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2021-11-11 at 6:10 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!One minute eighteen seconds.
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2021-11-11 at 4:36 PM UTC in Who Wants To Go Fishing With Jiggle Booty?The Washington Post
London’s River Thames, now home to sharks, seals and sea horses, is no longer ‘biologically dead’
Amy Cheng
Some 60 years ago, parts of the River Thames were declared biologically dead. But the famous waterway that cuts through London has been revived and is now home to hundreds of wildlife species, such as sea horses and sharks.
After decades of cleanup efforts, the River Thames is now home to hundreds of animal species.
The latest State of the Thames report, released by the Zoological Society of London on Wednesday, found that cleanup efforts over recent decades have brought down levels of chemicals such as phosphorus and conserved salt marshes for birds and fish, making the river “home to myriad wildlife as diverse as London itself.”
The report also highlighted many challenges the Thames faces, including rising water temperatures and sea levels due to climate change. For instance, summer temperatures in parts of the river have increased an average of 0.19 degrees Celsius (0.34 degrees Fahrenheit) each year since 2007, researchers found. Even slight alterations in seasonal heat may upset the river’s ecosystem and erode living habitats.
The researchers also found elevated nitrate concentration that threatens water quality. Much of London’s drinking water comes from the river.
Among modern cities, the Thames hasn’t always been a model for successful environmental protection. It became heavily polluted during the Industrial Revolution as toxic runoffs from tanneries and human waste found their way to the river. The “Great Stink” of 1858, caused in part by human sewage flowing into the Thames, forced the British Parliament to build better wastewater disposal systems.
But even in 1959, oxygen levels in the Thames had dropped so low that the British Natural History Museum declared it biologically incapable of sustaining marine life. At around this time, authorities began investing in better sewage treatment facilities and better monitoring key environmental indicators, sparking a turnaround.
The Thames may be free of much toxic waste these days, but it has one of the higher concentrations of microplastics in the world, reportedly ahead of other urban waterways such as the Chicago River and the Danube in Europe, according to a study from British scientists last year.
These tiny fragments of plastic, mostly broken off from larger pieces of trash, could be ingested by animals, posing “potential physiological and toxicological threats,” the Zoological Society report warned. Rivers carrying plastic waste are the most common way for the pollutant to enter the world’s oceans, which puts even more wildlife in danger.
As environmental consciousness grows and people are increasingly drawn again to riverside urban living, many other cities in recent decades have tried to clean up their waterways. New York’s picturesque Hudson River was contaminated for decades by a now-banned chemical coolant called PCB that neighboring General Electric plants dumped into its streams. It was only in the early 21st century that the U.S. government ordered the conglomerate to dredge the river.
Meanwhile, Washington’s Anacostia River recently received a passing grade for the third time in the past four years, with a local environmental organization saying the water is on its way to being “swimmable and fishable.” The District has poured money into projects such as building a $2.7-billion tunnel network to prevent waste from overflowing in the city’s river system.
So...who wants to join Jiggles to try and catch a PCB/nitrate mud shark?
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2021-11-11 at 3:30 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sMay
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Go call Rump
A L-O-S-E-R
Business Insider
John Bolton predicted Trump won't run for president again in 2024 because he fears being known as a loser if it doesn't work out
tcolson@businessinsider.com (Thomas Colson)
Trump's former national security advisor said the former president wouldn't run in 2024.
He said Trump would continue teasing the prospect of a run to keep attention on himself.
But he made a 'firm prediction' that Trump wouldn't actually run, for fear of losing.
John Bolton, the former national security advisor to Donald Trump, predicted that the former president wouldn't run for office in 2024 because he fears being known as a loser.
Bolton said Wednesday that he believed Trump would continue to tease the prospect of a run but would not ultimately seek the Republican nomination.
"I don't think Trump will run for the presidency in 2024," Bolton told Robert Peston, an anchor on Britain's ITV network.
"I think he knows deep inside, although he will never admit it, he did lose in 2020 and very much fears losing in 2024 because if he hates anything in the world, he hates being called a loser."
Bolton added later: "I think he will talk about running incessantly until the very last moment because if he were ever to say he was not going to be a candidate, it would turn the spotlight off, and he doesn't like that either."
Trump has repeatedly indicated that he is considering another run for office in 2024, and he still commands huge influence over the Republican Party.
He has continued to raise millions of dollars a year from supporters for his political future despite having made no formal declaration that he intends to run, CNN reported.
Trump sacked Bolton as his national security advisor in September 2019 after a 17-month tenure, and Bolton has been highly critical of him since, including in his book "The Room Where It Happened."
Bolton's book, published last year, included claims that Trump had little grasp of foreign-policy issues and had pleaded with Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him with the 2020 election.
Trump called Bolton's book "a compilation of lies and made up stories, all intended to make me look bad," and subsequently called him "one of the dumbest people in Washington." -
2021-11-11 at 6:42 AM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sJudge rejects another Trump attempt to slow down documents from going to House January 6 committee
By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice
A federal judge on Wednesday night said she would not help former President Donald Trump as he attempts to buy time in his argument to keep secret records from his presidency, pointing him instead to an appeals court to seek help.
Judge Tanya Chutkan's latest decision comes a day after she ruled against Trump in a historic case regarding access to records from his presidency sought by the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
Trump, the judge said, cannot "do an end run around" her decisions to try to win the case by forcing a delay, just because he's appealing.
Chutkan has stood by her decision that documents from Trump's presidency should be given to the House panel. She also found that Trump, as a former President, cannot claim the documents are covered by executive privilege, when the current President supports their release.
With the National Archives set to send records to the House on Friday, Trump is scrambling in court for even a temporary hold.
Chutkan declined to grant the pause, dealing the former President his second loss in two days. That means Trump will now need to ask an appeals court for emergency help to keep the documents secret while he pursues appeals.
Neither of the rulings from the federal district judge so far "triggers the harm he alleges because the Archivist will not submit the requested records to the Select Committee until November 12, 2021, and Plaintiff can seek appellate relief in the interim," Chutkan wrote Wednesday night. "This court will not effectively ignore its own reasoning in denying injunctive relief in the first place to grant injunctive relief now."
Trump has not yet asked the DC Circuit Court of Appeals for help, though he has begun the appeals process.
Short of a court order, the Archives will turn over more than 40 pages on Friday related to January 6, including White House visitor and call logs and three handwritten memos from the files of ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
In all, Trump is looking to hold off the Archives from giving the House hundreds more pages later in November, as the House pushes to speak to close advisers in his White House under subpoena.
The Biden administration and the House select committee have opposed delays Trump is lobbying for in court.
The House committee wrote on Wednesday that it needs the Trump White House records quickly so it can continue investigating the attack on Congress.
"The potential harm to the public is immense: Our democratic institutions and a core feature of our democracy — the peaceful transfer of power — are at stake. Any delay will seriously hinder the Select Committee's ability to timely complete a comprehensive investigation and recommend effective remedial legislation," the committee wrote.
In another filing to Chutkan, the Biden administration said Trump, as the former President, "has no personal interest in the records," and that the Biden White House's decision to allow these presidential records to go to Congress should stand.
"The public interest weighs heavily in favor of furthering the Government's business in a prompt and full investigation of the events of January 6," administration lawyers wrote. -
2021-11-11 at 12:20 AM UTC in Biden Molests His Own Daughter.I ain't watching that.
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2021-11-11 at 12:18 AM UTC in I'm going to Zoom with my female psychiatrist while laying nude in bed.....DTE is too stupid to quit fucking with me.
Filthy whore. -
2021-11-11 at 12:16 AM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sMay they
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Give
A great big "FUCK YOU" to Rump
Federal Judge Refuses Trump Request to Block Jan. 6 Records
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said that President Joe Biden had the authority to waive executive privilege over the documents despite Trump’s assertions otherwise.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to block the release of documents to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
In denying a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said Tuesday that Congress had a strong public interest in obtaining records that could shed light on a violent insurrection mounted by the former president’s supporters. She added that President Joe Biden had the authority to waive executive privilege over the documents despite Trump’s assertions otherwise.
Barring a court order, the National Archives plans to turn over Trump’s records to the committee by Friday. But Trump’s lawyers swiftly promised an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The case probably will eventually head to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“At bottom, this is a dispute between a former and incumbent President,” Chutkan wrote. “And the Supreme Court has already made clear that in such circumstances, the incumbent’s view is accorded greater weight.”
Trump “does not acknowledge the deference owed” to Biden’s judgment as the current president, Chutkan said. She noted examples of past presidents declining to assert executive privilege and rejected what she said was Trump’s claim that executive privilege “exists in perpetuity.”
“Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President,” she said.
According to an earlier court filing from the archives, the records include call logs, drafts of remarks and speeches and handwritten notes from Trump’s then-chief of staff, Mark Meadows. There are also copies of talking points from then-press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and “a draft Executive Order on the topic of election integrity,” the National Archives has said.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., who leads the House committee, said in a statement after the ruling that the records are crucial for understanding the attack and “in my view, there couldn’t be a more compelling public interest than getting answers about an attack on our democracy.”
On CNN, Thompson said Trump should stop behaving like a “spoiled brat.”
The nine-member committee is investigating not just Trump’s conduct on Jan. 6 — when he told a rally to “fight like hell” shortly before rioters overran law enforcement — but his efforts in the months before the riot to challenge election results or obstruct a peaceful transfer of power. The committee has interviewed more than 150 witnesses and issued more than 30 subpoenas, including ones announced Tuesday to McEnany and former top White House adviser Stephen Miller. It is unclear whether the lawmakers will eventually seek to have Trump testify.
Trump has attacked the committee’s work and continued to promote unfounded conspiracy theories about widespread fraud in the election, despite the fact that Biden’s victory was certified by all 50 states and his claims have been rebuked by courts across the country.
In suing to block the National Archives from turning over documents, Trump called the House committee’s request a “vexatious, illegal fishing expedition” that was “untethered from any legitimate legislative purpose.” Allowing the House to get access to his records would also damage executive privilege for future presidents, Trump’s lawyers argued.
But Chutkan said the “the public interest lies in permitting — not enjoining — the combined will of the legislative and executive branches to study the events that led to and occurred on January 6, and to consider legislation to prevent such events from ever occurring again.”
Trump spokesperson Taylor Budowich tweeted late Tuesday that the case “was destined to be decided by the Appellate Courts.” He added that “Trump remains committed to defending the Constitution & the Office of the Presidency, & will be seeing this process through.”
The White House said Chutkan’s opinion “is consistent with what the President has already said” about the riot. “It is absolutely vital for there to be a full accounting of the events on that day to ensure that something like that never happens again,” spokesman Mike Gwin said. -
2021-11-11 at 12:05 AM UTC in I'm going to Zoom with my female psychiatrist while laying nude in bed.....Shut your pie hole, fat whore.
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2021-11-11 at 12:01 AM UTC in I am going insaneGoing?
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2021-11-10 at 11:59 PM UTC in Biden Molests His Own Daughter.Find a gay forum for someone to fact check that.
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2021-11-10 at 11:58 PM UTC in I'm going to Zoom with my female psychiatrist while laying nude in bed.....How do you expect any serious head shrinking to occur when your shrink can't stop laughing?
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2021-11-10 at 11:54 PM UTC in Biden Molests His Own Daughter.
Originally posted by Donald Trump I don't know why some people don't appreciate fact checking on social media. I've been helping Lanny with the fact checking functionality on this site, which will be rolled out soon. It's going to be great, and will make sure everyone is a lot more careful with what they post. In case you are wondering, yes, there will be automatic 4 hour bans for posting something found untrue by the factcheckers.
Tech and I will have the place to ourselves. -
2021-11-10 at 11:52 PM UTC in Biden Molests His Own Daughter.
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2021-11-10 at 7:38 PM UTC in Biden Molests His Own Daughter.You all are totally insane if you don't remember what a shit show Rump was.
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2021-11-10 at 6:58 PM UTC in Biden Molests His Own Daughter.Jiggles only murders his own children.
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2021-11-10 at 6:56 PM UTC in Did Jiggle Booty Get His Booty Trampled Over The Weekend And Die?Were you afraid you got the Covid at that crowded rap concert over the weekend?
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2021-11-10 at 6:03 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!I assume you mean "THE TRUTH".
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2021-11-10 at 6:02 PM UTC in Biden Molests His Own Daughter.
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2021-11-10 at 5:32 PM UTC in Biden Molests His Own Daughter.You all are some sick dogs.
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2021-11-10 at 5:27 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!
