DIY Memorial Day Pom Pom Eagles

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I found these eagles on SOCCERBLOG.COM website and they are so cute and so easy to make!

Materials Needed:

Craft foam sheets (brown, yellow & orange)

Large brown pom-poms

Large white pom-poms (slightly smaller than the brown pom poms if possible)

Hot glue gun & glue sticks

Google eyes

Begin by folding the orange craft foam sheet in half. Cut out feet for your eagle on the bend. They don’t have to be perfect, but you are welcome to use the photo below as a guideline.

Using the hot glue gun, glue the large brown pom pom onto your orange foam feet.

Glue the white pom pom onto the top of your brown pom pom.

Cut a small triangle from your yellow craft foam and glue to the center of the white pom pom. This will be the beak.

Glue two google eyes above the yellow triangle beak.

Cut two eagle wings from brown craft foam. Glue wings onto both sides of your brown pom pom. Your eagle is finished!

SOURCE: SOCCERMOMBLOG.COM

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  4. Morning All. guess what our weather’s like?

    you got it…RAINING again. I should say STILL. and it’s only 40*.

    this morning when i came down there were 2 bluejays sitting on the railing looking for peanuts. even they think it’s fall again!

    so tired of rainy gray skies!

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    1. Morning, Pat! I’ve got rain in the forecast, too – cloudy at the moment and 48 but it isn’t windy, thankfully – yesterday’s sunshine was a real pleasure and temp got up to 77! Looks like the Orioles might be leveling off a bit – I didn’t have to add much jelly this morning. My new upside/down feeder is supposed to be delivered today. Sure hope it works to keep the blackbirds off! The woodpeckers have been looking…..

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      1. Morning Filly!
        how was your visit with Mom?
        between the orioles and the grosbeaks my little jelly feeder is being emptied by the time i bring it in!
        this morning the bluejays came back and gave the jelly a good look over, but didn’t try it.

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        1. Yeah, the Jays aren’t interested in jelly. Posted @ M’s yesterday:

          Sliding on down…..I’m back! That was a really pleasant visit and it turned into a really nice day – finally up into the 70’s. I told Mom I hate being estranged from her – we are two peas in a pod, after all – and she said she felt the same way. So we have agreed….NO POLITICS!! We are sympatico in every other way. In fact, I’m more like her than any of the other kids.

          I bought her a really nifty seed feeder that is squirrel proof w/a cage on the outside on springs (I used to have one exactly like it that I got in VA but it got blown off the hook here, hit the ground, and broke) – when a squirrel tries to grab on, the cage comes down and covers the seed ports. Her plant holder is different than mine and zip-tied to a steel pole so I had to work out a way to get the Slinky on it but I figured it out. Her feeder is now 100% squirrel-proof!

          After I’d been there for an hour or so, her friends Jenny & Terry showed up, which was my cue to leave. It was Jenny who stood in the way of me getting her on hydroxy when she had COVID and, needless to say, we are NOT in any way, shape or form “friendly!” Frankly, I despise the bitch – she used Mom terribly for a long time. Kind of funny that she is in even worse shape than Mom now and has to use a walker.

          AND…..I did not take cigarettes with me and went 4 hours w/out one. Yeah!!!

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  7. Rep. Nancy Mace:

    BREAKING: We just filed an Official Resolution to Expel Lamonica McIver from the U.S. House of Representatives.

    No one is above the law. Assault is a crime. The American people deserve better.

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  8. Troublemaker10

    May 23, 2025 2:44 am

    ICE begins new, nationwide effort to arrest illegal aliens at immigration hearings

    Excerpt:

    The effort targets illegal immigrants who have been in the U.S. fewer than two years. The DHS strategy is to drop their immigration case, arrest the migrant, then place them into expedited deportation proceedings.

    The initiative requires the DHS to drop the cases because migrants cannot be put forward for expedited removal if they have a pending case.

    ICE sources who spoke with Fox News Digital on condition of anonymity say Americans should expect to see “a lot more” of these kinds of arrests.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ice-begins-new-nationwide-effort-arrest-illegal-aliens-immigration-hearings?intcmp=tw_fnc&taid=682f604af37255000191f0e3&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

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  9. Charlotte99
    Charlotte99
    May 23, 2025 4:55 am

    EXCLUSIVE:

    Judge Myong Joun, the Korean Born, Biden-appointed federal judge who just blocked President Trump from shutting down the Department of Education over DEI and LGBTQ agendas in public schools has a Trans son who thinks he’s a girl!

    The trans son is named Marshall Joun, and he works for his mother’s DEI company called “Diversity@ Work”. Judge Joun failed to disclose the conflict of interest created by his wife’s job, and his son’s mental disorder. Marshall Joun has they/he/she pronouns in his bio on the website for “Diversity@Work” the pro DEI company his mother is the Principal of. Their X handle is @DiverseWork, and Marshall Joun is listed as the Online Content Manager at Diversity@Work (which means he’s probably reading this! Hi Marshall! You’re a man, not a woman and your father is a corrupt judge!

    @LoomerUnleashed cross referenced property records that prove Marshall and the Judge live at the same house in Arlington, Massachusetts. I have the original property and mortgage records for any reporter or lawyer interested in verifying the claims. I don’t want to post them on X because of rules against doxxing, but it’s the same exact address.

    The Korean judge has a trans son and a DEI obsessed wife which is why he blocked President Trump from shutting down the Department of Education over DEI and LGBTQ agendas. This is a massive conflict of interest!

    Receipts at the link

    https://nitter.poast.org/LauraLoomer/status/1925655987509194960#m

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  11. Eric Daugherty
    @EricLDaugh
    🚨 BREAKING: U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro says the death penalty is on the table for the murder of two Israeli diplomats in Washington. https://x.com/i/status/1925708042013753477/video/1

    “The president and attorney general have both indicated that in cases where the death penalty is warranted and seems appropriate, we will use it. It’s far too early to say whether that is the case, but this is a death penalty eligible case.”

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      1. interesting theory at wolfs…

        pgroup2

        pgroup2(@pgroup2)

        Online

        Wolf

        Reply to  patfrederick

        May 23, 2025 08:33

        Why wouldn’t it be? It is obviously a targeted hit, not a random impulse crime.

        Anybody wanna bet me about which one of those was a Mossad double agent being eliminated so that DoD would not have notice of the exact timing of the Israeli strike of the Iranian nuke facilities?

        Bueller … Bueller …

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            1. At some point, the paranoia starts to take control. It’s true, we have to carefully vet everything nowadays but IDT either of the 2 who were killed were bad players. Good grief! The entire meeting was about helping to support the residents of Gaza!!! It just oozes irony!!!

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              1. i think that was pgroup’s point. what would be the reason the kill them unless israel knew one was a moussad agent–actually a double agent– and would leak the date of its attack on iran…i dunno…too complicated to contemplate anymore.

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  12. “Terror in DC: Where We Go From Here”

    Washington Free Beacon Editors, May 22, 2025

    (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “The Washington Free Beacon published exclusive video footage in late October 2023 of two Harvard graduate students accosting an Israeli classmate during an anti-Israel protest. As the Israeli student, Yoav Segev, tried to walk to his dorm, he was surrounded by student protesters who blocked his path and shouted, “Shame! Shame!”

    Harvard took no disciplinary action. Rather, one of the malefactors, law student Ibrahim Bharmal, recently received a $65,000 fellowship from the Harvard Law Review that will underwrite his work next year at the anti-Israel outfit CAIR, and Harvard has celebrated Bharmal all over its website and social media platforms. Law enforcement, meanwhile, charged Bharmal and his pal with misdemeanor assault and battery, and they were ultimately let off with 80 hours of community service and required to attend an anger-management course.

    It’s a microcosm of how the harassment of Jews on college campuses has been handled by many college administrators and law enforcement officials. Even when the police have been called to campus to deal with window smashers, occupiers, thugs—you know, criminals—they have been treated with kid gloves.

    The cold-blooded shooting of two Israeli embassy staffers outside the Jewish museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening is the natural outgrowth of this behavior. The 30-year-old assailant, steeped in the radical anti-Israel and anti-Western ideology in which our universities are awash, is just past college age. So were his two victims, ages 30 and 26.

    The domestic terrorism unleashed in the nation’s capital is just a foretaste of what we can expect if universities and law enforcement, both local and federal, don’t change their approach. Indeed, one of the discontinuities between today’s wave of campus unrest and that of the 1960s has been the absence of widespread political violence across the country.

    In the period of peak radicalism from the late 1960s into the 1970s, shootings, bombings, and hijackings perpetrated by leftwing groups were commonplace, with supporters of “Palestine” playing a prominent role. Between 1968 and 1972, 130 American planes were hijacked. Bobby Kennedy was assassinated on the campaign trail by a Palestinian radical. The Weather Underground terror group bombed targets, including the Capitol in 1971 and the State Department in 1975. In 1970 alone, there were over 450 incidents of domestic terrorism.

    The terrorist who gunned down the Israeli embassy staffers Wednesday night before shouting “Free Palestine!” and “I did it for Gaza!” has ties to today’s wannabe versions of those groups, Black Lives Matter and the Party for Socialism and Liberation. He also worked at a left-wing nonprofit funded by the Ford and MacArthur foundations, themselves backers of a panoply of fringe political endeavors.

    Jews are merely the most prominent targets. Businessmen like United CEO Brian Thompson have also become prey, as have law enforcement officers and janitors. The ultimate target of this movement is America and Western civilization.

    Americans of good conscience, including those in the federal government, can act now—pressing for the death penalty in this case and scrutinizing every group with which the perpetrator was affiliated—or live to regret it later. We can’t say we weren’t warned.”

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  13. EXCERPT: “The Federal Trade Commission is throwing its weight behind a high-profile federal lawsuit led by 12 Republican-led states accusing three of the world’s largest asset managers—BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard—of artificially constricting the coal market in violation of U.S. antitrust laws, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

    The filing in the case is a remarkable move that represents the first time the Trump administration has waded directly into an issue or case related to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies. Led by powerful asset managers and banks, the ESG movement broadly calls for investors to pull money away from traditional energy industries, like coal and oil, and divert it to green energy industries in the fight against global warming.

    “Competition in coal markets incentivizes companies to produce as much coal as the market demands,” the FTC stated in its Thursday brief. “Allowing the marketplace to freely determine the intersection of supply and demand is thus critical to America’s energy security and economic dynamism.”

    “This case is about alleged anticompetitive conduct that increased energy prices for ordinary American consumers and businesses,” it continued.

    The case dates back to November when Texas attorney general Ken Paxton filed a complaint alongside 11 other states, accusing defendants of violating century-old antitrust laws by collectively acquiring substantial ownership stakes in every major coal company in the country before using their newfound influence to pressure the industry to adopt climate goals like cutting coal output in half by 2030.

    Paxton said those actions have contributed to rising electricity prices. Coal-fired power currently generates less than 15 percent of the nation’s total electricity, down from the 33 percent it generated a decade ago, according to federal data. In that same time period, the average price of electricity has steadily increased.

    In its brief Thursday, filed in the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, the FTC made clear its interest in protecting Americans from anticompetitive behavior that “reduces the production of domestic energy, raises energy prices for consumers and businesses, and undermines America’s energy dominance.”

    The brief clarified that antitrust laws allow for passive fund investing and that the federal government does not intend to argue otherwise. The case, however, is about the coordinated use of the power to distort output and prices in energy markets, the commission wrote.

    Paxton’s complaint alleged that BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard ultimately deceived thousands of investors “who elected to invest in non-ESG funds to maximize their profits” but whose money was used to pursue ESG strategies.

    “The President has declared a national energy emergency, and we need competition in coal production now more than ever to help fuel American energy dominance,” Abigail Slater, the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s antitrust division, said in a statement. “American consumers suffer when institutional asset managers use shareholdings in competing companies to orchestrate output reductions.”

    Texas’s complaint accuses defendants of violating the Sherman Act and Clayton Act. Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, West Virginia, and Wyoming joined as plaintiffs…..”

    https://freebeacon.com/energy/trump-admin-wades-into-esg-case-accusing-wall-street-of-shutting-down-coal-jacking-up-electric-prices/

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  14. “Taxpayer-Funded Professional Associations Push Puberty Blockers, DEI, and Support for Hamas, Watchdog Finds: The Society of Health and Physical Educators America, which recommends teaching eight-year-olds about gender identity, is one of many recipients of federal funding to promote radical ideologies”

    Alana Goodman, May 22, 2025

    (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Professional trade groups that push “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” anti-Semitism, and far-left politics are still raking in millions in taxpayer dollars—despite a series of Trump administration executive orders—according to federal spending records. One such organization is introducing young children to radical gender ideology.

    The Society of Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE) America, which represents over 200,000 gym teachers and health instructors, has received over $2.5 million since 2020 from the Centers for Disease Control and the Department of Defense’s educational program for children of American service members. SHAPE helped draft the National Sex Education Standards, which set age-related teaching benchmarks.

    According to the standards, students by the end of 2nd grade should be able to define “gender identity” and discuss the “range of ways people express their gender.” By the end of 5th grade, they should be able to describe the “potential role of hormone blockers on young people who identify as transgender,” “distinguish between sex assigned at birth and gender identity,” and “explain differences between cisgender, transgender, gender nonbinary, gender expansive, and gender identity.”

    By the end of 8th grade, students should be able to define terms such as “queer, twospirit, asexual, pansexual;” various types of sexual activity, including “anal sex;” and “abortion,” according to the standards.

    SHAPE did not respond to a Washington Free Beacon request for comment.

    Despite the Trump administration’s many executive orders regarding government funding—and banning it from going to DEI programs, critical race theory, transgender studies, or anti-Semitic ideologies—many of these groups still receive federal watchdog group Open the Books (OTB) found.

    OTB, which has investigated professional societies and their public funding, said the grant and contract descriptions often leave out references to DEI or other keywords targeted by the Department of Government Efficiency, which makes it harder to identify these organizations. But the watchdog group was able to trace some of the funding, finding potential conflicts with Trump’s executive orders.

    Now, OTB is asking DOGE to take a closer look at the federal funding and activities of these groups, which critics say have gone under the radar. “DOGE should continue its important work by highlighting for the public and policymakers ‘professional associations’ using this strategy,” OTB CEO John Hart told the Free Beacon. “Again, the freedom of assembly does not include a right to public subsidies, particularly when some associations promoting causes like DEI may be violating existing civil rights laws.”

    One such federal recipient is the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE), which represents environmental science teachers and has received over $15 million since 2020 from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of the Interior.

    Some of the funding has gone to the NAAEE’s ee360+ program, which the group describes as a “cadre of environmental education leaders” working to “increase environmental literacy for everyone, everywhere.”

    NAAEE’s prior depiction of the program, which described it as “promoting diversity, inclusion, and equity in all aspects of our work,” appears to have been removed from the group’s public website since last fall.

    The organization’s teaching guidelines focus heavily on racial and gender identity. One of the projects featured in its guidelines is called “This is Indigenous Land Camp,” which is led by “two-spirit (2SLGBTQ+) elders,” and helps participants “grieve climate change related losses through ceremony.” The guides recommend that youth programs offer “Gender-Affirming Sleeping Arrangements” and bathrooms.

    The NAAEE has also hosted a teacher training program called “Decoding Whiteness: Racial Justice for a Re-imagined World,” which gives instructions on “practicing decolonized behavior, decoding whiteness, and engaging in regular anti-racism actions.”

    A spokeswoman for the NAAEE declined to comment. “We are not doing interviews, but focusing on our members who are finding the best ways to use education to create a healthier and sustainable future,” she told the Free Beacon.

    The National Council for History Education (NCHE), which represents history teachers, has received over $3.8 million from the Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Library of Congress since 2019.

    Some of that federal funding supported the group’s “Learning and Exploring American Democracy” project, which has hosted “Equity Summit.” The 2020 Equity Summit featured keynote speaker Hasan Jeffries—the brother of House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.)—who advocated for the removal of a Christopher Columbus statue and other historical figures who were unrelated to the Confederacy.

    “We’re not just talking about Confederate soldiers and monuments to them, we’re talking about all of these figures, all of these memorials that commemorate—that celebrate rather—white supremacy,” he said. Jeffries also claimed that “racism is very much encoded in our DNA” and “racism and capitalism together are really that double helix of our DNA.”

    More recently, the NCHE has opposed the Trump administration’s policies against teaching critical race theory concepts and sexually explicit material in schools and student libraries. Neither the NCHE nor the White House responded to requests for comment.

    Other “professional societies” funded by the government have taken extreme positions against Israel. The American Psychological Association, which received over $11 million in grants since 2020, was accused of “virulent antisemitism” by over 3,500 mental health professionals in February. According to a public letter, the APA’s member listserv contained “antisemitic discourse, often masked as anti-Zionism, including statements like ‘Kudos to Hamas’ and calls for ‘Intifada, Intifada,’” and the group’s conferences featured speakers “notorious for anti-semitic rhetoric” who downplayed “violence against Jews and Israelis” and engaged in “Holocaust distortion.”

    The American Historical Association, which has received over $500,000 in federal funding since 2022, voted to condemn Israel for “scholasticide” in January. The American Sociological Association, which received over $1 million last year, approved a motion denouncing Israel and supporting “scholars’ right to speak out against Zionist occupation.”

    For Hart, this is not an issue of free expression but of government responsibility. “All Americans should cherish our First Amendment right of assembly,” he said. “If free people want to form an association of adult babies, or people who self-identify as cats, no one should stand in their way. But that doesn’t mean they’re entitled to tax dollars to grow their ranks.”

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          1. No need to be sorry, my friend! Wouldn’t it be grand to have just ONE day w/o anything nefarious being exposed??? There is just soooo very much of it and it is intentionally convoluted so the average American can’t begin to comprehend the depths of avarice!

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              1. Working hard, trying to keep their families housed, fed and clothed and just keep their heads above water – all by design from the corrupt PTB!

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  15. “From Million-Dollar Homes to Radical Activism—These Posh Private School Alumni Were Among the Arrested Columbia and Barnard Students: One student won an ‘international friendship’ award before joining a mob that injured two”

    Jessica Schwalb, Jon Levine and Jessica Costescu, May 22, 2025

    EXCERPT: “Emma Biswas grew up in a life of luxury. She led the robotics team at the Harker School, which bills itself as one of the nation’s top college prep schools and where tuition can reach $65,000. While there, she interned with a biotech company that boasts, “Prospective Nobel Prize Winners Work Here.” And until she left for Barnard College, Biswas lived in a San Francisco Bay Area mansion worth about $5.8 million, according to a Redfin estimate.

    Then she was arrested for storming a Columbia University library, along with 80 other radicals. The May 7 mob injured two security officials, damaged bookshelves, distributed pamphlets praising Hamas, and renamed the library after a terrorist. They were led by Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a notorious anti-Semitic group that wants the Ivy League school to cut all ties with Israel, and chanted, “We want divestment now.”

    Emma Biswas

    By joining in those demands, Biswas was essentially taking aim at a source of her family’s wealth. Her father, Baribrata Biswas, has been a senior vice president with Synopsys for over 20 years, according to his LinkedIn page. The multibillion-dollar tech company has offices in Israel, which it calls a “hub for innovation,” and has supplied components to Elbit Systems, an Israel Defense Forces weapons maker that anti-Israel radicals have targeted.

    Biswas was just one of the eight Barnard and Columbia students who attended swanky and prestigious private schools and were charged with criminal trespassing for their roles in the Butler Library storming, a Washington Free Beacon review found.

    Another was Barnard student Luna Firefly Deerfield Cuming Shaw, the granddaughter of Mark Shaw, who describes himself as John F. Kennedy’s unofficial family photographer. He also snapped other celebrities such as Pablo Picasso, Yves Saint Laurent, and Nazi lover and collaborator Coco Chanel, according to his website. Cuming Shaw’s grandmother, Pat Suzuki, is an actress best known for her role in the Broadway musical, Flower Drum Song.

    Luna Firefly Deerfield Cuming Shaw

    [NF: Is anyone else disgusted about that name? Jeez…..why on earth would anyone use that word for their child’s name???]

    Cuming Shaw attended the Putney School in Vermont, which charges day students $50,100 and boarding students $80,200. Despite the price, it advertises itself as a “progressive school” that considers inclusivity “a fundamental principle of the school.” It sports two committees dedicated to the cause, allowing it to remain “in the forefront of the drive for social justice.” Her mother, Juliet Cuming, is a longtime leftwing activist, Barnard alumna, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) supporter.

    Before Marisol Rojas-Cheatham was arrested, the Columbia pre-law student grew up in a Berkeley, Calif., home valued at $1.8 million by Redfin and attended the Bentley School, where tuition can reach nearly $60,000 per year. According to her LinkedIn page, Rojas-Cheatham was the captain of the varsity women’s soccer team, played varsity lacrosse, and was president of the student government, to name a few of her extracurriculars on Bentley’s sprawling 12-acre Upper School campus. Her father, Primitivo Rojas-Cheatham, works at Kaiser Permanente as a training and development consultant and is trained in “somatics, trauma and social justice.”…..

    https://freebeacon.com/campus/from-million-dollar-homes-to-radical-activism-these-posh-private-school-alumni-were-among-the-arrested-columbia-and-barnard-students/

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  16. Hmmm…haven’t the foggiest what this one is about….who is Jim Irsay?

    Wiki: “James Irsay was an American billionaire businessman who was the principal owner, chairman, and CEO of the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League from 1997 until his death in 2025. The son of businessman Robert Irsay, who acquired the Baltimore franchise in 1972 for $12 million and moved them to Indianapolis in 1984, Irsay was general manager of the Colts from 1984 to 1996.”

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  17. I spotted the mama deer this morning, but not the fawn. how did i know it was her? she was eating the grass along the tree line very alertly. twice she tucked into the trees and reemerged so i guess she was feeding. AND there are no other deer around. we’ve learned the signs.

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    1. It can be really fascinating discerning the whys and wherefores of animals!!! As you say, once you know what to look for, they rarely vary the process.

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      1. yup. we were discussing that a few days ago…that most of the deer were still feeding in groups, but we saw one straying off by herself. then we didn’t see any deer and wondered about a bear in the area. (apparently they smell really bad and deer can get a whiff of them in plenty of time to leave.)
        they we saw the little guy down by the stream and it all made sense.

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  18. I Hear You Now
    May 23, 2025 9:27 am

    Sundance retweet

    @ElectionWiz
    May 23 2025

    🔥 BREAKING: A Colombian woman illegally residing in the U.S. used a stolen identity for over 20 years, fraudulently obtained $400,000 in federal benefits, and illegally voted in the 2024 presidential election, federal prosecutors in Massachusetts announced Thursday.

    The defendant, Lina Maria Orovio-Hernandez, 59, also obtained welfare benefits, a REAL ID and eight other state ID’s, the Justice Department said.

    She is charged with false representation of a Social Security number; making a false statement in an application for a United States passport; aggravated identity theft; receiving stolen government money or property; fraudulent voter registration; and fraudulent voting.

    Orovio-Hernandez has been held in federal custody since February, when she was charged with identity theft and other offenses.

    source: https://xcancel.com/ElectionWiz/status/1925737161812251087#m

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  19. Daily Caller News Foundation

    “Upon returning from his trip to the United Kingdom (U.K.), Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk sharply criticized the nation on Thursday while expressing deep gratitude for the United States.

    Kirk spent three days in England. including public debates at Oxford and Cambridge. On his first episode back on “The Charlie Kirk Show,” he described the U.K. as a “totalitarian third world hellhole,” lamenting what he considered the country’s deterioration.

    WATCH: https://rumble.com/v6tqhw5-charlie-kirk-torches-britain-as-totalitarian-third-world-hellhole-after-ret.html

    “It’s tragic. I don’t say that with glib, I don’t say that with delight. It is sad. Britain is why we exist. It’s like going back to the life force and it’s chilling and it’s depressing. There was one cafe that I drove by in downtown London and every single table was taken by a Mohammedan and a fully burqa-wearing woman — not a single native Brit.

    The entire cafe was taken,” Kirk said. “I walk shop by shop — and producer Blake, who did a great job preparing us for Oxford and Cambridge, and he deserves a ton of credit for that — he has his antenna up with this stuff and he was like, ‘I can’t believe how much Arabic there is on the stores here.’ I kid you not, it is store after store and the Brits say, ‘Well, what’s the big deal? Why does this matter?’”

    “I’m not exaggerating this in the slightest … In the hotel I was staying in, I always like watching local TV. So I start flipping through the local TV to see that, you know, what are they consuming? I kid you not, 40% of the TV channels in my hotel were Arabic.

    They had the Yemeni channel, they had the Kuwaiti channel, they had the Oman channel, they had the Iraq TV, they had the Lebanon TV, they had a bunch of Saudi channels, they had the Qatari channel — not an exaggeration,” he continued.

    “The entire TV canon — and I stayed in three different hotels because we were bouncing all over the place — it was the same with the Hilton Garden Inn at the London Heathrow Airport as it was in Cambridge, as it was in London. All of the TV channels are configured to a Mohammedan population.”

    Kirk then condemned the U.K. for arresting numerous people over online posts. These arrests have included individuals who seemed to have no harmful intent, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of multiple reports.

    “They invented free speech, sent it back to our country. There’s so much wrong with that country and it is not worthy of making fun of,” he said. “I mean, you can have some laughs and some comedy, but it is depressing. It is dark. And I came back literally kissing the ground when I came back from London yesterday. Because there’s a lot of problems with America.”

    “But let me give you two things that I think we should be thankful for that we don’t notice. Of course, freedom of speech number one. And then number two: the spirit of America,” he continued. “When we have a problem, we believe we can solve it. There’s is entrepreneurialism. There is this grit. There is this pioneer spirit. And in Britain, they are defeated at the soul. They’re like, ‘Cheers, mate. Country’s done. Let’s go drink.’

    What we have is unique. And it’s a blessing from the Lord.”

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  21. Freedom Ring

    May 23, 2025 10:15 am

    In the 76 day period between Trump winning and Biden leaving office $93 billion was sent from the DOE, who GAVE IT AWAY WITH NO OVERSIGHT, TO ENTITIES WITH NO FINANCIALS

    “The 76-day period you’re talking about, that’s the period between the time that President Trump was elected and President Biden left office — How much taxpayer money went out the door of the Department of Energy?

    From the Loan Program Office in Loans and Commitments $93 billion. Well over twice as much as in the previous 15 years”

    — You’re you’re telling me that the Department of Energy in the 76-day period before their boss was gonna leave office gave our own money to entities that had no business plan?

    “Correct.”

    “No financials?”

    “Correct.”

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    1. Speaking of that…..

      EXCERPT: “The longer the Biden administration is out of office the more we’re finding out about just how disastrous and crooked it was. You already know that the media has taken the “now it can be told” approach when it comes to the steps the White House took to attempt to hide Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, and now we’re finding out more about why the Democrats have been freaking out about Team Trump’s focus on eliminating federal government waste, fraud and abuse.

      There are reasons — billions and perhaps trillions of them — that the Democrats have had a meltdown about the new administration and DOGE.

      Watch this exchange between Sen. John Kennedy and Energy Secretary Chris Wright for a greater understanding of the kinds of boondoggles taxpayers were being ripped off in order to fund, and it accelerated as January 20th approached:

      https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/05/23/sen-john-kennedy-floored-by-energy-secretarys-testimony-about-biden-admins-last-minute-loan-approvals-n2413228

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  22. Wethal
    May 23, 2025 9:51 am

    Some of the posters here have noted that FRCP 65(c) requires that the plaintiff seeking an injunction in federal court post a bond:

    (c) Security. The court may issue a preliminary injunction or a temporary restraining order only if the movant gives security in an amount that the court considers proper to pay the costs and damages sustained by any party found to have been wrongfully enjoined or restrained. The United States, its officers, and its agencies are not required to give security.

    The Lawfare plaintiffs have not been doing this, and the Democratic judges have not been requiring it.

    Tucked into the Big, Beautiful Bill is a provision that states:

    “No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued.”

    https://www.newsweek.com/hidden-provision-trump-bill-court-2075769

    So presumably if Trump were to disregard these injunctions, the judge would not be able to find the administration in contempt unless the judge had first required a bond.

    Robert Reich and Edwin Chermirinksy are upset. Heh.

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  23. cv relief funds were sent to other countries?

    TheLastRefuge

    @TheLastRefuge2

    Can someone point to the voters or Americans who approved/requested that congress send hundreds of millions in COVID relief aid to foreign nations? Point to one set of voters who approved and requested it. If you can’t, then ask why congress would do it?

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  24. Garland Favorito
    @VoterGa
    74% VOTING SYSTEM ERROR- Saved By Hand Count!

    In this VIDEO clip, DeKalb Board of Elections Attorney, Brent Herrin explains to the State Election Board that: “…TABULATING MACHINES WERE NOT ACCURATE. A decision by the board was made to do a HAND RECOUNT to ensure accurate results of the election,” Keisha Smith, DeKalb Elections Director, nods her head repeatedly in agreement.

    Duh! Isn’t that what we have been saying for 20+ years?

    Georgia’s Dominion voting system declared the wrong winners for the May 22, 2024 DeKalb Co. District 2 Commission primary. It only became known because a candidate received no votes in the precinct where she and her husband lived and voted. When she reported the problem to the DeKalb Election Board, they ordered a machine recount that produced the same results again. They then conducted a hand count of the race that proved the voting system shorted the candidate 3049 of her actual 4078 votes, over 74% of her total votes. The system gave 1456 of her votes to one of her opponents and failed to count another 1805 of her votes. The July 15, 2022 DeKalb Co. Election Board materials attributed the massive miscount to a complex ballot alignment error after one candidate withdrew from the race. However, no one has ever been willing to explain why the system failed to count 1805 votes.

    So what really happened?
    Logic and accuracy testing obviously did not catch the error (we told you it is unreliable);

    There were a combination of problems due to candidate withdrawal, restricting changes, inadequate testing and unhelpful instructions from the SOS office;

    We now know the SOS office told DeKalb to disable the counting of one candidates votes which did not resolve the issue and complicated the problem even further;

    We also know that Georgia still suffers from the QR Code Signature Mismatch Error that caused entire ballots to be rejected in Tennessee;

    The Tennessee SOS recommended discontinuing the use of the nearly identical Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5 system we use in Georgia.

    But what if the candidate had not gotten zero votes in her own precinct? How many times has this happened without detection? We will never know. This is a national security issue.
    That is why we need to UNPLUG VOTING SYSTEMS throughout America and replace them with publicly recorded hand counts. No secret counts, no disputes, no machine errors. Just honest, accurate results.

    http://VoterGA.com

    @GaHouseHub
    @GAHouseDems
    @GASenateGOP
    @GASenateDems
    @EmeraldRobinson
    @Rach_IC
    @theprofsrecord
    @realtinapeters
    @realDonaldTrump
    @TulsiGabbard

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  25. Aw, hell’s bells! Another miscalculation! Got the new feeder and seed blocks; I did a quick SWAG after looking at the measurements on-line and figured (hoped) the seed blocks would fit…..nope! The feeder is for the SMALL seed cakes! OK, so I’ll cut them off on the ends – I had no idea how difficult that would be! Tried the big butcher knife – didn’t even make a dent! Time for the handy-dandy tree saw – jeez, that took a lot of work….sigh…..so I put the old feeder with one of the big blocks out front under the arbor and the trimmed-down block in the new feeder. It is too tall and the lid won’t completely fit but we’ll see what happens…..now I have to get some of the small seed blocks for that. I swear….these birds are gonna be the death of me!!!

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      1. Yep! I thought these kinds of transplants have to be done while the patient is alive…..or at a minimum, immediately after death. How can any of those organs even be viable????

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        1. this is why i am not going to be an organ donor next year when i renew my driver’s license. they take your organs before you’re dead–they essentially have to. and then they SELL them to people on the list that need them. disgusting.
          i thought I’d donate them and someone who really needed one would get it–nope, they gotta pay for it.

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          1. Really…..yep, I think I will change mine as well. Hmmmm…..I wonder if that’s something I could put in my Will…..that any organs retrieved are NOT to be sold…..another legal question to get answered!

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  28. Ukrainian Incursion Forces Set Up Bases in Russian Churches – Putin

    Ukraine’s armed forces used churches in Russia’s Kursk Region as strongholds during their failed incursion, President Vladimir Putin has said. He noted that many of the buildings suffered serious damage during the liberation of the region.

    Following a meeting with the heads of the region’s municipalities on Tuesday, Putin called on local authorities, including the acting Kursk governor, Aleksandr Khinshtein, to create a special program to assess the damage and submit proposals on how to restore the churches as well as repair associated buildings.

    During his trip to Kursk, which was only made public on Wednesday morning, the president emphasized the integral role of the Russian Orthodox Church, stating that it had “been with its people throughout history.”

    Putin’s visit to Kursk marked the first time the Russian president had traveled to the region since it was fully liberated from Kiev’s forces last month. Ukraine launched its incursion into the border region last August in what it claimed to be an attempt to seize territory as leverage for eventual peace negotiations. — RT

    Our Take: The Ukrainians were converting Russian churches into bases, thus forcing the Russians to attack the churches in order to drive out the Ukrainians and reclaim Kursk? Putin really is up against a cabal of God-hating satanists.

    For the record, I do not expect there to be a ceasefire or a brokered peace. I expect that President Trump will voice his frustration with Zelensky and his ilk — that they refused to accept the peace that Steve Witkoff negotiated on their behalf — and walk away from the situation.

    President Putin said that one of his conditions for ending the war was to address the root causes of the war, which would be the devil-worshipping psychopaths who took control of Kiev in 2014 with the Maidan Coup, and installed members of the Israeli Mafia as interim president until new “elections” could be held.

    Both Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have said that they have no interest in negotiating peace with these animals, as doing so would only enable them to regroup, re-arm, and resume their aggressive campaign against Russia in a few short years.

    To me, that signals that Putin and Lavrov believe Russia is on a “kill or capture” mission when it comes to Ukrainian leadership, and I don’t expect any of these Ukrainian leaders to allow themselves to be taken alive, given the horrific crimes they have been committing in Crimea and eastern Ukraine over the past 11 years.

    The satanic regime in Kiev must be destroyed. That is the divine mission on which Vladimir Putin is set, and why it is, indeed, “Righteous Russia.” (h/t Burning Bright). — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry

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  29. More WZO Election Fraud Alleged as Global Jewish Communities Prepare to Vote

    Investigations continue into widespread voter fraud for the World Zionist Congress in the United States as ballots are tallied, even as preparations are underway for other countries to hold their local elections.

    The number of allegedly suspicious votes continues to rise, and more than 15,000 ballots are now likely to be thrown out, sources told The Times of Israel. When the election ended on May 4, it was believed that 10,200 votes would be disqualified.

    The new figure would represent more than six percent of the record 238,000 votes cast during the two-month online US vote.

    Results of the hotly contested online election are due at the end of May, although it is likely they will be delayed due to the investigation, a source said.

    The World Zionist Congress, created by Theodor Herzl in 1897 and often called “the parliament of the Jewish people,” is charged with budgeting more than $1 billion a year in allocations to various Jewish and Israeli causes.
    — The Times of Israel

    Our Take: … could this be what Q meant by “saving Israel for last?” As in, last to be affected by election fraud?

    I jest, but wouldn’t it be hilarious if Jonathan Greenblatt and the ADL accused this WZO election of being antisemitic, and then Congress finally found the motivation to pass meaningful bipartisan legislation that solved all of the election integrity issues… for Israel and the Diaspora?

    Seriously though, this might be the only way we actually get Congress to address election integrity. (Because both parties only seem to get animated and pass bipartisan bills when the thing they are voting on is related to Israel.)
    — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry

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  31. FOUL-MOUTHED Vile Posts By Emily Sommer as She’s Arrested For ‘Spitting in US Attorney Nominee’s Face on Live TV & Bragging About It’

    THE woman who is accused of spitting in a US Attorney nominee’s face during a live TV interview bragged about the brazen attack in taunting social media posts, prosecutors say.

    Emily Gabriella Sommer has been arrested after investigators tracked down her trolling posts targeting Donald Trump’s former top prosecutor, Ed Martin.

    Investigators honed in on the woman after finding an X user with the name “lefttits” who said in multiple replies to Martin’s posts, “That was me that spit in your face today.”

    In the comments, the user bragged, “Hi, hello. A pleasure to hawk a dehydrated, pithy white foam spit into your face.

    “I only apologize that this city left me so dehydrated and unable to get water that I couldn’t produce more to stain and drip down your face.” The user then ended each reply with a smiling poop emoji. — The Sun

    Our Take: There is something so vile and animalistic about spitting. It’s uncivilized and presents humans at their worst. Within that context we find Emily Sommers, a privileged white woman who bragged about assaulting Ed Martin on Facebook.

    That’s right, spitting is assault. “The Department of Justice has charged her with one count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding a government official.”

    What a dumbass. — Ashe in America

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  32. Russian Army Chaos as North Korean Discipline Collapses and Troops Go on Drunken Rampage

    North Korean soldiers serving with Vladimir Putin’s army have been accused of going on drunken rampages and terrorising local Russian communities. Pyongyang sent around 11,000 soldiers to Russia last year, in a bid to boost the Kremlin’s troop numbers on the front lines.

    The North Koreans have been deployed to the Kursk region, where they were involved in fierce battles with Ukraine’s army. They have provided much-needed support to Putin’s beleaguered army, helping to retake most of the territory seized by Kyiv’s forces last August.

    However, reports have emerged of North Korean soldiers binge drinking, stealing and trying to rape women. — Express

    Our Take: Now THIS is the kind of psyop that I signed up for, and it has been too long since we’ve had a splash of Trump-a-Mania around these parts.

    It makes me both happy and strangely proud to watch Kim Jong Un and the North Koreans provide almost all of the comic relief in WW3. The scriptwriters really seem to understand their characters and are playing to their strengths.

    The chances of this story being completely false are extremely high, given the accolade and recognition that President Putin and others in the Russian government have given to the North Korean soldiers who reportedly helped drive the Ukrainian forces out of Kursk and reclaim the captured Russian lands. The Russians noted the NorK’s bravery and complete disregard for death. Perhaps they were just hammered and that liquid courage helped them take the field.

    I would actually argue that this report is very damaging for the West, not North Korea, as it suggests that the North Koreans are so well trained and talented in the art of combat that they can even win major victories and drive the armies of Europe from the battlefield while they are blind drunk.

    You’re telling me that these NorK’s are a bunch of rowdy drunks who do nothing but dominate on the battlefield, and that’s supposed to make me suddenly dislike them? Why couldn’t the sober Ukrainians defeat these mad lads? Does North Korea even have alcohol available for its citizens? Was this the first time any of these guys had a drink? And they got blackout drunk and won WW3? The legend just keeps growing.

    We need to invite these NorK’s to GART Deadwood. I bet they are incredible at karaoke. — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry

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  33. Taxpayer Cash Earmarked for Disease Prevention Was Used to ‘Queer’ Children Instead.

    The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) in California reportedly misused federal funds meant for disease prevention to finance LGBT student clubs and gender activism programs.

    The funds, part of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grant designed to reduce HIV and sexually transmitted diseases among students, were instead funneled into woke Genders & Sexualities Alliance (GSA) clubs.

    Between 2018 and 2023, OUSD received over $3 million through the CDC’s “Healthy Oakland Teens” initiative.

    Nearly $60,000 of these funds were allocated to pay staff members, referred to as “LGBTQ Liaisons,” to oversee GSA clubs in middle and high schools and to promote “affirming” environments for LGBT students. An additional $50,000 was later directed toward similar programs for elementary school students.
    — The National Pulse

    Our Take: Expect a lot more headlines like this. The Biden Administration tried to make everything gay. Even disease prevention. What other funding sources do you think they embezzled for gay stuff? — Ashe in America

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  34. Calif: Plane Crashes into San Diego Neighborhood, Killing Several and Igniting at Least 15 Homes

    Multiple people have been killed after a private jet crashed into several houses in a San Diego, California, residential neighborhood early Thursday morning.

    Assistant Fire Department Chief Dan Eddy said during a news conference that the Cessna 550 made a “direct hit to multiple homes” and vehicles around 4 a.m. local time, causing a “gigantic debris field” in the Tierrasanta neighborhood of San Diego.

    “We have jet fuel all over the place,” Eddy said, confirming that at least 15 homes went up in flames due to the crash.

    Meanwhile, it has not been confirmed how many people were aboard the plane, but officials did confirm multiple fatalities of those aboard the aircraft and that no residents of the neighborhood required hospitalization.
    — One America News Network

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  35. Enough with the news….time for some memes! But first…..

    “The blowback from Springstein’s rants in Manchester continue. It appears shit really does roll down hill…

    A Bruce Springsteen cover band has been canceled from playing at Riv’s Hub – a nightclub/restaurant in Toms River, NJ due to politics. 

    Musician Guy Fleming said “I can’t really believe this happened, but it did. I’m slightly reluctant to share, however I feel it’s in the best interest of my friends and fellow musicians in New Jersey, especially the Toms River area. My band, No Surrender, was scheduled to perform May 30 at Riv’s Toms River Hub. We were hired as a Bruce Springsteen tribute act.

    Unfortunately, the owner contacted us after Bruce made comments that upset him. The owner told us he didn’t want us playing in his club. Our response was simple. We understood it was his establishment, and felt terrible he was that upset. We offered to play completely different music. Explaining to him that all nine people in the band are professional musicians that play in numerous different bands, and when you book us months in advance, we blackout those dates as booked. And when you cancel a week in advance, it financially hurts the musicians in the band because they lose a days pay if they can’t find another gig.

    I explained to the owner that he wasn’t hurting Bruce, but he was hurting nine New Jersey musicians he booked to play at his club. He said, “his clientele and Toms River is red and won’t tolerate his bullshit.” I explained that we wouldn’t play any Springsteen music. Still he said no.

    Additionally, No Surrender is not the first Boss tribute band to be affected by Trump and Springsteen’s mutual ire. In 2017, the B Street Band — the preeminent local act covering Bruce’s tunes — was widely vilified after it was booked to play a Trump inaugural ball in Washington (Trump himself was not expected to attend). They eventually withdrew from the gig.”

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  37. Dr. Malone: “Is there any truth to this? Did Obama behind the decisions being made at the Biden White House? Well, the answer is most likely yes…

    President Donald Trump appointed Ed Martin to the following posts, Director of the Justice Department’s new Weaponization Working Group, Associate Deputy Attorney General and U.S. Pardon Attorney.

    In these roles, Martin is tasked with leading investigations into what the administration describes as the “weaponization” of government agencies, particularly regarding alleged political targeting during the Biden administration. As Pardon Attorney, he will oversee federal clemency applications and advise the president on pardons.

    Ed Martin had a whistleblower come forward who was in the Biden White House. That person has identified the following three “gatekeepers” to President Biden. They are Ron Klain, Biden’s White House chief of staff from 2021 to 2023 who then returned last year amid Biden’s debate preparation; former senior Biden adviser Anita Dunn; and Barack Obama’s former personal attorney Robert Bauer. Of note, Anita Dunn and Robert Bauer are married.

    When AI was queried about these “gatekeepers relationship to Barak Obama, this was the summary response:

    • “Ron Klain’s relationship with Barack Obama was that of a senior adviser and trusted operative within the Obama administration. Klain served as Chief of Staff to Vice President Joe Biden from 2009 to 2011, making him a key figure in the White House and a close collaborator with both Biden and Obama during Obama’s presidency.
    • Robert Bauer’s relationship with Obama was that of a trusted legal strategist, personal attorney, and White House Counsel, with ongoing influence as a close adviser and appointee on major commissions throughout and after Obama’s presidency
    • Anita Dunn’s relationship with Barack Obama is that of “a trusted adviser, strategist, and confidante, with a record of close collaboration and mutual respect that continued well beyond her formal White House role (per CHAT-GPT3).”

    So, in fact, these relationships indicate that Obama played a key role in running the Biden presidency, as his ongoing and close relationships with the people fingered by Ed Martin were the gatekeepers to Biden. These are the key figures who were most likely responsible for the autopen signatures that Biden clearly was unable to understand.

    Ed Martin also suggests that the whistle blower believes that there was money involved in the choosing of who was to be pardoned. However, the question arises – did these gatekeepers actually make the decisions for Biden or were there also Biden Family members involved?

    I am sure that Ed Martin will now turn to finding the email and memos on this subject. Things are about to get interesting!”

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  44. “Disney and ABC News have asked this self-righteous POS and her equally loathable co-hosts of The View – especially that fat, unfunny fuck Joyless Behar to tone down their political rhetoric. Since President Donald Trump’s election in 2024, the panel of co-hosts on The View—Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin—have consistently criticized Trump administration officials and policies.

    But their constant bitching and moaning – and lying – about Trump in general and anyone who disagrees with them and their whacky, too-far-left politics seems to have roiled the network’s top bosses, including Disney CEO Bob Iger and ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic.

     So, knowing these people, they won’t back off, and eventually someone somewhere in the Ivory Disney Tower is gonna pull the rug out from under them – if they can – in a figurative sense. There’s a coupla pretty serious heavy weights (I mean size, not intellect) on that panel…”

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  45. “The bloodstained leather gloves that were in Lincoln’s pocket the night he was assassinated were among the 144 items up for bid, 136 of which sold.

    They were auctioned to pay off the remainder of a two-decade-old loan that the Lincoln Presidential Foundation used to buy a one-of-a-kind cluster of Lincoln artifacts from a California collector.

    So, if I read that whole thing right, that foundation borrowed money from somebody to buy this shit, but then had to sell it to pay back the loan. Makes perfect sense to me. Man, that’s just embarrassing as fuck…”

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  46. Sheesh! Stay the hell out of Turkey!!! And WTH is a “destitute” hospital???

    EXCERPT: “A young mother died in mysterious circumstances while on holiday in Turkey – with a UK autopsy revealing that doctors had removed her heart without her family’s knowledge. 

    Beth Martin, 28, from Portsmouth, was rushed to hospital after she became ‘delirious’ just one day into a dream trip away with her husband Luke and two children, aged eight and five. She was quickly placed into critical care but tragically passed away around a day after she was first admitted on April 28. 

    Beth’s family claim they were kept in the dark about the seriousness of her condition and subsequent death – with Luke even being accused of ‘poisoning’ his wife by the Turkish authorities. And in a further sickening development, a UK autopsy later revealed Beth’s heart had been removed after she passed away in Turkey, according to a GoFundMe page set up to raise money for her family. 

    It is also understood the hospital where Beth was treated is now being investigated for potential negligence amid the raft of claims levelled against them. It’s understood she was allergic to penicillin, with her loved ones alleging that doctors gave her the drug before her death. 

    Beth’s family have now been left desperately searching for answers about how and why she died – with Luke saying he has suffered the ‘deepest level of trauma.’ He said having to tell his young children they will never see their mother again ‘broke him’ and he described the ordeal as the ‘worst week of his life.’

    ‘Two weeks ago me, my wife and two kids set out for a family holiday to Turkey. Only three of us made it back,’ Luke wrote on social media on May 11. ‘I lost my wife, my children lost their mum, we lost the biggest piece of the puzzle that was our family. It has been the worst and most traumatic week of my entire life, and to top it off. I had to break the news to my babies that their mum isn’t coming home, it broke me.’

    The Martin family flew out to Turkey on Sunday, April 27, but it is understood Beth started to feel unwell soon after they touched down in the airport. Luke called an ambulance the following day and she was taken to a ‘destitute’ hospital where she was quickly moved into intensive care. 

    According to the GoFundMe page, Luke was ‘banned’ from seeing his wife and was not regularly updated on her condition while she was being cared for. It is understood that doctors did raise some concerns about Beth’s heart but she died the day after she was admitted to the hospital. 

    To compound the nightmare, Luke was reportedly accused of poisoning his wife and interrogated by police. He was subsequently cleared and no further action was taken…..”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14737127/Mother-28-mysteriously-dies-family-holiday-Turkey-autopsy-reveals-hospital-removed-HEART.html

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          1. I wouldn’t mind seeing Idaho in the summer – the only time I was there was in February and it was soooo cold, icy and snowy. Plus, I turned around and went back to CO immediately the next morning – I was just giving a friend a ride. But what I could see was gorgeous!

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  47. I wholeheartedly agree with this but, tbh, I’d prefer surgical castration! They can always stop taking the “chemicals!”

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  49. Well, I found a large enough upside/down feeder for the 2 lb. cakes….for $50!!!! I just don’t know if it’s worth it….

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  50. If this is true, WTH was the point of all the work DOGE has done to date??!!??

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    1. American Wire News: “U.S. Sen. Rand Paul has called on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to rein in food stamp spending, but MAGA voters aren’t feeling his request at all. “Taxpayers are on the hook for $400 million/day in SNAP funding, and the program is riddled with waste, fraud, and abuse,” the senator tweeted Wednesday afternoon. “Time to get @ElonMusk and @DOGE involved so we know how widespread this issue is,” he added.

      Yet surprisingly, Paul’s post prompted massive pushback from the right side of the political aisle, with critics arguing that DOGE and its mastermind, Elon Musk, deserve much better treatment than they’ve received thus far from the Republican Party. The problem, the critics complained, is that despite DOGE and Musk having made billions of dollars worth of spending cut recommendations, congressional Republicans haven’t codified a single spending cut.

      To make matters worse, Republicans reportedly didn’t include a single DOGE-recommended cut in the “Big, Beautiful Bill” that they just pushed through the House late this week.

      This is a huge problem, critics say, because Republicans won’t have another chance this year — if ever at all — to bypass the Senate filibuster using budget reconciliation, the process they’ll be relying on to carry the “Big, Beautiful Bill” to President Donald Trump’s office.

      Meaning that if the final version of the bill doesn’t include DOGE cuts, then DOGE cuts likely won’t ever be codified into law. Many conservatives suspect that Musk is keenly aware of this. The proof lies in some of what Musk said while speaking at the Qatar Economic Forum earlier this week.

      For example, he explicitly noted that DOGE’s work is meaningless unless congressional Republicans do their job. “The ability of DOGE to operate is a function of whether the government — and this includes the Congress — is willing to take our advice,” he said. “We’re not the dictators of the government — we are the advisors. And the progress we’ve made thus far is incredible.”

      “The DOGE team has done incredible work, but the magnitude of the savings is proportionate to the support we get from Congress and from the executive branch of the government in general,” he added.

      Listen:

      During the forum, Musk also revealed that, despite all the money he’s spent and effort he’s made, he doesn’t intend to stick around in the political realm much longer. “In terms of political spending, I’m going to do a lot less in the future — I think I’ve done enough,” he said. “If I see a reason to do political spending in the future, I will do it. I don’t currently see a reason.”

      Why might he not “currently see a reason” to spend more? Perhaps because congressional Republicans have been a big disappointment?

      Musk isn’t the only one who’s become disillusioned. So has Matt Van Swol, a former Democrat voter who turned to the right but is now turning against them precisely because of their inability or refusal to codify DOGE’s spending cuts into law.

      “I was SO excited for this administration because of the promise of DOGE… but then I watched as the GOP do NOTHING while Elon’s businesses were bombed and Teslas were vandalized,” he tweeted Thursday. “Not one vote. Not a damn one.”

      “Months went by. Still no votes. We are now AT THE END OF MAY AND WE STILL HAVE NOT HAD A SINGLE F–KING VOTE ON THE DOGE CUTS!!! THE END OF MAY! My only conclusion can be that the GOP does not WANT to end the waste and fraud,” he added.

      “This is a sobering realization for everyone who was STOKED for Elon and DOGE. Mark my words, this betrayal will haunt the GOP forever,” Swol concluded.”

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