@trad_west_ Nice. We love the Tshirts we have purchased from trad west.
Do you know where I could purchase some Catholic window clings or bumper stickers?
The devil will try to upset you by accusing you of being unworthy of the blessings that you have received. Simply remain cheerful and do your best to ignore the devil's nagging. If need be even laugh at the absurdity of the situation. Satan, the epitome of sin itself, accuses you of unworthiness! When the devil reminds you of your past, remind him of his future! -St. Theresa of Avila
🌩 An incredible sunset over Nebraska is going viral online
The footage was captured today in Sidney, Nebraska, during a powerful storm.
The photographer managed to capture a massive supercell — one of the rarest and most spectacular types of storm clouds. These systems are often responsible for the strongest tornadoes, giant hail, and extreme rainfall.
Looks more like a scene from a disaster movie than real life.
Federal prosecutors just charged an NIH virologist with smuggling biological materials into the United States.
His name is Vincent Munster. He's not a minor scientist. He runs the Virus Ecology Section at one of the government's premier BSL-4 labs.
This is bigger than a customs charge. Thread 🧵
Woman who been raises horses for 30 years in Ohio says “I've never had to deal with these many ticks”
“I can't take the tick situation anymore. The tick situation in this state, there are ticks everywhere”
Almost everyone says this is due to Bill Gates. The reason why is because The Gates Foundation is funding Tick Research
The Gates Foundation funded a biotech firm called Oxitec for research on genetically modifying cattle ticks
Farmers claim to be funding “boxes of ticks”on their properties
People think because Bill Gates is funding tick research there is a high likelihood we would see a huge increase in ticks. This would mean Gates could sell more of his products to deal with the problem
There is a well documented tick surge hitting Ohio hard right now, spring 2026, especially for livestock owners
Ohio has new tick species. Ohio went from basically 1 medically important tick species 20 years ago to having 5 now. Some of these populations grow very fast
Lyme disease surge: Cases skyrocketed from ~40 in 2010 → 415 in 2020 → over 2,800 in 2025, with 2026 already trending high
Keep in mind a Lyme disease vaccine is actively in the works
So without the ticks, they can’t sell their vaccines
You’ll never guess who’s making it, Pfizer and Valneva
You really understand grandkids when you've got two... and realize real quick, one is not like the other.
One of them sits nicely, uses their manners, and could probably host a tea party for royalty without breaking a sweat.
The other one? I'm pretty sure if I turned my back for five minutes, they'd reorganize the house, the dog, and possibly my entire belief system.
One says, "Grandma/Grandpa, may I please have a cookie?"
The other is already eating it... and negotiating tor two more.
I love them both the same-but let's just say one of them came with an instruction manual... and the other one came with a warning label. 😂❤️
Barbara O’Neill makes a bold case for rebounding on a mini-trampoline: it’s the one exercise that hits every single cell in your body, including your brain cells, because of the constant acceleration and deceleration.
She shows simple moves — gentle bounces building into twists, arm swings, even kid-friendly play — and claims just a few minutes can energize you like nothing else. Albert Carter’s rule of three minutes, three times a day. Her office idea: one minute every hour and watch productivity soar.
What really landed for me is how something this playful and low-impact could upgrade your whole system from the inside out.
Science backs a big part of it — NASA research and studies show rebounding stimulates lymphatic flow far more efficiently than most exercises (up to 15-30x in some claims), improves oxygen delivery to cells, and gives cardiovascular benefits with less joint stress than running.
In a fitness world full of complicated routines, this feels like an accessible, full-body reset that actually touches circulation, focus, and daily energy in a different way.
Have you ever tried rebounding, or would you add a mini-trampoline to your routine if you could?
The man who built the iPhone just entered China carrying a burner phone because his own device is considered a security liability in Beijing. Tim Cook’s final diplomatic act before stepping down as Apple CEO on September 1 is negotiating in a country where American intelligence considers every piece of inbound electronics a target for state-sponsored surveillance. The executive who spent a decade arguing Apple devices are the most secure consumer electronics on earth had to leave them at the airport.
On May 13, President Trump arrived in Beijing for a summit with Xi Jinping accompanied by the most concentrated delegation of American corporate power ever assembled on a single diplomatic mission. Cook was there. Elon Musk rode Air Force One. Jensen Huang joined at the last minute during a refueling stop in Alaska because the semiconductor question was too urgent to leave him behind. Larry Fink of BlackRock, David Solomon of Goldman Sachs, Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone, Kelly Ortberg of Boeing, Jane Fraser of Citi, Cristiano Amon of Qualcomm, Sanjay Mehrotra of Micron, and Larry Culp of GE Aerospace were all on the manifest.
Every one of them left personal phones in the United States. Every one carried a clean, stripped temporary device with no stored data and no access to corporate systems. Plugging any device into any USB port in China risks data exfiltration through what federal agencies call juice jacking. The protocol has been standard for senior US government travel to China for over a decade. What is new is the roster.
The CEOs of the companies building the $700 billion AI infrastructure, designing the chips, manufacturing the devices, managing the capital, and running the supply chains all entered the country that sits on the other side of every one of those dependencies, carrying phones that could not send an email.
Cook is negotiating Apple’s supply chain future in a country where Apple manufactures the majority of its products. He is doing so in his final months as CEO, weeks after announcing John Ternus as his successor, and days after Apple reached a preliminary deal with Intel to manufacture chips in the United States as a hedge against exactly this kind of dependency. The same month. The same executive. One hand reaching toward American factories. The other hand reaching into Beijing with a disposable phone.
Huang’s addition is the most revealing signal. Nvidia was initially absent from the list. The chip designer whose GPUs power every AI data center and the $700 billion capex buildout was not originally invited. He joined during a refueling stop in Anchorage because the semiconductor question, export controls on advanced chips China wants and America restricts, could not be discussed without the man who designs them.
Trump delayed this trip from March because of the Iran war. He arrived in Beijing while the ceasefire he negotiated is on what he called “massive life support.” He is negotiating the most important bilateral trade relationship on earth while simultaneously managing a military conflict in the Persian Gulf. The delegation carried burner phones because China is hostile to American electronics. But the real vulnerability is not the device. It is the dependency the device represents. Every executive in that room runs a company that cannot fully function without the country they are visiting. The phones were stripped. The supply chains were not.
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A Mother's Day Letter to America
There are some things a man does not write about until he is old enough to understand what he was given. I decided since it is Mother’s Day, I am setting the news cycle aside for a moment, because some truths are bigger than the daily fight.
I grew up as one of nine children in a small house in Middletown, Rhode Island. My father was a hard man with a soft heart, and he never asked the country for anything he had not first given it. My mother, Helen, held the center of our home together through every season of our lives. She raised nine of us, fed us, clothed us, prayed over us, taught us right from wrong, and somehow still found the energy to fight for her community. She ran for office at the local level at a time when most women her age were told to stay quiet, and she refused to. She taught us to kneel before God and to stand before no man. She taught us that we serve the country that gave us life. She taught us that strength is measured by what we carry, not by what we complain about.
When I look back at every hard day I have ever had, and there have been more than a few, I hear her voice before I hear my own. That is what a mother does. She becomes the first sound in your conscience and the last voice in your prayers.
The Founders understood something that this culture has allowed itself to mock. They understood that the Republic does not begin in the Capitol. It begins at the kitchen table. It begins with the mother who teaches her child to read the Bible before he learns to read a screen. It begins with the woman who tells her son that lying is beneath him and that running from his duty is worse than failing at it.
John Adams said the Constitution was made for a moral and religious people and would be wholly inadequate for any other. The men who built that moral and religious people were trained at home, by their mothers, long before they ever sat in a classroom or stood in a regiment.
We have spent generations laughing at that woman.
Hollywood mocked her. The universities re-educated her daughters against her. The federal bureaucracy taxed her family until she had to leave the home she wanted to stay in. The technology companies took her children's attention and sold it to the highest bidder. Then the same culture that broke her down turned around and asked why our young people are anxious, fatherless, faithless, and unwilling to defend the country that raised them.
You cannot remove the mother from the Republic and expect the Republic to survive. It is that simple. It has always been that simple.
Fifth-generation warfare, the kind I have written about and warned about for years, is fought for the human mind. The terrain is the heart, the imagination, and the soul of a child. The first defender of that terrain is not a soldier. It is a mother. Every American mother who turns off the poison and reads to her child instead is defending the country. Every mother who walks her family into a church on Sunday is defending the country. Every mother who shows up at a school board meeting and refuses to sit down is defending the country. She is protecting the next generation of free citizens, and she is doing it with greater consequence than most of the officials elected to do the same job.
That is not sentimental language. It is an operational reality. The enemies of this country know it. They have studied it. They target the family because they understand that if the American family falls, the Nation falls behind it. Mothers are the front line. They have always been the front line.
I cannot write this without saying what needs to be said.
For ten years, my family carried a weight no family should ever have to carry. Ten years of investigation, of slander, of legal warfare waged by the most powerful institutions in this country against one American and the people who loved him. My wife, Lori, never broke. My sisters never broke. My daughters-in-law never broke. My mother, watching from heaven, never let me break either. If you have ever wondered what holds a man together when the full weight of a corrupt federal system is trying to crush him, I will tell you. It is not bravado. It is not press releases. It is a wife who looks you in the eye at the end of the worst day and tells you to keep going. It is the women in your life who refuse to let evil have the last word.
Everyone reading this knows a woman like that. Honor her today and every day after.
The Almighty did not make you for comfort. He made you for purpose. There is no purpose more sacred than the one He placed in your hands when He gave you a child.
Almighty God, on this Mother's Day, we thank You for the mothers of this Republic. Bless the mothers raising children in fatherless homes. Bless the mothers who buried a son or daughter in uniform. Bless the mothers who pray through the night for a child who has lost his way. Bless the mothers who walk into school board meetings shaking and walk out unbroken. Bless the mothers in heaven who still watch over us, including my own. Strengthen them, protect them, and use them, Lord, to raise up the next generation of patriots this Nation will need. In Your Holy Name we pray, Amen.
To every mother reading this, thank you. You are the reason this Republic still has a fighting chance.
Happy Mother's Day.
A Mother's Day Letter to America
There are some things a man does not write about until he is old enough to understand what he was given. I decided since it is Mother’s Day, I am setting the news cycle aside for a moment, because some truths are bigger than the daily fight.
I grew up as one of nine children in a small house in Middletown, Rhode Island. My father was a hard man with a soft heart, and he never asked the country for anything he had not first given it. My mother, Helen, held the center of our home together through every season of our lives. She raised nine of us, fed us, clothed us, prayed over us, taught us right from wrong, and somehow still found the energy to fight for her community. She ran for office at the local level at a time when most women her age were told to stay quiet, and she refused to. She taught us to kneel before God and to stand before no man. She taught us that we serve the country that gave us life. She taught us that strength is measured by what we carry, not by what we complain about.
When I look back at every hard day I have ever had, and there have been more than a few, I hear her voice before I hear my own. That is what a mother does. She becomes the first sound in your conscience and the last voice in your prayers.
The Founders understood something that this culture has allowed itself to mock. They understood that the Republic does not begin in the Capitol. It begins at the kitchen table. It begins with the mother who teaches her child to read the Bible before he learns to read a screen. It begins with the woman who tells her son that lying is beneath him and that running from his duty is worse than failing at it.
John Adams said the Constitution was made for a moral and religious people and would be wholly inadequate for any other. The men who built that moral and religious people were trained at home, by their mothers, long before they ever sat in a classroom or stood in a regiment.
We have spent generations laughing at that woman.
Hollywood mocked her. The universities re-educated her daughters against her. The federal bureaucracy taxed her family until she had to leave the home she wanted to stay in. The technology companies took her children's attention and sold it to the highest bidder. Then the same culture that broke her down turned around and asked why our young people are anxious, fatherless, faithless, and unwilling to defend the country that raised them.
You cannot remove the mother from the Republic and expect the Republic to survive. It is that simple. It has always been that simple.
Fifth-generation warfare, the kind I have written about and warned about for years, is fought for the human mind. The terrain is the heart, the imagination, and the soul of a child. The first defender of that terrain is not a soldier. It is a mother. Every American mother who turns off the poison and reads to her child instead is defending the country. Every mother who walks her family into a church on Sunday is defending the country. Every mother who shows up at a school board meeting and refuses to sit down is defending the country. She is protecting the next generation of free citizens, and she is doing it with greater consequence than most of the officials elected to do the same job.
That is not sentimental language. It is an operational reality. The enemies of this country know it. They have studied it. They target the family because they understand that if the American family falls, the Nation falls behind it. Mothers are the front line. They have always been the front line.
I cannot write this without saying what needs to be said.
For ten years, my family carried a weight no family should ever have to carry. Ten years of investigation, of slander, of legal warfare waged by the most powerful institutions in this country against one American and the people who loved him. My wife, Lori, never broke. My sisters never broke. My daughters-in-law never broke. My mother, watching from heaven, never let me break either. If you have ever wondered what holds a man together when the full weight of a corrupt federal system is trying to crush him, I will tell you. It is not bravado. It is not press releases. It is a wife who looks you in the eye at the end of the worst day and tells you to keep going. It is the women in your life who refuse to let evil have the last word.
Everyone reading this knows a woman like that. Honor her today and every day after.
The Almighty did not make you for comfort. He made you for purpose. There is no purpose more sacred than the one He placed in your hands when He gave you a child.
Almighty God, on this Mother's Day, we thank You for the mothers of this Republic. Bless the mothers raising children in fatherless homes. Bless the mothers who buried a son or daughter in uniform. Bless the mothers who pray through the night for a child who has lost his way. Bless the mothers who walk into school board meetings shaking and walk out unbroken. Bless the mothers in heaven who still watch over us, including my own. Strengthen them, protect them, and use them, Lord, to raise up the next generation of patriots this Nation will need. In Your Holy Name we pray, Amen.
To every mother reading this, thank you. You are the reason this Republic still has a fighting chance.
Happy Mother's Day.
“The first Christian service on our soil was a Catholic mass.”
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio deliveres a powerful speech reminding America of its deep Catholic heritage
As a MAHA mom, I cannot wait for other moms to join me in stripping @ChickfilA from their position as the “healthy” fast-food option and @SteaknShake to take their rightful place as the best choice.
Chick-fil-a has duped moms with deceptive marketing.
Time for change.
🚨🇷🇺You’ve got to see this - an Orthodox Christian prayer won a Russian talent show.
"Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us sinners"
Just listen to them and you will fill him, you will feel God!
Christ is King!