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DEI: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/2472738663225185 [2:06] to hear Michael Knowles comment on James “Low Testosterone” Talarico.

DEMOCRATS: CLICK https://x.com/TheRabbitHole/status/2081451286034276366 [:10] to hear Kamala Harris endorse a return to paper ballots.

DSA: CLICK https://x.com/greg_price11/status/2081415349870739635 [:44] to hear DSA co-chair Megan Romer enthusiastically affirm a short list of the goals of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). AOC, who has presidential aspirations, is a member.

FAUCI: [21:13] – Senator Rand Paul [R-KY] released some of Anthony Fauci’s personal diary entries, correspondences, and e-mails. See the links below for more.

CLICK https://x.com/adamcarolla/status/2081511541229400430 [2:12] to hear the media fawn over him for his “candor” and “service to this country.”

CLICK https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/2081760401545437635 [2:43] to hear Sec. Kennedy explain why Fauci et al. weaponized the federal government and the Democrat’s lapdog media to demonize hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin for the treatment of COVID.

FRAUD: Fahima Egeh Mahamud (54) was the CEO of the now defunct Future Leaders Early Learning in Minneapolis. Last December, she was exposed as a fraudster in a viral Nick Shirley video and was subsequently charged with wire fraud and conspiracy for allegedly stealing over $4.6 million through false claims to federal nutrition and state childcare assistance programs. Two weeks ago, she pleaded guilty.

Adnan “Eddie” Arshad (47) of New York has been sentenced to 97 months in prison for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Arshad was part of a Medicaid fraud scheme that allowed him to buy multimillion-dollar homes and luxury vehicles, while depriving vulnerable patients of resources.

HEALTH: If you’re interested in improving your health through diet, I highly recommend this doctor’s channel. [25:50] – My comment on this video said, “I recently added watching one of your videos per day to my routine. It took me a while to adapt my recipes, but I have finally embraced the ‘veggies first’ habit for our dinners. Today, as I was watching this one, I felt super virtuous about having had a salad for lunch, instead of my usual rice cake with peanut butter. Then, you go and tell me to eat roasted brassicas with BREAKFAST. I’m not THERE … not yet anyway! LOL”

PANTRY FOOD SAFETY: Always toss damaged canned goods, as well as foods showing signs of mold, moisture inside packaging, pest activity, unusual clumping, discoloration, funky odors, damaged packaging. Do not use powdered infant formula, flour, or cooking oils past the expiration date.

GRAMMY NOTES: As a quilting stamp collector, I am embracing this meme!

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1416749570504304 [:52] to see evidence that morality is not taught, but instilled by the Holy Spirit.

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Wright Type A Airplane – Orville Wright at Ft. Myer, Va. – Sept. 9, 1908

AMERICAN HISTORY: On July 27, 1909, Orville Wright flew the first army airplane a record one hour and 12 minutes and 40 seconds. They flew at an average of 40 miles per hour, showed the plane could be maneuvered in any direction, and landed without damage, successfully completing the flight requirements set by their Department of War contract. In October, they taught the first two Army pilots to fly the new planes.

COMMUNISM: CLICK https://x.com/TheDUMShow/status/2081026057398849925 [1:43] to hear from someone who lived behind the Iron Curtain. I visited the USSR in 1972. We had been strictly warned not to sell our belongings, which I thought was weird. Then one morning, a hotel maid pulled out her little coin purse and pointed to one of my blouses.

EVERYDAY HEROES: [5:35] – ❤

HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1355117436009642 [1:56] to hear an absurd argument that broke out between Committee Chairman Brian Mast and Democrats who wanted to use their time to grandstand and record sound bites for fund raising.

MEDIA: Headline – “Berlin Pride Horror: A van slammed into revellers celebrating pride at Tiergarten Park in Berlin, killing one.” < This is what Left Stream Jerknalists do when their special interest groups collide. Why blame the van and not the driver? Because this driver happened to be a Muslim. Or, as they are now reporting it, “a member of the Islamist scene.”

CLICK https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2080901335935857099 [1:13] for more “you can’t hate them enough” moments.

MINNESOTA: CLICK https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2081137577705533872 [1:08] to hear about the transgender dolls with removable, swappable genitalia that will be given to kids as young as four in Minnesota schools starting this fall.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1498925202254293 [:23] and go awww.

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2028: Ayiyiyiyi.

BIDEN: CLICK https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2080986672938856797 [1:18] to hear a montage of Biden lying through his lying pie hole.

DEMOCRATS: CLICK https://x.com/4Saken0rder2025/status/2080933811550921006 [3:10] to hear Paul Harvey’s famous “If I Were The Devil.

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: They should only be allowed to charge using electricity generated by wind, solar, or water.

ENERGY: According to the Department of the Interior (DOI), we have enough coal in federally managed public lands across the United States to meet the country’s demand for at least 600 years at the current consumption rate. As of 2024, there were a total of 34 coal mines in federal lands.

FDA: The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new pill that will be sold as “Tylenol with Naproxen.” The standard dose of 2 pills will contain 650 mg of acetaminophen and 220 mg of naproxen sodium, which is the NSAID used in Aleve. It will promise 12 hours of relief starting within 30 minutes of taking a pill.

LOVING vs. VIRGINIA: In 1958, Richard and Mildred Loving were a young couple living quietly in rural Virginia, newly married and hoping to build a life together. But because Richard was white and Mildred was Black and Native American, their marriage violated Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act. Just weeks after their wedding, police burst into their bedroom in the middle of the night, arrested them, and charged them with “cohabiting as man and wife.” A judge offered them a cruel choice: spend a year in prison or leave Virginia for 25 years. Forced into exile, they moved to Washington, D.C., longing for home.

Life in the city was difficult. They missed their families, the countryside, and the simple rhythms of their old community. Mildred eventually wrote to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who referred her to the ACLU. Two young lawyers took their case, arguing that Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage violated the Constitution. The legal battle dragged on for years, with the Lovings staying mostly out of the spotlight, Richard working construction, Mildred raising their children, while their names quietly became the center of a national civil rights fight.

In 1967, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Loving v. Virginia that laws banning interracial marriage were unconstitutional, striking down such restrictions across America. After the decision, the Lovings returned to Virginia, finally able to live openly as husband and wife in the place they loved. A famous photo shows them sitting calmly on their porch, two ordinary people whose determination reshaped the country, proving that their quiet love was powerful enough to change the law.

TRANS: A deranged old sex pervert let his cajones hang out of a tiny bikini string at a pool being enjoyed by many families with children. When he was confronted by other men, he accused them of transphobia.

GRAMMY NOTES: I met mine in church and my daughters all met theirs in the military, which would be my top two recommendations. But Home Depot sounds like it could work well at number three.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://x.com/amuse/status/2080605893763215551 [2:53]. Artist: Jon Kahn. Co-writer: Chris Wallin. Label: Baste Records. It hit #1 on iTunes shortly after release.

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ANTI-SLAVERY TARIFFS: President Trump is slapping up to 12.5% tariffs on goods from 60 U.S. trading partners who have failed to crack down on forced labor.

BORDER: The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRAIRA) was signed into law by Democrat President Bill Clinton on September 30, 1996. It became effective on April 1, 1997 and is still the law of the land.

The IIRAIRA created stricter border enforcement, increased penalties for document fraud, and expanded grounds for deportation. It made it a criminal offense for an alien to vote in a federal election and introduced reentry bans for undocumented immigrants who overstay visas or violate conditions.

CATHOLIC: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1625882612576701 [1:51] to hear what Josh Pray learned about the Sign of the Cross, which by the way, is considered a prayer in and of itself.

I posted in the comments, asking him to do the the cross on forehead, lips and heart Catholics do before the priest reads the Gospel at Mass. The prayer that goes with that is “May the Word of the Lord be on my mind, on my lips, and in my heart.”

I adapted it to a personal morning prayer. I pour some holy water into my left palm and dip my thumb in, do my forehead, lips and heart, then do each ear (“in my ears“), then rub my hands together to spread the water around and end with, “and in all that I do. Amen.

DEMOCRATS: TDS.

EDUCATION: @mattvanswol commented, “Uhhhhh, this seems kind of insane to me. When I was in school, a B+ was a 92 and an A- was a 93-95.”

I am a 1976 graduate of then-SUNY-Binghamton (now Binghamton University). I had a prof say he wanted to give me an A-, because I had earned it. But the school had eliminated minuses for being too negative, so he gave me a B+.

MEDIA: More fodder for your “You can’t hate them enough” collections –

OBAMA: The plumbing subcontractor who worked on the $850 million Obama Presidential Center has been forced to shut down operations and lay off 25 union workers, because he hasn’t been paid the nearly $4 million the center owes him.

SOCIALISM: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1727193195148201 [:50] to hear Elon Musk take down a smug liberal reporter.

SOUTH LAWN: Lockheed Martin is paying to install a permanent, granite helipad on the South Lawn, because the new fleet of Sikorsky helicopters that will be used as Marine One are too powerful to land on grass. Trump told reporters, “When you land on the grass, it’s not that the grass gets discolored. It gets ripped out.

STUPID PEOPLE: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1285535806778706 [:37] and prepare to roll your eyes.

GRAMMY NOTES: For me, it’s less about keeping my mouth shut (I hate confrontation) than about stewing endlessly afterwards! LOL

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AMERICAN HISTORY: On July 24, 1701, French explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac established a fort on the site of what would become the city of Detroit.

FRAUD: Khalid Satary (54) is a foreign national who owned and operated multiple diagnostic testing laboratories in the United States between 2016 and 2019. The DOJ says he billed Medicare for “expensive and medically unnecessary genetic tests” that were reimbursed at the rate of $10,000 to $20,000 per sample. To run the operation, Satary allegedly paid millions of dollars in bribes and illegal kickbacks to patient recruiters and doctors. On July 20 this year, he was arrested in the Middle East; he is now in U.S. custody facing charges related to defrauding Medicare of $547 million.

IRAN: [13:09] – Dr. Steve explains the multi-modal plan Trump is using to defang our enemies while enriching ourselves and our allies.

JOBLESS CLAIMS: Well done, Mr. President.

MAHA: Long overdue! My dentist stopped using them in the 1980s.

STUPID PEOPLE: CLICK https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaqUQ9Ex8pz/ and rejoice that she is not our president!

GRAMMY NOTES: I just learned that sauteing is the only sure means for killing cyclospora in leafy greens. Fortunately, I love stir fried greens!

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CATHOLIC: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1721801525724123 [1:30] to hear what Josh Pray learned about nuns.

ISRAEL: Israel’s Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman has officially changed the status of the Nile crocodile from “wild animal” to “tended wild animal.” The nation may now put crocodile moats around their prisons.

RESPONSIBLE MONEY MANAGEMENT: On Tuesday, TreasSec Bessent said they’ve blocked nearly $100 million that had been going to dead people.

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=917753151347014 [2:44] to hear how one Christian woman got her co-workers to stop using “Jesus” as a cuss word.

STUPID PEOPLE: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1556446529532147 [:39] to hear what a topless woman responded to the question, “What is a woman?

GRAMMY NOTES: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1701461587735954 to see who Dearest had dinner with this week.

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CATHOLIC: More than one thousand faithful Australian Catholics knelt and prayed the Rosary outside of a former Catholic church where a blasphemous LGBTQ-themed performance mocking Christian themes was taking place.

A Catholic group said in a statement, “The publicly accessible material included performers dressed as nuns, exorcism parodies, references to ‘unholy water’ and depictions involving Holy Communion.”

The founder of the offensively named “Divine Playhouse” announced they’ve been evicted from the building.

DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA: Gary Varvel writes –

Remember when the old guard Democrats chanted “blue, no matter who”? Well, it looks like they’ll be wearing communist red instead. Their big tent has officially been overrun by card-carrying socialist snakes, and they are about to squeeze the life out of the geriatric donkeys.

Party centrists are discovering the hard way: if you feed the snake, eventually the snake feeds on you.

Look no further than Ethiopian-born politician Melat Kiros, who recently won her primary for Colorado’s 1st Congressional District. She bluntly proclaimed:

There is a shift in the global world order that exists today. And a fundamental shift that we have to have going forward… That means getting more immigrants into office.”

Is that really what America needs?

Deuteronomy 17:15 issued a clear warning to Israel: “Do not place a foreigner over you.”

Furthermore, in Deuteronomy 28, God lists the severe consequences brought upon Israel for turning away from Him—including drought, disease, and pestilence.

Then verses 43–44 spell out the social turning point:

The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower… They will be the head, but you will be the tail.

With the recent onslaught of foreign-born candidates rising through the ranks, one has to wonder if America is experiencing a similar judgment.

The U.S. Constitution explicitly requires the President to be a natural-born citizen—a sensible requirement designed to safeguard our nation from leaders with divided loyalties. Why shouldn’t that same restriction apply to every high office governing our land?

DEMOCRATS: [12:09] – Dr. Steve expands on the current state of the Democrat Party.

MEDICAID: The federal government is pausing more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to two fraud-ridden states – California and Minnesota – until they can prove that all of the payments are for legitimate health care services.

MIDTERM$: [13:10] – The news could not be worse for Dems.

NEW JERSEY: Gov. Sherrill blames a software error for the fact that roughly 6,600 non-citizens were registered to vote between June 2023 and June 2024.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lXQhSgELvZ4 [:20] and go awww.

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AMERICAN HISTORY: On July 21, 1944, US troops landed on Guam, initiating a three-week battle to recapture the island. Today, the people of Guam celebrate July 21 as Liberation Day.

CLIMATE HOAX: Forty (80%) of our states’ all-time July high temperature records happened before 1955.

DEMOCRATS: CLICK https://x.com/Gaismair/status/2078919020980437138 [2:24] to see an ad a bunch of anti-Trump celebrities made to encourage members of the electoral college to ignore their states’ election outcomes. @JNOV57 commented, “Pretty sure that Thomas Jefferson & Co. didn’t include The Electoral College so that a bunch of uneducated adults, who play make-believe for a living, could try and obstruct The Will of the People.

EDUCATION: The federal Department of Education is rolling out a new accountability test. Any undergraduate program that cannot prove that, four years after graduation, its graduates are earning more than someone with a high school diploma will be barred from federal student loan moneys.

FDA: After blaming the recent outbreak of Cyclospora-driven explosive diarrhea on Mexican iceberg lettuce distributed byTaylor Farms, the feds have cried, “Oopsie.” Additional laboratory review showed no sign of the pathogen.

MINNESOTA: CLICK https://x.com/joeroganhq/status/2078846067387609238 [2:16] to hear facts about Somalians in Minnesota.

VANCE: Congratulations to the happy family and thanks be to God for a safe delivery.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5vn5XEV117I [1:04] and maybe grab a tissue.

CLICK https://x.com/washghost1/status/2079064354951930220 [1:33] to watch kids take things literally.

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AMERICAN HISTORY: On July 20 1969, Stephen and Viola Armstrong joined millions of viewers around the globe to watch their son, Neil, do something no human had ever done before.

AUTHENTICITY: CLICK https://x.com/C_3C_3/status/2078558527979680044 [2:30] to hear clips from her speeches.

ELECTION INTEGRITY: The Trump administration is threatening to withhold federal funds from states that refuse to support his election integrity efforts. Even more to the point, he intends to hold the specific election officials responsible with fines, penalties, and possibly prison time.

EVERYDAY HEROES: CLICK https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/2078511239844544739 [2:08] to hear a wonderful true story. In the comments, someone reports the woman’s injuries were not life threatening and her little boy was unharmed.

IRAN: The U.S. military has destroyed a key Iranian surveillance tower in the Strait of Hormuz that was used to monitor ships. Removing the tower degrades the IRGC’s ability to attack civilian ships, thus protecting freedom of navigation.

MEDIA: ABC, NBC, and CNN refused to air Trump’s recent speech about election integrity. CNN can do whatever it wants, but ABC and NBC use public airways. They have no right to decide we don’t need to hear a sitting president’s major speech.

@SteveLovesAmmo commented, “I’m just going to say the refusal to air a Presidential speech about election fraud seems like a horrible way to convince people that you weren’t in on election fraud.

OH CANADA: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yAmX9OE4-0M [1:05] to hear what Baby Trump is going to do about the wildfire smoke that poured across the border. “Smoke is just angry wood.” “Point it north.” LOL!

PSA: If you’re ever faced with having something confiscated at airport security check-in, ask if they have a mail-back option where you ship an item home to yourself instead of surrendering it forever.

STAR WARS: In 8 minutes. With a budget of $12. Priceless!

STUPID PEOPLE: CLICK https://x.com/tomselliott/status/2078218720439160902 [:13] to hear AOC tell us the U.S. Senate was founded on Jim Crow.

GRAMMY NOTES: For the record, our baby gate never came down. We have used it for pets, grandchildren, and the “We’re not OLD yet” individuals who currently inhabit the long-empty nest.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://x.com/its_The_Dr/status/2078594554664480870 [:40] for a laugh.

CLICK https://x.com/DisrespectedThe/status/2078639990666600554 [1:35] for a ROFL.

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AMERICAN HISTORY: On July 19, 1848, the Women’s Rights Convention, also known as the Seneca Falls Convention, opened in New York. The convention’s attendants issued a declaration calling for equal rights, including the right to vote.

CATHOLIC: CLICK https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/2077158435548778852 [1:39] to hear Peter Kreeft’s advice to young single men. Kreeft recently lost his wife after 63 years of marriage.

DEMOCRATS: Former Democrat Rep. and current Congressional candidate Cori Bush is now under investigation by the Missouri Attorney General for allegedly funneling charity donations for tornado relief to her own campaign coffers.

EDUCATION: CLICK https://x.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/2077884352587829260 [:16] to see a clip from a speech Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, made at their convention. Erin4Parents commented, “She’s like a human billboard for homeschooling.”

EVERYDAY HEROES: [2:26] – CLICK https://x.com/Bennieeexyz/status/2075258791260553219 to read the sweet story Bennie posted about a man who bought a tent for his rescue dog.

EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA: The Mexican government warned its citizens about the risks of traveling in the U.S. due to the recent multi-state outbreak … which has been traced to lettuce that was imported from Mexico.

FRAUD: According to a Pentagon watchdog report, We The Taxpayers gave $469 million to a company called General Dynamics to build an artillery facility in Mesquite, Texas. The plant, which opened in May 2024, was supposed to produce the metal parts for 30,000 rounds per month. As of March 2026, the plant has produced exactly nothing.

MILITARY: President Trump has announced a plan to replace illegal alien truck drivers with veterans. “Any American who had driven a heavy truck for the military will automatically be eligible for a commercial driver’s license.”

OH CANADA: When reports emerged that many native children who were sent to residential schools died and were buried in mass graves, churches were burned in protest. They tried but failed to find any evidence of said mass graves. But never mind the utter lack of evidence … Niki Sharma, the attorney general for British Columbia, thinks Canada should make it a crime to say that native children who were sent to residential schools did not die and get buried in mass graves.

TDS: [4:39] – David Friedberg recently asked Democrat Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, “Who do you think leads the Democratic Party today?

Fetterman replied, “Our party is governed by the TDS. … [Trump] could come out for ice cream and lazy Sundays and … Democrats would hate it. We would wanna vote it down.”

TOLERANCE: Finnish politician Päivi Räsänen was ordered to pay fines in her own country for having published a pamphlet that expresses foundational Christian beliefs on human sexuality that have been taught for thousands of years. Räsänen served for over two decades as a member of parliament, including as Minister of the Interior, and is also a medical doctor.

Now the UK has banned her from so much as touching down on their LGBTQ sacred soil for a layover at Heathrow Airport.

Not The Bee makes an excellent point about the UK’s hypocrisy in embraving all things Muslim. “If you hate the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob for His thoughts about LGBT sexual behavior, just wait until you see what Allah says.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HCqpcmHh6KM [:57] to enjoy an oldie, but goodie from Sesame Street.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h_L3TXXtVUg [:14] to watch the best ring bearer entrance EVER!

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