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In 63 hours hunters will be allowed to hunt Grizzly #Bears in Wyoming for the first time in 40 years. 22 bears will lose their life....so someone can have a rug. RT to show disapproval. #BanTrophyHunting
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Texan Kristy Satterwhite Williams is 'not ashamed' for killing this lioness on a private reserve next to KNP, SA. But the rest of the world is utterly ashamed, Kristy. Psycho. 🤬
#BanTrophyHunting RT
@SARA2001NOOR @Angelux1111 @Gail7175 @Lin11W @PhaedraXTeddy
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She didn't monetize her sacrifice—she answered the call.
The Senate hearing room went cold when the insult landed.
Tammy Duckworth sat across from J.D. Vance, waiting for him to answer her question. She'd come prepared with policy, with specifics, with the kind of detailed inquiry that veterans' issues demand. But instead of engaging, Vance chose a different route. He compared her to Forrest Gump.
Let that sink in for a moment. A sitting senator, facing a decorated combat veteran who'd left parts of herself on an Iraqi battlefield, thought a fictional character was the appropriate reference.
Duckworth's response was surgical. She didn't raise her voice. She didn't need to. When you've piloted a Black Hawk helicopter through hostile fire, when you've felt the explosion that tears through metal and bone, when you've woken up in a hospital missing both legs and part of an arm, petty insults from small men barely register.
November 12, 2004. That's the day her helicopter was hit by an RPG over Iraq. She was co-piloting, focused on her mission, when the world turned to fire and shrapnel. The rocket-propelled grenade destroyed her aircraft and nearly destroyed her. Most people would have let that be the end of their service story.
Duckworth spent a year in recovery at Walter Reed. She learned to walk again on prosthetic legs. Then she went back to work.
No book tour about resilience. No cable news circuit trading on sacrifice. She didn't monetize her Purple Heart or turn her injuries into a personal brand. She served in the Illinois National Guard, then ran for office to continue serving in a different capacity.
Retired Lieutenant Colonel. Combat veteran. Purple Heart recipient. The first disabled woman elected to Congress, then to the Senate. The first senator to give birth while in office, bringing her newborn onto the Senate floor because the rules hadn't contemplated a working mother who'd also taken shrapnel for her country.
When Vance tried his cheap shot, she treated it exactly like what it was: noise from someone who'd never answered a question he found uncomfortable. She'd faced real danger. She knew the difference between actual courage and performance art patriotism.
That's who Tammy Duckworth is. Remember it.
blueoceanview retweeted
Trump and Republicans are selling out Alaska to Russia.
US energy company execs have resigned in disgust as the Trump family is caught secretly expediting the funneling of $25 billion from a sanctioned Russian energy giant in exchange for allowing Russians to obtain a natural gas project in Alaska.
According to investigations by The New York Times and Financial Times, Russia's Novatek allegedly concealed its financial involvement in the American project through a UAE-linked intermediary.
Gentry Beach, a longtime Trump ally and close friend of Donald Trump Jr., signed an agreement with Novatek to pursue natural gas development in Alaska. Reuters documented the arrangement in February.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin discussed this cooperation on the Alaska energy project with Trump's representatives, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, during negotiations involving Russia and Ukraine.
The controversy deepened when Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, raised concerns about concealed Russian financing and possible sanctions violations. He departed in September, followed by other senior executives.
The Financial Times also described discussions about a potential arrangement under which Novatek would provide technology for the Alaska project in exchange for sanctions relief benefiting its Arctic LNG 2 development in Siberia.
According to The New York Times, Riddle and two other departing executives warned the Trump administration about the Russian financing and urged officials to investigate.
The White House maintains that the project was mentioned only briefly and that no detailed discussions took place. There is no established evidence that Kushner or Witkoff knew about the allegedly concealed financing. Polar Train LNG denies wrongdoing.
The central question is how a sanctioned Russian energy company became involved in a major American energy venture while Putin was discussing potential economic cooperation with Trump's representatives and a longtime Trump family associate was pursuing a separate agreement with the same Russian company.
Selling Alaska to the Russians or selling Ukraine to the Russians - to the Trump family it's all the same.
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This is the new America if we do not get this government in check.
Police body slam 100lb woman to floor—now hospitalized with concussion.
For peacefully protesting data center.
"That man could have killed me," she said.
"Somehow I only ended up with a concussion—severe bruising on my jaw, knee, and shoulder."
Her crime? Saying "shame" after the Utah County Planning Commission meeting voted to approve a data center ordinance.
(see video in thread)
One woman was booked into the Utah County Jail on charges of disrupting a meeting, interference with an arresting officer, and assault on a police officer.
Two others received citations for disrupting a meeting and interference with an arrest.
Incident occurred at the Utah County Planning Commission meeting in Provo, Utah.
Utvstechbillionaires doesn’t have an active account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.
blueoceanview retweeted
This inbred moron standing behind Fake White Trash Jesus at his rally today is eating his earwax and scratching his head like a gorilla.
Complete lies on behalf of the Grifter in Chief and his lackeys. Including you. Pillaging DRC for your own benefit. Shame on you.
Congolese reporters seem to have unfortunately misunderstood the facts in the @nytimes article referenced below. According to the article, $17.6 million was transferred from a DRC government account to TX-AT, a Texas-based defense and security firm that supplies defense equipment to U.S. and international law enforcement agencies. The DRC is fighting a war involving Rwanda and #M23, so a transaction with an American defense supplier is not, in itself, unusual. We need more of this.
The problem is that TX-AT is now linked to a brewing scandal in D.C. And despite attempts by President @PaulKagame's agents and allies to connect the DRC to this controversy, the payment itself does not establish wrongdoing by the DRC government. Just as you are not responsible for how your landlord spends your rent money, the DRC is not responsible for how an American company spends funds received for military equipment.
The DRC is fighting for its survival, and misinformation is President @PaulKagame's favorite weapon. Congolese journalists must avoid unintentionally spreading misinformation that could be used to discredit the DRC before the United States Congress and the world. Report the facts. It might save your country.
@realDonaldTrump @Presidence_RDC @HouseForeignGOP @HouseForeign @SenateForeign
@SFRCdems @SecRubio @StateDept @FelixUdps
@AsstSecStateAF @CNN @AP @washingtonpost @Reuters @BBCAfrica
blueoceanview retweeted
Everyone in the country knew Kavanaugh was going to overturn Roe v. Wade.
But Susan Collins voted for him anyway.
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Trump calls Natalie Harp on stage, checks out her legs, calls her "this perfect person," then floats creating a reality show with her -- and other lowlights from his rally tonight in Nebraska
(Including Trump saying of Iran, "Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay")
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Well, you got me on "Chuck Edwards", who the hell is Chuck? But she sounds just as intelligent as Lindsey Graham's sister ! and the rest of the GOP, the bar is low.
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Remember when Susan Collins gave us Brett Kavanaugh who took away nationwide protections for our right to choose. Turns out she’s at it again, this time giving us anti-abortion extremist Matthew Byrne to the US District Court. Her claim that she’s pro-choice - is a fucking joke.
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Two months ago today, Johan Sebastián Guerrero was murdered by ICE in Biddeford.
Susan Collins voted to give ICE $70 billion a month before his killing.
ICE needs to be abolished, full stop.
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wonderful writer. long before it became a more familiar subject Wendell Berry was conscious of the endangered natural environment; indeed, Berry helped to raise this consciousness. in the American tradition of Thoreau & Emerson in his idealism & reverence for life.
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My message to the IDF officer who ordered the airstrikes on World Central Kitchen and to the people who bomb and smear humanitarians — and to the leaders who have the responsability to stop it..
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You know, I don't expect much decency (none, really) from the jackass napping and farting in the Oval Office.
But there are HUNDREDS of Republicans in Congress now, many of whom call themselves Christ-loving Christians, who should be ASHAMED sitting in silence as trump attacks Biden in what could be his final days.
Hunter described his Dad as being in great pain as he battles the cancer that has "metastasized into his bones."
For f*cks sake, where is your decency???
Have you lost no one to cancer?
Is this what Jesus would do?
I don't even blame trump, because his brain is mush and he doesn't know if he's shitting or eating.
But I blame the people around him, so-called "trusted-advisors" and members of Congress. You all are shitty, cowardly scumbags.
Unlike trump, you KNOW the difference between right and wrong, and you sit there in captive silence to wrong 10 out of 10 times.
I don't expect you to slap him upside his stupid rotted pumpkin head, but at the very least stop acting like he'll disintegrate if you criticize his behavior.
We know you've all been programmed to blame everything under the sun on Biden, and that's unfortunate because he accomplished WAY more as President than trump could in 10 terms.
But can you just leave him the f*ck ALONE while the man is suffering extreme pain from cancer????
Rediscover what the hell it felt like to have a moral bone in your diseased bodies, to have a goddamn spine, and start acting like it.
The man gave up 47 years of his life in service to the public, he deserves better than this.
