John Ellis

A spirit who hikes and gets paid with knowledge.

[John Ellis @PlaynCharacter]

Similar to Trump's Netanyahu "fight," the ever-delusional Nicolae & Elena Ceausescu of Romania used to constantly create fake fights to pretend to be "independent."

Trump's marriage with Tech Bro Billionaires to create "model-living" in the U.S. is similar to the Ceausescu's leveling of villages—using loans from billionaire banks—so Romanians could live in futuristic "model" hovels.

Trump will have your car spying on you. Trump enjoys building over-the-top palaces & monuments—just like Nicolae & Elena.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

LEAVE DUBAI NOW!!!

[James @Rundoff]

@scottbraddock @evan7257 In a roundabout way, Trump has made beef and gasoline unaffordable to normal people.

He’s gone so much further to curb Americans’ carbon footprint than AOC ever dreamed of, and many people are calling him the greenest, wokest president in American history.

[John Ellis @PlaynCharacter]

California has about 1,600 different kinds of native bees. Some signs of wildlife today while restoring a grassland in Whitting Ranch Wilderness Park in Orange County, California.

[hayd @haydroflask]

A guy I went to college with started going to my gym so I was catching up with him and asked what he does for work and he got quiet and I was like “what, it can’t be that bad!” and he goes “Palantir” and I immediately realized it WAS that bad

[John Ellis @PlaynCharacter]

BIG TRENCH — I volunteered with the Laguna Canyon Foundation last Saturday & one of the many things that got repaired was a 25-foot-long trench.
Laguna Beach, California.

[John Ellis @PlaynCharacter]

Video of a rare CALIFORNIA BUMBLEBEE moving into a brand-new habitat in Whitting Ranch Wilderness Park, California—filmed by another volunteer where I am also volunteering to create these habitats.

[John Ellis @PlaynCharacter]

👀

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

If you can't tax rich people on the unrealized gains from stocks then why do property taxes on middle class folks keep going up based on the unrealized value of a house?

[John Ellis @PlaynCharacter]

Seemingly working in the sky today. San Clemente, California.

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

In 1696, the British government decided to tax sunlight. Under the Window Tax, households were charged according to the number of windows in their homes. To avoid paying, many people simply bricked up or boarded over their windows, choosing to live in darkness rather than hand money to the state for daylight.
The tax was presented as a fair way of taxing wealth, since larger houses tended to have more windows. In practice, it proved crude and damaging. Tax inspectors were given the power to enter homes and count the windows, which was widely resented as an invasion of privacy.
The consequences were severe. Poorer families, in particular, bricked up windows to reduce their liability, leaving homes darker, damper and poorly ventilated. This contributed to higher rates of disease, including tuberculosis and rickets. Architects began designing houses with fewer windows to minimise the tax, resulting in buildings that were less healthy and less pleasant to live in.
Far from being an efficient revenue raiser, the Window Tax distorted behaviour, harmed public health and became increasingly unpopular over time. Yet it remained in place for 155 years until it was finally abolished in 1851. The Window Tax required invasive enforcement and created more resentment, hardship and economic distortion than revenue. It is a classic example of the unintended consequences of taxation.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Brilliant!🤣

[lia @tallsnail]

Tickets to disneyland: $300

That one time we got kombucha and a slice of rainbow sprinkle cake from the grocery store and ate it at the park: $7

Guess which one the 2yo talks about more

[John Ellis @PlaynCharacter]

Washington DC is so broke that it needs to put Donald Trump's likeness on money so that some people will put some of it away as a souvenir or an "investment"—keeping inflation lower before November's election.

[John Ellis @PlaynCharacter]

Gavin Newsom—and his boss,
California State Senator Scott Wiener—declared war on the United States & made it ILLEGAL for ALL able-bodied men to work in California without anti-Human reprogramming. THESE TWO, IN A VIOLENT SACRIFICE RITUAL, CUT OUT THE TONGUES OF WORKING MEN.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

One In Three American Men No Longer Working https://t.co/RY3Gc80Mks

[❤️‍🔥ZeroSympathy❤️‍🔥 @ZeroSympathy76]

Don't drink out of stainless steel either

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Frank Newell spent 38 years in the military. When he came home to his family farm in North Carolina, the bluebirds were gone.

When Frank was young, the fence posts around the pastures in Warrenton were wood, and Eastern bluebirds nested in them by the hundreds. When he came home decades later, the posts had been replaced with metal. The bluebirds had nowhere to nest and were disappearing.

Bluebirds can't excavate their own nest cavities. They depend on old woodpecker holes and natural rot in dead wood, both of which vanish when a landscape gets tidied up. So Frank started building them nest boxes by hand, 25 a week, with donated lumber and a Sears table saw that lasted him 33 years.

The word spread, volunteers joined, and businesses donated wood. The Eastern Bluebird Rescue Group, which Frank founded in 1996, has now built and distributed more than 500,000 bluebird houses, sold at or below cost. Warren County is now believed to hold the largest concentration of Eastern bluebirds in the United States.

Frank Newell has since passed away, but the group he started is still going, run by his daughter and son-in-law and a few dozen volunteers.

[John Ellis @PlaynCharacter]

According to Google, Zerohedge uses an asterisk before Trump's name to possibly indicate some sort of separation from other news items, or to possibly say a list is coming, or to maybe add emphasis? Who knows? Zerohedge can't be persuaded to use Standard English.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

*TRUMP ON IRAN: WHEN THEY BEHAVE WE'LL LET THEM HAVE THEIR MONEY

[John Ellis @PlaynCharacter]

TRANSLATION —

Anyone in the world not brain-dead will do almost anything to prevent ever having any of their wealth come under the control of the U.S.

Iran won the war. Trump pretending otherwise will collapse Western money systems. Trump will become the most hated President.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

*TRUMP ON IRAN: WHEN THEY BEHAVE WE'LL LET THEM HAVE THEIR MONEY