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Link to Stillwater’s Prayer Post: The Still Hour
Link to Stillwater’s Prayer Post: The Still Hour
Praying !
🙏 🙏 Amen🙏🙏
SO SAY WE ALL!!
AMEN
AMEN!!
Amen!
Amen 🙏 🙏 🙏 Praying for President Trump and our country 🙏 🙏🙏
Amen. Go God beat the evil.
Amen 🙏🏻
THE GAME PLAN
Sundance @TheLastRefuge2
“Trump will not find perfect solutions. He will find OPTIMAL solutions. We cannot ask for more.
Trump has stood by and watched Perfect murder Good for 8 years – maybe longer. He’s not gonna do it.
He’s going to deliver the best outcome possible, and he’s not waiting for us to feel relaxed about it.
Best presidency ever! Just hang on. More winning is coming, but a lot of people are going to scream that it’s all over at EVERY turn.
Bash the neocon, warmonger, and dopey globalist positions – not the people who are going to hold them one moment and come loose from them later.
A few will get slung off into space, but most will come along for the ride of their lives.
I am ON the Trump Train for good, even if I scream that I want off and can’t take it. In the end, I only want to scream “TOO MUCH WINNING!!!”
Unseen1 @unseen1_unseen
Here is the game plan that the forces against Trump will be using for the foreseeable future.
They will attempt to get you to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Be it the freedom clowns and spending, the immigration hawks with H1B visas, the peace doves with timing, the cultural warriors with total bans of DEI/CRT, the neocons with war fighting, or the swamp dwellers with draining the swamp.
All of them will attempt to get you to believe on whatever issue is the issue of the day that it doesn’t go far enough or do enough.
They will try to make you think that some sub issue of that issue is more important and should be handled first, that since the issue hasn’t been handled yet it won’t be, that we can’t do more than one thing, that so and so is a plant to stop the draining of the swamp, or that because it wasn’t 100% Trump lied. On every single issue, one or more groups will attempt this strategy.
You can’t allow them that power over you. If Trump secures the border and deports 2 million, don’t allow them to reduce that good by them saying well he didn’t deport 2.5 million, so he failed or lied.
You can’t allow them to use the perfect to void out the good in the coming months.
They will try. They already have with the CR and the H1b visa debates. It works, that is why they use it.
You have to keep it in the front of your head on everything about to occur that half a loaf or hopefully in most cases 7/8ths a loaf is better than no loaf.
Ukraine frontlines update…..
Military Situation In Ukraine On May 10, 2025 (Maps Update)South Front
Thunder ⚡️ Kyiv Prepares an ULTIMATUM 🔥 The Russians Break Through at Bahatyr ⚔️ MilitarySummary 2025.5.10
Rumble
🧊 🧊 🧊 ICE NEWS🧊🧊🧊
😳
ICE, multiagency case dismantles active identity of theft mill, organized retail scheme spanning 7 California counties | ICE
🤬 🤬 🤬 More Scammers……
ICE Arizona, multiagency case sends Nigerian national to prison for international fraud scheme that defrauded elderly US victims | ICE
👍 TECC….Trade Enforcement Coordination Center
HSI Tampa, CBP partnership combats threats at Florida’s ports, strengthens international trade | ICE
👏 👏 Thank you President Trump, Tom Homan and all
the LEOs working to keep our streets and communities safer👏👏
Alex Christoforu was on 🔥fire today!
My eyes were rolling so much I thought
it might be permanent…😳😳😖
The EU/UK are absolute Maroons..😖
EU/UK demand Russia surrender. Merz & Trump DEMAND ARMISTICE. Kallas sets up War Crimes Tribunal.
💥 💥 Simplicius76…….😳😳😳
Tonights article….a Lot of Information!
The Establishment Slowly Wearies of Netanyahu and Israel
😳 👀 😳
Now there have been reports that “AIPAC is getting shut out” of Trump’s administration entirely:
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As Above, AIPAC; So Below, Freemasonry.
Whoa!
Please, God, make this break happen! 🙏
And take yer “sister agency” CIA with ya!
Certain people are our misfortune.
This is the bunch.
President Trump is transparent in his words and actions. He is consistent in what he says, what he does, and what he asks/demands of others. He is making massive, nearly overnight changes, not only in the country, but in the world. It is amazing that he is able to accomplish so much when there are so many snakes in the grass, often seemingly on his own team — but less so this term, and he is weeding them out faster.
The purpose of President Trump is plainly visible despite our battered conservative skepticism: He is for the benefit first of the common PEOPLE of this country, then of the PEOPLE in the rest of the world.
The methods of his leadership are amazing. I still don’t get HOW he does it, or HOW he is able to get so much momentum going, but every day the momentum is growing. Everyone and every organization has their eyes opened every day — just by watching him. Even those who hate him, are biased against him, and want to see him gone — cannot ignore him. He lives rent free in their head, and they come around to seeing the universal principles by which he is operating.
He has chosen to use his intellect and every skill he has to do what is right. He has tremendous faith that he can make a difference in this world. He has a confidence and courage such that he doesn’t care what others think, yet a humility to know he has to do it with the help of like minded people. Those people are the “common” people, and he ridicules those who think they are not common.
He believes people are basically good. He believes that God is real. He believes that healthy people are happy people, and they need to be able to create wealth freely for their labor, and have the freedom to spend their money on what is good for them.
He believes the United States, with its Constitutional Republic, is the best environment in the world to enable and give opportunity for people to be happy and prosperous.
He believes that we can be a light for the world, but we must demand that the rest of the world respect us and our right to life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness.
He believes the enemy of our country are the stupid, greedy American people who have been selfishly taking advantage of this country; who betrayed the trust and obedience of its people; and who diverted the people’s wealth for their own selfish gain, at the expense of the principles of this country. He’s not going to allow that anymore.
He has cultivated and focused the family of MAGA. Identifying those people whose goodness, industriousness, trust, and obedience have been taken advantage of and abused. He has opened our eyes to this abuse, and the rights of freedom and self determination that have been quietly stolen from us.
He has rekindled the healthy distrust of government and men with too much power held by our founders. He has recultivated the desire to reclaim our freedoms and rights, and is empowering us with a hope and pathway to reclaim our spiritual and economic freedom.
He wants the US to be a light of hope on the hill for all people. He will negotiate win/win agreements with those nations and countries who respect us; who respect the principles and intent of our Constitution. If you do not respect us, however, we are not going to let you take advantage of our goodness, or share in our wealth at our expense. If you as a nation are treating your people badly, you are going to be treated less favorably by us, until you show that you value your people as much as we value ours.
He is convincing those who are very wealthy (most of whom truly earned their money), that the best economic soil in which to build wealth is in a constitutional republic, which supports the ability of the common man to earn wealth in proportion to his efforts. The economic engine of the United States is the human spirit freed to enjoy the fruits of honest labor, and that engine has more natural and raw horsepower than any other governed economy.
The Trump Train seems to be remarkably aligned with universal principles of Truth, which reflect the will and design of our Creator, and are the best standard by which we should live. These same principles were what our country’s founders used to declare independence, and framed into the Constitution of this nation.
Our founders believed that a nation should preserve the right and freedom of an individual to seek, understand, and live by God’s principles. They believed that free individuals working together in humility would make a stronger nation than a government which dictates its will on the people. President Trump professes and seeks to lead and restore this nation back to these same principles.
These principles resonate deeply within all human beings, down to our DNA in every cell, in our spirits, and produce fruit that “miraculously” multiplies. Because we follow universal principles, we see the snowballing acceleration of momentum on day 112 of the 2nd term of this very stable genius in the history of the kingdoms of this world in the year of our Lord 2025.
Blessings to all the mamas on Mom Day!
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Praying families prosper, and for preservation of this beautiful experiment called America!
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🙏Blessings Addendum:🙏😍
It is blessings to Mother’s Day🌺🌼 —
not birthing person or chest feeder’s day (deliberately not in caps)!
ABUSE COMES IN MANY FORMS
Battered Conservatives No More – By Sundance
1. We admit we were unaware of our Republican abusers – Our elections have become manipulated.
2. We accept that only a power greater than ourselves can restore our republic.
3. We make a decision to focus our effort and our life to the care of a loving God.
4. We have made a searching and fearless inventory of our prior beliefs.
5. We have admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being flaw in our political belief.
6. We are entirely ready to have God free us from defects of character, break our victim mindset and strengthen our resolve.
7. We humbly asked Him to remove our false assumptions.
8. We have made a list of all political abusers, and we commit to holding them all accountable.
9. We accept the need to confront the republican abusers, if even when doing so hurts their feelings.
10. We continued to take personal inventory and if we accept victimization again, we promptly admit it.
11. We seek through prayer and deliberation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for righteous knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had an emotional, intellectual and spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we pledge to carry this message to others who are abused, and to practice these principles of awakening in all our political affairs.
Domestic and political abusers use the same tactics to control their victims: fear, intimidation, surveillance and financial.
If anyone was maintaining any doubts that “Diddy”, like Epstien was a SEE EYE Aye operation, those doubts should be put to rest, with the disappearance of the States star witness.
No wonder such a large percentage of the music and hjollywierd entertainment industry, have been so publically pro-jab, pro-trans, and anti-Trump.
They are all compromised, cause diddy has videos of them diddling kids.
Maybe that’s what really killed their creativity if they ever had it. All of them got burned out on drugs including booze trying to block out the shame of being leveraged over a barrel by their perversions. That and the ChiComs taking major stakes in studios .
No operation with such perversion, corruption and cash could exist without IC tentacles all over it.
I have no idea what the witness or her lawyers names are…
BUT THEY DEFINITELY DID NOT KILL THEMSELVES!
(or each other)
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/09/john-roberts-is-the-judicial-supremacist-the-founders-warned-us-about/
FTA “IIt’s a sad day in America when the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court ignores the basic framework of the Constitution he’s supposed to interpret. That’s what happened on Wednesday, when Chief Justice John Roberts took it upon himself to subtly thumb his nose at President Trump and conservatives during a rare sit-down interview in his hometown of Buffalo, New York. In addition to rebuking calls to impeach activist lower court judges for overstepping the confines of the Constitution, the chief justice had this to say about the subject of “judicial independence”:…”.In our Constitution … the judiciary is a co-equal branch of government, separate from the others, with the authority to interpret the Constitution as law and strike down, obviously, acts of Congress or acts of the president. That innovation doesn’t work if … the judiciary’s not independent. Its job is to, obviously, decide cases, but in the course of that, check the excesses of Congress or of the executive. And that does require a degree of independence.”
The chief justice begins by claiming that the judiciary is a “co-equal” branch of government. Then, in the very next breath, he asserts that the courts can “strike down … acts of Congress or acts of the president.” If the courts can unilaterally “strike down” actions by the legislative and executive it believes to be unlawful or finds unfavorable, as Roberts maintains, then that isn’t “co-equal.” It’s judicial supremacism….What Roberts is conveying is his apparent belief that the Supreme Court and judicial branch writ large are wholly supreme to the other branches of government. That is, regardless of the will of the people as expressed through their elected representatives, it is judges who have the final say on matters of law and public policy.
The chief justice’s latest remarks are a further indication that he has no intention of stopping the judicial coup taking place in the lower courts or restraining the overreaching power of the Supreme Court. Instead, he will likely continue to advance the notion of judicial supremacy, leaving America’s constitutional order and its people to suffer in the process.”
Judicial Supremacy! 🎯 That’s what is exactly happening! The question is how does President Trump put an end to it? We have a Constitutional Republic not a Judicial Supremacy!! Godspeed President Trump!
Hey Draino, it’s about 50 Million Illegal Imports. Get it together, player.
More like 100+ million. This sh!t started back in 1965.
Actually it was 12 years of obama selecting radical, leftist, activist Federal Judges most who were confirmed by a very small majority reached by a handful of DeceptCon Republican Senators! We all know their names! JMO
“…check the excesses of Congress or of the executive”…
Yes. The same way Congress or the Executive checks the excesses of the judiciary.
And we are in great need of those black robe excesses being contained at this very moment.
“excesses” is not the correct way to spell jackasses.
Roberts is dead wrong . He needs to be straightened out because he’s not right in the head .
That mental illness of liberalism is spreading and has now encompassed the chief justice. Is he in so deep, he has to make a fool of himself? Makes me wonder what they’ve got on him.
Probably not anatomically where his problems reside.
I’ve said it more than once but I will keep repeating it-President Bush put “Justice” Roberts on the court as the CHIEF JUSTICE from the get-go.
That’s not my original conclusion, but someone else’s. Many someone’s.
I would have loved to have been the lackey bringing in cocktails and appetizers to that Star Chamber.
Has he made a deal with the devil to avoid ‘court packing’?
Roberts may have a Vakks injury or three. He may need to take some time off and recover.. a lot of time off.. like forever. Chief Justice Thomas has a nice ring to it.
He needs to be exposed and removed.
Just like low tide, the public awareness of Robert’s judicial supremecy will take considerable time to reverse course. It is indeed a perversion of constitutional intent as outlined by the Founders and spoken to in the Federalist papers. While a tactic Roberts is employing against President Trump at the moment, it will ultimately fail at the cost of destroying faith in a fair and impartial legal system. Not sure what remedy the Trump Administration can employ but expecting Congress to use impeachment of judges or removal for ” bad behavior” is false hope due to lack of political spine.
This interpretation of the Judiciary’s constitutional role is not(!) contained in “Article 3.”
At one point (Marbury …), the Courts simply took this role upon themselves. The word, “unconstitutional,” does not appear even one time in the actual document.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino published an update on X on the progress that is being made behind the scenes.
https://x.com/FBIDDBongino/status/1921237184092295515
I’ll believe it if I see it.
Nothing in that update that indicates anyone who target Pres. Trump is being held accountable or investigated.
What did the DC Gulag say to MTG, Andy Biggs And Matt Gaetz when they showed up to check on Americans locked up in solitary for parading with out a permit on J6??
Unfortunately we still have a banana republic two tier Judiciary system and we’re in the bottom tier! We’ll see if any of them especially the black Representatives are charged but I doubt it! See Derrick Evans was white and a President Trump supporter and in DC those two identifiers alone are worthy of jail time! JMO
Yes the deep state is very deep and even with what Trump has already done he has only scratched the surface of the deep state.
All of them need to go to prison! Not just some.
That’s amazing, if true. What’s your source?
It’s a meme bro , take it for what it is , if you don’t believe it fine if you do, that’s fine also .
Indict them!
And yet not one is in prison.
BASED BROTHER: Pope Leo’s older brother revealed to be massive Trump-supporting MAGA patriot, praised JD Vance, Elon Musk
https://thepostmillennial.com/based-brother-pope-leos-older-brother-revealed-to-be-massive-trump-supporting-maga-patriot-praised-jd-vance-elon-musk?utm_campaign=64483
I see President Trumps plan for defeating his enemies coming togetber nicely, and am loving the diet of Winnamins, Popcorn and Schedenfrude.
The next 3-6 months are goung to be most entertaining and enjoyable!
Lord, thank you for granting this sinner the grace, to be alive and so witness to such times.
You nailed it Dutch!
Jack Poso 🇺🇸
@JackPosobiec
WATCH: Pope Leo blasts Hollywood movies and shows for normalizing Anti-Christian behaviors like abortion, euthanasia, LGBTQ agenda. Nov 2012
Video linked…
Let’s see what Leo does when “everything” is explained to him…
As I have stated in days past, on some things the government and the Church will agree. Don’t expect them to see eye to eye on everything, and it is perhaps better that they don’t.
Pope Leo is not a fan of cultural degeneracy; it should be remembered that at the end of the day the much hated Pope Francis came out very clearly that homosexuality is a sin, that marriage is between a man and a woman, and the amorphous blob called gender theory was a dangerous ideology that cancelled out differences which were created by God.
So take heart if possible I suppose (or gnash your teeth, your choice). The Church will likely never be as ‘conservative’ (whatever that means now) as some may hope, but it will also never be as ‘liberal’ (whatever that means now) as others might wish.
Lets hope he has some influence over his younger brother . Don’t forget Obama’s brother adores Trump also but had no effect on the evil one.
To be or not to be a hypocrite? Outrage over Trump targeting law firms is Shakespearean
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5292875-to-be-or-not-to-be-a-hypocrite-outrage-over-trump-targeting-law-firms-is-shakespearean
That is one vile parasite.
If this true…someone better be investigating it.
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Barron🇺🇸
@_NewsBarron
Ilhan Omar’s brother/husband received $18 million in government grants between 2021 and 2024.
According to FOIA, Yosef Barron Omar received the grants without applying for them, and with no expectation that he’d use the money for any specific thing.
Cont…
Lock them up.
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Actually, just expel them from this country permanently. Why waste more tax dollars on this scum.
perhaps to make a public example of them?
to make others aware that if they behave criminally
they will also pay a cost?
Because if you are just here illegally we just deport you. But if you are an American citizen, especially naturalized and you take the oath of allegiance to protect the constitution, take and office and an oath to represent the will of the people, and you are actively:
Stealing money
cheating on elections and the votes of hard working people
actively trying to subvert the destroy the country
colluding with others to destroy the country
encouraging death and destruction of people such as “the benjamins” or “white men”
Then you are surely going to collude against the government if we deport you
You need to be locked up for life at least, but justly, according to law, deserve death
Is this actually Barron Trump’s account? Cool if it is.
No, it is not.
While this is disgusting, if true, I cannot find any substantiation backing this up.
Also, I really dislike, and don’t trust accounts that suggest that they are someone else, like Barron Trump for example.
There is plenty of corruption out there. We need to be cautious on posting wild claims from accounts that suggest credibility by impersonating others.
If these turn out to be false, it hurts MAGA, and makes us no better than the Marxists who post lies about POTUS and us.
You will never find substantiation of it because the mainstream media will not report on it or if they do they will deny it like they always do because it doesn’t fit the dem narrative.
People who think they will find factual info by googling better think again.
Look how proud of themselves they are. Somebody take ’em down a notch or three.
“In other words, he was likely paid off by the Biden Administration for keeping the fact that the couple shares a parent a secret.
DOGE is in the process of clawing back the 2024 installment. They’ve forwarded the file to the Justice Department for further review.”
“…Democrats weaponize regulations to suffocate businesses…”
This is an important point
To God be the glory.
The most thorough basic study of the Shroud of Turin done in just these last recent years
I am always glad to see articles about the Shroud of Turin!
I had read about an exhibit of the Shroud at Brooks Photography Institute up in Santa Barbara in 1981 and so went up there to see it – very moving and thrilling to me, personally – having decided to choose to believe already and then seeing all that, it was a gift –
I bought the post cards and other mementos that they had for sale – I think it was the photographer Barry Swortz who had made the photos that were so beautiful (to me). Over the years, I have seen Barry Swortz on various documentaries about the Shroud.
Oh, the scoffing that I heard from some to whom I had given cards – when the so-called “proof” of the Carbon-14 dating came out – in my mind, it had to be connected with the repairs done after a fire, perhaps they “dated” the material used by the nuns to repair the edges.
Then also there was the attempt to put it out there as a hoax created by Leonardo Da Vinci.
I am not letting go, man – this Shroud of Turin was a personal gift to ME, just as the Lord is my personal savior.
Then you have people saying, see, that’s why you can’t get yourself excited about such things, putting faith in objects, to get the props knocked out from under ya – but to me, it has simply been a gift presented to me AFTER I already chose to believe and started praying the rosary and the rosary isn’t any hocus-pocus thing either, it is simply all of the Gospel presented in the Mysteries.
My Mom had bought a stationery/office supply store/bookstore and was adding rosary beads and various prayer helps – then she went totally into mainly a Christian bookstore and gift shop. She had a lot of local church-goers – Episcopalians, Baptists and Catholics, would all go there – they would drop off their latest Scripture written out that they had “discovered” and applied for their prayer needs – I remember one when I was visiting there one weekend who had asked Mom to pray for her brother and to claim it on this Scripture: Isaiah Chapter 58, verses 6-11, which I have always found to be awesome and have made it one my mainstays.
Thank you, Hammersmith, for posting these!
I always believed the shroud is real. Just can’t help myself no matter how they have knocked it over the years.
Thank you so much, suejeanne 🙂
The most newest study to date of the Shroud of Turin (short video)
Wow!
Calm down, girls!
“Coexist”?
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I saw comments earlier this evening by the ex-wife of Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates. Mrs. Gates was chastising Elon Musk for his leadership of DOGE, exposing the dangerous and wasteful over-spending by our government, of our tax dollars.
Mrs. Gates scolded Elon, advised him that he ought to travel to the places around the world that will be affected by DOGE exposure of USAID expenditures, for example.
Mrs. Gates is SO clueless!
I felt somewhat sympathetic towards her plight of finally realizing what a weird guy she was married to when it became evident that he had continued his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. She got out of that marriage in one piece, without getting eaten by a shark coming through their bedroom ceiling and eating her!
She got away from him with more than 35 cents in her pocket and a pair of flip-flops. Now she has been seeming to compete with McKenzie, the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos. I think Mrs. Gates ought to hang onto her dough and lay low from the public view. You got away from Bill but don’t keep trying to remind all of us about what great things the Gates name means to people, such as in Vietnam who have seen horrible cases of autism afflicting their young when that was an unknown thing and the autism cases correlate with vaccines brought into the country courtesy of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Maybe Mrs. Gates thinks that the Epstein case has left our memory bank and we won’t blame her or worry her about the extent of her ex-husband’s involvement with Jeffrey Epstein and so that will not impinge on HER bank account as she put on a good show of being mad at him . . . was she worried about it affecting her bottom line, if Bill Gates would be implicated in Epstein Island cases and they had to worry about court and lawyers and who knows.
Shouldn’t she worry about her role in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation BEFORE she left Bill, when at one time she was part of the whole presentation, going to all those foreign lands and helping people to get vaccines and whatever else the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation could do for them? Now that Vietnam is reporting cases of autism following Gates vaccination programs, isn’t she worried about her part in that?
Now she is advising Elon Musk to set aside DOGE and go on trips to places where all that USAID was helping people?
How ridiculous.
Maybe he doesn’t have to even leave the Continental US if much of the USAID money was cycled into many of the pockets of our own officeholders!
Actually, niot Elon, but SOMEBODY should take her up, on her challenge.
Travel around the world, and show what the $ is REALLY going for!
Like in Georgia, IIRC where they raided USAID funded NGO’s that wete supposed to be engaged in “Democracy builfing” and found weopons stockpiles, and Molotov cocktail factories.
Scoffers are unteachable.
money does not make people smart
Didn’t Marco Rubio say that the State Department would be taking over the functions where USAID was actually doing good?
Mrs. Gates should be getting in touch with him to learn where she could use her own money to relieve the U.S. taxpayer of responsibility for the entire world.
If she didn’t live in her pre-fab brain bubble she would be able to precisely do much good here in the US but she doesn’t have eyes to see or ears to hear and she clearly believes many lies that are told (about us for example) because she certainly isn’t going to sully herself getting down and dirty and learning some real truths. She’s on top of her pre-packaged world and very comfortable up there. No soul there.
At least three times posted. Why the blitz. Wrong thread anyways. Just curious, why wanting clicks on the vids?
Everytime she opens her 👄
I 👀
a braying 🫏.
Remember one of the first reasons given for the tariffs on Canada and Mexico?
That was their moment to redeem themselves; they chose not to (although Mexico did manage better than Canada).
Canada is every bit the narco state Mexico is (and perhaps worse, as they are a G7 country, unlike Mexico), and they have given us every reason to tear up any treaty and treat them however harshly we deem fit. Will be interesting to see what their new government decides to do given this truth.
Kory Yeshua
@KoryYeshua
Former worldly Rapper turned Christian. God, Family, Music, Politics. American Patriot. Here to Shed light in darkness.
Superb! 👌👍😍❤😎
A: I’m not a biologist.
But you’re not blind either!!!
Notice the length of the shirt! No more exposés like Big Mike’s dancing on Ellen DeGeneres show!!! JMO
That’s not a woman!
He is the best!
From the archives—————
In 2020 Marc Elias systematically attacked States’ election integrity laws. The goal was to allow mail-in ballots with little to no integrity checks.
Late summer 2020 the Transition Integrity Project ran a PR campaign to “count every vote” (what they really meant is count every ballot, bogus or not). Later their PR campaign shifted to “Red Mirage” wherein Trump would win in a landslide but once “every vote is counted” he would lose.
The Transition Integrity Project ran “wargames” and determined that the election would be contested and that “A show of numbers in the streets – and actions in the streets – may be decisive factors in determining what the public perceives as a just and legitimate outcome” http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Transition-Integrity-Project-Report.pdf
Elias and the Transition Integrity Project are linked as follows: Elias founded Democracy Forward and is Chairman. John Podesta was President. web.archive.org/web/20200926203616/https://democracyforward.org/about/board/ apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/821007988_201706_990_2018080315561633.pdf
Podesta participated in the Transition Integrity Project. One of his activities was to play the role of Biden in their wargames.
The Transition Integrity Project planned for “numbers and action in the streets”. How did they plan to do this?
Podesta is a founder and board member of Climate Power 2020. A board member of Climate Power 2020 is Varshini Prakash who also is the Executive Director and a founder of Sunrise. web.archive.org/web/20210412043406/https://climatepower.us/advisory-board/
To contest the election Sunrise ran training camps and published “Action Guides” The Sunrise Election Action Guide states: “We will stay in the streets until he leaves the White House” web.archive.org/web/20201120165903/smvmt.org/election-action-guide
To recap: There was a plan to debase the election by flooding States with bogus ballots (Elias), propagandize the People about a “Red Mirage” and “counting every vote” (Transition Integrity Project), then when the debasement became clear and challenged to then frame it as “Trump won’t leave office” and therefor they will field trained agitators to take to the streets (Sunrise).
These organizations with overlapping board memberships and funding “just so happen” to have agendas that mesh together like the gears of a Swiss watch. Right.
As it turned out they did not need their street muscle. President Trump called for supporters to rally at the Capitol to encourage Congress to accept multiple States’ request for time to determine the validity of their Electors. There are many unanswered questions about government agitators at the rally.
To the phony Republicans, the DOJ & FBI, and the Supreme Court who all pretend there was no coup – we know there was a well planned and executed conspiracy to debase the 2020 election and overthrow the legitimately elected president (debasement makes it unknowable who won).
Prosecuting the coup plotters is how to ensure “something like this doesn’t happen again”. Things will only get worse if these issues are not addressed.
It really shouldn’t be difficult to find a whole bunch of crimes to charge these “people” with.
How did he have standing?
That Stella McCartney jumpsuit she wore to Saudi Arabia was pitch perfect.
Yea, but I’m not sure father Paul would love it.
self-deleted.
The lovely Melania, our wonderful First Lady!
Heat needs to be applied to the do-nothing Congress. Codify into law the EOs so they can’t be wiped away, discipline the judiciary, etc.
Don’t see them acting to support Trump. Just silence.
Eccept for the perennial blather about tax cuts we get from Republicans. Half the population doesn’t even pay income tax, non-starter issue.
But they think that will get the juices of support flowing for them, buying the next election.
Five months in, why is Planned Parenthood still getting funded with taxpayer dollars?
If they actually do the things they promise that leaves them adrift.
Need a Cause to trumpet, but if achieved, whats there to promise next time?
Not about the solution, its about the process!
Wasn’t it just a few weeks ago that tariffs and a new Department of External Revenue were going eliminate the need for income taxes?
Instead. the same old agony of promising tax cuts to some as the jostling to rig the old, tired system proceeds as it always has.
You can see and smell and hear the elected reps buying and selling each other as they show-boat “we will put a couple percent of the money we took back in your pocket, aren’t we grand! Vote for us next time!”, with the same revolting dance as always.
… or are the tariffs only to force negotiated trade deals that will result in tariff elimination … and apparently then the “Department of External Revenue”?
Even with the new deal wiht UK there is a baseline tariff of 10%, which we have been told will be for all nations regardless. With annual imports of $4T, 10% is $400B which is nothing to sneeze at.
Is is very unlikely that China will end up with a free trade deal.
And never put your hopes in the GOPe. They only want to maintain the status quo.
I’m not sure China has any choice, but to end up with a trade deal with the U.S.
And you can count on the GOPe, to stab us and Predident Trump in the back, every time.
Did the GOPe ever stab demented, pedo, corrupt Joe Biden in the back over anything? Asking for a friend!
Heat needs to be applied to the do-nothing Congress. Codify into law the EOs so they can’t be wiped away, discipline the judiciary, etc. Don’t see them acting to support Trump. Just silence.
To any and all new to this forum or those who haven’t been paying adequate attention or haven’t watched Mike Benz interviews:
There is something called the UniParty which consists of all Dimocrats and all but about 20 true MAGA Republicans in CONgress according to a recent comment by Steve Bannon and a previous estimate by me.
CONgress is anti-MAGA and the prepositioned, compromised district courts, compromised administrative state, and compromised SCOTUS intentionally put in place by the Blob/Deep State to obstruct any boat rocker, populist POTUS who might come along are also anti-MAGA.
So please stop foolishly calling for any of them to “do something” to support Trump. If they don’t fear what Trump could do to their campaigns in the case of CONgress and nothing in the case of the district courts and SCOTUS, they won’t fear the tiny minority who complain while the 24 D and F Liberty Score rated RINO Senators are constantly being reelected because most people don’t pay adequate attention.
The system has long been hopelessly corrupted and has probably forever only provided the ILLUSION of voter control:
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens [Princeton University, 2014]
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B/S1537592714001595a.pdf/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens.pdf
Excerpts:
A great deal of empirical research speaks to the policy influence of one or another set of actors, but until recently it has not been possible to test these contrasting theoretical predictions against each other within a single statistical model. We report on an effort to do so, using a unique data set that includes measures of the key variables for 1,779 policy issues.
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.
In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes.
When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system [that describes the overwhelming influence of their true owners – W], even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.
To be sure, this does not mean that ordinary citizens always lose out; they fairly often get the policies they favor, but only because those policies happen also to be preferred by the economically-elite citizens [and their Blob – W] who wield the actual influence.
Congress is NOT acting in support of President Trump, because they do not support his policies; he is a direct, existential threat to them, and they are already “all in” on the plan to hamstring his admin as much as possible.
and yes, for too many years the likes of McCarthy/Ryan and their ilk, got by with campsugning for smaller govt. less taxes, and then once elected voted for just the opposite.
Here’s Scott Bessent laying out the Truth about the economy, “I haven’t seen those polls. My 35 years in the business was analyzing data. Right now the data shows consumer confidence.
He reminds her of all the “negative coverage” by the media 10 days ago when the stock market went down. But where is all the “coverage” now 10 days later when we see the market is up overall for the month of April? Nothing. No reporting on those record setting gains.
This wrinkly old media fraud tries to bring the conversation back in the negative direction by referring to negative polls again.
He sets her straight once more time by saying, “Again, I look at the data. Unless the data starts to match these polls, I’m not worried about the polls. I think a lot of this is media driven.”
Once again, the media gets called out for trying to make news (cause the fear) instead of simply reporting the news. And that’s just the first 1 1/2 minutes of the interview. Ouch!
The media’s LIES are aging as well as their newscasters. Not well at all.
https://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/1-1-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-121212194
Just imagine where we cbould be, if the legacy media had been unbiased, all these years.
And just imagine if we had had a true “conservative alternative” Republican party, instead of the backstabbing liberals in conservative empty suits we have had foisted on us, lo these many years.
JMO.
There are dc occupants, both past and present, associated with the federal government, who are nervously waiting for the “other-shoe-to-drop”.
Yup, that proverbial “cat-is-out-of-the-bag”.
The “first-shoe-to-drop” was D.O.G.E.’s exposure of the illegal, secret funding from the federal treasury …… routed through the USAID and other illegal, unconstitutional “free money sources”.
The congressmen, senators, jurists, everyday complicit federal employees and NGOs who have knowingly “partaken-of-the-forbidden-fruit” for years, ….. and even decades for some ol’ timers, ….. are worried that they have been identified, though not publicly, as having received stolen dollars from the federal treasury, a major crime …… and in many cases have not been reporting it to the IRS, another major crime.
Some of the nervous thieves, from both parties, are starting to respond to their upcoming exposure …… the “other-shoe-to-drop” ……. by attacking not only D.O.G.E. but also, uncharacteristically for some republicans, attacking some of President Trump’s popular MAGA / America First initiatives.
Yup, the 2025 – 2026 primary season will be like no other as the gang of dc thieves try to “get-out-of-D.O.G.E.” and cut their ties to dc in advance of their public exposure.
The extent of the corruption won’t surprise President Trump and his MAGA / America First movement members.
As they say, “let the chips fall where they may.”
MAGA isn’t just our motto, it is our duty!
It is now or never.
We watch 👀 their incomes💰 increase in direct ratio to either inaction or sabotage of our Republic. 🇺🇲
Out them. 👈
Oust them. 😩😩😩
Then prosecute (if you can find a judge who is not in league with 👿).
I think “the other shoe” is the human trafficing scandal, with Epstien and Diddy files.
For some unaccountable reason, we tolerate blatant corruption with profiteering by Congress, but throw sex into the equation and you have Senators resigning.
Unless they are Bill Clinton or Teddy Kennedy
Yesterday’s thread revealed population issues as they related to ‘the planet’, environment. If a country’s population increases by over a million people in one year, one would think there is a target market for ejumacation.
Scroll down in this one, to the chart that shows annual increases…while the rest of us ‘depopulate’.
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/india-population/
Good Morning and Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers in this magnificent Treehouse. I hope you all have a wonderful day filled with love and blessings.
To any moms struggling with their relationships with their children, I am praying for God’s intervention so that reconciliation can be achieved. It is never too late.
🙏❤️🤗
Amen, Ac!
Mornin’ Jinxy!
My cats are on “Full Moon Fever” time and have kept my sidekick Beau the red nose pit/ Ridgeback mix who doubles as the “Matt Dillon” of felines on his toes the last 12 hours.
When they would start “cutting the fool” in the middle of the night the dog would launch off the foot of the bed with a snarl and go roust the cats for crashing into their cardboard box fortress. I should be worn out but I feel good.
I am ready to watch the Administration kick tail with serious dudes at DOJ come Monday. And we got some rain, so I probably won’t fall into a sinkhole this week. If they keep developing around here like there is no tomorrow, who knows.
Sounds like a good day, all in all. 😁
Trump is turning out to be a major disappointment on the foreign policy front, which looks more and more like it is being influenced by Neocons every day. Daniel Davis and Douglas MacGregor put it nicely:
Pffffft.. 🙄😂
Sending more military aid to Ukraine, a deal with Ukraine to extract mythical minerals deposits, threatening Russia with more sanctions… Who voted for any of this? MacGregor is 100% correct. Trump’s foreign policy looks like amateur hour. It’s a confused mess. Trump looks weak, like he has no clue what he’s doing and like his foreign policy statements reflect whatever the last person to speak to him talked about. You have to be a sycophant not to notice this.
Try harder.
Macgregor is looking for his 15 minutes of fame…he wants to be a player but hasn’t made it to the big time. He is best to be ignored
MacGregor is stating what a LOT of people who voted for Trump are thinking. We voted for him because we want peace. Trump looks like he’s trying to find a way of achieving his objectives and also pleasing Neocons like the sodomite Lindsey Graham. What will happen if he continues down this path is, he will fail to achieve peace or even extract us from involvement in Ukraine, and he will lose a major share of his popular support. With his popular support gone, he will lose political clout, and with his clout gone, he will just be a lame duck and a tool of the swamp (something he is already starting to resemble).
Thinking President Trump is starting to resemble a lame duck is laugh out loud hilarious. Thank you for that good laugh.
The only people who would even think that let alone talk or write about it are…Quacks.
Or in Howard Lutnick’s words, Just plain Silly.
Yeah sure.. come back when you have proof that President Trump’s wild popularity has in fact plummeted.
Until then?
pfffffftt… 🙄
Because he doesn’t do everything that Russia wants?
The President offered Russia a very good deal; they offered Ukraine a very good deal. Both refused. That’s on both of them, not us.
I guess that means he really wasn’t Putin’s puppet after all; no matter how much the left screamed it was so.
By the way, it is always good to remember that it is Russia and China that go around loudly proclaiming their ‘friendship/alliance without limits’ — it was never Russia-America friendship, never China-America. So we need to of course take them at their word when they say this, and since China is definitely not a country friendly to the U.S. we should not become too cozy with their self-proclaimed best friend and ally.
Both countries could change their relationship with the U.S., but it is up to them to do so, and up to us to treat them accordingly. Same goes for Ukraine, same for every other country.
When people make statements starting with, “I don’t think President Trump understands…” my BS meter goes off right away. Everything they say is viewed through a different lens after that.
morning Treepers ….be well ………………..Happy Mothers day.
Morning bjorkdream
🤩 how lovely.
Thank you.
Have a blessed day.
Mary Talley Bowden MD @MdBreathe
Apr 5, 2023 About half of my COVID patients now are vaccine injuries. First patient today was a previously very healthy athlete. He handed me his business card and said “This is me” then he handed me his vaccine card and said “And this is the biggest mistake I’ve ever made.” His PCP at @MethodistHosp, Dr Alan Hoffman, urged him to get the shots, and he was one of the first, getting his first Moderna shot 12/20. When he subsequently developed chronic tremors, unbearable flushing, racing heart, and massive anxiety, his PCP said there was no way his symptoms were from the shots and encouraged him to get a booster. Prior to me, he’d seen 5 other doctors – none of them have reported his case to VAERS.
Jun 12, 2023 Saw a patient this morning whose wife snuck ivermectin into his hospital room. He was going downhill fast, about to get 3rd dose of Remdesivir. He took matters in his own hands, refused the 3rd dose, and started ivermectin that was hidden in a sock. Sky-high liver enzymes went down, he was moved out of the ICU the next day, went home a few days later.
Oct 13, 2024 Davis Heller was forced to get the C0VID shots to play baseball for @UofAlabama. His exemption from a cardiologist was denied, and Davis died on his couch studying for a test. I spoke with his father @ncm20az and will share our conversation tomorrow.
Feb 12 The man who brought COVID shot mandates to America, Dr Marc Boom, was compensated $14,000,000 from 2021-2023.
Feb 22 Eight states now have bills to make ivermectin OTC:
Arkansas
Georgia
Kentucky
Texas
South Carolina
Pennsylvania
Oklahoma
Alabama
Florida refuses..
There were concerns about his appointment too.
The MAHA intended diversion from accountability for the massive damage done by the virus that never should have existed, the jabs that never would have existed, and the draconian measures that never would have happened, should just ban all food ingredients banned in the EU where they have been far more careful on that topic. Simple and done.
Other food science related to the now known to be crucially important gut microbiome is still in its infancy.
This Common Breakfast Food Could Be Damaging Your Gut
May 9, 2025
https://scitechdaily.com/this-common-breakfast-food-could-be-damaging-your-gut/
New research from NC State reveals that different protein sources in animal diets can dramatically alter the gut microbiome, both in composition and function.
A new study from researchers at North Carolina State University has found that the type of protein in an animal’s diet significantly influences both the composition and activity of the gut microbiome, the community of microorganisms living in the digestive tract.
These gut microbes play a crucial role in various aspects of health, and the study’s findings could contribute to improved strategies for preventing and treating gastrointestinal diseases that affect millions of people worldwide.
“There’s something wrong with what we’re eating today, and we are not close to knowing what that is,” said Alfredo Blakeley-Ruiz, an NC State postdoctoral researcher and co-corresponding author of a paper describing the study. “Our lab wanted to know how different diets impact what lives in the gut, and to learn something about what those microbes are doing, functionally, in response to that diet.”
In their experiment, the researchers examined the effects of specific dietary protein sources, such as those from milk, eggs, and plants like peas and soy, on the gut microbiomes of mice. The mice were each fed a diet consisting of a single protein source for one week. These sources included egg whites, brown rice, soy, and yeast, allowing the researchers to isolate the impact of each protein on the gut microbial ecosystem.
They’ve done something to the cattle and pigs to make them inedible. And now I think they are just killing the chickens because their tinkering only yet works on mammals. The explosion of Alpha Galactose is one part of their scheme. Whatever they’ve done causes inflammation on its own. Add Alpha Galactose to the mix and it becomes deadly.
The DIY MAHA: “Heavily processed foods and carbs are BAD. Avoid them.”
But that requires individual effort and willpower.
I thought we were going to be focussing on getting the hard science on these issues.
I’ve been saying that for years, there is obviously something wrong with the food.
Is all a distraction!
https://substack.com/@sensereceptor/note/c-115788481?r=b7nwz&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
I agree with that, that it is a distraction, but I can’t attribute it to specific actors like the WEF like they do.
I’ve already IDed the quick fix for MAHA above:
Ban all food additives and food COMPONENTS banned in the EU and UK based upon the research they’ve done BECAUSE THEY aren’t captured by US Big Food as “our” government and regulatory agencies are here. Quick, simple, and -DONE-.
But that would end the distraction…
Must read and share:
https://open.substack.com/pub/amidwesterndoctor/p/the-forgotten-history-of-neurological?r=b7nwz&utm_medium=ios
Wow. Unbelievable.
Yes, wow.
Deliberately erasing the “retarded” label to obscure vaccine harms?
“For a moment, imagine how different the entire vaccine discussion would be if people instead had simply said things like “vaccines can make you severely retarded” or “Bill’s son became mentally retarded after the shot Sue’s daughter had issues with” or “in just eight years, the number of severely retarded children doubled” rather than how it’s been obfuscated within the ambiguous “autism” label. “
Alex Berenson is one of the people who say that the increase in autism isn’t real (and I’m paraphrasing, I may not have his point correct), it’s that parents would much rather receive a diagnosis of autism for their child than that their child is retarded.
In that otherwise excellent article:
“Thanks to the MAHA moment, we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to change this dysfunctional paradigm.”
The MAHA movement in Congress: Who and what to watch
With RFK Jr. poised to take helm at HHS, Republicans rally behind his message
https://rollcall.com/2025/02/06/the-maha-movement-in-congress-who-and-what-to-watch/
Meanwhile in Congress, the Make America Healthy Again movement, also known as MAHA, has garnered momentum by largely keeping vaccines out of its main issue areas, instead touting health issues like nutrition and the influence of big money in health care [“big money” which means, as always, nothing significant will be done; see Karl Denninger column linked below – W] that are more palatable to both sides of the aisle.
The Bill To Permanently Fix Health Care For All
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231949
The header on every page at Denninger’s Market Ticker:
Trump’s Record
Arrests, 8 USC 1324 (Employers): 0
Indictments, 15 USC Ch 1 (Med/Ph): 0
Indictments (Covid manslaughter): 0
8 U.S. Code 1324 – Bringing in and harboring certain aliens
15 U.S. Code Ch. 1 – Monopolies and Combinations in Restraint of Trade
“attempts to find instances of politicization”, good grief how stupid do they think people are, it was all political, every damn bit of it.
When did PDJT ever say he was looking for revenge? I think folks are putting words in his mouth. If anything, he’s seeking the truth.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna
@RepLuna
BREAKING: Today, I introduced the “American Privacy Restoration Act” to FULLY REPEAL the Patriot Act and strip rogue intelligence officers of their extraordinary mass surveillance powers.
Since the passage of the USA Patriot Act in the aftermath of 9/11, intelligence agency officials have used their mass surveillance tools to settle personal scores, interfere in elections, and spy on untold numbers of innocent Americans.
This abuse must come to an end!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/rep-anna-paulina-luna-introduces-bill-repeal-usa/
“Rally organizer Dustin Stockton says Aaron Black, aka Aaron Minter, lied about being at the Capitol during protests and rioting.”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/pelosis-fixer-at-the-capitol-on-jan-6-an-unforgivable-betrayal-friend-says
Another Elephant In The Room.. it’s getting crowded in that DOJ..
How will anyone be able to pretend not to see this one?
Another “Occupy Wall Street” organizer was responsible for the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville. That’s weird.
Jason Eric Kessler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Kessler
She must be above the law.
More…
https://substack.com/@sensereceptor/note/c-109483578?r=b7nwz&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Deputy Director Bongino posts an excellent summary about the FBI here:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/fbi-deputy-director-bongino-posts-update-x-assuring/
And I think it’s important to remember that people like him, Director Patel, and Attorney General Bondi must very carefully follow certain rigid legal standards concerning what they can and cannot say at a particular time. These rules are Constitutionally crafted to protect your presumption of innocence.
The fact that you do not see things happening, does not mean that they are not happening. Likewise, the fact that an agency does not respond to a “baiting” comment made by someone else does not mean that the comment was true, nor that anything is being “covered up.”
Secrecy is a critically important part of this entire process. Not only to protect the security of the people who are taking action, but also to protect the legal rights of those who might be the focus of those actions. (Remember that, as if the focus point was you: a genuinely-innocent person.)
On the one hand, General Bondi makes an astonishing number of unscripted encounters with the press. Almost every day! (Unprecedented …) But, on the other hand, she wears a poker face. She has to. She is telling you everything that she can – and not one thing that she can’t. She is not even allowed to suggest what must not be revealed, because irreversible damage to legal rights could be done by “malicious insinuation.” Which is illegal.
It is a very narrow tightrope that these people must walk. But it is part of the job. And every one of them obviously takes it very seriously. Trump chose wisely.
Bondi lied about having files on her desk.
She lied about seeing tapes she didn’t even have.
Bondi seems like a joke. Jury is out on patel & bongino.
Federal Judge in San Francisco Halts All Large-Scale Firings by the Trump Administration
https://jonathanturley.org/2025/05/10/federal-judge-in-san-francisco-halts-all-large-scale-firings-by-the-trump-administration/
‘Judge Illston did acknowledge that two courts of appeal recently rendered decisions against jurisdiction in such cases’
‘The court notes that those decisions are not binding on a San Francisco district court and rejects their value as “persuasive authority.’
If her district doesn’t have to observe the appeals court decisions of other jurisdictions, then how are her districts decisions binding nation wide?
This is what wrong with the judiciary today.
The short answer is that they are not “binding nation-wide.” The President is the “Chief Executive Officer,” and every Executive Branch employee serves at his pleasure.
We must force the laws to advance in Congress to properly define the role and power of these Judges. Who serve at the pleasure of Congress.
“The short answer is that they are not “binding nation-wide.”
THAT has never been legally defined and THAT is the problem. WHY do you keep claiming that?
The “Rule of Law” color revolution tool (i.e. rule by unelected, appointed, partisan judges conducting a judicial coup against, these days, populist politicians through obstruction, lawsuits, banning from running in elections and nullifying elections when they win) has been used by USAID (CIA) in other countries and it is now being used here.
CONgress has, according to a recent statement by Bannon which is amazingly in line with a previous estimate of mine, only about 20 true MAGA in it, so the majority LOVE this obstruction. Do NOT expect them to reel in their district courts by specifically limiting their realm of control.
SCOTUS is also compromised by two faux conservatives which is the other place that the district courts could be reeled in.
On ACB, there were clues which some warned about. For instance, Amy Coney Barrett publicly claimed she wept over the [fentanyl overdose] death of [career criminal] George Floyd. That revealed a stunning inability to see through propaganda.
Two of the Deep State’s biggest players are now GUSHING over Amy Coney Barrett
April 11, 2025
https://revolver.news/2025/04/two-of-the-deep-states-biggest-players-are-now-gushing-over-amy/
Chief Justice John Roberts Worked With Norm Eisen (5:03)
Mike Benz
3 Apr 2025
Chief Justice John Roberts spent a week living at Norm Eisen’s 150-room palace in the Czech Republic where they “worked on American and European Rule of Law issues together.” Eisen was Ambassador 2011-2014. Roberts became Chief Justice in 2005. This was while Roberts ran SCOTUS.
“Until very recently, federal judges were so reluctant to raise this Constitutional issue that they almost never issued such injunctions. They issued injunctions only for their own circuits and left it to the Supreme Court to resolve questions about nationwide application.
But nationwide injunctions in contentious cases have become more common recently, and it is likely that the Supreme Court will be forced to address whether inferior-court federal judges do in fact have nationwide authority.
I think it is quite unlikely that the Supreme Court will affirm this. [because oversight of NATIONAL issues is THEIR realm; however, since they are compromised, don’t count on them – W]
I am not addressing here the question of whether I think Trump and DOGE’s authority to block Treasury payments should prevail. I am predicting that it almost certainly will prevail.” – Eric S Raymond
Warfare on Lawfare
Feb 10, 2025
https://www.kunstler.com/p/warfare-on-lawfare
Excerpt:
The DOJ under Pam Bondi can designate the US Solicitor General to petition the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) for certiorari — to expedite the resolution of this constitutional issue as to whether Mr. Trump, as chief executive, and his bona fide appointees, can carry out executive functions. The arguments against that appear to be weak. [SO, why haven’t they taken this SPECIFICALLY to the SCOTUS to rule SPECIFICALLY whether district courts have the right to submit national injunctions instead of submitting individual injunctions to SCOTUS? Two possible reasons: “Republicans” have themselves used district court national injunction FAR more sparingly in the past and the don’t want that nixed OR they know that SCOTUS can’t be trusted to rule that district courts can’t make national injunctions – W]
It is the President’s duty to see that the laws are faithfully executed, meaning that the departments under him do their jobs correctly, which would give him inherent authority to audit and restructure agencies like USAID. Both judges Nichols and Engelmayer are arrogating executive and legislative functions on policy-making to themselves, triggering a separation-of-powers dispute that the SCOTUS must adjudicate promptly.
What matters most in these cases is that SCOTUS has an opportunity to put up new guardrails against the hijacking of the federal courts for the purpose of lawfare — that is, for political dirty-fighting under color-of-law. The law is slow-moving, arcane, and incomprehensible to most non-lawyer citizens and that is why the Party of Chaos has misused it so liberally.
This tool to fight back isn’t even being used. Why?
Dan Huff
@RealDanHuff
Feb 10 2025
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1888975398299435477.html
Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(c), judges can issue injunctions “ONLY IF” the suing party posts a bond to cover potential damages if they’re wrong. But guess what? This rule is hardly used!
When I was in the White House, in Trump’s first term, I suggested this, but DOJ didn’t make it happen. Imagine if we had applied this to the travel ban – activists would think twice before blocking policies with potentially billions at stake.
For national injunctions, we’re talking bonds in the hundreds of millions or even billions. It will become prohibitive unless the activists have a slam dunk case.
Note that Karl Denninger is NOT even a lawyer.
So Where Are The Filings?
Karl Denninger
8 Mar 2025
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=252937
Trump’s Administration has finally taken notice of Rule 65(c) when it comes to Federal Courts:
(c) Security. The court may issue a preliminary injunction or a temporary restraining order only if the movant gives security in an amount that the court considers proper to pay the costs and damages sustained by any party found to have been wrongfully enjoined or restrained. The United States, its officers, and its agencies are not required to give security.
This is not discretionary and the court cannot assess a “de-minimus” security amount either; it must be defensible predicated on the costs and damages that the other party may or will suffer with the evidence of same in the order itself if the injunction or TRO issues until disposition of the case and the posting of said security has to be completed before the TRO or injunction is valid.
[snip]
Thus where is Pam Bondi with immediate emergency filings against all of the existing injunctions already issued demanding that security be posted up and computed in said public filing and, if there is any delay or refusal by the judges involved to do so taking an immediate emergency appeal as far as necessary including to the Supreme Court which, given the actual language in the Rules of Civil Procedure is a slam-dunk and immediate win? No, demanding this only on a forward basis for future filings is not enough — force the movants in all the existing injunctions to either post up security or dissolve the injunctions and TROs.
Answer to the following question – because they’re not being forced to:
Why are Judges Issuing Nationwide Injunctions Without Collecting the Bonds Required to Do So? (5:52)
Rep. Harriet Hageman
1 Apr 2025
Judge Engoron required a yuge bond in order for PDJT to appeal a civil judgement.
Bonds only go one way, I guess, against Trump.
Harriet is so intelligent. I wish we had ten Representatives with her character and clear thinking ability.
Pause to consider that there is something here that is being shielded from scrutiny. Something ‘precious’. Something dangerous.
It is lurking in the shade, like a specter, largely unrecognized and by nameless awe, allowed to slip past critical thought.
Obscured and unannounced, it advances, making its way, reeking of death.
https://open.substack.com/pub/entwine/p/the-platform-is-deadly?r=b7nwz&utm_medium=ios