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On May 10, 1775, the Green Mountain Boys captured Fort Ticonderoga, New York. The Green Mountain Boys were led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold. They surprised and captured the fort’s small British garrison. The cannons and other armaments captured at Fort Ticonderoga were later transported to Boston by Colonel Henry Knox and used to fortify Dorchester Heights and break the standoff at the siege of Boston. — May 10, 1837: New York City banks failed and unemployment reached record levels. (The Panic of 1837.) — And on May 10, 1971 US special delivery rates were increased from 45 …
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After more than 20 years of making daily SurvivalBlog posts, I am nearing the point of exhaustion. I realize that I have been spending far too much time online. My editing pace simply has to change. So, after some prayer and deliberation, I have decided to switch SurvivalBlog to a weekly format. Henceforth, you can expect to see: Starting on or about June 2, 2026 SurvivalBlog will be posted on Tuesdays, and perhaps the occasional Thursday, if the Tuesday posts get too crowded. So you can expect to see SurvivalBlog “Fresh Every Tuesday.” (Echoing the late, great Ol’ Remus.) We …
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The latest meme created by JWR, with wording and a photo suggested by SurvivalBlog reader Mike R.: Meme Text: I Demand That President Trump… Immediately Opens The Straight Vermouth Notes From JWR: Do you have a meme idea? Just e-mail me the concept, and I’ll try to assemble it. And if it is posted then I’ll give you credit. Thanks! Permission to repost memes that I’ve created is granted, provided that credit to SurvivalBlog.com is included.
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“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his …
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he thinks Russia's conflict with Ukraine is coming to an end, addressing reporters after a scaled-back military parade in Moscow marking the Soviet victory in World War Two.
"I think that the matter is coming to an end," he said, referring to the "special military operation" in Ukraine, while condemning Western support for the Kyiv government.
Russia's annual parade lacked the usual display of tanks and missiles, due to security concerns as authorities feared Ukraine might target Red Square with drones.
A last-minute ceasefire between Moscow and Kyiv, brokered by US President Donald Trump, reduced the danger of any attack and the parade passed off without incident.
Of course, Putin has talked peace before and it meant nothing. But if Trump's efforts lead to peace, the Democrats will lose it even more than they have already
Boliek is sounding the alarm on potential waste, fraud, and abuse within the state’s Medicaid program, specifically calling out in an interview with Fox News Digital a 47,000% explosion in autism therapy billings that he has flagged since taking office last year.
"Those are vital services to folks and individuals that need that therapy," Boliek said. "But when you have, like in North Carolina, a system that went from $1.4 million or so in total billings for autism therapy to more than $660 million a year in billings on autism therapy within a five-year range, that begs an audit from the state auditor, who in North Carolina, we are the top watchdog agency for taxpayer waste, fraud, and abuse prevention. So we've dug down into that or in the middle of that."
There has long been concern that additives have caused the dramatic increase in autism. I think i see a more likely reason.
Will My Wife Outshoot Me Now? Rangefans, did I screw up? Some time ago, my wife asked me to build her a lightweight Ruger 10/22 setup. I delivered exactly that a lightweight rifle that turned into an absolute shooter. Fast forward a few years, and now she’s decided she wants something a little heavier for […]
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So, YouTube claims that the US Navy is using lasers as weapons in the strait of Hormuz.
I was personally using lasers in the M60A3 in the mid-80s. We used them for ranging and we thought that the ability to do so was high-tech, whizbang science. Now, the Navy is shooting down drones with them.
Well, this is the 21st century.
I am not the only one thinking about the upsides of inconvenience, it seems; there is even a term, frictionmaxxing, to describe the trend of people resisting the lulling ease of screens. On a Saturday morning when I do not have to help a friend move, I am in bed scrolling Instagram. One video features what appears to be an elder millennial saying that he wants the nineties back. He wants a VCR. He wants old-school arcade machines that you have to feed with quarters. He wants a Walkman and cassette tapes to put in said Walkman.When you're in front of the arcade game, you are playing that game, when listening to the Walkman, you're listening to that album. When you're reading a dead tree book, you're reading that book. When you're photographing with a camera instead of a cell phone, that's all you're doing: taking pictures.
On May 9, 1754, the first newspaper cartoon was published in America. It depicted a divided snake with the words “Join or Die” by Benjamin Franklin. It was published in The Pennsylvania Gazette. — May 9, 1916: A wind-blown fire in Ellendale, North Dakota destroyed three blocks of businesses, a church, and 21 homes. — Today’s feature article is a guest post from our friend Brandon Smith, the editor of the Alt-Market.us blog, which we highly recommend bookmarking. – JWR — We still need entries for Round 124 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. More than $984,000 worth of prizes …
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Editor’s Introductory Note: This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group and is re-posted with permission. Maybe the most prominent economic discussion circulating today is the fear that the vast majority of people have been priced out of housing markets for the rest of their lives, regardless of the country they live. Gen Z and even Gen Alpha teens are already planning for a future in which buying a home is impossible. Those that are buying are aiming for cost efficiency and they are buying alone (prioritizing savings and home ownership over marriage). This …
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To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This is something akin to our Retreat Owner Profiles, but written incrementally and in detail, throughout the year. We always welcome you to share your own successes and wisdom in your e-mailed letters. We post many of those — or excerpts thereof — in the Odds …
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“And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and …
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A student turned in a paper that cited The Puritan Moment: The Influence of Protestant Thought on Early American Political Culture (Oxford University Press, 1998). Worldcat.org cannot find it in any library worldwide; books.google.com has not heard of it; a general Google search does not find it. There is a similarly titled book: William Hunt, The Puritan Moment: The Coming of Revolution in an English County (Oxford University Press, 1983).
IL Leads Nation In Mass Shooting Frequency: Study [More] Damn FOID card holders…
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One class I took at this year’s RangeMaster Tactical Conference was Phill Groff’s, focusing on qualifications. The qualification shoot in one form or another is required for virtually all armed American law enforcement, and some states require qualifications for concealed carry permits for private citizens as well. Phill, a Marine no longer in service and […]Communist, socialist activists push 20-hour workweek, property seizures as presence at protests grows – Activists say factories, mines and businesses should be placed under collective control [More] Are you sleeping, bourgeoisie? There’s never a Chilean helicopter around when you really need one. Say, who’s up for some Minnesota DFW “gun control”? To paraphrase Dr. Banner: … Continue reading "Shirkers of the World Unite!"
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TMZ posted a video of OnlyFans models shooting guns at a Texas gun range. And out of everything they could have blurred… They blurred the gun. [Watch] Kapo Harvey Levin… motivated by money but a real bagel brain when it comes to existential rights. [Via Jess]
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[W]hen Bradley was asked why he took the laptop, he said he was doing Holland a “favor.” “I kept it for his courtesy, like I said with his phone, key and wallet,” Bradley told investigators. “It’s my mistake. I forgot to give him his stuff back and he tracked it.” [More] And he only got … Continue reading "We’re the Only Ones Courteous Enough"
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In 1845, John L. O'Sullivan (1813-1895), editor of the Democratic Review, referred in his magazine to America's "manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions." student moved it to 1839 because of a secondary source.
Because I knew this was wrong, I went searching for where O'Sullivan first used this phrase. Indeed, it was 1845.
But extending my search range to earlier years, I found that he was not the first American to use that phrase, and in that general sense.
As a store manager, Teeter knew the timing of cash transfers within the business. In each robbery, a masked gunman entered the store, forced an employee into the manager’s office or accessed the manager’s office using a code provided by Teeter or her co-conspirator. The gunman then robbed the employees and fled through a rear … Continue reading "Inside Job"
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Richard Kelly, the Clinton County Sheriff, and Ashley Kelly, the county’s former jail matron, have pleaded guilty after they were accused of using a company to receive payments from the jail’s commissary fund. [More] Snouts in the trough… And talk about a captive audience… [Via Steve T]
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When the subject of recoil management comes up, we’ve noticed that an element of machismo often comes with it. Who cares if a weapon kicks like a mule? Lean into the recoil and suck it up, princess! say the self-proclaimed experts with their chests puffed out. Admittedly, you shouldn’t be developing gnarly shoulder bruises after shooting a 10/22, but recoil... moreIt should, of course, be noted that The Trace doesn’t seem to have reached out to anyone at the ATF, the NSSF, the NRA, GOA, SAF, or any other gun rights organization, advocate, or journalist. They could reach out to Brown, of course, but no one else. No attempt to get a balanced take on … Continue reading "Kicking Over The Trace"
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Friend Burt emails me to say that the U.N. Climate Panel Quietly admits Its Doomsday Climate Scenarios were completely "Implausible".
They've been admitting this for years and years. Here's a post from the archives from 2019:
Climate scientist Judy Curry testified before Congress, and this is really interesting:
Some people (including one of the Members) took issue with the following statement in my testimony:“Based upon our current assessment of the science, the threat does not seem to be an existential one on the time scale of the 21st century, even in its most alarming incarnation.”I referred to AR5 WGII:“Every single catastrophic scenario considered by the IPCC AR5 (WGII, Table 12.4) has a rating of very unlikely or exceptionally unlikely and/or has low confidence. The only tipping point that the IPCC considers likely in the 21stcentury is disappearance of Arctic summer sea ice (which is fairly reversible, since sea ice freezes every winter).”
The IPCC is the same "U.N. Climate Panel" getting headlines today. The IPCC Assessment Reports are the "State of the Science" reports they release every five years. They are considered the Gold Standard for establishment science, and they've been very quietly burying exactly this point for a long, long time.
The only thing they've given up is keeping these scenarios for the screaming headlines.
The only thing interesting here is why they are doing this now? I think it's the mad dash to AI, with AI datacenters springing up everywhere. Each of these has a ravenous power appetite, and the (very wealthy) folks behind AI have told the IPCC to tone down the climate alarmism.
Money talks, so the mainstream climate science establishment walks.
Through tears in court, Paulino said he’s not only sorry, but that he also intends to repay taxpayers the $248,929.02 he still owes. [More] How? And if he can’t make good on that pledge, why should we believe he’s sorry about anything other than having been caught? [Via bondmen]
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Southwest Airlines Under Fire After One of Their Flight Attendants Calls for President Trump’s Assassination in These Absolutely Sick Social Media Posts [More] On Facebook…? What happened to “community standards“? [Via bondmen]
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LONDON — Early results Friday from nationwide elections in Britain suggested a historic drubbing for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party and sweeping gains for hard-right Reform U.K., led by Trump ally Nigel Farage.... [emphasis added]
Labour losses and Reform gains were no surprise; polls had long telegraphed the direction of travel just two years after Starmer led Labour to power in a 2024 landslide. However, with votes still being counted, the scale of Labour’s losses appeared epic.
Reform won hundreds of local council seats in working-class areas in England’s north, wiping the ruling party out in places like Hartlepool that were once solid Labour turf.
Farage called it “a truly historic shift in British politics” and that Labour was being “wiped out by Reform in many of their traditional areas.”
Reform is hostile to Labour's enthusiasm for making Britain more multicultural by allowing largescale immigration from the Third World. The Pakistani child rape gangs, short-lived NHS support for incestuous marriages, are all perfectly good reasons for the support Reform enjoys. Deporting illegal immigrants, having police go after violent criminals instead of prosecuting Britons using antisocial media, rebuilding British military power (whose weakness was shown recently by their inability to get a ship to Cyprus in a timely manner), backing away from net zero.
Hard-right. What is happening is that much as Democrats abandoned blue collar and middle-class Americans for the far more trendy LGBTWTF, illegal immigrant, and millionaire segments (to the benefit of Republicans generally and Trump specifically), Labour abandoned their traditional base.
‘Bluesky Goes Full Panic’ After Fired Trump Official’s Anti-ICE Website Doxxes Almost 18,000 Leftists [More] Finally, a registration list pro-illegals leftists don’t like… And they seem like such nice people… [Via bondmen]
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Around 35 archived gigs of official Gatalog releases. [More] “Whats that?” you say… As long as we’re highlighting resources to be aware of, this one looks interesting. [Via TactiCool Memes]
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Oppose 2026 Assembly Bill 1743! Write to YOUR representative today! [Watch] Yeah, they could use a good laugh. [Via Jess]
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CBP seizure of firearm suppressor at JFK leads to Connecticut arrest and seizure of 39 firearms, explosives, and other contraband… CBP officers assigned to JFK’s international air cargo operations identified an inbound shipment from Hong Kong as high risk for possible contraband. [More] But…but…but… So, who’s committing”human rights violations” now? [Via WiscoDave]
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Last night when we closed the shop, Zach's car was charging with 13.8 volts DC, but the concern was if he had killed the battery when he drove it home with a dead alternator. We had made plans for him to get to work if the battery had become an issue, but when we locked the shop last night, his keys were on the roof of the car, along with his shop key.
Zach has to be at work a 5:00 am, and PawPaw ain't normally awake when he leaves the house. I awoke this morning to see the backup plan was still in the driveway, and when I walked out to the shop, his car was gone. I guess he figured it out.
Currently, the dawg and I are out in the shop. It's thundering and lightning and rain is pattering on the steel roof. Ain't nothing happening outdoors this morning and judging from what the weather weenies are telling me, this afternoon may literally be a wash. I have biscuits in the oven, and I can find something to occupy me here in the shop.
Y'all have a great weekend.
Virginia Dems split on DOJ probe of Soros-backed DA accused of giving ‘sweetheart deals’ to illegal aliens – Investigation follows string of murders in Fairfax County involving illegal alien repeat offenders… [More] At least he hasn’t dropped the ball on confiscating guns from citizens who haven’t even been charged with a crime, let alone convicted … Continue reading "A Matter of Priorities"
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Are Biometric Gun Safes Finally Good? [Watch] For what? Maybe for you. Not for me. That is, if I had any guns, which everyone here knows, of course, I don’t. Nast, evil things, always going around killing people…
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Trump admin releases highly anticipated files… [More] No, not the ones Pam Bondi sat on… These won’t really tell us anything, either. The truth is in there.
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SPD said that officers responded to reports of a suspect with a gun around 8:15 a.m. in the the 4100 block of Adriatic Sea Way.
The suspect tried to rob the victim at gunpoint, but the victim disarmed the suspect and apprehended him, police said.
- Norwegian F-35s tracking Russian Tu-95 Bears along NATO's northern flank.
- Real time video deepfakes make it easier to scam people live.
- The Russian school training the next generation of hackers, scammers, and influencers, all the better to mess with your mind and shape your opinions.
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Speed Reloads Richard puts the concept of a speed reload into a context I hadn’t really thought about before. If you run out of ammo in a gunfight, a quick reload might be lifesaving. […]On May 8, 1792, British Captain George Vancouver sighted and named Mount Rainier, Washington. — Also on May 8, 1792, Congress passed the second portion of the Militia Act, requiring that “…every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years be enrolled in the militia.” — Today is also the birthday of Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek. — The feature article today is a guest post from our friend Jennifer Rader — a name that should be familiar to SurvivalBlog readers. We …
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Editor’s Introductory Note: The following is an excerpt from the book Armageddon Pharmacy: Herbal Medicine When the Drugstore Is Closed. Jennifer Rader is a SurvivalBlog reader and one of our writing contest prize donors. – JWR John D. Rockefeller, America’s first billionaire, is credited with saying “a pill for every ill.” Prior to his pervasive influence on medicine—prior to closing schools that taught natural medicine, herbs occupied a respected position in American medical practice. However, herbs can’t be patented, and Rockefeller was all about making money. Thus began our transition from herbal medicine to pills, from solving many of our …
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In Economics & Investing Media of the Week we feature photos, charts, graphs, maps, video links, and news items of interest to preppers. Today’s map illustrates the economic importance of our nation’s seaports and maritime waterways. It is noteworthy that Lewiston, Idaho is classified as a port city. (It handles a large volume of grain, log, and wood chip barge traffic.) The thumbnail below is click-expandable. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) Economics & Investing Links of Interest Storied toolmaker closes its last hometown plant—and blames its tape measures. Texas emerges as the top destination for companies leaving blue …
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“The free market is not a creed or an ideology that political conservatives, libertarians, and Ayn Rand acolytes want Americans to take on faith. The free market is simply a measurement. The free market tells us what people are willing to pay for a given thing at a given moment. That’s all the free market does. The free market is a bathroom scale. We may not like what we see when we step on the bathroom scale, but we can’t pass a law making ourselves weigh 165. Liberals and leftists think we can.” – P.J. O’Rourke
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A group of Canadian schoolchildren were forced to flee a theater performance about Indigenous rights after a drag queen began gyrating and 'putting their boobs in kids faces.'
Campbell Collegiate students in Saskatchewan were pulled out midway through a performance at the Globe Theatre this week after the 'production reached levels of maturity beyond expectations,' according to teachers.
I guess that i should be pleased that the teachers realized that indigenous rights claims mattered less than sexual depravity. Admittedly, it is Saskatchewan a fairly conservative part of Canada
Got up this morning and promptly got involved in a little fender bender near the house. No one injured, just sheet metal and plastic. Got the police out to work it and then called the insurance folks. Took the car to a body shop. Ate lunch. Belle cooked chicken and dumplings. On the way home from the body shop, I stopped at Harbor Freight and bought a jump pack. Call it intuition. I needed one anyway. I have an old-style wheeled battery charger that will jump a car, but the new ones are so much nicer.
After lunch, Grandson Zach shows up with car problems. Dead battery, car won't start. Jumped off the car, with the new jump pack, got it in the shop, then started the diagnosis. Called an expert, got the bad news. Alternator. Zach's car in an '04 Toyota, so there is that.
Pulled the old alternator, went to the parts house for a fresh one. Taught him how to put in an alternator. He did it, not me. The car is running and we have 13.8 volts DC. Life is good.
I'm hoping the battery in his car holds a charge, but it is still under warranty. We'll worry about that tomorrow.
I believe that it is the cocktail hour.
MANSFIELD, OH - Early investigation shows three men from the Columbus area went to Pine Bridge Apartments, 135 E. Cook Road, looking for a 25-year-old Mansfield man.
Chief Jason Bamman said Sylas Daequan Miller, 25, of Mansfield, allegedly shot Marcus Napoleon Wilson, 22, of Reynoldsburg, in an apparent act of self-defense Sunday.
Wilson was taken to OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. He was driven there by Correll Amsbaugh, 21, and Kendrell Moxley, 20, both from the Columbus area.
During an argument between Hodges and the truck’s driver, later identified as Keyon Jamel Tate, 39, Hodges walked to the trunk of his vehicle, retrieved a machete and approached the truck’s occupants while waving the weapon, officials said.
Tate then fired multiple shots, striking Hodges, and fled the scene.
Investigators interviewed several witnesses in the area who corroborated the events captured on surveillance video, according to the release.
Witnesses also said that this incident stemmed from an ongoing dispute between Tate and Hodges, including a prior argument roughly two weeks earlier in which Tate was reportedly injured by Hodges with the same machete.
It’s almost like all freedoms are interconnected or something, and that an unrestrained government powerful enough to control guns is powerful enough to do whatever it wants. [More] They’ve fouled their nests. Now they’ve come to foul yours.
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I would not raise an American flag at my house because I wouldn’t…I wasn’t even born here. [More] But she can rule here. Who let her in, and how did that help “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity”? How do such people take the required oath? To be admitted and to … Continue reading "The New ‘American’"
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Yes, They Want Trump Dead. They Also Want You Dead. [More] You don’t say. [Via bondmen] Tangentially-Related UPDATE Luke Skywalker does, too: A lot of Democrats liked and reposted it. And now it looks like someone is trying to make it disappear. Textbook…
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This means that of the three percent of U.S. homicides carried out with rifles, a portion might have been carried out with lever actions, another portion might have been carried out with bolt actions, another portion with pump actions, another with semiautomatics, and yet another with AR-15s, etc. [More] Don’t worry. The grabbers want to … Continue reading "You Gotta Start Somewhere…"
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Part art piece, part futuristic dream, and only $12,000 to own. The Elysien Eagle is not your average range blaster.