PSA…Killer bees in the US
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/
…Folks, these things WILL chase you and kill you. NOT a joke! If you’re not sure, call a professional to come check the hive out. And yes, they can and will build a hive inside the walls of a house, including brand new houses! All they need is a way in, as long as it is ‘one’ bee wide, you can end up with 20-30000 bees in your wall!
The Curbing Of The Administrative State
https://www.zerohedge.com/
The Supreme Court delivered an opinion last week that not even the best of the punditry class was prepared to understand. The decision was Trump vs. CASA, and the topic concerned the nationwide injunction against Trump’s management of U.S. immigration policy. As with more than 40 other cases, federal district judges have intervened to stop the president from exercising executive powers. The opinion could not be plainer: “Universal injunctions likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given to federal courts.” That principle applies not only to this case but to the whole panoply of cases that have tethered the ability of the president to manage executive branch operations. The courts have presumed authority over the president that the Constitution plainly does not grant.
Chuck Schumer Makes Incredibly Petty Move, Trump Loses ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Title
https://www.westernjournal.
The Senate Democrats…have flexed their muscles at long last. They’ve shown exactly what they’re capable of doing. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has taken the title “Big Beautiful Bill” off the “Big Beautiful Bill.”,,,In what has to be described as the most petty display of political impotence since Joe Biden strode onto a debate stage last June 27, Schumer decided to remove the name “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” from the legislation… saying that the title violated a section of the so-called “Byrd Rule,” the law that governs the budget reconciliation process…the leader of the Senate Democrats is wasting our time with the thoroughly unserious move of changing the title when he could be doing literally anything else
‘It’s beyond incompetence’: Trump responds to Blaze reporter asking why Mayorkas and others have not been arrested
https://www.theblaze.com/news/
…“Well, you know, the pardons are being given out to many people that should not have been given out to them,” the president responded, “like the unselect committee of political thugs were given a pardon because they destroyed all the information from two years of hearings, and they should be arrested, not given pardons. Was he given a pardon, Mayorkas? Was he not? No?” “I don’t believe so, sir,” Rosas replied. “Well, I’d take a look at that because what he did was — it’s beyond incompetence,” the president responded.”Something had to be done. Now, with that being said, he took orders from other people, and he was really doing the orders, and you could say he was very loyal to them because it must have been very hard for him to stand up and sit up and, you know, talk about what he allowed to happen to this country and be serious about it. So he was given orders,” Trump continued.
HHS layoffs were likely unlawful and must be halted, US judge says
https://apnews.com/article/
…U.S. District Judge Melissa DuBose granted the preliminary injunction sought by a coalition of attorneys general from 19 states and the District of Columbia in a lawsuit filed in early May. DuBose said the states had shown “irreparable harm,” from the cuts and were likely to prevail in their claims that “HHS’s action was both arbitrary and capricious as well as contrary to law.” The attorneys general argued that the massive restructuring was arbitrary and outside of the scope of the agency’s authority. The lawsuit also says the action decimated essential programs and pushed burdensome costs onto states….An HHS spokesperson said the administration is reviewing the decision and considering next steps.
(there is the KEY phrase-“pushed burdensome costs onto states”-they want the FEDERAL MONEY for the programs, but don’t want to pay for them themselves – jlr)
Lawfare strikes again: Rogue judge ignores SCOTUS, shields 500,000 from Trump’s immigration crackdown
https://www.theblaze.com/news/
U.S. District Court Judge Brian Cogan in Brooklyn attempted to block the Trump administration’s termination of TPS for Haitian nationals. He claimed that Noem “cannot reconsider Haiti’s TPS designation in a way that takes effect before February 3, 2026, the expiration of the most recent previous extension.” “Plaintiffs are likely to (and, indeed, do) succeed on the merits. Secretary Noem’s partial vacatur was in excess of her authority and was thus unlawful,”…”It looks like the predatory lawfare will continue and Trump will continue to flood the zone with new policies to address the problems created by his predecessor — because it’s necessary to restore the integrity of our laws and because this is what Americans voted for,” Vaughan continued. “Regardless of the lawsuits, Trump is right to cancel TPS for Haitians. Most of those who were given TPS under Biden had already been living in other countries with residency and work permits, so they had no need for protection in the United States. They can go back to those countries. Others can go back to Haiti and contribute to the future of their country with the skills and education they have been allowed to obtain here, often with subsidies from U.S. taxpayers.”
ICE Drops Brilliant Statement on LA Mayor for Refusal to Work With Them, Then Stephen Miller Finishes Her
https://redstate.com/nick-
…even after the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles, you still have Democrats like Mayor Karen Bass refusing to work with ICE…A @FoxNews producer asked LA Mayor Karen Bass this morning if she would be willing to meet with ICE and if there is a deal to be made re: ICE cooperation. Bass said the only deal is for ICE to go home, and she gave no indication she would be willing to meet w/the agency…”ICE isn’t going anywhere and will continue to do what Mayor Bass has utterly failed to do – protect the citizens of Los Angeles. If she wants distance from federal law enforcement, I’m sure there is an upcoming diplomatic trip to Ghana.” – Emily Covington, Assistant Director, ICE Office of Public Affairs…This is what the left has helped to stoke with the anti-ICE demonization, and her statement is just another part of that by acting as though ICE is in the wrong. Republicans should collect all these statements from Democrats and play them on a loop in 2026 because this is how the Democrats are defining themselves now.
House GOP Faces Rebellion As Johnson Scrambles To Salvage Trump Tax Bill
https://www.zerohedge.com/
Speaker Mike Johnson is pressing ahead this week with a vote on the party’s massive reconciliation package — a cornerstone of President Donald J. Trump’s second-term agenda — but signs of fracture within the Republican conference threaten to derail the plan just hours before the vote…A cluster of House Freedom Caucus members are threatening to tank the bill, saying Johnson has abandoned the House’s original budget framework, one that paired $2 trillion in spending cuts with $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. The Senate-passed version, they argue, compromises too much… Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC), the only practicing physician in Congress, has demanded guarantees that the bill’s $50 billion rural hospital fund will benefit struggling institutions like those in his district. “I actually still practice and take care of patients,” Murphy said. “The district that I represent is one of the poorest in the country.”…House Democrats are unified in opposition and eager to tie the legislation to Republican vulnerabilities in the upcoming midterm elections. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told Punchbowl that the bill would haunt “every single swing-seat Republican” who votes for it. He pointed to steep Medicaid reductions and threats to rural health care access as political liabilities. “The American people do not trust the Republican Party with respect to health care,” Jeffries said. “The whole enterprise is a toxic scheme.” On Thursday, Jeffries is expected to deliver a roughly one-hour speech on the House floor, a so-called “Magic Minute,” to lay out Democrats’ objections.
So, Iran – Oh, boy. Part 2
https://thelawdogfiles.
…let’s take a look at recent(ish) history between the United States of America and the Iranian mullahs…14 FEB 1979…04 NOV 1979…18 APR 1983…23 OCT 1983…16 MAR 1984………….This list doesn’t include attacks on US citizens in Israel, or random drone strikes from Iranian proxy militias, because I don’t have the bandwidth for all of those. I have personal reasons for my hate of the mullahs, but that truncated list of the torture and murder of Americans should serve as a reminder to some: If one side thinks y’all are at war … y’all are at war. Iran, directly and through its proxies, has been at war and killing Americans for four decades. Folks might ought to keep that in mind.
New Mexico Is The Most-Dependent State On The Federal Govt, New Jersey The Least
https://www.zerohedge.com/
Every year, billions in federal tax dollars are redistributed to the 50 states and the District of Columbia through grants, contracts, and benefit programs. Visual Capitalist’s Pallavi Rao ranks the states to see who benefits the most from the flows so readers can see the fiscal winners and losers at a glance. Data for this visualization comes from MoneyGeek, which uses Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis figures. Their dependency score blends two metrics: the state’s return‐on‐taxes ratio and the share of state revenues coming from federal sources.
Trump Admin Halts Missile Shipments to Ukraine in Move to ‘Put America’s Interests First’
https://www.westernjournal.
Pentagon officials have frozen some missile and munitions shipments to Ukraine over fears of diminishing U.S. stockpiles, a move that White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly described as designed to “put America’s interests first.
RFK Jr. Unloads Disturbing Vaccine Secrets On Tucker… And Surprises Everyone On Trump
https://www.zerohedge.com/
It’s not every day an active HHS Secretary sits down for 90 minutes straight with Tucker Carlson…He revealed that the health agency buried a 1999 internal study led by researcher Thomas Verstraten, which showed an alarming 1135% increase in autism risk from the hepatitis B vaccine…RFK Jr. then explained the real reason why your pediatrician will kick you out of their practice for refusing vaccines.“There’s a published article out there now that says that 50% of revenues to most pediatricians come from vaccines.”…“None of the vaccines given to children in the first six months of life have ever been studied for autism.”…The vaccine corruption didn’t end there. Kennedy attested that the CDC killed off a vaccine injury reporting system that actually worked—because it worked too well. It showed that 1 in 37 vaccines caused an injury…Kennedy didn’t stop at old vaccine scandals. He also broke down Pfizer’s own COVID vaccine trial data. That trial showed a 23% higher death rate in the vaccinated group. Pfizer gave 21,720 people the vaccine and 21,728 the placebo. One vaccinated person died of COVID. Two placebo recipients died. They used this tiny difference to claim “100% effective” based on relative risk reduction. But in absolute terms, it took 22,000 vaccinations to save one life. Over six months, 21 vaccinated participants died of all causes, compared to 17 in the placebo group—a 23.5% higher death rate…There’s so much more in this conversation, and it might change the way you think about vaccines forever. For the full picture, watch the entire interview below.
video – 01:32:01 – https://youtu.be/w_fzlwxJZAA
YES, THEY ARE THIS STUPID
California Moves Forward With Higher Marijuana Excise Tax
https://www.zerohedge.com/
Buying legal weed and marijuana products in California will get slightly more expensive starting July 1 after state legislators failed to stop a state excise tax increase on the industry this month.Effective Tuesday, marijuana retailers will pay 19 percent of gross receipts from cannabis and cannabis product sales—a jump of 4 percentage points. The excise tax is paid in addition to state sales tax and any city or county taxes applicable to the business’s location…“California’s plans to raise the cannabis excise tax rate to 19 percent will only increase the number of failed legal cannabis businesses,” …the tax increase falls on consumers and patients at a time when many are struggling with inflation and cost-of-living challenges. The group also said it puts public health and safety at greater risk by driving even more Californians to the illegal black market.
TEXAS – Everything is bigger in Texas, including Chutzpah
Family Of Karmelo Anthony Asks For Millions In Donations After Murder Indictment
https://www.zerohedge.com/
Things are not going well for Karmelo Anthony compared to a couple months ago. Despite confessing to the stabbing that led to the death of athlete Austin Metcalf at a track event on April 2, 2025 in Frisco, Texas, Anthony was given greatly reduced bail and allowed to remain under house arrest by a progressive activist judge. Anthony’s family posted a public fundraiser on GiveSendGo which ultimately raised over $500,000 for legal expenses. Many of the donations included racially charged messages calling for Karmelo to be “protected” regardless of his crime simply because he is black and his victim was white. The stabbing has been represented as an act of self defense, but also as “payback” against white people. The call for donations was then amended to include money needed for “relocation” (a new home) after the family claimed they received threats. Karmelo was allowed by Texas courts to leave the state for an “undisclosed location” until his trial, a highly unusual accommodation. Furthermore, the Anthony’s have engaged in a press bonanza which has turned the case into a circus…Reporters have been allowed to view footage taken of the incident (footage that will not be released to the public) and there are no reports of Metcalf attacking Anthony…Anthony and his family have exhibited no signs of remorse over the death of Metcalf. In fact, they have leaned into the racial undertones of the case…The Anthony case is yet another reminder of progressive efforts to paint every minority criminal incident as a product of “racial inequality”. Taking responsibility is absolutely out of the question, even in clear cut incidents of theft, rape, violence and murder.
Karmelo Anthony And His Family BEG For More Money ($1.396,725.00) as it becomes clear that they are going broke
This is worth 15 minutes – video – 00:14:36 – https://youtu.be/oW7J3KQfvtw
Cornyn & Establishment Gun Lobby Caves by Backing Down on SHORT Act & HPA Fight
https://txgunrights.org/
In a stunning betrayal of grassroots gun owners, the establishment gun lobby is throwing its weight behind a watered-down version of the “One Big Beautiful Bill (BBB),” abandoning the fight to fully repeal the National Firearms Act (NFA) provisions that restrict suppressors and short-barreled firearms. At the tip of the spear in this betrayal? Texas’s own Senator John Cornyn…Facing an uphill reelection fight against Attorney General Ken Paxton, Senator Cornyn has suddenly discovered the Second Amendment — or at least the importance of paying lip service to it…gun owners in Texas haven’t forgotten 2022, when Cornyn was the lead Republican negotiator on Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Safer Communities Act — a law that opened the floodgates for Red Flag gun confiscation orders and expanded the NICS Gun Ban Registry…with his poll numbers in free fall, Cornyn is hoping a phony “pro-gun” win will be enough to fool voters.
IN HUMORE EST VERITAS – (I don’t always agree with all of them – jlr)
Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception (362nd Edition)
https://www.dukeofgood.com/p/
“Avoid crowds – Get Out of the Cities. – NOW. A year too soon is better than a day too late” – John Wilder @ https://wilderwealthywise.
“God created all men, but Samuel Colt made them equal.” – Unknown
“A Smith & Wesson does more for empowering women than Feminism ever could” – Greg Gutfeld 29 Jul 2017
Don’t Do: stupid sht, with stupid people, in stupid places, at stupid times. – paraphrasing John Farnam, firearms instructor
“An armed society is a polite society” – Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
“People sleep peaceably in their bed at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” – Eric Arthur Blair (AKA – George Orwell)
“If your plan is to come to my house when things get bad, you need a better plan”- like being invited, having a useful skill, bringing food, or ammunition – jlr76380
“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero” – https://www.zerohedge.com/