President Donald Trump says vandals are to blame for large swaths of dead grass on the National Mall near the World War II Memorial -- in the spot where he had a stage built and hosted crowds for his July 4 celebration. Trump made the accusation in a social media post on Sunday without saying why he believes it's the work of vandals instead of trampled turf from the Independence Day festivities. The Republican president posted a photo showing a once-grassy area by the World War II Memorial, now patchy and brown across much of the sprawling turf.
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It's hard enough to try not to remember
It's hard enough to write return to sender
It's hard enough to know that its not over when its over
It's hard enough to think you know the reason
You make a list of things not to believe in It's hard enough to know your getting over that its over
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Trump's prosecutors investigate firm that was co-owned by daughter of judge in president's hush-money trial: report
www.independent.co.uk
... Trump and his allies have repeatedly attacked the Merchans, baselessly claiming the judge was biased and his daughter profited from his hush-money trial
Federal prosecutors in Chicago have been investigating Authentic Campaigns Inc., a Democratic fundraising firm once co-owned by the daughter of the judge who oversaw President Donald Trump's New York hush-money trial, according to court filings and people familiar with the inquiry, The New York Times reported.
Last August, the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago subpoenaed the firm for a wide range of internal communications with major Democratic clients as part of a federal investigation into whether its work involved improper conduct or potential violations of federal law. ...
Loren Merchan, the daughter of Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, served as a vice president at Authentic Campaigns until late 2024 and was also named in the federal investigation. Trump and his allies have repeatedly targeted the Merchan family, accusing the judge of bias against Trump without evidence and claiming his daughter could have financially benefited from the case.
Trump's hush-money trial ended in May 2024 with his conviction on 34 felony counts. He was accused of falsifying business records to conceal a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, who said she had an affair with Trump and threatened to make the story public during his 2016 presidential campaign. ..
Meanwhile ...
President Trump approves Indiana emergency declaration, mobilizes FEMA
www.indystar.com
And now, may be we can get this thread back to the sailor upon the USS Lincoln ...
Centcom commander visits USS Abraham Lincoln amid questions about conditions on ship
thehill.com
... U.S. Central Command (Centcom) commander Adm. Brad Cooper visited the USS Abraham Lincoln Saturday after the ship had been docked in the Middle East for over 260 days since November.
Centcom released a statement Saturday about the visit, stating Cooper, who oversees the war with Iran, visited the ship as part of a 10-day trip where he visited Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
"The Lincoln Carrier Strike Group is a strong team of high-achieving Americans standing tall with immense, justified pride in everything they accomplished," Cooper said in the statement. "History will record this deployment as one of the most operationally intense and consequential of the modern era."
Centcom stated that the crew aboard the ship completed "thousands of combat flights in support of Operation Epic Fury, regional security missions and the ongoing U.S. naval blockade against Iran."
The ship's 5,000 sailors and Marines initially expected to end the deployment in May but it was extended to its current tenure because according to acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao the mission "demanded it.".
Cooper visited the ship in February, as well, with the U.S. Special Envoy for Peace Missions Steve Witkoff and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. Centcom stated at the time the ship was in the region to "to support maritime security and stability." ...
@#6
In that photo, I notice a container of Folgers coffee, the red container with the black lid on the top of the pile.
Before Pres Trump, I had been paying $7.99 for that container.
Now I am paying $15.
( www.walmart.com )
Double what I had been paying.
YMMV ...
@#4 ... the 100-year-storm that happens every few years now. ...
Why 'Hundred-Year' Weather Events Are Happening More Than Once Every 100 Years (2025)
time.com
... Environmental scientists have gotten so good at reading weather history that they can characterize some severe storms or floods as likely to occur in a given area only once in 100 years"or even 500 years or a thousand years.
That's where the oxymoron comes in. As climate change leads to greater meteorological volatility, the one in 100 -- or 500 or 1,000 -- year events are occurring twice or three times or more in those windows. Since 1999, there have been nine storms along the North Carolina coast that qualify as hundred or thousand year events.
From 2015 to 2019, one suburb of St. Louis experienced three major floods, two of which met the criteria for hundred-year events.
One study by the Montreal-based carbon removal project Deep Sky calculates that the frequency of deadly hurricanes has jumped 300%, with 100-year storms now forecast to occur once every 25 years. ...
Brent crude just rose above $90 again ...