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[Daniel J @DanielJ617109]

@honeyNonABG The key is accepting that your best meals will have the same protein staples as an anchor. You can get creative with a few variations.

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@matthewrquan @nithyavraman This!!!

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@Elex_Michaelson @KarenBassLA @MayorOfLA Did she just arrive from Ghana?

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@zpretzel What is it that the Reds saw in Paddack that his previous employers missed?

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@Reds @BlakeDu1 What did the Reds see in Paddack that his previous team failed to realize?

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@honeyNonABG Another Obama Hack

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@bustitopen420 Why so hostile? I'm interested in how you help. You don't think they can find water and that water is their primary need? Keeping them helpless is not helping them.

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@RedsDaily4 Jury will still be out until Hunter finishes the season with going on the IL again.

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@KurtSchlichter mo money mo problems

[Daniel J @DanielJ617109]

@avidseries @justin_boostin too it

[Darwyn Metzger ⚫️ @DarwynsTheory]

Dear LA (again),

One out of ten homeless people in the entire country live in our city.

Despite whatever statistic our mayor claims to the contrary, things are getting worse around here.

The biggest challenge to solving a problem is accepting that you have one, and that starts with admitting that our problem isn’t money, it’s corrupt leadership.

Mayor Karen Bass, Councilmember Nithya Raman, and Governor Newsom have built a political web so financially entangled with homelessness NGOs that the dysfunction isn’t a failure, it’s their business model.

I’ve spent nearly 20 years studying the chronic homelessness epidemic and no matter how many new gold plated condos Gavin Newsom promises to build on the back of our tax dollars, the root cause has NEVER been lack of housing, and housing itself will never be the primary solution.

As my friend Paul Shirley would phrase it, if “housing first” worked, it would have worked.

The only reduction in homelessness that housing first deserves credit for is the 30% of overdose deaths in San Francisco that came from their “supportive housing” initiatives.

I’m sorry if that is shocking to read, but many of you need to wake-up & smell the fentanyl.

The one thing housing first is good for; however, is financial scheming.

Recently Karen Bass’s office was complicit in a grift involving the Weingart Center Association, a Los Angeles based homeless non-profit, to take a massive grant of LA taxpayer funds to convert properties into homeless housing as part of California’s Project Homekey.

Sounds lovely, right?

The mayor’s ingenious plan involved a property which had originally been purchased for $11 million that was then immediately flipped to Weingart on the city’s dime at nearly TRIPLE the price.

I’m sure Mayor Bass has lots of clever talking points for why $20 million magically disappeared into thin air, and she’ll need to perform them convincingly as this act of service is now facing a federal probe.

We will never know how truly bad the corruption is as Gavin Newsom has blocked the audits of countless related projects that have vanished billions of dollars, all in the name of homelessness.

If you can help Gavin come up with a good reason why we shouldn’t audit how tax funds are being used then you’ll probably have a job waiting for you at the LA Times. 

Our media needs to do better. They once did…

So why do I care about this so much? 

In 2006 Del Bigtree (formerly of Dr. Phil & The Doctors, currently host of the High Wire) took me on the misadventure of a lifetime when I agreed to help him document a group of homeless men who had just survived a tough winter in Denver.

What we captured, acquired by Merv Griffin Entertainment & later titled “Under the Cardboard,” was ultimately dubbed “too difficult for audiences to watch.”

What began as a light-hearted expose seeking the sort of wholesome temporarily down-on-their-luck tale we often naively attach to the homeless, instead crash landed into an honest glimpse of what life is truly like for the humans suffering mental illness & crippling addiction in plain sight.

The best thing that came out of our docuseries was that it inspired a man named Kevin Adler to begin his own experiments to record the experience of our brothers and sisters living in the streets, while fruitless as a documentary, the countless conversations that ensued led to his creation of “Miracle Messages,” a charity focused on another underappreciated cause of homelessness: “relational poverty,” and is an inspiring example of the first of what I see as the three primary solutions to ending the homeless epidemic:

REUNITING FAMILIES

I am forever honored & humbled that Kevin asked me to become his first advisor.

Kevin’s breakthrough came in asking people he interviewed on the streets two incredibly important questions.

1). “When did you first feel homeless?”

The more conversations he had the more he heard the same answer…

Part 2 👇👇👇

[Art @ZarkFiles]

The E. Jean Carroll case against President Trump is one of the strangest civil cases in American history. The foundational problem is this: Carroll could not identify when the alleged incident occurred — not even the year with any precision.
That should have killed the case as dead as a skunk on the road right there.
Without a temporal anchor, no defendant — regardless of guilt or innocence — can mount an alibi defense. Trump, who has maintained detailed calendars and staff records for decades, was denied the most basic tool of self-defense: the ability to establish where he was. That is not a technicality. It is a due process violation at the constitutional level.
Then Carroll produced the one piece of physical evidence she claimed corroborated her account — the dress she wore during the alleged incident. It was subsequently established that the dress was designed after the incident could have occurred. The sole corroborating evidence falsified her timeline.
The case proceeded anyway.
The resulting verdict was then weaponized in a defamation suit — where Trump was held liable for denying the allegation, while being procedurally barred from defending against it, because it was already "proven" in another court, regardless how flawed the procedure was. He was punished, in effect, for asserting his own innocence.
Compounding everything: coordinated professional and physical threats so thoroughly intimidated the legal community that attorneys refused these cases regardless of available fees. When you systematically destroy a defendant's ability to retain counsel of choice, you forfeit the right to a legitimate verdict.
An allegation is not evidence. Process without substance is not law. And a verdict produced under these conditions carries no legitimate authority — whatever its formal status.

Not only is it the right move to investigate Carroll, but every other person involved as well. Trump is owed serious damages here, and there may be a few people who belong in prison for their roles in the case.

[Daniel J @DanielJ617109]

@RonColeman Were the Blue Origin's NS-31 mission space ladies on that one too?

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@JackPosobiec

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@CapitalGirl2020 @JimHansonDC Best fries ever are made with a russet potato,seasoning and an air fryer.

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@rcarnold1 @JimHansonDC 😅💀💀😅

[Daniel J @DanielJ617109]

@Edover45 @JimHansonDC @KurtSchlichter Same. And I still enjoy it from time to time. I'm 64.

[Daniel J @DanielJ617109]

@RepDanGoldman Your very own Nassau County Correctional Center in East Meadow is a dungeon. So many systemic problems, including severe understaffing, inadequate medical and mental health care, and rising violence.
Get to work you A HOLE.

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@DanielFireTruck Another Bum fire.