Things you could do in the United State for a trillion dollars (instead of have it accumulate to one person):
1. End homelessness
2. End poverty
3. Healthcare for every child
4. Universal free college
5. Universal clean, cheap energy
6. Cure cancer
Mothballs scattered in the yard don't repel snakes, squirrels, moles, or anything else. They do poison the ground though.
Folk wisdom says toss a few under the porch or around the garden and the critters stay away. They don't. Outdoors, the vapor disperses too fast to ever reach a concentration that deters an animal, and there's no evidence it works on a single one of the species people use it for.
Mothballs are naphthalene, a pesticide. The vapor and the dissolved chemical contaminate your soil and leach into groundwater, where naphthalene has turned up in 44 states. The pellets look like candy to a kid or a dog, and one can do serious harm if swallowed.
And here's the kicker. The label says airtight container, indoors, with clothing. Using them any other way, including in your yard, is a violation of federal pesticide law.
In this case, the folk remedy not only doesn't work, but is illegal.
This is Sad!
For almost 30 years, leaders from both parties have set politics aside to honor the women veterans who gave their lives for this country at Arlington National Cemetery.
Then Trump and Hegseth shut it down.
Why? Because the ceremony recognized women.
This is an insult to every woman who wore the uniform, served with courage, and sacrificed for this nation.
Yesterday, @demwomencaucus stood with the women veterans Trump and Hegseth tried to erase and held an event anyway.
We see you. We honor you. We thank you. 🇺🇸
Reuters: US JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO REINSTALL SIGNS, EXHIBITS IT REMOVED FROM NATIONAL PARKS DISCUSSING TOPICS LIKE SLAVERY, CLIMATE CHANGE
ICE cannot be allowed to open a new detention center in Romulus. Period.
I led my Michigan colleagues in demanding ICE reverse its plans immediately. No new detention centers in Michigan.
Thanks I forgot:
Joe Biden received 81 million votes. More than any candidate for President in the history of this country. It was a total landslide. A wipe out of historic proportions. He then went on to pass more bipartisan legislation than any President since LBJ. Conversely Donald Trump has not done much except start a war no one wanted doubled inflation expanded the trade deficit to historic highs and enriched himself and his family to the tune of billions of dollars.
Buttigieg: We didn't know it, but we've all been trusting our lives to the restraint of whoever the president might be. And now we have a president who is completely unrestrained. And so the only answer to that is a functioning Congress.
It turns out we do not have a functioning Congress. The House of Representatives is not representative. One of the most important organs of our democracy is not democratic.
They say, "Oh, no. We're not manipulating the map to disempower black people. We're manipulating the map to disempower Democrats who happen to be black people.”
So, the time has come to make it impossible to manipulate the map for any reason and just have fair maps.
Talarico: Here's what real men don't do. They don't lie and cheat their way through life. They don't sell their soul to the highest bidder. Real men serve others, weak men serve themselves. So I welcome this debate. I don't think Paxton or Cruz are in a position to tell anyone what a real man is.