another 10* to start the day. Fall officially SUCKS! this year. usually there is a light snowfall around Thanksgiving for deer season. then it WARMS back up before real winter settles in. not this year!
Good morning, Pat! No Wheezer yet this morning. Temp is 30 with some wind off & on, cloudy; possibility of light snow today & tonight. Nipply cold tomorrow – high of only 11 w/light snow. But it warms back up w/predictions of 40’s/50’s M, T, & W! Above freezing thru the 26th but I’m sure that will change. Crazy shit!!!!
it’s at least sunny at this moment and hubby says the forecast shows no measurable additional snow for the next 5 days…we’ll see…lol
got to make the cut out cookies this morning and i’m just about ready to start. I’ll be back after i get them all cut out and it’s the baking part that’s left.
sorry…lol…not me.
But I used to work in a sewing factory myself when i was right out of high school. I love to sew! I’ve made everything from clothes to quilts to car upholstery.
Awesome!!!! So did I!!! I graduated at 16 and went to work in a garment factory in August after graduation. Worked there eight years. I only quit to have a baby
I love to sew as well. My biggest project was lined antique satin floor length drapes for a picture window. Good grief those things were heavy!!
wow! good for you!
the weirdest thing i ever made was a “water bladder” when my son decided to take up running. It needed straps so he could wear it, be waterproof and light.
and costumes…lol…Halloween costumes for my kids. sigh…that was a while ago!
cool! I never had to attempt that thank goodness. But i have a granddaughter now and I make costumes for her–her requests are happily easy. but their family has decided to raise goats and now I’m making flannel goat coats for baby goats. i love a challenge…lol
they’re mainly for the newborns. A lot of the baby goats get sold to 4H kids who raise them and show them in Spring…so the babies are born around now and it can be quite cold for them even in the barns.
In France, mooseslimes go into supermarkets and URINATE on pork saying we don’t eat pork! they go into Catholic churches and threaten to punch elderly nuns.
this attitude, right here, explains why mooseslimes do not belong in any civilized country. WE are EXPECTED to support them.
FTA
UK jihad preacher Anjem Choudary said in February 2013: “We are on Jihad Seekers Allowance, We take the Jizya (protection money paid to Muslims by non-Muslims) which is ours anyway. The normal situation is to take money from the Kafir (non-Muslim), isn’t it? So this is normal situation. They give us the money. You work, give us the money. Allah Akbar, we take the money. Hopefully there is no one from the DSS (Department of Social Security) listening. Ah, but you see people will say you are not working. But the normal situation is for you to take money from the Kuffar (non-Muslim). So we take Jihad Seeker’s Allowance.”
Sam E. Antar @SamAntar The New York Times buried this sentence deep in their story:
“No judge has reviewed the substance of the case.”
That one line destroys their entire narrative.
Two grand juries didn’t “reject the evidence.” They heard a presentation from the same career prosecutor who never wanted to bring the case in the first place.
If you want a non-indictment, you present a non-case.
Meanwhile, Lindsey Halligan presented to a grand jury. They indicted on all counts.
She was removed. Veteran prosecutor Roger Keller took over. He failed. Twice.
Same evidence. Different presenter. Different result.
And the documents that have NEVER been tested in court remain untouched: ▪️Second home to the bank ▪️Rental property with zero personal use days to the IRS ▪️Owner-occupied to the insurance company ▪️Investment property to New York State ▪️Same deceptive behavior across multiple properties over 40 years
The Times knows the evidence has never been litigated. That’s why they buried the sentence. That’s why they never mention Halligan got an indictment. That’s why they never ask what Keller presented – or didn’t.
I can’t wait for Democrats to subpoena me. I’ll show up with 40 years of documented fraud and answer every question under oath.
Will Letitia James? cc: @RepRobertGarcia @DAGToddBlanche
EXCERPT: “There’s a lot of talk from the left comparing the Trump admin’s immigration policies to a supposedly backward 1920. “Trump’s latest anti-immigration push echoes the nativism of the 1920s,” alleges a Dec. 7 analysis by The Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty. “Language such as that used by the president and those around him harks back more than a century ago to the passage of a series of laws, capped by one in 1924, known as the Johnson-Reed Act,” Tumulty warns.
But the reality that some of those who advocated for tighter restrictions may have done so for less-than-noble reasons doesn’t obviate the fact that the Johnson-Reed Act served an important purpose in a time when the United States was becoming increasingly fractured because of high levels of immigration from cultures different from America.
A Little History on the Johnson-Reed Act
In the first two decades of the 20th century, almost 15 million immigrants poured into the United States. In 1920, about 13 percent of the United States population was foreign born. (Today the number is slightly higher than 15 percent.) American citizens whose families had been in the United States for generations became increasingly concerned that large populations of recent arrivals would not be able to effectively assimilate — including by adopting English and learning the principles of American republican self-governance — since these immigrants formed ghettoized communities. Some of these immigrants were from Asia (primarily Japan, China, and the Philippines), but most of them were from European countries.
The Johnson-Reed Act had a dramatic effect. Between 1901 to 1914, an average of 210,000 Italians arrived in the United States every year — the new quota placed the number of those who were allowed to enter at about 4,000 per year. Because of the act, “more Italians, Czechs, Yugoslavs, Greeks, Lithuanians, Hungarians, Poles, Portuguese, Rumanians, Spaniards, Chinese, and Japanese left the United States than entered,” according to authors Steven G. Koven and Frank Götzke (emphasis added).
Immigration plummeted immediately and for decades after: The total immigration plunged from more than 700,000 in 1924 to 294,000 in 1925 and 280,000 in 1929. By 1930, the foreign-born share of the U.S. population had dropped to 11.6 percent, and in 1970, the number reached a record low 4.7 percent.
It’s true, some of the support for immigration restrictions came from unsavory sources, such as eugenicists and the Ku Klux Klan. Yet historian John Higham has argued that “Klan backing made no material difference. Congress was expressing the spirit of the nation.” As the Department of State declared, Americans simply wanted “to preserve the ideal of U.S. homogeneity.” These restrictions remained in place until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
What Low Immigration Achieved in America
In the decades following the Johnson-Reed Act, America emerged as the greatest power on the face of the earth. Of course, it would be beyond simplistic to assert that a single federal law is responsible for American dominance in the 20th century. But it is not unreasonable to observe that an increasingly homogenous population enabled America to weather many of the unprecedented challenges it faced……”
EXCERPT: “Recently, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., challenged the validity of deportations of illegal aliens who have not been convicted of additional crimes. She declared in a Nov. 18 House Judiciary Committee markup meeting that “It has never been more important for people to have their day in court,” referring to illegal immigrants. She has also re-introduced legislation that would repeal mandatory detention for illegal aliens and establish a presumption of release, rendering it much more difficult for the Trump administration to detain and deport illegal aliens. Leftists like Jayapal flatly deny the fact that illegal entry into the U.S. is a crime.
This is just the latest in a string of leftist politicians and pundits attacking Trump’s deportations of illegal aliens as a violation of “due process.” The frequent invocation of “due process” by media voices and politicians seems to grant the left legitimacy and the moral high ground as they rail against Trump’s immigration agenda, which nevertheless has broad popular support from voters.
To dismantle these kinds of claims, we simply need to be more precise about terms, definitions, and standards. What is due process? What is deportation? What is a legal injury? One of the challenges in treating these questions is the complexity of prevailing legal procedures, details of specific bills, and court precedents. These combined complexities often obscure the fundamental questions. I want to consider the fundamentals surrounding deportations and “due process” from the standpoint of first principles of the American Constitution and natural rights republicanism. Defining Due Process
The phrase “due process of law” appears in the Fifth Amendment, which guarantees that the federal government may not deprive any person of “life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” In popular parlance, most Americans think of “due process” in connection with procedural rights mentioned in the U.S. Constitution and individual state constitutions — the rights of citizens to be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures, seizures of property without just compensation, double jeopardy, and self-incrimination, as well as the rights to a speedy and public trial by jury, the right to know the witnesses and evidence against you and to have legal counsel, the right of habeas corpus, and so on. These are the constitutional protections which are (in theory) supposed to protect people from having their lives, liberty, or property curtailed arbitrarily.
The U.S. Constitution does use the language of “persons” who shall not be deprived of these rights, as opposed to the language merely of “citizens.” Citizenship entails certain rights — certain “privileges and immunities” exclusively held by citizens and not by just any person from anywhere. For example, voting rights are exclusively the rights of citizens.
However, since the law aims at impartial protection, the Constitution and American legal tradition also protect some general rights of “persons,” as in, “No person” shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of the law. Being deprived of life, liberty, or property are forms of legal penalties and punishments, and one can only lawfully merit legal penalties by committing crimes and being duly convicted thereof.
The language here is “person” because foreign citizens or resident or illegal aliens are indeed capable of committing crimes or being accused of crimes in the U.S. The blessing of “equal protection of the laws” and “due process of the law” are for all persons within the jurisdiction of the U.S., which is why it would still be a crime against the law for anyone to murder non-citizens in the U.S…..”
“It’s Morally Righteous, Not Bigotry To Notice All Cultures Are Not Equally Good — Multiculturalism has created a rigid standard of moral relativism that insists every culture is equal, no matter how it may violate the most basic principles of liberty or life.”
The Federalist, By: Brianna Lyman, December 11, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “As expected, Democrats are outraged that President Donald Trump correctly pointed out that some countries are “shitholes.” “Disgusting bigotry,” The Democrats posted on X. Sen. Dick Durbin posted on X: “I’ll never forget hearing Donald Trump’s racist ‘shithole countries’ comment in a 2018 Oval Office meeting about immigration. Tom Cotton and David Perdue claimed Trump didn’t say it and accused me of lying. The truth comes out.”
Foreigner Mehdi Hasan said Trump’s comments are a “reminder that second term Trump is so much worse than first term Trump.” CNN’s Aaron Blake claimed “Trump is upping the xenophobia.”
But the hysterics over Trump’s accurate statement isn’t happening because the left is offended by the language, but because his comments expose that the left has lost the ability to make the most basic moral distinctions between cultures. The left would have been just as outraged if Trump conveyed the same message without cussing because they are trying to defend this warped ideological dogma that all cultures must be treated as morally identical, even when some of those cultures engage in outright barbarism.
And if people acknowledge those differences do exist, it makes it much harder to justify the mass importation of failed societies through unlimited third world migration (which Democrats love).
But that’s the reality of multiculturalism, which has created a strain of moral relativism that insists every culture is equal, no matter how it may violate the most basic principles of liberty or life. Under this dangerous worldview, it becomes unacceptable to suggest that a culture that mutilates young girls is not morally equivalent to a culture that protects women.
Under this toxic worldview, cannibalism and non-cannibalism are morally equivalent cultural experiences. A society that stones women is just as good as a society that protects women’s rights. The only “bad” thing would be to notice the differences. But a functioning nation, like the U.S., cannot afford to pretend that all cultural norms are equal, for if they were equal, then they’d create the same outcomes. But they aren’t and they don’t. Which is why our immigration policy must take into account these distinctions.
And the left’s meltdown actually has a simple explanation: deep down, the left knows Trump is right. If some cultures are producing unlivable conditions, then it becomes impossible to maintain the position that America has no right to choose which values it wants to welcome into the country. But if all cultures are equal, then anyone, from anywhere should be able to come here.
The irony in it all is that Democrats subconsciously recognize the validity of Trump’s comments. Why else would they badger Americans that we must accept hundreds of thousands of refugees via Temporary Protected Status or other asylum avenues, otherwise these foreigners will die or face awful conditions in their home countries? Because they are “shitholes.”
And what makes them shitholes? Their cultures. Take Haiti, for example. The reason Haiti has such high crime, poverty, and instability is no mystery. The nation’s culture is simply not able to support the type of civic culture that underpins the types of institutions and laws that are required to sustain a functioning society. Or take Somalia, where young girls are victims of female genital mutilation, a practice rooted in their particular culture. Anyone who tells you that culture is just as equal as ours is lying through their teeth.
Take Niger, the Central African Republic, Chad, or Mali — countries with some of the highest rates of child marriage. In parts of South Africa, the cultural practice of ukuthwala involves abducting young girls for marriage. In parts of Pakistan, the custom of vani forces young girls into marriage to settle debts. No morally righteous person can defend genital mutilation, abduction, or child marriages. And conversely, it doesn’t make you a bigot to point that out either. In fact, it’s a marker of moral clarity.
Democrats pretend that all cultures are equal — and that no nation is a “shithole” — not because the believe it, but because admitting the truth would force them to confront the question that would collapse their entire immigration position: Why should the U.S. import cultures whose norms produce the very dysfunction, danger and depravity that these foreigners are fleeing?
Democrats aren’t mad at Trump because he’s wrong, they’re mad because he’s right.”
“It’s not on the turnpike it’s on Route 1 and 9 but that’s beside the point. Is something wrong in BudLand? After the tranny fiasco of a while back, Bud and it’s sister brands have taken quite a beating in sales, so the parent company – Anheuser et al, is shuttering three of it’s largest breweries in the US – this one, and one each in California and New Hampshire. The company says it’s because they want to ‘modernize their facilities,’ but we call bullshit on that. Watch and see…”
I’m guessing the schools in small-town NE still do something similar to this day! The Pledge of Allegiance is read over the loud speaker while several students put up the flag outside.
“Back in school in the late 50’s and 60’s we all did this. We started our day – every day – with the Pledge of Allegiance. Most of us knew it word for word, but only a very few of us knew what it meant.”
“Leaving you to eat your lunch with your hands like Zohran Mamdani and drink your soup straight out of the container…”
I'm back on social media, I'm back in the fight, and i'm here to stay.
For a quick update, 6 months ago I made the best decision of my life and married my best friend. @BellRittenhouse, I couldn’t be happier. I love you beautiful.
“On Monday, the publisher of the “Franklin the Turtle” children’s book series issued a response after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared a depiction of the “beloved” character that the left-wing media police labeled as “violent” on X.
US Secretary of War Hegseth shared the post on Sunday, saying, “For your Christmas wish list.” This provoked howls of outrage from the lefties – including from the publisher of the Franklin Book series.
“Franklin the Turtle is a beloved Canadian icon who has inspired generations of children and stands for kindness, empathy, and inclusivity,” Kids Can Press, the series publisher, wrote online. “We strongly condemn any denigrating, violent, or unauthorized use of Franklin’s name or image, which directly contradicts these values.”
Because these are now newsworthy and worthy of a comedic skit, the Franklin images above are for educational purposes only.
<Senator Blumenthal – these memes examine a cultural phenomenon and do not promote violence. These “violent” images do not represent the views of the US government or malone.news.>
MAHA gets rightly ‘blamed’ <insert sarcasm> for Trump winning the Presidential election, but I have to say…The Vance/Walz debate was awesome. But I believe that VP Vance also deserves some credit.”
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 🚨 BREAKING: President Trump is now TERMINATING temporary legal status for Ethiopians in the United States
This will make them deportable soon.
GOOD. MORE! 🔥
DHS SEC. KRISTI NOEM: “After reviewing country conditions and consulting with appropriate U.S. Government agencies, the Secretary determined that Ethiopia no longer continues to meet the conditions for the designation for Temporary Protected Status.”
TheseTruths TheseTruths(@thesetruths)Offline Wolf December 12, 2025 13:32
BRILLIANT: Tina Peters’ Attorney Peter Ticktin Shares Statement on Tina’s Pardon – Colorado “Has No Right to Hold Her”…Earlier this week, Peter Ticktin, Tina’s attorney and a high school classmate of President Trump, sent a letter to President Trump requesting a pardon. He shared it with us at The Gateway Pundit. The reason for the pardon is that Tina is a witness to the most serious crime perpetrated against the US in history. After the 2020 Election, when Peters discovered that the election results in her county had changed after a system update was performed, which was mandated by the Colorado Secretary of State, she notified the authorities and the public of her findings. Tina Peters saved copies of her election results before the update in accordance with state and federal law, and for doing so, she was imprisoned for nine years. She was imprisoned for doing her job.
Late Thursday evening, Peter Ticktin shared the following: My team, John Case, Patrick McSweeney, Robert Cynkar, Stefanie Lambert, Tina, herself, and I are grateful beyond words to President Trump for his courage and for once again, doing what is right. He has always been true to his beliefs and continues to fight against injustice. God bless our President. Governor Polis and his Secretary of State, Jena Griswold, claim that Tina Peters belongs in prison. However, she is actually a political prisoner. Why else would a 70 year old lady convicted for victimless white collar crimes be held in the maximum security unit of a prison where she has the smallest cell, of about 7 square feet for her cellmate and her next to their beds. In fact, since mid-day on Monday, she has been in the “Hole.” Solitary confinement is such a cruel punishment that it causes the most extreme monsters behave themselves and comply with the rules. Yet, she has been in solitary confinement, not for doing anything wrong, but just for her perceived protection. The Governor said that he will abide by the judgment of the courts. However, the process of litigation takes time, and Tina Peters needs to be released while the legal issues are being resolved. The governor has no way to know which way the courts will decide the issue of whether President Trump has the right to pardon prisoners who were convicted of state offenses. As such, he has no right to hold her. It is not an option for him to hold someone in prison when he cannot know if she should be released or held. That issue must always be determined in favor of the individual who is incarcerated. He has no right to keep a person in prison because she may belong there. If he does, he is, at the very least, imprisoning a pardoned lady, which has serious legal ramifications and liabilities. The fact of the matter is that those in power, such as Governor Polis and his Secretary of State, Jena Griswold, become lulled in their echo chambers to be blind to the fact that their situation is changing. Today, these folk are in charge, but tomorrow, they are going to be held accountable. This is especially true for Jena Griswold, who is the one who wiped and re-wrote the hard drives of the Dominion hard drives when she had the Trusted Build installed. Instead of fighting to have Tina Peters in prison, she should realize that her time is limited before she may be in handcuffs, herself. After all, her deletion of the hard drives was a violation of federal law. It is so ironic when the one who destroyed evidence is taking a harsh position that the one who was preserving the evidence remain in prison. If they have any smarts, at all, they would stop their silly game of wrongfully imprisoning an innocent woman for whom half of this country are celebrating the pardon President Trump granted.
It’s not clear what can, or will, be done now, but this is a perspective that I hadn’t seen.
The wolf arrives dressed as software. Predictive policing, battlefield AI, corporate intelligence pipelines — all quietly merging into a system that sees everything and explains nothing. This isn’t conspiracy. It’s architecture…
🏜️ Prehistoric Lake Manly Returns to Death Valley
After record rainfall, Lake Manly — an Ice Age relic — has reappeared in Death Valley’s Badwater Basin. Not deep. Not permanent. But ancient landscapes remember their old shapes. Time doesn’t forget. It just waits…
🌪️ Southern Brazil Hit by Extratropical Cyclone
Streets turned into rivers. Hillsides into waterfalls.
Sew Colorful 
Morning All!
another 10* to start the day. Fall officially SUCKS! this year. usually there is a light snowfall around Thanksgiving for deer season. then it WARMS back up before real winter settles in. not this year!
too cold too fast!
global warming my ass!
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Good morning, Pat! No Wheezer yet this morning. Temp is 30 with some wind off & on, cloudy; possibility of light snow today & tonight. Nipply cold tomorrow – high of only 11 w/light snow. But it warms back up w/predictions of 40’s/50’s M, T, & W! Above freezing thru the 26th but I’m sure that will change. Crazy shit!!!!
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Morning Filly!
it’s at least sunny at this moment and hubby says the forecast shows no measurable additional snow for the next 5 days…we’ll see…lol
got to make the cut out cookies this morning and i’m just about ready to start. I’ll be back after i get them all cut out and it’s the baking part that’s left.
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I’ll bet your Mom is pleased with the pocket you made for her walker.
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we’ll see tomorrow!
I am so hoping we can surprise her–she was feeling down the other day about spending Christmas alone.
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Interesting post!! My kids all loved Highlights magazine.
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Thanks! I think adults appreciate the distraction every so often too!
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Yes! We sure do! ♥
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I once knew a Pat Frederick. Her Hubby was President of the Bobbi Brooks factory where I worked as a supervisor.
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sorry…lol…not me.
But I used to work in a sewing factory myself when i was right out of high school. I love to sew! I’ve made everything from clothes to quilts to car upholstery.
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Awesome!!!! So did I!!! I graduated at 16 and went to work in a garment factory in August after graduation. Worked there eight years. I only quit to have a baby
I love to sew as well. My biggest project was lined antique satin floor length drapes for a picture window. Good grief those things were heavy!!
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wow! good for you!
the weirdest thing i ever made was a “water bladder” when my son decided to take up running. It needed straps so he could wear it, be waterproof and light.
and costumes…lol…Halloween costumes for my kids. sigh…that was a while ago!
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Oh yes I made those too. Hardest challenge for a costume was getting Gumby’s legs to have the right shape.
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cool! I never had to attempt that thank goodness. But i have a granddaughter now and I make costumes for her–her requests are happily easy. but their family has decided to raise goats and now I’m making flannel goat coats for baby goats. i love a challenge…lol
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Goat coats!!! That’s a new one!! lol I bet the goats love it when it’s cold.
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they’re mainly for the newborns. A lot of the baby goats get sold to 4H kids who raise them and show them in Spring…so the babies are born around now and it can be quite cold for them even in the barns.
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👍👍👍
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Shoot, I loved Highlights magazine! LOL
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LOL Me too! I think there are still some old issues laying around.
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In France, mooseslimes go into supermarkets and URINATE on pork saying we don’t eat pork! they go into Catholic churches and threaten to punch elderly nuns.
https://rumble.com/v72x5s2-in-catholic-france-military-age-islamic-men-are-urinating-on-supermarket-po.html?mref=1t8q76&mc=5gu6n
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this attitude, right here, explains why mooseslimes do not belong in any civilized country. WE are EXPECTED to support them.
FTA
UK jihad preacher Anjem Choudary said in February 2013: “We are on Jihad Seekers Allowance, We take the Jizya (protection money paid to Muslims by non-Muslims) which is ours anyway. The normal situation is to take money from the Kafir (non-Muslim), isn’t it? So this is normal situation. They give us the money. You work, give us the money. Allah Akbar, we take the money. Hopefully there is no one from the DSS (Department of Social Security) listening. Ah, but you see people will say you are not working. But the normal situation is for you to take money from the Kuffar (non-Muslim). So we take Jihad Seeker’s Allowance.”
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/12/11/minnesota-somalis-are-as-minnesotan-as-tater-tot-hotdish-but-theres-just-one-catch-n4946966
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Sam E. Antar
@SamAntar
The New York Times buried this sentence deep in their story:
“No judge has reviewed the substance of the case.”
That one line destroys their entire narrative.
Two grand juries didn’t “reject the evidence.” They heard a presentation from the same career prosecutor who never wanted to bring the case in the first place.
If you want a non-indictment, you present a non-case.
Meanwhile, Lindsey Halligan presented to a grand jury. They indicted on all counts.
She was removed. Veteran prosecutor
Roger Keller took over. He failed. Twice.
Same evidence. Different presenter. Different result.
And the documents that have NEVER been tested in court remain untouched:
▪️Second home to the bank
▪️Rental property with zero personal use days to the IRS
▪️Owner-occupied to the insurance company
▪️Investment property to New York State
▪️Same deceptive behavior across multiple properties over 40 years
The Times knows the evidence has never been litigated. That’s why they buried the sentence. That’s why they never mention Halligan got an indictment. That’s why they never ask what Keller presented – or didn’t.
I can’t wait for Democrats to subpoena me. I’ll show up with 40 years of documented fraud and answer every question under oath.
Will Letitia James?
cc: @RepRobertGarcia
@DAGToddBlanche
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going to start the cut out cookies soon…bbs.
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EXCERPT: “There’s a lot of talk from the left comparing the Trump admin’s immigration policies to a supposedly backward 1920. “Trump’s latest anti-immigration push echoes the nativism of the 1920s,” alleges a Dec. 7 analysis by The Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty. “Language such as that used by the president and those around him harks back more than a century ago to the passage of a series of laws, capped by one in 1924, known as the Johnson-Reed Act,” Tumulty warns.
But the reality that some of those who advocated for tighter restrictions may have done so for less-than-noble reasons doesn’t obviate the fact that the Johnson-Reed Act served an important purpose in a time when the United States was becoming increasingly fractured because of high levels of immigration from cultures different from America.
A Little History on the Johnson-Reed Act
In the first two decades of the 20th century, almost 15 million immigrants poured into the United States. In 1920, about 13 percent of the United States population was foreign born. (Today the number is slightly higher than 15 percent.) American citizens whose families had been in the United States for generations became increasingly concerned that large populations of recent arrivals would not be able to effectively assimilate — including by adopting English and learning the principles of American republican self-governance — since these immigrants formed ghettoized communities. Some of these immigrants were from Asia (primarily Japan, China, and the Philippines), but most of them were from European countries.
The Johnson-Reed Act had a dramatic effect. Between 1901 to 1914, an average of 210,000 Italians arrived in the United States every year — the new quota placed the number of those who were allowed to enter at about 4,000 per year. Because of the act, “more Italians, Czechs, Yugoslavs, Greeks, Lithuanians, Hungarians, Poles, Portuguese, Rumanians, Spaniards, Chinese, and Japanese left the United States than entered,” according to authors Steven G. Koven and Frank Götzke (emphasis added).
Immigration plummeted immediately and for decades after: The total immigration plunged from more than 700,000 in 1924 to 294,000 in 1925 and 280,000 in 1929. By 1930, the foreign-born share of the U.S. population had dropped to 11.6 percent, and in 1970, the number reached a record low 4.7 percent.
It’s true, some of the support for immigration restrictions came from unsavory sources, such as eugenicists and the Ku Klux Klan. Yet historian John Higham has argued that “Klan backing made no material difference. Congress was expressing the spirit of the nation.” As the Department of State declared, Americans simply wanted “to preserve the ideal of U.S. homogeneity.” These restrictions remained in place until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
What Low Immigration Achieved in America
In the decades following the Johnson-Reed Act, America emerged as the greatest power on the face of the earth. Of course, it would be beyond simplistic to assert that a single federal law is responsible for American dominance in the 20th century. But it is not unreasonable to observe that an increasingly homogenous population enabled America to weather many of the unprecedented challenges it faced……”
https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/12/trump-should-absolutely-model-1920s-immigration-policies-because-they-worked/
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EXCERPT: “Recently, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., challenged the validity of deportations of illegal aliens who have not been convicted of additional crimes. She declared in a Nov. 18 House Judiciary Committee markup meeting that “It has never been more important for people to have their day in court,” referring to illegal immigrants. She has also re-introduced legislation that would repeal mandatory detention for illegal aliens and establish a presumption of release, rendering it much more difficult for the Trump administration to detain and deport illegal aliens. Leftists like Jayapal flatly deny the fact that illegal entry into the U.S. is a crime.
This is just the latest in a string of leftist politicians and pundits attacking Trump’s deportations of illegal aliens as a violation of “due process.” The frequent invocation of “due process” by media voices and politicians seems to grant the left legitimacy and the moral high ground as they rail against Trump’s immigration agenda, which nevertheless has broad popular support from voters.
To dismantle these kinds of claims, we simply need to be more precise about terms, definitions, and standards. What is due process? What is deportation? What is a legal injury? One of the challenges in treating these questions is the complexity of prevailing legal procedures, details of specific bills, and court precedents. These combined complexities often obscure the fundamental questions. I want to consider the fundamentals surrounding deportations and “due process” from the standpoint of first principles of the American Constitution and natural rights republicanism. Defining Due Process
The phrase “due process of law” appears in the Fifth Amendment, which guarantees that the federal government may not deprive any person of “life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” In popular parlance, most Americans think of “due process” in connection with procedural rights mentioned in the U.S. Constitution and individual state constitutions — the rights of citizens to be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures, seizures of property without just compensation, double jeopardy, and self-incrimination, as well as the rights to a speedy and public trial by jury, the right to know the witnesses and evidence against you and to have legal counsel, the right of habeas corpus, and so on. These are the constitutional protections which are (in theory) supposed to protect people from having their lives, liberty, or property curtailed arbitrarily.
The U.S. Constitution does use the language of “persons” who shall not be deprived of these rights, as opposed to the language merely of “citizens.” Citizenship entails certain rights — certain “privileges and immunities” exclusively held by citizens and not by just any person from anywhere. For example, voting rights are exclusively the rights of citizens.
However, since the law aims at impartial protection, the Constitution and American legal tradition also protect some general rights of “persons,” as in, “No person” shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of the law. Being deprived of life, liberty, or property are forms of legal penalties and punishments, and one can only lawfully merit legal penalties by committing crimes and being duly convicted thereof.
The language here is “person” because foreign citizens or resident or illegal aliens are indeed capable of committing crimes or being accused of crimes in the U.S. The blessing of “equal protection of the laws” and “due process of the law” are for all persons within the jurisdiction of the U.S., which is why it would still be a crime against the law for anyone to murder non-citizens in the U.S…..”
https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/12/deportation-is-the-only-due-process-illegal-aliens-deserve/
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“It’s Morally Righteous, Not Bigotry To Notice All Cultures Are Not Equally Good — Multiculturalism has created a rigid standard of moral relativism that insists every culture is equal, no matter how it may violate the most basic principles of liberty or life.”
The Federalist, By: Brianna Lyman, December 11, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “As expected, Democrats are outraged that President Donald Trump correctly pointed out that some countries are “shitholes.” “Disgusting bigotry,” The Democrats posted on X. Sen. Dick Durbin posted on X: “I’ll never forget hearing Donald Trump’s racist ‘shithole countries’ comment in a 2018 Oval Office meeting about immigration. Tom Cotton and David Perdue claimed Trump didn’t say it and accused me of lying. The truth comes out.”
Foreigner Mehdi Hasan said Trump’s comments are a “reminder that second term Trump is so much worse than first term Trump.” CNN’s Aaron Blake claimed “Trump is upping the xenophobia.”
But the hysterics over Trump’s accurate statement isn’t happening because the left is offended by the language, but because his comments expose that the left has lost the ability to make the most basic moral distinctions between cultures. The left would have been just as outraged if Trump conveyed the same message without cussing because they are trying to defend this warped ideological dogma that all cultures must be treated as morally identical, even when some of those cultures engage in outright barbarism.
And if people acknowledge those differences do exist, it makes it much harder to justify the mass importation of failed societies through unlimited third world migration (which Democrats love).
But that’s the reality of multiculturalism, which has created a strain of moral relativism that insists every culture is equal, no matter how it may violate the most basic principles of liberty or life. Under this dangerous worldview, it becomes unacceptable to suggest that a culture that mutilates young girls is not morally equivalent to a culture that protects women.
Under this toxic worldview, cannibalism and non-cannibalism are morally equivalent cultural experiences. A society that stones women is just as good as a society that protects women’s rights. The only “bad” thing would be to notice the differences. But a functioning nation, like the U.S., cannot afford to pretend that all cultural norms are equal, for if they were equal, then they’d create the same outcomes. But they aren’t and they don’t. Which is why our immigration policy must take into account these distinctions.
And the left’s meltdown actually has a simple explanation: deep down, the left knows Trump is right. If some cultures are producing unlivable conditions, then it becomes impossible to maintain the position that America has no right to choose which values it wants to welcome into the country. But if all cultures are equal, then anyone, from anywhere should be able to come here.
The irony in it all is that Democrats subconsciously recognize the validity of Trump’s comments. Why else would they badger Americans that we must accept hundreds of thousands of refugees via Temporary Protected Status or other asylum avenues, otherwise these foreigners will die or face awful conditions in their home countries? Because they are “shitholes.”
And what makes them shitholes? Their cultures. Take Haiti, for example. The reason Haiti has such high crime, poverty, and instability is no mystery. The nation’s culture is simply not able to support the type of civic culture that underpins the types of institutions and laws that are required to sustain a functioning society. Or take Somalia, where young girls are victims of female genital mutilation, a practice rooted in their particular culture. Anyone who tells you that culture is just as equal as ours is lying through their teeth.
Take Niger, the Central African Republic, Chad, or Mali — countries with some of the highest rates of child marriage. In parts of South Africa, the cultural practice of ukuthwala involves abducting young girls for marriage. In parts of Pakistan, the custom of vani forces young girls into marriage to settle debts. No morally righteous person can defend genital mutilation, abduction, or child marriages. And conversely, it doesn’t make you a bigot to point that out either. In fact, it’s a marker of moral clarity.
Democrats pretend that all cultures are equal — and that no nation is a “shithole” — not because the believe it, but because admitting the truth would force them to confront the question that would collapse their entire immigration position: Why should the U.S. import cultures whose norms produce the very dysfunction, danger and depravity that these foreigners are fleeing?
Democrats aren’t mad at Trump because he’s wrong, they’re mad because he’s right.”
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agreed.
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“It’s not on the turnpike it’s on Route 1 and 9 but that’s beside the point. Is something wrong in BudLand? After the tranny fiasco of a while back, Bud and it’s sister brands have taken quite a beating in sales, so the parent company – Anheuser et al, is shuttering three of it’s largest breweries in the US – this one, and one each in California and New Hampshire. The company says it’s because they want to ‘modernize their facilities,’ but we call bullshit on that. Watch and see…”
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yup…that’s pretty dead on with our gas price
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I’m guessing the schools in small-town NE still do something similar to this day! The Pledge of Allegiance is read over the loud speaker while several students put up the flag outside.
“Back in school in the late 50’s and 60’s we all did this. We started our day – every day – with the Pledge of Allegiance. Most of us knew it word for word, but only a very few of us knew what it meant.”
“Leaving you to eat your lunch with your hands like Zohran Mamdani and drink your soup straight out of the container…”
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good for him!!!
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“Friday Funnies: Its Franklin’s New Day!Is violence against Narco-Terrorists actually a bad thing?”
Dr. Robert W. Malone, Dec 12, 2025
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good ones!!
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Franklin’s “new story” – follow along:
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“On Monday, the publisher of the “Franklin the Turtle” children’s book series issued a response after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared a depiction of the “beloved” character that the left-wing media police labeled as “violent” on X.
US Secretary of War Hegseth shared the post on Sunday, saying, “For your Christmas wish list.” This provoked howls of outrage from the lefties – including from the publisher of the Franklin Book series.
“Franklin the Turtle is a beloved Canadian icon who has inspired generations of children and stands for kindness, empathy, and inclusivity,” Kids Can Press, the series publisher, wrote online. “We strongly condemn any denigrating, violent, or unauthorized use of Franklin’s name or image, which directly contradicts these values.”
Because these are now newsworthy and worthy of a comedic skit, the Franklin images above are for educational purposes only.
<Senator Blumenthal – these memes examine a cultural phenomenon and do not promote violence. These “violent” images do not represent the views of the US government or malone.news.>
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MAHA gets rightly ‘blamed’ <insert sarcasm> for Trump winning the Presidential election, but I have to say…The Vance/Walz debate was awesome. But I believe that VP Vance also deserves some credit.”
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OMG! I LOVE THE LAST ONE!
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good ones…gotta share some!
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Help yourself!
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thanks I did!
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Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump is now TERMINATING temporary legal status for Ethiopians in the United States
This will make them deportable soon.
GOOD. MORE! 🔥
DHS SEC. KRISTI NOEM: “After reviewing country conditions and consulting with appropriate U.S. Government agencies, the Secretary determined that Ethiopia no longer continues to meet the conditions for the designation for Temporary Protected Status.”
Get 3rd worlders out of here!
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Excellent!!!
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TheseTruths
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December 12, 2025 13:32
BRILLIANT: Tina Peters’ Attorney Peter Ticktin Shares Statement on Tina’s Pardon – Colorado “Has No Right to Hold Her”…Earlier this week, Peter Ticktin, Tina’s attorney and a high school classmate of President Trump, sent a letter to President Trump requesting a pardon. He shared it with us at The Gateway Pundit. The reason for the pardon is that Tina is a witness to the most serious crime perpetrated against the US in history. After the 2020 Election, when Peters discovered that the election results in her county had changed after a system update was performed, which was mandated by the Colorado Secretary of State, she notified the authorities and the public of her findings. Tina Peters saved copies of her election results before the update in accordance with state and federal law, and for doing so, she was imprisoned for nine years. She was imprisoned for doing her job.
Late Thursday evening, Peter Ticktin shared the following:
My team, John Case, Patrick McSweeney, Robert Cynkar, Stefanie Lambert, Tina, herself, and I are grateful beyond words to President Trump for his courage and for once again, doing what is right. He has always been true to his beliefs and continues to fight against injustice. God bless our President. Governor Polis and his Secretary of State, Jena Griswold, claim that Tina Peters belongs in prison. However, she is actually a political prisoner. Why else would a 70 year old lady convicted for victimless white collar crimes be held in the maximum security unit of a prison where she has the smallest cell, of about 7 square feet for her cellmate and her next to their beds. In fact, since mid-day on Monday, she has been in the “Hole.” Solitary confinement is such a cruel punishment that it causes the most extreme monsters behave themselves and comply with the rules. Yet, she has been in solitary confinement, not for doing anything wrong, but just for her perceived protection. The Governor said that he will abide by the judgment of the courts. However, the process of litigation takes time, and Tina Peters needs to be released while the legal issues are being resolved. The governor has no way to know which way the courts will decide the issue of whether President Trump has the right to pardon prisoners who were convicted of state offenses. As such, he has no right to hold her. It is not an option for him to hold someone in prison when he cannot know if she should be released or held. That issue must always be determined in favor of the individual who is incarcerated. He has no right to keep a person in prison because she may belong there. If he does, he is, at the very least, imprisoning a pardoned lady, which has serious legal ramifications and liabilities. The fact of the matter is that those in power, such as Governor Polis and his Secretary of State, Jena Griswold, become lulled in their echo chambers to be blind to the fact that their situation is changing. Today, these folk are in charge, but tomorrow, they are going to be held accountable. This is especially true for Jena Griswold, who is the one who wiped and re-wrote the hard drives of the Dominion hard drives when she had the Trusted Build installed. Instead of fighting to have Tina Peters in prison, she should realize that her time is limited before she may be in handcuffs, herself. After all, her deletion of the hard drives was a violation of federal law. It is so ironic when the one who destroyed evidence is taking a harsh position that the one who was preserving the evidence remain in prison. If they have any smarts, at all, they would stop their silly game of wrongfully imprisoning an innocent woman for whom half of this country are celebrating the pardon President Trump granted.It’s not clear what can, or will, be done now, but this is a perspective that I hadn’t seen.
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Despicable!!!
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ankle monitors are not crime deterrents
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🐺 Welcome to the Palantir World Order
The wolf arrives dressed as software. Predictive policing, battlefield AI, corporate intelligence pipelines — all quietly merging into a system that sees everything and explains nothing. This isn’t conspiracy. It’s architecture…
🏜️ Prehistoric Lake Manly Returns to Death Valley
After record rainfall, Lake Manly — an Ice Age relic — has reappeared in Death Valley’s Badwater Basin. Not deep. Not permanent. But ancient landscapes remember their old shapes. Time doesn’t forget. It just waits…
🌪️ Southern Brazil Hit by Extratropical Cyclone
Streets turned into rivers. Hillsides into waterfalls.
Climate doesn’t knock anymore. It kicks the door in…
🤖 China Unveils a Six-Armed Humanoid Robot
Meet MIRO U — a factory robot with:
This isn’t sci-fi cosplay. This is labor replacement with extra appendages…
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AI is creepy
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🪙 Saddam’s Gold — 1,000 Bars Seized in 2003
Each bar:
Sure hope all of them made it to the books. History is heavy…
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made it to the books? wanna bet it’s not even in fort knox?
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The A-10 Warthog’s daddy. You can see the family resemblance. OV-1 MoHawk
That Hair…
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oooh I have all always wanted hair like the blonde in the gray sweater!
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Ah! Nice!
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Wow!
Interesting Living Space
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Raisting Earth Station, Germany
Marilyn Monroe Performing for the Thousands of American Troops in Korea, 1954
Friday Open Road
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can’t drive those roads drunk!
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Oh, hell no! It makes people dizzy!
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it’s all fun and games till someone pukes…LOL
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now THAT tunnel is COOL!
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Backyard Bossman
Don’t worry, it’ll buff right out!
Interesting color variant
Too much time on her hands
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the cat looks like it’s smiling
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doesn’t this guy have the pointiest head you’ve ever seen??
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she does have a smackable face, doesn’t she?
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Certainly does!!!
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Smooth Sailing
I think he made it….
Epic leap, but not far enough!
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I am a Tomcat! I reject this!
What was he thinking? TicTok fame, perhaps?
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there is nothing wrong with what the President said.
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1954 Chevrolet 3100 5 Window Chevrolet Stepside Pickup
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nice but way toooo orange for me
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Good night!
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Good Night Filly!
Not sure if I’ll be on –we’re leaving early tomorrow.
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Good Night All!
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