What Shall We Bake Today?

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Hubby loves pecan pie, so I wanted to try this Pecan Pie Bar recipe!

Ingredients

Crust

1 cup butter

3/4 cup granulated sugar

1/2 tsp. salt

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

Filling

1/2 cup butter, melted

1 cup dark corn syrup

1 cup light brown sugar

4 large eggs

1 Tbsp. vanilla extract

1 tsp. salt

3 cups pecan halves

Directions

For crust: Preheat the oven to 350°F. Butter or spray the bottom and sides a 13-by-9-inch baking pan with baking spray. Line the pan with parchment paper or foil letting the excess extend over the edges of the pan. 

Cube the butter and place in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook until the butter smells nutty and the solids have turned brown, 6 to 8 minutes. Immediately pour the butter into a medium bowl to stop the cooking. Whisk in the sugar and salt. Add the flour, and stir until it is fully moistened. Press the crust evenly into the bottom of the prepared pan. (The crust will be moist. Press carefully to reach all edges and corners of the pan).

Bake for 15 minutes. Remove and lightly press down any large bubbles in the crust. 

For the filling: In a large bowl, whisk together the melted butter, corn syrup, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, and salt until smooth. Stir in the pecans. Pour over the baked crust.

Bake at 350°F until the topping is puffed and set (it should not wiggle), 30 to 35 minutes. Let cool completely in the pan. Use the excess parchment or foil to lift the bars out of the pan. Cut into squares to serve.

ENJOY!

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      2. The fudge sounds unique too. I have a couple of “out-of-the-ordinary” fudge recipes…..Pumpkin Fudge and Orange Creamsicle Fudge. I will share them when I get time.

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    2. Good morning, Pat! Oooohhhh….that looks delish!!! 24 on the thermometer this morning and clear skies. I didn’t see Wheezer when I opened the blinds but by the time I got my coffee going, he was waiting at the door. There was still dry food left but he wanted his tuna! Now that he’s eaten the tuna, he’s back up in his chair snoozing. Picky, picky, picky!!!

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      1. Good Morning Filly!
        I’ll let you know when i try it!
        I’m planning on making the butter pecan fudge today and if it goes better this time (LOL) I will send some out to you tomorrow. Any cookies you want? I can tell you what i have in the freezer.

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  3. Sunriver Patriot

    January 9, 2026 12:23 am

    Minnesota Police Who Refused To Work With ICE Now Mad Feds Won’t Work With Them | The Daily Caller

    Minnesota’s criminal investigations agency said Thursday that the U.S. Attorney’s Office barred it from participating in the probe into the fatal shooting of Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation.

    An ICE agent fatally shot 37-year-old Good during an enforcement operation Wednesday, drawing angry responses from Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

    Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) said Thursday that the U.S. attorney’s office blocked the agency from participating in the investigation, cutting state investigators off from evidence, case files and interviews they said were necessary to conduct a full and independent review, the Associated Press reported.

    BCA Superintendent Drew Evans said federal prosecutors reversed an earlier plan that would have allowed the BCA to investigate alongside the FBI. The news came as demonstrator and police clashed outside a Minneapolis immigration court Thursday morning. When asked about the dispute, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Minnesota officials lack jurisdiction over the investigation.

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  4. Charlotte99

    January 9, 2026 1:30 am

    Investigation traced George Soros funding to 54 groups directly linked to domestic terrorism

    Here’s where it gets crazy, each one of those groups also networks with as many as 300 separate entities orchestrating terrorism

    “We traced over $80 million going from the Open Society Foundations to at least 54 groups engaged in crime and domestic terrorism on US soil or that are pro-terrorism

    — according to his own files, so it’s rock solid”

    – Over $23 million, went to at least 7 groups that are doing things that meet the FBI’s definition of domestic terrorism George Soros linked to training terrorists on American soil

    “The Center for Third World Organizing, for example, is an organization that has a hub that fuse together several,, really extreme organizations.

    We found $400,000 going to them and they openly boast of the fact that they threw down during the uprisings in Minnesota, obviously referring to the rioting and boasting of how many thousands of people they helped train.

    A lot of these groups have created what they’ll call, like, a protest guide or an activism toolkit”

    “Things like property destruction, violence, false IDs, how to obstruct justice, all of these things”

    “When I say 54 groups, just one of those might have 300 entities — actually, the real number is actually much higher”

    This is the definition of racketeering

    https://nitter.poast.org/WallStreetApes/status/2009462041686495489#m

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  6. David Medina 🦫🇺🇸
    @davidmedinapdx
    🚨 BREAKING: Both suspects who were shot by US Border Patrol agents in Portland today are TREN DE ARAGUA illegal aliens who were recently involved in a shooting and prostitution ring!

    When US border agents tried detaining the suspects, they attempted to RUN the agents over with their vehicle resulting in the agent firing a defensive shot!

    THIS IS ALL ON THE OREGON DEMOCRATS for their SANCTUARY policies and allowing transnational gang members to roam our streets.

    Every single Oregonian SHOULD BE FURIOUS!

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  11. Jake

    January 9, 2026 6:18 am

    How can this woman still be in Congress, they kicked Santos out and put him in prison for way less than she has done?

    BUSTED: Ilhan Omar Caught Trying to Funnel $1M to a “Substance Abuse Clinic” Operating Out of a Restaurant Run by Three People at the Same Address — GOP TORPEDOES the Earmark

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/busted-ilhan-omar-tried-slip-1m-fraud-linked/

    During an interview on Fox Business, Senator Ernst detailed the absolute absurdity of the proposal, describing a trail of red flags that would make any honest taxpayer’s blood boil.

    “What I uncovered the other day, in one of our spending bills making its way through Congress, was a $1 million earmark from Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
    “This earmark was supposedly going to a substance abuse clinic, which actually happened to be housed in a restaurant and run by three individuals who share the same residential address, according to their IRS paperwork. Tons of red flags.

    “I raised the issue, and fortunately, the House has now stripped that earmark out of that spending bill. But again, this is how easy money has been flowing to bad actors in Minnesota.”

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  12. Cargill Meats probably regrets hiring 200 Somalis. The meat processing company by federal law cannot shut down during business hours because that could lead to the contamination of the meat. But the Somalis were leaving the line together for 15 minutes at a time (purpose not explained specifically but prayer was alluded to). So 200 somalis were fired. they then filed a LAWSUIT and won $1.5 million dollars–for discrimination. dontcha love it?

    https://rumble.com/v7434h0-the-sordid-tale-of-the-colorado-meat-factory-that-learned-to-regret-hiring-.html?mref=1t8q76&mc=5gu6n

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  13. “United We Stand – One Nation, Under God“

    Newsletter | January 8, 2026

    “The shooting death of a progressive activist by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers this week may bring our country to a boiling point — and we weren’t nudged there by accident. No, since Donald Trump took office nearly one year ago and made good on his promise to deport illegal aliens, there have been repeated attempts to thwart a policy supported by a clear majority of American voters.

    And yet a minority faction, an increasingly violent one, has not accepted the constitutional and legal framework for national policy debates and has thus taken actions designed ultimately to divide us and set us against each other. So, it’s our time to step back and assess the situation coolly and rationally, or we’re likely to become embroiled in the mayhem that threatens civil unrest throughout America.

    Reports show that 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good had used her vehicle to obstruct the lawful activities of ICE officials. Several videos give evidence that the federal officers told her to get out of her car. But rather than obey their lawful orders, she drove the full-size SUV at an ICE officer who, in self-defense, fired three shots into her car and killed her.

    Minnesota officials will no doubt want to prosecute the officer, but it’s a federal case, and the Trump administration is unlikely to take the case. Is that because of political bias? No, explains one former federal prosecutor: “As soon as she accelerated with the officer in front of her, she committed the 20-year version of a Sec. 111(b) offense,” regarding assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement officers or employees. “At that moment she became a ‘fleeing felon’ and a deadly or dangerous threat to the community that justified the use of deadly force. The case law in favor of the officer is robust and rock solid.”

    Nevertheless, rather than helping federal officials enforce the law of the land, state and local Democrats have branded ICE’s efforts as illegal or illegitimate and thereby rationalized what one commentator calls “an epidemic of political vigilantism.”

    Activists around the country are tracking ICE agents, indeed doxing many, in order to obstruct their lawful federal law enforcement activities. There have been countless reports of car-ramming incidents in Minnesota and elsewhere. Why activists believe that they have legitimate cause to drive their car into federal law enforcement officials — or indeed any human being — is evidence of a profound spiritual sickness afflicting far too many Americans who are convinced that they not only own the moral high ground but that anyone who disagrees with them is subhuman.

    Donald Trump was elected president because Americans wanted him to close our borders and deport illegal aliens. Our borders were flung open by the previous president, eager to fill the country with a client base that was expected to vote for his party, in exchange for financial considerations — like the billions of federal taxpayers’ dollars that were corruptly funneled to Minnesota’s Somali community and which were later pushed into political campaigns.

    In other words, the purpose of the anti-ICE campaign is not simply to protect political allies but also to ensure a permanent Democratic majority that would eventually render our elections meaningless.

    No one who treasures our peace and prosperity can find the cause for which Good lost her life righteous. Rather, it’s one of the most sinister political projects in our country’s 250-year history. Certainly, there is cause to lament how so many of our fellow Americans have had their minds and souls twisted by politics. So, let’s keep our heads and keep seeing things as they are.

    There is certainty that mighty powers are invested in the destruction of our Constitutional Republic, and spilling the blood of the patriots who have made and make America the greatest country in history, 250 years strong and getting stronger. Now is the time to step up to ensure that this country will forever be “one nation, under God, indivisible.”

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  14. “Hawaii and the West Coast Health Alliance: Governor Josh Green is abusing emergency powers to push childhood vaccines”

    Dr. Robert W. Malone, Jan 08, 2026

    EXCERPT: “Hawaii and the West Coast Health Alliance

    Background

    A report from President Donald Trump’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission states that the next generation of children may live shorter lives than their parents, despite increased health spending. The report attributes this trend to rising chronic diseases among U.S. children, driven by factors such as chemically processed foods, environmental exposures, and overreliance on pharmaceuticals. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who chairs the commission, described the findings as a “diagnosis” of the nation’s health crisis, with policy recommendations expected to follow.

    Director of the National Institutes of Health Jay Bhattacharya emphasized the severity of the situation, stating, “What the report says is that the next generation of children will live shorter lives than their parents,” adding that children today are less healthy than their parents were at the same age. The report highlights alarming trends, including a near doubling of teenage depression from 2009 to 2019, over one-in-five children over age six being obese, one-in-31 children diagnosed with autism by age 8, and a 40% increase in childhood cancer since 1975.

    Food and Drug Commissioner Marty Makary called the current state “the most obese, depressed, disabled, medicated population in the history of the world,” urging a shift from reactive to proactive health systems. The commission also noted that roughly 75% of U.S. youth aged 17–24 are ineligible for military service due to health conditions like obesity, asthma, allergies, or behavioral disorders.What is the West Coast Health Alliance?

    The West Coast Health Alliance (WCHA) refers to a coalition of state and institutional partnerships among California, Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii, politically justified as enabling regional coordination of health policy, disease surveillance, and emergency response. While the name has been used informally in past cooperative agreements, during 2023–2025, it evolved into a formal multi-state policy compact emphasizing unified approaches to public health management, pharmaceutical purchasing, and emergency mandates.

    The administrative structure of the WCHA is organized around a “Regional Health Coordination Council (RHCC)” composed of representatives appointed by each member state. Funding is provided by a combination of state contributions, federal grants, and private philanthropic organizations, particularly foundations advocating for “pandemic preparedness” and “climate-linked health resilience.”

    The West Coast states first coordinated pandemic response strategies under informal compacts in 2020. By 2023, discussions among health departments led to a semi-formal network branded as the West Coast Health Alliance. The stated purpose was to “increase efficiency and consistency in health regulation,” but it effectively positioned the Alliance as a regional public health governing bloc, somewhat independent from federal oversight.

    While the WCHA presents itself as a cooperative alliance for public protection, it also functions as a political structure for regionalization of bio-political control, consolidating decision-making away from local constituents and toward administrative policymakers and public-private partnerships. Academic thought leader advice, research, and policy support is primarily provided by the University of Washington, OHSU, UCSF, and UH Mānoa.

    All state members of the WCHA are controlled by the Democrat party, and the organization is closely aligned with Democrat policy positions relating to health (including “One Health” initiatives), vaccination schedules, and climate change…..”

    https://www.malone.news/p/hawaii-and-the-west-coast-health

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  15. EXCERPT: “A Chinese Communist Party-linked activist network began helping lead renewed anti-ICE protests nationwide in the wake of a fatal shooting in Minneapolis, the same day a House committee voted to subpoena the wealthy Marxist businessman helping fund their far-left activities.

    Political battle lines quickly formed in the wake of an ICE agent firing upon a woman Wednesday morning in a vehicle driving at him in Minneapolis, with the Department of Homeland Security labeling the woman a “domestic terrorist” while some Democrats quickly labeled the federal officer a “murderer.”

    Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., posted on Instagram earlier this week that “I have formally made a motion to subpoena Neville Singham, an American billionaire with ties to the CCP.” In her comments during the House Oversight Committee session on Wednesday, Luna said that Singham “has been funding extremist organizations fueling division and civil unrest in this country and especially regarding the ICE riots last summer.”

    House Committee approves subpoena to Singham

    Luna made her case to the House committee on Wednesday about why Singham should be compelled to testify, and the motion to issue a subpoena was approved by a voice vote. That vote also included approval of unrelated subpoenas, including targets of the Jeffrey Epstein matter.

    “Neville Singham was referred to the Department of Justice, I believe, for FARA [Foreign Agents Registration Act] violations by then Senator Rubio when he served on the … Senate Intelligence Committee,” Luna said. “Neville Singham, regardless of what you might feel about your colleagues, has been a mechanism and funding arm of the Chinese Communist Party.”

    Luna added: “He’s not a registered agent under FARA, and has been connected to a number of riots, including the anti-ICE riots being funded in Los Angeles … and has been avoiding our request to have him come bring information to Congress. He is definitely someone that is anti-American ideologically… and is funding groups known to sow discord in this country… He is a known foreign agent to China. … He should face a subpoena. … In the event that he does not comply with this subpoena, I will be making a motion for inherent contempt.”

    Rep. David Min, D-Calif., briefly raised concerns on Wednesday about the process by which Luna’s motion was being brought, but Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., intervened and recommended that the Democrats vote yes…..”

    https://justthenews.com/government/security/neville-signham-hit-house-subpoena-his-ccp-tied-network-leads-renewed-anti-ice

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  16. Oh, my…….

    Just The News: “A bodyguard for billionaire and Republican Ohio gubernatorial hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy’s family was arrested recently on drug-trafficking charges, according to a criminal complaint reviewed by Newsweek on Thursday.

    Prosecutors claimed Justin Salsburey and his wife Ruthann Rankin received over 250 packages containing drugs between August 2024 and December 2025, and a search of the couple’s home allegedly found 264 grams of blue fentanyl pills, 938 grams of methamphetamine pills, and 19 grams of MDMA. 

    Salsburey, who was hired and placed on Ramaswamy’s detail through a private firm, was removed from the candidate’s team immediately after his arrest last week. He and his wife have been charged with conspiracy to distribute or intent to distribute 40 grams or more of a substance containing fentanyl and methamphetamine. The couple were also charged with possession with intent to distribute a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of fentanyl and methamphetamine.

    “Vivek’s family contracts with a private security firm for protective services and was alarmed to hear this disturbing news,” Ramaswamy’s campaign spokesperson Connie Luck told Newsweek. “Upon being informed of this matter in recent days, the outside security firm immediately removed the individual from the security detail.

    “Vivek and his family take matters of safety seriously and support efforts to hold these individuals accountable for these allegations if they are proven,” she added.

    The campaign said that before his arrest and placement on Ramaswamy’s security detail, Salsburey passed multiple FBI and state background checks, along with drug screenings and random testing.” 

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  18. “Welcome to the Tupperware Party: Opioid marketing teams planned to “educate women in their natural settings” — including “Tupperware parties” — that female “empowerment” meant demanding more pain pills.”

    Matt Bivens, M.D., Jan 09, 2026

    The latest in an ongoing series about the opioid crisis.

    The Sacklers skate out of Bankruptcy Court.

    EXCERPT: “One of America’s most infamous corporate characters just made its final curtain call. The $7 billion bankruptcy deal approved over the holidays for Purdue Pharma and its billionaire owners, the Sackler family, includes compensation for individuals harmed by OxyContin® or other prescribed opioids: from $3,500 to $16,000 (before legal fees), available to anyone who filled out the right paperwork a long time ago and who promises not to sue. The payments might begin as soon as this March.

    Purdue, with a new name (Knoa Pharma) and under new management, gets to re-dedicate itself now to treating opioid addiction. As an ER doctor also board-certified in addiction medicine, I’ve spent years reviving (or failing to revive) people who’ve overdosed on fentanyl or heroin or oxycodone, and who, more often then not, first got hooked on opioids via a prescription from a doctor.

    I’ve also spent years commiserating with other doctors about how, back in the day, we were set up to fail our patients, thanks to a confused mishmash of nonsense about how no one gets addicted to modern opioid therapy anymore.

    Yet even today — after all of the multi-billion-dollar settlements and lawsuits, after hundreds of thousands of overdose deaths, after hearings and speeches in Congress — few people seem to really understand how coldly and methodically Purdue (and other opioid manufacturers, but especially Sackler-led Purdue) worked at getting people addicted. They focused in marketing and sales trainings on the need not just to convince doctors to start patients on opioids — but to keep them on opioids, and at the highest achievable doses.

    As laid out in particularly withering detail in the Massachusetts and New York state lawsuits, Purdue had an opioid sales strategy for every American identity group with good insurance. They targeted the elderly, showing doctors “profiles of fake elderly patients, complete with staged photographs” to help the doctor get comfortable hooking up grandma. They targeted veterans — who, in my state of Massachusetts, are three times more likely to die of a drug overdose than non-veterans but until that sad day also do have great insurance!

    Purdue, both directly and through front organizations like the American Pain Foundation, even came up with the idea that getting addicted to OxyContin® could be a form of feminist self-actualization. Under the heading “Empowerment — women,” notes from a marketing strategy session elaborate approvingly that the “empowerment angle can be used with any program.”

    First, a note about the just-approved Purdue bankruptcy deal, which may surpass even the case of Lehman Brothers as America’s all-time example of “fraudulent conveyance,” the practice of moving money out of the reach of creditors. At least in terms of shamelessness, Purdue has no peer…..”

    https://mattbivens.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-tupperware-party

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  19. “White House Creates New Assistant Attorney General Position To Go After Fraud: Vance said the White House decided the best way to streamline anti-fraud efforts was to create a new division at the Department of Justice.”

    The Federalist, By: Breccan F. Thies, January 08, 2026

    J.D. Vance

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “The White House announced Thursday a new assistant attorney general position to combat the kind of widespread taxpayer fraud committed by Somalis in Minnesota and elsewhere. The nominee for the new position will be announced in the coming days, Vice President J.D. Vance said at a White House press briefing, adding that Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has promised a “swift” confirmation process.

    “We are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud,” Vance said. “Now, of course, that person’s efforts will start and focus primarily in Minnesota, but it is going to be a nationwide effort, because, unfortunately, the American people have been defrauded in a very nationwide way.”

    Vance noted fraud is rampant in places like California and his home state of Ohio. He also called for Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., to resign because “it’s very clear either that he knew about the fraud of Minneapolis, he knew about the welfare fraud, or at the very least he looked the other way.”

    “I mean, this is not, this is not like Lex Luthor, right? This is not movie villain fraud. This is the lowest IQ possible fraud,” he added. “Tim Walz, either it was unbelievable incompetence or he was in on the fraud. That’s one of the things we’re gonna get to the bottom of.”

    According to Vance, the administration has already been working extensively to combat fraud of this kind for months, but after deliberation, the White House decided the best way to streamline those efforts was to create a new division at the Department of Justice. Vance said the administration has “activated a major interagency task force” because multiple different programs are being defrauded, like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) under the Department of Agriculture, education dollars, federal money for daycare, and much more.

    The Department of Justice has issued more than 1,500 subpoenas to “get to the heart of the fraud ring,” along with nearly 100 indictments of “mostly Somali immigrants, but also a few others,” Vance said, adding agents are going door-to-door to investigate fraud.

    “If you’re a young parent struggling to afford childcare in the United States of America, there are programs that we have to make it easier for your kids to get a daycare, for your kids to get in preschool,” Vance said. “Those programs should go to American citizens, not be defrauded by Somali immigrants and others.”

    Vance acknowledged calls for a special counsel to be appointed to investigate the fraud, but said the reason the administration decided to create the new assistant attorney general position is that there is inherent constitutional weakness in a special counsel that a Senate-confirmed position does not have.

    “It has all the benefits, all the resources, all the authority of a special counsel, but with two crucial differences: Number one, it will be run out of the White House under the supervision of me and the president United States, and number two, it’s actually constitutionally legitimate,” he said. “When we get the bad guys, we want to make sure we get them permanently and they don’t have some legal technicality they can get out of, which is why we set it up as an [assistant] attorney general.”

    Vance used the example of former Special Counsel Jack Smith, the get-Trump lawfare spook whose appointment was found to be unconstitutional, saying, “completely aside from all the other issues — that the person was a lunatic and that the case had no merit — there was a fundamental constitutional issue, which is that he had not been appointed by the president and he had not been confirmed by the United States Senate.”

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  24. EXCERPT: “Female athletes, along with two Republican-led states, are gearing up to defend women’s sports from transgender activists at the U.S. Supreme Court next week.

    “Women deserve equal opportunity, fairness, and privacy, and states have the right to recognize biological distinctions when those distinctions matter, and they matter greatly on the athletic field,” Alliance Defending Freedom CEO and Chief Counsel Kristen Waggoner said during a Thursday press conference. (ADF is representing several female athletes in the litigation.)

    The Supreme Court will hold oral arguments on Tuesday in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J. Both cases center around leftist-backed challenges to laws passed by Idaho and West Virginia protecting the sanctity of women’s sports from trans-identifying men.

    The justices will address the question of whether these statutes violate the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause, or, for the West Virginia case, Title IX.

    During Thursday’s press conference, Waggoner spoke about the experiences of several of ADF’s female clients, who she said “have lost medals, scholarships, podium spots, and even future opportunities because men competed in women’s sports.” One such example was that of Madison Kenyon and Mary Kate Marshall, two Idaho State University track and cross-country competitors who “both suffered losses in their rankings after being forced to compete against a man,” according to Waggoner.

    “Idaho and West Virginia’s laws preserve equal opportunity, fairness, and safety for women, and the ACLU’s arguments would deny women those equal opportunity within the law, essentially redefining sex, not based on biology, but self-identity, or self-declared identity,” Waggoner added.

    The presser also featured remarks from Republican Attorneys General Raúl Labrador (Idaho) and John McCuskey (West Virginia), both of whom defended their states’ laws and appeared optimistic about their chances for success at the nation’s highest court…..”

    https://thefederalist.com/2026/01/09/at-scotus-female-athletes-gear-up-to-protect-womens-sports-from-leftists-trans-agenda/

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  25. JUST IN: Sec. Scott Bessent is now moving to BAN anyone that receives government assistance from wiring money out of the country after Somali fraudsters were caught in Minnesota

    “If you are wiring out of the country, you’re either getting TOO MUCH or you’re part of this CONSPIRACY! We’re gonna find out!”

    “Our generosity has been TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF!”

    “From now on, anyone who wires money out from one of these money service businesses has to check a box saying whether they are on public assistance.”

    “And if you are on public assistance, we are going to start pushing that you cannot wire money out of the country.”

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  27. Just The News: “The U.S. seized another sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea on Friday, according to the military. Sanctioned oil tankers traveling to and from Venezuela have been targeted for seizure by the U.S. military, with this tanker being the fifth, The Associated Press reported.

    The Marines and Navy conducted the seizure before dawn, which was part of the months-long buildup of forces in the Caribbean, according to U.S. Southern Command, which said “there is no safe haven for criminals” as it announced the seizure of the vessel called the Olina.”

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    1. They are retired and can accept the $$$ w/o having to pay taxes, I’ll bet! I can go out and earn around $30K/year before I have to pay in. It’s supplementing their SS.

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  38. giloo
    Coyote
    January 9, 2026 12:27

    Donald Trump reported his longtime ally turned bitter foe Marjorie Taylor Greene to the Secret Service after fears she leaked the location of his dinner to a group of pro-Palestinian protesters, triggering a dangerous confrontation.

    Last September, he visited an expensive steakhouse in DC alongside JD Vance and other Cabinet members as part of an effort to show the President’s deployment of National Guard troops to the capital had made the city safer.

    Trump was confronted by a herd of Code Pink protesters, an anti-war and pro-Palestine activist group that is friendly with Greene.

    The activists stood feet from the President across a table and chanted: ‘Free DC! Free Palestine! Trump is the Hitler of our time!’

    The incident at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab sparked widespread concern in the White House just a year after Trump was nearly assassinated in Butler, Pennsylvania.

    Aides told Axios that they believe the restaurant confrontation was ‘a point of no return’ in the President’s relationship with Greene, as many believed she tipped off the protesters.

    Greene responded to the allegations by claiming that any suggestion that she leaked Trump’s dinner reservation was ‘an absolute lie, a dangerous lie. I would never do that.’ She added that she recommended the restaurant to the President but didn’t know when he would go there.

    Officials, however, say that after Greene recommended the restaurant to Trump, she repeatedly called White House staffers the day of the dinner to confirm he was going.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15449235/Trump-orders-Secret-Service-probe-MTG-fearing-stunning-betrayal-security-breach.html

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  40. Tony Seruga
    @TonySeruga
    🚨FINCEN Has Tracked ALL Fraudulent Money Sent From MN To Overseas — We Have It All!

    Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appears ready to drop the hammer in the Minnesota fraud scandal.

    Speaking at the Economic Club in Minnesota, Bessent coolly announced that FINCEN has been tracking all fraudulent money activity in Minnesota.

    And not just inside the United States banking system, but overseas as well.

    In other words, we have all the evidence.

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  48. Feisty Hayseed

    January 9, 2026 2:10 pm

    Somalia Fraud Scheme

    It’s easy! 

    1 Sign up with the State / Federal Government to provide a service to the impoverished community (elderly, children, disabled people, etc.)

    2 Rent a store front and adorn with plausible signage,

    3 Obtain minimum amount of equipment / desks / children’s toys & books, various paraphernalia,

    4 Perform no tasks, provide no services,

    5 Charge State / Federal Government for work you never performed,

    6 Provide list of beneficiaries of services you didn’t provide, if necessary, by making up names and services delivered.

    7 Enjoy your new wealth (you are a Millionaire now!) and large income stream.

    8 Generate duplicates of above at your leisure.

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  50. Soufrière, Saint Lucia

    Lunch is Served

    Heated Cabins?? (Reminds me of my Grandma’s cabin court in Norfolk. I used to help her with the laundry and cleaning.)

    Extraordinary Entrance

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