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This dandy from the WSJ Editorial Board:
"Since Mr. Trump declassified the memo, we can quote the part he didn’t. “Vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipulate on a wide enough scale to compromise election results,” it says. “The systems in each voting location are not connected to the Internet or to each other, and many methods for exploiting them rely on physical proximity.” Achieving it across many jurisdictions “would be difficult” and “audits and paper trails very likely would uncover such an effort."
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"Unfortunately, the message from Mr. Trump and others has been that America’s elections can’t be trusted, and the only hope is the SAVE America Act. Aside from being untrue, this is a political backfire for the GOP. If Republican voters believe it, and the bill falls short, then why waste time going to the polls in November? Has the GOP already forgotten how Mr. Trump’s fraud outbursts cost them two Senate seats in the 2021 Georgia runoffs?"
https://t.co/pYuiD6uP4N
BREAKING: Ahead of Argentina’s loss in the World Cup Final, Trump praised Lionel Messi and said that it’s hard to bet against him. Messi and Argentina had zero shots on goal the entire game.
Everything Trump touches turns to shit.
BREAKING: Organizers at the FIFA World Cup Final in New Jersey are handing out red cards for fans to flash at Donald Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino to protest their “offensive pattern of corruption.” This is amazing.
@UKRRichard@FIFAWorldCup Falklands should be theirs. Most borders for homes, property, provinces, countries, etc., are made by a wood, a creek, river, mountain range, or body of water. Just think of the proximity of the Falklands to the “British isles”, it’s self explanatory.
The 75-year-old California vineyard owner had reportedly paid around $40,000 to stalk a Yellow-Backed Duiker, a shy forest antelope, through Gabon’s Lope-Okanda rainforest. But the animals he ran into weren’t the ones he’d come for.
Dosio wasn’t new to trophy hunting. He’d hunted Lions, Rhinos, Hippos, Crocodiles, and Elephants across Africa and the US, and his California home reportedly held dozens of mounted heads from decades of paid hunts.
This trip was supposed to add another rare animal to that history. But when his guide led him deeper through the trees, they crossed paths with five female Elephants guarding a calf. Then the herd charged.
Dosio was fatally trampled, while his guide was left seriously injured. The shotgun Dosio had been carrying was lost in the chaos, and reports say he’d only been issued it because Gabonese law barred him from bringing his own rifle.
Forest Elephants are endangered. Yellow-Backed Duikers are shy and rarely seen. Neither species asked to become somebody’s next trophy.
And this time, the forest didn’t hand over another head for the wall.
Credit: @BoredPanda.
ICE smashed the window of a disabled Iraq War veteran, on his way to work, pepper-sprayed him, dragged him out at gunpoint, and locked him up for three days without charges.
This is fascism.
https://t.co/du9bv2U4pY confirms that George Retes is a citizen, a disabled U.S. Army veteran who served his country in Iraq.
Federal agents smashed his truck window, sprayed him with chemical agents, detained him for three days, denied him contact with his family, and released him without charges. He missed his daughter’s third birthday while sitting in a cell.
No person on American soil should fear being treated this way, least of all a citizen and veteran at the hands of his own government. A nation that can do this to a U.S. citizen and veteran can do it to anyone.
PAXIS helps you prepare for ICE encounters, help friends and family if you are taken, and deal with the aftermath: https://t.co/Hi5Yo2N2N2
Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Harvey Weinstein sat on the committee that invited Jeffrey Epstein to a 2013 black-tie gala. It was Jared Kushner's New York Observer, honoring New York's best, brightest and most influential. The invite went to Epstein by name.
Dragonfly nymphs live underwater for months or years before they ever fly. They cling to the underside of submerged rocks eating mosquito larvae. Move the rock out of the water and the nymph clinging to it suffocates. Protect the dragonflies, leave the creek rocks alone.
Republicans once demanded the White House embody dignity and the rule of law; now they cheer military hits as if they were campaign ads. What used to be a moral standard has been traded for vengeance masquerading as leadership.
@stuartpstevens explains.
https://t.co/YDxQN1lZ0S
Wildlife-vehicle collisions cost the US around $8 to $10 billion annually. 200 people die in these collisions every year, and over a million large animals are killed too.
A wildlife crossing with fencing costs about $5-15 million to build. If the US spent $8 billion a year on building these overpasses, we could build around 800+ a year.
Banff National Park built 44 crossings over 30 years. Wildlife-vehicle collisions along treated sections of highway dropped by 80%. The crossings paid for themselves in avoided property damage and injuries within a few years.
The evidence is strong: wildlife crossings save human and animal lives and often pay back substantial costs over time.
The remaining challenge is finding the will to build them.
E. Jean Carroll was just paid more than $5.6 million by the sitting president of the United States after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing her and a federal judge clarified that what he did was rape.
That should be the biggest story in the country today.
The president raped a woman.
She took him to court.
And she won.
VIA @theZachBerger