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I'm me, and that's all I'll ever be.

[notagiraffe @edamitz]

@Noah_Neitch The bank account?!

[Nick Offerman @Nick_Offerman]

•The U.S. Senate may hold a floor vote TODAY which would overturn a 20-year moratorium on sulfide-ore copper mining on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest land in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) Wilderness in northern Minnesota. The Boundary Waters is the most visited Wilderness in the United States. 

🛶 Enjoying the Minnesotan/Canadian wilderness by canoe or other lesser watercraft is one of our nations greatest available pastimes, and one I have personally enjoyed my entire life. We must protect these public lands from the rapacious capitalists threatening to turn them into a poisoned wasteland.

•This vote in Congress would open the door to copper mining at the headwaters of this entire ecosystem. This kind of mining produces toxic pollution, including acid runoff and heavy metals, that can contaminate nearby waters.

•The Boundary Waters supports a major outdoor economy that sustains thousands of jobs and generates over a billion dollars a year - built on clean water and intact public lands. But this vote would clear the way for toxic mining that puts all of that at risk. It would also set a dangerous precedent, making it easier to roll back protections for public lands across the country, including wilderness areas, national monuments, and national parks. 

•This is a defining moment. If you care about clean water, public lands, and protecting places we can’t replace, now is the time to speak up.
•Protect the Boundary Waters, and vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140. Let’s save this treasured place for all of us—forever. https://t.co/JhNAR6Za2O

[KylesDankLibertyMemeStash @Kyle_C137]

Ceasefire

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

We got the World Health Organization preparing for nuclear war before impeachment or the 25th amendment very functional country we have

[Cjay @ced_jayy]

This is a nation of professional protesters.

[notagiraffe @edamitz]

@dannyexplorer1 I require it

[notagiraffe @edamitz]

@starboyraw Take a lick

[notagiraffe @edamitz]

@notquitezennor My grandma did it that way

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

This is Josie, a 17-year-old lioness from Addo National Park in South Africa.
She lost her sight about five years ago but survived in the wild thanks to the constant support of her two daughters, who guided, protected, and helped her hunt.
She recently died, and the park confirmed her death.
An amazing story of nature…

[WTFGOP @doggintrump]

So here’s a good story in these shitty times

Alex Dumas, the CEO of Hermes, was reportedly contacted numerous times by Jeffrey Epstein. And Dumas was like, fuck off you’re a pedo.

So in 2016, Jeffrey Epstein went to a charity auction. When Dumas found out Epstein won a lot offered by the house, he refused to honor it & then donated the exact same amount of money that Epstein was gonna pay, to that charity.

There are still good, moral people in this world

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Twenty million barrels of oil passed through the Strait of Hormuz yesterday.

Today the number may be zero.

Not because Iran mined the water. Not because a tanker was hit. Because Lloyd’s of London picked up the phone.

War risk underwriters began canceling policies for strait transits hours after Operation Epic Fury launched. The Financial Times confirmed premiums surging 50 percent. Baseline war risk sits at 0.25 percent of hull value. For a hundred million dollar tanker that is 250,000 dollars per voyage. At peak escalation rates, one million per transit. Vessels linked to American or Israeli interests are becoming uninsurable entirely. No price. No policy. No passage.

The KHK Empress was loaded with Omani crude heading for Basra when it executed a U-turn mid-strait and redirected to India. The Eagle Veracruz halted at the western approach carrying two million barrels of Saudi crude bound for China. The Front Shanghai stopped off Sharjah with Iraqi crude destined for Rotterdam. Nippon Yusen ordered its entire fleet to avoid Hormuz. Greece told its merchant armada to reassess passage. Hapag-Lloyd suspended all transits.

None of them were fired upon. Every one of them got the same call.

More than fifty million years ago the Arabian plate collided with the Eurasian plate and compressed the Persian Gulf into a basin that drains through a single geological bottleneck twenty one miles wide. Twenty one percent of global petroleum. Twenty percent of all seaborne LNG. One fifth of industrial civilization’s energy supply forced through a tectonic accident narrower than the English Channel, bordered on one side by the country whose supreme leader was killed yesterday morning.

The USS Abraham Lincoln carries enough Tomahawks to sink every IRGC patrol boat in 48 hours. Operation Praying Mantis crippled Iran’s operational naval forces in eight hours in 1988. The Fifth Fleet has rehearsed this scenario for decades.

None of that matters. Aircraft carriers cannot force an underwriter to rewrite a policy. Tomahawks cannot lower a premium. The most powerful navy in human history cannot make a Lloyd’s syndicate decide that a VLCC transiting Iranian coastal waters represents an acceptable risk on a Saturday afternoon when missiles are landing in Dubai.

Goldman Sachs estimates Brent could peak at 110 dollars per barrel. JP Morgan projects 120 to 130. At those levels every airline bleeds cash. Every central bank watches three years of inflation fighting reignite overnight. Bypass pipelines from Saudi Arabia and the UAE handle roughly three million barrels. Hormuz handles twenty million. The math does not close.

Iran figured out something the Pentagon still has not.

You do not need to close a strait. You just need to make it uninsurable.

https://t.co/BrzGRrU3VW

[notagiraffe @edamitz]

@notquitezennor Oh it’ll fit

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨TONIGHT’S PROTEST IN MINNEAPOLIS IS INSANE:

CNN is STUNNED. “I've covered many protests… I've not seen a crowd like this before.” It’s 8 degrees. “It is freezing, but nothing, nothing is stopping these people.”

This isn’t a rally. It’s a movement.

[Subi-doo 🐸 @suzamaroo]

Jack Smith did not fucking stutter!

We don’t just want Trump impeached, we want him tried for treason.

[notagiraffe @edamitz]

@JakeLuxxx @DancesWithLeos Damn my 2 favorites

[notagiraffe @edamitz]

@ChrisWTheStar Which end?

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

Ok this legit cracked me up.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Senator Mark Kelly hits Pete Hegseth with a massive lawsuit for violating the Constitution by trying to decrease his military rank and pay in a blatant act of partisan abuse.

This war hero refuses to roll over and play dead...

Hegseth targeted Kelly with a “Secretarial Letter of Censure” for simply releasing a video urging the military to refuse any illegal orders that Trump might give. The Defense Secretary absurdly claimed that the perfectly reasonable and patriotic video "undermined the chain of command" and "counseled disobedience." In reality, Kelly was standing up for our Constitution.

The senator's new lawsuit was filed earlier today in the U.S. District Court for D.C. and asserts that Hegseth's "actions violate numerous constitutional guarantees and have no basis in statute." The Pentagon is also named as a defendant.

"The First Amendment forbids the government and its officials from punishing disfavored expression or retaliating against protected speech," the filing reads. "That prohibition applies with particular force to legislators speaking on matters of public policy."

It goes on to state that "never in our nation’s history" has the Executive Branch "imposed military sanctions on a Member of Congress for engaging in disfavored political speech."

"Allowing that unprecedented step here would invert the constitutional structure by subordinating the Legislative Branch to executive discipline and chilling congressional oversight of the armed forces," it continues.

Kelly's attorneys allege that Hegseth also violated due process because Trump accused the senator of "sedition and treason and demanded punishment" before proceedings had even begun, and Hegseth then echoed those sentiments.

The suit says that Hegseth's actions, if left unchallenged, will "inflict immediate and irreparable harm" by imposing "official punishment for protected speech" and chilling legislative oversight. It would also send a powerful signal to retired service members and Congress that criticism of the president's use of the military may be "met with retaliation."

The suit concludes by demanding "declaratory and injunctive relief" and for the court to "declare the censure letter, reopening determination, retirement grade determination proceedings, and related actions unlawful and unconstitutional; to vacate those actions; to enjoin their enforcement; and to preserve the status of a coequal Congress and an apolitical military."

Please ❤️ and share to urge the court to side with Mark Kelly!

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias just announced he is suing Kristi Noem and ICE for unlawful activities in Illinois. This is huge.