DIY: Patriotic Wreath

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I found this easy to make wreath that can be saved and used over and over for all patriotic holidays!

From GardenCare.org:

DIY PATRIOTIC FELT WREATH

Today we are sharing an easy DIY Patriotic Felt Wreath.  This wreath is easy to make and the use of felt keeps the cost low too.

You too can easily make this wreath with just a few supplies.  The straw wreath form is from Wal-Mart and is under $3.00.  It was wrapped in cellophane and I just left it on.   I used 5 sheets each of blue, white and red felt and straight pins to attach the felt pieces to the wreath form.  Sheets of felt are around 25 cents a piece.

Step 1: Hand draw a tear drop pattern on a thin piece of cardboard.   This tear drop shape measures 2 inches long and an inch and a quarter at it’s widest point.

Step 2: Cut out the tear drop shape and use as a template to cut similar shaped pieces from the felt.  At first I traced the pattern on the felt with a pencil.  I quickly realized that this method was going to take a while, so I started cutting through two pieces of felt at a time, and that made the process go a lot faster.   I cut as many tear drops as I could get out of each piece of felt.

Note: Depending on how big your pattern is, and how close you pin the pieces together, will determine the amount of felt pieces you need.  I used almost all of the pieces I cut.

Step 3: Fold the bottom edges together to make a petal shape and attach to the wreath with a straight pin.

Step 4: Work in a slanted pattern starting at the outside edge of the wreath form and work to the center of the wreath form. The blue felt was added last.

Step 5: The use of felt makes this a vibrant and colorful wreath!  I attached a few white foam star stickers on the blue felt to finish the wreath.

This wreath comes together in just a couple of days.  It did take some time to cut out all the felt pieces, but it was worth it!

SOURCE: GARDENCARE.ORG

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    1. Good Morning. Cloudy and chilly, upper 40s.

      Happy Memorial Day Weekend! That wreath is beautiful, wish I felt more “crafty”. I could use one of those. 👍

      Son and GS visited. GS is very smart @2-1/2yrs. Whenever he sees a Chevy, he says “dad”, a gmc, he says mom, a Subaru he says “Jelly” (short for Angelica), and a Ford he says NaNa. 😁 He certainly has good eyesight to spot those logos!

      Take care, God Bless. 🙏

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      1. Good Morning Gina!

        2 1/2? what a cute age!! I don’t know the logos of cars…LOL

        Happy Memorial Day weekend to you too!

        hopefully we’ll be able to get plants for the garden this weekend!

        May God Bless you as well!!

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    2. Morning, Pat! Rain, rain and more rain here w/a temp of 56 – I can’t complain and we need the rain. I put the feeders back out – it was getting windy last night so I took them down – and the Orioles flocked to it.

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      1. Morning Filly!

        we’re still sitting at 40*! and windy–so it’s feels colder. When we drove down the driveway the other day, there are honeysuckle bushes getting out of hand! and this year, the number of bushes exploded! hubby has to trim some growing out over the driveway. and behind the house they’re everywhere behind the grapevines…which are budding finally.

        i hope soon the smell of the honeysuckles fills the air! i think the hummers love them.

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        1. Oh, they certainly do! Even tho I can’t see them from inside, there are some hovering around my honesuckle that is blooming.

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  4. Hmmmm….something tells me Don Sr. is NOT particularly pleased with Don Jr.!!!

    Just The News: “President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will try to attend his eldest son’s wedding in the Bahamas this weekend but warned that he might not make it because of the ongoing conflict in Iran and “other things.” 

    News outlets reported this week that Donald Trump Jr. is expected to marry his fiancee Bettina Anderson, a Palm Beach socialite, in a small wedding on a private island on Saturday. The president did not share an opinion of his son’s fiancée but said that he hopes the pair have a “great marriage.” 

    “He’d like me to go, but it’s going to be just a small, little private affair, and I’m going to try and make it,” the president told a reporter at the White House. “I’m in the midst — I said, ‘You know, this is not good timing for me, I have a thing called Iran and other things.’

    “That’s one I can’t win on,” he continued. “If I do attend, I get killed, if I don’t attend, I get killed, by the fake news, of course … But he’s got a very — a person who I’ve known for a long time, and hopefully, they’re going to have a great marriage.”

    Trump Jr. announced his engagement to the Florida socialite in December. But the ceremony comes just days after his first wife Vanessa Trump revealed she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. 

    It was not immediately clear what family members will be attending the wedding, but Donald Trump Jr. and Vanessa Trump share five children: Kai Trump, Donald Trump III, Tristan Trump, Spencer Trump and Chloe Trump.” 

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  5. SMDH – it is NOT a “drastic” tactic to purchase a gun!!!!

    EXCERPT: “Republican Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt, a former reality TV star, said Thursday that death threats he received during the height of his fame is what pushed him to eventually join the GOP.

    Pratt is known for playing a villain for four seasons on the MTV reality show “The Hills,” and said the hate he received from the show prompted him and his wife Heidi Montag to get concealed-carry weapon permits. 

    “When I was a hated reality star, I got so many death threats –– I had so much security and police, and what did they tell me to do?” Pratt told CNN. “‘Get a gun.’ This is real. I know people don’t like guns, but L.A. was dangerous if you’re hated.”

    The former reality star said the only people who supported the drastic tactic of purchasing and owning a firearm were Republicans…..”

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/los-angeles-mayor-candidate-spencer-pratt-says-death-threats-during-tv

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      1. Oh, no – it wasn’t Pratt who said that!!! And IDK if that was an actual quote from him or the author inserted the “drastic” part. But since he is a former leftist, I would guess that was how he looked at it before his house burned down.

        “The comment was actually made by Graham Platner, a military veteran and 2026 U.S. Senate candidate in Maine. The remark surfaced in resurfaced Reddit posts, where Platner wrote: “I still have to jerk off every time I sit in a porta-potty… that blue water smell conditioned me.” He later apologized for the online comments, attributing them to PTSD and mental health struggles following his overseas military deployments”

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  8. FUCK!!! One of those bastid squirrels made it past the slinky and the soap! I am definitely buying a BB gun and squirrel poison!!!!

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  9. “Friday Funnies: The Same Old Washington ThuneMarching to McConnell’s tune”

    Dr. Robert W. Malone, May 22, 2026

    John Thune represents the species we thought MAGA had already chased out of Washington: the perfectly groomed, donor-approved, country-club Republican who always has a very serious reason why nothing can actually be done.

    Thune feels like Mitch McConnell rebooted with better lighting, a decent chin, and fewer visible signs of decay.

    What we want is a fighter; what we keep getting from the Senate is a rotating cast of parliamentary therapists explaining why now is not the right time to save the country.

    The illegal immigrant problem isn’t solved. The bureaucracy is out of control. The intelligence agencies act as they report to themselves. The health of America continues to decline. MAHA issues are ignored. Big pharma and big ag continue to run roughshod. And the national debt grows larger.

    Yet the RINO Senate Republicans respond the way an HOA board handles a dispute over mailbox paint colors

    “We share your concerns.”

    “We’re monitoring the situation closely.”

    “We must respect Senate norms.”

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  10. Malone continued: “Conservatives are done with “norms.” They watched Democrats spend years bulldozing every institutional tradition in sight like drunken contractors driving a rented excavator, while Republicans stood nearby holding a laminated copy of Robert’s Rules of Order.

    Every time conservatives demand action, a Senate Republican emerges from a mahogany-paneled office whispering about the filibuster like it’s the Shroud of Turin.

    “Oh dear,” they sigh, clutching pearls and Senate procedure manuals, “we simply cannot deport illegal immigrants because subsection B, paragraph 4 of Senate precedent from 1978 may be offended.”

    Meanwhile, Democrats govern like they’re trying to speedrun the collapse of the republic.

    The Republican base isn’t amused. That’s why the term RINO has exploded again. Republican In Name Only. Although many conservatives now joke that it really means:

    “Retreat Is Now Official.” Or: “Republicans Ignoring Normal Americans.” Or perhaps most accurately: “Republicans Incapable of Not Surrendering.”

    Trump changed the Republican Party permanently, and a lot of Senate Republicans still haven’t realized the old game is over. They still want to sit in the back rooms with the lobbyists and their democrat friends and work out deals that better their own pocketbooks, rather than that of the American people. Then pretend that they are actually doing something to help America. While in fact, they do nothing.

    Despite the avalanche of executive orders coming out of the Trump White House, only a handful have actually made it through Congress and become law. Turning executive orders into actual legislation requires Congress to do something it increasingly avoids: move with purpose.

    Trump governs with Sharpies because Congress operates like a retirement committee trapped in a never-ending lunch recess. The result is that major policy changes remain temporary, vulnerable to the next president with a pen, a phone, and a grudge.

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  11. The new Republican base is populist, anti-globalist, anti-bureaucratic, suspicious of the intelligence apparatus, and deeply angry after COVID, censorship, lockdowns, inflation, and years of being lied to by people with Ivy League credentials and emotional support dogs – otherwise known as staffers and lobbyists.

    Voters want confrontation. They want investigations. They want accountability. They want action on MAHA issues. They want somebody in Washington who behaves like they understand the country is on fire.

    At the top of the dumpster fire, we have our fearless leader, Senator John Thune. Designated the Majority Leader, but championing the status quo of a broken system.

    John Thune has become the embodiment of the modern Republican problem: a party that campaigns like rebels and governs like risk managers. While Trump floods the zone with executive orders trying to force change through a broken system, Congress, under Republican leadership, struggles to convert ANY of those actions into durable law.

    Voters sent Republicans to Washington expecting a counterrevolution against the administrative state, not a seminar on Senate etiquette delivered by well-compensated career politicians whose personal fortunes quietly rose while the country declined.

    Thune now owns this mess. He sits atop a Senate Republican establishment that too often looks less like a governing majority and more like a support group for cautious institutionalists terrified of their own voters.

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  17. I used to love wandering thru old abandoned buildings when I was a child!

    “Scientists say they’ve finally learned why creepy old buildings freak us out”

    Not The Bee, Harambe Harambe, May 21, 2026

    Image for article: Scientists say they've finally learned why creepy old buildings freak us out

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “I don’t go into haunted, run-down buildings very often. I think most of us are in the same boat. I never thought I needed a scientific explanation for why they’re frightening, but, per ScienceDaily, leave it to modern science to figure it out:

    Infrasound, an ultra-low-frequency vibration below the range of human hearing, is everywhere from traffic to old buildings. In a small experiment, people exposed to it became more irritable, less engaged, and even showed higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol — despite having no idea it was present. The findings suggest our bodies can “sense” these vibrations without conscious awareness, potentially explaining eerie sensations in places like basements or supposedly haunted buildings.

    So the frightening thing in these buildings is … sound? As MacEwan University Prof. Rodney Schmaltz said, infrasound “is pervasive in everyday environments, appearing near ventilation systems, traffic, and industrial machinery.” Wikipedia explains it thusly:

    Infrasound … describes sound waves with a frequency below the lower limit of human audibility…Although the ear is the primary organ for sensing low sound, at higher intensities it is possible to feel infrasound vibrations in various parts of the body.

    There are some interesting practical applications of infrasound: It can be used “for monitoring earthquakes and volcanoes, charting rock and petroleum formations below the earth, and also in ballistocardiography and seismocardiography to study the mechanics of the human cardiovascular system.”

    There are even indications that animals may be able to “perceive the infrasonic waves going through the earth,” suggesting why some animals are observed to go nuts just prior to an earthquake.

    So why are creepy old buildings a locus of this bizarre phenomenon? Schmaltz explains:

    Consider visiting a supposedly haunted building. Your mood shifts, you feel agitated, but you can’t see or hear anything unusual. In an old building, there is a good chance that infrasound is present, particularly in basements where aging pipes and ventilation systems produce low-frequency vibrations. If you were told the building was haunted, you might attribute that agitation to something supernatural. In reality, you may simply have been exposed to infrasound.

    The researchers only tested one small frequency as part of this experiment; they acknowledged that there could be “many more frequencies and combinations that have their own differential effects.” Schmaltz, meanwhile, urged urban explorers to not be too afraid next time they’re spelunking under an old mental asylum:

    So, the next time something feels inexplicably off in a basement or old building, consider that the cause might be vibrating pipes rather than restless spirits.

    Yeah I’m still not going in those places either way!”

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      1. Well, after my adoption, I spent a lot of time alone, wandering the fields with my dog. There was an old abandoned house in a field (that is now buried under a lake) that I loved wandering thru. Almost every Sunday, after church and the noon meal, Midnight and I would set off into the hills.

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  18. 🌈 Sicily Witnesses One Of The Rarest Sky Phenomena On Earth

    A breathtaking atmospheric display stunned observers in Sicily after photographer Marcella Giulia Pace captured an ultra-rare suncave Parry arc — a phenomenon usually associated with the Arctic.

    The sky turned into a glowing geometric network of:

    • circumzenithal arcs
    • sundogs
    • parhelic circles
    • upper tangent arcs
    • a 22° halo
    • and the elusive Parry arc itself

    Basically the atmosphere decided to boot up in “developer mode.” These formations happen when sunlight interacts with perfectly aligned ice crystals high in the atmosphere. In simpler terms: the sky briefly became sacred geometry.

    🔗 Source: https://spaceweather.com/archive.php

    ☢️ The First Atomic Bomb Accidentally Created A Brand-New Material

    Scientists studying debris from the 1945 Trinity nuclear test discovered an entirely new material formed during the first atomic explosion. The blast created conditions so extreme that matter arranged itself into structures never before observed in nature or laboratories.

    Humanity literally detonated physics hard enough to unlock hidden crafting recipes. We split the atom and accidentally invented new geology.

    🔗 Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-crystals-found-inside-wreckage-from-the-first-nuclear-bomb-test/

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  19. 🌆 Chicago Floating Above The Horizon Looks Like A Sci-Fi Mirage

    Photos from Indiana Dunes show the Chicago skyline seemingly floating above Lake Michigan from nearly 50 miles away. The phenomenon is caused by a superior mirage, where layers of air bend light and visually lift distant objects above the horizon.

    When the Chicago skyline appears to float above the horizon, it creates a breathtaking, sci-fi illusion known as a Fata Morgana. This rare atmospheric phenomenon bends light across Lake Michigan, lifting the city’s towering skyscrapers—like the Willis Tower—high above the curvature of the Earth.

    So yes: entire cities can appear to levitate. Reality itself continues to have rendering glitches.

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  20. 🚀 The Fastest Human-Made Object Was… A Nuclear Manhole Cover

    During the 1957 Operation Plumbbob nuclear test, a steel manhole cover may have been launched at roughly:150,000 MPH. That’s approximately Mach 160.

    Scientists believe the blast pressure accelerated the 2,000-pound cap so violently it may have vaporized instantly in the atmosphere. For comparison:

    • a commercial plane crosses the U.S. in ~5 hours
    • this manhole cover could have done it in under a minute

    Human beings once looked at nuclear weapons and said:

    “What happens if we accidentally fire infrastructure into space?”

    🔗 Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob

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  21. Suddenly, I’m seeing all these ads here that were never present before – popping up at the bottom of the page. PITA, it is!

    🐝 Bee Swarm Attacks Hikers In Arizona

    A swarm of bees attacked multiple hikers at Camelback Mountain in Phoenix, injuring at least eight people.

    Reminder:nature may look peaceful, but it occasionally switches to “defend the hive” mode with absolutely no warning. Also worth noting: global bee populations continue collapsing while surviving colonies increasingly face ecological stress.

    Human civilization is disturbingly dependent on tiny airborne pollen workers.

    🔗 Source: http://www.azfamily.com/2026/05/19/multiple-hikers-stung-by-bee-swarm-camelback-mountain/

    🌲 Poland’s “Crooked Forest” Still Has No Definitive Explanation

    Hundreds of strangely bent pine trees in Poland continue to fascinate visitors decades later. The trees curve sharply near their base before growing upward normally, creating a forest that looks mildly cursed.

    Internet theories include:

    • shipbuilding experiments
    • gravitational anomalies
    • snow deformation
    • soil creep
    • paranormal nonsense
    • aliens because of course aliens
    Same in Colorado

    Most likely explanation? Slow ground movement on slopes combined with tree growth correction. Still looks haunted though.

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      1. I don’t do well with change, as you no doubt know by now. I tried going into Brave to do a few things and can’t figure it out any more!!! Progress sucks!

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  22. 🧠 Mental Disorders Have Doubled Since 1990

    A global study found mental disorders have doubled worldwide since 1990 and are now the leading cause of disability globally. Young people aged 15–19 are being hit especially hard.

    Human brains evolved for:

    • small tribes
    • forests
    • rivers
    • sunlight
    • occasional mammoths

    Not:

    • infinite doomscrolling
    • algorithmic outrage
    • economic instability
    • notification warfare
    • and existential climate anxiety

    The nervous system was not designed for 2026.

    🔗 Source: https://news.uq.edu.au/2026-05-worlds-burden-mental-disorders-doubled-1990

    Awww, man! This sucks bigly!

    ⚡ Lightning Strike Kills 5 Rescue Horses In Texas

    Five rescue horses were killed after lightning struck an equine refuge during severe storms in Texas. Staff described the scene as devastating.

    Nature remains beautiful right up until the exact second it becomes horrifying.

    🔗 Source: https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/5-horses-killed-in-lightning-strike-at-texas-equine-rescue-nonprofit-says-weather-storm-thunderstorm-equestrian-horseback-riding-training-adoption-rehabilitation-hooker-ranch-equine-refuge-animals-winnsboro-deadly-strike

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  23. 🔥 Wildfires Continue Exploding Across The American West

    New wildfire evacuations are unfolding across:

    Thousands have already evacuated. The modern seasonal calendar increasingly looks like:

    • fire season
    • smoke season
    • flood season
    • heat dome season
    • tornado season

    With a few weeks of “normal” weather inserted as a reward.

    👵 81-Year-Old Grandma Streaming Minecraft To Pay For Cancer Treatment Gets SWATed

    An 81-year-old grandmother running a nonstop Minecraft stream to raise money for her grandson’s cancer treatment was reportedly SWATed. If that sentence alone doesn’t summarize late-stage civilization, nothing will. A family trying to survive healthcare costs…through livestream gaming…while trolls weaponize armed police responses against them.

    The future arrived broken.

    🔗 Source: https://www.kltv.com/2026/05/21/gaming-grandma-swatted-while-streaming-pay-grandsons-medical-bills/

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  24. ☠️ Hydrogen Sulfide Killing Fish And Animals Worldwide

    Hydrogen sulfide events are now being linked to:

    • massive fish die-offs in South Korea
    • toxic seaweed-related deaths in France

    Hydrogen sulfide is one of the deadliest naturally occurring gases on Earth.

    It smells like rotten eggs right before things stop breathing.

    💻 Massive Open Source Software Poisoning Campaign Underway

    Security researchers warn that hacker groups are now poisoning open-source software ecosystems at unprecedented scale.

    NPM.
    GitHub.
    Supply-chain attacks everywhere.

    Modern civilization currently runs on:

    • electricity
    • fragile code libraries
    • unpaid developers
    • and hope

    Mostly hope.

    🔗 Source: https://www.wired.com/story/teampcp-software-supply-chain-attack-spree-github/

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  25. 🐝 Bee Population Collapse Continues

    Researchers and apiarists warn that collapsing bee populations combined with research cuts could threaten agriculture systems worldwide. Tiny insects quietly hold together much of Earth’s food production. Humanity continues behaving as if pollinators are optional. They are not.

    🔗 Source: http://today.rtl.lu/news/world/as-bee-population-collapses-us-apiarists-fear-research-cuts-835737066

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  26. Eric Daugherty
    @EricLDaugh
    https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f6a8.svg OMG. Trump SBA chief Kelly Loeffler just revealed the Biden admin ORDERED their staff to ignore the US Treasury’s “do not pay list” for grants — and 70% WERE FLAGGED FOR FRAUD.

    “That’s how $14 BILLION got out the door so quickly!” https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f92f.svg

    “They ordered SBA employees to take 4 hours per applicant and not any more.”

    This is criminal.

    “Then we come to find out in the GAO report that 70 percent of it was fraudulent!”

    “Now we, from day one at the SBA, have come in with a zero-tolerance policy on fraud. And so we began cracking down on it right away.”

    “We’ve already sent out 1,000 demand letters demanding that those who took the money – now these were not loans. These were grants. These were the federal government writing checks of taxpayer money!” @RapidResponse47

    They LEGALIZED FRAUD.

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    2. https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/kyle-busch-911-call-reveals-driver-coughing-blood-struggling-breathe-bathroom-floor

      “Partial audio from the 911 call made for NASCAR star Kyle Busch has been released, painting a grim picture for the now-deceased driver.

      In the audio, first obtained by TMZ, an unidentified man is heard explaining the situation to a dispatcher, saying Busch was coughing up “some blood” and was short of breath.

      “I have got an individual that [has] shortness of breath, very hot, thinks he wants to pass out. He produces blood… coughing up some blood,” the unidentified man says. “He is awake. He’s on the bathroom floor right now.”

      Here’s the full audio:”

      NASCAR CHAMP KYLE BUSCH HOSPITALIZED WITH UNDISCLOSED BUT “SEVERE ILLNESS,” WILL MISS COCA-COLA 600

      https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/kyle-busch-911-call-reveals-driver-coughing-blood-struggling-breathe-bathroom-floor

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    3. IDK WTF is going on but I know some “mistakes” that are showing up were not typed in by me!!!

      TMZ: “Kyle Busch’s medical emergency has been partially revealed by 911 audio obtained by TMZ Sports … with a caller saying the NASCAR superstar was struggling to breathe, overheating and coughing up blood before medics rushed to help.

      During the emergency call placed around 5:30 PM Wednesday, the caller urgently requests an ambulance to a training facility in Concord, North Carolina … telling dispatch, “I’ve got an individual that’s shortness of breath, very hot, thinks he’s going to pass out, and he’s producing a little bit of blood, coughing up some blood.”

      Kyle was known to use this testing facility extensively since joining Richard Childress Racing — and according to the audio, he was lying on a bathroom floor inside the complex while employees prepared for paramedics to arrive.

      The caller even asked responding crews to shut off their sirens when approaching the building … while explaining he would wait outside and flag them down at a side entrance.

      TMZ also obtained dispatch audio from the incident … listen to it above.

      As we reported … Busch reportedly became unresponsive Wednesday while testing in a Chevrolet racing simulator … just one day before his death at 41.”

      Audio is blanked out.

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  28. Whoa!!! This is not good, IMO! We need her or someone like her!!!

    Just The News: “Tulsi Gabbard resigned Friday from her post asdirector of National Intelligence. Gabbard notified President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office, explaining that she is leaving to support her husband who has “an extremely rare form of bone cancer,” Fox News reported. 

    In her resignation letter, Gabbard said, she is “deeply grateful for the trust you placed in me and for the opportunity to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for the last year and a half.”

    Gabbard said her husband’s illness will present “major challenges in the coming weeks and months.” 

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  29. TheseTruths

    TheseTruths(@thesetruths)

    Online

    Wolf

    May 22, 2026 12:36

    Homeland Security:

    An alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their home country to apply.

    This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes.

    The era of abusing our nation’s immigration system is over.

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  32. i just saw this…in response to someone asking if POTUS could now do a recess appointment while congress is on another vacay…

    Beau Geste

    May 22, 2026 1:58 pm

    Reply to  cheering4america

    If any ONE congresscritter would request a quorum, they would have to come back or be in recess. ONE congresscritter could keep them all in DC working with out any ‘fact finding tours’ to paris or rome. Just one out of 535. Just one who is retiring, and finally wants to be honest.

    0x054

    0x054

    May 22, 2026 2:11 pm

    Reply to  Beau Geste

    Could the “President of the Senate” do that?

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  36. Bullwinkle is looking for someone to stomp on

    Howdy, paw-dner

    Whoa! I have no idea what kind of fish that is but it’s huge!!! Maybe some kind of grouper…..

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  41. Tulsi’s successor…

    The Gipper Lives

    May 22, 2026 3:17 pm

    Reply to  L4Grasshopper

    Unfortunately, after having done a great job, Tulsi Gabbard will be leaving the Administration on June 30th. Her wonderful husband, Abraham, has been recently diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer, and she, rightfully, wants to be with him, bringing him back to good health as they currently fight a tough battle together. I have no doubt he will soon be better than ever. Tulsi has done an incredible job, and we will miss her. Her highly respected Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Aaron Lukas, will serve as Acting Director of National Intelligence. President DONALD J. TRUMP

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    1. Val1

      May 22, 2026 3:27 pm

      Reply to  L4Grasshopper

      Aaron Lukas…

      Five key things to know about Aaron Lukas
      1. Aaron Lukas is a veteran CIA officer with over 20 years of intelligence experience. According to the ODNI, Lukas spent more than two decades working within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as both an analyst and a clandestine operations officer. Lukas was deployed across multiple regions worldwide.

      During his onboarding as the PDDNI with Gabbard, Lukas said, “As someone who has spent most of my career serving on the front lines of intelligence, I understand firsthand our challenges as a community and the threats we face abroad.”

      Gabbard also said, as she welcomed Lukas as PDDNI in 2025, she described him as someone who understood “nearly every aspect of intelligence work.”

      2. Aaron Lukas has served in Trump’s first administration. Lukas previously held multiple senior national security positions during President Donald Trump’s first administration.

      He served as chief of staff at ODNI under former acting DNI Richard Grenell and later became Deputy Senior Director for Europe and Russia at the National Security Council.

      3. Aaron Lukas is an alumna of Texas A&M University and GWU. Lukas was born in Arkansas. He graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1993. In 1997, he graduated from George Washington University (GWU) with a Master of Arts in international affairs.

      4. Aaron Lukas is married to Carrie Lukas. Lukas’s wife, Carrie, has held positions at the Cato Institute and the House of Representatives’ Republican Policy Committee on Capitol Hill. She graduated from Princeton University and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and she writes for Forbes and National Review.

      Carrie is now the head of the Independent Women’s Forum. She is the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex, and Feminism and a coauthor of Liberty Is No War on Women.

      5. Aaron Lukas and his wife Carrie Lukas share 5 children. Lukas met his wife Carrie Lukas, with whom he is raising five children, while working at the Cato Institute and the Office of the United States Trade Representative

      https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/who-is-aaron-lukas-5-things-to-know-about-the-acting-dni-after-tulsi-gabbards-resignation-101779471838932.html

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  43. The SCIF

    @TheSCIF

    Here are the FACTS about the Georgia 2020 stolen election.

    – 2,506 felons illegally voted – 66,248 underage voters

    – 10,315+ dead voters – 2,423 not registered to vote

    – 1,043 voted using P.O. Box – 4,926 voted after registration date

    – 395 voted in multiple states

    – 15,700 changed address first & voted prior address

    – 40,279 voted after moving over county lines

    Over 100 sworn affidavits from Georgia voters sworn under penalty of perjury that election fraud occurred or was witnessed.

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  44. “Just when you think you’ve heard the craziest shit you can possibly think of, along comes a story like this. An out-of-control, caught-on-camera brawl broke out between families over seating at a Catholic school’s kindergarten graduation in Ohio on Thursday, sending one woman to the hospital and another to jail. Chaos ensued at the Queen of Apostles School in Toledo, Ohio Thursday morning when one family reportedly began hoarding rows of seats for themselves.”

    And you thought you were having a bad day???

    “They’ do jerkoff shit like this all the time. When they can’t beat you on popularity or content, they start disrupting the process – they steal campaign signs and all manner of other stupid shit. Maybe it’s time the ‘right’ side starts doing the same thing. Fuck principals – they don’t have any. Why should we be the only ones who do?

    The unknown woman was caught on camera ripping a sign supporting Spencer Pratt for mayor from a Los Angeles yard — prompting online sleuths to name and shame her. A resident reported the Studio City theft to cops, explaining that he checked his property’s surveillance footage on Wednesday afternoon and saw two “female teens or young adults” grabbing the sign before walking off with it, according to a police report obtained by The California Post.”

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  45. Just The News: “Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, urged President Donald Trump on Friday not to accept an “ill advised” peace deal with Iran amid the raging conflict in the Middle East, claiming the United States must “finish what we started.” 

    The senator claimed the president is at a “moment that will define” his legacy and warned that if Trump continues to pursue a peace deal with Iran then the U.S. risks a “perception of weakness.” 

    “His instincts have been to finish the job he started in Iran, but he is being ill advised to pursue a deal that would not be worth the paper it is written on,” Wicker posted on X. “Our commander-in-chief needs to allow America’s skilled armed forces to finish the destruction of Iran’s conventional military capabilities and reopen the strait.

    “Further pursuit of an agreement with Iran’s Islamist regime risks a perception of weakness,” he continued. “We must finish what we started. It is past time for action.”

    The comment comes after Trump announced he has canceled a planned attack on Iran that was scheduled for Tuesday and stated Wednesday that he would wait for Iran’s reaction to the latest round of negotiations. “If I can save war by waiting a couple of days, if I can save people being killed by waiting a couple of days, I think it’s a great thing to do,” the president told reporters.”

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  47. Wheezer showed up – he was hunkered down by the screen door, watching the birds. He ate his fill, then went out to invade the birds’ space, just in case any of them got careless! He’s looking really skinny and scraggly.

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