The world is in a complete and utter mess, on every level, due to insane, incompetent, and just evil leadership, and the manipulation by billionaires/oligarchs, pulling the strings of politicians.
It's becoming increasingly difficult for me to say anything constructive.
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2:00 PM: ๐บ๐ธ U.S. judge ordered the DOJ to unredact Jeffrey Epstein files which name alleged co-conspirators.
5:00 PM: ๐บ๐ธ Trump REJECTED Court order to hand over redacted Epstein files.
8:00 PM: ๐บ๐ธ Trump began bombing Iran. The war restarted.
You connect the dots.
๐จ Republican candidate Ann Manning Martin has been caught forging thousands of signatures to get her name on the ballot.
She was campaigning on "election integrity."
I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. Heโs still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 45 minutes. He's so sharp. Just like always he let me do all of the talking. He's a great listener. After that we prayed silently for awhile and had a staring contest. Just like always, he beat me. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible.
โIf ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.โ
โ Samuel Adams
Tonight was a perfect encapsulation of where the U.S. is today. Total corruption and shooting ourselves in the foot for absolutely no reason so that we destroy ourselves in an utterly humiliating fashion.
A heartbroken cowboy became America's greatest conservationist.
Before he was president, Theodore Roosevelt was a grieving 25-year-old who came to the North Dakota Badlands to disappear.
His wife and his mother died on the same day. He wrote a single line in his diary that day: "The light has gone out of my life." Then he left politics, bought two cattle ranches along the Little Missouri River, and spent the better part of two years as a rancher in wild country most Americans back east had never seen.
He later said it was where the romance of his life began. He said he never would have been president without it.
The landscape did something to him. He watched overgrazing strip the grass and market hunters empty the plains of game. He saw how fast a place could be used up.
By the time he reached the White House, he had taken those lessons to heart and made them policy.
Roosevelt put roughly 230 million acres under public protection.
150 national forests.
51 wildlife refuges.
5 national parks.
18 national monuments.
He signed the Antiquities Act in 1906 and used it to protect the Grand Canyon when Congress wouldn't.
This week, a presidential library opened in Medora, on the edge of the Badlands he ranched. It's built into a butte above the Little Missouri, facing the same country he looked out on while he was trying to put his life back together. It gathers his whole story in one place for the first time, and it carries his conservation legacy forward.
Roosevelt's story is a testament to the resilience of the American spirit and the healing power of our land. Our landscapes have shaped and inspired some of our greatest heroes, and will continue to do so, but only if we make it a priority to protect them.
Spending trillions to build out AI data centers proves that the American ruling class had the resources and ability to convert the grid to renewables and maybe save the planet but instead deliberately chose to cook us all and die for no reason but to produce demonic digital slop.