"Construction workers started to dismantle the Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House on Monday following threats by Republicans to cut transportation funding" ... read more
Trump has:
- Paused hiring and training of incoming controllers through a federal hiring freeze, without clear guidance on specific exemptions.
- Terminated air traffic control support staff,
- Gutted the Aviation Security Advisory Committee,
- Forced out the head of the Transportation Security Administration, and
- Most recently fired 400 Federal Aviation Administration personnel tasked with ensuring safety through radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance.
Ukraine unleashed its largest drone attack since 2022, striking multiple Russian regions, with 337 drones intercepted overnight. Authorities confirmed two deaths and multiple injuries, with significant damage to infrastructure. read more
Ed Martin who is acting US Att't General for DC sent a letter to Georgetown Law demanding the school end all DEI efforts or risk a hiring freeze from his office. This is the US Government telling a private Jesuit institute what they are allowed to teach.
"People are sort of looking around thinking, Wow, well maybe I can get a chicken in my backyard,' and it's awesome," [Agriculture Secretary Brooke] Rollins told Fox & Friends Weekend host Rachel Campos-Duffy. "We also want to make it easier for families to raise backyard chickens," read more
It is more likely due to a convergence of 3 main things:
1) Climate change, the warmer the more expansive the range and the more prolific the fungi.
2) Agriculture where anti-fungals are used extensively, is leading to resistant strains.
3) Massive urbanization and humans encroaching on the environment filled with the new resistant strains.
Throw all that on top of a system of hospitals that was broken under the strain of COVID and this is what to expect.
Citation: www.bu.edu's%20a%20scenario%20that%20may,of%20new%20antibiotics%20and%20vaccines.
Unfortunately the US is likely not going to do anything about it under Trump/Brainworm Kennedy...
But Biden was the only President I know of to give eulogy to a former KKK member.
Repentance, grace, and worked the rest of his life to fix the evil he did earlier in his life. He became an example of what a changed heart can do. Yes, indeed, worthy of Biden's eulogy. That was a great eulogy, too.
"Senator Byrd reflects the transformative power of this nation," read a statement by NAACP president Ben Jealous. "Senator Byrd went from being an active member of the KKK to a being a stalwart supporter of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and many other pieces of seminal legislation that advanced the civil rights and liberties of our country."apnews.com
So thanks for mentioning that. It's a great reminder that people can change for the better. I'd bet even you could.
Canada should bring 10 new states, previously territories and provinces. Greenland can be one state. That brings us to 61. Maybe we make Panama a state, too. I like even numbers. The flag could then look. symmetrical - interesting
#47 -don't be distracted by meaningless averages being used to cover for the ultra rich. Pay attention. Think.
In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world's richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011. In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, the second-richest person in the world, also paid no federal income taxes.www.propublica.org
ProPublica has obtained a vast trove of Internal Revenue Service data on the tax returns of thousands of the nation's wealthiest people, covering more than 15 years. The data provides an unprecedented look inside the financial lives of America's titans, including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg. It shows not just their income and taxes, but also their investments, stock trades, gambling winnings and even the results of audits.
Taken together, it demolishes the cornerstone myth of the American tax system: that everyone pays their fair share and the richest Americans pay the most. The IRS records show that the wealthiest can " perfectly legally " pay income taxes that are only a tiny fraction of the hundreds of millions, if not billions, their fortunes grow each year.
There's a great graphic worth looking at in the link - along with MUCH more information.
Found one.
You are so right.
I think it's disgusting that confederate statues memorializing traitors are defended at all.
Then again, those that want to stand for that announce themselves and who and what they are, which I think is just great.
So win/win!
Defend away. Let the world know just who you are. Stand with the Confederacy. Embrace those that defended slavery. Stand proud with the Confederacy. Let that battle flag wave!