What Shall We Bake Today?

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This month’s final dessert offering is Apricot Bars!

Ingredients

3/4 cup butter, softened

1 cup sugar

1 large egg, room temperature

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

1-1/3 cups sweetened shredded coconut

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

1 jar (10 to 12 ounces) apricot preserves

Directions

Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Beat in egg and vanilla. In a small bowl, whisk flour and baking powder; gradually add to creamed mixture, mixing well. Fold in coconut and walnuts.

Press two-thirds of dough onto the bottom of a greased 13×9-in. baking pan. Spread with preserves; crumble remaining dough over preserves. Bake 30-35 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Cut into bars.

Enjoy!

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131 thoughts on “What Shall We Bake Today?”

  1. Morning All!
    dark, cloudy, dreary, out there this morning. temps not bad at 66* (maybe–the thermometer is fogged up inside again).
    didn’t see a single grosbeak yesterday.

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    2. Good morning, Pat! Temp here is 66, too, but my skies aren’t so cloudy – just some wispy clouds here and there from what I can tell but the sun isn’t up yet either – supposed to be a really nice day but we’ll see….I’m so habit-driven, the sequence when I turn on my computer is just automatic and I always sign in first, both at WP and Gmail. I don’t even have to think about it – it’s more efficient that way and I’m all about efficiency, don’tchaknow??? LOL – I do get another pop-up asking if I want to sign in but I just click on WP and it goes away since I’ve already signed in.

      Every computer is different – depends on your operating system. GA uses Macintosh, which is totally different than Windows. I’ve only used Macs maybe 3 times in all of my various jobs thru the years. I only learned what I had to in order to accomplish my specific tasks – never did learn the basic system since far more government contractors used Windows.

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    1. Welllll….there are a LOT of companies who contract with Indian firms for data entry w/many being physically located in India – something needs to be done about that!!! Not to mention all the temporary visas allowed for India!!! Hmmmm….this is primarily why I do NOT like Vivek Ramaswamy (hope he doesn’t get elected in Ohio) and I don’t like our VP’s predilection for supporting India either.

      “As of FY 2019, 27 percent of foreign nationals residing in the United States on a temporary visa were from India, the same share as in FY 2018 and FY 2017, according to DHS. Other top nationalities were Chinese (accounting for 14 percent of the resident nonimmigrant population), Mexicans (9 percent), Canadians (6 percent) and South Koreans and Japanese (3 percent each).”

      https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/temporary-visa-holders-united-states

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  6. TheseTruths(@thesetruths)

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    July 31, 2025 02:39

    Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy:

    Since I took action to enforce language proficiency requirements for truckers, our state partners have put roughly 1,500 unqualified drivers out of service. That’s what I call results!

    If you can’t read or speak our national language — ENGLISH — we won’t let your truck endanger the driving public.

    America First = Safety First

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  8. Charlotte99

    July 31, 2025 5:10 am

    TRUMP: PUSH FENTANYL, GET 10 YEARS MINIMUM “With this bill, we are officially and permanently classifying all fentanyl-related substances as Schedule 1 narcotics, which is actually a very big deal. This means anyone caught trafficking these illicit poisons will face a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years in prison. We’ll be getting the drug dealers, pushers, and peddlers off our streets, and we will not rest until we have ended the drug overdose epidemic. It’s been getting a little bit better, but it’s still horrible.” Source: @TrumpWarRoom

    https://nitter.poast.org/MarioNawfal/status/1945572898384544198#m

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  10. Just The News: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday night announced the United States has reached a “full and complete trade deal” with South Korea, just hours after he met with officials to discuss an offer that would lower the tariff rate on imports.

    The announcement comes days after Trump secured a major trade deal with the European Union that lowered tariff rates to 15% in exchange for investments in U.S. energy and other goods.

    Trump’s deal with South Korea is similar in that it lowers the tariff on the country from 25% to 15%, and includes investment in U.S. energy. 

    “The deal is that South Korea will give the United States $350 Billion Dollars for Investments owned and controlled by the United States, and selected by myself, as President,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “Additionally, South Korea will purchase $100 Billion Dollars of LNG, or other Energy products and, further, South Korea has agreed to invest a large sum of money for their Investment purposes.”

    The deal is expected to be finalized when South Korean President Lee Jae Myung visits the White House for a meeting within the next two weeks.

    “It is also agreed that South Korea will be completely OPEN TO TRADE with the United States, and that they will accept American products including Cars and Trucks, Agriculture, etc,” Trump said. “We have agreed to a Tariff for South Korea of 15%. America will not be charged a tariff.”

    The president also teased earlier Wednesday that other nations have made offers to secure a reduction in tariff rates.

    “All of this will help reduce our Trade Deficit in a very major way. A full report will be released at the appropriate time. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” he concluded in the post.”

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  11. “Fact Checking Brennan and Clapper: The criminals make a public defense.”

    Techno Fog, Jul 30, 2025

    Former spy chiefs tear into Trump - POLITICO

    “In the face of recent revelations concerning intelligence abuses that took place at the end of the Obama Administration, former CIA Director James Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper took to The New York Times to defend themselves and their legacies.

    The title is one for the ages: “Brennan and Clapper: Let’s Set the Record Straight on Russia and 2016.”

    There’s a bit of audacity in that effort – those who twisted and manipulated the evidence to help manufacture the Trump/Russia hoax are now here to speak truth to power. And their piece deserves review.

    First, their claim about the use of the Steele Dossier in the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (which we addressed here and here), in which Brennan and Clapper state:

    “We have testified under oath, and the reviews of the assessment have confirmed, that the dossier was not used as a source or taken into account for any of its analysis or conclusions.”

    This is absolutely false. As DNI Gabbard’s recent release showed, the ICA’s conclusion that “We assess the [Russian] influence campaign aspired to help [Trump’s] chances of victory” was supported by four bullet points of “evidence.” One of those bullet points referred the reader to the Steele Dossier, stating “For additional reporting on Russian plans and intentions, please see Annex A: Additional Reporting from an FBI Source on Russian Influence Efforts.”

    The Steele Dossier had been summarized in the ICA’s Annex and was classified, shielding it from public scrutiny and keeping the public (and some government officials) in the dark about that “FBI Source” who was reporting on Russia’s alleged influence operation. At the time, most anyone (save for the skeptics) reading the ICA would have concluded that there was legitimate and well-sourced information proving the ICA’s conclusion.

    In reality, as we all know, it ended up being lies purchased by the Clinton Campaign. And by the time the ICA had been drafted, Director Brennan knew that Hillary Clinton had approved of a plan to link Trump to Russia. And even when confronted by CIA senior officers with the flaws of the Steele Dossier, Brennan shrugged them off, stating “Yes, but doesn’t it ring true?”

    Second is their claim that “multiple, thorough, yearslong reviews of the assessment [ICA] have validated its findings and the rigor of its analysis.”

    Of course, this ignores the obvious: that the memo released by DNI Gabbard damns both the ICA’s material findings (at least some of them) and the rigor of the ICA’s analysis. Citing to old “reviews” doesn’t change the most recent disclosures. But failing to address the substance of these July 2025 releases does indicate an effort by Brennan and Clapper to avoid a serious discussion of their own intelligence abuses.

    After all, the Gabbard release establishes the following:

    • In making its conclusion that there was a Russian plan to engage and assist Trump, the ICA relied “an email with no date, no identified sender, no clear recipient, and no classification.”
    • Reliable reporting indicated that Russia was concerned that Trump would take a hard line to Russia. Other intelligence suggested that Russia did not plan to target Democrats because they were easier to work with.
    • Brennan overruled CIA officers who wanted to omit an “unclear fragment of a sentence” from the ICA because it was unreliable and subject to multiple interpretations. This “fragment” was used to conclude that Putin “aspired” to help Trump.

    Third, Brennan and Clapper write:

    “Despite claims by Trump administration officials of a nefarious political conspiracy, we did everything we could at the time to prevent leaks of intelligence reports, including Russia’s preference for Mr. Trump, a requirement that President Obama regularly emphasized.”

    With respect to the nefarious political conspiracy and the leaks, the evidence is overwhelming and includes:

    • The use of Clinton-funded opposition research to fuel the counter-intelligence investigation of the President-elect and his team.
    • The use of Clinton-funded opposition research, and fraudulent and unreliable intelligence (see examples above), to support the conclusions of the ICA that harmed Trump.
    • By December 2016 there were leaks to the press (most notably to The New York Times and the Washington Post) by senior Obama Administration officials concerning the intelligence community’s findings that Russia sought to harm Clinton’s campaign and help Trump. These leaks continued into January 2017.
    • The fact that the Steele Dossier was bolstered by being presented as part of the ICA before its leak to the press.

    And finally, Brennan and Clapper dispute the Trump Administration’s claim that that the Obama Administration “silenced intelligence professionals.”

    Yet as we have learned in the last couple weeks, one ODNI official was pressured by top-level intelligence officials in late December 2016/early January 2017 to accept “that the Russian government had a preference for President Trump.”

    When this ODNI official refused to accept that conclusion based on the evidence and questioned leadership “about why an IC assessment was being created that contradicted multiple IC assessments”, he was shut-out and “immediately removed from emails regarding the drafting of the Obama-ordered IC assessment.”

    Brennan and Clapper can play semantics – “silenced” isn’t exactly “removed” and “sidelined” – but it’s close enough. Others, like the CIA officers who tried to persuade Brennan about the feeble intelligence and the failings of the Steele Dossier, were just ignored.

    The sad reality is that not many in the intelligence community had to be silenced because they were willing to go along with leadership’s objective to damage Trump.”

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  12. EXCERPT: “Americans are about to get another jolt from declassified Russiagate evidence, this time showing the Obama administration had intelligence as far back as summer 2016 that Hillary Clinton approved an operation to manufacture a fake Russia scandal to harm Donald Trump and the FBI would “fully participate in the plan,” officials told Just the News.

    Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who has spent years fighting to declassify the intelligence gathered from a foreign enemy and delivered to Obama, is set to release the bombshell information as early as Thursday in the form of a declassified copy of an appendix to Russia Special Counsel John Durham’s final report from 2023.

    A source directly familiar with the new evidence but who declined to be named told Just the News that it “shows that FBI officials knew of a Clinton campaign plan to create a fake narrative that Donald Trump was conspiring with Russia to hijack the election” and to distract from the classified email scandal that was hurting her campaign during the 2016 election.

    “In fact, there’s evidence that needs to be fully vetted that foreign enemies believed that the FBI would fully participate in the plan,” the source said.

    CIA Director: Even foreign governments knew “what Clinton was up to”

    The source’s description closely matches comments that CIA Director John Ratcliffe made over the weekend about the document he helped declassify that showed the foreign enemy’s intercepted intelligence on the Clinton campaign. Her campaign asserted that the FBI would legitimize Clinton’s false Russia narrative by investigating the allegations included in a Clinton campaign-funded dossier written by ex-British spy Christopher Steele.

    “What that intelligence shows […] is that part of this was a Hillary Clinton plan, but part of it was an FBI plan to be an accelerant to that fake Steele Dossier, to those fake Russia collusion claims by pouring oil on the fire, by amplifying the lie and burying the truth of what Hillary Clinton was up to,” Ratcliffe told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday……”

    https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/damning-classified-annex-durham-clinton-plan-intel-released

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  13. Just The News: “The last few days mark a monumental “I told you so” moment for President Donald Trump’s economic policies. Surpassing expectations in consumer confidence, jobs, inflation, GDP and trade agreements, even some of Trump’s most virulent critics are reconsidering their hot takes. 

    Revenues from tariffs hit $150 billion on Tuesday, sparking legislation by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. He introduced the “American Worker Rebate Act,” which would issue $600 rebate checks to eligible Americans, including their children, to offset any costs associated with higher prices caused by the tariffs. 

    Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently estimated that tariff revenue could hit $300 billion by the end of the year and Trump expounded on the success of the tariffs when he told Just The News, “We’re taking in tremendous amounts of money. You saw that we had a $25 billion surplus last month. And the tariffs haven’t really started by comparison to what they will be. We’re doing them on cars right now, cars and steel, mostly, but the other ones kick in on August 1, and they’re very substantial.” Other nations that could be announcing trade deals with the United States include India and Vietnam.

    Trade deals happening

    Trump has now brokered important trade agreements with the United Kingdom, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, and as of today, South Korea. However, the European Union trade agreement might be the most significant deal yet. Shanker Singham, who served as a cleared advisor to the United States Trade Representative and the Department of Commerce, spoke to Just The News about its importance. 

    “Why the EU is significant is, it has been very, very difficult for the U.S. and the E.U. to agree on anything in the area of trade for decades,” he said. “There have been lots of attempts to do Trans-Atlantic Trade Agreements, to do the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. None of it has worked over the last 25 years. This is the first time that there’s been a deal of any kind, really, of this kind of level between the US and the EU,” Shanker continued. 

    Consumer confidence rises

    The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index rose 2.0 points to 97.2 in July, exceeding economists’ expectations of 95.4, driven by a 4.5-point increase in the Expectations Index to 74.4. 

    Despite doomsday rhetoric by Democrats, the new figures signal a decrease in pessimism about future economic conditions. Factors like expectations of business conditions, current conditions, expectations for employment and expectations for family income are factored into the index.  

    GDP up by 3%

    The U.S. economy grew at an annualized rate of 3.0% in Q2 2025, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, defying critics who predicted a slowdown due to President Trump’s tariff policies and global trade tensions. This growth, which was a sharp rebound from the alarming -0.5% contraction in Q1 2025, exceeded expectations of around 2% from sources like Investing.com, suggesting it was driven by a significant decrease in imports and a surge in consumer spending. 

    Despite warnings from economists and business leaders about potential GDP shocks from tariffs, the economy’s resilience—bolstered by strong labor markets and consumer confidence—has contradicted forecasts of stagnation, with the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow model aligning closely at 2.9%. 

    An obstinate Fed’s refusal to adjust rates 

    Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced Wednesday that interest rates would remain at 4.50%, despite optimistic economic factors. “My colleagues and I remain squarely focused on achieving our dual mandate goals of maximum employment and stable prices for the benefit of the American people,” Powell said during a press conference.

    Powell has long held that his decision not to lower interest rates is out of an abundance of caution: “Despite elevated uncertainty, the economy is in a solid position, the unemployment rate remains low, and the labor market is at or near maximum employment. Inflation has been running somewhat above our 2% longer-run objective.”

    Trump criticized the decision Wednesday, telling the press, “Each point costs us $365 billion. We could save $365 billion. He’s done a bad job.”

    Critics soften, reconsider

    Comedian and talk-show host Bill Maher first hoped for a recession to hurt Trump’s reelection in 2020 and then again in April to change Trump’s tariff policies. He also declared that Trump’s tariffs are “a** backwards” and would “tank” the economy by Independence Day. 

    Maher, like others, is now singing a very different tune. “The truth is, I don’t know what his strategy is. But look, the stock market is at record highs. I know not everybody lives by the stock market, but I also drive around,” he said on his Club Random podcast. “I don’t see a country in a depression at all. I see people out there just living their lives. And I would have thought — and I gotta own it — that these tariffs were going to f*cking sink this economy by this time — and they didn’t.”

    Kenneth Langone, billionaire and Home Depot co-founder, expressed reconsideration as well.

    Just months ago, Langone called tariffs “bullsh*t.” After Trump’s string of economic successes, Langone was unambiguous when he admitted he was wrong. The influential businessman told CNBC’s Squawk Box in July, “Look, let me tell you right now, I am sold on Trump. In fact, I’ll say this: I think he’s got a good shot at going down in history as one of our best presidents ever.”

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  14. As far as I’m concerned, ANYONE in Congress who does not approve of this measure is more than likely guilty of insider trading!!! What confuses me is the democrat support….??? Or is this another one of those convoluted deals that is actually the opposite of what it appears to be???

    Just The News: “A Senate committee on Wednesday advanced a congressional stock-trading ban with only one Republican vote in the GOP-controlled panel. The measure advanced in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and is sponsored by member Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican.

    The vote was 8-7, with the other seven “yes” votes coming from committee Democrats. Hawley’s original bill, which he called the PELOSI Act, was named after Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who has faced scrutiny for her husband’s extensive trading, despite a lack of evidence that it was done using congressional insider information, POLITICO reported. 

    The original bill barred Congress members and their spouses from trading stocks. However, Hawley offered an alternative bill to the committee along with the panel’s top Democrat, Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, that changed the name and extended the prohibitions to the president and vice president in future administrations.

    “We have an opportunity here today to do something that the public has wanted us to do for decades, and that is to ban members of Congress from profiting on information that, frankly, only members of Congress have,” Hawley said.

    The other Republican committee members argued that the bill would unfairly punish the wealthy and disincentivize some people from serving in Congress. Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, who had co-sponsored the original PELOSI Act with Hawley, called the effort a “publicity show” and said the committee was moving too quickly to approve the new legislation.

    “It is important for us to restore faith in our institutions, but to just put a vote out there, when we have literally no idea what we’re voting for, is gross incompetence,” Moreno said. “This is the most absurd process I’ve ever seen.”

    Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said he did not think the new legislation was needed because of the current rules regarding insider trading, warning it would have unintended consequences. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., accused Hawley of breaking a promise to work with him to improve the bill.

    “I don’t know when in this country it became a negative to make money,” Scott said, explaining his own rags-to-riches story. “How many of you don’t want to make money? Anybody want to be poor?” he asked the attendees in the hearing room.”

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    1. they don’t get it do they? no one wants to be poor, but you should not be allowed to exploit a gov’t position to make money. that’s why, once you’re out of office, you should lose your clearance–no more making money off that. no stock trading when you know insider info. insider trading is a crime–why should congress be exempt from that?

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  15. EXCERPT: “A trillion dollars worth of Obama-era greenhouse gas regulations for cars, trucks and engines will be axed this year, along with the unpopular stop-start feature in vehicles, EPA boss Lee Zeldin plans to announce Tuesday.

    The EPA proposal to repeal the 2009 “Endangerment Finding” represents a major rollback of US climate action, and follows President Trump’s Day One executive order, “Unleashing American Energy.” It will be released for public comment before going into effect later this year.

    “With this proposal, the Trump EPA is proposing to end 16 years of uncertainty for automakers and American consumers,” said Zeldin. “Stakeholders have told me that the Obama and Biden EPAs twisted the law, ignored precedent, and warped science to … stick American families with hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden taxes every single year.”

    Zeldin claims the repeal will save Americans as much as $50 billion annually on cheaper cars by slashing greenhouse gas emissions standards on vehicles, including the Biden electric vehicle mandate.

    He was set to unveil the proposal in Indianapolis Tuesday with Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, Indiana Gov. Mike Braun, Attorney General Todd Rokita, Rep. Jim Baird, the Indiana Motor Truck Association, and the National Automobile Dealers Association.

    “We heard loud and clear the concern that EPA’s greenhouse gas emissions standards themselves, not carbon dioxide which the Finding never assessed independently, was the real threat to Americans’ livelihoods,” said Zeldin…..”

    https://nypost.com/2025/07/29/us-news/trump-rolling-back-trillion-dollars-of-dem-green-car-regulations/

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  16. Just The News: “A senior intelligence official, who was a whistleblower in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, was threatened over reporting wrongdoing, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

    On Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released new documents that give a firsthand account of what the office say is the whistleblower’s “relentless efforts to expose the egregious manipulation and manufacturing of intelligence.”

    The documents include the whistleblower’s work done in the months leading up to the November 2016 election, their concerns about using “discredited information as then-DNI Clapper and Central Intelligence Agency Director Brennan worked to craft the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) at President Obama’s request,” and how a direct supervisor attempted to pressure them to endorse the key findings of the ICA about the Russian government’s alleged support for Donald Trump at the time, according to the office.

    “Thank you to the brave Intelligence Community Whistleblower who courageously came forward to expose the truth about one of the biggest and most impactful scandals in our nation’s history,” Gabbard said in a statement. 

    The documents include what the whistleblower alleges are statements from a direct supervisor pressuring intelligence officials to endorse the ICA to receive a promotion and concerns over flawed intelligence practices, such as choosing to use open-source references to Russian media as “evidence” for the Russian government’s support for Trump, but ignoring foreign media from other countries, including NATO allies, that supported Hillary Clinton and denigrated Trump.

    According to the whistleblower’s records, then-DNI James Clapper and other senior Obama administration officials denounced the Steele dossier privately, but also ensured that the January 2017 ICA included it. 

    The dossier was political opposition research on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign compiled by British counterintelligence specialist Christopher Steele. The finding in the report that the campaign appeared to collude with Russia have now been debunked.

    The whistleblower reported their concerns to more than a dozen government offices including to the office of Justice Department special counsel John Durham, the intelligence community inspector general, a U.S. senator and other official whistleblower channels over the last six years.”

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  17. “EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Mike Lee Will Introduce Bill To Halt Federal Judges’ Control Over U.S. Attorneys: ‘President Trump deserves to pick the people working for him,’ Lee said.”

    The Federalist, By: Margot Cleveland, July 31, 2025

    Mike Lee

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, will introduce on Thursday a short two-page bill designed to — as the legislation’s preamble explains — “restore executive power to appoint United States attorneys.” The move comes following two high-profile fights between the Department of Justice and federal courts that refused to acquiesce in the president’s pick for U.S. attorney.

    U.S. attorneys hold authority to enforce the law on behalf of the executive branch within 94 judicial districts throughout the United States. U.S. attorneys are political appointees, selected by the president to ensure those charged with enforcing the law follow his policy priorities, but they are subject to the advice and consent of the Senate. So, unless and until the Senate confirms the president’s choice, the U.S. attorney position remains vacant.

    To account for this delay, Congress authorized the attorney general to appoint, for up to 120 days, an interim U.S. attorney. That same statute provides that if the presidential appointee is not confirmed within that 120-day period, “the district court for such district may appoint a United States attorney to serve until the vacancy is filled.”

    The Senate’s delay in considering Trump’s U.S. attorney nominations has caused the 120-day clock to run out on some acting U.S. attorney appointments. Under the current legislation, then, the district courts hold authority to name a new acting U.S. attorney. And while the courts could name the same person selected by the Trump Administration, we’ve seen two recent cases where the judges have refused to do so.

    For instance, in the Northern District of New York, which is based in Albany, Attorney General Pam Bondi appointed John A. Sarcone III to serve as the interim U.S. attorney. However, after the 120-day statutory period expired, the district court declined to name Sarcone to continue in that role. 

    Attorney General Bondi sidestepped the district court by branding Sarcone the “first assistant” to the U.S. attorney, which then allowed the president to name Sarcone acting U.S. attorney pursuant to another federal statute, the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998.

    The clock also expired on the lawyer Bondi named U.S. attorney in New Jersey, Alina Habba. At that point, the New Jersey District Court named Habba’s first assistant, Desiree Lee Grace, acting U.S. attorney. Soon after, the attorney general announced that Grace had been removed from that position, posting on X: “This Department of Justice does not tolerate rogue judges — especially when they threaten the President’s core Article II powers.” Trump and Bondi then followed the same work-around with Habba, initially naming her the first assistant and then the acting U.S. attorney under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998.

    There should be no reason for these games, however, as courts have no legitimate business deciding for the executive branch who should serve as the top law enforcement officer in the district. That the district courts have long held the authority by statute and have previously avoided conflicts is irrelevant, for there is a clear conflict now. And when it comes to deciding who should represent the executive branch as a U.S. attorney, separation of powers means the president must prevail over the judicial branch.

    Sen. Lee’s proposed legislation recognizes that reality and provides a direct solution that avoids the machinations currently required, with the bill removing the statutory provision that directs the district courts to name an acting U.S. attorney. The draft bill replaces that provision with language authorizing a U.S. attorney appointed by the attorney general to serve until the individual appointed by the president is confirmed by the Senate. 

    The Utah senator told The Federalist that “President Trump deserves to pick the people working for him.” Lee added that Congress had previously removed the provision allowing district courts to name acting U.S. attorneys, but then “Democrats revived it to hamper the Bush administration almost 20 years ago.”

    “It’s time we restored this prerogative to the leader of the executive branch,” Lee stressed.

    He’s right, but whether the closely divided Congress will agree remains to be seen. In the meantime, however, President Trump has already gamed a way around the judicial overreach — at least when it comes to his U.S. attorneys. He continues to face an ongoing coup by court on nearly every other front, from immigration, to the Big Beautiful Bill’s defunding of Big Abortion, to the priorities executive agencies will fund.”

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    1. did we not have any other president with balls to take control of HIS branch? since when does another branch get to appoint people in another branch? that “law” should have gone before SCOTUS immediately!

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  18. “North Carolina Lawmakers Override Dem Governor’s Veto Of Bill Preventing ‘Sexual Exploitation Of Women And Minors’”

    The Federalist, By: Abigail Nichols, July 30, 2025

    senate desks and chairs

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “The North Carolina state legislature overrode the Democrat governor’s veto of HB805, which seeks to “prevent the sexual exploitation of women and minors,” on Tuesday, passing it into law.

    Both the state House and the state Senate voted to override Gov. Josh Stein’s veto of the a Republican sponsored legislation that would officially “recognize two sexes in all administrative rules, regulations, or public policies adopted” by the state, prohibit state funding from going toward trans procedures, and require schools to “adopt policies” enabling parents and students to opt out of curriculum on religious grounds. According to the North Carolina Family Policy Council, the law will also “extend the statute of limitations to ten years for a malpractice action arising out of injury associated with a gender transition procedure.”

    The legislation cites Trump’s January executive order titled “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” which clarifies that U.S. policy recognizes “two sexes” and directs agencies to end federal funding of transgender ideology.

    Gov. Stein vetoed the legislation on July 3, saying he supports the pornography restrictions in the original version of the bill, but he painted the revised version containing the other provisions added in the Senate as a “mean-spirited” attempt “to further divide us by marginalizing vulnerable North Carolinians.” Stein’s veto seemed specifically related to a section added to the legislation that requires state records to include both the “amended” and original version of birth certificates for those who are issued a new one after a sex “change.”

    The law still includes multiple provisions similar to those in the original draft of the bill, including restricting online entities and users from publishing pornographic images without the consent of those depicted or without verification that those depicted were at least 18 years old when the content was created. The law also lays out requirements for online entities regarding the removal of pornographic content upon request. HB805 comes more than a year after North Carolina’s “Pornography Age Verification Act,” which seeks to protect minors by requiring user age verification before accessing porn sites, went into effect.

    In 2023, the North Carolina legislature overrode several vetoes by previous Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper and passed “three new laws that protect children from … radical gender ideology” by keeping men out of women’s sports, requiring teachers alert parents of their kids’ “gender confusion issues instead of transitioning kids secretly,” and prohibiting “medical professionals from pumping kids full of neutering drugs,” The Federalist’s Jordan Boyd reported.

    North Carolina lawmakers also voted to override a number of other vetoes from Stein on Tuesday, although some still require a vote from the House. For example, the state Senate overrode Stein’s veto of the “Freedom to Carry Bill,” meaning the state representatives are now left to decide whether “permitless concealed carry” will be allowed for Tar Heels 18 and over.”

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  19. Well, now….it wasn’t just ONE classified document found in the burn bags….!!!!

    EXCERPT: “Thousands of sensitive documents related to the Russia collusion hoax were found stuffed in burn bags inside a secret room at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), including the classified appendix to Special Counsel John Durham’s final report on the FBI’s involvement in the hoax.

    Burn bags are the standard disposal method for sensitive documents designated classified or above. The bags with the Russia hoax documents were reportedly found in the secret room by FBI Director Kash Patel, according to Fox News, which was the first outlet to report on the bags’ existence.

    The appendix will be declassified and sent to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, after coordination among Patel, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and acting National Security Agency (NSA) Director William Hartman.

    “Ultimately, the release of the classified annex will lend more credibility to the assertion that there was a coordinated plan inside the U.S. government to help the Clinton campaign stir up controversy connecting Trump to Russia,” a source told Fox News.

    According to the source cited by the outlet, some of the information in the classified appendix will show that foreign sources had knowledge of the FBI helping to spread the Russia collusion narrative before the agency launched the Crossfire Hurricane operation to go after the Trump campaign in 2016.

    The source said the intelligence collected from the foreign sources forecast what the FBI would do “with alarming specificity.”

    “Mere days after this intelligence was collected, the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane,” the source stated, adding, “It’s really hard to see how Brennan, Clapper and Comey are going to be able to explain this away.”….”

    https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/30/thousands-of-russia-hoax-documents-found-in-fbi-secret-room-in-burn-bags/

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  24. Holy crap! The guy arrested for killing that couple in the Arkansas park double homicide is an elementary school teacher!!!! Insane!!!

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  25. Pegon Zellschmidt

    July 31, 2025 8:56 am

    The Canadian government has begun ramping up testing for a chilling new Covid mRNA “AeroVax” that seeks to overcome “vaccine hesitancy” by using aerosols to “vaccinate” the general public.

    Unlike traditional “vaccines” that are deployed using injections, the new AeroVax is an atomized spray that is inhaled.
    The new “vaccines” are sprayed in aerosol form and breathed in by recipients.

    The AeroVax was developed by researchers at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded McMaster University in Canada.

    https://makismd.substack.com/p/canadian-government-begins-testing

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    1. Bummer! It turned bright and sunny here – temp is up to 71.

      Just got a letter from the local PO – I have to move my mailbox to the other side of the road!!! The carrier will only be travelling west on my street now, instead of coming back down the street to the east. SMDH – so I have to put it on my neighbor’s property and cross the street to get my mail! I called Lois and told her and she gave her approval – as she said, there is no choice in the matter. Now that I think about it, mine might be the only one on this side of the road. My neighbor’s to the west is already on the other side of the road; not sure about his Mom’s box, who lives immediately to the east of him. There are no other houses on this side of the road.

      Of course, I can’t possibly move it myself and have no-one to move it for me – I guess I’ll have to get Gage to come up on a week-end and do it for me.

      I’ve sent her an e-mail to that effect. Most people in town don’t have at-home delivery – they all have no charge boxes at the PO and have to go pick it up themselves. I’ve asked if that is an option but even then, it would be a problem in the winter with a big snowfall, considering that I can’t drive my truck in the snow any more…..smdh. Jeez, I hate this town!!!!

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      1. they should have to give you time to move it. we are the only no pay PO box in town–although all the others pay to use those boxes–can’t figure out why. i know the postal lady wouldn’t want to drive out here every day…lol. hell, we only go in twice a week to get the mail.

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        1. IKR? Jeez! Just barely 10 days notice! I texted Gage to let him know I’m going to need his help. He called me back and is checking with his GF to make sure they don’t have anything scheduled this week-end. Then he will bring his riding mower and also cut the grass for me while he’s here, as well as taking care of the mailbox. That way I can call asshole Zeb and tell him I don’t need him this week.

          My current box is a complicated thing – I’m thinking the simplest thing to do would be to buy a cheap mailbox and a post with a bag of cement and put it into one of the metal containers I’ve got. Oran/Lois’ mailbox is similar and inserted into an old metal milk container – I’m sure it’s cemented in. In spite of the snowplows coming by and blowing the snow, it’s never been knocked over. I’ve added the items to my shopping list for tomorrow afternoon. Maybe I can find a box already attached to a pole – that would simplify it a bit.

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    1. Speaking of which…..

      EXCERPT: “Newly-declassified so-called Clinton Plan intelligence included intercepted communications from a George Soros ally which suggested that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign against Donald Trump was plotting a “long-term affair to demonize” Trump by linking him to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, and that the Clinton campaign expected that “the FBI will put more oil into the fire.”

      The revelations, including intercepted purported communications from Leonard Benardo, a top official at George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, and communications by Clinton foreign policy adviser Julianne Smith, provide new insight into information that the U.S. intelligence community received in July 2016 – just before the FBI launched its politicized Crossfire Hurricane investigation.

      The bombshell allegations about a plot to falsely link Trump to Putin in an effort to distract from Clinton’s classified emails scandal are found within a formerly classified but now largely-unredacted appendix from special counsel John Durham’s 2023 report on the origins and conduct of the Russiagate investigation.

      The intelligence received by the U.S. intelligence community, including the FBI, included information and analysis from purported emails from Benardo which detailed an alleged plot by Smith and others, with the approval of Clinton herself.

      “During the first stage of the campaign, due to lack of direct evidence, it was decided to disseminate the necessary information through the FBI-affiliated…technical structures… in particular, the Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect companies, from where the information would then be disseminated through leading U.S. publications,” the classified annex said. “The media analysis on the DNC hacking appears solid…. Julie [Campaign Advisor] says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump. Now it is good for a post-convention bounce. Later the FBI will put more oil into the fire.”

      The purported emails added: “HRC [Hillary Rodham Clinton] approved [Campaign adviser Julie’s] idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections. That should distract people from her own missing emails.”

      “The point is making the Russian play a U.S. domestic issue… In absence of direct evidence, Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect will supply the media, and GRU [Russia’s Main Intelligence Directive] will hopefully carry on to give more facts,” the alleged emails from Benardo said.

      Durham said there is evidence to believe the Clinton Plan intelligence was authentic and that the Clinton campaign did carry out such a dirty trick.

      “The office’s review of certain communications involving Smith provided possible additional support … to the notion that the Clinton campaign was engaged in an effort or plan in late July 2016 to encourage scrutiny of Trump’s purported ties to Russia, and that the [Clinton] campaign might have wanted or expected the FBI or other agencies to aid that effort (‘put more oil into the fire’) by commencing a formal investigation of the DNC hack,” Durham’s classified annex stated.

      The Durham classified annex also assessed that “it is a logical deduction [REDACTED] [Julianne] Smith was, at minimum, playing a role in the Clinton campaign’s efforts to tie Trump to Russia” and that the communications reviewed by the special counsel “certainly lends at least some credence that such a plan existed.”

      Benardo is the senior vice president of Soros’s Open Society Foundations, founded by leftwing billionaire George Soros and now currently chaired by his son Alex Soros…..”

      https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/clinton-plan-tying-trump-russia-had-hope-fbi-will-put-more-oil-fire

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  31. James E. Thorne
    @DrJStrategy
    For the record.

    The question at hand is not whether the Fed will cut rates in September, nor is it about parsing every word Powell uttered today. The fundamental issue is the viability of the Federal Reserve’s role within a truly capitalist society, now that its overreach has become apparent. The sustainability of the Fed’s authority will be increasingly questioned as it acts as though we operate under a centrally planned economy, an assertion that strains the very principles of free markets. The claim that the Fed is apolitical is now widely regarded as folly.

    Powell’s stark performance at the University of Chicago in April marked a pivotal moment, the crossing of a Rubicon. In that instance, Powell comported himself as an economic emperor, displaying a disdain for Trump’s policies and supply-side economics that was palpable. His implicit message was clear: the Fed would stand in the way of the President’s agenda, dismissing the constraints and provisions of the Humphrey-Hawkins Act as mere formalities. One must ask: Is Powell and the Fed above the U.S. Constitution?

    It is undeniable, the Fed has overplayed its hand. The world now sees what the Fed truly is and what its officials, past and present, stand for. The era of the Fed’s untouchability is definitively over. This is the true line of demarcation. While pundits debate the nuances of Powell’s rhetoric on the labor market or analyze the subtleties of his language, or what the dot plots say, the real story is much more profound. The post-1951 incarnation of the Federal Reserve, which has wielded extraordinary influence for over seven decades, is approaching its end.

    Powell’s concerns about his legacy are understandable, but history will judge that he ultimately overstepped. His actions have accelerated the demise of the post-World War II central banking era, signaling a fundamental shift in the relationship between monetary authority and democratic governance. Yes we are in the mist of developing Bretton Woods 2.0 and the Fed’s role is yet to be defined.

    The epoch of the Fed’s presumed omnipotence is drawing to a close, and with it, the myth of an unelected institution wielding unchecked power in a free society. Welcome to the 4th Turning.

    The society, much like in The Wizard of Oz, has seen behind the curtain. The illusion of control and omniscience has been shattered.
    No more books need to be written.
    The Fed can no longer control the narrative. Objective research and honest analysis now happen away from Wall Street’s influence, outside the confines of Fed acolytes and their orchestrated spin. The jig is up. The era of deception and concealment is over, and the true power dynamics are emerging into the light. Welcome to President Trumps second term.

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  32. Just The News: “President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that he would extend the current tariff situation with Mexico as negotiations with the country on a formal trade deal progressed.

    He further announced that Mexico would eliminate many “non-tariff trade barriers” and negotiations would continue over the next 90 days.

    “I have just concluded a telephone conversation with the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, which was very successful in that, more and more, we are getting to know and understand each other,” he posted on Truth Social. “The complexities of a Deal with Mexico are somewhat different than other Nations because of both the problems, and assets, of the Border.”

    “We have agreed to extend, for a 90 Day period, the exact same Deal as we had for the last short period of time, namely, that Mexico will continue to pay a 25% Fentanyl Tariff, 25% Tariff on Cars, and 50% Tariff on Steel, Aluminum, and Copper,” Trump went on. “Additionally, Mexico has agreed to immediately terminate its Non Tariff Trade Barriers, of which there were many. We will be talking to Mexico over the next 90 Days with the goal of signing a Trade Deal somewhere within the 90 Day period of time, or longer.”

    The news follows Trump concluding a trade agreement with South Korea on Wednesday. He previously concluded agreements with Japan, Vietnam, the European Union, and the UK, among others.”

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  33. Fucking savages is what Muslim extremists are!!!

    “Belgium: Released early due to prison overcrowding, Kosovar Muslim sets wife on fire in front of their children — Mirsad H. had been serving a lengthy sentence for domestic violence against his wife, but he was released early as part of a government policy to ease prison overcrowding, a move that facilitated the abhorrent attack”

    ReMix, Thomas Brooke, July 31, 2025

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “A mother-of-six remains in an induced coma in Belgium nearly a month after her violent husband, a Kosovar Muslim, set her on fire in front of their children after he had been freed from prison months early due to overcrowding.

    The family of Dula K., a 41-year-old woman now fighting for her life in a burn center, has told Belgian media that she has been a victim of “failed policies” after her husband, Mirsad H., was granted Extended Pentitentiary Leave (VPV), in April 2025 as part of an emergency measure implemented by former Justice Minister Paul Van Tigchelt to address saturation in the Belgian prison system.

    Mirsad H., who boasts a considerable rap sheet including illegal possession of a weapon and receiving stolen goods, had been serving a lengthy 37-month prison sentence for domestic violence against Dula.

    On July 3, weeks after his release, he is accused of savagely attacking his wife at the family home in Houthalen-Helchteren. Police had been called after one of the children reported that Mirsad had become violent again. Officers separated the couple to assess the situation. When they realized Mirsad had violated the terms of his probation, they summoned a second patrol to arrest him. But Mirsad escaped before reinforcements arrived. He returned just hours later, stormed into the house, and doused Dula in gasoline and set her alight in front of five of their children. She suffered severe burns over her entire body and is now in a medically induced coma, completely wrapped up in protective bandages. Her survival chances are described by doctors as extremely slim.

    “He set her on fire in front of the children,” Dula’s brother Serdzo told HBVL, speaking for the first time about the attack. “We are terrified, even though he is back in prison.” The family, originally from Kosovo, has lived in Limburg for decades. They now see Dula not only as a victim of a horrific crime but as a symbol of a justice system that failed her repeatedly.

    The attack was caught on video. According to the family’s lawyer, Bert Vanmechelen, one of the children tried to extinguish the flames in the bathroom. “One of them had to put out his own mother,” Vanmechelen said. “That kind of trauma never leaves a child.” Dula, her body severely burned from head to toe, was rushed to the Leuven burn center, where she remains in critical condition.

    Mirsad was captured later that evening during a large-scale police operation after being found hiding in an abandoned building. He had injured himself falling from a roof. He is now facing charges of attempted murder and is expected to be tried before the Assize Court.

    Despite his record and propensity for violence against his wife, Mirsad was granted conditional release by the Hasselt prison administration. Current Justice Minister Annelies Verlinden has since called the measure illegal and vowed to end it.

    While local police chief Geert Verheyen insisted that officers “handled the intervention very well and professionally,” Vanmechelen rejected that claim. “Don’t tell me everything went right when a mother ends up in a coma, burned alive in front of her children, by a man who should have still been behind bars,” he said. “This is the failure of an entire system.”

    Serdzo is now caring for his sister’s children, but revealed the emotional toll the attack has put on the whole family. “We talk as little as possible about what happened,” he said. “But how can you ever erase the image of your father setting your mother on fire?”

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  35. Eureka! Gage is definitely coming up on Saturday – yeah!!!! Now just cross your fingers things go well with the scan and they don’t put me in the hospital for some unknown reason!!! They shouldn’t – I’ve been feeling a good bit better lately…..I have to get all the stuff for the mailbox move tomorrow afternoon. And I can call the asshole Zeb and tell him not to bother coming up to mow! That is the icing on the cake!!!

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  37. Well, then….I walked outside to peruse the containers I have that might be suitable for the mailbox….and, of course, got distracted – ended up pulling the weeds in the front flowerbed and trimming the Trumpet vine again…..there are soooo many weeds everywhere!!!

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      1. I think it’s more a case of liking order over disorder – the weeds make it look messy and unkempt, uncared for…..maybe it’s a little bit of pride, too…..

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  38. weird…hubby and I were just watching a herd of deer–11 of them–2 smaller bucks, 3 females and 6 fawns. they never heard up this early…but the temp has dropped to 58* and it’s raining steadily.

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      1. yeah definitely. one of them has thicker tines already y-ing at the top. the other’s are longer but thinner and they are definitely not ultra alarmed or scared of us…so we should get to see them later in fall with their mature racks.

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  39. “There’s a lot to love about Florida, and Florida Man is one of those things that’s distinctly ‘Florida.’ This Florida guy takes the cake – I mean – he takes the signs. Smokey the Bear helped law enforcement arrest a man for stealing his signs from across Florida and selling them on Facebook Marketplace. The guy was posting the signs on Facebook Marketplace for $1,900 apiece, according to Florida Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson in this report.

    “Our Ag Law Team has a suspect in custody who traveled from Pensacola to Orlando stealing Smoky Bear signs from our state forests and selling them on Facebook Marketplace for $1,900 each,” he continued.

    “Big thank you to Smokey the Bear for personally assisting in the arrest.” The suspect, whose identity was not released, was transported to jail following his arrest.”

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  40. “The Bostin’ Brass, a local Birmingham marching band, led the funeral procession with a selection of Sabbath classics. Aaron Diaz, trumpeter and bandleader for Bostin’ Brass, told Rolling Stone, “Ozzy is such an indelible part of Birmingham’s music scene. He represents so much about the city’s pride and humility and humbleness and sense of humor. 

    He’s really become like a totem for the city. To be at the forefront of the parade at the funeral in the cortege and to represent that as a musician from Birmingham feels high pressure but privileged.” – Rolling Stone Magazine

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  41. “The thing about life that gets me crazy is that by the time you learn it all, it’s too late to deal with it. It should be the other way around. We should be born with all this sense and knowledge, and then get stupider as we get older.” – Ozzie Osbourne                     

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  42. Hmmm….romance rumors about Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau – he is married but they are separated and she is single. He was in the audience at her concert and they were seen dining together alone w/no security in sight…..

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  43. “CIVICUS is an international non-profit organization focused on civil rights and citizen action. It was founded in 1993 and is based in Johannesburg, South Africa.”

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  45. “Declassified Annex to Durham Report: Smoking gun email proves Hillary Clinton greenlighted the Russiagate hoax to distract from her email server scandal.”

    Julie Kelly, Jul 31, 2025

    “Today is the nine-year anniversary of the opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the Obama FBI’s criminal investigation into nonexistent ties between the Kremlin and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

    So what better time to release yet another document demonstrating how the Trump-Russia election collusion farce was concocted by top Obama officials (including the president himself) in cahoots with the Clinton campaign?

    Senator Charles Grassley just released the newly declassified annex to the report produced by Special Counsel John Durham, who was appointed by former Attorney General William Barr to investigate the origins of Crossfire Hurricane. Durham issued his report in 2023: “[Based] on the evidence gathered in the multiple exhaustive and costly federal investigations of these matters, including the instant investigation, neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation,” Durham concluded.

    A few quick takeaways:

    • An email (or composite of emails) by a top Soros Fund official in July 2016 appears to confirm Hillary Clinton approved of the Trump-Russia election “hacking” narrative;
    • Top Obama administration officials were aware of intelligence reports related to the Clinton campaign’s plans to dirty up Trump with the manufactured scandal but instead pursued the FBI investigation into the Trump campaign;
    • Everyone was alarmed at Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s unfazed reaction to information that she acted as a conduit between the DOJ and Clinton staff;
    • Clinton, John Podesta, Jennifer Palmieri, and Jake Sullivan were interviewed by Durham in 2021 and 2022—within perjury statute of limitations—and denied knowledge of the Soros official’s email and any Trump-Russia plan;
    • Exculpatory evidence was excluded in Jim Comey’s application before the FISA court to spy on Carter Page.

    “Based on the Durham annex, the Obama FBI failed to adequately review and investigate intelligence reports showing the Clinton campaign may have been ginning up the fake Trump-Russia narrative for Clinton’s political gain, which was ultimately done through the Steele Dossier and other means,” Grassley said in a press release accompanying the annex.

    The 29-page annex is here:

    https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/declassified_durham_annex_released_by_chairman_grassley.pdf

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  49. “James Andrew McGann a former Oklahoma elementary teacher accused of killing Arkansas couple had history of inappropriate behavior at school and was allowed to silently resign before relocating to Arkansas to start teaching under a new name, Drew McGann. 

    An elementary teacher accused of killing Arkansas hikers, Clinton Brink, 43, and Cristen Brink, 41, in front of their two young children had a history of inappropriate behavior in class, leading to complaints and eventually the suspect resigning, before eventually relocating to Arkansas.

    James Andrew McGann—the 28 year old suspect in the Arkansas Devil’s Den double homicide—was previously a 4th grade teacher at Donald Elementary in Lewisville, Texas.

    https://scallywagandvagabond.com/2025/07/james-andrew-mcgann-ok-teacher-who-killed-arkansas-hikers-resigned-after-inappropriate-behavior-at-class/

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    1. everyone is so afraid of being called a transphobic/ racist or other name. where is the public’s courage when it comes to protecting CHILDREN? I don’t give a rat’s ass about color, size or anything else–but PROTECT our kids!

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        1. this is why I am on the fence about unions. they HAD a purpose in the beginning, but now they exist to steam roll anyone who wants to oust a member for cause. and the union execs are making huge salaries to boot.

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