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Anonymous ID: 736468 Aug. 4, 2025, 7:53 p.m. No.23427347 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>7358

Wild pigs found with blue meat in California spark alarm

By Kasia Pawlowska,

Local Editor Aug 4, 2025

A wildlife trapper in Monterey County made an unexpected discovery after capturing a series of wild pigs in March of this year. While processing the animals,the trapper found several with blue-tinged muscles and fat tissues. The bizarre discoloration is a result of exposure to diphacinone, an anticoagulant rodenticidethat is often dyed to identify it as a poison, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

In an email to SFGATE, Fish and Wildlife pesticide investigations coordinator Ryan Bourbour said that the trapper observed the wild pigs eating directly from rodenticide bait stations. The scope of the contamination appears extensive across the southern part of Monterey County and along the Salinas River, according to KSBW-TV.

Wild pigs are adaptable hybrid creatures. Part domesticated pig, part wild boar, they can weigh upward of 200 pounds and now live in 56 out of 58 counties across the state. SFGATE previously reported on their increasingly aggressive behavior, including charging at a hiker.

Vince Bruzzone, owner of Full Boar Trapping & Wildlife Control, is familiar with the oddity. “I have heard of this happening in agricultural ‘heavy’ areas like Salinas and other parts of the Central Coast,” he told SFGATE in an email. Bruzzone’s company was recently contracted by the Santa Clara Open Space Authority to help manage its wild pig population over the next three years for $243,000.He said he takes proactive measures because of this contamination issue.

“I do make a point to tell those I donate carcasses to that if they ever were to come across blue meat from one of my pigs to dispose of it at a landfill (rather than dumping it) and bring me the bill so that it doesn't enter the food chain,”he said.

The situation reveals a paradox: While California banned diphacinone formost uses in January 2024, agricultural operations have exemptions due to their pest control needs. That loophole has broad ecologic implications.A 2018 statewide study found rodenticide residues in 8.3% of wild pig tissue samples — and in an alarming 83% of bear samples — mainly in animals frequenting agricultural zones. Wildlife officials warn that this contamination can ripple through the food chain==, since wildlife can be inadvertently consuming poisoned prey.

After confirming the presence of diphacinone in the liver and stomach contents of wild pigs with blue tissues, Fish and Wildlife’s Wildlife Health Laboratory is advising hunters to not consume meat from any animals showing discoloration. Visible signs aren’t always reliable, however. “As demonstrated by findings of exposure in nongame animals,the discoloration is not always present and is not a reliable indicator of AR [anticoagulant rodenticide] residues in meat,” the 2018 study said…

https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/wild-pigs-found-blue-meat-california-monterey-20798446.php

>>23427347 CA leadership couldn’t care less

Citizen Free Press

@CitizenFreePres

ALAN DERSHOWITZ IS DENIED SERVICE IN MARTHA'S VINEYARD.

From Ron Filipkowski

10:49 PM · Aug 4, 2025

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https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1952562668268921107

He has been complaining about this for years, because the left hates him for writing a book, “Get Trump”. They hate him because he exposed their plan.

Contentious July jobs report confirms the U.S. economy is slowing sharply. Here’s why 1/2

PUBLISHED MON, AUG 4 20254:30 PMJEFF COX

KEY POINTS

• Though it may have been controversial, the July jobs report helped confirm the notion that the U.S. economic engine is sputtering.

• The weakness in job growth points to an economy that may be slowing even more than some of the traditional metrics are showing.

• Goldman Sachs forecasts growth to be just 1% in the final two quarters due in part to slower consumer spending and “a sharp slowdown in real income growth that reflects weaker job growth.”

• White House officials insist the economy is sound and will only get better once President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act kicks in.

Though it may have been controversial, the July jobs report helped confirm the notion that the U.S. economic engine is sputtering.

Nonfarm payrolls rose by just 73,000 for the month, below even the muted expectations. Heavy downward revisions to the May and June count took the three-month average job gains down to just 35,000, or less than one-third the pace for the same period a year ago.

Traditionally a lagging indicator when it comes to recessions, the weakness in job growth points to an economy that may be slowing even more than some of the traditional metrics are showing.

“We are in a broad economic slowdown. Whether it translates to a recession or not is the question that I’m asking now,” said Luke Tilley, chief economist at Wilmington Trust. “The labor market is key, and it’s hard to gauge what’s going to happen.”

Wilmington has a 50% chance the U.S. slides into recession. Tilley cites concerns over the longer-term hit from tariffs that could depress consumer spending, which drove 68% of all economic activity in the first quarter, as well as business investment and hiring.

In fact, he said pressure from tariffs is one of thereasons that the pass-through from President Donald Trump’s levies hasn’t hit inflation as hard as many economists expected.

“If consumers are shouldering the burden, they’re spending more for imports and they will cut back on recreational spending, airlines, Disney trips, fun parks, hotels, all of that,” he said. “We’ve seen that in the data, and that’s why there’s not inflationary impact.”

Reasons for optimism

To be sure, the growth picture is far from dire at this point.

Gross domestic product increased at a 3% annualized pace in the second quarter, providing on its face a picture of a vibrant economy.

However, when looked at for the first half, GDP averaged only about 1.2% growth, with consumer spending barely up 1%. The primary reason for the big jump in Q2 was a reversal in the import surge during the first quarter as companies sought to get ahead of tariffs. In the first quarter, growth fell 0.5% amid the swell in imports, which subtract from the GDP calculation.

If the July unemployment report portends what’s to come, the picture is bound to get gloomier.

“The most likely outcome is still weaker economic growth in the second half of 2025 and early 2026 compared to 2024 and the first half of this year, but no recession,” Gus Faucher, chief economist at PNC, wrote following the jobs release Friday.

“But given the revised read on the labor market, recession risks are elevated, and higher tariffs make that risk even higher,” he added. “It is easy to see how very weak job growth and higher tariffs could cause consumers to cut back on their spending and businesses to cut back on their investment, pushing the economy into a recession.”

Goldman Sachs forecasts growth to be just 1% in the final two quarters due in part to slower consumer spending and “a sharp slowdown in real income growth that reflects weaker job growth, higher tariff-driven inflation, and reductions in transfer payments in [the fourth quarter] that were included in the recent fiscal bill.”

“Friday’s payrolls report brings payroll growth closer in line with big data indicators of job gains and the broader growth dataset, both of which have slowed significantly in recent months. Taken together, the economic data confirm our view that the US economy is growing at a below-potential pace,” the firm said in a note over the weekend.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/04/contentious-july-jobs-report-confirms-the-us-economy-is-slowing-sharply.html

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Despite the cloudy outlook, White House officials insist the economy is sound and will only get better once Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act kicks in.

Trump himself pushed back hard against the July jobs report, firing Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer on Friday as he called the numbers “FAKED” and “RIGGED” in a Truth Social post.

However, White House economist Kevin Hassett on Monday told CNBC the revisions were concerning even as he also touted broader economic strength.

“There are a lot of really good reasons to be super optimistic about second half of the year. But absolutely that jobs number, if the revision turns out to be true, does suggest that there’s less momentum than we thought,” said Hassett, director of the National Economic Council who is thought to be a leading contender for a vacant seat on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

Looking to the Fed

Trump administration officials have been calling on the Fed to cut its benchmark funds level that feeds into multiple other consumer interest rates. The Fed last week held the rate steady, and several officials made public comments since the report saying they still think the labor market is strong.

However, further signs of economic weakness could change that.

Housing data has been poor lately, reflecting a declining level of buyers along with rising prices and stubbornly high mortgage rates.

“What are we doing with a national average 30-year mortgage rate still close to 7% in an economy growing at 1%?” veteran economist and strategist Jim Paulsen wrote in a Substack post. “There is nothing ‘healthy or solid’ about these [economic] numbers, they are way below the 2% stall speed, and shout for help.”

Other economists echoed that sentiment.

“To me, today’s jobs report is what entering a recession looks like,” Josh Bivens, chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, wrote after the Friday report.

“The economy is on the precipice of recession. That’s the clear takeaway from last week’s economic data dump,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, posted Sunday on X.

Monday bought more bad news, with factory orders falling 4.8%, actually a touch less than the Dow Jones estimate though the worst reading since January 2024. Also, the Conference Board’s employment trends indexdeclined in July, hitting its lowest since October 2024.

Markets have been resilient

Amid the worrying economic signs, stocks have fallen though not dramatically. Wall Street rallied Monday, with hopes rising that the U.S. and European Union will be able to reach a long-term tariff agreement.

Trading has been volatile lately, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average off 1.7% over the past month.

“This confirmed a lot of our suspicions. Frankly, we were waiting for the other shoe to drop, and now we’re starting to see a few shoes drop,” George Mateyo, chief investment officer at Key Private Bank, said of the jobs numbers.

Trading lately has seen “a lot of complacency” as investors largely ignored the political storms in Washington and took a best-case-scenario outlook toward the economy, Mateyo added.

“A lot of people were anticipating the fact that the good times would keep rolling, and indeed they probably will,” he added. “We still don’t think the base case is that a recession is going to manifest itself. But it’s going to be a pretty big slowdown, given the fact that uncertainty is really high.”

Markets also have vacillated in terms of what they see the Fed doing.

Just before the jobs report, traders were assigning low odds to a rate cut at the central bank’s September meeting, then swung back to pricing in Monday a nearly 90% probability, according to the CME Group. However, there are multiple key data releases until then, and Fed rhetoric this far has been tepid regarding easing.

Mateyo sees the economic and policy uncertainty adding up to a recipe for caution.

“We’ve been cautioning clients to look at their overall risk exposures and perhaps rebalance away from some of the risky sectors of the market,” he said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/04/contentious-july-jobs-report-confirms-the-us-economy-is-slowing-sharply.html

Anonymous ID: 736468 Aug. 4, 2025, 8:19 p.m. No.23427450 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>7612

Nayib Bukele

@nayibbukele

90% of developed countries allow the indefinite reelection of their head of government, and no one bats an eye. But when a small, poor country like El Salvador tries to do the same, suddenly it’s the end of democracy.

Of course, they’ll rush to point out that “a parliamentary system isn’t the same as a presidential one,” as if that technicality justifies the double standard.But let’s be honest, that’s just a pretext.

Because if El Salvador declared itself a parliamentary monarchy with the exact same rules as the UK, Spain, or Denmark, they still wouldn’t support it.In fact, they would go ballistic if that happened.

Why? Because the problem isn’t the system,it’s the fact that a poor country dares to act like a sovereign one.

You’re not supposed to do what they do. You’re supposed to do what you’re told. And you’re expected to stay in your lane.

1:55 AM · Aug 3, 2025

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https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1951884733379391780

Anonymous ID: 736468 Aug. 4, 2025, 8:32 p.m. No.23427478 🗄️.is 🔗kun >>7934

Marjorie Taylor Greene threatens dramatic breakup with Trump over a core base frustration that could upend entire Republican Party

12:33 EDT 02 Aug 2025 By JON MICHAEL RAASCH, US POLITICAL REPORTER

Six months into Donald Trump's return to the White House Marjorie Taylor Greene has about had it with the Republican Party.

The conservative firebrand who surged onto the political scene in 2021 and has been an ever-present figure in the House GOP and MAGA orbit ever since told the Daily Mail in a 45-minute call this week that it may be time for her to walk away.

'I don't know if the Republican Party is leaving me, or if I'm kind of not relating to Republican Party as much anymore,' she revealed. 'I don't know which one it is.'

Her fidelity to the president is still strong, she insists, but she sees flashing red lights warning that the GOP is out of step with the MAGA base. It's the audience she feels most in-tune with, considering her seven million social media followers.

'I think the Republican Party has turned its back on America First and the workers and just regular Americans,' she said.

MTG senses that the GOP is reverting to its 'neocon' past, and its leaders, the 'good ole boys,' are a formidable opponent for the true MAGA agenda.'I'm not afraid of Mike Johnson at all,' she said candidly.

When it comes to women in the Republican party, Greene occupies a unique space. She has the largest social media following of any Republican woman, boasting close to 7.5 million followers on X alone.

The 51-year-old lawmaker wants to stop foreign aid, continue to use DOGE to shave down government expenditures and waste, stop adding to the national debt and be on the look out for inflation.

'Like what happened all those issues? You know that I don't know what the hell happened with the Republican Party. I really don't.''But I'll tell you one thing, the course that it's on, I don't want to have anything to do with it, and I, I just don't care anymore,' she said sounding frustrated.

She has told the Daily Mail she senses the Georgia GOP is not adequately reading the voters in the state. MTG said she's happy to not be on the ticket for the upcoming Senate race. 'Georgia is very much controlled,' she explained. 'I call it the good ole boys network. It's the donors of the state, they're good hearted people, but they are very low risk takers, so they end up always being talked into … really very weak moderate candidates.'

'It's a very lukewarm, not exciting Republican ballot, you're just not going to get the turnout there that's needed, especially when we came off the last election and only won the state by 115,000 votes.'Without Trump on the ballot in the upcoming 2026 Senate race, the GOP could struggle to overcome Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff, she said.

Most polling of the race shows the Democrat with a double-digit lead, even in a potential match up against Greene.She's used this large platform to publicly split with her party and call Israel's actions in Gaza a 'genocide.' MTG has also used it to condemn U.S. involvement in conflicts abroad and question where the Jeffrey Epstein files are and why they aren't public yet.

Republican women, she says, have a finger on the pulse of the party that the 'good ole boys' in the party don't.'I think there's other women in our party that are really sick and tired of the way men treat Republican women,' she said.

'I think there's other women - Republican women - and I'm just giving my opinion here, who are really sick and tired of them,' she continued. =='And the one that really got shafted was Elise Stefanik.' Stefanik was originally nominated by Trump to serve as ambassador to the United Nations but her bid was later rescinded by the White House. It's thought that her nomination was pulled due to the narrow majority in the House of Representatives.

'I mean, she got screwed by Mike Johnson, and she got screwed by the White House. I'm not blaming Trump, particularly. I'm blaming the people in the White House.'

Mike Waltz, a former congressman from Florida who briefly served as national security advisor before losing his job after including a journalist in a Signal group chat, was later reassigned to fill the UN ambassador post.'How does he get awarded after 'Signalgate?'' Greene wondered. 'Isn't that weird … who awarded him that?'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14960689/marjorie-taylor-greene-floats-breakup-republican-party.html

She’s not wrong Johnson is a snake

LOOMER: “There Is An Obama-Era Intel Agency Coup Against The Trump Administration Taking Place.”

I’m glad Loomer is paranoid because no one else would catch this shit!