National Vermont Day

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The background of National Vermont Day

National Vermont Day originated in 1791, the year Vermont formally commenced its annexation to the United States as the fourteenth state. Additionally, it was the first state to ratify the Union following the initial thirteen states. This event marked a zenith in the chronicles of the Green Mountain State, which had been ruled for decades by the British and the French.

Since its incorporation into the Union, Vermont has made consistent progress. It was among the initial republics to formally outlaw slavery. The Act to Secure Freedom For All Persons Within the State was signed into law on November 25, 1858, which was thirty-five years prior to the American Civil War. Amid the Underground Railroad, fugitive slaves were provided sanctuary and sustenance by Vermonters. Additionally, Vermonters have a reputation for resiliency. Notwithstanding its recent establishment, the state dispatched troops to engage in the Civil War and maintained an unwavering opposition to slavery.

National Vermont Day provides Vermonters with an opportunity to commemorate the state’s historical significance while also engaging in a celebration of their state’s independence. Preeminent is the observance of the valiant men and women who helped shape Vermont into the state it is today. Present-day Vermont is situated amidst a verdant and picturesque mountain backdrop. Although the state itself is beyond picturesque, its rich history provides the backdrop for its splendor. National Vermont Day is observed during this time of year.

Participation in National Vermont Day Activities

Explore the verdant mountains and picturesque vistas

Vermont, being the “Green Mountain State,” lives up to its moniker. Experiencing the state’s captivating natural beauty and picturesque vistas is highly recommended. National Vermont Day is a time when camping, trekking, and hiking are popular ways to commune with nature.

Pay homage to historical locations and museums

For an engaging and enlightening National Vermont Day experience, historical sites and museums are essential destinations. Visit Hildene, The Lincoln Family Home, the Shelburne Museum, and the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium to gain a deeper understanding of the state’s history.

Prepare confections using regional maple syrup.

Vermont is renowned for producing its own maple syrup. Prepare a delectable spread of delights for your loved ones by simply rolling up your sleeves and preparing your baking equipment.

5 Interesting Vermont Facts

Vermont is where notable films such as “What Lies Beneath,” “Me, Myself, & Irene,” and “The Cider House Rules” were produced.

Vermont has one of the greatest human-to-cow ratios in the United States, at 0.41.

Vermont is the second least populous state in the United States as of 2022, trailing only Wyoming.

In 1981, the renowned Ben & Jerry’s ice cream was first produced at a service station along Route 7 in Shelburne, Vermont.

Vermont, along with Alaska, Hawaii, and Maine, is one of four jurisdictions in the United jurisdictions that prohibits billboard advertising.

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  1. Morning All!

    nearly 50* this morning…much better that a couple of days ago. Skies are dark and cloudy though. we never got any rain except a few sprinkles here and there yesterday. See what today brings.

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  3. interesting comment–not sure i understand all of it.

    Articman

    October 12, 2025 1:36 am

    Reply to  Pe7rot Conservative6

    I am a lifelong miner in the 1930 the US Corp of engineers drilled out national we know where everything is. Deposits Grade location approx strip ratio ect is already finished. No money would be needed guaranteed permitting would definately be needed ridding the environmental impact study and the 10 – 50 year wait times. We have everything needed to be self sufficient. Roads exist to many high yield zones. The Ambler road in Alaska out near Nome holds many valuable. Rock Creek is sitting right there 777 992 14 G blast drills D-10 an entire ball mill 3 sag mills are built we couldn’t get the state to release the water permit under Drill Baby Drill Gov. 360 million spent we were sent home. Thats another can of worms well deal with later but it is all sitting there 3 weeks 10 men I could have all the equipment running. 20 days above 30 F We could open the mill. The native population in the area are trained miners keep the whiskey away. AI is only going to give you what it was told to so be careful.

    Chris Wright the leader of Liberty Oilfield services is head of dept of energy helping and is a winner all the way around.

    There is lotsa willing folks to do the job but were getting older to teach the younger guys how its done.

    The Rockerfellers have reserved US minerals for themselves thru CONgress so that is challenging. I could go on and on been in the game for 48 years.

    Almost impossible to do much of anything without a severe makeover of current permitting processes.

    Not only that oil and gas is abundant if allowed sweet crude will run a modern diesel engine. I’ve ran it in my 2007 Kenworth in fact it runs excellent the Cetane is much higher than pump gas giving more power running at lower temps lubrisity is also excellent.

    WE CAN DO THIS IF ALLOWED.

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  6. TrumpPatriot
    October 12, 2025 1:57 am

    @Whiplash437
    BOOM. The Great Reclamation has begun. The Supreme Court just restored Trump’s constitutional power to remove rogue commissioners from federal agencies. For the first time in ninety years, the President can clean house. The walls of bureaucratic tyranny are cracking.

    Since 1935, the presidency has been a hostage. A hidden ruling called Humphrey’s Executor v. United States created a shield around unelected bureaucrats buried inside so-called independent agencies. They could not be fired. Not by Congress. Not by the people. Not even by the Commander in Chief. These were the Deep State’s castles inside the government. Protected. Untouchable. Writing rules with the power of law while answering to no one. For decades, they dictated policy, destroyed accountability, and made every president a figurehead in his own house.

    That ended this week.

    In a ruling few expected but history will never forget, the Supreme Court confirmed that President Trump has full constitutional authority to remove Democratic commissioners Mary Boyle, Richard Trumka Jr, and Alexander Hoehn-Saric from the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The Court reminded the nation that executive power belongs to the President alone. Not to agencies. Not to boards. Not to faceless lawyers.

    The 6-3 decision has detonated the foundation of bureaucratic immunity. Trump can now terminate any commissioner who obstructs reform, dismantle ideological mandates, and reclaim executive control over agencies that have operated like private empires. The ruling sets a precedent that can sweep through every corner of the federal maze — FTC, SEC, NLRB, CDC, FDA, DOE. Hundreds of unelected operators who hid behind the term “independent” are now exposed.

    The Consumer Product Safety Commission is only the beginning. Nearly 700 positions across Washington fall under the same model. With this judgment, Trump holds the legal weapon he was denied in his first term. The sword is back in his hands.

    Inside the Deep State, panic has already begun. For decades, they didn’t need to win elections. They only needed to control who stayed behind. By embedding loyal operatives inside untouchable posts, they guaranteed their agenda survived every presidency. They wrote laws under the cover of regulation. They censored industries through “safety standards.” They shifted policy without ever standing for a vote. That structure is now collapsing.

    This decision is not about staffing. It’s about sovereignty. The hidden coup that began ninety years ago has been reversed. The unelected state no longer outranks the elected one. The legal scaffolding that protected the regime is being dismantled piece by piece.

    That is why the media is silent. They understand what this means. If Trump uses this authority — and he will — the entire architecture of shadow governance will fall. Agencies that weaponized policy for ideology will be stripped of power. Mandates will be rescinded. Political infiltrators will be removed. The Deep State’s invisible army is finally within reach.

    Trump’s second term begins now, with the power he was denied in 2016. The presidency is no longer a cage. It is a command post. He can purge the administrative state, rebuild federal institutions that answer to the people, and restore a government that serves its citizens instead of its masters.

    This is The Great Reclamation. The end of ninety years of executive humiliation. The day the balance returns. The Deep State buried the presidency under red tape and called it democracy. But the chains have been cut. And Trump now holds the axe.

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  7. Aggiegirl

    October 12, 2025 5:35 am

    Am not sure what to make of this:

    https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/artc-three-members-of-qatar-s-negotiating-delegation-killed-in-egypt-car-accident

    JustScott

    October 12, 2025 6:09 am

    Reply to  Aggiegirl

    “”

    Three members of Qatar’s negotiating delegation killed in Egypt car accident

    The diplomats were on their way to prepare for the signing ceremony of the hostage release and Gaza ceasefire deal when their car overturned at a bend in a road 50 KM from the Sharm el-Sheikh resort

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  8. selling body parts?????

    Chris Hyde

    October 12, 2025 6:35 am

    Everyone’s favorite institution of ‘higher’ education, takes another few ironic dings to its brand ‘Veritas’, this time with a unanimous ruling from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Thank you, the Baron at Gates of Vienna for this share:

    https://thepostmillennial.com/massachusetts-court-rules-harvard-can-be-sued-over-ex-morgue-manager-selling-body-parts

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  9. furry surgeries??

    Charlotte99

    October 12, 2025 7:12 am

    @WallStreetApes
    6h
    Gavin Newsom has a large stack of bills ready to be signed right before he leaves office. They are all extremely destructive “Here’s what you need to prepare yourself for”

    – SB 177 would get around the First Amendment’s editorial discretion and Section 230 to slap million dollar pop fines on platforms for content the state would determine to be inciting. This bill ends Free Speech

    – AB 495 completely unnecessary bill that helps no one but puts all children in danger by allowing just about anybody to fill out a caregiver authorization affidavit and come snatch a kid from school

    – SB 59 seals sex marker changes for minors and adults, fining anyone revealing those records, even a parent who’s against it

    – AB 727 requires Trevor Project number on every student’s ID and allows unmonitored access to chat rooms with adult themes

    – AB 1487 that would expand the transgender variant and intersex wellness reentry fund to the tune of $14 million, basically throwing more money at programs supporting transgender, gender variant and intersex people who’ve been in prison

    – SB 497 protecting those who help kids cut off reproductive body parts or sterilize them. It blocks out of state subpoenas and tracking of the number of females being placed on testosterone

    – AB 82 further expands address confidentiality to gender affirming doctors. Publishing info about them will land you in court, which violates the freedom of press and speech. It would even protect doctors violate their home state laws

    – 1084 will expedite birth record, sex marker, change petitions to 6 weeks. Disallow objections to those petitions. Parents won’t be allowed to object to their own child’s petition if the only reason is that change –

    SB 418 will disallow insurance carriers from refusing to provide sex rejecting interventions. They’ll be forced to protect gender identity, whatever it might be, and furry surgeries will be covered

    https://nitter.poast.org/WallStreetApes/status/1977237533156389263#m

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  10. Charlotte99

    October 12, 2025 7:30 am

    US Rep Tim Burchett exposes Congress

    Reps give military contractors no bid contracts and then buy stocks in those companies right before awarding the contracts He says Congress makes 500-600% return on their investments when doing this insider trading scam

    Tim Burchett says Congress did this during the Ukraine War “I’ll give you a good, great example.

    When Joe Biden gave our our missile defense system” to Ukraine “We give them our missile defense system, and then we have to replenish ours — Some of those contractors we described get a multi, multi-billion with a B dollar no bid contract.

    And who do you think has bought stock in that, in that company?

    Members of Congress, 2 weeks prior to the president making that official notice. — They’re making 500% and 600% return on investment. “War is great for business, it’s great for the economy, but it’s not good for, I don’t think it’s good for ourselves.“ “War is great for business

    https://nitter.poast.org/WallStreetApes/status/1977140467235189050#m

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    2. There is also a lot of personnel movement that happens the same way. A congress critter’s term is about up and he/she doesn’t want to stay in Congress but needs a high-paying job – voila! The government agency writes an RFP (request for proposal) that targets his/her specialized skills and like magic, there it is!

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  11. this sounds plausible to me.

    Charlotte99

    October 12, 2025 7:42 am

    Tim Burchett confirms when Congress Reps go overseas they are setup in blackmail situations

    They get our representatives to sleep with people and then right before voting on important legislation they’re threatened to vote a certain way
    Another ‘conspiracy theory’ proven true

    “What happens is you’re overseas, you’re sitting at a bar and they know what you’re into guys, gals, combination thereof, drugs, whatever, and they’ll hook you up and you’re thinking you’re the stud, your wife’s away, nobody will know halfway around the world.

    You end up sleeping with somebody. Next day you’re flying back to America — then you’re getting ready to make a key vote and somebody comes up and whispers in your ear, Hey man, are you in a motel room with a girl in, you know, Istanbul or something — He goes, Man, we don’t want that out.

    And he goes, no, no, no, no, no, we don’t, we’re not gonna put that out — if you can help us on this little bill, though

    https://nitter.poast.org/WallStreetApes/status/1977083827748229526#m

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  12. Just The News: “President Trump announced that he has chosen a new head of the White House Presidential Personnel Office.

    “I am pleased to announce that the great Dan Scavino, in addition to remaining Deputy Chief of Staff of the Trump Administration, will head the White House Presidential Personnel Office, replacing Sergio Gor, who did a wonderful job in that position, and will now become the Ambassador to India,” he wrote on Truth Social early Sunday.

    “Dan will be responsible for the selection and appointment of almost all positions in government, a very big and important position. Congratulations Dan, you will do a fantastic job!!!” he added.” 

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  17. NF: This is all well and good but he still reminds me of a plastic Ken doll with a plastic Barbie doll wife!!!

    “Jared Kushner’s return for Gaza peace deal kindles hopes for Abraham Accords expansion — Kushner was a leading figure in arranging the Accords during Trump’s first term, securing an historic diplomatic rapprochement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel.”

    Just The News, By Ben Whedon, October 11, 2025

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “President Donald Trump’s negotiation of a peace plan to end the war in Gaza saw son-in-law Jared Kushner return to the political sphere and has kindled hopes for an expansion of the Abraham Accords in the aftermath of the conflict.

    Kushner was a leading figure in arranging the Accords during Trump’s first term, securing a diplomatic rapprochement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel. His role was somewhat behind the scenes during the negotiation of the peace agreement. However, his role did not go unnoticed and senior Trump administration officials have touted his efforts in bringing the agreement to fruition.

    “I don’t want to let this moment pass, Mr. President, with also noting the incredible work of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, they’re an incredible team, working together, facing some substantial impediments to even being there this weekend and doing it,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said during a Thursday Cabinet meeting.

    “Just leave it at that, and they’ve done a great job on your behalf, Mr. President. They deserve a tremendous amount of credit,” Rubio said during the Cabinet meeting.”

    Kushner’s unexpected role

    His appearance did come somewhat out of left field. Kushner and his wife, Ivanka, notably declined to return to the White House in the second administration. Trump did appoint Charles Kushner, Jared’s father, to serve as ambassador to France.

    Kushner’s last notable appearance in the news came as part of his organization’s partnership with a Saudi firm to purchase Electronic Arts, a video game company. The buyout was hailed by some gamers, many of whom suggested that the Saudi acquisition would lead to the publisher ending certain woke practices in its titles. At the same time, many gamers and the specialized media platforms raised concerns about the deal. 

    “EA CEO Andrew Wilson has stated in an email statement to staff that the company’s ‘values and [its] commitment to players and fans around the world remain unchanged,’ according to Kotaku.com, who went on to editorialize that “considering that both the Saudi Arabian government and Jared Kushner, the owner of Affinity Partners and Donald Trump’s son-in-law, now own the publisher, that’s not exactly convincing.”

    Shortly after the purchase, however, Kushner appeared alongside Witkoff as part of a diplomatic trip to Egypt with reported plans to remain abroad until an agreement to release the hostages had been secured.

    Deal defied expectations

    Kushner and Witkoff first met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to secure his support for implementing the plan and subsequently met with the Israeli Cabinet to persuade them to accept the deal, Politico reported. Though outside analysts and diplomats were not surprised at their ultimate success, the speed with which Kushner and Witkoff secured a diplomatic breakthrough defied expectations, with one “person familiar with the talks” indicating an expectation that an agreement would have needed almost an additional week.

    Some Trump loyalists pointed to the agreement’s foundation in the previous diplomatic agreements that Kushner brokered between Israel and other nations as a factor in Kushner and Witkoff’s success.

    “This all came off of the archetype of the Abraham Accords, which is really much more about business and integration of the region, financially and economically and with a political surface to it,” former White House chief of staff Steve Bannon told Playbook.

    “Jared has always been one of President Trump’s key, if not his key adviser, on this whole thing forever, even though he wasn’t actively involved,” he added. “Remember, Jared spends a lot of time in the region because he knows these guys are all investors with him. So I think that this is, and it’s not surprising, he could step in. He’s also very close to Witkoff.”

    Kushner gets deal done speedily, but is on “standby”

    Kushner reportedly does not plan to return to the White House as a full-time political advisor. Though his first-term efforts on the Abraham Accords earned broad acclaim, he occasionally attracted the ire of Trump’s MAGA base over more left-wing initiatives, such as the First Step Act and the sentencing reform measures that came with it.

    In the meantime, Kushner is remaining in Israel to oversee the implementation of the agreement. He visited the Western Wall with his wife Ivanka on Friday, the Times of Israel reported.

    Other U.S. officials have indicated that they see multiple stages at which the deal could come apart and Kushner appears ready to remain on standby in the event of a potential breakdown.

    “There’s still, you know, just a lot of ways that this can go wrong,” a senior US official said Thursday, CNN reported. “So we’re staying on top of the details to make sure everyone fulfills their obligations and that any misunderstandings are quickly discussed and adjudicated, and we really want to make sure that we get to the withdrawal, we get to the cease fire, and then we get to a place where the hostages can return home, the exchange is done, and then we’ll go into the next phase, which is figuring out what comes next in Gaza.”

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  18. “Trump administration builds Smart Wall along southwest border, $4.5 billion in contracts doled out — Ten new construction contracts have been awarded through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection to add hundreds of miles of Smart Wall in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.”

    By Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor, October 11, 2025

    EXCERPT: “Roughly $4.5 billion in contracts have been awarded to expand border wall construction, including adding advanced technological surveillance along the southwest border.

    Ten new construction contracts have been awarded through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection to add hundreds of miles of Smart Wall in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

    “For years, Washington talked about border security but failed to deliver. This President changed that,” CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott said. “The Smart Wall means more miles of barriers, more technology, and more capability for our agents on the ground. This is how you take control of the border.”

    Scott has championed advancing a Smart Wall border security system for years. A border security system is far more than a wall, he has told The Center Square, it’s an ecosystem.

    The system encompasses steel and waterborne barriers, patrol roads, lights, cameras, advanced detection technology, including towers and aerostats, to provide Border Patrol agents with a range of tools to detect and interdict illegal activity.

    CBP has published an interactive map to educate the public about the Smart Wall system. The map highlights areas of the 1,954-mile U.S.-Mexico border where wall construction has been completed, where border wall panels or waterborne barriers are under construction, where contracts have been awarded for proposed projects in the design phase or early construction, and planned construction areas that haven’t yet been awarded contracts.

    Prior to Jan. 20, 2025, 702 miles of existing barriers had been constructed of primary wall and 76 miles of secondary wall, according to CBP data.

    The new plan includes implementing barrier technology along 532 miles of the border where no barrier exists because of unfavorable terrain or remote location. It also includes deploying 550 miles of technology throughout previously constructed barriers, CBP says. Specific areas are also being built out in regions where contracts were previously canceled by the Biden administration……”

    https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/45b-awarded-new-contracts-build-smart-wall-along-southwest-border

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  19. “The Wolf of Main Street: Donald Trump’s Secret Weapon Against the Puppet Masters”

    Burning Bright, Oct 12, 2025

    EXCERPT: “If you’ve been locked in with me through the labyrinthine revelations of 2025, you know we’ve been charting a narrative arc of convergence that’s as inexorable as it is exhilarating, a saga of calculated acceleration, merciless exposure and hard-won reclamation where the Sovereign Alliance doesn’t merely parry the Deep State’s insidious strikes, but—perhaps more often than some believe—seizes their very weapons, inverting their meticulously engineered collapses into bridges toward true national and individual sovereignty.

    It’s a macro theme and storyline I’ve been weaving thread by thread across my dispatches this year, commencing with the fiery ignition of Trump’s intensified offensive against the Federal Reserve and the sprawling central banking hydra that underpins the globalist order, escalating through the full embrace of accelerationism by his administration as a doctrine to compress and commandeer timelines, and most recently, culminating in the intricate linkages between that same banking superstructure, the globalist financier elite and the orchestrated domestic terrorism they’ve sponsored, thereby fusing what once appeared as scattered skirmishes into a cohesive assault on the Deep State’s interlocking System of Systems, both narratively and actually.

    I wove these once-disparate threads together in my most recent long-form, ‘Nexus Point,’ but long-time readers will know I’ve been observing what I refer to as the Reverse Hegelian Dialectic since 2022, when I first named the term in ‘The Good Reset.’

    But today, I want to delve a bit deeper into one theater, and one figure operating within it, as, presiding at the epicenter of this convergence, like a spectral force summoned from the shadows of the enemy camp itself is none other than the current Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, who should henceforth be known as … the Wolf of Main Street.

    But Bessent, in my estimation and close study over the last few months isn’t some Hollywood caricature, but rather a battle-hardened operative whose trajectory from conplicit insider to insurgent demolitions expert makes him the ultimate harbinger of the central bankers’ downfall.

    And I would bet they know it … which is why many of Scottie’s former ‘friends’ in high places are feeling a bit low these days, and casting more blame on him for the current state of their stateless apparatus—the Hegelian Hydra that is Globalism itself—even than his boss at present.

    Why? Betrayal is the worst kind of poison, sure, and I would argue that those who traffick in it feel it most keenly when the blade turns inward. But that’s not why they hate and fear Scott Bessent so much. No.

    They hate and fear him because he’s been in the house, he’s been in the machine … hell, he’s made it run, at least in part, and so, who better than him to author a core piece of its destruction?

    Donald Trump himself hinted at this very dialectic in his own way during last week’s roundtable wherein Bessent’s name was brought up in relation to the aforementioned convergence between the financial and terror arms of the Deep State’s shadow networks……”

    https://burningbright.substack.com/p/the-wolf-of-main-street

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  20. Just The News: “A shooting at a bar in South Carolina resulted in 4 people killed and 20 more injured, the local sheriff said on Sunday. The shooting happened at Willie’s Bar and Grill on St. Helena Island.

    “Multiple victims and witnesses ran to the nearby businesses and properties seeking shelter from the gun shots,” the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on the social media website X.”

    —————

    BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — “A mass shooting at a crowded bar on an idyllic South Carolina island has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials say.

    The shooting occurred early Sunday at Willie’s Bar and Grill on St. Helena Island, officials said. A large crowd was at the scene when sheriff’s deputies arrived and found several people suffering from gunshot wounds.

    “Multiple victims and witnesses ran to the nearby businesses and properties seeking shelter from the gun shots,” the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on the social media platform X.

    “This is a tragic and difficult incident for everyone. We ask for your patience as we continue to investigate this incident. Our thoughts are with all of the victims and their loved ones,” the statement said.

    Four people were found dead at the scene, and at least 20 other people were injured. Among the injured, four were in critical condition at area hospitals.

    The victims’ identities were not released.”

    https://apnews.com/article/south-carolina-shooting-st-helena-147cdcdee43deff913afa548cf28de6e

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  28. madmani accepted illegal foreign donations.

    FTA

    But so far, the campaign has failed to return 88 of the foreign donations worth a total of $7,190, records showed.

    Mamdani’s campaign has brought in $4 million in private donations, scored another $12.7 million in public matching funds, and with less than a month to go before election day, has nearly $6.1 million in hand.

    His campaign issued a statement Saturday saying “we will of course return any donations that are not in compliance with CFB law” after being provided a detailed breakdown of the 88 donations yet to be returned. 

    A campaign spokesperson, however, declined to clarify why so many foreign donations are still in Mamdani’s war chest.

    The foreign donations have sparked criticism.

    “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, so I would be very concerned,” said Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa, upon learning of the foreign money coming into Mamdani’s campaign. “There is probably a lot more in terms of foreign money.”

    Two months ago, Sliwa, during an interview with Fox Business, called on the US Department of Justice to investigate his suspicions that Mamdani is being aided by difficult-to-trace “dark money” illegally being funneled into super PACs through foreign nationals.

    https://nypost.com/2025/10/12/us-news/mamdanis-mayoral-campaign-took-in-13000-in-illegal-foreign-campaign-cash-records-show/

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    1. so much to say…lol

      does that top picture look like eyes hiding in the darkness of the eye sockets???

      the panther is GORGEOUS!

      those eyes in the third picture mask–look close to real!

      and i think you brought that story about the Bell Building before–cuz I know i heard of it.

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  35. “Seafood cook saves a regular’s life after he failed to show up for his daily cup of gumbo”

    Not The Bee, Harriet Rigby, Oct 11, 2025

    Image for article: Seafood cook saves a regular's life after he failed to show up for his daily cup of gumbo

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “A regular customer at the Shrimp Basket restaurant in Pensacola, Florida, has made it his habit for the past decade to come in at 11 am every day to order a cup of gumbo for his lunch.

    The staff at the restaurant said the man was like a grandfather figure to them. They even threw him a birthday party for his 78th birthday several months ago, so after the loyal customer missed his lunch for a few days in a row, his absence was noticed.

    Staff from the restaurant tried calling him, but got no answer. Eventually, a cook at the restaurant, Donnell Stallworth, became very worried and decided to go to the man’s house and check up on him.

    Stallworth told WEAR what happened next, saying,

    I was like, you know, man, Imma go by his house. So I just left work, went to his house, and I knocked on the door like two times, and he didn’t, he didn’t answer. The third time I knocked on it and I didn’t hear nothing.

    I kind of stayed up for a minute, and I knocked, and I heard him like, ‘help’ and ‘who is it?’ And I would say, ‘This is Donell.’ He’s like, ‘Come in.’

    When he came inside, Stallworth saw the elderly man lying on the floor, where he had apparently been for days after suffering a fall and several broken ribs. The gumbo cook said he was heartbroken seeing his friend lying there so helpless, and he immediately called 911. The man was taken to the hospital and later to a rehab facility, where he is on the road to recovery.

    Stallworth has been faithful to visit him, telling reporters there’s just one thing left for him to do,

    Go check on him, put that smile back on his face, and probably take him a thing of gumbo.

    There’s not much a cup of gumbo can’t cure, including a few broken ribs! Here’s his story on the local news:”

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  36. Dayum! He had quite a system going on!!!

    “AP Report: Illegal alien superintendent used position to funnel money to DEI consulting firm he worked for”

    Not The Bee, Harris Rigby, Oct 11, 2025

    Image for article: AP Report: Illegal alien superintendent used position to funnel money to DEI consulting firm he worked for

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “If this doesn’t show you that the leftwing DEI push was little more than a scam, nothing will. The criminal illegal alien who was a superintendent in Iowa’s largest school district allegedly had himself a nice little scheme going on.

    The superintendent arrested by ICE had a consulting gig. His districts repeatedly hired the firm

    Since his arrest last month by immigration agents, the public has grappled with how Ian Roberts became a public schools leader despite lacking authorization to work in the U.S., a history of criminal charges and falsified credentials.

    https://apnews.com/article/ian-roberts-ice-superintendent-iowa-d11c6bc49815e2655b758fb8497bb23e

    This is from the Associated Press, not exactly a rightwing propaganda outlet, and what they’ve discovered about Ian Roberts is that he appears to have used his position as superintendent, or as a high-ranking education official, to push his own DEI consulting firm.

    Three months into his tenure leading Des Moines public schools, Ian Roberts asked the district’s board for emergency approval of $116,000 in contracts.

    The agreements to provide training on ‘culturally responsive coaching,’ the superintendent said, had to be approved within days. But the district’s procurement manager discovered one contract was earmarked for a company that marketed Roberts as a consultant and speaker, sold his books and helped raise his profile, an Associated Press investigation found.

    The school board in this case caught the obvious conflict of interest, but almost immediately after being hired, Ian Roberts tried to push through an “emergency” contract to a DEI consulting firm that just so happened to feature Roberts himself as a speaker and sell his books.Roberts personally approved just over $6,000, however, for a training from the group he works for, Lively Paradox.

    So, in addition to his $300k in salary and benefits, AP is reporting that Roberts attempted to funnel thousands more tax dollars to another one of his personal money-making schemes.

    But other districts either didn’t catch the scheme, or they wittingly went along with it.

    The AP found that as Roberts’ profile in education rose, his connection with Lively Paradox and its founder Nicole Price became rewarding during a period when many organizations championed diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Blurring the line between his public and private jobs, the investigation found tens of thousands of dollars in contracts were awarded to Price from school districts where Roberts held leadership posts.

    So according to the AP, Roberts was illegally in the country for decades, he worked illegally for decades, with faked credentials, and he used that work to funnel tax dollars from various states and school districts to a group from which he financially benefitted.

    That’s quite the hustle! And he was able to push this scam because the schools he worked with were desperate to boost their DEI credentials!

    As Roberts changed jobs, Price and Lively Paradox followed behind getting new clients, the AP found.

    Price’s clients have included a range of corporations and government agencies, her curriculum vitae shows. Her school district clients were almost exclusively in Kansas and Missouri, and then in districts outside those states where Roberts held leadership roles …

    Did Roberts move from district to district making big bucks, and then allegedly push schools and government agencies to hire this firm? Almost as if the push for DEI trainings was only motivated by greed or something.

    After Roberts became an administrator at Aspire Public Schools in Oakland, that public charter school system paid Price at least $8,300 for services, according to a disbursement report covering part of 2019.

    Price provided leadership training to the Millcreek Township School District in Pennsylvania in 2020 and 2021, while Roberts was superintendent, according to her curriculum vitae.

    I for one am shocked – shocked, I tell you – to learn that a criminal illegal alien who was charged with a gun crime, allegedly lied on his resumé, allegedly lied on his employment form, and ignored deportation orders for a year might also be a straight-up con man.”

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  37. “I like the smile just before she falls in when she realized she’s gonna be swimming”

    Elephant Bathtub

    The Hideout

    Dornier Flying Boat

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  39. Yeah, no thanks – I’ll take their word for it!!!

    “A monkfish… Seriously one of the tastiest fishes you can get…”

    Rare, dazzling, half-male half-female — and a perfect meme for 2025.
    Cue the Alex Jones voice: “They’re turning the freaking spiders gay!”

    “Earth’s rings are made of electricity. The ring current system is a donut-shaped circuit carrying millions of amps around our planet. It is created by opposing motions of electrons and ions in Earth’s rotating magnetic field. Sometimes, thermal energy from the ring current leaks into the atmosphere below. This creates a red arc in the sky. Picture by Fabrizio Melandri near Nugget Point Lighthouse, New Zealand”

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    October 12, 2025 16:35

    Got an update on the Bucksnort munitions disaster. They were a major supplier of munitions for law enforcement in the region in addition to military. They were also a major violator of OSHA regulations and other safety related government concerns for a long time. Got to think they short cutted the process one too many times.

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