CatsNSunsets

[Myrna Tellingheusen @PearlsFromMyrna]

One day l will climb to the top of Empire State Building and unfurl Darlene’s secret potato salad recipe.

[Steak 'n Shake @SteaknShake]

$17.76 for two Liberty Meals — all July long!

A Liberty Meal includes a double grass-fed Steakburger, beef tallow fries, and a Patriot milkshake.

Can't touch this, Mr. Five Guys...

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A Cornell lab technician parked for free near a cemetery to save a few bucks on parking. Her walk to work turned into one of the largest wildlife discoveries of the decade.

Rachel Fordyce cut through East Lawn Cemetery on her way to a Cornell entomology lab. One spring day in 2022, she noticed bees all over the cemetery, collected some in a jar, and brought them to her supervisor, Cornell entomologist Bryan Danforth. They identified them as Andrena regularis, the regular mining bee. What nobody knew yet was how many were living under the grass.

In spring 2023, researchers set emergence traps across the nesting area and did the math. Their estimate: about 5.56 million regular mining bees emerging from the cemetery soil, with a likely range of 3.1 million to 8 million. That makes East Lawn Cemetery one of the largest known aggregations of solitary ground-nesting bees ever recorded.

These are not hive bees. Each female digs and provisions her own underground nest, but huge numbers can nest side by side when the soil and food supply are right. About 75% of bees are solitary ground nesters, and most people never notice them because there is no big impressive hive to point to.

Records show Andrena regularis has been collected at East Lawn Cemetery since at least 1935. The bees were not new, we just hadn't understood the scale of what was under our feet.

The bees also appear to matter far beyond the cemetery fence. Cornell’s apple orchard sits about 600 meters away, and surveys found Andrena regularis was the most abundant pollinator there, even more common than managed honey bees. The cemetery population is likely a major source of those orchard pollinators.

Cemeteries make good habitat for exactly the reasons you would expect: relatively undisturbed soil, little tilling, fewer pesticides, and decades or even centuries of being mostly left alone.

If one overlooked cemetery can hold millions of native bees, how many other aggregations are sitting under lawns, churchyards, old fields, and abandoned corners nobody has checked, one construction project away from disappearing before anyone knows what was lost?

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The greatest trick coffee pod companies ever pulled was convincing people to pay more for cheap coffee wrapped in trash.

Tens of billions of single-use coffee pods and capsules are used every year. Many are made from mixed plastic, foil, aluminum, filters, lids, and wet coffee grounds, which makes them annoying or impossible to recycle through normal curbside systems. Even the 'recyclable' ones often require special collection programs most people don't have easy access to.

The pod gives you one cup of coffee, then leaves behind a tiny piece of manufactured garbage that may outlive you.

A French press, drip maker, moka pot, pour-over, percolator, or reusable pod can make coffee every morning without throwing away a plastic capsule every time you wake up. The grounds can go in your compost.

This is one of those environmental swaps that is not complicated. You don't need a lifestyle overhaul. You don't need to become a coffee snob. You just need to make the switch.

[CatsNSunsets @CatsSunsets]

@SethDillon Sophie Cunningham has Supergirl vibes

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Nithya Raman and Karen Bass kill far more than this every year at their “no-kill” LA City shelters. Psychopathic behavior.

[Michael Mattox - The Mad Ox @TheRealMadOx]

Pima County bureaucrats thought they could quietly kill Sergeant Snuggles after eight months locked in a cage over one startled nip on his own family's land.

They were wrong.

This young Anatolian Shepherd was guarding the acreage like his breed does. Grandma tapped him from behind. One defensive nip. She has said over and over it was her fault. She is fine. She wants him home with the kids who miss their dog every damn day. The family offered training, fencing, a behaviorist who cleared him. Courts and animal control did not care. Vicious label. Isolation. No real visits. Fees piling up while they play God.

Today at ten in the morning, families are rallying at the PACC parking lot on Broadway in Tucson. Lucy, Brendan Jones and family drove two thousand miles from Virginia to stand with them. Lucy beat her own raw deal and came home. Now they fight for Snuggles to do the same.

This is government overreach at its ugliest. Cowards hiding behind rules to break a family and crush kids hearts. One mistake on private property and they treat a loyal dog like a monster. The system stinks.

If Lucy can come home so can Snuggles. Stand up today. Bring him back where he belongs. Running free on that land instead of rotting in a cage.

Show up if you can. Bring signs. Raise your voice. Or call the officials and demand justice.

@brendanmjones @JenniferEvn22 @Herb_Minstrel

#SaveSnuggles #BringSnugglesHome #JusticeForSnuggles

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

They're not freezing your rent, they're freezing your housing providers' income, while their expenses keep increasing.

The point isn't to make your housing affordable, it's to make providing housing financially inviable, so government(s) can seize the unmanageable properties.

Our lack of financial literacy is going to destroy us.
https://t.co/Eix9fVp1BK

[Anna Paulina Luna @VoteAPL]

Sign Pickup👇🏼

[Bethany O’Leary 🇺🇸 🦅 @BethanyForTruth]

🚨South Dakota GOP just fired their Sergeant at Arms after the coward denied Scott Presler entry to the event with Senate Leader John Thune.

The party chairman was forced to crawl out with a personal apology and ADMIT they screwed up!!

This is what happens when terrified RINOs try to gatekeep real America First warriors from their own events. But clearly they’re not scared enough yet.

You don’t get to treat the people who actually deliver the votes like second-class citizens.

Pathetic.

The base is watching. FAFO is in full effect.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

I’m at the Resolutions Committee right now

& the South Dakota Republican Party is bringing up a resolution

to censure Senate Majority Leader Thune for not passing the SAVE America Act.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Since our movement is trending right now, let me introduce myself:

My name is Scott Presler.

I’m an Eagle Scout & son of a retired Navy Captain.

I moved to Pennsylvania in 2024 & launched an organization for the sole purpose of helping to re-elect President Trump.

I’ve spent the last decade of my life registering tens of thousands of voters, electing Republicans to all levels of office, & helping to build up Republican structures from the county & state levels.

I’ve traveled to over 40 states to grow the Republican Party.

For the last 6 months, I’ve met with members of Congress to pass the SAVE America Act — which would require photo voter ID & proof of citizenship to vote.

What I’m advocating for has overwhelming support from the American people.

Yet I was not allowed entry to a dinner last night in Rapid City, South Dakota, because Senate Majority Leader Thune was present.

When they go after me, they are really coming for you.

I will not be bullied, pressured, intimidated & I won’t stop pushing for the country-saving SAVE America Act.

Thank you for having my back — peacefully.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

They will NOT allow me into — as a ticketed individual — the South Dakota Republican Party dinner w/ Senate Majority Leader Thune.

[Brendan M. Jones 🇺🇸 @brendanmjones]

Big accounts: time to take #SaveSnuggles national the same way you took #SaveLucy national.

Get behind this fight. It's about freedom.

It's time to let Snuggles go home. It's damn time.

@catturd2, @atensnut, @TomiLahren, @LauraLoomer, @SaraGonzalesTX, @AmyMek, @GuntherEagleman

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) Wasn’t Telling The Truth

👉When Sen. Cotton goes on television, he’s actually doing it to be Senate Majority Leader Thune’s mouthpiece👈

How do I know?

Look at who Leader Thune surrounds himself with at pressers: Cotton, Barrasso, & Capito.

Sen. Cotton said that the SAVE America Act does not have 50 votes, which is false.

Senator Mike Lee introduced an amendment to attach the SAVE America Act to budget reconciliation 2.0 & it did garner 50 votes.

This was a direct attack on Senator Mike Lee. You’ll also note that Sen. Cotton even addresses Lee in this clip.

It’s not by mistake.

Cotton was likely instructed to try to sow discord about the SAVE America Act & the architect of the legislation.

Other people won’t tell you this information or spell it out, but I sure as heck will.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Total profits were $38,339.13. I rounded up to an even $40k so I'd have some skin in the game.

Just made that donation on the @UTMDAnderson website for cancer research, here's the receipt as promised. Thank you so much for your support in helping this cause!

[CatsNSunsets @CatsSunsets]

@ThrillaRilla369 Rudy!

[Brendan M. Jones 🇺🇸 @brendanmjones]

Dear Laura Conover (@PimaCountyAtty),

My name is Brendan Jones, and this is Lucy. Ten years ago, Lucy saved my life during the war against ISIS. In return, I brought her home with me. While you may not be familiar with her story, millions of people around the world are.

We are writing to you today out of deep concern for a case in Pima County involving a family dog named Snuggles. Snuggles, an Anatolian Shepherd, has been placed on a court-ordered euthanasia list following an incident in which he bit a family member. At the time, the dog was agitated and acting to defend his home and family during a coyote incursion on the property. The entire family, including the individual who was bitten, is devastated by the possibility of losing him.

Snuggles is a large working breed traditionally used as a livestock guardian. At the time of the incident, he was an intact male who had not yet reached the appropriate age for neutering. I have personal experience with this breed, having used Anatolian Shepherds to protect my own flocks of sheep. It is well established that neutering intact males of this breed often produces a noticeable and positive change in temperament, reducing reactivity and certain aggressive behaviors.

Snuggles has now reached an age where neutering is both appropriate and recommended. I am confident that, once neutered, any concerns about future aggression would be substantially alleviated.

Before we consider raising additional public awareness about this case, we wanted to bring it directly to your attention in the hope that a reasonable resolution can be reached quietly and without unnecessary scrutiny. We respectfully ask that you personally review the matter. We believe common sense and compassion can still prevail here.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Very respectfully,
Brendan Jones and Lucy, “America’s Dog”

#AmericasDog
#SaveSnuggles

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

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