What Shall We Make Today?

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This month’s recipes will focus on no bake types of desserts.  Today’s offering is Ice Cream Sandwich Dessert.

Ingredients

10 to 12 ice cream sandwiches

1 jar (12 ounces) caramel ice cream topping

1 carton (12 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed

1/4 cup chocolate syrup

1 Symphony candy bar with almonds and toffee (7.37 ounces), chopped

Maraschino cherries, optional

Directions

Arrange ice cream sandwiches in a single layer in an ungreased 13×9-in. dish, cutting sandwiches to fill the dish as needed. Spread with caramel and whipped toppings. Drizzle with chocolate syrup. Sprinkle with chopped candy bar.

ENJOY!

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Published by pat frederick

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136 thoughts on “What Shall We Make Today?”

  1. Morning All!
    it is a CHILLY 45* out there this morning! there were loads of deer in the yard yesterday afternoon and again this morning. the “herding” up mentality usually starts closer to Fall, but the weather has been all over the map!

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    1. Good morning, Pat! It’s really chilly here, too – only 59 and still the fogginess in the sky – I can’t tell yet whether it’s cloudy or not. The fluctuating pressures probably mess with the deer’s inner clocks, I guess.

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      1. Morning Filly!
        one of the places they were gathering is the side yard where the stump is that we place the corn block on. maybe they thought, it’s getting guys…where’s our corn block? lol
        I watched a fawn getting a tongue bath this morning from its mom…with that same look my toddler gave me when I washed his ears…

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    1. Eric Daugherty
      @EricLDaugh
      🚨 Democrats are facing multiple existential political threats.

      The Supreme Court is now considering getting rid of Dems’ race-based Congressional districts. Republicans could gain a double digit amount of seats from this alone.

      The 2030 census is set to reapportion in favor of electoral votes (House seats) for places like Florida and Texas while California, Illinois and New York lose. This means Republicans could win the presidency with 1-2 less states than is required right now. It NARROWS their electoral paths.

      The prospect of Trump removing illegal aliens from the Census is very real. Trump could either re-do the Census, or make sure illegals aren’t counted in 2030. This is to the detriment of NY, CA and IL. They depend on illegals, it inflates their Congressional seats (AND electoral votes).

      Voter ID continues to spread nationwide. When it gets on the ballot, it wins. Wisconsin elected a liberal Supreme Court justice this year handily, but their voters also added voter ID requirements to their state Constitution. Again, Dems rely on sketchy voting laws and process. Their leaders hate voter ID.

      So many things are happening right now in favor of re-seizing our electoral system from the Left and it is glorious.

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      1. I’m tellin’ ya’ – this is going to go down in the history books as THE best time in all of our country’s history!!! Truly the golden years!

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            1. i’m writing about this in my son’s journal ( a liberal who thinks I’m a conspiracy theorist) so that he’ll know that i was right about everything…LOL
              you should really write it down too…for your grandchildren.

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  7. TheseTruths(@thesetruths)

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    August 2, 2025 01:13

    I found this interesting from yesterday’s Coffee & COVID (emphasis mine):

    One of the most salacious and intriguing facts appeared in the Fox story. It described how Kash Patel found loads of incriminating, top-secret RussiaGate documents stuffed into burn bags in an unrelated SCIF (a secured information storage area). In other words, the documents were supposed to have been destroyed— including Durham’s classified annex.

    Tellingly, it did not say when Kash found the bags. That Fox story could have been pre-written weeks ago.

    These kinds of facts light up my lawyer’s mental dashboard. The implications are astounding. And it is terrible news, both for Democrats and (obviously) the RussiaGate conspirators.

    First, consider what it means that someone secured those bags and prevented their destruction. Only a very small number of people knew the documents existed— perhaps fewer than a dozen. Of those, even fewer could have known about the destruction plan.

    In other words —better sit down for this— sometime after Durham issued his report, the conspirators decided to destroy the evidence, but one of the key players thwarted the plan and hid the bags for some reason. Maybe for self-preservation, maybe for blackmail, or maybe for another reason. I’ll get to it.

    Second, Kash obviously knew where to find them. It defies logic that he could have conducted a top-to-bottom sweep of the vast Hoover building and randomly found some stray burn bags in a dusty SCIF on the 11th floor. No. Somebody must have told him where they were.

    The most probable conclusion from these facts is that one of the key conspirators is cooperating. Which means they have everything.

    If I can see this, it means the conspirators can surely see it, too. Which means they can’t talk to each other anymore; it’s not safe. They don’t know who’s talking, and they know the DOJ has enough evidence to get FISA warrants to monitor their comms. So the conspiracy has collapsed; the center could not hold.

    It’s every man for himself now.

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  10. Just The News: “Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Friday told reporters that he would keep the upper chamber in session at least through the weekend in order to confirm some of President Donald Trump’s outstanding nominees.

    The move comes amid heightened tension over the confirmation process, with Senate Democrats slow-walking all the remaining nominees by demanding time-consuming votes on each person.

    Trump has pushed the Senate to remain in session instead of breaking for their traditional August recess, including Thursday when he reminded senators that his nominees should not be “forced to wait” longer to be confirmed.

    Thune said he would keep the Senate in session at least this weekend to work on the confirmations and to negotiate with Democrats to speed up consideration of dozens of nominees. However, he said some of the negotiations will be done between the White House and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

    “That will be up to the discussions between White House and Schumer and the Democrats,” Thune said. “That’s how this is going to get resolved. We’ll see where that leads.”

    Senate Republicans worked hard on Friday to confirm or advance low-level nominees that would normally be approved quickly. But at least 150 nominees still need to be confirmed, including many judicial nominees, such as acting United States Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba.

    Senate Republican Whip John Barrasso slammed Democrats on the chamber floor for their “unprecedented obstruction of the Senate nomination process.”

    “President Trump is the only president in modern history not to have a single nominee confirmed by voice vote or unanimous consent,” Barrasso said. “Not a single one. Even the most routine nominees are being filibustered. 

    “Positions that used to fly through by voice vote or unanimous consent are now treated and taken as political hostages,” he continued. “This isn’t normal. This is petty partisan politics at its worst.”

    The Senate was supposed to begin its month-long recess, where senators return to their home districts to meet with constituents, on Saturday. It is not clear when the recess will begin now.”

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  11. Just The News: “President Donald Trump on Friday night said he would like the federal government to “release everything” that it has on the disgraced, late financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein as long as innocents aren’t hurt in the process. 

    The Trump administration has faced heavy backlash over its handling of the Epstein investigation, including its promise to release Epstein’s alleged “client list,” which it has since said does not exist. But Trump has pushed the Justice Department to provide more transparency on the matter.

    Trump last month directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to release relevant grand jury testimony related to Epstein, but a judge in Florida denied the request saying that legal precedent doesn’t allow it. 

    Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche also interviewed Epstein’s former associate Ghislaine Maxwell last week about her relationship with the deceased felon. 

    “I think [Blanche] probably wanted to know, you know, just to get a feeling of it, because we’d like to release everything, but we don’t want people to get hurt that shouldn’t be hurt,” Trump told Newsmax host Rob Finnerty. “I want to release everything. I just don’t want people to get hurt.” 

    Trump reminded viewers that he has the right to pardon Maxwell if he decides to, but claimed no one has formally requested the pardon. Maxwell is currently trying to appeal her sex-trafficking conviction, for which she is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence.”

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  12. EXCERPT: “Frustrated by the deadlocked peace negotiations between Israel and Hamas, and seeing the chances of a two-state solution slipping away, several European countries led by the United Kingdom and France have now promised to recognize an independent Palestinian state to reaffirm their commitment to a permanent settlement. 

    However, far from encouraging a ceasefire in the conflict that has raged in the Gaza Strip for nearly two years, European efforts will only encourage Hamas to continue fighting, prolonging the conflict that has devastated Gaza, Trump administration officials and experts warn. 

    “You’re rewarding Hamas if you do that. I don’t think they should be rewarded,” President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One earlier this week while returning from a trip to Scotland. Trump also previously criticized French President Emmanuel Macron’s July 24 vow to officially recognize a Palestinian state while downplaying the impact that European countries would have on the ongoing ceasefire and hostage negotiations, saying it wouldn’t “change anything.”

    “The president expressed his displeasure and his disagreement with the leaders of France, the United Kingdom and Canada,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters at a press briefing Thursday. “He feels as though that’s rewarding Hamas at a time where Hamas is the true impediment to a ceasefire and to the release of all of the hostages.” 

    France and Britain, erstwhile global powers that have declined in importance under the American security umbrella, nevertheless hold some weight in the Middle East, a region previously colonized by the two countries following the First World War. Both countries have long advocated for a two-state solution, a proposal that would see an independent Israel and Palestine coexist alongside one another as homelands for their respective peoples. 

    But the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, which is a designated terrorist group in the United States, has brutalized the notion that a peaceful coexistence is within immediate reach. Despite attempts by the United States to mediate a hostage rescue and ceasefire, negotiations between the sides have stalled, with no end to the conflict in sight. 

    Both the French and the British argue that moving to formally recognize a State of Palestine in the coming months – teaming up with Saudi Arabia and a coalition of Arab states – is important for charting a path forward for a post-conflict Gaza and West Bank that preserves the dream of a two-state solution…..”

    https://justthenews.com/government/diplomacy/how-europe-prolongs-war-recognizing-palestinian-state

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  13. Couldn’t happen to a better bunch!!!!

    Just The News: “The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which operates NPR and PBS, announced Friday that it would begin closing down its operations now that Congress has pulled over $1.1 billion in federal funding.

    President Donald Trump signed the $9 billion rescissions package last month, which largely pulled funding for foreign aid programs such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), but it also pulled funding for CPB.

    The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee also advanced an appropriations bill on Thursday that would zero out funding for the organization in general, Politico reported.

    “Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,” CPB President Patricia Harrison said in a statement.

    Although the cancellation in funding is considered a positive move for the Trump administration, it could also prompt smaller public radio stations to close without assistance from the federal government.

    The nonprofit said that the majority of its employees will lose their jobs at the end of the current fiscal year in September, but a handful of remaining employees will stay on through January.”

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  14. Just The News: “Ghislaine Maxwell, associate of deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, was moved from a federal prison in Tallahassee, Fla., to a lower-security federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas. “We can confirm, Ghislaine Maxwell is in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan in Bryan, Texas,” BOP spokesperson Donald Murphy told CNN but declined to give an explanation for the move.

    Maxwell was convicted on sex trafficking charges in 2021 and is serving a 20-year prison sentence for soliciting and grooming young women for Epstein. On Monday, she appealed to the Supreme Court to overturn her conviction. The Supreme Court said it will meet in private to discuss Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to overturn her sex-trafficking conviction on Sept. 29.

    The prison camp is the least-restrictive type of federal prison facilities, housing inmates considered to be low-risk, non-violent, and unlikely to escape. These camps have very little or no fencing containing the inmates, and they are able to move relatively freely inside.

    Other inmates in the women’s camp include Jen Shah, who was on the TV show “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” and Elizabeth Holmes, formerly of the blood-testing company Theranos.

    Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Maxwell in Tallahassee last week to discuss Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, and she was reportedly given limited immunity to answer questions.”

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    1. i dunno. I find it detrimental to the theory of punishment if women are in these “camps” or men for that matter if there are such things. you committed a crime–you DO the time and if it’s in a less than fun place, so be it. there should be no amenities or special conditions.

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        1. isn’t maxwell and lori what’s her name playing tennis and getting treatments that regular prisoners don’t enjoy?
          it’s like summer camp for some women. where’s the detriment? they can’t get botox?

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  15. Duh! Of course it violates the Constitution!!!

    Just The News: “The Supreme Court on Friday signaled they were considering whether race-based congressional voting districts are actually in line with the United States Constitution, ordering lawyers in Louisiana to supply new briefings on the topic in their redistricting case. 

    The order comes after the Supreme Court punted its decision in the case until its next term, which starts in October. The high court did not give a reasoning for deciding to push the verdict, but it is expected to hear new arguments in the case.

    The case centers on whether the state’s congressional map, which includes two majority-black districts, is constitutional. The Louisiana state legislature initially had just one majority-black district, but a federal court ruled it likely violated the Voting Rights Act.

    Challengers of the new map argue that the changes constitute racial gerrymandering, which is illegal, but the designers of the map argue that race was not the primary motivator behind the changes.

    The Supreme Court on Friday asked attorneys in the case to consider whether, in seeking to comply with the 1965 voting rights law, the state violated the Constitution’s 14th and 15th Amendments, according to NBC News.

    If the Supreme Court does rule that it violates the Constitution, it would mean states cannot cite a need to comply with the 1965 law in its redistricting cases.

    The request does not mean that the Supreme Court will rule that race-based districts are unconstitutional. The court in 2023 struck down an Alabama redistricting map, citing the historic Voting Rights Act.” 

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    1. AWESOME PICTURES!

      that inlet is so gorgeous! and that road!!! no place to stop and take pictures for sure, but dang! it’s beautiful!

      and i love the bear–but I wouldn’t have it over the stove where it might get damaged by steam or spaghetti sauce bubbling…lol

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  19. “Three Stories You DON’T want to miss”

    Libs of TikTok, Aug 01, 2025

    “While every week seems to be filled with exposing some of the most deranged and insane leftists, there are three stories you DEFINITELY don’t want to miss. First up, we exposed the media for what they do best: LIE and COVER UP.

    Earlier this week, an illegal alien from Honduras was arrested for RAPING a 9-year-old child. How did the media cover it? Take a look for yourself…

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    Rather than telling the truth to the American people, the media continues their long-standing practice of hiding the reality of illegal alien criminals with phrases like “Indiana man” or “Maryland man.” Their attempt to gaslight the American people won’t work anymore. We will be there every time to expose them.

    In addition to lies from the mainstream media, the Left’s divisive and extremist rhetoric has taken root across social media. Some of the most insane rhetoric came from a deranged Allied Universal employee who posted a video about wanting people to start “blowing shit up” in White communities.

    Shortly after exposing their employee, Allied Universal shut down the comments on their X account, and the employee set her TikTok account to private.

    But the dangerous calls for violence don’t end there. Lastly, we exposed James Michael Neal, a school psychologist for Maury County Public Schools, who set his Facebook profile to display “8647,” aka calling for the assassination of President Trump.

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    He also made a post appearing to advocate for throwing Molotov cocktails. This public school employee reportedly gets paid over $80,000 a year to be responsible for children’s mental health. How ironic…

    Week after week, the Left continues its descent into utter madness. We’ve seen increasing calls for violence against federal agents, elected officials, and Trump supporters, and White people.

    While the media and the left are focusing their attention on attacking Trump, Libs of TikTok will do everything to bring the unfiltered truth to the American public.

    Because that’s what you deserve! Have a great weekend and see you next week!” -LoTT Team

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  23. “Yes, there actually was an official proclamation from the Governor’s office yesterday, and flags will be flying at half-staff at the capital today.”

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  25. “Ron Johnson Presses Pentagon On Reinstatement Of Troops Fired For Not Bowing To Biden’s Covid Shot Mandate”

    The Federalist, By: Shawn Fleetwood, August 01, 2025

    U.S. Army parade.

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., is pressing the Pentagon on its efforts to reinstate military troops fired by the Biden administration for forgoing the Covid shot, the senator revealed Thursday. In his Tuesday letter, the Wisconsin Republican asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to provide an update on what the Defense Department is doing to return service members booted for not getting the experimental jab under President Biden.

    As The Federalist previously reported, the mandate was announced by then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in August 2021, and — while ultimately repealed by Congress — resulted in the dismissal of roughly 8,700 troops from the service. Reporting in recent years and statements issued by Hegseth have called the legality of the mandate into question.

    “This dismissal of thousands of brave men and women from the military was a despicable act that damaged our armed forces,” Johnson wrote. The senator specifically highlighted concerns raised in a recent Daily Caller report, which found that, even though “President Donald Trump is offering backpay and reinstatement for active duty service members, some troops who fell through the cracks are still fighting for their rights.”

    Upon taking office, Trump signed an executive order enabling troops kicked out of the service because of the mandate to be reinstated, with the option to “revert to their former rank and receive full back pay, benefits, bonus payments, or compensation.” Hegseth signed a memo expediting the president’s directive in February, and a separate edict in April providing additional guidance to agency officials to fast-track the reinstatement of affected troops.

    “We all know that the previous administration issued unlawful orders on mandatory vaccines, on an experimental vaccine — Covid-19,” Hegseth said in an April video message. “We want anyone impacted by that vaccine mandate back into the military — people of conscience, warriors of conscience — back in our formations.”

    Citing Hegseth’s prior commitments to follow through on such a task, Johnson said he has “no doubt that [Hegseth is] committed to assisting our service members.” In concluding his letter, the senator requested the defense secretary to “carefully review [the Caller] article and provide a briefing to [his] office by August 19, 2025, regarding DoD’s efforts to apologize, reinstate, and provide back pay to the service members who were terminated after refusing to take the COVID-19 injection.”

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    1. gees…stay safe.
      which reminds me–regarding Zeb, if you ever encounter him again…remind him that there are “business” laws regarding 8 year olds being employed and operating mechanical equipment unsupervised.

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  35. “Justice Kavanaugh Highlights Separation Of Powers Issue Congress Keeps Making Worse”

    The Federalist, By: Shawn Fleetwood, August 01, 2025

    Brett Kavanaugh speaking during an interview.

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh identified a foundational issue impacting America’s separation of powers during a rare sit-down interview on Thursday. The moment came during a discussion with District Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk at this year’s Eighth Circuit Judicial Conference. Pitlyk previously clerked for Kavanaugh when he was a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

    Kavanaugh was reportedly asked about the Supreme Court’s emergency docket, where petitioners may file applications seeking temporary relief from the high court in their respective cases while litigation continues in the lower courts.

    Since returning to office, the Trump administration has regularly used the emergency docket to ask SCOTUS for emergency relief from lower courts’ judicial coup. A majority of the justices — including Kavanaugh — have at times granted the administration’s requests, garnering criticisms from the court’s Democrat appointees.

    Addressing the critique that the high court’s orders granting such relief often come without explanations, Kavanaugh warned about the “lock-in effect” that could occur should the justices offer extensive legal opinions on an issue before the merits of the cases can be fully litigated and decided by the Supreme Court. “There could be a risk in writing the opinion, of lock-in effect, of making a snap judgment and putting it in writing, in a written opinion that’s not going to reflect the final view,” Kavanaugh said.

    The most notable aspect of the Trump appointee’s comments, however, came in his diagnosis of the root of the problem at hand. He specifically noted the executive’s growing role in shaping domestic policy without going through the legislature, a process he telegraphed has become increasingly difficult.

    “Executive branches of both parties over the last 20 years have been increasingly trying to issue executive orders and regulations that achieve the policy objectives of the president in power,” Kavanaugh said. He reportedly added that such “actions give rise to challenges that can race to the Supreme Court,” as described by The New York Times.

    It’s also true that, unlike many of his predecessors, President Trump has faced a wave of lawfare from left-wing activists, who have sought to weaponize the courts to stymie his administration’s policy agenda. As the Times admitted, “The Trump administration has filed about 20 emergency applications seeking relief from injunctions issued by federal trial judges in its first six months,” which “is more than the total number of such applications the Biden administration filed over four years, and far more than the eight applications filed over the 16 years of the George W. Bush and Barack Obama presidencies.”

    Kavanaugh is hardly the only current member of the Supreme Court to discuss the growing power of the executive and Congress’s inability to adequately perform its constitutional duties.

    During a June interview with the Hoover Institution’s Peter Robinson, Associate Justice Samuel Alito noted how the “Constitution deliberately sets up a law-making procedure that is time consuming and laborious,” and that “as the difficulty of getting legislation passed has increased, the presidents have increasingly looked to see what they can do on their own.” Alito specifically mentioned President Obama’s 2014 “phone” and “pen” comment about enacting policies should Congress fail to address them.

    The remarks came as part of a broader conversation between the justice and Robinson on lower courts’ use of nationwide injunctions — an issue at the forefront of the high court’s Trump v. CASA decision released later that month.”

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  36. EXCERPT: “Last week, the United States Department of Education found five public school districts in Northern Virginia in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The department’s press release says these divisions — Alexandria City Public Schools, Arlington Public Schools, Fairfax County Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools, and Prince William Public Schools — are “subject of several lawsuits, informal complaints, and reports, which allege that students in the Divisions avoid using school restrooms whenever possible because of the schools’ policies.”  

    As the Department of Education summarized, these districts’ policies allowing “students to access intimate, sex-segregated facilities based on the students’ subjective ‘gender identity’” violate federal law. Leaders in districts like Fairfax have also mandated preferred pronouns that run contrary to students’ biological sex. Fairfax District leaders further require annual training for their teachers regarding these policies and focus on facilitating social gender transitions at school, as they often keep this information secret from parents, a FCPS teacher who requested anonymity told me.

    The district required an annual teacher training for the 2025-2026 school year titled, “Gender Expansive and Transgender Students,” as I reported in IW Features. The obtained guidance states, “Prior to notification of any parent or guardian regarding the transition process, school staff should work closely with the student to assess the degree to which, if any, the parent or guardian will be involved in the process and must consider the health, well-being, and safety of the transitioning student.” 

    The Dangers of ‘Transgender Inclusive’ Policies

    Such so-called “transgender inclusive” policies not only violate many families’ religious beliefs but also have had devastating consequences. In 2021, Appomattox County High School did not notify a then-14-year-old girl’s parents when she began identifying as a boy at school. As The Federalist previously reported, the school’s decision to exclude the teen’s mother from such critical information meant it “participated in a chain of events that led” to the girl becoming the victim of sex predators and being trafficked to another state.

    Appomattox County is not one of the five Northern Virginia districts that the Department of Education mentions in its investigation. In other words, there likely are many other K-12 public school districts in Virginia that are violating federal law.

    In its administrative complaint to the DOE’s Office of Civil Rights, which conducted the investigation, it’s clear why America First Legal would highlight Northern Virginia’s public school districts. Many of them have been the recent subject of national news.

    Loudoun County became the epicenter for both transgender insanity and parental rights. In 2021, a student named Hunter Heckel sexually assaulted two girls at two different high schools — one of whom he assaulted in a girls’ bathroom, reportedly while wearing a skirt. The victim’s father was then arrested at a school board meeting when he raised the assault after district leaders tried to conceal it.

    In 2024, in nearby Arlington County, an adult male sex offender, Richard Cox, allegedly exposed his naked body in girls’ locker rooms at Washington Liberty High School and Wakefield High School. One woman reported that she called the Arlington School Board to notify them of the situation at Washington Liberty High, but that the board did not respond to her. One mother said she and her young daughter witnessed him in the school’s girls’ locker room last year and similarly contacted the Arlington Public Schools Aquatic Center director, but did not receive a response. Cox now faces 20 charges “related to exposing himself in women’s locker rooms.”

    In Fairfax County, at the beginning of multiple academic years, teachers have given students surveys requesting their preferred names and pronouns without notifying parents. District leaders further guide teachers to “model” using their own preferred pronouns, as I previously reported. 

    Following his responses to the Student Experience Survey, which was supposed to be “confidential,” one student said he was pulled out of class and publicly approached by a school counselor for objecting to district policy and violations of President Trump’s executive orders…..”

    https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/01/youngkin-isnt-doing-enough-to-purge-woke-insanity-from-virginia-public-schools/

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  37. EXCERPT: “New York is known for a lot of things: The Big Apple, Niagara Falls, and Buffalo wings. The Empire State also lays claim to some of the worst voter rolls in the country, according to a new report from an election-integrity watchdog. According to the Public Interest Legal Foundation, nearly 50,000 registrants on New York’s voter list are registered in at least one other state. About half of those — 24,873 registrants — are also registered in Florida. Another 6,247 have duplicate registrations in North Carolina, and another 5,724 are also on New Jersey’s voting rolls. 

    PILF’s review stated 6,788 cases of duplicate or triplicate registrations were found at the same residential addresses because of name variations, typographical errors, or missing Social Security data. The mess includes 3,845 registrants with placeholder or likely false birth dates going back to the turn of the 20th century.

    A sample of 15 records found six registrants who had died dating back to 1998, and four registrants who could not be matched to any Social Security or credit bureau data, putting in doubt the authenticity of the records.

    “New York is a disaster,” J. Christian Adams, president and general counsel of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, told The Federalist in an interview. “They have got millions of voters in New York who don’t have complete voter files, don’t have full names, don’t have driver’s license numbers, things required under federal law.”‘

    Slipping Through the Cracks’

    A lawsuit filed last month by Mount Vernon City Council candidate Bill Schwartz alleges the New York City suburb of some 80,000 residents saw its voter rolls surge by 30 percent — or nearly 10,000 voters — in the course of a year, and the numbers heavily favor Democrats, the New York Post reported. The complaint asserts the city’s voter rolls include registrants born as early as 1901, more than suggesting there are dead people in Mount Vernon’s voter file. Schwartz charges the list includes registrants who have not voted in over a decade. 

    “The requested relief arises from documented irregularities and credible allegations of election fraud in the June 24, 2025 Democratic Primary, including the unexplained addition of over 9,600 new voter IDs, purging of enrolled voters without notice, and mismatches in voter ID and registration data,” the lawsuit states. 

    Schwartz lost a party primary election in June, the Post reported. Mount Vernon is a Democratic Party stronghold in Westchester County. 

    “When the voter rolls are that sloppy and no one at the Board of Elections is answering questions, you start to wonder what else is slipping through the cracks — or being pushed through them,” Schwartz told the Post. “I’m asking the court to step in and make sure the November election and future elections are conducted fairly, transparently and by the book.” 

    ‘We’ve Got to be Vigilant’

    As The Federalist reported earlier this week, voter rolls are sloppy all over. The Public Interest Legal Foundation has tracked more than 19,000 registrants on Pennsylvania’s voter rolls with second registrations in other states. PILF found north of 32,000 suspect voter records in New Jersey. In Maine, the foundation flagged 18,453 apparently deceased registrants in the state’s voter files…..”

    https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/01/election-integrity-watchdog-new-yorks-voter-rolls-are-a-disaster/

     

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  41. gees hornets are NASTY!

    I put out a brown inflated paper bag on the deck–tied it to a light fixture at the bottom and we had no hornets for years. then one winter, the wind and the snow got the best of it (yeah it lasted years!) and i forgot to replace it. this year the hornets returned and hubby thought they might be going into the eaves so he wanted help sealing them back up.

    I noticed the hornets were also going after the hummers…so I inflated another paper bag and tied it back out on the deck. we’ll see what happens.

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      1. the bag resembles ANOTHER hornet’s nest and they will find another place to create a nest. it really works! I mean i think you can buy one on Amazon…but a DIY site try the paper bag first. and it worked!

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  42. “The Library of Parliament in Ottawa, Canada”

    “Hmmm….gotta watch where you’re going!”

    “The Cliffs of Insanity. How many have tried to jump the gap, and missed?”

    “Comfortable corner”

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  43. “When the new ice age strikes….”

    “Looks like the old boy has had it tough”

    “Three ceremonial arrowheads, Bohemian, c. 1437–39. The Metropolitan Museum of Art”

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    1. Jeff Clark
      @JeffClarkUS
      As did I, @FBIDirectorKash
      .

      Indeed, a whole Jack Smith team was assigned to go through my emails after there was a privilege review.

      But that group of lawyers ignored my religious pastor privilege, marital privilege, and other privileges and basically shipped all they could to Jack Smith. But it still cost me tens of thousands to try to protect my communications.

      My medical records and other private communications had nothing to do with the 2020 election. They were no one’s business. But it didn’t matter to these thugs with law degrees and the willingness to abuse government power.

      They were trying to bait me to go to court to get them to destroy their secret copies of the emails, so they could try to break even my lawyer-client privilege with President Trump. But my team and I didn’t fall for it.

      Moreover, the whole thing was a blatant attempt to intimidate me. It didn’t work and I didn’t fold under the pressure.

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  45. Gage just called and is on his way up….there’s a nice stiff breeze and the sun is out so, hopefully, it will dry up enough that I can clean up Zeb’s mess and make the yard look decent. Once the mailbox is up, he and I will go to Bomgaars and see if I can find a mower that will work for me.

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  49. Just The News: “The Trump Justice Department has launched a nationwide effort to clean up voter rolls ahead of the 2026 elections, pushing states to purge duplicate and outdated registrations and catch any non-citizens or illegal aliens who slipped into a position to vote, officials told Just the News on Saturday.

    Notifications have gone out to several states and localities that DOJ’s Civil Rights Division has been concerned aren’t complying with federal laws, including California, Wisconsin, Utah and New Hampshire. 

    “Unlike the previous administration, at President Trump’s DOJ, we will fight to have fair and secure elections – and that begins with making our voter rolls accurate,” Attorney General Pam Bondi told Just the News.

    The integrity of voter rolls has been a major focus of conservative election integrity lawyers as a growing number of states report they have found small numbers of non-citizens slipping onto their rolls. For instance, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton last month announced a probe into over 100 potential noncitizens who cast over 200 ballots in prior elections.

    In addition, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and FBI Director Kash Patel recently declassified documents showing the bureau failed to fully investigate intelligence that Communist China sought to hijack the 2020 presidential election with a potential mail-in ballot scheme to assist then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

    ODNI-Unclassified-CDA-CCP-Leadership-202503-2.pdf

    The new DOJ effort, officials said, will focus on pressuring states with poor voter roll hygiene to comply with existing law and ==d remove outdated, duplicated and non-citizen registrations. It is being led by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon. 

    “I can’t comment on the specifics of any ongoing investigations, but I am committed to making it harder to cheat and easier to vote,” Dhillon told Just the News on Saturday. “Clean voter rolls will help achieve that goal.”

    Just the News reported in June that Dhillon was moving to punish Wisconsin for allegedly failing to comply with federal voting integrity laws, taking the first step to withhold future federal funds for administering elections.

    She notified the Wisconsin Election Commission that it was not in compliance with the Helping Americans Vote Act (HAVA), specifically for failing to set up a system to field and resolve voter complaints about election integrity.

    “Quite surprisingly, we have learned that the Wisconsin Elections Commission has refused to provide any administrative complaint process or hearing regarding HAVA complaints against the Commission,” Dhillon wrote. “Rather, Wisconsin has decided to rely on a 2022 state court case opining that the Commission cannot police itself..

    “These very actions by the Commission have left complainants alleging HAVA violations by the Commission without any recourse,” she added. “…With no opportunity or means to appeal, complainants are left stranded with their grievances.”

    20250604-CRT-AAG-Dhillon-Letter-to-Wisconsin-Elections-Commission.pdf

    DOJ told state election regulators they must come into immediate compliance and that the agency was taking the first step to pull future federal election assistance funds.

    Similarly, DOJ recently sent a demand to Orange County, Calif., seeking thr identities of any illegal aliens who made it on voter rolls. The county has resisted and DOJ has now sued to force compliance.”

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