Gene Coderre

I offer the Shamanic Healing techniques of the Earthkeeper, Wisdomkeeper, Mesa Carriers, Mountain and Fire Shaman of the Peruvian Laika Holy Men and Women.

[Gene Coderre @ecoderre]

Here's what's happening at Trump-backed Freedom Fuel gas stations https://t.co/qH11cx2T19

[goma @soigomaa]

She was a 25 year old lawyer in Ayacucho, Peru when her boyfriend attacked her in a hotel in July 2015. The security cameras captured everything. Him chasing her. Dragging her by the hair. Her screaming for help while hotel staff tried to intervene. The court watched the footage.
Then sentenced him to one year suspended for minor injuries. The more serious charges - dropped. She refused to accept it. She went public. Put her name and her face to everything. Took the fight to the media, to the courts, to the streets. On August 13 2016 half a million Peruvians marched through Lima. The largest demonstration in the history of Peru. Led by her.
The appeals court threw out the original verdict. He was retried. Convicted of attempted f3micide. Sentenced to 11 years in prison. She went on to become a member of Congress. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Her name is Arlette Contreras. And she was just getting started.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In a small town in County Cork, Ireland, a monument stands in appreciation to the American Choctaw Indian Tribe.

Although impoverished, shortly after being forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the tribe somehow gathered $170 to send to Ireland for famine relief in 1847.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The Trumps aren’t just using their family name to make money.

Their companies have received almost a billion $$ in federal contracts – a shocking and unprecedented display of corruption.

My @Morning_Joe Chart

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Reporter confronts Head of NATO Mark Rutte: "You sit next to Donald Trump in moments where he talks about conquering Greenland, talks about lashing out at allies like Spain, starting trade wars, things that it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any effect on your self-respect when you sit next to him and say nothing?"

[Gene Coderre @ecoderre]

This is GREAT!

[RC deWinter @RCdeWinter]

Barack Obama and Donald Trump inadvertently ended up getting a shave at the same barber shop at the same time.

The barbers, wondering if things might get nasty, were nervous.

Trump’s barber was almost done and was getting ready to use an after-shave as a final touch.

Donald was quick to stop him, saying, “I’ll pass. After-shave have a strong smell. My wife Melanoma will smell it and think I’ve been in a whorehouse.”

The other barber then said to Barack, “How about you, Mr. Obama, any after-shave?”

Barack replied, “Sure, why not? My Michelle has no idea what a whorehouse smells like.”

[Gene Coderre @ecoderre]

Disgusting!

[CBS News @CBSNews]

New road signs in Florida show Palm Beach's international airport has rebranded to be President Donald J. Trump International Airport. It comes after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill passed by the state's legislature changing the name earlier this year.

[Senator Ruben Gallego @SenRubenGallego]

There are veterans who aren’t taking their VA disability because they’re afraid they will get kicked off housing assistance.

I wrote a bill to make sure they never have to make that choice.

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

July 1946, two Black couples were lynched in Georgia.

George Dorsey a WWII veteran and his wife, Mae Murray. As well as Roger Malcolm and his wife, Dorothy, who was seven months pregnant.

President Truman ordered an FBI investigation and offered a reward. There was national outrage that helped spur his civil rights initiatives, including the President’s Committee on Civil Rights.

However, a local grand jury issued no indictments, and the case was later closed unsolved. The case was reopened and examined decades later with similar results.

Being a Veteran didn’t matter; being a woman didn’t matter; being pregnant didn’t matter. The brutality mattered. Just like present day.
#DemsUnited
#BlackHistoryWithLana

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

At the 1966 Academy Awards, Lee Marvin stepped up to accept the Oscar for Best Actor. He looked out over Hollywood’s most powerful room and said, “I think half of this belongs to a horse somewhere out in Nevada.” The audience laughed. He meant it.

That horse—a gray named Smoky—had shared nearly every scene with Marvin in Cat Ballou. Marvin played a famously drunken gunslinger, barely able to stand, while Smoky matched him beat for beat—leaning, stumbling, and swaying with uncanny comic precision. The performance was so striking that the American Humane Association gave the horse its own award. Marvin, for his part, believed Smoky had earned half the Oscar.

That was who he was.

What few people in that room fully grasped was where his performance came from.

In June 1944, on the island of Saipan, Marvin was a 20-year-old Marine scout sniper with the 4th Marine Division. During a brutal engagement, Japanese machine gun fire tore through his unit. He was hit, the bullet severing his sciatic nerve. He spent over a year recovering in naval hospitals. Only a handful of men from his company survived.

He carried that with him for the rest of his life—the grief, the memories, the nightmares.

After the war, acting found him almost by accident. While working as a plumber’s assistant, he filled in for a sick actor in a local theater. When people later asked where he learned to act, he didn’t talk about training.

“I learned to act in combat,” he said. “Trying to act unafraid when I was terrified.”

That truth ran through every role he played. The hardened villains, the broken men, the characters clinging to their last shot at redemption—they weren’t inventions. He understood them from the inside.

In Cat Ballou, he played two roles: the staggering, tragic Kid Shelleen and the ruthless Tim Strawn. One film. Two performances. One Oscar—an unusual feat that set him apart.

Despite a long career, Marvin kept very little. Just a few meaningful items: his Oscar (which he half-jokingly shared with Smoky), a citation from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, a gold record for Wand’rin’ Star—a gravelly, unlikely hit in the UK—and a single high-heeled shoe Vivien Leigh once used to hit him in a scene, kept out of fondness.

Everything else was just work.

He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. His headstone doesn’t mention his films or awards. It reads simply:

Lee Marvin
PFC
U.S. Marine Corps
World War II

That was what mattered most to him.

And somewhere in the American West, the horse that helped him create one of cinema’s most memorable performances remains an unknowing partner in that moment—sharing, in Marvin’s eyes at least, half an Oscar and all of the story behind it.

Via The Vintage news

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

From the Washington Post:

“American farmers can expect a bumper crop this year in corn, soybeans and, most of all, federal handouts.”

There’s a term for government intervention and subsidization . . . what’s the word I’m searching for? I suppose the term that’s currently en vogue in Republican circles to fearmonger anything that doesn’t empower and enrich the oligarchs is communism, but in the not too distant past the scare word was socialism. And there are few groups that wear more red MAGA hats and get more fired up about socialism (and I guess now communism) than farmers . . . but while government checks for others are derided as evil, government checks for them seem to be welcomed.

The government is already providing 44 billion dollars in handouts to farmers and, if Trump’s supplemental request for an additional 11 billion is approved, it will climb to 55 billion dollars. As the Post article notes, “(m)ost of the subsidies are intended as compensation for the White House’s own policies.”

This year, more than a quarter of farm income will be from taxpayer funded handouts from the federal government, and that’s due largely to the harm done to farmers by the federal government. Oh, and the federal government is propping up meat packers with another half billion dollars due to the shortage of and high cost of meat.

So, the government has plenty of money for handouts to farmers to help them with the damage government policy blunders did to their markets, but the government is slashing money for programs that helped ordinary Americans keep their heads above water. I guess selective socialism is okay with the Republicans.

And from the Wall Street Journal: “The trade gap in goods and services widened by 42.2% in May from the prior month to a seasonally adjusted $77.6 billion, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. . . Exports fell 3.2% in May, led by a large decline in sales of gold to overseas buyers.”

But not to fear. The stable genius — who made at least 2.2 billion dollars last year while toiling 24/7 for farmers and the working class — has his 747 sky palace, his gold plated statues, his forthcoming ballroom, his multiple foreign business ventures, ample time for golf at your expense at his resorts, and his signature on your currency . . . and he’s doing it all for you.

God bless America!

[Lance Cooper @lmauricecpr]

His name is Nolan Xavier Wells. He was an eighteen-year-old Southwest Mississippi Community College student and athlete, described by those who knew him as “an extremely kind young man who was always willing to uplift others.”

Nolan was reported missing by his mother on July 4th after he failed to return home from a boat trip with “friends” to Horn Island in Mississippi. Two days later his lifeless body was discovered in the water just offshore at the northwestern tip of the island.

According to reports, Wells was with a young lady on the island prior to his disappearance. She has been in contact with Nolan's family to share what she knows but has no insight into what occurred after going their separate ways.

Despite claims from his companions that Nolan stayed behind to catch a different ride back, their story contradicts a glaring detail: his cellphone was on the boat that departed without him.

Community outrage and online discussions indicate the young men on the boat trip hired legal counsel and ceased communicating after a body was recovered. Skepticism is fueled by allegations that at least one of the teens on the trip is the child of a local judge. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is representing the family of Nolan Wells.

Investigators are still processing evidence to reconstruct the events leading up to Wells’ disappearance. However, one stark reality is clear: every white person returned home safely, while the only Black member of the group lost his life. We will not rest until the complete truth of what happened to Nolan on Horn Island is revealed.

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It is the principal source of success in life.

[Gene Coderre @ecoderre]

It's another tRump sell out.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

The government just handed a private company control over the DNA of every endangered species in America.

Colossal, a company valued at $10 billion, has just made a deal with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to collect and store DNA from every species protected under the Endangered Species Act.

Over 2,300 species. Worldwide.

Doug Burgum celebrated the deal, saying "the marvel of 'de-extinction' technology can help forge a future where populations are never at risk."

Is that what they want us to believe? That this is a 2026 Noah's Ark, freeze the DNA, and the animals are safe, no matter what happens to their homes?

Because right now, this same administration is expanding drilling, mining, and habitat destruction on the exact land these species need to survive.

If a species disappears from the wild, this technology gives the government an easy answer: point to a freezer in Dallas and say the DNA is safe.

That could make extinction feel less permanent. Something to wait out, instead of something to prevent.

But that would be a dangerous logic to accept. A species vanishing from the wild is still a real loss, no matter what's sitting frozen in a warehouse.

A real ark saves the animals, but that's only half the story. Even if a species could be brought back someday, what happens if the land it needs is already gone?

DNA in a freezer doesn't rebuild a forest. It doesn't restore a wetland. It doesn't undo a mine or an oil well.

You can't release an animal back into a home that no longer exists.

Is this really conservation? Or is it just permission to destroy the habitat now, and worry about the animals later?

#DemsUnited

📷 Colossal Bioscience

[GIFFORDS @GIFFORDS_org]

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, was fatally shot by ICE agents yesterday during a traffic stop in Houston, TX. He was a father, husband and business owner who had been in the country for 35 years.

While the full story is still unfolding, we demand a full, transparent, and independent investigation. Our communities deserve to be safe and free from gun violence.

[New York Post @nypost]

Meta says it's facing $1.4T in penalties in teen mental health case - a sum equal to tech giant's valuation https://t.co/QMH8wACQop

[Gene Coderre @ecoderre]

"Cupriavidus gilardii may be resistant to multiple antibiotic agents; carbapenem-resistant C. gilardii has been found in stool surveillance cultures and has been associated with fatal human infection."
~ Wikipedia

[FactPost @factpostnews]

A Meta data center in Wyoming has infected the local water system with a rare bacterium known as cupriavidus gilardii.

[david kersten @davidkersten]

America.

[Gene Coderre @ecoderre]

Another one bites the dust.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Republican Tony Barrett brutally assaulted his girlfriend, slamming her head on the floor multiple times.

He just got re-arrested after violating his restraining order.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Republican Tony Barrett brutally assaulted his girlfriend, slamming her head on the floor multiple times.

He just got re-arrested after violating his restraining order.