“We get days like this because we actually poured in and did the work the right way. Shout out to our team for not giving in to what social media world is saying about us. Culture is how teams win. Talent gets us there, but team camaraderie keeps us here.”
“You want to shut down the facility? Then every illegal alien we arrest in that state, we’ll fly to Texas. We’ll fly to Arizona, detain them there, because we’re going to keep arresting people. We’re going to keep detaining people. We’re going to keep removing people.” @RealTomHoman
“I watched people sell their wedding rings to keep the lights on… then I saw where the ‘relief’ really went.”
Barbra Streisand, net worth $400 million, took a $200,000 PPP loan
Robert De Niro, net worth $500 million, took $27.7 MILLION in PPP money
Paid for by U.S. taxpayers
MUST WATCH: RING THAT BELL 🇺🇸
CONGRATULATIONS to the @UsmmaO officers who just passed their U.S. Coast Guard License Exam 🚢
Ringing the Powell Oval bell is the ultimate milestone. The second a Midshipman finds out they passed, they hit that bell to mark the exact finish line of their training and the official launch of their career at sea!
Say hello to the next generation of America’s Merchant Mariners ⚓️
The @JusticeDept announced TODAY that Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong has agreed to a plea deal, admitting she paid homeless people in Los Angeles to register to vote in Federal elections to support her paid signature gathering business. @USAttyEssayli Election integrity matters!
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OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. Bruiser is on my lap!!!!!
This feral cat who wouldn’t come near me a year and a half ago is on my lap!!!
I’m melting with love!!! ❤️
Look at those eyes. Omg. He’s perfect! He even drooled on me!
Can you see it?
Awwwwwww.
They broke his bones, gouged his eyes out, cut out his tongue and castrated him. He died of a heart attack after being set on fire and dragged himself 50 meters across the floor.
This is The Wyndham Springfield Hotel in Springfield, Illinois
This is the city’s tallest building but now sits closed, abandoned and boarded up
The owner is Al Rajabi, an Arabic man who tries to committed fraud by paying to have the property vandalized to get a payout
Here’s what happened
The hotel suffered extensive flooding and vandalism occurred, damaging multiple floors, elevators, fire suppression systems, alarms, electrical systems, and more.
The Springfield Police, Fire Department, and Illinois State Fire Marshal investigated it as intentional vandalism from the start. The building was declared unsafe, leading to closure and layoffs
Owner Al Rajabi filed a large claim
Insurer Affiliated FM refused payment and countersued, explicitly alleging that:
- Rajabi intentionally caused or colluded in the damage like cutting pipes and damaging electrical systems
- He made “willful misrepresentations and concealments.”
A prior 2024 “lightning strike” claim for which they paid $4.05 million was also fraudulent with exaggerated with minimal actual damage
All these people do is scam. Diversity is not our strength
Is Texas Children’s Hospital going to kill this child as retribution because they are angry at AG Ken Paxton for successfully blocking them from doing trans surgeries on children?
This tiny little girl has shown some signs of recovery nearly drowning on Memorial Day and multiple doctors agree the hospital needs to give her time for the swelling on her brain stem to go down - but the Hospital is pushing to do a brain function test and wants the family to donate her organs. Debra Sukin is the President & CEO. She will not let this child be transferred to another hospital - she is blocking the parents from fighting for the life of their little girl and violating their religious belief in the sanctity of life. The parents got a temporary restraint order against the hospital to give jen time & a radical Progressive judge blocked it & gave the hospital the right to do the brain function test now before she has had time to heal.
There are TWO other Texas hospitals in the area standing by ready to take this child. How can anyone let Texas Children’s murder this little girl?
Please share, please raise your voices, please do anything you can. #releaseannelise
Now the parents are being threatened with CPS, acc to a close first-hand source. You cannot despise these people enough. Raise your voice - help save the life of a two-year-old girl. Stand up for the rights of every parent. Do not let them get away with murder. #releaseannelise
While driving to the Krystal Rivera Memorial, we saw this poor girl running along the boulevard. Thankfully we were able to stop & collar her with the help of neighbors (and hot dogs). We will monitor her progress at @ChicagoACC & hopeful connect her back to her rightful owners.
Not the kind of thing I usually post, but I spent yesterday with five other volunteers laying an ass whooping on an invasive Chinese wisteria that was strangling a willow oak to death.
Chinese wisteria is one of the most destructive invasive plants in the southeastern US. It climbs 70 feet up native trees, develops trunks up to 15 inches in diameter, and slowly strangles its host.
The tree we worked on is a willow oak, a native species. A single oak supports over 500 species of caterpillars, more than any other native plant genus in North America. Lose the oak and you lose the caterpillars. Lose the caterpillars and there's nothing to feed baby birds.
A note on what you're looking at in the photos:
The vines high in the canopy weren't removable, so we cut every vine at the base, treated the cut stumps to prevent regrowth, and left the upper vines to die in place. The vines were cut high enough to prevent new vines from grabbing on.
Over the next year or two, the dead vines will dry out and the tree should slowly free itself as the brittle vines break off in storms.
Arborists will tell you that a tree this far gone doesn't always make it. We tried to give it a chance.