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I'm a 60 something wife, mom and grandmom who is homebound/disabled by severe hypersensitivity to chemicals. I fill my days with learning, loving and art. My favorite values are truth, generosity and gratitude.

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CAMPAIGN FRAUD: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris allegedly may have violated campaign finance laws by attempting to transfer $91.5 million in Biden campaign funds to the Harris campaign, which would have constituted the single largest violation in the history of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended, according to David Warrington.

CHICOMS: A prominent Christian pastor has been freed from prison in China and is now safe inside the U.S. Pastor Ezra Jin Mingiri arrived in Los Angeles on July 4, 2026. The release happened after President Trump brought up his case when meeting with Chinese leader XI Jinping in Beijing.

EVERYDAY HEROES: [1:30] – She rowed from San Francisco to Hawaii in 44 days. That’s eight days better than the men’s record and FORTY-TWO days better than the women’s record.

FLORIDA: Andrew Gillum was Tallahassee’s mayor from 2014-2018. In 2018, he narrowly lost to Ron DeSantis in the 2018 Florida governor’s race.

In 2020, Gillum was found at a Miami Beach hotel, intoxicated and passed out alongside a male prostitute amid vomit-soaked bedding. The prostitute was sent to a hospital; Gillum, who was not charged with anything, had reportedly paid the prostitute multiple times for sex.

In 2022, a federal grand jury also indicted Gillum on charges of wire fraud related to his gubernatorial campaign against DeSantis. The charges were later dropped.

Last week, he was arrested in Daphne, Alabama on charges of possession of dangerous drugs (meth), drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana.

MAINE: Just hours before news broke that an ex-girlfriend of Graham Platner’s has accused the Democrat’s Senate candidate of having raped her in 2021, his campaign indefinitely postponed three up-coming town halls.

Last month, The New York Times published that six of his ex-girlfriends had plenty to say about Platner’s abusive behavior towards women. Three said he hates women, others recounted acts of physical abuse or intimidation. One said he twisted her arm before locking her in her room during an argument.

CLICK https://x.com/ThePatriotOasis/status/2074563324490940752 [:30] to hear how similar Platner’s response to sexual misconduct is to Eric Swalwell’s.

CLICK https://x.com/RealBrittHughes/status/2074299908429865250 [1:29] to hear Brittany Hughes explain how hypocritical the Democrat Party is.

NEVADA: Rep. Susie Lee represents Nevada’s 3d district in the U.S. House of Representatives. The banner on her X account proclaims her “The Most Bipartisan Member of Congress.” CLICK https://x.com/NevadaGlobe/status/2074119774871691416 [:14] to hear her tell donors she wants to “beat the sh*t out of “ Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Very “bipartisan-y” of her, no?

BTW, she deleted the post in the graphic above saying, “Clearly my language touched a nerve — my nerve was touched by the attacks on our Constitution and its separation of powers. I took an oath to protect and defend it.”

While her language was coarse and adolescent, the real problem with her original and follow up posts was her ignorance. The National Register Inventory records that, in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court building, “Representatives of the press are seated in the red benches along the left side of the Courtroom. The red benches on the right are reserved for guests of the Justices. The black chairs in front of those benches are for the officers of the Court, visiting dignitaries, and include a special chair for the President of the United States.” [emphasis mine]

President Trump’s choice to attend oral arguments in no way violated our Constitution or its separation of powers.

VISITORS: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vxnxjlyk20E [2:21] to see clips of Europeans experiencing the fourth of July in America for the first time.

GRAMMY NOTES: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I5kZ1RgyvCU [2:42] to hear a heart-warming story!

Becoming a parent can change you in ways you could never predict. I saved up for ages to get a gorgeous, queen-sized, all-white quilt for our bed. It was still new when our toddler came into our room in the middle of the night, crawled up between us, said, “I don’t feel good,” then projectile vomited all over that white quilt. Even though a chunk of puke had landed in my eye, my first and only thought was, “Is my baby okay?!” My second thought was, “Who are you and what happened to the squeamish neat freak who used to live in your body?!

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ART HISTORY: [9:46] – How scientists proved that the famous bust of Nefertiti is not a forgery and why the bust is now the subject of an ongoing dispute between Germany and Egypt.

EUROPEANS in USA: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/s9R2vUKzSf4 [1:04] to hear four things this British couple does “not” like about the United States. CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/k0EGpO9I2lE [1:03] to hear a Brit geeking out about how YUGE our great nation is.

EVERYDAY HEROES: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UllWwsaBFBg [2:08] to hear how Bob’s hobby saved dozens of lives.

J6: Judicial Watch has forced the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department to finally release over 1,000 hours of body-cam footage, which anyone can now view at the link below.

TALENTS: [30:44] – Well worth your time and attention.

GRAMMY NOTES: I went to work one day wearing my Sunday best and a co-worker (not even a woman!) said, “Wow, you look nice! … Must be laundry day.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MDSY1PkvunU [1:03] to see how Baby Donald and Baby Melania’s Secret Vacation starts out.

Theoretically, “travelers can walk right through eGates in mere seconds.” CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Bzgp1piAf94 [1:57] to hear how Michael McIntyre got trapped in one.

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AMERICA 250: [38:03] – On Saturday, President Donald Trump delivered remarks in Washington, D.C., celebrating America’s 250th anniversary during the “Salute to America” event on the National Mall. His address was followed by a series of live performances and a record-breaking fireworks show.

DEMOCRATS: [14:28] – The Marxist mayor of New York City tried to cancel New York’s 250th anniversary of our nation. Other progressive mayors flew foreign flags on their city hall flag poles!

OH SAY, CAN YOU SEE: During his 4th of July speech, President Trump told the story of William Carney saving the flag during battle. It reminded me of what another African-American – First Lady Michelle Obama – said about our flag. When I googled to find the clip, I saw a bunch of articles claiming to debunk the claim that she said, “All this for a damn flag.” Funny thing is that they don’t offer any more plausible alternative interpretation. Personally, I don’t think we need a lip reading specialist to tell us what she said.

TRUMP: Mary Anne MacLeod was born in 1912 in a remote, impoverished village on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. At 18, she sought to escape the bleak economic hardships of post-WWI Europe by sailing to America. Arriving in New York City with nothing but a single suitcase and $50, she found work as a domestic maid and nanny for a wealthy family on Long Island. In the mid-1930s, she met a young, ambitious local real estate developer named Fred at a dance party. The two fell deeply in love, married in 1936, and became the parents of the 45th and 47th president of the United States.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ow89inq5whE [1:01] to watch baseball fans reject wokeness.

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CATHOLIC: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/27611728731791480 [2:00] explain what he totally misunderstood about the rosary.

CLIMATE HOAX: Nobody has even attempted to dispute Dr. Patrick Moore’s finding that our use of carbon fuels SAVED us from carbon extinction.

EVERYDAY HEROES: During the late 1960s, Black Americans were frequently barred from using public pools. In 1969, the great Fred Rogers quietly challenged this social barrier by inviting François Clemmons, the neighborhood police officer, to join him in cooling their feet together in a small wading pool.

IRAN: Peace deal? What peace deal? – On Thursday, Iran’s military command warned that oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz must use Tehran’s approved routes or be met with a “powerful response.”

JOBS: Employers added 57,000 new jobs last month while the unemployment rate dropped to 4.2 percent.

MINNESOTA: My woke governor is bad, but not Tim Walz bad. A Laotian citizen named Tou Lue Vang was convicted back in 2006 of first-degree criminal sexual conduct after repeatedly violating a 10-year-old girl. He justified his actions as “a cultural thing.” He lost his legal status, got a final order of removal, and was set to be deported until Tampon Tim and the Minnesota Clemency Review Commission decided to pardon him. It is not yet clear whether Vang will remain in the United States or if federal officials will pursue further action.

NEVADA: CLICK https://x.com/AmericanCrime01/status/2072347326434140465 [1:32] for a news report about “Allison” Howlett, a man pretending to be a woman, who was arrested before carrying out a planned mass casualty attack. Police recovered 22 firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in Howlett’s car, then found 30 more firearms, along with suppressors and thousands of rounds of ammunition, at his home. Among the weaponry were an under barrel grenade launcher and a .50-caliber M2 Browning machine gun. The latter, aka, Ma Deuce, is a military weapon known for its effectiveness against infantry, light armored vehicles, and aircraft.

NORTH CAROLINA: [1:56] – Weapons found in Milliken’s truck included a CO2-powered launcher designed to resemble a handgun, two flamethrowers, two crossbows, more than 500 rounds of ammunition, rolls of black duct tape, three knives, and Oxycodone pills.

SPIRITUAL WARFARE: “If you advocate for the murder of unborn babies, you have no moral standing to judge slaveowners. You, too, believe some people are not valuable enough to be treated humanely.” ~Allie Beth Stuckey

USPS and ABSENTEE BALLOTS: In March, Trump signed an executive order directing the USPS to develop new standards for handling federal ballot mail as part of a broader thrust to bolster election integrity. On July 1, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled the USPS may not move forward with the proposed rule.

VATICAN: On July 2, the Vatican officially declared that the six bishops of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) who carried out illicit episcopal ordinations have incurred excommunication and that SSPX clergy and lay faithful who formally adhere to the SSPX are in schism.

Under canon 1364 §1, schism incurs automatic excommunication. For lay faithful, this applies only to those who “formally adhere” to the SSPX; per a 1996 test with two elements: an internal one, freely choosing loyalty to the Lefebvrist movement over obedience to the Pope, and an external one, shown by exclusively attending SSPX liturgies rather than those of the Catholic Church. Occasional attendance alone does not meet this standard. All SSPX clergy are considered to satisfy both elements automatically through their ministry within the movement.

SSPX was founded in 1970 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who rejected Vatican II. The Vatican has been trying to bring the members of the SSPX movement back into full communion with the Catholic Church since Pope Paul VI.

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Happy Semiquincentennial Independence Day!

GRAMMY NOTES: Well, this is fun! The connection is via my father’s maternal grandparents, who emigrated from England. Our paternal grandparents all came from Ireland, while my father’s maternal grandparents came from Alsace.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YvgP5aff9cc to learn how to grill with LEGO.

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Baby Trump’s Neighborhood

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ihBL1xTmyQw [1:21] to see who moves in next door to Baby Mar-a-Lago.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zk1_LH_bI3E [:54] to see who moves in on the other side.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/27P4znvoHEA [1:14] to see who moves in across the street and who became president of the HOA.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mq8y64i-gew [1:13] to see who put up a military tent on an empty lot.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SlNExXCOHNY [1:57] to see who put a ten foot gold statue of himself on the lawn.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mTvjY9jSNrI [1:09] to see who is responsible for the third emergency HOA meeting.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JGhHZXyl2TE [1:23] to see who bought a corner lot.

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DEMOCRATS: Unless a Democrat lost. THEN there totally was fraud. Just ask Hillary, Stacy, and Kamala.

FLORIDA: The Florida Board of Education has voted to require all students admitted to any of the state’s 28 public colleges and adult GED programs be citizens of the United States or lawfully present in the U.S.

PSA: [16:55] – The first bit is how to identify if a caller is an AI scam bot. If you’ve got the patience, the rest is how to waste the scammer bot’s owner’s time and money.

VIRGINIA: Judge Robert Payne of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has ruled a Virginia law prohibiting federal immigration agents from wearing masks is unconstitutional.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y2hQWhuFUQc [:55] to see William and Kate’s youngest.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-0nRPJC7mX4 [:17] to see Baby News Network do Canada.

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AMERICAN HISTORY: On July 2, 1982, “Lawnchair Larry” Walters, a truck driver from the Los Angeles area attached more than 40 helium-filled weather balloons to an ordinary aluminum lawn chair, donned a parachute, strapped himself and his supplies (e.g., a pellet gun, a CB radio, sandwiches, beer) to the chair, and cut the tethers.

But, rather than the gentle, low-altitude float he expected, the chair shot up rapidly to about 16,000 feet (around 3 miles). He drifted into controlled airspace near Long Beach and LAX, where airline pilots spotted and reported him.

After about 45 minutes aloft, he shot out some balloons to descend, got tangled in power lines during landing – briefly knocking out power in a Long Beach area – and was rescued, unharmed, and immediately arrested.

The event got massive media attention, inspired copycats (and even the sport of cluster ballooning), movies, songs, and more. His lawn chair is preserved in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum collection.

ANTI-SEMITISM in CALIFORNICATION: An Arab Muslim migrant and former community college professor picked a fight with a 69-year-old pro-Israel protester. Not satisfied with yelling at the guy, Loay Alnaji smacked Paul Kessler on the head with his megaphone. Kessler fell backward on the concrete, busted his head open, and died due to the resulting brain bleed.

Last May, Alnaji pleaded guilty to felony involuntary manslaughter and felony battery causing serious bodily injury.

At Alnaji’s sentencing hearing this week, Kessler’s widow said, “There are no words to describe the pain of losing a husband in such a sudden and violent way. The grief is relentless. The silence in our house, the absence of his voice, his companionship, his love and the future we had planned together are losses I carry with me every day.”

Judge Derek Malan sentenced Alnaji to one year in county jail and two years of probation.

DEMOCRATS: CLICK https://x.com/nathanbrand/status/2070872061593919791 [:47] to hear Ben Flores, the Democrat nominee for Texas’ Land Commissioner, speak on behalf of James Talarico, the party’s nominee for U.S. Senate.

Not the Bee wrote, “The party that once claimed to stand for women, farmers, working people, and the labor unions has become the party of trans, tofu-eating vegans who are going to hell!

KARMA: After strangling his girlfriend to death, an Alabama man suffered a fatal heart attack while dragging her body into the woods. His ex-wife said he had a pre-existing heart condition.

LIBERALISM: It’s also when you despise men, because of “male privilege” and “the patriarchy,” then demand that biological males be allowed to compete in women’s sporting events.

OBAMA: It’s interesting to note how carefully the news items are worded to direct blame away from Obama.

E.g., “Several subcontractors involved in the construction of the Obama Presidential Center have filed for bankruptcy, citing unpaid invoices and financial strain due to cost overruns and delays on the project. The disputes primarily involve the contractors managing the project rather than the Obama Foundation directly.”

E.g., “Contractors working on the Obama Presidential Center say they are still owed millions for work performed, and several have pursued legal claims or are seeking counsel; the Obama Foundation and the general contractor characterize remaining issues as contractual closeout disputes rather than outright refusal to pay. Reporting does not show former President Barack Obama personally withholding payments; the financial obligations and contests center on the foundation, the general contractor Lakeside Alliance and subcontractors, with some disputes already in court.”

These same news sources make a big hairy deal about how Trump was convicted of multiple felonies, ignoring the fact that the charges in question related to a bank loan he repaid on time and in full.

SOUTH DAKOTA: Early Monday morning, 130 mph winds left a trail of devastation at the Highmore Wind Farm.

GRAMMY NOTES: When our then-teen made Chicken Parmesan for dinner, it tasted good, but different. She said, “I forgot the recipe when I went to the store and couldn’t remember what kind of cheese to get, so I got cheddar.” BTW, Chicken Cheddar is delicious.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0zH7xNYfbis [2:16] to hear about Patriotic Kenny.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OkAa-MYrHmw [1:56] to watch delivery drivers who lurve their jobs.

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AI: Some companies are reversing course on AI and bringing humans back to work. They cite rising computing costs, operational headaches, and inconsistent results. (Did you catch the oops in the AI-generated image above?)

BIRTHRIGHT: The Supremes voted 6-3 that President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship is unconstitutional. The PJ Media link below goes to an essay examining how this decision will help the GOP in the midterms. Also, the Constitution can be changed. It isn’t easy, but as I understand it, this is an 80-20 issue, so it should be doable.

BORDER: For 13 consecutive months, zero illegal aliens have been released into the United States. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin said deportation numbers are up so much this year that by the end of summer, they will surpass the total for 2025. DHS is focusing on those who have criminal records or final orders of deportation from judges. Where these people are found to be living with other illegals, those get arrested and deported as well.

HOUSING: The millions of illegals that flooded across Biden’s open border caused rents to increase by 20%. To add insult to injury, because taxpayer-backed mortgage programs granted mortgages to illegals, they drove house prices up by 30%. Rep. Brandon Gill has introduced a bill called the “Homeownership Eligibility Reform Act” that would limit taxpayer-backed mortgages to U.S. citizens.

MAGA: Sugar is an addictive, mood-altering chemical that floods the brain with feel-good dopamine. Consuming too much sugar is linked to a scary long list of serious health problems like tooth decay, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, cancer, stroke, chronic inflammation, heart disease, high blood pressure, and fatty liver disease.

The American Heart Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend the following limits on sugar:

  • Children under 24 months = zero.
  • Children over 2 years = no more than 6 teaspoons (25 grams) per day.
  • Adult women = no more than 6 teaspoons (25 grams) per day.
  • Adult men = no more than 9 teaspoons (36 grams) per day.

Currently, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka, SNAP, food stamps) can be used to buy junk food that is high in sugar. In fact, the number one item purchased with food stamp dollars is sugary beverages, which account for 9.3% – roughly $6 billion a yearof all SNAP benefits.

Last week, Democrats invited Gina Plata-Nino, SNAP director of Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) to testify before the DOGE Committee about SNAP.

CLICK https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/2070172568363970674 [:53] to hear her tell Rep. Brandon Gill that some people need sugary sodas and she said, “Some do.”

CLICK https://x.com/realBrandonGill/status/2070173293353582821 [2:55] to hear her refuse to admit that she’s a shill for manufacturers of sugary drinks.

FRAC bills itself as “the leading national anti-hunger advocacy organization.” Coke, Pepsi, and the American Beverage Association not only donate to FRAC, but are honored guests at FRAC’s annual dinner.

RACISM in AMERICA: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a9MK7RiIcxs [2:35] for a quick history lesson.

WE THE TAXPAYERS: The House has passed the Stopping Fraudulent Payments Act by a vote of 218-200. All of the 200 nays were Democrats. The bill now heads to the Senate, where Republicans and President Trump are poised to advance it further.

WOMEN’S SPORTS: The Supreme Court upheld West Virginia and Idaho laws limiting girls’ and women’s school sports teams to biological females, holding that Title IX permits sex-separated teams based on biological sex and that the laws do not violate the Equal Protection Clause.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f8ZvyyNG-xk [:53] to see how the Amish make wood roofing shingles.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AN6rf9zvdoU [:40] to see how a bartender turned his waste bottle caps into beautiful art.

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BORDER: Democrats are angry because SCOTUS is allowing Trump to end a “temporary” status that Obama granted sixteen years ago. CLICK https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/2071583573681791391 [1:01] to hear Obama’s DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano announce that the Haitian TPS will end in July of 2011.

SCOTUS: The Supremes ruled 6-3 that President Donald Trump acted within his authority when he fired a member of the Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter last year.

However, they also blocked Trump’s attempt to remove Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook, upholding the decision by a federal judge who reinstated Cook last year because Trump hadn’t given her a notice and hearing before removing her.

The Supremes have declined to hear Trump’s appeal of the finding that he sexually abused the writer, E. Jean Carroll. The justices did not offer any explanation for the rejection of the appeal.

REFLECTING POOL: On Saturday, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum vowed to prosecute the vandals who cut a 350-foot long gash into the newly resurfaced Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool bottom and defaced the area with a slew of anti-Trump graffiti.

VENEZUELA: American first responders and U.S. Marines (photo above) are helping search for survivors in earthquake-damaged structures.

On the 27th, the Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue team freed a 9-month-old infant and her mother. CLICK https://x.com/StateDept/status/2070998469553053742 [:27] to see them bring the baby out.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://x.com/LangmanVince/status/2071276834931523996 [:15] to watch a toddler learning to identify animals.

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JjnagMZT-kw [2:09] to hear why California is broke and Texas is not.

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