L. R. Araiza

1 ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, & if it were possible, write a few reasonable words with a fountain pen

[L. R. Araiza @LRAraiza]

@LanceZierlein I would have

[L. R. Araiza @LRAraiza]

@ClintStoerner Oh and their offensive is unimaginable and uncreative

[L. R. Araiza @LRAraiza]

@ClintStoerner What’s to discuss. They have no offense and can’t score. They don’t know how to use their offensive linemen

[L. R. Araiza @LRAraiza]

You know @ClintStoerner the way the Bills beat the Lions makes me feel better sent the Texans game. Offensively they were right there with them.

[L. R. Araiza @LRAraiza]

@Partisangirl FYI

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthletic: The NFL fined Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair $11,941 for having the name Hind Rajab written on his eye black during Sunday’s game against the Buffalo Bills. Rajab was a 5-year-old Palestinian girl killed in Gaza in 2024. https://t.co/ruinKaztBJ

[L. R. Araiza @LRAraiza]

@MollyAmberBee And who can’t forget running gauntlet of hucksters

https://t.co/2T9bbGr3fX

[ICE T @FINALLEVEL]

I’ve got unemployed friends that think Labor Day is for Pregnant women… lol

[L. R. Araiza @LRAraiza]

@thedailybeast He died on the senate floor, watch the tape

[L. R. Araiza @LRAraiza]

A group I have suggested to @MarlowNYC a few times.

[State of the Scene @SOTSPodcast]

The Warning have made history as the first Mexican band, as well as first all female band, to top Billboard's Mainstream Rock Airplay Chart with their single Kerosene.

[L. R. Araiza @LRAraiza]

@thedailybeast

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: BETRAYING NATURE! Trump’s public lands sellout reaches Yosemite in STUNNINGLY CORRUPT private development scandal.

From his actions designed to put public lands in the hands of private developers, it’s plain to see that Donald Trump deserves to be called an anti-Yosemite.

For 150 years, the American government has protected Yosemite National Park as a birthright belonging to every citizen. It was in fact the 3rd National Park ever established, with sections of Yosemite Valley protected as a California state park as early as 1864 because of its spectacular natural beauty, including such famous landmarks as Half Dome, El Capitan, and its fabulous waterfalls.

Now the Trump administration is quietly working to give a piece of it away — to a private developer who's naturally donated to Trump's campaign and has business ties to two Trump officials.

The National Park Service has been under sustained pressure from Secretary Doug Burgum and Interior Department leadership to hand over a quarter-mile strip of Yosemite land to a company controlled by real estate developer Jeff Pori and his firm Kingsbarn Realty Capital. Pori wants to carve a new private road directly into the park to access an 83-acre property he purchased for $4 million, land that would otherwise require a winding 90-minute drive to reach popular park attractions.

This isn't a new idea — it's a zombie proposal courts already killed twice. The previous owner of the private parcel sued to build this exact road in 2007 and lost in district court, then lost again on appeal in 2012, with judges ruling flatly that federal law doesn't require the Park Service to grant new private roads when an existing access route already exists. Bush, Obama, and Biden administrations all said no. Trump's Interior Department is the first to say yes.

The timing is particularly suspicious. Pori's company recently closed a real estate deal involving Newmark Group, chaired by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick until months before, and Hankey Capital, whose chair also personally underwrote Trump's $175 million bond during his New York fraud appeal. Pori himself started making regular donations to Trump's campaign and the Republican Party beginning in late 2024, with zero prior history of political giving. (Just out of the goodness of his heart, we suppose.)

Former Yosemite superintendent Cicely Muldoon put it bluntly: "Our basic purpose in the national parks is to preserve these places unimpaired for future generations, not letting go of that for the purpose of private profit." One person familiar with the negotiations was even blunter: "It kind of smells, you know. It's not quite right." It smells so bad that it rivals Trump’s dirty diapers in its stench.

California's Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff have both publicly opposed the deal, and it never even made the approved project list from the Senate committee overseeing the relevant conservation fund. Environmental groups are already preparing legal challenges.

Yosemite belongs to the American people, not to whoever's donated enough money to the right campaign. With Trump already destroying formerly pristine public lands by allowing fossil fuel and lumber interests to rape them and reap the profits, he must be stopped from doing the same to Yosemite.

Please like and share if you agree!

[Syrian Girl @Partisangirl]

BREAKING🚨 🇦🇺 Israeli who ordered strike that killed Australian aide worker Zomi Frankom says he is not sorry and he killed her on purpose .

He claims World Central Kitchen has “Hamas link” and is "not really an organisation you can say is innocent." WCK was founded in Spain and does food drives all over the world. They claimed Hamas was hiding in the baby incubators and every school and hospital.

Israel is the enemy of Australia and the world.
https://t.co/AMAMLqAipH

[L. R. Araiza @LRAraiza]

@BartHanson Perfect example of the worse the player, the less you bluff

[L. R. Araiza @LRAraiza]

@BartHanson If you know anything about her play, this is how she plays a lot of hands and loses most of them. She got lucky here but it still fits her pattern of play. Side note. Doyle Brunson played almost the exact same hand against Amarillo Slim and no one claimed cheating.

[Mitch Jackson, Esq. @mitchjackson]

Republican Senator Rick Scott built a fortune running the company that committed, at the time, the largest health care fraud in American history, then walked away with roughly ten million dollars in cash, three hundred million dollars in stock, and a cushy consulting deal while his company pleaded guilty to fourteen felonies and paid one point seven billion dollars in fines. He pleaded the Fifth Amendment seventy five times under oath and never faced a single criminal charge. Now he’s Trump’s guy who sits in the United States Senate writing health care policy and lecturing the country about Medicare fraud.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Here’s what you need to know…

https://t.co/vypgqtnIXa

[L. R. Araiza @LRAraiza]

@JohnLeFevre And there is no reason for college to cost this much. John in the 50s, 60s and 70s the University of Houston was so inexpensive that you could work part time and pay for college. UH educated this whole city. Until the late ‘60s Rice was free! That fantastic school was free.

[Robert Wood @bertowud]

#satire…maybe

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

But, you idiots, Israelis have been effectively doing that (while spinning). Ben-Gvir is just saying it out loud.

And remember that he is in government, not in Brooklyn.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Vicious, mass criminals.
An evil "state".