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[robyn (derogatory) @typicallyrobyn]

Being single is so fun until it’s a long weekend in August, a sunny Saturday evening, all your friends are out of the country with their partners and your housemates aren’t home and you have already taken a nap today so you can’t even sleep the loneliness away

[I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0]

Vodka Nancy has announced her retirement.

She’s been on the taxpayers’ payroll for about 38 years, earning a salary of $174,000 a year.

Her net worth:
1987: $165,000
2025: $280 million

This is Pelosi’s district, and this is the legacy she’s leaving behind.

[Unlimited L's @unlimited_ls]

NEW: Scientists have brought back dire wolves using ancient DNA, with the first born on October 1, 2024, over 10,000 years after their extinction

The genome was reconstructed by Colossal from ancient DNA found in fossils

The fossils date back 11,500 and 72,000 years

Colossal Biosciences said: "This moment marks not only a milestone for us as a company but also a leap forward for science, conservation, and humanity. From the beginning, our goal has been clear:

To revolutionize history and be the first company to use CRISPR technology successfully in the de-extinction of previously lost species.

By achieving this, we continue to push forward our broader mission on—accepting humanity’s duty to restore Earth to a healthier state."

[quantguy @quant_guy]

@wayotworld They're literally the weak men that created the hard times for all of us

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

When Boomers were young, they voted to sell off American industry to make themselves rich. Once they were rich, they voted for tax cuts and bailouts to keep themselves rich. Now that they are retiring, they vote for more Social Security, more Medicare, and no property taxes.

[AlphaFox @alphafox]

This is the only place in the world where time does not exist:

[MAGA Resource @MAGAResource]

Donald Trump has only been elected for 2 days and RFK Jr is already working on making America healthy again.

God bless him.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Sailors' tattoos have a precise meaning.

Do you know them?

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

🚨Just spoke to a US Military insider about the efforts for Hurricane Helene. Here's what I was told:

The 82nd Airborne Division is known as America's "Global" Response Force. They have the ability to have thousands of paratroopers anywhere in the world in 18 hours. They provide combat capability, but also helicopter airlift, stand up hospitals, and other support.

They responded to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

The 82nd responded overnight to fly thousands of Afghans out of the country during the withdrawal.

Less than 1/3 of the entire division is on the "global" alert status. Meaning there are thousands of members potentially available to render aid with a simple command.

So the question is why even a fraction of the 82nd can't be used to support relief efforts in the same state in which they are stationed (North Carolina)? For whatever reason, they are unavailable for this effort.

As of now, they haven't been alerted for hurricane support.

They can be on the ground and in the sky within hours, organizing airlifts, building hospitals, bringing aid.

But they aren't.

Biden-Harris can activate them if they so wished.

[Lauren Lee @laurenlee]

The Real Debate, a parallel stream produced by Kennedy after being excluded from the debate stage by CNN, just shook the entire country.

With over SIX MILLION live viewers, the candidate achieved more than double CNN’s debate viewership.

This is historic. Nothing like this has ever happened before.

America is starting to wake up.

[Tayyy @tayjoness]

‼️ It's clear CNN and the rest of the mainstream media have already decided RFK Jr. won't be included in the debate.

This exclusion is nothing short of a blatant manipulation of our democratic process. Bobby has secured the ballot access needed to participate, yet they've chosen to rig the polls, excluding some altogether, and in other cases deliberately omitting his name as an option to ensure he doesn't qualify.

This is disgraceful and undermines the foundation of free and fair elections.

For too long, the media has failed to serve the interests of the American people. But this latest move is unconscionable. By denying RFK Jr. a platform, CNN is not just silencing a candidate. They're silencing the voices of countless Americans who support his vision and his platform.

Among many other things, his commitment to fighting corporate capture, restoring government accountability, and protecting free speech resonates with so many of us, and it is our right to hear him in these debates.

CNN's actions are a clear indication that the network is more interested in kowtowing to the uniparty than in providing a true and open forum for all candidates. This is an affront to democracy and an insult to the American electorate.

It's time for the media to stop manipulating the narrative and start working for the people again.

We demand that RFK Jr. be given the opportunity to participate in the debate, as is his right. Anything less is an abdication of journalistic integrity and a betrayal of the democratic process.

Let Kennedy debate.

If you agree, let @CNN know by reposting, or creating your own and include #LetKennedydebate

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

🔥RFK Jr: The environmental movement is captured by “carbon fundamentalism” and Biden’s climate agenda is a corporate crony “scam”

“If Americans knew what was happening, there would be a revolution about it”

“I’ve been fighting the coal industry for 40 years, but I don’t focus on climate.

I focus on the destruction of the Appalachian Mountains.

The Appalachians are the richest terrestrial ecosystem in North America.

We’re exploding I think 2,800 tons of ammonium nitrate explosives a week.

It’s the equivalent of a Hiroshima bomb once a week by these big companies, Peabody, Consol, Massey.

They’re blowing the tops off the mountains to get at the coal seams beneath.

They’ve leveled 1.4 million acres, bigger than the state of Delaware.

These are the landscapes where Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett came, bluegrass music came out of it, NASCAR racing, so much of our culture is tied up in these purple mountains majesty.

They’ve filled 2,200 miles of rivers and streams with mining tailings, and destroyed the water, destroyed the fisheries, destroyed the health of the population.

I talk about acid rain. Acid rain has destroyed the forest cover on the Appalachians from Georgia to northern Quebec.

Today, 20% of the lakes in the Adirondacks are sterilized from acid rain. Nobody wants that, right?

We’re losing the oyster fisheries in Washington and Oregon, because the oceans are now becoming so acidic that the bivalves, like oysters, can’t mobilize calcium out of the water column to build their shells.

This is terrifying.

And then, we have mercury in all the fish in our country, and nobody wants that.

With what Biden’s done in the Inflation Reduction Act, which is his big climate act, the money is going to carbon capture projects.

Hundreds of billions of dollars, which is just a scam, it’s a boondoggle for the oil industry, for the methane industry.

And then to offshore wind farms, which are producing energy at five times the cost of onshore wind farms, and they’re exterminating the whales and the marine mammals.

We were drawn to the environmental movement out of love … for these creatures, and we’re now sacrificing those on the altar of carbon fundamentalism.

The real way to deal with carbon is to restore our soils.

If we do regenerative agriculture across this country, we absorb 100% of our carbon budget. That’s what we ought to be focusing on.

We should get rid of all subsidies to mature industries, and then let different energy generation sources compete in a marketplace.

We’ll get the cheapest energy, and we’ll get the most environmentally sound energy policy.

We don’t have free market capitalism, we have corporate crony capitalism.

We have socialism for the rich, and this very brutal, barbaric capitalism for the poor.

In a true free market, you can’t make yourself rich without … enriching your community.

A true free market would promote efficiency, and efficiency means the elimination of waste, and pollution is waste.

You show me a polluter, I’ll show you a subsidy. I’ll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market and force the public to pay his production costs.”

From MeatEater with Steven Rinella

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

In 2013, Lassi Rautiainen, a Finnish photographer, immortalized the two strange companions - a male brown bear and a female grey wolf. For ten days, Rautiainen snapped photos of the two going everywhere together, even going as far as hunting together and sharing their kills.

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

RFK Jr’s cousin Anthony Shriver: RFK can “absolutely” win the 2024 election

“And I think he’d be great.”

“I think his interest is in doing things for the middle class … his passion for the average person is really clear”

[JRS @jrs_x_]

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[JB Slear @JB_Slear]

Holy Calf!

When a white buffalo calf is born, it is a sign that their prayers are being heard and that the promises of the prophecy are being fulfilled. To American Indians, a White Buffalo Calf is the most sacred living thing on earth.

April 25th a White Buffalo was born

[Barry Ellsworth @BARRYAELLSWORTH]

I believe that RFK choosing her as his running mate, just guaranteed they will win the White House. She is brilliant and her brilliance is only shadowed by her caring and compassion. She is an attorney, ran the AI program at Stanford, and was married to Sergey Brin with whom she has a child who is on the autism spectrum. I cannot imagine any thinking, caring American who would not vote for these two brilliant individuals. They will make the America we have all wanted for years. I have not felt this hopeful about the future of America in my entire life. As she said today, “Can you imagine a government that doesn’t lie to us.” Please take the time to listen to her speak. For your sake, the sake of our children and the future of this country. @elonmusk knows her and I would bet anything he will support her campaign because he knows her and respects her. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

RFK Jr. VP candidate Nicole Shanahan: “If you are a disillusioned Republican, I invite you to join me, a disillusioned Democrat, in this movement to unify and heal America.

The vision [Bobby Kennedy and I] share is a vision of national healing. It is an America that leads the world no longer through the force of arms, but through the power of example.

It is an America that wages peace through diplomacy. It is an America that had become the sickest industrialized country on the Earth and turned it around. We’re gonna turn it around.

It is an America with honest and transparent government institutions. Can you imagine a country whose government doesn’t lie to you?”

“I worry for the Democratic Party’s overwhelming interest in elitism, celebrity, and winning at all costs.

I know this because I have been in those circles for the last eight years, and I have grown increasingly tired of it.

As I re-examine my Democratic Party assumptions, I have seen conservative voters with new eyes too.

I have met farmers, I have met hunters who are some of the most staunch conservationists I have ever met, who understand ecosystems better than most.

I have met mothers protecting their children who are searching every possible avenue for their health.

And yet the Republican Party, like the Democratic, is letting them down because the actions of the party are divergent from the values that actually support individual freedom.

The very failure of both parties to do their job, to protect their founding values, has contributed to the decline of this country in my lifetime.

Maybe that’s why I see so many Republicans disillusioned with their party as I’ve become disillusioned with mine.”

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

Two years ago, the average cost of a house in this country was $215,000. Today it’s $400,000. Our kids don't have a chance to own a home. I’m going to change that.

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

Stephen A. Smith Says He Has 'No Faith' in the Two-Party System Anymore

"In the year 2024, the Democratic Party...are relying on a guy that's gonna be 82 years of age to give them four more years...Do you have any idea how embarrassing that is?...I have no faith in either party. I think it's an absolute disgrace the way they've been conducting themselves all of these years especially in terms of their dealings with one another...We have a situation where they're telling us we have to settle for one of these two guys and I really, really am hoping that the American people stand up and send an emphatic message, 'We don't want either one of y'all.'"

@RobertKennedyJr