DIY: Air Fresheners

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These sweet little air fresheners couldn’t be easier to make!

From Country Living:

One of these DIY Christmas tree-shaped air fresheners will keep a car, closet, or office smelling fresh. Added bonus—they are made with essential oils, so no nasty chemicals involved.

To make: Trace the shape of a wooden Christmas tree ornament on a scrap of fabric twice. Cut out and glue to the front and back of the ornament. Once dry, soak the fabric with an essential oil of your choice (we used cedar). Thread twine through the ornament loop for hanging.

Depending on which ornaments you can find at the dollar store, you can match your essential oil to the shape. For example, a gingerbread man ornament?  Use ginger.  Buy a candy cane?  Use peppermint essential oil.  And another nice oil for trees would be pine!

SOURCE: COUNTRYLIVING.COM

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  1. Morning All!

    we have a sleep number bed and every week when i do the sheets, I reset the bed to 100 and “flat”. when we get in bed, I set our sides to our own numbers and put the bed on “snore”. it raises the head a little and prevents a lot of snoring. I forgot to do any of that last night. the bed was uncomfortable and hubby snored all night waking me up. gonna nod off today i suspect.

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    1. Morning, Pat! Bummer! IDK whether I snore or not…..but since I sleep alone, it doesn’t matter! LOL – bet you’ll remember the next time, eh? Can’t see the sky yet but the temp is 31 – works for me!!!

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        1. Brrrrr….forgive me for crowing but believe me, we’ll get there soon enough!!! Bundle up, my dear! And whatever you do, DON’T go outside – you’d probably get pneumonia!!!

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  4. Jake

    December 5, 2025 6:49 am

    Appeals Court Grants Administrative Stay to Keep National Guard in D.C. – December 04, 2025 5:21 PM

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2025/12/04/appeals-court-grants-administrative-stay-to-keep-national-guard-in-dc-n2667408An Appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump can continue deploying the National Guard in Washington, D.C. 

    The Washington D.C. Court of Appeals order is an administrative stay, not a ruling on the merits, according to the Dec. 4 order. 
    “Ordered that the district court’s November 20, 2025, order be administratively stayed pending further order of this court. The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion.”

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  5. “Brian Cole: The DC Pipe Bomber — Next question: whether he was working alone.”

    Techno Fog, Dec 04, 2025

    Brian Cole: DC pipe bomb suspect's mom, Delicia, trolled on social media; 'he wanted to…' | Hindustan Times

    The DC Pipe Bomber has been arrested. It’s Brian Cole Jr., a 30 year-old black male from Woodbridge, Virginia. He was taken into custody this morning. The home he shared with his parents was searched by law enforcement.

    So far, he faces charges of: (1) the transportation of an explosive device in interstate commerce with intent to kill, injure, or intimidate in violation of 18 USC 844(d); and (2) attempted malicious destruction by means of fire and explosive materials in violation of 18 USC 844 (i). He faces up to 20 years in prison.

    Physically, Cole matches the profile of the bomber. He’s around 5’6”, which is a near match to the FBI’s estimate of 5’7” (plus or minus an inch). More importantly, all the evidence points to Brian Cole. As detailed in the FBI affidavit in support of its criminal complaint, Cole’s purchase history itself is a near-smoking gun:

    • He purchased the same galvanized pipes used in the bombs at two different Northern Virginia Home Depot locations in June and November 2020.
    • Cole purchased 12 pipe end caps (consistent with those found outside the RNC and DNC) from four different Home Depot locations in 2019 and 2020.
    FBI ups reward for information on RNC, DNC pipe bomb suspect to $500K | FOX 5 Atlanta
    • Cole bought 9V battery connectors from Micro Center in Northern Virginia in 2019. Cole purchased steel wool from Home Depot in 2020.
    • He bought two white kitchen timers from a Wal-Mart in Northern Virginia in June 2020 that matched those found at the scenes.

    But it doesn’t stop there. As explained by the FBI, Cole “purchased equipment that would facilitate the manufacturing of a pipe bomb:

    • Safety glasses in July 2020.
    • A wire stripping tool and wire nuts on November 14, 2020.
    • Sandpaper and a machinist’s file tool on November 21, 2020.
    • Protective gloves and disinfecting wipes on November 24, 2020.

    But to build a strong case you need more. You need his proximity to the RNC and the DNC on January 5, 2021. And the FBI has it.

    • Cole’s cell phone engaged with multiple cell phone towers in the area of the RNC and DNC on the night of January 5, 2021. The interactions with these towers match the movements of the suspect caught on video.
    • Cole owns a 2017 Nissan Sentra. It was observed at 7:10 p.m. on January 5, 2021 less than a half mile away from where the suspect was seen on video approximately 30 minutes later.
    • On December 14, 2020, around three weeks before the bombs were placed, Cole made a purchase at a restaurant in proximity to the RNC and DNC. Perhaps he was hungry. Or perhaps he was scoping his route and areas of placement.

    As we learned from today’s press conference, Cole’s arrest was not the result of new leads or new tips. Instead, it was the result of diligent agents poring through their investigative files and putting the pieces together. Apparently the FBI had at least least some of this data for years.

    As explained by Attorney General Pam Bondi:

    “Let me be clear: There was no new tip. There was no new witness. Just good, diligent police work and prosecutorial work, working as a team along with ATF, Capitol Police, Metropolitan Police Department, and, of course, the FBI.”

    FBI Director Kash Patel also provided context, stating that as a result of their exhaustive review of existing evidence, they “generated numerous investigative leads, executed multiple legal processes with our U.S. Attorney partners, and came to this conclusion today. And that is why we were able to safely secure this individual into custody.”

    What a catch by the Patel, Bongino, and Bondi team.

    And what an embarrassment to former Director Wray and the Biden Administration. Either they failed to identify Cole through incompetence or some ulterior motive – namely, that Cole’s profile didn’t fit the narrative that a disgruntled Trump-voting extremist placed the bombs. While it is impossible to write-off either option, we lean towards incompetence, if only because the political value in catching the bomber would seemingly outweigh any shift in narrative. But that’s our judgment and maybe those officials thought different. It didn’t help Wray, et al. that the FBI’s resources were focused on the January 6 protesters: peaceful grandmothers, fathers and sons, and others whose homes were raided for “misdemeanors.”

    As to Brian Cole himself? The family is shocked. This is how his grandmother described him to the New York Post: “He’s almost autistic-like because he doesn’t understand a lot of stuff. He’s very naive… He would not hurt a fly. He’s just not that kind of person.” Maybe she’s telling the truth. Or maybe that’s how most every grandma would react when their dear grandson is arrested.

    Cole doesn’t have much of an online presence – or at least one that we’ve seen. Reports are that he is antisocial and keeps to himself. There must be something out there to prove motive. According to MSNBC (rebranded as MSNOW), Cole “has been associated with pro-anarchist ideological statements.”

    Perhaps Cole was just pissed off at the government. Records show that Cole’s father owed a substantial sum in back taxes. There was a lien against the family home. Cole worked for his father’s bail bonds company. As reported by Luke Rosiak at the Daily Wire, his father’s company “secured bond for thousands” of illegal immigrants. When the immigrants didn’t appear at their hearing, they would be on the hook for millions of dollars. The bonds company lost that case at the U.S. Court of Appeals in DC on November 10, 2020. Based on his purchase history, Cole likely took some of his final steps in building the bombs after that ruling.

    Perhaps it is a combination of those motives – the anger about the case and the lien, Cole’s political ideology. No doubt there is more to the story. We assume the search of electronic devices seized in his home is ongoing and it is quite possible that there is more physical evidence inside the home tying him to the bombs, whether it is the shoes or the clothing or materials and equipment.

    The final question is whether Cole was working alone – assuming there is no crazy surprise that excludes him as a suspect. From the evidence cited by the FBI, it appears he probably built the bombs on his own. (It’s obvious he placed them alone.) And if he did build them alone, the Trump Administration needs to provide a clear answer either way as to whether he was encouraged to do so.”

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          1. I know…..just as I hit enter, that crossed my mind….but whatever – YOU know what kind of Grandma I’m talking about and that ain’t us!!!!

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  6. EXCERPT: “Since returning to office, President Trump has made the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) a key focal point of his second administration. Just last week, the president signed an executive order launching the “Genesis Mission,” a new “national effort” that seeks to utilize AI to “transform how scientific research is conducted and accelerate the speed of scientific discovery.”

    “With the Genesis Mission, the Trump Administration intends to dramatically expand the productivity and impact of Federal research and development within a decade,” the order reads.

    While AI appears poised to become a major facet of everyday life moving forward, there’s a negative underside to this burgeoning technology that is wreaking havoc on communities across the country: AI data centers.

    In recent months, numerous reports have emerged about how these facilities are putting a strain on local residents. Namely, how they are consuming vast amounts of land, electricity, and water, which in turn is driving up costs for locals in the area.

    Speaking with The Federalist, Power the Future (PTF) Founder and Executive Director Daniel Turner noted the current stress these AI data centers are placing on everyday Americans and espoused concerns that “we’re not remotely building the infrastructure needed to accommodate” this growing technology.

    “The surge in electricity consumption is like nothing we have ever seen before, and we’re not remotely prepared for what AI means. We have just begun to scratch the surface,” Turner said.Existing Problems

    According to IBM, AI data centers are designed to house “the specific IT infrastructure needed to train, deploy and deliver AI applications and services.” These facilities are equipped with “advanced compute, network and storage architectures and energy and cooling capabilities to handle AI workloads.”

    The construction of these massive new data warehouses, however, comes with a significant cost…..”

    https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/05/ai-data-centers-are-wreaking-havoc-on-local-communities-across-america/

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      1. Hear, hear! Frankly, I honestly hope I don’t live long enough to see it truly come to fruition! As it is already, it’s almost impossible to tell if something or someone is real or not unless it’s smack in front of your face, close enough to touch!

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  7. “Honest Media Would Demand OIG Investigate Afghan ‘Vetting’ Instead Of Hegseth’s Texts — What’s needed now is accountability for those who presided over the Afghan ‘vetting’ scandal.”

    The Federalist, By: Breccan F. Thies, December 04, 2025

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    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “If America’s corporate media truly cared about the truth, they would stop hyperventilating about their self-made “Signalgate” distraction and start demanding accountability for every person responsible for lying about vetting tens of thousands of Afghans.

    Instead, corporate media outlets are triumphantly heralding an Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report that essentially draws the conclusion that the fake Signalgate non-scandal may have, possibly, perhaps had some distant chance of putting U.S. troops in danger.

    Signalgate was the incident earlier this year where serial fabricator and propagandist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic was accidentally added to a group chat of defense and security officials. Despite media hysterics, the most interesting content in the chat was Vice President J.D. Vance, War Secretary Pete Hegseth, and others debating foreign policy. The OIG report found that Hegseth did not share classified information in the Signal chats, contrary to what the media had asserted.

    But why aren’t the media demanding accountability over the Afghan resettlement program under Operation Allies Welcome? Any honest member of the media would be up in arms about being systematically lied to regarding the nonexistent “vetting” process that was fabricated by the Biden White House. They don’t care, however, because their only goal is to attempt an ouster of Hegseth, no matter what, no matter the cost.

    If one of the costs of ignoring Biden’s Afghan “vetting” debacle to focus on Hegseth is dead American troops — as we saw over Thanksgiving when one of these Afghan migrants allegedly murdered one West Virginia National Guardsman stationed in Washington, D.C., and critically wounded another — well, that’s of little concern to the media.

    The American people deserve a tandem report from the War Department’s OIG, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) OIG, and the State Department’s OIG detailing every single person responsible for not vetting the Afghans, bringing them here anyway, and perpetuating the lies that they were vetted. Real accountability would entail prosecutorial recommendations for each and every one of those people and deportation of every Afghan brought here under those circumstances.

    Information about the lack of vetting has been out for years. In 2022 a DHS OIG report titled “DHS Encountered Obstacles to Screen, Vet, and Inspect All Evacuees during the Recent Afghanistan Crisis” noted that important information “such as name, date of birth, identification number, and travel document data, was inaccurate, incomplete, or missing.”

    It also found that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) “admitted or paroled evacuees who were not fully vetted into the United States.”

    “The safety and the security of the American people is the highest priority for the U.S. Government,” the report stated. “Preventing criminals, suspected terrorists, or other nefarious actors from entering the United States requires thorough screening and vetting. CBP’s use of incomplete or inaccurate data would not have yielded positive matches from intelligence databases if the individuals had derogatory records under a different name or DOB.”

    Because some evacuees “were unable to provide sufficient identification documents,” the report noted, the Biden administration “may have admitted or paroled individuals into the United States who pose a risk to national security and the safety of local communities.”

    Well, that’s obvious now. But it was obvious then too. Operation Allies Welcome started in August 2021, and by October, officials knew that standard vetting procedures were “not being followed for Afghan evacuees,” according to a memorandum from the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

    One month prior to that, Biden Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitted no vetting was being done on the front end, stating the focus was on evacuating anyone and everyone — while asserting that vetting was being done on the back end. Even then, unvetted Afghans were apparently free to roam and allegedly perpetrate sexual assaults while on U.S. military installations, like Fort Pickett, Virginia, according to a letter then-Rep. Mark Green sent to Blinken.

    Notably in 2021 only 16 Republicans in the House of Representatives voted no on a bill that further neutered vetting requirements for Afghan evacuees.

    When the DHS OIG report was published on Sept. 6, 2022, the Biden administration disputed the findings and rejected recommendations for DHS, saying, “CBP provided evidence to the OIG that all individuals were screened, vetted, and inspected” and that it “provided documentation and evidence that it (1) established recurrent vetting processes for all paroled Afghan nationals and (2) will carry out vetting for the duration of their parole period.”

    Then-White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the report “did not take into account the key steps in that rigorous … and multi-layered screening and vetting process the U.S. government took before at risk Afghans were permitted to come to the U.S.”

    What the evidence reveals, however, is that the Biden administration’s assertions were little more than thinly disguised propaganda. What’s needed now is accountability, both for the members of the Biden administration who presided over and lied about the Afghan “vetting” scandal and the self-described “journalists” who are more concerned about palace intrigue and text messages than actual threats to their own countrymen.”

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  8. EXCERPT: “Recently, two members of the West Virginia National Guard were ambushed and shot by Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who was allowed into the United States under a Biden-era program known as “Operation Allies Welcome.”

    In the wake of this attack, President Trump announced his intention to limit immigration from ‘third world’ countries. Quite predictably, this announcement has triggered mainstream media talking heads, and other members of the chattering classes. Critics have argued that such policies would be “discriminatory” – primarily because the developing world is full of “brown and black” people (their words, not mine). Cue Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” and footage of large blonde men marching in big black boots.

    But concerns about third world migration have absolutely nothing to do with race or ethnicity. They are much more practical: It is virtually impossible to perform any kind of useful vetting on aliens from countries in places like Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East.

    Anti-borders advocates would have you believe otherwise. During a Sept. 1, 2021 press conference, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told the American public, “I can absolutely assure you that no one is coming into the United States of America who has not been through a thorough screening and background check process.” However, Ms. Psaki was deliberately deceiving her audience.

    Vetting is simply a fancy word for “background check.” But, the target of a background investigation must have a traceable history. In other words, he or she must have engaged in transactions that generate records. By looking at school registrations, real estate records, department of motor vehicle files, credit histories, etc., an investigator can substantiate an individual’s identity and determine whether he or she is a person of good moral character.

    However, that is only possible when a person being vetted comes from a society that keeps such records and is willing to share them with the United States. According to a Gallup World Poll survey conducted in 2018, more than 750 million people around the world would migrate if they could. And their preferred destination is the United States.

    Most of those people come from countries that either lack functioning record-keeping systems or refuse to share information with the United States, which means there is no reliable way to determine whether those individuals pose a threat to America’s national security or public safety…..”

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/ban_those_who_can_t_be_vetted.html

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      1. IKR? I especially like the grater on the light and the heel in the wine bottle….now THAT I could have used back in the day!

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  11. hmmmm…bondi-travon martin connection?

    The Gipper Lives
    December 5, 2025 9:06 am

    Leave aside the phony #Autistic Fall Guy -Official Narrative(tm) for a moment.

    On Jan. 6th, Pence and Pelosi needed an “Emergency” to stop any questioning of the Steal. Do you really think they left that up to chance?

    These toy bombs were placed by the FBI as a back-up “Emergency”, in case the pre-scheduled Ashli Babbitt Shooting- Op failed to produce an excuse for shutting down Congress and rubberstamping the BidenFuhrer Installation.

    Whether that shooting was real or staged Crisis Acting is another question, but either way, it was designed as a highly-choregraphed “Emergency”– and of course, a pre-scheduled emergency is not an emergency at all, is it?

    THE HARMLESS TOY “PIPE-BOMBING” IS NOT THE REAL CRIME. IT WAS ONLY A MEANS TO FACILITATE THE COUP AGAINST THE PRESIDENT AND AMERICAN VOTERS. THIS WAS A COUP-BOMBING.

    Kash Patel and Dan Bongino are running around like they caught Public Enemy #1, treating the Sparkler Bomb as the crime, rather than the Election Fraud Coup it was meant to prop up.

    It’s like they caught Dillinger outside the theater, and aren’t letting him go until he pays his expired parking meter!

    Patel and Bongino are bumbling around like Inspector Clouseau and Mr. Magoo, rubberstamping the Official Deep State Narrative on this case–not to mention the Charlie Kirk Gay/Furry Narrative, another Deep State Fall Guy -fiction. This is getting to be a habit, guys.

    Actually, it gets worse.

    Before Pfizer Wiles had her pupil Pam Bondi installed as Attorney General, who has in turn installed Democrat Todd Blanche as the real AG while she’s in make-up at FOX News, she was Florida’s AG.

    That’s where she and her deputy conspired with Ben Crump, a Sharpton mini-me, to invent witnesses and evidence to frame George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case.

    Sundance alone reported this at the time. We objected to her nomination for this reason. The Uni-Party knew all this, which is why they let her pass the Senate.

    And now it appears that Crump has invented another Fall Guy who conveniently exonerates the Deep State Actors who were the Real Coup Bombers. You see where this is going.

    The Crump/Bondi Axis has reared its ugly head again.

    Wiles, Bondi and Blanche must go, Mr. President. Time to clean house, sir.

    No More Coups, no More Coup-Bombers and no More Snakes in the Camp.

    Isaiah 47:3Your nakedness will be exposed and your shame uncovered. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”

    We say what You say, Lord! Good is the Word of the Lord, Amen!

    Rest in the Vine: It Was a Coup-Bombing, Not a Pipe-Bombing:
    A Pence/Pelosi Productions’ Pre-Scheduled “Emergency” on Jan. 6th
    to Stop the Questioning of the Election Fraud in Congress
    and Install Their Puppet Dictator Biden

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    1. Well, this backs up my serious issues with Bondi…..you know that I’ve never liked her since then – that entire debacle was brought about by her signing onto and validating the Promise Program in FL that created Trayvon Martin.

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    2. Pfizer Wiles, eh? Meaning Susie Wiles, WH Chief of Staff? Well, lookee here:

      “Susie Wiles has a professional relationship with Pfizer through her role as co-chair of the lobbying firm Mercury Public Affairs, which began in February 2022 and counts Pfizer among its clients.

      Although she was not officially registered as a lobbyist for Pfizer, her leadership position at Mercury has raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest, particularly given her influence as White House Chief of Staff in the Trump administration. 

      Mercury Public Affairs has represented several major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, Gilead Sciences, and Kaiser Permanente. This connection has drawn criticism from some of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s supporters, who view it as contradictory to Kennedy’s MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) agenda, especially since Kennedy had previously criticized Trump for accepting financial support from Pfizer and appointing pharmaceutical lobbyists to key positions. 

      Despite this scrutiny, RFK Jr. publicly defended Wiles, stating she was a friend of the MAHA movement. Additionally, Wiles attended a Mar-a-Lago dinner with Trump, Kennedy, and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, where discussions included public-private collaboration on cancer cures. Some observers suggest that backlash against Wiles reflects broader dissatisfaction within the MAGA base over Trump’s pharmaceutical policies, with Wiles becoming a target instead of Trump himself.”

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  16. Just The News: “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on Friday voted to stop recommending infants receive the hepatitis B shot at birth, pushing it until a baby is 2 months old for children born to mothers who test negative for the virus.

    The panel voted 8-2 to recommend individual decision-making in consultation with a healthcare provider to determine when or if to give the hepatitis B birth dose to an infant whose mother tested negative for the virus, CBS News reported.

    During the panel’s meeting on Thursday, members had disagreements and were confused over the voting language, resulting in their decision to push the vote to Friday morning instead of holding it on Thursday afternoon as scheduled, NBC News reported. The committee was originally supposed to vote on the hepatitis B vaccine schedule in September.

    ACIP usually evaluates new vaccines or new indications for them, rather than reviewing shots that have been administered in the same way for decades. For 34 years, the CDC has recommended that all newborns get a first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours after birth. The panel is considering whether to change that guidance, instead suggesting that women who test negative for hepatitis B decide in consultation with a healthcare provider whether their baby should get the dose at birth.

    By early afternoon on Thursday, multiple committee members expressed confusion over what they were voting on and noted issues with the voting language. “Perhaps this was written by the department of redundancy department,” said ACIP member Dr. Joseph Hibbeln, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist.

    The committee’s chair, Dr. Kirk Milhoan, was not present for the decision to postpone the hepatitis B vote. Panel vice chair Dr. Robert Malone said Milhoan was “about to jump on a plane to go to Asia and would not be available, I believe, for [the discussion] tomorrow.”

    American College of Physicians President Dr. Jason Goldman said during the meeting that the proceedings amounted to “political theater.” “You are wasting taxpayer dollars by not having scientific, rigorous discussion on issues that truly matter,” Goldman said. “The best thing you can do is adjourn the meeting and discuss vaccine issues that actually need to be taken up.”

    Hepatitis B is an incurable infection that can lead to liver disease, cancer, and death, and can be transmitted from mother to child during delivery.

    ACIP on Friday is also expected to discuss the entire childhood immunization schedule, in addition to the presence of aluminum salts found in many childhood vaccines.”

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  17. EXCERPT: “Last week, the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator told staff that “at least” 10 children died “after and because of” COVID-19 vaccinations and that the agency was preparing to raise the safety hurdles for vaccine approvals. This week the Department of Justice acted as if that didn’t happen.

    DOJ lawyer Nicole Smith didn’t mention the leaked memo from Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Vinay Prasad at an appeals court hearing Wednesday on whether to reinstate a False Claims Act case against Pfizer and a contractor who ran some of its COVID vaccine trials, arguing nothing would change the feds’ minds about Pfizer’s vaccine.

    The feds are unabashedly asking for a license to shut down whistle-blowers when regulators are in cahoots with fraudsters, lawyer Warner Mendenhall told the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, representing whistle-blower Brook Jackson.

    “The government really sort of made our case for us” that DOJ treats the phrase “good cause” in the FCA as authorizing its “mere desire to dismiss” a whistle-blower case to recover federal taxpayer money and share in the refund, Mendenhall said in rebuttal to DOJ’s Smith. 

    Yet the administration “actually is changing its policies” in real time on vaccines, and there will be “hundreds more deaths in children that the government’s going to recognize” after the 10 cited by Prasad, Mendenhall predicted.

    Fired six hours after she notified the FDA in September 2020 about concern regarding the Phase 3 trials she oversaw in Texas as a regional director for Ventavia, Jackson filed the FCA case in 2021 as a “relator” on behalf of the federal government, arguing Pfizer wrongly secured emergency use authorization and a related massive payout from taxpayers.

    The Biden administration initially declined to exercise its power to dismiss the qui tam lawsuit in early 2022, then sided with Pfizer several months later by claiming its vaccine would have been approved even if Jackson was right that 3% of trial data were fraudulent, but didn’t actually move to intervene and dismiss until last year.

    As it has done repeatedly in less than a year, the second Trump administration stuck with its predecessor’s legal arguments, defending a trial court’s order that dismissed the suit with prejudice so it can’t be refiled, even though a senior Trump DOJ official was simultaneously prosecuting asthma trial fraud.

    Warning to whistleblowers: avoid “government complicity”

    Chief Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod did nearly all of the questioning at Wednesday’s hearing, which the 5th Circuit itself has not posted as of Thursday but was recorded and posted by Texas medical freedom activist and physician Mary Talley Bowden……”

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/health/doj-tries-shut-down-pfizer-clinical-trial-whistleblower-after-fda-admits

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  18. Quite the Layer Cake Concoction

    Extraordinary Entrance

    1939 – Broadway Limited and Studebaker convertible.

    Grumman G-21 Goose.

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  23. Brigitte Nielsen and her then husband Sylvester Stallone | Beverly Hills Cop II premiere | 20th May 1987

    Just going for a swim

    Brooklyn Bridge painters at work high above the city, on December 3, 1915.

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  24. He rarely says much – not this time!!!

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      1. oh no. there are only a few rooms for 2 (usually married couples). her room is small–no way another person can fit in there. But she’s talking to other people and making new friends which is important to me.

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  28. “Friday Funnies: Gavin for President? Another future existential crisis to ponder…”

    Dr. Robert W. Malone, Dec 05, 2025

    @animalia.show

    Cockatoo Activates Alexa at 3AM… and Starts a Rock Party 😭🦜🔥 A cockatoo activates Alexa at 3AM and blasts rock music across the house. The bird dances like it’s a concert… the owner is half-asleep… pure chaos. 😂🦜🔥 Follow for more! FunnyAnimals Cockatoo ParrotLife TalkingBird Parrot CrazyPets BirdDance CaughtOnCamera Unexpected Trending #Viral Alexa

    ♬ original sound – Animalia Show – Animalia Show

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  29. Mace wants snap card to have a photo id

    FTA

    According to a press release, Mace said, “Taxpayers have had enough of watching their hard-earned dollars abused by people with no legal right to these benefits.”

    She added that the plan is designed to ensure the intended recipients are the ones using the cards.

    “This isn’t complicated, if you’re eligible for SNAP, your photo goes on the card and you’re the only one who uses it. Not fraudsters, not criminals, not someone borrowing a card they have no right to use. This is basic common sense, fairness, and protecting taxpayers and the American families who truly need food assistance.”

    https://www.rvmnews.com/2025/12/nancy-mace-proposes-photo-id-requirement-for-snap-ebt-cards-to-reduce-fraud/

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  30. “The left is getting triggered by MAGA people calling Tim Walz a retard – and I must say, watching the red-faced liberals get overwrought over the word “retard” is kind of funny.”

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  32. Honestly, we need a slur for people who use artificial intelligence for everything.

    Never forget, a Venn diagram can demonstrate correlation, but not causation.

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  34. Just The News: “President Trump on Friday received FIFA’s inaugural peace prize at the World Cup final draw ceremony on Friday at the Kennedy Center for his diplomatic efforts.

    “You definitely deserve the first FIFA Peace Prize for your action, for what you have obtained in your way, but you obtained it in an incredible way,” FIFA President Gianni Infantino said, The Hill news outlet reported. “And you can always count, Mr. President, on my support, on the support of the entire… soccer community to help you make peace and make the world prosper,” he added.

    According to a draft of the run-of-show obtained by POLITICO, during the ceremony, in which countries will learn who they will face in the first group stage matches, Trump, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney are expected to participate in a ceremonial ball draw.

    The two-hour program will begin with a performance by one of Trump’s favorite opera singers, Andrea Bocelli, before moving to remarks from FIFA President Gianni Infantino. Robbie Williams and Nicole Scherzinger will also give performances.

    Then, Infantino will introduce Trump as the recipient of the event’s peace prize. The U.S. president will accept the award and deliver remarks from the stage.

    Following the heads of state’s portion of the program, there will be the official draw, run by a conductor and assistants. Balls with each country’s name labeled on them will be pulled from pots to form 12 groups of four teams each for the 2026 tournament.

    The Village People, who sing “YMCA,” will close the ceremony.”

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  35. Just The News: “The federal judge on Friday ordered the unsealing of grand jury transcripts in Florida’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the Associated Press reported. The move comes in the wake of the Department of Justice renewing its bid to unseal them. A court in July rejected the agency’s original attempt to unseal the transcripts.

    Last month, President Donald Trump signed legislation requiring the disclosure of materials related to the late billionaire’s sex-trafficking operation.

    The Trump administration has faced intense scrutiny over its handling of the Epstein case after Trump himself campaigned on releasing the so-called “client list” of powerful people to whom Epstein allegedly trafficked underaged women.

    Earlier this year, Attorney General Pam Bondi attempted to release largely public information to influencers in a now-notorious PR stunt that renewed public demand for all of the information.”

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  36. 🐈 THE BAY CAT — ONE OF THE RAREST MAMMALS ON EARTH

    Seen fewer than 100 times in history.
    Disappeared for 60 years after discovery.
    Half-cat, half-monkey energy.
    Lives in Borneo’s rainforest shadows.

    You have a higher chance of seeing a UFO.

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  37. Just The News: “The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear the case over President Donald Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to interpret the 14th Amendment as excluding birthright citizenship to the children of illegal aliens and tourists, CBS News reported.

    Trump imposed the order as a means of combating the practice of birth tourism and the creation of “anchor babies”, intended to present an obstacle to deportations.

    Thus far, the Department of Justice has struggled to defend the order in the lower courts and it remains unclear whether the conservative friendly justices will be more receptive to their arguments. A decision will likely come in early 2026.”

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  38. “A Strategic Assessment of the American Cultural Revolution and the National Security State”

    Michael T. Flynn LTG USA (RET). Dec 05, 2025

    EXCERPT: “The American people have just taken their first full breath after surviving an attempt to smother the Republic through a Marxist-inspired cultural campaign carried out largely through the administrative state, media, academia, and politicized elements of the national security bureaucracy. Most citizens did not fully perceive it while it was happening. Many in the intelligence community either passively accepted it or actively furthered it. The architects of this project are not finished, but their effort has been damaged and delayed. It is only by the grace of God that the country has endured to this point.

    The American version of the cultural revolution is distinct from the Maoist model that ravaged China in the twentieth century. It did not coalesce around a single charismatic revolutionary figure. Instead, it spread along the arteries of bureaucracy, higher education, corporate structures, and activist networks. The long march through the institutions, as described by Antonio Gramsci, became the operational template. Rather than Red Guards filling the streets under the orders of an identifiable supreme leader, the United States experienced a coordinated convergence of agencies, NGOs, foundations, media outlets, and activist fronts, all advancing the same ideological project under different labels.

    Because federal agencies differ widely in size, mission, culture, and internal resistance, this revolution unfolded unevenly. It never achieved total dominance in a single decisive stroke. Instead, it advanced by fragmentary gains and suffered fragmentary defeats. Wherever the ideological project captured an HR department, a training pipeline, a public school system, or a central media platform, it encountered resistance in state governments, independent media, individual courts, and networks of citizens who refused to comply. This piecemeal quality of implementation slowed the collapse and gave the American people time to see what was happening and respond.

    Even as these battles played out in public, darker currents moved beneath the surface. We now assess that thousands of religious and conservative federal employees were quietly identified and referred to a little-known federal entity, the Pre-Trial Services Agency. Accounts and initial documentation indicate that this agency may have been used to catalog individuals solely on the basis of ideology and religious conviction, under the pretext of January 6, and vaccine-related non-compliance. The intention appears to have been not only administrative removal but also potential criminalization. This matter demands immediate, transparent investigation by any future administration that claims to be serious about the rule of law.

    To understand the broader context, it is necessary to define what we mean by the concept of the welfare state. We are not merely describing traditional social programs. We refer instead to a constellation of fully funded professional activist groups that present themselves as separate causes but in reality form a single revolutionary bloc.

    Over the last decade, organizations under the banners of antifascism, racial justice, radical feminism, abortion on demand, certain LGBTQ plus factions, environmental extremism, and gun control advocacy have shown remarkable cohesion. They share donors, staff, narrative frameworks, and street-level tactics. Their membership overlaps. Their messaging is synchronized. They rapidly support one another’s campaigns and protests…..”

    “…..January 6 was the planned inflection point that allowed the bureaucratic and activist alliance to declare open season on conservative and religious Americans. It became the lens through which all dissent could be labeled dangerous and disloyal. The people who entered the Capitol that day, many of them peaceful and bewildered, became the pretext for a broader project aimed at remaking the national security apparatus from within.

    What came next moved beyond street-level activism or cultural capture. It entered the bloodstream of the national security state. The aftermath of January 6, the collapse of Afghanistan, and the federal vaccine mandates combined into an unprecedented attempt to remake the federal workforce through coercion, intimidation, and ideological purification. Inside the CIA and across the national security apparatus, the internal revolution reached its apex and then began to fracture under its own contradictions.

    Societal collapse is never a singular event. It is a process.”

    Stay tuned for PART II: Purges, Collapse Inside CIA, and the Path to National Recovery.

    https://genflynn.substack.com/p/a-strategic-assessment-of-the-american

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  44. “Psychology says people raised in the 1960s and 70s developed these 8 mental strengths that are rare today…

    If you talk to psychologists, sociologists, or even mindfulness teachers, you’ll hear a similar observation: people raised in the 1960s and 70s tend to share a set of mental strengths that are increasingly uncommon in younger generations. It’s not because they were inherently tougher or more disciplined. It’s because their environment shaped a certain resilience – one built from slower living, fewer distractions, tighter communities, and higher expectations of personal responsibility. 
    Here are eight of the most powerful mental strengths the 60s and 70s quietly cultivated – strengths psychology says are becoming rare, but deeply needed.

    1. The ability to tolerate discomfort without panicking
    2. Deep attention and the ability to focus for long periods
    3. A strong internal locus of control
    4. The emotional strength to handle conflict face-to-face
    5. The discipline to delay gratification
    6. The ability to separate emotion from practical decision-making
    7. Psychological robustness built from real-world problem solving
    8. The rare ability to be content with “enough”

    People from the 60s and 70s grew up with fewer possessions, fewer distractions, and fewer expectations of constant upgrading. They didn’t need the newest thing to feel satisfied. Contentment wasn’t something they chased—it was something they practiced. Modern psychology calls this satisfaction with life. Buddhism calls it non-attachment. And both agree: contentment is a form of mental strength.

    Today’s culture is fueled by comparison, consumption, and the belief that something better is always around the corner. But older generations understood the power of appreciating what is already here.”

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