What Shall We Bake Today?

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Peach bars made me think of our Georgia, which led me to this recipe…Pecan Balls.

Ingredients

¼ pound butter

1 cup ground pecans

2 Tbsp sugar

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup flour

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 350°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugar together with a hand mixer (or stand mixer) until the mixture is light and fluffy.

Add the flour, ground pecans, and vanilla extract. Mix on low speed just until the dough comes together—don’t overmix.

Scoop out about 1 heaping teaspoon of dough and roll it between your palms to form a smooth ball. Place the balls on the prepared baking sheet, about 1 inch apart.

Bake for 15–18 minutes, or until the cookies are set and lightly golden on the bottom.

Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes. While still slightly warm, roll each cookie in powdered sugar until coated.

Transfer the cookies to a wire rack to cool completely. Once cooled, you can roll them in powdered sugar a second time for extra coating, if desired.

Enjoy!

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    2. Good morning, Pat! Sunny and 46 here this morning. Wheezer was sleeping on the other chair this morning. As soon as he heard the blinds go up, he jumped down and came to the door. This time I mixed the tuna in with some of the dried food and he gobbled it down. Otherwise, he eats just the tuna! There are vitamins and such in the dry food. Jerry should be coming to p/u my mower to sharpen the blades either today or tomorrow, then I have to mow. After that comes the spreading of the mulch….but I intend to wait a couple of days for that. I need to recuperate some first! LOL

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        1. Yeah, I’m definitely gonna work on moderating the amount I do each day. I just have to reconcile myself to the fact that I’ll never be as physically capable as I have been for most of my life. Sucks but that’s life! LOL

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  5. Troublemaker10

    May 11, 2026 12:58 am

    Donald J. Trump
    @realDonaldTrump

    We just secured the release of three Polish, and two Moldovan, prisoners from Belarusian and Russian detention. Thanks to my Special Presidential Envoy, John Coale, we were able to push hard to make this release happen. My friend, President Karol Nawrocki, of Poland, met with me last September, and asked me to help secure Andrzej Poczobut from Belarusian prison. Today, Poczobut is free due to our efforts. The United States delivers for our Allies, and Friends. Thank you to President Aleksandr Lukashenko for his cooperation and friendship. So nice! President DONALD J. TRUMP

    5/10/26, 4:00 PM

    https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116552057312551979

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  8. so much for the religion of peace…

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  9. never trust a liar

    Charlotte99

    May 11, 2026 6:35 am

    IRAN’S OTHER NUCLEAR PATHWAY:

    PLUTONIUM

    According to technical analysis based on IAEA reports, Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant has accumulated large quantities of spent fuel containing plutonium, creating a potential parallel pathway to nuclear weapons.

    The key point: Iran does not need to openly enrich uranium to weapons-grade levels if it can exploit spent nuclear fuel.

    The report says there is no conclusive public proof that Iran has extracted plutonium from Bushehr on an industrial scale.

    But it also says the technical capability exists, the material is there, and restricted access by inspectors makes this a serious proliferation concern.

    That is why any Iran deal cannot focus only on uranium. No uranium pathway. No plutonium pathway. No loopholes. No “trust us.”

    A nuclear deal that closes one door while leaving another unlocked is not a deal. It is a delay.

    Source: Technical analysis based on IAEA reports, Rosatom data, and independent proliferation studies.

    https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/2053751358231085442#m

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  12. the fact they would make this retroactive, tells you all you need to know.

    Shipwreckedcrew
    @shipwreckedcrew
    The current ages of the 7 Justices on the Virginia Supreme Court are:

    70
    69
    67
    64
    61
    56
    54

    The idea that the legislature would lower the retirement age to 53 in order to remove them all is just beyond wild.

    Then they would install 7 new Justices who would have to commit in advance to reversing the prior Court’s decision — that tells you everything you would ever need to know about anyone who would pledge to do that.

    Three Justices voted in the minority, but you can’t exempt them from the retirement because they might object to a corrupt process to remove their colleagues for no reason other than naked partisan politics.  

    This would DESTROY the functional independence of the Virginia Supreme Court, and be a permanent stain on the votes of every Virginia Assembly Democrat who went along with it.  

    It would bring condemnation from Courts and Legislatures all across the country.

    Virginians need to take a hard look at the people it is electing, and ask whether they have the foundational commitment to the Great American Experiment that has held this country together — even through a Civil War.  

    In Virginia, of all places.

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  13. EXCERPT: “Europe is wealthier than Russia, its population is larger, and it is more technologically advanced. Yet European leaders increasingly fear the possibility that they might have to defend their borders against Russia without the guarantee of support from the United States.

    President Trump dating back to his first term has threatened to pull U.S. military support for European countries as part of their North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance that was established in 1949 in the aftermath of WWII. 

    The president has also threatened to dramatically reduce the number of U.S. troops in Germany, Italy, Spain, and other European bases. And he has said the U.S. might not come to the aid of NATO allies that don’t meet new, higher defense spending targets and indicated that the U.S.’s global priorities are shifting from Europe to the Pacific Rim, especially China.

    Analysts agree that NATO’s effectiveness over the 75 years of its existence has relied on the assumption that an attack on Europe would be treated as an attack on the United States. The credibility of that promise – Article 5 of the alliance treaty – has been enough to deter potential adversaries without a shot being fired. 

    Now, the apparent shifts in policy coming from the White House has European governments quietly preparing for the possibility that the post-war security order may no longer rule the day. 

    The shift follows Trump long complaining that at least some European NATO member nations are not paying fair share, and more recently some have been reluctant to help the U.S. and Israel in their war against Iran, which is pursuing the making of a nuclear warhead…..”

    https://justthenews.com/world/europe/europe-confronts-future-where-america-may-no-longer-defend-it

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  14. EXCERPT: “The Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion military budget request would rewrite how the Pentagon buys weapons – forcing contractors to fund their own factory expansions and penalizing them for missing production targets – in a bid to fix what officials describe as a decades-long failure to turn American innovation into usable military capability.

    Submitted to Congress on April 3, the proposal allocates more than $100 billion to rebuild the defense industrial base through four programs: $20.2 billion through the Office of Strategic Capital for low-interest credit and loan guarantees; $30.4 billion through the Defense Production Act to expand production capacity; $41.8 billion for industrial base analysis and sustainment to attract new suppliers; and $52.9 billion through the Munitions Acceleration Council to send long-term demand signals to manufacturers.

    Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told the House Armed Services Committee that funding alone will not solve the problem – the procurement system itself must change.

    “The historic, generational, and transformational changes we implement will move us from the current prime contractor-dominated system defined by limited competition, vendor lock, cost-plus contracts, stressed budgets and frustrating protests – to a future powered by a dynamic vendor space that accelerates production,” Hegseth said.

    At the center of that shift is a new multi-year procurement model – contracts lasting up to seven years for critical munitions – designed to give manufacturers the certainty needed to build new facilities rather than add shifts to existing ones. Under the model, contractors fund their own capital expenditures up front and face financial penalties if they fail to meet agreed-upon production ramp rates.

    Jules “Jay” Hurst III, performing the duties of Under Secretary of War Comptroller, said the previous approach, in which the government financed capacity expansion, had produced marginal results.

    “We’re making them put skin in the game,” Hurst said at an April 21 Pentagon budget briefing. “We’re giving them a multi-year order, and we expect them to meet the ramp rates that they agree to, and if they don’t, there’ll be penalties for them.”

    The changes target a structural problem that the government’s own watchdog has tracked for years and found to be getting worse. In its June 2025 annual weapon systems assessment, the Government Accountability Office found that major defense acquisition programs now take nearly 12 years on average to deliver even an initial capability to troops, up 18 months from the prior year. Combined costs across 30 major programs increased by $49.3 billion in a single year, with the Air Force’s Sentinel ICBM program accounting for $36 billion of that growth alone…..”

    https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/trump-budget-targets-valley-death-new-military-contractor

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  17. “New York cops disguised themselves as construction workers and doled out nearly 1,000 tickets to unsuspecting drivers last month. State troopers in coordination with Department of Transportation conducted Operation Hard Hat from April 20 through April 24 on the New York Thruway, setting up 12 enforcement details within active work zones, according to New York State Police.

    Some of the troopers donned orange helmets and safety vests while camping out in Westchester and Rockland counties to trick drivers into thinking there were no police officers nearby.”

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  24. 🌵 THE US JUST EXPERIENCED ITS DRIEST START TO A YEAR EVER RECORDED

    January through March 2026 were reportedly the driest first three months ever observed in U.S. history. Drier than:

    • the Dust Bowl,
    • modern drought records,
    • basically everything.

    Scientists say the southwestern U.S. is now experiencing a megadrought potentially unmatched in over 1,200 years. Currently:🌎 roughly 63% of the continental U.S. is under some form of drought stress. The terrifying thing about drought is how visually quiet it looks at first.

    No giant explosion. No sirens. No dramatic movie soundtrack.

    Just:

    • shrinking reservoirs,
    • stressed crops,
    • dying ecosystems,
    • rising food prices,
    • and landscapes slowly turning hostile.

    🔗 Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/worst-spring-drought-in-131-years-grips-63-of-the-us-with-no-end-in-sight/ar-AA22egcu

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  25. 🧫 TOXIC BLUE-GREEN ALGAE RETURNS TO LAKE NORMAN

    Toxic cyanobacteria blooms are once again spreading through coves along Lake Norman in North Carolina. Residents say the blooms now return every year. When conditions worsen, the shoreline reportedly turns into:

    “a mat of hairy green plant life.”

    Algal toxins can kill:

    • fish,
    • dogs,
    • wildlife,
    • and potentially affect humans.

    One homeowner summed it up perfectly:

    “My grandchildren used to run down and jump in the water. Not now.”

    That sentence alone explains the emotional cost of environmental decline better than most scientific papers.

    🔗 Source: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/lake-norman/article315653435.html

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  26. 🦈 SHARK ATTACKS RISE WORLDWIDE

    Global shark attacks increased sharply in 2025, with fatalities nearly doubling compared to the previous year. Researchers documented:

    🦈 65 unprovoked attacks
    💀 12 fatalities

    The rise may partly be linked to great white sharks gathering near popular surfing regions in Australia. Nature appears to be reminding everyone: the ocean is not a theme park.

    🔗 Source: http://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/shark-attack-deaths-2025-report-rise/

    🦌 THE “GHOST OF THE FOREST” RETURNS TO KENYA

    Conservationists in Kenya are slowly reintroducing the mountain bongo — one of the rarest antelopes on Earth — back into the wild. Fewer than 100 remain naturally.

    Honestly: I had never even heard of bongos before today. Now I desperately want them to survive. The striped antelope has already earned one of the greatest animal nicknames ever: 👻 “Ghost of the Forest.”

    🔗 Source: https://apnews.com/article/endangered-kenya-mountain-bongos-reintroduced-wild-ebb168684b408dbd34d663e88c17bc53

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  27. 👭 CONJOINED TWINS FEAR THEIR FUTURE

    Conjoined twins Carmen and Lupita Andrade opened up about the possibility that one of them may die while the other survives.

    Doctors also warned their spinal condition may eventually leave them unable to walk later in life. Some stories instantly force you to recalibrate your understanding of what daily human existence can look like.

    🔗 Source: https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/conjoined-twins-carmen-lupita-andrades-1830533

    🤖 AI DATA CENTERS KEEP GETTING WEIRDER

    AI infrastructure is increasingly becoming its own environmental phenomenon. New reports claim some data centers:

    One Georgia facility reportedly used: 💧 29 million gallons of water in just 15 months before residents noticed low water pressure. At this point, AI server farms are starting to resemble giant industrial organisms feeding on:

    • electricity,
    • water,
    • land,
    • and human sanity.

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  30. He knows she is not messing around..

    Brain eating Amoeba discovered in National park waters

    “Sightseeing isn’t the only thing happening at some of America’s favorite national parks. A new study shows that a devastating brain-eating amoeba has been detected in thermal waters at Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park and Lake Mead National Recreation Area. 

    The footprint of this deadly pathogen that enters the body through the nose in warm freshwater is expanding, the study finds, into some of the most iconic tourist destinations and scenic landscapes across the United States at National Parks in Wyoming, Nevada and Arizona. 

    https://www.aol.com/news/brain-eating-amoeba-detected-water-001024077.html

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  33. M.A. Rothman
    @MichaelARothman
    𝐀 𝐅𝐄𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐃𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐎𝐘𝐄𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐇𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 — 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐆𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓-𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐔𝐄𝐃 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐔𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐎 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍 𝐈𝐓.

    𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐢𝐞, 𝟑𝟓, 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐇𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞, was arrested and charged with interstate communication of a threat against the president. The case is built on his own government computer.

    On April 21, DelleChiaie allegedly emailed the White House public contact address, subject line ‘Contact the President,’ and wrote:

    ‘𝘐, 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘢𝘪𝘦, 𝘢𝘮 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦/𝘬!𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶 — 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘥 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 — 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘬!𝘭𝘭 𝘬𝘪𝘥𝘴 — 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘞𝘢𝘳 — 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 — 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘮.’

    What Secret Service found on his FAA-issued work computer, dating back to January:
    — Searches for ‘how to get a gun into a federal facility’
    — Searches for 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐬𝐬∗𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭
    — Searches for ‘the percentage of the population that wants the President dead’
    — The literal phrase ‘I am going to k!ll Donald John Trump’
    — Home address lookups for 𝐕𝐏 𝐉𝐃 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐃𝐞𝐟 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐠𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐡

    He faces up to 5 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.

    This is what the rhetoric of ‘Trump is Hitler’ and ‘this is the end of democracy’ produces. A federal aviation worker, paid by taxpayers, sitting at a federal computer, planning the ass∗ssination of a sitting president.

    𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭.

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  37. Nick Sortor
    @nicksortor
    https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f6a8.svg President Trump says he has ZERO REGRETS about pulling the US out of the WHO

    Good. Screw those globalists.

    “On Covid, they were TOTALLY WRONG.”

    “For 350 million people, we were paying $500M a year… and China was paying $39M a year for 1.4 billion people.”

    We were being RIPPED OFF.

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  46. Just The News: “President Trump said he wants to see the federal gasoline tax suspended temporarily as prices at the pump soar during the war in Iran. “I think it’s a great idea. Yup, we’re going to take off the gas tax for a period of time, and when gas goes down, we’ll let it phase back in,” Trump told CBS News. 

    The federal government’s excise tax is about 18.4 cents per gallon on gasoline and 24.4 cents per gallon on diesel, which generates approximately $500 million per week for construction and repair of roadways, as well as other transit projects. 

    Suspending the tax would require an act of Congress. 

    The average price of gasoline in the U.S. on Monday was $4.52 per gallon, which was up from $4.14 a month ago, according to AAA.” 

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  47. Just The News: “President Donald Trump on Monday stated that the ceasefire with Iran was “on life support” amid a growing diplomatic deadline between Tehran and Washington and the exchange of live rounds across the Persian Gulf.

    It’s unbelievably weak. After reading that garbage they sent over? I didn’t even waste my time reading all of it. It’s on life support,” he told reporters. “I would say the ceasefire is on massive life support, where the doctor walks in and says, ‘sir, your loved one has approximately 1% chance of living.'”

    Trump’s remarks came from the Oval Office during an unrelated event. He also lamented the difficulties of dealing with Iran, saying they agreed to commitments and then backed out. He rejected the Iranian peace proposal over the weekend, calling it “totally unacceptable.”

    Earlier this month, Iran and the United Arab Emirates exchanged fire across the Persian Gulf, despite the ceasefire, with Iran launching missiles toward UAE territory and striking at least one industrial oil facility.”

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        1. I know they’re engaged…..

          “….Earlier this year, Glenn found himself at the center of headlines after aggressively questioning Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about wearing “war garb” during a White House appearance — a moment critics slammed as political performance art designed to impress Trump allies. Reports later claimed Trump privately enjoyed the exchange.

          But as Greene’s relationship with Trump began collapsing behind the scenes, Glenn increasingly appeared stuck between maintaining access to the White House and supporting his fiancée’s increasingly hostile rhetoric toward Trump-world.

          MTG took to social media to accuse the Trump administration of using Iran policy rhetoric to facilitate insider trading — a coordinated effort, she believes, to benefit the wealthy. She amplified a report claiming that nearly $920 million in crude oil “shorts” were placed just over an hour before news surfaced of a potential U.S.-Iran peace deal.

          With both Greene and Glenn now heading back to Georgia, observers are reading the move differently — some seeing a couple choosing each other over Washington’s grind, others viewing it as a sign of deeper burnout after years inside one of America’s most combustible political environments.”

          https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-s-fianc%C3%A9-abruptly-quits-washington-but-the-timing-couldn-t-be-more-awkward-after-his-wife-turned-on-trump/ar-AA22LKLb

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