FeliceGerwitz

Catholic l Wife, Mom, Grandma l Author/Publisher Media Angels | Ultimate Homeschool & Christian Podcast Network | Entrepreneur | MAHA I Army Mom

[FeliceGerwitz @FeliceGerwitz]

@Joeinblack My son had Mosaicism, a form of Down syndrome. It is in a percentage of his cells. He is perfectly normal with a normal IQ. He is a child of God. It is due to his diagnosis after his birth that led me closer to God. I have 5 children, and all are a blessing.

[Fr. Joseph Krupp @Joeinblack]

So, I make $100 and the government takes 1/3 of that.
I take the 2/3 remaining to me and I buy something that I need.
They tax that.
I take what is left over and split it in half: half to the bank and have to an investment account.
The interest I make from the bank?
They tax that.
The interest I make from my investments?
They tax that.
If somehow, after all the confiscations, I’m able to buy myself a piece of land they will tax my purchase.
Then, even though they pretend I owe the land, they charge me every year for the right to live on it.
While the Democrats and Republicans keep us fighting each other over how much billionaires are taxed, we stop looking at how much money they take from us and pour into a monstrous bureaucracy that every day seems to take away a little more of our freedoms and give us less in return.
Just a note for all of you who have picked a side in the tyrannical two party system.

[FeliceGerwitz @FeliceGerwitz]

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[FeliceGerwitz @FeliceGerwitz]

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[Ben Dziobek @BenDziobek]

Breaking: Andover New Jersey cancels data center project and passes complete ban!! Rural NJ is fighting back against Big Tech!

[FeliceGerwitz @FeliceGerwitz]

@DataRepublican Praying for a quick recovery.

[FeliceGerwitz @FeliceGerwitz]

We need more teens like this one!

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

So proud of this fellow Virginian and she is only 18 years old👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

An 18-year-old just did what billion-dollar water companies couldn't.

Meet Mia Heller.

A high school junior from Warrenton, Virginia who built a water filter in her garage that strips out 95.5% of microplastics from drinking water.

That's better than most government treatment plants, which sit somewhere between 70% and 90%.

Her secret weapon? Ferrofluid. A magnetized liquid made of oil and powder that latches onto microplastic particles. Then a magnet yanks them out. No membranes. No constant filter replacements. No endless maintenance bills.
The ferrofluid even gets recycled, around 87% of it, in a closed loop.

The spark for all of this wasn't a classroom project. It was a local newspaper article warning that her town's tap water was loaded with PFAS and microplastics, and that nobody was coming to fix it.

So she watched her mom swap out filter after filter and thought, there has to be a smarter way.

She built the prototype herself. Tested it with a homemade turbidity sensor. Then walked into the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair and walked out with a special award from the Patent and Trademark Office Society.
Up against nearly 1,700 students from 62 countries.

She's now eyeing a household version that sits under your kitchen sink.

The future of clean water might not come from a lab in Silicon Valley. It might come from a teenager's garage in Virginia.
Source-
@SmithsonianMag

[FeliceGerwitz @FeliceGerwitz]

@MichelleMaxwell That is so awesome!!! Love this story

[FeliceGerwitz @FeliceGerwitz]

And this is why we are so disillusioned with our party.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Senator Thune,

I'm replying to your post from yesterday: "Despite Democrats' partisan games, we're still going to get the entire federal government funded."

Today, you sent the Senate home... not because of Democrats. Because of you.

Here's what actually happened.

On May 18, the DOJ announced an Anti-Weaponization Fund: $1.776 billion to compensate Americans harmed by Biden-era DOJ abuse. Your own caucus revolted. After a two-hour closed-door meeting, you departed for Memorial Day recess without a vote. ICE and CBP funding, punted to June 1. The "partisan games," it turns out, were yours.

Your stated objections: no congressional authorization, no eligibility standards, no legal precedent, executive overreach. Fine. But let's talk about November 2025, when you tucked a provision into the government funding bill.

The FBI had quietly seized phone records from eight Republican senators without notice, under an investigation codenamed "Arctic Frost."

Your provision gave those senators, and only those senators, $500,000 per violation, retroactive to 2022. The House voted 426-0 to repeal it.

The critics weren't opposed to compensating victims of DOJ abuse. They were opposed to senators compensating themselves while doing no other structural reforms.

Lindsey Graham held the Senate hostage to preserve it. He delayed a spending deal in January 2026 to secure a floor vote on his revised version.

Let's put the two columns next to each other:

➤ DOJ abused senators: $500K/violation payout, senators only, no hearings, no process, no eligibility debate, no floor vote on substance.

➤ DOJ abused Americans: "very legitimate questions," two-hour meeting, Senate goes home, reconciliation punted, June 1 deadline in jeopardy.

You told Punchbowl News you "did not personally see a need for this fund."

You personally saw a need for the fund when the targets were you.

Go cry harder to your Punchbowl friends @JakeSherman and @AndrewDesiderio, because at this rate, they'll soon become the only people who are buying what you're selling.

[FeliceGerwitz @FeliceGerwitz]

@kingfatbastard My husband gets these as well as spam calls wanting to loan him money!

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

"For daring to speak the truth, I was ARRESTED by the FBI, thrown into a cell, branded a TERRORIST by my own government..."

Dr. Simone Gold spoke out about **hydroxychloroquine**, opposed the destructive lockdowns and mandates, and rejected the rushed COVID vaccines — and the Biden regime came after her like a political enemy.

Her teenage son (asleep in his bed in Los Angeles on Jan 6) was stalked by TSA agents and put on a watch list.
Her bank accounts were flagged.
Her reputation was destroyed.
She was sentenced by a system that **knew the accusations were false** but refused to correct them.

This wasn’t justice — it was **selective persecution and the legalization of American fascism.**

They didn’t just silence a doctor. They terrorized her entire family to scare every other truth-telling physician into submission.

This is what they did to one brave doctor who put patients first.

Never forget what they’re capable of when you challenge their narrative.

[James Li @5149jamesli]

Thomas Massie: "I vote with Republicans 91% of the time. And the 9% I don't, they're taking up for pedophiles, starting another war, or bankrupting our country."

An absolute mic drop. 🎤⬇️

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Senator Thune,

At 3 AM on Friday, March 27th, in a near-empty chamber, you passed a bill by voice vote that excludes all funding for ICE and CBP.

Let me repeat that: voice vote. No roll call. No record of who was there. No accountability. Just you, Barrasso, and a handful of senators shuffling paper in the dead of night while America slept.

You could have demanded a recorded vote. You chose not to.

You could have held the line for five more days until the House returned. You chose not to.

You could have used the same procedural tools Democrats have used against you for 40 days. You chose not to.

Instead, you gave Chuck Schumer exactly what he asked for, DHS funding minus immigration enforcement, and called it a win. Then you walked to the cameras and blamed the Democrats.

Let's be precise about what you did:

1. You caved to a demand Democrats made on Day 1 of this shutdown. Forty-one days of supposed hardball negotiation, and you settled for their opening offer.
2. You handed them a template. The next time Democrats want to defund any agency — ICE, CBP, or anything else — they now know: just shut down DHS and wait. John Thune will fold at 3 AM.
3. You punted to reconciliation. "Good possibility," you said. Not "we will." Not "guaranteed." Just maybe. Meanwhile, ICE operates on fumes from last year's bill with no certainty of future funding.

The precedent you set:

You have argued for months that the filibuster is sacrosanct. That the 60-vote threshold protects minority rights. That we cannot bend Senate rules for policy wins.

But at 3 AM on Friday, you bent every norm that actually mattered:

• Voice vote to avoid accountability
• Empty chamber to avoid debate
• Midnight deal to avoid scrutiny
• Immediate recess to avoid questions

You'll bend the rules to avoid a fight. You just won't bend them to win one.

What you've actually accomplished:

Democrats demanded ICE restrictions. They got ICE defunded.

Not reformed. Not restrained. Defunded.

And you're out here tweeting about how Democrats are the "Defund the Police" party while you just voted to defund border enforcement at 3 in the morning.
The question you should answer:

Why did this deal have to happen at 3 AM?

Why couldn't it happen at 3 PM, with cameras rolling and every senator on record?

You know why. Because you didn't want your voters to see what surrender looks like.

Here's my message: We saw it anyway.

Stop hiding behind "Democrat obstruction." You're the Majority Leader. You set the schedule. You control the floor. You chose this outcome.

Own it.

[FeliceGerwitz @FeliceGerwitz]

Where are the mass protests for this? We the people must stand up!

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Another American has just been informed half her property will be seized with eminent domain by Georgia Power to support Data Centers

“They are going to demo all of these trees, playhouse, fence, fire pits, the pool, the spa, all of this, including our two neighbors' houses. They're completely demoing theirs. This easement is only going to be 12 feet our house, 12 feet from our bedroom where we sleep”

“I am just one of many homeowners who are impacted by Georgia Power's high voltage power lines that that are going in to support data centers that are being built all over”

It affects over 330 private properties. Georgia Power says it will negotiate purchases and easements and use eminent domain

Georgia Power claims its to strengthen the grid for the growing energy demand in Georgia due to many new data centers

We should not be letting this happen. We need protections from data center projects

[FeliceGerwitz @FeliceGerwitz]

I guess I will be giving up chocolate when the time comes.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Chocolate sold in America is going through 2 changes

Almost our entire candy isle for chocolate in America will be effected by 1 of these 2 new techniques:

- Lab grown chocolate
- Genetically modified chocolate by gene slicing

“California Cultured is the startup company that's growing cocoa cells in a tank. A lot of you asked, is this just one company? No, it's the entire industry”

But wait till you hear what the Mars candy company's doing that's far worse in my view.

Here's what every major player in the chocolate industry's doing right now

- Lindt is investing in lab-grown cocoa
- Mondelez, the maker of Cadbury, Oreos, and Toblerone, is investing in lab-grown cocoa butter
- Barry Callebaut, the world's largest cocoa processor, is investing in cocoa cell culture

Barry Callebaut isn't a name you'd recognize on a wrapper, but they supply chocolate to Hershey and Nestlé under long-term contracts. When they move, half the candy aisle moves with them”

Here’s where things get really scary

“Mars, the makers of M&M's, Snickers, Dove, Twix, Milky Way, Mars Bars, and Three Musketeers, among others, is doing something completely different. And this is cause for alarm in my opinion.

— Mars partnered with a lab at UC Berkeley where CRISPR, the gene editing technology, was developed. They're going to modify the cacao tree's genetic structure by clipping out certain genes to make them more resistant to disease and drought tolerant.

This is Frankenfood. Genetically modified Frankenfood

Here’s why they are doing this

Global chocolate demand's rising about 3% every year. At the same time, 70% of the world's cocoa comes from West Africa, and West Africa is getting hammered by droughts, higher temperatures, and a nasty virus

Pests and diseases cause yearly losses of about 30 to 40% of the total global cocoa production

So major companies have decided to grow it in a lab or genetically modify the trees

The question is whether the solutions they've chosen are proportionate to the risk

I’d say no, absolutely not. We all know the second these things are done they will start selling it to us with no long term safety studies and no idea how it will effect our health

It’s coming so be warned

[FeliceGerwitz @FeliceGerwitz]

Great article. Teach you, kids, handwriting as well as cursive. My kids hated cursive and I didn't press it, some can't read it!

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🚨🧵 BREAKING: Former DHS Chief Miles Taylor's prank site collected death threats against the President and 4,000+ people's personal data. Then exposed them through all an open API. 🚨

Two days ago, I showed you how Miles Taylor's GTFO ICE site exposed 17,000+ people's data on an open API. That site halted sign-ups and is still "under construction."

But Taylor's organization DEFIANCE[.]org didn't just build one leaky site. They built two. On the same server.

UndoTrump[.]org — launched April 1, 2026 as an "April Fools' joke" — collects names, emails, and political messages from people signing up for fictional "Removal Parties" at government buildings. The White House Ballroom. The Kennedy Center. The DOJ. Battleships.

4,000+ signup records. 3,300+ unique people. Same vulnerability. Same API. Same zero authentication.

And this one has death threats against a sitting President in the database.

The man who was deputy chief of staff for the department that houses the Secret Service couldn't secure a sign-up form. Again.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇

[Rachel 🇻🇦 @RachelToRome]

I’m not big on makeup but I might have a new favorite brand

[Father Joseph DeMarzo @Joseph_DeMarzo]

For those asking what the Church officially teaches, and who might feel confused in light of the final synod report:

Marriage was instituted by God and elevated by Christ to a Sacrament. It will always and only exist in truth between one man and one woman. (Gen 2:24; Mt 19:4–6; CCC 1601)

Engaging in homosexual acts, or any sexual acts outside of the marital act, is sinful. (Rom 1:26–27; 1 Cor 6:9–10; CCC 2351, 2357)

Love for the person means telling them the truth, and certainly does no leave them where they are. Meeting people where they are is delicate indeed, but “go and sin no more” is also merciful and compassionate.

The ministerial priesthood will only consist of men. (OS 4; CCC 1577)

There is only one true Church, the Catholic Church. (LG 8; CCC 816)

This is what the Church teaches and it will never change. To depart from these teachings is to depart from Christ and His Church. (Gal 1:8–9; 2 Thess 2:15)

The Church will always uphold the dignity of every human person and express how loved they are by God, while also proclaiming that repentance from sin, and remaining faithful to Church teaching on marriage, Holy Orders, and the purpose of human sexuality, are essential to being faithful Catholics. (Jn 8:11; CCC 1700, 1847, 2358)

You may say, “People know this, why be so blunt?” The problem is that confusion about these topics exists, and where there is confusion, crystal clear non-ambiguous language is necessary. You may say “but the synod is not seeking to change anything, but discover new ways of meeting people and make them feel less alienated.” Yet, are we concerned with souls being alienated from the Kingdom of God because we only focused on building bridges? If you build a bridge, repentance needs to be the support beams, otherwise like a house built on sand, it will collapse.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Thomas Massie is exactly right. The PRIME Act is about one thing: getting Washington out of the way of American farmers.

Small producers shouldn't need to jump through federal hoops just to sell meat directly to their neighbors, local restaurants, and small businesses. States should have the power to govern their own local commerce. Big government has no business standing between a farmer and his customer. The House has passed it. Now it's time for the Senate to do the same.