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[Chuck @chucxxNJ]

@OutFrontCNN @tomforemancnn It’s impossible to do a piece this stupid it must be deliberate

[Chuck @chucxxNJ]

@krystalball @Polymarket They held a press conference and stated so

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

It's sadly being drowned out by election coverage, but subway hero Daniel Penny is on trial right now in New York for protecting passersby from a dangerous maniac.

Today, bombshell evidence went public for the first time: Even though Penny is facing decades in prison for supposedly choking Jordan Neely to death, Neely in fact still had a pulse when police arrived, and only actually died well after Neely was separated from him.

Neely must be acquitted immediately, and then compensated by the New York government for this travesty.

https://t.co/gwFcdMuinZ

[Kyle Becker @kylenabecker]

“The largest border crisis in the history of our country, probably the largest such event in human history, began on January 20th, 2021, ON PURPOSE, not due to incompetence.”

FINALLY some truth-telling in Congress!

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Address to the Nation https://t.co/Wf4xt12GSX

[Amy Nelson @Amy_K_Nelson]

When I went to law school, I knew a law degree would be helpful no matter what I chose to do in life.

Never did I imagine that I would use my skills & training to "prove" my husband's innocence to federal prosecutors after @jeffbezos & @amazon tried to imprison him. A 🧵 /1

[Chuck @chucxxNJ]

I think the New jersey just had an earthquake

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

American’s Getting Excited Over Proposed Legislation Banning Wall Street Hedge Funds From Owning Single Family Homes

If Passed Hedge Funds Would Have 10 Years To Sell All The Homes They’ve Accumulated, That Means BlackRock

40% of new homes purchases are now made by financial firms

Private equity firms now own hundreds of thousands of homes skyrocketing the cost of home ownership turning them into forever rentals

According to CNBC you need a six figure home to be able to afford a home in the United States

Up to 60% of new homes are cash offers, the average American can’t compete with this

“Woah. Woah. Woah. Woah. Look at this. How come nobody's talking about this? Why not? This is huge. Can you imagine if this happens? New legislation proposes to take Wall Street out of the housing market.

You know what that means? They're talking about hedge funds. Yeah. They're talking about hedge funds not being able to own single family homes. Yeah.

If this is and if this bill actually goes through all these big hedge funds have to get rid of all their little family houses.

That's right. The hedge funds have to let them go over the next 10 years and can't own them anymore.

What do you think would that would do for real estate prices? What do you think that would do for people looking to buy a home. That could change the entire landscape. Let's see if this goes through”

[Chuck @chucxxNJ]

@GovMurphy @POTUS Helping people with old loans does nothing to stem the tide of new loans, unless you address the ridiculous inflated cost of tuition and even more absurd cost room, board and fees.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[Steve Kirsch @stkirsch]

This is a one minute excerpt from Carl Sagan's last interview with Charlie Rose Apr 19, 2012. Please watch it. It is HIGHLY relevant today.

[Chuck @chucxxNJ]

@shellenberger Job security

[Citizen Free Press @CitizenFreePres]

Harriet Hageman goes after the FBI:

“We are dealing with something so corrupt and so rotten that no amount of face paint or whitewashing can fix this.”

[ALX (x/acc) 🎃🇺🇸 @alx]

Great point by @gregkellyusa — The indictment includes pictures of dozens of boxes supposedly showing mishandled documents.

The indictment says 102 documents were seized.

Here’s what 600 pieces of paper looks like in one box.

[Chuck @chucxxNJ]

@TomFitton @SpeakerMcCarthy

[Chuck @chucxxNJ]

@GovMurphy @JayWebberNJ You’re an idiot, so teachers should know, guidance should know , principals, lets keep records , discuss at meetings , tell every part time temporary influence but let’s exclude parents from any information, exclude counseling or guidance , let’s remove the only true support

[Chuck @chucxxNJ]

@GovMurphy @RutgersU But did nothing for some the highest in-state state university tuition in the country

[Chuck @chucxxNJ]

@GovMurphy But in the top 3 in most expensive in-state college tuition in the country

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Ouch. Inflation is far too important a problem for the White House to keep making statements like this. It’s either straight ahead misdirection or a deep misunderstanding of basic market dynamics.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

I remember when people tried to crucify me for telling them this organisation was a scam.

You're welcome.