sun is out and it’s currently 50*. Last night we were watching tv and the jelly feeder was still out–a hummer approached it! It was getting too late to dig out the feeders, clean and fill them, so we did all that this morning while the coffee was brewing. And a hummer made a visit…and now as I type-he’s back/ quick visit–not sitting long and drinking much.
I have several “pieces” of feeders in my bin. I can use the bottoms for jelly feeders if the bears yank them down and puncture the clear plastic tube ( i threw out 2 like that last year!) That’s the reason we don’t let them out all night.
Good Morning Pat! Forgot it was Cinco de Mayo! It’s strange but Mexicans in Mexico do not celebrate Cinco de Mayo– it isn’t even a holiday. It’s the date of some minor Mexican battle. Their big holiday is Independence Day Sept 16th. Taquitos for dinner!
Congrats on your first hummer! đ
Nice sunrise, but looks to be mostly cloudy. God Bless đ
Morning, Pat! Cloudy and only 43 here this morning! It’s a banner day here – Wheezer finally showed up and so did my Orioles! The Finches had eaten enough jelly that it was only half-full so I refilled it and put out the single dish feeder w/jelly as well. That can help keep them from fighting too much. Within 5 minutes, there were 3 male Orioles – one on the small feeder and 2 on the big one. They’re hungry after their migration.
the female orioles are trying to pull the yarn from last year’s pink nest. I put out yellow and some purple yarn a couple of days ago–but so far no interest in those. I wanted a different color hoping to see the woods light up with colors…lol.
The orioles are eating the jelly like crazy and even drinking from the hummer feeders when the bigger male is at the jelly.
We have 2 hummers that i know of–only because I saw them on the 2 feeders at once.
Usually, the males come first here with the females following in a week or two – only males today. Maybe I need to put out some pink yarn! IDK, maybe the females show up earlier there because you are further north? They suck it down because they are hungry and tired after their migration. They like pink = give them pink! LOL
Rudy Giuliani was well enough to speak to his relieved children Monday night as he battled pneumonia at a Florida hospital, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The former NYC Mayor, 81, was breathing by himself and able to communicate with Caroline and Andrew Giulliani after being taken off a ventilator, a well-placed source said.
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âRudy had a tough weekend,â Giulianiâs business partner Tom von Essen said earlier. Von Essen worked as the New York City Fire Commissioner during the 9/11 terrorist attacks when Giuliani was mayor.
âToday is an important day,â he added.
âMayor Rudy Giuliani is recovering from pneumonia. On September 11, Mayor Giuliani ran toward the towers to help those in need, which later led to a diagnosis of restrictive airway disease,â Giulianiâs spokesman Ted Goodman confirmed.
âThis condition adds complications to any respiratory illness, and the virus quickly overwhelmed his body, requiring mechanical ventilation to maintain adequate oxygen and stabilize his condition.â
Obama confesses Trump has caused âtensionâ in his marriage after Michelle issues dramatic plea Hussein Obama has offered a rare and candid glimpse into his marriage â and it turns out Pres Trump is causing trouble at home. The former President, 64, admitted in an interview that Michelle wants him to step back from public life so the couple can enjoy their later years together.
The problem? He keeps getting pulled back into the politics of the day. The former commander-in-chief said Trumpâs return to the WH is the reason he cannot simply walk away, and that his inability to do so has become a source of friction at home.
Epic Waters in Grand Prairie, Texas drew outrage this week as it released fliers for the June 1 event, which will demand a ‘modest dress code’ and serve only Halal-slaughtered meat.Â
Posters for the event say it will be ‘for Muslims only’ to create a ‘family-friendly environment’, with tickets starting at $55 each.
The waterpark’s website notes that men and women will not be separated during the event, but attendees are told to ‘uphold Islamic etiquette’ by ‘lowering the gaze’ throughout the day.
‘Please follow the eventâs modest dress code, and practice ḼayÄĘž (modesty) through respectful behavior,’ the event says.
All attendees are ‘expected to dress in accordance with Islamic values’, and the waterpark says all swimwear must meet Muslim guidelines.
The event was criticized across social media, with many questioning if a taxpayer-funded space is allowed to exclude certain demographics from its events.
Conservative commentator and radio host Dana Loesch led the backlash, questioning: ‘How is a taxpayer-funded, city-owned entity allowed to discriminate against non-Muslims at a public water park?’
I didn’t know he was working in Trump’s administration:
EXCERPT: “Two-time Trump administration official Ben Carson is out with an op-ed demonstrating how the SPLC unfairly targeted him.
Carson, who served first as the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and serves now as the National Advisor for Nutrition, Health, and Housing, wrote the op-ed for Fox News.
âIn 2014, the SPLC added me to their list of dangerous extremists, for the âhate crimeâ of being a Black, Christian conservative,â the op-ed begins. âThey called me a bigot, knowing that it was false and knowing that it would put my family and me in danger.â
âThey knew that because two years prior, a gay-rights activist opened fire at the conservative Family Research Council after the SPLC falsely branded them a hate group. But the SPLC didnât care. Because â as we see now â spreading hate was the SPLCâs core business all along,â the op-ed continues…..”
Just The News: âThe Supreme Court decided Monday to let its recent ruling limiting a key part of the Voting Rights Act take effect early instead of holding it for a month, per tradition.
The Supreme Court last week narrowed the scope of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to bar race-based districts, ruling that Louisianaâs map was unconstitutional and prompting the state to reschedule its upcoming House primaries while its lines are redrawn.
Supporters of the Supreme Court ruling urged the court to allow it to take effect immediately so Louisiana has time to redraw the maps, but opponents urged the court to push it until after the election because voting in the primary had begun.
The courtâs ruling was unsigned but Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a concurring opinion that Louisiana should not have to use a map found to be unconstitutional and there is still time for a new map to be redrawn, according to USA Today.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said in a dissenting opinion that the courtâs decisions have âspawned chaosâ in the south.
âTo avoid the appearance of partiality here, we could, as per usual, opt to stay on the sidelines and take no position by applying our default procedures,â Jackson wrote. âBut, today, the Court chooses the opposite.â
Louisiana officials said that the high courtâs timeline for the new map does not matter and that it will be able to redraw the maps regardless of when it takes effect.â
and that decision makes perfect sense to me. they ruled the law UNCONSTITUTIONAL, which means correct ASAP…not wait and let a unconstitutional law affect another election.
Just The News: “South Carolina GOP Rep. Nancy Mace claimed Monday that Congressâ sexual harassment slush fund allegedly paid for settlements for a handful of former lawmakers that equaled more than $300,000.
Mace promised accountability for the victims, and the House paid out approximately $338,000 to settle the cases. One former lawmaker was targeted in sexual assault lawsuits three times and the House cumulatively paid out $115,000 to dismiss those cases.
The House Oversight panel subpoenaed information detailing the government payouts after a March committee vote, seeking a full accounting of payouts made before the settlements ended in 2018, according to Politico.
“You, the American people, paid for this,” Mace said on X. “Taxpayer dollars were used to silence victims of sexual harassment by Members of Congress. We said we would get you names. Here they are, along with the amounts.”
The results of my subpoena of Congressâs sexual harassment slush fund are in.
Nine members. One thousand pages.
All records prior to 2004 were destroyed – which tells you everything you need to know about how long this has been buried.
The list names former New York Democratic Rep. Eric Massa three times and former Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers once. Other names on the list included former GOP Reps. Blake Farenthold of Texas, Patrick Meehan of Pennsylvania and Rodney Alexander of Louisiana.
The office of the late Democratic New York Rep. Carolyn McCarthy was also listed in the files with a settlement of $8,000.
The highest single payouts went to alleged victims of Massa ($85,000) and Farenthold ($84,000). All three of Massa’s settlements were paid out in 2010.
The disclosures come after Congress passed a law in 2018 that barred the federal government from paying for lawmakersâ settlements for sexual harassment claims. No payments have been made since 2017.”
EXCERPT: “Former President Barack Obama is getting dragged online after using âStar Wars Dayâ to showcase his ghastly presidential center with woke actor Mark Hamill aka âLuke Skywalkerâ joining him.
As TGP readers may know, fans of the space saga use May 4 every year to celebrate the creation of the franchise and their favorite characters. âStar Wars Dayâ has also become a popular cultural event with sports teams, politicians, and the International Space Station participating.
Obama, though, used the moment to provide an update on the center. But he forced viewers to endure an incredibly cringeworthy and lie-filled exchange with Hamill first. In the video, Obama is seen bragging about himself while pretending heâs speaking about ordinary people. Then, he has the audacity to claim that his presidential center is absolutely not for his legacy, âbut a gateway to yours.â
âThe Obama Presidential Center is much more than a museum,â he adds. âIt is an entire campus built to empower you.â
Hamill acts like an idiot throughout and provides even more cringeworthy dialogue…..”
TAXES: Virginiaâs Gov Abigail Spanberger has signed 1,300 bills in the first few months of her reign – now she wants to tax your gym membership and Netflix. https://t.co/QoWT2TylIppic.twitter.com/Sa4Au50EgY
JUST IN: The Secret Service confirmed that a juvenile bystander was hit after an armed suspect opened fire near the White House.
The suspect was shot by Secret Service officers and is currently hospitalized, while the juvenile is receiving treatment for non-life-threatening⌠pic.twitter.com/eU7m2a5HDx
Just The News: âA United Statesâ National Transportation Safety Board report said a review of flight data supports the belief that a China Eastern flight deliberately crashed in China four years ago, killing all 132 people on board.
The data was taken from the Boeing 737-800 passenger jetâs flight data recorder, which was taken from the crash site in the remote Guangxi region of China and sent to Washington, D.C., for analysis. The U.S. is involved in the investigation because Boeing is an American company.
The flight data showed that the fuel switches to both jet engines were moved from the run position to the cutoff position, which requires a pilot to pull the switch up before moving it from the run to cutoff position, supporting a theory that the crash was intentional, according to CNN.
âThis data clearly shows that the fuel switches were manually placed in the off position just prior to the crash,â David Soucie, a CNN aviation safety analyst, told the outlet. âThere is no indication the switches were placed back to the on position. That indicates there was no attempt to restart the engines. If the switches were turned off in error the pilots would have made an attempt to turn them back on.â
It is not clear who would allegedly be behind the crash and the findings contradict the Civil Aviation Administration of Chinaâs claim that all systems were seemingly functioning as normal at the time of the crash, according to The Times. But graphs showed one pilot pushed the aircraft into a steep dive while the other pilot attempted to stop the dive.
Despite the graphs, China reiterated its belief that everything was functioning normally in a statement in 2024, claiming it did not find any issues with the plane, its crew or weather conditions before the Boeing 737 took off from Kunming.â
Just The News: âSecretary of State Marco Rubio is planning to meet this week with Pope Leo XIV in Italy, amid a remarkably public and hardened standoff between President Trump and the pontiff over such global issues as the U.S. war with Iran and the United Statesâ withering fiscal-foreign policy on Cuba.
The public rift appeared to start when Trump threatened that âa whole civilization will dieâ if Iran did not make a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz shipping lane, amid the U.S.-Iran war that began Feb. 28.
Leo called the statement âtruly unacceptable.â He also said: âThe world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants. The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet often a lifetime is not enough to rebuild.â
Trump responded by saying the pontiff was weak on crime, weak on nuclear weapons, and should âfocus on being a great pope, not a politician.â
The meeting will be the first between a Trump administration official since the president criticized the Pope over his remarks concerning Iran. Rubio is expected to also discuss the situation in Cuba, according to USA Today.
The U.S. has increased sanctions and created an oil embargo on the island nation in January, hoping to force the country to the negotiating table.âÂ
Bring them ALL home now!!!! Screw those NATO idiots!!!
Just The News: âItalian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Monday indicated that she opposed a possible U.S. withdrawal of troops from Italy as President Donald Trump has signaled such a withdrawal from Germany.
Meloni, speaking to reporters, indicated that she was concerned about a U.S. withdrawal, would oppose such a decision, and highlighted that Italy had honored its obligations, apparently referencing American frustrations with NATO allies. âIt is clearly a decision that does not depend on me and one that I personally would not support,â she said. âBut there is one thing I would like to make clear, Italy has always honored its commitments.â
The Pentagon last week confirmed that it planned to remove 5,000 troops from Germany, though it stopped shy of announcing a full withdrawal. The U.S. currently has roughly 35,000 troops in the country. The move comes amid ongoing tensions between President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the Iran war.
The Trump administration has repeatedly expressed its frustration with NATO allies amid the Iran war, lamenting that the blocâs other members had not contributed to naval operations in the Persian Gulf.â
According to Florida Politics, the new map â which takes effect immediately â could potentially net Republicans an additional four seats during the upcoming 2026 midterm elections. Under the now-former map, Republicans hold 20 U.S. House seats, while Democrats hold eight.
The new map âleaves four Democratic U.S. Representatives in Florida â U.S. Reps. Kathy Castor, Jared Moskowitz, Darren Soto and Debbie Wasserman Schultz â with districts that now lean Republican based on the last presidential election results,â according to the outlet. The Florida House (83-28) and Senate (21-17) passed the new map last Wednesday.
DeSantis first announced plans in January to call the state legislature into an April special session to partake in mid-decade redistricting. The goal, according to the governor, was âto ensure that Floridaâs congressional maps accurately reflect the population of our state and to comply with an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court ruling.â
The ruling in question was handed down by the high court last week amid the legislatureâs consideration of DeSantisâ proposed map. Known as Louisiana v. Callais, the 6-3 decision by Justice Samuel Alito kneecapped statesâ ability to use race in the redistricting process, a seemingly unlawful policy long favored by Democrats to maintain majority-minority districts that favor their party.
âSection 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ⌠was designed to enforce the Constitution â not collide with it. Unfortunately, lower courts have sometimes applied this Courtâs §2 precedents in a way that forces States to engage in the very race-based discrimination that the Constitution forbids,â Alito wrote.
In an April 29 tweet responding to Callaisâ release, DeSantis said the courtâs decision âimplicates a district in FL â the legal infirmities of which have been corrected in the newly-drawn (and soon to be enacted) map.â The governor subsequently posted a photo of the district at issue the following day, adding, âWe said it was not constitutional under the upcoming Callais decision and now weâve been vindicated with the publication of the Supreme Courtâs opinion.â
Called this one months ago.
The decision implicates a district in FL â the legal infirmities of which have been corrected in the newly-drawn (and soon to be enacted) map. pic.twitter.com/p9VbStvxf3
The new Florida map looks to offset potential Democrat gains in Virginia, where a slim majority of voters recently approved a leftist-backed amendment allowing the commonwealthâs Democrat-run General Assembly to gerrymander the state in their partyâs favor. The Virginia Supreme Court is currently considering the legality of the measure, which â if approved by the court â would take the Old Dominion from a six Democrat-five Republican congressional map to a 10 Democrat-one Republican map…..”
This is true! I’ve only been to FL a couple of times but I saw it myself. And it rains at least a little bit every fricking day!!! Yuck! And those cockroaches! Double yuck!!!
“Afternoon thunderstorms in Florida arenât normal rain – theyâre a full system with attitude. Heat builds all day, humidity climbs like itâs training for something, and then the sky just decides itâs time. No warning, no patience. Thatâs why one side of the street is dry – and the other side looks like a flooded movie scene.
Itâs fast. Itâs loud. And it shows up right when you thought you had a normal afternoon. Sunshine at 2:45. Thunderstorm at 3:17. Clear skies again by dinner like nothing ever happened. This isnât just rain. This is Florida-engineered chaos.”
“Secret Service employee exposed himself and masturbated in front of guests at DoubleTree near MIA, detectives say”
By Jessica Holly, Sheldon Fox, Matthew Garcia, RubÊn Rosario, May 4, 2026
WEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) – An off-duty United States Secret Service employee was caught with his pants down committing a sickening act in front of hotel guests near Miami International Airport and is now behind bars, authorities said. According to the Miami-Dade Sheriffâs Office, 33-year-old John Spillman âcommitted the offense of indecent exposureâ during his assignment in South Florida over the weekend.
The arrest report states the incident happened at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Miami Airport & Convention Center, late Sunday night. Hotel guests told investigators âthey were downstairs in the hotel lobby, and the defendant followed them,â to the point where they had to retreat to their room for safety.
A woman staying at the hotel told deputies that she and others âimmediately entered their room because she was in fear for their lives.â The guests then âsaw the defendant masturbating next to their hotel room.â
The report goes on to say the guests called hotel security, who later found âthe defendant with his pants lowered and masturbating on the sixth floor.â Spillman was taken into custody just after midnight on Monday.
According to the Secret Service, Spillman is from Marble Falls, Texas and was based in the nationâs capital. He was in South Florida as part of a security perimeter screening detail at Trump National Doral for President Trumpâs scheduled visit to attend the 2026 PGA Cadillac Championship.
Richard Macauley, Chief of the Uniformed Division of the Secret Service, released a statement addressing the allegations against Spillman, which reads in part:
âThe alleged conduct is unacceptable and stands in stark contrast to the professionalism and integrity that I demand of our personnel.â
Spillmanâs South Florida assignment concluded on Sunday, and he was off-duty at the time of his arrest. He appeared in bond court at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Monday. The presiding judge made no mention of his role with the federal government.
Spillman remains behind bars on a $1,000 bond. He has posted that bond and is expected to be released at some point Tuesday morning. The Secret Service has placed Spillman on administrative leave pending the outcome of the criminal and internal investigations.”
The Medicaid Money Trail Leads Somewhere You Wonât Like â And The Daily Wire Has Receipts ďťż The enormous complex pictured below is 6161 Busch Boulevard. Its lack of windows would be a problem for most office buildings, but there is almost no one in this one. Whatâs inside is 94 different companies signed up to bill Medicaid, each with a tiny office, often marked with a sheet of paper proclaiming some generic company name ending in âHome Health LLCâ â and sometimes another piece of paper claiming the employees had just stepped out for a break.
This building alone billed taxpayers $66 million in the span of a few years, the records show.
After natural disasters, white nationalists, militias, and conspiracists often arrive, offering help. But they also want to recruit and improve their image. Watch the full 60 Minutes report: https://t.co/ZjckEj3Lt8pic.twitter.com/C2Gc4hb4k5
Tucker’s has truly gone off the deep end! Sad to see….
Tucker tells the NYT that President Trump puts a literal âspellâ on people to âweaken them and make them compliantâ and it might be âsupernatural.â 𤥠pic.twitter.com/ihh4R6uYXu
Another blatant attempt at vote buying. Talib introduces Unhoused person Bill of Rights–it’s as stupid as it sounds.
FTA
The “Unhoused Persons Bill of Rights” calls for government-led intervention to end homelessness over the next three years and introduces more than a dozen protections for homeless people.
If passed, Tlaib‘s legislation would include freedom of movement for homeless people in public spaces, affordable housing, “livable” wages, universal healthcare and panhandling.
Under the resolution, homeless individuals would have the “right to uninhibited access” to public parks, transportation, facilities, sidewalks, buildings, restrooms and other spaces â meaning they could legally set up camp in such public spaces.
The homeless population would also be given the right to internet access and the necessary technology to achieve that.
A spokesperson for Tlaib did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment regarding how that provision would work in practice.
While the resolution is nonbinding, meaning it does not carry the force of law, Tlaibâs recommendations indicate how the left could push for changes to homeless policy if Democrats retake power in Washington after the 2026 midterms.
Tlaib’s proposal would, however, grant the homeless population “freedom from harassment” by law enforcement, private businesses, property owners and “housed residents.”
Specifically, homeless individuals would be given protections against “banishment” from private property, which the Michigan Democrat’s measure characterizes as a violation of an individualâs “fundamental civil and human rights.”
âEaster Island: Is This Where All The Scientists Have Gone?â
Michael T. Flynn LTG USA (RET), May 05, 2026
EXCERPT: âOver the past several years, a quiet pattern has emerged that deserves far more attention than it has received. It began in July 2023 with the death of Michael David Hicks, a research scientist at NASAâs Jet Propulsion Laboratory who worked on the DART Project and Deep Space 1. His cause of death was never publicly released.
The following July, JPL principal researcher Frank Maiwald died in Los Angeles at 61. Again, no cause of death was disclosed then in June 2025, JPL aerospace engineer Monica Jacinto Reza vanished in the Angeles National Forest. She was hiking with a companion, thirty feet ahead, when she smiled, waved, and simply ceased to exist. She has never been found.
That same month, Melissa Casias, an administrative staffer with security clearance at Los Alamos National Laboratory, disappeared while walking along a New Mexico roadside, her phone factory-reset and left behind. In December 2025, MITâs Dr. Nuno Loureiro, director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center and one of the worldâs foremost fusion physicists, was shot to death at his home near Boston. In February 2026, Caltech astrophysicist Carl Grillmair was shot on his front porch by a stranger with no apparent motive.
Finally, the case that cracked the story open: retired Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland, former commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the facility long rumored in intelligence circles to house recovered Roswell materials, walked out of his Albuquerque home on February 27, 2026, leaving his phone, prescription glasses, and wearable devices behind. He has not been seen since.
The full documented list of cases can be reviewed here. At least eleven individuals connected to classified nuclear, aerospace, and advanced propulsion research are now dead or missing. The White House has confirmed a formal investigation. The FBI is spearheading the effort. The House Oversight Committee has demanded briefings from the FBI, the Department of Energy, NASA, and the Department of Defense. President Trump himself called it âpretty serious stuff.â These are not fringe allegations. This is the federal government confirming, on the record, that something is very wrong.
US News: String of missing or dead scientists âtoo coincidentalâ not to be a major concern, congressman says-New York Post
Do Aliens Exist?
I do not know whether extraterrestrial life exists. Nobody who is being honest with you does. What I do know is that the question has been weaponized, repeatedly and deliberately, to make serious inquiry look ridiculous. The moment a credentialed scientist, a decorated military officer, or a sitting member of Congress raises questions about unidentified aerial phenomena, recovered materials, or non-human biologics, the machinery of ridicule activates immediately. That response itself is worth studying carefully, because institutions that have nothing to hide do not work this hard to shut down questions.
Think about what we have been told and what we have been deliberately left without. We were told UAPs were weather balloons. Then we were told they were swamp gas. Then lens flares. Then we were shown declassified military footage, told by our own government that the objects were real and unidentified, and then promptly instructed to move on as though that admission carried no weight. Congress has held formal hearings on this subject. Whistleblowers holding the highest-level security clearances in this country have testified under oath, placing their careers and their freedom on the line to place information in the public record.
And yet the loudest voices in the establishment media continue to treat the entire subject as the province of conspiracy theorists and social outcasts. That posture is no longer credible, and a growing number of serious people have stopped pretending that it is.
Now consider what has happened to the people closest to the answers. Michael David Hicks worked on NASAâs DART Project, one of the most consequential planetary defense missions ever launched. He is dead, and his cause of death was never publicly released.
Frank Maiwald was a principal researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, specializing in space research. He is dead, and his cause of death was also never disclosed.
Monica Jacinto Reza was an aerospace engineer at JPL who developed patented metal alloys used in rocket manufacturing and held connections to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. She vanished on a hiking trail in broad daylight, thirty feet from her companion, and has never been found.
Major General William Neil McCasland commanded the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson, the same facility that has, in classified UAP testimony for decades, been named as a storage site for recovered materials. He walked out of his home in February 2026 and disappeared without a trace.
These are not random people. These are the individuals who, by virtue of their professional position and security clearance level, would have been among the first to know if something extraordinary had been recovered, studied, or concealed by this governmentâŚ..â
This isn’t my opinion, necessarily. I would probably vote for him and I kind of agree with this guy about Vance. He makes me decidedly uncomfortable, with his Indian wife and close friendship with Vivek Ramaswamy. I also don’t believe he’s had enough experience governing. And as for Rubio – he’s not a NBC so there is that, altho I don’t expect too many people would be all that concerned about it.
âIâm in my mid-40s. [20]28, you know, maybe beyond that, I think that thereâs a lot of runway,â DeSantis said Monday when asked if he would run for president. âWho knows? Like, you never know,â he told The Postâs Charles Gasparino during a moderated discussion, before launching into what sounded like a campaign pitch.
âWho took a state that had more Democrats than Republicans by 300,000 when he got elected [in 2018], and now has 1.5 million more Republicans?â DeSantis asked, referring to himself. âWho had a state that had a trillion-dollar economy and now has $1.8 trillion? Who has a state that had some school choice, now universal? A 50-year low in the crime rate? So weâve got a good story to tell.â A Republican insider told The Post of the Florida governor that âitâs not been a secret heâs running.â
I’m not that keen on Vance. He sounds good occasionaly, but I know a lot more about DeSantis, and I’ll tell ya – he’s a no-nonsense, law-and-order conservative who’s smart, intuitive and highly intelliegent. He’d make a great Commander in Chief, and a DeSantis/Rubio ticket would be perfect if he can pull it off. That’s just my opinion, nothing more. Juss’ sayin…”
French Air Force Payan PA-22 experimental aircraft adopting delta wings. Captured by the German military, repainted with nationality, markings added. Originally planned to be equipped with a ramjet engine. (1 prototype). Equipped with Renier-made 180 horsepower, completed in 1939. The German military liked it and captured it, but it was destroyed by Allied bombing.
talked to Mom briefly before we went to pick up the Jeep (inspection). They came to her door to tell her they’re celebrating cinco de mayo down at the “center” and they want her to come. she said let me say goodbye to my daughter and then I’ll be down. She told me they’re doing something with mayonnaise at the center and I have to go…LOLOLOL
IKR? I can’t wait to hear what she thought. She doesn’t like Mexican food, so not sure what they did, but am anxious to see. hey, it’s an activity and it gets her out of her room and with her “friends”…
Just The News: “A federal grand jury Tuesday indicted the suspected gunman at the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner on four charges, including attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump.
Cole Tomas Allen, the alleged gunman, has been accused of attempting to assassinate Trump, assaulting an officer or employee of the United States with a deadly weapon and two other firearms-related charges, according to The Hill.
The charges come after Allen was placed under suicide watch at a D.C. jail because he allegedly told the FBI that he expected to die during the shooting. Suicide watch protocols mandated Allen remain on a 24-hour lockdown in a “safe cell,” with no phone access to call or receive visits from anyone other than his legal team.
Allen has not entered a plea in the case so far but has agreed to remain in custody pending trial. This story is developing and will be updated.”
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Sew Colorful 
Morning All!
sun is out and it’s currently 50*. Last night we were watching tv and the jelly feeder was still out–a hummer approached it! It was getting too late to dig out the feeders, clean and fill them, so we did all that this morning while the coffee was brewing. And a hummer made a visit…and now as I type-he’s back/ quick visit–not sitting long and drinking much.
I have several “pieces” of feeders in my bin. I can use the bottoms for jelly feeders if the bears yank them down and puncture the clear plastic tube ( i threw out 2 like that last year!) That’s the reason we don’t let them out all night.
see what today brings…
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Good Morning Pat! Forgot it was Cinco de Mayo! It’s strange but Mexicans in Mexico do not celebrate Cinco de Mayo– it isn’t even a holiday. It’s the date of some minor Mexican battle. Their big holiday is Independence Day Sept 16th. Taquitos for dinner!
Congrats on your first hummer! đ
Nice sunrise, but looks to be mostly cloudy. God Bless đ
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Good Morning Gina!
I don’t drink and I do not like spicy food–so no Mexican food for me…lol
May God Bless you as well!
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Morning, Pat! Cloudy and only 43 here this morning! It’s a banner day here – Wheezer finally showed up and so did my Orioles! The Finches had eaten enough jelly that it was only half-full so I refilled it and put out the single dish feeder w/jelly as well. That can help keep them from fighting too much. Within 5 minutes, there were 3 male Orioles – one on the small feeder and 2 on the big one. They’re hungry after their migration.
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Morning Filly!
YAY!
the female orioles are trying to pull the yarn from last year’s pink nest. I put out yellow and some purple yarn a couple of days ago–but so far no interest in those. I wanted a different color hoping to see the woods light up with colors…lol.
The orioles are eating the jelly like crazy and even drinking from the hummer feeders when the bigger male is at the jelly.
We have 2 hummers that i know of–only because I saw them on the 2 feeders at once.
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Usually, the males come first here with the females following in a week or two – only males today. Maybe I need to put out some pink yarn! IDK, maybe the females show up earlier there because you are further north? They suck it down because they are hungry and tired after their migration. They like pink = give them pink! LOL
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Orange would be a good color, too.
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I used all the pink i had last year…but i think i have orange…maybe I’ll try that!
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Yep, that should do it!
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Well, the one about the cameras – that’s really on the hotel. Those aren’t government cameras.
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Charlotte99
May 5, 2026 5:07 am
Reply to RED DOG
Rudy Giuliani was well enough to speak to his relieved children Monday night as he battled pneumonia at a Florida hospital, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The former NYC Mayor, 81, was breathing by himself and able to communicate with Caroline and Andrew Giulliani after being taken off a ventilator, a well-placed source said.
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âRudy had a tough weekend,â Giulianiâs business partner Tom von Essen said earlier.
Von Essen worked as the New York City Fire Commissioner during the 9/11 terrorist attacks when Giuliani was mayor.
âToday is an important day,â he added.
âMayor Rudy Giuliani is recovering from pneumonia. On September 11, Mayor Giuliani ran toward the towers to help those in need, which later led to a diagnosis of restrictive airway disease,â Giulianiâs spokesman Ted Goodman confirmed.
âThis condition adds complications to any respiratory illness, and the virus quickly overwhelmed his body, requiring mechanical ventilation to maintain adequate oxygen and stabilize his condition.â
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15789041/Fears-Rudy-Giuliani-business-partner-provides-critical-update-diagnosis.html
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he’s just too full of himself to walk away…
Charlotte99
May 5, 2026 5:03 am
Obama confesses Trump has caused âtensionâ in his marriage after Michelle issues dramatic plea
Hussein Obama has offered a rare and candid glimpse into his marriage â and it turns out Pres Trump is causing trouble at home.
The former President, 64, admitted in an interview that Michelle wants him to step back from public life so the couple can enjoy their later years together.
The problem? He keeps getting pulled back into the politics of the day.
The former commander-in-chief said Trumpâs return to the WH is the reason he cannot simply walk away, and that his inability to do so has become a source of friction at home.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15789623/Obama-Trump-marriage-Michelle-issues.html
He just cant help himself
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He’s soooo hungry for power!
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he thought he was all that and a bag of chips. but now he sees President Trump’s popularity and it’s eating him alive with jealousy.
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Luvin’ it!
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Because they understand devastation!
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Epic Waters, a taxpayer funded water park in Grand Prairie Texas plan to host a “muslim only” day.
https://i.dailymail.com/1s/2026/05/04/13/108356943-15788423-image-m-8_1777896556366.jpg
Epic Waters in Grand Prairie, Texas drew outrage this week as it released fliers for the June 1 event, which will demand a ‘modest dress code’ and serve only Halal-slaughtered meat.Â
Posters for the event say it will be ‘for Muslims only’ to create a ‘family-friendly environment’, with tickets starting at $55 each.
The waterpark’s website notes that men and women will not be separated during the event, but attendees are told to ‘uphold Islamic etiquette’ by ‘lowering the gaze’ throughout the day.
‘Please follow the eventâs modest dress code, and practice ḼayÄĘž (modesty) through respectful behavior,’ the event says.
All attendees are ‘expected to dress in accordance with Islamic values’, and the waterpark says all swimwear must meet Muslim guidelines.
The event was criticized across social media, with many questioning if a taxpayer-funded space is allowed to exclude certain demographics from its events.
Conservative commentator and radio host Dana Loesch led the backlash, questioning: ‘How is a taxpayer-funded, city-owned entity allowed to discriminate against non-Muslims at a public water park?’
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15788423/Texas-waterpark-Muslim-Epic-waters-Eid.html
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Damned good question, Dana! All hell would break loose if they tried to do that for Christians!!!!
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good video…a black man details WHY black people struggle…
https://rumble.com/v79ezty-this-is-a-perfect-example-of-why-black-people-struggle-more-than-they-need-.html?mref=1wxk5&mc=ehuil
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Dr. Carson knows…..and has spoken about it often.
I didn’t know he was working in Trump’s administration:
EXCERPT: “Two-time Trump administration official Ben Carson is out with an op-ed demonstrating how the SPLC unfairly targeted him.
Carson, who served first as the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and serves now as the National Advisor for Nutrition, Health, and Housing, wrote the op-ed for Fox News.
âIn 2014, the SPLC added me to their list of dangerous extremists, for the âhate crimeâ of being a Black, Christian conservative,â the op-ed begins. âThey called me a bigot, knowing that it was false and knowing that it would put my family and me in danger.â
âThey knew that because two years prior, a gay-rights activist opened fire at the conservative Family Research Council after the SPLC falsely branded them a hate group. But the SPLC didnât care. Because â as we see now â spreading hate was the SPLCâs core business all along,â the op-ed continues…..”
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/05/01/the-splc-threat-ben-carsons-first-hand-account-on-the-risks-he-endured-1636222/
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Just The News: âThe Supreme Court decided Monday to let its recent ruling limiting a key part of the Voting Rights Act take effect early instead of holding it for a month, per tradition.
The Supreme Court last week narrowed the scope of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to bar race-based districts, ruling that Louisianaâs map was unconstitutional and prompting the state to reschedule its upcoming House primaries while its lines are redrawn.
Supporters of the Supreme Court ruling urged the court to allow it to take effect immediately so Louisiana has time to redraw the maps, but opponents urged the court to push it until after the election because voting in the primary had begun.
The courtâs ruling was unsigned but Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a concurring opinion that Louisiana should not have to use a map found to be unconstitutional and there is still time for a new map to be redrawn, according to USA Today.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said in a dissenting opinion that the courtâs decisions have âspawned chaosâ in the south.
âTo avoid the appearance of partiality here, we could, as per usual, opt to stay on the sidelines and take no position by applying our default procedures,â Jackson wrote. âBut, today, the Court chooses the opposite.â
Louisiana officials said that the high courtâs timeline for the new map does not matter and that it will be able to redraw the maps regardless of when it takes effect.â
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and that decision makes perfect sense to me. they ruled the law UNCONSTITUTIONAL, which means correct ASAP…not wait and let a unconstitutional law affect another election.
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Right? SMH
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Just The News: “South Carolina GOP Rep. Nancy Mace claimed Monday that Congressâ sexual harassment slush fund allegedly paid for settlements for a handful of former lawmakers that equaled more than $300,000.
Mace promised accountability for the victims, and the House paid out approximately $338,000 to settle the cases. One former lawmaker was targeted in sexual assault lawsuits three times and the House cumulatively paid out $115,000 to dismiss those cases.
The House Oversight panel subpoenaed information detailing the government payouts after a March committee vote, seeking a full accounting of payouts made before the settlements ended in 2018, according to Politico.
“You, the American people, paid for this,” Mace said on X. “Taxpayer dollars were used to silence victims of sexual harassment by Members of Congress. We said we would get you names. Here they are, along with the amounts.”
The list names former New York Democratic Rep. Eric Massa three times and former Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers once. Other names on the list included former GOP Reps. Blake Farenthold of Texas, Patrick Meehan of Pennsylvania and Rodney Alexander of Louisiana.
The office of the late Democratic New York Rep. Carolyn McCarthy was also listed in the files with a settlement of $8,000.
The highest single payouts went to alleged victims of Massa ($85,000) and Farenthold ($84,000). All three of Massa’s settlements were paid out in 2010.
The disclosures come after Congress passed a law in 2018 that barred the federal government from paying for lawmakersâ settlements for sexual harassment claims. No payments have been made since 2017.”
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EXCERPT: “Former President Barack Obama is getting dragged online after using âStar Wars Dayâ to showcase his ghastly presidential center with woke actor Mark Hamill aka âLuke Skywalkerâ joining him.
As TGP readers may know, fans of the space saga use May 4 every year to celebrate the creation of the franchise and their favorite characters. âStar Wars Dayâ has also become a popular cultural event with sports teams, politicians, and the International Space Station participating.
Obama, though, used the moment to provide an update on the center. But he forced viewers to endure an incredibly cringeworthy and lie-filled exchange with Hamill first. In the video, Obama is seen bragging about himself while pretending heâs speaking about ordinary people. Then, he has the audacity to claim that his presidential center is absolutely not for his legacy, âbut a gateway to yours.â
âThe Obama Presidential Center is much more than a museum,â he adds. âIt is an entire campus built to empower you.â
Hamill acts like an idiot throughout and provides even more cringeworthy dialogue…..”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/barack-obama-hawks-his-hideous-presidential-center-star/
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AND you need a photo ID to enter–is there even a fee for this bullshit?
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Oh yeah! It’s expensive! $30 for adults; children $23; IL residents $26; IL Children $15
https://www.obama.org/visit/museum-tickets/
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seriously?
his ego is out of control.
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IKR? But he’s always been that way!
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my goodness…what idiots.
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Right???
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spannberger looks like a man sometimes.
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She’s just fugly, pure and simple!
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Just The News: âA United Statesâ National Transportation Safety Board report said a review of flight data supports the belief that a China Eastern flight deliberately crashed in China four years ago, killing all 132 people on board.
The data was taken from the Boeing 737-800 passenger jetâs flight data recorder, which was taken from the crash site in the remote Guangxi region of China and sent to Washington, D.C., for analysis. The U.S. is involved in the investigation because Boeing is an American company.
The flight data showed that the fuel switches to both jet engines were moved from the run position to the cutoff position, which requires a pilot to pull the switch up before moving it from the run to cutoff position, supporting a theory that the crash was intentional, according to CNN.
âThis data clearly shows that the fuel switches were manually placed in the off position just prior to the crash,â David Soucie, a CNN aviation safety analyst, told the outlet. âThere is no indication the switches were placed back to the on position. That indicates there was no attempt to restart the engines. If the switches were turned off in error the pilots would have made an attempt to turn them back on.â
It is not clear who would allegedly be behind the crash and the findings contradict the Civil Aviation Administration of Chinaâs claim that all systems were seemingly functioning as normal at the time of the crash, according to The Times. But graphs showed one pilot pushed the aircraft into a steep dive while the other pilot attempted to stop the dive.
Despite the graphs, China reiterated its belief that everything was functioning normally in a statement in 2024, claiming it did not find any issues with the plane, its crew or weather conditions before the Boeing 737 took off from Kunming.â
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Just The News: âSecretary of State Marco Rubio is planning to meet this week with Pope Leo XIV in Italy, amid a remarkably public and hardened standoff between President Trump and the pontiff over such global issues as the U.S. war with Iran and the United Statesâ withering fiscal-foreign policy on Cuba.
The public rift appeared to start when Trump threatened that âa whole civilization will dieâ if Iran did not make a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz shipping lane, amid the U.S.-Iran war that began Feb. 28.
Leo called the statement âtruly unacceptable.â He also said: âThe world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants. The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet often a lifetime is not enough to rebuild.â
Trump responded by saying the pontiff was weak on crime, weak on nuclear weapons, and should âfocus on being a great pope, not a politician.â
The meeting will be the first between a Trump administration official since the president criticized the Pope over his remarks concerning Iran. Rubio is expected to also discuss the situation in Cuba, according to USA Today.
The U.S. has increased sanctions and created an oil embargo on the island nation in January, hoping to force the country to the negotiating table.âÂ
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Bring them ALL home now!!!! Screw those NATO idiots!!!
Just The News: âItalian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Monday indicated that she opposed a possible U.S. withdrawal of troops from Italy as President Donald Trump has signaled such a withdrawal from Germany.
Meloni, speaking to reporters, indicated that she was concerned about a U.S. withdrawal, would oppose such a decision, and highlighted that Italy had honored its obligations, apparently referencing American frustrations with NATO allies. âIt is clearly a decision that does not depend on me and one that I personally would not support,â she said. âBut there is one thing I would like to make clear, Italy has always honored its commitments.â
The Pentagon last week confirmed that it planned to remove 5,000 troops from Germany, though it stopped shy of announcing a full withdrawal. The U.S. currently has roughly 35,000 troops in the country. The move comes amid ongoing tensions between President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the Iran war.
The Trump administration has repeatedly expressed its frustration with NATO allies amid the Iran war, lamenting that the blocâs other members had not contributed to naval operations in the Persian Gulf.â
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EXCERPT: “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation on Monday that redistricts the stateâs congressional map to be more favorable to Republicans.
âSigned, Sealed, and Delivered,â the governor announced on X with an attached photo of the new map.
According to Florida Politics, the new map â which takes effect immediately â could potentially net Republicans an additional four seats during the upcoming 2026 midterm elections. Under the now-former map, Republicans hold 20 U.S. House seats, while Democrats hold eight.
The new map âleaves four Democratic U.S. Representatives in Florida â U.S. Reps. Kathy Castor, Jared Moskowitz, Darren Soto and Debbie Wasserman Schultz â with districts that now lean Republican based on the last presidential election results,â according to the outlet. The Florida House (83-28) and Senate (21-17) passed the new map last Wednesday.
DeSantis first announced plans in January to call the state legislature into an April special session to partake in mid-decade redistricting. The goal, according to the governor, was âto ensure that Floridaâs congressional maps accurately reflect the population of our state and to comply with an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court ruling.â
The ruling in question was handed down by the high court last week amid the legislatureâs consideration of DeSantisâ proposed map. Known as Louisiana v. Callais, the 6-3 decision by Justice Samuel Alito kneecapped statesâ ability to use race in the redistricting process, a seemingly unlawful policy long favored by Democrats to maintain majority-minority districts that favor their party.
âSection 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ⌠was designed to enforce the Constitution â not collide with it. Unfortunately, lower courts have sometimes applied this Courtâs §2 precedents in a way that forces States to engage in the very race-based discrimination that the Constitution forbids,â Alito wrote.
In an April 29 tweet responding to Callaisâ release, DeSantis said the courtâs decision âimplicates a district in FL â the legal infirmities of which have been corrected in the newly-drawn (and soon to be enacted) map.â The governor subsequently posted a photo of the district at issue the following day, adding, âWe said it was not constitutional under the upcoming Callais decision and now weâve been vindicated with the publication of the Supreme Courtâs opinion.â
The new Florida map looks to offset potential Democrat gains in Virginia, where a slim majority of voters recently approved a leftist-backed amendment allowing the commonwealthâs Democrat-run General Assembly to gerrymander the state in their partyâs favor. The Virginia Supreme Court is currently considering the legality of the measure, which â if approved by the court â would take the Old Dominion from a six Democrat-five Republican congressional map to a 10 Democrat-one Republican map…..”
https://thefederalist.com/2026/05/04/another-racial-gerrymander-bites-the-dust-desantis-approves-new-florida-map-ahead-of-midterms/
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OMG can you imagine the cage match with Casey DeSantis and Fetterman’s wife Gisele over being the next First Lady?
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Oh dear…..that would be wild – I do believe Gisele would win. I think she’s a good bit bulkier than Casey.
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the diva cage match…LOLOLOL
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Works for me!!!
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that third one is an excellent idea!
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Absolutely! There are a LOT of things that should be up to the voters to determine the outcome.
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which is why they’ll never make it on any ballot.
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This is true! I’ve only been to FL a couple of times but I saw it myself. And it rains at least a little bit every fricking day!!! Yuck! And those cockroaches! Double yuck!!!
“Afternoon thunderstorms in Florida arenât normal rain – theyâre a full system with attitude. Heat builds all day, humidity climbs like itâs training for something, and then the sky just decides itâs time. No warning, no patience. Thatâs why one side of the street is dry – and the other side looks like a flooded movie scene.
Itâs fast. Itâs loud. And it shows up right when you thought you had a normal afternoon. Sunshine at 2:45. Thunderstorm at 3:17. Clear skies again by dinner like nothing ever happened. This isnât just rain. This is Florida-engineered chaos.”
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yeah no thanks!
Florida does not thrill me.
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I don’t want to be anywhere that close to a coastline!
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me either!!!
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You’re a helluva lot closer than I am! LOL
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Ewww! Gross!
đ§ Brain-Eating Amoebas Go Global
Scientists are sounding the alarm. Free-living amoebas â including the infamous brain-eating kind â are spreading worldwide.
Why now?
⢠warmer temperatures
⢠aging water infrastructure
⢠microbes that survive chlorine like itâs a spa day
Some donât just infect you. They protect other pathogens inside them. Basically: microscopic Airbnb for bacteria.
Sleep well.”
Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260501234707.htm
đŚ Toxic Seaweed Invades Texas Beaches
Beaches in Texas are now covered in massive piles of rotting sargassum.
It releases:
⢠hydrogen sulfide gas (HâS)
⢠aka the smell of rotten eggs + death
Locals say theyâve never seen anything like it.
Translation: They have. Just not at this scale.
Source: http://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/environment/2026/04/30/550519/seaweed-gulf-coast-texas-galveston-beach-sargassum/
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đĽ Wildfires Sweep Tuscany
Italy is burning. Winds turned a small fire into a regional evacuation event:
⢠800+ hectares destroyed
⢠~3,000 people evacuated
Cause? Olive branches⌠that got a little too spicy. The Mediterranean fire season is starting early. Again.
Source:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/tuscany-fires-wildfires-mount-faeta-b2968879.html
đĽ Factory Explosion Kills 26 in China
A fireworks factory exploded. Violently.
Residents reported:
⢠shattered windows 1 km away
⢠twisted steel doors
⢠debris raining down like war
âBone injuriesâ were specifically mentioned. Which is exactly as bad as it sounds.
Source:https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70vqwengxno
âď¸ Are We Overdue for a Solar Superflare?
Scientists are now openly asking: Are we due for something⌠bigger? Not X-class. S-class. Superflares stronger than X10.
In 50 years:
⢠37 Earth-directed S-flares
⢠every solar cycle had one
Except this one. Which meansâŚWeâre either lucky. Or late. Next high-risk window: 2027
Tick tock.
Source: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025JA034977
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“Secret Service employee exposed himself and masturbated in front of guests at DoubleTree near MIA, detectives say”
By Jessica Holly, Sheldon Fox, Matthew Garcia, RubÊn Rosario, May 4, 2026
WEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) – An off-duty United States Secret Service employee was caught with his pants down committing a sickening act in front of hotel guests near Miami International Airport and is now behind bars, authorities said. According to the Miami-Dade Sheriffâs Office, 33-year-old John Spillman âcommitted the offense of indecent exposureâ during his assignment in South Florida over the weekend.
The arrest report states the incident happened at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Miami Airport & Convention Center, late Sunday night. Hotel guests told investigators âthey were downstairs in the hotel lobby, and the defendant followed them,â to the point where they had to retreat to their room for safety.
A woman staying at the hotel told deputies that she and others âimmediately entered their room because she was in fear for their lives.â The guests then âsaw the defendant masturbating next to their hotel room.â
The report goes on to say the guests called hotel security, who later found âthe defendant with his pants lowered and masturbating on the sixth floor.â Spillman was taken into custody just after midnight on Monday.
According to the Secret Service, Spillman is from Marble Falls, Texas and was based in the nationâs capital. He was in South Florida as part of a security perimeter screening detail at Trump National Doral for President Trumpâs scheduled visit to attend the 2026 PGA Cadillac Championship.
Richard Macauley, Chief of the Uniformed Division of the Secret Service, released a statement addressing the allegations against Spillman, which reads in part:
Spillmanâs South Florida assignment concluded on Sunday, and he was off-duty at the time of his arrest. He appeared in bond court at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Monday. The presiding judge made no mention of his role with the federal government.
Spillman remains behind bars on a $1,000 bond. He has posted that bond and is expected to be released at some point Tuesday morning. The Secret Service has placed Spillman on administrative leave pending the outcome of the criminal and internal investigations.”
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â¤ď¸ A Mother âSeesâ Her Baby for the First Time
Not everything is broken. A blind mother experienced her unborn child using a 3D-printed ultrasound.
She traced the babyâs face with her fingers. And cried. In a world of collapsing systemsâŚHuman moments still exist.
Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/3d-printed-ultrasound-lets-blind-mom-see-unborn-baby/
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jim
May 5, 2026 11:16 am
The Medicaid Money Trail Leads Somewhere You Wonât Like â And The Daily Wire Has Receipts
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The enormous complex pictured below is 6161 Busch Boulevard. Its lack of windows would be a problem for most office buildings, but there is almost no one in this one. Whatâs inside is 94 different companies signed up to bill Medicaid, each with a tiny office, often marked with a sheet of paper proclaiming some generic company name ending in âHome Health LLCâ â and sometimes another piece of paper claiming the employees had just stepped out for a break.
This building alone billed taxpayers $66 million in the span of a few years, the records show.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/medicaid-millionaires-how-the-feds-pay-immigrants-billions-to-hang-out-with-their-families
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this is Columbus Ohio btw…
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cheering4america
May 5, 2026 11:36 am
âNo one is above the law.â Really?
$11 Million stolen by a Somali scammer will avoid prison due to a plea agreement with â guess who â AG Keith Ellison. Unbelievable.
Can you imagine what would happen to your state if you were dependent on this anti-American to enforce the law? I can; see Minnesota:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/4553928/convicted-somali-scammer-avoid-jail-time-minnesota-largest-medicaid-fraud-case/
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They are sooooo FOS!!!
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ridiculous!
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Tucker’s has truly gone off the deep end! Sad to see….
https://notthebee.com/takes/tuckers-nyt-interview-wassomething
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he’s far gone!
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Another blatant attempt at vote buying. Talib introduces Unhoused person Bill of Rights–it’s as stupid as it sounds.
FTA
The “Unhoused Persons Bill of Rights” calls for government-led intervention to end homelessness over the next three years and introduces more than a dozen protections for homeless people.
If passed, Tlaib‘s legislation would include freedom of movement for homeless people in public spaces, affordable housing, “livable” wages, universal healthcare and panhandling.
Under the resolution, homeless individuals would have the “right to uninhibited access” to public parks, transportation, facilities, sidewalks, buildings, restrooms and other spaces â meaning they could legally set up camp in such public spaces.
The homeless population would also be given the right to internet access and the necessary technology to achieve that.
A spokesperson for Tlaib did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment regarding how that provision would work in practice.
While the resolution is nonbinding, meaning it does not carry the force of law, Tlaibâs recommendations indicate how the left could push for changes to homeless policy if Democrats retake power in Washington after the 2026 midterms.
Tlaib’s proposal would, however, grant the homeless population “freedom from harassment” by law enforcement, private businesses, property owners and “housed residents.”
Specifically, homeless individuals would be given protections against “banishment” from private property, which the Michigan Democrat’s measure characterizes as a violation of an individualâs “fundamental civil and human rights.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rashida-tlaibs-new-unhoused-bill-rights-would-protect-homeless-camping
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âEaster Island: Is This Where All The Scientists Have Gone?â
Michael T. Flynn LTG USA (RET), May 05, 2026
EXCERPT: âOver the past several years, a quiet pattern has emerged that deserves far more attention than it has received. It began in July 2023 with the death of Michael David Hicks, a research scientist at NASAâs Jet Propulsion Laboratory who worked on the DART Project and Deep Space 1. His cause of death was never publicly released.
The following July, JPL principal researcher Frank Maiwald died in Los Angeles at 61. Again, no cause of death was disclosed then in June 2025, JPL aerospace engineer Monica Jacinto Reza vanished in the Angeles National Forest. She was hiking with a companion, thirty feet ahead, when she smiled, waved, and simply ceased to exist. She has never been found.
That same month, Melissa Casias, an administrative staffer with security clearance at Los Alamos National Laboratory, disappeared while walking along a New Mexico roadside, her phone factory-reset and left behind. In December 2025, MITâs Dr. Nuno Loureiro, director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center and one of the worldâs foremost fusion physicists, was shot to death at his home near Boston. In February 2026, Caltech astrophysicist Carl Grillmair was shot on his front porch by a stranger with no apparent motive.
Finally, the case that cracked the story open: retired Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland, former commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the facility long rumored in intelligence circles to house recovered Roswell materials, walked out of his Albuquerque home on February 27, 2026, leaving his phone, prescription glasses, and wearable devices behind. He has not been seen since.
The full documented list of cases can be reviewed here. At least eleven individuals connected to classified nuclear, aerospace, and advanced propulsion research are now dead or missing. The White House has confirmed a formal investigation. The FBI is spearheading the effort. The House Oversight Committee has demanded briefings from the FBI, the Department of Energy, NASA, and the Department of Defense. President Trump himself called it âpretty serious stuff.â These are not fringe allegations. This is the federal government confirming, on the record, that something is very wrong.
Do Aliens Exist?
I do not know whether extraterrestrial life exists. Nobody who is being honest with you does. What I do know is that the question has been weaponized, repeatedly and deliberately, to make serious inquiry look ridiculous. The moment a credentialed scientist, a decorated military officer, or a sitting member of Congress raises questions about unidentified aerial phenomena, recovered materials, or non-human biologics, the machinery of ridicule activates immediately. That response itself is worth studying carefully, because institutions that have nothing to hide do not work this hard to shut down questions.
Think about what we have been told and what we have been deliberately left without. We were told UAPs were weather balloons. Then we were told they were swamp gas. Then lens flares. Then we were shown declassified military footage, told by our own government that the objects were real and unidentified, and then promptly instructed to move on as though that admission carried no weight. Congress has held formal hearings on this subject. Whistleblowers holding the highest-level security clearances in this country have testified under oath, placing their careers and their freedom on the line to place information in the public record.
And yet the loudest voices in the establishment media continue to treat the entire subject as the province of conspiracy theorists and social outcasts. That posture is no longer credible, and a growing number of serious people have stopped pretending that it is.
Now consider what has happened to the people closest to the answers. Michael David Hicks worked on NASAâs DART Project, one of the most consequential planetary defense missions ever launched. He is dead, and his cause of death was never publicly released.
Frank Maiwald was a principal researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, specializing in space research. He is dead, and his cause of death was also never disclosed.
Monica Jacinto Reza was an aerospace engineer at JPL who developed patented metal alloys used in rocket manufacturing and held connections to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. She vanished on a hiking trail in broad daylight, thirty feet from her companion, and has never been found.
Major General William Neil McCasland commanded the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson, the same facility that has, in classified UAP testimony for decades, been named as a storage site for recovered materials. He walked out of his home in February 2026 and disappeared without a trace.
These are not random people. These are the individuals who, by virtue of their professional position and security clearance level, would have been among the first to know if something extraordinary had been recovered, studied, or concealed by this governmentâŚ..â
https://genflynn.substack.com/p/easter-island
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Saw the first female Oriole a couple of minutes ago.
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YAY!!!!
are your hummer feeders out?
I’ve seen 2 at one time…so we have at least 2 hummers.
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I just put my one remaining feeder out.
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Rustbelt Rube
May 5, 2026 1:29 pm
This is ridiculous.
Back in August, we noticed Representative Tim Moore buying up Intel stock.
It caught our eye because Moore sits on the House Subcommittee on AI.
We posted a report on the trade.
Intel has now risen 415% in just 9 months.
Up another 10% today.Up another 10% today.
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This isn’t my opinion, necessarily. I would probably vote for him and I kind of agree with this guy about Vance. He makes me decidedly uncomfortable, with his Indian wife and close friendship with Vivek Ramaswamy. I also don’t believe he’s had enough experience governing. And as for Rubio – he’s not a NBC so there is that, altho I don’t expect too many people would be all that concerned about it.
âIâm in my mid-40s. [20]28, you know, maybe beyond that, I think that thereâs a lot of runway,â DeSantis said Monday when asked if he would run for president. âWho knows? Like, you never know,â he told The Postâs Charles Gasparino during a moderated discussion, before launching into what sounded like a campaign pitch.
âWho took a state that had more Democrats than Republicans by 300,000 when he got elected [in 2018], and now has 1.5 million more Republicans?â DeSantis asked, referring to himself. âWho had a state that had a trillion-dollar economy and now has $1.8 trillion? Who has a state that had some school choice, now universal? A 50-year low in the crime rate? So weâve got a good story to tell.â A Republican insider told The Post of the Florida governor that âitâs not been a secret heâs running.â
I’m not that keen on Vance. He sounds good occasionaly, but I know a lot more about DeSantis, and I’ll tell ya – he’s a no-nonsense, law-and-order conservative who’s smart, intuitive and highly intelliegent. He’d make a great Commander in Chief, and a DeSantis/Rubio ticket would be perfect if he can pull it off. That’s just my opinion, nothing more. Juss’ sayin…”
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I’m hoping there’s a third choice–not crazy about either of those two.
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Yup – I’m with ya’ there! But it’s early yet. Hopefully, someone else will come to the top.
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the ak47 one is disgusting!
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That it is! Very common in the gay world.
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i will never understand it.
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good ones!
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Huh! One of my Honeysuckle plants already has blooms on it. That will draw the hummers!
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yay! our honeysuckles are overgrown along the driveway. just greening up here. but oh the smell when they blossom!
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IKR? Sooooo sweet!
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ours grow wild–and they’re very invasive. but, oh when they bloom, and that smell is in the air…snifffffffff…wonderful!
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Land Before Time
That Hair…
One Cool Pup
Very Spooky
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that hair is gorgeous!
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Puppy Pals
Nap Time
Nice Color
Heh
Music Room
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ahhhh the puppies!
how do you get in and out of that hammock without falling?
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Damned good question! Haven’t a clue! You sure wouldn’t find me in that!
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Whoa! No more of that.
Big Cave
Honey, I stuck the tractor….
Big and Bigger
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Cozy
Purdy. I’d fly that.
After multiple espressos
He just got his tax refund
Blackie is not Snow White
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i like the camera in the upper right.
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I didn’t even notice that!
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i guess you’re not supposed to!
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Not Hawaii
Vision of old LA
That thing is ugly!
French Air Force Payan PA-22 experimental aircraft adopting delta wings. Captured by the German military, repainted with nationality, markings added. Originally planned to be equipped with a ramjet engine. (1 prototype). Equipped with Renier-made 180 horsepower, completed in 1939. The German military liked it and captured it, but it was destroyed by Allied bombing.
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snow! YUCK!
LOL
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I agree!!!
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talked to Mom briefly before we went to pick up the Jeep (inspection). They came to her door to tell her they’re celebrating cinco de mayo down at the “center” and they want her to come. she said let me say goodbye to my daughter and then I’ll be down. She told me they’re doing something with mayonnaise at the center and I have to go…LOLOLOL
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ROFL – mayonnaise!
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IKR? I can’t wait to hear what she thought. She doesn’t like Mexican food, so not sure what they did, but am anxious to see. hey, it’s an activity and it gets her out of her room and with her “friends”…
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Just The News: “A federal grand jury Tuesday indicted the suspected gunman at the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner on four charges, including attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump.
Cole Tomas Allen, the alleged gunman, has been accused of attempting to assassinate Trump, assaulting an officer or employee of the United States with a deadly weapon and two other firearms-related charges, according to The Hill.
The charges come after Allen was placed under suicide watch at a D.C. jail because he allegedly told the FBI that he expected to die during the shooting. Suicide watch protocols mandated Allen remain on a 24-hour lockdown in a “safe cell,” with no phone access to call or receive visits from anyone other than his legal team.
Allen has not entered a plea in the case so far but has agreed to remain in custody pending trial. This story is developing and will be updated.”
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