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gtyellowjacket
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From an evolutionary standpoint, homo sapiens have been doing the exact opposite of fecking things up.
Despite our wars and pollution and generally making some less than optimal evolutionary choices, we went from zero to 8 billion in 300,000 years. Top that gallus domesticus. You may have us beat in sheer numbers but only because you are tasty. We can fry you and put you in a bucket if you ever get out of line.
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Such an accomplishment! Go sapiens! 8+ billion ... woohoo, we're fucking everywhere!
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That seems sort of a narrow definition to say that we were successful because we breed well.
gtyellowjacket
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Yeah. I guess it can be defined in many ways.
He's got a point. We'd be a massive skin irritant like athlete's foot without our technology to poison everything. Once global warming crashes that, Mother Nature can breathe a sigh of relief.
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Swain County is in the news today
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Only if they were underage!
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It's caused quite a stir up here in the mountains, for sure
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Well, America shows its stupid again.
www.theguardian.com
Firefighters ambushed by gunman in Idaho while responding to brush fire
Shelter-in-place alert sent to Coeur d’Alene residents after multiple people were shot at while controlling fire
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Is that Zen in the picture?
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The Trump administration is building a national citizenship system
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“The Trump administration has built a searchable national citizenship data system. The tool is designed to be used by state and local election officials to ensure only citizens are voting. But it was developed rapidly without a public process, and some of those officials are already worrying about what else it could be used for.”
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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirements, experts say.
“In 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she supplemented her income by secretly accepting a cut of the money she raised for a nonprofit that promotes her political career, tax records show.
In what experts described as a highly unusual arrangement, the nonprofit routed funds to a personal company of Noem’s that had recently been established in Delaware. The payment totaled $80,000 that year, a significant boost to her roughly $130,000 government salary. Since the nonprofit is a so-called dark money group — one that’s not required to disclose the names of its donors — the original source of the money remains unknown.
Noem then failed to disclose the $80,000 payment to the public. After President Donald Trump selected Noem to be his secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, she had to release a detailed accounting of her assets and sources of income from 2023 on. She did not include the income from the dark money group on her disclosure form, which experts called a likely violation of federal ethics requirements.…”
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Gift —> https://wapo.st/4ev2SzJ
“…At a moment when the Trump administration is scrubbing prominent Black historic figures from U.S. government websites and condemning Smithsonian exhibits on race as “divisive ideology,” the Edenton statue drama — community activism, followed by a resurgence of the old order — seems to embody the nation’s pivot from the reckonings of 2020 that were prompted by the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
… On a recent sunny Saturday, Ron Toppin, 80, and two helpers set up a canopy over tables neatly lined with trays of Confederate information sheets and hit the sidewalk two hours before their opponents arrived.
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Trump’s election “made the country a whole lot better,” said Toppin, whose late wife used to organize the informational materials for the group and who said his great-great-grandfather was a rebel soldier captured by the Union in 1863. “We’ve got America back.”
Mike Dean, commander of the Edenton Bell Battery of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, roared up on his Harley — dubbed “Traveller” after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s horse — and took command of the outpost. When a few protesters began marching up the sidewalk, Dean gestured to a woman walking by with a sign that read “Remove this statue.”
“Understand,” Dean said, “these are Marxists. Marxists want to destroy history.”…”
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Thanks for sharing the gift link, as I cancelled my subscription to the WP several months ago. This article is of particular interest to me as my dad is from Edenton and apparently my great-great grandfather played a prominent role in getting that statue erected in its original spot. His involvement is mentioned in the lawsuit filed by the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, which was filed by one of my former law partners who is still connected with our firm.
Gift —> https://wapo.st/4ev2SzJ
“…At a moment when the Trump administration is scrubbing prominent Black historic figures from U.S. government websites and condemning Smithsonian exhibits on race as “divisive ideology,” the Edenton statue drama — community activism, followed by a resurgence of the old order — seems to embody the nation’s pivot from the reckonings of 2020 that were prompted by the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
… On a recent sunny Saturday, Ron Toppin, 80, and two helpers set up a canopy over tables neatly lined with trays of Confederate information sheets and hit the sidewalk two hours before their opponents arrived.
…
Trump’s election “made the country a whole lot better,” said Toppin, whose late wife used to organize the informational materials for the group and who said his great-great-grandfather was a rebel soldier captured by the Union in 1863. “We’ve got America back.”
Mike Dean, commander of the Edenton Bell Battery of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, roared up on his Harley — dubbed “Traveller” after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s horse — and took command of the outpost. When a few protesters began marching up the sidewalk, Dean gestured to a woman walking by with a sign that read “Remove this statue.”
“Understand,” Dean said, “these are Marxists. Marxists want to destroy history.”…”
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