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So now when I hear Christmas songs I remember my grandmother & experience the emotions of missing her. Part of that is contempt for the previous admin that told her & those around her that Covid was a hoax. She had turned 107 early this year.
Descansa en paz, abuela. Te quiero.
MacFarlane: Some national park service workers are so alarmed, they leaked internal spreadsheets that show where the money is going.
We added the numbers together and found for the white house grounds for the vanity projects, the beautification and the needed upgrades: They've set aside $323 million for this year…
$323 million compared to $7 million for the white house in 2024. That's a 5,000% increase.
National mall has a ten fold increase from 2024 for projects that are the president's priority.
Doesn't mean the money is directly being starved out of Yosemite, Yellowstone, Mount Zion, Grand Canyon. But we checked those parks all have significantly less funding allotted for them this year than they did two years ago, and there's a $30 billion backlog of deferred maintenance
They are going to have to shortchange important projects throughout America to marshal donated money or taxpayer money on things like a reflecting pool, a helipad, a ballroom, and other vanity projects.
Yesterday Mayor Mamdani endorsed a bill to force Amazon to employ its own delivery drivers, rather than outsource the work to subcontractors. The Prospect can report that Amazon's lead lobbyist on that bill is Chuck Schumer's daughter Jessica.
https://t.co/BYKMblSRDr
Democrats should introduce national paid sick and parental leave and call it the MITCH Act. If you can be missing from your job for months as a U.S. Senator and still collect your full paycheck, working Americans should get the same deal.
"The moment I realised Israeli society was fully fascist"
Journalist and filmmaker @AbbyMartin shares her experience speaking to everyday Israeli citizens in 2017, and explains how genocidal rhetoric has now gone mainstream in the country.
“My country is not prepared for this mental health crisis that they are dumping upon my people.”
Israelis are vacationing on Siargao Island in the Philippines after participating in the genocide in Gaza. And locals are fighting back.
@SaltyGoat17 The animal kill shelter dilemma is beyond Michigan. You can blame local govs, but thats not the whole story.
Its selfishness, poverty, anti-pet landlords, housing instability & shortages, desperation, hopelessness, ICE snatching pet owners, etc.
Take your head out of the sand.
The most important book of 2026 is officially published today!
"Israel’s Lobby" is neither a sequel to John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s groundbreaking 2007 book, nor simply an update of it. It does something different.
@EliClifton and Lustick provide a systematic history of the moments when, in their telling, Israel and its American supporters have worked against U.S. interests. But they also add a dimension that Mearsheimer and Walt did not explore at length: money—and, specifically, the financial machinery behind efforts to put Israel’s interests ahead of America’s.
The reason this will become the most important book of 2026 lies in the collision between its findings and its timing. Never before have Americans been so willing to openly debate the once-taboo question of Israel’s influence in American politics.
The revelations are stunning.
Read the full post here: https://t.co/fJBbXX1K3s
Federal authorities announced a new FBI tip line and a $5,000 reward to help bring animal abuse offenders in California to justice. https://t.co/Eb62XciUZc
“If Oliver Larkin had his way, there would be: Medicare for All, no more Electoral College, automatic same-day voter registration, and an immediate shift away from fossil fuels.”
-Scott Hannity
I’m Oliver Larkin and I approve this message.
@AgentSquirrel01 You gotta be a special kind of stupid to be blind to the relationship bw the US's MidEast wars & Muslim migration to the West.
Also, there are a total of 0 jihadists in the US government. Looks like at least 1 veteran went to the land of jihadists & cant figure out what one is.
China has no nationwide law criminalizing cruelty to companion animals or strays. That gap drew renewed attention in June, when a stray mother dog, Wang Wang, and her three puppies were tortured and killed by minors in Jieyang, who faced no criminal charges because they were under the country's age of criminal responsibility.
Over 100,000 people have signed a petition urging international governing bodies to put pressure on Chinese authorities.
To read or sign, head to https://t.co/l1BY1aShYT
#JusticeForWangWang #ChinaAnimalProtectionLaw #WangWang
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the successful prosecution of criminals who violate the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act, a federal law that carries penalties of up to seven years in prison. Anyone who believes they have evidence against anyone suspected of breaking this law is urged to e-mail the FBI in Los Angeles at the following tipline: [email protected]. This statute, which President Trump signed into law in November 2019, criminalizes engaging in animal abuse in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce and making “animal crushing” videos that depict obscene animal abuse.
Additional details: https://t.co/NXRQYTgA8O