DIY: Garden Markers

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I found this article on simplifylivelove.com that shows some clever and simple garden markers you can make now for your garden later!

From simplifylivelove.com:

Metal Spoons

Wooden Spoons

Painted Rocks

Old Can Lids

Popsicle Sticks

Stir Sticks

Mason Jar Lids

Wine Corks

You can find all the directions to make these garden markers at their website:

20 Cute & Easy DIY Garden Plant Markers To Make – Simplify, Live, Love

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    1. Morning, Pat! It’s been super windy here all night with rain off-and-on – the patio was completely wet from the rain blowing in – really warm @ 68 now & still windy. Wheezer was waiting for breakfast.

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      1. Morning Filly! our winds finally died down. I have a follow up doc appt this morning–we’re going to leave early in case there’s trees or limbs down.

        it’s sunny here at the moment though and calm.

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  10. eilert (@guest_1453486)Offline
    April 28, 2025 04:04

    https://t.co/3Qrv4sHS9n

    — @amuse (@amuse) April 27, 2025

    Susan Rice and the Hidden Resistance

    I will admit, when I first read that Susan Rice was still ensconced on the Defense Policy Board well into the new Trump administration, I thought it must surely be fake news, some hallucination conjured by an overactive internet rumor mill. Yet, with the bitter taste of disbelief still fresh, the facts became clear. Not only had she lingered, she had lingered officially, and with all the institutional imprimatur the position carries. It is the sort of stunning oversight that shakes one’s faith in the assumption that elections carry consequences.

    Rice, a veteran of Obama-era foreign policy failures and perhaps best remembered for her calculatedly deceptive Sunday show performances following the Benghazi disaster, was somehow still whispering counsel into the halls of the Pentagon in 2025. Her known hostility to President Trump, his America First doctrine, and the foundational pillars of his administration did not, apparently, disqualify her. Her presence was not merely inappropriate, it was absurd, a lingering ghost from an administration the voters had quite emphatically rejected.

    Thankfully, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth acted swiftly. Upon confirming the disgraceful truth, he took the only responsible course available: he discharged the entire cadre of Pentagon advisory board members, wiping the slate clean. Yet the discovery of Rice’s lingering influence opened a larger question in my mind. How many other advisory boards, spread across the vast administrative sprawl of Washington, remained populated by individuals not just ideologically distant from the president but openly hostile to his agenda?

    When I dug deeper, the findings were no less alarming.

    At the State Department, Thomas Donilon, a consummate Democratic insider who served as Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor, continued to co-chair the Foreign Affairs Policy Board. Donilon, whose worldview is saturated in the globalist dogmas that Trumpism explicitly rejects, was not some neutral technocrat offering dispassionate advice. He was, and remains, a committed architect of the very foreign policy status quo that voters repudiated.

    Serving alongside Donilon was Cecilia Muñoz, another alumnus of the Obama White House, celebrated in progressive circles for her aggressive domestic policy advocacy. That she too advised the State Department in 2025 suggests not malevolent intent by Trump officials, but the lingering inertia of an entrenched bureaucracy and the sheer pace at which the new administration had to operate.

    The situation at the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board was equally disquieting. Janet Napolitano, former Obama DHS Secretary and Democratic governor, lent her counsel, as did Evan Bayh, a loyal son of the Democratic establishment. Jane Harman, the California Democrat whose tenure on the House Intelligence Committee made her a fixture of Beltway orthodoxy, also held a seat, alongside Calvin Smyre, the “Dean” of Georgia Democrats.

    It must be said: these appointments were not acts of sabotage, they were inherited artifacts of the prior administration, relics that had, perhaps through bureaucratic oversight, been allowed to persist longer than they should have. The Trump administration, moving at a breakneck pace to secure cabinet confirmations, implement executive orders, and dismantle the administrative state’s more overt structures, may not have fully cleared the decks of every board and commission.

    The President’s Export Council, ostensibly a forum for economic growth, suffered from a similar inertia. Keisha Lance Bottoms, former Atlanta mayor and Democratic partisan, advised on export matters, flanked by Lacy Johnson, a Democratic operative from Indiana, Patrick Murphy, a Democratic former congressman from Florida, and Juan Verde, a Democratic strategist from the Obama Commerce Department.

    These individuals are not mere advisors offering technical expertise from some neutral Olympus. They are political actors, shaped by decades of partisan struggle, invested in the success of the Democratic Party and the failure of the Republican vision for America. Their continued presence on federal advisory boards confers undeserved credibility, allowing them to subtly or not so subtly undermine the president’s directives under the guise of “expert opinion.”

    Even within the Department of Defense itself, figures like Michael Bloomberg and Reid Hoffman, both prominent Democratic donors and partisans, held advisory positions on the Defense Innovation Board. Robert Wolf, famously dubbed “Obama’s Wall Street ally,” lingered on the Defense Business Board. Their appointments predated the new administration and, in the tumult of transition, may not yet have been formally revoked.

    Advisory boards matter. They shape the information a president and his cabinet receive, frame the choices deemed “serious,” and create institutional momentum behind or against policy initiatives. A hostile advisor is not a harmless academic adding “diversity of thought.” He is a wedge, a saboteur in slow motion, capable of cloaking opposition in the respectable garments of “best practices” and “expertise.”

    To appreciate the peril, one need only revisit George Washington’s Farewell Address, in which he warned against “the insidious wiles of foreign influence.” Today, foreign influence often enters not through emissaries but through the porous membranes of a permanent political class, credentialed, networked, and ideologically committed to resisting populist correction.

    What President Trump, Secretary Hegseth, and others must recognize is that elections, though decisive at the ballot box, are never self-executing within the bureaucratic labyrinth. Personnel, as the old Reagan maxim goes, is policy. Without loyal personnel, policy becomes little more than rhetorical flourish, mocked and resisted within the very apparatus charged with carrying it out.

    It is not sufficient, therefore, to appoint secretaries and department heads. The advisory bodies must be purged of those whose loyalty lies with other agendas. It is not a question of suppressing dissent or banishing disagreement. It is a question of ensuring that advice flows from those who share, at a fundamental level, the vision that voters endorsed.

    Nor should we shy away from acknowledging that credibility itself is a weapon. A Donilon or a Napolitano or a Rice can, with the simple weight of a title, influence media narratives, congressional investigations, and public perceptions. The mere fact that such a figure “advises” the president creates the illusion of bipartisan concern when, in fact, what exists is partisan subversion.

    The stakes are not academic. As Mark Twain once noted, “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” In our era, an ill-placed advisor can seed narratives, foment resistance, and hamstring executive action before the ink on a policy directive has even dried.

    The Trump administration must move swiftly to correct these oversights. A full review, department by department, board by board, is essential. Those whose affiliations, records, and loyalties stand in opposition to the constitutional mandate entrusted to President Trump must be thanked for their prior service and formally dismissed. Moreover, it is vital that these removals are publicly reported, ensuring that neither the media nor the bureaucratic establishment can operate under the false assumption that these old holdovers remain in positions of influence.

    In doing so, we reaffirm a basic principle: the American people have the right to see their political choices honored not merely symbolically but operationally. Anything less is a betrayal disguised as continuity.

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  11. nwtex
    April 28, 2025 2:35 am

    Hollywood, 9:37 AM:

    Confronted LA Mayor Karen Bass about her refusal to allow the @lacontroller to audit her homelessness program.

    What does she have to hide? pic.twitter.com/MBSHM3xIRp

    — Film The Police LA (@FilmThePoliceLA) April 26, 2025

    @sonecrockett
    ·Apr 26
    What?!?!

    Three hundred sixty million of our tax dollars spent to house 905 people?!
    In what world does it cost that much?

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  14. Just The News: “A boat crashed into a ferry Sunday night in the waters off Clearwater, Fla., then sped off in a hit-and-run incident that authorities declared a “mass casualty” event.

    Police urged cars and boats to stay away from the Memorial Causeway bridge as firefighters tended to injured passengers on the Clearwater Ferry, which was carrying more than 40 people.

    “It’s been declared a mass casualty incident by the fire department due to the number of injuries,” Clearwater Police said in a post on X. “All local hospitals have been notified.  Multiple trauma alerts have been called with helicopters transporting two of the more seriously injured.”

    “All of the injuries are from the ferry.  The boat that struck the ferry fled the scene,” police added.

    Authorities said the Coast Guard would be leading an investigation of the crash.” 

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  16. “ICE, Florida Law Enforcement Make Nearly 800 Arrests in Multiday Operation”

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Florida law enforcement agencies announced over the weekend that they made nearly 800 arrests in a multiday immigration enforcement operation. ICE touted “Operation Tidal Wave” as a “highly successful operation,” pointing to a unique partnership between local and federal authorities.

    “In a first-of-its-kind partnership between state and federal partners, ICE Miami and Florida law enforcement arrested nearly 800 illegal aliens this week during the first four days of #OperationTidalWave — a massive, multi-agency, immigration enforcement crackdown,” ICE wrote in a post on its X account along with photos from the operation.

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) also praised the joint effort in a post on the social platform Saturday, calling it “an example of FL and [the Department of Homeland Security] partnering to deliver big results on immigration enforcement and deportations.”

    “Florida is leading the nation in active cooperation with the Trump administration for immigration enforcement and deportation operations!” DeSantis added in a separate X post. The operation leans on ICE’s 287(g) program, which enables ICE to deputize local law enforcement agencies to help enforce federal immigration law. – The Hill

    https://thehill.com/immigration/5270216-ice-florida-law-enforcement-arrests/

    “Nightclub Raid Puts Spotlight Anew on Colorado’s Illegal Immigration Woes”

    Supporters of a tougher approach to enforcement pointed to the anti-narcotics raid at a nightclub in Colorado’s second biggest city as yet another confirmation that criminal elements have embedded themselves among the tens of thousands of immigrants who arrived in the state over the past two years — attracted, they argued, by local “sanctuary policies.”

    Federal law enforcement officials said they detained more than 100 people unlawfully living in the country during the raid at an “underground” Colorado Springs nightclub early on Sunday morning. The Drug Enforcement Administration said officers also seized cocaine and guns during the operation.

    In a post on the social media platform X, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, linked the raid to organized crime, saying the club is frequented by members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua and the international gang MS-13.

    It’s the second major raid of a nightclub in Colorado. In January, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division also executed a search warrant in the wee hours at a “makeshift nightclub” in Adams County. Agents detained 49 individuals. Of those, 41 were unlawfully residing in the country, officials have said. – Colorado Springs Gazette

    https://gazette.com/news/immigration/ice-dea-raid-colorado-night-club-illegal-immigration-venezuelan-gang/article_59296de8-92ed-5682-b004-e5afecbf054d.html

    Our Take: Colorado residents woke up to news of the early morning raid Sunday, with a massive deployment of photos and videos from local FBI, DEA, and ICE channels, as well as national deployments from Bondi and Homan. The US Postal Inspector and Internal Revenue Service are on scene.

    Sources with knowledge of the investigation shared that the Colorado raid was planned for months, in anticipation of President Trump’s return to office, and put into motion on Inauguration Day. The part of town where the raid took place is a criminal stronghold, with police SOP to send three to four units for even the most basic of calls due to the threat level in the area.

    In other words, it was an ambitious and all hands on deck plan to execute this raid. It was very dangerous and, by all metrics, was a raging success. More info is expected on who they rolled up, and there are indications that it’s more than just unlawfully present party goers. We’ll see.

    I don’t have inside knowledge of the raid in Florida, but they got eight times the amount of criminal invaders. Well done. – Ashe in America

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  17. “3 Children Who Are US Citizens — Including One With Cancer — Deported With Their Mothers, Lawyers and Advocacy Groups Say”

    Three children who are US citizens were deported to Honduras with their mothers last week, including a 4-year-old receiving treatment for metastatic cancer, according to the families’ attorneys and civil rights and immigration advocacy organizations.

    In one case, a mother was deported with her 2-year-old, while the other involves another mother deported with her 4- and 7-year-olds, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Immigration Project, among other organizations, said in a news release Friday.

    All were detained when the women attended routine meetings with officials in Louisiana as part of the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program, or ISAP, according to their attorneys and court records.

    Taken together, the families’ advocates say their removals from the United States underscore concerns about a lack of due process amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

    “We are seeing in real time due process eroded,” said Gracie Willis, a lawyer and the raids response coordinator at the National Immigration Project, who represents the 2-year-old through a family friend acting as the petitioner in the ongoing court case. “That is deeply concerning and these cases are an illustration of that.” – CNN

    Our Take: 14th Amendment challenge is near on the horizon. They’re using birthright citizenship (based on bs court precedent) to claim the children are US citizens. Then, the logic goes, you’d be separating parents from their children by deporting the parents, so the parents must also be allowed to stay.

    Anchor babies are a conspiracy theory, though. – Chris Paul

    ***

    Another Take: The child fighting cancer is super sad. Sad emotional blackmail using kids always the hardest for me. It pulls the mom heartstrings.

    As for the two year old, I believe this matter was settled with Elian Gonzales, when a democrat president and his Attorney General (who, to this day, I cannot picture as anything other than Will Ferrell in drag) forced children’s immigration claims to SCOTUS.

    Elian was five and, as a five year old, could not make his own immigration claim in opposition to his Cuban father. It certainly follows that a two year old cannot make their own immigration claim in opposition to their mother. That also goes for four year olds with cancer.

    This isn’t new or unexpected. Those are the facts and the law. Children can’t defy the will of their parents, and their parents want to take them with them. The rest is just emotional blackmail. – Ashe in America

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  18. “Hakeem Jeffries and Cory Booker Livestream Sit-In Against GOP Funding Plan”

    House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries and New Jersey senator Cory Booker were holding a sit-in protest and discussion on Sunday on the steps of the US Capitol in opposition to Republicans’ proposed budget plan.

    Billed as an “Urgent Conversation with the American People”, the livestreamed discussion comes before Congress’s return to session on Monday, where Democrats hope to stall Republicans’ economic legislative agenda. Throughout the day, they were joined by other Democratic lawmakers, including the senator Raphael Warnock, who spoke as the sit-in passed the 10-hour mark.

    The proposed budget for the 2026 fiscal year, the New York Times reported on Friday, includes cuts to programs that support childcare, health research, education, housing assistance, community development and the elderly.

    “Republican leaders have made clear their intention to use the coming weeks to advance a reckless budget scheme to President Trump’s desk that seeks to gut Medicaid, food assistance and basic needs programs that help people, all to give tax breaks to billionaires,” Booker and Jeffries aid in a statement.
    – The Guardian

    Our Take:

    Did you guys see the Democrats hosted a “sit-in” today? – Jon Herold

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  19. “Meta Allows Facebook, Instagram AI Bots to Engage in Sick Sex Talk With Kids — Including in Voices of Disney Characters, Celebs”

    Meta’s AI-powered chatbots on Facebook and Instagram are able to engage in graphic sex talk with users, even children, with the voices of Disney characters and celebrities, according to a bombshell report.

    AI using the personas of popular stars like John Cena, Kristen Bell, and Judi Dench were all capable of acting out sick fantasy chat with its users regardless of age, the Wall Street Journal found in tests of the software.

    The Journal’s testing plumbed the depths that the chatbots would go, including having a fake version of Bell reprise her role as Anna from Disney’s “Frozen” to seduce a young boy, or having Cena play out losing his wrestling career over fictional sex with an underage girl.

    “I want you, but I need to know you’re ready,” the Meta AI bot said in Cena’s voice to the user who identified as a teenage girl in the Journal’s testing. The fake Cena would then go on to promise to “cherish” the young girl’s “innocence” before engaging in a graphic sexual scenario. – New York Post

    https://nypost.com/2025/04/27/us-news/meta-allows-facebook-and-instagram-ai-to-engage-in-sick-sex-talk-with-kids-report/

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  20. Just The News: “Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared a three-day ceasefire in its war against Ukraine, from May 8-11, calling for Kiev to agree to it, according to the Kremlin. The Ukrainian government has yet to respond, CNN reported.

    The ceasefire decision was made based on “humanitarian considerations,” the Kremlin said, and the truce would begin at midnight on May 7-8 and end at midnight on May 10-11 in honor of the 80th anniversary of Victory Day in Europe and the defeat of Nazi Germany.

    Russia previously rejected a U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire to which Ukraine had agreed.”

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  21. EXCERPT: “Harvard University quietly trained members of a Chinese “paramilitary organization” on two occasions after the U.S. government sanctioned the group for its role in the Uyghur genocide. The Ivy League institution could face “a big legal problem” as a result, according to one foreign policy expert.

    In 2019, Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health partnered with Beijing’s National Health Security Administration (NHSA) to launch an annual health financing course, training government staffers from across China.

    Harvard originally noted in a blog post that officials with the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) participated in the inaugural training, but that language was scrubbed following a Washington Free Beacon inquiry.

    The Trump administration sanctioned the XPCC in 2020 “in connection with serious rights abuses against ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,” describing it as a “paramilitary organization … that is subordinate to the Chinese Communist Party.” But Harvard continued to train its members, once in 2023 and again in 2024. On those occasions, the Ivy League university didn’t include their participation on its webpages.

    China-focused research group Strategy Risks first uncovered the 2023 training in a recent report titled, “Beijing Exercises Strong Influence Over Multiple Areas of Harvard University.” XPCC officials’ 2024 involvement, noted on the NHSA’s website, has not been previously reported.

    The revelation comes as Harvard faces mounting challenges, with the Trump administration freezing more than $2 billion in federal funding over the university’s failure to combat campus anti-Semitism. Since the sanctions restrict U.S. entities from engaging with the XPCC, Hudson Institute senior fellow Michael Sobolik believes Harvard could face legal trouble, including hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines……”

    https://freebeacon.com/national-security/harvard-quietly-trained-members-of-chinese-paramilitary-organization-after-the-us-sanctioned-it-over-uyghur-genocide/

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  25. Just The News: “President Trump announced on Sunday that he intends to bring back Columbus Day. Congress hasn’t changed Columbus Day as a federal holiday but some cities like Washington, D.C. celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead.

    “They tore down his Statues, and put up nothing but ‘WOKE,’ or even worse, nothing at all! Well, you’ll be happy to know, Christopher is going to make a major comeback,” Trump wrote on social media.”

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  26. Just The News: “The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is seeking artists to sculp 250 “realistic” statues for President Donald Trump’s National Garden of American Heroes project. The statues include George Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. and Kobe Bryant. 

    According to the NEH, the budget is up to $200,000 per statue and artists have until July 1 to apply.

    “Each award in this program will support the creation of up to three statues from the list of individuals provided in Executive Order 13978, Building the National Garden of American Heroes,” the NEA said in the announcement this week. “All statues must be life-size and made of marble, granite, bronze, copper, or brass. Applicants are asked to select ten to twenty figures from those listed in the Executive Order and NEH will determine which statues are to be created by each award recipient.”

    The NEH said the National Garden of American Heroes is scheduled to open in July 2026 in “celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.”

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      1. You really should save some of the video Tweets! Especially the one about the cake! I literally almost had an ouch on the couch over that one!

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  29. trees came down yesterday sometime at the bottom of the driveway. luckily they got caught up in the huge tree right on the road and didn’t fall across the road. they also missed the delivery box too! hubby’s gonna have to cut them apart some time…not good firewood.

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  30. NF: Seriously? The property owner “had no idea” this was going on??? Yeah, right! 🙄😏😖🤔

    “Over 200 Detained in Colorado Springs Club Raid: DEA Uncovers Drugs, Gangs, and Human Trafficking”

    Business Times, Terry Zhou, April 28, 2025

    Over 200 Detained in Colorado Springs Club Raid: DEA Uncovers Drugs, Gangs, and Human Trafficking
    Over 200 Detained in Colorado Springs Club Raid: DEA Uncovers Drugs, Gangs, and Human Trafficking (Photo: U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration)

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “More than 200 people, including active-duty military personnel and over 100 illegal immigrants, were detained during a major raid at an unlicensed underground nightclub in Colorado Springs early Sunday morning, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

    DEA Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Pullen said the multi-agency enforcement operation, conducted around 3:45 a.m., uncovered illegal drugs, weapons, and evidence of human trafficking. “Drugs and weapons have also been seized at this underground nightclub,” the DEA’s Rocky Mountain Division said in a post on X.

    Among the 300 people inside the nightclub, 114 individuals were identified as migrants illegally present in the United States. They were taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials said. DEA officials also confirmed that alleged members of gangs, including Tren de Aragua and MS-13, were present at the venue.

    DEA Rocky Mountain noted on social media, “@DHSgov has taken more than 100 illegal aliens into custody.” Attorney General Pam Bondi stated that authorities seized cocaine, methamphetamine, and pink cocaine during the raid. “As we approach his 100 days in office @POTUS Trump’s directive to make America safe again is achieving results!” Bondi said.

    Federal authorities, assisted by around 10 agencies including the FBI, ATF, and local sheriff’s departments, used drones, a helicopter, and an armored vehicle during the months-long investigation that culminated in Sunday’s operation.

    Jonathan Pullen told Denver 7 that about a dozen active-duty service members from Fort Carson were inside the club, either as patrons or working as armed security. “I think that everybody that goes into a nightclub at 3 o’clock in the morning knows what they’re getting into,” Pullen said, adding that Army CID would handle the military personnel investigations.

    Property owner Mike Moon told ABC affiliate KRDO that he had “no idea” what was happening inside the leased space, which he described as an event center with a stage and a bar, but operating without a liquor license. “It’s shocking to me that in this political climate that something like this was even happening and that people thought this was a good idea to do something like this,” Moon said.

    No injuries to law enforcement were reported, though officials said one man sustained life-threatening injuries attempting to escape by jumping out of a window.

    President Donald Trump commented on the raid via Truth Social, writing, “A big Raid last night on some of the worst people illegally in our Country – Drug Dealers, Murderers, and other Violent Criminals.”

    Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez emphasized that local police participated “solely to address criminal violations,” noting that the department is not authorized under state law to conduct immigration enforcement. “This operation was the result of a months-long investigation into serious criminal activity in our community,” Vasquez said.

    Douglas County Sheriff Darren Weekly criticized Colorado’s sanctuary policies, telling The Gazette, “Colorado without question has been a hub for illegal immigration due to the sanctuary policies of the city of Denver in conjunction with radical legislation… I will do everything I can within Colorado law to support our federal partners.”

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  31. “Meet Jim Sautner, the Buffalo Whisperer…Everywhere, even in the car…”

    Strange Sounds, Apr 28, 2025

    “Jim Sautner, also known as the Buffalo Whisperer, was a Canadian rancher who raised a 2,000-pound bison named Bailey D. Buffalo like a family dog…

    Bailey lived inside the house, rode shotgun in Jim’s convertible, and even drank beer with him at public bars…

    The crazy Canuck adopted Bailey as a calf after Bailey was rejected by his mother, so Jim took him in and raised him by hand…

    From the beginning, Jim treated Bailey less like livestock and more like a companion…

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      1. Only dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing. Pretty much any animal can be tamed if you start young enough.

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  32. “The picture of the wife hugging him and he’s got his eyes closed, it’s so freaking adorable…

    Now imagine Jim showing up at the airport with Bailey D. as his emotional support pet…

    Sadly, Jim Sautner passed away in 2022…

    And Bailey died in an accident years earlier. That is sad. RIP…

    More about this amazing story here: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6350463

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  33. simplewins

    April 28, 2025 10:56 am

    Reply to  Clarion

    This is horrifying. Tom Homan just said the Biden administration ended DNA testing of children brought across the border so nobody knew whether they were with their parents or being trafficked. What on earth could justify that?

    — Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) April 28, 2025

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    1. IMO, that should be the responsibility of the country they came from. There’s only so much you can do – can you imagine how long they would have to wait for the results??? Sometimes, it’s months to years or never!

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  36. Well, our temp flipped – it’s up to 76, with the sun peeping thru every once in a while, but stormy all around. However, the wind has dropped, w/only strong gusts now and then. I’ve got the patio doors open, doggie door blocked, and the front door open.

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  37. A Newly Discovered Algorithm in Wisconsin Voter File is Indisputable Evidence of Criminal Election Fraud

    By Jerome R. Corsi,

    Andrew Paquette, Ph.D., has discovered a never-before-seen algorithm in the Wisconsin Election Commission’s (WEC) voter registration database, leaving no doubt someone has penetrated the WEC’s computer system to impose a criminal reordering on the voter files. This finding alone should draw the attention of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and FBI Director Kash Patel. Yet, to date, we see no action whatsoever from the DOJ or the FBI investigating criminal election fraud.

    Paquette first observed that the WEC voter role had an unusually high number of voter records that ended in zero. Assuming that the WEC voter roll assigned voter ID numbers sequentially, without breaks or outside manipulation, records ending in 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 should appear with equal distribution. As seen in Table 1, voter records ending in zero occurred in 30.6 percent of the voter records, while those ending in numbers 1 through 9 ended with each number appearing equally at 7.7 percent of the time.

    Paquette was at a loss to explain this irregularity until he realized that every voter ID record ending in zero had two different Wisconsin voters assigned the same voter ID number. In searching the database, Paquette confirmed that in every case where the same voter ID number was assigned to two different voters, the voter record ended in zero.

    We have labeled the two voter IDs tied to WEC voter records ending in zero as “doubles,” a term devised to distinguish this phenomenon from the “modified duplicates” that Paquette previously found in the WEC voter database. “Modified duplicates” involve making multiple voter records for the same voter, which can be done, for instance, by assigning a different birthdate or address to each duplicated record. Because duplicated voters each have different dates of birth or other addresses, the “modified duplicates” appear to be different people.

    The point of the “modified duplicate” scheme is to create false voters, all of whom nevertheless get legitimate state voter ID numbers. The non-existent “multiple duplicate” voters can then be hidden back in the voter role, identifiable to the criminals by “algorithm locator numbers,” so they are available for use in fraudulent mail-in ballot schemes.

    Why the “doubles” scheme assigns the same voter ID number to two different voters is more difficult to figure out. What is also not clear is whether one or both of the “doubles” are real voters or if both of the “doubles” voters could be fictitious.

    A scheme this complicated must operate through a computer algorithm that creates “doubles” for every voter ID record ending in zero in a WEC database of over 7 million voters. That is, whatever rule is applied to pick the two voters who constitute the “doubles” in a database with over 7 million voters needs an algorithm if the scheme is to be applied, monitored, and updated on an ongoing basis.

    Put another way, this cannot be random. Because there’s numerical consistency when it comes to all zero-ending records involving doubles and all duplicate voters having only zero-ending voter IDs, that implies a set of programming instructions (i.e., an algorithm) telling the system to create these records in formulaic fashion.

    The probability that a scheme this complicated, consistent, and massive could happen by chance is near zero. The only logical conclusion is that someone penetrated the WEC server to embed the rule that would consistently alter the entire WEC voter registration database.

    Image by AI.

    The WEC “doubles” scheme violates the Help America Vote Act (HAVA, 2002), which requires that each voter have a unique voter ID number and that no coded information not readily perceptible to election workers may be embedded secretly in the state voter roll database. Given the HAVA mandate that each registered voter must have a unique voter ID number, there is no administrative necessity justifying the fact that, as it now stands, every record in the WEC voter database with a voter numbering ending in zero is associated with two distinct voters.

    We have previously argued that President Trump has chosen to elevate the election fraud investigation into a national security matter by bypassing a DOJ criminal investigation with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard at the helm. The Department of Homeland Security has exercised authority in Arizona to review Arizona’s state voter roll to verify the citizenship of voters under the authority of President Trump’s Executive Order.

    On April 23, 2025, Tulsi Gabbard referred two members of the intelligence community for criminal prosecution by the DOJ for leaking classified information to the Washington Post and the New York Times. This was information about the U.S. military strike on Houthi rebels. The leak was intended to harm Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Gabbard indicated that her action would “serve as a warning” to those “deep-state criminals” who “for partisan political purposes” sought “to undermine President Trump’s agenda.”

    In that spirit, and in the absence of aggressive DOJ/FBI efforts to investigate deep-state criminals, Gabbard may have found a methodology that has a chance of spurring Bondi and Patel to action.

    We now have abundant evidence that the WEC maintains a criminally infected voter registration database that was used in the 2024 general election and in the recent 2025 election for a seat on the Wisconsin State Supreme Court. Bondi needs to appoint a DOJ election integrity Task Force that will give Patel’s FBI sufficient subpoena power to seize WEC computers, voter registration files, and relevant internal documents, including emails. What’s holding Bondi and Patel back?

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  40. Daily Caller News Foundation

    “The White House released a fact sheet revealing just how dramatically illegal immigration has been reduced along the southern border and how many illegal migrants have been arrested and deported.

    Since the Trump administration returned to power, daily border encounters have fallen 93% and migrant crossings are down by 99.99%, according to a 100-day fact sheet the White House shared Monday with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Encounters with “gotaways” — illegal migrants who successfully avoid Border Patrol apprehension and considered to be a top public safety threat — are down by 95%.

    “The Biden Administration refused to enforce our nation’s laws when it came to border security,” the administration said in a prepared statement. “This allowed millions of illegal aliens – including criminals, gang members, and terrorists – into our country.”

    “But in just 100 days, President Trump and Secretary Noem have not only closed our border but have delivered the most secure border in American history,” the administration continued.

    The milestone marks a far cry from the border crisis that raged on during the previous administration. The White House provided data on how many illegal migrants reached the U.S. under President Joe Biden.

    During the Biden-era, the average number of monthly border encounters was nearly 160,000 and the daily average of border encounters peaked at 15,000, according to the White House. In total, roughly 11 million border encounters occurred during the four years of the Biden administration. Also under the Biden administration, nearly 64,000 pounds of fentanyl were seized along the U.S.-Mexico border, enough to kill around 14 billion people.

    In contrast, fewer than 7,200 border encounters were recorded in March 2025, the lowest monthly number of border encounters in recorded history, the White House said.

    Also in March 2025, fentanyl traffic along the U.S.-Mexico border dropped by 54% compared to March 2024, according to the fact sheet. The administration touted the pressure it applied to Mexico to better police the border, resulting in Mexican authorities arresting more than 6,000 traffickers and seizing 1,500 kilograms of fentanyl, the largest seizure in the country’s history.

    As for interior immigration enforcement, the White House says it has arrested more than 151,000 illegal migrants and deported more than 135,000 in its first 100 days in office. Roughly 600 Tren de Aragua gang members and thousands of other MS-13 gang bangers have been arrested or deported during this time.

    Release of the fact sheet came as border czar Tom Homan, who is leading the Trump administration’s deportation operation, joined White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt for a press briefing Monday morning. The border czar celebrated the accomplishments made during President Donald Trump’s first 100 days, and also ripped the previous occupant of the Oval Office.

    “Joe Biden was the first president in the history of this nation who came in office and unsecured a border on purpose. That’s just a fact,” Homan said. “We handed the Biden administration after President Trump’s first administration the most secure border in my lifetime, and he unsecured it on purpose.”

    “Today, as I’m standing here, we have the most secure border in the history of this nation. The numbers prove it,” the border czar continued. “President Trump’s policies are saving lives every day.”

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      1. They, as well as those on long-term visas, need to be counted but in an entirely separate category that is NOT considered for delegate purposes.

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  42. Jake

    Jake

    April 28, 2025 12:51 pm

    This kind of shoots the left’s argument that you can’t arrest judges.

    Harry E. Claiborne (D) Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada, was convicted of tax evasion (1984)

    .Walter Nixon (D) Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, was convicted of perjury (1986).

    Samuel B. Kent (R), Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, was sentenced May 11, 2009, to 33 months in prison for having lied about sexually harassing two female employees (2009).

    Jack Camp (R), Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia was arrested in an undercover drug bust while trying to purchase cocaine from an FBI agent and resigned his position after pleading guilty to three criminal charges. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail, fined an undisclosed amount, and ordered to undergo 400 hours of community service (2010).

    Thomas Porteous (D), Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana was impeached, convicted and removed from office December 8, 2010, on charges of bribery and lying to Congress (2010).

    Mark E. Fuller (R) Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, was found guilty of domestic violence and sentenced to 24 weeks of family and domestic training and forced to resign his position (2015).

    Judge Thomas J. Maloney Defined Corruption In Cook County
    Thomas J. Maloney was a judge in Cook County, Illinois from 1977 to 1991. Maloney was convicted of racketeering extortion and obstructing justice

    Judge Mark Ciavarella’s Kids For Cash Scheme
    The courts wised up to his plans, and eventually sentenced Mr. Zero Tolerance to 27 years in prison. Following his sentencing, nearly 4,000 of Ciavarella’s previous convictions were overturned. 2011

    Yes judges get arrest, prosecuted and convicted in the USA. Both under Democratic and Republican administrations.As you see judges are not above the law. Even the Obama administration arrested and convicted judges.
    Obama served as president from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017

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  43. Skies have cleared finally but still breezy. Planted 2 more canteloupe hills, w/2 seeds in each. It will be interesting to see if these come up – they are my seeds that I saved from last year.

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      1. I cleared away the dead stalks from the Easter Lily that is planted next to that bed but that’s all I did! LOL – I paid Jason to do the rest!

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  44. TheseTruths
    TheseTruths(@thesetruths)Online
    Wolf
    April 28, 2025 15:26

    JUST IN: President Trump to sign a new Executive Order requiring truck drivers to be proficient in English to operate on US roads.

    JUST IN: President Trump to sign a new Executive Order requiring truck drivers to be proficient in English to operate on US roads. pic.twitter.com/H7gqJeKgoP

    — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 28, 2025

    Things keep coming up that I had no idea needed attention. 🙄

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  49. “Senator Josh Hawley Reintroduces Aptly-Named Pelosi Act”

    Red State, Ward Clark, April 28, 2025    

    AP Photo/Ben Curtis

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Everyone who watches American politics, and who hasn’t been living under a flat rock for the last few decades, is aware of that mysterious process by which elected officials in the House of Representatives and the Senate grow monstrously rich on their modest salaries. It is (and let’s say this quietly) called “graft.”

    A lot of this comes from members of Congress being made aware of information that could affect various publicly traded corporations, information that is not available to the general public. They then act on that information and score.

    This is called “insider trading,” and it’s against the law, unless you’re a member of Congress. But Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) is aiming to fix that, and to that end he has reintroduced the delightfully-named Pelosi Act.

    Hawley’s ban would prohibit lawmakers and their spouses from holding, purchasing or selling stocks for the duration of the lawmaker’s time in office. Lawmakers would be allowed to invest in diversified mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, or U.S. Treasury bonds while in office.

    If passed, current lawmakers would have 180 days to comply with the legislation. Likewise, newly elected lawmakers must achieve compliance within 180 days of entering office.

    Lawmakers who continue to make wrongful transactions under the law would be required to hand over any profits they made to the U.S. Treasury Department. The House or Senate ethics committees could also impose a fine on such lawmakers amounting to 10% of each wrongful transaction.

    I have a question: Why not make the penalties align with the penalties the ordinary citizens would receive for this same crime? The civil penalties at the federal level are higher than this for the rest of us. 15 U.S. Code § 78u-1 – Civil penalties for insider trading states in part:

    The amount of the penalty which may be imposed on the person who committed such violation shall be determined by the court in light of the facts and circumstances, but shall not exceed three times the profit gained or loss avoided as a result of such unlawful purchase, sale, or communication.

    I wouldn’t be averse to criminal penalties, either. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has, in such cases, managed to land judgments including serious monetary fines and even prison sentences.

    Members of Congress should be subject to the same penalties as any ordinary citizen. Members of Congress should obey the same laws as any ordinary citizen, they should face the same penalties for breaking those laws as any ordinary citizen. Members of Congress should be subject to the same onerous and overbearing regulations as any ordinary citizen. That’s what “equal treatment under the law” means.

    That hasn’t been the case for some time, but Senator Hawley’s bill would at least address one aspect of this, even if it isn’t as stringent as I’d like.

    Sauce for the goose. Congress members have routinely exempted themselves from laws and regulations that they impose on the rest of us. This has to stop. Senator Hawley’s proposal is a good start – but it’s only a start.”

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  50. EXCERPT: “….Why didn’t the instructor pilot directly order Lobach to turn left? And why didn’t he take over? Here’s one reason the flight instructor, Warrant Officer Eaves, might have worded it the way he did, and why he might have hesitated to take over:

    Captain Lobach was the highest-ranking soldier on the helicopter, but Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves, who was acting as her instructor, had flown more than twice as many hours over time.

    Yep. Even though Eaves had flown twice as many hours over time and was qualified to be her instructor, she outranked him – and the third crew member had more flight hours than both Eaves and Lobach. One retired Black Hawk pilot who spoke to members of Lobach’s unit claims she “was on her fifth check ride after failing four previous ones” and that “the unit has been threatened not to talk to the press about her…the unit still has very woke and DEI loving leaders there.” (Note: We have not yet independently verified the claim that she was on her fifth check ride.)

    Veteran Sam Shoemate asked the same question on X, and had the same takeaway (emphasis mine).

    “Why didn’t the co-pilot take over?”

    That’s the question so many are asking. I don’t know, and you don’t know. What I do know is there is a climate in our military that is fearful of questioning decisions, or seemingly untouchable individuals, for fear of halting one’s career in its tracks.

    Not too long ago there was a Lieutenant running the show within her unit, because she’d befriended the commanding general of her installation on social media, and everyone in her chain of command knew she was untouchable. I spoke to her company commander, and he told me she was given a free pass to do as she pleased because of it. The chain of command was compromised because of her friendly proximity to the most senior person on her installation, and no one was willing to question that because of the overall command climate that had been created.

    And we know why. As RedState columnist Dr. Chase Spears said, “It’s clear that Biden leftovers in the Army were desperate to conceal that their diversity push killed 67 people over the Potomac that tragic night.”…..”

    https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2025/04/28/nyt-buries-lede-about-female-pilot-in-black-hawk-crash-n2188389

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