Seeds Versus Starter Plants

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From: gardeningchannel.com

When you’re planning what to grow each season in your garden, there’s an additional choice you may not have considered: whether to grow each plant from seeds or starter plants. Each gardening method has its benefits as well as its drawbacks, and they both perform best in certain situations. Most people choose to use a combination of growing plants from seed and starting with transplants in their gardens. Keep reading to find out when it makes sense to grow plants from seeds and when starter plants are the best option so that you can choose what’s best for your unique situation.

Benefits of Starting from Seeds

Wider Selection: It’s much easier to find exactly what you’re looking for when you’re shopping for seeds. There’s a much wider array of seeds to choose from compared to starter plants, when you can order from online seed companies or seed catalogs as well as checking the seed racks at stores near you. While you can order starter plants from some companies or individual sellers online, the possibilities aren’t nearly as numerous. Whether you’ve been recommended an heirloom variety of zucchini that you want to try growing or you just enjoy choosing what you’ll grow this year from the widest variety possible, seeds win out when it comes to the diversity of your options. 

Lower Cost: Some seeds are more sought-after than others, so you can find seeds at a variety of prices—but most of the time, buying seeds will be less expensive than purchasing starter plants. The small, light seed packages are also much less complicated (and therefore less expensive) to ship than a live starter plant.

You’ll need to purchase additional supplies to be ready to plant either seeds or young live plants, so even considering the complete cost of both options, the lower initial cost of seeds makes them a more economical choice than starter plants. The exception is if you don’t have a spot indoors that offers enough light for your seedlings. In this case, the purchase of grow lights can tip the balance and make starter plants a less expensive option for you.

Some Varieties Don’t Transplant Well: For some of the plants in the garden, transplanting just doesn’t work. Some varieties have delicate roots that are best not disturbed, while other plants just grow so quickly that there’s no real chance to start them indoors. Here’s a list of plants that do best when direct seeded: baby salad greens, beans, corn, greens that grow quickly (like arugula and spinach), microgreens, nasturtiums, peas, poppies, and root vegetables.

The Miracle of Life: A lot of gardeners get so much joy from the process of growing plants from seeds that they couldn’t imagine doing things any other way. While starter plants offer lots of convenience, they can’t compare to the experience of watching a tiny seed come to life underground and grow into a full-sized blooming plant. 

Benefits of Using Starter Plants

Convenience and Simplicity: Raising plants from seeds requires quite an investment of time and energy as you baby the seeds through their germination and sprouting. With starter plants, you simply tuck the plant into the spot you’ve chosen for it, provide it with some water, and you’re done.

Fewer Timing Restrictions: When you plant seeds, you have to do your research about the plant variety and make sure that you’re planting at the correct time for gardeners in your USDA Hardiness Zone. You have much more freedom with starter plants, which mature as the season progresses and are ready for purchase throughout their growing period. Nurseries online tend to hold off on delivering out-of-season plants (like spring vegetables, for example) until it’s time to plant them in your area. Brick and mortar stores will tailor their selection to offerings that make sense for gardeners in your area throughout the year. 

If you just purchase seeds without doing some research into timing and hope to plant them all at once, you’ll be disappointed. We recommend, if you plan to grow plants from seeds, that you spend some time planning with a calendar. Take into account when each plant variety will need to be sown, when flowers will be in bloom, and when edible plants will be ready for harvest.

Higher Performance: While the time from sprouting to transplant can be a lot of fun to witness, it’s a dangerous time for plants, and gardeners tend to lose some of the seeds they plant to illness, insects, and other factors. Starter plants have been cared for by professionals, and they’ve already been through this risky stage in a plant’s life. The starter plants available at nurseries near you have also been especially selected for gardeners in your region, so you have a better chance for success with starter plants from the outset. Just follow the advice in this article on how to choose healthy plants at the nursery or garden center.

No waiting period: Starter plants are ready to go into your garden and start beautifying your home from the day you purchase them, with one exception. If you make a pre-order for an out-of-season plant, the seller will wait to send your purchase until it’s time for gardeners in your zone to put transplants into the outdoor garden. Unless you plan very carefully, you’ll usually need to wait to plant seeds you’ve purchased as well. Starter plants offer more variety and availability year-round.

As you can see, there’s no right answer for everyone, and there’s no right answer all of the time. Starter plants are better when it comes to performance, simplicity, and freedom from a waiting period or timing restrictions.

Seeds work better for gardeners who are seeking a diverse selection, want to grow varieties that don’t transplant well, those on a budget, and those who just want to enjoy witnessing the miracle of life. After learning more about each option, you’re ready to choose which one is right for you regardless of the situation.

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    1. Good Morning. 50ish, cloudy, windy. Some rain overnight, but the wind keeps things dried out. (if that makes sense 😊) Mowed and edged some yard yesterday. Today house chores, paperwork and laundry to begin.

      I wish I was ambitious enough to plant a garden! I fear too many critters would love my gardening!

      Take care, God Bless 🙏

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      1. Good Morning Gina!
        we planted grapevines when we first moved here because the only neighbor we had at the time had them and he didn’t even have his fenced in and always got loads of grapes. Well, we did fence ours in. One year, during the rut, when the buck were all sniffing and running around, we looked out at the grapevines and there was a doe laying just inside the fence. She jumped in over the back fence because the ground slopes up the mountain at that point. During the summers, if it’s too dry, they jump in and eat the large leaves–they don’t touch the grapes–the raccoons nab those right before they’re ripe. And the chipmunks steal my zucchini from the vegetable garden when they’re about pickle size…sigh.
        but we do get tomatoes…and a few peppers.
        You take care too! May God Bless you as well!

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    2. Morning, Pat! Cloudy here and only 39 but at least it’s not raining. Wheezer is sleeping on the chair, food dish still full. I’ll put some tuna out for him once he wakes up. I’ve always done my veggies with seeds vs. starter plants. I like seeing them sprout. It’s different with the spring flowers for the planters since I don’t want that many of one kind of flower and I like to change things up every spring. I’m not going to do so many this year, tho.

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      1. Morning Filly!
        our sunshine is already gone! cloudy and hubby says rain now probable.
        The first year I had the garden, i bought seeds. planted them in nice rows–nothing came up. BUT every year since, I find carrots growing OUTSIDE the garden and what i thought was a watermelon last year. the birds watch intently when you plant seeds…LOL

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  5. Jake

    April 28, 2026 6:12 am

    I have said all along the ‘billionaire tax” would be a tax on everyone and here is the proof.

    California proposition to tax billionaires gets onto the November ballot with just one problem: Everyone gets to be the ‘billionaire’

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/california_proposition_to_tax_billionaires_gets_onto_the_november_ballot_with_just_one_problem_everyone_gets_to_be_the_billionaire.html

    On page twenty-six, it explains how the government can convert to an Everyone Tax without voter approval.
    They can also adjust the tax to be a yearly tax, not just one time…again, without your approval.
    Here’s how the tax would work: As a voter, you’re being asked to approve a tax that would require you to:

    1. list all your assets and the value of each, then submit them to the California Franchise Tax Board.
    2. authorize the tax board to appraise your assets and confirm the value of each.
    3. pay a penalty of up to forty percent of your tax bill if the board determines your reported value was too low in their opinion.
    4. allow the tax board to subpoena your financial records from every one of your financial institutions for auditing.

    This Everyone Tax runs 34 pages of shifty language describing how the government plans to take your assets. Read the fine print and decide for yourself. If this were truly a billionaire tax, it would be 3 pages. It’s 34 pages so that it can create the mechanisms to steal from all of you.

    Undervalue your house, and you’ll get fined massively, oh and the state will determine what your home is worth.

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  6. enough with the h1b visas already!
    FTA
    In one instance, the University of Pittsburgh tried to hire for a tech position, yet the position was open only to candidates with an H-1B visa. And another in a taxpayer-funded university in Indiana. Another at Stanford.

    By allowing the prioritization of H-1B workers in STEM, the market has been flooded with fake foreign degrees while devaluing science and engineering degrees for American college grads, leaving American STEM talent more susceptible to under and unemployment.

    A South China Morning Post expose revealed an India-based University, Manav Bharti University (MBU), reportedly sold 36,000 fake degrees over 11 years for less than $5,000 each- and U.S. employers accepted them!

    The bottom line is that people with fake degrees do not compare in quality to American workers with American degrees and certifications, which has had broad effects throughout the American tech industry, including massive bugs, cloud malfunctions and cybersecurity failures.

    On Cyber Monday in December 2025, Shopify, a user of H1-B labor for tech, had a massive glitch failure that halted their ability to process transactions, causing a 6% drop in Shopify stock, not to mention, the thousands of small businesses that could not process orders on the highest day of online sales.

    H-1B visas may be great for short-term quarterly gains of the highest performing U.S. technology-sector stocks, “Mag 7,” but fraud is terrible for the American economy and national security.

    https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2026/04/26/somali-fraud-is-only-a-drop-in-the-bucket/

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  7. wall it off. all males in positions of authority…WHERE THE HELL ARE THE FEMINISTS??? no more government funding–no dei allowed here? DISCRIMINATION! first all muzzie city in America
    story
    Once a classic American working-class town, Hamtramck, Michigan has been completely conquered by Islam and turned into a full Sharia parallel society—now ruled by an all-Muslim, all-male council and Mayor Adam Alharbi, where Arabic dominates streets, police, businesses, and government, and unchecked migration plus total refusal to assimilate have created a self-contained Islamic enclave on U.S. soil.
    Hamtramck, Michigan – once a classic American working-class town – has become the clearest example of a city completely conquered by Islam and transformed into a parallel Sharia society.

    In early 2026, the city swore in a new all-Muslim, all-male City Council and Mayor Adam Alharbi. Elected positions, from mayor to council, city manager, and even the police chief, are now held by Muslim men. Nearly all candidates in recent races were Muslim, with campaign materials often in Arabic. Public meetings feature residents addressing officials in Arabic.
    The takeover is total. Police recruitment and traffic signs appear in Arabic. The department posts “Eid Mubarak” messages with officers in hijabs. Massive Eid carnivals, Ramadan lights, and official proclamations celebrating the Yemeni Revolution dominate city life. In 2024, the city renamed part of Holbrook Avenue to “Palestine Avenue.”
    Businesses operate as a parallel economy: stores, pharmacies, markets, and medical offices advertise and function almost exclusively in Arabic. Taxpayer-funded halal operations and approved religious animal sacrifices raise serious concerns about health and welfare standards.
    This is not diversity; it is civilizational jihad in action: parallel governance, parallel culture, parallel law enforcement, and parallel economy flying under foreign flags.

    Hamtramck is no longer an American city in any meaningful sense. It is a fully formed Islamic enclave on Michigan soil – the direct result of unchecked Islamic migration and refusal to assimilate.

    https://rairfoundation.com/hamtramck-michigan-americas-first-city-conquered-islam-now/

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    2. This was well on it’s way in 2015, when Dennis Michael Lynch initially threw his hat in the ring – I donated to his campaign. It was refunded when he dropped out early on. But his video series, which I have, “They’re Coming to America” (1 disc) and “They’re Coming to America Part II” (3 discs) shows a lot of scenes from Hamtramck.

      Wiki: “In 2012, Lynch released a film about illegal immigration in the United States, They Come to America, written and directed by Lynch.[7]

      In 2012, Lynch begin filming They Come to America II.[citation needed] On July 4, 2013, Lynch appeared on a special episode of Hannity titled “The Cost of Amnesty” in which he, Sean Hannity, and other guests, discussed Lynch’s latest movie They Come to America II: The Cost of Amnesty as well as the recent passage of the Senate immigration bill S744, terrorism, and unemployment.[citation needed]

      In 2014, Lynch released his third film, titled We Ride to D.C. The film is about how the public has lost faith in the news media. As with all his films, Lynch released the documentary on DVD stating it was the best means of distribution when measuring the costs of running in theaters.[8]

      The following year, Lynch released ‘They Come to America III.’ The film focuses on the hardships of the Texas Border Patrol, and how they struggle to secure the border when Washington DC uses the topic of immigration as a political football.”

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  8. Eric Daugherty
    @EricLDaugh
    https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f6a8.svg WOW! GREG GUTFELD MIC DROP:

    “This [would be Trump assassin] DID hear voices.”

    “They were Ted Lieu’s, they were Brandon Johnson’s, they were CNN’s, they were The View, they were MS NOW.”

    “He wasn’t a crank. HE WAS JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS.”

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  9. JUST NOW: President Trump drops court filings confirming the ballroom is for NATIONAL SECURITY purposes

    The left needs to DROP the obstruction, drop the lawsuit!

    Build it full for current and FUTURE presidents!

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  10. Freedom Ring

    April 28, 2026 8:07 am

    They knew Planned Parenthood was not eligible, so in order to hide the transactions, they created a codename for the organization to hide their discussions from FOIA requests, violating the law. 

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  11. Wow! I’m perusing last nights’ posts at M’s – Rodney posted this. What a fricking scam!!!!

    EXCERPT: “…..Dr. Weston A. Price, the former head of research for the American Dental Association, spent 25 years studying the systemic effects of root canals. He ran a 1,000-page study that proved something terrifying.

    He took a root-canaled tooth from a patient suffering from severe arthritis. He implanted that dead tooth under the skin of a healthy rabbit. Within 48 hours, the rabbit developed the exact same severe arthritis as the patient. He repeated this experiment thousands of times. When he implanted a root-canaled tooth from a patient with heart disease, the rabbit got heart disease.

    When he used a tooth from a patient with kidney failure, the rabbit’s kidneys failed. Dr. Price proved that it is physically impossible to sterilize a root canal. A single tooth contains over 3 miles of microscopic tubules. When the blood supply is cut off, the immune system can no longer reach those tubules. But anaerobic bacteria can…..”

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  12. Just The News: “Federal Bureau of Investigation officers reportedly raided over 20 childcare facilities in Minneapolis on Tuesday. The raid is being reported by Fox News and CBS News, based on information from sources. 

    The actions are part of an extensive investigation into fraud by businesses primarily owned by Somalis. 

    “Today the FBI with federal, state and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation,” a Justice Department spokesperson to Fox.

    Authorities reportedly executed 22 search warrants during the operation.”

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  13. EXCERPT: “When the White House correspondents’ gala – halted by a third assassination attempt by a gunman of President Donald Trump – returns next month for a somber encore, it will hardly resemble the laid-back, star-studded event that has been staged for decades at the Washington Hilton hotel.

    The red carpet – which was unsecured and in the line of sight for accused assassin Cole Tomas Allen when he burst through a security checkpoint Saturday night – will almost certainly be moved inside the magnetometer-laden security perimeter.

    A ticket and a tuxedo won’t be the sole form of permitted entry. ID checks will likely be imperative. And the joviality of reporters wining and dining the Washington VIPs they cover for a living will likely be supplanted by the memories of loud gunshot blasts and the mad scramble they unleashed.

    Public event security will be forever changed by Saturday night’s near horror in the nation’s capital, which played out on live television, experts told Just the News.

    “It has got to change,” said former Capitol Police Chief Steve Sund, whose effort to better fortify the U.S. Capitol ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot was thwarted when his request to deploy National Guard for extra security was denied by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lieutenants.

    Sund said the threat of political violence has vastly expanded beyond politicians since 2020, noting that since United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down outside a Manhattan hotel in 2024, incidents against corporate executives have soared more than 300%…..”

    https://justthenews.com/government/security/tuehate-incorporated-lefts-intolerance-machine-threatens-change-security

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  14. Just The News: “A Christian nonprofit filed a complaint Monday with the Federal Communications Commission, requesting it investigate Jimmy Kimmel’s remarks last week that called first lady Melania Trump “an expectant widow.”

    Kimmel’s sketch last Thursday mocked President Donald Trump and his wife in a parody of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, but it aired just two days before an attempted assassin allegedly fired his weapon right outside the ballroom during the real dinner on Saturday, which the president and first lady attended.

    “Our first lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,” Kimmel said in the sketch. 

    The National Religious Broadcasters organization told the FCC that the remarks, when viewed in context, “raise serious concerns about the normalization and potential incitement of political violence.” The group argued that rhetoric that appears to “trivialize or foreshadow harm against political leaders” should take on heightened significance given the current political climate.

    “We should be relieved that lives were spared Saturday evening; but relief can’t become complacency,” NRB President Troy Miller said in a statement. “We’re seeing a pattern of violence in this country that didn’t appear overnight. 

    “When influential voices joke about death or treat political opponents as disposable, it contributes to a culture where violence feels thinkable to the already unstable,” he continued. “National platforms carry real weight, and with that comes responsibility. That’s why this warranted action.”

    The investigation request comes after the president and first lady both called for Kimmel to be fired over the sketch.” 

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  15. “The Permanent Unaccountable Class”

    Michael T. Flynn LTG USA (RET), Apr 27, 2026

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “I spent over 33 years in service to this country. I have worn the uniform in war. I have sat in the rooms where the most consequential decisions about American power are made. I have watched the federal government turn its full weight against citizens it found inconvenient, including me. So when I tell you that what happened at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner this weekend was not a random act of madness but the predictable result of a decade of institutional failure, I am not speaking from theory. I am speaking from the cost of it.

    A man walked toward the President of the United States with two firearms and the intent to kill him. He was the third such man in two years. In the wake of it, senior federal officials stepped to the microphones and told the country that the rhetoric of ordinary Americans on social media is somehow part of the cause. That is misdirection, and the soldier in me recognizes the maneuver immediately.

    The American people are being told to look at each other when they should be looking at the institutions that allowed this to happen.

    In the military, when an operation fails, the after-action review is brutally honest. Commanders are named, decisions are scrutinized, and the chain of responsibility is traced from the point of failure back to the desk where the bad call was made. Nobody is permitted to walk away by gesturing at the broader culture and calling it everyone’s fault.

    In Government, when something goes catastrophically wrong, the first move is to expand the circle of blame until the actual decision-makers are invisible inside it.

    Butler. The first attempted assassination. A rooftop that the Secret Service did not secure. A communications failure between agencies that should not have been possible in the year 2024. Americans were told it was complicated. We were told there would be a review. We were told changes would be made, but then it happened again in Florida, and again this weekend. Three serious attempts on the life of a sitting or former president in less than two years, and not one senior official has been fired, demoted, or publicly held to account. That is an accountability problem, and the American people can see it clearly, even when those in the marble buildings refuse to.

    When a senior official suggests that “everyone” is responsible for political violence, what he is effectively saying is that no one in particular will be held accountable. The mother in Ohio who tweeted criticism of an administration policy is now standing in the same dock as the men who failed to secure the venue. The veteran in Florida who called a politician a name in a comment thread is being asked to share the moral weight of a failure that belongs to the federal officials who were paid to prevent it.

    This is not how a serious country functions. Collective guilt is what institutions reach for when they have lost the will or the capacity to assign individual responsibility. It is the oldest dodge in government, and it works only as long as the citizenry is willing to accept it.

    History is unambiguous on this point. When institutions stop holding their own people accountable, two things happen in sequence. First, the failures multiply because there is no longer any cost to failing. Second, the blame migrates outward to the press, to the public, to the citizen, to the neighbor, until the original failure is buried beneath a fog of national self-recrimination thick enough that no one can see who actually dropped the ball.

    We are living inside that fog right now. The bullet at the Correspondents’ Dinner was not produced by a tweet. It was produced by a system that has not punished a single senior failure in a generation.

    I will say this in plain English so there is no confusion about where I stand or why. I have watched the senior leadership of agencies lie under oath, mislead Congress, leak classified material to friendly reporters, run operations against American citizens, and walk away with pensions, book deals, and cable contracts. Not one of them has paid a meaningful price. Not one.

    I am not bitter about this. I am clear-eyed about it. A government that cannot punish its own most powerful failures has lost the moral authority to lecture its citizens about their tone. That is the heart of the matter, and every American who has been paying attention for the last decade already knows it in their bones.

    The reason political violence is rising in this country is not that Americans criticize their leaders too harshly. Americans have always harshly criticized their leaders. The Founders themselves wrote pamphlets that would make a modern social media post look like a thank-you card. The reason political violence is rising is that the institutions tasked with preventing it have repeatedly proven they will not be held accountable when they fail and a population that watches its institutions escape consequences eventually loses faith that the system works at all.

    That loss of faith is the real fuel. Not memes, tweets, nor the volume of ordinary Americans expressing ordinary frustration with their government. The fuel is the unmistakable sense, shared now by tens of millions of citizens across the political spectrum, that the powerful in this country answer to no one.

    To the President, As One Soldier to His Commander in Chief

    Mr. President, I prayed for you after Butler. I prayed for you again this past weekend. I am grateful beyond words that you are alive and that the men and women of the Secret Service did their job in the moment that mattered most. The country needs you in that office.

    I am also telling you that the path forward is not through the speech of the American citizen. It is through the desks of the federal officials who have presided over three attempts on your life and have not yet been required to answer for any of them.

    Fire the people who failed. Name them. Replace them with serious men and women who understand that protecting the President of the United States is not a public relations exercise. Conduct an after-action review the way the military conducts one publicly, ruthlessly, and with the chain of responsibility traced all the way to the top. The American people will respect that. They have been waiting a long time to see it.

    The millions of Americans being framed as contributors to political violence are the same Americans who put you back in the White House. They stood by your side after the 2020 election was stolen. They knocked on the doors. They wrote the checks. They prayed through two assassination attempts and stood by you when the entire machinery of the federal government was deployed against your campaign and your person. They are not a threat to this Republic. They are the reason it still has a pulse. Defend them publicly and unambiguously.

    What Every American Citizen Must Do This Week

    First, demand names. When a senior official tells you that “everyone” is responsible for what happened this weekend, do not accept it. Ask publicly, loudly, and repeatedly: who was in charge of the security perimeter, who signed off on it, and what is happening to that person now? Accountability begins with refusing to let the question be changed.

    Second, contact your two U.S. Senators and your Representative this week and demand a public statement on whether they support a full, named, public after-action review of every senior official involved in the security failures of the last two years. On the record. In writing.

    Third, do not surrender your voice. Refuse the framing that ordinary American criticism of powerful officials contributes to violence. The single greatest defense against an unaccountable government is a citizenry that will not be shamed into silence by it.

    I have been a soldier my entire adult life. I have buried friends. I have stood at attention while flags were folded into triangles and handed to widows. I have watched young Americans give everything they had so that the country their grandparents built would still be standing when their children grew up.

    Those Americans did not die so that the senior officials of the federal government could fail upward indefinitely while the citizens back home were told to watch their tone. They died for a country in which the powerful answer to the people, not the other way around.

    Finally, do not under any circumstances, for any reason, in any moment of grief or fear, let the people who failed you tell you that you are the problem.

    We have been down that road before. We are not walking down it again.”

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  19. EXCERPT: “In the immediate aftermath of the fourth assassination attempt on President Trump this past weekend at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, we heard the familiar chorus of voices in the corporate media and political establishment calling for calm, for unity, for lowering the temperature, toning down the rhetoric. We heard the same thing after Charlie Kirk’s assassination last September, and after Trump was shot in the face by a would-be assassin on the campaign trail in July 2024.

    As always, the people saying this pretend it’s a “both sides” problem, that the political left and right are both at risk of becoming dangerously violent, and that for the sake of our democracy we all need to calm down.

    What nonsense. There is only one side in America today that has a persistent and very real-world problem with political violence, and everyone knows it’s the left.

    It’s the left that has produced four would-be assassins of President Trump. It’s the left that produced Charlie Kirk’s assassin and the sneering online hordes who celebrated his murder. It’s the left that produced Luigi Mangione, who allegedly killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in cold blood, and overnight became a folk hero to his fellow travelers.

    The left riots and burns down cities in a way that makes Jan. 6 look tame, and the corporate press justifies it as a form of political speech. The left regularly threatens conservative speakers and events, forcing organizers to provide a level of security that liberal events never need. The left foments violence not just by spreading false propaganda about conservatives but by funding the supposed right-wing extremists they warn about, as the recent federal criminal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center has shown.

    Surveys consistently find a shocking tolerance for political violence among left-leaning Americans that simply is not present on the right. A YouGov poll last year found a whopping 42 percent of self-described liberals believe political violence is sometimes justifiable (only 9 percent of conservatives said the same). An April 2025 Rutgers University study on political violence found that 56 percent of self-identifying left-wing respondents justified murdering Trump, while 50 percent said the same of Elon Musk. If these numbers were reversed, and showed massive support for political violence on the right, it’s all the corporate press would talk about.

    As it is, the press won’t even admit the left’s predilection for political violence, even though the reality of it is borne out nearly every week — and not just in the form of trans mass shooters targeting Christian schoolchildren and churches. When Jimmy Kimmel’s show was briefly suspended last year following Kimmel’s vile commentary on Kirk’s assassination (including his false assertion that Kirk’s assassin was MAGA), a man shot up an ABC affiliate station in Sacramento. To be clear, the alleged shooter (a former legislative director for the California Federation of Teachers) was outraged at ABC for suspending Kimmel, not at Kimmel for lying about Kirk’s assassin…..”

    https://thefederalist.com/2026/04/28/the-american-left-is-in-thrall-to-political-violence-it-has-to-be-destroyed/

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    1. Good grief, these people are evil thru-and-thru!!!!

      “Kimmel isn’t even an outlier on the American left. He’s representative — a normie leftist. Minutes after the assassination attempt at the WHCD, Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt blamed Trump for almost getting murdered, saying the president is “poisoning the rhetoric” in America, and that he’s a “vile and disgusting man.” The idea that Trump has it coming is a mainstream view on the left. Tune into CNN or The View, and you will hear versions of this violence-inspiring rhetoric spewing forth from the mouths of supposedly respectable, establishment liberals.”

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  20. 🟡 Mystery Golden Orb Finally Identified

    “Remember the mysterious golden orb found deep off Alaska? Not an egg. Not a sponge.

    It turns out to be part of an anemone-like organism. For two years: Scientists had no idea what they were looking at. The deep ocean remains… mostly unknown.”

    👉 https://www.livescience.com/animals/aquatic-animals/mystery-of-golden-orb-found-in-depths-of-ocean-off-alaska-finally-solved

    I’m sooooo glad I won’t be around a whole lot longer…..this stuff 👇 is just wrong!!!

    🤖 Living Robots Now Have Nervous Systems

    “Scientists created tiny living robots that:

    • move
    • explore
    • respond to drugs
    • and now… have nervous systems

    No batteries. No code. No controller. Just cells… organizing themselves. They’re calling them neurobots. No one really governs this space yet.”

    👉 https://thehighwire.com/editorial/harvard-built-it-darpa-paid-for-it-nobody-governs-it/

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  21. 🌪️ Tornadoes Kill in Texas

    A separate storm system brought destruction to northern Texas:

    • 2 dead
    • homes destroyed
    • families displaced

    The same system. Different outcomes.

    👉 https://www.runcornandwidnesworld.co.uk/news/national/26055290.two-dead-tornadoes-hit-northern-texas/

    🛢️ UAE Leaves OPEC

    The UAE plans to exit OPEC. Reason: More control over oil production. Potential outcome:

    • higher global supply
    • lower prices
    • weaker coordinated control

    One move. Possible domino effect.

    👉 https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/2026/04/28/uae-announces-it-will-leave-opec/

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  22. 🐎 Wildlife Thrives in Chernobyl

    In a place humans abandoned: Wild horses are thriving. Chernobyl has become an accidental wildlife reserve. Radiation remains. Nature adapts anyway.

    👉 https://www.euronews.com/2026/04/26/nature-has-performed-a-factory-reset-chernobyl-has-flourished-into-an-unlikely-wildlife-re

    ⚡ AI Data Center Will Outconsume a State

    A new AI data center in Utah will use: More than twice the power of the entire state. 9 gigawatts. That’s infrastructure at planetary scale.

    👉 https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/kevin-o-learys-9-gw-utah-data-center-campus-approved

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  23. “The End of OPEC as We Knew It: One of OPEC’s three largest producers is out.”

    Michael T. Flynn LTG USA (RET), Apr 28, 2026

    BREAKING: The United Arab Emirates is walking away from OPEC after nearly 60 years of membership. The withdrawal takes effect on May 1, and it strips the cartel of one of its three largest producers in the middle of an active war, with the Strait of Hormuz still contested.

    Read between the lines of this announcement. For half a century, OPEC dictated what Americans paid at the pump, and the cartel used energy as a weapon against the United States and our allies. President Trump called it out for exactly what it was, which is a rigged system designed to rip off the American people and the rest of the free world. Today, the cracks are showing for everyone to see. That cartel is fracturing under the leadership of a Commander in Chief who refuses to let foreign capitals dictate the price of a gallon of gas in America or the security of the American homeland.

    I want every American to understand what this moment actually means. Energy dominance is national security, and national security is the foundation of American freedom. Every barrel produced outside of an OPEC quota is leverage that returns to the United States. Every fracture inside that cartel is a direct win for American families, American workers, American industry, and American sovereignty.

    The UAE Energy Secretary said it in plain language, declaring that his country now operates with no obligations and full flexibility. Translation: They are done taking orders from a system that was built to manipulate global supply and punish nations that refuse to comply.

    Watch the dominoes that fall next, because they will fall quickly. This development is far bigger than oil. This is the old world order coming apart at the seams, and a new realignment is forming in its place. That realignment is being built on strength, on sovereignty, and on the steady leadership of President Trump, with the American people standing with him.

    Read the UAE’s official statement in full below.”

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  26. Well, I definitely do not like this man but I can feel sympathy for his situation now. No-one deserves that diagnosis!!!

    EXCERPT: “Ben Sasse would like a final word. At the age of 54, the former U.S. senator of Nebraska is dying of pancreatic cancer. But a new drug is giving him extra time — time to hear his appeal for reason in Washington and community at home. Sasse is a conservative Republican of independent thought. With a PhD in American history, he once told his fellow senators “the people despise us all… because we are not doing our job.” His cancer therapy leaves him looking seriously sunburned. But we found Ben Sasse as insightful, passionate and hopeful as ever.

    Ben Sasse: I love America, and I think there’s a lot of big and meaty things that we should’ve been talking about, and we still can talk about. And having a terminal diagnosis isn’t really that unique. We’re all always on the clock. Some of us have the benefit, maybe– it’s a weird word– but the benefit of knowing our time is finite and defined, and it becomes an opportunity to talk about bigger stuff. 

    Scott Pelley: And you have focus from that?

    Ben Sasse: Yeah. I mean, It’s weird to– be in your early 50s and get a terminal diagnosis, and people all of a sudden act like you’re 93 or 94 and you have a lotta wisdom. I don’t know that I have a lot of wisdom, but I have a lotta things that I think we should be reflecting on together.

    Reflecting, he told us, on rebuilding communities — neighbor to neighbor, regulating artificial intelligence before it overwhelms us and mending broken politics.

    Ben Sasse: Neither of these parties really have very big or good ideas about 2030 or 2050, at a national security level, at a future of work level, at an institution-building level. The Congress is not wrestling with big or important questions right now.

    Scott Pelley: If Congress is looking at the wrong things, what is it missing?

    Ben Sasse: We are living through a digital revolution, which is both glorious and horrific at the same time. Because what, what the digital revolution does is it accelerates almost everything about the human experience. Anything that can be reduced to a series of steps, which is most economic activity, is gonna be routinized and become really, really cheap, really fast, and really ubiquitous. We’ve never lived in a world where 22 year olds couldn’t assume that the work they did they would be able to do until death or retirement and we’re never gonna have that world again. And Congress doesn’t talk about any of those kind of most fundamental issues. The disruption of work, for good and for ill, should be front and central. Congress doesn’t even know how to have that conversation…..”

    Ben Sasse

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-sen-ben-sasse-cancer-reflects-on-family-faith-and-future-of-america-60-minutes-transcript/

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  27. holy crap! i had a doctor’s appt–20 minutes from where we live. we get there and the “clinic” is full–2 Amish buggies and a ton of cars in the parking lot. waited for almost 2 hours to see the doctor for a 15 minute visit.

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    1. Holy cow! Too bad you couldn’t check in, get an estimate of the time, and leave to go shopping or get something to eat, if you are allowed to eat before the appointment.

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        1. I always appreciate them when they’re willing to do that and I’m always careful not to push it by getting back a little earlier than necessary.

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  30. “The “Kill” Switch: When software and the government control our daily lives”

    Dr. Robert W. Malone, Apr 28, 2026

    EXCERPT: “In 2021, Congress passed an infrastructure law, and inside it sits a requirement that future vehicles include technology capable of detecting impaired driving. The stated goal is simple. If a driver is drunk or clearly unsafe, the vehicle should be able to prevent operation. That is the mandate. It does not authorize remote control, and it was signed by Joe Biden, not Donald Trump.

    The way this shows up is not as a single device but as a stack of systems that already exist. Cameras inside the cabin track your eyes, your face, your attention. Sensors read steering inputs, braking patterns, and lane position. Newer systems are being built to detect alcohol passively through breath or even through your skin on the wheel. The car is no longer just a machine you operate. It is a system that watches you, evaluates you, and increasingly decides whether you are fit to use it.

    Call things by their proper name. This is not a switch someone flips from afar. This is a shift from mechanical control to software governance. The car becomes an intermediary between you and your own mobility.

    At first, it arrives quietly. It starts in higher-end vehicles and works its way down. It is marketed as safety, convenience, and common sense. Insurance companies offer discounts if you agree to monitoring. Most people say yes. Why not save a few hundred dollars? Over time, the discount becomes the baseline. Opting out starts to cost you. Driving an older car, free of monitoring devices, will cost you, or maybe even make you uninsurable. The “choice” remains on paper, but in practice it fades.

    This is a slow ratchet. The frog put in a pot of water as the heat is slowly turned up. Before he knows it and can jump out, he has been boiled alive. Control does not have to be imposed directly when it can be engineered through incentives. If your premiums, your financing, and eventually your access to services and cars depend on how a system scores your behavior, then the system does not need a kill switch. It already has leverage.

    Private companies are central to this. Insurers like Progressive Corporation and Allstate are already building models around continuous driver monitoring. Today, it is framed as a discount program. Tomorrow, it becomes a pricing standard. You are free to opt out in the same way you are free to pay significantly more. That is not coercion in the legal sense, but it is pressure in the real world. Is it just a matter of time before “vintage” cars require higher premiums or are even uninsurable?

    This is where the constitutional layer matters, and also where many people misunderstand it. The United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights were designed to limit government power, not the reach of private corporations. If a manufacturer installs monitoring in your vehicle and you agree to it through a contract, you are not dealing with state action in the traditional sense. That means many of the Constitutional protections people assume are there do not apply in a straightforward way.

    The Fourth Amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. It does not shield data that you have allowed a company to collect. That becomes especially important if that data is later accessed by law enforcement.

    Courts have pushed back on warrantless tracking in some contexts, but the boundary between private data and government access continues to be eroded by Congress and the courts…..”

    https://www.malone.news/p/the-kill-switch

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  31. And here it goes…..next thing will be the Soros apparatus returning to Hungary and infesting the schools and everything else!!! Bad, bad news for the citizens of Hungary, IMO.

    “In the name of ‘openness’ and ‘creativity,’ gay education is coming to Hungary: Péter Magyar’s new government will not limit any pro-Pride policies to adults, with several prominent LGBT-friendly figures taking up key roles in education policy”

    Remix News Staff, April 28, 2026, 13:01

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Hungary will have a new 24-hour LGBTQI TV channel, and now, incoming PM Péter Magyar (Tisza) has announced some LGBT-friendly figures to serve in his education ministry.

    Judit Lannert will head up the Ministry for Children and Education. Aside from degrees in economics and social policy, she also holds a PhD in sociology and spent time studying in the U.S. Lannert, who displayed the Pride rainbow around her profile photo on Facebook during the protests against Fidesz’s Child Protection Law, was not the first pick. Rita Rubovszky, a Catholic expert and director of the Cistercian School Authority, was widely expected to take up the role.

    But Magyar quickly caved to left-wing outcries and named Lennert to the post, where she will presumably work on a more open-minded and “creative” approach to Hungarian education. Many are wondering what exactly this will entail. She has previously advocated for the closing of small schools to deal with the shortage of teachers in Hungary, saying the country must achieve greater efficiency.

    There is no question that Lennert is distinctly left-leaning, and this goes beyond her support for Pride and opposition to a Hungarian law banning any sort of LGBTQI education in elementary schools.

    This past February, the appointed minister reposted a video by an influencer, pushing the message that wellness is somehow directly linked to fascism. “Many people in Hungary can probably relate to this,” Lennert commented on her repost.

    Perhaps more telling in just how far to the left education will go in Hungary is the choice by Péter Magyar of Kriszta Bódis, who will work within the Prime Minister’s Office, led by Bálint Ruff, coordinating health care, education, social policy, and other areas.

    Bódis, who served as a socio-political consultant for Tisza during its campaign, is well-known as the author of a children’s homosexual-themed book called “Csipke Józsika,” about a little boy who explores his sexual identity and self-awareness. “Csipke Rózsika” is “Sleeping Beauty” in Hungarian, so the name of this book is already a LGBT play on that, as Józsika is a nickname for Joseph.

    According to Kulturpart, the book approaches traditional gender roles and otherness in a unique way, telling the story of a gay prince using fairy tale elements to reflect on social acceptance and difference.”

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  32. Katie Daviscourt https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f4f8.svg
    @KatieDaviscourt
    Breaking: The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against anti-ICE protesters, issuing another block against a judge’s order prohibiting federal officers from deploying crowd control munitions on protesters at the Portland ICE facility.

    The three-panel decision, issued by judges Kenneth Lee, Eric Tung, “and Ana de Alba (dissent), reads as follows:

    “The First Amendment does not protect vandalism, criminal trespass, or obstruction of law enforcement. Such unlawful acts, however, have been commonplace around the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) building in Portland over the past year.”

    Numerous provocateurs—many wielding bats, shields, and strobe lights that disrupt vision—have hurled bricks, smashed security cameras, and blocked the driveway to prevent ICE cars from entering or exiting the building. In response, the government has used tear gas, pepper balls, and other non-lethal munitions to disperse the crowd.”

    “Five plaintiffs sued the government, alleging that they are peaceful protesters who have been injured as a result of the crowd-control tactics. But they do not contend that they are collateral casualties caught in the crossfire—they claim that the government specifically targeted them in retaliation for exercising their First Amendment rights.”

    “The plaintiffs have not shown that the agents had the subjective intent to retaliate or that the government has an unwritten policy targeting them. Much of the evidence shows the government trying to clear the entrance to the ICE facility in the face of unrest and an unruly crowd.  And while some individual incidents might indicate an arguably disproportionate use of force, they alone do not amount to an unwritten policy of retaliation.”

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  34. Just The News: “The Department of Justice indicted former FBI Director James Comey for the second time on Tuesday, CNN reported, citing “two sources familiar.”

    The outlet did not identify the charges against Comey. The indictment follows a court dismissing a previous case against Comey, which was mired in legal scrutiny over the qualifications of acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan.

    Reports broke in March that Comey had received a subpoena as part of a “grand conspiracy” probe by the DOJ.

    Comey became a figure of national notoriety in 2016 after he announced that the FBI had reopened an investigation into then-former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a move that many have said swung the election to President Donald Trump.”

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  36. The Perils Of Following The Herd…

    Yeah, We Know What You Programmed That Arm For..

    That’s The Last Time You’ll Do That..

    Bet That Hurt…

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  38. FILLY!!!!!!!!!!

    a small orange oriole was on my railing!!!

    I quickly got my feeder out with some jelly–and she was back eating there already!!

    I put out some bright yellow yarn on the opposite railing…see if she takes it.

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    1. If it’s bright orange, it is a male – they come ahead of the females to scout the territory. So they should be showing up soon here! The jelly is ready and waiting!

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  40. Mom is starting to adapt to the wheelchair. She uses her feet to propel herself forward instead of her hands–but apparently she can go pretty good! And they are putting something on her knees to help with the stiffness and pain. that’s also good.

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  46. Just The News: “King Charles III gave a historic speech Tuesday to a joint session of Congress where he hailed the United Kingdom’s and United States’ centuries-long relationship as part of the monarch’s visit to the U.S. for the nation’s 250th anniversary.

    Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson presided over the joint session, which was also attended by Supreme Court justices and members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet. 

    The king reflected on the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ dinner over the weekend, which occurred before he arrived in the U.S., claiming that “such acts of violence will never succeed.” 

    “We meet in times of great uncertainty, in times of conflict from Europe to the Middle East, which pose immense challenges for the international community and whose impact is felt in communities the length and breadth of our own countries,” he said.

    “We meet too in the aftermath of the incident not far from this great building, that sought to harm the leadership of your nation and to foment wider fear and discord,” he continued. “Let me say with unshakable resolve, such acts of violence will never succeed.”

    The royal said he has come to Capitol Hill with “the highest respect” for lawmakers and emphasized the importance of the U.K. and American alliance.

    “The alliance that our two nations have built over the centuries, and for which we are profoundly grateful to the American people, is truly unique,” he said, adding that it’s “more important today than it has ever been. The challenges we face are too great for any one nation to bear alone. 

    “In this unpredictable environment, our alliance cannot rest on past achievements, or assume that foundational principles simply endure,” he continued. “As my prime minister said last month, ‘ours is an indispensable partnership. We must not disregard everything that has sustained us for the last 80 years. Instead, we must build on it.’” 

    The monarch also praised the Founding Fathers of the United States and jokingly promised that he is not in the U.S. as “part of some cunning rear guard action.”

    “The Founding Fathers were bold and imaginative rebels with a cause 250 years ago, or as we say in the United Kingdom, just the other day,” he joked. “They declared independence by balancing contending forces and drawing strength into diversity. They united 13 disparate colonies to forge a nation on the revolutionary idea of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

    He additionally reflected on Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, stating that the former president understood that American words carry weight, but that actions matter more.

    “So to the United States of America on your 250th birthday, that our two countries rededicate ourselves to each other in the selfless service of our people and of all the peoples of the world,” Charles said. “God bless the United States and God bless the United Kingdom.” 

    The king’s speech comes during his first stateside visit as monarch, alongside Queen Camilla, and will be in the U.S. for a total of four days. He arrived Monday and is expected to depart for Bermuda on Thursday. The royal is also expected to attend a state dinner at the White House Tuesday evening.”

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