Man faces 2 years in prison for cleaning up a river
Paul Powlesland and a group of volunteers removed 200 bags of rubbish from London's River Roding
The Environment Agency is prosecuting him for not having a permit
Juneteenth (Jun. 19, 1865) wasn’t the day enslaved people were freed; it was the day enslaved people in Texas were told they had been free… for over two years
President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation went into effect Jan. 1, 1863, but was ignored by the Confederate state
NEW poll shows a Democratic socialist born in 1997 leading against a veteran Democrat who first took office in 1997.
The CO-1 Democratic primary poll shows 29-year-old Melat Kiros ahead of Diana DeGette, 41-36.
*38-point-swing* toward Kiros since March.https://t.co/symFCNBKRo
NEW @WIRED: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos sought to ingratiate themselves to Trump after the 2024 election — who in return mocked them behind their backs, per new book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
— Zuckerberg sent Trump a photo of a letter one of his grade-school kids wrote that looked forward to the “golden age of america”
— Bezos denigrated The Washington Post to Trump and described the newspaper as one of his worst financial investments
— Trump showed off texts from Zuckerberg and Bezos to other guests, including to Elon Musk, who mocked them as “Firstclass groveling”
— Months after their dinner, Bezos tried to get a favor from Trump, telling him it was a risk for SpaceX to dominate govt space contracts
— Bezos suggested Trump tell Deputy Defense Secy Feinberg to ensure“contractor diversity,” opening the door for Blue Origin to get contracts
— But Trump ultimately screwed over Bezos after he reconciled with Musk, and instead expanded SpaceX’s access to US space launch sites
— WIRED obtained the details from “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump” by @maggieNYT and @jonathanvswan ahead of June 23 release
The Reflecting Pool is a perfect metaphor for the Trump administration:
- Ignore experts and science
- Overspend
- Declare early, historic victory
- "THE LEFT HATE THIS"
- Ends in total failure
- Unfounded conspiracies about sabotage
- MAGA pretends it doesn't actually matter
Oh fuck you. There is no way the guy who got the no-bid contract for using bottom shelf Home Depot sealant on the reflecting pool looks like this. Come the fuck on