May you Fall in love with October and all the beauty it brings, May your life be as colorful as the turning of the leaves, On each blessed autumn day ~Charmaine J. Forde 🧡🤎🍂🧡🤎🍂🍂🧡🤎🤎🧡🍂

NEVER EVER FORGET how the celebrated Death to America

RT @Adi13: Raw 9/11 footage by Park Foreman / taken from near State and Clinton Streets, Brooklyn. United Airlines Flight 175 was the secon…

25 years ago, thousands of Americans were living one of their last ordinary mornings. A father kissed his little girl goodbye before heading to work. A wife said, “Love you. See you tonight.” Coworkers laughed over coffee. People boarded planes believing they’d be home for dinner. They had no idea they were living through the final ordinary moments of their lives. Within hours, 2,977 innocent people would be murdered by Islamic terrorists. Mothers. Fathers. Sons. Daughters. Brothers. Sisters. Firefighters. Police officers. EMTs. First responders who ran toward the danger while others ran away. They never got to grow old. Never got another birthday. Never celebrated another Christmas. Never watched their children graduate. Never walked their daughters down the aisle. Never got one last hug. Never got to say goodbye. They simply never came home. And while the world kept moving, thousands of families were left behind to carry that loss for the rest of their lives. We are still here. That is not something to take for granted. It is a responsibility. A responsibility to remember the innocent lives stolen that day. A responsibility to honor the heroes who ran into hell to save strangers. A responsibility to tell the truth about what happened and who did it. And a responsibility to make sure the evil that came for us never gets mistaken for something we should appease. We fight for the ones who never made it home. We stand for the families who never got to say goodbye. We remember the Americans whose futures were stolen from them. 25 years later, their lives still matter. Their names still matter. Their memory still matters. Never forget what they did. Never forget who did it. Never forget the cost of forgetting. Never go soft. Never surrender. 🇺🇸

Paul said in 2 Thessalonians, “God will pay back those who persecute you. And He will provide rest for you who are being persecuted.” God sees the injustice. He sees you doing the right thing, taking the high road. Your time is coming STAND TALL 🙏♥️🙏

Not everyone will understand your journey, and that’s okay. God sees your intentions, your struggles, and your heart. Keep moving forward with faith. ❤️🙏

The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good. Proverbs 15:3

Happy Birthday, Vice President @JDVance! Grateful for your leadership and how hard you work for everyday Americans. Wishing you a fantastic day! 🇺🇸

3/ The Fraud Industrial Complex - Post 3 of 3... The Federal Grant blind zone... a Project On Government Oversight review of the 60 largest domestically focused federal assistance programs examined approximately $958.6 billion in fiscal 2024 grant spending... More than 74 percent, approximately $712.6 billion, could not be traced through publicly available federal data to a specific county, city or ZIP code... Only 20.7 percent of grant funding carried local information at the prime award level... subaward reporting recovered visibility into only another 5 percent... and just 0.2 percent of approximately $614 billion in federal Medicaid funding could be traced to the local level through the data reviewed... Nearly 97 percent of 2.4 million transactions used duplicated descriptions... meaning the public record frequently showed that money moved while revealing little about the specific work, recipient network or final location beneath the award... That does not "prove" $712.6 billion was stolen... it exposes the architecture that makes theft, waste, diversion and institutional failure extraordinarily difficult to separate at scale... we see it... The federal government can identify the state or prime recipient... the state can identify an administering agency... the agency can identify an approved intermediary... the intermediary can identify a provider... and the provider can submit an invoice, attendance record, prescription, diagnosis, service log or eligibility file... Yet the public system often cannot connect the final dollar to a verified person, place and outcome... Now the layers lock together... it's easier to see now... DOGE opened the federal books... GAO quantified the improper payment environment... Minnesota exposed the nonprofit and provider extraction template... California exposed state scale fragmentation across multiple program surfaces... and the federal grant report exposed the upstream visibility gap capable of feeding every layer beneath it... This is the system of systems... The appropriation layer supplies the money... the federal agency layer defines the program... the state layer distributes the funding... the intermediary layer creates distance... the provider layer generates claims... the documentation layer converts claims into payment... the financial layer moves the proceeds... and the reporting layer compresses the entire story back into a generic award description... By the time the public sees the transaction... the human purpose has disappeared behind codes, entities, reimbursements and administrative language... That is how extraction becomes visible... It does not require one command center controlling every fraudulent transaction... it requires repeatable incentives... weak verification... fragmented databases... self generated documentation... delayed audits... incomplete subaward reporting... and a payment culture designed to release money before the full chain is tested... The architecture scales because the template scales... Food... housing... healthcare... disability... unemployment... education... research... universities... nonprofits... contractors... foreign entities... Different "moral" cover, paperwork, and recipients... same structural opening... Now the response is beginning to mirror the architecture... Trump’s March 2026 Task Force to Eliminate Fraud was directed to connect federal, state and local efforts... strengthen identity and eligibility verification... establish controls before money is disbursed... detect cross program schemes... examine providers and intermediaries... disrupt the movement of fraud proceeds... and consider withholding federal funds from jurisdictions that fail to implement adequate safeguards... Treasury is moving the checkpoint upstream as well... A new verification process screened more than 885 million federal payments totaling approximately $2.77 trillion... identified more than 4,900 payments worth about $99 million associated with deceased payees... and returned those payments to the originating agencies for review before the funds were disbursed. That is the phase change... The old system paid first... discovered patterns later... prosecuted individual actors years afterward... and recovered fragments after the extraction network had dispersed the money... The emerging system maps first... verifies first... connects databases first... traces recipient networks first... and pauses questionable payments before public money becomes private wealth... This is why the Fraud Industrial Complex suddenly appears to be everywhere... The fraud is distributed because the funding is distributed... the extraction is layered because government is layered... the blindness is systemic because accountability breaks at the handoffs between systems... DOGE did not reveal one scandal... it opened the first layer of an architecture embedded inside the movement of public money itself... Minnesota gave the architecture a face... California gave it scale... the federal grant report gave it a circulatory map... and once the layers are stacked... thousands of disconnected cases begin resolving into one coherent machine... The Fraud Industrial Complex was not hiding inside one program... it was living in the space between them... Now, we see it clearly...

A man who tells the truth doesn't mind being questioned. Only a liar does. A truthful man welcomes transparency. He has nothing to hide, so he has nothing to fear. His story doesn't change when you ask again. His details don't get fuzzy when you dig deeper. But a liar gets defensive immediately. He flips the script and makes you the problem. "Why are you questioning me? Don't you trust me?" He uses your reasonable concerns to make you feel crazy. He weaponizes your need for clarity against you. A truthful man provides access without you having to demand it. His phone isn't locked with a password you don't know. He doesn't guard his devices like they contain state secrets. He doesn't angle his screen away when you walk by. He doesn't snatch his phone when a notification comes through. A liar creates secrecy and calls it privacy. He needs his "space" but monitors your every move. He demands trust but gives you every reason to doubt. He gets angry when you ask questions he should easily answer. He makes you feel like you're being controlling for wanting honesty. A truthful man's actions match his words. He says he's at work, and that's where he actually is. He says he's with his boys, and his boys can confirm it. He says he'll call, and he calls. His life is an open book because he's writing nothing he'd be ashamed of. A liar's story never quite adds up. Small details don't match. Timelines don't make sense. His version conflicts with what others say. He remembers things differently every time you ask. A truthful man admits when he's wrong. He owns his mistakes without deflecting. He apologizes without making excuses. He takes accountability for his actions. He doesn't gaslight you into doubting what you know is true. A liar will make you question your own sanity. He denies things you clearly saw or heard. He tells you you're remembering wrong. He convinces you that your intuition is paranoia. He makes you feel like you're the problem for noticing his lies. Your gut already knows the difference. When someone is telling the truth, you feel peace. When someone is lying, you feel uneasy. Your intuition picks up on the inconsistencies. Your body knows before your mind accepts it. Stop letting him convince you that your need for honesty is unreasonable. You're not crazy for wanting transparency. You're not insecure for needing consistency. You're not controlling for expecting the truth. You're not asking for too much. If he's getting angry that you're asking questions, he's hiding something. If he's making you feel bad for needing clarity, he's manipulating you. If he's calling you paranoid when your concerns are valid, he's gaslighting you. If he's deflecting instead of answering directly, he's lying. A man with nothing to hide, hides nothing. A man who values you wants you to feel secure. A man who loves you eliminates your doubts, not defends his secrecy. A man who's trustworthy doesn't punish you for seeking truth. Trust your gut. It's trying to protect you from what your heart doesn't want to accept.

Accept what is. Let go of what. Have faith in what will be.

Every corner blooms in new shades of joy, Life glows bright in every color under the sun.✨💐

🇺🇸 The Pledge of Allegiance Written in 1892 to unite a growing nation, the Pledge of Allegiance remains a powerful reminder of our shared values: freedom, unity, and justice for all. In a diverse country, it binds us together and honors the ideals that make America exceptional. A daily affirmation of gratitude and civic pride. What does it mean to you? #PledgeOfAllegiance #USA #Unity