By Laurie

04/08/2026

BREAKING: HOORAY! The newlywed wife of a US Army sergeant has been FREED from ICE prison after Sen. Mark Kelly stepped in to help!

Staff Sgt. Matthew Blank and Annie Ramos got married in March and were excited to start their new life together, living together on the military base where Blank lived in Louisiana.

But before they could even finish the check-in process, Ramos was swooped up by federal agents and thrown in a concentration camp with hundreds of other women to await deportation, where she was trapped for five days.

Democratic Senator Mark Kelly stepped in and called new DHS chief Markwayne Mullin and secured her quick release. Even though Trump’s goons are still making her suffer the humiliation of having to wear an ankle monitor, she can at least put her wedding ring back on, which ICE made her remove.

“I am grateful to God for being with me during this hard time, and for having my husband and family supporting me,” Ms. Ramos said.

“I feel awesome. Relieved,” Sergeant Blank said. “These have been the worst days of my life.”

It turns out that Sen. Kelly had met Matthew while he was deployed to Europe last year. “I never imagined that after meeting Matt during his deployment to Poland last year, I’d be on the phone with him and his wife today as she was released from ICE detention,” wrote Sen. Kelly on Twitter.

“I’m happy Annie is back with her husband and family where she belongs. They never should have gone through this painful process, but far too many families like theirs are because of this administration.”

We’re also very happy. Now we need to secure the release of EVERY innocent immigrant locked up in Trump’s disgusting gulags and put an end to Stephen Miller’s mass deportation schemes for good.

Thank you, Sen. Kelly, for doing the right thing and taking action to right this terrible wrong. You can always rely on a Democrat to step in and help.

04/07/2026

With Brian D. O'Sullivan - Author – I'm on a streak! I've been a top fan for 17 months in a row. 🎉

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03/23/2026

Jaclyn's Jewelry and By Laurie will be at the Erie County Conservation League Craft Show this Saturday March 28th 10am-4pm. We will have handcrafted jewelry and stained glass fan pulls.

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02/22/2026

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02/22/2026

"Why Isn’t This Map in the History Books?
The ancestors of living Native Americans arrived in North America about 15 thousand years ago.
Native Tribes of North America Mapped
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As a result, a wide diversity of communities, societies, and cultures finally developed on the continent over the millennia. The population figure for Indigenous peoples in the Americas before the 1492 voyage of Christopher Columbus was 70 million or more.
About 562 tribes inhabited the contiguous U.S. territory. Ten largest North American Indian tribes: Arikara, Cherokee, Iroquois, Pawnee, Sioux, Apache, Eskimo, Comanche, Choctaw, Cree, Ojibwa, Mohawk, Cheyenne, Navajo, Seminole, Hope, Shoshone, Mohican, Shawnee, Mi’kmaq, Paiute, Wampanoag, Ho-Chunk, Chumash, Haida. Below is the tribal map of Pre-European North America.
The old map below gives a Native American perspective by placing the tribes in full flower ~ the “Glory Days.” It is pre-contact from across the eastern sea or, at least, before that contact seriously affected change. Stretching over 400 years, the time of contact was quite different from tribe to tribe.
For instance, the “Glory Days” of the Maya and Aztec came to an end very long before the interior tribes of other areas, with some still resisting almost until the 20th Century. At one time, numbering in the millions, the native peoples spoke close to 4,000 languages. The Americas’ European conquest, which began in 1492, ended in a sharp drop in the Native American population through epidemics, hostilities, ethnic cleansing, and slavery.
When the United States was founded, established Native American tribes were viewed as semi-independent nations, as they commonly lived in communities separate from white immigrants.
Native Tribes of North America Mapped
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01/09/2026

BREAKING: After successfully forcing a vote, Democrats have officially passed their bill to extend lifesaving Affordable Care Act subsidies in the House.

The bill now heads to the Senate.