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Every time I simply describe these events we have witnessed in my own words I'm stunned by how obvious and blatant the corruption we are witnessing has become.
The Deputy Attorney General doesn't go and meet with convicted child traffickers normally. That alone requires an explanation that no one in the Trump administration has given us.
Why did he meet with her? What was said? The public has a right to know.
Granted I don't think that Maxwell is trustworthy. She is in prison and wants a pardon from the president. So she isn't a good person to ask for honest information about that same president.
She could lie in hopes of getting a pardon.
Nonetheless they said, in the name of transparency they would share those tapes.
But now everyone has forgotten about that. Another broken promise.
A week ago we heard that the tape of the mysterious and irregular meeting between the the Deputy Attorney General of the entire United States, Todd Blanche (who is also the former personal lawyer of the president) and Maxwell, Jeffery Epstein's accomplice might be released.
And now? Crickets. Where is that tape.
The one where she says "Trump did nothing wrong."
Just like with the Epstein files themselves. "we will release it" then they don't.
That is worth at least six or seven in the bush IMO.
I enjoy how the second photo shows us the "shriking" in action. The indignation! Magnificent bird.
Totally agree. I do think, however, that mild symptoms of urban disorder can make less politically tuned in people susceptible to this kind of propaganda.
Which is why now is a great time for mayors of big cities to put a little focus on sanitation. The right talks about sanitation a lot in connection with this issue as if persecuting people will make the trash go away.
But we could actually make cities cleaner and everyone would like it.
Why are we talking about crime in cities where there isn't any extraordinary crime when the CDC was shot up with 100s of bullets killing a police officer and state politicians have been assassinated?
There *is* a crime problem. It's right wing political violence.
Some cats have the sweetest little meows. Or melodic trills.
Then there is #PicaTheCat
*cemetery gate noises*
The very best craftmanship you will ever encounter is always the work of some person who doesn't charge enough, and then they decide to go spend some time in the woods and you can never find them again.
Or did you?
Not at all.
I wrote a letter for my congressmen Ritchie Torres. I will deliver it in person later and I have some things to say to him that I don't want to put in writing. Frankly, I think we may need to find a new rep. but it seems responsible to do this. Feel free to use bits of this if it is helpful. I'm still pushing the "money out of politics" thing because I don't see how they can say no to it.
It's the floor. The minimum.
When I was but a tween girl in Ohio I used to do a lot of auditions, there's a kind of culture around that, kids just wanting to get into show business. Well. There was this VERY infamous "teen beauty" contest that I remember the local theatre people taking the time to warn us all NOT to try out for even though it was in with all of the other listings.
Being a child no one said directly exactly why, but even at that age I could infer things.
That guy who ran Victoria's Secret? I just realized *that* was connected. And that nothing came of any of it.
*angry old lady noises*
Probolomyrmex longinodus are a species of ant that nests in snail shells filled with soil. The entire genus is cryptic. Alex Wild has one of the few photos of a living ant:
is an extremely rare proceratiine genus found in tropical regions around the world. Most species are eyeless and blind, perhaps inhabiting deep soil, but little is known about their biology. The photographs below may be the only ever taken of a living example.
(www.alexanderwild.com)
They are eyeless, and live in leaf litter, or in the previously mentioned shells.
Hard to study, hard to find, tricky to ID when you do find them. Absolute legends. Ants with secrets. #ants #rareAnt
Creatures with scientific names that betray how frustrated the scientists got trying to sort out their taxonomy.
Probolomyrmex (multiple species)
Camponotus confusus
There have to be more of these. I'd love to know the full story behind the names. Really there is a place in the world for a book that just goes into interesting taxonomic controversies and frustrations.
Have you encountered any scientific names that hint at someone pulling out their hair?
This is absolutely wild. Two populations of ants (Cataglyphis hispanica) in the deserts of Spain, the same species but separate genetic lineages. All workers are hybrids of both populations but in both cases, through social hybridogenesis the reproductive queens and males are only of one lineage or the other.
Queens of both species must mate out to produce workers (hybrids) but the workers never in turn reproduce.
They show it's been like this for a long long time!
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2013.2396
I just realized that Messor barbarus can't sting. And now I need to rethink something I thought was obvious about seed collecting ants.
Pogonomyrmex and Veromessor (the genuses of harvester ants we have in the Americas) can sting.
It seems that much like "Army Ants" the group "harvester ants" isn't as cohesive as I thought.
That said... they are somewhat related, both practice social hybridogenesis.
I'm stunned. Ants shock me every single day! They can't keep getting away with this!
