The official state motto of Illinois is “State Sovereignty, National Union.”
This motto was controversial after the Civil War when national unity was of prime importance. However, the Illinois legislature commanded that the motto remain the same, but the new design for the state seal and flag positioned the scroll so that “National Unity” is at the top. It remains unchanged and appears on the Illinois state seal and state flag.
Sew Colorful 
Good Morning All
we had another bear sighting at the pond this morning. We watched a smaller bear (than the one eating the apples) climb out of the pond and sit on the bank. Then a cub came out of the woods…then another and another…FIVE CUBS came out! they were running all over the banks…lol. Mama didn’t let any get into the water though–just drink a bit. Then we watched her stroll around to the other side where the waterfall used to be. Now it’s all overgrown because of a fallen tree. She laid down in the tall grass and disappeared. She must be taking a nap…lol
see what today brings…
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Sorry Pat, but 5 bear cubs plus mama is TOO many! 😲
Heat warning here, but then again, it’s July 😁
Take care, God Bless, have a great day! 👍
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Good Morning Gina!
We’re very respectful of their capabilities and only take pictures from safely inside.
Black bears are not normally aggressive if you keep a healthy distance. They’re not grizzlies. In the neighboring town there is an ice cream parlor with a dumpster out back. A mama bear parades her cubs down main street at least once a summer to that dumpster and they feed on the ice cream containers. everybody watches (and films) from indoors.
May God Bless You!!
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Holy cow! Five cubs??? Was the smaller bear that came out of the pond Mama? 71 and sunny skies again here, w/humidity about the same as yesterday. Same old/same old. But I still don’t have to mow at least…..
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Yep, that was mama…while she was mosey around, one of the cubs jumped on her back and hitched a ride…lol.
Hubby says she looks to be 250-300 pounds, so this is likely her first litter. She could be one of the 4 cubs we saw 3 years ago coming back to the area mama brought her…??
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Too bad you couldn’t tag them or something so you’d know…..5 cubs is a lot for one litter, isn’t it???
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I wouldn’t dare go near a cub…lol.
we’re fairly certain that the prior set of 4 cubs–there was a set of twins (we called them that because they were always together) came back and were playing in the woodshed. because 2 bears rarely hang out together like that. so hopefully we’ll get to see these guys again.
there’s the pond when it gets hotter next month and the apples too…we’ll see.
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QUANTUM GUARD ™️
@QuantumGuard17
https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f6a8.svg Barack Obama was using USAID to pretend to send money to a country for “aid” and instead laundering it to the Cayman Islands
He would then use that money to fund and train “Rent-a-Riots” for protests to overthrow governments
Sound familiar?
Mike Benz on Joe Rogan: “A scandal during the Obama USAID era. We were running a number of rogue USAID operations in Cuba at the time. — I’m simply showing the American people where your tax dollars are going and how these things are structured in order to systematically fool you and to fool Congress and to fool the White House:
— USAID pumped $1.2 billion in, and we sponsored these activist groups and these civil society organizations to learn how to use Facebook, learn how to use Twitter, lose, learn how to use hashtags, learn how to coordinate street protests so that everyone knows where to go, what street to show up on, what kind of slogans to know, to use in order to create the pro-democracy predicate for it.”
He talks about how Obama funded a Twitter clone that would be used to push propaganda in Cuba to inspire these protests and overthrow the government (Mike Benz explains how Barack Obama overthrew many governments)
“So what they did is they took the exact same thing as Twitter, same user interface, same like, and retweet button zunzunio is, is the Cuban slang word for hummingbird. So just, it means it’s it’s bird, it was the Twitter bird, the whole thing. But the whole trick about it was you have to make it look like it’s coming from the Cubans if you’re going to do this operation
— We can get into the deeper layers of this, but contractors were funded by USAID
The data would then be used for micro targeting efforts towards anti and pro government users. In Cuba, the developers aim to, at first used non-controversial content such as sports and music and hurricane updates — What was the plan the whole time? Once they built up enough subscribers, they would begin to introduce political messages through social bots and encourage dissent in this, in this astroturfing — the whole point is, once they hit a critical mass, they would create ‘Rent-a-Riots”
“You’re using Cayman Islands bank accounts. You’re saying it’s, you’re earmarking it for Pakistani aid.” But the money was never sent to Pakistan, it was sent to the Cayman Islands to fund this whole operation
All this and much more is broken down extremely well in this video. This is INSANE
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Just The News: “Indiana Republican Sen. Jim Banks introduced legislation Monday that seeks to end birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants by labeling them as children of “invaders” under federal law.
The legislation was inspired by a roadmap suggested by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh last month following a ruling that determined President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting automatic citizenship for certain individuals born in the United States violated the 14th Amendment.
Kavanaugh wrote a separate concurring opinion that stated that although the president’s order had conflicted with federal birthright citizenship law, Congress could amend the statute to create new exceptions, according to Fox News.
Banks’ legislation would codify Trump’s 2025 executive order declaring illegal migration across the southern border an “invasion,” and change the Immigration and Nationality Act to exclude children of such “invaders.”
The senator’s “Citizenship Act” legislation reads: “Any person who enters the United States without authorization or for the purpose of engaging in birth tourism is considered an invader.”
Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling, Trump has not given up hope that his attempt to end birthright citizenship could pass and he has called for the high court to have a rehearing on the issue. Rehearings are not unprecedented but extremely rare.
“The Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship decision was an unprecedented assault on American sovereignty, and we must do whatever it takes to save our country,” Banks told Fox News. “I’m leading the Citizenship Act to reverse the effects of this consequential ruling and ensure the millions of illegal aliens that invaded our country can’t continue to exploit our immigration system.”
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they ARE invaders!!
fyi…hubby’s installing the new faucet–which means I’m the gopher.
so I’m here and there
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Ah yes – I filled that support role many times!
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“Fauci Under Oath: Where the Risk Actually Lives”
Dr. Robert W. Malone, July 14, 2026
EXCERPT: “Fauci Under Oath: Where the Risk Actually Lives
Rand Paul has set the date. Anthony Fauci testifies on July 29 before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (The Hill 2026). Most coverage frames this as a reckoning for what he did during the pandemic. That framing misses the mechanics. The pardon and the expired statute of limitations have already closed the door on his past conduct. The only conduct still exposed is what he says in the chair.
Biden pardoned Fauci for any federal offense from 2014 through January 2025 (CNN 2026). Paul concedes the statute of limitations on the gain-of-function testimony has run (Everett 2026). Past perjury, if it happened, cannot be charged. A new false statement can. Pardons do not reach future crimes. That single fact defines the entire hearing.
The Fifth Amendment cuts against him
The instinct is to assume Fauci can take the Fifth and end the problem. The pardon makes that harder, not easier. The privilege against self-incrimination protects a witness from answers usable in a prosecution. Remove the prosecution and the privilege dissolves for that subject. The Supreme Court settled this in Brown v. Walker. A witness who cannot be charged cannot refuse to answer on self-incrimination grounds.
For conduct inside the pardon window, Fauci is likely compellable. He cannot decline on the ground that a truthful answer would incriminate him. He also cannot lie. A false statement on July 29 is a fresh offense, unpardoned and prosecutable. The shield built to protect him now pushes him toward the one place he remains exposed.
The residual room is narrow. He keeps the privilege where a truthful answer would expose him to something outside the pardon. Post-2025 conduct qualifies. State offenses qualify. A skilled lawyer will hunt for that hook. Absent it, the pardon operates as a compulsion to speak.
What the pardon does not reach
The pardon closes federal criminal exposure. It closes nothing else. It reaches offenses against the United States and stops there. State crime and civil liability sit outside it. Both are already moving.
Seventeen state attorneys general, led by South Carolina’s Alan Wilson, asserted in February 2025 that the pardon does not preclude state-level investigations or proceedings (South Carolina Attorney General 2025). They asked Congress for evidence usable at the state level. Idaho’s legislature resolved that the pardon confers no immunity from state crimes. The threshold claim is correct. A federal pardon cannot bar a state prosecution.
The obstacle is Supremacy Clause immunity. The Constitution makes federal law supreme over state law. A state cannot punish a federal officer for doing his federal job. The Supreme Court settled this in In re Neagle in 1890. A federal marshal, assigned to guard a Justice, killed a man who lunged at him. California charged the marshal with murder. The Court threw the charge out. An officer acting within his federal duty answers to federal law, not to a state prosecutor…..”
https://www.malone.news/p/fauci-under-oath-where-the-risk-actually
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Sheesh! Who knew?!?! Schools tracking parents?!?!
EXCERPT: “As the Supreme Court made waves with its landmark ruling protecting women’s and girls’ sports, the court also published another landmark ruling that met with little public discussion: Chatrie v. United States.
Chatrie focused on answering the question of whether or not law enforcement accessing Google Location History data constituted a Fourth Amendment search. The court determined that it did, explaining that “[a]n individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in records about his cell phone’s location, and police intrude on that constitutionally protected interest when they demand the information … from a third-party tech company.”
In reaching this decision, the court focused on the intricate and intertwined nature that cellular devices play in everyday life, all while the Location History “tracks and tracks and tracks” the device and subsequently the user carrying it. The location data collected provides the government “a virtual panopticon with which to scrutinize its citizens’ activities” and thus qualifies for Fourth Amendment protections.
This is significant, as Fourth Amendment searches require probable cause, which must be asserted in detail by law enforcement seeking a warrant to conduct the search. The warrant must be approved by the correct judicial authority, and the search must be properly conducted to ensure it adheres to the parameters outlined in the warrant.
So what does this have to do with K-12 education? A lot, it turns out. While it is no surprise that schools collect location data on students through EdTech programs and apps, most parents have no idea the extent to which their own location data is collected and used. One example of this is the Thomson Reuters CLEAR software, which allows designated school district personnel to “[a]ccess license plate data and develop pattern of life information” on students and families:
While marketing itself as a solution to help school personnel save time verifying student addresses, the software capabilities go far beyond address and residency verification, with features such as alert functions to allow district personnel to “[g]et notified immediately when any relevant information changes with a student.” These expansive surveillance functions are not surprising, given the company’s own description of the product as a “powerful online investigation software” with applications in law enforcement and investigative financial services, among others…..”
https://thefederalist.com/2026/07/14/supreme-court-data-privacy-ruling-threatens-edtech-that-tracks-students-parents-24-7/
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it’s everywhere!!
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I’ll say it again – I’m glad I won’t be around for many more years!!!
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EXCERPT: “Fraudsters in the public school system stole more than $225 million in taxpayer dollars over a seven-year period, Open the Books revealed in a report released Saturday.
The report details fraud occurring in 24 states and Puerto Rico, from the West Coast of California to the rural mountains of West Virginia, showing how public school fraud is a prevalent issue across the whole nation.
“When school administrators with access to funds go unchecked, embezzling and misusing public money, it’s a loss for the students. If it’s in a smaller district, the waste, fraud and abuse impacts in such a profound way that it may take years to recover,” the report stated. Open the Books is a nonprofit, nonpartisan government watchdog organization that “operate[s] the largest private database of public spending in human history.”
Open the Books and the State Financial Officers Foundation (SFOF), a nonprofit focused on promoting responsible fiscal public policy, found that fraudsters only repaid 30 percent ($67 million) of the total $225 million stolen after the OIG “ordered restitution” from some of the criminals.
Open the Books collaborated with SFOF to sift through the Department of Education Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports to calculate the total amount of recorded education fraud since 2019. The groups looked through more than 90 cases of fraud where “schemers were rigging bids, billing for supplies they never purchased, embezzling and more,” Open the Books said.
In one instance of mass fraud by a single individual, California school Executive Director Janis Bucknor confessed to stealing more than $3 million during a five-year period. She spent the cash on “personal travel, restaurants, internet shopping, and private school tuition for her children,” and most notably, over $220,600 on Disney cruises, Disney theme parks, and other Disney-related products.
The state with the most fraud was Indiana, where a single scheme resulted in $44 million in taxpayer dollars never making it to schoolchildren. OIG reported that the administration at Indiana Virtual School and Indiana Virtual Pathways Academy inflated their enrollment numbers for three consecutive years. The schools received millions more in funding from the state than they should have and directed those millions “to fraudulent companies controlled by the founder, which were then funneled to his co-conspirators and others,” the report stated. OIG reports also recorded one school employee being fired for trying to blow the whistle on the mass fraud…..”
https://thefederalist.com/2026/07/13/watchdog-from-fake-students-to-disney-cruises-k-12-fraudsters-stole-225-million-from-taxpayers-over-7-years/
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how freaking MUCH of our national debt is the result of theft and fraud?
I want it paid back!!! seize their assets!
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And jail time!
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absolutely!!
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I really like Rubio more and more every day and am willing to overlook the timing of his birth. I just don’t like Vance – he has small, beady eyes…..
“Why We’re Dismantling the ICC: America never agreed to a world tribunal that can override our own courts and the Constitution”
StateDept, July 14, 2026
Author: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
“Most of us would struggle to imagine a world in which U.S. soldiers, police officers, Border Patrol agents and elected leaders could be dragged before an international court, tried by judges from random countries across the globe, found guilty under international laws we neither consent to nor control, and then imprisoned thousands of miles from America.
But that is what the International Criminal Court now claims the power to do.
The ICC was born at the turn of the century. At first, it was marketed as a narrow backstop to prosecute the gravest crimes. Now the ICC and its allies seek a standing world tribunal with near-unlimited reach, empowered to override the courts and constitutions of the U.S. and other sovereign states—and to prosecute and arrest our citizens.
Americans never agreed to any of this. Both of our major political parties opposed the prospect of handing a distant global court the power to prosecute and jail our own citizens. President Clinton refused to submit the Rome Statute (the ICC’s founding charter) to the Senate for ratification due to his “concerns about significant flaws in the Treaty.” Two years later, a bipartisan Senate supermajority passed the American Servicemembers’ Protection Act, authorizing the president “to use all means necessary”—including military force—to prevent the ICC from detaining or arresting Americans.
Americans found themselves in the crosshairs anyway: In 2020 the ICC launched an investigation into what chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda of Gambia described as “war crimes by members of the United States armed forces” in Afghanistan, declaring that the U.S. government hadn’t prosecuted enough American soldiers to satisfy the court. In effect, Ms. Bensouda was anointing herself the final judge of U.S. military policy and the entire U.S. justice system.
The Afghanistan investigation was only the opening move in the assault against American self-government. The ICC is backed and run by a powerful network of leftist nongovernment organizations, smug globalists, and hostile Third World governments united by their enmity toward the U.S.
In the second Trump administration, these calls have continued to grow. Last year, major activist groups urged high-ranking international officials “to take immediate and meaningful action” against the Trump administration’s deportations of violent criminals to El Salvador. Months later, a former ICC chief prosecutor declared that President Trump’s strikes against narcoterrorists amounted to “a crime against humanity” and should be treated as such under international law—a line that was echoed by United Nations leaders, and major leftist nongovernmental organizations, Democratic Party officials and politicians. In March, the Washington-based Democracy for the Arab World Now urged the Iranian regime to request an ICC investigation of “apparent war crimes” committed by American personnel.
U.S. efforts to push back against the ICC’s illegitimate interventions have been framed as a further reason for the ICC to target Americans. When 12 U.S. senators wrote to the ICC prosecutor about their concerns, the prosecutor’s office accused them of crimes. When Mr. Trump imposed sanctions against ICC personnel, a former head of Human Rights Watch said that “all 125 ICC member states would have a legal duty to arrest him were he to show up.”
It is only a matter of time before the ICC begins making good on these threats. Border Patrol agents working to remove violent criminals from our country, U.S. Marines risking their lives to restore order in the Western Hemisphere, federal prosecutors working to dismantle terror networks plotting attacks on the American homeland—all would face the constant risk of persecution for the “crime” of defending our country.
The ICC’s interfering with American military and law enforcement operations isn’t only a grave overreach of its purported authorities. It would mean the death of the U.S. as a sovereign and independent nation. Our decision and our people would be at the mercy of the ICC and its collaborators in the “international community.” To accept the ICC is to surrender control of our national destiny.
Perhaps more polite and compliant nations could make their peace with that arrangement. But this is America. Our forefathers fought a revolution against a foreign power “transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences.” Independence is our birthright. We don’t intend to trade it for rule by a self-appointed priesthood of “international law.”
The Trump administration will always protect American service members from this threat. The U.S. is launching a diplomatic campaign with a simple message—sovereign states over globalism. Those who benefit from American security must not stand idly by while those who provide that security are targeted. This is only the beginning. Using all the tools at our government’s disposal, working beside every ally with whom we can make common cause, we will dismantle the ICC—brick by brick, if necessary.”
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who the hell do those people think they are?
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Rulers of the world, I guess! Pffttttt….
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let’s YOU and I declare ourselves to be judge and jury too–over the world and demand the arrest of all dems, socialists and communists.
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Wouldn’t that be sweet?!?!
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Sounds kinda crazy to me, tbh…..
Just The News: “President Donald Trump on Monday touted a planned automobile race through the streets of Washington, D.C., as part of the festivities marking the 250th anniversary of the United States.
Set for Aug. 22-23, the Freedom 250 Grand Prix will include a series of races in the nation’s capital. Trump touted the unprecedented nature of the event on Monday, while meeting with many of the drivers.
“Cars racing more than 190 [MPH] and even higher down Pennsylvania Avenue. It wasn’t exactly designed for that!” he joked. “If we did that during the regular day people would be in jail for the rest of their lives.”
Trump met with several of the drivers for the race at the White House on Monday. He made the remarks in a brief press conference that saw him approach the podium to the tune of Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger.”
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Just The News: “President Donald Trump signed two presidential proclamations Monday that reduced the size of two National Monuments in Utah. The proclamations come after Trump reduced the two monuments during his first term in order to open the land to oil drilling, uranium mining and other development. But tribes and environmentalists sued over the move and former President Joe Biden restored the sizes.
The new proclamations reduce the size of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument from approximately 1.87 million acres to roughly 181,500 acres, and the Bears Ears National Monument from approximately 1.36 million acres to roughly 121,100 acres.
“They took the land from the people quite honestly,” Trump said at a signing event at the White House. “We’re giving it back … We’re actually giving more than we did the first time back to the people of Utah.”
The White House said the specific landmarks, structures and objects of historic and scientific interest that the Antiquities Act safeguards will continue to be protected, while the surrounding federal lands will be available for multiple public use.
Gov. Spencer Cox, R-Utah, praised Trump for giving the majority of the land back to the state. “This is a big day for Utah,” Cox said at the White House. “These monument designations are supposed to be the smallest area as possible to protect the antiquities and these multi-million-acre monuments that are bigger than the state of Delaware certainly do not fit that designation.”
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Honey, Hang On Closer
Comfortable Corner
Ceiling of the Church of Saint Francis of Assis in Ouro Preto City, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
White Out
Wide Eyed Industrial Design
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pretty ceiling!!!
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Busy, busy, busy….too intricate for my taste.
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oh definitely busy! and imagine the back breaking time it took to do it do!
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Downpour – looks like AI to me….
That Hair….what a mess!!!
The Escape
These guys….
Goofy Pup
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that’s how my braid got after riding all day on the bike in the wind going 70 mph.
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No doubt!
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Make your local elephant seal laugh today
It came from below
Classic
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Just The News: “Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are being told to end most vehicle stops nationwide. The policy goes into effect immediately.
The stops have played a major role in the agency’s operations until this new policy, Fox News reported, citing unnamed sources in the federal government.
Under the new policy, ICE will conduct vehicle stops only for those considered to be key targets, such as those with violent criminal histories.
The policy comes after two ICE-involved shootings in Houston and Maine have drew scrutiny over the proper use of force in the course of agents’ activities.”
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i think any agent conducting a vehicle stop has the right to use whatever force is necessary. the would be criminal (alien) is in a weapon (vehicle) capable of killing the officer.
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Same here!
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the new faucet is installed and working beautifully. AND as a bonus, hubby was able to apply stain to the windowsill behind the sink. We had the sink installed initially before we chose a stain for the woodwork in the kitchen and there was a tiny unstained spot directly behind the faucet that was never stained. bothered me for 20 years. and now it’s gone! yay…TWOFER!
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Congrats! I know the feeling about that spot – it’s like one grain of sand under your socks!!!
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RIGHT???
i thanked hubby for getting it finally and he thanked me for not complaining about it for all these years…LOL
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treasonous pile of shit!
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hubby got a picture of 4 out of the 5 cubs with mama
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Wow! That’s cool! Looks like Mama caught him in the act of taking the pic! Did she run away after seeing him?
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no…we were inside. she might have seen something at the window but she wasn’t phased.
She walked around the backside of the pond, then watched as the cubs took a drink, and then wandered over the left side in the picture–that’s where hubby can’t cut the grass properly cuz it’s still so wet there. she was probably lying in the cool shade.
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Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: Newly declassified records reveal Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team unlawfully (in violation of Constitution) accessed text messages to and from the following current and former Senators and House members:
1. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
2. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)
3. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas)
4. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
5. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)
6. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah)
7. Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.)
8. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.)
9. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska)
10. Senator David Perdue (R-Ga.)
11. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.)
12. Senator Martha McSally (R-Ariz.)
13. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
14. Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.)
15. Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio)
16. Senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
17. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine)
18. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.)
19. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)
20. Senator Cory Gardner (R-Colo.)
21. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)
22. Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.)
23. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)
24. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)
25. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.)
26. Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.)
27. Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.)
28. Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wis.)
29. Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.)
30. Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.)
31. Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.)
32. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.)
33. Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.)
34. Rep. Joshua Gottheimer (D-N.J.)
35. Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.)
36. Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.)
37. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.)
38. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.)
39. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.)
40. Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.)
41. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.)
42. Rep. Russ Fulcher (R-Idaho)
43. Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.)
44. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)
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Troublemaker10
July 14, 2026 3:16 pm
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(VIDEO)
“The 100th Monkey Effect”
Clandestine, July 14, 2026
“I see a lot of people concerned that no matter what happens, the Left will not believe it. This is partially correct. There will be millions who refuse to accept anything. Approximately 4-6% will be lost forever.
But we don’t need ALL of them to accept it, we just need to reach “critical mass”. We just need a certain percentage of the population to accept reality, in order to safely move onto the justice phase.
The “hive mind” or “collective consciousness” is real. The “100th Monkey Effect” is real.
I’m not sure exactly what percentage of people we need to wake up in order to reach critical mass, but the number exists, and we get closer to it every day.
Eventually, we will reach critical mass, and humans around the globe will subconsciously accept the truth, so don’t stop waking people up, because the next person that wakes up, could be the “100th Monkey” that tips the scales of collective human consciousness.”
https://bioclandestine.substack.com/p/the-100th-monkey-effect
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Just The News: “The House passed a rule Tuesday that sets up floor debate and final votes on several measures, thereby ending a weeks-long impasse between House Republican leadership and a group of GOP hardliners that left the chamber frozen in place.
House Speaker Mike Johnson won over Florida GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and Tennessee GOP Rep. Tim Burchett in the latest 215-211 vote, marking a significant achievement for the Republican leader, who is attempting to merge the SAVE America Act with a fiscal 2027 appropriations bill funding the State Department and national security programs, according to The Hill.
GOP hardliners are also trying to force a vote on a bill codifying President Donald Trump’s border and immigration policies.
Luna said her vote to support the rule was contingent on Johnson latching parts of the SAVE America Act on all appropriations and must-pass bills and warned Senate Majority Leader John Thune against stripping the act out of its legislation.
“If SAVE America is stripped out of ANY of the legislation [Johnson] has agreed to send to the Senate, the blame will fall solely on [Thune],” Luna posted on X. “Hard to hide behind other senators when he is actively working against an issue that 80% of Americans support.”
Burchett, who opposed the rule before the July 4 recess, said after Tuesday’s vote that he felt GOP leaders attached the SAVE America Act “in a manner” he viewed as sufficient. “We need to just keep pounding the Senate and forcing them to take the right stand,” Burchett said.
Florida GOP Rep. Randy Fine was the only Republican to oppose the rule.”
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Looks guilty, probably poaching
Coy and Well Kept
A nomad bride from the Arutchun tribe in Tibet, Circa 1925
The Fox knows seafood
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Pluff Mud
“Bottlenose dolphins in the salt marshes of South Carolina and Georgia deliberately throw themselves onto mud banks at full speed, grab fish off the exposed shore, and slide back into the water. They land on their right side every time. Nobody can fully explain why.
The behavior is called strand feeding. It was first documented in 1971 by H. D. Hoese in the shallow tidal marshes of coastal Georgia. Along the East Coast, it occurs daily only in a roughly hundred-mile stretch of coastline from southern South Carolina through Georgia, nowhere else in the United States. The Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network says the region’s pluff mud banks provide the ideal surface: firm enough to slide on, soft enough not to injure a 400-pound animal hitting the ground at speed.
The sequence starts at low tide. Two to six dolphins work together in a narrow tidal creek, using echolocation to track a school of mullet or menhaden through water so murky that nothing is visible from the surface. They circle, tighten, and herd the fish toward an exposed bank. When the school is pinned against the mud, the dolphins make a synchronized rush toward shore. The force of their bodies displacing water creates a bow wave that pushes the fish up and out of the creek onto the bank. The dolphins follow the wave. They surge out of the shallows and slide onto the mud, landing on their right sides, and grab the flopping fish off the ground
Every documented strand-feeding dolphin lands on its right side. The consistency is absolute and unexplained.”
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I have no clue what kind of bird that is….
Pause for the Paws
Bucolic
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dang–that it one huge bird!
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IKR???
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Just The News: “The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to pass the Sunshine Protection Act that seeks to make daylight savings time permanent. The legislation, which puts the country on the time currently observed between March and November unless a state exempts itself before the act takes effect, passed in a bipartisan 308-117 split. It still needs to pass the Senate before it can take effect.
President Donald Trump has come out in support of the legislation, stating in May that the current approach is costing Americans hundreds of millions of dollars each year to reset their clocks.
Although the president has supported the legislation, it faces a tough path in the Senate with opposition from Republicans such as Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark. Cotton argues that late winter sunrises would force children in higher latitudes to go to school in the dark.
Supporters argue the time change disrupts sleep, increasing workplace injuries and car accidents, and that more hours of evening sunlight would increase economic activity.
Some states already decline to observe daylight savings time, including Arizona and Hawaii.”
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At Arlington National Cemetery, funerals happen every day—up to 30 of them. And at every single one, an Arlington Lady is there. The group started in 1948 after the wife of an Air Force general saw young service members being buried without any family present. She decided that would never happen again.
Today, volunteers from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard attend every funeral. They stand with the families, offer comfort, and quietly witness the final goodbye. No soldier, sailor, airman, or Marine is ever buried alone. A simple promise, kept for over 75 years.
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wow…that is so cool!
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“In a significant development, Iraq, Syria, and the United States are reportedly working together to revive the Baniyas pipeline. The project aims to boost oil flows and help alleviate the ongoing global energy challenges.
The Baniyas pipeline, which historically transported Iraqi oil through Syria to the Mediterranean, could play a key role in increasing supply and stabilizing markets if successfully restarted. This kind of pragmatic cooperation across borders is rare in the region and could have major economic implications.
Energy security is national security. America benefits from stable global energy markets and diversified supply routes. Supporting projects that increase reliable oil production – while still pursuing American energy dominance at home – is smart policy. Cheap, abundant energy powers our economy and weakens adversaries who use oil as a weapon.
The point being made here is simple. We can’t – and won’t – allow those towel-headed fuckpipes in Tehran to dictate what free and flowing commerce is all about.”
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“towel-headed fuckpipes”???
good name for them!
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A federal judge has upheld the felony conviction of former Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, who was found guilty of helping an illegal immigrant evade ICE agents inside the courthouse.
Dugan now faces up to five years in prison, disbarment, and steep fines for obstructing federal immigration enforcement. Accountability is finally coming for judges who put illegal immigrants ahead of the law.
Given the option, wouldja or couldja? I’d love to have a place like this somewhere up in the mountains of North Carolina or East Tennessee maybe. Check it out – it even has a new HVAC unit. Maybe after my next Powerball win.
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SMDH – of course they did!!!!
“18-year-old Marcus Williams was electrocuted while allegedly attempting to break into an ATM using a metal pry bar. According to reports, surveillance video showed Williams approaching the ATM late at night and trying to force it open. During the attempt, the metal bar reportedly contacted internal electrical components, causing a fatal electric shock.
His family later filed a $500,000 lawsuit against the bank, claiming it was responsible for his death. The court rejected the lawsuit, ruling that Williams’ death resulted from his own criminal actions and that the bank was not liable. The judge dismissed the case and ordered the family to reimburse the bank for the cost of repairing the damaged ATM.”
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O.M.G!!!!!
“The other nut that fell out of the Thunberg tree? Yikes…
Greta Thunberg’s glam pop-singing sister declined to comment on her eco-fanatic sibling as she did the splits and explained her very unique name in a new interview. Beata MonaLisa, 20, ditched the surname of her famous older sister to carve out a path as a ‘risqué entertainer.’
The 20-year-old is slated to release her debut studio album this year. “Bea” told Interview Magazine in a recent chat: “I was born with it. It’s from my grandma Mona and great grandma Lisa.”
“Bea” told Interview Magazine in a recent chat: “I was born with it. It’s from my grandma Mona and great grandma Lisa.” The “self-trained” jack-of-all-trades promotes herself as a “singer, dancer, actress, model, producer, writer, songwriter & choreographer.”
It would be hard for anyone to think she could ever be anywhere near as chafing/annoying as her sister is, but I bet she’s gonna get all the opportunies she deserves to prove otherwise. I can almost guarantee you that self-importance is another thing rooted in their common DNA. Juss’ sayin’…”
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she should have checked her image before allowing that picture out…that roll popping out on the right there looks awful.
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That’s not the only thing that’s awful!!! Yuck!
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well yeah, I agree…lol
but if she’s trying to look sexy, she missed with that roll there…lol
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Good night, Pat!
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Good Night Filly!
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Good Night All
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