Using AI

Discover how AI is revolutionizing content creation in our latest article. By leveraging Grok, a powerful AI tool, the tedious task of formatting articles—such as removing hard line breaks and adjusting fonts—becomes effortless. With just a click, Grok can transform raw text into polished HTML, generate unique excerpts, and even craft social media posts. From clean, ready-to-run code to seamless API integration, explore how AI can save time and enhance readability. Dive into this astonishing journey of automation and see how it could transform your workflow!

The world is changing. It might be getting better.

I started speaking with Grok Thursday night. I was treating it as a search engine. What I wanted was a method to format the daily dump.

There is a lot of good content, but I wanted a method to make it look nicer without having to spend an excessive amount of time working it over. When I am quoting legal opinions, the longest part is manually formatting the quote.

Manually quoting means removing hard line breaks, removing hyphens, and adding the proper font style back. It just takes time.

What I want is to be able to click a button and have WordPress make a call to the Grok API to apply formatting to the article. Hopefully making it easier to read.

Grok 3 was able to give me good feedback on how to accomplish what I needed. The code was clean, commented, and ready to run.

I do read this stuff.

This led me to setting up an API account to use Grok 4 directly. I asked Grok-3 to provide me with code to do so.

Over the course of an hour or so, we were able to create a Python program that will fetch an article from the site. Reformat the article for proper HTML. Provide an excerpt that is different from the first part of the article. Create a post for X, and make that post.

This is pretty astonishing, in my opinion.

Now comes the testing.

One of the big things I worry about if the SHTF is hygiene. When you have less access to good quality running water, keeping clean becomes not just a personal choice, but an absolute necessity. Soap and water are your greatest armor against disease and septic injuries. But if you can’t run down to the corner store for soap, what do you do?

Of course you could just stock a 20 year pile of soap. It’s not that expensive. It does, however, take up space. The better choice is to store enough for a year, which gives you enough time to get settled and create the parts you need to make your own soap with nothing but stuff you’d nominally throw away anyhow.

Soap History

There’s a story about how soap was “discovered” in ancient Rome. It goes like this… Along a particular stream in Rome, women used to wash their clothes. The clothing was beaten against rocks, then rubbed with sand. They’d then submerge the clothing and let it sit in the running water, smaller stones holding it in place, until they figured they were clean. Then the clothes would be pulled out, wrung out, and hung to dry back at their homes. In one particular place along that stream, the clothing was MUCH more clean.

Apparently, upstream from the women, there was a place where they rendered fat. Some of the animal fat dripped into the water. It was enough that it created a sheen on top of the water. A little closer to the ladies was a spot where people would dump their ashes from their wood fires. That gave them the basic recipe for soap: water, fat, and lye (derived from wood ash) equals basic soap. The reason the women in that one spot had cleaner clothes is that they were using a rudimentary form of soap in the water to do their washing.

All that’s a story, of course. But it’s indeed plausible. It’s the sort of thing that happens. Making usable soap for your home is not quite so easy, of course, but it’s still possible. The first part of the process is to create the lye that is the base of your soap.

PLEASE NOTE THAT LYE IS CAUSTIC. IT CAN AND WILL BURN YOU IF YOU DON’T PAY FULL ATTENTION. ALWAYS WEAR PROTECTIVE GEAR WHEN MAKING OR USING LYE, OR ANY OTHER CAUSTIC AGENT!

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SCOTUS

Trump keeps winning at the Supreme Court. There was an 8-1 opinion in his favor this week. With only the DEI Hire dissenting.

Violence In the Streets

There were two events where armed terrorists decided to shoot at federal agents.

Compared to the Dallas, TX, shooter a few years ago, this is barely making a ripple in the news.

Stay strapped. Keep your head on a swivel. Stay out of stupid places at stupid times with stupid people.

Evil

The flash floods in Texas and New Mexico have claimed multiple lives. Parents will never see their children alive again.

There are far too many people in the socials going, “Good, they deserved it.”

These people are evil. They sicken me.

TDS, Lies

People have been blaming Trump for the tragedy in Texas. I’ve heard that it was Trump’s fault because the fully manned weather service was not properly staffed. That he defunded the early warning system. That he hasn’t gone to Texas, like Biden went to NC.

Except that Trump was in NC before Biden. Trump has been in contact with the Texas state government. He has offered all help possible, and the federal government had responded, was rescuing people within hours of Trump learning of the tragedy.

These people are nearly evil. If they had the brains of an amoeba, they would be evil.

Safe Travels

My wife has returned from her vacation. Happy dances throughout the house.

Sharpen That Tool

Wednesday, I was cutting a mortise. Because of the style, I cut two partial cross cuts, then knocked out the waste. This created a mortise that was intentionally to small.

The mortise is then trimmed to size with a chisel. While this started fine, it really wasn’t working as I expected.

Thursday, I needed to finish trimming those mortises. Before I did that, I ran the same chisel through the sharpening pattern.

When I went to cut that end grain, the chisel shaved a piece so thin I could see through it.

I need to spend more time keeping my tools sharp.

Shortly, I will need to plane the top of the frame flat. This will require me to use the jack plane or joiner plane. Before I do so, I’m going to spend still more time making sure those plane irons are razor sharp.

Woodworking Tools

The tools you need to make tools. My workbench frame is nearly completed. I am currently adding bracing. But I can clamp boards to the top of this frame to do work.

Planing a short piece of lumber flat two days ago took about an hour and was a chore the entire tim.

I clamped a board to the top of the frame with a plane stop in it. With this in place, it took just a few minutes to smooth and flatten a brace. This workbench is a good height for me, and it is a joy to work on.

Question of the Week

When you look in your holster drawer, what brand of holster do you see that you should not have purchased?

What holster brand have you found to be good for you, and why?

Here We Go: Federal Judge Creates Nationwide Class to Block Trump’s Birthright Citizenship EO

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/07/10/here-we-go-federal-judge-creates-nationwide-class-to-block-trumps-birthright-citizenship-eo-n3804659

…Ruling from the bench, District Court Judge Laplante granted a request from immigration rights attorneys to certify a nationwide class that “will be comprised only of those deprived of citizenship” and issued a preliminary injunction indefinitely blocking Trump’s Day One order from being enforced against born and unborn babies who would be impacted by the policy. “The preliminary injunction is just not a close call to the court,” Laplante said during a hearing. “The deprivation of US citizenship and an abrupt change of policy that was longstanding … that’s irreparable harm.”…The Supreme Court will have to end up adjudicating this, and it’s entirely possible that the same six justices will see this as a dodge around CASA. However, it does appear that the court wanted to provide a workaround to CASA for extraordinary cases with large-scale application in Barrett’s ruling, which prompted Alito’s prophetic warning. Don’t be too surprised if the court takes a pass on this appeal and forces the courts to deal with the underlying issue of birthright citizenship definition before taking this up again.

(I predict that at some point the left will file a lawsuit saying that Trump et al. are wasting taxpayer dollars defending the numerous lawsuits initiated by the left, and Trump et al. should “cease and desist” from wasting taxpayer money defending said suits- just more sand in the gears – jlr)

 

Judge issues new nationwide block on Trump’s birthright citizenship order

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/07/10/judge-issues-new-nationwide-block-on-trumps-birthright-citizenship-order-1566944/

District Court Judge Joseph Laplante, a George W. Bush appointee in New Hampshire, sided with immigrant advocacy groups who asked to certify a nationwide class of babies whose citizenship status would be impacted by the order, according to Reuters. His ruling is the first since the Supreme Court’s decision on June 27 reining in lower courts’ ability to issue nationwide injunctions, which left room for plaintiffs to still file class action lawsuits to block the executive order.

 

Fed judge rules Chicago alderman is unfit to face trial for bribery, corruption charges

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/07/10/fed-judge-rules-chicago-alderman-is-unfit-to-face-trial-for-bribery-corruption-charges-1566999/

Former alderman Carrie Austin, 76, was indicted in July 2021 by a grand jury “for allegedly conspiring to receive home improvements from construction contractors seeking city assistance for a development project” in her Far South Side ward…Austin’s court date was (conveniently) set years later for November 2025, but she allegedly suffers from several major heart and lung complications and cancer, according to her attorneys, who argued she isn’t physically able to withstand a trial. In response, Federal District Court Judge John Kness agreed and ruled that a trial would have an “unfit effect” on the defendant’s health.

 

Trump Administration Banning Communist China From Owning Farm Land, Halt Dangerous Research

Trump Administration Banning Communist China From Owning Farm Land, Halt Dangerous Research

Chinese Communist China owns 349,442 acres of farmland in the USA, up 82% over three years, and most of it is near our military installations… The Trump administration is launching an aggressive, multi-agency effort to protect America’s farmlands, food supply, and critical research from influence and control by US adversaries — including banning the purchase of farmland by Chinese nationals…“American agriculture is not just about feeding our families, but about protecting our nation and standing up to foreign adversaries who are buying our farmland, stealing our research, and creating dangerous vulnerabilities in the very systems that sustain us,” Rollins told reporters at USDA headquarters…At least 700 foreign nationals in “countries of concern” like China will be swiftly kicked off of contracts and research agreements with the USDA — and further regulatory actions will remove more than 550 concerning foreign entities.

 

USAID Secretly Shipped 11,000 Virus Samples to Wuhan Institute of Virology

USAID Secretly Shipped 11,000 Virus Samples to Wuhan Institute of Virology

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) shipped thousands of viral samples to a lab in Wuhan over the course of a 10-year program even though it had no formal agreement with the lab in place, according to previously unreported documents. The documents show that USAID funded the exportation of 11,000 samples from Yunnan Province, where some of the closest relatives of the COVID-19 virus circulate, to Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic, with no apparent plan for ensuring the samples were not misdirected to bioweapons and remained accessible to the U.S. government…One of the closest known relatives of the COVID virus is among the viruses sampled with USAID funding.

 

Deep State Steps Out of the Shadows, Using Their Regime Change Skills to Destroy Trump Presidency,“ CIA’s Simple Sabotage”

Deep State Steps Out of the Shadows, Using Their Regime Change Skills to Destroy Trump Presidency,“ CIA’s Simple Sabotage”

Former USAID and State Department officials worried about” the future of democracy” in America say they’re actively organizing to resist Trump, inside and outside of government…The former officials tell NOTUS they’re holding workshops on a tactic called “noncooperation.” They’re building a network of government workers willing to engage in even minor acts of rebellion in the office. And they’re planting the seeds of what they hope could become a nationwide general strike.

 

‘Shameful,’ says Self-Hating Jew Senator Bernie Sanders over Israeli Prime Minister’s Arrival in Washington

‘Shameful,’ says Self-Hating Jew Senator Bernie Sanders over Israeli Prime Minister’s Arrival in Washington

Bernie Sanders, the enthusiastic kapo, is not unknown to the Jewish people. He and his ilk are a plague on our people…Bernie Sanders is a virulent self-hating Jew, and one of the worst human beings ever elected to the United States Senate…Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), an outspoken critic of Israel and the war with Hamas in Gaza that came as a response to the terrorist atrocities against civilians in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023…

 

Right Angle News Network

https://x.com/Rightanglenews/status/1942399659403788663

12 Democrats have been charged with attempted murder after ambushing ICE in Alvarado, Texas. Armed with AR-style rifles, they waited to open fire. Authorities recovered a “Resist Fascism” flag and flyers urging “class war.”…The title’s misleading—calling them “Democrats” implies politicians or party bigwigs, but they’re not. From official reports, these are 11 North Texas locals (mostly young activists) charged in a July 4 ambush on an ICE facility, using fireworks to lure officers before shooting.

video – 00:01:20 – https://x.com/i/status/1942399659403788663

 

Black Customers Outraged By New Carnival Cruise Line Rules Limiting Ghetto Behavior

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/black-customers-outraged-new-carnival-cruise-line-rules-limiting-ghetto-behavior

Carnival introduced new passenger rules in June, and some critics and activists assert that these restrictions specifically target black customers in an effort to ward them off. New rules include:Zero tolerance on smoking marijuana onboard ships. – Minors cannot be in public areas without a parent after 1am. – Personal folding fans and the “Boots On The Ground” line dance are banned due to noise. – Bluetooth speakers in public areas are banned due to loud music disrupting other passengers. – Disruptive guests can be removed without a refund and possibly fined. – Numerous customers claim that Carnival DJs will no longer play rap music, though Carnival denies this. Critics argue that the new rules are designed to make black passengers feel less welcome. Others argue that the new rules are not racially motivated and are simply designed to make assholes feel less welcome. Common complaints about Carnival cruises include loud and obnoxious mob behavior, fighting and a lack of cleanliness. As a side note, in 2024, the CDC released a report on the most unsanitary cruise ships and Carnival ships held three of the top ten spots on the list. The people who complain about such broad, common sense rules are essentially self reporting as the very people that no one wants around. Being trapped on a boat and surrounded by a massive ocean requires behavioral limitations on everyone, but for some reason, only a certain group of customers is complaining about being forced to behave for the sake of others. American society is growing tired of the antics of this demographic. It’s no longer cute or a matter of “cultural differences”. Expectations are finally being enforced, and free passes on bad behavior are being canceled.

 

YALE STUDY REVEALS SHOCKING TRUTH: SPIKE PROTEIN LINGERS – AND GROWS

https://www.zerohedge.com/sponsored-post/yale-study-reveals-shocking-truth-spike-protein-lingers-and-grows

In a stunning political and medical upheaval, 12 U.S. states have ignited a firestorm by pushing legislation to ban COVID-19 vaccines, declaring them unsafe, ineffective, and a symbol of misplaced trust. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently triggered a major policy shift by removing the vaccines from CDC recommendations for children and pregnant women, citing new findings. For years, critical questions have been silenced. The promise that COVID-19 vaccines were “safe and effective” is now being called into serious doubt — and the consequences may be far worse than anyone imagined.

 

Florida Rep responds to Dem’s demand for apology over Ilhan Omar slam: ‘Boo hoo’

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/07/10/florida-rep-responds-to-dems-demand-for-apology-over-ilhan-omar-slam-boo-hoo-1567007/

The Florida Representative was responding to the Minnesota Democrat calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “war criminal.”…“I’m sure it is difficult to see us welcome the killer of so many of your fellow Muslim terrorists,” he wrote. “The only shame is that you serve in Congress…Top Democrats are demanding an apology from Florida Congressman Rep. Randy Fine for suggesting Ilhan Omar is a terrorist…The joint statment did little to sway Fine, who responded on X: “The Hamas Caucus is upset. Boo hoo

 

WTF? – Profiting from a Childhood Disability

Barbie Introduces 1st Doll With Type 1 Diabetes. Here’s Why Fans Are Getting Emotional

https://www.today.com/health/type-1-diabetes-barbie-doll-rcna217696

“The doll represents the incredible people living with T1D, and shows kids that a life with this condition is just as vibrant,” Mattel said…The toy, which was made in partnership with Breakthrough T1D, features a young woman with an insulin pump, continuous glucose monitor (CGM), heart-shaped medical tape and a phone that displays a CGM app to help her track her blood sugar levels throughout the day…“Introducing a Barbie doll with Type 1 diabetes marks an important step in our commitment to inclusivity and representation.” https://www.instagram.com/p/DL3AQSJvJOS/

(Does it say anywhere that they are putting even a small percentage of the profits from this doll into research into type 1 diabetes? – no? – I didn’t think so – it’s all virtue signaling and pursuit of BIGGER profits – how many young girls with type 1 diabetes are going to want this doll for their birthday or Christmas because “She’s just like me” – jlr)

 

YES, THEY ARE THIS STUPID / DUPLICITOUS / INSANE

Los Angeles Mayor Bass sues the Trump administration to protect illegal aliens from mass deportations

https://www.theblaze.com/news/karen-bass-sues-trump-deportations

Democrat L.A. Mayor Karen Bass said the city was filing a lawsuit seeking an injunction to stop the federal operations on the basis that they are “unconstitutional” and “unlawful.” The action involves several other cities as well…”Our city attorney is leading the way; we’re filing a lawsuit. We’re calling for an injunction for this to stop,” she added. “We need to remember who we are as a country; I’m very clear as to who we are as a city. And I’m clear about my job, which is to make sure this city is safe for all Angelinos, regardless of when you came here, what country you came from, or why.”

 

They Thought This Woman Could Do This? The 2024 Kamala Memos Are Damning and Hilarious

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/07/10/these-kamala-2024-memos-are-rather-damning-n2660040

If you read the four memos drafted by the Kamala Harris campaign, it can be summed up in two words: ‘you’re sucking.’ I don’t care that Harris had a bifurcated timeline. The Democratic base was animated against Donald Trump, they were going to vote Democratic not matter who was on the ticket, and any vice president worth a damn could’ve made that work. Thank God it didn’t, with the Democratic Party forcing Biden to take an unqualified, unaccomplished, and overall awkward liberal US Senator from California, whose 2020 campaign was so atrocious she didn’t even make it to the Iowa Caucuses.

 

Hakeem Jeffries Ditches Gym, Flexes Photoshop Instead

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hakeem-jeffries-ditches-gym-flexes-photoshop-instead

Did House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Photoshop his waist to appear slimmer? Social media critics think so. Jeffries, D-N.Y., became the target of viral mockery on Monday after critics pointed out what they viewed as botched photo editing on the top Democrat’s Instagram page. The photo, shared Sunday, shows Jeffries standing behind a park bench in Brooklyn. However, the straight lines of the bench’s wood near his waist appear noticeably warped. Critics said this means the image was digitally altered to trim his midsection.

 

Obama Wants The Power To Define ‘Facts’

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/obama-wants-power-define-facts

The Connecticut Forum hosted Barack Obama a few weeks ago to discuss current events, and the former president took the opportunity to support government regulatory constraints for online speech. “We want diversity of opinion. We don’t want diversity of facts,” Obama opined in his nonchalant way of attacking the First Amendment while pretending to support it. “There is a difference between these platforms letting all voices be heard,” he continued, “versus a business model that elevates the most hateful voices, or the most polarizing voices, or the most dangerous in the sense of inciting violence.” Obama has always been a tyrant wearing a smiling celebrity’s mask.

 

Jasmine Crockett somehow makes the Texas flood tragedy all about herself

https://www.theblaze.com/news/jasmine-crockett-somehow-makes-the-texas-flood-tragedy-all-about-herself

…In the midst of the Texas floods that have claimed the lives of at least 120 loved ones, the Democratic rising star posted a video pointing the finger at President Donald Trump and talking about how the tragedy will most affect her. Notably, Crockett’s district is roughly 300 miles away from where the floods raged through Kerr County…Crockett starts the video by saying her “heart is truly heavy for all these families,” before immediately making it about herself and how Trump is working around the clock to “hurt us.” “The sad part is I think that my heart is going to carry a level of weight that will continue to weigh me down as we have to continue to do our best to survive an administration that literally is against us,” Crockett said in a post on Instagram. “An administration that is doing everything, in my mind, to hurt us and not help us, and it feels like we’re fending for ourselves.”In the same post about the Texas flooding, Crockett made sure to give a shoutout to her hairstylist. “My staff said y’all are commenting about my BOB!” Crockett wrote in the post. She thanked her stylist for “orchestrating the look.”

video – 00:00:38 – https://twitter.com/i/status/1942973518301241786

 

You cannot appease psychotics

https://surak.substack.com/p/you-cannot-appease-psychotics

I was a child when President Nixon signed the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act…I was a young man when President Reagan signed immigration reform legislation in 1986 that resulted in mass amnesty for illegal aliens…I was a middle-aged man when President Bush (43) signed legislation to ban incandescent light bulbs…I am approaching retirement when President Trump, who campaigned on mass deportation of the 30 million illegal aliens in America, floated the idea of a mass amnesty instead…Appeasement of communists, jihadists, and fascists never works. They must be defeated. As the Jewish sages have taught us, those who are kind to the cruel will inevitably end up being cruel to the kind.

 

When you have to lie so you don’t lose support

https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/when-you-have-to-lie-so-you-dont

Oh, the poor illegals doing the jobs…blah blah…The LIE…And the truth right after…Glass House Farms | California’s Best Greenhouse Cannabis. Yup, they grow pot using illegals. Basically we have American and Imported Idjits defending drugs and human trafficking. But they allegedly hold the high moral ground.

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FOOD for THOUGHT

Tick…Tock…

https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/ticktock

Via Bayou Renaissance Man quoting John Farnam:

Armed attacks on Federal Officers, becoming the “norm?” – via https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/07/is-left-wing-terrorism-to-be-new-normal.html

As expected, no Democrat politician has publicly condemned these shooting attacks on our Federal LEOs.

Do you know why? Our side is still too polite. The Dems leaders feel invincible, confusing politeness with weakness.

Clock is ticking, I am afraid, and then it will be Correia’s Flip of a Switch.

“A friend of mine who is a political activist said something interesting the other day, and that was for most people on the left political violence is a knob, and they can turn the heat up and down, with things like protests, and riots, all the way up to destruction of property, and sometimes murder… But for the vast majority of folks on the right, it’s an on-and-off switch. And the settings are Vote or Shoot Fucking Everybody. And believe me, you really don’t want that switch to get flipped, because Civil War 2.0 would make Bosnia look like a trip to Disneyworld.”

Or maybe, I am no longer “afraid” for what will happen. Balance comes in different ways of dispensation.

(When you get the people who just want to be left alone in peace envolved, you will have awakened a sleeping lion – jlr)

 

Is left-wing terrorism to be the “new normal”?

https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/07/is-left-wing-terrorism-to-be-new-normal.html

Is left-wing terrorism to be the “new normal”? – John Farnam thinks so.

Overshadowed by the tragic flooding in TX, there was a well-funded, violent attack, a “planned ambush,” by at least ten heavily-armed leftist terrorists on Federal Officers at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, TX on Friday, 4 July 25. At least one officer was injured by gunfire…As expected, no Democrat politician has publicly condemned these shooting attacks on our Federal LEOs. In fact, Democrats are self-righteously calling our courageous ICE Officers “terrorists…In 2020, these same leftist terrorists, openly incited by Democrat politicians, destroyed historic statues and burned large swaths of business districts (in an effort to punish “hated capitalists”). In 2024/25, these same terrorists violently attacked Jewish students and trashed college campuses, all with the approval of leftist-supporting college administrators, who simultaneously exclude Christians and Jews from being hired (in the name of “DEI”) Today, these same leftist terrorists, now using “assault weapons,” are openly shooting at our police, all as their supporters (which includes most Democrat politicians) remain silent, or in some cases cheer them on! This all precisely fits the Leninist pattern for the violent seizure of power, as the DNC’s current spokesman, Zohran Mamdani, so candidly articulates. Nothing is beneath them! Why should any of us be surprised?…

Fair warning. Take a close look at the political and social environment in and around the area where you live, and plan accordingly.

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The original post referred to in the above posts

“New Normal?” by John Farnam, 09 July 2025

“New Normal?”

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New Normal by John Farnam, 28 Sept 2023

New Normal!

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident, which everybody has decided not to see.” – Ayn Rand

An organized, social-media-communicated, two-pronged attack on private businesses by “flash mobs,” as well as organized caravans of looters, hit the City of Philadelphia on Tuesday evening, and again last night. There are injuries, and the damage is extensive! Video of these “mostly peaceful” rioters shows men wearing black balaclavas, with hooded faces, and carrying signs proclaiming “Party for Socialism and Liberation.” Police made a few arrests, but otherwise did little to control widespread lawlessness. Liquor stores in Philadelphia are under mandatory closure. Looks as if what we saw in 2020 may just have been a rehearsal for what’s coming in the approaching election season! The radical left (Democrats), seeing their hold on power disintegrating as honorable, productive

Americans grow weary of their “war on decency” have decided that when they can’t hold onto political power, they’ll just burn down what is left. They’ve done it before! Political violence is thus the “new normal.” The radical left has no compunction about employing deadly violence against anyone who dares oppose them, as we see. The rest of us are on our own, as we also see!

“Communism is perpetually ‘just one murder short’ of utopia” – Solzhenitsyn

/John

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It is not too early for Christmas Music and Decorations

https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/it-is-not-too-early-for-christmas

‘Zat You, Santa Claus? (A Louis Armstrong Cover by Emmaline)

video – 00:02:55 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gL0He1zGpc

(worth watching – jlr)

 

IN HUMORE EST VERITAS – (I don’t always agree with all of them – jlr)

We do indeed live in the stupidest timeline

https://www.collapselife.com/p/micro-retirement-gen-z

The very generation that called doing the bare minimum at work “quiet quitting” is now calling time off from work a “micro-retirement” — and Merriam-Webster’s social media team is having none of it…Look, it’s not that Gen Z is lazy — it’s that they’ve grown up in a collapsing system where everything, even rest, has to be sold back to them in app form with a pastel color palette and a productivity angle. They can’t just take time off — they need to craft a narrative arc, film a TikTok montage, and give it a name that sounds like a boutique wealth management strategy. Micro-retirement: It’s like paid time off, but with better lighting and higher engagement rates…here’s our Collapse Life Tip of the Day: Put down the smartphone. Pay your rent on time and don’t expect a friggin’ parade. Take a walk and breathe deeply. Don’t call it a mental health day. Don’t call it self care. Don’t post about it on social media or wait for likes and shares.

Just do it — like a functioning adult…

 

It has come to my attention that “Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception” is behind a pay wall. It never was for me for some reason.

It has now been discontinued for that reason – jlr

 

https://sarahwestall.substack.com/p/mind-control-and-5th-generation-warfare-28f
Mind Control and 5th Generation Warfare – a 10 part series

This thought-provoking docuseries delves into the hidden layers of control, manipulation, and advanced technologies shaping our modern world.

This powerful series offers invaluable insights into critical issues such as mind control, advanced warfare, and the impact of technology on society. Join leading experts as they uncover the truth behind these complex topics and provide practical solutions for navigating these challenging times.

In this series, Sarah Westall and her esteemed guests empower you with knowledge and tools to understand and counter the forces at play in our world today.

Day One: Behind the Veil

Day Two: Unlock the Secrets

Day Three: The Psychology Behind Mind Control

Day Four: Political Manipulation

Day Five: History and Secrets of Mind Control

Day Six: Connect the Science and Engineering

Day Seven: Explore Targeting and Mind Control Experiments

Day Eight: Legal Battles Against Targeted Mind Control

Day Nine: The Truth Behind Havana Syndrome

Day Ten: Advanced Methods of Mind Control and Solutions

 

Thank goodness that Obama was only able to put two justices on the Supreme Court. Kagan and Sotomayor were both nominated by Obama.

Both were highly questionable nominations. I am grateful that Garland didn’t make it onto the court; that would have been insanely bad for this country. He did enough damage as AG.

Sotomayor was a joke. Underqualified, not a serious candidate, but the GOP allowed her to get on the court.

She was the least qualified Justice of my lifetime.

Kagan was qualified, sort of. The problem with her was that she was involved with Obamacare, which was on its way to the Supreme Court.

She lied when she said she had nothing to do with Obamacare. She then refused to recuse herself when the case did make it to the Supreme Court.

She is dangerous. She is dangerous because she isn’t stupid; she isn’t dumb. What she is is a Justice who is agenda driven.

She might become as good as Justice Ginsburg. Ginsburg wrote opinions and dissents that always came out in the direction of her agenda. She got there with well-written opinions that were grounded in good case law and good precedent.

She was a good Justice, just not capable of following the Constitution when the outcome didn’t fit her agenda.

Kagan is striving to be the new Ginsburg. If she doesn’t leave the court, she might just make it to that high standard.

Sotomayor is a middle-of-the-road justice. When she is gone, she will be remembered as the first liberal Justice to agree that AR-15s and their ilk are in common use.

The Biden Administration nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson. She has turned out to be a good politician.

The definition of a good politician is one that stays bought.

She was bought and paid for by the Democrat machine. The only requirement they had for her was that she would dependably vote for the Democrat agenda.

She has done this.

In an 8-1 opinion, the Supreme Court granted a stay in favor of the Trump administration. Eight to one.

Sotomayor decided to write a concurrence. Jackson wrote a dissent.

Now, I’m not about to read the drivel that Jackson wrote. The first 10 pages of her dissent do not cite to anything except a recent Supreme Court opinion. And her cite is garbage. It does not apply.

What it is is emotional blackmail wrapped around “we got away with it for the last hundred years; that means we should be able to get away with it for the next five hundred years.”

In a democracy, the people will at some point start to vote themselves bread and circuses. This is why our founding fathers created a democratic republic. The goal was that the people were one step removed from the people creating law. They also set the federal government to be at war with itself.

We want a dysfunctional government. We want the three branches to be at odds with each other. Stopping most of the things the government wants to do.

Over the last hundred years, Congress has been voting itself more power. They did this by removing power from the executive, Article II, to oversee the Article II parts of government. They placed limits on the executive.

We are in the “Find Out” stage. And the current Supreme Court is doing a grand job of following the Constitution.

I look forward to reading the next opinion by the Supreme Court. I want to know who is the next to take KBJ to task.

State of the Anti-Trump Resistance Movement and the Burgeoning Color Revolution

https://grayzoneresearch.substack.com/p/assessment-state-of-the-anti-trump

Former U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and State Department employees are hosting recruitment and training sessions for current federal employees to resist the Trump administration from the inside, according to a report from nonprofit media outlet NOTUS…Assessment: A “noncooperation” campaign is a resistance campaign, using predominantly nonviolent tactics to attack or otherwise undermine the legitimacy, authority, and capacity of a sitting government – in this case the Trump administration…it will use tactics like civil disobedience to grind down the gears of the Trump administration and prevent them from, as they see it, becoming authoritarian…If this resistance movement decide to foment an actual revolution – colloquially known as a Color Revolution – to topple the Trump government…a Color Revolution is a type of irregular warfare that uses predominantly non-violent action to topple an existing government, usually through mass protests, demonstrations, civil disobedience, and public displays of mass political defiance…As opposed to the hard power of an insurgency — a violent, armed attempt by irregular forces to overthrow a government — these “popular” revolutions use soft power — social power — to resist, embarrass, frustrate, and undermine the legitimacy of a government and then force it from power.

(worth the time to read in full – jlr)

Prairieland Detention Center Ambush Storyboard

https://grayzoneresearch.substack.com/p/prairieland-detention-center-ambush

Here’s a quick series of events surrounding this ambush. In short, based on the number of weapons recovered, it could have been much worse. It sounds like some would-be shooters chickened out…I’ll continue to track this story because there are a lot of loose ends and I’m betting this is not the end of armed violence against ICE.

(you may subscribe to this here (https://grayzoneresearch.substack.com/subscribe) – jlr)

Supreme Court Hands Trump a Major Win

https://www.westernjournal.com/supreme-court-hands-trump-major-win-government-fat-cats-terrified/

The Supreme Court lifted an injunction placed by a San Francisco district judge which blocked the Trump administration from reducing the federal workforce in large numbers. President Donald Trump issued an executive order as part of his administration’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative in February, calling for agency heads to “promptly undertake preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force (RIFs), consistent with applicable law.”

Armed Political Violence Catching Up to Rhetoric

https://grayzoneresearch.substack.com/p/armed-political-violence-catching

Last Friday, 04 July, law enforcement officers arrived at the Prairieland Detention Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Alvarado, Texas, to investigate a man armed with a gun. Roughly 8-10 individuals launched fireworks and vandalized the facility. Authorities say multiple gunmen then opened fire on an arriving police officer, wounding him. Police later arrested 10 suspects, some with body armor. The District Attorney’s Office described the event as a coordinated ambush, with the fireworks seemingly “designed to draw ICE personnel outside the facility.”

Laken Riley’s Killer Secures Major Court Win Thanks to Judge

https://www.westernjournal.com/outrageous-laken-rileys-killer-secures-major-court-win-thanks-judge/

The illegal immigrant who murdered Georgia nursing student Laken Riley just got a stunning legal break that could lead to a new trial. Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan national convicted of killing Riley in a brutal February 2024 daylight attack on the University of Georgia campus, has been granted a court-ordered mental evaluation.

(please note that the MSM seems to have stopped naming the judges and their level in cases like this – jlr)

Homeland Security ends mandatory shoe removal at airport screening

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/homeland-security-ends-mandatory-shoe-removal-airport-screening/story

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Tuesday that travelers will no longer be required to remove their shoes when going through Transportation Security Administration security checkpoints at all airports across the U.S., ending the nearly two-decade mandate by the agency. Noem said the new policy is going into effect at all airports across the country…“There will be individuals at times that will be asked to remove their shoes, if we think there is additional layers of screening that is necessary that may still happen to an individual,”

DMV Officials Issued Driver’s Licenses for Cash. Why Will REAL ID Be Any Different?

https://reason.com/2025/07/09/dmv-officials-issued-drivers-licenses-for-cash-why-will-real-id-be-any-different/

In New York, several employees of the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) were recently caught doing the one thing at which government drones seem efficient: corruptly profiting from their positions. They aren’t alone in selling driver’s licenses to ineligible customers; similar stories frequently appear around the country wherever public workers see a way to make a few bucks by providing official identification documents, often in fake names, to anybody with cash in hand. As common as the practice is, it’s an interesting commentary on the long-delayed recent introduction of REAL ID requirements, which are supposed to make us more secure.

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Federal judge just dealt some bad news to Wisconsin judge who allegedly helped illegal alien evade ICE

https://www.theblaze.com/news/federal-judge-just-dealt-some-bad-news-to-wisconsin-judge-who-allegedly-helped-illegal-alien-evade-ice

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was indicted by a federal grand jury in May on charges of concealing a person from arrest and obstruction of the law…U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Joseph recommended on Monday that Dugan’s motion to dismiss be denied and torpedoed the Milwaukee judge’s arguments for dismissal one by one…”It is well-established and undisputed that judges have absolute immunity from civil lawsuits for monetary damages when engaging in judicial acts,” wrote Joseph. “This, however, is not a civil case. And review of the case law does not show an extension of this established doctrine to the criminal context.”…”Does judicial immunity shield Dugan from prosecution because the indictment alleges she violated federal criminal law while performing judicial duties? The answer is no,”…there is “no firmly established absolute judicial immunity barring criminal prosecution of judges for judicial acts.”

Above the law???

https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/above-the-law

… when progressive Milwaukee Judge, County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan helped a man here illegally slip out the side door with hopes of dodging ICE like a rabbit outrunning a cheetah, those five very sacred words vanished. Suddenly, without a preamble, those five words were replaced by:”She was acting in her official capacity.”

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First, It Was Barrett – Now Even Sotomayor Embarrasses Ketanji Brown Jackson with Her Opinion in SCOTUS Ruling

https://www.westernjournal.com/first-barrett-now-even-sotomayor-embarrasses-ketanji-brown-jackson-opinion-scotus-ruling/

…Tuesday’s decision involved whether or not the executive could go through with the layoffs while the case percolated through the system. According to The Washington Post, the decision was 8-1 in favor of allowing the administration go through with the planned layoffs…In her one-woman dissent, Jackson said that Trump “sharply departed from that settled practice” by initiating the reduction in force and said the court, by authorizing the administration to go through with their plans, had allowed “all the harmful upheaval that edict entails, while the lower courts evaluate its lawfulness.”……………..

Ketanji Brown Jackson Did Something So Stupid That Even Sonia Sotomayor Couldn’t Let It Slide

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/07/08/ketanji-brown-jackson-says-something-so-stupid-that-her-own-left-wing-colleague-had-to-correct-her-n2191394

In a move that I would have never predicted in a million years, aforementioned far-left Justice Sonia Sotomayor took Jackson to task for writing a dissent addressing a question that wasn’t even before the court.

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President Trump waives executive privilege for Biden’s doctor, compelling him to testify