I thought the ASPCA ran most animal shelters.
I was wrong.
They collect more than $300 million (Those sad commercials with dogs in cages are a gold mine) in donations, but spend only 2% of that on shelters.
Where does the money go?:
Peter: "I heard you say you might want a mini woolly mammoth. Is that true?"
Elon: "Yeah, I think it would be really cool to have a pet miniature woolly mammoth. That'd be pretty epic."
Peter: "I'll put a word in with you for you with with with Ben [Lamm]."
Elon: "That'd be adorable. Little things just running around trumpeting away and it's like look at the be a great little pet."
NEW: @FreeBeacon has the receipts on Ro Khanna’s obscene, oligarchic wealth:
—his 2 kids (under 10yrs old) own 3 private golf courses in Ohio (not kidding)
—his wife drives a $190,000 luxury Range Rover
—his house has a 4-story indoor elevator
And more:https://t.co/Bk6nS7WRwT
Membership initiation fees at the golf courses owned by Ro Khanna’s young children run upwards of $45,000
The golf courses paid his kids up to $2 million in 2024
Khanna says he has a “moral” duty to fight the ultra-rich who "hoard wealth and engage in financial speculation."
My grandfather, communism, and the tremor that never left. A story I rarely share.
He was the principal of a private school; respected, steady, a man who believed in books and order. Then, one ordinary afternoon, his world ended.
A squad of communist troops stormed on to campus grounds. They herded the children out like cattle, set every book ablaze in the courtyard. “Less educated people are easier to control,” they believed.
They dragged my grandfather and his staff to the side of a dusty road, forced them to their knees, hands bound tight behind their backs. One by one, the executions began. The crack of pistols split the air. Each body fell with a heavy thud into the dirt. Each crack of the pistol meant it was getting closer to his demise.
My grandfather stared straight ahead as the man beside him collapsed. He felt the warm steel of the pistol press against the back of his skull. Time slowed. This was it, the final second of his life.
Then, fate intervened. He lifted his eyes and saw a column of troops marching down the road. At its head walked a general. A childhood friend.
With a scream of desperation, he called out his name. The general was startled but recognized my grandfather and immediately spared his life.
Tears streamed down his face. His entire body shook violently as he sprinted home. He grabbed his wife and children with nothing but the clothes on their backs and fled that very hour, leaving behind their home, their belongings, their entire life.
Everything was taken away by the regime in a single afternoon.
From that day forward, an uncontrollable tremor gripped his right hand. It was particularly noticeable whenever his emotions got the better of him.
The shaking never stopped. It followed him across oceans and time until the day he passed.
That is communism.
It is not theory, not idealism, but the pistol at the back of the head, the burning books, the shattered lives. Do not let anyone sell you a nightmare dressed up as a wonderful dream.
The people now sowing socialist and communist poison in America are exactly what President Trump warned: the greatest threat to our free world.
On this 250th birthday of the United States, let one survivor’s grandson say it plainly and without apology:
COMMUNISM MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO SPREAD IN THESE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 🇺🇸
MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA.
"When the legal system fails"
Make 'Citizen Vigilante' the 'The Sound of Freedom' of Europe.
Watch the movie, share it, support the filmmakers.
P.S. F*ck the German state regulators.
Poor little souls 💔 One day old, no parents and they stick a needle in your neck👺 Look at them, look what humans do to them …. Don’t start about ‘animal welfare’ when the goal is exploiting and killing them #LiveVegan don’t be complicit 🙏
A baby elephant named Ellie was discovered alone in the wild in South Africa, having been rejected by his herd due to a severe umbilical abscess and hernia.
Ellie remained lethargic and deeply depressed, showing no will to live. Recognizing that elephants are intensely social creatures, the team introduced him to Duma, a retired service and sniffer dog residing at the sanctuary.
The effect was instantaneous. As soon as they met at the sand pile, Ellie’s demeanor shifted from despair to curiosity. The two became inseparable, with Duma’s playful energy teaching Ellie how to be a joyful calf again. She finally had a chance to heal and enjoy life.
[📹 Earth Touch News]
[📍 Thula Thula Rhino Orphanage]
One month after her rescue, Zuri is firmly part of the family.
When she wakes up each morning, Wamata knocks on her stable door. By the time the Keepers let her out, a queue of older girls has formed, waiting to take her out to the forest each morning. This show of love has been pivotal to Zuri's recovery: orphans rescued from wells or pits often have long grieving periods, and the acceptance from the herd from the get-go has helped lessen the psychological blow she suffered at such a young age.
Zuri is an abandoned elephant calf who we rescued from a septic tank. Adopting Zuri helps fund her milk, her Keepers, and her journey back to the wild: https://t.co/RBNyett5B7
Being at the launch of Cybercab two years ago was magic.
A decade from now there will be millions of these things rolling around the world.
The war over autonomous vehicles is on, as everyone in San Francisco knows.
But if you add up everyone who has been in ANY autonomous vehicle, whether from Waymo, any of the Chinese, the NVIDIA, any Tesla, it is only a few million people out of eight billion.
When I first saw autonomous vehicles at Stanford University about 20 years ago they were so crappy I thought I'd never be alive to see them.
I have the first video of the first Waymo on the freeway, and I've been blessed to have been able to watch the development of these up close (got the first ride in Mercedes' AI car, for instance).
So many engineers spent so many hours developing them, many going down bad paths. Which happens with innovation.
They will save millions of lives.
Ford's head of safety told me that what kills people in a head-on wreck is the steering wheel.
Now we can see a path to getting rid of the steering wheel totally.
Congrats to Tesla and @elonmusk for getting here.
Still a lot of work to go and many fights with many communities who will try to ban these to protect jobs.
I'm very bullish on Cybercab and will buy one if sold to private citizens, as expected.
Why?
I never touch the steering wheel in my vehicles already and this will be the lowest cost vehicle with the most safety.
And a great big screen and a great sound system to watch whatever I want. When I met the engineers at the launch they said they made many decisions to make it quieter inside, so we can do things like listen to music, video calls, or watch the World Cup.
This vehicle is the iPhone moment of autonomous vehicles.
One I've been lucky enough to survive the 20 years it took to see.
In the UK, Police officers would have special "cop nights" run by the Pakistani rape gangs where they were allowed to gang rape grooming gang victims as a "Thankyou" for turning the other way.
Bring back capital punishment 😡