Aeli

Marketing communications specialist, protocol officer, CPPM, & event planner. Minnesotan for life, insatiable desire to travel, love for all animals.

[MLB @MLB]

Having a ruff day at the ballpark? Not this pup 🐾

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Baker. He dances when it’s dinner time. 14/10 top-tier tippy taps #SeniorPupSaturday

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Maple. She closes her eyes while enjoying ice cream in order to really savor the moment. Also believes it prevents brain freeze. Just can't prove it yet. 12/10

[🔥⚜️ 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐰 𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 ⚜️🔥 @Andrew_Maj42]

He got every cone. This is victory! 🤠

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Sadie. She's a service dog who was honored with her own bone diploma at her human's college graduation. Worked very hard in all her classes and is glad her efforts didn't go unnoticed. 14/10

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Natty. He's the first official team dog for the Washington Nationals. He makes his big-league debut on Friday and will learn basic skills and socialization with the team before he goes on to formal service dog training with Canine Companions. 13/10

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Jomvet. She is the rootinest tootinest cowboy around with a two-ounce hat on her head and a yeehaw in her heart. 12/10

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

It was a ruff day at the playground 😂

[Luna M ✨ @tiredfeminist_]

The Corgi was the one leading them home
The German Shepherd was injured
The dogs kept a protective formation around the German Shepherd
The Corgi stopped often to make sure they were still okay
It took them 2 days to get home
They are neighbourhood friends
I’m going to cry😭😭😭

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize.

Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness.

Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding.

He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history.

The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future.

A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite.

That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Brew. He heard how bad the sock market is right now. Thought it would be a good idea to save up. 13/10

[Enezator @Enezator]

this might be the cutest thing I have ever seen 🥹😍

[Puppies & Positivity @Puppieslover]

This rescue dog was given his first ever bed, but he didn't want to leave the warm embrace of his rescuer

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

“Safe America,” a so-called media company, was incorporated just 11 days before it was handed $143 million in taxpayer money to produce a propaganda campaign starring cosplay Barbie.

And the company’s listed address? The Virginia home of longtime Republican operative Michael McElwain.

Eleven days old.
No track record.
$143 million contract.

This isn’t government. It’s a taxpayer-funded cash grab for political insiders. While Americans struggle to pay rent and groceries, Trump’s circle is handing nine-figure checks to their friends and calling it patriotism.

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This delivery driver throws treats to all the dogs on his route to see if they can catch. Spoiler alert: some of them definitely cannot. Still 13/10 for all

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Hippo. He's visiting Scotland for the first time. Had no idea they made squeaky toys for humans too. 14/10

[Aeli @a_m_r90]

@Bubblebathgirl @RepPatRyanNY Pat Ryan served two tours in Iraq and fights for veterans on the Armed Services Committee. You fight... for likes from the MAGA crowd and your professional highlight reel tops out at freelance flash animation gigs from over a decade ago. Stop slandering service members.

[Rep. Pat Ryan @RepPatRyanNY]

I served two combat tours in Iraq. I’ve seen what happens when a lying, chicken-hawk President beats the war drums. I ran for Congress and serve on the Armed Services Committee because I refuse to let the country I love repeat those mistakes.

It’s why we passed the War Powers Act (after Vietnam) in the first place. 

So that before the President sends our troops into harm’s way, he has to make his case TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Trump hasn’t done that. He hasn’t explained his goals. 

He hasn't told you what it will cost – both in our tax dollars and (God forbid) our kids coming home in flag-draped coffins.  

That’s why I cosponsored Congressman Khanna and Congressman Massie’s War Powers Resolution. And why I’m calling for a vote IMMEDIATELY. 

To force an honest conversation as a country about what comes next. To stop yet another forever war.

We cannot repeat our approach from 2001 and 2002.  The answer cannot be “we’ll figure it out as we go.” I lost too many friends because of that logic. As I said after the attack on Iran’s nuclear sites last June: Air strikes may start a war. They rarely end it.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

It appears that a Polymarket account called "Magamyman" made $515,000 in a single day betting on last night's U.S. strike on Iran, with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly.

When this person bought in, the market had this at a 17% probability. They turned roughly $87,000 into over half a million dollars overnight.

Reminder that Donald Trump Jr. sits on Polymarket's advisory board and his firm invested double-digit millions into the platform last year. The DOJ and CFTC both had active investigations into Polymarket that were dropped after Trump took office.

Prediction markets cannot be a vehicle for profiting off advance knowledge of military action.

We need answers, transparency, and oversight.

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Trump announces war with Iran, stating "The lives of American heroes will be lost... that often happens in war."

Not approved by Congress.