Bobbie Keyser

[Acyn @Acyn]

Massie: Well, I’ve got three amendments to zero out funding in the State Department appropriations bill: one to defund Egypt, one to defund Jordan, and one to defund Israel. Those are the top three recipients.

Israel is the biggest welfare recipient of the United States, at $3.8 billion a year. Three billion of that is in the State Department bill, and that’s what we’ll have a vote on, hopefully this week.

Marjorie Taylor Greene did an amendment very similar to this before she left, and of course I voted for it. I think it will get more votes because public opinion has changed as awareness has increased about how much money we’re spending on Israel and what they’re doing with those bombs and weapons—starting wars with their neighbors, for instance.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Hummingbird cooling down in a heatwave

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Cyclospora, the foodborne parasite known to cause explosive diarrhea, has been found in:

—Parsley
—Cilantro
—Snow peas
—Mesclun lettuce
—Spinach
—Salad mixes
—Berries

Cases are on the rise nationwide.

[Dream for America @DreamAmerica_]

THOMAS MASSIE: “It’s ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, & the White House -- and we're yelling 'election fraud'? We won all the damn elections.

What are we doing with that? We’re bankrupting the country. We’re starting new wars. We’re violating the Constitution. We’re not cracking down on the fraud. The problem is not the elections. We won the damn elections. The problem is that we’re wasting the opportunity voters gave us."

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

UPDATE: On the girl who made all those viral videos about Georgia Power threatening to take their home with eminent domain to expand for data centers, her family was just forced to sell to avoid eminent domain

Corporations always win. They lost their home but don’t want to leave

“To us, it's theft. It's literally a billion-dollar company stealing land from Smaller people, people who can't fight back. We don't have the money to fight Georgia Power.”

A spokesperson from Georgia Power says faking peoples homes actually benefits everyone

“Eminent domain is always, you know, a last resort for us — I would just say that we see you and we hear you and we want this process to be respectful and transparent, and that is going to ultimately benefit you”

It’s literally insane, Georgia Power is actually saying that stealing your property for data centers “is going to ultimately benefit you”

She won’t be the last there are over 300 homes in this area being targeted for data center power expansion

[skumm🧊 @skumWgmi]

You can't tax rich people on unrealized gains from stocks because "it's not real money until it's sold."

So explain to me why my property taxes keep going up based on the unrealized value of my house?

I didn't sell it, didn't cash out and didn't even make a profit.

But somehow I'm paying taxes on paper gains every single year.

Interesting how "unrealized gains" only become a problem when wealthy folks are involved.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Actor Sam Neill was asked what was the greatest lesson he learned from his parents.

He recalled his mother’s simple but profound advice:

“Sometimes you just have to pull yourself together. It’s a tough lesson, but it’s a good one.”

Wise words from a man who lived his life with grace and dignity.

Rest in peace, Sam Neill.

[꧁𝔓x𝔞tt𝔯ic𝔦olex56_贵族🇨🇱🐾(•̀ᴗ•́)و꧂🐾 @STudy017aq]

RIP Sam Neill and Farewell 🤍

#Samneill #jurassicpark #jurassicworld #dinosaur #tribute

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

ICE killed a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine.

He was legally authorized to work in the U.S. and had a Social Security number. His wife and 3-year-old daughter were in the car when ICE fired at least five shots into the vehicle.

He was not the person ICE was looking for.

An eyewitness says an SUV struck his vehicle before the shooting and heard him say, “I tried to stop.”

The ICE agents involved were not wearing body cameras.

https://t.co/du9bv2U4pY highlights a simple reality: when masked, unidentified people in unmarked vehicles try to ram you off the road, it can be extraordinarily difficult to know who they are or how to comply.

That is why identification, body cameras, transparency and accountability matter.

Without them, this is not legitimate law enforcement. It is fascism.

Help people prepare for ICE encounters and deal with the aftermath: https://t.co/Hi5Yo2N2N2

[Sunny Giron 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @sunny_giron]

We can live without data centres and billionaires but we can’t live without water

[CantStopPoppin @CantStopPoppin]

He had a Social Security Number. He had a valid work permit. He was an authorized, 26-year-old asylum seeker trying to navigate the system, and what did it get him? A bullet through the head. The utter, cold disregard for human life is staggering. They didn't render aid.

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

In 1945 the USS Indianapolis secretly delivered the parts for the atomic bomb that would hit Hiroshima.

Days later, mission done, a Japanese submarine put two torpedoes into her. She sank in 12 minutes.

Nearly 900 men made it off the ship alive and into the open ocean. Then it got worse.

No one knew they were missing. Three separate Navy stations picked up the distress signals and every one of them ignored it. One officer thought it was a Japanese trap. Another had ordered not to be disturbed.

So the men floated. For almost five days. No food, no fresh water, burning by day and freezing at night. Some drank seawater and went insane. And the whole time, the sharks were circling and feeding. It is considered the worst shark attack in human history.

When rescue finally came by accident, only 316 of the nearly 1,200 crew were still alive.

The Navy needed someone to blame for the disaster. They chose Captain Charles McVay, one of the men who survived it. He became the only U.S. captain in the entire war to be court-martialed for losing his ship to the enemy.

At his trial the Navy did something almost unheard of. They brought in the Japanese commander who sank the ship to testify against him. Instead, the enemy captain told the court that zigzagging would have made no difference and that McVay did nothing wrong.

They convicted him anyway.

For years afterward McVay got hate mail from the families of the dead. Some sent letters every Christmas telling him he murdered their sons. In 1968 he walked onto his front lawn and shot himself, holding a toy sailor he had kept since he was a boy.

Case closed. For fifty years.

Then in 1996 an 11-year-old named Hunter Scott watched Jaws with his dad and got hooked on the 30 second speech about the Indianapolis. He made it his sixth grade history project.

He tracked down and interviewed nearly 150 survivors. He dug through more than 800 documents. And buried in there he found what the Navy had left out, including that they knew enemy subs were operating right on the ship's route and never warned McVay.

A kid's school project turned into a national story. It reached Congress. In 2000 lawmakers passed a resolution clearing McVay's name and President Clinton signed it. The Navy officially cleared his record in 2001.

The captain the Navy spent decades blaming was finally exonerated by a sixth grader.

Hunter Scott grew up and became a naval flight officer.

[ABC News @ABC]

Cases of cyclosporiasis, an intestinal infection caused by a parasite, are currently being reported in nearly three dozen states, according to an @ABC News tally. https://t.co/nt93OPmHqf

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

🚨 Data Centers in Ohio are preparing to discharge their water usage directly into lakes and streams and the EPA is working on permits to let them do it

“The Ohio EPA is drafting permits to let that wastewater flow straight into our lakes and streams. Five year permits, no guarantee of a sewage treatment plant on site, just straight into the river if that's what's nearby”

This is very real, the EPA is actually doing this, and there are real concerns:

Concerns raised by residents include

- Thermal pollution: Hot water can harm aquatic life.
- Chemicals: Potential for biocides, metals, or other additives.
- Massive withdrawals and discharges of water strain local water bodies, especially during droughts
- Environmental groups like Great Lakes groups warn of risks to drinking water, recreation and ecosystems

[nic @grqntt]

sam neill, thank you so much for always spreading positivity and blessing us with all of these silly videos during covid times ❤️ i'm gonna miss it so much

[Sam Neill @TwoPaddocks]

Yes, I know things can look a little glum at present. But , for now cheer up. From us.

[Eric Smith @Eric_Smith08]

Amazon Prime costs $139/year.

Most members use 2 features: free shipping and Prime Video.

That's a $139 subscription doing the job of a $5.99 delivery fee.

J.P. Morgan estimates the actual value of Prime benefits at approximately $1,430/year more
than 10x the membership cost. But most of that value sits unclaimed behind tabs, menus,
and pages 200 million members have never opened.

And 4 of those benefits expire monthly. If you don't claim them by the end of the month,
they're gone. Amazon resets the clock. You paid for them. You lost them.

Amazon is counting on you not knowing.

Here are the 12 Prime benefits most members have never activated including the 4 that
vanish every 30 days 🧵

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Roman mosaic found under an Italian vineyard

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate?

Dahl: Yes Murray:

And the rate for someone making $1,000,000?

Dahl: 2.2%

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

I literally can’t believe what I just heard

Chris Hansen from To Catch a Predator says they were filming in Florida and “We had 51 guys show up in 6 days”

51 adults caught going to meet underage children caught IN JUST 6 DAYS

- One guy showed up at the county jail to pick up a 14-year-old girl, he wants to pick her up and sexually exploit her
- One guy showed up at a Target to meet who he thought was a dad offering up his 7 and 14 year-old son

“And if you saw this guy in Target standing in line, he doesn't stick out of the crowd. You wouldn't have even thought twice about this guy being dangerous”

To Catch a Predator show ended but Chris Hanson is still doing the work on his new show ‘Takedown with Chris Hensen’

The work he’s done across his shows has already led to over 500 arrests

Think of how many child predators are really in America, especially if 51 showed up in one county in only 6 days

We have a major problem