Friday noon was last i saw but….2 moar weeks
say it gets released Friday
begin the pope death rollout
ties up news for 2 moar weeks is how it works
BREAKING: Romania's rightful* President ARRESTED! ALL his supporters RAIDED!
https://x.com/_/status/1894711809459839119
[link to x.com (secure)]
EXCLUSIVE: ROMANIA'S RIGHTFUL* PRESIDENT ARRSTED!
Below is a video I just received from Calin Georgescu's team showing him getting arrested, 2.5 hours before our second interview, and less than an hour after our call.
This comes after his supporters were all raided, less than 2 weeks after my interview with him.
DEMOCRACY IS UNDER ATTACK IN THE EU!
Remember what former EU Commissioner Bretton said a few weeks ago: ‘What Was Done In Romania May Be Needed In Germany’
@elonmusk
: "How can a judge cancel an election and not be considered a dictator?"
@JDvance
: “You don’t have common values if you cancel elections because you don’t like the result”
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When I say “rightful”, I mean that he should have been President, but is not technically president—just making this clear so Romanian authorities don’t try to arrest me as they have with others today.
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1894704912887656695
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1894704912887656695
https://x.com/dacianromulus/status/1894713081793597658
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/02/26/romanian-political-crisis-deepens-presidential-candidate-calin-georgescu-arrested-amid-election-turmoil/
Utah set to become first state to ban fluoride in public water
A bill awaiting the governor's signature would prohibit adding fluoride to public water systems.
Utah is gearing up to make history as the first state to ban fluoride in public water systems if Gov. Spencer Cox signs a bill to prohibit the addition of the tooth decay-fighting mineral.
If signed into law, HB0081 would prevent any individual or political subdivision from adding fluoride "to water in or intended for public water systems."
Cox, a Republican, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
"The bill also repeals previous laws related to fluoridated water provisions, including sections about providing fluoridated water upon resident request and under emergency circumstances," the bill summary reads.
This bill, introduced last month and passed out of the state legislature on Friday, comes as the new federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has openly criticized use of the mineral. He linked fluoride to various illnesses, despite major medical associations supporting water fluoridation.
A report published recently in JAMA Pediatrics found a statistically significant association between higher fluoride exposure and lower children’s IQ scores — but the researchers did not suggest that fluoride should be removed from drinking water.
According to the report's authors, most of the 74 studies they reviewed were low-quality and done in countries other than the United States, such as China, where fluoride levels tend to be much higher, the researchers noted.
An Australian study published last year found no link between early childhood exposure to fluoride and negative cognitive neurodevelopment. Researchers actually found a slightly higher IQ in kids who consistently drank fluoridated water. The levels in Australia are consistent with U.S. recommendations.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/utah-set-become-first-state-ban-fluoride-public-water-rcna193651
f'n brown and root…no way
welcome to Alabama ELON
Elon Musk claims DOGE is saving $5.2 million on Alabama federal buildings:
Here are the properties
Published: Feb. 26, 2025, 11:12 a.m.
By
Heather Gann | hgann@al.com
America’s newest federal agency, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), claims on its website that it has saved Alabama taxpayers over $5 million from closing/reworking half a dozen federal offices in the state.
It further claims that it has saved taxpayers $55 billion nationally since its creation.
But some say the department could be vastly overestimating these amounts.
According to the DOGE website, it has cut spending at six federal offices in the state so far this year.
https://doge.gov/savings
Those are:
National Labor Relations Board, Birmingham, moved to federal space
Annual lease cost: $101,211
Total savings: $227,725
Corps of Civil Engineers, Mobile, terminated lease
Annual lease cost: $722,044
Total savings: $3,610,220 over five years
Social Security Administration, Anniston, closed office
Annual lease cost: $304,228
Total savings: $608,457 over two years
Social Security Administration, Cullman, closed office
Annual lease cost: $180,784
Total savings: $512,221
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Mobile, closed office
Annual lease cost: $112,596
Total savings: $243,958
Social Security Administration, Gadsden, closed office
Annual lease cost: $32,357
Total savings: $67,410
The list also includes the closure of Jasper’s social security administration office but lists the total savings at $0.
The annual cost to lease the office is $186,411, according to the site.
In addition to closing entire offices, DOGE also recently cut at least 100 federal employees who work in the state.
U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala. said Tuesday that her office “received reports that more than 100 of my constituents who work at the Social Security Administration in Birmingham have been unjustly terminated,” in a post to X.
She later clarified that the American Federation of Government Employees the union representing federal workers told her the cuts affected “Social Security Region 4, which covers several states including Alabama.”
While DOGE cuts have already started to impact the state’s workforce, there has been trouble verifying the validity of the department’s savings claims.
Dustin Gautney, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District told AL.com previously that without an address, the Corps’ real estate division is unable to pinpoint what lease is referenced.
Gautney later reached out to clarify that the Corps did not say DOGE didn’t terminate a lease of which it may have been the initial leasing agent.
“We just cannot confirm or deny based on the data provided,” he said.
The Corps of Engineers Mobile District manages real estate for the military all over the Gulf Coast region, Gautney said, so it’s difficult to know what the lease is related to.
Leases are terminated and changed all of the time, and the referenced space may not even be located in Mobile, he said.
Around a year ago, the Corps did terminate a lease with the U.S. General Services Administration for the second story of a federally owned building on St. Michael Street in downtown Mobile. The approximate square footage the Corps leased was 24,000 square feet.
The building was used by the federal court system until 2020, and since then has been used by several federal agencies, Gautney said.
But the lease was terminated prior to the creation of DOGE, which was created via executive order after President Donald Trump was inaugurated last month and therefore could not have been involved with the lease termination.
A recent NPR analysis also found that the site overestimates DOGE’s $55 billion government spending slash by several billion dollars.
“Six other current and former federal contracting officers who spoke with NPR on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation say that the DOGE savings page is misleading the public with the data it includes — like overemphasizing the maximum possible value of contracts cancelled — as well as with what it leaves out, they say, like how much has already been budgeted and spent to fulfill the contract," NPR’s Stephen Fowler writes.
Efforts to reach the National Labor Relations Board in Birmingham, the EEOC in Mobile, and the three Alabama social security offices included on DOGE’s list were not immediately successful.
https://www.al.com/politics/2025/02/elon-musk-claims-doge-is-saving-52-million-on-alabama-federal-buildings-here-are-the-properties.html
Dont read INGREDIENTS in it. you wont buy it.
DOGE fires Birmingham Social Security office workers: Sewell slams Elon Musk’s ‘reckless power trip’
Published: Feb. 25, 2025, 7:54 p.m.
Workers at the Social Security Administration’s office in Birmingham were “unjustly terminated” by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell said Tuesday, as the congresswoman called out the billionaire’s “reckless power trip.”
Sewell initially tweeted Tuesday that her office “received reports that more than 100 of my constituents who work at the Social Security Administration in Birmingham have been unjustly terminated,” but later clarified that the American Federation of Government Employees the union representing federal workers told her the cuts affected “Social Security Region 4, which covers several states including Alabama.”
“We are working to determine exactly how many employees in Alabama’s 7th Congressional District have been impacted, but our office has heard from constituents today who lost their jobs,” the congresswoman posted. “We will continue to monitor the situation closely.”
In her initial tweet, Sewell said Musk’s effort to root out government waste is causing damage to working people in her district, including those employed by the Social Security Administration Office at 1200 Rev. Abraham Woods Blvd. in Birmingham.
“Elon Musk’s reckless power trip is directly threatening the livelihoods of my constituents,” the congresswoman tweeted. “This madness must stop!
After speaking with our local AFGE chapter, it is our understanding that these terminations impacted Social Security Region 4 which covers several states including Alabama. We are working to determine exactly how many employees in Alabama’s 7th Congressional District have been…
— Rep. Terri A. Sewell (@RepTerriSewell) February 25, 2025
https://www.al.com/politics/2025/02/doge-fires-birmingham-social-security-office-workers-sewell-slams-elon-musks-reckless-power-trip.html
Go getem Elon The ones shes bitching about look just like her…
Well it is Black (YOUR) HISTORY Month
YUP and Birmingham is corrupt as they come. Think our last Mayor is still in prison.
agreed