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[Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello]

Seeing Mark Zuckerberg at the White House make my blood boil.

Zuckerberg did everything possible to destroy our elections.

We can’t pretend like the Zuckerbucks never happened.

Conservatives are still punished on his platforms.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On June 13, 1777, a 19-year-old French teenager landed on a beach in South Carolina, uninvited, to fight in someone else's war. He would become one of the most important men in American history.

The Marquis de Lafayette was one of the richest young aristocrats in France. He had a beautiful wife, a fortune, and zero reason to risk any of it. But he believed in the American cause so fiercely that when the French king forbade him from going, Lafayette bought his own ship and sailed anyway. He literally went AWOL from a life of luxury to bleed for a country that didn't exist yet.

Congress was annoyed at first. Another foreign officer looking for a paycheck? Then Lafayette offered to serve for free and pay his own way. That got their attention.

He met Washington and the two formed one of the great father-son bonds in American history. Washington had no biological children. Lafayette named his only son George Washington Lafayette.

He took a bullet in the leg at Brandywine and kept rallying the retreat. He was instrumental at Yorktown, the battle that won the war. He went home a hero on two continents.

A foreign teenager believed in America before America did. 249 years ago today.

[Ed Livingston @ehlJAMA]

So why am I lashing out at the AMA, an organization I was a proud member of and worked very hard for when I was at JAMA?

The X-world will learn, as I release documents regarding my litigation against them for firing me for what has been determined by the appropriate agencies as a 'civil rights violation.' You can use your imagination what that means in the context of their being all-in with DEI at the time.

They claimed that I denied the existence of racism in medicine - the exact opposite of what I said in a podcast the AMA edited and published after review by my supervisor. I had no control of that process. The courts agreed with my claim of libel and defamation, a decision the AMA appealed and lost in a unanimous decision. Along the way the courts described the AMA as disingenuous. An organization that holds itself out as representing Americas Physicians to policy makers should not engage in libel and if they do, they should be disqualified from representing us.

You have not heard much recently because the AMA asked the courts to keep the proceeding secret-They do not want the physician community to learn how they do business. However, the closed nature of the documentation is over, and I'll be able to share what I learned during the proceedings. It's not pretty and it shows how the AMA actually functions.

This is not what I wanted in life. I am an academic surgeon. I have no interest in politics. But the AMA destroyed my career and reputation for capricious reasons. I cannot let that stand. The AMA needs to be held accountable, no matter how wealthy they are compared to me.

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

Oh. My. God.

Look at what these Biolabs were MANUFACTURING…

Anthrax, Tularaemia, Tuberculosis, Swine Fever, New Castles Disease, MERS, SARS, Marburg and Ebola

THERE MUST BE ARRESTS

[@jason @Jason]

So the state is the parent in California now @GavinNewsom?

[Denise Aguilar @InformedMama209]

We cannot ignore the party that has put our community at risk and we will not allow any of these people off the hook just because they’re terming out. Susan Eggman has a candidate at every level in San Joaquin County from school board to state Senate and we simply can’t allow this to happen anymore. 2024 means we have to vote differently away from these progressive Democrats that have destroyed our state. I am running for California state assembly because I’m tired of California legislature protecting predators and my opponent is supported by Susan Eggman .. how do you think she will vote if she gets in ?

I need your help to win this November so that we can put together real protections for our community instead of treating people like collateral damage. To volunteer or donate visit.
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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Britain holds its farmers to some of the highest animal welfare standards in the world, and then signs trade deals that wave in everything those standards forbid.

Take the Australia deal, and go through it sector by sector, because the gap is not a matter of fine print.

Pigs. Britain banned the sow stall, the metal crate that stops a pregnant pig from even turning around, back in 1999. Australia still permits it.

Hens. Britain banned the barren battery cage in 2012. Australia still cages its laying hens that way.

Sheep. Britain does not allow mulesing, the carving of skin from a live lamb's backside, usually with no pain relief. In Australia it is routine.

Cattle. Britain does not finish its animals in industrial feedlots. Australia finishes more than forty per cent of its beef in them, some single yards holding fifty thousand head. It also implants growth hormones across much of the herd, banned here on principle. The deal is supposed to keep that hormone beef off our shelves, though farm leaders have asked how on earth that is policed, given Australian cattle carry nothing like the lifetime traceability ours do.

Then the things that cut across every shed and field. Britain does not brand its cattle with a hot iron, makes CCTV compulsory in every slaughterhouse, and keeps farm antibiotics on a tight leash. Australia still hot brands, has no consistent slaughterhouse camera rule, and by one analysis uses many times more antibiotics per animal in its pigs and poultry than we do.

So the British farmer, doing every bit of this the hard and humane way, paying for every inch of that higher welfare, is then undercut on price by product made the cheap way, the way we banned on principle. He is punished, in effect, for his own decency.

And the prize for it? The government's own figures put the gain from the Australia deal at around two hundredths of one per cent of GDP. Call it the price of a chocolate bar per person per year. For that, the herd was put on the block.

Here is the detail that should end the argument. George Eustice, the man who was Environment Secretary while it happened, later stood up in Parliament and admitted the deal gave away far too much for far too little. The minister who signed it told us, afterwards, that it was a bad deal.

We built some of the toughest welfare rules in the world, and then opened the market to everyone who would not live by them.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Ireland is being made to shrink its dairy herd, with healthy in-calf cows going to slaughter early, to satisfy a nitrogen figure set in Brussels.

Start with how cruel the timing is. Barely a decade ago, when the EU scrapped its milk quotas in 2015, Ireland told its farmers to do the opposite. Expand. Grow the herd. Build the new parlour. The government's own strategy pushed dairy hard for export growth, and thousands of families borrowed heavily and did exactly as they were asked. Now the same establishment that cheered them bigger is ordering them smaller.

The instrument is a rule that sounds technical and harmless. The EU caps the nitrogen that livestock manure may spread on the land. Ireland's grass-fed dairy farms, among the most efficient and lowest-carbon on earth, held a hard-won allowance to graze a little heavier. After a water-quality review, that allowance was cut, from 250 kilos of nitrogen a hectare down to 220, across great swathes of the country from 2024, and it has stayed under threat ever since, its conditions tightening at every review.

To drop under the new line, a farmer has three doors. Find more land, ship his slurry away, or get rid of cows. Land is scarce and the squeeze itself sent rents soaring, so for many the only door left is the herd.

The Irish Farmers Association reckoned an extra sixty nine thousand acres would be needed nationally just to stand still. One senator, a farmer himself, warned that up to forty one thousand cows, a great many of them pregnant, could be sent to slaughter to comply, and called it an animal welfare catastrophe in the making.

Sit with that. Healthy, productive, in-calf cows, on some of the greenest grass in Europe, culled early because a stocking number on a form moved by thirty kilos. The very cows the nation was begging the farmer to buy ten years ago.

This is what modern environmental policy looks like at the sharp end. A good cow loaded onto a lorry she never needed to be on, on a wet Tuesday in County Cork, to shift a figure in a spreadsheet.

[Ida Turan 🇮🇷 ایده توران @iranidaturan]

If there’s only one thing I want you to remember as someone who actually grew up in Iran, it’s this:

A bully only backs down when he faces a bigger bully.

Trump’s approach is messy, unconventional, and disruptive, but that’s exactly why it has a real chance of working. Because the regime itself is messy, unconventional, and disruptive.

This is not a normal government. It doesn’t play by any rules, and it doesn’t care about looking good or ethical.

Anyone who tries to act diplomatic or “proper” with them has already lost. For the mullahs, diplomacy has always just been a fancy word for lying, deceiving, and hiding their true intentions.

Now they’ve run into someone their old tricks don’t work on. Someone who flips the table whenever he feels like it, who doesn’t care about diplomatic etiquette, and who is completely unpredictable to them.

They can’t outsmart him like they used to. Messing with the lion’s tail this time could cost them dearly, because unlike Obama, Trump actually has his finger on the trigger, and unlike @netanyahu , nothing is holding him back.

Another reason his style seems so chaotic is that the global system and other powers have long benefited from keeping the status quo, a corrupt system that quietly protected the regime. Trump is breaking that old order apart.

For Trump, this whole negotiation and deal-making process is basically a soft war. It’s a deliberate strategy to gradually disarm and weaken the regime piece by piece, at minimum cost.

Even if a deal is reached, he won’t stop, He’ll continue until the regime is so eroded and weak that the Iranian people finally have a fair chance to confront and defeat it themselves.

It won’t happen overnight, but if you look at the direction things are going, the trend is clear.

President Trump knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s not performing for us. He’s taking massive risks with his political capital.

It’s a big gamble, yes, but it doesn’t mean it won’t work. And if one person can actually pull Iran out of this cancer, it’s him. No one else. Trust the man, trust the process.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

There is a new field in this universe, and standing in it, at last at ease, is an old soldier. His name is Hector.

He is a Cavalry Black, a big Irish-bred gelding the better part of seventeen hands, and for seventeen years he served with the Household Cavalry in London, on State and Ceremonial duty, which is a polite phrase for the hardest thing you can ask of a horse.

Understand what that means. A horse is a flight animal. Every instinct in it, refined across millions of years of being prey, says one word in the face of sudden noise and pressing crowds: run. Hector was trained, over years, to do the opposite. To stand. To carry a rider in a steel breastplate down the Mall through a wall of sound, past the bands and the cheering and the saluting guns of the King's Troop, and not move a muscle. To hold himself still on a state occasion while every nerve in his body screamed at him to bolt, and to do it again, and again, faultlessly, because the man on his back and the crowd at his shoulder were trusting half a tonne of flight animal to master its own nature on command.

He walked behind a gun carriage at a state funeral once, at the slow march, the drum beating the step, a nation watching through its tears, and he never put a hoof wrong.

He is retired now. The shoes are off. The clipped parade coat has been let go woolly and unmilitary, the first sign the people who tend old service horses look for that one is finally letting down. He shares a green field with a small unbothered donkey called Nelson, because a horse should never be alone, and the black charger who stood behind kings and the donkey who has never had a worry in his life are now inseparable. When his old groom visits, Hector lifts his head and nickers across the field before the man has said a word.

And here is the part that undoes everyone who knows what they are seeing. One afternoon they found Hector lying flat out on his side in the grass, dead still, and a heart stopped, the way every horseman's does at that sight, because a horse down and flat looks like the worst news there is. Then an ear flicked at a fly, and the breath went out of them in relief. He was simply, deeply asleep. A horse only sleeps like that when it feels entirely safe, because flat on the ground is the one place a prey animal cannot flee from, and most never dare it. For seventeen years Hector stood, awake to every danger, holding everyone else's nerve so they could rely on him. Now, in a quiet field, he has decided it is finally safe to lie down and close his eyes.

He gave his courage to the rest of us for seventeen years. He has earned the grass. He is taking it lying down, in the sun, with the donkey keeping watch.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Since I’m still trending, just wanted to take the opportunity to remind our Senate that part of the reason we have 53 Republican colleagues today & not 52 is because of Pennsylvania.

Senator Bob Casey Jr. was defeated by a mere 15,000 votes.

I would also like to remind our Senate that you would have an even greater majority today had you secured our elections years ago.

In 2024, we should have won AZ, MI, NV, & WI.

If you take into account the debacle of the 2020 election followed by Georgia Senate runoff elections, Republicans should have closer to 60 seats.

So, if you pass the SAVE America Act, you will be rewarded with votes & likely bigger majorities.

If you do not pass the SAVE America Act, then I can guarantee that Louisiana & Texas won’t be the last time that incumbent Senators were defeated

— peacefully & respectfully.

[Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit @drawandstrike]

Fun fact: the asshole who played the BIGGEST ROLE in 'losing' all of those poor kids, including the ones who were raped, is now slated to become the next governor of California.

[Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon @bkheywood]

Holy Crap. The prosecutors won’t prosecute because they claim the female wrestler consented to being physically penetrated by the male wrestler simply by the fact of her playing the support.

So according to WA state no means no except if it is a boy pretending to be a girl so he can wrestle girls and sexually assault them and then no means yes.

She did not consent to wrestle a boy she did not tacitly consent to be violated

And none of this would have happened if the state cared about protecting girls.

No Hate in WA State you guys are on the wrong side of this issue.

Teachers union, you are on the wrong side of this issue

Home health care workers you are on the wrong side of this issue

ACLU what do you even stand for anymore?????

Boys don’t belong in girls sports.

They ignore

[Katy Grimes @KATYSaccitizen]

California Gets 81.4% of All Federal Welfare Funding for Illegal Immigrants.

And one-third of California’s state budget is made up of federal funding - this is Why Gavin Newsom is Losing His Mind over Federal Funding Cuts.
Is this more California fraud that needs Trump administration scrutiny and prosecution?

@CaliforniaGlobe

https://t.co/pZkFRi97Je

[California Globe @CaliforniaGlobe]

HHS Secretary Kennedy Takes Becerra to Task in Epic Takedown of NYT Reporter

"His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children... I have set out to find the children Becerra lost."

@CaliforniaGlobe link to full story 👇

[LPP - Latinos Por Poder @LatinosPorPoder]

Are you registered but DIDN’T vote (LA city only pls)? You can still help. Check your voter status. You know you didn’t vote but it shows you did, DM ME ASAP.

[Competitive Markets @OCM_tweets]

WARNING: Farm Bill's "Save Our Bacon" Act provision would put countless family farmers out of business to provide more market share for CHINA-owned Smithfield Foods.

TAKE ACTION to help protect American agriculture! Keep the S.O.B. Act OUT of pork production. #MAHA #PorkPolitics

[Josh Balk @joshbalk]

BREAKING NEWS: Sen. Marshall (KS) — the former Senate sponsor of the "Save Our Bacon" Act — has had a change of heart. This is the most significant moment yet in the campaign to stop SOB. Credit where it's due: it takes integrity to evolve on an issue. Kansas farmers and animals are better for it. The momentum against SOB continues to grow.

[TheWorldHasGoneNuts @PatrickMcSwain]

Wow. I tried to "Cure" my California Ballot, first by their Website Online Curing, then by fax.

Rejected as not matching again at 12:03 Pacific.

My wife has also been rejected again.

It appears they can block "curing" ballots. I guess it's legal, they can just keep saying they don't like your signature. Wow.

I'll try mail next.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

A 15-year-old girl who had loved wrestling since she was four got put on a mat against a fucking male while the adults in charge knew exactly what they were doing.

She didn’t know. They did. By the end of that match she was sobbing and running to her mother after getting digitally raped through her singlet. She still had to shake the bastard’s hand. Her own coaches just walked the fuck away.

Her mother reported it the next day like any decent parent would. The law and their own policy said report it to the Title IX coordinator immediately and get law enforcement involved within 48 hours.

These gutless fucks did nothing for 53 days. Fifty-three fucking days of silence while they protected their precious policy and kept letting males into girls’ sports.

Only when a journalist started asking questions did these cowards suddenly remember how to do their fucking jobs. The next day they finally filed the report.

The principal had the balls to call the mother afterward and say they take this shit “very seriously.” Seriously? You spineless pricks sat on a sexual assault complaint for nearly two months and only moved when the press showed up.

And what did it cost? The girl quit wrestling. A sport she’d loved since she was four years old. She quit because she no longer trusted the adults in charge to protect her. Students bullied the shit out of her after the story broke and not one coach or administrator lifted a finger to stop it.

They protected the policy. They protected their own asses. They left the girl to carry it alone. Fuck every last one of them.
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