This is another brand new holiday recipe—Salted Caramel Bundt Cake!
Ingredients
CAKE
2 sticks salted butter, at room temperature
3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for the pan
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
2 cups packed light brown sugar
1 tsp. instant espresso powder
4 large eggs, at room temperature
1 Tbsp. vanilla extract
3/4 cup whole milk
GLAZE
1/2 cup unwrapped hard caramel candies, such as Werther’s Original (about 24)
2/3 cup heavy cream
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 cup white chocolate chips
Directions
For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350˚. Butter a 12-cup bundt pan, then dust with flour, tapping out the excess, making sure the pan is fully coated. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl and whisk to combine. Beat the butter, brown sugar and espresso powder in a large bowl with a mixer on medium speed until well combined, 1 to 2 minutes. Increase the speed to medium-high and beat until light and fluffy, about 3 more minutes, scraping the sides of the bowl as needed. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then beat in the vanilla. Beat in the flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with the milk, beginning and ending with flour.
Pour the batter into the prepared bundt pan and smooth the top. Bake until a long toothpick or skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean, about 50 minutes. Let cool 5 to 10 minutes in the pan, then invert the cake onto a rack to cool completely.
For the glaze: Put the hard candies in a small resealable bag and roughly crush with a rolling pin. Pour the candies into a small saucepot and add the heavy cream and salt. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until the candies are totally melted and the glaze is smooth and thick, scraping the bottom of the pan so the mixture doesn’t burn. Let stand 5 to 10 minutes to cool slightly and thicken a bit more.
Meanwhile, put the white chocolate chips in a small microwave-safe bowl and microwave in 20- to 30-second intervals, stirring, until smooth. Drizzle the salted caramel glaze over the cake, letting it run down the sides. Drizzle the white chocolate over the caramel. Let set, about 10 minutes.
ENJOY!
Sew Colorful 
Good Morning All!
well it’s 22* and SNOWING…AGAIN. hubby says 1-3 inches maybe…sigh.
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Good morning! That sucks!!! 35 here this morning and clear. Supposed to be a high of 50 and sunshine; predicting the 50’s until Sunday, when it drops to the 20’s. Supposed to be foggy/cloudy on Christmas day & 45. I’ll be making a run to WM later today.
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Good Morning Filly!
I am so tired of snow already!
We’ll be making our walmart run later this afternoon too! not going on Christmas Eve…lol like today will be any better.
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Chad Prather
@WatchChad
Wait. Wait. Wait.
You’re telling me that our suspicions have been right all along?
Giant healthcare companies are funneling millions of dollars BACK to Democrat campaigns?
That is one of the reasons why premiums and copays are so dang high. This is corruption at its finest.
Thank you President Trump for taking on Big Insurance!
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Troublemaker10
December 23, 2025 3:25 am
Do you guys remember GA State Senator Colton Moore? He tried to take on Fani Willis and voter fraud after 2020 at great political risk. In fact the GA state republican caucus kicked him out
Anyway, with all the recent Fani Willis smacking that went down, I got to wondering what happened to Colton?
Great news!
He is running for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s abandoned congressional seat (GA-14).
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Sen. Colton Moore joins crowded field for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat in Congress
https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/colton-moore-marjorie-taylor-greene-resignation-congressional-seat/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h
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Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
It is now CONFIRMED California Democrats and Mayor Karen Bass’ administration CHANGED the Pacific Palisades ‘after action report’ and DELETED EVIDENCE in order to shield themselves from liability
Rick Caruso “A massive cover-up, Firegate. A deliberate effort to cover up the findings in the after-action report by changing the after-action report. This was deliberately and intentionally done to shield LA Fire Department, Mayor Bass, and her administration from the failures of the fires on January 7th.
The type of changes that were made include the fact that the earlier fire on January 1 reignited on January 7 and the fire department officers were ordered off the area.
They deleted all of those references from the after action report.
This is an intentional cover-up to reduce accountability, the lack of transparency. The culture of corruption, in the city of Los Angeles is despicable and is out of control.
Mayor Bass and her administration and the leadership of the fire department should be held accountable.“
Confirmed by LA Times investigation
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Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: Rep. Randy Fine is working on getting Ilhan Omar not only expelled from Congress, but DEPORTED 🔥
“I don’t think Ilhan Omar should be expelled from Congress. I think she should be expelled from the United States, and that’s something that I’m working on.”
“Ilhan Omar is a walking example of everything that is wrong with our legal immigration policy!”
“We imported tens of thousands of people who hate America, add no value to it, rob and steal from us, and we’re supposed to be okay with it?”
“But what prompted me to take this position is she decided to send around fundraising emails saying I should be expelled from Congress. Well, if that’s her view, she should go for it!”
“And so what I’ve said is if I’m going to try to expel her, it won’t be in a fundraising email. She’ll deal with it on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.”
Great. SEND HER PACKING!
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Boasberg again!
FTA
Federal District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled Monday that the Trump administration must allow Venezuelan men who were deported earlier this year to return to the United States to fight allegations they were part of violent gangs.
The group of men challenging their deportations include migrants who were deported to a prison in El Salvador under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act in March, over allegations that they were members of Tren de Aragua. Boasberg ruled in June that they could challenge the allegations.
Multiple courts have since ruled that hundreds of deportations were illegal because the government still needs to provide due process, even under the AEA, according to The Hill.
“The Court finds that the only remedy that would give effect to its granting of Plaintiffs’ Motion would be to order the Government to undo the effects of their unlawful removal by facilitating a meaningful opportunity to contest their designation and the Proclamation’s validity,” Boasberg wrote. “Otherwise, a finding of unlawful removal would be meaningless for Plaintiffs, who have already been sent back to Venezuela against their wishes and without due process.
“Expedited removal cannot be allowed to render this relief toothless,” he continued. “If secretly spiriting individuals to another country were enough to neuter the Great Writ, then ‘the Government could snatch anyone off the street, turn him over to a foreign country, and then effectively foreclose any corrective course of action.’”
The ruling gives the Trump administration until Jan. 5, 2026, to secure the return of over 100 Venezuelan men.
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/boasberg-orders-trump-admin-allow-venezeulans-deported-el-salvador-return-us
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EXCERPT: “Former CIA Director John Brennan’s lawyers have taken the extraordinary step of confirming their client is a “target” of a criminal grand jury investigation in Florida and are asking the chief federal judge in Miami to stop the proceedings on the grounds that the Justice Department is “judge shopping.”
The revelations came in a letter that defense lawyers Ken Wainstein and Natasha Harnwell Davis sent Monday to U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga, a George W. Bush appointee to the bench who supervises the Miami federal district court.
Wainstein and Davis revealed they have been informed by U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quinones in Miami that the grand jury is investigating Brennan’s role in the 2016-27 Russia collusion probe that has since been discredited, including a CIA assessment that Russian president Vladimir Putin tried to help Trump win the 2016 election.
Whistleblower evidence released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe has called into question that assessment, revealing career intelligence experts disagreed with the conclusions made in the rushed report released to the public at the end of the Obama administration.
The evidence also showed that Brennan personally pressed to have a discredited document known as the Steele dossier included in the assessment contrary to his testimony to Congress, prompting both Ratcliffe and Gabbard to refer Brennan for possible prosecution.
“We have been formally advised by prosecutors of the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida that Director Brennan is a target of grand jury investigation NS 1840-020 in the Miami Division (24-06), which is examining the circumstances surrounding the production of the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment about Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election in the United States,” Brennan’s lawyers wrote Altonaga.
The U.S. Attorney’s manual describes a “target” as some who is likely to be indicted by a federal grand jury.
The lawyers alleged that the grand jury probe is the result of pressure by President Donald Trump on Attorney General Pam Bondi to pursue the president’s past critics and persecutors and that the goal is to rig the judicial system so that U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who dismissed an indictment against Trump brought by ex-Special Counsel Jack Smith, lands the Brennan case…..”
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/john-brennans-lawyers-confirm-he-target-florida-grand-jury-probe
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I believe the dems invented JUDGE SHOPPING…lol that’s what Brennan’s lawyer is complaining about.
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Just The News: “Brown University President Christina Paxson said Monday night that the school was placing its police chief on leave while the Department of Education probes the university’s handling of a deadly mass shooting on its campus earlier this month.
The Trump administration opened its probe earlier Monday and Paxson said Brown will commission its own review of campus safety and the response to the Dec. 13 shooting, which killed two students.
“A review like this is standard,” Paxson said in a statement. “As it takes place, Vice President for Public Safety and Emergency Management Rodney Chatman is on leave, effective immediately.”
The school president also said former Providence Police Department chief Hugh T. Clements will serve as interim chief for public safety and police while the investigation is carried out. Chatman has served in his role since 2021, per CBS News.”
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DEI hire.
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“The Christmas the Founders Gave Us”
Michael T. Flynn LTG USA (RET), Dec 22, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “There is a Christmas manufactured for display windows and marketing campaigns, bright, hurried, and quickly forgotten. There is the Christmas our Founders knew, quiet, severe, inward, and bound to something far older and more demanding than comfort. They did not inherit a nation wrapped in ribbon. They brought one into being through cold hands, empty stomachs, and resolute faith.
When George Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas night, there were no speeches to stir the heart and no crowds to bear witness. There was no certainty of success. There was only an obligation. The men who followed him were unpaid, underfed, and freezing. Many had no shoes. Some left blood in the snow behind them. Yet they crossed anyway, because surrender would have extinguished a fragile and unprecedented idea that free people could govern themselves under God, not kneel before kings.
To the Founding Fathers, the Nativity was not a decorative tradition or a gentle fable meant to soften the season. It was a moral framework. The image of power entering the world through humility rather than conquest reinforced a principle they believed essential to any free society: that legitimate authority arises from virtue, restraint, and service, not coercion. A child born without wealth, title, or force affirmed their conviction that liberty depends on leaders who govern themselves before governing others. In the Nativity, they saw a rebuke of tyranny and a reminder that freedom endures only when law is grounded in moral order. It was not a story that excused them from duty, but one that bound them more tightly to it, calling them to sacrifice comfort for conscience and power for responsibility.
John Adams warned that the Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people, and wholly inadequate for any other. This was not rhetoric; it was realism. The Founders believed freedom required restraint, and restraint required virtue. Christmas returned that truth to them each year, reminding them that rights severed from responsibility decay into disorder, and liberty without discipline dissolves into ruin.
While Europe crowned monarchs beneath cathedral ceilings, America prayed in meeting houses and shivered in winter camps. While empires celebrated pageantry and permanence, the Founders measured success by endurance. They did not ask what the nation could consume, but what it could withstand.
Christmas at Valley Forge passed without celebration, but not without meaning. In the cold and deprivation, faith became a discipline rather than a comfort, sharpening resolve instead of softening it. The men endured hunger, illness, and winter’s cruelty not because relief was promised, but because duty demanded it. To the Founders, Providence favored courage strengthened by preparation and prayer proven through action. That Christmas affirmed a hard truth at the heart of the American experiment liberty would be preserved not by ease or optimism, but by sacrifice willingly borne and carried forward when turning back would have been far easier.
Set that against our own age. We speak endlessly of rights and rarely of obligations. We celebrate abundance while forgetting the discipline that made it possible. We demand comfort from institutions erected by men who accepted hardship as the price of liberty.
The Founders understood that a republic is not sustained by habit or inheritance, but by choice. Its fragility was intentional, a safeguard that required each generation to reaffirm it with clarity, discipline, and sacrifice. Christmas offered a rare pause from the clamor of public life, a moment when reflection displaced noise and the enduring truth could be remembered. Self-government survives only when free people are willing to bear its cost, again and again.
It is no accident that Washington chose Christmas night to act. He knew the enemy would be complacent. He also knew his own men needed more than rest. They needed meaning. They needed to believe that sacrifice still mattered, that history had not yet finished with them.
So he gave them a Christmas not of comfort, but of consequence.
That is the Christmas we have inherited, whether we acknowledge it or not. Not the one sold to us, but the one secured for us. A Christmas that asks what we are willing to endure so that those who come after us may live free.
This season, the most radical act is remembrance. To remember that liberty was forged in winter rather than comfort. To remember that faith without action is empty. To remember that self-government begins not in distant halls of power but in the conscience of each citizen willing to uphold it.
The Founders did not give us a perfect nation. They gave us a demanding one. Every Christmas, it asks us the same question it asked them, quietly, relentlessly, without sentiment: Are we worthy of it?
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Merry Christmas! As Christmas approaches, I want to personally thank you for standing firm during a defining moment for our Nation. We can feel it—something fundamental is being tested, and the road ahead will demand courage and resolve. Your past support has helped push back and keep this fight moving forward when it mattered most.
I’m grateful for your belief in our mission and for your willingness to stay engaged. As we reflect this Christmas on faith, sacrifice, and hope, please know that your role in this effort is deeply appreciated. The work isn’t finished. The fight for our Republic goes on, and together, we press forward.
I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a strong New Year ahead. With gratitude,
LTG, US Army (Retired) Michael T. Flynn
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https://genflynn.substack.com/p/the-christmas-the-founders-gave-us
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Edink
December 23, 2025 7:53 am
This will be interesting, the Tulsi bashing will begin in ….
Joshua Hall
@JoshHall2024
BREAKING:The Trump administration is in talks with former intelligence analyst Edward Snowden for a TOTAL AND COMPLETE PARDON as well as Snowden’s return to The United States.
These talks are reportedly being led by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, a long time advocate and supporter of clemency for Snowden, who EXPOSED the fact that the NSA has been secretly spying on the communications of American citizens WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE FOR DECADES after the passage of The Patriot Act in the post 9/11 era.
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we don’t have any of them in this area.
Texas midget
December 23, 2025 8:13 am
Kroger is closing 60 stores across the country because of 112 billion in theft.
The price for woke will be paid one way or the other.
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Closest to me is probably Omaha or Lincoln.
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I agree with this completely!!!
EXCERPT: “How many Chinese nationals with access to America’s university system have to be prosecuted before President Trump shuts off their ability to attend such institutions?
It’s a question worth asking given the recurring nature of these individuals being charged by U.S. officials for alleged actions that could harm the security and national interests of the United States.
On Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that Youhuang Xiang, a J-1 visa holder and post-doctoral researcher from China, has been “charged with smuggling Escherichia coli (E. coli) into the U.S. and making false statements about it.” Xiang was conducting post-doctoral research at Indiana University.
“This is yet another example of a researcher from China – given the privilege to work at a U.S. university – who then allegedly chose to take part in a scheme to circumvent U.S. laws and receive biological materials hidden in a package originating from China,” the FBI director said in an X post.
According to the Washington Examiner, “The Food and Drug Administration says certain types of E. coli can be life-threatening, leading to kidney failure or the development of high blood pressure, in addition to contaminating meat and crops.” In addressing the latter point, Patel said that such biological materials could “inflict devastating disease to U.S. crops and cause significant financial loss to the U.S. economy.”
Friday’s announcement came more than a month after the Justice Department charged two Chinese nationals with “conspiracy to smuggle biological materials into the United States.” A third was charged with providing false statements to U.S. border officials. Similar to Xiang’s situation, these individuals were “conducting research” at the University of Michigan…..”
https://thefederalist.com/2025/12/23/how-many-chinese-visa-holders-have-to-be-arrested-before-trump-stops-importing-them-into-our-universities/
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what’s all that stuff in the middle???
and I agree—STOP THE CHINESE VISAS!!! how many does it take for them to realize this is not a one-off situation??
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never mind…LOL
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disclaimer: didn’t read the story–just the headline. if she is THAT dangerous? why not execute her for her crimes? instead of spending money to build a special cell for her?
https://www.infowars.com/posts/the-teenage-islamist-stabber-girl-is-so-dangerous-that-germany-is-building-a-high-security-container-to-house-her/
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Good question!
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update on the butter pecan fudge. I think my candy thermometer is broken. After you bring it to a boil, you’re supposed to cook it till it reaches 234* (soft ball stage on the thermometer.) did that. then you remove it from the heat and let it cool till it reaches 110*…the recipe says may take a half hour. Mine did not cool lower that 150*, so after AN HOUR…I tried stirring it to put in the powdered sugar and the pecans. It was nearly hard.
so…I did not waste the sugar or the pecans and put a new thermometer on my walmart list. I will try this again in a few days.
side note–it smelled wonderful while it was melting, boiling and sitting.
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Ah! Bummer!!! When you do get it made, would you send me a couple of pieces? Yummy!!!!
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absolutely!!
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when i do, let me know what cookies you’d like…they’re all in the freezer…since i had to make them early for Mom’s party.
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awwww…..cutie patootie puppy!
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shared some at wolf’s!
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“According to a post this afternoon, she nearly hit rockbottom. A Chinese tourist narrowly escaped death after getting smashed onto rocks by a giant wave while sightseeing in Egypt. The vacationer had reportedly been visiting the Matrouh Eye, a scenic area in Mersa Matruh that’s popular among tourists, who flock there to view the striking rock formations and dramatic surf, NewsX reported.
Unfortunately, the tide can crash unexpectedly against the cliffs, posing risks for tourists standing too close to the surf zone — as was the case with the aforementioned woman.”
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the fact the GA stonewalled investigators for YEARS should have a severe penalty! ALL the red states should sue them for election fraud!
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unbelievable!
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Road hazard….
Grazing cattle near the ruins of Whitby Abbey, North Yorkshire, England, 1880s – by Francis Meadow Sutcliffe
Those paws….
Work and sleep….
Extraordinary Entrance
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oh really like door!!!
and holy crap on them there PAWS!
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“Woke mayor orders Nativity scene to be removed (the town committee told her to pound sand😎”
Not The Bee, John Knox, Dec 22, 2025
“Little cultural wins like this sure do feel good. Controversy erupted in the tiny town of Mullins, South Carolina, after the town’s mayor ordered a Nativity scene removed from a public parking lot due to “separation of church and state.”
Here is the tiny light-up Nativity that the mayor wanted removed:
Kimberly Byrd, Mullins Beautification Committee
Doesn’t seem like a big deal, right? But Mayor Miko Pickett, who proudly advertises herself as the city’s “first black mayor,” said “not so fast.”
ABC15 News screenshot
In a post on Facebook, she explained her reason:
Kimberly Byrd, who leads Mullins Beautification Committee responsible for the display, responded to the mayor’s utter retardation.
So, what did the committee do? THEY IGNORED THE MAYOR. Byrd explained: “I never thought I’d have to do anything like this. But at the end of the day, we have to stand for what we believe in and what is right.”
It should be noted that the Supreme Court already ruled in the 1984 U.S. Supreme Court case Lynch v. Donnelly that Nativity scenes are allowed on public grounds. So in addition to being an anti-Christian bigot, the mayor of Mullins is also legally and historically illiterate.
It’s nice that the good guys won this round. Merry Christmas, y’all.”
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maybe the town should INSIST the mayor remove her CULTURALLY APPROPRIATED HAIR!
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whoa
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that’s wrong. if there were an emergency…how would he know if he can’t understand them?
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Bingo!
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common sense has been thrown out of the window!
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talking to mom. she does not like her schedule altered. She asked to have a shower every 3-4 days–she can’t stand alone in the shower. and they usually accommodate her. when they are understaffed–like around the holidays– they can’t give it to her in the morning and told her maybe this afternoon. well that’s all she wanted to talk about this morning. couldn’t change the subject at all. her normal cheery disposition was very sour.
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Mike Robinson
December 23, 2025 11:36 am
The fundamental question for the country now becomes: “How to permanently constrain the likes of President Boasberg?”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/outrageous-activist-judge-boasberg-orders-trump-administration-allow/
This never-elected Federal Judge, “ruling from the bench,” is now ordering the Article-2 President of the United States(!) what he “must” do. And he has openly threatened his subordinates – although not, directly yet, the President himself – with criminal punishments, perhaps including imprisonment.
He has no actual authority to do this, yet here he is, doing it. This “sure does matter to you,” if you are facing the threat of prison. And, it “sure does influence you,” if you’re an executive-branch employee, and therefore it “sure does constrain” the Article-2 effective powers of the President.
Fortunately: the Constitution placed these matters in the hands of Congress. The entire structure, save one, under which “the Judiciary” operates is not defined by that “Judiciary.”
It may well be time for the Congress to very-timely pass a new law which finally settles this issue.
Because: The Constitution established only one “Court.” The “Judiciary Act of 1789,” necessarily passed by the very first Congress, established everything else. The entire “Judiciary hierarchy,” as we now know it, was created by Congress, and continues to be under its exclusive control. All of the “rulings” issued by the SCOTUS continue to be bound to this framework.
These “judicial rulings” have grown entirely out of hand. When anyone speaks of “No Kings” in reference to the President, they are addressing the wrong opponent.
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i saw that yesterday…totally disgusting. someone needs to do the same to him…an eye for an eye
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Mayor of Boston claims every success Boston has ever can be attributed to Somalis. what utter bullshit.
FTA
“You cannot talk about any achievement that the city of Boston has had in safety, jobs, and economic development, in education, without talking about the Somali community that has lifted our city up. We are proud and we are grateful for our Somali community and for our Somali American neighbors. Boston and the country are clear that hate has no place in our society,” Wu said.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/12/23/boston-mayor-michelle-wu-somalis/
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Whoa!!!! This is a shock!!!
Just The News: “Former Nebraska GOP Sen. Ben Sasse announced on X that he was “diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer” last week “and am gonna die,” but “I’m not going down without a fight.”
Sasse made himself a target in the GOP by criticizing then-former President Trump, even voting to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial, and resigned his office to become president of the University of Florida, last year enduring a review of his expenses by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis.
“Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence,” Sasse wrote in a hopeful post that shares his children’s recent accomplishments and his “hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place,” as the Advent season presages.
He distinguished real hope from “abstract hope in fanciful human goodness … vague hallmark-sappy spirituality” and a “bootstrapped hope in our own strength,” which is better called optimism.
“It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son,” Sasse wrote.
He will elaborate more in the future about how he plans to live through cancer. “One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived.”
Public officials and prominent conservatives responded with gratitude and prayers for Sasse, including National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya and Vice President J.D. Vance.”
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that’s sad.
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I’m going out to shovel snow.
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Be careful!
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and I’m done and in…lol
mostly fluffy and easy to push.
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Betsy jones
December 23, 2025 2:07 pm
Harriet Hageman has announced she will run for the open Senate seat in Wyoming, available because of the retirement of Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis.
A reminder below of Ms Hageman’s fantastic speech at a Trump Rally. She is solid MAGA and whip smart.
She wiped the floor with the traitorous Liz Cheney. I suspect she will walk the upcoming election as well.
https://www.c-span.org/clip/public-affairs-event/user-clip-were-fed-up-harriet-hageman/5069963
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OK – I’m headed for Norfolk….BBL…
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drive safely!
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what a tool!
MaineCoon
December 23, 2025 3:00 pm
Bernie is despicable. He doesn’t have any redeeming qualities.
ArmstrongEconomics.com article, “Bernie Votes Against Bipartisan Childhood Cancer Act for Leverage”
FTA: The Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act was designed to help children with cancer receive life-saving treatment and participate in clinical trials with minimal red tape. The House of Representatives approved the bill unanimously earlier this month. Allowing children with childhood cancer to access treatment should have been a bipartisan no-brainer. Yet, the bill fell through in the Senate due to bleeding heart liberal Sen. Bernie Sanders, who believes blocking the bill could be used as leverage to expand social programs.
Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act was named in honor of Mikaela Naylon, a girl from Colorado who was diagnosed with osteosarcoma at 10. Naylon and her family lobbied lawmakers to expand pediatric cancer trials until her death at 16.
In her own words:
“Hi, my name is Mikaela Naylon. I’m 15 years old and I was diagnosed on July 1st, 2020. During CO, I enjoyed walking my dog who saw a cat and ran causing me to sprain my ankle. After 2 months of waiting, it didn’t get any better. My local doctor referred me to the Children’s Hospital Denver where I received most of my treatment. I had a below knee amputation in October and then multiple lung surgeries following it. After relapsing four different times, the Colorado doctors didn’t have any other choices for me. Thus, I started a trial at MD Anderson. When that trial didn’t work, we finally decided to take a trip to the Cleveland Clinic where I started treatment with Dr. Anderson. I’ve done radiation and radioactive treatments and now I’m finishing up my final treatment. Hopefully with all these experiences under my belt, I’ve learned that the little things never matter that much and they shouldn’t interfere with living your life to the fullest.”
Bernie Sanders said he “strongly supports” the act but refused to allow it to pass. President Trump was prepared to sign the bill into law, but that is now impossible due to one disturbed man who prioritizes politics over American lives. Senator Mullins correctly accused Sanders of holding the bill hostage and using terminally ill children as leverage to open community health care centers.
Mullins told Sanders, “You’re stealing a family an opportunity to spend maybe an extra minute or an extra day, or maybe a lifetime with a loved one. I don’t know how you argue against it. I don’t know how you can possibly stand up there with a straight face and say, it’s just politics. This isn’t just politics we’re playing with people’s lives. So, this is more than just politics, but I will tell you that if this is objected to, and we can’t find a path forward here today, I can promise you I will not stop fighting…it won’t happen. We’re going to rinse and repeat and continue to go down this path until we give the families with these rare diseases an opportunity to live, because that’s what this is about.”
Bernie Sanders will never waste an opportunity to mount his high horse to demand rights for the “everyday man.” He paraded around the nation on a private jet to squeal about oligarchs and climate change before retreating to one of his multiple properties. Democrats believe that we are under an oligarchy because their candidates have lost and will continue to lose due to these types of actions. The Democrats are deeply divided, and there is a lot of hatred among them. The people are finally opening their eyes and realizing that the Democrats are NOT the party of the people. Bernie Sanders should be absolutely disgusted with himself. I do not know how anyone could honestly support this man because he represents nothing other than social disorder and chaos.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/bernie-votes-against-bipartisan-childhood-cancer-act-for-leverage
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Another tool…state law does NOT trump federal law.
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U.S. Department of Justice sues Illinois Gov. Pritzker over state law restricting immigration arrests
The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Attorney General Kwame Raoul over a state law restricting immigration arrests.
The recently signed Illinois Bivens Act (HB 1312) bans civil immigration arrests at courthouses, and allows people to file civil lawsuits if they believe federal agents have violated their constitutional rights.
The Justice Department said states may not limit the work done by the federal government. The DOJ also said the Bivens Act threatens the safety of federal officers.
“The Department of Justice will steadfastly protect law enforcement from unconstitutional state laws like Illinois’ that threaten massive punitive liability and compromise the safety of our officers,” Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Justice Department’s Civil Division said in a news release.
In signing the act on Tuesday, Dec. 9, Pritzker said the state was “protecting people and institutions that belong here in Illinois.”
“Dropping your kid off at day care, going to the doctor, or attending your classes should not be a life-altering task,” Pritzker said in part in a news release. “Illinois — in the face of cruelty and intimidation — has chosen solidarity and support.”
Thousands of people were arrested and detained by U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agents during two and a half months of heightened enforcement action the Trump administration dubbed Operation Midway Blitz.
Pritzker is using a newly formed commission to document laws broken by federal agents during the operation.
The goal, state officials said, is holding federal agents accountable for their actions — even if it happens years down the road.
Pritzker also announced plans to create a public record.
The DOJ said the state’s moves threaten federal officers with “ruinous liability and even punitive damages for executing federal law and for simply protecting their identities and their families.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/u-s-department-of-justice-sues-pritzker-law-immigration-arrests/
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OK, I’m back – what a beautiful day! Temp is 63 with bright sunshine! Crazy!
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brag, brag, brag…LOL
we got 3 inches of snow.
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Just The News: “Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a stinging blow to Europe on Tuesday by imposing visa restrictions on European officials who “led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose.”
“The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship,” Rubio posted on X. “Today, the State Department will take steps to bar leading figures of the global censorship-industrial complex from entering the United States. We stand ready and willing to expand this list if others do not reverse course.”
The order targets five people who have “advanced censorship crackdowns” on American companies and speakers. However, the secretary did not name the individuals.
Rubio said he determined that the five individuals’ “entry, presence or activities” in the country could have serious foreign policy consequences for the U.S. and is thereby imposing visa restrictions on “agents of the global censorship-industrial complex,” who will be barred from entering the United States.
“President Trump has been clear that his America First foreign policy rejects violations of American sovereignty,” the secretary said in a statement. “Extraterritorial overreach by foreign censors targeting American speech is no exception.”
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they have a lot of nerve trying to dictate what happens here!
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Just The News: “The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the Trump administration’s emergency request to allow National Guard troops to be deployed in Chicago, marking a setback for the administration’s attempts to curtail high crime rates in major cities.
President Donald Trump has sought to deploy the National Guard in Chicago in the face of aggressive pushback from the citizenry and local government over Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the Windy City.
The court rejected the administration’s interpretation of federal law regarding what constitutes “regular forces.”
The law allows a president to federalize the National Guard when he can no longer execute the laws of the United States with “regular forces,” which the Trump administration characterized as federal agents such as ICE agents. However, the court ruled that “regular forces” likely meant the United States military.
“At this preliminary stage, the government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois,” the court said in its unsigned order.
Three of the Supreme Court’s conservative justices dissented from the majority: Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch. The ruling is a rare defeat for the administration given the court’s 6-3 conservative majority.
“The court fails to explain why the president’s inherent constitutional authority to protect federal officers and property is not sufficient to justify the use of National Guard members in the relevant area for precisely that purpose,” Alito wrote in his dissent. “I am not prepared at this point to express a definite view on these questions, but I have serious doubts about the correctness of the court’s views.”
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I reading a lot of headlines stating THIS decision greenlights his declaring martial law.
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“‘Deeply Troubling’: Higher Mortality Rates Detected in Vaccinated 3-Month-Olds Compared With Unvaccinated Infants
Infants vaccinated in their second month of life were more likely to die in their third month than unvaccinated infants, according to an analysis of data obtained from the Louisiana Department of Health. Children’s Health Defense scientists Brian Hooker, Ph.D., and Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., who conducted the analysis, called on health authorities to make similar datasets available for independent analysis, arguing that transparency is essential for evaluating vaccine safety at the population level.”
by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., December 23, 2025
EXCERPT: “Infants vaccinated in their second month of life were more likely to die in their third month than unvaccinated infants, according to an analysis of data obtained from the Louisiana Department of Health. Female and Black infants died at higher rates than male or white babies. Children’s Health Defense scientists Brian Hooker, Ph.D., and Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., conducted the analysis, which was published Monday on Preprints.org.
Depending on which vaccines they received, vaccinated children were between 29%-74% more likely to die than unvaccinated children. Vaccinated Black infants were 28%-74% more likely to die, and vaccinated female infants had a 52%-98% greater risk of death. Overall, children who received all six vaccines recommended for 2-month-olds were 68% more likely to die in their third month of life, the data showed.
Hooker and Jablonowski determined the death rates by analyzing immunization and mortality records from the Louisiana Department of Health for children who died before age 3 months between 2013 and 2024.
“This very important paper represents one of the first studies on the cumulative effect of vaccines given at 2 months of age following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recommended schedule,” Hooker told The Defender. He added:
“The highest infant mortality rates were seen when children received all six of the recommended vaccines in one visit. In addition to elevated mortality, the vaccination schedule also increased the likelihood that children were more likely to die of non-leading causes of death.
“This type of study is needed to guide the efforts of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and especially the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) as they revisit the recommended schedule.”
Hooker and Jablonowski compared infants vaccinated between 60 and 90 days of life — the window corresponding to the CDC’s recommended 2-month immunization visit — with children who were unvaccinated during that same period. Mortality was defined as death occurring between 90 and 120 days of life……”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/higher-mortality-rates-detected-vaccinated-3-month-olds-compared-unvaccinated-infants/
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“Trump Just Got Green Light to Invoke Insurrection Act!”
Clandestine, Dec 23, 2025
“Holy shit I think it’s actually happening.
I am reading through the Supreme Court ruling in Trump vs. Illinois, and they ruled that Trump needs to invoke the Insurrection Act in order to send the troops into Chicago.
Kavanaugh in his dissent even says that this ruling “could cause the President to use the US military more than the National Guard”.
The Supreme Court just admitted that Trump has the authority to invoke the Insurrection Act to bypass Posse Comitatus and send the troops to Chicago, and any other city he wants.
Trump tried to exhaust every legal avenue possible before resulting to the Insurrection Act, but the Dems resisted and refused to cooperate.
Sounds to me like Trump just got the green light. INVOKE THE INSURRECTION ACT!”
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Holy shit!!! H/T Marica
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DANG!
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