Sawfish are cartilaginous fish that belong to the order Rhinopristiformes, a group of rays containing families that amusingly appear to have been named according to items found in a luthier’s workshop. They share their order with guitarfishes, wedgefishes and banjo rays, all of which are benthic, marine predators with flattened bodies. They are sometimes known as carpenter sharks.
Bizarrely, the sawfish is equipped with a greatly elongated rostrum studded with a lethal set of outwards-facing ‘teeth’. Sawfish are generally found in shallow waters below 10m in depth, and like to diet on fish, crustaceans and mollusks. They are also among the largest of fish species, reaching at least 7 and half meters long.
Their strange shape, enormous size and preference for shallow, inshore waters have, somewhat unsurprisingly, garnered the curiosity and admiration of humans for thousands of years. Sadly the 5 species of sawfish are classified as either criticallyendangered or endangered due to being hunted for their fins, teeth or saw, as well as habitat destruction. They are protected by law in both Australia and the USA, which means it’s illegal to catch, collect, buy or sell any part of a sawfish with heavy fines for those that break the rules.
Interesting Sawfish Facts
1. Sawfish are equipped with a versatile weapon
The famous rostrum of the sawfish is primarily used to incapacitate and capture prey. It can be swept sideways like a sword to injure or kill, and is also used to pin unfortunate fish to the sea floor so they can be eaten head-first, a feeding strategy thought to disable any defensive spines their quarry might possess.
2. Their ‘saw’ contains between 14-37 denticles on each side
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The sharp ‘teeth’ are not actually teeth in a traditional sense, and are called denticles – which are highly specialized scales. It’s common for the denticle count to be different on each side, and if they lose a one, it does not grow back again.
3. The rostrum is a multi-purpose survival tool
Packed into the rostrum of every sawfish are thousands of tiny organs called electroreceptors, which are able to pick up the tiny electrical currents produced by living organisms. Using this sixth sense to help them acquire their target from up to 40 centimeters away, sawfish swipe their lethal saw through the water to strike their prey with deadly accuracy.
4. When danger threatens, sawfish aren’t afraid to fight back
Sawfish have been observed in the wild using their rostrums to fend off large predators. The teeth lining the sides of the rostrum are extremely sharp, and although sawfish are placid towards divers, people are regularly injured while attempting to catch them for profit.
5. Sawfish are rays, not sharks- but saw-sharks exist too!
Both sawfish (order Rhinopristiformes) and saw-sharks (order Pristiophoriformes) are equipped with remarkably similar toothed rostrums, and use them to locate and capture prey in very similar ways. At first glance, sawfish and saw-sharks appear to be closely related, but in reality, they are distant cousins and only share a taxonomic Class.
6. They give birth to live young
Like many chondrichthyan species, sawfish eggs develop and hatch inside the body of their mother, resulting in live birth. This reproductive strategy is called ovoviviparity, and allows sawfish to avoid leaving their developing eggs in the open where they are at risk of predation.
7. Unlike most marine fish, sawfish can adapt to varying levels of salinity
Sawfish are capable of travelling freely between oceanic, estuarine and freshwater habitats. Some sawfish species have more affinity towards fresh water than others- the large tooth sawfish spends a great deal of time in lakes and rivers, and even gives birth there.
8. Sawfish can clone themselves
Occasionally, in the absence of any male individuals, female small tooth sawfish give birth to male offspring that are genetically identical to themselves; these cloned individuals are thought to account for around 3% of the population. This process is known as facultative parthenogenesis, and is thought to be a survival tactic that allows isolated females to establish new populations.
9. Fishing nets pose a huge danger to sawfish
The shape of their rostrum, as well as the behavior of sweeping it sideways defensively or while hunting, puts sawfish at extreme risk of entanglement in fishing nets. Of particular danger are passive nets that are left unattended, and also old, discarded ‘ghost’ nets.
10. Their value to humans makes them a target for poachers
Sawfish are one of the many chondrichthyan species relentlessly hunted for shark fin soup, and their rostrum is highly valued in traditional medicine. This is a big problem for sawfish populations- their value increases as their numbers dwindle, causing a feedback loop that leads to even more poaching.
11. Sawfish have had strong cultural significance for thousands of years
Beliefs surrounding sawfish vary greatly throughout the world, but they are commonly regarded as symbols of strength, protection and natural balance. European sailors feared the sawfish; they wrongly believed them to be highly dangerous and capable of sinking ships with their fearsome saws.
SOURCE: FACTANIMAL.COM
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Good Morning All!
chilly again this morning…45* but the skies look mostly clear. let’s see what today brings…
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Good morning, Pat! 65 here this morning, cloudy and humid – no sign of Wheezer yet this morning. Interesting open – 2 words I had never seen before caught my attention: “The word luthier is originally French and comes from luth, the French word for “lute.” And: “benthic: of, relating to, or occurring at the bottom of a body of water.”
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Good Morning Filly!
luthier i knew–it was in a crossword puzzle once. but the other i didn’t know either!
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Good morning! Saw fish, Saw sharks – so many different sea creatures – God has a great imagination!
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Good Morning GA!
He does!
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OK, how is it not going to be paid for by the taxpayer when our taxes pay for all of these agencies???? So who is paying for the 3rd party’s audit? Microsoft? Ummmm….so presumably DoD personnel will be supervising that audit? Paid for by US taxpayers…..this is the kind of thing that drives me crazy!!!! It’s politi-speak!
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i dunno. it might be part of the agreement that if something is suspect, the seller (microsoft) agrees to an independent audit performed by an outside reviewer that the buyer( US gov’t) appoints. since the seller is purporting that the product complies with the standards put forth by the buyer any complaint has to paid for by the seller.
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Democrats in Michigan required teachers to take tests to grade their level of whiteness
A public school teacher of 31 years quit after being forced to “stand in a circle to rate my level of whiteness”
“We had to take a test to rate our level of whiteness because our African-American, our black kids were struggling. So we had to take a look at ourselves and do a test of what our measure of whiteness was, and then based on our numerical data from that level of whiteness, we had to stand in a circle.”
“It just was so difficult to be standing in this circle to rate my level of whiteness because my discipline referrals in my lower level math classes, I had a higher percentage of African American black kids. So I was being measured on that I wasn’t as effective as a teacher with them because I was white.”
“I was measured on my number of referrals, my tardies. I was told to decrease the number of detentions that were issued for a certain race that showed up late because culturally it’s acceptable for them.”
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Insane!!!! How on earth can a person determine their level of whiteness?!?! Good grief!
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insane is the ONLY word for most of the left’s bullshit
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WOW The Chief Financial Officer for the state of Florida says he knows that top government officials have instructed county employees to CHANGE THEIR DATA AND HIDE EVIDENCE from Florida’s DOGE team
So much money laundering and fraud, he says he will be issuing investigation subpoenas
“It is very apparent that taxpayers deserve and have a right to know where their money is being spent. Now, I’m probably freaking out a lot of Orange County employees right now.
My advice to you is when you are contacted and when you’re going to be interviewed, do not hide the information. Be truthful with them.
We know that people above you told you to go and CHANGE THE INFORMATION in an effort to try to hide the information from us”
“Don’t lie to us, because if we have to, we will bring in FDLE and digital forensic units to find out exactly who did what. — I think we’re proving here today and continue what we’re doing every day, that we are rooting out waste, fraud and abuse, and I’m going to continue to hold those promises.
I mean every word that I say. If local governments hear my voice, and if they thought me issuing subpoenas, investigative subpoenas, were just a throwaway, sort of like a threat to local governments, Well, Orange County fooled around, and now they’re about to find out.”
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Just The News: “Embattled Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Susan Monarez’ legal team on Wednesday threw a curveball by declaring their client was never notified that she was fired from the agency and has not voluntarily resigned.
The twist comes after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) earlier Wednesday announced that Monarez was no longer in the role of CDC director less than a month into her term.
Monarez’ lawyers Abbe David Lowell and Mark S. Zaid said in a joint statement that their client “has neither resigned nor received notification from the White House that she has been fired, and as a person of integrity and devoted to science, she will not resign.”
The conflicting perspectives come amid an alleged internal struggle between Monarez and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. regarding vaccinations, according to the New York Times, and the alleged weaponization of public health.
Other former CDC officials have also strongly rejected the Trump administration’s perceived weaponization of the public health system, with four long-term CDC officials resigning in the wake of news reports that Monarez was out of the agency.
“I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponizing of public health,” one of the former officials, Demetre Daskalakis who served as the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, wrote in his resignation letter.
The Trump administration has not commented on Lowell’s and Zaid’s latest statement at time of publishing.”
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IF she was fired–she doesn’t have to resign…they can forcibly remove her ass.
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“Mass Killers May Be Telling Us Something — But Are We Listening?”
Sharyl Attkisson, Aug 27, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “In the wake of yet another mass killing—the tragic event at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis on August 27, 2025, where two children were murdered and 17 others injured—the public discourse often zeroes in on guns, manifestos, and societal failures.
But amid the clamor, a critical question seems to have faded from view: What role might legal and illegal drugs, and toxic exposures play in the volatile mix that drives some individuals to violence?
For years, reporters routinely probed the medical histories of perpetrators, revealing patterns of psychiatric drug use. Today, that line of inquiry has largely vanished, even as evidence mounts that certain medications carry warnings for suicidal thoughts and aggressive behavior, and environmental toxins disrupt brain function. Ignoring these factors not only overlooks potential triggers but also misses opportunities to prevent future tragedies through better data collection and analysis.
When Medications Were Front and Center
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, mass killings prompted immediate questions about the perpetrators’ mental health treatments, including any prescribed drugs. This was partly because many suspects exhibited clear signs of mental illness, and their medications often came under the microscope.
For instance, in the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, where Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 people, Harris had been prescribed the antidepressant Luvox (fluvoxamine), an SSRI known for potential side effects like agitation.
Similarly, in the 2005 Red Lake Senior High School shooting, 16-year-old Jeff Weise, who killed nine others before taking his own life, was on Prozac (fluoxetine), another SSRI.
Kip Kinkel, the 15-year-old behind the 1998 Thurston High School shooting in Oregon that left two dead and 25 injured, had also been prescribed Prozac.
These cases weren’t anomalies. A compilation by advocacy groups like AbleChild lists over a dozen similar incidents, including the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, where Seung-Hui Cho, who killed 32 people, had a history of mental health treatment and was prescribed antidepressants, though details on his actual compliance history was spotty.
In the 2012 Aurora theater shooting, James Holmes, who murdered 12 and injured 70, was under psychiatric care and had been prescribed sertraline (Zoloft), an antidepressant linked to manic episodes in some users.
Reporting at the time often highlighted these details, fueling debates about whether the drugs—intended to alleviate depression, anxiety, or bipolar disorder—could instead exacerbate violent impulses in vulnerable individuals.
This scrutiny aligned with emerging FDA warnings. In 2004, the agency mandated black-box labels on antidepressants, alerting users to increased risks of suicidal thoughts and behavior, particularly in young people. Some experts, like psychiatrist Peter Breggin, have long argued that SSRIs can induce violence and mania in a subset of patients, citing akathisia—a state of severe restlessness—as a potential trigger. A 2015 Swedish study of over 850,000 people found that antidepressants were associated with violent crime in 11,225 cases, though causality remains debated.
The Shift: Silence Amid Pharma’s Rise
Around the early 2000s, something changed. Direct-to-consumer drug advertising exploded in the U.S. after FDA deregulation in 1997, flooding news outlets with pharma dollars. Coincidentally, in-depth reporting on perpetrators’ medications appeared to wane.
While historical databases like those from the Violence Project and Columbia Psychiatry note mental illness in up to 60% of mass shooters, specifics on prescriptions are increasingly absent from media narratives.
This omission avoids alienating advertisers, but leaves a gap in understanding root causes.
No one suggests medications alone are causing violence—and of course perpetrators bear responsibility for their actions. Yet many mass killers suffer from untreated or poorly managed mental illnesses, with studies showing 23% experiencing psychotic symptoms.
Drugs like SSRIs can disrupt brain chemistry, hormones, and the endocrine system, potentially amplifying aggression in those already unstable.
Add environmental factors: Young people face a barrage of toxic exposures, from endocrine-disrupting chemicals in plastics and pesticides to pharmaceuticals in water supplies. Research links these to behavioral changes, including increased aggression and impulsivity. Prenatal exposure to such disruptors has been shown to alter territorial and aggressive behaviors in animal studies, with human correlations to mood disorders. This “toxic stew” could tip troubled individuals over the edge, yet authorities and reporters rarely probe it.
Recent Cases: Unasked Questions
In more recent tragedies, medication status is often unreported or downplayed. Take the 2018 Parkland shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where Nikolas Cruz killed 17. Cruz had documented mental health issues, including depression and ADHD, and was in treatment, but details on specific medications were scarcely mentioned in major coverage.
Similarly, in the 2022 Uvalde school shooting, where Salvador Ramos murdered 21, reports focused on his bullying and isolation, but omitted any inquiry into prescriptions despite known behavioral health interventions.
The 2023 Nashville Covenant School shooting by Audrey Hale involved mental health struggles, yet media emphasis was on firearms, not potential drug influences.
Even in 2024 and 2025 incidents, like the Midtown Manhattan shooting where the gunman referenced Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease caused by repetitive head trauma, in a note, pharmacological details are absent from initial reports.
This pattern persists despite databases like the FBI’s active shooter reports noting concerning behaviors in two-thirds of cases, often tied to mental health conditions.
It’s worth noting the controversy: Some fact-checks dismiss broad claims linking antidepressants to shootings, arguing no causal evidence and that most perpetrators aren’t on meds. Many of the fact checkers are allied with drug industry interests. The fact is, the FDA’s warnings and case studies suggest patterns worth investigating, especially given that untreated mental illness affects a significant portion of shooters.
To address this blind spot, it would seem to be a positive step to create a national database cataloging the mental status, medications, and toxic exposures of mass killers and other violent offenders. By analyzing commonalities—such as specific drug classes or chemical biomarkers—policymakers could identify preventable factors, from better prescribing guidelines to regulating environmental exposures.
This isn’t about excusing violence but about listening to the signals these tragedies send. As mass shootings continue unabated, with over 400 incidents tracked in recent years, ignoring the interplay of biology, drugs, and toxins ensures we’ll keep asking the wrong questions—and missing the answers that could save lives.”
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it’s about the drugs they pump into kids and others.
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“Back-To-School Looks Different With Trump In The White House — Trump is giving Americans the education sea change they voted for.”
By: John and Andy Schlafly, August 28, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Back-to-school” feels different this year, thanks to President Trump’s executive orders that remove diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Trump is also restoring the presidential fitness test that Democrats had removed.
Big-name colleges, including the University of Michigan and Columbia University, have shut down or scaled back their DEI centers due to concerns about Trump pulling federal funding from the school. Meanwhile, under Trump’s leadership, colleges in red states like Texas, Florida, and Kansas have ended their DEI programs to comply with state laws.
Five months ago, Trump’s Department of Education ordered public schools to eliminate their DEI programs or lose federal funding. School districts for the K-12 level were told to certify that they no longer have DEI programs, while universities were informed they would lose federal funding if they refused to terminate their DEI.
Trump officials gave public schools two weeks to comply. Instead, many blue states ran to federal court to seek an injunction against Trump, and on Aug. 14 federal judge Stephanie Gallagher invalidated and blocked the anti-DEI letters by Trump’s Education Department.
Judge Gallagher was initially nominated by President Obama to the federal bench and, possibly as part of an unfortunate compromise, subsequently renominated by Trump in 2018. Her 76-page decision in AFT v. Dept. of Education complained that Trump had “initiated a sea change in how the Department of Education regulates educational practices and classroom conduct.”
A “sea change” in education is exactly what Americans wanted when they returned Trump to the White House to focus on teaching basic skills rather than indoctrinating children with a liberal ideology. An appeal of this decision in favor of Randi Weingarten’s teachers union is likely.
The percentage of students who are in traditional public schools has declined to 83 percent, or about 50 million kids, as parents flee from school failures. Homeschooling is growing and may increase further with the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve online learning.
Effective Sept. 1, a new law in Texas (SB 12) prohibits DEI in public schools there and requires parents to be notified if their child requests to be referred to by a different pronoun. Texas bans school clubs “based on sexual orientation or gender identity.” In May Texas also enacted an immense school voucher program, which provides $10,000 per student to attend an accredited private school instead of a public school, and up to $2,000 a piece for homeschooled children.
But this program does not begin until fall 2026, and is initially capped at $1 billion. Some conservative legislators from rural Texas who opposed splintering their school system with this were defeated by Gov. Greg Abbott in order to enact this voucher program.
Democrat-controlled Illinois goes in the opposite direction by lowering its proficiency standards without giving families enough options. Trump has threatened to take over Chicago to end the crime epidemic there, and it would be tantalizing if he could take over the Chicago public schools, too.
Even the editorial board of the liberal Chicago Tribune is complaining now about how Democrat politicians are lowering the proficiency standards there. Its Aug. 22 headline shouted, “Illinois moves the goalposts on reading, math and science.”
“Now, scoring an 18 in English language arts and a 19 in math on the ACT will count as ‘proficient’ for high school juniors.” But an 18 is below the national average and far below the score of 30 to 34 that most freshmen at the University of Illinois attain.
Missouri enacted a statewide ban on all personal cell phones, smart watches, headphones, and tablets by public school students, with limited exceptions such as emergencies. School districts and teachers are welcoming this law and its implementation for this school year.
Trump is restoring the public school physical fitness testing President Barack Obama ended in 2012, so that students can again be asked to run a mile or do sit-ups and push-ups. For nearly 50 years this test was given to public school students annually in gymnasiums.
Obama’s termination of the fitness test was part of the harmful shift away from competition and individual merit in education. The Democrat Party has abandoned the vision of President John F. Kennedy, who sought a stronger America and even wrote an essay for Sports Illustrated titled “The Soft American.”
Still, Trump inherits a nation of children who are badly out of shape, obese, and plagued by health problems. At least 20 percent of schoolchildren are obese, according to the CDC, and 77 percent of young adults are unfit to serve in the United States Armed Forces.”
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yup, schools today promote laziness and cultural issues over learning and physical activities. keep them fat and stupid.
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Posted on Patriot.Win:
Control education,
Control their minds.
Control healthcare,
Control their bodies.
Control media,
Control their thoughts.
Control votes,
Control their lives.
Those we can’t control
we must destroy.
*After listening to the anti-religion comments from Minnesota politicians, and the media, I find this clearly frames what We the People are up against.
(h/t – CTH)
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sounds like what’s happening.
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A Billion Dollar Somali Autism Fraud in Minnesota…Autism claims rose from $3 million to $400 million
Seize assets and deport – with ALL their families.
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AGREED!
they come for the opportunities–to STEAL!
we imported Somali Pirates!
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President Trump won’t let this one get by. If Melania sees it – they are gone!
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hope so!
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“Court Says Pennsylvania Must Count Mail Ballots With Improperly Dated Envelopes — The reprinted outer envelope has a colorful box where voters write the date they voted, but somehow, thousands of voters miss the date”
The Federalist, By: Beth Brelje, August 27, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Since Pennsylvania opened mail-in voting to all voters in 2019, courts have been asked repeatedly to settle questions about what county election boards should do when receiving a ballot from a voter who didn’t follow the rules.
In an opinion this week, the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said that, although Pennsylvania law requires voters to sign and date the outer envelope of a mail-in ballot, and the law instructs counties to “set aside” ballots with missing or incorrect dates, counties should count those ballots anyway.
The preprinted outer envelope has a colorful empty box where voters are supposed to write the date they voted. The ballot is placed in a smaller, unmarked privacy envelope inside the outer envelope.
Somehow, thousands of voters either miss the date completely or write a date later than the voting deadline. For example, election day is Nov. 4 but the voter writes that they voted Nov. 6. Ballots received by 8 p.m. on election day are counted.
Failure to conform with the date requirement caused over 10,000 ballots to be discarded in the 2022 general election, according to the opinion. “The date requirement seems to hamper rather than facilitate election efficiency,” the opinion reads. “Discarding thousands of ballots every election is not a reasonable trade-off in view of the date requirement’s extremely limited and unlikely capacity to detect and deter fraud.”
The court said it cannot justify Pennsylvania’s practice of discarding “thousands of presumably proper ballots,” just because the envelope is wrong. The decision affirms the lower court’s decision by Judge Susan Paradise Baxter from the U.S. Court from the Western District of Pennsylvania.
But other courts have instructed counties not to count ballots inside faulty envelopes. In November, 2024, just days before the presidential election, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered mail-in ballots arriving in an envelope with no date or the wrong date should not be counted for the 2024 election.
Immediately after universal mail-in ballots were adopted in Pennsylvania, Democrats pushed heavily for voters to vote by mail. While Democrats went door-to-door, encouraging people to vote by mail, Republicans were skeptical about the security of mail-in ballots. Democrats overwhelmed Republicans with mail-in votes in 2022, earning victories in numerous races, including the governor’s race and flipping a longtime Republican (Pat Toomey) Senate seat to Democrat (John Fetterman). In 2024, more Republicans tried mail-in voting, but it is still a method favored by Democrats.
President Trump intends to ban mail-in voting with an executive order — a move that will surely be met with leftist lawfare.
Josh Findlay, director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s National Election Protection Project and the former national director of election integrity for the Republican National Committee, recently explained why mail-in voting is “the least secure method of casting a ballot.”
“Unlike in-person voting, where safeguards such as voter ID verification are standard and supported by a majority of the people, mail-in ballots are susceptible to fraud, misdelivery, and errors,” Findlay wrote for The Federalist. “Ballots can be intercepted and fraudulently cast, lost in transit, or even altered without the voter’s knowledge. In addition, signature verification — a key safeguard — is far from foolproof.”
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mail in ballots were a farce and we need to ban them!
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Huh….sounds like a good idea to me!!!
“California GOP legislators propose creating new state from several counties: a ‘two-state solution’ — Gallagher said a new state would benefit inland residents who feel they’re victims of the policies of the Democrats controlling the state legislative and executive branches.”
By Dave Mason | The Center Square, August 27, 2025
ENTIRE ARTICLE: “Republicans are calling for 35 inland counties to secede from California and create a new state. The GOP announced the plan Wednesday as their response to Democrats’ congressional redistricting efforts. “I want to take a step back from all of the chaos we had and talk about the forgotten people of California,” Assembly Minority Leader James Gallagher said, presenting a map during a news conference in Sacramento.
Gallagher and his co-authors are proposing Assembly Joint Resolution 23, also known as “The Two State Solution.” It would allow the creation of the state under Article, Section 3, of the U.S. Constitution and would require approval by the state Assembly and Senate as well as Congress. Democrats hold supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature, meaning Republicans would have to sway a number of Democrats to back it.
Gallagher said a new state would benefit inland residents who feel they’re victims of the policies of the Democrats controlling the state legislative and executive branches. “I think this is about the trucker in the Inland Empire who is told he has to get rid of his truck because of the regulations in this state,” the minority leader said. “I think of the single mom who’s trying to get by when the rent’s too high and gets her PG&E bill, which once again is increased, and struggles to get into that first house because costs are way too high,” Gallager said. He said he was thinking of ranchers whose cattle are killed “because some genius thought it was a good idea to reintroduce the gray wolf in Northern California.”
It’s time to secede from California because of a Legislature that has done nothing to make the state more affordable, Gallagher said, accusing the Democratic supermajorities in the two houses of not caring about Californians.
Proposition 50, which would draw new congressional district boundaries to give Democrats five more U.S. House seats to counter five Republican seats being gained by Texas redistricting, would completely strip people in inland counties of their representation, Gallager said. The Senate and Assembly voted last week to put the proposition on the Nov. 4 ballot in a special election.
“Whether you are from the North State, Central Valley or the Inland Empire, life has become harder and completely unaffordable,” Gallagher said. “We have been overlooked for far too long, and now they are trying to rip away what little representation we have left.”
The new state would consist of 10 million people, according to Gallagher’s office. It would cover most of Northern California, the Sierra Nevada, the Central Valley and the Inland Empire. The proposal would leave counties along the coast in California. The new state would consist of a big north-to-south block of Inland counties, varying from Siskiyou, Modoc and Del Norte along the Oregon border to Kern, San Bernardino, Riverside and Imperial in Southern California.
Gallagher said he realizes there are people in heavily Republican Orange County, which would remain in California under the current proposal, who would like to be a new state. “Orange County, I hear you,” Gallagher said, stressing the map isn’t set in a stone and that some communities in the current proposal might not want to be in a new state.
Gallagher’s proposed resolution noted there have been “difficulties in achieving equitable political representation” and that efforts to divide California go back to 1859 when voters overwhelmingly supported splitting the state into two. “However, Congress did not act on this proposal due to the Civil War.”
The resolution said several Northern California counties, along with voters from other counties, have expressed a desire to form a new state. It said residents in Northern California and Inland areas have long felt frustration over laws and regulations imposed on them by the more populous coastal regions.
Republican co-authors of Gallagher’s resolution are Assembly members Leticia Castillo, Heather Hadwick, Tom Lackey, Alexandra Macedo, Joe Patterson and Kate Sanchez. Sen. Megan Dahle is the co-author in the Senate.”
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good luck with that.
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I know but still….it would be a good thing for the conservatives in CA!
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I gotta say – pot, meet kettle! No, Trump isn’t quite as overweight as him but it’s close…..just sayin’!!!! He needs to lose weight too!
Just The News: “Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he has not received communication from the federal government about potential troop deployments to Illinois, after President Donald Trump offered choice words for the governor.
The president deployed troops to combat crime in Washington, D.C. earlier this month and suggested last week that Chicago could be next.
When asked Wednesday about reports that federal agencies might use Naval Station Great Lakes for staging, the governor said he had received no calls from the White House or anyone from the federal government who might be in charge of troop movement.
Speaking at the ribbon-cutting for a new housing facility in Maywood, Pritzker said Illinois is 19th best among the 50 states in terms of violent crime. “And the city of Chicago isn’t even in the Top 25 major cities with high crime rates, because we’ve worked to bring it down,” Pritzker said.
Chicago reported 573 homicides last year, more than any other U.S. city. According to the Rochester Institute of Technology Center for Public Safety Initiatives, New York reported 377 homicides. The report has St. Louis with the highest homicide rate of 54.4%. Chicago’s homicide rate was 21.7%, coming in at No. 8.
Trump called out Pritzker at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday. “Like this slob of a governor you have in Illinois. This poor guy got thrown out of his business by his family. I know the family. I was partners with the family. I like the family, but he’s no good. They threw him out,” Trump said.
Trump noted that people have referred to him as a dictator. The president said he is not a dictator, but he knows how to stop crime. “You would think that Illinois would have such a problem with crime, such a bad governor. He should be calling me and he should be saying, ‘Could you send over the troops, please? It’s out of control,’” Trump said.
Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, D-Hillside, joined Pritzker in Maywood and also criticized Trump. “We’ve heard a president talking about occupying our state and our cities with the military, rather than talking about investing in our communities,” Welch said.”
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i often wonder if he’s always wearing vest after the attempts on his life…
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That may be but he is overweight regardless.
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Duh! Like it hasn’t been going on forever?!?!
Just The News: “Republicans on the House Oversight Committee and one of its subcommittees on Wednesday announced an investigation into allegations of an organized effort to skew U.S. public opinion on sensitive topics by manipulating Wikipedia articles.
Wikipedia is a nonpartisan nonprofit that allows the public to edit encyclopedic articles, but the website’s editing team is supposed to review information and remove material that is not verified.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer and Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Chairwoman Nancy Mace sent a letter to Wikimedia Foundation Chief Executive Officer Maryana Iskander, requesting documents and information related to actions by Wikipedia volunteer editors caught violating platform policies.
“Multiple studies and reports have highlighted efforts to manipulate information on the Wikipedia platform for propaganda aimed at Western audiences,” the lawmakers wrote. “One recent report raised troubling questions about potentially systematic efforts to advance antisemitic and anti-Israel information in Wikipedia articles related to conflicts with the State of Israel.
“A second investigation detailed actions by hostile nation-state actors to expose Western audiences to pro-Kremlin and anti-Western messaging by manipulating Wikipedia articles and other news outlets relied on for training AI chatbots,” they added.
The lawmakers said their investigation seeks to examine how the nonprofit responds to bad actors in order to restore its credibility as a neutral arbiter of information, and what actions are taken to hold the bad actors accountable.
The Wikimedia Foundation confirmed to The Hill that it received the letter, but has not commented on the allegations or concerns raised in the probe.
“We welcome the opportunity to respond to the Committee’s questions and to discuss the importance of safeguarding the integrity of information on our platform,” a foundation spokesperson said.”
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the fact that ANYONE at one time could change wikipedia articles, is telling–that stuff can’t be believed.
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Just The News: “President Donald Trump said Wednesday that House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are working with him to pass “a comprehensive crime bill.”
“Speaker Mike Johnson, and Leader John Thune, are working with me, and other Republicans, on a Comprehensive Crime Bill. It’s what our Country need [sic], and NOW! More to follow. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” Trump posted on Truth Social.
Trump did not elaborate on the provisions or approach to the legislation. During Trump’s first term in 2018, he signed into law the First Step Act criminal justice reform bill.”
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Just The News: “Illinois GOP Rep. Mary Miller on Tuesday introduced a bill that seeks to prohibit transgender students who were born male but identify as female from playing on girls’ sports teams and using female bathrooms.
The legislation, which was cosponsored by nine other Republican lawmakers, seeks to amend Title IX to define “male,” and “female” by reproductive organs, in the same manner that the Trump administration has defined an individual’s gender.
The bill, titled the Safety and Opportunity for Girls Act, would block federal funding for public schools that do not adhere to the amended definition of each sex under Title IX when it comes to female sports. It follows a similar bill Miller introduced in March on public school bathrooms.
The move comes as the Trump administration argues that Title IX already protects biological girls in sports, and that school districts that do not adhere to the administration’s interpretation of the federal law would lose funding.
The Supreme Court is expected to weigh in on whether states can ban transgender students in public schools from competing on sports teams that align with their chosen gender instead of their biological sex in its next term, per The Hill.”
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“They’re eating the dogs: African migrant with deportation order slaughtered a dog named Merlin and took it home to eat in Italy, also tortured another dog with boiling oil”
ReMix News Staff, August 28, 2025
EXCERPT: “A migrant from Mali has been arrested in Italy for allegedly slaughtering a dog named Merlin in front of a pharmacy and then carrying the dog’s body home to eat in the city of Naro. The week before, police say he also tortured another dog by pouring boiling oil over the animal; however, the courts released the man, only for him to almost immediately reoffend.
The case is being widely shared on Italian social media, with Italians in shock over the torture directed at the dogs. In addition, animal rights groups and the Italian parliament have commented on the case.
Citizens reportedly witnessed the gruesome attack on Merlin in front of the pharmacy, and alerted the police. The man, a 27-year-old from Mali, carried Merlin’s corpse back to his home. “He wanted to eat it,” writes Italian newspaper La Stampa. The incident has also been covered by a range of Italian newspapers, including Corriere Della Sera.
Media outlet Today.it has identified the dog as Merlin, which was well taken care of by residents of Nora.
In addition, Michela Vittoria Brambilla, president of Italian League for the Defense of Animals and the Environment (LEIDAA) and a member of parliament serving in the Parliamentary Intergroup for Animal Rights and Environmental Protection, also commented on the case:
“What happened in Naro, in the province of Agrigento, where a foreigner with an expired deportation order slaughtered a stray dog in the center of the town, in front of the citizens, is an unacceptable, repugnant act of violence. Italy is not a no man’s land and never will be. The Brambilla law has been in force since July 1, all that remains is to apply it. Anyone who has no right to stay and is responsible for similar crimes must be stopped and punished. I thank the police, who intervened promptly, but anger remains at the fact that an individual with a history of assaulting public officials could move freely,” she wrote…..”
https://rmx.news/article/theyre-eating-the-dogs-african-migrant-with-deportation-order-slaughtered-a-dog-named-merlin-and-took-it-home-to-eat-in-italy-also-tortured-another-dog-with-boiling-oil/
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cultures do not mesh…they collide!
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oh boy…we better buy tickets…LOL
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I think Congresspeople need to have asterisks as well–they don’t work for their advertised purpose!
and that first one??? SPIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Cook’s lawyer is using her client’s race in the filings–“first Black woman to sit on the Board…” (which has no bearing on the case imo) AND has downgraded her alleged crime to erring “in filling out a form” (instead of mortgage fraud).
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/trump-fed-lisa-cook-lawsuit-powell.html
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Pretty sure it was mortgage fraud – and – tax evasion. She didn’t want to pay more interest and taxes for her second house.
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that’s how it appears to everyone but her and her lawyer.
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“The borough of Paramus (NJ) is suing American Dream mall for staying open on Sundays, in violation of Bergen County’s blue laws. The lawsuit claims the mall has 120 stores that stay open and it publicly advertises those hours.
Paramus Mayor Christopher DiPiazza said the American Dream is “operating unfairly,” and added, “This puts our shopping centers, our malls, our retailers at a disadvantage, an unfair disadvantage, and with that can hurt the taxpayers and the residents that I serve.”
American Dream says it is located on state land, so it’s not bound by blue laws, which prohibit the sale of nonessential items, like clothing and furniture.
The restrictions have been in place since the 17th century, but they do make exceptions for things like grocery and drug stores.”
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“Nitazenes are a class of extremely potent synthetic opioids that have emerged in the illicit drug supply in recent years. Though they were first developed in the 1950s as a potential alternative to morphine, they were never approved for medical use due to concerns over their toxicity and addiction potential.
Nitazenes, also known as benzimidazole-opioids, act on the same mu-opioid receptors in the brain as heroin and fentanyl. The potency of different nitazene analogues varies, but some are hundreds of times stronger than morphine and even more potent than fentanyl. This makes them extremely dangerous and increases the risk of overdose.
Nitazenes cause typical opioid effects, including pain relief, euphoria, drowsiness, relaxation, and respiratory depression (slowed or stopped breathing). They are very unpredictable street drugs. Nitazenes are often mixed into other illicit drugs, such as heroin, fentanyl, counterfeit pills, and benzodiazepines, often without the user’s knowledge. This makes the drug supply more dangerous and unpredictable.
While naloxone (Narcan) can temporarily reverse a nitazene overdose, multiple doses may be required due to the extreme potency of these drugs.
The re-emergence of nitazenes has been linked to an increase in overdose deaths in the US and Europe since around 2019. Netazenes were first created in the 1950s by Swiss researchers but were never marketed for clinical use.
They make Fentynal look like drug store penny candy.”
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Back to Gas: School Districts Revert to Diesel Because Biden’s Electric Buses Can’t Be Repaired Lion Electric, which received $159 million in federal funds to manufacture electric buses, has fallen into bankruptcy and failed to deliver $95 million worth of buses.
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who wants to bet they never intended to fulfill that contract. where’s the $$ go???
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who’s shocked?
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Oooh, the color…..!
Dodge madness….
That’s a helluva catfish….!
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is that first one what happens when you flush a goldfish?
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LOL – I don’t think so!
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“The “office” inside the first presidential aircraft – the C-54 Sacred Cow. Cool thing is this is where Truman signed the USAF into existence on 9/18/47.”
Buick Wildcat, 1964
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great photos!!!!!!!
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Built by Bohland & Fuchs in 1912, the sub bass uber tuba was nicknamed “Big Carl” and was housed at the offices of Carl Fischer, Inc., New York, NY.
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YIKES big carl!
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And guns are the problem…..
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what a mess!
we bought gallons of spring water this past summer when the power was off for days and i had 4 of them stacked in my back room where my craft stuff is. nothing stacked on them…just two on top of the other two. the bottom 2 LEAKED all over the wood floor and only got to one box of finished crafts but everything in there was already in sealed plastic bags. the bottles leaked thru the seams–there’s no punctures but when we ran water in them, the water leaked thru the seams again. sigh
been drying the floor and moving my bins and stuff and drying off what i could.
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Oh, man! That sucks bigly! Hopefully the floor wasn’t damaged???
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it doesn’t seem so. it’s genuine hardwood…not laminate or anything so, fingers crossed. then i had to do a load of towels–even though i did all the laundry this morning. smh
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Ha! Great minds! I did laundry today, too!
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the flag burning is only illegal when used to incite a riot if i heard correctly.
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Yup
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great sign^^^^^^
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I’ve heard of the karmasutra…LOLOLOL
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I’ve heard of the Kama Sutra but not the karmasutra…..
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well I guess you were never bitch slapped by karma…lol
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what in the world do those men put in the purses?
and those buffalo are scary!
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I always assumed they were for $ and ID…..
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LOL…I was thinking condoms and moist towelettes…LOL
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🐘 Rejected Elephant Calf Cried for 5 Hours
In 2013, Zhuangzhuang was abandoned by his mother and sobbed in his Chinese zoo stall. Hand-raised after, he survived. Even elephants get abandonment issues…
https://metro.co.uk/2013/09/11/elephant-tears-newborn-weeps-after-being-parted-from-mother-who-tried-to-kill-him-3959857/
🦈 Rare Bright Orange Shark Found in Costa Rica
First of its kind in Caribbean waters. Finding Nemo 2: Pumpkin Edition…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/cg5041nrrqro
🎀 84-Year-Old Woman With 30kg Breast Tumor
A rare case of extreme gigantomastia—40 years of growth, weighing 66 pounds. Nature really overdelivers sometimes…
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Ya’ gotta wonder….why wasn’t that tumor removed a long, long time ago???
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oh my…I have tears in my eyes…that poor little elephant!!!!!
and yeah–no one thought that HUGE breast might have a tumor???
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Good Night All!
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Good night!
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Good Night Filly!
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