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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Teach us new ways to thank You! Amen.

2A: [13:58] – More than 10 million Americans who were convicted of non-violent felonies have zero right to own a fire arm. The Trump administration is moving to change that.

AUTISM: A new report from the CDC says autism rates among children in America have continued to rise at an alarming rate. They are currently at 1 in 31, significantly up from two years ago and nearly five times higher than when the CDC first started running autism surveys in children born in 1992. It’s worse in boys, who are at 1 in 20.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says that autism is a preventable disease caused by environmental factors, with possibilities including mold, air, medicines, and the increase in the average age of parents. He says nobody has really looked at these factors, but they will be launching studies soon.

BIG PHARMA: In a bid to limit industry influence, the FDA is removing pharmaceutical company representatives from advisory committees. Noting that the FDA has “a history of being influenced unduly by corporate interests,” Dr. Marty Makary, the FDA’s new commissioner, said. “Industry employees are welcome to attend FDA advisory committee meetings, along with the rest of the American public, but having industry employees serve as official members of FDA advisory committee members represents a cozy relationship that is concerning to many Americans.” No kidding! And well done!

BORDER: As of April 14, more than 1,000 international students at over 170 colleges and universities have had their student visas revoked by the State Department.

FOREIGN AID: Here’s an idea … let’s stop sending money to other countries and let them hate us for free.

WALK AWAY: [5:39] – “What really did it for me was realizing how freaking depressed I was when I was a liberal.”

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1033845568629985 to see … well, just do it. 🙂

CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/703544962351232 with a big tissue alert. ❤

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BORDER: The Tennessee Star has revealed that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the suspected M-13 gang member the Democrats want returned to the U.S., was stopped driving without a license in 2022. Despite the fact that the Tennessee Highway Patrol suspected him of trafficking the seven people inside the vehicle and that the man was on a terrorist watch list, Biden’s FBI ordered them to release him.

The one thing that is puzzling me about the Abrego Garcia case is conflicting report about his status in the country. The Alien Enemies Act requires “aliens to be duly apprehended and convened before such court, judge or justice; and after a full examination and hearing on such complaint and sufficient cause therefor appearing” etc. etc. Lots of the news reports say he was never given his day in court; the White House says he was.

GOOD DOG: Two-year old Boden Allen wandered out into the Arizona wilderness about 100 miles south of the Grand Canyon. A massive manhunt ensued with 40 rescuers, including Department of Public Safety rangers and a DPS helicopter. The teams spotted at least two mountain lions in the area. Thanks to a ranch dog named Buford, Boden was found, safe and in good health. The little boy had walked seven miles from his home and spent the night under a tree. CLICK https://x.com/LindseyRagas/status/1912686591354806620 [2:14] to hear the news report.

LAWFARE: [13:48] Activist Democrat and New York Attorney General Letitia James is in a world of trouble. CLICK https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1912569749198045646 [:57] to hear James rant about the suit against her like she’s Rosa Parks, not a flaming hypocrite.

In other news … while researching this post, I stumbled over the fact that Letitia James’ current net worth is approximately $17 Million. Her NY AG job pays $165,000; this appears to be the highest paying job she has ever held.

LIVE: Comment by Viana Santoni-Oliver- I remember being in a grocery store after the Floyd riots when I witnessed 2 Black men, being gentlemen, telling a White woman to proceed ahead of them. She said no and then said “Black lives matter.” The second Black man loudly said, “All lives matter.” She was taken aback, to say the least.

MEDIA: Mainstream media outlets devoted a staggering 62 times more coverage to Trump tariffs than to the latest job report.

In other news, President Donald Trump will not be attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 26.

MILITARY: CLICK https://x.com/DODResponse/status/1912647385173446906 [:35] to see a new military recruiting ad. I ♥️ it.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://x.com/RutaUlcinaite/status/1912317589272866950 [:57] to see more than 300 citizens of Chelsea, Michigan, help a local bookstore move 9,100 books from its old to its new location just 400 feet away. ♥️

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BORDER: Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia (photo) has been in the news a lot lately. Here is a summary of the situation – In 2011, Abrego Garcia entered the U.S. illegally, allegedly to escape gang threats in his home country of El Salvador. In 2019, an immigration judge granted him “withholding of removal” status, based on the alleged gang threat. This status allowed him to live and work legally in the United States. He married a U.S. citizen and has had children with her.

On March 15, 2025, he was deported to El Salvador under the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act as an MS-13 gang member, which is a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. He was subsequently imprisoned without trial in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), a maximum-security prison in El Salvador, despite never having been charged with or convicted of a crime in either country.

Despite the Democrat media machine ginning up massive support for this man, the Trump administration has held firmly to its claim that he is a high level leader in MS-13 who has facilitated human trafficking. In addition, his wife took out a restraining order following a beating by her husband; she now says they are working things out and she wants him back.

On April 10, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Abrego Garcia’s removal to El Salvador was illegal and ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” his return. The administration said they would meet this obligation by providing a plane and admitting him into the U.S. if El Salvador chooses to release him. But President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador says he will not “smuggle a terrorist into the United States.”

On April 16, Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen (D) went to El Salvador to see Abrego Garcia. Van Hollen, who voted against The Laken Riley Act, was told he didn’t give the prison enough notice to see the prisoner.

Also on April 16, the Trump administration released their evidence that Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13 in good standing.

HAIKU APPRECIATION DAY: Yes, there really is such a thing. And, ta da! It’s today! Glass ballerina is my favorite of the haikus I have composed. I also googled Facebook and found some haiku groups. This posting by Linda Rivas Bole caught my attention –

the wind blows so hard

it helps with pollination

we will have flowers

MILITARY: In late March, the Pentagon began investigating leaks of national security information that was only available to a handful of high level personnel. On Tuesday, Dan Caldwell and Darin Selnick were escorted out of the Pentagon by security.

UK: The British Supreme Court just ruled on a case about whether a trans-identifying man with a “gender recognition certificate” that legally recognizes him as female is protected from discrimination as a woman under the 2010 Equality Act. The court said no; the legal definition of “woman” is based on biology and does not include trans-identifying men who say they are women. In response to the ruling, the British government said it supports “single-sex spaces.”

GRAMMY NOTES: [13:30] – The Ghost Army is an art history nerd’s catnip.

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear God, Please protect this man. Keep him safe from those seeking to destroy him. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

2A: On Monday, the DOJ announced it will be repealing a “zero tolerance” policy that has allowed anti-gun zealots to put thousands of gun sellers out of business over paperwork errors.

CHINA: Trump is pausing his reciprocal tariffs (charging other nations what they charge us) for 90 days to allow 75 nations to negotiate with us. A baseline 10% tariff will stay in place. Instead of negotiating, China raised its tariffs on U.S. imports to 104%, so Trump hiked our tariffs on Chinese imports to 145%. Amazon has stopped restocking products from China.

DOD: CLICK https://x.com/DOGE/status/1910473817140371875 [3:06] to hear SecDef Hegseth list canceled, unnecessary DoD contracts saving We The Taxpayers FIVE POINT ONE BILLION with a B DOLLARS!

ECONOMY: Inflation has dropped to a 4-year low.

MAKE SHOWERS GREAT AGAIN: CLICK https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1910063390145335674 [3:21] to see Trump undo Obama’s and Biden’s water pressure rules.

MEDIA: The Trump White House press office is refusing to respond to emailed questions from reporters who display their pronouns in their email signatures, saying they deny “biological reality” and can’t be trusted to write honest stories.

RAAACISM: CLICK https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1909989932774674448 [:48] to hear über racist and The View hostess, Sonny Hoskins, say that voter ID laws are about suppressing minority voting. CLICK https://x.com/floridanow1/status/1910005097284665545 [2:43] to hear what actual Black people in Harlem have to say.

SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY: CLICK https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1909803276528501103 to hear him give his opinion of the Dem’s new leader.

TARIFFS: According to Rasmussen Reports, the percent of voters who say the country is on the right track has inched upward. It was 44% on March 18th. It had increased to 45% by April 7th.

CLICK https://x.com/jayroo69/status/1909995847732834467 [1:49] to hear “Trump” sing the Animaniac’s “Nations of the World” song!!

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE: DOGE says that, since 2020, more than $100 million in benefits have been paid out to people who are too old to be alive, too young to be eligible, or haven’t been born yet.

  1. 24,500 individuals over 115 years old claimed $59 Million in benefits.
  2. 28,000 people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254 Million in benefits.
  3. 9,700 people with birth dates over 15 years in the future had claimed $69 Million in benefits. In one case, someone with a birthday in 2154 had claimed $41,000 in benefits.

WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM: Listen to the report to hear what “educators” in deep blue Baltimore did to a student who had a question [4:52]. Meanwhile in deep red Florida, a teacher at one of the Brevard Public Schools has been fired for using a student’s preferred name without the consent of the student’s parents.

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The SAVE Act of 2025

The House just passed The SAVE Act.

Democrats have been sending out scary messages claiming this would make it impossible for married women to vote, because our birth certificates don’t match our married names. This is a Big Fat Lie!

The SAVE Act specifies a long list of acceptable forms of “documentary proof of United States citizenship” that will be acceptable for a voter to register. The number one is a driver’s license. Note: Every state has a procedure for getting a new driver’s license after a legal name change.

Only four Democrats voted in support of the bill, including Rep. Henry Cuellar (TX), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA), Jared Golden (ME), and Ed Case (HI). The photo above provides inside information into why Dems don’t want to limit us to “one living citizen, one valid vote”

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We ask today for an extra dose of courage. Whatever challenges we face, keep us strong in faith, trusting in Your power and Your love to carry us through. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

BORDER: The Supreme Court has lifted a court order blocking President Trump from deporting Venezuelans under rarely used 1798 wartime law.

DOGE: The US African Development Foundation has terminated $51 million in grants, including: $229,296 for marketing 100% organic shea butter in Burkina Faso; $84,059 for a business incubator for spa & wellness entrepreneurs in Nigeria; $239,738 for marketing pineapple juice in Benin; $246,217 for mango drying facilities in the Ivory Coast; $99,566 to increase yogurt production in Uganda; $48,406 for a WhatsApp marketing chatbot in Kenya; and $50,000 to train farmers to grow dragonfruit in Senegal.

I saw some comments about these being worthy causes. The problem is that, when you’re in debt, your extra money belongs to your creditors. It is not yours to give away, regardless of how worthy the cause. The USA is trillions of dollars in debt.

HE AIN’T WRONG: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ruhX2v31ufI and say “Amen!”

IGNORANCE: CLICK https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1908891272435408961 [2:30] to hear what “Trump is a fascist” protesters had to say.

MAHA: A new study entitled “Effectiveness of the Influenza Vaccine During the 2024-2025 Respiratory Viral Season” presents evidence that the 2024–2025 flu shot had 27% negative efficacy among healthy, working-age adults. Translation: People who got the shot were more likely to get the flu.

TARIFFS: Trump asked us to “hang tough” through a difficult-but-necessary adjustment period. He promises the outcome will be a historic economic revolution.

The European Union says they’re ready to negotiate with the United States, says they’ve offered zero for zero tariffs. “Europe is always ready for a good deal,” said European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.

VICTIMHOOD: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/3664780093668266 to hear about a study that speaks directly to the Left’s perpetual expectations.

WOMEN’S SPORTS: This year’s Ultimate Pool Women’s Pro Series Event 2 ended with a bang as the final game came down to “Harriet” Haynes and “Lucy” Smith, who are both dudes.

GRAMMY NOTES: [6:09] – Six minutes of good thoughts about “someday” clutter.

SHORTS:

CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h4Thi5Havwc to see a super cute “sports” upset.

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We ask you for the wisdom to know what You want us to say, the courage to speak when what You want said may be unpopular, and the serenity to keep our pie holes shut when now is not Your time. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.

ELECTION INTEGRITY: Thanks to years of work by Judicial Watch, more than five million ineligible voter registrations have been removed from the rolls in California, Colorado, Kentucky, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Other voter roll clean-up lawsuits by Judicial Watch continue in Illinois, Oregon, and California.

FIGHT: [9:10] – “Fight is the backstage story of bloodsport politics in its rawest form—the clawing, backstabbing, and rabble-rousing that drove Donald Trump into the White House and Democrats into the wilderness. At every turn, the combatants went for the jugular, whether they were facing down rivals in the other party or their own.”

IGNORANCE: Grandpa is rolling in his grave that his offspring think Trump is a fascist. Grandpa also knew how to spell “fascist.” But hey, kudos for the cute reference to Harry Potter.

J6 COMMITTEE: Biden gave them all a presidential pardon. If they did everything right, why did they need to be pardoned?

JOBS: During Biden’s years, the jobs reports were consistently lower than the predictions. Then, later on, they had to revise their reported numbers down even more, because they had inflated the reports. The opposite is now true. The newest March jobs report exceeded expectations by more than 50%. And they didn’t even need to fudge the numbers to do it.

SCOTUS: The Supremes have granted Trump permission to continue withholding $250 million in Department of Education grants that would fund diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.

GRAMMY NOTES: My heart breaks for this little one. My mother couldn’t get 3 seats together on a flight, so decided I (age 11) should sit alone with a stranger while she enjoyed the company of her favorite child (age 21). The stranger spilled boiling hot coffee on me and said nothing except to demand a refill from the attendant. I am 70 now and this memory still hurts. I can’t imagine how this little girl felt, riding all alone in the BAGGAGE CAR! I can only hope she had a kind attendant like the one who put cold water on my burned leg and helped me feel better.

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This week at DOGE

DOGE: The savings live tracker is a very welcome change from the anxiety-inducing Debt Clock!

MARCH 28, 2025: Over the last 3 days, agencies terminated 121 wasteful contracts saving We The Taxpayers $156 million. These included a $1.6 Million DEI contract for “strategies for implementing ‘social emotional’ learning” and a $143,000 DOT contract for “social media support services.”

MARCH 31, 2025: A 2023 IG report (title page above) pointed out that nearly $5 Billion in COVID era funds remained unused. Nobody did anything about it. DOGE recently recovered $1.4 Billion and it to the Treasury general account. The team is moving urgently to get the rest.

MARCH 31, 2025: Today, agencies canceled 109 wasteful contracts, saving We the Taxpayers $420 million. One of these was a $2.7 Million Commerce Department contract for “marketing consulting services outreach and engagement support services.”

EPA: CLICK https://x.com/epaleezeldin/status/1906776086412767560 [2:10] to hear how much money the Biden administration wasted on one extraordinarily stupid project. CLICK the Wikipedia link below to read about the man the museum lionized.

USIP: Each year, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) receives $55 Million in congressional (taxpayer) funds. According to DOGE, they would sweep millions of this money into a private endowment over which there was no congressional oversight). Trump vowed to dismantle the agency and sent DOGE in. A private accountant to whom USIP had paid $2,232,500 attempted to delete over 1 Terabyte of accounting data after DOGE entered the building. DOGE has recovered the data which allowed them to learn how much waste and fraud they wanted to hide. Among these was $13 Million spent on private events and travel.

SOCIAL SECURITY: DOGE has been cleaning out the data base. The graphic shows the people over 120 years who had been correctly marked as deceased as of March 31. Two million more to go.

APRIL 2, 2025: Today, agencies terminated 80 wasteful contracts, saving We the Taxpayers another $139.1 Million. One of these was $2.1 Million State Department management consulting contract for a “senior advisor” in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

VETERAN AFFAIRS: Until recently, the VA was paying ~$380,000/month for minor website modifications. That contract has not been renewed and the same work is now being performed by one internal VA software engineer who needs about ten hours per week to keep the website up-to-date.

APRIL 2, 2025: Today, agencies cancelled 47 wasteful contracts, saving We the Taxpayers another $30.2 million. One of these was a $3.4 million State Department management consulting contract for “aviation advisors” in Kenya.

LABOR DEPARTMENT: On April 3, Acting Secretary Sonderling announced the cancellation of wasteful DEI contracts that will save We the Taxpayers $15 million. Among these were:

  1. $6.7 Million for the California State Library to “enhance equitable library programs”;
  2. $1.5 Million for the Connecticut State Library system to “integrate social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion” into their daily work;
  3. $400,000 for the University of Tennessee to study “LGBTQ+ library users’ metadata”;
  4. $265,000 for Queens College in New York to research “why BIPOC teens” read Japanese comic books;
  5. $250, 000 to erect “LGBTQ+ historical markers” across Ohio;
  6. $140,000 for the University of South Carolina to create “safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ individuals” in libraries; and,
  7. $105,000 to California Association of Museums to address “systemic racism” in museums.

APRIL 4, 2025: The DOGE IT team just saved We the Taxpayers $1 million per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 yr old technology for information storage) to permanent, modern digital records.

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Tariffs

Trump’s tariffs are causing a temporary dip in the stock market. If tariffs are so bad, why aren’t they upset about all these nations that impose them on our products? In other news, Trump’s plan is already working as intended. Israel, India, the EU, Japan, Vietnam, and Cambodia all plan to drop tariffs if Trump agrees to do the same.

Liz Wheeler posted the following on X –

Maybe just maybe you’ve been propagandized about tariffs by the same uniparty elitists who imposed deadly open borders on you.

If your reaction to tariffs is “oh no, it’s basically a tax, stuff is gonna get more expensive” — then buckle up.

Here’s the truth about tariffs.

At the onset of “global free trade” we were told three things:

  1. Trading with China, NAFTA, & globalization would promote “democracy” around the world.
  2. Products would be cheaper.
  3. Life would be better.

Well, the first thing sure didn’t happen. The communist Chinese are as despotically authoritarian & inhumane as ever. And look at the EU crackdown on speech, or our own govt weaponized against us—sheesh.

Products did get cheaper—what at what cost?

We were promised that our qualify of life would be improved by cheap products— but did it? Nope. The opposite happened.

In fact, millions of Americans lost their jobs. To be specific, between 2000 and 2017, 5.5 million American manufacturing jobs left the country.

That means millions of Americans—mostly men—were suddenly out of work.

And what happened? What happens when the jobs are gone? When men want to provide for their families but can’t? When men lose the dignity of work?

As we soon found out, many of these men turned to drugs—drugs that are readily available in this country thanks to the “free trade” politicians who deliberately left our borders open & then turned a blind eye to the trafficking of deadly fentanyl across our border from the very countries—China, Mexico, Canada—we were supposed to benefit from trading with.

Between 1999 and 2021, more than 640,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose.

Why?

Because entire communities — places like where Vice President JD Vance is from — were hollowed out as their manufacturing jobs were shipped overseas. And then the same countries who stole our jobs sent fentanyl across our borders to kill us.

Tariffs not only stop impertinent countries from taking advantage of us—which is a big deal. Tariffs will stop the flow of fentanyl into our neighborhood—which is a moral imperative. If countries don’t stop sending drugs—they get slapped with crushing tariffs.

President Trump understands leverage and knows these tariffs will force such countries to crack down.

And let’s talk about cheap products. Is the trade—pun intended—worth it? Is a lead-poisoned purse from SHEIN for two bucks worth surrendering our supply chains to foreign nations that hate us? Do you want to rely on China for antibiotics? Do you think it’s smart to rely on Taiwan for semiconductors? Think of the empty shelves in grocery stores during Covid. Our supply chains are FRAGILE. It’s a national security threat to rely on foreign countries for things our families need. Tariffs help bring back manufacturing & reliance to our own country, our own states, our own communities.

Other countries will cave. They have to. They rely on the American economy too much to refuse Trump. And they can’t wait him out—he’s President for four years.

Trump is the perfect person to use tariffs as the means to an end—an actual better quality of life, security and prosperity for the American people that we were promised by the lying elitists that Trump is now reclaiming for you.

In summary, I love tariffs. Stop freaking out. This is gonna be awesome.

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DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, We pray that one day all people come to faith in Yeshua Messiah. Amen.

FAKE NEWS: Heads up, friends. The entire “Elite Stories” YouTube channel @ https://www.youtube.com/@EliteStoriesYT is FICTION that is presented as serious “news” type reporting of “real” events. It seems to be designed specifically to spread fake news to conservatives, maybe so we’ll mindlessly pass it around and then get called on how “stupid” we are. Or maybe it’s just click bait made by some basement-dweller while noshing on Cheetos and sucking down Red Bull.

JUDGE BOASBERG: U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg is so dirty! – Boasberg is the judge who is trying to stop Trump’s deportation efforts. CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/656603713525344 to hear two reasons why he should have recused himself from this case.

Boasberg, the chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., was appointed to the bench nearly 15 years ago by President Barack Obama. During his tenure on the FISA court, he authorized surveillance of certain members of Trump’s 2016 campaign.

After returning full-time to the federal bench, he declined to recuse himself from the sentencing of former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith, who had pleaded guilty to doctoring a 2017 email asking to extend FISA permission for the wiretapping of a member of the Trump campaign. Boasberg sentenced him to 12 months of probation and 400 hours of community service.

It will come as no surprise that he clerked for the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals before later joining the Justice Department as a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C.

JUDGE REYES: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth joined the mounting criticism of federal judges by President Donald Trump on Saturday, mocking the judge who blocked a ban on transgender troops in the U.S. military and suggesting she had exceeded her authority.

NASA: A NASA spokesman said the astronauts who were trapped at the International Space Station since June 2024 have been classified as ‘on official travel orders as federal employees’, which got them a whopping $5 per day extra in their pay packets. CLICK https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1903117558498066781 [1:27] to hear Trump promise that, if NASA won’t give appropriate compensation, he’ll pay them out of his own pocket.

PSA: Spring is here.

RIP: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1512660549707940 to hear Foreman’s testimony.

Also, prayers for Mia Love of Utah, a daughter of Haitian immigrants who became the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress. On Sunday, she lost her battle against brain cancer. She was 49.

TESLA: Musk is alleged to be the richest man on the planet. He could lose Tesla entirely and not notice it in his lifestyle.

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