The Stone Horsemen

Mysteries 3 Minutes

Filly brought these wonderful stone creations to my attention. This article appeared on the Arkeonews.net website:

Deep within the rugged Pir Panjal range in Jammu and Kashmir, India, lies a captivating mystery known as the Mysterious Horsemen. These ancient stone figures, scattered across secluded sites, have puzzled historians and archaeologists for years, their origins and purpose shrouded in enigma. The craftsmanship displayed in these sculptures is remarkable, raising questions about their creators and the intentions behind their construction.

In the outskirts of Reasi district, specifically in the Gool tehsil, lies the infamous Gora Gali. A Russian expedition team, led by Natalia Polosmak, conducted a general survey of the area due to the presence of man-made and natural water ponds. To their surprise, they discovered an army of approximately 200 horsemen sculptures, arranged haphazardly over an area of 4-5 acres of inaccessible land in the woods. This remote area is uninhabited and difficult to reach from the main road, although a trail built by the army provides some access.

The locals believe that these sculptures were created during the period of the Mahabharata, when the Pandavas resided in the ancient town of Reasi and practiced stone engraving and sculpting. This belief has led to the development of a devta culture among the people, who worship these horsemen as local deities. However, further analysis of the sculptures reveals fewer Indic features and more foreign artistic forms. All these sculptures are believed to date back to the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, a period during which the Gandhara school of art was emerging.

The horsemen exhibit striking similarities with the artistic features of the Gandhara school and Bactrian art forms. Their facial features resemble those found on Hephthalite coins, characterized by large facial structures, long straight noses, flat-cut necks, almond-shaped eyes, and round eyeballs. These features reflect the anthropological characteristics of the population at that time, influenced by Western art forms from Greece and Rome.

The way in which the horses are adorned indicates that ornamentation held significant importance. The horsemen are depicted wearing large round earrings and carrying unique weapons associated with the Hephthalites. Anthropologists suggest that one of the tribes of Hephthalites that settled in this region was the Dogras, the current residents of Jammu province. Moreover, the artistic forms used in these sculptures are polished and refined, showcasing a high level of skill.

A unique feature of these structures is that all the horses carry three soldiers on their backs, which can be observed in most of the sculptures. This detail may indicate the physical strength of the horses and suggest that they were of a pure breed. The remarkable craftsmanship involved in sculpting the stone deserves appreciation, as it reflects the artistic prowess of the creators.

The origins of the horsemen remain enigmatic, fueling speculation and scholarly debate. Various theories have been proposed, with connections to the White Huns (Hephthalites) and Mihirkula being central to these discussions. Some suggest that the horsemen may be linked to the White Huns, a Central Asian tribe that ruled the region between the 5th and 7th centuries. This timeframe aligns with the estimated period for the creation of the sculptures, providing a potential historical context for their existence. The cultural influences reflected in the sculptures may also hint at the interactions between different civilizations during this period.

Mihirkula, a feared leader of the White Huns, is often associated with the era of the sculptures, although definitive evidence of his involvement remains elusive. His reputation as a formidable leader adds a layer of intrigue to the mystery, suggesting a possible connection to the creation of these figures. However, the lack of concrete evidence highlights the challenges of reconstructing ancient history and understanding the true purpose of the horsemen. Theories abound, but the absence of definitive proof leaves much to the imagination.

The purpose of the horsemen remains unexplained, with no definitive answers emerging from ongoing research. Some scholars speculate that they may have served as memorials, commemorating significant events or individuals, while others propose that they could have had a religious or ceremonial function. The ambiguity surrounding their purpose only adds to their allure, inviting further investigation and research to unravel their secrets.

As an ancient puzzle, the Mysterious Horsemen continue to captivate the imagination of those who encounter them. The combination of their scale, detail, and isolation creates a captivating sight, leaving a lasting impression on all who visit these remarkable stone figures. The ongoing exploration of their origins and significance not only enriches our understanding of the region’s history but also highlights the enduring mysteries that ancient cultures have left behind.

SOURCE: ARKEONEWS.NET

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  1. Good morning, Pat and Filly,

    My bet is those horsemen are the spirit, soul and body of deceased warriors and the sites are burial sites where ashes were interred or scattered.

    We are entering a very hot wet period now in N FL and S GA – going from 20% chance of rain today to 80-90% chance Mon-Wed next week. That means mosquitos and mildew, a specialty in these parts.

    We will finish cleaning out Sally’s apartment today. Everything is piled in the apartment with a leak – and will be sorted through. A lot more of Sally’s and my stuff from home. needs to be given away to the Village thrift shops.

    I’m taking a load of stuff home tomorrow in the wheelchair van and will wash and vacuum it (if the rain holds off) and get it serviced and ready to sell on Monday. The wheelchair repair guy may have a buyer for the van in a city near the Village. If not, I’ll sell it back to the dealer.

    Hope you all have a good day – especially hope Pat’s Mom has more comfort and care, and Filly continues to heal and enjoy her garden!

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    1. Morning GA!
      I don’t envy you the mosquitoes and the mildew! I have a short haircut, but any humidity makes it frizz…lol
      i use a curling iron to straighten my bangs but the humidity makes them curl…sigh.
      I hope things go well for you and have a chance to decide what’s next for YOU. you deserve to nurture yourself and feed your soul GA!

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    1. Morning, Pat! We had a hell of a thunderstorm and downpour around 3 am so it’s really humid, which, of course, makes it more difficult to breath. I dropped the A/C to hopefully make up for it. I’m guessing the grape jelly is grape juice once again! LOL

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      1. Morning Filly!
        our skies are still gray and clouded over.
        I had grape water when i brought it in before bed too.
        I wasn’t going to put it out, but 2 grosbeaks we riding around on the hummer feeders like they were amusement park rides, so i figured i better put some out this morning. lol

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  4. BREAKING: Jill Biden’s longtime aide Anthony Bernal is DEFYING Congress and REFUSING to testify tomorrow about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline after the White House waived his executive privilege.

    He’s running scared. The cover-up is collapsing. We will subpoena him immediately.

    Read Chairman @RepJamesComer‘s statement:

    “Now that the White House has waived executive privilege, it’s abundantly clear that Anthony Bernal – Jill Biden’s so-called ‘work husband’ – never intended to be transparent about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and the ensuing cover-up. With no privilege left to hide behind, Mr. Bernal is now running scared, desperate to bury the truth. The American people deserve answers and accountability, and the Oversight Committee will not tolerate this obstruction. I will promptly issue a subpoena to compel Anthony Bernal’s testimony before the Committee.

    “Just yesterday, we heard from our first witness, Neera Tanden, the former Staff Secretary who controlled the Biden autopen. Ms. Tanden testified that she had minimal interaction with President Biden, despite wielding tremendous authority. She explained that to obtain approval for autopen signatures, she would send decision memos to members of the President’s inner circle and had no visibility of what occurred between sending the memo and receiving it back with approval. Her testimony raises serious questions about who was really calling the shots in the Biden White House amid the President’s obvious decline. We will continue to pursue the truth for the American people.”

    Anthony Bernal is the guy that people were intimidated by and possibly afraid of, and now he’s scared to testify. 🤔

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    Days ago, we were all looking at the pictures of Al Fordow to ascertain how badly the site was damaged following the B-2 strike using MOPs (gbu-57s).

    The strike was clever– first six went went through the air shafts as evidenced by the before and after the ventilation shaft building being obliterated. Why is this important? A lot of the criticism of this strike was people doubting the GBU-57 even with repeated strikes to same impact point could make it through the mountain. Spoiler: it did. But these six made it down the ventilation shaft WITHOUT having to bore through the mountain, directly into the main hall where the centrifuges and other sensitive equipment were.

    Now about the other six impacts: the GBU-57 has enough power to go through 300 feet of hardned concrete OR rock. Meaning the first three would have broken apart the mountain and made it unstable, causing the mountain over the facility to be susceptible to collapse. The second three would have punched the rest of the way through these holes and also made it into the mail hall of Al Fordow at the other end. The holes match the schematics and are at either end of the facility.

    So, to sum up, nine of the twelve GBU-57 MOPs would have entered the Al Fordow main hall nearly untouched where they detonated with full force. The other three would have been used to smash and disrupt the rock overhead making a collapse likely. The overpressure from the nine would have created the conditions favorable to collapse the site from the inside.

    There is subsidance (think land slide and shape changes) to the mountain near the GBU-57 aimpoints suggesting the facility did indeed collapse.

    More: there is evidence of extreme fire and its aftermath in the commercial satellite after photos, shown as a grey blue ash all over the mountain coming from the GBU-57 aimpoints, and this matches numerous videos and pictures taken by locals. There is photographic and video evidence that an intense fire inside the facility burned for up to eight hours after the strike shooting fire hundreds of feet in to the air for hours.

    So what was it in Al Fordow that burned so intensely? The answer is in the reports. Official word has been released here on X that the Administration and US Military is sure that the Iranian Regime had moved the HEU 60% to Al Fordow for safe keeping as they didnt believe the site could be penetrated. This is likely true, given the facility had been under Intelligence/Surveillance/Reconnaissance watchy by ISR drones 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for months.

    So what was it that burned?? The Highly Enriched Uranium. I checked the Material Safety Data Sheet on Uranium 235 **powder** and here is what it says:

    Is Uranium 235 Flammable?
    Yes, powdered uranium-235 is flammable. Uranium metal powder is autopyrophoric and can burn spontaneously at room temperature in the presence of air, oxygen, and water.4 The adiabatic flame temperature of uranium in air and oxygen are 3773 K and 4843 K, respectively.2 Additionally, uranium is highly flammable, and finely powdered uranium can literally catch fire on contact with air.

    Now lets talk about Natanz. Some reports of OSINT accounts, and others like Jenn Griffin are claiming Natanz was also not struck sufficiently. Here’s what we know: Natanz wasnt buried half as deep as Al Fordow. It was well within the capabilities of a single GBU-57 to penetrate and destroy. However we know for sure they used two GBU-57s on that site, and the aimpoint where it entered the underground facility is visible on commercial satellite imagery.

    In short, all three facilities are 100% dead. There’s no undoing what was done to them, they are a total loss. And there is strong circumstantial evidence the Highly Enriched Uranium is also gone, having been the fuel that caused the intense fire at Al Fordow.

    Another tell: Israel hasnt felt the need to revisit any of those sites with aircraft other than Al Fordow for good measure. NATO is jubilant.

    The middle east nations are also happy with the outcome of the strike. The reality is, if those sites survived, even just partially, there’s no way the reaction across the board would be this pleased with the outcome.

    The disinformation about the effectiveness of this strike is politically motivated, not supported by the data that is publicly available. Now, think about the ISR data we dont have. The reason the White House and Pentagon are speaking with such certainty is because they ARE certain. Operation Midnight Hammer was a total success

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  10. “Trump is NOT One of “Them”

    Clandestine, Jun 25, 2025

    “I understand why many were fearful that Trump might start another 20 year war. They saw that our Presidents in the past were compromised by the Deep State. What these people do not see, is that Trump is simply not compromised by the Deep State.

    He is not one of “them” and he just proved it. He has no desire for war. He has no desire to get the US entangled in foreign conflicts to feed the war machine. He has no desire to destabilize nations for the CIA. He has no desire for regime change.

    How do I know he is not one of “them”? Because ever since Trump came down the escalator, it has been 99.999% negative coverage from the media. They tried to remove him from office. They tried to imprison him. They tried to bankrupt him. They tried to overthrow him. They indicted him. They raided his home. Then they tried to kill him on live TV.

    The reason they expended so much ammunition trying to stop Trump, is specifically because he is NOT one of “them”, and they knew it, which made him an existential threat to their power.

    What the Trump-haters are missing from their analysis, is that Trump is actually a good leader, who actually wants to do good for the world, and actually knows what he is doing. Which I know is hard for everyone to believe, because most of the world have never seen a competent leader in their entire lives.

    Once you understand Trump is not controlled and is actually trying to dismantle the Deep State, you can never unsee it.”

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  12. “Trial Date Set for Three Men Charged in Iranian Assassination Plots Against Trump, Dissident Farhad Shakeri, an ‘asset of the Iranian regime,’ allegedly plotted the assassination of Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad in addition to President Trump”

    Jon Levine, June 25, 2025

    L: Donald Trump (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) R: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

    NEW YORK—The three men charged in an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate President Donald Trump and an Iranian dissident on U.S. soil now have a trial date: March 9, 2026, federal judge Lewis J. Liman ruled from his courtroom in New York City on Tuesday.

    The judge set the date at a pre-trial hearing between the Department of Justice and lawyers for two of the accused, Carlisle Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt. Both defendants appeared shackled in the courtroom. A third accused man, the Afghan-born Farhad Shakeri, did not appear in court and is currently hiding out in Tehran.

    Shakeri, an Afghan national, is accused of having plotted the assassination of President Donald Trump on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). He immigrated to the United States as a child before being deported in 2008 after serving a 14-year sentence for robbery and is—according to prosecutors—an “asset of the Iranian regime.”

    “According to Shakeri, in approximately mid-to-late September 2024, IRGC Official-I asked Shakeri to put aside his other efforts on behalf of the IRGC and focus on surveilling, and, ultimately, assassinating, former President of the United States, Donald J. Trump,” a November 2024 criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of New York reads.

    Shakeri said his IRGC contacts informed him that the country had already spent “a significant sum of money on efforts to murder [Trump] and was willing to continue spending a lot of money in its attempt to procure [Trump’s] assassination.”

    The “other efforts on behalf of the IRGC” mentioned in the complaint refer to a separate plot to assassinate Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad. Shakeri allegedly enlisted Rivera and Loadholt to help him carry out the murder.

    The Tuesday hearing, which had been delayed several times owing to a “voluminous” amount of discovery, was largely procedural. The court scheduled additional pre-trial hearings for August 18 and September 18.

    Assistant U.S. Attorney Jacob H. Gutwillig told the court he expected the trial to last two weeks. “The government has made significant discovery production,” said Gutwillig, adding that they had been in talks with the defense. Gutwillig said the government would likely file a Classified Information Procedures Act motion, indicating that prosecutors will likely present classified material at the forthcoming trial.

    The government’s discovery includes Google, Apple, and WhatsApp accounts, cell phone records, and recorded phone calls, the government said during the arraignment earlier this year.

    “The targeting of former and current American officials, including President Trump, by brazen foreign actors will never be tolerated,” a Department of Justice spokeswoman told the Washington Free Beacon. “The Department of Justice will use every tool at its disposal to disrupt this egregious activity and levy the full force of America’s justice system on those who conspire to harm U.S. citizens.”

    In addition to Trump, Iran has allegedly targeted former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, former national security adviser John Bolton, and former State Department official Brian Hook.

    Recent reporting from National Review details the extent of the Iranian threat against Trump. The Islamic Republic “gave a green light to try to kill the president” and successfully hacked Trump campaign officials’ email accounts.

    A different man with ties to Tehran, Asif Merchant, was arrested and charged in July 2024 with a plot to kill U.S. officials. He allegedly paid $5,000 to an undercover officer he believed was a hit man. The U.S. government opened its investigation into Merchant after learning that Iran sought to assassinate Trump.”

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  14. EXCERPT: “President Donald Trump’s team of Department of Justice attorneys plans to take their tariff case to the U.S. Supreme Court if a federal appeals court doesn’t rule in their favor.

    DOJ attorneys argued in a new brief that the Court of International Trade erred in ruling that the president doesn’t have unilateral authority to impose tariffs on U.S. trading partners around the world. They argued that if the CIT decision was upheld, it would disadvantage the U.S. as Trump seeks to reorder global trade through tariffs to put America at the center.

    “The CIT’s injunction would, if affirmed, disrupt the Executive Branch’s ongoing, sensitive diplomatic negotiations with virtually every major trading partner,” attorneys for the administration wrote. “And it would unilaterally deprive the United States of a powerful tool for combating systemic distortions in the global trading system, thus allowing other nations to continue to hold American exporters hostage to their unreasonable, discriminatory, and sometimes retaliatory trade policies.”

    They added: “If the Court affirms the judgment, we respectfully ask that the Court extend its stay … to allow the government to seek relief from the Supreme Court.”

    Trump has turned to the nation’s highest court multiple times this term after federal judges blocked large parts of his domestic agenda.

    The administration appealed after a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade unanimously ruled in May that Congress did not give the president tariff authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977. The Court of International Trade gave Trump 10 days to unwind all the tariffs he issued under IEEPA. The federal appeals court granted the administration’s request for a stay, putting the Court of International Trade ruling on hold while the appeal continues.

    Trump’s attorneys said presidents have used IEEPA authorities multiple times over the years. They pointed to President Jimmy Carter, who invoked the IEEPA to seize Iranian assets in response to the hostage crisis at the American Embassy in Tehran. President Ronald Reagan issued executive orders “banning commerce with Libya and freezing all U.S. assets of the Libyan government and its agents.” President Bill Clinton “blocked Russian assets related to the implementation of an agreement for the disposition of highly enriched uranium extracted from nuclear weapons.” President George W. Bush used IEEPA to “maintain the export control system previously established under a different statute. Biden also used the IEEPA. But none of those presidents used the IEEPA the way Trump has: To issue worldwide tariffs on nearly every U.S. trading partner……”

    https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/trump-plans-take-tariff-case-supreme-court-if-needed

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  15. “Hamas Claims Responsibility For NYC Mayoral Primary”

    U.S. · Jun 25, 2025 · BabylonBee.com

    Image for article: Hamas Claims Responsibility For NYC Mayoral Primary

    NEW YORK — The Hamas terrorist organization has claimed responsibility for the results of last night’s mayoral primary in New York City.

    “Our glorious freedom fighters have delivered an attack on New York City that the Great Satan will not soon forget,” stated Hamas spokesman Abu Obaida. “We take responsibility for the heroic operation that has begun the city’s deliverance to Allah. The intifada has been globalized.”

    Hamas went on to state that last night’s primary was the first wave of assaults directed at destroying American cities and paving the way for attacks on the Jewish community. “We shall make New York City crumble,” said Obaida, waving his AK-47. “Hamas will unleash government-controlled grocery stores, free injection sites, and many other powerful assaults. No one will be able to withstand us, Allah be praised!”

    At publishing time, Hamas had also claimed responsibility for the Tucker Carlson podcast.

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  16. “Second-Edition Copy Of ‘The Communist Manifesto’ Currently Leads NYC Mayor Race”

    Politics · Jun 24, 2025 · BabylonBee.com

    Image for article: Second-Edition Copy Of 'The Communist Manifesto' Currently Leads NYC Mayor Race

    NEW YORK, NY — All eyes have turned toward the New York mayoral primaries, as a new poll indicated that a second edition copy of The Communist Manifesto now holds a sizeable lead over other Democratic Party candidates.

    Though incumbent Mayor Eric Adams and former Governor Andrew Cuomo have maintained their share of support, the second edition of The Communist Manifesto surged in popularity due to how closely it matches the values and ideals held by a vast majority of Democratic Party voters.

    “It says all the right things,” said one Democratic voter after casting her ballot for the manifesto. “We have always leaned toward the more progressive candidates, but nothing comes close to how far this manifesto is willing to go. The more I read what it says, the more I want this document to be the leader of New York City. Let’s stop beating around the bush with these other candidates and go straight to the source of our party’s platform.”

    A spokesperson for The Communist Manifesto welcomed the growing support. “This is the candidate that best represents New York Democrats,” said the campaign’s press secretary. “The second edition of The Communist Manifesto has been standing up and promoting the thoughts and views of Democrats for years, so it’s only right for it to take its rightful place as mayor of New York City.”

    At publishing time, analysts were projecting the second edition of The Communist Manifesto to secure the party’s nomination for the general election and coast to an easy victory in the general election before furthering the city’s descent into third-world ruin.

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  19. “Islamist Winning NYC Mayor Primary 25 Years After Sept. 11 Shows Even Legal Immigration Is A Huge Problem — For Democrats, the most American thing you can do is destroy America, and anything done to preserve tradition is un-American.” 

    The Federalist, By: B.L. Hahn, June 26, 2025

    mayor candidate in news interview

    “Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old communist, Islamist, and state assemblyman, declared victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary on Tuesday, defeating former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani was backed by leftists such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The general election will be held in November, after which Mamdani will likely become the next mayor of NYC.

    Mamdani is originally from the failed, poverty-stricken, war-torn African nation of Uganda. Naturally, this makes him the best person to run an American city of more than 8 million people with an annual budget of $100 billion (polling indicates that Mandani won college-educated voters, further demonstrating that degrees seem to be making people dumber by the second).

    Mamdani is not shy about his radicalism. The day after the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack by Hamas, Mamdani rushed to X to justify the atrocities. He supports a variety of Marxist economic policies such as state-run grocery stores that purposefully avoid profits (imagine AOC’s explanation when one of these stores is looted). He also supports a variety of pro-criminal initiatives.

    The point here is not to explain why these ideas are flawed or why they will make the city even more unlivable if Mamdani wins. If voters in NYC haven’t figured this out by now, and many obviously haven’t, then they never will. The idea is to once again point out that legal immigration has fundamentally reshaped our electorate. Who comes here is far more important than how they get here. Some of the worst migration outcomes have been the result of legal immigration. The many examples of this include the Somali gangs running parts of Minneapolis, the U.S. street celebrations over the massacre of noncombatant Israelis on Oct. 7, and the increasing waving of other countries’ flags at leftist U.S. political events.

    Despite the absurdity of New Yorkers possibly electing an Islamist as mayor less than 25 years after 9/11, prepare to be told by the left that a foreign-born Muslim seizing political control of America’s largest city is the most American thing ever. In fact, suggesting that there’s something deeply wrong with it makes you the radical.

    Having what used to be our mightiest city captured by a hostile adversary who despises everything American will be characterized as “the American dream.” It’s a dream alright, just not an American one. But for the Democratic Party, the most American thing you can do is destroy America, and anything done to preserve the traditions of our people is un-American. This gibberish isn’t supposed to make sense, it’s intended to shut you up through accusations of bigotry if you dare to point out that immigration has, by design, made victories like Mamdani’s more probable.

    When Democrats characterize something as American or un-American, these words have no actual meaning – they are nothing more than mouth sounds with fleeting definitions that change by the second, depending on which usage accrues power to the Democratic Party at any given moment.

    Despite being constantly told that Americans are intolerant, we have been far too tolerant, especially on immigration. It is our fatal flaw. Tolerance is touted as a virtue, but much like diversity, tolerance is not inherently good or bad. It’s just a vague description that lacks meaning without additional context. In this case, it has been decidedly negative to the point of ushering in civilizational suicide.

    America’s enemies have long understood what many Americans have denied, all to avoid uncomfortable realities about cultural differences. After all, liberalism at its core can be distilled to a single principle — the reckless disregard of uncomfortable truths.

    As I mentioned here, 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed predicted what’s happening today in NYC and across the broader West when he told one of his interrogators:

    “Your civil liberties, openness and willingness to be responsive to other peoples’ cultures are weaknesses and flaws that Allah put into the American culture so that you could be defeated. Like-minded jihadi brothers will immigrate to Western democracies and to the United States, they will wrap themselves in your civil liberties for protection and support themselves in your welfare systems while they spread their jihadi message, and then, when the time was right, they will rise up and attack.”

    That we have not heeded this warning is shameful. If we do not get serious about an America-first immigration policy, there will soon be nothing left to save.”

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  21. Florida Hillsborough County Candidate Alleges Altered Certification Reporting
    By Jerome R. Corsi

    William “Billy” Christensen, a veteran GOP politician and a former candidate for Supervisor of Elections (SOE) in Hillsborough County, Florida, has submitted a criminal complaint to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), seeking to have the FDLE engage in an investigation generating an indictment. In the complaint, he alleges that he has documentary evidence challenging his loss in 2024 to Craig Latimer, the incumbent Democratic Hillsborough County SOE.

    In the complaint, Christensen alleges that unknown Florida election officials altered the official Hillsborough County SOE reporting of certified results in his 2024 race with digital edit marks and overlays, indicating post-certification tampering. Christensen claims that altered vote totals in the certified results shifted the Hillsborough County SOE election to the Democrats by including false votes generated through a fraudulent mail-in ballot scheme.

    At Christensen’s advice, we took the 2024 Florida general election results, reported in PDF format by the Hillsborough County SOE’s office, and converted the report into a Microsoft Word file. While the alteration of the data was not apparent in the official PDF report, the anomalies emerged in the underlying MS Word file from which the PDF version was generated.

    Examining the “Early Vote” and “Vote by Mail” columns closely, the numbers appear larger and bolder than those in the previous three columns. In his criminal complaint shared with the author, Christensen claimed that “these edit marks appear in the SOE election [in 2024] and a handful of other locations within the report but not in any historical report dating back over a decade.”

    In the same complaint, Christensen alleged,

    The final certified election results report published by the [Hillsborough County] SOE’s office [in the 2024 election] contains visible digital artifacts and edit marks in the section covering the SOE race. These marks indicate either data was altered, and comments or revision indicators were left behind (e.g., from Adobe, MS Word, or another editing tool), or information was superimposed or graphically layered over the original before publication, a digital forgery.

    Christensen further alleged that these alterations violated the following Florida statutes: FS §104.13—false return or certification of the election, a felony of the third degree (with a penalty of up to 5 years in prison and a $5,000 fine), and FS §104.15—willful neglect or fraud in election returns, also a third-degree felony.

    In his complaint, Christensen alleged that the alteration of certified results reporting was an inside job occurring within the Hillsborough County SOE:

    The final results report is computer-generated and then printed, reviewed, and certified by the County Canvassing Board. However, it is critical to note that the physical printing and generation of this report are handled internally by the SOE’s office, and there is no indication that the canvassing board visually reviewed the printed version line by line during certification. Given that the version containing anomalies was the one later published for public consumption, it is without question that any edits were made post-election and pre-certification, meaning the alterations could only have been made by someone within the SOE office itself. The responsibility for producing the final, unaltered version lies squarely with the SOE, and this breakdown in the chain of custody and transparency is deeply troubling.

    In an email to the author, Christensen also claimed that the Hillsborough SOE’s office blocked his efforts to observe how certified election results were tabulated and reported:

    The (certified vote results) report’s production and printing were handled entirely inside the SOE office, without public or canvassing board line-by-line review. During the legally mandated public test of the election reporting process, I requested to observe how reports were generated and printed. The election supervisors’ second-in-command resisted and refused to show this process, behavior now explained by the discovery of these covert alterations.

    According to the official results from the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections, Christensen led in the early voting, gaining 163,222 votes to Latimer’s 147,239 votes. Christensen also led in the election-day voting, gaining 79,200 to Latimer’s 66,328. Latimer won by nearly doubling Christensen’s total in a surge of mail-in votes, with Latimer gaining 129,245 votes to Christensen’s 64,502. In a study of Florida’s Division of Elections voter registration database, Dr. Andrew Paquette found an exceptionally large number of same-name/same-age matched pairs (number = 1,626,404), far greater than random chance would predict among Florida’s 16.4 million voters.

    Paquette’s various studies of State Board of Election (SBOE) voter registration databases, as published on GodsFiveStones.com have repeatedly found that matched-pair voter records, or “clones” (often described as “modified duplicate voter records”), by their very existence, inherently violate the Help America Vote Act’s (HAVA, 2002) requirement that no voter should have more than one SBOE Voter ID. Paquette has also found that the deliberate creation of “clone” (i.e., “modified duplicate”) voter records is an indication that cryptographic codes embedded in SBOE voter registration roles facilitate mail-in ballot fraud.

    As J. Todd Ward reported in The Miami Independent, “At the center of Christensen’s complaint is the final certified election results report from the Hillsborough County SOE, helmed by incumbent Craig Latimer, ironically, the very race in which Christensen ran.”

    Christensen’s charges against the Hillsborough County SOE echo charges made against the same SOE by Republican Rocky Rockford, who “lost” a 2024 race for a U.S. House seat to Democrat incumbent Kathy Castor in Florida’s Congressional District 14, which straddles both Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, and includes the cities of both Tampa and St. Petersburg.

    Peter Ticktin, a long-time associate of President Trump, represented Rockford in an election challenge involving alleged mail-in ballot fraud. According to Florida election law, requests for mail-in ballots must include the voter’s driver’s license number or the last four digits of the Social Security number. Vote-by-mail (VBM) ballots that don’t include either are considered “No-No” votes. Ticktin uncovered 592,225 VBM “No-No” ballots issued to requestors, of which 475,000 were returned to the counties where they were voted. On September 9, 2024, approximately one month before the election, 196,986 “No-No” requests for VBMs arrived in Pinellas County.

    Dr. Andrew Paquette has found that the November 2024 Florida voter rolls contained 2,293,149 records that shared names with at least one other record. Of these, 935,654 records show an exact name and same age match (341,630 records matched to 594,024 other records). Paquette’s research has established that algorithms embedded in official state election board voter rolls make it possible to create hundreds of thousands of “modified duplicate” voters characteristic of suspected mail-in ballot fraud. To those aware of the algorithms, what allegedly happened in Hillsborough aligns with a clear pattern: a candidate losing in the early and in-person voting ends up winning once a surge in mail-in ballots is counted.

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  25. Just The News: “The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld South Carolina’s ban on funding for Planned Parenthood for non-abortion services, notching a win for conservatives who have long hoped to strip the abortion provider of state financial support.

    The justices voted 6-3 in favor of the ban, with Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch authoring the majority opinion. The ruling permits the state to bar Medicaid from issuing reimbursements to the organization for even non-abortion-related procedures and services, such as cancer screenings.

    23-1275_e2pg.pdf

    Planned Parenthood, primarily known as an abortion provider, regularly highlights its non-abortion-related services when under public scrutiny. The organization’s suit argued that the removal of their clinics from the state’s Medicaid roster ran afoul of patient rights to choose their providers.

    The organization has struggled in the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion in 2022.”

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  26. what a bunch of pampered pussies. this costs 7 BILLION?

    article

    House appropriators’ Capitol concerns include crossing guards, allergy-friendly food and elevator repairs

    The $6.7 billion Legislative Branch bill is set for a full-committee markup Thursday.

    House appropriators released their committee report Wednesday for the Legislative Branch funding bill, which includes detailed guidance on how they’d like Capitol Hill offices and agencies to spend fiscal 2026 funding. Here’s a sampling of what’s on their minds ahead of Thursday’s full-committee markup:

    Member security: The report instructs the security agencies under congressional purview, including Capitol Police, to direct patrols to buildings and locations “where the Members tend to congregate” and to educate members on how to stay safe while outside the Capitol complex.

    “The Committee is concerned about the current level of security measures across the Capitol campus, particularly when Members of Congress are travelling across the Capitol Plaza to vote,” reads the 38-page report.

    The report also includes notice that Congress will not continue funding a Capitol Police pilot program of field offices across the country tasked with investigating threats against lawmakers, saying “there has been insufficient return on investment for this program.”

    Road safety: Lawmakers want more designated parking spaces for expectant mothers and a crossing guard for busy Independence Avenue. The report recommends that the Capitol Police Board “review the current motorized device policy” due to “continued interest of members, staff, and visitors” in electric scooter use on the Capitol campus.

    Food: “The committee underscores the importance of providing an accessible workplace for those with food allergies and celiac disease,” says the report. It instructs the House Chief Administrative Officer to prioritize working with campus food service providers “to ensure that food is available, prepared, stored, and labeled appropriately.”

    Company cars: Appropriators raised questions about the number of Capitol Police employees who have take-home vehicles provided by the department. The panel “fails to see any value in home-to-work vehicles for civilian employees and expects to see a responsible reduction in the number of all home-to-work vehicles.”

    Elevators: The panel raises concerns about “the increased regularity of elevator outages in the House Office Buildings.”

    Dome tours: The coveted tours all the way to the top of the Capitol Dome are hard to come by and can only be scheduled by lawmakers. “It has become increasingly challenging for Member offices to reserve a Dome tour,” the panel complains.

    https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/25/congress/appropriators-capitol-concerns-00423211

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  29. OK – apologies extended and appointment set for September for the oxygen, nicotine, urine, etc. testing. The DAV (Disabled American Veterans) will pick me up at home that morning and bring me home afterward.

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  30. Just The News: “Former President Biden aide Anthony Bernal was subpoenaed on Thursday by House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., in an investigation into the former president’s mental acuity.

    Comer issued the subpoena after Bernal, who was also former first lady Jill Biden’s senior adviser, decided not to appear for a closed-door interview after the White House waived executive privilege for former Biden officials, Fox News reported. The subpoena is for a July 16 deposition.”

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  31. Phew! Finally, BMO has received the deposit and I can tell Chance to cash the check I gave him. What a fricking relief!

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  32. “Regime Change SITREP #13”

    Michael T. Flynn LTG USA (RET), Jun 26, 2025

    “There has been a lot of discussion on regime change given the war between Israel and Iran. What does it mean, what are the challenges and what are the consequences?

    I personally don’t believe the U.S. can deal with a fanatic Iranian regime screaming “death to America” whose people live as though they have a boot on their throat. HOWEVER, it is the people of Iran that have to decide how to get that boot off their throat.

    If they find it in them, America will be their best friend on all issues surrounding geo-politics (ie., opening trade, military to military relationships, even likely reopening our embassy which was destroyed and Americans held hostage).

    Anyway, this is more of an FYI than a call to action but it’s clear our track record for regime change is poor. Regime change summary statistics (U.S. executed regime changes since the Iran regime change in 1953 to the most recent Syria regime change):

    Total Regime Change Attempts: ~72

    Successful Regime Changes: ~26 (~36% success rate)

    Failed Attempts: ~46

    Involving War or Military Force: ~16

    Involving Assassination Attempts: ~10+

    Involving Bribery/Election Meddling: ~30+

    Likely Illegal under U.S. Law Today: ~20+

    Major sources:

    1. Lindsey A. O’Rourke, “Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War” (2018)

    2. William Blum, “Killing Hope”

    3. Stephen Kinzer, “Overthrow”

    4. U.S. Senate Church Committee Report (1975)

    Declassified CIA documents and the FRUS series.

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  35. wth?

    CM-TX

    June 26, 2025 2:00 pm

    🤨

    “The U.S. Department of Justice has closed its investigation into Epic City, a proposed Muslim-centered development in Collin County. The project’s attorney called the decision a victory and criticized political interference. If approved, the 400-acre community will move forward in Josephine. ”

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  39. “Where is the capital of ‘SWAMP ASS’?

    The national swamp ass center located in Lakewood NJ has put the entire northeast under a stage 5 swamp ass warning. Until further notice expect major swamp ass, humiditities, jelly roll rash, and thick thigh rub.  

    Ways to combat swamp ass: 

    1. Bring extra underwear. 

    2. Put deodorant all over your body. Under your arms, balls, tatas, and fupas. 

    3. Lay next to a fan on high speed and stretch your legs. Let the cool breeze get all up in there. Gentlemen if you must lift up the sack!

    4. Stay inside. If you try leaving you’ll sit in traffic anyway. 

    5. Carry ice packs and tape them to all creases in your body. The cooling will feel fantastic until it doesn’t.

    6. Stop being fat.”

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  40. Chicken shit!

    Just The News: “Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said Thursday that he will not overrule the Senate parliamentarian on GOP Medicaid cuts in the budget reconciliation bill.

    Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough rejected Republicans’ plan to cap the states’ use of healthcare provider taxes to collect more federal Medicaid funding, per a Democratic summary of the parliamentarian’s ruling. 

    The provision would have generated hundreds of billions of dollars in savings to offset the cost of making President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent.

    Senate Republicans’ options to bypass the parliamentarian’s rulings include having a simple-majority floor vote to establish a new precedent, which would expand the scope of what is eligible under reconciliation, or attempting to rewrite the cap in a way that meets the parliamentarian’s approval.

    “No. That would not be a good outcome for getting a bill done,” Thune told reporters at the Capitol regarding overruling MacDonough, The Hill news outlet reported.

    Thune said that Republican leaders knew “it was going to be an interesting conversation” with the Senate parliamentarian about the provision, but he believes there are actions that senators can take to find similar savings.

    “These are … short-term setbacks,” Thune said. “Speed bumps, if you will. We’re focused on the goal. We were obviously trying to get as much in terms of savings as we could. We pushed hard to try and achieve that,” he also said. “There are things that we can do,” Thune said. “There are other ways of getting to that same outcome.”

    Regarding his plan to hold a vote on Friday to begin consideration on the floor, Thune said, “We’ll see,” noting ongoing discussions with the parliamentarian. “We’ll see how it all lands.”

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  41. “Midnight Hammer is a Future Deterrent”

    Clandestine, Jun 26, 2025

    “It does not matter what the MSM say about how long the Iranians were set back on their nuclear program. The timeline is irrelevant.

    The fact of the matter is, that Iran know that if they try again, we can delete them off the map, without suffering a single causality. Trump just showed the unparalleled power and precision of the US Military, and Iran know that if they flirt with nukes, we can destroy them with relative ease, and Trump took it VERY easy on them this time. This operation served as a future deterrent via show of force.

    And it was not just Trump who didn’t want Iran to have a nuclear weapon. All the other Muslim nations in the region, Saudi, Qatar, UAE, in addition to Russia, China, the EU, and all the other powers of the world, also agreed Iran should not have a nuclear weapon, hence why they agreed to stand down and let Trump attack without retaliation.

    Iran was isolated by the world, and everyone sided with Trump. The objective was not to delay Iran from making nuclear weapons. It was to deter them from ever trying it again.”

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