obama Judge Amy Berman Jackson Rules in Favor of Fired Biden Holdover, Allows Him to Keep His Job

    As previously reported, President Trump fired Hampton Dellinger, Special Counsel of the Office of Special (not to be confused with a special counsel hired as a federal prosecutor) on Friday…

    The Trump Justice Department immediately appealed Judge Jackson’s administrative stay.

    “Note: Judge entered an administrative stay as opposed to a TRO, meaning she hasn’t even considered merits. https://t.co/xRB1uLmkEZ

    — Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) February 11, 2025“

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  16. Charlotte99
    February 11, 2025 3:41 am

    How Obama and McConnell Bipartisanly Screwed the Farmers of Illinois and Kentucky

    Any day now, a federal court decision could strip 454 farmers in Kentucky and Illinois of their land rights, potentially allowing the government to seize over 70,000 acres of America’s farmland without compensation.
    This decision would affect thousands of people, endangering the livelihoods of families who’ve worked these lands for generations, and supporting local communities and economies.
    Only President Trump can intervene to prevent this.
    If 70,000 acres is hard to visualize, picture the total size of Salt Lake City, Utah, Knoxville, Tennessee, or Tampa, Florida.

    Now picture that one day in 2013, a new dam was activated and it immediately flooded a series of highly productive farms totaling the size of one of those great American cities.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/how-obama-mcconnell-bipartisanly-screwed-farmers-illinois-kentucky/

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  17. https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1889066455855223014

    Our Take: The White House is evolving their communications, and it’s a smart play. Social media has rapidly changed the way people consume information, and this is White House comms in a TikTok form.

    Now, I could opine on how this reinforces the low attention spans, and how we need to encourage people to engage in long form content to promote critical thinking. That’s true, but the realities of the American attention span are what they are; the White House is grabbing mindshare by meeting people where they are. Smart.

    From her comments, it appears the Press Secretary will be delivering the MAGA Minute weekly, summarizing the accomplishments as they come. It’s a gift, really, because the accomplishments are coming so fast it’s hard to keep up.
    – Ashe in America

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  19. NF: I’m with her – I call BS on this kind of crap! NO WAY THEY KNOW THIS!!!

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/10/science/earth-inner-core-changing-shape/index.html

    Our Take: Many will accuse me of including this story in the Badlands News Brief just so that Patrick Gunnels will react to it on The Brief (Mon through Fri at 9aET). While that may accurately describe my primary motivation, I do think this an interesting story.

    The inner earth’s core started revolving backward “relative to the rest of the planet” (in 2010), and it’s a different shape than they previously thought (now). They can’t explain it but – and this is really important – literally nothing changes in our physical world as a result of these discoveries.

    The inner core of the earth can just start going the opposite way of the rest of the planet, and nothing changes on the surface? I know I’m just a lowly science denier, but is this another science thing that’s explained through “relativity”?

    Oh! Is it climate change? – Ashe in America

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  20. Trump Gives Full Pardon to Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich

    President Donald Trump has issued a full pardon to former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. The ex-governor served eight years behind bars for an array of corruption charges, including trying to sell Barack Obama’s Senate seat following the former president’s 2008 election victory. In 2020, Trump commuted Blagojevich’s 14-year sentence.

    Following his impeachment and removal from office, Blagojevich appeared on Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice NBC show in 2010, before the beginning of the corruption trial against him. When Trump “fired” him as a contestant, he took the opportunity to praise Blagojevich.

    The former governor and Democrat, who was in office between 2003 and 2009, backed Trump in the 2024 election and attended the Republican National Convention. Blagojevich also supported Trump after he was indicted in the New York hush-money case, comparing his own legal problems to Trump’s.

    “I love Trump more today than ever!” he wrote on social media at the time. “When you’ve lived through it yourself, you recognize when they do it to someone else,” he added. Trump signed the pardon on Monday afternoon.”
    – The Independent

    Our Take: Rod Blagojevich was a contestant on The Celebrity Apprentice in 2010. President Trump commuted his 14-year sentence in 2020, pulling Blagojevich out of prison after serving eight years. This pardon brings that commutation full circle. Blagojevich recently went on Joe Rogan’s podcast and explained how Obama and others raked him over the coals because he refused to go along with their schemes.

    Now the rumor is that Trump will appoint Blagojevich to be the ambassador to Serbia. If you missed it, a few weeks ago I was joined by Patrick Gunnels on The Book of Trump to discuss The Apprentice, and explore the theory that the show was a recruiting operation for Trump’s future career in politics. More and more, that theory seems feasible. – GhostofBasedPatrickHenry

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  22. Oh, my…..video is @ NYSlimes so I couldn’t watch it but I would guess it will show up on-line soon enough….this is mind-boggling!!!

    Mace Takes to House Floor With Charges of Rape and Sexual Predation

    Representative Nancy Mace, the South Carolina Republican who in recent weeks has floated a run for governor, on Monday night accused her former fiancé and three other men of having drugged and raped her and other women, and of filming and taking lewd photographs of women and underage girls without their consent.

    In a stunningly graphic speech on the House floor that had little precedent, Ms. Mace said the men, whom she named and displayed photographs of on a placard where lawmakers more typically display charts and graphs on policy issues, were involved in the “premeditated, calculated exploitation of innocent women and girls in my district.” […]

    On the floor of the House, Ms. Mace was protected by the speech and debate clause, even as she accused the men of repeatedly assaulting incapacitated women and filming it. — The New York Times

    Our Take: I watched the whole video. It’s an hour, and it is deeply disturbing. The “ring” she describes, the treatment by officials and law enforcement, the level of documentation she claims to have… South Carolina inquiries must be incoming.

    South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson — whom Mace accuses of killing the investigation, protecting rapists, and threatening to investigate and arrest her (Mace) — claims she never brought this to him, calling Mace’s allegations “categorically false.” Making things in the House a bit more awkward, Wilson’s adoptive father is Mace’s colleague congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC).

    As the NY Times said, Mace’s speech has little precedent, and it comes with little legal risk for the Congresswoman. She enjoys the same protections as Adam Schiff when speaking on the floor. I encourage everyone to watch Mace’s speech. It’s time for the darkness to come into the light. — Ashe in America

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      1. “….In December 2024, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) posted a cryptic video to her Facebook page about having to move homes in order to escape her abuser.

        According to a video posted online this week, Mace has been “moving into and getting settled into” a new residence – which she claimed was her “fourth move” over the past year as she has sought to escape harassment from an alleged abuser.

        “It’s a place where my abuser doesn’t know the address,” Mace said. “He can’t try to break into or gain entry into this property three times like he previously tried to do earlier this year.”

        “I’m going to try to make sure he can’t find me and can’t tell others where I live and share that information,” Mace continued in the clip. “Because that puts my safety – me and my children’s safety – at risk. That’s something else he did earlier this year – telling people where I was staying, putting my life in harm’s way, (putting) my family’s life in danger. I’m going to try to make sure he can’t do that.”

        Mace’s video message did not identify the alleged abuser, but sources familiar with the situation say the comments refer to her former fiancée, Charleston, S.C. entrepreneur Patrick Bryant.

        That December, the half had not yet been told. 

        On Monday, after the regular legislative session, Mace requested to use the “Special Orders” session to document the entire story of not just the abuse she claimed was at the hands of Bryant, but of the alleged rape, sexual trafficking, and voyeurism of multiple women by Bryant and his business partners. 

        If even a fraction of it is verifiable (and Mace claims it all is), it’s a harrowing tale. Mace was supported by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Rep. Ana Paulina Luna (R-FL), and Rep. Victoria Spatz (R-IN), who sat behind her as she spoke.

        Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call out the cowards who think that they can prey on women and get away with it. Today, I’m going scorched earth. So, let the bridges I burn this evening light our way forward. 

        Mace was not using words lightly. 

        And tonight it is God who has shown me the right path to take. Because this is about truth. This is about unveiling evil that is in the state of South Carolina. And I want to quote Martin Luther King tonight, who said: “The time is always right to do what is right.” So, what I am doing tonight, I know in my heart of hearts is right.”

        https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2025/02/10/nancy-mace-speaks-about-survivors-of-sexual-abuse-and-calls-out-potential-abusers-n2185436

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  24. “Not usually a breaking news reporter but I was in Union Station when this happened. Heard the shots. Saw the victim hit the floor at the bottom of the escalator. Saw two people flee the scene. Happened on second floor, escalator near Andrews Ties. They ran right past me.”

    https://x.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1889077654826955200

    OK, now WP is acting up – usually the “type/choose a block” in faded script disappears when I start typing – it didn’t at the top but did just now…..weird!

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  27. Clarion
    Clarion
    February 11, 2025 8:13 am

    Since the Democrats have obtained a TRO that Treasury cannot secure its payment system against unauthorized and fraudulent vouchers, and Bessent has a fiduciary to pay only VALID vouchers, were I Bessent I would halt ALL payments immediately until the TRO is lifted.

    A court cannot order you to do an unlawful thing. Since they are attempting to do exactly that the only LAWFUL thing is to obey the order in the only way you can — by halting ALL payments for as long as the TRO (or any subsequent injunction) lasts.

    — 💯 Tickerguy (@tickerguy) February 10, 2025

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  28. Walter Curt
    @WCdispatch_
    🚨NEW: President Trump’s Attorney are simply outclassing the obstructionsists.

    In this case, NY was seeking to unfreeze USAID grant payments, but they rebut the argument effortlessly:

    “Because those grants are funded by the Department of State, they are subject to the pause of foreign assistance by or through the Department of State or USAID directed by Secretary Rubio, which Defendants do not understand to be subject to the Court’s Order.”

    New York had sought to impose a temporary restraining order to allow grant money to continue to flow, but because Trump’s team has already completely reorganized USAID as an agency, its moot.

    The lawsuit doesn’t even list Secretary Rubio, the current acting director of USAID, meaning that he is still free to carry out his duties.

    Hysterical.

    These are the types of loopholes that the Democrats used for years with the agencies, and now they are about to see what happens when their own systems are used against them.

    I have a feeling that President Trump’s team is going to play far better than they ever could.

    Game on. 🇺🇸

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  30. I haven’t verified this….

    “John Dillinger’s .45 ACP, M1911 converted to full auto and .38 Super, complete with a Thompson submachine gun forearm”

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  32. Dan Huff
    @RealDanHuff
    23h • 10 tweets • 2 min read •
    Read on X
    @DOGE, a single district judge has issued a ruling blocking the executive branch from access to Treasury data. There’s a simple fix: DOJ should demand injunction bonds. 1/
    This will be a repeat problem for the Trump administration, just like it was in the first term, unless something is done to rein in frivolous injunctions. Activist judges could single-handedly gum up the entire Trump/DOGE agenda. 2/
    Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c), judges can issue injunctions “ONLY IF” the suing party posts a bond to cover potential damages if they’re wrong. But guess what? This rule is hardly used! 3/
    When I was in the White House, in Trump’s first term, I suggested this, but DOJ didn’t make it happen. Imagine if we had applied this to the travel ban – activists would think twice before blocking policies with potentially billions at stake. 4/
    The government has expert economists who can easily price out the cost of policies like birthright citizenship or wasteful spending. Price injunction bonds fairly, and frivolous lawsuits become a financial risk, not a free pass. 5/
    Without injunction bonds, the American people bear all the costs of activists and judges blocking the agenda they voted for. Why should activists and judges get to overrule the American people with no penalty if they’re wrong? Our system wasn’t meant to work this way. 6/
    For national injunctions, we’re talking bonds in the hundreds of millions or even billions. It will become prohibitive unless the activists have a slam dunk case. 7/
    If a judge tries to lowball the bond amount, it’s a quick and easy reversal given the unambiguous language in the federal rules. 8/
    The best part? This doesn’t block activists from court; it just stops them from using preliminary injunctions to pause government action based on arguments that might not hold up in an appellate court. 9/
    I’ll be writing more on this so stay tuned. 10/
    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1888975398299435477.html

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  33. Mark Peterson
    Mark Peterson
    February 11, 2025 11:11 am

    Is Urkaine Reselling US-Supplied Arms To Mexican Drug Cartels?

    The Ukrainian military is selling American weapons systems on the black market, including to drug cartels. This war is killing the United States. Col. Daniel Davis on how Donald Trump can end it.

    (0:00) Why Crimea Is So Pivotal
    (13:17) Ukraine Is Powerless Without the US
    (31:16)… pic.twitter.com/PgL3og9lTE

    — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 10, 2025

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  34. eilert (@guest_1414395)Online
    February 11, 2025 11:46

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1889352081976553959

    George @BehizyTweets

    Speaker Mike Johnson said he met with Elon Musk & more BOMBSHELL findings are coming.

    “What Elon and the DOGE effort is doing right now is what Congress has been unable to do in recent years because the agencies have hidden some of this from us.”

    “They’re uncovering things that we have known intuitively have been there, but we couldn’t prove it. Now, the proof is being provided, and no one can argue the counter to that. So stay tuned. There’s a lot more to come.”

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  35. Observer SC
    February 11, 2025 11:27 am

    Finally, someone is doing something about these judges… let’s see what happens.

    🧵

    I’m drafting articles of impeachment for US District Judge Paul Engelmayer.

    Partisan judges abusing their positions is a threat to democracy.

    The left has done “irreparable harm” to this country. President Trump and his team at @DOGE are trying to fix it.

    — Rep. Eli Crane (@RepEliCrane) February 11, 2025

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  37. Rapid Response 47
    @RapidResponse47
    President Trump responds to Maxine Waters: “Tell Maxine and all of her friends that we’re LAST in education … but we’re number ONE in cost-per-pupil. That’s all you have to know. We have to make a change. I want to send education back to the states.”

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  40. from yahoo…judge “orders” gov’t agencies to restore websites that changed due to EO’s.

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered government agencies to restore public access to health-related webpages and datasets that they removed to comply with an executive order by President Donald Trump.

    U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington agreed to issue a temporary restraining order requested by the Doctors for America advocacy group. The judge instructed the government to restore access to several webpages and datasets that the group identified as missing from websites and to identify others that also were taken down “without adequate notice or reasoned explanation.”

    On Jan. 20, his first day back in the White House, Trump signed an order for agencies to use the term “sex” and not “gender” in federal policies and documents. In response, the Office of Personnel Management’s acting director required agency heads to eliminate any programs and take down any websites that promote “gender ideology.”

    Doctors for America, represented by the Public Citizen Litigation Group, sued OPM, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services.

    The case is among dozens of lawsuits challenging executive orders that Trump, a Republican, issued within hours of his second inauguration.

    The scrubbed material includes reports on HIV prevention, a CDC webpage for providing clinicians with guidance on reproductive health care and an FDA study on “sex differences in the clinical evaluation of medical products.”

    Removing important information from the CDC and FDA websites is delaying patient care, hampering research and hindering doctors’ ability to communicate with patients, the plaintiffs’ attorneys argued in a court filing.

    “The agencies’ actions create a dangerous gap in the scientific data available to monitor and respond to disease outbreaks, halt or hamper key health research, and deprive physicians of resources that impact clinical practice,” they wrote.

    Government lawyers argued that Doctors for America’s claims fall “well short of clearly showing irreparable harm” to any plaintiffs and are unlikely to succeed on their merits.

    “Either failure provides a sufficient basis for denying extraordinary relief,” they wrote.

    During a hearing Monday, the judge asked plaintiffs’ attorney Zachary Shelley if the removal of the online material harms the public. Shelley said the doctors’ interests align with their patients.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-tells-agencies-restore-webpages-173927370.html

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  41. The Gipper Lives
    The Gipper Lives
    February 11, 2025 12:38 pm

    Judge Blocks Trump’s Order Pulling Transgender Inmates from Women’s Prisons
    Judge Orders Release of Venezuelan Migrant Arrested in Chicago
    Federal Judge Blocks Trump Bid to Restrict Birthright Citizenship – Breitbart
    Judge Blocks Elon Musk, DOGE, Access to Treasury Department Data
    Judge Blocks Donald Trump’s H-1B Reforms
    Judge to Consider Restricting Musk Team’s Access to Education Dept. Data – The New York Times
    Federal judge expands block on Trump administration effort to cut public health funding
    Judge finds Trump administration violated court order halting funding freeze
    Judge says he will continue to pause Trump’s federal buyout offer
    Judge orders fired head of whistleblower agency reinstated while fight continues over Trump removal
    Third judge blocks Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship for children of people in U.S. illegally
    Judge Rips Supreme Court Immunity Ruling in Records Case Related to Trump
    Judge to consider order to keep DOGE from accessing student loan databases

    Rest in the Vine: The Case Against Courts

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    February 11, 2025 1:28 pm

    #US envoy Steve Witkoff is leaving Russian airspace with Marc Fogel, an American who was detained by #Russia, the White House announces.

    #US envoy Steve Witkoff is leaving Russian airspace with Marc Fogel, an American who was detained by #Russia, the White House announces.https://t.co/ipVy8h3xN0 pic.twitter.com/0BFoATfWUv

    — Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) February 11, 2025

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  44. Just The News: “Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff on Tuesday will leave Russian airspace with an American who had been in that government’s custody, with the White House hailing his release as a sign of improving relations with the Kremlin.

    Focus was arrested in 2021 over marijuana possession in Russia.

    “Today, President Donald J. Trump and his Special Envoy Steve Witkoff are able to announce that Mr. Witkoff is leaving Russian airspace with Marc Fogel, an American who was detained by Russia,” National Security Advisor Mike Waltz confirmed in a statement. “President Trump, Steve Witkoff and the President’s advisors negotiated an exchange that serves as a show of good faith from the Russians and a sign we are moving in the right direction to end the brutal and terrible war in Ukraine.”

    “Since President Trump’s swearing-in, he has successfully secured the release of Americans detained around the world, and President Trump will continue until all Americans being held are returned to the United States. By tonight, Marc Fogel will be on American soil and reunited with his family and loved ones thanks to President Trump’s leadership,” he continued.

    Witkoff is a relative newcomer to the political scene. A donor to the Trump campaign, he was present at Mara-a-Lago and golfing with the president during the second assassination attempt on his life.

    He subsequently assumed the role of the president’s special envoy and was instrumental in securing an initial ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza conflict.”

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  45. King of Jordan has stated they will take 2 thousand children from Gaza who need medical treatment. Trump is 99% sure he will also work something out with Egypt.

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  46. Troublemaker10
    February 11, 2025 2:01 pm

    Well…the judge didn’t say that Trump, himself, couldn’t access the info….so…

    Pres. Trump should personally go to Treasury tomorrow, accompanied by Elon Musk and a couple of DOGE boys, and walk them to the appropriate computer terminals, then direct the staff to dial up whatever database the DOGE boys ask for.

    Let’s see a federal judge say POTUS can’t…

    — Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) February 11, 2025

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        🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Judge enters order ruling on Trump’s motion to vacate. 1/

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        2/ Order here: summary and comments to follow.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

        3/ In short, Judge split baby in half saying “senate confirmed” Treasury folks could have access to databases but not other political appointees or special DOGE employees. In so ruling, though, Court reveals nonsense of case. Here’s reasoning why senate-confirmed folks get access

        4/ But then she just says for political appointees and DOGE sound factual basis. BUT WHAT? Still nothing in record showing barred by law. Why would senate confirmation matter? And how is there risk of hacking when read-only access?

        5/ And how are these Plaintiffs suffering risk of imminent harm? They aren’t. Also, how is court avoiding constitutional question when she bars political appointees who can be very high up from accessing merely b/c not Senate confirmed?

        6/6 Question now is will Trump seek to appeal now/seek mandamus or wait for PI? Given limiting political appointees other than Senate confirmed, I’d recommend appeal.

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        1. This is all pure bull shit on it’s face! The actual work is done every day, all day by lowly government employees who have np higher clearances than the next person!!! If this were to apply, then only the appointed head of that agency could do ANY data entry! Yeah, right! Like THAT’S gonna happen! SMDH

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          1. so much overreach. it will take time to muck through it and that’s the desired result—so they can hide, shred, steal whatever before it’s resolved. SCOTUS needs to act NOW. the judicial branch is overstepping like crazy.

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  48. “Trump’s Plan for Gaza”

    Clandestine, Feb 11, 2025

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Trump’s plan for Gaza is starting to make more sense. Trump is negotiating plans to have neighboring nations such as Jordan and Egypt, take in the Palestinians. He highlights how the people in Gaza are “living in hell,” and he’s right. They claim it’s an “open-air prison,” and Trump is offering a solution to get them out and relocate them.

    Yes there is an argument that this is ethnic cleansing, but I don’t know what better solution there is. Is staying in Gaza under the rule of Hamas and Israel, really what’s best for the people of Gaza? The alternative is moving the Israeli’s out of the Middle East, but wouldn’t that also then be ethnic cleansing?

    Or do we just let them stay next to each other and keep killing each other, causing instability in the region, and threatening larger scale global war?

    Trump’s solution at least stops the killing, and creates a better life for the people of Gaza. I mean they literally claim it’s a giant concentration camp, and Trump is offering them a ticket out of there, and people are still mad about it.

    My point is, that all sides are not going to be happy in whatever happens, but at least Trump is working towards a lasting and peaceful solution, because the strategy of letting them live next to each other is clearly not working.

    As for the US “taking” Gaza after all is said and done, I’m not so sure about that aspect of the plan, but suppose it’s better than Israel taking it. What I do know, is that Trump has shown us he is sincere in his mission to defeat the deep state and bring peace, so I trust him and his team to find a solution. If Trump’s plan does not work, then we are right back where we started, and they can go back to killing each other.”

    Video: https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/trumps-plan-for-gaza

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  49. Can someone explain to me why the US would have colleges located in Russia? This guy that was just released, Marc Fogel, moved with his family to Russia to teach at a US college there…..WTF???

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