EricBurtonCummings

Dad, cook, pessimist, dog lover.

[AB @luv2laugh12]

Someone urgently needed to pick up Bella from San Bernardino Animal Shelter in California to save her life! 🙏🆘
Can anyone help?🙏 See linked post below.

@KellyG581976179 @itsadogslifersq @LilaFlw @SabaMekaZeus @mapleveewesem

Bella’s ID: #A594020

[Lila @LilaFlw]

MOURNING LOSS of FAMILY😭
Pink🩷was surrendered cuz owner health issues.

Perfect girl—good w kids (often hungout w age 5-7), playful, loves attn, great w🐶, lived w🐶, knows commands even🤙signals!

Affectn frm staff mean more to her than treats.

🆘DEADLINE—TUE 7pmMT

#A5169132

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

This is our money they stole.

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

it is unethical to make people pay for parking at a hospital or medical center. you will never convince me otherwise.

[Wayne Hsiung @waynehhsiung]

Envision thousands marching straight up to the largest dog-abusing lab in the nation, Marshall BioResources, to demand the release of the dogs.

The 16,000+ pups trapped in cages would finally have a voice!

Well, it's happening Sept 12-26. And we need you to join us.

[AB @luv2laugh12]

OMG, this video is heartbreaking!
Can anyone help this dog Bella? 🙏

[I feed stray cats every day @younescats2018]

I found this cat poisoned and in critical condition. She needed emergency intestinal surgery and is now hospitalized receiving treatment, but I cannot cover the 1,792 MAD ($179) bill. Please help if you can🙏 https://t.co/3vWWoAtBZw or you can contact the clinic directly to help.

[Insane Reality Leaks @InsaneReality]

The fact he asked for permission first makes this 10x funnier 💀

[Nicole Minét @mouvement33]

When contraception and abortion were outlawed in Romania in the 90s...this is what happened. And Erika Kirk was over there with her own orphanage. These kids were being preyed upon by pedophiles.

[LSDon @LSDonTV]

We were taught communism is bad by the generation who thought segregation was good

[Kelly G @KellyG581976179]

🆘Extremely Urgent in Southern CA

This is 3 year old, precious , sweet Benny. He’s a little guy at 28 pounds .

He is due to he killed, Tuesday, Aug . 11th at:

Apple Valley Animal Shelter, in Apple Valley, CA.

An adopter or Foster is desperately needed to save his life . Pledges will also help attract a rescue. @Christie_Houser

Fostering is Free through a Rescue. A Rescue can’t pull him without a Foster or Adopter.

Out of State Adoption is possible.

You can also help by sharing him .

Quote posts , Comments and Reposts will push him in the algorithm. Thank you🙏🐾

[👹 @connnnobi]

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping. - Hubert Reeves

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Shy'tyra Burton is 22 years old. She lives in Philadelphia with her dad, a city sanitation worker. Her IQ tests below seventy. After years of medical evaluations and a hearing in front of a federal judge, she qualifies for SSI — $994/month. Now Trump's people are writing a rule that would take up to $330 of that every single month, by assessing the dollar value of her bedroom and deducting it from her benefit.
This is the second attempt. The first one was killed when ProPublica exposed it. Same people — Russell Vought at OMB and Frank Bisignano at SSA — are back with a new version, buried deeper in the regulatory process. Up to 400,000 disabled Americans could lose benefits.
Forty Down syndrome organizations have already sent a letter opposing it. The National Association of Evangelicals — not a liberal group — has come out against it. When you've lost the evangelicals on a disability cut, you've lost the room.
The man writing this rule had to Google what the Social Security Commissioner does when Trump offered him the job. A Republican congressman called his testimony "embarrassing for my side." Now he's deciding whether Shy'tyra keeps her check.
The rule is in OMB review. A public comment window is coming. That's how it was stopped last time.
Watch: https://t.co/3CH2Ed0OEg

[AB @luv2laugh12]

Can someone please save this dog, Bella? 🙏
It appears she was extended to 8/10 at 2 pm. She’s at San Bernardino Animal Shelter.
More details in linked post below. 👇

[Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 @KellyScaletta]

This man on the left is Jacobo Árbenz. On the right is Abdul El-Sayed. El-Sayed has gotten me to thinking about Árbenz. Here's why.

Árbenz is the former President of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954.

At the time, Guatemala was one of the poorest countries in the world. The average wages were around $20 per year.

By comparison, the impoverished African American community in America was making 40-times as much. And this was the precursor to the war on poverty.

One company, the United Fruit Company (now known as Chiquita), dominated the entire Guatemalan economy. It owned most of the railroads, roads, telegraph equipment, and so on.

The UFC was actually worth more money (about $500 million--or $7 billion in today's standard--than the entire Guatemalan GDP.

So it's not like they couldn't afford to pay their workers more. They jsut chose not to. Where else were workers going to go?

So Arbanz decided to do something about it. A good chunk of Guatemala's land was owned by the UFC, but not farmed. It was just sitting there.

Apart from that, the UFC claimed it was worth a lot less than it actually was.

Arbanz's plan was simple. Buy the land for what the UFC said it was worth, and then provide loans to citizens at a reasonable rate so they could have their own farms and reduce poverty.

Well now. This wasn't sitting too well with UFC. So they went and talked to their good buddies John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who ran U.S. foreign policy during the 1950s. President Dwight Eisenhower appointed John Foster as Secretary of State and Allen as Director of the CIA.

Now, they both had strong financial ties to the UFC, but exactly how much is in dispute. But they definitely were connected.

John Foster Dulles, Eisenhower's Secretary of State, had been a senior partner at the powerful law firm Sullivan & Cromwell.

United Fruit was a client of Sullivan & Cromwell, and the firm performed legal work for UFC. John Foster Dulles personally worked on matters involving the company, including agreements connected to its operations in Guatemala.

His brother Allen Dulles, Eisenhower's CIA director during the 1954 coup, had also been a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell.

He therefore came from the same law firm as his brother with the United Fruit relationship. There are some reports that he was on the UFC board, but I can't verify that.

It went the other way too, with a former President of the UFC, Thomas Corcoran, and his relative, John Moors Cabot, connected to the Eisenhower Administration.
So, to put it mildly, there was certainly more than a little bit of conflict of interest.

So when Árbenz got elected, the Dulles brothers got to couping. Literally.

They claimed Árbenz was a Communist. He wasn't.
He was just a danger to unfettered and unregulated capitalism.

The United States, through the Dulles brothers, sponsored a coup that ended with Arbanz dead and Carlos Castillo Armas in charge. Armas was a despot who ruled until he got assassinated three years later.

And by then, Guatemala's democracy was destroyed, and they descended into a 36-year civil war that has more than a little to do with why we still have people from Guatemala requesting asylum.

So the moral of the story is that when rich white uber-wealthy Americans start screaming that a brown person is a communist because he is challenging unfettered Capitalism.

Pay attention.

Things might not be what they say they are.

[Mr. Nobody @MmisterNobody]

If you’re fine with mass surveillance because you’re “not doing anything wrong,” just wait until they redefine what “wrong” means.

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

I have been carefully tracking the RECORD foodborne outbreaks the US has been ignoring since 2021. Please know no one will be spared.

Everyone eats food.

Don’t eat salsa/guac from Target, Trader Joe’s, Walmart, Whole Foods & Kroger, Hannaford, & Stop & Shop locations.

[AB @luv2laugh12]

Can anyone save Smoochie? 🙏
She’s only 1 yr old, listed as a Cane Corso, 83 lbs.
Described as fearful but “soft and gentle as a butterfly”!; also appears to be dog friendly.

Smoochie is set to be 💉on Wednesday 8/12 at 6:30 a.m. at Stanislaus Animal Services Agency in Modesto, CA.

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

I assure you, we have done the research, this is not merely a license plate reader. From a legally defensible standpoint, they can call it that, but when it is combined with other apps, then it becomes a full surveillance state.