Hawaii State Tree: Kukui

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The kukui is a ‘canoe plant’ brought by Polynesian voyagers. Early settlers carried essential plant species in their double-hulled canoes during Pacific voyages. Kukui was among the most important plants they transported to Hawaii. Archaeological evidence shows kukui cultivation in Southeast Asia dating to 13,000 BC. Polynesians spread the tree throughout Pacific islands. The species originated in Malaysia or Indonesia, not Hawaii.

Voyagers selected kukui for its versatility. The tree provided numerous resources crucial for survival. Seeds were easy to transport and grew quickly. This made kukui ideal for establishing new settlements. The oily nuts served as the primary light source before Western contact. Hawaiians strung candlenuts on palm leaf midribs. They burned the nuts one at a time, each providing light for several minutes. Stone lamps also burned kukui oil.

Fishermen applied kukui oil to calm water surfaces. The oil spread across choppy water, creating a clear view beneath. This helped fishermen see their nets and catch fish. A Hawaiian proverb states ‘Pupuhi kukui—malino ke kai’ meaning ‘spewed kukui nuts—calm seas.’

The nuts provided food when roasted and ground into paste called ‘inamona. The oil treated sunburn and wounds. Tree bark made black dye for tapa cloth. The durable wood formed canoes and storage containers.

The silvery-pale green foliage stands out from other Hawaiian trees. Young leaves and branches have star-shaped hairs that create a whitish appearance. This distinctive coloring helps identify kukui forests from a distance. Large heart-shaped leaves have three to five lobes. The leaves measure four to eight inches long with toothed edges.

Small creamy-white flowers appear in dense clusters at branch ends. The flowers bloom primarily in winter and spring. Walnut-sized fruits turn from green to brown when ripe.

The kukui symbolizes enlightenment, protection, and peace in Hawaiian culture. Its role as a light source connects it to guidance and illumination. The tree represents the resourcefulness of ancient Hawaiians who used every part of the plant. Kukui also honors Polynesian voyaging heritage and the plants that enabled settlement of remote Pacific islands alongside symbols such as the Hawaii state flag.

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    1. Morning, Pat! Cloudy with thunderstorms in the offing, only 68 and humid. It’s not supposed to be so hot for a few days at least. No sign of Wheezer for quite some time…..gotta wonder if he’s a goner this time. But who knows?

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      1. Good Morning Filly!
        maybe Wheezer found a cool place to hunker down?
        do orioles lay eggs twice? when we got back from walmart last night, the yarn holding the jelly feeder on the railing was untied. and this morning a little female oriole was pecking at the jelly feeder string again. it seemed odd.

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        1. Hmmm….good question!

          “Most oriole species raise only one brood per season, laying a single clutch of 3 to 6 eggs each spring. However, some species—like the Orchard Oriole—are occasionally double-brooded. Additionally, if the first nest is destroyed or fails early in the season, orioles will re-nest and lay a replacement set of eggs.”

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  3. Good morning, Pat!

    The Kukui tree sounds like an amazing plant 👍

    Some heavy rain yesterday, more expected later today.

    Today I return to dentist for X-rays and teeth cleaning. 🦷 At least, it gets me out of the house and thinking about different things!

    God bless, take care. 🙏

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  6. Troublemaker10
    June 11, 2026 2:16 am

    Edward T. Winslow
    @EdwardTWinz

    https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f6a8.svg TRUMP JUST BRIEFED THE NATION FROM THE SITUATION ROOM TONIGHT:

    The last time a president did this during an active bombardment, Bush announced the ground war had begun.

    – 49 Tomahawks fired at Iranian targets as close as 40 miles from Tehran

    – Fighter jets swept Iranian radar and air defenses near the Gulf ahead of the strike package

    – Trump, Vance, Kushner, and Witkoff all present in the Situation Room — TONIGHT

    – Iran had spent months routing every message through Pakistani and Qatari intermediaries — refusing direct contact

    – Then the Tomahawks started hitting

    – Mid-bombardment, top Iranian officials picked up the phone and called the White House DIRECTLY

    – Trump: bombing will “stop shortly” — then came the condition

    – “Sign the deal or we’ll bomb the S out of them TOMORROW NIGHT”

    – The deal on the table: open the Strait of Hormuz and close the nuclear path — BOTH

    – This is the first direct Iran-to-White House communication after months of proxy diplomacy

    – The last time Iran broke from intermediaries and went direct, it was the back-channel that ended the hostage crisis

    – Situation Room confirmed: the call happened MID-BOMBARDMENT — not after, not before — DURING

    – Tehran now has one night to decide between a signature and another strike package

    – The Strait of Hormuz carries 20% of the world’s oil — TONIGHT that’s the price of the deal

    Trump doesn’t brief the nation from the Situation Room to announce a ceasefire. He does it when he wants the world to know the other side just blinked.

    Whatever Iran decides before morning — it’s MARKET MOVING. It’s WAR CHANGING. And the clock is already running.

    I’ll keep you updated as this unfolds, turn on notifications this is EXTREMELY important. A lot of people will wish they followed me sooner.

    I’ll keep you updated. Turn on notifications.

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  8. Just The News: “President Donald Trump on Thursday said the United States will be taking Kharg Island “at some point in the not too distant future.”

    The comments were made in a post on Truth Social, in which the president said the U.S. would be hitting Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT.”

    “The United States will be hitting Iran (Whose Navy, Air Force, Radar, Anti Aircraft, and all other forms of Defense, together with most of its offensive capability, are GONE!), VERY HARD TONIGHT. At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets, much like we have with Venezuela, which is working out brilliantly for both Venezuela and the United States of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” President DONALD J. TRUMP

    https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116731447139970106

    The goal of the proposed operation to take Kharg Island, Trump said, would be to take over Iran’s oil and gas markets in the same way the U.S. did in Venezuela. That operation is “working out brilliantly for both Venezuela and the United States of America,” Trump said. 

    Kharg Island is a continental island of Iran in the Persian Gulf. It provides a seaport for exporting up to 90% of Iran’s petroleum products.”

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  10. Well, duh!!! Stupid people doing stupid things = cashless society! SMH

    EXCERPT: “Sweden has led the way in Europe’s transition to a cashless economy, being among the first to have credit or debit card readers at points of sale – even for something as low-cost as a newspaper so that customers no longer had to dig in their pockets for coins or paper currency.    

    But now, the country that led Europe’s modern march toward a cashless society is among those reconsidering that journey amid growing concerns about cyberattacks, conflict, power outages, privacy and national resilience.  Increasingly, policymakers in Sweden and other countries that have been pushing the trend, including Denmark, Estonia, Finland and the Netherlands are realizing that cash still matters. 

    Most transactions in these countries remain cashless. But the adoption rate for cashless transactions has leveled out, and now the government is creating incentives to stabilize the current level of cash usage rather than letting it fall further. 

    “We now need to think about resilience,” Erik Thedéen, the governor of Sweden’s Central Reserve Bank, said last year. “If everything breaks down, we need to have cash.” 

    Official government guidance in “emergency preparedness” brochures sent to Swedish households recommends citizens maintain at least one week’s worth of cash to be available in a time of crisis. Other early adopting countries are taking similar steps. 

    Thedéen said the reversal was sparked by a destabilized globe in which exists the threat of an expanded war between Russia and Ukraine, the threat of digital attacks, and signs from President Donald Trump that the U.S. may not come to the aid of its European allies if they were attacked. Thedéen said the country’s advanced digital payment infrastructure could make it more vulnerable…..”

    https://justthenews.com/world/europe/europes-cashless-revolution-slows-amid-worries-instability-conflict

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  11. Charlotte99

    June 11, 2026 8:37 am

    UPDATE – BELFAST VICTIM // STEPHEN OGILVIE

    Doctors report things are looking GOOD and that ‘Stephen is a fighter’

    They tried to bring him out of the coma but he wasn’t doing well so they induced him again

    They will try to gradually take him out again soon

    His throat has had to be stapled from one side to the other

    His left eye and socket have been completely lost He’s had two surgeries to rebuild his nose

    Doctors say they are focusing on treating the swelling to his face

    Thoughts and prayers are with him

    https://nitter.net/BasilTheGreat/status/2064971590513688951#m

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  12. very insightful!

    Mike Netter
    @nettermike
    This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who’s in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f44d-1f3fd.svg

    My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
    I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

    I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it.

    Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought.

    We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

    Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

    Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, “An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.”

    Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

    When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

    My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I digress.

    Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

    People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

    Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn’t see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

    We don’t know what it’s like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.”

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  20. Troublemaker10
    June 11, 2026 10:29 am

    Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
    @SecScottBessent
    The Iranian regime will lose the zero-sum game it is playing.
    Any damage it inflicts on our allies in the Gulf will be paid for with funds extracted from Iranian Accounts.
    Any tolls paid to the Persian Gulf Strait Authority will be offset by funds extracted from their accounts.
    Every attack Iran launches will only deepen the economic and financial consequences it faces.
    8:42 AM · Jun 11, 2026

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  21. Huh…..I think I mentioned the other day the long train of heavy trucks hauling what looks like steel I-beams and huge power stations, with wide load trucks fore and aft, past my house. They came thru again just now and I decided to go out and watch to see where they were going. They were moving slow enough that I could ask the driver of the last truck why they were using our gravel road instead of the highway 2 blocks north. Turns out they were being unloaded from flatcars at the RR crossing a block from me to the N/W. There is a solar farm being built on farm land just to the east of Plainview somewhere. So I went looking…. Osmond is only about 10 miles east of me.

    “North of Osmond Solar Project: Local power authorities—including Northeast Nebraska Public Power District (NNEPPD)—and developers mapped out a several megawatt solar farm just north of neighboring Osmond. The planning commissions and county boards have advanced this project with construction and road maintenance planning. [1]”

    “Goldenrod Solar Farm (Pierce County): A large-scale project encompassing roughly 1.75 million dollars in projected annual county revenue. The Pierce County Board of Commissioners previously granted a permanent Conditional Use Permit to Boulevard Associates LLC (a subsidiary of NextEra Energy) to construct a massive 443-megawatt solar farm on approximately 2,500 acres of Ag-Intensive land. [1, 2, 3]”

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          1. It’s always possible that a tree limb might get blown around – taking down power limbs, falling on your house or truck, getting blown into windows and doors. I’ve just been really lucky and I take as many precautions ahead of time as possible. That’s pretty much all you can do.

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  22. I haven’t been able to get a hold of mom again for 2-3 days. sigh… tired all different times during the day. the last time we did talk, her knees were giving her so much trouble. unless something drastically changed, i doubt she’d be out doing stuff.

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  23. M.A. Rothman
    @MichaelARothman
    𝐃𝐎𝐉 𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐔𝐄𝐒 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐉𝐔𝐑𝐘 𝐒𝐔𝐁𝐏𝐎𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐉𝐏𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐀𝐍, 𝐁𝐀𝐍𝐊 𝐎𝐅 𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐒 𝐅𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐎 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐃𝐄𝐁𝐀𝐍𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆

    “𝘉𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘸 𝘪𝘧 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴. 𝘋𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘧 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺.”

    The Wall Street Journal broke the story Wednesday: U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office in Washington has issued 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐣𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐉𝐏𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞, 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐨 demanding records on customer account closures and the stated reasons behind each one. The probe centers on whether these banks systematically shut down accounts based on customers’ political views or religious beliefs — a practice that is illegal under federal law.

    Fox News legal analyst Greg Jarrett laid out the stakes: banking discrimination on political or religious grounds violates roughly half a dozen federal statutes, constitutional free-speech protections, and state consumer law. And here is the key detail buried in the timeline: 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬. The Biden administration pressured financial institutions to close accounts of people and organizations it disliked — gun retailers, conservative nonprofits, crypto firms, and religious businesses. Now Trump’s Justice Department is building the paper trail to prove it.

    The exposure is enormous. Jarrett flagged civil enforcement first: federal monitors, mandatory restitution, and fines potentially reaching 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬. But if prosecutors can establish a conspiracy to violate civil rights — a coordinated effort between government and banks to suppress Americans based on politics — criminal charges against the banks and their individual officers become possible. Grand jury subpoenas are not fishing expeditions. They are issued when investigators have targets.

    Trump signed an executive order in August 2025 titled “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans” directing banking regulators to probe politicized debanking and refer violations to DOJ. Some subpoenas date back to 2025. The investigation is already underway. If you had a bank account closed or a business cut off because of your politics or your faith in the past several years, that pattern is now the subject of a federal criminal investigation.

    𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐧𝐚. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧-𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐣𝐮𝐫𝐲.

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  24. Just The News: “The Defense Department on Thursday morning issued a shelter-in-place order for parts of the Pentagon after an air-quality alert was activated inside the building, in Arlington, Virginia. The pentagon-shaped building, among the most secure in the world, sits on 34 acres, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. 

    A Pentagon spokesperson said “precautionary measures” are being put in place while the matter is being assessed, Bloomberg reported. 

    The orders are “standard protection protocols” and include a shelter-in-place order for the affected portion of the building. The order affects multiple floors of the building, and police were seen in the building wearing gas masks and full chemical protective gear, according to CNN.”

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  25. “Are We Measuring Ticks or Measuring Fear?”

    Dr. Robert W. Malone, Jun 11, 2026

    EXCERPT: “Every season brings a new health scare, a new public health grift. This spring it is ticks. Open a newspaper, turn on the television, or scroll through social media, and you will be told that America is facing a terrible tick season. Lyme disease is spreading. Alpha-gal syndrome is lurking in the woods. Emergency rooms are seeing record numbers of tick bite patients. Public health officials are warning the public to take precautions.

    The evidence most often cited comes from the CDC’s Tick Bite Tracker. Earlier this year, the agency announced that emergency department visits related to tick bites were running at the highest level for this point in the season since 2017, when the program began.

    That sounds alarming until you look at what is actually being measured.

    The CDC is not measuring ticks. The CDC is tracking people who seek medical care in emergency rooms after a tick bite. Furthermore, the CDC database lists only three years in total, as shown below. The data for 2018-2024 are unavailable. Three data points, that’s all we have:

    Also note that this is an expression of tick-bite chief complaints per emergency department visit, not all tick bites, or even tick bites at doctors’ offices. Only people who were so scared of a tick bite that they went to the emergency room, as opposed to a doctor’s office. That just reeks of fear porn driving this epidemic of tick bite-related ER visits.

    Those are not the same thing.…….”

    https://www.malone.news/p/are-we-measuring-ticks-or-measuring

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  28. Troublemaker10

    June 11, 2026 1:54 pm

    Donald J. Trump
    @realDonaldTrump

    Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved, I have, as President of the United States of America, cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening. Discussions and final points have been, in both concept and great detail, approved by all parties involved, including the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, and others. The Naval Blockade will remain in full force and effect until this Transaction is finalized — Time and place of the signing to be announced shortly.

    DONALD J. TRUMP
    PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

    6/11/26, 1:28 PM

    https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116732652997120164

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  29. TBH, I’m getting tired of this back & forth BS!!! NO MORE COMPROMISES!!!!

    “Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved, I have, as President of the United States of America, cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening. Discussions and final points have been, in both concept and great detail, approved by all parties involved, including the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, and others. The Naval Blockade will remain in full force and effect until this Transaction is finalized — Time and place of the signing to be announced shortly.” DONALD J. TRUMP PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

    https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116732652997120164

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  30. M.A. Rothman
    @MichaelARothman
    𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐃𝐎𝐆𝐄: 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒𝐎𝐌 𝐅𝐔𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐃 $𝟑𝟕𝟎 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐀𝐁𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐀𝐗 𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐘 𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐇 𝐓𝐎 𝐀 𝐃𝐄𝐌 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐌𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐄

    California voters passed Proposition 64 in 2016, legalizing cannabis and directing a portion venue to youth substance abuse prevention. What happened to $370 million of those funds since 2019? CalDoge — the California government accountability project — just released its first investigation, and the answer is: almost none of it went to substance abuse prevention.

    The money flowed through Elevate Youth, a financial intermediary under the Center at Sierra Health Foundation, which received the $370 million and distributed it through over 500 micro-grants averaging $700,000 each. 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐃𝐨𝐠𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭. Here is where California taxpayer money went:

    $1 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 “𝘤𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘤 𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵” 𝘢𝘯𝘥 “𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨” — 𝘻𝘦𝘳𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. $1 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘑𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘢 𝘔𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 — 𝘻𝘦𝘳𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. $800,000 𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘨𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘎𝘉𝘛𝘘+ 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 — 𝘻𝘦𝘳𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.

    While Newsom was denying funding requests for a new jail in Shasta County, money to rebuild Palisades neighborhoods after the historic fires, and resources for local schools, police, and firefighters, 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 — his words — to organizations that exist to build the Democrat voter machine.

    The organization running this operation isn’t doing it for free. The CEO of the Center at Sierra Health Foundation makes over $600,000 a year. His compensation has increased by 50 percent since this program started. They collect millions in administrative fees to manage programs that, per CalDoge, do nothing resembling the Proposition 64 mandate. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐄𝐎’𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧.

    𝐆𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐱 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐭. CalDoge found it in weeks, with volunteers, for free. Sixteen years of one-party rule and not one elected official in Sacramento touched it.

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  31. never heard of him.

    Eric Daugherty
    @EricLDaugh
    https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f6a8.svg JUST IN: President Trump nominates JAY CLAYTON for Director of National Intelligence after Bill Pulte was chosen as Acting DNI

    “I am pleased to announce the Nomination of very Highly Respected Jay Clayton, former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the former well, one of the most prominent and successful Law Firms anywhere in the World, and the current United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to be the next Director of National Intelligence and, importantly, to serve in my Cabinet.”

    “Few people anywhere in the Legal Community are respected at the level of Jay. I encourage the United States Senate to confirm Jay as soon as possible. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP” 

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  32. It’s Those Damn Monkeys Again….

    Bet She Broke A Rib…

    The Stupid Express..

    Ok, Enough Of That..

    What Was In That Tea Anyways?

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  40. it’s starting…

    I Meme Therefore I Am https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f1fa-1f1f8.svg
    @ImMeme0
    Black man in Florida filmed himself in an anti-white, racially motivated attack, “down to 4 crackers na free karmelo” by punching a veteran in the head, all for internet fame. He told the veteran he was going to die after mockingly accusing him of serving on the jury that ny. 

    This thug needs to be identified and charged with a racially motivated assault.

    Black man in Florida filmed himself in an anti-white, racially motivated attack, “down to 4 crackers na free karmelo” by punching a veteran in the head, all for internet fame. He told the veteran he was going to die after mockingly accusing him of serving on the jury that… pic.twitter.com/Sh7vmYT6ly

    — I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) June 10, 2026

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  41. Images from the National Mall show the numbers “8647” appearing in dead or discolored grass east of the World War II Memorial. The markings stretch across a large section of the Mall and are clearly visible from a distance. U.S. Park Police are investigating the incident. The numbers are emerging just days before the area near the National Mall will be full of fans for a UFC match on Trump’s birthday on Sunday. Maybe sod will work.

    https://www.independentsentinel.com/disgusting-vandals-carve-86-47-in-the-national-mall-grass/

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