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Thursday, September 18, 2025

Sept. 2025 Four Flags Area Niles (MICHIGAN) Apple Festival

 Details

fourflagsfestival.org/

Saturday 1:30 p.m. Grande Parade

from Downtown to High School, 17th street

near

Apple Festival Grounds /

parking area ($5)

FREE ADMISSION to

Craft Fair, Festival Stage

(concert performances)

Apple Pastries, Cookies,

Pie, Cider -- no pets,

no concealed weapons/knives,

only explosives will be

FIREWORK display on Sat.

after dusk / sunset

BANDS who've performed

in past Festivals : Hey Annie,

Touch of Texas, 1985 Band

Vikings play Otsego, Friday Sept. 19, 2025

7 p.m. Eastern

9/19/2025

Niles (MI) plays

Otsego, MI

at Niles FB Field (17th street on

East Side of town)

following weekend is the Annual APPLE

FESTIVAL (Niles, MI 49120)

a 26.5 point favorite: Home team meets Purdue Boilmakers (Big Ten conference, ranked #16)

 The 89th meeting of the independent FB

powerhouse and the Big Ten near-neighbors

from LaFayette, Indiana -- Hoosiers all !

Their record after 3 games this Aug. - Nov.

season is 2 - 1. -- 0-1 in Big Ten games

Saturday SEPT. 20, 2025

3:30 p.m. Eastern in the

"House that Rockne Built" FB Stadium,

Notre Dame, IN

Seating capacity 80,795

BIG Ten data at Mlive.com

"Big Ten Power Rankings"

Sept. 18, 2025

Kicking the can down the road (instead of solving by next 12 days : Sept. 30)

 Speaker of the House Mike Johnson

(2nd in Presidential Succession)

opted to hold open until

Nov. 21 a budget

resolution vote instead

of accepting Appropriations

budgeting from his own

party's chairman/men --

also appropriating on his

and the initiative of Trump-
Vance

another $58 million for

security for the Exec. Branch

and the SCOTUS justices & staff.

When is the Autumnal EQUINOX or Fall EQUINOX or "First Day of Fall"?

 September 22, 2025

2:19 p.m.

Political Violence must be treated equally when it comes from Leftist and from MAGA - extremists inevitably

 Governor Josh Shapiro

whose Exec. Mansion

was attacked by an

Arsonist // Political

influencer - podcaster

Kirk who was assassinated

by a lone gunan

_______________________

Treat such arson, assassination,

point-blank shootings as equally

abhorrent and indicating a social

pathology and murderous hatred

that comes from a political

spectrum and continuum ! ! !

nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/

gov-josh-shapiro-political-violence

rcna231658

Tuesday Sept. 16, 2025

House of Repr. lawmakers (435) to get double for personal security assistance per month

POLITICO.com

reports that the Summer 2025 pilot program

can double to $10K per month for personal

security that will be extended until 11/21/25

under the "stopgap funding patch" that

majority party wants to pass this week ahead

of another break in the fall for holiday break (Jewish

high holidays).

September

October

November

Speaker of the House is Mike Johnson (2nd

in the Presidential Succession).

politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/17/congres/

house-lawmakers-get-10k-per-month-for-personal-

security-following-kirk-assassination-00570037

Barron Trump -- now a sophomore at NYU (Washington, DC satellite campus for Business School)

 In the POLITICAL News

Sept. 16, 2025

section of USA TODAY dot-com

editors/reporters let it slip that

Barron Trump (age 19) is now living at

1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

in the personal quarters

along with his mother (FLOTUS)

and other relatives while he attends

his second year of College required

and elective courses at NYU.

That D.C. campus began its fall

semester of classes at the end of

August.

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Trump overlooks history when he elevates his visit

 It's a singular privilege to be

the First President welcomed here

[ other presidents have, of course,

been welcomed at state dinners

by Elizabeth II over the years at

her home BUCKINGHAM PALACE ]

160 persons in the dining room

Media Barons, (specifically

RUPERT MURDOCH)

Financiers,

Politicians,

Tech Moguls (for example

TIM COOK of Apple)

PEPPERED IN THE MIDST WERE

Trump 2.0 Cabinet secretaries &

senior staff from highest level . . .

Seating Chart at 900-year-old castle was a cross-section of U.K. Richest

 September 17, 2025

coverage of the POTUS & FLOTUS

state dinner hosted by King Charles and Queen

Camilla for the wealthy and powerful :

9/17/world/Europe/trump-uk-state-visit-banquet-royals.html

Brendan Carr

 FCC Chairman has "pulled" from

nightly TV Talk Show the

ABC 11:30 p.m. program

"Jimmy Kimmel Live"

September 17, 2025

Pragmatism over Polarization - Friday 19th 1 p.m. - Spencer Cox - Student Center, Univ. of Notre Dame

details at WVPE.org

(NPR affiliate - Elkhart public radio web page)

Friday Sept. 19, 2025

1 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern

Duncan Student Center

Ballroom

FREE

Open to the Public

Governors

Spencer Cox

Michelle Lujan Grisham

of Utah and New Mexico

respectively

also information at

ND dot-edu/

Election replaced with Xp Lee (D) at Minnesota House (St. Paul, MN) seat held by assassinated Melissa Hortman

 

ONCE Polls close this is the result between

Xp Lee (D) will be

the Minneapolis area

new Repr. in the Minnesota

House.

Galilee Medical Center -- Emerg. Medicine presentation

 Dr. Khalen Atalla

emergency medicine director

Nahariya, Israel

PRESENTATIONS:

Memorial Hospital Thurs. a.m.

ST. Joseph Med. Ctr. Wed.

Jewish Federation South Bend,

7 p.m. Sept. 17, 2025 -

register online ahead of time

as community members.

Election Result in Minnesota - to fill seat of Melissa Hortman (D) killed by assassin along with husband & family dog

MPR News (Minnesota Public Radio) -- reports that

state election officials / district / precinct inspectors

and duly confirmed officials who were in that AREA verify that

Ballots have been counted in Minneapolis-St. Paul area;

the voters in our democracy have elected as the House

Repr. to act in the MINNESOTA House as

XP LEE (Democrat)

Wed. Sept. 17, 2025 .

After being sworn-in with election certification

he will join an equally divided legislature ( D & R exactly equal).

see mprnews.com/story

_____________________________________________

In an act of political assassination, State Repr.

Melissa Hortman was attacked point-blank

at her Minnesota home and executed along with

her husband and golden retriever by an

assassin who also then shot others in a path

of deliberate political violence.  The special election today

between Xp Lee (D) and Ruth Bittner (R)

in the suburbs of Minneapolis will provide representation in the

Minnesota House of Representatives but mark a point to move

on in the evenly split State legislature by settling the essential

tie that was brought since July's Extreme-Right attacker that 

terrorized the state (Land of 10,000 lakes).

Earthquake - Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture

 Southwestern Japan

was hit by a moderately

strong earthquake today

SEPT. 17, 2025

Magnitude 4.7

Intensity lower 5 on scale

that peaks at 7; no threat

of tsunami.

UPDATE From Sept. 2024 - Disbarment

One year later -- 

Giuliani must pay $1.3 million to former

lawyers, judge rules

NYTimes.com/2025/09/17/nyregion/giulani-lawyers-fees.html


9/25/2024 Washington, DC Court of Appeals has disbarred the

former NYC Mayor and former U.S. attorney

Rudolph W. Giuliani

from practicing law in District of Columbia

7/12 -- Judge dismisses Giuliani's Bankruptcy case

He must pay his debts/ judgments of $153 million

primarily to election workers in Georgia who he

defamed [ Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss ]

NYTIMES.com/2024/07/12/us/politics/giuliani-bankruptcy-case-dismissed.html


July 2, 2024

Trump's former lawyer and legal adviser has been 

officially disbarred today by the NY State

Supreme Court -- the ruling - decision is due

to his election interference and lying for

his client, Donald J. Trump (predecessor POTUS).

cnn.com/2024/07/02/politics/

rudy-giuliani-officially-disbarred-in-new-york/index.html

Spencer Cox Sept. 19, 2025 aftn. "Democracy Talks" Notre Dame Democracy Initiative for UT Gov. Cox & NM Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham

 events.nd.edu/

events/09/19/2025

Friday CAMPUS of

Notre Dame, Student Center

PRAGMATISM OVER POLARIZATION

Free and open to the public ; as seats are available

MODERATOR is

John McGreevy, Provost.

Qatar royalty feted by Trump, Witkoff; Al-Thani; Rubio feted in Jerusalem by Netanyahu after Qatar strike

UPDATE: Dinner at NY City

two real estate developers

Trump + friend Steve Witkoff

Sept. 12, 2025 -- Trump 2.0 will meet

with Qatar's prime minister

in New York City, NY

TRUMP TOWER

see details AXIOS.com/  they will discuss the outcome

of the Doha attack by the IDF and its boss, Bibi Netanyahu

_______________________________________________

Mohammad bin Abdulrahman

bin Jassim Al Thani

tells U.S. that the Doha Attack

is "an act of betrayal"

jpost.com/middle-east/article-867124

Jerusalem Post

Sept. 11, 2025 15:57

Further GOP senators who are M.D.'s

 Roger Marshall (R - Kansas)

Rand Paul, opthamalogist (R - KY)

raise questions in Monarez hearing about

Vaccine Hesitancy and the CDC --

she was Senate-confirmed director for 4

months before her firing by Trump.

Q / A

one Senator , a Jr. Senator from Oklahoma,

Claimed there was a recording of her firing

but the chairman of the Committee (Senate Health)

said no such recording existed -- HHS RFK, Jr.

demurred on having any "evidence" to confront

the witness before the Senate hearing.

Neighbor to Neighbor

 Thrift Store -- 9147 State of Michigan

139 (Old 31) near 

Andrews Univ., Berrien
Springs, MI

Tuesday - Thursday only

10 a.m. til 4 p.m.

Donations accepted :

details at n2nhelps.com

a ministry of Adventist

Community services.

phone first 269-471-7411


Sat. October 18, 2025 10 a.m. Free

 The annual WALKING TOUR

of Silverbrook Cemetery (Niles 18th- 21st

century burials) will be 

Sat. October 18, 2025

(annual tradition) at 10 a.m.

Entrance to use is E. Main Street on

East Gated section.

Free to all interested / guides

and re-enactors / History

Center volunteers will help

you learn and answer your

Questions / Comments for the

"Friends of Silverbrook Cemetery"

Niles, Michigan 49120

(South BERRIEN County, SW

Michigan)

Will "See you in Valhalla" become popular in non-MAGA conversation? Like "Later, Alligator"?

 Closing line from

FBI Director to his

BFF

the late Charlie Kirk

who was assassinated in a campus appearance

in Orem, Utah earlier this month

Celebrate CONSTITUTION Day

 September 17 annually

ratification of U.S. Constitution by majority

of 13 colonies / commonwealths

in year

1787

Will FBI Director see Charlie Kirk "in Valhalla" ?

 Preliminary comments before

U.S. Senate grilling Tuesday.

Sept. 16, 2025 --

the "afterlife" for devotees of

Norse mythology?

Susan Monarez - Microbiologist Ph.D -- facts known June 25, 2025

UPDATE: Monarez who was fired by Trump 2.0 after

2 months' tenure as CDC Director -- will testify alongside

Dr. Debra Moury on 

Sept. 17, 2025.

_______________________

Acting director of the CDC, Atlanta, GA

who replaced as a Trump-Vance nominee Dr. David Weldon.

She is a microbiologist Ph.D.

no one before her as a CDC Director nominee was not herself/himself

a Medical Doctor

Monarez' HEARING Before a Senate committee is today (June 25, 2025) 

Susan Monarez - her Senate Health Cmte. testimony Wed. 9/17/25

 Fired by POTUS Trump 2.0

after only 2 months in the job

as

CDC Director,

Susan Monarez [Ph.D in

Microbiology] will testify

before the U.S. Senate Health

Committee in a C-Span live

event open to public viewing

along with

Dr. Debra Houry M.D. who 

recently resigned as the

CDC's chief medical officer.

Currently the "acting head" of

the CDC is RFK Jr.'s aide

Jim O'Neill (has B.A. and M.A.

in Humanities, Yale & Univ. Chicago).

RFK, Jr. who was Senate-confirmed

is by career choice an environmental

lawyer with his J.D. and membership

in the legal profession (not medical

credentialed).  Two of the GOP-MAGA

senators (Cassidy Louisiana and Barasso

Wyoming) are medically certified as

M.D. in their respective states.

Charles & Camilla have overnight guests at Windsor Castle mid-September 2025 (welcomed back from prior invite 2019 when his mom was "in charge")

 Trump 2.0 on social media

I look forward to saying

hello to Charles & Camilla;

it's going to be incredible.

It's such a great honor

Assassin of United Health Care CEO will not stand trial for terrorism charges

 The judge in his case has ruled that

second-degree murder charges could stand

in the upcoming Criminal trial in Manhattan,

NY City, NY

mid-September 2025

Luigi Mangione

- - - his victim's

name was Brian

Thompson, CEO

United Health Care

Governor Tim Walz of St. Paul, Minnesota

 The 2026 race for Minnesota's will include the

incumbent Tim Walz

He announced his candidacy for the November 2026

race on Tuesday Sept. 16, 2025 almost

14 months before the first Tuesday in November 

statewide election.  Likely opponents might be:

Scott Jensen, who Walz defeated

in 2022 by a 6-point margin.

details: The Hill.com/ homenews/

campaign/5505657-minnesota-gov-tim-

walz-2026

Don Bacon (GOP House Rep. from Omaha)

 THE HILL reports that

Don Bacon (R but not MAGA) House Repr. from

Nebraska's urban / purple district denounced Trump

"Mr. President, Putin 

is the invader . . .

you'll be judged in history

books by your actions

or lack thereof. . ."

thehill.com/homenews/house/5502201-don-bacon-trump-russia-ukraine-war/

September 13, 2025 (Saturday) 1:26 p.m. Eastern Time posted

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

What are the "radicalizing" social media platforms?

Meta

Reddit

TikTok

X (originated as "Twitter)

____________________

impacted political violence

across the political divide /

spectrum - range of rhetoric

and divisive issues / wedge

matters of political engagement

Casey Means pledges to divest profit-based Investments-endorsements (Sept. 16, 2025)

nominee for Surgeon General promises after disclosures

of her business investments / profit-making endeavors

to

liquidate holdings in Personal Devices, supplements, tech

FURTHER (Mid-September)

NYTimes.com/2025/09/16/health/casey-means-

financial-investments-surgeon-general.html

 BTW she has an M.D. degree but was never certified as

a physician under state licensure . . .


May 7, 2025 -- her nomination Dr. J. Nesheiwat has been

withdrawn -- in her place Dr. Casey Means from Fox News

SHE WILL NOT appear Thursday May 8 at the Senate

Health Committee -- and will maintain some places in

RFK Jr. HHS cabinet agencies and working committees . . .

________________________________________________

November 23 last year 2024

Physician and FOX News contributor

Janette Nesheiwat

markets Vitamin B & C dietary

supplements

[ medical degree from

University of the Caribbean

Medical School ]

announced by Trump-Pence

on X / Twitter by newly re-elected

POTUS #DJT

[requires Senate approval after hearing]

further info -- Houston CHRONICLE ONLINE

interview with Dr. Peter Hotez MD, PhD

Horse-drawn carriages, cannonade salutes, ruffles & Flourishes at the Windsor CASTLE

"Trump leaves tense America for a 

2-day Royal Retreat" (NY Times

online article with updated details)

nytimes.com/2025/09/16/world/Europe/trump-UK-visit-royals-britain.html

FLOTUS Melania will be feted by king-to-be

Prince of Wales William / Princess Kate

___________________________________

there will be a carriage procession and inspection

of the military-costumed troops: Trump 1.0 famously

walked ahead of the 99-yr.-old sovereign (Charles' mother)

breaking protocol of many decades/royal traditional etiquette

____________________________________________

luncheon, laying of memorial floral wreath at tomb of

Charles' parents, Elizabeth II and her royal consort,

Prince Philip Mountbatten (of Greece Royal family)

_____________________________________________

on the outs will be Prince Andrew who previously

guided the Trumps' family visit of Westminster Abbey;

he too was a long-time BFF and financial associate

of Jeffrey Epstein, now discredited real estate mogul

and convicted sex offender . . .

Midwest Premium Kosher Market (9/16/25) NOON - til closing : Downtown South Bend, IN

 Midwest Premium Kosher

MARKET

Grand Opening and Ribbon

Cutting

221 W. Wayne, South Bend, IN

features cooking demonstrations

and tips for Rosh Hashanah

prep with Shani Cramer :

also a chance to win a beautiful

charcuterie board; 

delicious samples

Tuesday Sept. 16, 2025

Did Donald Trump meet Princess Diana? Yes he admits

 Telling

"Good Morning Britain"

yes, the two met in a celebrity meet-and-greet

when both were shaking hands of the guests and

hosts/hostesses -- he thought she was very nice

and appreciated her friendly rapport with the public

[ a charity dinner in Manhattan, NY in 1995 ]

What Woody Allen feature film has Donald J. Trump as a cameo during shots at Hotel and Casino?

 Celebrity (1998)

imdb.com/title/tt0120533/?ref_=tt_ov_ql_3

Stars on the Hollywood "Walk of Fame"

Did you know that 

Movie Star / later Governor of California

Ronald Reagan

and TV actor / competition series Reality "star"

Donald Trump

were the only Presidents / Chief Executives to 

have their own

STARS

on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?

It's true. . .

maybe you would count Martin Sheen as 

"Josiah Bartlett" as a POTUS ?  he got the star in 1989. . .

or Josh Brolin as "W"/ George W. Bush who got a star in 2021 

Buchanan Michigan LIBRARY -- Documentary Movie Night

 October 15, 2025

[ 30 days from now ]

"Origins and History of

Benton Harbor, Michigan's

HOUSE OF DAVID

amusement park,

Baseball team, 

leader Benjamin

Purnell's sex scandal. . .

LIBRARY IS

128 Front Street

Phone : 269-695-3681

Librarian M. Paulette

Is there equal "night" and equal "day light hours" on the Equinox next week?

 No

12 hours and 8 minutes for 
DAY

11 hours 52 minutes for

NIGHT

TikTok -- Trump delays ban yet again (Sept. 16, 2025)

As expected,

POTUS Trump 2.0 has delayed the ban

for a Fourth Time

of TikTok media platform so that China

Govt. and its official owners 

ByteDance

can

"Make a Deal" -- Sept. 16, 2025 3 p.m. Eastern

TikTok

is a

Video App.

Justice Sotomayor: Concerned that American voters can't distinguish between "Presidents" and "Kings"

Who in this list is a Royal / Sovereign ?  Who is

a Constitutional figure with a term-limit?

Camilla Parker-Bowles Windsor

Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor

Donald John Trump of the Queens, NY Trumps

Melania of the Slovenian Knauss family  

HHS RFK Jr. blindsided CDC with firing of Susan Monarez, nomination of Retsef Levi (August 28)

CDC Director refuses to leave job --

as Senate-confirmed CDC Director she

can only be fired by Trump himself . . .

________________________________

BREAKING NEWS : CDC Nominates

vaccine Skeptic

Retsef Levi

to be new COVID-19

immunization workgroup

Chairman - Aug. 25, 2025

_____________________________________

mNexspike -- the new generation

COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine is made in a way

that allows for a lower dose. . . ABC News

update - breaking news May 31, 2025

______________________________________

RFK, Jr. of the Health, Human Service branch 

Cabinet-level Secy. -- blindsided the CDC, Atlanta

with his changes and drawbacks of COVID-19

vaccine recommendations . . . Washingtonpost.com

May 28, 2025 8 p.m. Eastern (online coverage)

_______________________________________

NPR reports that today (Tuesday April 15)

is a morning meeting of the CDC advisory

committee on Immunization Practices . . .

RFK Jr. will be present after the initial meeting

with the Senate-approved Cabinet Secy. was

canceled/postponed in early Feb. 2025.

They typically hold meetings 3 X a year; 

to be covered are reports from CDC staff

on HPV vaccines, COVID, and Flu vaccine

development.  Signs of political interference

may be subtle . . .

npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/15

Susan Monarez - july 29 approval by U.S. Senate from Trump 2.0 nomination -- fired by Sept. 2025

First CDC Director

without a medical degree in

70 years -- 

approved by the U.S. Senate from

Donald John Trump nomination

npr.org/ see News

Willa's Books and Vinyl : KC, Missouri locally-owned vintage Bookstore -- has KC Defender on its side

 kansascitydefender.com/

kansas-city/missouris-oldest-

black-bookstore-faced-closure-

the defender (!) pulled up

FBI Director engages in shouting match

 September 16, 2025

When asked about recent

prison interview with

Ghislaine Maxwell by top

deputy of Atty.General Pamela

Jo Bondi, he insulted the Jr.

Senator from CALIFORNIA

in a "sustained outburst" --

apparently has a "short fuse"

and never learned to stifle

his aggressive side. . .

Mobile Legal Aid - Adult Program - NDL - Thursdays

 Niles District Library

phone 269-683-8545 

Berrien County

Niles, Michigan 49120

MOBILE LEGAL AID

Sit down with legal

navigators from Lincoln

Township Library volunteers

who are "navigators"

trained to assist individuals

in accessing legal information,

completing forms, identifying

community resources through

the Michigan Legal Help

website.  No lawyers present.

No early or pre-registration

required for the 1 - 3 p.m.

time allotments Thursdays

November 14 & 21; December 12 & 19,

2025

LOCATION : Board Room near Computer Lab

1st floor -- accessible to wheelchairs / walkers

Original Sin : Alex Acosta

The State Atty. General of Florida

Alex Acosta

committed an "original sin"

when he charged Jeffrey Epstein

in 2006 and forgot to charge his

associates, even the one later charged

Ghislaine Maxwell . . . 

The child of FLOTUS and POTUS 47

Trump invades his own 19-yr-old's son's privacy by admitting

publicly that Barron is "very Hurt" by the assassination of

Charlie Kirk in Orem UTAH last week.  There is a long-

standing taboo / prohibition about discussing the children

of POTUS and FLOTUS among the world press and

media platforms.


Barron (b. 2006) is now 19;

he speaks English, Slovene (the language of Slovenia :

his mother's native language, his Knauss grandparents'

primary language, his aunts / uncles native/first/only

language

He not only has grown stepbrothers (2) and Stepsisters

(2) even as a baby he had four nieces 

Kai Trump (born 2007)

Arabella Kushner

Chloe Trump

Carolina Trump

and NEPHEWS (a seventh - Alexander Trump Boulos

born May 2025)

Donald Trump III,

Tristan Trump,

Spencer Trump,

Joseph Kushner

Theodore Kushner

Eric Trump.

According to Biography dot-com,

Barron Trump has always lived a life of luxury, enjoying

an entire floor of the personal suite of the Trump family, his

mother & father quarters in Trump Tower, New York City.

Melania at times admitted that she would call Barron,

"little Donald" because his personality is so like his

father's : very strong-minded, very special, smart,

independent, opinionated.

After his father's first election (majority of the Electoral

College : Nov. 2016) he moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.,

D.C. on June 11, 2017, nearly five months after Trump and VP

Pence took the oath of office Jan. 20, 2017 and moved into

D.C. housing (the Pences dwelled at the Naval Observatory :

Mrs. Karen Pence and children and pets/companion animals).

Barron graduated with H.S. Diploma from Oxbridge Academy

Palm Beach, FL in May 2024 at the age of 18.  His major in

college is business at the NYU Stern School of Business.

source = biography dot-com / PEOPLE dot-com

Robert Redford, esteemed Director, star of several dramatic films, has died at age 89

 OBITUARY forthcoming

He died Monday at his home in Sundance

in the mountains of Utah

according to his management : Rogers & Cowan

______________________________________

father of 4, married twice, 7 grandchildren

U.S. Senate Oversight of Kash Patel (FBI) - he blames Alex Acosta as "Original Sin"-ner for how he sided with Jeffrey Epstein

 c-span.org/event/senate-committee/fbi-director-kash-patel-testifies-at-oversight-hearing/436283

Tuesday Sept. 15, 2025

The Senate Judiciary Committee

begins at 9 a.m. Eastern

C-Span 3

Sept. 30 deadline for Congress and the Executive Branch to fund the government

 Among measures being considered for immediate passage are

increased security for Congress

reprs. and Senators (100).

When lawmakers return from

August recess / Labor Day

break-vacation, both Houses

of the Legislative branch are

expected to work to solve

the federal Budget / Debt Ceiling

that can close the entire government.

Speaker Johnson recently dismissed

his HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES

due to pressure to release the Epstein

Files . . . how this will be resolved is

quite uncertain. . .

Prayer Vigil ahead of Annunciation SCHOOL re-opening

UPDATE: Minnesota Public Radio online news

Annunciation School, Minneapolis is set to re-open

today (Sept. 16, 2025)

more students to be welcomed back for some campus

activities and a modified schedule.

MPRnews.org/story

____________________________________________ 

Pray for the children from Wed. a.m. Mass

Shooting at

Annunciation R. Catholic church, Minneapolis, MN

August 27, 2025

join with

Teachers,

Students, 

Nurses,

as well as police officers.

One such victim was 12-yr.-old Sophia Forchas

in critical condition after undergoing surgery

she is no longer in CCU.

abcnews.go.com/

grief-turns-hope-minneapolis-rallies-kids-hurt-school

Trump's popularity in the U.K. (Scotland, England, Wales, N. Ireland)

 16%

YouGov poll cited in BBC story

on midweek visit of POTUS

FLOTUS to Windsor Castle

for 48-hour visit with royals

Charles & Camilla . . .

bbc.com/news/articles/c4gw25w9841o

Chris Meyer / Walter Giardina falsely accused by Kash Patel as agents in charge during 8/2022 Mar-a-lago Documents search (then fired abruptly Feb. 2025)

UPDATE: of their FBI status

as long-time Washington DC FBI agents

NYTimes.com/2025/09/16/us/politics/kash-patel-fired-fbi-agents.html 

Details about the right-wing podcaster ACCUSER

Kyle Seraphin who falsely spread rumor

with his accusation about FBI mid-level

agent CHRIS MEYER.

Windsor Castle -- pre-arranging for mid-Sept. POTUS + FLOTUS state visit to King & Queen residence

 "Drones to police from the skies"

Sept. 17 - 19, 2025

details at BBC.com/news/articles/cwylpp2x82do

during visit of Pres. & Mrs. Trump to stay with

King Charles and Queen Camilla

Monday, September 15, 2025

Biography of right-wing MAGA conspiracy theorist Assassin (husband, father of 5) - - - July 19, 2025

 Periods of religious zealotry,

unsettled professional careers

stops and starts in Food Service

and Funeral Home errand-running

[ his "hit list" included Democratic pol.

party officials, also health care staff,

public servants, all told 40 individuals ]

TEAM Coverage by

Dan Berry, Ernesto Londonyo,

and Ruth Graham (Religion writer)

2025/07/19/us/Minnesota/ _assassin First Name, Surname_

Do NOT remember the name of this Assassin

of Green Isle, [ who was apprehended there in the largest

Minnesota man-hunt ever the June evening / sunset

that ended Father's Day]

MN nor blame the children he and 

his wife home-schooled

[ the night of his lethal rampage, he sent a message to them

via social media : "Dad went to war last night" ]

but instead memorialize the public servants he killed and 

injured : John Hoffman and spouse; 

Melissa Hortman, a gifted

and outgoing public servant

and her spouse.

The assassin's wife maintains

in her email response to such

journalistic background requests:

the bloodshed was a "betrayal."

His spray of automatic rifle

gunfire also injured some and

led to lethal injuries for the

Hortman's golden retriever.

[ in court room comments and in exchanges with

the press / media, he has never confirmed nor denied

that he is responsible for his actions - plotting - gunfire ]

Far-right conspiracy theory MN shooter faces state charges (NBC News July 16, 2025) - Minnesota Public Radio

No public defender of this Minnesotan yet announced

NBCnews.com/man-accused-killing-minnesota-lawmaker-

faces-new-state-charges

___________________

Thursday July 14, 2025

Two charges of first-degree murder

four counts of attempted murder

charges of attempted impersonation of a police officer

animal cruelty after killing the Hortman family dog

___________________________________________

Tuesday July 15, 2025

Assassin appears before judge

in Minnesota courtroom (Minnesota Public Radio)

mprnews.org/story/2025/07/16/man-charged-with-killing-

minnesota-lawmaker-plans-to-plead-not-guilty

______________________________________

Wed. June 18, 2025

news from NPR affiliate

Minnesota News Public Radio

Law enforcement vehicles

formed a procession to

honor and memorialize

lawmaker Melissa Hortman

and her husband who were

assassinated by far-right

conspiracy-theory shooter

who had stalked other

public figures and health

care staff.  He will have court

appearances in the days and

weeks to come (for now: charges

of 2nd degree murder).

mprnews.org/story/2025/06/17/

formal-procession-for-rep-melissa-

hortman-and-husband-mark

After Melissa Hortman and husband and dog's brutal point-blank murders by ASSASSIN now on trial in Minnesota, he . . .

 said calling Gov. Tim Walz

of Minneapolis-St. Paul,

would be a "waste of time"

NOW claims he can't identify

the governor nor remembers

being asked to lower flags

to half-mast this summer . . .

also injured was another

MN lawmaker and his spouse.

HERE : Arthur Sze's poem in "Poetry Speaks Who I Am" (2010) - edited Elise Paschen

 from Poetry Speaks (2010)

Here a snail on a wet leaf shivers and dreams of spring.

Here a green iris in December.

Here the topaz light of the sky.

Here one stops hearing a twig break and listens for deer.

Here the art of the ventriloquist.

Here the obsession of a kleptomaniac to steal red pushpins.

Here the art of the alibi.

Here one walks into an abandoned farmhouse and hears a tarantella.

Here one dreams a bear claw and died.

Here a humpback whale leaped out of the ocean.

Here the outboard motor stopped but a man made it to this island with one oar.

Here the actor forgot his lines and wept.

Here the art of prayer.

Here marbles, buttons, thimbles, dice, pins, stamps, beads.

Here one becomes terrified.

Here one wants to see as a god sees and become clear amber.

Here one is clear pine.

Arthur Sze

 Next Poet Laureate of the United States

[ collected poems from 1970-1998 is The Red shifting Web ]

biographical article

ny times dot-com

Monday Sept. 15

books/poet-laureate-arthur-sze

Age 74

Announcement from

loc.gov

Library of Congress --

still maintains placement

different from Executive Branch

ArtPrize returns to Grand Rapids, MI

 ArtPrize

a 16-day international 

art competition featuring

900+ entries and a 

$100,000 grand prize

kicks off Thursday Sept. 18, 2025

M Live (Michigan Live!)

online announcement

RFK Jr. Health report (focused on Children) -- leaves out NICOTINE / SMOKING

Only once in the document from HHS is the word

Tobacco used :  while it calls for public-service

campaigns about the risks of

alcohol,

controlled substances,

vaping (e-cigarettes).

npr.org/maha-children-chronic-

disease-nicotine-smoking-vaping

the report's prescriptions remain too weak!

Tobacco use remains the top cause of preventable disease

in the United States.

22 Climate Activists sue Trump over Executive Orders that aimed to "unleash Energy and undo Protections"

 Young plaintiffs (ages 7 - 25)

"Our Children's Trust" argues in lawsuit

that the state violates the environmental

protections enshrined in Constitution --

nytimes.com/2025/09/15/climate/montana-trust-

trump-executive-orders-energy.html

Reporter is Karen Zraick

Monday 9/15 3:54 p.m. (online posted article)

Two day hearing to take place

September 16 & 17 before federal

judge in their state, Montana.

Lighthouse

 Lighthouse Fall 

Food Bank Fundraiser

Chorus

Fall Fundraiser

New Journey UMC .org

3 p.m.

Saturday Sept. 20, 2025

302 Cedar Street (near downtown)

NILES, MICHIGAN 

49120

newjourneyumc.org/ 

Krispy Skreme Night - Saturday 20 Sept. 2025 7 p.m.

 Niles Scream Park

haunted.org/schedule

Niles, MI 49120

follow @NilesScreamPark

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

 leader of the

Eastern Orthodox Church

the HILL reports that there is

an oval office visit / reception

for the Church LEADER

(Equivalent to Pope of

R. Catholic Church)

Sept. 15, 2025

The concept of whitening

 Who are Americans?

As the authors of essays in

New World Orders (Univ. of Penn Press,

2005) demonstrate

colonial identities emerged

in the Americas through

the relationship of sanction

and violence. . .

Ann Twinam's paper

"Racial Passing: Informal

and Official 'Whiteness' in

Colonial Spanish America"

pages 249 - 272, chapter 11.

ISBN 9780812238952

Hnefatafl

"The King's Table" is older than Chess


copyright 2020 Brybelly

Greenfield, IN

USA 

Author - books on Good Reads

 The reader-friendly social media page/platform

lists these in-print books - volumes by author

podcaster Charlie Kirk :

Campus Battlefield (2018)

The Campus Scam (2022)

Right Wing Revolution  (2024)

Stop, in the name of God (2025) [about

Sabbath observance and life transformation]

Assassination of a significant public figure (April 1968)

 In his book Hellhound on His Trail

author / journalist Hampton Sides 

recommends  this set of materials to

learn necessary details about the MLK

assassination and the assassin who trailed

him and led authorities on a multi-national

tour, eventually leading to the arrest --

James Earl Ray 

J. Edgar Hoover trio of

biographies =

J.EdgarHoover: The Man & the

Secrets by Curt Gentry;

Secrecy & Power  by Richard

Gid Powers;

Bobby & J. Edgar by Burton Hersh.

He also endorsed Martin Luther King

Jr. : The FBI File, assembled by

Michael Friedly &

David Gellen.

Originally sealed until 2027, MLK Assassination files released by Exec. Order Trump 2.0

 What do we know now since the

July 2025 ordered unsealing of the MLK

Assassination files by Trump-Vance admin.

(inaugurated Jan. 2025)?

humsci.stanford.edu/feature/

three-things-to-know-about-recently-released-mlk-

records

posted by STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Many of these records were gathered

as part of Hoover's campaign to discredit

MLK, Jr.

The files do NOT provide more clarity 

on the alleged conspiracy around

King's April 1968 assassination

The release of these records presents

a teachable moment for students & the public.

Noon -- FOX NEWS announces "The Charlie Kirk Show" special Episode with friend JD Vance

 fox News.com/live-news/jd-vance-host memorial show Charlie Kirk show

Septe. 15, 2025

Noon Eastern Time zone

Windfall directed by EDUCATION committee pouring money into HBCUs

 This windfall 

made available is from the cutting of programs for

student scholarships at other universities - -  -

nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/hbcus-trump-administration-funding.html

online article posted at NY TIMES dot-com

Sept. 15, 2025

5:03 a.m.

Reporters Sarah Mervosh & Michael Bender

Japanese Anime Blockbuster sets record of $70 million in weekend Box Office (domestic)

 Demon Slayer: 
Infinity Castle

(rated "R" )

specifically

boxofficemojo.com/

has release - ticket sales data

FILM

2 hr. 35 min.

Director Haruo Sotozaki

production companies are

Aniplex

Shueisha

Ofotable


Sept. 12 - 14, 2025

on 3,315 screens

_____________________

It sold 55% more tickets than expected

by industry experts had predicted.

East Wing Ballroom architecture he is building for White House socializing (40 % larger to accommodate 900) proceeding today with Tree-Cutting

see Washington POST dot-com

coverage of the immediately proceeding of the

clearing of White House planted trees (some historically

significant on the grounds of the landmark U.S. residence

of POTUS & FLOTUS) -- 15 Sept. 2025

_____________________________________________ 

NBC NEWS has the details

PETER NICHOLAS Story

posted Saturday 9/13/2025

5:38 p.m. Eastern

"Trump says the

new WHITE HOUSE

ballroom will be a

little bigger than initially

planned "

ESTIMATES at

$200 million -- to be

personally paid by "donors".

40% increase so as to accomodate

900 dancers / socialites / guests.

Best Comedy Talk Show (prev. year) -- THE LATE SHOW w/Stephen Colbert : recently cancelled by CBS / Paramount +

 Emmy Award for nominated longstanding show --

its first win ever

Late Sunday Sept. 14, 2025

broadcast on that network (CBS) during final

minutes - hours 10: 30 - Midnight of the special

held in Los Angeles, CA for nationwide viewing

across Time Zones.

China is expected to snub U.S. Soybeans -- leading to financial wreckage with overproduction and price cratering

 see further

"China's Snub of U.S. Soybeans is a crisis for

U.S. Farmers" (New York Times)

Sept. 15 summary online article by

Allan Rappeport (economic policy reporter);

visuals by photography/journalist

Tim Gruber

Soybean crops that would

normally be harvested and

exported to Asia are now set

to pile up in silos here in the

50 states. . .expected are

farm bankruptcies and foreclosures. . .

in a typical year, more than half

of the U.S. Soybeans grown

are sold to China. . .The White House

is likely to announce in coming weeks

the billions of federal aid to keep

soybean-growing farmers afloat . . .

National Guard to be sent mid-September 2025 to MEMPHIS as Bill Lee, governor of TN (GOP) embraces Trump proposal on Crimes / murder rate

 The expected arrival of National Guard

troops for the

streets and neighborhoods of Memphis, TN

will be worked out

by the governor

(capital of that state is

Nashville) - 3hrs. 5 minutes away:

212 miles.

2025/09/12/us/politics/trump-memphis

-national-guard.html

Reporter Emily Cochrane (NY Times) spoke with Mayor of Memphis

Paul Young, who had said

I HAD NOT asked for the National

Guard and I DO NOT THINK it is

the way to drive down crime. . .but

that decision has been made . . .

Sunday, September 14, 2025

CPB : Corporation for Public Broadcasting received Governor's Award at Emmy Creative (Sept. 7, a week ahead of regular ceremony)

What about the vanished funding?

see variety.com/2025/TV/awards/

why-emmys-honored-corporation-for-public-broadcasting-1236515671/

_________________________________ 

Accepting the award will be

Patricia de Stacy Harrison,

longest-serving president 

and CEO of Corporation for

Public Broadcasting.

Most of its staff positions end

Sept. 30, 2025; Trump 2.0 and the

GOP House and Senate have

defunded public TV programming. . .

apnews.com Online Article

2 September 2025

The CPB now ends almost 6 decades

of producing education programming.

Sept. 23 (Tuesday) - Election in Arizona's 7th Congressional District - replacement member of House of Representatives

The terminally ill Raul Grijalva was elected

in the 7th district by his constituents and supporters

over many previous terms / years  NOV. 2025.

However, he died of lung cancer at age 77

March 2025, leaving his seat in Congress vacant

until  a replacement / early Congressional race

could replace him

Tuesday Sept. 23, 2025.

He would then join either the D or

R caucus, bringing the total number of

House members to 435.

77th Emmy Awards ceremony watched by 7.4 million (Nielsen data) - 8% higher than 2024 ceremony on ABC


____________________________________________

Emmy Awards Ceremony (Prime Time)

TV sitcoms, dramas, variety, series, special one-time

shows / specials /technical & leading recognition

for the 2024 - 2025 eligibility year

Sunday night Sept. 14, 2025

8 p.m.  given in Hollywood

[local time is 5 p.m. Pacific]

on CBS entertainment

broadcast channel

Prime Time awards

and acceptance speeches will be 

given during the 77th

annual ceremony

_______________________________________________

January 15, 2024

8 p.m. Eastern Time 

on FOX Television network

75th Ceremony Award nominations are based on 2022-23 seasons

shows & Specials (June 1, 2022 programming until May 31, 2023)

Television Arts and Sciences -- broadcast & Cable

EMMY Awards "In Memoriam" list for Academy of Television Arts & Sciences 2025 (mostly actors but show creators, producer-directors0

IN Memoriam

Malcolm - Jamal Warner - age 54

Julian McMahon - Nip/Tuck series

David Lynch (Twin Peaks) - age 78

John Amos

George Wendt (age 76)

Loretta Swit (age 87)

Loni Anderson

Ruth Buzzi (age 88)

Bill Moyers (network news & PBS)

Richard Chamberlain (died age 90 +363 days)

Linda Lavin

Mark Snow (TV theme music composer The X-Files)

Michelle Trachtenberg

Terry Louise Fisher (co-creator L.A. Law )

Valerie Mahaffy (Northern Exposure)

Wink Martindale (TV Game Show host many series)

Chuck Woolery (TV Game Show host) 

Quincy Jones


SCOTUS Security (ahead of and after First Monday in October)

 Sept. 14, 2025 (Sunday)

the Trump 2.0 - Vance administration has asked for

another

$58 million

to pay

the U.S. Marshals Service to increase

and make certain the justices of the

SCOTUS are safe and secure.

Money to be available through Sept. 2027;

Trump's second term concludes Jan. 19,

2029.

Edgar Feuchtwanger's mother (1932 chapter of "Hitler, my neighbor") Other Press, 2013

 Hitler's talking garbage.  He says the

Jews are all Communists, and then

the next minute he claims they run

the banks -- but most of the banks

in Germany are managed by Protestants!

He say the Jews don't want to share

anything, when the man who campaigned

most vigorously for spreading wealth

around was Karl Marx - a professed Jew.

As for Leon Trotsky, he was born into a

Jewish family.  Hitler criticizes them for

other things too, of course.  He claims

the Communist revolution is a Jewish

conspiracy!  Even though Stalin, the

leader of the USSR, isn't Jewish, any

more than other Communist leaders

around the world are. . . (Thalmann,Thorez)

. . .What about Albert Einstein, the greatest

scientist of all time and born in Germany,

should we hate him because his parents

grew up in the Jewish faith?  Freud, too,

perhaps?  You remember, I told you about

him, he's the man who heals people

with words; he's learning to understand

dreams, and he says we keep all our memories

inside us, even those we think we've forgotten.

Hitler wants to ban books by these great

men, to turn his back on their discoveries;

he's superstitious, illiterate and obsessed with

dark forces that don't exist.  He's like the

barbarians who thought there were ogres in 

the woods and who loved warfare and

sacking villages.  He's less sophisticated than

the Greeks three thousand years back.  You

just remember, my little BURSCHI, you must

never be ashamed of who you are!"

pages 66 - 67

Prophetic Quotation -- scholar Richard L. Schultz (1999 monograph)

 Isaiah 11:6 - 9 and Isaiah 65:25

Isaiah 8:15 and Isaiah 28:13

Isaiah 40 verses 3 and 10 / Isaiah 57:14 /

and Isaiah 62:10 - 11

Isaiah 2: 2-4 and Micah 4: 1 - 3

Isaiah 15 - 16 and Jeremiah ch. 48

THE Goal of his monograph 

"The Search for Quotation: verbal

parallels in the Prophets" (JSOT: 

Sheffield Press, 1999)

"To explore the nature and function

of the quotations which they contain

and determine the significance of

quotation for the proper understanding

of such passages" (p. 241 - chapter 8).

Romania -- news Sept. 14, 2025 -- 11 a.m.

details at

NYTimes.com/2025/09/14/world/Europe/romania-drone-russia-ukraine.html 

Sunday -- more and more DRONES flying out

of Kremlin / Russian & Belarus army / airforce

______________________________________

a Russian attack drone

that was flying very low

over

Romania

on its way toward civilian kill targets in

UKRAINE -- was very close to being

downed / destroyed by

F-16 pilots of the sovereign

nation defending the

airspace of

ROMANIA.

reuters.com/

DRONE BREACHES AIRSPACE

Charlie Kirk Memorial Service 9/21/25 : Suspected shooter of Utah apprehended at St. George, UTAH -- near entrance to Zion National Park

The family of Charlie Kirk, podcaster and

social/political advocate for MAGA will hold

his memorial service on Sept. 21 -- Arizona

in a Stadium

_______________________________________ 

The name of the suspect is being used among

the major and lesser media outlets;

this is contrary to many, many other incidents

where known perpetrators have their name

withdrawn from press accounts until formal charging

(privacy guarantees and Constitutional right to a fair trial).

Never-before seen concert footage (debuts at Toronto, Canada) EP i C : Elvis Presley in Concert

 2025 documentary produced by

noted director

Baz Luhrmann

length of this never-before-seen 

and never-before-heard

recordings & Concert Footage

is

100 minutes in length. . .

This month it is premiering

in TORONTO, Canada

Lawsuit brought by those fired illegally by Trump post-inauguration : JUDGE Allsup rules ILLEGAL ACTION

UPDATE : September 12, 2025

Friday afternoon Judge William Allsup ruled that the

mid-February firings of Probationery employees --

union workers, lawsuit brought by nonprofit groups

those firings were illegal -- the cause

did NOT come from the agencies where

the employees themselves worked --

the PERSONNEL OFFICE should be

prohibited from doing such firing

the way it had done in early 2025.

NYTimes.com/2025/09/13/us/politics/probationery-employees-fired-illegal.html



5 p.m. Feb. 18 -- Probationery employees were on the 

chopping block and 168 of the 1,450

career employees are no longer employed.

Trump and Musk continue to fire

scientists and public health employees.

Tuesday 18 Feb. 2025

They will no longer contribute to

findings on quantum computing, artificial

intelligence, and creation of new advanced

materials. . .

Jewish High Holidays

 For the calendar year 2025 --

Jewish High Holidays 

Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur

will be 

Sept. 22, 2025 at sundown and Oct. 1 at sundown respectively

Upper Galilee future depends on how or if settlers will rebuild and remain

 Since Oct. 7, 2023

[ Israel's settlers have faced a 

"reality" marked by

evacuations,

rockets,

shuttered businesses,

mounting debts ]

STORY in Jerusalem

POST jpost.com/

israel-news/politics-and-democracy/

article-867439

by REPORTER
Gabriel Colodro

[dateline Sept. 14, 2025

05:37 ]

Saturday, September 13, 2025

Remembering Jack Hawkins who appeared in 3 "Best Picture" Oscar winners -- born on September 14

Jack Hawkins

born on this date 

SEPTEMBER 14, 1910

significant, memorable

acting contributions to

Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Ben-Hur  (1959)

and Lawrence of Arabia (1962).

He was made:

Commander of the British Empire

in 1958 on the Queen's Birthday

Honour List.

He became an international star

in middle age.

"Exodus, ch. 14, Genesis 37, Numbers 16 : Three Confusing Texts"

Horn Lectureship series 2025

Andrews University Seminary

Berrien Springs, MI

Sept. 14 (Sunday), 2025

7 - 9 p.m.

at the Seminary Chapel

Exploring the Composition

of the Pentateuch

Prof. Gary Rendsburg, 

Andrews University faculty,

professor of Biblical studies,

Hebrew Language, ancient Judaism

ALSO

The Unity of Exodus 14

Rabbi Joshua Berman, Orthodox

Rabbi and professor of Bible

content.andrews.edu/agenda/67604/

LECTURES are

Free and undergraduate

co-curricular credit is 

available

andrews.edu/

phone Tina Leonor for

details 269-471-6159

Texas "Aggies" defeat #8 Univ. of Notre Dame Irish 41 - 40 with a late TouchDown

41 - 40 upset [ home opener for Irish

Football ] 

Saturday evening 7:30 - 10 p.m. Sept. 13, 2025 --

Texas A & M (#16) wants revenge for

10-point loss last year at

Kyle Field for Week 1 of 2024 season.

This year's match-up is Week 2 for

Notre Dame (#8) and if A & M might win,

it departs South Bend with  a 3-0 start.

SOURCE: statesman.com/sports/college/Aggies/article/

Texas-am-football-vs-notre-dame-time-TV-channel

7:30 p.m. Eastern (Local Time)

for N. Indiana

Coverage NBC Sports (network

free over-antenna coverage)

September 13, 2025

Cover-up : complete bruises cover Trump's right hand / also smaller bruise on left

 What is CVI ?

Chronic Venous Insuffiency;

he has also been photographed

with swollen ankles in his lower

legs.  If left untreated, it can lead

to diminished quality of life and

loss of work productivity . . .

forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/08/25/trump-seen-with-bruised-right-hand-

again-heres-everything-we-know-about-the-condition

AUGUST 25, 2025 (online article)

when inaugurated in the Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 20, 2025

Trump 2.0 became the oldest man ever to be

sworn into the Presidential office; while

Biden's cognitive decline when he left office

Jan. 19, 2025 at age 82 years raised questions

about his mental fitness.  When Trump 2.0 leaves

office in Jan. 2029, he will reach 82 years and

6 months.

Happy 79th Birthday to Frank Marshall, producer, director, studio head (AMBLIN)!

 Frank Wilton Marshall was born in Glendale, CA

Sept. 13, 1946; his dad was a musician

and conductor and film score composer.

His lengthy film credits range from

producing Raiders of the Lost Ark

and executive producing Poltergeist ,

Gremlins , The Goonies , the Back to 

the Future trilogy.  In 2015 his blockbuster

Jurassic World has grossed over $1.5 billion

worldwide.

More details as well as charitable credits that

earned him and his wife, Kathleen Kennedy,

the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award in 2018.

see: IMDb.com/ name/nm0550881/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

Receive Apple, Donut, Apple Cider : after 5K or 1 Mile [ NAPPANEE APPLE Fest 2025 ]

Saturday Sept. 20, 2025

APPLE FESTIVAL events

(ELKHART County, Indiana) - Nappanee


UPCOMING

Fall town-wide festival

If you want an "APPLE FESTIVAL 5K"

experience, 

cross the state line and enjoy:

Nappanee (IN)

APPLE FESTIVAL 5K

and 1 mile run that

begin at Missionary Church

2 miles north of Downtown

Nappanee -- Saturday

September 20, 2025 , 8:30 a.m.

Eastern Time

findtherun.com/race/14960/nappanee-apple-festival-donut-dash-5k-and-1-mile-donut-dash

Justice Amy Coney Barrett : Coverage of her CONVERSATION with Citizenship & Constitutional Govt. form (Sept. 12)

"I Love the Court and I Love the Constitution. . ."

Amy Coney Barrett -- on Book Tour for "Listening to

the Law" -- before the Supreme Court's opening day -- First

Monday next month

wvpe.org/wvpe-news/2025-09-12/justice-amy-coney-barrett

discusses-book-constitutional-originalism-during-notre-dame-visit

REPORTER Michael Gallenberger of local NPR affiliate

Elkhart, IN 88.1 FM station WVPE

___________________________________________

Friday Sept. 12, 2025

4 - 5:15 p.m.

Leighton Concert Hall, DeBartolo P.A. Center

Citizenship and Constitutional Govt.'s YOU Tube channel

see details to register for this closed to University event

events.nd.edu/events/2025/09/12/

jeanie-poole-oshaughnessy-memorial-lecture-

a-conversation-with-supreme-court-justice-

amy-coney-barrett

Univ. of Notre Dame,

South Bend, IN

46556

Friday, September 12, 2025

Happy 68th Birthday to Composer Hans Zimmer (Oscar-winner)!

Born Sept. 12, 1957

Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, W. Germany

for an early career hit Disney's THE LION KING

(1994) Academy Award for score, Golden

Globe, American Music Award, Tony Award,

two Grammys.  Also major successes for films

The Dark Knight,

Gladiator (2000), Oppenheimer (2023), and

many more.  Given Star on the HOLLYWOOD

Walk of Fame in 2008.

POLAND -- Russian drones entered air space of sovereign Poland

WASHINGTON POST breaks the news that

POLAND's leadership (Pres. Nawrocki) contradicts

and defies Trump's excusing of Putin's drone entering

the NATO - protected air space above POLAND (Sovereign

Nation)

The Russian Drone Incident wasn't

an accident -- PRES. Nawrocki

______________________________

early after Trump - Vance inauguration

Jan. 27, 2025

"We Poles, on whose land - occupied by Nazi Germans at that time -

the Germans build this extermination industry and this concentration

camp, are today the guardians of memory"

80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz

Death Camp

"May the memory of all the dead live on; may they

rest in peace" -- the Holocaust annihilated 2/3rds of

Europe's Jews and 1/3 of all Jews worldwide. . .

npr.org/2025/01/27/g-s1-44880/auschwitz-80th

anniversary-death-camp-liberation

Dolton, Illinois plans 70th Birthday Celebration (this Sunday)

Sunday Sept. 14, 2025

will be the 70th Anniversary of 

Pope Leo XIV's birth

in a Chicago suburb.

REPORTED in the Chicago Tribune

and AmericaMagazine - -

His friends and relatives will celebrate

the pontiff's birthday with him in mind, quietly 

Had Laura Loomer disagreed with and attacked Charlie Kirk over the bombing of Iran's nuclear storage facilities?

 the Nation (online article) "Let's not forget"

(Paragraph 5) : Joan Walsh Op-Ed

. . .Laura Loomer attacked him (Kirk)

for criticizing Trump's bombing of Iran's

nuclear facilities . . .

Walsh is national affairs editor for the

Nation founded in 1865 by abolitionists. . .

Randy Levine -- Friend of Trump - - the two men sat together for Yankees Home game

 Owner of the NEW YORK

Yankees;

host of Donald J. Trump 2.0

for the 9/11 "Commemoration"

of the 2001 terrorist attack on Manhattan's

Twin WTC Towers;

for the scheduled game against the

Detroit Tigers, the home team 

Levine's YANKEEs won 9-3 before a

crowd of 40,608.

Trump visited the players in the clubhouse

ahead of the game :

"You're going to win, you're going to go

all the way, and you'll get in the playoff."

[ actually to win the World Series means that

you have to get in and win several preliminary

playoffs ]

On THURSDAY in the Bronx,

roads were blocked off, helicopters

circled overhead, Secret Service and

NYPD, as well as TSA (airport security)

officers stood outside Yankee Stadium

which had opened 3 hours early to 

facilitate screening before the first

pitch at 7:05 p.m.

Trump followed precedent here

as a sitting president : Warren Harding

(1923 for the Stadium's opening) and 

George W. Bush (who threw out an

opening pitch a few weeks following

the 9/11/2001 catastrophe).

Listening to the Law

 Supreme Court associate justice

memoir / SCOTUS / law in U.S.A.

Amy Coney Barrett

published Sept. 9, 2025

COVID-19 vaccination availability (contrast between 2025 and 2021)

STATUS in 2025 as far as COVID Vaccination

ABC NEWS online article

September 1, 2025

In 34 states, the customers of CVS can receive the

current COVID-19 vaccination; in 13 states and the

District of Columbia, Americans can be vaccinated,

depending on age, with a prescription.  In 3 states,

Massachusetts,

New Mexico,

Nevada

the COVID Vaccine isn't being offered.

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from FACEBOOK site article

Niles High School will host a Covid Vaccination clinic next Wednesday, June 9, 2021 from 3:00-6:00 p.m.

➡️ Students that are 12-15 must have a signed consent form and be accompanied by a parent.

➡️ 16 and 17 year olds only need the consent form signed by the parent to participate.

Hard copy consent forms are available in the main office at the high school.

Top CDC Officials have quit, S. Monarez out as CDC Director, RFK Jr. offers directorship to own deputy J. O'Neill

UPDATE (Sept. 8, 2025) -- Monday

CNN overnight is reporting that current HHS Secy.

says that he

sees no successes in agency

that he leads . . .


"acting" CDC director will be for immediate future

a biotechnology executive whose degrees were from

Yale and U. Chicago (a B.A. and a M.A. in Humanities)

Jim O'Neill, RFK's deputy

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RFK, Jr. Sought to Fire CDC Director

Susan Monarez over

COVID-19 Vaccine Policy. . .

RFK, Jr. fumed at a Texas News

Press Conference saying, the

CDC is a "cesspool of corruption". . .

There's a lot of trouble at CDC

(Atlanta, Georgia)

"it's going to require getting rid of

some people over the long term in

order for us to change the institutional

culture". . .

ADMIRAL Brett Giroir, a physician

who helped lead the nation through

recent pandemics said:

I DON'T KNOW WHO's IN

CHARGE HONESTLY and

THAT's FRIGHTENING !

August 28, 2025

5 p.m. Eastern Time

Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting VAER -- Trump / RFK Jr. COVID vaccine to child deaths (Advisory group to meet week of Sept.15, 2025)

Bloomberg dot-com reports that the

stock in companies

MODERNA,

PFIZER, 

BioNTech SE 

fell dramatically in trading Friday (Sept. 12).

This is in conjunction with the 

FDA (Food & Drug Administration)

investigations of children's deaths from

the COVID vaccine.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-12/

moderna-falls-as-trump-officials-tie-child-deaths-to-covid-shots

Judge Allison Burroughs orders Harvard's research grants restored - Sept. 12, 1 p.m. notification ahead of settlement "deal" with Trump to continue research

Sept. 12, 1 p.m.

NBC NEWS has breaking news of this opening up of Research grant money

harvard-trump-notice-funding-restored-rcna230827


Sept. 3, 2025  4:58 p.m. Eastern

Judge Burroughs has ruled and Trump has lost --

he broke the law when using the power of the

Executive Branch against the institution of Harvard

University (founded 1634) --

see today's breaking news

NYTimes.com/2025/09/03/us/harvard-trump-funding-ruling.html

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UPDATE -- July 21, 2025 -- Judge Burroughs in

her courtroom will hear from Harvard's lawyers that

the Trump team of lawyers is attempting to curb

the +388-year-old American institution's

rights to free speech.

NY TIMES.com/ 2025/07/21/us/trump-administration-harvard-hearing.html

Pamela Bondi, Trump's A.G. at the D.ofJ. argues that 

the Trump-Vance administration has the clear authority

to halt research across the entire university departments.

After today's arguments, it is not clear when she will issue

her ruling.

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UPDATE: June 20 -- Yes, Judge Burroughs

rules in favor of Harvard's continuance to

admit international students.

NYTimes.com online BREAKING NEWS 4 p.m.

Friday June 20

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Update: June 16, 2025

NPR is reporting that the Judge will delay until

Monday the 23rd of June.

NPR.org/2025/05/16/nx-s1-5432750/harvard-lawsuit-international-students-hearing

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Judge Allison Burroughs (Fed. District) -- insisted that

the Status Quo remain in place. . .

details on Kristi Noem revocation -- see ABC News.go.com

"Breaking News"

Thursday May 29, 2025

Harvard University attorneys will make their first in-person

arguments before a Boston, Mass. federal courtroom

Its strategy is to use the POTUS Trump's statements

as evidence that the government is on a political

crusade against the school.

At stake is the 70-year-old Harvard

tradition of admitting top students

from around the globe; a visa ban

would affect 7,000 students currently

enrolled and other incoming students

who had expected to enroll in summer

and fall.

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On the Trump-Vance side,

Lawyers on the Dept. of Justice have not

yet submitted any written arguments on

the case.

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Revoking a university's right to host

international students is an extraordinary

measure.  In court papers, Harvard has

maintained that the Trump-Vance lawyers/

legal complainants bypassed detailed 

procedures that might lead to a revocation.