I thought these ladybugs were so cute and so easy to do!
You need golf balls…
spray paint Primer…
some acrylic paints…
and water-based varnish.
The procedure is simple: Use some sandpaper to lightly smooth the surface of the balls. Spray the primer to help the paint adhere to the surface. When the primer is dry, use the acrylics to paint the ladybug.
Sew Colorful 
Morning All!
cloudy and raining again here. There were 2 hummers sitting on the railing waiting for me to bring the feeders out this morning–rain or no rain…lol.
see what today brings…
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Good Morning, Pat! Love the golf ball ladybugs! 🐞🐞🐞
Nice sunrise, clear, chilly at 38*. Sorry to hear you still have rain!
Following the hantavirus ship quarantine. Never had a desire to cruise.
Take care, God Bless 🙏
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Good Morning Gina!
are you a crafty-type? I plan to make these for the garden (after i weed it–which i will do if the rain stops sometime…lol)
I went on one cruise–to the Bahamas out of Florida. I was not impressed. There was food all day…a casino and bars…pool and laying around on deck chairs–not my thing. The one day I did enjoy was when we docked and went ashore for sightseeing. other than that…total pass.
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Morning, Pat! Down to 32 when I got up, now up to 35. At least the jelly didn’t freeze! Bright sun at least and one Oriole was here feeding. I still haven’t seen a hummer but, then, I’m not that close to the feeder. I completely forgot about Mother’s Day so I’ve got to get a card in the mail today. Mom and my cousin Linda are coming up Memorial Day week-end to place flowers on family graves. I’m meeting them at the Granary Restaurant (Mom’s favorite place) for lunch but I’ll pass on the cemetery.
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Morning Filly!
pouring here. I gave Mom her card last weekend, plus her goodies. She doesn’t want or need money there and my cousins took her flowers that Wednesday that they were there.
The “Little General” is back. this morning when i came down, there was a male hummer waiting on the railing under the feeder. He was there last year–every morning till the feeders came out. The female we have must be his mate because he was sitting on the railing and she flew up to that feeder and he didn’t chase her.
have you seen any grosbeaks?
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Not that I’m aware of – there are 4 types of Grosbeak in NE – a couple of them look very much like Orioles. In fact, I saw one a few minutes ago when I was going out to see if the jelly froze and wondered if it might be a Grosbeak. We have 4 types in NE.
https://birdwatchinghq.com/grosbeaks-in-nebraska/
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wow! we only have seen the black, white and red one here. and they sing so pretty. when they approach the feeder, they peep. peep. peep. then they sing.
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Shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
The GOP incumbents who lost in Indiana refused to recognize the one single imperative.
The race in the House is to 218 seats.
Democrats long ago gerrymandered states they control to near extinction of GOP districts.
None in New England north of New York.
Three in Illinois.
Even before the most recent gerrymander, Calif had been redistricted to the following numbers:
2002 — 30-23
2012 — 38-15
2022 — 40-12
The efforts by the Dems threaten to put the GOP House delegation — including Indiana’s — back into the Minority, with a loss of Committee control.
Indiana refused to help.
The Dems don’t stop — now Virginia is 10-1, and NY is threatening to redistrict yet again, and it is 19-7 already.
This wasn’t a “Trump” thing — it was about keeping Hakeem Jeffries out of the Speaker’s Chair, and Dems out of all the Committee Chairs.
How about Maxine Waters as Chair of the Financial Services Committee?
Jamie Raskin as Chair of the Judiciary Committee?
There are many others just like that.
Indiana’s Republicans were ok with that happening.
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the story says “2 Georgia men” but the names sound far more exotic than that. They submitted $522 million in fraudulent medical insurance claims, bribing doctors and others for their scheme.
FTA
Two Georgia men were sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to submitting more than $522 million in fraudulent claims for unnecessary genetic tests to steal money from insurance programs, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on May 4.
Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers paid roughly $84 million on those claims, according to the DOJ statement.
Reyad Salahaldeen, 57, and Mohamad Mustafa, 28, were sentenced to 151 months and 36 months in prison, respectively.
“Under the guise of health care, these two fraudsters attempted to steal more than half a billion dollars from taxpayers through a web of sham contracts, lies, and bribes,” said Colin M. McDonald, Assistant Attorney for the DOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division.
From 2018 through August 2020, Salahaldeen and co-conspirators paid kickbacks and bribes to a network of purported “marketers” to induce individuals to provide their health insurance information and DNA samples to obtain genetic tests, according to the statement. These costly tests were designed to predict the risk of cancer, adverse drug reactions, and other conditions.
Marketers used aggressive marketing, such as telemarketing and door-to-door solicitation, to collect DNA samples from thousands of people, regardless of their actual health needs, according to the indictment.
To make the tests look legitimate, they bribed doctors and telemedicine providers to sign off on test orders without ever seeing the patients, the indictment alleged.
A central part of the scheme involved paying kickbacks and bribes to ensure a steady stream of DNA samples and signed orders. Salahaldeen and co-conspirators used sham contracts and invoices for purported marketing services to hide these payments, according to the indictment.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/2-georgia-men-get-prison-time-for-522-million-medicare-fraud-scheme-6021468?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=TheLibertyDaily
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possible more uses for chloroquine?
pegon zellschmidt
May 6, 2026 8:26 am
Nearly 150 People Stranded on Cruise Ship Amid Deadly Hantavirus Outbreak
Seven cases have been identified as of Sunday, including two laboratory-confirmed hantavirus infections and five suspected cases. Three passengers have died.
Hantavirus is primarily spread through exposure to infected rodents or their urine, saliva, or droppings.
South African health officials have also begun contact tracing involving airline passengers and others potentially exposed after infected travelers passed through Johannesburg.
I would have had a pocket full and started a week before, during and a week after. The alternative is relying on the WHO and fauci experts telling you that “You’re gonna die if you do!!”
In conclusion, our results indicate that chloroquine has a strong in vitro antiviral activity against several hantavirus species, which include New World as well as Old World viruses. Furthermore, chloroquine was highly effective against Hantaan virus infection in an in vivo infection model with 1-day-old suckling mice and showed its prophylactic and therapeutic potential in the lethal Andes virus hamster model. These findings suggest that chloroquine, a ubiquitously available medicine of low cost with little side effects, has a potential new role in the prevention or treatment of hantavirus infections.
Chloroquine, an Anti-Malaria Drug as Effective Prevention for Hantavirus Infections – PMC
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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IMO, this is NOT good news!!! Yet another foreigner!!!! I say hell no! THIS MAN CANNOT BE TRUSTED!!! I am 100% convinced of that!!!! Don’t forget – he had a small part in the beginnings of the COVID debacle. Not to mention that he wants to flood the US with his India compatriots!!! Bad, bad news!!!
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AGREED..smarmy used car salesman
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Nailed it!!!
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Just The News: “Oil prices plunged early Wednesday following a news report that the United States’ conflict with Iran would end in the near future and after President Donald Trump paused his “Project Freedom” operation.
The sudden change comes after gas prices rose Monday to a national average of nearly $4.50 a gallon. The markets reacted to a report from Axios that officials in the United States and Iran were working on “a one-page memorandum of understanding to end the war and set a framework for more detailed nuclear negotiations.”
The price of U.S. crude oil by 12%, to below $90 per barrel, and international Brent crude oil was down 11%, to below $100 per barrel, according to NBC News. Wholesale gas prices dropped 7%.
Trump on Tuesday announced the end of Project Freedom – the U.S. effort to secure the safe passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz, a major oil and gas shipping channel off the coast of Iran. Also on Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the country’s military offensive campaign against Iran, Operation Epic Fury, has ended.”
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EXCERPT: “The Justice Department’s top civil rights lawyer believes the Trump administration’s lawsuit this week against the city of Denver’s gun ban will one day soon lead to a Supreme Court decision legalizing the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle – revered by gun owners and reviled by liberals – in every jurisdiction in America.
“We intend to make sure they do that,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said in an interview set to be aired Wednesday night on the Just the News, No Noise television show. Dhillon spoke just hours after her office filed a lawsuit against the city of Denver over its ban on “assault rifles,” arguing the ban violates residents’ Second Amendment rights.
The ban covers AR-15-style rifles, which the complaint argues are owned by “tens of millions” of Americans. The complaint also describes the use of the term “assault rifle” in the Denver law’s language as a “rhetorically politically charged” term used by “anti-gun publicists.”
In addition, the suit cites the 2008 Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, which held that the Second Amendment protects the right of law-abiding citizens to possess weapons that are in common use for lawful purposes.
“The Constitution is not a suggestion, and the Second Amendment is not a second-class right. Denver’s ban on commonly owned semi-automatic rifles directly violates the right to bear arms. This Department of Justice will vigorously defend the liberties of law-abiding citizens,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in praising the legal strike.
Dhillon credited her bosses for giving her the freedom to file lawsuits protecting Second Amendment rights.
“I want to thank the president for setting the tone at the beginning of his administration and having an executive order that made clear that the Second Amendment is a first class right in the United States, and Pam Bondi and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche have fully backed that up,” she said…..”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/gun-rights/wedtop-doj-official-predicts-supreme-court-will-declare-ar-15-rifles
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OH MY!!! HOW CUTE!!!!!
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Poodles are sometimes too smart for their own good!
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I pinched that from someone who shall not be named…..LOL
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Just The News: “The Justice Department announced Tuesday that a New Hampshire man and Federal Aviation Administration employee has been charged with one count of threatening to kill President Donald Trump.
The man, identified as 35-year-old Dean DelleChiaie, allegedly used his government work computer to conduct various internet searches in January about how to get a gun into a federal facility and previous assassination attempts against the president.
He also researched the percentage of the population that wants Trump dead, and the phrase “I am going to kill Donald John Trump,” according to the department. He then allegedly escalated last month by using his personal email to transmit a threat across state lines to the White House’s public-facing email address.
“I, Dean DelleChiaie, am going neutralize/kill you – Donald John Trump – because you decided to kill kids – and say that it was War – when in reality – it is terrorism,” DelleChiaie allegedly wrote in the email. “God knows your actions and where you belong.”
DelleChiaie allegedly admitted to federal investigators in February that he researched previous assassination attempts on his government computer and that he owned three firearms.
If convicted, DelleChiaie faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The charge comes after a gunman allegedly opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner at the Washington Hilton last month, where prosecutors claimed he was targeting members of the Trump administration. Trump was at the dinner.”
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they need to execute one of these assholes or it will never stop!
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Agree
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I think anyone who is given 50 years or more should be put to death instead! But to be perfectly honest? If you INTENTIONALLY kill someone – auto death penalty.
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Just The News: “Right-wing influencer Candace Owens and a guest she had on her podcast, Mitchell Snow, are facing a defamation lawsuit filed in federal court on Thursday.
The lawsuit, which was filed by Brian Harpole, who owns the private security firm Integrity Security Solutions, alleges that Owens, Snow and Owens’ companies conspired to repeatedly publish false statements that Harpole had met with Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirt, along with a member of the U.S. Secret Service and Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, one day before Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
The lawsuit states that Owens continued to publish false statements even after she had received flight data proving that Harpole could not have participated in the conspiratorial meeting Snow had described on Owen’s podcast, according to the Tennessee Star. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.
Mitch Snow in interviews claimed Harpole was at an alleged classified meeting with senior government officials at the Fort Huachuca Army installation one day before Kirk’s death in September 2025, suggesting the meeting was held to coordinate Kirk’s assassination, according to Forbes magazine.
In a post on X on Friday, Owens stood by the claims she had made about Erika Kirk and said she looks forward to the subpoena.
“I have not retracted a single claim I have made about Erika Kirk. Stop with the b.s Twitter trends. I stand by every single statement I have made and have not edited any of my past statements in light of Brian Harpole’s lawsuit,” Owens said.”
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Just The News: “Hours after Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a new congressional district map into law Monday, a coalition of voters filed suit challenging the plan as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. The legislation, approved by state Republican lawmakers during a special session, redraws Florida’s 28 U.S. House districts mid-decade.
Critics say the map is designed to boost Republican prospects, with projections suggesting the GOP could hold advantages in as many as 24 of the 28 districts—potentially netting four additional seats. Plaintiffs argue the map was drawn using partisan data to target Democratic incumbents, in violation of the state constitution’s Fair Districts Amendment, which prohibits favoring or disfavoring a political party in the redistricting process.
“Florida’s voters ask this Court to uphold that duty here,” the complaint states, filed in Leon County Circuit Court by the Equal Ground Education Fund and individual voters represented by the Elias Law Group.
The move follows a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting racial considerations in redistricting under the Voting Rights Act. DeSantis has cited the ruling as justification for the redraw, arguing it addressed prior legal vulnerabilities in southern Florida districts.
The case, Equal Ground Educ. Fund v. Byrd, could head to the state Supreme Court, which has previously upheld DeSantis-drawn maps against other challenges.
The lawsuit marks the latest flashpoint in a national wave of mid-decade redistricting battles ahead of the 2026 midterms.”
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LONG article, but it details all kinds of fraud going on in OHIO. this time with “home healthcare”…billing millions out of locked up buildings with basically the same motto on all the companies. It’s all fraud–and the perpetrators all have the same ahmed sounding names. they get shut down and start up with another location, another generic name and start all over. bribing physicians or nurses for clients and medical info…it’s f*cking disgusting!!!!! BILLIONS potentially.
Charlotte99
May 6, 2026 8:59 am
Reply to Charlotte99
Look at all the names in Luke Rosiak’s exposing Tweets–Just about ALL MUDSLIMES
FULL EXPOSURE HERE:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-ohios-home-health-empire-7-buildings-288-medicaid-companies-250-million
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Just The News: “The White House on Wednesday released the 2026 United States Counterterrorism Strategy, outlining the primary terror threats the country faces and the U.S. strategies to combat them.
“Our new U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy is a return to common sense and Peace through Strength,” President Donald Trump wrote in the foreword. “As I said after our first successful counterterrorism mission, just days after I was sworn back in office – if you hurt Americans, or are planning to hurt Americans, ‘We Will Find You and We Will Kill You.'”
2026 USCT Strategy PDF.pdf
The document pointed to three main sources of terror threats, namely “narcoterrorists and transnational gangs,” “legacy Islamist terrorists,” and “violent left-wing extremists, including anarchists and anti-fascists.”
The White House had harsh words for the Intelligence Community, saying it had not served the nation well, due to politicization by previously leadership or being “mired in old ways of looking at threats.”
The Trump administration further set out three goals for tackling terrorist threats, including identifying terrorists before they act, eliminating their funding streams, and outright destroying established groups.
It also called for making a series of foreign terrorist organization (FTO) designations on myriad gangs and drug cartels to give the Intelligence Community access to additional resources.”
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Just The News: “CNN founder and philanthropist Ted Turner died Wednesday at the age of 87-years-old, according to the outlet.
Details on the media titan’s death were not immediately clear, but just a month before his 80th birthday, he was diagnosed with the progressive brain disorder Lewy body dementia.
“Ted was an intensely involved and committed leader, intrepid, fearless and always willing to back a hunch and trust his own judgement,” Mark Thompson, Chairman and CEO of CNN Worldwide, said in a statement. “He was and always will be the presiding spirit of CNN. Ted is the giant on whose shoulders we stand, and we will all take a moment today to recognize him and his impact on our lives and the world.”
He is survived by his five children, 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.”
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should have refreshed…AGAIN…lol
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No problemo! I do it, too!
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nailed the old socialist!
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IKR? Perfect!
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Sucks to be him! Asshole picked the WRONG Texan!!!
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good for that father!!!!!
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Asshole won’t be trying that with some other family!
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he had every right to shoot that asshole!
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Absolutely!
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KBJ: The avatar of being hired solely for your gender/skin color.
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i couldn’t agree more. she has no reason to be there other than the color of her skin.
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Bingo!
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These people are freaks!!! Good grief!!!
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representation for whom?
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Pure pandering!
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narcissists all of them and i couldn’t tell you who a one of them was…
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Me either! Never heard of ’em! LOL
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I ran downtown to the grocery store to get a card for Mom – conveniently right next to the PO. I took address labels with me and got it in the mail right away.
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good for you!
I’ve been trying to call Mom all morning again…sigh. I wanna know about mayonnaise day yesterday…lol
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So do I! LOL
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in between dialing Mom, i made the easiest coconut cream pie ever. I think i posted the recipe before. It’s a small box of vanilla pudding, milk, sweetened coconut and whipped cream. you save some of the coconut and whipped cream for the top, but the rest gets mixed in and put in a crust. I used graham cracker. all and all it took less than 10 minutes to get it done and in the fridge.
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Not one of my go-to sweets!
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Pat, you may want to take this to the QTree. WHO up to their shenanigans again!
“The Architecture Built While You Weren’t Looking: In three years, the WHO has assembled a four-layer pandemic governance system. Polaris II was the dress rehearsal.”
Dr. Robert W. Malone, May 06, 2026
EXCERPT: “While the political class spent the last three years arguing about whether the World Health Organization was secretly trying to take over the world, the WHO did something far more interesting and far more consequential: it built, in plain sight, a complete architecture for managing the next pandemic. And then it ran a dress rehearsal.
The dress rehearsal had a name: Exercise Polaris II. It took place on April 22 and 23, 2026. Twenty-six countries participated, along with 600 health emergency experts and over 25 partner organizations. The scenario was a fictional novel bacterium that had spread across 27 countries and been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.1 Countries activated their emergency coordination structures, mobilized workforces, aligned policies across borders, and (this is worth pausing on) explored AI-enabled tools for workforce planning.2
If you only read the press release, this looks like a tabletop exercise. A drill. A useful one, even, given that the last pandemic killed millions and exposed real coordination failures. Who could object to practice? But Polaris II is not a standalone event. It is the visible surface of something much larger that has been assembled, piece by piece, since 2023. And once you see the structure, the structure is hard to unsee.
Four Layers, Three Years
What has actually been built is a tightly interlocking, four-layer system that has matured at remarkable speed:
Layer 1: The Treaty Layer. On May 20, 2025, the 78th World Health Assembly adopted the WHO Pandemic Agreement by a vote of 124 in favor, zero against, and 11 abstentions.3 It is only the second legally binding treaty ever negotiated under Article 19 of the WHO Constitution.4 The first was the 2003 Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and most people have never heard of it because tobacco is unpopular and the treaty was uncontroversial. This one is different. The Pandemic Agreement establishes a Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing system, a Global Supply Chain and Logistics Network, and a new financial mechanism.5 It enters into force 30 days after 60 ratifications, pending completion of the PABS annex now being negotiated through 2026.6
Sitting alongside the treaty are the 2024 amendments to the International Health Regulations, which came into force in September 2025. Among other changes, they introduced a new “pandemic emergency” alert level, a tier above the existing Public Health Emergency of International Concern designation. The IHR has been binding on member states since 2005. The amendments expand its operational reach.
Layer 2: The Framework Layer.….”
https://www.malone.news/p/the-architecture-built-while-you
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posted it there (h/t you)
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Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING:@FoxNewsis on scene in Portsmouth, VA where the FBI is raiding the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L Louise Lucas, a Democrat and close ally of VA Governor Spanberger. Fed law enforcement sources tell FOX this is in connection to a major corruption probe, and the FBI is serving multiple search warrants, approved by a federal judge, at her office and a next door cannabis dispensary. More to come with correspondent@AlexHoganTV, who reports that Lucas just showed up on scene as the FBI searches her office.
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Wow! NE farmers are expected to plant 10.3 million acres of corn, investing nearly $3.8B in the 2026 crop. I sure hope we have good weather! Problem is that drought has increased in the last week – 56% of the state is seeing extreme levels of drought. Deteriorating land conditions in the western 2/3 of the state has already set the stage for a record wildfire year.
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you can gladly have some of our rain…sheesh!
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more from VA
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
WOW! MULTIPLE arrests have been made in the FBI raids connected to Democrat VA Sen. Louise Lucas FBI SWAT teams pulled up with weapons drawn ordering everyone in the Sen. Lucas-connected dispensary next to her office come out with their hands up, before making arrests. TEN locations are currently being raided after a judge signed off on federal search warrants Sen. Lucas is NOT in custody at this time. It’s a bad day for this powerful State Senator and close ally of Abigail Spanberger.
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“Kamala Harris is keeping her distance from California’s crowded governor’s race, and that silence is turning heads in Democratic circles. The former vice president rolled out a broad slate of endorsements for other races, but left the governor’s contest untouched, fueling speculation about whether she is staying above the fray or simply waiting for the right moment to jump back in.
The political backdrop is getting extra attention now that Harris and Doug Emhoff reportedly purchased an $8.15 million home in Malibu’s Point Dume neighborhood earlier this year. The 4,000-square-foot, four-bedroom, six-bathroom property was built in 1979 and comes with ocean views, a heated pool, spa, and fire pit, giving the couple a secluded coastal retreat far from the rough-and-tumble of Sacramento politics.”
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failed candidates sure have a lot of money to waste.
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IKR? They should be required to return the funds to the donor!
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unless it’s an investment in return for future favortism
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“Wild video captured a beaver attacking a child while he was fishing in a New Jersey lake – after earlier pouncing on other unsuspecting visitors. The unidentified 8-year-old boy was with his family at Lake Henry in the Continental Soldiers Park complex in Mahwah around 6 p.m. Sunday “when the beaver exited the lake and charged him,” police told News 12 New Jersey.
Cellphone footage shared on Facebook shows the boy’s relatives trying to get the child out of the water and away from the beaver – just for the furious animal to give chase. One of the relatives kicked the animal as a pet dog also joined the fray, before someone managed to fling the wild attacker back into the water.
That is one seriously pissed off Beaver. The boy was transported to a local hospital by EMS crews for treatment. The extent of his injuries isn’t known.”
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“Father’s Day in Germany doesn’t look like a quiet family lunch – it looks like a group adventure on wheels. In Germany, the day is known as Vatertag, and the tradition takes a different path. Instead of staying home, groups of men head outdoors together, often walking through fields, forests, or small towns while pulling a Bollerwagen. Not empty. Loaded.
Food, drinks, and everything needed for a full day out. It’s less about gifts – and more about experience. More social. More mobile. More festive. Some treat it like a casual hike. Others turn it into a full celebration that can last the entire day. And while it may seem unusual compared to other countries, the idea behind it is simple. Connection. Friends walking together. Sharing time. Stepping away from routine.
Because not every tradition needs to be quiet to mean something. Sometimes, it rolls through the streets with a wagon full of stories – and beer.”
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you do not know how incensed i am seeing sights like that in Texas. it’s beyond fathomable! TEXAS for God’s sake!
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IKR??? Fucked up!!
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The Distant Strike
Imagine having a garage with that in it!
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oh no, no, no. hubby would NEVER allow dirty vehicles like that in his garage…LOLOLOL
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LOL
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Where’s Bob?
Magic
Literally, that word means “wild strawberry patch.”
Nighttime in Norway
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pretty hair!
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H/T Marica
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interesting!
shared at wolf’s
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We need to do that! Voting is one of THE most important duties of the public and it’s not like people don’t know far enough ahead of time that they can’t plan for it.
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Exactly. IF they made it a national holiday, there would be no excuses.
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“Mom won’t be laughing in a second…”
My adopted Mom always stressed doing this at public toilets….just not quite to that extent! Safety first…
Done with B-ball, goin’ home..
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my mom too!!! LOLOLOL
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got my lasagna for supper made and in the fridge-just have to bake later.
I got a hold of mom, but only talked for a moment. Her friend came up to her room after lunch to sit and chat with Mom, so i told her to call me later.
so still not mayo stories…LOL
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Oooh, yummy! I love lasagna! It’s great that she has friends there and isn’t solely dependent on you and other family members.
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it puzzles me though a little bit. she’s been there since last September…
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isn’t this a violation of the Logan Act?
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I don’t know what the Logan Act requires but it sounds like treason to me!!!!
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it’s something that’s for sure. she has no authority to defy the POTUS and work for the benefit of a foreign country.
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the jelly feeder is tied on the side railing and just now male grosbeak came over to the front railing in front of me and starting singing. so i went out and checked-the feeder was empty…lol
so i got up and refilled it and put it back out. he’s eating now…LOL
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Isn’t that cool when you can have a relationship with wild critters like that??? Kinda like mutual trust.
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and I owe it all to you!!!
thanks!!!
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I’m just glad you enjoy it!
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California…
Shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
The expert who redrew Calif to its current map testified in a deposition that he relied on racial demographics in moving voters around to create a map more favorable to Democrats. He wasn’t ordered to by a court. But SCOTUS didn’t say race-based redistricting is OK under the 14th Amendment if done for reasons other than VRA compliance. It said consideration of race by any governmental body — like the Calif Legis — violates the 14th Amendment.
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✨ Save the Fireflies
For once, the glowing streaks in the sky were not SpaceX. They were fireflies.
These tiny bioluminescent beetles once filled summer nights across entire continents. Now? Not so much. The culprits:
• pesticides
• habitat destruction
• light pollution ruining their mating signals
Humans really looked at one of nature’s coolest things and said: “Let’s replace it with parking lots and LED billboards.” The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now urging people to help save them. The good streaks are disappearing.
But you still can save the fireflies: https://www.fws.gov/story/save-fireflies
⚡ Lightning Kills 413 Sheep and Goats in India
One lightning strike. 413 dead animals.
A group of herders moving livestock through Uttarakhand suddenly found themselves inside a nightmare storm. Nature occasionally reminds us that electricity falling from the sky is still one of the most terrifying forces on Earth. And no… there is no insurance category for “angry sky laser.”
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/lightning-kills-413-sheep-and-goats-in-chamoli/articleshow/130807546.cms
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🐍 Thousands of Ancient Eels Found Dead in New Zealand
An entire lagoon vanished. And at the bottom? Thousands of dead eels.
New Zealand scientists say they genuinely do not know what happened. The eels, some capable of living over 100 years, were found scattered across cracked earth after the lagoon suddenly dried out. Could be natural. Could be land use. Could be both.
Translation: Nobody knows what the hell is happening anymore.
Source: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment/594237/the-mystery-of-the-dying-eels
🐉 “Doomsday Fish” Washes Ashore in Denmark
A rare oarfish has appeared in Denmark. Only the fourth recorded case ever.
The deep-sea creature can grow to enormous lengths and has been linked to earthquake folklore in Japan for centuries. Scientists say: “It’s valuable for marine biology.”
The internet says: “Absolutely not.”
Source: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/sjaelden-fisk-er-registreret-i-danmark-fjerde-gang-nogensinde
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https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f6a8.svg UPDATE: The US military has just STRUCK another Iranian oil ship that tried to go through President Trump’s Strait of Hormuz blockade
FAFO. They can’t conduct ANY business. https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f525.svg
CENTCOM: “After Hasna’s crew failed to comply with repeated warnings, U.S. forces disabled the tanker’s rudder by firing several rounds from the 20mm cannon gun of a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet launched from USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Hasna is no longer transiting to Iran.”
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Keep it up assholes! You won’t have ANY ships left!!!
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👣 Bigfoot Apparently Returns to Ohio
Residents in Ohio report:
• eerie howls
• massive footprints
• strange nighttime activity
Locals now suspect a family of Sasquatches moved into the region after the brutal winter. Honestly? At this point Bigfoot might just be checking whether humanity survived.
Source: https://nypost.com/2026/05/03/us-news/fears-of-mysterious-beast-spread-in-ohio-after-locals-record-eerie-howls-enormous-footprints/
🐝 Bee Swarm Attacks Tourists at Ancient Cave Complex
Tourists visiting India’s Ellora Caves suddenly found themselves inside a real-life nature documentary. A massive bee swarm attacked 60–70 visitors:
• 8 seriously injured
• children and elderly trapped in panic
Ancient temples. Sacred caves. Sudden airborne chaos. Nature always keeps side quests enabled.
Source: https://www.lokmattimes.com/aurangabad/bee-attack-on-tourists-at-ellora-caves/
🌨️ Italy Buried Under Hail
The Italian town of Chislago was hammered by such extreme hail accumulation that streets looked snow-covered.
Spring 2026 continues its strategy of ignoring all previous climate expectations.
Source: Italy, 06/05/2026
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weird…big foot in Ohio….???
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IKR? No, I do NOT believe that! Big foot does NOT exist, thank you very much!
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well, they’re revealing all the somali fraud on Ohio…maybe they want a distraction?
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The guy who prepares this is, I believe, in Sweden or maybe Switzerland? Anyway, somewhere over there.
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🦎 Scientists Rescue Salamanders from Extinction
Hurricane Helene nearly wiped out an entire salamander species in North Carolina. Its whole habitat? Smaller than a fraction of Disney World.
Scientists climbed through landslides and rescued 15 survivors, including 4 pregnant females. The species now lives inside the NC Zoo breeding program. Humanity destroys ecosystems at industrial scale. Then desperately tries to save what remains one salamander at a time.
Source: https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/north-carolina/stories-in-north-carolina/hickory-nut-gorge-green-salamander-recovery-program/
👽 Alien-Looking Supercell Swallows Argentina
A gigantic supercell thunderstorm formed over Argentina looking less like weather and more like an invasion fleet. The cloud structure was so surreal people online genuinely thought the images were fake.
The atmosphere continues outperforming Hollywood CGI.
🏙️ Mexico City Is Literally Sinking
NASA satellite data confirms Mexico City is sinking by nearly: 👉 10 inches (25 cm) per year. Why? Because the city was built on an ancient lakebed.
Human civilization: “Let’s build a megacity on soft mud and pump all the groundwater out.”
The Earth: “Interesting decision.”
Source: https://apnews.com/article/mexico-city-sinking-nasa-satellite-imagery-b5a70fbc2f73a789f248ab69b08c75e7
🧠 Can We Trust Our Feelings?
A philosophical piece this week explored whether intuition can actually be trusted. Sometimes your instincts save your life. Other times they convince you Bigfoot lives behind the Walmart. The human brain remains one of the weirdest systems on Earth.
Source: https://www.shrewviews.com/p/can-we-really-trust-our-feelings
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Something’s up with Rodney – he just posted “Pray for me please.” He’s been in a real funk for days now…..
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praying for him!
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“Virologist Linked to Fauci Under FBI Investigation for Smuggling Dangerous Pathogens Into U.S. — Earlier this year, Vincent Munster, an NIH virologist, traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo with NIH scientist Claude Kwe Yinda. When they returned to the U.S., they were stopped for an airport security check, which revealed “pathogen samples collected from patients.” The Disinformation Chronicle reported that the samples included monkeypox virus — classified by HHS as a “select agent” that poses a severe threat to public safety.”
by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., May 6, 2026
EXCERPT: “A virologist linked to Dr. Anthony Fauci is facing an FBI criminal investigation for allegedly smuggling unsecured samples of dangerous pathogens into the U.S. earlier this year, The Disinformation Chronicle first reported Tuesday.
Earlier this year, Vincent Munster, Ph.D., a virologist with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo with NIH scientist Claude Kwe Yinda, Ph.D., When they returned to the U.S., they were stopped for an airport security check, which revealed “pathogen samples collected from patients.”
The Disinformation Chronicle reported that the samples included monkeypox virus — classified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as a “select agent,” or organism that poses a severe threat to public safety. The Democratic Republic of Congo, located in sub-Saharan Africa, is widely considered the global epicenter of monkeypox.
The U.S. Department of Transportation regulates the shipment and transport of pathogens. Munster and Yinda did not have the legally required paperwork to transport the pathogens or bring them into the U.S.
The NIH has placed the two scientists on leave, and they have been removed from HHS’ staff directory.
The FBI’s investigation into Munster and Yinda comes amid a flurry of activity involving virologists linked to Fauci and controversial gain-of-function research. Evidence suggests that researchers may have created SARS-CoV-2 in a lab and that the virus escaped the lab, leading to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last week, a grand jury indicted Dr. David Morens, a former top aide to Fauci, for conspiracy to hide government records on COVID-19’s origins. The NIH reportedly pulled all grants issued to virologist Ralph Baric, Ph.D., who worked with Fauci and researchers at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology before and during the pandemic.
One theory behind the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it resulted from a leak at the Wuhan Lab, where researchers were conducting gain-of-function research. The controversial research increases the virulence or transmissibility of viruses and is used to develop vaccines targeting that virus…..”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vincent-munster-nih-virologist-linked-fauci-under-fbi-investigation-smuggling-dangerous-pathogens/
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i want them arrested not placed on leave.
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Hear, hear!!!!
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“10 Studies Link 5G to Cancer, Dementia, Anxiety and Depression — Ten studies conducted between 2022 and 2024 highlight the health risks of 5G technology. Studies reveal 5G’s potential to induce neurological damage and psychiatric problems, highlighting its effects on brain development, including the increased risk of conditions like dementia through mechanisms such as the impairment of neurosin.”
by Dr. Joseph Mercola, May 6, 2026
Story at a glance:
Over the past decade, I’ve written many articles discussing the evidence of biological harm from non-ionizing electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation and rRFR from wireless technologies.
The video above features an interview I did with Siim Land in February 2020 for his Body Mind Empowerment podcast, in which I discuss EMF — what it is, your greatest sources of exposure, how it affects your biology, and how to minimize your exposure.
I also review how the telecommunications industry manipulates the truth to keep you unaware of the hazards.
While the wireless industry is built on the premise that the only type of radiation capable of causing harm is ionizing — X-rays being one example — researchers have for a long time warned that even non-ionizing and non-heating radiation can jeopardize your health. This includes not only human health, but also that of plants and animals.
Over time, I became so convinced of the deleterious effects of EMF that I took three years to write “EMF*D” which was published in 2020. In it, I reviewed the overwhelming evidence showing EMFs are a hidden health hazard that simply cannot be ignored any longer……”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/10-studies-5g-cancer-dementia-anxiety-depression-cola/
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BIG RED FLAG!!!!
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No doubt!!!
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