North Dakota State Flower: Wild Prairie Rose

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The North Dakota’s State flower, the Wild Prairie Rose, has three distinct species: the Rosa Blanda, Arkansana, and Pratincula. Grown as an ornamental plant, the lovely flowers sport five dazzling showy pink petals with a tight complementary cluster of shiny yellow stamens in the center.

The Wild Prairie Rose is native to a large area of central North America, although it’s concentrated in the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains. You’ll find it growing like wildfire across all of North Dakota, along roadsides, foothills, meadows and even cities. The extravagant pink perennial can sometimes be weedy or invasive.

From Fargo to Grand Forks and Bismarck to Red River, the Wild Prairie Rose can be found in abundance and is often picked by residents because of its wonderful scent. Considered a block shrub, these beauties are also found in South Dakota, Missouri and Minnesota.

One of the most stunning flowering crabapple varieties is the Prairie Rose Flowering Crab. It blossoms slightly later than other crab trees and the rose-like flowering is amazingly beautiful. Trees produce breathtaking double, deep pink flowers that are temptingly fragrant.

The Wild Prairie Rose is quite useful outside the garden as well! It’s often used in food, food additives, animal food, bee plants, fuels, poisons, medicines, and environmental compounds. In fact, the essence of Wild Prairie Rose can be used to help address issues which often underlay stress and health problems, helping to ‘untie’ or release mental/emotional energetic knots. Wild Prairie Rose essence helps transform emotions, attitudes or patterns of behavior to enhance development, growth and awareness.

Fun Fact

The USDA considers it a weed!

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    1. Good morning! Wheezer finally showed up – he was sacked out on the chair. Starting out @ 57 this morning – how high can it go??? LOL – hopefully not as high as yesterday!

      Just The News: “Pakistan officials late Friday night confirmed that the country has begun launching retaliatory strikes against India, after its neighbor launched missiles at nine locations earlier this week.

      The Indian Armed Forces on Tuesday struck Pakistan and the Pakistan-occupied regions of Jammu and Kashmir, in retaliation for the Pahalgam terror attack last month that took place in Kashmir. The region has been the subject of dispute since the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan. 

      Pakistan officials said the retaliatory strikes are “eye-for-eye,” and are being conducted as part of Operation Bunyan Ul Marsoos, which translates to “Wall of Lead,” according to the Guardian. The retaliation comes after Pakistan accused India earlier Friday of hitting three of its military air bases, per CNN. The new strikes from Pakistan have allegedly hit India’s Pathankot Air field and Udhampur Air Force Station, and Brahmos storage site. 

      It is not clear how many locations in India have been targeted, but Pakistan said it has targeted air bases that were used to launch missiles at Pakistan. The Guardian also reported that India has begun a large-scale mobilization effort of sending troops to protect its border in the case of further escalations, including by activating its reserve territorial army.

      The strikes mark an escalation in the decades-long conflict. Both countries have nuclear weapons, but neither have threatened to use it.”

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  11. Just The News: “A federal judge on Friday hit the brakes for 14 days on the Trump administration’s plans to cut the size of the federal workforce, ruling that Congress must formally adopt his plans first.

    “Nothing prevents the President from requesting this cooperation—as he did in his prior term of office,” said U.S. District Judge Susan Illston of San Francisco. “Indeed, the Court holds the President likely must request Congressional cooperation to order the changes he seeks, and thus issues a temporary restraining order to pause large-scale reductions in force in the meantime.”

    Several unions and non-profit groups had filed the lawsuit suit last month.

    “The President has the authority to seek changes to executive branch agencies, but he must do so in lawful ways and, in the case of large-scale reorganizations with the cooperation of the legislative branch,” the judge said. “Many presidents have sought this cooperation before; many iterations of Congress have provided it.”

    The new Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, has been working with Trump’s cabinet to reduce federal spending at agencies, resulting in federal job cuts.” 

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        1. time to impeach roberts. call his ass on the carpet and subject him to oversight and scrutiny. call out his partisan attitude (staying with Norm Eisen for a week?) and remove him. send a freaking message or this continues.

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  12. EXCERPT: “The Environmental Protection Agency reportedly plans to eliminate the Energy Star program. The move would be in line with the Department of Energy’s announcement in March that it would postpone implementation of some of the Biden administration’s appliance efficiency standards in line with President Donald Trump’s “Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation” agenda.

    Citing unnamed sources, The New York Times reported that the announcement was made during a staff meeting on Monday. The Times report also cites a recording of the meeting it obtained.

    When Just the News asked the EPA if the program was being eliminated, a spokesperson didn’t confirm or deny it was getting the ax but instead said the EPA is undergoing an extensive reorganization. The reorganization would impact the Office of the Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, and Office of Water….”

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/trump-may-zap-energy-efficiency-program-critics-say-ruins-appliances-and-may

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  13. EXCERPT: “Citizen journalist Shawn McBreairty didn’t live to see his legal victory against a Maine school district for threatening to sue him for criticizing its alleged suppression of female student protests against a gender identity restroom policy, committing suicide two days after receiving what his lawyer called a “bogus” legal threat letter from a party’s lawyer.

    But by granting summary judgment to McBreairty’s widow, Patricia, on behalf of his estate, and denying it to Brewer School Department and Superintendent Gregg Palmer, U.S. District Judge Lance Walker’s ruling is heartening McBreairty’s friends and allies in the parental rights movement and First Amendment law community.

    The district’s anti-hazing, bullying and workplace bullying policies, implementing state law, did not apply to McBreairty or “oblige, compel, or justify the conduct by the Brewer School Department and its legal counsel that gave rise to this civil action,” Walker wrote…..”

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/citizen-journalist-who-took-his-life-after-school-district-threatened-him

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  14. NF: It is ridiculous that legal cases take so long to adjudicate!!!

    Just The News: “Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday announced that the state had secured a nearly $1.4 billion settlement with Google over a case regarding Texans’ data privacy and security rights. The state sued Google in 2022 for illegally tracking and collecting Texan Chrome users’ private locations, incognito search data and biometric data. 

    Paxton’s office said the settlement marks the highest amount a state has received against Google in similar cases, with the largest previous settlement over privacy violations being $93 million.

    “In Texas, Big Tech is not above the law. For years, Google secretly tracked people’s movements, private searches, and even their voiceprints and facial geometry through their products and services,” Paxton said in a statement. “I fought back and won. This $1.375 billion settlement is a major win for Texans’ privacy and tells companies that they will pay for abusing our trust. 

    “I will always protect Texans by stopping Big Tech’s attempts to make a profit by selling away our rights and freedoms,” he added.

    Google spokesman Jose Castaneda told CNBC that the company did not have to admit any wrongdoing in the settlement, and that it did not need to make any changes because a lot of the claims were outdated.

    “This settles a raft of old claims, many of which have already been resolved elsewhere, concerning product policies we have long since changed,” Castaneda said. “We are pleased to put them behind us, and we will continue to build robust privacy controls into our services.”

    The settlement comes after Paxton also won a $1.4 billion settlement with Meta last July in a similar case, after it allegedly unlawfully collected and used Texan facial recognition data.”

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  15. Just The News: “Georgia firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, announced Friday night that she will not run against incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff next year, claiming the upper chamber “doesn’t work.”

    Greene and Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp had been considered potential contenders to defeat Ossoff next year, though establishment Republicans were not optimistic about Greene, and Kemp announced on Monday that he was not seeking the post. GOP Reps. Mike Collins, Buddy Carter and Rich McCormick are all considering runs, per NBC News.

    The Republican firebrand announced the decision in a lengthy post on X, where she did not endorse a potential candidate, but took herself out of the running.

    “Someone once said, ‘The Senate is where good ideas go to die.’ They were right. That’s why I’m not running,” Greene said. “I won’t fight for a team that refuses to win, that protects its weakest players, and that undermines the very people it’s supposed to serve … If I’m going to fight for a team, it will only be a team willing to lay it all on the line to save this country.”

    Greene appeared confident that she could beat Ossoff had she decided to run, but felt there was an underlying problem with the chamber itself, its current leadership, and its rules.

    “Here’s the hard truth: the Senate doesn’t work,” she wrote. “It’s designed to obstruct the will of the people and protect the Uniparty’s grip on power. Nearly everything requires 60 votes to pass, and even when we have a majority, a pack of Republican Senators always votes ‘no’ on the bills that matter most. 

    “You know who they are. You’ve watched them sabotage Trump’s agenda for years,” she continued. “They don’t fear you, and they don’t serve you. They’re protected by the same corrupt system of donors and consultants who manipulate you with fear.”

    The Republican ended the message by stating that she was still a staunch supporter of Trump, but that his support alone does not necessarily equate a victory in her state anymore.

    “You can’t dress someone up in cowboy boots and think they’ll fool us. Even Trump’s endorsement and rallies can’t save your approved candidates anymore. Georgians are smarter than that. They’ve been burned too many times,” she said. “So when the decision-makers from DC, Virginia, or Florida are met with quiet smiles and polite nods, just know: we get it. You don’t. Bless your hearts.”

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  16. Just The News: “President Donald Trump Friday signed into law four Congressional Review Act measures targeting conservation standards for appliances. 

    These measures include H.J. Res. 20, which repeals conservation standards for gas-fired water heaters. Another measure, H.J. Res. 24, repeals conservation standards for walk-in freezers. 

    A third measure, H.J. Res. 42, repeals a rule concerning the labeling of products for energy conservation standards, and a fourth resolution, H.J. 75, repeals rules dealing with energy conservation for commercial refrigerators, freezers or refrigerator-freezers. 

    The Congressional Review Act allows Congress to block certain finalized federal regulations.” 

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  17. Just The News: “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday night set the deadline for active-duty transgender troops to self-identify for voluntary separation from the military to June 6, and said reservists must do the same by July 7.

    The first deadline is one month after the Supreme Court issued its ruling that allows the Trump administration to establish and enforce the ban, which stems from President Donald Trump’s executive order stating that “expressing a false ‘gender identity’ divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service.”

    The Pentagon said that approximately 1,000 service members in the military already identify as having gender dysphoria, and will begin the voluntary separation process. “In accordance with policy now reinstated, service members who have a current diagnosis or history of or exhibit symptoms consistent with gender dysphoria may elect to separate voluntarily,” Hegseth said.

    The secretary added that those who do not agree to leave voluntarily by the deadline could be removed involuntarily. “The Secretary is encouraged by the Supreme Court’s order staying the lower court’s injunction, allowing the Department of Defense to carry out its policies associated with ‘Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness,’” Defense Department spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement.”

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  18. Just The News: “The Ohio Republican Party on Friday endorsed Vivek Ramaswamy for governor over state Attorney General Dave Yost. The state party made the announcement after its central committee voted to endorse the former GOP presidential nominee, The Hill news outlet reported.

    Donald Trump Jr. on Wednesday encouraged the Ohio Republican State Central Committee to endorse Ramaswamy.

    “I’ve gotten to know Vivek well over the past few years,” Trump posted on X. “He’s a fighter, a patriot, and exactly the kind of bold, unapologetic America First conservative we need to lead Ohio back to greatness. He isn’t afraid to take on the radical left, but at the same time he’s one of our very best in being able to talk to the other side and persuade Americans about conservative principles.”

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  19. Just The News: “President Trump announced a “full and immediate ceasefire” between India and Pakistan on Saturday.

    The Trump administration mediated overnight talks between the countries.

    “I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Congratulations to both Countries on using Common Sense and Great Intelligence.”

    Pakistan had accused India of attacking its airbases. Pakistan launched missiles at Indian military sites prior to the ceasefire announcement.”

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  20. The Federalist: “When a school program tells students not to tell their religious parents about an activity, there is a problem. That is what reportedly happened in Chicago Public Schools when it allegedly forced students to practice Hindu-based Transcendental Meditation (TM) twice a day.

    This week the Chicago Board of Education and the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace settled a class action lawsuit, agreeing to pay out $2.6 million to former Chicago Public Schools high school students who say they were forced to participate in TM for 15-20 minutes in the morning and again in the afternoon.

    Court papers show the board of education first signed a $170,000 contract with the foundation to implement its “Quiet Time” program from March through June 2018. “The key component of Quiet Time is an evidence-based stress reduction and cognitive development technique known as Transcendental Meditation. … If youth choose not to meditate, they are free to select another quiet activity such as sustained silent reading, resting, or quiet sitting,” the contract reads.

    But former student Kaya Hudgins, now 22, testified in a deposition that she was told Quiet Time participation was mandatory. And, although the contract calls for permission slips to be signed by parents, Hudgins said students were told not to tell their parents. Hudgins, who grew up in a Muslim home, was 16 when the Chicago school allegedly started to indoctrinate her into TM. Hudgins said she asked if she could do some of her five daily prayers instead during Quiet Time and was denied, and she was sent to the dean’s office for complaining about the program.

    Hudgins said she was first trained to do TM in a room alone with a woman and an altar that had a photo of a Hindu holy man. In front of the photo was a bowl of rice and some fruit that looked like an offering to the photo. There was incense, the woman had a bell, and she recited something in a different language.

    Hudgins said she was given a mantra and was told not to tell anyone what it was. When she researched the mantra’s words, she found it was the name of a Hindu god. Students were reportedly trained to repeat their mantra over and over in their minds during Quiet Time.

    Aryeh Siegel, an expert used by the plaintiff in the case, wrote that the mantra students were taught seemed like just different sounds, but they have a meaning in Sanskrit: “To the effulgent (name of deity), I bow down.” Siegel is the author of the book Transcendental Deception.

    The Federalist reached out to Chicago Public Schools for comment and to see if it still offers “Quiet Time.” The school did not respond.

    The religious aspect of TM is hidden at first. The Hindu American Foundation describes TM as “a practice that is wholly and unequivocally Hindu, but never presented as such, at least not in the mainstream.”

    Attorney John Mauck of Mauck & Baker represented Hudgins and the class of similarly affected students. “This settlement vindicates the concerns of former students and parents that the initiation ceremony and daily meditation regime were effectively demonic invocation and thus violated the Establishment Clause of the Constitution,” Mauck said in an email statement. “We hope this settlement will deter those who exploit young people and that it will encourage the Chicago Board of Education to be wary of harming students by allowing wolves to prey on the sheep they are obligated to protect.”

    “I was just a teenager when I was pressured into a program I didn’t understand and wasn’t allowed to question,” Hudgins said in a statement. “No student should ever be forced into a religious practice against their will — especially not in a public school. This settlement is a step toward accountability and a reminder that our constitutional rights don’t stop at the classroom door.”

    Film producer David Lynch, best known for the eerie 1990 television series Twin Peaks, died in January. He was an avid TM advocate, and his foundation, which was founded to teach TM in schools, has since expanded beyond schools. The foundation has bases in New York and Fairfield, Iowa, home of Maharishi International University and community-wide TM meditation lessons.”

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  25. Wow! RFKJ on Fox just now said Tysons Food (one of the biggest in the food industry) has committed to removing ALL synthetic food dyes from their food products by the end of May. There are 9 synthetic/petroleum-based food dyes they will eliminate. The two worst, #1 Citrus Red & Orange #2, will have their authorizations revoked within the next 2 months. He said the food industry is stepping up and working with them. He has also met with CEOs from the 4 biggest pharmaceutical companies and they are committed to cooperating in lowering prices and doing better safety & efficacy testing.

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  26. Wall Street Apes
    @WallStreetApes
    🚨 The Joe Biden signature scandal goes deep

    “They gathered every document with Biden’s signature over the course of his entire presidency. And it appears that every single signature is exactly carbon copy, perfectly identical”

    Biden didn’t sign anything THE ENTIRE PRESIDENCY

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  28. Hmmm….I think I’ve found a new yard crew. Guy just getting his business started had a flyer up by the PO so I took one of the phone number strips. I called him this morning just to find out what he would charge me; he was on his way here to check on 3 other jobs he has here and stopped a few minutes ago. Nice guy – born & lives in Norfolk, used to be a long-haul trucker hauling livestock.

    He looked at the yard and said he’d mow/weed eat for $50 (Jason charges $60), and I expect he’ll do a better job of it, too. The nice thing is that he has a number of crews and will do other work that Jason won’t do, like scraping/painting, replacing the posts on my gates (which are rotting), etc., etc. Some of the plywood panels on my patio also need to be replaced/painted.

    I started to put another coat of paint on the trellis and the paint needed shaking – came out in a big glop and I don’t have any paint stirrers. I ran down to the hardware store and she put it in their machine and gave me a stirrer. So that’s ready to go…..after I recuperate from the effort of breaking down all those boxes! Sheesh! What a PITA!!!

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  29. “Dangerous Games: The BSL-4 facility at Fort Detrick is a danger to the American public”

    Robert W Malone MD, MS, May 10, 2025

    This image is from “People’s Daily Online,” which is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) . It is used for educational purposes only.

    EXCERPT: “At a BSL-4 high-security risk laboratory located at Fort Detrick, an army base in Frederick, MD, during March 2025 there was a serious incident involving two laboratory workers. It is reported that one of the workers poked holes in the high biocontainment suit of another worker, potentially exposing the latter to at least one dangerous pathogen, although the specific pathogen was not disclosed.

    Dr. Richard H. Ebright reports that the NIH BSL-4 facility at Ft. Detrick is contractor-staffed and contractor-operated. So, neither NIH nor military staff were directly involved in the incident. He found evidence that this facility was staffed and operated through a $116 million minority-set-aside contract to a Native Hawaiian LLC contractor located in an office park in Orlando, Florida.

    These sorts of contracting arrangements are common in the DoD, and reflect preferential award ranking conferred to companies that are native American-owned, which has resulted in a rather odd business model of shell small minority-owned company prime contractors under which the usual larger contractors operate as subcontractors.

    The small minority-owned company prime contractor is granted a few years to operate with these special privileges and then typically folds, a new company is formed with the same basic ownership, the special privileges then apply to the newco for the same period, and the cycle repeats itself. This works for the large corporate “subcontractors” as it provides them some legal cover in terms of compliance with burdensome Federal Acquisition Regulation contract terms and conditions. A win-win for all concerned except taxpayer, government, and warfighter.

    A BSL-4 laboratory is the highest level of biocontainment designed for work with the most dangerous and exotic pathogens. There are reportedly only fourteen Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) laboratories in the United States. The level of training and skill required to work in these labs is extensive, and there are relatively very few people with the skills needed to work directly with such pathogens. Furthermore, Personnel must pass FBI-led security risk assessments (SRAs) to handle Tier 1 agents like anthrax.

    These are the types of pathogens housed in the facilities, most are considered tier 1 pathogens, which are considered the most deadly:

    Generated by CHAT-GP3

    These facilities are supposedly for the development of new vaccines, as it is the official narrative that bioweapons research in the United States ended in 1969. Research yielding new technologies or information with the potential for both benevolent and harmful purposes is referred to as “dual-use research.” The justification for bio-weapons research is therefore carefully parsed to suggest that there are alternative, more benign reasons for conducting this research. But the dual-use narrative doesn’t account for the anthrax research that led to the weaponized anthrax spore leaks that were associated with the anthrax attacks in 2001….”

    https://www.malone.news/p/dangerous-games

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  30. “Numerous outlets reported last night that Mexico has filed a lawsuit against Google after it changed the label for the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on its maps platform to match US President Donald Trump’s executive order to amend the name of the body of water, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Friday. Sheinbaum said at a press briefing that the lawsuit had been filed against the tech giant, without providing additional details.

    The lawsuit comes after Sheinbaum threatened in February to sue Google for the name change. “We are going to wait. We are already seeing, observing what this would mean from the perspective of legal advice, but we hope that they will make a revision,” Sheinbaum said at the time.

    We live in a world of frivolous lawsuits, where the only people getting anywhere are the lawyers. Shakespeare was right all along…”

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  31. “Parts of Florida are facing the most severe drought in nearly a quarter-century, with virtually the entire state under dry conditions ranging from abnormally dry to extreme drought.

    The latest assessments from the U.S. Drought Monitor come as meteorologist Matt Devitt posted on X on May 8 that this is the “WORST DROUGHT IN 24 YEARS across Southwest Florida.”

    Nearly the entirety of Florida’s landmass is now affected by abnormally dry conditions or worse. In addition to persistent heat and a scarcity of rain, the drought has triggered other impacts, from deteriorating air quality to heightened wildfire risk.

    As of early May, more than 84 percent of the state was affected by some form of drought. The U.S. Drought Monitor assessment is published every Thursday, with the most recent data showing a 9 percent uptick in extreme drought over the last week. Now, more than a quarter of the state is battling extreme conditions.”

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  38. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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  42. SALLY Q 🕊️ UPDATE

    Sally passed away peacefully at 5:35 pm today.

    Her battles with Friedreich’s Ataxia and cancer are over and she is free.

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    1. GA, I’m so sorry!
      Sally is at peace and I hope in time, you will find peace as well. I agree with Filly that you should consider writing about your experience.
      We’re here if you want to talk.

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