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Wishin' I was fishin'

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

How the fuck do we have $300 billion to rebuild Iran after we spent $80 billion bombing it, when we don’t “have the money” for pediatric cancer research?

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

Reading what a traitor I am in my comments.

So, JUST TO BE FAIR..... let me get this straight.....

We taxpayers just blew $75 billion to attack Iran, UNPROVOKED, then dropped another $300 billion to REBUILD it, even though it didn't NEED rebuilding before we ATTACKED it, (unprovoked) all so we could "reopen" a Strait of Hormuz that was already OPEN before we ATTACKED Iran (unprovoked), wind up with $4 gas for NO REASON and I'M the bitch for pointing it OUT?

That's fair.

Sounds legit. 👌

[Thomas Reis @peakaustria]

For twenty years, a biologist dangled from a helicopter on a hundred-foot line, landed in bald eagle nests on the cliffs of Santa Catalina Island, swapped the real eggs for resin fakes, and flew away before the parents killed him.

The eagles sat on the fake eggs for weeks. The real eggs were incubated in a lab. When the chicks hatched, the biologist flew back, removed the fakes, placed the live chicks in the nest, and left. The parents never knew.

Peter Sharpe did this up to four times a year from 1989 to 2009.
The reason was DDT. The Montrose Chemical Corporation manufactured DDT in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1982 and discharged waste into the sewer system, which emptied into the Pacific Ocean off the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Hundreds of tons of DDT and its metabolite DDE settled into the ocean sediment along the Southern California coast. The contamination entered the marine food web. Fish absorbed it. Bald eagles ate the fish. DDE accumulated in the eagles' tissues and interfered with calcium metabolism during egg formation. The shells came out thin. When a twelve-pound eagle sat on a thin-shelled egg, the egg collapsed.

DDT was banned in the United States in 1972, but the chemical does not leave the environment on a human timeline. DDE persists in ocean sediment and continues cycling through the food web decades after the last drop was manufactured. The eagles on the Channel Islands were eating contaminated fish in 2009 the same way they were eating contaminated fish in 1972. The eggshells were still too thin.

The Institute for Wildlife Studies began reintroducing bald eagles to Catalina Island in 1980. Between 1980 and 1986, thirty-three young eagles raised in captivity were released from hacking towers on the island. The birds matured. They paired. They built nests on the cliff ledges overlooking the Pacific. In 1987, the first eggs were laid. Every one of them broke.

IWS biologist Dave Garcelon analyzed the remains and found DDE concentrations high enough to explain the shell failure. The eggs were too fragile to survive incubation. The adult eagles were healthy, paired, nesting, and doing everything right. Their eggs were killing their own chicks before the chicks could form.

In 1989, the egg manipulation program began. Sharpe and the IWS team developed a protocol that sounds like a heist. They monitored every known nest on the island. When a pair laid eggs, they called in the helicopter. The pilot positioned the aircraft above the nest site, which was typically on an exposed rock ledge on a sea cliff face. Sharpe was lowered on a long line, sometimes a hundred feet, with a box of resin replica eggs. He landed in the nest. The adult eagles were nearby, agitated, sharp-taloned, and fully capable of inflicting serious injury. He removed the real eggs, placed the fakes, secured the real eggs in padded containers, and signaled the pilot to extract him. The whole swap took minutes.

The real eggs were transported to the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group at UC Santa Cruz or to the Avian Conservation Center at the San Francisco Zoo. There, in temperature and humidity-controlled incubators, the eggs were given the stable conditions their shells could not provide in the wild. The hatching success rate of removed eggs was roughly twenty percent. One in five survived. The rest were too damaged by DDE to develop even under perfect artificial conditions.

The chicks that hatched were flown back to Catalina and fostered into the nests. Sharpe repeated the helicopter descent, removed the fake eggs, placed the live chicks among the nesting material, and left. The adult eagles accepted the chicks as their own. They had been incubating what they believed were their eggs for weeks. When a chick appeared in the nest, their parental behavior activated. They fed it. They brooded it. They raised it to fledging age.

[🧬Maxpein🧬 @maximumpain333]

I CRIED WHEN I READ THIS

A parent’s home will always remain open for their children…
even after arguments, distance, disappointment, or years apart.

But many parents quietly realize that once their children grow up,
they slowly stop having a place in their children’s busy lives.

Parents spend their whole life saving money for their children’s future…
while many children grow up counting every expense spent on their parents.

A mother will stay awake all night if her child is sick…
but many parents silently stare at their phones waiting for a simple call that never comes.

Parents forgive their children again and again without keeping score.
But as they grow older, they often fear becoming a burden to the very people they once carried in their arms.

The painful truth is:
when we are young, our parents feel permanent.
So we delay the visits.
The hugs.
The conversations.
The appreciation.

Until one day…
the chair they used to sit in stays empty forever.

And suddenly, all the busy days that felt “important” no longer matter at all.

Love your parents gently while you still can.
Call them more.
Sit with them longer.
Listen to their stories patiently.

Because one day, you will realize:
no one in this world will ever love you
as quietly, deeply, and selflessly as they did.

✨🙌🏾💫

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

It's utterly ridiculous that we have all these supposed billionaire geniuses running around, and their greatest innovation of our lifetime has been stealing our personal data to sell us targeted ads.

[kb @kmbook25]

@RileyJensen Great share

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) seen leaving DC around 6PM, just hours before the 2AM unanimous Senate vote on funding paychecks for TSA, FEMA, and Coast Guard workers.
You can tell how guilty she is by how they try to stop it from being Filmed. Something needs to be done about those that give lip service and empty Promises!

[C3 @C_3C_3]

If you replaced the Senate with 100 random plumbers.

I bet the results for Americans would be better.

[Rep. Nancy Mace @RepNancyMace]

If you're not mad 357 members of Congress made the conscious decision to cover up sexual harassment records, you aren't paying enough attention.

[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

🔥🚨 BREAKING: Footage of devastated father of 16-year-old Jamariyae Dixon ‘Beating The Black Off’ his son's accused killer, Marion McKnight, right inside the Mecklenburg County Courthouse in Charlotte, NC has released.

McKnight has been charged with first-degree murder in the teen's shooting death last May and was let out on a $100k bond (prosecutors fought it hard, but the judge said yes anyway). He got released, then started taunting the grieving family, violating bond conditions left and right like the system was a joke.

So the dad, Shaheem Snype, sees him in the hallway, snaps, charges full speed, lands a brutal kick to the face, and proceeds to ‘beat the Black off McKnight’ until deputies finally pull him off and tase him. McKnight ends up in the hospital, bloody and battered.

DA's office claims the original release an "administrative error" that they're "fixing".

Despite this, McKnight is still walking out a free man despite prosecutors saying he blew through his bond rules.

No revocation yet the hearing got delayed because of this very incident.

[kb @kmbook25]

@elonmusk Duh…

[kb @kmbook25]

@IndianaGPA I secretly hope my boys do that to me and that I also don’t lose my shit!

[Legend @realLegendAfg]

VICTORY!

We Defunded the Taliban in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee right now. Congratulations everyone. Thank you for supporting! None of this would’ve have been possible without @ShawnRyan762 and @RepTimBurchett. I am humbled.

Thank you, and congrats @AmrullahSaleh2

[kb @kmbook25]

@realLegendAfg @ShawnRyan762 @RepTimBurchett @AmrullahSaleh2 I can’t wait for the documentary

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Imagine being a Paleolithic human.

You risk your life hunting mammoth for days. Finally kill one. Crack open the skull for brain fat, shatter bones for marrow, eat the organ meats.

All the while, you're slowly poisoning yourself with the deadliest food on Earth.

But you keep doing it. For 2.5 million years. Because you're apparently thick as mince.

Eventually your brain triples in size from all that deadly saturated fat, you develop language, build civilizations, and land on the moon.

All while slowly killing yourself with the exact food that enabled every advancement.

Evolution is wild.

[kb @kmbook25]

@SprinterPress Fake

[Rock @TheCensoredRock]

We call Tim Walz and Somalians retarded but they stole $18 billion dollars of our money without consequence. I’m pretty sure we’re the retards

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Just wondering 🤔

[Nate Friedman @NateFriedman97]

I exposed extensive migrant shelter fraud in massachusetts. The governor knew about this and likely profited from it. $42 per migrant meal that is beyond waste, that is fraud. $100,000 a month for free lyft rides after the migrants are given nice cars, and much more.