Son shoots father in stomach after argument over weed eater in Pennsylvania https://www.aol.com/son-shoots-father-stomach-argument-164359696.html
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The most dramatic voter for the Swifties is in jail. That’s Colette Harmsen, who put her body in front of the machines destroying Swift parrot nesting trees in Tasmania. PM @albomp who authorises those machines, can’t have voted for them. Bob Brown
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Very good news for Ukraine! 🇺🇦
Denmark🇩🇰 and Czechia🇨🇿 has made a deal, where Denmark will pay for Czechian production of weapons to Ukraine.
The first delivery will contain
— 2500 pistols
— 7000 rifles
— 500 light machine guns
— 500 heavy machine guns
— 500 sniper rifles
— 280 recoilless guns
— 7000 anti-tank weapons
— 10000 hand grenades
— 60 mortar systems
— 50 infantry fighting vehicles and tanks
— Anti-drone systems
— Electronic warfare equipment
— Large calibre ammunition
Cremation DID provide some metaphorically comic relief after one grandmother’s memorial service. She’d been a controlling woman who rather dominated my father and uncle. And when they went out to scatter her ashes at the end of a Cape Cod jetty, the wind suddenly shifted and—true to form—there she was all over them in her final act of refusing to leave them alone.
Rudolph Isley dead: Isley Brothers founding member dies at 84 https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/10/12/rudolph-isley-obituary-isley-brothers/71157566007/
@gwynnion
You cannot co-exist with an enemy who doesn’t believe you have a right to exist.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/hamas-covenant-israel-attack-war-genocide/675602/#:~:text=This%20Covenant%20of%20the%20Islamic,very%20great%20and%20very%20serious%20%E2%80%A6
I've seen it so often, but it still bemuses me. Why do people blame the Democrats for the Republicans' bad behavior? Why don't they blame the Republicans for their bad behavior?
The Democrats are NOT the Republicans parents. You can't blame the Dems when the GOP acts up.
Republicans are responsible for their own behavior. And they should be treated that way.
Trump tells court he had no duty to 'support' the Constitution as president - Raw Story https://www.rawstory.com/trump-wont-support-constitution/
"Migrants are poisoning the blood of America."
- Donald Trump
Let that direct quote sink in. That quote is from the most popular Republican in the United States.
This should terrify the Hell out of you!
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"Global economic losses could reach $5 trillion under a "plausible increase" in extreme weather events linked to climate change that cause crop failures and food and water shortages, insurance marketplace Lloyd's of London said on Wednesday... #climate #weather #ExtremeWeather #insurance
Louisiana public school punishes 17-year-old for dancing at a party - https://boingboing.net/2023/10/10/louisiana-public-school-punishes-17-year-old-for-dancing-at-a-party.html "told by the school's principlal, Jason St. Pierre, that she wasn't "living in the Lord's way." " sounds pretty boring, this Lord person...
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