•The U.S. Senate may hold a floor vote TODAY which would overturn a 20-year moratorium on sulfide-ore copper mining on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest land in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) Wilderness in northern Minnesota. The Boundary Waters is the most visited Wilderness in the United States.
🛶 Enjoying the Minnesotan/Canadian wilderness by canoe or other lesser watercraft is one of our nations greatest available pastimes, and one I have personally enjoyed my entire life. We must protect these public lands from the rapacious capitalists threatening to turn them into a poisoned wasteland.
•This vote in Congress would open the door to copper mining at the headwaters of this entire ecosystem. This kind of mining produces toxic pollution, including acid runoff and heavy metals, that can contaminate nearby waters.
•The Boundary Waters supports a major outdoor economy that sustains thousands of jobs and generates over a billion dollars a year - built on clean water and intact public lands. But this vote would clear the way for toxic mining that puts all of that at risk. It would also set a dangerous precedent, making it easier to roll back protections for public lands across the country, including wilderness areas, national monuments, and national parks.
•This is a defining moment. If you care about clean water, public lands, and protecting places we can’t replace, now is the time to speak up.
•Protect the Boundary Waters, and vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140. Let’s save this treasured place for all of us—forever. https://t.co/JhNAR6Za2O
HOOVER: Will America succeed in this war without Allies, other than Israel?
MATTIS: No…America is becoming predatory. America is unreliable. There’s a sense that we are not a reliable security partner right now…you can’t bring allies on board if they don’t trust you…
All this talk of a ballroom to service the super wealthy while the rest of us continue to pay more for healthcare and basic essentials makes me think of this powerful political cartoon from 1906, the artist is William Balfour Ker.
Following the removal of all major news outlets, both Conservative and Liberal, after they refused to sign a pledge last week committing to new rules and restrictions on reporting by journalists under the Pentagon Press Corps, the U.S. Department of Defense announced a “New Pentagon Press Corps” earlier today, which consists of several “non-bias, well-respected journalists and outlets” including:
-Tim Pool
-Gateway Pundit
-Jack Posobiec
-LindellTV
-TPUSA Frontlines
-The National Pulse
-The Post Millennial
-Washington Reporter
-Red State
-Real America's Voice
At least only one of these outlets was proven in court to have been paid millions to spread propaganda by the Russian State.
Lutnick on being invited over to his then-neighbor Jeffrey Epstein's house: So he invites us in and he says, "Do you want a tour?" We said, "Great!" He's got a really big house.
So he gives me a tour in the living room, and then across from it is double doors. I assume it's the dining room. And he opens the doors and there's a massage table in the middle of the room. And candles all around and stuff. So I ask very insightful cutting questions. I say to him, "Massage table in the middle of your house? How often you have a massage?
And he says, "Every day." And then he gets like weirdly close to me and he says, "And the right kind of massage." Now my wife is standing here. So she looks at me and I look at her and we say, "I'm sorry, we have to go." And we left. And in the 6 or 8 steps it takes to get from his house to my house, my wife and I decided that I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again. So I was never in the room with him socially, for business or even philanthropy.
That guy was there, I wasn't going 'cause he's gross.