Now let's talk about the 'real' issues.
🦋 As you know, moths are quite insidious insects, they eat your carpets and clothes, and they also denude trees. How dangerous is the "gypsy moth"? Well, apparently the problem lies not in the moth itself, but in its name.
Recently, the Entomological Society has launched a project "Improving Common Names" for insects (apparently, these are bosom buddies of those who decided to rename birds). Now, they call the "gypsy moth" an ethnic insult.
🧐 But did they even ask the gypsies themselves whether this name is actually insulting to them?
🦋 As you know, moths are quite insidious insects, they eat your carpets and clothes, and they also denude trees. How dangerous is the "gypsy moth"? Well, apparently the problem lies not in the moth itself, but in its name.
Recently, the Entomological Society has launched a project "Improving Common Names" for insects (apparently, these are bosom buddies of those who decided to rename birds). Now, they call the "gypsy moth" an ethnic insult.
🧐 But did they even ask the gypsies themselves whether this name is actually insulting to them?
Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters said on this week’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures” that if Democrats win the 2022 midterm elections, then “we lose the country forever.”
🗣 “Everything is at stake here in this 2022 and 2024 election. I really think, if Republicans don’t win these elections, we lose the country forever, because if you look around, the left and the Democrats, they have taken control of almost every major institution in our country.” said Blake Masters.
Are the Democrats in control of everything that much?
🗣 “Everything is at stake here in this 2022 and 2024 election. I really think, if Republicans don’t win these elections, we lose the country forever, because if you look around, the left and the Democrats, they have taken control of almost every major institution in our country.” said Blake Masters.
Are the Democrats in control of everything that much?
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🏊♂️ A California man was caught on a home surveillance video taking a dip in a family’s pool before breaking into their house while a mother and her two teenage children were upstairs.
Is the burglar's insolence going to the next level?
Is the burglar's insolence going to the next level?
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👮♂️ Two men have been shot dead in a shooting that occurred in the northwestern part of Washington, DC on Sunday afternoon.
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, the two men shot were taken to a local hospital before they were pronounced dead
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, the two men shot were taken to a local hospital before they were pronounced dead
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🇺🇸 The newly-appointed US Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs Bonnie Jenkins says she is “eager to get to work.” US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will lead the US delegation at nuclear arms control talks with Russia in Geneva on July 28 - the delegation will also include Jenkins.
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🇧🇾 🇺🇸 Former Belarusian opposition presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya continues her visit to the US. She told her supporters in New York on Sunday that she expected Washington to heed her advice and introduce sectoral sanctions against Minsk.
🌊 Reza Baluchi of Central Florida told that he was attempting to go from Florida to Bermuda in his floating "bubble" craft, or sail north up the coast to New York, to collect money for charity.
Yet another Florida man decided to do something amazing... and failed. A man washed up inside a bubble-like craft after an apparent effort to walk, or more likely run, on water
Yet another Florida man decided to do something amazing... and failed. A man washed up inside a bubble-like craft after an apparent effort to walk, or more likely run, on water
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🇺🇸 Pentagon press secretary John Kirby posted a video of a mid-flight refueling of the Boeing E-4B strategic command and control military aircraft.
Kirby’s tweet came right after a source in the military-industrial complex told Sputnik that Russia is developing a new airborne command and control aircraft, to replace the Ilyushin Il-80, which is meant to be used as an airborne command center in the event of a nuclear war.
Kirby’s tweet came right after a source in the military-industrial complex told Sputnik that Russia is developing a new airborne command and control aircraft, to replace the Ilyushin Il-80, which is meant to be used as an airborne command center in the event of a nuclear war.
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A shocking case of robbery has happened in NYC: a black mugger knocked a 68-year-old white man off his bike, punched and kicked him multiple times, breaking his wrist and nose. The assailant reportedly stole a cellphone and a silver necklace.
"Defund the police'' they say...
"Defund the police'' they say...
#URGENT | US tech giants aim to target manifestos and militias in database
✈️The incident occurred at San Francisco International Airport – officials evacuated passengers from a United Airlines flight to Orlando and forced them to go through a second security screening after a teenager sent a photo of a realistic-looking toy gun via Airdrop to other passengers on the plane.
According to airport officials, the photo was taken at an earlier date, and although the teen did not have the gun on him, he was not allowed to get back on the flight.
According to airport officials, the photo was taken at an earlier date, and although the teen did not have the gun on him, he was not allowed to get back on the flight.
🧐Republican lawmakers are insisting the GOP leadership punish Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for accepting Nancy Pelosi’s invitation to serve on the 6 January investigating committee, while the house speaker rejected two other Republican candidates for the panel whose views apparently didn’t fit her agenda.
💉New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Monday that all government workers must be vaccinated or face weekly coronavirus tests. The measure applies to about 340,000 city workers, including teachers and police officers.
"The Delta variant is deadly and this city is taking it seriously. Today, I’m announcing that every city government employee will be required to provide proof of vaccination or submit a weekly COVID test," de Blasio tweeted, while also making the announcement on TV.
"The Delta variant is deadly and this city is taking it seriously. Today, I’m announcing that every city government employee will be required to provide proof of vaccination or submit a weekly COVID test," de Blasio tweeted, while also making the announcement on TV.
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Protesters rally near the White House in Washington in solidarity with Cuba and calling on US President Biden to do more to help the island nation.
🇮🇶 During a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, US President Joe Biden said the US military combat role in Iraq would stop by the end of the year and that American forces would focus on training and assisting Iraqi security forces and helping to deal with the Islamic State terror group.
"Our role in Iraq will be...to be available to continue to train, to assist, to help and to deal with ISIS as it arrives, but we're not going to be, by the end of the year, in a combat mission," Biden said during a meeting with al Kadhimi at the White House.
"Our role in Iraq will be...to be available to continue to train, to assist, to help and to deal with ISIS as it arrives, but we're not going to be, by the end of the year, in a combat mission," Biden said during a meeting with al Kadhimi at the White House.
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🇮🇶 During a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, US President Joe Biden said the US military combat role in Iraq would stop by the end of the year and that American forces would focus on training and assisting Iraqi security forces and helping…
❗️ All US combat forces to leave Iraq by December 31