What Shall We Make Today?

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Since it’s July, I found some patriotic desserts for those July 4th picnics! Today’s offering is Edible Eagles!

Ingredients

1/4 cup white chocolate chips

6 large marshmallows

finely shredded coconut

6 chocolate covered sandwich cookies (like Oreo Fudge Creams)

6 whole cashews

black decorator’s gel

Directions

Melt chocolate chips according to the package directions. For each bird, drop a large marshmallow into the melted chocolate, using a spatula, coat it well. Remove the marshmallow from the chocolate and roll it in the coconut, leaving one end uncovered. Immediately set the marshmallow, coconut free end down, atop chocolate cookie. Let the chocolate set a bit, then use a toothpick to make a hole in the side of the marshmallow and insert a cashew in the beak. Finally, add black decorator’s gel eyes.

Enjoy!

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103 thoughts on “What Shall We Make Today?”

  1. Good morning, Pat and Filly!

    Love the American Eagle cookies!

    High: 89 °F – Slight Chance Showers this morning, then 70% chance of showers in the afternoon/evening. On Friday, 4th of July – 50% chance of rain, high 93.

    I’m home for a few days. Sold the wheelchair van back to the dealer (at a great loss), but it is now 5 years old and has 5K more miles on it.

    Have to replace 20 year old wall oven. They are coming to take out the old oven and measure the cabinet today. The new one is nearly the same, but I have to get my yard guy who is a finish carpenter to adjust the hole a little bit height-wise.

    I’ve started cleaning and hauling stuff. Have a lot to do both here and at the Village.

    Still praying about what to do, where to live.

    Hope y’all have a great Independence Day – no alien space invaders or the earthly illegal kind either.

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    1. Morning GA!
      you’re making progress! that’s all that matters. you’re moving forward–where that leads you.
      boy a wall oven sure sounds like a good decision now that i’m getting old…lol
      bending over with a 25 pound turkey is a younger woman’s game…LOL
      hope your fourth is a good one too!!

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            1. never made a hen. my son and his wife come everything Thanksgiving–it’s his favorite meal. so much so, that he learned to make it all himself and they enjoy it several times a year. i always but 2 turkey breasts (no one likes dark meat) and i make one Thanksgiving and one the next day when we have the same meal all over again. did i mention there are never any leftovers?

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          2. This year, I may roast a turkey breast or hen, make pan dressing, roux gravy, fresh cranberry sauce, vegetables, homemade rolls, Pumpkin Mousse in a graham cracker pecan crust, with brandy sauce, toasted pecans and whipped cream. :8->

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  2. Morning All!
    the thermometer is too misty inside to read–guess that’s a lot of humidity?
    gotta do a mini banana run this morning and then try to locate my mom.
    I called her room yesterday and a man answered. i asked for mom and he told me this is Helen’s room (not my mom).
    she thought my brother was going to find another place for her, and i told her to call me when she knows where and gets settled. My brother doesn’t talk to me and my sil isn’t answering my texts.
    my pissed off meter is OFF the charts currently. we were going to go see her this Saturday, but now everything is up in the air again.

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    1. Definitely too much humidity! Sorry to say this but your bro and SIL are pure evil in my eyes. How could they possibly be so cruel??? Can you call the management directly and ask them?

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      1. Morning Filly!
        they will not give out information over the phone.
        I told Mom when she began telling me that my brother was “moving” her somewhere that she had to let me know when and where as we were coming down this weekend (last weekend too). I waited all day Monday for her to call. when i called her, the line just rang and rang. (i thought she was in the bathroom or maybe bingo or walking as she supposed to do.) she never called me Monday. So i called yesterday and that’s when a man answered. I called the floor and spoke with the “head nurse” who told me she couldn’t give out patient info over the phone.

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    1. Charlotte99
      Charlotte99
      July 2, 2025 3:21 am
      Reply to Troublemaker10

      What percentage do the “bundlers/collectors” take for their efforts?

      I see Mamdani an an Obama stooge.
      Same East African roots
      Same commie fathers
      Cell phone tracking put him at Obama DC mansion several times

      @TonySeruga
      Jun 25

      GPS—puts Zohran Mamdani at Barack Hussein Obama II’s War Room twice in 6 weeks.

      Also present were leaders from the Muslim Brotherhood and what certainly appears to be two Iranian MOIS operatives, very likely IRGC Unit 840.

      Both are physically linked to Majid Dastjani Farahani, having meet Farahani in Venezuela in June 2024, with the timing, they very likely were discussing the ass@ssination of President Trump.

      These were the same operatives who were regularly is the company of fake federal agents with every agency from the Department of Homeland Security, to the U.S. Marshals, Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali.

      One was Pakistani intelligence while the other was Iranian.

      See the first comment below. It’s unfortunate most Americans do not fully understand just how evil Barack Hussein Obama II is.

      Obama is a terrorist.

      Obama’s War Room is located at 2446 Belmont Rd NW, Washington, DC 20008 and just a short 4 minute stroll away from the Islamic Center of Washington D.C.

      Do you really believe that was just a coincidence?

      SERIOUSLY? If there were any legit journalists they’d be reporting all of the comings and goings at Michelle’s War Room since Thursday?

      Anyone that doesn’t admit Barack is in charge is either ignorant or lying.

      I said previously, Barack Obama is the most powerful man in the Democratic Party. Period. End of story.

      He is a radical Islamic and the actual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.

      https://nitter.poast.org/TonySeruga/status/1937904518676775052#m

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  8. BOSTON????? this is in BOSTON???
    article
    On July 4th, Boston will rid its city council of another foreign enemy occupier. It took a while.

    In 2019, future Councilwoman Tania Fernandes Anderson, a former illegal alien, became an American citizen. In 2021, she was elected to Boston’s city council. In 2022, she began complaining that there were too many white officials in Boston. “The Majority of Boston is BROWN & BLACK”, the Muslim immigrant married to a murderer complained.

    In 2024, the first ex-illegal alien Muslim elected official in Massachusetts was arrested and indicted in a kickback scheme. That did not stop her from continuing to serve on the city council.

    By April 2025, Anderson still hadn’t resigned despite planning to plead guilty to several of the charges that would entail serving a year in prison, leaving open the possibility that the Boston City Council would soon have the first Muslim illegal alien imprisoned city councilwoman.

    Boston City Council President Ruthzee Louijeune, the first Haitian councilwoman, initially proposed waiting until November 2025 to see what developed and then promised “to continue working in partnership, as well, with the mayor’s office to make sure that Roxbury residents, and the residents of all of District 7, have their representation during this challenging time.”

    Finally in early June, Anderson agreed to resign… and went on serving. On June 25, a month before she faces sentencing, the criminal councilwoman finally attended her last session, sponsored resolutions, and promised to continue “fighting, not from this chamber but from the community” by going back “to the base, to the roots, where real power lives” until the day comes when “we live in a society that doesn’t just say Black Lives Matter, that proves it.”

    While Boston’s surviving residents will lose Anderson’s services (and those of the family members she employed), she has left a permanent mark on the revolutionary city.

    Based on the final resolution proposed by Anderson, July will not be the month when Boston remembers the American Revolution, it will be a month “to recognize and to celebrate the independence of Cabo Verde and to declare July as Cabo Verdean Heritage Month.”

    Forget America. July in Boston will be the month to remember the political independence of the West African island an illegal alien criminal who hates America and stole from it came from.

    The resolution was part of a goodbye party thrown for Anderson by her leftist colleagues during her final session before she breaks through the final glass ceiling, leaving the home of the unconvicted criminals of the council for that of the less successful criminals of the penal system.

    The former illegal alien urged her fellow council members to “celebrate all we’ve built together” and the radical leftist wing of the council lavishly praised their corrupt colleague as an example..

    Councilwoman Liz Breadon (D), the first lesbian immigrant to serve on the city council, worryingly hailed the “example in many ways that Tania Fernandes Anderson has made to us.”

    The “example” in question was hiring her son and sister to serve on her staff, then getting hit with a $5,000 ethics fine for hiring them, then trying to pay the ethics fine by hiring another family member, lying about their familial relationship to the ethics commission, then giving her a large bonus (at taxpayer expense) and getting a $7,000 kickback from her in the bathroom.

    “You are an ally in the fight for equity, and you are Boston’s Harriet Tubman,” Councilman Brian Worrell (D), the first second generation Jamaican immigrant, claimed. “Thank you for your service.”

    History does not dwell on the time that Harriet Tubman got a kickback in the bathroom. That’s usually something Boston city council members do. It’s unknown if like Tania Fernandes Anderson, Harriet racked up 70 audit letters. Or if she ever equaled Anderson’s feat of hiring her son as her treasurer or allegations that her expenses were one giant slush fund.

    Councilwoman Julia Meija (D), who tends to wear revolutionary berets and is the first Dominican immigrant councilwoman, hailed Anderson’s “courage”. Meija is presumably referring to the time the Muslim ex-illegal alien called the Hamas atrocities of Oct 7 a “military operation”. Mejia had also worked to block a resolution condemning the mass murder of Jews by Islamic terrorists.

    Councilwoman Sharon Durkan (D), the first blonde campaign consultant elected to the council, who had also opposed the resolution condemning the murder of Jews, sympathetically told her corrupt colleague, “this time has not been easy.” The only ones it’s been harder on is Hamas.

    True to form, Anderson blamed her downfall on a conspiracy by the “system” to get her for being too outspoken. “The system is set up to accommodate politeness, not truth. It tolerates performance, not integrity, and anyone who dares to step outside of that theater risks being ostracized or worse.” Also anyone who dares to accept toilet kickbacks.

    How the ‘system’ compelled Anderson to hire family members is still unknown.

    “I’d be so grateful to share this closing chapter with you,” she told her colleagues.

    Many Bostonians only wish that she could fully share the chapter with many of their ‘representatives’.

    But as Anderson heads off into the sunset for Cabo Verdean Heritage Month, she, like so many of her ‘first’ colleagues, remains a shining example of how diversity has strengthened Boston and turned it from a boring old American city full of Irish immigrants into the third world.

    A statue of her can’t be far off in the making.

    On the romantic side though, if Anderson does go to prison, she may be reunited with her husband Tanzerius Anderson who is already in prison for armed robbery and murder.

    Tania Anderson hadn’t managed to get her husband out. Maybe now she’ll join him.
    https://www.frontpagemag.com/boston-muslim-illegal-alien-councilwoman-replaces-july-4th-before-going-to-prison/

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  9. “We Must Demand Accountability: America is Worth Fighting For”

    Michael T. Flynn LTG USA (RET), Jul 02, 2025

    “Fixing the economy isn’t enough. Winning elections isn’t enough. If those who weaponized our government to target a duly elected President face no consequences, then justice in America is an illusion, and we will see it happen again.

    The American people deserve the truth, not just from mid-level actors but also from the senior officials who orchestrated it. We know where it started. The question that must be answered immediately is: Who gave the order? What happened to me, President Trump, and most importantly to the American people was not “politics.” It was a deliberate abuse of power.

    The Constitution defines treason as an attempt to overthrow the government, and I do not use that word lightly. We must demand ACCOUNTABILITY, not years from now, not someday, but NOW. Without it, we surrender the rule of law and the future of our Republic.

    I wrote Pardon of Innocence to ensure this moment in history is recorded truthfully. The facts matter. The American people matter. And justice must matter most of all. Order your copy here (thank you):  https://generalflynn.com/pardon-of-innocence-autographed

    It’s astonishing how many Americans, even some well-meaning patriots, still believe I was convicted of a crime, sent to prison, or was only recently pardoned. Shockingly, millions still think I am guilty. That’s simply not true. I was never convicted & never spent a single day in prison. In May 2020, the Department of Justice dismissed my case after uncovering their own misconduct. It’s frightening to think the President had to use his pardon power to pardon an innocent man who had never been convicted of a crime.

    The truth? A corrupt judge refusal to dismiss my case despite the DOJ dismissing the case. The fake lying corrupt media spent years pushing a false narrative, & many Americans still don’t know the real story.

    I wrote Pardon of Innocence to set the record straight, expose how deeply our institutions have been weaponized, & sound the alarm about where our country is headed if we don’t act.

    We must ask ourselves: what kind of country are we living in when we politicize our justice system?

    THIS BOOK IS more than my account; it’s A WARNING for America & a call to action for anyone who still believes in truth, justice, & the future of our nation. Read it. Share it. And if someone you know still believes the headlines instead of the facts, place this book in their hands. Our country is worth fighting for.”

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    1. New York, as usual, has abandoned common sense. Blame Alexendar Hamilton’s precedent for the NYSE, the first central bank, and his ability to run off any competition for power, incluing other NY delegates to the Constitutional Convention.

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  11. I simply do not agree in any way, shape or form with professional athletes using ANY drugs or performance enhancers – period! Yes, I think CBD should be legalized but not MJ across the board – it should be treated the same as alcohol w/similar punishments & strictly controlled, IMO. People should be able to grow for themselves and a small circle of like-minded friends and that would be only a few plants at most.

    Just The News: “Kevin Durant, Mike Tyson, Allen Iverson and other world-class athletes penned a letter to President Donald Trump urging sweeping cannabis reform. They are pressing for clemency for inmates imprisoned on nonviolent weed charges and slamming Biden for “failing to deliver on his pledge to address marijuana-related injustices.” 

    They are also seeking to downgrade marijuana from a Schedule I drug (like heroin and ecstasy) to a Schedule III substance on par with some pharmaceuticals like codeine cough syrup. They argue that the reforms could help cannabis-related businesses feed the economy, but only once they are able to legally acquire bank accounts and be listed on the stock exchange, so that foreign marijuana producers can no longer cash in and contaminate product.

    The First Step Act

    Although Trump famously avoids drugs and alcohol, those hoping for his openness might find him to be surprisingly sympathetic. Trump, who has famously never had a drink of alcohol, smoked cigarettes, or participated in illicit drug use, used his first term to develop and sign into law the First Step Act and further those reforms through the Second Step Act. 

    The First Step Act, signed into law by President Donald Trump in December 2018, marked a bipartisan effort to reform the federal criminal justice system. The legislation reduced mandatory minimum sentences for certain drug offenses, retroactively applied the Fair Sentencing Act to address disparities in usage of crack cocaine, and expanded judicial discretion through a “safety valve.” It also introduced a risk assessment system to assign inmates to rehabilitation programs, increased good time credits, and facilitated compassionate releases, leading to over 45,000 early releases and 4,800 compassionate releases by March 2025, though critics noted implementation issues, including concerns over the fairness of the risk assessment tool.

    The Second Step Act, proposed in 2019, aimed to build on these reforms by focusing on employment opportunities for formerly incarcerated individuals to reduce recidivism but was never enacted. Introduced by Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and supported by Trump’s $88 million reentry program budget request, it stalled amid political shifts and rising crime concerns. While the First Step Act reauthorized the 2007 Second Chance Act to fund reentry programs, the Second Step Act’s failure to pass highlighted challenges in sustaining reform momentum, with some states pursuing similar measures independently.

    Recalibrating marijuana prosecutions, banking matters

    The landscape and treatment of marijuana as a crime has shifted significantly over the last 12 years following former President Barack Obama’s Deputy Attorney General, James Cole, issuing his so-called Cole Memorandum. The memorandum, issued in August 2013, instructed federal prosecutors to prioritize enforcing marijuana laws only in cases involving significant threats, like sales to minors or cartel funding, effectively allowing state-legal cannabis programs to operate with minimal federal interference.

    On the issue of discriminatory banking practices, cannabis businesses can open bank accounts, but it’s complicated due to marijuana’s federal illegality under the Controlled Substances Act. Most large banks avoid the industry due to risks of federal prosecution for money laundering under the Bank Secrecy Act and Anti-Money Laundering laws, forcing many cannabis-related businesses to operate in cash. 

    Nonetheless, about 815 financial institutions, mostly smaller community banks and credit unions, served cannabis-related businesses as of March 2024, per FinCEN data. These institutions face strict compliance requirements, like filing Suspicious Activity Reports, which increase costs and lead to high fees ($1,000–$2,500/month) or account closures.”

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    1. Federal power has gone unchecked since its inception. The first cabinet consisted Washington’s Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson; Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton; and Secretary of War; Henry Knox.

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  13. EXCERPT: “As Germany purges wrongthink in the name of combating “hate speech” and “digital arsonists,” such as insufficiently clear Nazi satire and thumbs-up emojis in response to a teenager killing her migrant rapist, Australia has set a modest limit to its own speech policing, perhaps briefly tempering the heat the Aussies face from the Trump administration.

    Australia’s Administrative Review Tribunal rebuked the office of eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, whom congressional Republicans recently accused of colluding with advertisers to mitigate the “contagion” of Donald Trump, for ordering X to block a post by Canadian activist Chris Elston that called an Australian female activist who identifies as a man a “woman.”

    Tribunal Deputy President Damien O’Donovan wrote Tuesday that Elston actually showed restraint by not trying to alert Teddy Cook, whom the World Health Organization had just appointed to a panel on transgender and nonbinary health, to his post calling Cook a woman.

    “The decision to issue a removal notice is set aside,” wrote O’Donovan, who presided over a five-day hearing this spring. “A decision to refuse to issue a removal notice is substituted,” meaning the post is visible again in Australia.

    “This is a victory not just for Billboard Chris, but for every Australian – and indeed every citizen who values the fundamental right to free speech,” said Paul Coleman, executive director of Alliance Defending Freedom International, referring to his client by Elston’s moniker.

    The State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor flagged Elston’s censorship in an X thread May 1 on the “troublingly numerous” attempts “by governments to coerce American tech companies into targeting individuals for censorship.” 

    The department did not respond to queries from Just the News for its response to the ruling, and its bureau didn’t mention it on X Tuesday.

    ‘In a just world’ Australian government leaders would be in prison

    Elston campaigns around the world against medicalized gender transitions for children, online and in person while wearing sandwich boards with his message. He got arrested and allegedly strip-searched in Brussels with another activist last month for wearing the sign “Children are never born in the wrong body.”

    O’Donnell’s ruling notes that Elston credits his activism to the international billboard campaign “I (heart) J.K. Rowling,” referring to the Harry Potter author now known for promoting sex over gender identity. Canadian nurse Amy Hamm was found guilty of professional misconduct this spring for putting up a Rowling billboard and sharing the same views online.

    “This woman (yes, she’s female) is part of a panel of 20 ‘experts’ hired by the @WHO to draft their policy on caring for ‘trans people,’” Elston wrote in a Feb. 27, 2024, post that linked to a Daily Mail article about transgender activist Cook joining the WHO panel. The article included Cook’s revealing Instagram photos and stated his “kinky” hobbies including “bondage parties” and “trans orgies.” 

    Elston commented: “People who belong in psychiatric wards are writing the guidelines for people who belong in psychiatric wards.”….”

    https://justthenews.com/world/australia/australia-stops-censoring-child-safety-activist-calling-female-who-identifies-man

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    1. this is insane

      The article included Cook’s revealing Instagram photos and stated his “kinky” hobbies including “bondage parties” and “trans orgies.”

      that person should NOT be advising ANYONE!

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  14. Works for me!

    Just The News: “The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed pulling all funding for climate research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), along with research at its weather laboratories. 

    A budget document reported by The Hill recommends pulling funding for multiple areas like NOAA’s weather research program, its tornado and severe storm research centers, and shutting down weather and climate laboratories.

    The document comes after the Trump administration indicated that it wanted to actually eliminate NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, where a lot of climate and weather research is conducted. The Trump administration has also slammed scientists for warning about the dangers and potential threats of climate change.

    The budget document, which suggests reducing the agency’s full-time staff by 2,061 people, is only a proposal and all final funding decisions are made by Congress. 

    The proposal comes in the middle of hurricane season in the Atlantic, and as the West Coast braces for fire season. Hurricane season typically starts in June and runs through November.”

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  15. I really like him!!!

    Just The News: “Florida GOP Rep. Byron Donalds’ gubernatorial campaign on Tuesday revealed the congressman has so far raised $22 million for his campaign next year.

    Donalds announced his candidacy for Florida governor in February, after President Donald Trump offered to endorse his campaign. He is running to replace Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is term-limited. 

    The congressman, who has $20 million in cash on hand, is considered the frontrunner in the race. Donalds raised $12 million directly after launching his campaign, and another $10 million in the second quarter, per Axios.

    Notable donors to his campaign include former Nebraska GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts and billionaires Thomas Peterffy and Dick Uihlein. The trio previously supported DeSantis’ campaigns. 

    The fundraising haul comes as the governor’s wife, Casey DeSantis, is also reportedly considering a bid to replace her husband, but has not officially announced a campaign, The Hill reported.” 

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  16. Just The News: “The FBI and General Services Administration (GSA) on Tuesday announced they had selected the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. as the bureau’s new headquarters, ending a years-long search.

    The headquarters has been located in the J. Edgar Hoover building in downtown D.C. since 1975, but the building has been plagued by structural issues for the last 20 years, prompting the long search for a new home. 

    The new selection is expected to save American taxpayers billions of dollars by choosing an existing federal building, rather than building a suburban campus that would have taken years to complete. “This is a historic moment for the FBI,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement. “Through our strong partnerships with members of Congress and GSA, we are ushering FBI Headquarters into a new era and providing our agents of justice a safer place to work. 

    “Moving to the Ronald Reagan Building is the most cost effective and resource efficient way to carry out our mission to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution,” he added.

    The building was previously home to the U.S. Agency for International Development until the Trump administration shuttered it earlier this year, and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection moved in. It was not immediately clear when the bureau is expected to transition to the new location.”

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  17. ….sigh….here we go again! When are these judges going to learn to say in their lane???

    Just The News: “A federal judge on Tuesday blocked mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services, ruling that they are likely unlawful. U.S. District Judge Melissa DuBose, in Rhode Island and a Biden appointee, granted the preliminary injunction that 19 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia requested in a lawsuit in early May, according to the Associated Press.

    DuBose wrote in her ruling that the states had shown “irreparable harm” from the layoffs and were likely to prevail in their claims that “HHS’s action was both arbitrary and capricious as well as contrary to law.”

    “The executive branch does not have the authority to order, organize, or implement wholesale changes to the structure and function of the agencies created by Congress,” DuBose wrote in a 58-page order.

    The judge’s order blocks the Trump administration from finalizing layoffs that it had announced in March or firing any more employees. HHS must also file a status report by July 11.

    DuBose’s ruling applies to employees who were terminated in four different divisions of HHS: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the Center for Tobacco Products within the Food and Drug Administration; the Office of Head Start within the Administration for Children and Families and regional office employees who work on Head Start matters; and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.

    Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., had cut more than 10,000 employees in late March and consolidated 28 agencies into 15 as part of the federal “Make America Healthy Again” directive to streamline costly agencies and reduce redundancies. 

    However, some key teams were eliminated in the restructuring, and Kennedy has said that 20% of people fired might be reinstated. The CDC has rehired some employees.

    The attorneys general in the lawsuit argued that the restructuring was arbitrary and beyond HHS’ authority, resulting in the decimation of essential programs and pushing burdensome costs onto states. “The intended effect … was the wholesale elimination of many HHS programs that are critical to public health and safety,” the lawsuit reads.”

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  18. EXCERPT: “Burbank Unified School District in California is using time, resources, and taxpayer funding to indoctrinate its students with race-based curriculum and radical gender ideology behind parents’ backs. Documents obtained by the Center for American Liberty and shared exclusively with The Federalist show a widespread push from the BUSD to inundate children with LGBT-loaded and race-based curriculum and resources.

    One form circulated by the district, labeled an “Individual Transition Plan,” not only offers whoever fills out the paperwork a chance to alert school administrators to their plans to embrace radical gender ideology, select different pronouns, and use the sex-protected spaces of their choice, but also features two opportunities to cut parents out of the process.

    The form also declares a parent or guardian’s sign-off on the ITP, which asks students what “support” they want from the school, is merely “optional,” per California law.

    A “Gender Support Plan,” which emails show BUSD obtained from radical gender ideology organization Gender Spectrum, similarly asks if “caregivers are aware of the student’s gender status” and asks whoever fills out the form to rank what level of support those caregivers offer them. Additionally, the document emailed to various BUSD teachers and staff by the then-Director of Student Services Stacy Cashman signals the establishment of a “safe adult” on school grounds who is aware of the student’s transgenderism — even if the parents are not…..”

    https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/02/docs-burbank-unified-school-district-pushes-segregation-transing-kids-behind-parents-backs/

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  21. oh dear! I’ve been watching the female oriole feed her babies inside the pink yarn nest she wove. when i got back from my banana run, and sat down, I saw a large hawk on a tree along the driveway and a male oriole was swooping down and pecking at its head. then the haw took off towards me, scooped something from the ground and flew off–the male oriole in hot pursuit.

    the male is now back and has been chirping and chirping and looking this way and that way. I wonder if the hawk got a baby or the female oriole???

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      1. sitting here I can watch the nest. no mom has returned, and the father is not there feeding with bugs either. I could have come in at the end…maybe the hawk stole a baby and mom fought him off and he knocked her to the ground. so he went after her then…I’ll let you know if i see anything.

        the male is still hanging around chirping and chirping. has not stopped.

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  22. private tenants????

    Rix Six

    July 2, 2025 10:48 am

    President Trump is moving the FBI headquarters to the building where USAID was located.
    https://thelibertydaily.com/new-fbi-headquarters-is-slap-face-democrats/

    This line from the article jumped out at me.
    “The Reagan Building already houses U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) and several private tenants.”
    The several private tenants is something that has me wondering just what their business is. Doing work on behalf of the government that would otherwise violate the constitution and restrictions put on government agencies?

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        1. Yes, a lot of them. In fact, I know of many from my time in NOVA – many contractors will be housed within the government agency involved, especially for long-term, revolving contracts.

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  24. “Baywatch Pay Watch: Half-million-dollar checks, six-figure overtime for LA lifeguards — They may not be rich enough to hassle the Hoff yet, but they’re getting there.”

    OpenTheBooks, Jul 02, 2025

    EXCERPT: “If it wasn’t clear that the city and county of Los Angeles are in dire need of spending resets, taxpayers can look no further than the county lifeguards paid to watch over its pools, lakes and ocean. OpenTheBooks.com reported on outrageous overtime spending on the LA police, fire and particularly overpaid employees in the city’s Department Water & Power amid out-of-control wildfires in January, and the anti-immigration riots in June.

    Lifeguards, too, enjoy big overtime payouts and generous benefits. The top-paid lifeguard in LA county was compensated more than $500,000 in 2024; and over the past 5 years, a single lifeguard was able to pull down $702,000 – in overtime alone!

    BY THE NUMBERS

    We reported that in 2021, the top-paid lifeguards earned up to $510,283 — back then, we found 98 lifeguards earned at least $200,000 including benefits. Now, out of over 1,500 lifeguards, 134 of them earned at least $200,000 including benefits. Thirty-four of them had $300,000 or more in their compensation package.

    The highest paid in 2024 was lifeguard services chief Fernando Boiteux, who was given $523,351 in base pay, “other pay” and benefits.

    Total compensation was $70.8 million for the 134 lifeguards last year, and includes the following: base pay, overtime pay, “other” pay, leave time payouts, health insurance payments, pension contributions, deferred contributions, long-term disability and life insurances, and “other” benefits.

    Forty-five lifeguards collected between $50,000 and $171,000 in overtime alone. In fact, the highest paid overtime earner at $171,000 was lifeguard services captain Remy Smith, who also received $109,999 worth of benefits, for a total compensation package of $468,556, the second highest compensation package behind Boiteux.

    Boiteux didn’t collect overtime, but his generous pay package was top heavy with benefits — $192,000, including $100,000 in pension contributions, which is $25,000 more than anyone else.

    Following Smith, the next highest overtime earners are ocean lifeguard Hayk Avagyan ($147,872), lifeguard services captain Colby Trivette ($137,139), lifeguard services captain Julio Rodriguez ($132,490) and ocean lifeguard Scott Deboer ($128,873).

    The tidal wave of overtime in 2024 isn’t an aberration.,,,,,”

    https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/baywatch-pay-watch-half-million-dollar

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  25. Get this! This POS hospital here insists I have to go in so they can check my blood count. I explained that it’s out of their hands, I was handed over to Norfolk hospital and my care is now being supervised both by the VA and the gastroenteritis specialist who performed the surgery….but they insist. I explained that I cannot go out in this high humidity since I have no A/C in my truck…..their reply: go in early. Grrrrrrr……so I will go tomorrow morning early but I am NOT going to be overly pleasant!!!!

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  29. Bowling math and protesters: A how to….

    Pick up the split without 9 and 10….”

    Remember Obama joking about filling the Rio Grande with Alligators?

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      1. Honey nut – haven’t tried them yet. I need to pick out bananas for myself since I prefer them slightly under-ripe. Then again, maybe next time I place a WM order, I’ll request “slightly green” bananas. Problem is, IDK what’s going to cause it or not – one day, I had my favorite creamer with coffee and ended up with explosive diarrhea. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ Also had it after just drinking water.

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        1. i like honey nut better than regular ones …lol
          I prefer my bananas that way too! i have a friend who is one of those walmart shoppers and i asked her–how do i make sure my bananas are under ripe…cuz that’s how i want them. she says that’s an option when you order on line…never tried it though. i like to pick out my own fruit and veggies.
          something’s going around maybe…I had a bout of that just a couple of days ago and i ate nothing out of the ordinary…weird!

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  34. This whole P-Diddy trial is a fricking joke! What about the hundreds and hundreds of weapons found there???? Such BS!!!

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    1. they can’t take him down–he’s too “connected” and he’d roll on everybody. so they have this “trial” for show and credit him with time served and he’s out and can’t be tried again…so everyone thinks they’re safe.

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  35. cheering4America
    July 2, 2025 4:34 pm

    Want to see at a glance the bullying by Lawfare? Ever heard of JudicialSabotage.org?

    A pro-Trump group launched an online website Tuesday detailing the more than 250 legal cases against President Trump’s agenda and tracking the crucial nationwide injunctions that were issued by lower court judges before the Supreme Court halted the practice last week.

    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/1/pro-trump-legal-group-launches-website-tracking-266-lawsuits-blocking/

    In all, the Article III Foundation listed 266 lawsuits at JudicialSabotage.org. But there are plenty more of them against the administration, brought by individual plaintiffs such as illegal immigrants looking to stay in the country.

    “The primary purpose [of the online database] is so that people can understand the enormous scope of judicial lawfare against the Trump administration. It is not just a few lawsuits. It is overwhelming all over the country,” said Will Chamberlain, senior counsel for the Article III Foundation. “What stuck out was the sheer number of injunctions that have been issued against the administration in such a short amount of time.”

    About a third of the 266 lawsuits involve matters related to immigration policy. Other areas include transgender policies, spending and firing freezes, and efforts related to the budget-cutting Department of Government Efficiency.

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  37. Filly…cthulhu asked how you were doing and i told him. he responded with this:

    cthulhu (@guest_1483328)

    Online

    Reply to  patfrederick

    July 2, 2025 16:13

    Good to hear. Please let her know that her fan club over here is pulling for her.

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