Christina Hunger, 26, is a speech-language pathologist in San Diego, California who believes that "everyone deserves a voice." Hunger works with one- and two-year-old children, many of which use adaptive devices to communicate. So she wondered what would happen if she taught her two-month-old puppy, a Catahoula/Blue Heeler named Stella, to do the same. "If dogs can understand words we say to them, shouldn't they be able to say words to us? Can dogs use AAC to communicate with humans?" she wondered.Hunger and her fiancé Jake started simply by creating a button that said "outside" and then pressed it every time they said the word or opened the door. After a few weeks, every time Hunger said "outside," Stella looked at the button. See on Instagram Soon, Stella began to step on the button every time she wanted to go outside.They soon added more buttons that say "eat," "water," "play," "walk," "no," "come," "help," "bye," and "love you.""Every day I spent time using Stella's buttons to talk with her and teach her words just as I would in speech therapy sessions with children," she wrote on her blog."Instead of rewarding Stella with a treat for using a button, we responded to her communication by acknowledging her message and responding accordingly. Stella's voice and opinions matter just as our own do," she continued.If Stella's water bowl is empty, she says "water." If she wants to play tug of war, she says, "play." She even began to tell friends "bye" if they put on their jackets by the door. See on Instagram Stella soon learned to combine different words to make phrases.One afternoon, shortly after daylight savings, she began saying "eat" at 3:00 pm. When Hunger didn't respond with food, she said, "love you no" and walked out of the room.Today, Stella has learned over 29 words and can combine up to five at a time to make a phrase or sentence."The way she uses words to communicate and the words she's combining is really similar to a 2-year-old child," Hunger says of her blog.She believes her work has the potential to transform the bond between humans and dogs."I think how important dogs are to their humans," Hunger says. "I just imagine how much deeper the bond will be."Stella asks to play ball outside. See on Instagram Stella clearly wants some more breakfast. See on Instagram After a fun day at the beach, Stella wants to go back. See on Instagram Stella telling Hunger that she doesn't want her to leave to work.Login • Instagram See on Instagram Soon, Stella began to step on the button every time she wanted to go outside.They soon added more buttons that say "eat," "water," "play," "walk," "no," "come," "help," "bye," and "love you.""Every day I spent time using Stella's buttons to talk with her and teach her words just as I would in speech therapy sessions with children," she wrote on her blog."Instead of rewarding Stella with a treat for using a button, we responded to her communication by acknowledging her message and responding accordingly. Stella's voice and opinions matter just as our own do," she continued.If Stella's water bowl is empty, she says "water." If she wants to play tug of war, she says, "play." She even began to tell friends "bye" if they put on their jackets by the door. See on Instagram This article originally appeared on 11.08.19

If you just got married, chances are lots of people think they know what your life is like. These people are totally well-meaning! And also, mostly wrong. Being married isn't exactly like it used to be. Which is great, as there are so many different, amazing ways to be newlyweds than ever before. But it's also occasionally frustrating, as we newlyweds are frequently forced to dispel a lot of myths about our relationships.So let's get them out of the way in one fell swoop.Here are the most common (but mistaken) assumptions strangers make when you're a newlywed couple, and what our lives are really like.Assumption #1: We went on our honeymoon already, and we left right after the wedding.Reality: In our dreams, we definitely did — and we had a great time!In real life, however, most of us can't just take a week (or more) off work at will. The office is hella busy, and on top of that, we live in the only wealthy country in the world that doesn't mandate any paid vacation. Many of us were barely able to get the day of our actual wedding off (ultimately, we compromised with our manager and took a half-day).We're planning to get to it ... eventually. But it might be a while. We promise we'll send pictures!Assumption #2: We're going to have babies ASAP.Reality: We love being married! But, you know, we actually haven't decided? About babies? We're just enjoying being married right now. But we'll let you know when it happens. We promise.Assumption #3: We're going to move out of "the city" one day.Reality: It makes sense to assume that, like so many newly married couples in generations past, we're already planning our escape from our local metropolis to a less population-dense area TBD. But many of us who live in the city really, really like it! The city is great. There are good schools here. We can get nachos delivered at 3 a.m.! From either the good nacho place or the OK-but-cheap nacho place.Sure, some of us are planning to one day move to the 'burbs for more space (and many already are), but many of us aren't. And still others of us who already live in the suburbs are making the suburbs more like the city.Having a yard is really nice, but so is not having car insurance payments.Assumption #4: We feel superior to our second-cousin Frieda whose boyfriend of 19 years still hasn't proposed.Reality: Even though we're feeling pretty good about being married, Frieda and Richard are adults and get to make their own decisions — no matter what Aunt Cindy thinks. Maybe they have financial reasons. Maybe they decided a long time ago they don't want to be married. Maybe they believe marriage is an oppressive, archaic, patriarchal institution that they don't want to participate in, and also they're vegan now.In any case, leave Frieda and Richard alone.Assumption #5: We're going to have babies soonish.Reality: So, yeah. Like I said. Really haven't decided about babies. Keeping our options open. But probably not soon? You know?Assumption #6: One of us changed our last name.Reality: There's totally nothing wrong with couples who decide that one partner will take the other's last name, of course. But not all of us do. At least 1 in every 5 women decide to keep their maiden names, according to a New York Times survey. And if you haven't taken your partner's last name, it's kind of frustrating to constantly hear yourself referred to as Mr./Mrs. Someone Else (for opposite-gender couples, this pretty much applies exclusively to women).If you're not sure what last name to use, just ask! We'll tell you what the deal is.Assumption #7: We're having Guinness Book of World Records amounts of sex.Reality: For those of us who waited to have sex until marriage — which is, of course, totally cool — you might need a supercomputer to tabulate. But lots of us have been together for a long time already and may even have been living together already, so we're probably having whatever amount of sex is normal for us. It's just a regular part of our lives that throwing a wedding doesn't really have a magical impact on.After many years in a relationship, most of us take "Netflix and chill" quite literally. And seriously.Assumption #8: We've finished all our thank-you notes.Reality: Never. We'll be writing these until the end of time.Assumption #9: Hanging out with one of us means hanging out with both of us.Reality: We're still different people. Each of us is a self-sufficient being with free will. And we're probably totally down to hang out with you, even if our spouse isn't available.Except you, Greg. We're totally avoiding you.Assumption #10: We're going to have babies ever.Reality: So um, like I said, there's actually a chance we might never have babies? We might decide we don't want them after all. We might find out we can't — in which case, these questions might become extremely invasive and painful. We might adopt a child ... who's not a baby. We haven't figured it out yet.At the end of the day, It's kinda up to us, you know?Assumption #11: We never use the garlic press you got us.Reality: We use it all the time! Thank you so much!Assumption #12: One of us is going to stay home and take care of the house from here on in.Reality: Some of us might want to be a housewife or husband. Others of us shudder at the thought of giving up our careers, or urging our spouse to give up theirs. Still others of us might want to, but might not be able to forfeit the second income. There's really no right — or standard — way to do it anymore.Assumption #13: We both have all the same likes, dislikes, preferences, outlooks, and opinions now.Reality: My wife will never convince me to like jazz. And I will probably never convince her to like "Captain Phillips" fan fiction. And you know what? We're OK with that.For the things that matter, we're committed to presenting a united front. But we're still individuals with different thoughts, feelings, and opinions about what Tom Hanks was up to two weeks before the Somali pirates attacked, 'cause honestly, that's where the real drama of the story probably is.Assumption #14: We wear wedding rings.Reality: Some of us like wearing a physical symbol of our connection and duty to our spouse. Some of us don't as much. So we don't wear them. But don't worry! We're still extreme double married 5000.Assumption #15: Making us a pink cake that says "baby" on it is going to change our mind about babies.Reality: It won't. But we will definitely eat that cake.Assumption #16: Our lives are a lot different now.Reality: Beginning roughly seven seconds after we say, "I do," lots and lots and lots of well-intentioned people ask: "How does it feel?!" seemingly expecting to hear: "So much has changed! We got matching ponies! Being married really is a whole new world!" It feels like we're disappointing them when we answer, "Pretty much the way we did the day before the wedding." Which is silly, since there's no shame in that.For some couples, life is a lot different after marriage, and that's great. But if stuff is kinda sorta the same, that's OK too! Life was great before. That's why we decided to get married.Assumption #17: If we're not going to lay out a precise plan for having babies, at least we'll probably get a pet.Reality: OK. This one is true.This article originally appeared on 11.06.15

There was never just one moment in my family when we “found out" that my dad was an addict.I think I always knew, but I never saw him actually drinking. Usually, he downed a fifth of vodka before he came home from work or hid tiny bottles in the garage and bathroom cabinets.My name is Ashley, and I am the child of an addict. As a kid, I cried when our family dinner reservation shrunk from four to three after a man with glassy eyes stumbled through the door. I didn't guzzle the vodka, but I felt the heartbreak of missed birthdays. I feel like I should weigh 500 pounds from all the “I'm sorry" chocolate donuts. I had to grow up quicker, but it made me into the person I am today.I spent many years shouting into journals about why this was happening to me. But this is the thing that no one will tell you about loving someone who has an addiction: it will force you to see the world through different eyes.Here are some things I've learned:1. When your family's yelling about burnt toast, they're probably also yelling about something else.My family yelled about everything — and nothing — to avoid the messy stuff. We all handled my dad's addiction differently. My brother devoured sports. My mom took bubble baths. I slammed doors and slammed boyfriends for not understanding my family's secrets.Regardless of the preferred coping mechanism, everyone feels pain differently.2. Your "knight in shining armor" can't fix this.Boyfriends became my great escape when I was young. But when I expected them to rescue me from the pain I grew up with, it never worked out. No matter how strapping they looked galloping in on those white horses, they couldn't save me or fix anything.In the end, I realized that I had to find healing on my own before I could build a strong relationship.3. “Don't tell anyone" is a normal phase.When my dad punched holes in the wall, my mom covered them up with artwork. I wanted to rip the artwork down to expose all the holes, especially as a bratty teenager. But eventually I realized that it wasn't my choice. My parents had bills to pay and jobs to keep. I've learned it's common to cover up for dysfunction in your family, especially when it feels like the world expects perfection.4. Friends probably won't get it, but you'll need them anyway.Bulldozed by broken promises, I remember collapsing on a friend's couch from the crippling pain of unmet expectations. I hyperventilated. Things felt uncontrollable and hopeless. My friend rubbed my back and just listened.These are the kinds of friends I will keep forever, the ones who crawled down into the dark places with me and didn't make me get back up until I was ready.5. You can't fix addiction, but you can help.When I was a teenager, I called a family meeting. I started by playing a Switchfoot song: “This is your life. Are you who you want to be?"Let's skip to the punchline: It didn't work.It wasn't just me. Nothing anyone did worked. My dad had to lose a lot — mostly himself — before he hit that place they call “rock bottom." And, in all honesty, I hate that label because “rock bottom" isn't just a one-and-done kind of place.What can you do while you wait for someone to actually want to get help? Sometimes, you just wait. And you hope. And you pray. And you love. And you mostly just wait.6. Recovery is awkward.When a counselor gave me scripted lines to follow if my dad relapsed, I wanted to shred those “1-2-3 easy steps" into a million pieces.For me, there was nothing easy about my dad's recovery. My whole family had to learn steps to a new dance when my dad went into recovery. The healing dance felt like shuffling and awkwardly stepping on toes. It was uncomfortable; new words, like trust and respect, take time to sink in. And that awkwardness is also OK.7. I still can't talk about addiction in the past tense.Nothing about an addict's life happens linearly. I learned that early on. My dad cycled through 12-step programs again and again, to the point where I just wanted to hurl whenever anyone tried to talk about it. And then we finally reached a point where it felt like recovery stuck.But even now, I'll never say, “My dad used to deal with addiction." My whole family continues to wrestle with the highs and lows of life with an addict every single day.8. Happy hours and wedding receptions aren't easy to attend.My family will also probably never clink glasses of red wine or stock the fridge full of beer. I'm convinced happy hours and wedding receptions will get easier, but they might not. People get offended when my dad orders a Diet Coke instead of their fine whisky.Plus, there's the paranoia factor. Surrounded by flowing liquor, I hate watching my dad crawl out of his skin, tempted to look “normal" and tackle small talk with people we barely know. I've learned that this fear will probably last for a while, and it's because I care.9. If you close your eyes, the world doesn't just “get prettier."With constant fear of the unknown, sometimes our world is not a pretty place. I remember watching the breaking news on 9/11 and feeling the terror of the planes crashing into the Twin Towers as if I was there.My dad numbed the anxiety of these dark days with vodka, but this didn't paint a prettier world for him when he woke up the next day. I've dealt with the fear of the unknown with the help of boys, booze, and bad dancing on pool tables. Life hurts for everyone, and I think we all have to decide how we're going to handle the darkness.10. Rip off the sign on your back that reads: “KICK ME. MY LIFE SUCKS."Sometimes I look in the mirror and I see only my broken journey. In some twisted way, I'm comforted by the dysfunction because it's kept me company for so long. It's easy to let the shadow of my family's past follow me around and choose to drown in the darkness.But every day, I'm learning to turn on the light. I have to write the next chapter in my recovery story, but I can't climb that mountain with all this crap weighing me down.11. It's OK to forgive, too.Some people have given me sucky advice about how I should write an anthem on daddy bashing, or how to hit the delete button on the things that shaped my story.Instead, my dad and I are both learning to celebrate the little things, like the day that he could change my flat tire. On that day, I didn't have to wonder if he was too drunk to come help me.I can't forget all the dark nights of my childhood.But I've learned that for my own well-being, I can't harbor bitterness until I explode.Instead, I can love my dad, day by day, and learn to trust in the New Dad — the one with clearer eyes and a full heart. The one who rescues me when I call.This article was written by Ashley Tieperman and originally appeared on 04.27.16

Toronto-based animator and video wizard Kevin Parry has gone mega-viral for his mind-boggling collection of videos where he turns himself into random objects.In a series of quick clips he changes into everything from a pumpkin to a bright yellow banana and in most of the videos, he appears to suffer a ridiculous death. The videos combine studio trickery with a magician's flair.Parry is a self-taught stop-motion animation expert who cut his teeth working at Laika, the animation studio best known for films such as "Coraline," "ParaNorman," and "The Boxtrolls." But he's had so much success on social media he moved back to his hometown of Toronto to "do the YouTube/Instagram thing."Parry told Newsweek that the secret to his videos is speed."The inspiration for these transformations was to create the shortest possible videos with the most impact," he said. "I specifically made the balloon one to be 4-5 seconds long but to be as shocking and surprising as possible. That's why it starts with me falling—I thought what could be more scroll-stopping than someone falling face-first into the floor."This article originally appeared on 2.15.22

"It's the mooost wonderful tiiiiime of the — OH NO, did Charlie just ask if Santa is real?!"If you're a parent in a household that celebrates Christmas, you can likely relate to the dreaded Santa Claus conversation. It may come with tears, it may come with tantrums, and it may even be worse for you, seeing that heart-wrenching look of disappointment spread across your child's once-merry face.It's a dilemma Charity Hutchinson of British Columbia was pondering, as a mom to two young boys and the two nephews she cares for as well.One of Hutchinson's nephews raised the notorious question, telling her he no longer believed in Santa Claus."I felt sad because he seemed disappointed telling me his news," she explained in a message. "And in that moment I didn't know what to say to him."Hutchinson soon stumbled upon some advice online, finding what she described as “by far the best idea I’ve seen about telling your kids about Santa."The idea of Santa may seem frivolous to many adults, but to believe in something much bigger than yourself, only to learn you've been lied to by the people you trust most in the world? That can be a really big deal to a kid (and can possibly even create long-term trust issues for them, as one study found). The Santa conversation is one many parents understandably want to get right.So when Hutchinson saw one of her friends on Facebook share an anonymous post detailing a strategy for breaking the news to your kids without disappointing them, she was thrilled.Hutchinson loved the idea so much, she shared it on Facebook as well: This is by far the best idea I've seen about telling your kids about Santa. Had to share! *********"In our family, we...Posted by Charity Hutchinson on Tuesday, November 29, 2016This is how it works:1. Find a time to take your kid out, one-on-one, to a favorite spot and deliver the great news: The time has come for them to become a Santa."When they are 6 or 7, whenever you see that dawning suspicion that Santa may not be a material being, that means the child is ready. I take them out 'for coffee' at the local wherever. We get a booth, order our drinks, and the following pronouncement is made: 'You sure have grown an awful lot this year. Not only are you taller, but I can see that your heart has grown, too.'"The post suggests pointing to a few different examples of how your kid has shown empathy or done something nice for another person throughout the past year. Let them know it was in those moments they proved themselves worthy of finally "becoming a Santa" themselves.2. Assure your kid that they're ready to become a Santa because they understand the true meaning of giving (it's not just about the milk and cookies)."You probably have noticed that most of the Santas you see are people dressed up like him. Some of your friends might have even told you that there is no Santa. A lot of children think that because they aren't ready to BE a Santa yet, but YOU ARE."Get them talking about all the reasons they think Santa's the best. They may start out by pointing to his sleigh-riding skills or the fact he can go around the whole world in just one night. But move the conversation toward Santa being not so much of a cool person, but a cool concept that's focused on giving. Handing out presents makes the spirit of Santa a spectacular thing. Because your kid understands why giving back matters too, it's time they become a Santa themselves.Also, "make sure you maintain the proper conspiratorial tone," the post notes.3. Now that they're in on the secret, have them choose someone who could really use a great gift and devise a plan to give it away — secretly, of course."We then have the child choose someone they know — a neighbor, usually. The child's mission is to secretly, deviously, find out something that the person needs, and then provide it, wrap it, deliver it — and never reveal to the target where it came from. Being a Santa isn't about getting credit, you see. It's unselfish giving."In the original post, the writer explains that their oldest child decided to buy a gift for a neighbor who always walked out to get the newspaper without her shoes on. Their son spied on the neighbor one day from the bushes to estimate her shoe size — he predicted she wore mediums — and then slipped a pair of slippers under her driveway gate one evening with a note "from Santa." The following morning, the neighbor was spotted wearing the slippers. Their son was ecstatic. 4. Remind them that being a Santa is top-secret business. And that, next year, they can carry on with their selfless Santa duties once again."I had to remind him that NO ONE could ever know what he did or he wouldn't be a Santa. Over the years, he chose a good number of targets, always coming up with a unique present just for them." One year, for instance, he polished up a bike for a family friend's daughters. The writer's son was just as over the moon about giving the gift as the daughters were about receiving it.In a little over a week, Hutchinson's post has racked up thousands of Likes and shares, with plenty of thankful parents chiming in in the comments. "I never imagined it would be so popular!" Hutchinson explains. "I mean, it felt special when I read it and completely gave me goosebumps, but I didn't realize it would go this far." Where the original post came from is still somewhat of a mystery. As The Huffington Post reported, it seems to have first cropped up in 2007 in an online forum. Ever since, the idea has floated around the web here and there, but has only made waves recently with Hutchinson's post going viral.The secret of being a Santa, so to speak, has already worked its holiday magic on Hutchinson's once-suspicious nephew. Filling him in on becoming a Santa was an instant game-changer, she says."His eyes lit right up," she writes. "That excitement and joy returned to him and he couldn't stop asking me questions! ... Instantly I could see the wheels were turning and he started planning who his special target would be and what he would get them and how he'd pull it off."Hutchinson is happy her simple Facebook post has turned into something so special. "It isn't just a nice way to break the news to your kids," she writes. "But it really teaches them about the true meaning of Christmas and how you should always give to others."This article originally appeared on 12.09.16

Watch The X22 Report On Video 2 videos found Ep 3382b – WaPo Begins Change Of Batter Narrative, Does Trump Still Have ‘Foreign Policy Powers’ ? Ep 3382a – Another Green New Scam Company Folds, Why Interfere While They Are Destroying Themselves Click On Picture To See Larger Picture The entire green new scam is going down the tubes, no matter how many subsidies, mandates the people are still rejecting it all and companies are folding. Stores are closing, the economy is in a downward spiral, people are catching on. The WaPo has begun the change of batter narrative. They are pushing the idea that [HRC] should replace [KH]. The problem is how are you going to replace a black women for a white women, they can’t this is to wake the people up to the change. War is building and now Russia and NK have made a defense agreement. There is a new book out that talks about how Trump believes he still has foreign policy powers. Since the US was overthrown by domestic and foreign entities and they staged an insurrection against the President, the military has been activated and Trump is the Commander-in-Chief, welcome to COG.   Economy Solar Co. Collapses, Customers Furious as Dems’ Favorite Power Source Leaves Homeowners High and Dry  Titan Solar told employees on June 13 that it was “closing its doors” because no one would buy the company, according to Time. Titan said that it put solar panels on more than 100,000 homes. The fate of consumers who have panels on their homes and no one to maintain them is uncertain.   Over 2023 and 2024 to date, 16 major solar companies have filed for bankruptcy, Solar Insure reported. Green is falling apart. SUBSIDIES are great till there aren't any left. I found this on NewsBreak: Another Solar Company Goes Bust https://t.co/6A0Ne684Bq — Marie Santoro (@magszee39790) June 18, 2024 Webline of the day: "After 50 years and hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies, loads of regulatory advantages, & political support, solar power generated under 4 percent of America’s electricity in 2023, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)." w. — Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach) June 12, 2024 Source: thegatewaypundit.com Bidenomics: More companies announce bankruptcies, shutter operations, citing inflation Retailers are closing nearly 3,200 stores this year, according to a recent analysis from CoreSight Research. The closures are a 24% increase from 2023. U.S. drug stores and pharmacy closures led to 8 million square feet of shuttered retail space this year, the research company said. It also notes that retailers are losing inventory and customers due to retail theft. “Retail shrink” is closely connected to “organized retail crime,” it notes. Out of the 3,200 being closed, the majority are being closed by roughly 30 retailers, with Family Dollar closing the most of over 600, according to the data, CBS News reported. Tupperware is the latest to announce it’s permanently closing its last operating production plant in the U.S. in Hemingway, South Carolina. All of its 148 workers will be laid off, the first in September, followed by others in waves through next January. Tupperware announced its plans last week, stating it would continue to produce its products in a plant in Lerma, Mexico. Others closing stores this year include CVS Health, 7-Eleven, Rite Aid, Express, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Macy’s, The Body Shop, Soft Surroundings, Burlington stores, Foot Locker, Carter’s Big Lots, Dollar General, Abercrombie & Fitch Co., Big Lots, Best Buy and others, according to the CoreSight analysis. Source: justthenews.com Political/Right Political Earthquake! New Jersey Democrat KingmakerGeorge Norcross Indicted on Racketeering Charges George Norcross, who for decades was the Democrat boss and kingmaker in New Jersey politics, his brother Philip Norcross, and a few other defendants were charged in a 13-count indictment in a case pursued by the state’s attorney general Matthew Platkin. According to a 111-page indictment unsealed on Monday, Norcross lead a “criminal enterprise” in South New Jersey. “The entities that benefitted, including Cooper Health and [the insurance firm Conner Strong & Buckelew CSB] then occupied the properties they obtained interests in and sold the tax credits they obtained for millions of dollars,” the indictment said,  .   Excerpt from CNBC:  Source: thegatewaypundit.com https://t.co/MNVocOsYxR pic.twitter.com/szxXTjUuOL — ?ℎ???????? (@chiIIum) June 19, 2024 7 Oct 29, 2017 9:58:37 PM EDT Anonymous ID: Eka5Om1K No. 147167304  Why wasn’t HRC prosecuted for the EMAILS? Put simply, Obama ultimately OK’d by using the non govt email addy to communicate w/ Clinton. Obama also had an alias along with each of his cabinet members. Therefore indicting HRC would lead to indicting Obama & his cabinet etc which could never happen. Remember he lied about knowing but that ultimately came out in the dump. Poof! Hillary wasn’t prosecuted for the emails. Obama ultimately OK’d it by using the non government email address to communicate with Clinton. Obama also had an alias along with each of his cabinet members. Therefore, indicting Hillary would lead to indicting Obama & his cabinet etc, which could never happen. He lied about knowing which ultimately came out in the dump. Poof. 1504 Q !CbboFOtcZs ID: 0d582e No.1763103 Jun 15 2018 17:43:38 (EST) Anonymous ID: ea66c0 No.1762921 Jun 15 2018 17:33:28 (EST) >>1762906 Access KillsGMAIL DRAFTS???? >>1762921 What came out in IG report? JC gmail. They all had them. Re_read drops re: private emails re: convicting HRC = convicting themselves. Why did the entire Hussein admin use private emails? ES is KEY. What a wonderful day. Q Jim Jordan Threatens Letitia James with Subpoena Over Trump Prosecutor House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio threatened to subpoena New York Attorney General Letitia James on Tuesday for failing to comply with providing information his committee seeks regarding the top prosecutor in former President Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal case. On May 15, Jordan had written James seeking correspondence and other information regarding Matthew Colangelo, who previously worked in her office. “Mr. Colangelo’s recent employment history demonstrates his obsession with investigating a person rather than prosecuting a crime,” Jordan recounted. He has sent letters to all his recent employers, according to The Hill. Source: thegatewaypundit.com No one believes this. If this is all he had to do to reduce illegal immigration, why didn’t he do it three years ago? https://t.co/a7qT29lcHt — Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) June 19, 2024     CBS, NBC OMIT Reporting On Illegal Alien Rapist Caught In NYC  On the day that President Joe Biden announced his much-ballyhooed executive order on immigration, other immigration news broke. Most of the major networks omitted the story, as it does not reflect favorably on Biden’s immigration policy. Shockingly, the most Biden-sycophantic network reported on the arrest of the illegal alien child rapist that was busted in New York City after citizens intervened. Watch the report in its entirety, as aired on ABC World News Tonight  on Tuesday, June 18th, 2024: Source:  newsbusters.org  Geopolitical/Police State Obama says Bump stocks are legal In 2010 the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives determined that because bump stocks don’t have any moving parts, they are a “firearm part” and could not be regulated as a firearm under existing gun laws. The ATF reached a similar conclusion in 2012.  LAS VEGAS 2017 Trump says bump stocks are illegal Case brought to SC and they see they are legal  Now Republican senator blocks ban on bump stocks for guns brought by Democrats   Backed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., sought “unanimous consent” to pass his BUMP Act that would prohibit the devices, which modify semi-automatic weapons to fire bullets more quickly.   Senate Democrats sought to pass legislation Tuesday banning bump stocks for firearms after the Supreme Court overruled a previous ban, but a single Republican objected on behalf of his party, effectively stalling the bill. Source: nbc.com Milei To Implement Hardcore Security Measures Inspired by El Salvador’s Bukele to Combat Criminal Gangs  With falling inflation and interest rates, Argentine President Javier Milei turns his attention away from the economy, and gets real on the fight against criminal gangs. As his Security Minister visits El Salvador, we learn that Milei is considering emulating Nayib Bukele’s effective – if controversial – crackdown on violent crime. Telegraph reported: “  Source: thegatewaypundit.com War  CAUGHT IN THE ACT: Yale Illegally Concealed $15 Million in Donations From Qatar A shocking discovery has surfaced that Yale University failed to disclose over $15 million dollars in donations from Qatar, the Middle Eastern country that is housing senior Hamas leaders. The timing could not be worse for the university’s reputation after the antisemitism that has been displayed in colleges across the nation over the last eight months. The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) released a report detailing their findings. They claim that Yale received at least $15,925,711 from Qatar alone but only reported $284,668. In July 2019, at the Department of Justice (DOJ) in Washington, D.C., Dr. Charles Asher Small, Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), presented the findings of an ISGAP research project which began in 2012, entitled “Follow the Money.” This ongoing research project examines the illicit funding of U.S. universities by foreign governments, foundations, and corporations that adhere to and promote anti-democratic and antisemitic ideologies, with connections to terrorism and terror financing. The project revealed, for the first time, the existence of substantial Middle Eastern funding to U.S. universities (primarily from Qatar), which had not been reported to the Department of Education (DOE), as required by law. In fact, ISGAP’s research uncovered billions of dollars of unreported funds, which in turn led to the launch of a federal government investigation in 2019.   Source: redstate.com https://twitter.com/MoNDefense/status/1803239673617342499 Scenes from North Korea’s parade for Putin. It’s safe to say whose side the DPRK are on for WW3. Russia, China, North Korea, India, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Iran, etc., are all getting very friendly with one another, and Biden’s regime/NATO are entirely to blame. pic.twitter.com/f4UrME8TZQ — Clandestine (@WarClandestine) June 19, 2024 Kim Jong Un and Putin sign mutual defense pact as Russian leader visits North Korea Vladimir Putin’s rare visit to the reclusive state comes as he seeks ammunition for his war in Ukraine and vows to back Kim’s nuclear-armed regime against the United States.   Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a new pact Wednesday that includes a pledge of mutual defense if either is attacked. The agreement was sealed at a summit in Pyongyang during a rare visit by Putin to the reclusive nuclear-armed state as both countries face growing confrontations with the West. Source: nbc.com  Putin: Russia, North Korea will protect each other under new partnership Cyber Attacks False Flags Trump went against Fauci very early on during COVID, pushing to reopen schools while the media destroyed him for it. Well now even Fauci has admitted it was a mistake to keep schools closed. So the pattern continues: Trump proven right, Fauci and the Fake News proven wrong. pic.twitter.com/aiOXeAn7Sb — Patri0tsareinContr0l (@Patri0tContr0l) June 19, 2024 TAKE A LISTEN World’s largest pilot union calls to eliminate terms ‘cockpit,’ ‘manpower,’ other ‘masculine generalizations’ for ‘equity’ https://t.co/4GkMD8885R pic.twitter.com/jnqSuRpaI3 — New York Post (@nypost) June 19, 2024 Biden Regime Sends FBI to Intimidate Nurse Who Blew the Whistle on Texas Children’s Hospital’s Child Sex-Change Program (VIDEO)  The Biden regime has sent two FBI (SS) agents to intimidate a nurse who exposed controversial practices at Texas Children’s Hospital. Vanessa Sivadge, a registered nurse at Texas Children’s Hospital, saw a dramatic rise in the number of “transgender children” treated at the hospital beginning in 2021. These patients struggled with depression, anxiety, addiction, suicide attempts, physical abuse, and discomfort with puberty. However, instead of addressing these underlying psychological conditions, doctors at the hospital diagnosed them with “gender dysphoria” and assigned them to a regimen of “gender-affirming care.” When Sivadge voiced her concerns about this practice, she was visited by two FBI agents, Paul Nixon and David McBride, who told her she was a “person of interest” in an investigation targeting the whistleblower who had exposed the child sex-change program. “They threatened me,” Sivadge told Rufo. “They promised they would make life difficult for me if I was trying to protect the leaker. They said I was ‘not safe’ at work and claimed that someone at my workplace had given my name to the FBI.” WATCH:   More from City Journal:    Source: thegatewaypundit.com This is where we are now: The Biden Administration sent two FBI agents to intimidate a nurse who told the truth about the child sex-change program at Texas Children's Hospital. The regime is mobilizing to threaten and imprison anyone who opposes "transgender medicine." pic.twitter.com/XbtZVnp5Kw — Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) June 18, 2024 Climate Cultists Vandalize 3,500 Year-Old Rock Formations at Stonehenge to Battle Global Warning   Climate cultists spray painted the Stonehenge monuments with orange paint on  in their efforts to destroy Western civilization.   One brave woman attempted to stop the Climate cultists from their latest attack on modern civilization.   The Just Stop Oil criminal group were behind the act. The vandals were arrested. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, Stonehenge, prehistoric stone circle monument, cemetery, and archaeological site located on Salisbury Plain, about 8 miles (13 km) north of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. The stone circle is a major tourist attraction in England. The Just Stop Oil anti-humanists released a statement today bragging about their latest criminal act. Source: thegatewaypundit.com GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM ANNOUNCES 167% INCREASE IN RETAIL THEFT ARRESTS  Continuing to increase efforts to crackdown on organized retail crime in California, state law enforcement officials have made 636 arrests and recovered 216,754 stolen goods, valued at nearly $5.7 million, in the last five months. Compared to the same period last year, arrests are up 167%, recovered stolen goods rose 525%, with their estimated value up 140%.   Compared to last year, these increased efforts equal to more than half of all the stolen goods the taskforce recovered in 2023. Source: contracosta.news    The Fact is that states have stop reporting to FBI. Just a Community Note. All independent data shows a mass increase in crime. People have experienced it and people have witnessed it. pic.twitter.com/Kdz4LA7IRs — PhillyPhil (@FillyPhilonthez) June 18, 2024 I thought crime was going down, so why do they need more police. So now illegals who are criminals are going to arrest American citizens  Q This is what’s going on at the White House. They thought of this. Filmed it. Then posted it. Purposely. pic.twitter.com/bwso1zAPXD — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 19, 2024 Shot, chaser. Foia response suggests that someone lied about why the crooked J6 committee hid the transcript of Trump’s driver and other Secret Service agents. pic.twitter.com/wWXXjqKRts — FoiaFan (@15poundstogo) June 18, 2024 BREAKING: House GOP moves to reverse J6 committee subpoena against Trump advisors days before Steve Bannon is set to report to prison GOP Rep. Eric Burlison, Thomas Massie, and others in the House GOP have co-sponsored a resolution to rescind subpoenas from the J6 committee that were brought against Steve Bannon, Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino, and Peter Navarro. This would also immediately remove the contempt of Congress convictions, as if there were no subpoenas, there would be no contempt. Bannon is required to report to prison to begin his 4-month sentence on July 1.“It is past time for the House of Representatives to take action to begin undoing the harm that was caused by the illegitimate January 6th Committee,” Rep. Burlison said in a press release. “This is the right thing to do, and I hope all members of the House will join me in this effort.” Source: thepostmillenial.com   The resolution is sponsored by @RepEricBurlison. So far, the resolution has 24 GOP co-sponsors including Tom Massie, MTG, Andy Biggs, Jim Banks, and Anna Paulina Luna. We need every GOP vote to make this happen. Just a few issues with the J6 committee detailed here: pic.twitter.com/XfpDBvipTL — Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) June 18, 2024 Long-Time Washington Post Columnist Gives Crazy Reason Why Hillary Clinton Should Replace Kamala Harris on Biden’s Ticket  Longtime Washington Post Columnist Kathleen Parker wrote in a Friday column that combination of Biden’s dementia and Harris’s lack of competence has become even more pressing because the North Dakota legislature recently passed a measure that establishes an upper age limit for congressional candidates. Under the legislation, neither 81-year-old Biden nor 78-year-old Trump would be eligible to run. To alleviate the Harris problem, Parker suggests Biden ditch America’s first black vice-president with arguably the most hated and vilest person in American politics: Crooked Hillary Clinton. Parker also argues that putting Hillary on the ticket with Biden would rid the US of its “old-White-men dilemma” and ensure voters that someone capable would replace Biden if/when he has to resign. Parker writes: No one has mentioned her as a possible running mate for Biden as far as I know, but why not replace Harris with Clinton? That will go over well, replace the crazy Black Woman with a Crazy White woman? — Old School Eddie (@Old_SchoolEddie) June 18, 2024 Source: thegatewaypundit.com Democrat Mega Fundraiser Allison Huynh is now SUPPORTING PRESIDENT TRUMP She sells millions of dollars worth of Democratic memorabilia to Support President Trump “The Progressive Party has lost their Way…” pic.twitter.com/Df3jCbjdBy — ????? ???????? ?????? (@nomandatesco) June 19, 2024 The Guy Who Organizes Ballot Counting, Says Election Results Will Not Match Polling The number of ballots needed to change the outcome of the election, is essentially the determining factor in how many ballots the precinct workers in the key districts count. Most of the regional precinct workers in the key counties that change the elections, are affiliated with and originate from the AME church network. The African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, has precinct level ballot counting election operations (poll workers) in the key counties [Fulton (GA), Wayne (Mich), Philadelphia and Pittsburgh (PA), Clark (NV), Maricopa (AZ), Dane (WI), etc.]  The ballot counting doesn’t need to happen all over the state, just at the key urban county level. The DNC operation (Obama/BLM network) concentrates heavily on the ballot harvesting.  However, when they turn those ballots over to the county level precinct workers, that’s where the AME church network and South Carolina Representative James Clyburn come into play. {GO DEEP} The DNC no longer focuses on controlling the Secretary of State or Attorney General approach.  With the George Soros machine running the District Attorney level angle the democrats only need to concern themselves with the precinct level poll worker support.  Clyburn’s AME network is protected by the willfully blind George Soros DA’s.   It’s a one-hand washing the other-hand proposition. Clyburn knows his network can essentially run the ballot counting operation without fear or concern because George Soros has put the DA’s in their pocket.  And, with the media cooperating, if anyone raises an objection or notices something sketchy, the ballot gathering group have the RACE CARD to immediately play. If another 20 million actual American people vote for Donald J Trump the system has an offset.  The millions of illegal aliens who have entered the country are generating millions of additional ballots that might be needed.    The illegal aliens don’t need to vote, they just need to generate ballots by registering their physical presence in the correct state or county as needed.  The ballot collection and ballot counting groups will do the rest. Source; theconservativetreehouse.com  CDK Global cyberattack shuts down most dealership systems nationwide The DMS giant said it shut down most of its systems to contain problems as it works to address the issue and restore service. Source: autonews.com  U.S. spy agencies are ready to warn voters about foreign election interference — if it’s severe enough One intel official said a decision to warn the public would hinge on whether a foreign disinformation campaign was serious enough that it “could affect the election outcome.” U.S. intelligence agencies are closely tracking attempts by foreign adversaries to influence the 2024 election through “deepfakes” or other false information and are ready to alert the public if necessary, officials said Wednesday. A decision to notify the public about attempted election interference by foreign actors would be up to the leaders of the country’s intelligence agencies, including intelligence chief Avril Haines, officials from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI, told reporters. Source: nbc.com   They are building the narrative for two scenarios. First , if we use their ballot/computer systems and Trump wins they are now seeding the narrative that foreign governments assisted him in the win and thy will make the case that he cheated. Second, since we are headed towards war and they want to destroy their old financial system to bring us into the great reset, they could use this to stop the elections with some type of cyber attack. The elections will not be stopped but we will most likely use paper ballots with voter id. It will show Trump won by a lot.  They will claim he cheated, foreign gov assisted him in the win. No matter which scenario the outcome is the same, they do not want to give up power, they will try not to certify, they will push the idea that Trump supporters are angry and they are taking to the streets, they will have their foot soldiers made up of illegals, criminals and antifa dress up like Trump supporters, they will also have their foot soldiers who are not dressed up angry that Trump one. Swing state election boards engaged in legal battles over election certification ahead of November Republican and Democratic officials disagree over whether election boards must certify election results or if they have discretion over certification. county election boards in swing states across the country are engaged in legal battles over election certification ahead of the November elections, while others were threatened with legal action if they didn’t certify election results. With the presidential election less than five months away, county election board members are either initiating or find themselves the subject of legal actions over the certification of elections. That process occurs before the state can certify election results. The central issue is whether election boards must certify election results or if they have discretion over certification, with Democrats largely favoring the former option and Republicans believing the latter. Source: justthenews.com Trump appeared to believe he still had ‘foreign policy powers’ after leaving White House: Author  Former President Trump appeared to believe he still had “foreign policy powers” after leaving the White House, according to author Ramin Setoodeh, who interviewed the former president at length for a new book.  he   seemed to think that he still had some foreign policy powers,” he said Tuesday. “And there was one day, where he told me he needed to go upstairs to deal with Afghanistan, even though he clearly didn’t,” he said. Source: thehill.com

by Peter Schiff, Schiff Gold: As the U.S. economy progresses toward monetary catastrophe, individual states are taking action to preserve and enable the use of sound money. Utah recently passed HB 348, which took effect in May and authorizes the state to invest a portion of its funds in precious metals. State Representative Ken Ivory sponsored the bill, […]