Bald Eagles

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As we salute our country this month, let’s explore 17 interesting facts about our national bird! 

From Fact Animal:

1. Bald eagles are not actually bald

Despite their name, bald eagles have white, well feathered heads. The word bald once meant ‘white-haired’ and this was the name given to the eagle. Young bald eagles often don’t have white feathers on their head either, they are mostly brown. They develop these from around 5-6 years old.

2. They form a species pair with the white-tailed eagle 

A ‘species pair’ means two species are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between them are often unclear. While roughly the same size and appearance, the white-tailed eagle is thought to have a somewhat paler brown body plumage and inhabits Eurasia, rather than North America. The pair are thought to have diverged from other sea eagles.

3. They have high pitch, rather underwhelming calls

They have a high pitch giggle-scream, rather than an impressive powerful scream that might be the expectation of a bird of the size and power of the bald eagle. Their rather underwhelming call has historically been dubbed over in some TV shows to make it sound more impressive!

When in groups, they emit these surprisingly high-pitched calls to one another and it is believed these vocalizations are a form of transferal of knowledge regarding the area and abundance of prey.

4. A bald eagle’s wingspan can reach 8ft!

Eagles are generally larger in colder environments, which corresponds with Bergmann’s rule – which is that species are generally smaller closer to the equator. This means the largest bald eagles are generally found in Alaska, and can weigh as much as 7kg with wingspans of 2.4m in length.

5. Bald eagles are notorious thieves

The osprey, a much smaller fish-eating raptor, often shares the same habitat as bald eagles. There are many records of bald eagles following osprey and stealing fish they have caught, either straight from the unfortunate bird or when it lands on a nest or perch.

6. They can reach speeds of 99mph when diving

It’s not often that they dive vertically, but they are capable of reaching extremely high speeds when diving for prey!

7. Bald eagles have vision 4-5 times better than humans

Like most birds of prey, the bald eagle has excellent vision, with sharper vision, a wider field of vision and they can even see UV light. It’s thought they are able to see a tadpole move at over 100m distance. It uses this exceptional sense to locate prey while flying at speed. Bald eagles also have a see-through eyelid called a nictitating membrane, which they can close to protect and clean their eyes, but still see!

8. They can catch animals as large as Canada geese

Though they prefer fish, bald eagles will also hunt animals as large as geese which can grow up to 1m in size, and even foxes!

9. Bald eagles can swim!

Bald eagles will sometimes try to catch fish that are too large to pull out of the water. They will rarely let go of prey once they have gripped onto it. Occasionally they will not be able to pull the fish out of water and will subsequently swim to shore with their catch. They use their wings to perform a breaststroke of sorts! It’s a myth that their talons get ‘locked’, they just refuse to let go!

10. Their nests can measure over 2.5m in diameter!

Bald eagles have some of the largest nests of any North American bird, occasionally measuring over 8ft in diameter and 13ft deep. According to the Guiness World Records, the bald eagle also has the largest nest ever discovered near St Petersburg, Florida in the US in 1963. The nest measured 9 ft 6 in wide and 20 ft deep and weighed more than 4,409 lb.  The size of this eagle and nest size requirements mean that they are very particular when it comes to choosing a nest site.

By far the majority of bald eagle nests are found in large, living tall trees which have strong, thick branches to support the mass of the nest as well as the birds themselves. The nests comprise of hundreds of smaller branches and twigs, often with larger branches around the edge. They usually lay between 1 to 3 eggs with two hatchlings most often surviving up to fledgling stage. Fledged chicks leave the nest at around 10 weeks but will still be cared for by their parents for just over a month.

11. They will sometimes nest on large electricity towers or pylons

Where few nesting sites are available, bald eagles will sometimes use manmade structures as nesting sites.

12. The oldest nest on record was used for over 30 years

If well-built in an ideal tree, bald eagle nests can last for many years. One such nest lasted for 34 years before the tree in which it was built was blown down.

13. Bald eagle chicks will cling onto and move sticks within their nests

Chicks develop the muscles in their feet and legs by playing with the twigs and sticks in their nests and even playing tug of war with their siblings.

14. Immature eagles live a nomadic existence until they find a mate

Once young bald eagles have left their parents, they spend much of their time flying across large ranges, seemingly learning about the different habitats that occur in that range.

15. The bald eagle closely resembles the African fish eagle

Though they are found on different continents, both eagles bare remarkable similarities. Both occupy a similar ecological niche and have similar coloration. However the African fish eagle is somewhat smaller, is a lighter brown color and has a black tip to its beak.

16. One of the founding fathers of the USA, Benjamin Franklin, would have preferred the wild turkey as the national bird

People often wrongly believed that bald eagles were cowardly animals as well as prolific thieves of other birds. Even Benjamin Franklin thought the bald eagle was a poor choice as the national bird.

17. They are an endangered species success story!

In 1963 researchers estimated there were just 400 pairs of bald eagles in the US. Thanks to years of protection and a complete ban on the insecticide ‘DDT’, there are now more than 300,000 bald eagles in the lower 48 states, and the species is no longer endangered. 

SOURCE: FACT ANIMAL

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  1. Good morning, Pat and Filly!

    There are Bald Eagles and their nests in the tall pine trees on St. George Island, FL, where we used to go for vacations. As your article said, Bald Eagles love fish and there are plenty on SGI shores.

    Here is a Father – Son portrait made on SGI:

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    1. Morning GA!
      we’ve seen them along the Cowanesque River up here. We’ve seen them perching in the tall trees along the riverbank too.
      We have a lot of osprey in the neighboring towns as well and you think you’ve seen an eagle…till you really do see an eagle and note the size difference.

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    3. Morning, GA! We have them here, too, mostly along the rivers. Occasionally, an asshole hunter will shoot one and they come down on them hard. I also used to see them riding the currents in NOVA.

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  2. Morning All!

    hazy sunshine out there at that moment, and the temperature is 70* already.

    a rabbit and a bunny have adopted the freshly mowed yard in the last week…lol We see bunnies everywhere at the bottom of the driveway and on the road, but they were scarce up here. then all of a sudden a rabbit appeared and now a bunny follows her around. not sure what happened to the rest but i can guess. nice to see something new though!

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    1. Morning, Pat! Been up since 5 am so I’ve been busy. It was already 70 again when I got up and humid but I managed to bring in the jelly feeders, clean them and refill both. I had to get down on my hands & knees to get to the last couple of jars of jelly and couldn’t get back up. Pretty pitiful but I had to crawl over to my table/chairs to finally pull myself up. Won’t be doing that any time soon again! Need to order another case. Folded and put laundry away, made iced tea, and just piddled around doing odds and ends. Such an exciting life I live these days….

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      1. Morning Filly!
        i waited this morning to put out the jelly feeder till i saw the female oriole looking for it. haven’t seen a grosbeak yet though. soon i won’t put it out at all.
        bunnies and turkeys in the yard this morning.
        i’m wondering if that asshole raccoon managed to poison himself–sucking down those liquid ant traps and eating all the mouse bait we had around. haven’t seen his poop in a long time now. (YAY!)

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  15. Police in Mumbai remove loudspeakers blaring the islamic call to prayer 5 times a day.

    FTA

    The Islamic call to prayer blasted over loudspeakers isn’t worship, it’s domination. It testifies that all other gods are false, all other beliefs are invalid, and submission to Islam is the only truth. In Mumbai, after decades of enduring this forced declaration five times a day, citizens have finally reclaimed their skies, their peace, and their constitutional rights. This is not about sound, this is about sovereignty.

    For the first time in decades, the skies over Mumbai are quieter. And for millions of Hindus, Christians, and non-Muslims across India’s financial capital, that silence is more than a break from relentless noise—it is a long-awaited liberation from what many have called noise jihad.

    In a sweeping move hailed by citizens and civil rights advocates, the Mumbai Police removed loudspeakers from approximately 1,500 places of worship throughout the city and suburbs. This action follows directives from the Bombay High Court and the state government of Maharashtra to enforce noise pollution laws, which have long been flouted in the name of religious privilege.

    While Police Commissioner Devin Bharti emphasized that this order applied to all religious institutions, there is no denying the truth: only one community has weaponized loudspeakers five times a day to blast an intrusive declaration of religious dominance—the Islamic call to prayer, or adhan.

    These phrases, amplified daily from rooftops, aren’t mere prayers. As ex-Muslims, persecuted minorities, and millions who have fled Islamic regimes know, the adhan is a political and supremacist declaration, a sonic branding of territory that proclaims: This land belongs to Islam.

    https://rairfoundation.com/victory-noise-jihad-mumbai-police-dismantle-1500-loudspeakers/

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  17. Just The News: “Authorities said on Sunday that at least 51 people, including 15 children, have died in flash floods in central Texas as frantic search efforts continued for 27 missing children. Officials in Kerr County said they are still looking for children who were at an all-girls camp when the Guadalupe River ran its banks and roaring waters swept campers away.

    At least 43 fatalities have been reported so far in Kerr County, Sheriff Larry Leitha said on Saturday. The dead include 28 adults and 15 children, he told a news conference Saturday night.

    Two of the deceased campers from Camp Mystic have been identified as Renee Smajstrla and Janie Hunt. Parents have been posting photos of their missing daughters on social media in the hopes of finding them as soon as possible.

    About 240 people have been rescued or evacuated as a result of the flooding, according to authorities. In all, 51 people are confirmed dead and 27 are still missing, authorities said.”

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  18. “Anti-Woke Investment Firm Postpones Tesla ETF Launch Following Elon Musk’s Political Party Announcement: Whether one supports Musk’s direction or not, it’s understandable that there are questions surrounding the success of his companies if he’s spread too thin.”

    JD Rucker, Jul 05, 2025

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Elon Musk wants to get into politics. He is forming “America Party” as a third-party alternative, likely landing ideologically between Republicans and Democrats. But even as buzz circulates about his attempted foray into governance, questions are swirling about his ability to continue successfully running his various companies.

    One investment firm, Invest Azoria, is postponing their planned Tesla ETF launch while they await clarity from the Board of Directors. The insinuation here is that Invest Azoria CEO James Fishback will not move forward unless Musk either drops his political ambitions or leaves Tesla.

    The first sentence in his letter to Tesla Chair of the Board Robyn Denholm says it all:

    Elon has gone too far.

    My investment firm (Invest Azoria) has decided to postpone next week’s public listing of our Azoria Tesla Convexity ETF.

    Our decision comes in direct response to Elon Musk’s announcement that he is launching a new national political party.

    This creates a conflict with his full-time responsibilities as CEO of Tesla. It diverts his focus and energy away from Tesla’s employees and shareholders.

    Azoria believes that Tesla is the most compelling long-term investment in AI. With breakthroughs in robotaxis, Optimus, and full self-driving, no other company is positioned to lead the future like Tesla.

    In May, when Elon stepped back from his work at DOGE and returned his attention to Tesla, we were encouraged. With Elon fully engaged, he gave shareholders renewed confidence in Tesla’s future.

    Elon’s announcement today undermines that confidence. Unlike his work with SpaceX or xAI, which complement Tesla’s R&D efforts in AI, automation, and engineering, a political party not only fails to complement Tesla’s mission—it actively undermines it.

    I just sent the attached letter to Robyn Denholm, Chair of Tesla’s Board of Directors.

    I encourage the Board to meet immediately and ask Elon to clarify his political ambitions and evaluate whether they are compatible with his full-time obligations to Tesla as CEO.

    I remain hopeful that Elon will return his full attention to Tesla. If not, I trust the Board will take appropriate action.”

    -James Fishback CEO Invest Azoria

    Tesla is included in over 250 ETFs currently. The omission of one may not be enough to sway the Board to make a move and it almost certainly will not dissuade Musk from moving forward with his party, but it does exacerbate existing concerns about Musk. Few Tesla investors or fund managers doubt Musk’s skills, but his lack of attention over their investments is prompting questions privately and occasionally publicly.

    Fishback is a supporter of President Donald Trump who launched his company as an alternative to DEI-driven investments. Last December, he wrote an op-ed for the NY Post:

    In the race to attract the best employees, American companies have always played to win. Apple pays millions to poach star executives and Nvidia spares no expense to hire top AI researchers. Why? Because hiring the best and brightest on skill and ability is the secret sauce to American innovation.

    Sadly, some companies have rejected the practice of hiring on skill and ability and are now hiring on the basis of race and gender.

    My investment firm, Azoria, has identified three dozen S&P 500 companies with explicit racial and gender hiring targets.

    Early next year, we’ll launch an ETF fund that invests in every S&P 500 company — except those that use these hiring targets.

    The premise is straightforward: companies that hire on skill and ability will outperform those that hire on race and gender.

    Will Musk be forced to make a choice between Tesla and America Party?”

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  19. Just The News: “The chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB), Devin Nunes, told Just the News that his colleagues are working on intelligence agency reform options for President Donald Trump, and his personal preference is to shrink the top spy agency and disperse more spies and analysts outside Washington.

    “Having people in foreign countries for longer durations, in my opinion, is critically important,” Nunes said in a wide-ranging interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast. “And having fewer and fewer people (in DC), whether it’s at the FBI or any of the Defense Department agencies. The more people you have in Washington, the worst things will be,” the former California Congressman said.

    Nunes confirmed that his board, which provides civilian oversight of America’s 17 spy agencies and gives advice to the president, is preparing reform ideas for Trump.

    “The President was clear to me that he wants us on the board and me as the chair, to get the politics out of the intelligence community, which would include, you know, the DOJ, the FBI, CIA and across DOD,” Nunes said.

    “So we are looking at several big strategic items, which, of course, I can’t talk about on this podcast. But we have a very good board, very involved. So we’re looking at the overall strategies across defense and intelligence,” he added. “And then secondarily, you know, the board is used for a quick reaction team that can go in and analyze things on behalf of the President to try to solve problems.

    ”Not a knock on Gabbard, but DNI has grown “so large and out of control”

    Nunes declined to describe any reforms the board is considering, saying they will be conveyed to Trump privately. But he described some of his personal observations and preferences based on his many years in Congress as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, clearly signaling a desire for a smaller DNI.

    “Nothing against Director Gabbard at all, but the DNI has become so large and out of control. And they were the ones who were supposed to clean all this up,” Nunes said. “I was in Congress when the Director of National Intelligence was created. It was supposed to be small and lean and stop this from happening. Instead, it became a massive bureaucracy. So, you know, the reforms have to start at the very top,” he added.

    Nunes said he has an additional hope that dates back to his days in Congress: that more spies and analysts will be dispatched out of Washington to the field.

    “We always wanted to limit the number of people in Washington, and no matter how hard we opposed the adding of positions, more and more people ended up in Washington D.C. And I spent my whole career trying to figure out, how do you get more intelligence officers overseas, building relationships, learning things,” he said.

    Nunes said his goal as board chairman is to “be supportive” of initiatives like “streamlining, de-politicizing, getting people out of Washington and back into the field, where you get Americans who are patriotic, that want to work hard, that want to get out and work on behalf of their country. They don’t want to be living in Washington, DC, and if they do, they’re probably not the type of people that need to be in those.

    ”Leaks eroding trust in intelligence operations

    Nunes’ comments come as the Trump White House, under acting National Security Adviser Marco Rubio, has vastly shrunk the size of the National Security Council to have it more focused on the president’s agenda. Rubio is doing double-duty as the Secretary of State.

    Meanwhile, spy agencies have been hampered by continued leaks of sensitive intelligence ranging from Israeli war plans to early assessments of the U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities. Such episodes have eroded some of Trump’s trust in the agencies, and he openly quarrelled with DNI Tulsi Gabbard on how close Tehran was to making nuclear weapons in the days before American B2 bombers destroyed three Iranian nuclear development sites with bunker buster bombs last week.

    Last week, CIA Director John Ratcliffe delivered a devastating report disclosing that Obama-era intelligence agencies intentionally distorted intelligence and ignored career officials’ objections in writing a now-discredited assessment in 2016 that Vladimir Putin interfered in the 2016 election specifically to help Trump beat Hillary Clinton. That assessment was incorporated into Democratic Party talking points and widely adopted by legacy media.

    Ratcliffe identified numerous flaws and revealed the agency’s top two Russian experts directly objected to then-Director John Brennan expressing confidence in the assessment that Putin was trying to help Trump. 

    Brennan, now a senior national security and intelligence analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, was a signatory to the infamous letter signed by fifty other intelligence officials ahead of the 2020 election, claiming that the news about Hunter Biden’s was a “Russian disinformation” operation. As a result, social media platforms and major news organizations censored stories challenging that narrative. 

    The FBI had possessed Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop since December 2019 and knew that files cited by the media in its coverage came from a Delaware computer repairman and not the Kremlin — but, after preemptively discrediting the news to Big Tech, “the FBI kept silent publicly as 51 ex-intelligence officials suggested and then-candidate Joe Biden outright alleged that the files came from Russia,” The New York Post reported.

    Ratcliffe’s review “identified multiple specific concerns, including: a higher confidence level than was justified; insufficient exploration of alternative scenarios; lack of transparency on source uncertainty; uneven argumentation; and the inclusion of unsubstantiated Steele Dossier material.

    ”Nunes: “More information needs to be declassified”

    Nunes raised similar concerns seven years ago about the assessment when he was still chairman of House Intelligence. He told Just the News that Ratcliffe’s report was helpful but that he is personally aware of additional intelligence that shows the conduct of the Obama-era spy agencies was even worse than the public knew.

    “There’s still more information that needs to be declassified,” Nunes said. “I think what Director Ratcliffe did is critically important to get this information out. It’s stuff that we already, you know, basically knew,” adding that “I do think that there is a lot more. And the question always comes up: how do you hold these people accountable?”

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  20. I sure as hell don’t see them as any “prize!” More like a fricking curse!!!!

    Just The News: “Most U.S. voters oppose having data centers built in their community and even more oppose the data centers if tax incentives are awarded to have them built, according to a poll released by Libertas Network. Overton Insights asked 1,200 registered voters the questions between June 23-26 on behalf of Libertas, which says it focuses on family education and policy reform as it looks to “change hearts, minds and laws to create a freer future.”

    Libertas had Overton Insights ask the data center questions upon suggestion from The Center Square.

    The poll asked voters specifically if they supported or opposed building new data centers for artificial intelligence in their community with 46% of respondents strongly or somewhat opposing the prospect, 36% strongly or somewhat supporting and 18% uncertain. Of those that supported building data centers in their community, 69% still supported the idea if tax subsidies or incentives were involved to bring the data centers while 23% or those initially supportive would oppose the idea if those tax breaks were involved.

    Data center projects have popped up across the country in recent years with many of those proposals including tax breaks.

    The data centers are used to create the computing power for AI and to store the large amounts of information needed for those technologies but the Incentives are often opposed because, despite the large amount of money spent on the buildings, they do not require much staff and they take a large amount of energy.

    The average American’s energy bill could increase from 25% to 70% in the next 10 years without intervention from policymakers, according to Washington, D.C.-based think tank the Jack Kemp Foundation. A least 10 states are currently losing $100 million or more in taxes from data centers, according to an April report from Good Jobs First.

    Data centers often require politicians to sign non-disclosure agreements during the proposal process, including keeping the name of the technology company involved along with the details of a project secret.

    The secrecy occurred during the process of building a recent Indianapolis data center, according to WFYI, while the names have leaked of developers involved in several Wisconsin data center projects where state lawmakers are asking to create a data center exception to state laws on property tax captures at the sites to lure the projects to the state.

    “These data centers are so big and so valuable and such a prize for a community that (state laws capping TIFs) really creates a problem,” said Wisconsin Sen. John Jagler, R-Watertown.

    Virginia currently has a backlog of data center projects as they complete interconnection studies to ensure they can safely attach to the energy grid.

    Projects needing more than 50 megawatts of power often require transmission-level access, which adds federal oversight from PJM, the regional grid operator for Virginia and 12 other states.”

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    1. we DO NOT need these centers sucking up energy! I’m tired of the “inevitable” ai bullshit. it’s just collecting OUR data and it’s mine–I should CONTROL who has it and can use it.

      it sucks up energy, but it will make less jobs than manufacturing something–a further step in making us a SERVICE economy and that stalled before!

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  21. Just The News: “The U.S. Air Force and Space Force have met their annual recruitment goal three months early, as of June 30. For years, nearly all U.S. military branches struggled to meet annual recruitment goals. Within six months of President Donald Trump being elected to office, a reversal occurred with the U.S. Navy being the first to announce it met its recruitment goal early in mid-June, The Center Square reported.

    As of last month, 40,600 future sailors had signed up to serve in the U.S. Navy. Now, another 30,000 recruits have joined the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. Both branches reached 100% of their annual recruitment goal three months early. The federal fiscal year begins Oct. 1 and goes through Sept. 30.

    The Air Force and Space Force have already sent nearly 25,000 of their 30,000 contracted recruits to basic military training, they announced. Remaining recruits are scheduled to begin training by Sept. 30.

    “This year’s achievement is particularly noteworthy as the Air Force Recruiting Service has built its strongest Delayed Entry Program in the last decade, with a pool of over 14,000 recruits,” the Air Force said. Among them are a record 750 Special Warfare Candidates, who represent “a historic number of individuals who have signed up for these challenging-to-fill career fields.”

    Recruiting across the Department of Defense had “become increasingly challenging due to a widening unfamiliarity gap between the civilian sector and the military,” the Air Force said last year.

    Critics, including members of Congress, argued that under the Biden administration, failure to meet recruiting goals was due to a range of DOD policies, including a COVID-era vaccine mandate, prioritizing so-called “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” training and “woke” transgender social programs. The Trump administration ended them, instead refocusing priorities on mission readiness, warfighting, cutting wasteful spending and modernizing administrative and procurement operations.

    To address recruitment gaps and failures, the Air Force Accessions Center (AFAC) was launched at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas. It’s focused on modernizing recruitment strategies, expanding community outreach and highlighting career development, it says. “The fact that we have even exceeded this goal and currently have a DEP at its largest level in 10 years speaks to the vast number of volunteers interested in serving their country today,” Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink said.

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin said that “patriotic Americans … are lining up and signing up,” so much so that this year was “the largest number of Special Warfare candidates awaiting training on record.”

    U.S. Space Force has been the exception to DOD recruitment woes. In December 2019, Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law creating U.S. Space Force, creating the first new armed service since 1947. Every year since, it’s met its recruitment goals.

    “This is the sixth consecutive year we’ve reached our target and filled our ranks with high caliber patriots,” Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said. “It’s clear Americans are excited about the Space Force, and this achievement is a direct reflection of the talent our mission continues to attract.”

    U.S. Space Force also partnered with AFAC to establish the first Space Force Recruiting Squadron. Lt. Gen. Brian Robinson, commander of Air Education and Training Command, said a record 6,000 more Airmen and Guardians were recruited in fiscal 2025 than in fiscal 2023.

    Those interested in joining the Air Force and Space Force as civilians or as service members are encouraged to learn more at http://www.AirForce.com or http://www.SpaceForce.com.”

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  23. “Sunday Strip: The Original Big Beautiful Bill and other true stories”

    Robert W Malone MD, MS, Jul 06, 2025

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  28. Just The News: “Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem said on Sunday the terrorist group refuses to disarm until Israel withdraws its troops from southern Lebanon and ends airstrikes.

    “How can you expect us not to stand firm while the Israeli enemy continues its aggression, continues to occupy the five points, and continues to enter our territories and kill?” Kassem said, according to the Associated Press. “We will not be part of legitimizing the occupation in Lebanon and the region. We will not accept normalization (with Israel).”

    His video address was delivered while thousands of people gathered in Beirut’s southern suburbs for the Shiite holy day of Ashoura, which commemorates the 680 AD Battle of Karbala, the AP reported. In that battle, Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussein, was killed after he declined to pledge allegiance to the Umayyad caliphate. 

    Israeli strikes have killed most of Hezbollah’s top leaders, such as Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, according to the AP. Tom Barrack, U.S. envoy to Lebanon, is expected to soon visit Beirut to discuss a peace plan.”

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  30. Good grief, this woman is stupid!!!!

    Just The News: “Teachers union boss Randi Weingarten took down an X post on Independence Day after a grammatical error and the new one still reads “4rth of July.” She had spelled peeking as “peaking” in the original post. 

    The error was corrected in the new post but many users commented and criticized Weingarten for the way she spelled July fourth or July 4th in both the first and second posts.

    “And this is one of my favorite pictures of the flag-America with the sun peeking out. A beacon of light. This 4rth of July that’s what I am fighting for,” Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) since 2008, wrote in the second most recent post.”

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  31. Just The News: “A former FBI official and his sister are being charged with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. over allegedly submitting fake bids on electronic equipment to score about $350,000 in government contracts. Jeffrey Spencer, 51, of Canyon Country, and Christy Evereklian, 43, of Temecula, will plead guilty, the U.S. Department of Justice announced in a news release this week.

    Spencer was an electronics technician for the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office. They were accused of submitting what “purportedly [were] independent and competitive bids” from Evereklian’s several companies.

    “Evereklian submitted bids from her own companies to the FBI using the names of her relatives to conceal her control over bidding companies, and she used a random number generator to create the fraudulent bids,” the DOJ said.

    Spencer and his sister face up to five years in federal prison.”

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  32. MUSLIMS, TOO, Abbott!!!!

    Just The News: “As foreign espionage threats continue in the U.S. and in Texas, a new bill becomes law Sept. 1 that prohibits foreign ownership of Texas land. SB 17, filed by state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham, passed the Texas legislature with bipartisan support and was signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott.

    The Adversarial Land Ownership Act initially passed the Senate in March by a vote of 24-7. A watered-down version passed the House in May by a vote of 75-47 with Republicans and Democrats voting against it. Differences in the bill were ironed out in conference committee and each chamber voted to pass the bill with bipartisan support. Abbott signed the bill into law last month.

    “For three years, I’ve worked to pass a bill to protect our land, homes, commercial buildings, water, timber, oil and gas and rare earth materials from being bought up by foreign adversarial nations like China, Russia, North Korea and Iran,” Kolkhorst said, adding that the final bill sent to the governor “is the strongest national security bill in the nation. Texas is not for sale to our enemy countries.”

    As of Sept. 1, the new law will prohibit foreign governmental entities, companies, and individuals from purchasing private property in Texas if they are from or connected to countries listed in the latest Annual Threat Assessment report published by the Director of National Intelligence. To date, countries on the list are China, Iran, North Korea and Russia.

    Prohibitions for real property includes agricultural land, commercial or industrial property, water rights, rare earth materials, groundwater, timber, and oil and natural gas. The law gives the Office of Attorney General enforcement authority to investigate potential violations and initiate divestment proceedings against prohibited entities.

    The prohibition “is a matter of national security,” Kolkhorst said, adding that during the interim session, her office proposed a stronger bill than in the last session, incorporating measures from a Florida bill that became law in 2023.

    Once Kolkhorst’s bill becomes law, Texas will join 22 states that already enacted similar legislation. Between January 2023 and July 2024, at least 22 states enacted legislation regulating foreign ownership of real property, according to a Congressional Research Service analysis. Some states enacted multiple laws.

    They include Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

    The bill becoming law this year was the culmination of multiple years of dedication by Kolkhorst, including meeting with constituents, holding hearings, and surviving a wave of attacks during two legislative sessions by opponents claiming she and the bill were racist.

    In the last legislative session, a coordinated effort to kill the bill used a social media platform with direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party, The Center Square exclusively reported. One of the anti-Kolkhorst groups posted an article published by The Center Square about her bill that Abbott posted on social media on a WeChat platform. The platform was used by opponents of her bill who targeted Chinese Americans labeling them as Chinese traitors and spies, according to a Johns Hopkins expert on China who uncovered an alleged CCP-campaign on social media targeting her bill.

    In 2023, her bill passed the Senate with bipartisan support but never made it out of the House State Affairs Committee chaired by state Rep. Todd Hunter, R-Corpus Christi. Last year, Abbott issued multiple executive orders and directives to state agencies to increase security measures related to China, The Center Square reported. This year, the legislature passed bills incorporating those provisions related to cybersecurity, infrastructure and other public safety issues.

    In Congress, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican from Houston, introduced a bill to protect military installations and training areas from America’s adversaries, including China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, as well as protecting energy projects, The Center Square reported.

    The bills were filed after the Texas legislature unanimously passed the Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act in 2021, banning Texas governmental entities and businesses from entering into contracts with companies owned or controlled by hostile foreign nations to gain access to Texas’ critical infrastructure.

    They did so after learning that a Chinese billionaire and former Chinese People’s Liberation Army general bought over 130,000 acres of land just miles from Laughlin Air Force base in Val Verde County, the largest air force pilot training base in the U.S., The Center Square reported.

    The bills were also filed as Chinese espionage threats continue nationwide, including CCP-secret police stations reportedly operating in Houston, Chinese spies being arrested in Houston and the greatest number of Chinese nationals illegally entering the U.S. in recorded history under the Biden administration, more than 176,000, The Center Square exclusively reported.”

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  35. one of FIVE incursions????

    FTA

    ❓WHAT HAPPENED: A NORAD fighter aircraft intercepted a general aviation aircraft violating restricted airspace over Bedminster, New Jersey.

    👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and a civilian pilot.

    📍WHEN & WHERE: July 5, 2025, over Bedminster, New Jersey.

    💬KEY QUOTE: “NORAD employs a layered defense network of radars, satellites, and fighter aircraft to identify and respond to potential threats.” – 2nd Lt. Tyler Turnmire.

    🎯IMPACT: The incident highlights the importance of pilots verifying FAA Notices before flights to avoid restricted airspace violations.

    IN FULL

    A general aviation aircraft was intercepted by a North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) fighter after it violated Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) airspace over Bedminster, New Jersey. This event marked one of five unauthorized incursions into the restricted airspace on the day.

    The civilian aircraft entered the restricted zone at about 2:39 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. To capture the pilot’s attention, NORAD aircraft executed a headbutt maneuver and safely escorted the aircraft out of the area.

    General aviation pilots are urged to check all Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs) and remain informed before flights. Specific to Bedminster, New Jersey, pilots should be aware of FAA NOTAMs 1353, 1358, 2246, and 2247.

    Pilots can find the most current information on the FAA’s website at https://tfr.faa.gov/.

    NORAD’s use of a layered defense system, incorporating radars, satellites, and fighter aircraft, ensures the identification and response to possible threats.

    https://thenationalpulse.com/2025/07/05/norad-intercepts-plane-at-trumps-bedminster/

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  36. Just The News: “Authorities said on Sunday that at least 69 people, including 21 children, have died in flash floods in central Texas as frantic search efforts continued for nearly 30 missing children. Officials in Kerr County said they are still looking for 11 children who were at an all-girls camp when the Guadalupe River ran its banks and roaring waters swept campers away.

    At least 43 fatalities have been reported so far in Kerr County, Sheriff Larry Leitha said on Saturday. The dead include 28 adults and 15 children, he told a news conference Saturday night. Two of the deceased campers from Camp Mystic have been identified as Renee Smajstrla and Janie Hunt.

    Parents have been posting photos of their missing daughters on social media in the hopes of finding them as soon as possible. About 240 people have been rescued or evacuated as a result of the flooding, according to authorities. In all, 69 people are confirmed dead and 11 children are still missing, authorities said.

    President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he signed a major disaster declaration for Kerr County, Texas.

    “These families are enduring an unimaginable tragedy, with many lives lost, and many still missing,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.”

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  39. “They brought the hammer down on the worst of the worst, and nobody npticed until The Post reported on it. Those arrested include 17 homicide suspects, 95 gang members, including several others wanted for serious violent and sexual offenses, federal officials said.

    U.S. Marshal Juan Mattos Jr. and Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba called the collaboration among federal, state, and local law enforcement ‘a major success in combating violent crime and restoring public safety.’ “We are doing multiple cases at once to make sure that we clean up as quickly as possible,” Habba told Fox News of the operation in June. “Violent crime is number one. It is very clear from this administration. That is all we’re focused on.”

    What’s weird – or maybe it’s par for the course with today’s fucked-up, left-leaning main stream media – is I didn’t see or hear a single fuckin’ thing about this anywhere. They’re always bitching and moaning about ICE grabbing roofers and kitchen workers (all of whom ARE here illegally)  but they rarely report on them snagging the bad guys. Funny, isn’t it? Not…”

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  41. “This protest took place exactly one day after we bombed the fuck out those Iranian nuke sites, so I gotta ask. How the FUCK are these people this  organized and how on earth do they get all that shit so professionally printed so quickly? Inquiring minds sho’ as fuckall’d like ta know…”

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  45. There’s stuck, and then there’s Saskatchewan gumbo stuck

    “What happens when an Alaskan brown bear decides what’s in your plane should belong to him.”

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  46. hubby and i spent the last 45 minutes talking with our granddaughter. her boyfriend of one month brought her a bouquet of wildflowers, a pocket knife, and a bar of soap. we laughed–what’s up with the soap? he said his mom told him a pocket knife is NOT girlie enough–so he bought a bar of perfumed soap…lol

    she has a job as a cashier at Giant–early mornings–she was complaining about seniors and their coupons…LOL

    she’s also shadowing a vet next week while she performs 2 neutering operations.

    she is one busy busy girl.

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  47. “Buh Bye to Another Democratic Operative at the FBI: Michael Feinberg, friend of Peter Strzok, quit the bureau before being forced to spill the beans on the nature of his work and friendship with the disgraced Comey lackey.”

    Julie Kelly, Jul 06, 2025

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “In yet another example of what the new leadership at the Federal Bureau of Investigation is up against, Michael Feinberg, a self-proclaimed intelligence expert at the bureau, resigned in May. Feinberg—as is the fashion for FBI employees forced out after being exposed as political hacks rather than the diligent crime fighters they purport to be—penned a sanctimonious screed explaining why big bad Kash and Dan are responsible for his decision to quit.

    Writing for Lawfare, the Brookings Institution’s appropriately named repository for Trump foes, Feinberg claimed he was targeted due to his longtime friendship with Peter Strzok. Lover of Lisa Page and hater of Donald Trump, Strzok took a lead role in concocting the Trump-Russia election collusion hoax in 2016, which included his ambush of General Michael Flynn in the White House in January 2017. He, along with Page, also served on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team of investigators.

    Strzok was fired in 2018 over incriminating text messages exposing his anti-Trump bias but he was rewarded with a $1.2 million lawsuit settlement by former Attorney General Merrick Garland last year.

    Feinberg said he had been informed that Dan Bongino, deputy director of the FBI, wanted him out despite planning for a promotion at the time. “I was in the midst of preparing for a potential move to Washington, D.C. to take on a new position at FBI headquarters. But, it turned out, I had made a terrible mistake: I had remained friends with someone who had appeared on Kash Patel’s enemies list,” Feinberg, referring to Patel’s book, Government Gangsters wrote on July 3. “I faced a choice: get demoted or resign.”

    While Feinberg insisted his ongoing friendship with Strzok revolved around similar (poor) taste in music—”most of our conversations since he left the Bureau have involved debating the relative merits of New Order versus Joy Division”—one little nugget possibly revealed the truth behind his departure: Feinberg worked with Strzok in the “FBI’s Counterintelligence Division roughly a decade ago.”

    If by “roughly” Feinberg meant 2016 and 2017, the timeline would place Feinberg at the nerve center of the FBI’s successful effort to spy on Trump and his campaign. In fact, a New York Times article in June reported that Strzok and Feinberg “worked together for years in the counterintelligence division.”

    Further, Feinberg possibly could have worked on the 2016 investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server; Strzok also took the lead in that inquiry, going so far as to change language in Jim Comey’s public statement to downplay Clinton’s handling of government records. Clinton, of course, faced no charges.

    But Bongino, and the public, may never know whether Feinberg participated in either matter, or to what extent. Faced with a request to sit for a polygraph test about the nature of his “friendship” with Strzok, Feinberg alleged, he immediately resigned. (The FBI also is using polygraphs to determine the source of leaks to the media.) Raising suspicions Feinberg has something to hide, he resigned five years before he was eligible for a pension—a financial boon most government employees live and die for—and while expecting his first child.

    “I would be expected to grovel, beg forgiveness, and pledge loyalty as part of the FBI’s cultural revolution brought about by Patel and Bongino’s accession to the highest echelons of American law enforcement and intelligence,” Feinberg speculated as to what the polygraph exercise would entail.

    Like those before him—think ex-New York FBI chief James Dennehy—Feinberg’s parting shot only confirmed suspicions of his political leanings. Feinberg described the climate at the new FBI as “undeniably toxic” amid the removal of senior officials and questioned new priorities, such as immigration enforcement, “that did not comfort most on-board personnel.”

    Feinberg’s resignation letter betrayed more partisanship.

    Earlier this year the ranks of our senior executives were decimated by forced retirements, and many others were willing to take their places without voicing concern or dissent. The Department of Justice has been ordered to open cases on individuals solely for having the temerity to say that the 2020 election was not stolen, or for having carried out their lawful duties as state level prosecutors; few people have pushed back. We sacrificed the names of every Special Agent who investigated the events of January 6, 2021, and an entire public corruption squad in our nation’s capital was disbanded for having worked on a related matter. Within our own field office, we shirked our national security obligations in order to move personnel to immigration task forces; our area of responsibility does not actually have a significant population of illegal immigrants, but our leaders wanted press release-ready roundups, so we pulled people from congressionally mandated counterterrorism and counterintelligence duties. I could go on.

    Feinberg now has a permanent gig at Lawfare. He recently opened an account on Bluesky, the butthurt Democratic Party alternative to X, where he is posting anti-Trump administration material:

    But establishment FBI/DOJ bootlickers in the media want the public to believe Patel and Bongino, not Feinberg and his ilk, represent a threat to national security. A histrionic editorial in the New York Times—which unflinchingly peddled every FBI-concocted political operation from Russiagate and the Whitmer fednapping to the January 6 “insurrection”—warns Americans are “less safe” under the new leadership.

    Despite the FBI’s near-singular focus on political investigations targeting Trump and his supporters for a decade, the Times editorial board claims “Mr. Trump’s politicization of the F.B.I. has left it less able to combat terrorism, foreign espionage, biosecurity threats, organized crime, online scams, white-collar crime, drug trafficking and more.”

    The Times laughably insists Joe Biden—the man who unleashed the FBI on J6ers for daring to protest the 2020 election results—”largely respected the bureau’s autonomy.” Feinberg, the Times continued, resigned over his friendship with Strzok “who had sent a text message disparaging Mr. Trump.” Only one text message, eh NYT?

    Bongino responded on X, touting the bureau’s achievements on crime, immigration, and foreign spy rings. “[Even] though it’s an opinion piece, they should at least attempt to insert reality into it.”

    There was, however, a bit of reality in the editorial as the Times confirmed at least 650 FBI employees have filed for early retirement so far.

    That’s a good start. And the ongoing purge of political operatives such as Feinberg and Dennehy should further cleanse the ranks of those responsible for trashing the FBI’s reputation. It is a formidable and thankless task but a necessary one as the country continues to face real threats here and abroad—threats the Feinberg-era FBI ignored in exchange for partisan gratification.”

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  48. Not The Bee: “Check out New York City’s latest public toilets that cost taxpayers $1 million NYC Parks / Instagram”

    Daniel Plainview, Jul 5, 2025

    Image for article: Check out New York City's latest public toilets that cost taxpayers $1 million

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “If you’ve ever found yourself running through New York City, experiencing a bathroom emergency with no bathroom in sight …

    … take heart, you can now use the loo in fine, $1 million style courtesy of the city’s many taxpayers! From am NewYork:

    This game of thrones cost taxpayers $5 million.

    Five new modular public restrooms, known as ‘Portland Loos,’ are now fully operational in parks across the five boroughs, Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday. Though the restrooms themselves are relatively affordable, city processes pushed total costs close to $1 million per kiosk.

    Yes, that’s the New York City government for you: Taking something “relatively affordable” and making it cost a cubic meter of cash.

    For a million bucks, you might at least expect that this thing would be plated in gold and maybe come with a glass of champagne or a new suit or something. But honestly, it’s, um, just a bathroom. [Looks like a horse trailer to me! NF]

    NYC Parks

    NYC Parks

    Evan Madden, whose company Madden Fabrication makes the toilet, spared no criticism of the city’s outlandish permitting and approval process:

    ‘They use marine-grade 316 stainless steel, have ADA compliance features, baby changing tables, and were built to meet New York’s strict building codes,’ Madden said. ‘Structurally, they’re the same as every other Loo, but the extras and the approval process here were intense.’ …

    Madden needed to use a fabricator approved by the Department of Buildings or have the restroom units inspected by a registered special inspector. However, none of the pre-approved manufacturers were willing to take on the project, so Madden had to go through the process of getting a fabricator certified by the DOB himself — a step that added delays.

    Contractors when you ask them if they want to do a job in New York City:

    Enjoy your new million-dollar terlets, New York! I’m sure they won’t be completely destroyed by homeless people in less than a week!”

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    1. gees can bugs get in there? and is that the toilet paper holder there on the right? can a short person even reach it?

      what’s to prevent a homeless person from living in there?

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  49. Not The Bee: “Trump administration cancels government’s subscription to preeminent academic journals: calls them junk science.”

    Not The Bee, Mister Retrops, Jul 5, 2025

    Image for article: Trump administration cancels government’s subscription to preeminent academic journals: calls them junk science.

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “How much do you suppose the government spends on subscriptions to academic journals every year? Just their subscriptions to Springer Nature alone costs the tax payers $20 million per year, and that’s not counting all the subscriptions to medical journals and other academic nonsense out there.

    And the Trump Administration has had enough.

    Andrew Nixon, the top spokesperson for the NIH’s parent agency, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), said: ‘All contracts with Springer Nature are terminated or no longer active. Precious taxpayer dollars should be [sic] not be used on unused subscriptions to junk science.’

    RFK Jr. has said that the NIH will be eschewing publications in medical journals and starting their own.

    ‘We’re probably going to stop publishing in the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and those other journals because they’re all corrupt,’ Kennedy said

    On his plans for the department to create its own journals, Kennedy said they would ‘become the preeminent journals, because if you get [NIH] funding, it is anointing you as a good, legitimate scientist.’

    RFK Jr also blasted the researchers and publishers alike for being Big Pharma’s “Sock Puppets.” And it’s about time! So many of these journals that are peer-reviewed aren’t even publishing real research anymore. Here are just a few examples from recent years:

    https://notthebee.com/article/everything-we-knew-about-alzheimers-may-have-been-fabricated-and-us-department-of-justice-just-launched-a-criminal-investigation-into-the-company-behind-it

    https://notthebee.com/article/mckinsey-studies-used-to-justify-and-promote-dei-in-the-workplace-as-a-positive-for-business-were-just-shown-to-be-unreliable-yeah-the-results-show-dei-is-bad-for-businesses

    https://notthebee.com/article/study-used-to-justify-vax-mandates-which-claimed-vaccines-reduced-covid-death-by-90-failed-to-show-deaths-from-all-causes-fell-90-as-well

    Clearly, it’s hard to trust any of the studies getting published by the major players these days. Science has become more like a game of Who’s Line Is It Anyway than a respectable field advancing the human race.”

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