Victoria Amazonica

Nature 2 Minutes

Victoria amazonica, or the giant water lily, is one of the largest water lilies in the family. The huge white to pink blooms on the lily pads, which may be up to 8 feet wide, are extremely fragrant and have a sweet, pineapple-like aroma on the first day of their two-day life cycle. 

The blooms only bloom for a few days, opening at night on the first day. At this stage, the flower petals are white, and beetles are drawn to the bloom’s color and aroma. The flower stops emitting the smell around dusk, and it closes, keeping the beetles inside.

Victoria amazonica: Features

Leaves

It has spherical, upward-facing leaves. The leaf floats on the water’s surface, and it is supported by a ribbed underside that is attached to a stalk that is submerged. The stalks, which may grow to a maximum length of 26 feet, naturally bury themselves in the lake or river bottom. This plant may grow up to 20 inches per day and has a high rate of growth. The bottom is shielded from herbivorous fish by the sharp spines, while the upper surface is water-repellent. On the underside, air gets caught between the ribs, keeping it aloft.

Pollination

When a flower opens for the first time at night, the plant uses its perfume to draw beetles, which then pollinate the blossom. The following day, the flower will close, trapping the insects. Then, the second day’s blossoms will have opened up enough for the beetle to escape during the evening. As it passes through the stamens, it becomes pollen-covered. The pollen from the previous flower will then be transferred by these beetles to a newly opened water lily in order to cross-pollinate it.

Victoria amazonica: How to grow? 

In pots submerged in water that is constantly warmer than 80 degrees, seed can be started indoors. When the water has warmed to at least 70 degrees in the late spring, outdoor planting can be done. Container-grown plants are dropped into the calm waters in their containers. The containers can be taken out and stored in a greenhouse in regions with milder winters in preparation for the following outdoor season.

Victoria amazonica: Care

Light

Victoria Amazonica likes sunlight and grows leaves on the surface of the water. Basically, Victoria amazonica grows quickly and steadily in full sunlight, maintaining a relatively perfect body shape.

Temperature

Victoria amazonica is a tropical South American plant with low cold tolerance. Victoria amazonica stops growing when the temperature falls below 20°C, so pay close attention to the atmospheric temperature and water temperature of Victoria Amazonica. When the temperature falls below 8°C, Victoria Amazonica will perish. As a result, it is only suitable for conservation in tropical areas, as conservation costs in other places are prohibitively expensive.

Fertilization

Despite the fact that Victoria Amazonica can thrive in the water without fertilizer. You’ll still need to apply manure or cake fertilizer in order for the leaves to grow beautifully and large.

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  1. Morning All!
    late morning for me…got a friend’s husband sending me a message on fb (which i haven’t done in forever)…hoping nothing’s wrong. where’s a teenager when you need one? lol

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    1. Morning! Hope it’s not bad news….63 here this morning and windy. Skies look clear so far but the sun hasn’t come up yet so who knows? And another day is begun….more of the same, I expect…games, games, games….

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      1. Morning!
        hubby just got a message on his fb from my friend’s hubby. she is fine. they wanted to give us their new phone numbers–which my friend did in an email last week…so, not sure what’s happening there…???
        but he assured me she’s fine.
        she’s the friend who truly truly believes she will die at age 73–because a neighbor told her that when she was small. she will be 72 in August.

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  7. Feisty Hayseed
    June 25, 2023 12:55 am

    Hunter Biden Is Above The Law

    We’re constantly told no one is above the law except IRS whistleblower testimony proves at least one person is: Joe Biden’s son.

    “[W]hatever the motivations, at every stage decisions were made that had the effect of benefiting the subject of the investigation,” Shapley said, referring to Hunter. “These decisions included slow-walking investigative steps, not allowing enforcement actions to be executed, limiting investigators’ line of questioning for witnesses, misleading investigators on charging authority, delaying any and all actions months before [the 2020 election] to ensure the investigation did not go overt well before policy memorandum mandated the pause.”

    He said his supervisors repeatedly deferred to the Justice Department regarding the investigation’s progress and that the DOJ consistently denied advancements and even tipped off Hunter’s lawyers as to what information the government knew, giving him a chance to conceal more incriminating material or concoct some feasible defense.

    The New York Times reacted to this explosive testimony by noting that “Taken at face value, the message would undercut President Biden’s longstanding claims that he had nothing to do with his son’s international business deals.”

    https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/23/hunter-biden-is-above-the-law/

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      1. Good Morning ☀️!
        & the LAST thing these maniac doctors should be subjecting these myocarditis sufferers to is a damn stress test!!

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  9. Wonderful….just fricking wonderful!!!!

    June 23 (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Pfizer Inc’s (PFE.N) drug to treat hair loss caused by an autoimmune disease, the company said on Friday.

    The drug, branded as Litfulo, has been approved for people aged 12 years and older suffering from severe alopecia areata (AA), a condition where the immune system attacks hair follicles and causes hair to fall out, often in clumps.

    The FDA’s decision makes Litfulo the first to be allowed for the treatment of the condition in adolescents.

    https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fda-approves-pfizers-hair-loss-drug-2023-06-23/

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  10. Filly? have you seen any of these birds at your jelly feeder?
    I posted pictures late yesterday…
    they’re rose breasted grosbeaks. i have a pair now coming to the jelly feeder. we saw the female quite a few times, but then the male showed up. i thought she was a sparrow, but she’s not.

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    1. We see these guys every year, earlier in the spring…passing through.
      They have a nice song, loud, like a cardinal’s.

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      1. we hear a lot of songs in the woods. the orioles will sit and sing on the railing before eating the jelly…which i think is adorable.
        i wouldn’t recognize theses guys’ song if i heard it…they are quiet when they sit on the railing and very nervous.

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    2. Sorry to everyone – my notification bell isn’t working properly lately so I don’t see your replies unless I scroll back….sigh…

      Ah! You found it! No, I don’t recall seeing any here but I could have missed them in amongst the sparrows, finches, etc., etc. Most of the red ones I see are the House Finches. Altho….now that I think about it…I wonder if some of the smaller birds, with similar coloration, I’ve seen on the WP block may be this bird? OK, they are here in NE but not much in my area – top central shaded area:

      “Status: Common regular spring migrant east, fairly common central, rare west. Common regular breeder east, rare east central. Common regular fall migrant east, rare central, rare casual west. Rare casual winter visitor east.”

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  11. Entire Article @ Axios: “On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Gov. Katie Hobbs is barring Arizona’s 15 county attorneys from prosecuting abortion-related crimes and centralizing that authority under the attorney general’s office.

    Driving the news: Under the executive order Hobbs announced Friday, Attorney General Kris Mayes has exclusive authority over criminal prosecutions of medical providers, other entities or individuals for violations of Arizona’s abortion statutes. The order also:

    — Prohibits state agencies from assisting investigations by other states for violations of abortion laws if the alleged conduct isn’t punishable under Arizona law;

    — Bars extraditions to other states for alleged violations of abortion laws that wouldn’t be illegal in Arizona;

    — Establishes an Advisory Council on Protecting Reproductive Freedom whose members will be appointed by the governor.

    State of play: The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled last December that a near-total ban on abortions that predates statehood can’t be enforced against doctors, allowing a ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy that the Legislature passed in 2022 to become effective.

    Between the lines: Hobbs and Mayes are both Democrats who campaigned on abortion rights last year, while seven of Arizona’s county attorneys, including Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell, whose prosecutorial authority covers more than 60% of the state, are Republicans.

    What she’s saying: “I will not allow extreme and out of touch politicians to get in the way of the fundamental right Arizonans have to make decisions about their own bodies and futures. I will continue to fight to expand access to safe and legal abortion in any way that I can,” Hobbs said in a press statement Friday.

    Mayes said the order underscores her and Hobbs’ shared commitment to proactively defend abortion rights and “fight like hell to protect the rights of Arizonans to make their own private medical decisions without interference from extremist politicians and anti-choice groups.” Pima County Attorney Laura Conover, a Democrat, praised the order and said it ensures “equal protection and access to critical health services” across Arizona.

    The other side: “As county attorney, I have sworn to uphold the law,” Mitchell said Friday afternoon. “The governor’s attempt to undermine the 15 elected county attorneys’ authority is outrageous.

    — “My office is reviewing the Executive Order and will take the appropriate next steps.”

    — House Republicans are reviewing the legality of the executive order, Speaker Ben Toma, R-Peoria, said in a statement provided to Axios Phoenix. “At a minimum, this order shows disrespect and contempt for the judiciary. Arizona’s abortion laws are still in litigation in light of the Supreme Court’s historic Dobbs ruling. The Governor cannot unilaterally divert statutory authority to prosecute criminal cases from Arizona’s 15 county attorneys to the Attorney General,” he said.

    — Cathi Herrod, president of the Center for Arizona Policy, a conservative organization that often lobbies for abortion restrictions, said Hobbs “exceeded her authority as governor.”

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    1. the left simply does not care to play by the rules. it is not equal protection, follow the rule of the law. it is what I WANT IT TO BE…and YOU have to fight to challenge that.
      they think they are above the rules and the laws

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      1. The push for abortion is based on the false premise that the fetus is not a separate human being…right to life applies to ALL, not just those who are convenient!!!

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        1. this is where their logic fails them. the fetus has SEPARATE DNA from the mother. similar but not exact. if that fetus somehow killed someone, you could not convict the mother–the dna is not an exact match. if it’s not exact, it cannot be claimed to be a part of her like a hand or foot.
          they are attempting to say because it is dependent upon her to survive, she can kill it. however, toddlers and elderly people can be equally dependent upon her to survive and she is not allowed to kill them either.

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  12. Uh-oh….looks like Kristi Noem has feet of clay and is VERY compromised!!!!

    EXCERPT: “More than 100 South Dakota landowners are faced with eminent domain lawsuits as a major carbon capture company constructs a more than 2,000-mile pipeline spanning the upper midwestern plains.

    The pipeline is a project by Summit Carbon Solutions, with the goal of extracting CO2 emissions from midwestern ethanol plants and injecting the liquified gasses deep underground in North Dakota. A process known as carbon sequestration, the pipeline is an effort from the ethanol industry to capitalize on tax incentives offered by reducing corporations’ carbon footprint.

    Litigation over the pipeline’s encroachment on private property is now underway across nine counties in the state as rural residents object to the project on their land. Surveyors with Summit Carbon Solutions, however, are reportedly showing up on property while lawsuits remain pending. And the state’s Republican governor, Kristi Noem, is nowhere to be found.

    Eminent Domain Is Imminent — On Tuesday, Jared Bossly, a farmer in the state’s northeastern Brown County who is opposed to the project crossing his property, reportedly found surveyors from the firm drilling a rig deep underground in the middle of his crop field. Bossly explained to Substack reporter Greg Price how the construction of the pipeline threatens the productivity of his 2,000-acre farm.

    “The route would force them to bulldoze many of the trees he has planted, jeopardizing the safety of his cows by removing the windbreaks used to protect them,” Price wrote. “He also said that the topsoil is only about a foot deep, which means moving it around will likely prevent crops from growing there again.”

    According to The Epoch Times, surveyors with the carbon capture firm have moved forward with the intrusive inspections accompanied by armed security across South Dakota.

    ——————
    Noem’s office did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment. “We haven’t heard anything,” said South Dakota State Rep. Karla Lems, who proposed the legislation that would have prevented the weaponization of eminent domain by corporate conglomerates.

    “In a normal world with everything Kristi Noem has said and done, you would think she would be standing hand in hand with us on this issue. You would think she would be saying, ‘not on my watch,’” Lems told The Federalist. “Yet she was on Capitol Hill a week-and-a-half ago saying all of the same things [about a federal land grab] all of us have been saying about this project.”

    Noem was in Washington D.C. last week to testify alongside GOP Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon before the House Natural Resources Committee against the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed public lands rule. The new regulations establish a framework for conservation leases to preserve federal land and eliminate the bureau’s multiple use mandate. “In my world, everybody matters,” Noem told lawmakers. “Doesn’t matter if you’re big or small or important or not important. You should listen to them, especially if they’re making a living off the land.” When it comes to farmers protesting the carbon sequestration pipeline, however, Noem has blown off every rally.

    Family Ties — An examination of Noem’s inner circle, which includes close relationships with the state’s chambers of commerce, might reveal why the governor is silent on the corporate land grab in South Dakota. Summit Carbon Solutions, an Iowa-based firm backed by South Korean investors, was a “Platinum Sponsor” of Noem’s second inauguration.

    Noem’s son-in-law Kyle Peters is also a registered lobbyist for Gevo, a “Colorado-based renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company.” Last summer, Gevo bought 245 acres near South Dakota’s Lake Preston to build a jet fuel plant. In February, the company partnered with Summit Carbon Solutions to handle the new plant’s CO2 emissions. Peters published a post on LinkedIn celebrating a legislative day at the state capitol five months ago, around the same time lawmakers in the upper chamber torpedoed legislation to protect farmers from eminent domain.”

    https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/22/where-is-kristi-noem-as-her-corporate-sponsors-take-over-constituents-land/

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    1. I’ve been following this for a while. the replies on twitter are divided. some thought the farmer that they were showing videos of had been compensated for his land…and it wasn’t the whole farm being “seized” or used. I dunno…too many conflicting stories. BUT she should be there fighting for the farmers imo
      on the top of our land (top of the mountain) the gas company has a pipeline. they put it in many years before we bought this and it’s listed as a right of way. they keep it cleared of trees and such. it’s planted with grass, and the snowmobilers ride the top of the whole mountain system in the winter.

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      1. Your SIL is a farmer, right? It’s different for land that is being used to produce food, IMO. Was he willingly compensated or was he forced into it? That is the pertinent question in my mind….you know as well as I do how hard TPTB are working to eliminate family farms….and you know why! As for pipelines in general, yes, IF done properly, it can be a boon for everyone across the board, as I saw first-hand when the first Keystone pipeline was installed where my Sis lives. You can’t tell there is a pipeline there now unless there is a leak and they get it controlled very quickly.

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        1. oh i do know that!
          the farms around here use windbreaks (a row of trees) and I’m going to call them equipment lanes. (grass areas between fields to drive equipment from one field to the next). if there is no weight limit on the area above the pipeline, those grass areas could be utilized…?
          but yeah, you can’t tell where the pipeline is here except it’s a grassy lane in the woods.

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  15. Blast from the past re: Ukraine – bear in mind…this is Susan Duclose and AllNewsPipeline, which must ALWAYS be taken with a grain of salt. On this subject, however…I heard the recording of Nuland back in 2014. The US engineered the whole thing!!!

    EXCERPT: “There is a lot of news coming from that region fast and furiously, so “the fog of war” reporting applies, where nothing can be reported with 100% confidence.

    We’ll keep our eye on the situation in the coming days and weeks, but for the purpose of this article, we are looking at our own history of actions in that region. Specifically with the Obama regime’s overthrow of the democratically elected pro-Russia president of Ukraine in 2014, to install a pro-America puppet, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

    Some background from a piece titled “Why Did America Overthrow a Democratically Elected Government in Ukraine?”:

    United States and the European Union supported the overthrowing of a democratically elected government in Ukraine in February 2014. In particular, the U.S.A. conducted all the planning regarding this overthrowing. U.S politicians facilitated most of the funding in the Ukrainian protests. Moreover, the U.S state department handpicked and installed new politicians in the country at the expense of what democracy or political stability. The involvement of U.S in overthrowing of a democratically elected government could be explained in a realistic perspective of international relations. This owes to the fact that much of the concern in this involvement was focused on serving the interests of U.S (Kennan, 2014, p.7). This aspect can be seen in U.S disregard of the destruction and the many deaths that occurred during the civil conflict in Ukraine.

    Upon the overthrowing of Ukrainian government, there was much celebration in U.S media and political circles. Majority of people in U.S hailed these as a putsch while ignoring the fact that the neo-nazi militias instigated the instability.

    As to the funding, we know from former assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, Victoria Nuland, at a speech at the National Press Club, Washington DC, that the U.S. had spent $5 billion promoting ‘democracy’ in the Ukraine. That money went to supporting rebels against the democratically elected pro-Russian president, which resulted in his ousting.

    At the 7:43 minute mark in the video below, Nuland admits to investing $5 billion in Ukraine.

    This next short video shows conversations leaked from a conversation between Nuland and US Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, planning the overthrow of the elected President Yanukovych. Via the details of the video:

    “The two people are heard discussing strategies to work with the three main opposition figures. She is heard telling him that she doesn’t think boxer-turned-politician Vitaly Klitschko should be in a new government and also saying “f**k the EU.” The date of the conversation was not specified but the events it describes appeared to have taken place in the last days of January. It is not known who uploaded the audio clip and reports that it was the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin have not been confirmed. This episode will be embarrassing for the US as President Barack Obama has denied the administration is manipulating the Ukrainian opposition.”

    https://allnewspipeline.com/US_Behind_Russia_Coup_Attempt.php

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  17. “On the TOP is the interior of James Cameron’s Deep Sea Challenger submersible. It took 10 years to build & cost $10 million. On the BOTTOM is the interior of the Titan submersible. It’s controlled by a $29.99 Logitech G F710 wireless gaming controller. Costs were cut with ‘off-the-shelf’ components. (Per Doug Virnig, who helped w its development)”



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  21. Gees, dude! Do NOT swim in FL creeks….13 year old fought off an alligator attack. Stupid kid knew they were there but no-one has ever been bitten so….SMDH – managed to get away with only stitches after it grabbed his leg.

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  23. we went out to stake the tomato plants–after the heavy off and on rain the last few days, they needed it.
    we are LOADED with tomatoes (mostly cherry tomatoes–hubby’s favorite.
    we bought 6 tomato plants first (they were NOT cherry tomatoes we discovered after the fact but put them in anyway.) then we got that really late frost and we thought we lost them all, so hubby bought 8 actual cherry tomato plants. I did not remove the old ones…thinking they might return.
    well they have and they are flowering all over the place…lol
    I may have to learn to can this year and make spaghetti sauce…lol

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    1. ROFL – tomatoes can do that!!! I’ve watched Mom can tomatoes and she does it without a pressure cooker – just cooks them in a big pot on the stove, IIRC. Pour boiling water over them in a colander to help in peeling the skins first. I’m sure she also has a recipe for spaghetti sauce somewhere.

      My biggest surprise this year was how the CA Poppies I scattered in the garden beds last year have come back. Since they are CA poppies, I figured the cold winter would kill them off. Nope! So I’ve got dark yellow with the dark peach of the coral honeysuckle nearby; unfortunately, I hung the open seed feeder over the closest bed and it was almost filled with weeds, which I’ve now pulled – I am hoping the remaining poppies will spread – some of them have seed pods on them. I’ll keep an eye on them and try to catch them when they dry to spread some seeds myself. The south bed is totally filled so I’ll pull some from there if need be.

      I’m still trying to finger out the best way to handle that honeysuckle…I had left the old vines up but tore them all down this spring. I think next year, no matter how ugly they look, I’m going to leave them up – if nothing else, I can weave the new vines thru and around them, but I think they will also grow new leaves….I hope. Ah, well – it’s ALL an experiment!

      I’ve not seen any new growth on the new lilac bush yet but I expect the roots are growing. At least it isn’t dying….so far….

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    1. Congress – I expect the House needs to initiate it, then it has to be voted thru in the Senate…?

      EXCERPT: “The 25th Amendment’s third and fourth sections deal with scenarios where a president may suffer from or be judged to have an “inability” or a “disability.” Scares about the president’s physical health go back to the first president, George Washington, who fought pneumonia in 1790. Woodrow Wilson and Grover Cleveland had serious health problems while in office. James Garfield was incapacitated for months after he was shot by an assassin and later died in office. Franklin Pierce, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Dwight D. Eisenhower also struggled with health issues.

      The 25th Amendment’s Section 3 deals with the president’s voluntary transfer of power and allows the president to notify Congress that he has designated the vice president to act as president until the president is able to resume work. This has happened briefly in three instances after 1967 when Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush told Congress the vice president would be acting as president while they were under general anesthesia for medical procedures.

      Section 4 is the most controversial part of the 25th Amendment: It permits the vice president and either the Cabinet or a body approved “by law” formed by Congress, to jointly agree that “the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” In theory, this clause was designed to deal with a situation where an incapacitated president could not tell Congress that the vice president needed to act on his behalf. It has never been invoked yet.

      The most recent guidance from the Congressional Research Service identifies the amendment’s potential use. The report from 2018 includes concepts discussed during the congressional debates about the 25th Amendment in the 1960s.

      The CRS says a majority of current or acting heads of 15 cabinet positions would need to agree with the vice president to invoke the 25th Amendment. The other potential actor, a disability review panel, would need to be established by a statute that is signed by the president, or if vetoed, approved by two-thirds of the House and Senate. That panel is not currently established.

      Senator Birch Bayh, who played a critical role in championing the 25th Amendment, explained in February 1965 that Section 4 was designed to deal with “an impairment of the President’s faculties, meaning that he is unable either to make or communicate his decisions as to his own competency to execute the powers and duties of his office.”

      https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/how-the-constitutions-25th-amendment-works

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      1. hmmmmmmmmmmm…seems they screwed up. of course a president is going to veto such a statute. and getting 2/3 of congress to agree is impossible to achieve with partisan politics being what they are.
        this is not a time of country over politics like it used to be

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    1. Maria who?
      i think the wagner/putin thing was a scam. we financed it, they conferred, and split the american $$ making fools out of the warmongers

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  29. The Road to 2024 Goes Right Down the Middle of Mean Street [Video]

    POLITICAL MOONSHINE
    JUN 25, 2023

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  31. 🇺🇸Travis🇺🇸
    @Travis_in_Flint
    Happening Now: According to the IRS whistleblower the election was stolen from Donald Trump by his own DOJ!

    Gary Shapley says they were given stand down orders immediately after Joe Biden won the nomination for the democrat candidate. He says the DOJ standard rule of not investigating 60-90 days before an election started long before that deadline.

    In his testimony he stated “It was apparent that DOJ was purposely slow-walking investigative actions in this matter.”

    We all knew the 2020 election was rigged. The problem now is the GOP House isn’t doing anything to stop it from happening in ‘24.

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    1. They have to return the diamonds first…allegedly…in reality, they DO have to fix this, once and for all, and vacating the fraudulent 2020 election would just be a good start…

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      1. oh yeah and then scotus has to overturn some shit.
        i mean how can we have 3 EQUAL branches of gov’t when one branch can limit the length of time the other 2 can serve? and how do they get to pass laws that they are NOT governed by? how can they abdicate their regulatory power to unelected agencies?
        we need a reckoning all the way around

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  32. weird…
    Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸
    @mtgreenee
    Last night in my DC residence, the television turned on by itself and the screen showed someone’s laptop trying to connect to the TV.

    Just for the record:

    I’m very happy.
    I’m also very healthy and eat well and exercise a lot. I don’t smoke and never have. I don’t take any medications. I am not vaccinated. So I’m not concerned about blood clots, heart conditions, strokes, or anything else.

    Nor do I have anything to hide.

    I just love my country and the people and know how much they’ve been screwed over by the corrupt people in our government and I’m not willing to be quiet about it, or willing to go along with it.

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  33. bookmarked this to watch in the am

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  38. Sarah Fields
    @SarahisCensored
    Apparently a lesson is needed here regarding why “Cis” is a derogatory term.

    Have you ever gone to a coffee shop and ordered a “caffeinated coffee”?
    No, you haven’t. If you did, you would be laughed at.

    Coffee, in its natural form, is caffeinated. And EVERYONE knows that. Decaffeinated coffee needs the differentiation because it is NOT in its natural or original form.

    I am a natural born, biological woman. I am not a cis woman. To call me a cis gender person is to assume that I’m capable of CHANGING my gender and I am not. To include myself in your “cis” language would be affirming your delusional beliefs that you can change your gender whenever you want.

    When you call me “Cis”, you are calling me a “person with a uterus”.

    When you call me “Cis”, you are calling me a person who menstruates.

    When you call me “Cis”, you are calling me a chest feeder, a person who can get pregnant and a birthing person.

    To be called all of those things is degrading towards women. And we KNOW that you know that. You KNOW that it offends us. Which is why you continue to use the word “cis”.

    When you use a word in a way that it degrades the other person, it is then defined as a slur. #Cis #Cisisaslur

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  41. not a good road to start traveling down imo
    entire article

    The state of Delaware is famously business-friendly. With more than 1.8 million entities registered in the First State, companies outnumber its human residents by nearly two-to-one.

    One city is now moving to raise businesses’ influence in the state even further, with a proposal to grant them the right to vote.

    Seaford, a town of about 8,000 on the Nanticoke River, amended its charter in April to allow businesses — including LLCs, corporations, trusts or partnerships — the right to vote in local elections. The law would go into effect once both houses of Delaware’s state legislature approve it.

    The proposal has rekindled a debate over how much power corporations should have in local government, with fierce opposition from civic interest groups who say businesses already wield too much influence over politics.

    [Talk about the possibility of being literally a “company” town. ~ Beege]

    https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/06/25/delaware-city-preparing-to-give-corporations-the-right-to-vote-in-local-elections-n560397

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    1. Bad, bad idea!!! I now believe we are where we are right now partially because of the power the corporations were given with the SCOTUS’ Citizens’ United decision.

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    1. a CRIMINAL defense lawyer–for himself or hunter?

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  45. sounds like a BLUEPRINT

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  50. we are watching The King of Queens and we’re near the end of the entire series. They are fantasizing about an apartment in Manhattan and they’re throwing a lavish party. In walks Tucker Carlson…saying he’s their neighbor and any time they wanna talk politics, they should let him no…LOL
    I forgot all about that…LOL

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        1. I can’t even remember the last time I watched a comedy, whether movie or series. Combo movies, like Mystery, Alaska but that’s it.

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