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[Dawn Fantasia @DawnFantasia_NJ]

🚨 ARE YOU SITTING DOWN???
Newark Public Schools just gave a $700,000 taxpayer-funded contract to a celebrity mortician to provide...

wait for it...

HOTEL, RESTAURANT, TOURISM, and EVENT-MANAGEMENT BUSINESS LEADERSHIP TRAINING to students AND teachers.

A $700K taxpayer-funded contract. To a mortician. To teach kids and teachers about hotels, restaurants & tourism. Her publicly listed degrees are in mortuary science, divinity and pastoral counseling. No hotel management, no restaurant management, no tourism. @NJSpotlightNews reported that neither she nor NPS would answer questions about relevant credentials, how she got on its radar, or just about anything.

You'll love this part- the name of this program? "Developing Next-Level Awareness." For $700K. $2,500 for three hours with 25 students. Teacher training is $2,500 for a half day & $4,500 for a full day.

Oh, believe you me, the public already has "Next-Level Awareness". We don't need to pay $700K to know we're getting taken to the cleaners.
I'll give @njassemblydems my own "Next-Level Awareness": Come at us one more time with "WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?" while bleeding schools in the Highlands and Pinelands dry and enabling this absolute sham. YOU ARE ENABLING THIS.

I don't care if you're a Republican, Democrat, or Martian. When are YOU going to stop throwing OUR money at complete and utter bullshit and enabling Superintendent Surf & Turf??? Is there any end to the gaslighting & excuses thrown at us while the Majority chastises everyone else about funding education???

THIS is why the rest of us want to vomit. Honolulu on the taxpayer dime. Open bars, parties. Missing federal funds. No-bid contracts. Obscene, inflated school building deals benefitting political donors. Excuse after excuse after excuse while taxpayers are told we just need to spend MORE!!! NO. NO. NO.

Here's more NEXT-LEVEL AWARENESS: @NewJerseyDOE confirms this $700k program is NOT a state-approved CTE pathway, does NOT lead to an industry-recognized credential & does NOT qualify as a pathway to a high-skill, high-wage or in-demand occupation. The punchline: NEWARK VOCATIONAL ALREADY HAS A HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM PROGRAM covering event planning, leadership AND industry soft skills.

Even More NEXT-LEVEL AWARENESS: at Newark Vocational, fewer than 10% of students were proficient in math & 40% were proficient in reading. Why are they blowing $700k on anything other than academic support??? Newark Public Schools has a $1.67 BILLION budget, more than 80% funded by taxpayers ACROSS THE ENTIRE STATE.

THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL. Maybe it is. I don't know yet. I do know it's disgusting and unethical as hell. #dirtyjersey

READ MORE: https://t.co/r1sefDdAVJ

@NJAssemblyGOP @NJSenateGOP @NJSenDems @NJSpotlightNews @DomShow1210 @wakeupnj @NJGOP @SaveJersey @njedreport

[Ultra MAGA Joyce Day @Daytobehappy]

I have undertaken this project to put a face to 9/11 by posting a photo of everyone killed that day. If after everything that happened you can vote for the ideology that brought it about it's as if you are killing them yourself! Pictured below was 32 year old Lorraine Antigua who worked in the security lending arm of Cantor Fitzgerald in the North Tower. She was only days away from her 33rd birthday and was due to get married at the end of the year. She left behind not only her fiance but two children from a previous marriage and to forget a single one of these people is a blasphemy!

[John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen]

For the next 12 days, I’m going to tell the story of Benghazi.

Not just what happened during those 13 hours on September 11 and 12, 2012.

I’m going back before that night.

Back to the warnings, back to the attacks that had already happened.

Back to what was going on in Benghazi months before 4 Americans were killed.

Some of what I’m going to share is already documented in congressional investigations and government records.

Some of it comes from people who have spent years digging into what happened afterward.

And some of it I know for one simple reason.

I was there.

I was serving on the CIA’s GRS Annex Security Team in Benghazi in 2012.

I was there while the security situation was getting worse.

I was there when the U.S. compound was attacked months before September 11.

I was there while Benghazi was becoming more dangerous and the warning signs kept piling up.

And on September 11, 2012, I was there when all of it came crashing down.

This isn’t about reopening some old political argument.

It’s about telling the story in the order it actually happened and remembering the 4 Americans who never came home because of OUR failed government and policies.

Ambassador Chris Stevens

Sean Smith

Tyrone “Rone” Woods

Glen “Bub” Doherty

Tomorrow I’m starting at the beginning.

September 1.

Day 1 of 12.

12 Days of Benghazi.

#12DaysOfBenghazi #Benghazi #13Hours #NeverForget #HonorTheFallen

[Beauty of music and nature 🌺🌺 @Axaxia88]

After Weeks of Wandering with a Bucket Stuck Over Its Head, the Bear Was Finally Rescued 🐻💗

The bear kept running through the residential area.

Stuck tightly around its neck was an object that looked like a bucket, covering most of its vision. For weeks, it had wandered around Perry Township like this, yet getting close to it was far from easy.

A wild bear is an animal people need to keep their distance from. This one was frightened, unable to see properly, and could react unpredictably if it felt threatened.

But why had it come into the neighbourhood in the first place?

Bears sometimes enter residential areas in search of easily accessible food, such as rubbish, pet food or leftovers. Roads, lawns and open spaces can also become convenient routes as they move through places where people live.

But in this case, the bucket on the bear's head may have made everything much harder.

With its vision restricted, the bear would have struggled to recognise obstacles and work out where to go. Its continued movement through the neighbourhood did not necessarily mean that it was trying to approach people.

It was simply trying to find its way.

For a bear, sight and smell are important for understanding its surroundings, finding food and navigating its environment. When something covers its head, the animal's ability to process these signals is affected, making it much harder for it to find its way on its own.

And there was another problem.

The bear could not remove the bucket itself.

Bears have strong, relatively flexible front paws. But the object was tightly caught around its neck. Every time the bear struggled or tried to push it away with its paws, the bucket remained firmly in place.

After several weeks, a group of people decided that they had to intervene.

They knew that approaching a frightened wild bear could be dangerous. But they also saw that the animal was trapped and showed no sign of being able to free itself.

So they did not try to handle the situation alone.

They brought in more people and worked together to restrain the bear before attempting to remove the bucket. The aim was not to keep the animal there, but to hold it still long enough to cut the object away while reducing the risk of injury.

It was not an easy job.

One person used a saw to cut through the thick rubber while others restrained the bear. The blade had to be handled with great care because the bucket was so close to the animal's neck.

The bear struggled again and again.

That reaction was natural. It was a wild animal being restrained, with no way of knowing that the people around it were trying to help. From the bear's perspective, resisting was simply a response to being held.

Then, little by little, it became exhausted.

After days of living under stress, combined with the effort of running and struggling, the bear eventually lay still. The rescuers used that moment to continue cutting away the bucket.

At last, the object came free and fell to the ground.

The bear immediately got back on its feet and ran into the bushes.

It did not stop beside the people who had just freed it.

And that was perfectly natural.

For a wild animal, freedom means being able to move away from people again. Once the bear was no longer restrained, its instinct was simply to put as much distance as possible between itself and the humans around it.

It did not know that they had come to help.

But it did not need to.

Kindness does not always change the whole world in a single day. Sometimes, it simply changes the way we choose to treat the life around us.

When people choose to help a creature in distress, they give that animal another chance to live freely. At the same time, such actions remind us that living creatures deserve care, consideration and responsible treatment.

An act like this may seem small.

But when kindness is passed from one person to another, it gives us more reasons to understand, to protect and to take responsibility for the creatures with whom we share this world.

[Global Observer @Bry___l]

🚨BREAKING: 163 children were rescued from human traffickers in Florida today and the media has not said one word

[Eat.. Drink.. Wine.. @unpodiblu]

Raspberry Cheesecake Cookies 🙌
#recipe https://t.co/2bXFQ0I0TW

[Riki @RikiRealEstate]

THIS TINY SEASIDE VILLAGE IN PUGLIA HAS A 500-YEAR-OLD FORTRESS, COBALT-BLUE COVES AND PALEOLITHIC CAVES. 🇮🇹

On the Adriatic coast of Salento, Castro is a town of just over 2,000 people divided into two very different worlds: Castro Superiore, the fortified historic village above, and Castro Marina, built around the sea below. Its history stretches back to the Bronze Age, with Messapian, Greek and Roman influences.

High above the coastline stands its castle, rebuilt in the 16th century over an earlier fortress. Below it, the old harbour still preserves traces of Castro’s fishing tradition.

But the coastline may be even more impressive.

There are 4 km of rocky shoreline, tiny coves and intensely blue water, including Cala dell’Acquaviva, known for its unusually cold cobalt-coloured sea.

Then come the caves.

Grotta Azzurra glows blue when sunlight reflects through the water. Grotta Romanelli contains evidence from the Paleolithic period. And the famous Grotta Zinzulusa is one of the area’s major karst formations, filled with stalactites and archaeological remains spanning from prehistory to Roman times.

It’s easy to understand why Castro feels different from the classic image of Puglia.

Here, a medieval fortress, ancient harbour, cliffs, caves and the Adriatic are packed into one tiny town.

📍 Castro, Salento - Puglia 🇮🇹

Source: TrueRiders.

[𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁 @GodswillChemist]

Banana brownie in a couple of minutes. 🍌🍫

Mash the banana, mix in the egg and cocoa, add a few chocolate chips and microwave it.

Simple, warm, chocolatey and perfect when you want something sweet without making a full dessert.

[Ultra MAGA Joyce Day @Daytobehappy]

I have undertaken this project to put a face to 9/11 by posting a photo of everyone killed that day. If after everything that happened you can vote for the ideology that brought it about it's as if you are killing them yourself! Pictured below was 44 year old Doreen Angrisani who was a finance manager with Marsh McLennan in the North Tower where Flight 11 crashed through. She had been with them for 23 years starting off as a clerk and rising up to management. She lived with her sister and brother-in-law in Ridgewood, Queens where they were raised and a street was renamed in her honor. To forget et a single one of these people is a blasphemy!

[Ngan Thanh @NThanh86518]

French-style eggplants are an absolute flavor explosion!
🍆Ingredients:
1. Eggplants
2. Tomatoes
3. Mayonnaise
4. Hard cheese
5. Salt, pepper
6. Olive oil
7. Provençal herbs

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Of the 20,710 non-citizens we have acquired from the non-juror lists, 5,734 are flagged as matches on the Pennsylvania voter rolls.

We haven’t even scratched the surface.

5,734 / 20,710 = 27%

[Dr. Clint Steele @drsteele56]

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