What Shall We Bake Today?

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Today is National Sticky Bun Day!  I found a great recipe for “old fashioned” sticky buns.

Ingredients

For the Dough:

6½ tablespoon granulated sugar

5½ tablespoons unsalted butter at room temperature

1 teaspoon salt

1 egg slightly beaten

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

3½ cups bread flour

2 teaspoons instant yeast

1 cup + 2 tablespoons whole milk at room temperature

For the Cinnamon Sugar:

6½ tablespoons granulated sugar

1½ tablespoons ground cinnamon

For the Caramel Glaze:

1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature

½ cup granulated sugar

½ cup light brown sugar

½ teaspoon salt

½ cup light corn syrup

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

½ cup coarsely chopped pecans

Instructions

Cream together the sugar, butter, and salt on medium-high speed in an electric mixer with a paddle attachment. Whip in the egg and vanilla extract until smooth. Then add the flour, yeast, and milk. Mix on low speed until the dough forms a ball. Switch to the dough hook and increase the speed to medium, mixing for approximately 10 minutes (or knead by hand for 12 to 15 minutes), or until the dough is silky and supple, tacky but not sticky. You may have to add a little flour or water while mixing to achieve this texture. Lightly oil a large bowl and transfer the dough to the bowl, rolling it around to coat it with oil. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap. Let the dough rise at room temperature for approximately 2 hours, or until the dough doubles in size.

Meanwhile, make the Caramel Glaze: In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine the butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and salt, and cream together for 2 minutes on high speed with the paddle attachment. Add the corn syrup and vanilla extract, and continue to cream for about 5 minutes, or until light and fluffy.

Transfer the dough to the counter. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin, lightly dusting the top of the dough with flour to keep it from sticking to the pin. Roll it into a rectangle 18 inches wide by 9 inches long. Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar over the surface of the dough (use it all!), and roll the dough up with the long side facing you, creating a cinnamon-sugar spiral as you roll. With the seam side down, cut the dough into 12 even pieces.

Coat the bottom of a 9×13-inch baking dish with the caramel glaze, then sprinkle the pecans evenly over the surface. Lay the pieces of dough cut-side-up on top of the caramel glaze, evenly spaced throughout the pan. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and allow to rise at room temperature for 75 to 90 minutes, or until the pieces have grown into one another and have nearly doubled in size.

Make-Ahead Note: Instead of the second rise, you can place the shaped buns in the refrigerate for up to 2 days, pulling the pan out of the refrigerator 3 to 4 hours before baking to allow the dough to proof at room temperature.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and adjust the oven rack to the lowest shelf.

Bake the sticky buns for 30 to 40 minutes, or until golden brown. Cool the buns in the pan for 5 to 10 minutes, and then remove them by flipping them over onto another pan or serving platter. Carefully scoop any run-off glaze back over the buns with a spatula. Wait at least 20 minutes before serving. The sticky buns are best eaten the day of baking but can be stored, covered, at room temperature for up to 2 days (see notes below on reheating).

Notes

While you may substitute all-purpose flour for the bread flour, know it will produce a slightly different texture than what you see here.

The corn syrup is a key ingredient in getting the exact right texture for the caramel glaze and I don’t recommend making any substitutions.

Make-Ahead Note: You can prepare the sticky buns through placing the rolls into the pan, then cover and refrigerate for up to 2 days before baking. Bring to room temperature prior to baking as directed in the recipe.

It’s a complicated recipe, but the results speak for themselves!!

ENJOY!

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159 thoughts on “What Shall We Bake Today?”

    1. Good morning, Pat! I feel your pain….but not today! Temp was at 0 when I got up but the sun is shining again and it’s 2 now. Supposed to get to 25 today and 14 tonight. The negative numbers are gone….for a while anyway. Looks like our Indian Summer is beginning.🤞🤞🤞

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  13. Gudthots

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    February 21, 2025 00:30

    https://nitter.poast.org/DefiyantlyFree/status/1892780584440680918

    Insurrection Barbie
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    Max Primorac, who formerly served as USAID’s chief operating officer and chief assistant to the acting deputy administrator during the first Trump administration did an interview with The Daily Signal where he explained that 90% of USAID money actually ends up in DC or in DC funded NGOs. It is a giant patronage scam that is used to funnel money to prominent and connected democrats who wage culture wars across the globe.

    Feb 21, 2025 · 3:37 AM UTC

    https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/20/former-usaid-official-speaks-out-against-decades-long-agency-corruption/

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  14. Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy(@wolfmoon1776)

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    February 21, 2025 01:25

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    Removing pharma ads from media WORKS, not by stopping influence of voters, but by stopping emotional bribery of media management and editors, who will not allow journalistic investigation or criticism of their best-paying ad sponsors – big pharma.

    Pharma ads are BRIBERY.

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    This would certainly be a step in the right direction

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    Tucker Carlson News

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    🚨 BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy wants to ban ALL Pharma ads from TV.

    Does he have your full support?

    YES or NO?

    If Yes, Give me a THUMBS-UP👍!

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    Pharma ads placed in media and science are a kind of ‘pre-bribery’ to prevent future critical articles, scientific papers and investigations. Pre-bribes can’t be connected to their effect. It’s a brilliant strategy.

    1:09 AM · Feb 21, 2025

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  17. TheseTruths

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    February 21, 2025 02:00

    Collin Rugg:

    NEW: JD Vance rips Germany once again, asks why the U.S. should pay for their defense if an American citizen can be thrown in prison for posting a meme online.

    “Germany’s entire defense is subsidized by the American taxpayer. There are thousands upon thousands of American troops in Germany today.”

    “Do you think that the American taxpayer is gonna stand for that if you get thrown in jail in Germany for posting a mean tweet?”

    “Of course they’re not.”

    NEW: JD Vance rips Germany once again, asks why the U.S. should pay for their defense if an American citizen can be thrown in prison for posting a meme online.

    🔥🔥

    “Germany’s entire defense is subsidized by the American taxpayer. There are thousands upon thousands of American… pic.twitter.com/XmOrpUGchx

    — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 20, 2025

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  19. TheseTruths(@thesetruths)

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    February 21, 2025 02:13

    We’ll see…If this happens, it should be a way to stop the voter fraud that the USPS has been involved in.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-expected-take-control-usps-fire-postal-board-washington-post-reports-2025-02-21/

    Feb 20 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

    The newspaper, citing six people familiar with the plans, reported that Trump is expected to issue an executive order as soon as this week to fire the members of the Postal Service’s governing board and place the agency under the control of the Commerce Department.

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  20. President Donald Trump on Thursday endorsed Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) for Sunshine State governor in the case that the House Republican makes a bid for the role.

    “Byron Donalds would be a truly Great and Powerful Governor for Florida and, should he decide to run, will have my Complete and Total Endorsement. RUN, BYRON, RUN!” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5156576-trump-endorses-donalds-in-potential-bid-for-florida-governor/amp/

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  21. last year, my mom started getting a card in the mail–one per quarter–that allowed her to buy food and/or toiletries. $100 a quarter. BUT only certain things were allowed–fruits, meats, vegetables–good foods–not junk. she said it’s coming from her health insurance plan, and she doesn’t pay extra for it. if she doesn’t use the $100, it doesn’t roll over.

    why can’t this be a stipulation with food stamps–only healthy foods allowed?

    Rand Paul tells infuriating story.

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  22. Charlotte99

    February 21, 2025 12:50 am

    GOLDEN PARACHUTE FOR ZELENSKY According to confidential sources

    the Ukrainian leader has pilfered over $2B in foreign aide. ‘He siphoned
    the funds for personal use.’ [Developing]

    ZELENSKY’S $2.1 BILLION HORDE According to well-placed foreign
    intelligence sources the Ukraine leader has systematically skimmed aide
    in order to ‘provide for his family’ after the war. The bulk of the
    funds are kept in untraceable cryptos. [Developing]

    ONE FOOT OUT THE DOOR Zelensky is busily squirreling away ‘funds’ to
    help him live a comfortable life in exile after Trump revealed his
    dismal approval rating in Ukraine. [Developing]

    https://nitter.poast.org/isource_news/status/1892226754070085792#m

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  25. hmmmmm…this is interesting

    Tony Seruga
    @TonySeruga
    Zelensky lied to Trump about Ukraine’s mineral reserves – Bloomberg expert

    What the country has is “scorched earth; what it doesn’t have is rare earths,” Javier Blas has said

    Ukraine has vastly and deliberately overstated its rare-earth mineral reserves in an attempt to win the favor of US President Donald Trump, Bloomberg columnist and commodities expert Javier Blas suggested in an op-ed released on Wednesday. He warned that Trump’s fixation on a resource extraction deal with Ukraine is an “illusion” and “folly.”

    The saga of the potential resource deal with the US began in November last year, when Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky presented his ‘victory plan’ for the conflict with Russia. The road map included the prospect for a special agreement with Western countries, including the US, “on the joint protection of critical resources available in Ukraine, joint investment, and subsequent use of the corresponding economic potential.”

    The offer piqued Trump’s interest, who demanded the “equivalent of $500 billion worth of rare earths” from Ukraine in exchange for US assistance to the embattled nation.

    However, according to Blas, the narrative about Ukraine brimming with rare-earth resources seems to be based on a hoax. He suggested that the Ukrainians, “desperate to find a way to engage Trump… miscalculated [by] presenting the then-incoming president a ‘victory plan’ in November that talked up – way, way up – the potential of the country’s mineral resources.”
    
    He went on to say that Ukraine “has no significant rare-earth deposits other than small scandium mines,” suggesting that Trump conflated ‘rare-earths’ with the broader category of “critical minerals” – which Ukraine does have, but not to the tune of $500 billion.

    Blas also remarked that Ukraine once produced significant amounts of iron ore and coal before the conflict, adding that some of the mines are now controlled by Russia.

    “What Ukraine has is scorched earth; what it doesn’t have is rare earths,” he said.

    He noted that this is not the first time the US has made this type of mistake, recalling that in 2010, the Pentagon declared Afghanistan to be the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” with the total amount of untapped mineral deposits in the country estimated at $1 trillion. This later turned out to be “a complete fantasy,” he said.

    Earlier reports suggested that the US and Ukraine discussed a deal under which Washington would be granted 50% ownership of Ukraine’s rare-earth minerals as reimbursement for continued military aid. However, Zelensky reportedly declined to sign an agreement, with several unnamed officials describing it as a “colonial agreement.”

    Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has suggested that the US is trying to take advantage of the Ukrainian leadership’s willingness to “sell the country by auction.”

    Zelensky lied to Trump about Ukraine’s mineral reserves – Bloomberg expert

    What the country has is “scorched earth; what it doesn’t have is rare earths,” Javier Blas has said

    Ukraine has vastly and deliberately overstated its rare-earth mineral reserves in an attempt to win the… pic.twitter.com/660D1Csfb5

    — Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) February 21, 2025

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  28. Winston

    Winston

    February 21, 2025 7:56 am

    Trump moves to end protections for 500K Haitian migrants — paving the way for deportations
    20 Feb 2025

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-moves-to-end-protections-for-500k-haitian-migrants-paving-the-way-for-deportations/ar-AA1ztxef

    “Biden and [former DHS Secretary Alejandro] Mayorkas attempted to tie the hands of the Trump administration by extending Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status by 18 months — far longer than justified or necessary,” a DHS spokesperson said in a statement. “We are returning integrity to the TPS system, which has been abused and exploited by illegal aliens for decades. President Trump and Secretary Noem are returning TPS to its original status: temporary.”

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  30. “Bipartisan Coalition Finally Tells Europe, and the FBI, to Shove It: While J.D. Vance was speaking in Munich, the U.K. was demanding encrypted data from Apple. For the first time in nine years, America may fight back”

    Matt Taibbi, Feb 20, 2025

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    FLICKER OF HOPE? Left, Senator Ron Wyden. Middle, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Right, Rep. Andy Biggs

    EXCERPT: “Last Friday, while leaders around the Western world were up in arms about J.D. Vance’s confrontational address to the Munich Security Council, the Washington Post published a good old-fashioned piece of journalism. From “U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts”:

    Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud, people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post.…

    [The] Home Secretary has served Apple with… a technical capability notice, ordering it to provide access under the sweeping U.K. Investigatory Powers Act of 2016, which authorizes law enforcement to compel assistance from companies… The law, known by critics as the Snoopers’ Charter, makes it a criminal offense to reveal that the government has even made such a demand.

    This rare example of genuine bipartisan cooperation is fascinating for several reasons. Oregon’s Ron Wyden teamed up with Arizona Republican Congressman Andy Biggs to ask new Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard for help in beating back the British. While other Democrats like Michael Bennet and Mark Warner were smearing Gabbard as a Russian proxy in confirmation hearings, Wyden performed an homage to old-school liberalism and asked a few constructive questions, including a request that Gabbard recommit to her stance against government snatching of encrypted data. Weeks later, the issue is back on the table, for real.

    The original UK demand is apparently nearly a year old, and Apple has reportedly been resisting internally. But this show of political opposition is new. There has been no real pushback on foreign demands for data (encrypted or otherwise) for almost nine years, for an obvious reason. Europe, the FBI, and the rest of the American national security apparatus have until now mostly presented a unified front on this issue. In the Trump era especially, there has not been much political room to take a stand like the one Wyden, Biggs, and perhaps Gabbard will be making.

    The encryption saga goes back at least ten years. On December 2, 2015, two men opened fire at the Inland Center in San Bernardino, killing 14 and injuring 22. About two months later, word got out that the FBI was trying to force Apple to undo its encryption safeguards, ostensibly to unlock the iPhone of accused San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. The FBI’s legal battle was led by its General Counsel Jim Baker, who later went to work at Twitter.

    One flank of FBI strategy involved overhauling Rule 41 of the Rules of Criminal Procedure. The FBI’s idea was that if it received a legal search warrant, it should be granted power to use hacking techniques, if the target is “concealed through technological means.” The Department of Justice by way of the Supreme Court a decade ago issued this recommendation to Congress, which under a law called the Rules Enabling Act would go into force automatically if legislation was not passed to stop it. In 2016, Wyden joined up with Republican congressman Ted Poe to oppose the change, via a bill called the Stopping Mass Hacking Act.

    Two factors conspired to kill the effort. First, the FBI had already won its confrontation with Apple, obtaining an order requiring the firm (which said it had no way to break encryption) to write software allowing the Bureau to use “brute force” methods to crack the suspect’s password. While Apple was contesting, the FBI busted the iPhone anyway by hiring a “publicity-shy” Australian firm called Azimuth, which hacked the phone a few months after the attack. The Post, citing another set of “people familiar with the matter,” outed the company’s name years later, in 2021.

    The broader issue of whether government should be allowed to use such authority in all cases was at stake with the “Stopping Mass Hacking” bill. It was a problem for the members that the FBI called its own shot in the San Bernardino case, but the fatal blow came on November 29, 2016, when the UK passed the bill invoked last week, called the Investigatory Powers Act. This legal cheat code gave agencies like Britain’s GHCQ power to use hacking techniques (called “equipment interference”) and to employ “bulk” searches using “general” warrants. Instead of concrete individuals, the UK can target a location or a group of people who “share a common purpose”:….”

    https://www.racket.news/p/bipartisan-coalition-finally-tells

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  31. EXCERPT: “Ignore the Beltway Sturm und Drang: One month into his second term, Donald Trump has advanced his coalition’s priorities of changing Washington, tackling inflation, and sealing the border. Yet these gains could vanish if Trump succumbs to the perennial second-term temptation of foreign policy overreach.

    For now, Trump’s position is secure because he’s delivered. His job approval rating remains above water, 49 percent to 47 percent, according to the RealClearPolitics average of polls. Congress’s approval rating has spiked as Republicans confirm Trump’s cabinet and pursue his agenda. The GOP also maintains its edge in voter identification.

    As I write, Trump has issued 108 executive actions. They are aligned with the electorate’s aims as revealed in last year’s exit polling. What did the electorate want? A point-by-point refutation of the Biden years. Which is what we’re getting.

    The political class can’t—or won’t—grasp the extent of public dissatisfaction with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Seventy percent of voters in 2024 said the country was headed in the wrong direction, according to the Fox News Voter Analysis. Eighty-three percent of voters said they would like to see substantial change or complete and total upheaval (my italics) in how the country is run. Fifty-two percent of voters said Trump would bring positive change, whereas 48 percent of voters said Harris would do so.

    The CNN exit poll asked voters which candidate qualities mattered most. The top two responses were the ability to lead and the capacity to bring needed change. Trump trounced Harris on both qualities: 66 percent to 33 percent on leadership and a staggering 74 percent and 24 percent on disruption. The message wasn’t subtle.

    Elon Musk’s DOGE may be acting fast and breaking things, as befits its Silicon Valley parentage, but its mission is consistent with the public desire to stop Washington’s slide into stagnation and decline. And Trump’s notable executive orders on affirmative action, DEI, gender ideology, and paper straws fit into the MAGA coalition paradigm of uprooting politically correct, net-zero nostrums that Biden and Harris embedded in government.

    The most important issue facing the country in 2024, according to the Fox News Analysis, was the economy and jobs. Trump beat Harris on the issue by 24 points. Two-thirds of voters said the economy was not so good or poor, and they voted overwhelmingly for Trump. Seventy-five percent of voters in the CNN exit poll said inflation caused their families severe or moderate hardship in the past year. These voters also went for Trump. The fate of the Trump majority depends on stable prices…..”

    https://freebeacon.com/columns/trumps-first-month-victory-at-home-danger-abroad/

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  32. EXCERPT: “On a recent trip to the Middle East accompanied by a prominent supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D.) inked an investment deal with a Gulf sheikh accused of waging “hack-and-leak” operations against business associates and journalists who exposed his ties to Iran.

    Whitmer signed a memorandum of understanding between her state and Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al-Qasimi, the ruler of Ras al-Khaimah (RAK), one of the seven United Arab Emirates. The agreement stipulates that the emirate will work with the University of Michigan and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation to “advance global innovation, entrepreneurship, economic growth, and job creation.”

    In a press release, in which Whitmer included pictures of herself seated with the robed sheikh, she said the agreement would facilitate “student exchanges, internships, and joint programs between Michigan and Ras al-Khaimah-based academic institutions” to drive bilateral investments between Michigan and the small Gulf nation.

    Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr Al-Qasimi
    (Ras Al Khaimah Government Media Office)

    Saud, a University of Michigan graduate who hosted the governor during her visit, is a controversial figure in the United States. The dictator, who was until recently represented by Dechert’s Andrew Levander, threatened to sue the Washington Free Beacon for reporting on litigation that accused him of using a network of lawyers, lobbyists, private eyes, and hackers to wage smear campaigns against former business associates and journalists.

    In 2013, Jay Solomon, then a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, reported that Saud and his allies sold a Georgian hotel as part of a money laundering scheme designed to help Iran evade U.S. sanctions. One of Solomon’s sources was Iranian-American businessman Farhad Azima, then an ally of Saud. After the report was published, Georgian officials blocked the sale of the hotel, a steep financial setback for Saud. It also put Saud on the radar of American authorities for potential sanctions violations.

    Azima and Solomon have since sued Saud, accusing him of ordering a “hack-and-leak” operation against them targeting critics of the emirate. They accused Saud’s law firm, Dechert, and an Iranian-American oil executive linked to the Atlantic Council and Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Amir Handjani, of orchestrating the operation through Indian hackers.

    The Journal fired Solomon in 2017 after his emails were leaked online and to various news outlets. He has said his emails were distorted to suggest that he had an undisclosed business arrangement with Azima—claims he has strongly denied.

    Saud has allegedly deployed the same methods against other foes. A former official at a RAK investment fund, Oussama el Omari, also sued Saud and Dechert, accusing them of hiring a private eye to hack and publish his emails as payback for criticizing the regime…..”

    https://freebeacon.com/democrats/gretchen-whitmer-forges-business-deal-with-iran-linked-emirati-sheikh-implicated-in-hacking-schemes/

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  33. You can’t change those stripes, jackass!!!

    EXCERPT: “As a prospective Senate candidate, Pete Buttigieg is denouncing the diversity trainings that have become synonymous with the Democratic Party’s liberal wing, saying they look “like something straight out of Portlandia.” As mayor of South Bend, Ind., he championed such training, with his administration implementing a series of diversity sessions that lectured cops on “sizeism” and “languageism” amid a surge in violent crime.

    Buttigieg, speaking Tuesday at a University of Chicago Institute of Politics panel on the “Future of the Democratic Party,” addressed the party’s focus on “diversity.” He said he would “always fight” to care “for people’s different experiences.” He also took aim at diversity training, saying Americans shouldn’t be made to “sit through a training that looks like something out of Portlandia, which I have also experienced, and it is how Trump Republicans are made.”

    Cops in South Bend had a similar experience when Buttigieg served as mayor.

    In 2017, with Buttigieg a year into his second term, South Bend’s police department instituted diversity and anti-discrimination training sessions aimed at “Bridging Relationships and Strengthening Community Through Inclusion,” the Washington Free Beacon reported in 2020. Slides from the sessions lamented “Implicit Bias” and presented cops with a list called “The ‘Ism’ Trail,” which denounced nefarious “isms” that perpetuate prejudice and power dynamics, including “racism,” “sexism,” “ageism,” “languageism,” “materialism,” “classism,” “colorism,” and “sizeism.”

    The title slide for the South Bend PD’s “Strengthening Community Through Inclusion” training.
    The training discusses “Implicit Bias & Cultural Competence.”
    “The ‘Ism’ Trail” slide presented to South Bend police under Pete Buttigieg.

    A similar list of “Key Terms & Definitions” urged officers to refrain from using the term “hearing-impaired,” calling it “offensive” to deaf people as it implies “that their hearing is broken, and needs to be fixed.” One year after the training sessions took place, in 2018, violent crime in South Bend reached its highest level in 20 years. Buttigieg, in 2019, apologized for the police department’s lack of diversity, saying, “I couldn’t get it done.”

    Buttigieg’s Tuesday comments came as the Indiana native turned Michigan resident takes a “serious look” at a 2026 Senate run in the Great Lakes State, where he and his husband moved in 2022 “because of family.” As Buttigieg eyes that run, he’s worked to distance himself from the left-wing policies that defined his failed 2020 presidential campaign…..”

    https://freebeacon.com/democrats/pete-buttigieg-whose-mayoral-admin-held-diversity-trainings-lecturing-cops-on-sizeism-now-takes-aim-at-portlandia-diversity-trainings/

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  34. EXCERPT: “If a writer for the Fox medical-mystery drama House had developed a plotline in which a nebulous illness credited to a novel virus turned out to be caused by the vaccine for the virus, it would have been deemed too cliched to make it out of the writers’ room.

    Sometimes reality is more banal than fiction.

    Yale University immunobiologists concluded that COVID-19 vaccination is responsible for some cases of so-called long COVID purportedly caused by infection, adding a pharmacological wrinkle to earlier international research that attributed wearing higher-quality masks, loneliness and physical inactivity to symptoms mistaken for post-infection conditions.

    But their Feb. 18 preprint research, not yet peer-reviewed, also found alarming levels of spike protein – the primary mechanism for mRNA COVID vaccines – in the blood of never-infected participants as long as nearly two years after inoculation, far longer than the eight weeks found in a 2022 peer-reviewed study. 

    Federal public health authorities long denied the vaccine-specific spike protein “lingers” in the body or is toxic, as a Food and Drug Administration spokesperson told the self-proclaimed fact-checker PolitiFact in summer 2023.

    Months earlier, peer-reviewed research by Harvard Medical School identified spike proteins as responsible for post-vaccination myocarditis in young people.

    “Labs have shown I continue to have high levels of spike protein in my blood, yet a negative nucleocapsid [antibody from the virus itself], which is a hallmark signature of this vaccine mRNA gene therapy,” vaccine-injury victim Robert Fusaro told The New American in 2022.

    (Video clip)

    Fusaro recently told Just the News how victims used code words to evade social media censorship in discussing vaccine injury. 

    Earlier this month, Senate Homeland Security Investigations Subcommittee Chair Ron Johnson, R-Wis., demanded Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg turn over all records of Facebook’s censorship of vaccine injury groups and even private messages, citing AstraZeneca trial victim Brianne Dressen – a coauthor of the new Yale study.

    Podcast titan Joe Rogan’s pre-election interview with then-vice presidential nominee JD Vance recirculated online this week, in which Vance said COVID vaccination made him “the sickest that I have been in the last 15 years,” stuck in bed for two days with a racing heart, and “I’ve had COVID at this point five times.”

    While he said it wasn’t a “serious injury,” Vance marveled that “we’re not even allowed to talk about that,” while “the worst COVID experience I had was, like, a sinus infection.”

    X owner Elon Musk boosted the interview, saying his own COVID infection was “nothing” and his Johnson & Johnson adenovirus-based vaccine “hurt my arm” but “the mRNA booster hit extremely hard,” nearly sending Musk, to the hospital with “massive chest pain.”

    The pileup of indisputable injuries from COVID vaccines comes as boosters retroactively distance themselves from previous mainstream narratives…..”

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/yale-research-validates-spike-protein-persistence-covid-vaccines-injury

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        1. agreed.

          my mom gets inundated with mail telling her she’s “eligible” to get this screening or that test and I’m always telling her just cause insurance says you can get it, doesn’t mean YOU HAVE to.

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  36. “Javier Milei presents Elon Musk with a ‘chainsaw for bureaucracy’ at CPAC 2025”

    February 21, 2025 | 9:50am

    “At CPAC 2025, Argentinian President Javier Milei presents Elon Musk with a handcrafted chainsaw — a bold symbol for cutting through bureaucracy. After shaking hands and thanking President Milei the Tesla CEO swung the shiny machinery in the air stating ‘this is the chainsaw for bureaucracy.’”

    Video: https://nypost.com/video/javier-milei-presents-elon-musk-with-a-chainsaw-for-bureaucracy-at-cpac-2025/

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  37. Just The News: “The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Thursday advanced Linda McMahon’s nomination for Education secretary out of committee and to a floor vote.

    President Donald Trump nominated McMahon, who served as co-chair of his transition team, last year. She previously led the Small Business Administration during Trump’s first term, and served as chairwoman of the board for America First Policy Institute. She also co-founded World Wrestling Entertainment with her husband, Vince McMahon.

    The Senate HELP committee advanced McMahon’s nomination in a 12-11 vote along party lines, Politico reported. 

    The vote comes after she testified last week in front of the committee, before which she laid out Trump’s plans for the department. Trump previously indicated that he would like to eliminate or drastically reduce the Education department, but McMahon promised that Congress would not be left out of decisions on the department’s future.

    “If confirmed Ms. McMahon has the tall task of reforming a Department of Education that has lost its purpose,” said Senate HELP Chairman Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana. “For the last four years, the department focused on everything but student learning with bureaucracy and red tape standing in the way of student success. We need a strong leader at the department who will get our education system back on track.”

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  38. Just The News: “President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that he has appointed Alice Marie Johnson, whose sentence he commuted in his first term, as his official “pardon czar.”

    Johnson was sentenced to life in prison in the 1990s after being convicted of nonviolent drug crimes. She served 21 years in prison before her sentence was commuted by Trump in 2018. The pardon came after Johnson devoted her time behind bars to working in the prison hospice, volunteered in the prison church, became an ordained minister and started writing and directing plays, according to Fox News. 

    Trump said during a Black History Month event at the White House that Johnson was an “inspiration,” and she will now help decide who gets clemency in his new administration. 

    “You’ve been an inspiration to people, and we’re going to be listening to your recommendations on pardons,” Trump told Johnson, according The Hill newspaper. “You’re going to go over and you’re going to be — she’s going to be my pardon czar. And you’re going to find people just like you that this should not have happened [to].”

    The announcement comes after Trump and former President Joe Biden made controversial clemency decisions. Trump pardoned all January 6, 2021 rioters last month to the ire of many Democrats, and Biden gave blanket pardons to his son Hunter Biden and other key allies before he left office.”

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  43. (True story) – From Grok:

    I assume you’re referring to “Norman,” the AI developed by MIT researchers in 2018 to demonstrate the impact of biased data on artificial intelligence. Norman was trained exclusively on violent and gruesome image captions from a Reddit forum focused on disturbing content, deliberately avoiding the use of actual images due to ethical concerns. The goal was to show how the data fed into an AI can shape its behavior and outputs, rather than the algorithm itself being inherently flawed.

    Named after Norman Bates from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, this AI was designed to perform image captioning—a process where it generates textual descriptions of images. After its training, researchers tested Norman with Rorschach inkblot images, comparing its responses to those of a “standard” AI trained on more neutral data. The results were striking: where a typical AI might see “a group of birds on a branch” or “a vase with flowers,” Norman interpreted the same inkblots as “a man electrocuted to death” or “a man shot dead in front of his screaming wife.” These grim outputs underscored the experiment’s point about data-driven bias.

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  45. “CIA: From Power Icon to Symbol of Corruption and Criminal Incompetence”

    CIAgate, Feb 21, 2025

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    EXCERPT: “Dear Readers and Friends,

    We deeply apologize for the significant gap between our investigations; the sheer volume of material inevitably demands a considerable amount of time for meticulous analysis. In this regard we find ourselves occasionally outpaced by the rapid and relentless evolution of events that have surged in the past month.

    That’s why we urgently call on all of you to ensure that each investigation by the CIAGate team reaches its full potential through widespread sharing. One of our primary goals is to ensure that the voices silenced within the CIA are heard at the highest levels of government. Those who dare to speak out about the agency’s internal issues are often quickly muted, but we serve as a channel for these very voices from below. By amplifying their concerns, we aim to bring attention to the systemic problems that need addressing and ensure they reach those in power. Our reports can expose corruption, but it’s only with your help that they will catch the attention of those in positions of significant influence and those actively investigating corruption in Ukraine. This critical moment offers an unparalleled chance to uncover the theft of American taxpayer funds. Your actions can make a substantial difference in holding accountable those at the highest levels.

    As part of our ongoing effort to shed light on the misuse of American taxpayer dollars, we’re taking the next step by releasing a new investigation that uncovers another key figure involved in corruption in Ukraine. According to our source, this person, an operative with the CIA, was instrumental in directing taxpayer funds from the U.S. to Ukraine.

    Ladies and gentlemen, meet Liam Daniel Hayden.

    To put it briefly, our records show that throughout his entire career, Liam Daniel Hayden carried out undercover operations across a wide range of locations. His secret missions took place in Kazakhstan (2003-2005), Azerbaijan (2009), Turkey (2013-2017), and Iraq (2018). Since 2021, Liam Daniel Hayden has also been in charge of liaising with Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR), managing their covert activities.

    One piece of evidence linking Liam to intelligence services comes from an official document—the ‘Congressional Record, Volume 149, Number 7’ dated January 15, 2003. The document identifies Hayden, a Virginia native, as part of the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service, serving in roles such as consular officer and/or Secretaries in the Diplomatic Service of the United States of America. Following his appointment, he was stationed in Kazakhstan. Similarly to how Chanda Creasy operated in Somalia, Hayden served as a diplomat for the State Department during his assignment there…..”

    https://ciagate.substack.com/p/cia-from-power-icon-to-symbol-of

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    1. Whoa! Connections indeed!!! His wife was deeply involved as well!!!

      “It’s important to highlight that in the CIA, conducting covert operations in ex-Soviet states and conflict zones is seen as a career pinnacle. While Liam Hayden achieved this level of success, he essentially lived his life on assignment, which sparked speculation about him holding a “privileged” status. Upon uncovering that his entire career was supported by his father, Michael Vincent Hayden—a former director of both the NSA and CIA—it became evident that Liam’s swift advancement was not coincidental.”

      Michael Hayden oversaw the controversial NSA surveillance program in the early 2000s, leveraging the Tailored Access Operations (TAO) unit for monitoring U.S. citizens. During congressional testimony in 2002, he falsely claimed compliance with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, despite clear constitutional violations.

      His use of TAO for surveillance not only raised questions about democratic principles and personal freedoms but also led to a significant erosion of trust in intelligence agencies. In 2020, a federal court ruled that this mass surveillance program was illegal and unconstitutional.

      In a striking turn of events, Michael Hayden suffered a stroke in 2018 leading to aphasia—a condition affecting his speech and language abilities. This serves as a stark reminder that life is like a mirror: the actions he projected out into the world have reflected back at him. The individual who once controlled narratives through manipulation now faces challenges with communication, underscoring how his actions have had repercussions, and he ultimately confronts the echoes of his own deeds.”

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  47. “….Linda McMahon advanced out of committee on Thursday. Here is where the rest of the nominees are in the process…

    Through committee, vote to be scheduled:

    1. Secretary of the Army: Dan Driscoll
    2. US Trade Representative: Jamison Greer
    3. Secretary of Education: Linda McMahon

    Still in committee:

    1. Secretary of Labor: Lori Chavez-DeRemer (Feb 27, HELP)
    2. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security: Troy Edgar (Feb 25, Homeland Security)
    3. Deputy Director of the OMB: James Bishop (Feb 25, Homeland Security)
    4. Deputy Secretary of Transportation: Steven Bradbury (Hearing complete; committee vote not scheduled)
    5. Deputy Attorney General: Todd Blanche (Feb 27, Judiciary)
    6. Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy: Michael Kratsios (Feb 25, Commerce)
    7. Federal Trade Commissioner: Mark Meador (Feb 25, Commerce)
    8. Deputy Secretary of Defense: Stephen Feinberg (Feb 25, Armed Services)

    And here is the team, confirmed as of now:

    1. Secretary of State: Marco Rubio
    2. CIA Director: John Ratcliffe
    3. Secretary of Defense: Pete Hegseth
    4. DHS Secretary: Kristi Noem
    5. Treasury Secretary: Scott Bessent
    6. Transportation Secretary: Sean Duffy
    7. EPA Administrator: Lee Zeldin
    8. Secretary of the Interior: Doug Burgum
    9. Secretary of Energy: Chris Wright
    10. Secretary of Veteran Affairs: Doug Collins
    11. Attorney General: Pam Bondi
    12. Secretary of HUD: Eric Scott Turner
    13. OMB Director: Russell Vought
    14. Director of National Intelligence: Tulsi Gabbard
    15. Health Secretary: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
    16. Secretary of Agriculture: Brooke Rollins
    17. Secretary of Commerce: Howard Lutnick
    18. Administrator of the SBA: Kelly Loeffler
    19. Director of the FBI: Kashyap Patel

    Just getting started. Accelerate. – Ashe in America

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  48. 3 Buses Explode in Bat Yam, Holon in Suspected Strategically Planned Terror Attack

    Three empty buses exploded in quick succession in parking lots in the Tel Aviv suburbs of Bat Yam and Holon on Thursday night in what police said was a suspected terror attack. There were no injuries reported in the incidents. Police said they neutralized two other unexploded devices on buses nearby. According to Hebrew media reports, those devices were discovered in Holon.

    Each of the devices contained 5 kilograms of explosives, Hebrew media reports said. Police said they were combing the scenes and searching for suspects, while bomb sappers were hunting for any other suspicious items in the vicinity.

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the premier was receiving constant updates on the situation and held a security assessment late Thursday night, after which it announced that he instructed the IDF to embark on a massive operation in the West Bank against terrorist hubs.
    – The Times of Israel

    Our Take: So to recap the timeline of events: During the latter half of 2024, President Trump began publicly expressing doubt that any of the hostages Hamas had allegedly [been] taken on October 7th. After Trump won the 2024 election, the Israeli government began disclosing that many of these hostages had actually been killed on October 7th – most notably Omer Neutra, a 21-year old American IDF soldier with dual citizenship, whose parents had been routinely used as props by Netanyahu in the press to garner sympathy for the war effort – as recently as a week before this disclosure occurred in December. Please note that this revelation was publicly shared without claiming any new intelligence from the IDF, or recovering any body from Hamas.

    Oddly enough, the position of the Israeli government appears to be that Neutra and the other [dead] “hostages” are still in the possession of Hamas. However, when one begins to ponder the logistics necessary to maintain possession of these cadavers – given the current state of Gaza, which President Trump has described as a “demolition site” – the mental gymnastics become perplexing. And that’s before you consider the inherent biological/health risks of remaining in close proximity to rotting corpses for 18 straight months.

    “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the premier was receiving constant updates on the situation and held a security assessment late Thursday night, after which it announced that he instructed the IDF to embark on a massive operation in the West Bank against terrorist hubs.”

    How convenient for Bibi Netanyahu. An opportunity for more war – just like October 7th.

    Given the terrible track record that Netanyahu’s government has for lying to the public, I am not inclined to believe anything that they say, especially when the assertions directly escalate the kinetic conflict with their neighbors.

    Look at how Trump has turned against Zelensky, adopting a position of common sense and practical logic. I expect a similar exercise to soon be deployed against Netanyahu. – GhostofBasedPatrickHenry

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  49. Trudeau After Canada Win Over U.S.: “You Can’t Take Our Country” or “Our Game”

    Canada beat Team USA 3-2 in an overtime 4 Nations Face-Off Championship Game thriller in Boston, Massachusetts, on Thursday night, which saw political tensions spill into the arena.

    The big picture: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a swipe at President Trump’s call for Canada’s annexation as the 51st U.S. state moments moments after the win, saying on X: “You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game.”

    Trump said on Truth Social earlier Thursday he was calling Team USA to spur them on towards victory tonight against Canada, which with FAR LOWER TAXES AND MUCH STRONGER SECURITY, will someday, maybe soon, become our cherished, and very important, Fifty First State.”

    Zoom in: Ahead of the game, U.S. hockey fans booed Canada’s national anthem — after Canadian fans booed a rendition of the “Star-Spangled Banner” before Team USA’s winning game Montreal last week. – Axios

    Our Take: Trump’s Canada deployments are some of the most impressive markers of the abstract and actual power he’s cultivated.

    Is he joking about Canadian Statehood? Will their fate be determined by an exhibition hockey game? Either way, this isn’t the posture of one lacking confidence. – Burning Bright

    ***

    Another Take: If the outcome of this hockey game leads to Canadians standing up for their sovereignty, then I’m here for it even though – *swallows hard with a grimace * – we lost to Canada.

    We can take one for the team to make Canada respectable again…

    I guess. – Ashe in America

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  50. “Let’s see how the patrons of Bluesky are handling Kash Patel’s confirmation”🤣🤣🤣

    Joel Abbott, Feb 20, 2025

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    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Kash Patel was confirmed 51-49 by the US Senate today as the new FBI director … and boy oh boy is the Left having a tough time with it. From a post by liberal commentator Tyler Cohen over on Bluesky:

    [Pop that popcorn: Reactions incoming]

    Lefties are out here referencing Curtis Yarvin??

    These people are literally afraid for their lives!

    Yes, Kash Patel, a highly credentialed second-generation Indian American lawyer, who previously served as:

    • A National Security Council official,
    • Senior counsel on counterterrorism for the House Intelligence Committee,
    • Chief of staff to the acting US secretary of defense,
    • And senior advisor to the acting director of national intelligence …

    … is going to enact the Fourth Reich and enact firing squads. I also found a few mostly peaceful leftists who were making death threats:

    This might be my favorite comment:

    Ah yes, NOW the Justice Department is going to be weaponized. It was totally neutral before!

    I feel bad for these Bluesky patrons. They’re afraid of boogeymen that don’t exist because liberal politicians and news hosts have been telling them that Trump is literally Hitler for a decade.

    Someone go give them a hug. It’s gonna be okay, lefties! You’re not in danger! I know you don’t understand right now, but hang in there, okay?”

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