@SteveSchmidtSES Tonight I saw Jimmy Stewart playing Mr Rogers debate a 55 gallon drum of epicate syrup in a Montgomery Wards husky suit. I vasillated between extreme nausea and the calm only brought by empathy, thoughtfulness and a noticable level of knowledge.
Jennifer Welch: “Remember when Joe Biden called them trash and they had a Stage 5 meltdown and ran around the country for weeks wearing trash bags? They can’t tolerate anything. These people are emotionally stunted bigots. Donald Trump’s America is our worst foot forward. The bottom feeders that are mediocre at best”
1. Today in Parliament I raised the growing concern over “Masha and the Bear” a Russian cartoon streamed to British children on Netflix and ITVX, and flagged by Ukraine’s Centre for Countering Disinformation as a Russian soft power tool.
I called on the Leader of the House to secure a statement from the Secretary of State for DCMS on what the Government intends to do.
One Ukrainian drone with a stick. Ten Russian drones downed.
Soldiers from Ukraine's 128th Mountain Assault Brigade used a simple rope-and-stick attachment to hunt down 10 Russian Mavic reconnaissance drones, denying Russian forces vital aerial surveillance and artillery spotting.
Every enemy drone destroyed means fewer eyes in the sky – and greater protection for Ukrainian troops.
📹128th Mountain Assault Brigade
A rural Arkansas school district was hemorrhaging $250,000 a year and couldn't keep teachers. So residents voted to take out a $5.4 million bond, upgrade every building in the district, and install 1,400 solar panels.
Three years later, the deficit flipped to a $1.8 million surplus.
The project wasn't just solar. Energy efficiency upgrades across all six schools, new lighting, HVAC systems, windows, and thermostats cut energy consumption by 1.6 million kilowatts annually.
The panels, some installed as a canopy at the school entrance and some on unused district land, generated enough excess electricity that the district started selling it back to the grid. Monthly utility bills dropped from $17,000 to $4,000.
The school board voted to put the savings into paychecks. Teachers saw raises averaging $2,000 to $3,000 a year, with some receiving up to $15,000 depending on tenure.
Batesville went from one of the lowest-paying districts in Arkansas to one of the highest-paying in its county. Resignations slowed and applications went up.
Taxpayers funded the upfront cost through the bond. The savings paid it back and then some. "Batesville has reduced the checks they write to utilities," said the energy company that managed the project, "and increased the checks they write to teachers."
At least 20 nearby districts have since copied the model. Nine thousand schools across the US now run on solar. Batesville was the first to route the savings directly into teacher salaries.
At a Broadway play last night and this thought crossed my mind;
"They will let us know.They will break into the performance and announce that the President has expired. I won't have to leave the show when it ends and walk out into a celebration in the streets without warning ,right?"
The parts "Storytime with Usha and Donald" conveniently forgot to mention:
Increasing debt being passed to kids. No money for childcare.
The Epstein Files.
Detaining and deporting kids with life-threatening conditions.
Bombing kids in their classroom.
The Epstein Files.
Cutting over $1 billion in funding that supplied fresh produce to schools.
Forcing religious beliefs of others upon kids.
The Epstein Files.
Discriminating against LGBTQ+ kids, Black and Brown kids, and kids with disabilities.
WATCH:
#DemsUnited #EpsteinFiles
Kayleigh McEnany went on a Fox rant about how angry she is over the American Dream getting betrayed by Mamdani "coming to this country and becoming the mayor of our greatest city." Which IS the American Dream unless, like Kayleigh, you think it only applies to white people
“How small they are. How weak. How unoriginal… division is the oldest trick in politics.”
Zohran rings in America’s birthday by reminding us our story is one of welcoming immigrants, not excluding everyone who doesn’t look like us. 🇺🇸
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“In this country, we have no ‘other people.’ We are American people, all of us.”
This 1940s film warning against bigotry and fascism is more relevant now than ever.