Some non-mainstream social media sitesCLAIM Erika is A) preggers and B) the father is Lamar Odom. I, as usual, believe nothing. Just passing along the speculation of what I'm reading on the Al Gore Super Information Highway.
Now, President Donald Trump’s administration is poised to penalize people like Burton simply for living in the same home as their families, according to four federal officials, internal emails and a federal regulatory listing. The administration is working on a rule change that would deduct the value of a disabled adult’s bedroom from their SSI allotment, even if the family members they live with are poor enough to qualify for food stamps. This would mean slashing the benefits of some of the most low-income SSI recipients by up to a third — about $330 a month in Burton’s case — or ending their support altogether. [.] (The disability programs are administered by the Social Security Administration but separate from the retirement program for which the agency is named. The Trump administration has promised not to cut Social Security retirement payments.)
The likely SSI cut will affect not just younger adults with disabilities such as Down syndrome and severe autism who are still living at home with their low-income parents, but also older people with health or financial problems who have had to move in with their adult children on tight budgets. All told, as many as 400,000 poor and disabled people and indigent older people across the United States could have their support cut or eliminated, according to a ProPublica analysis of actuarial figures from the Social Security Administration. [...] anyone living at home beyond age 18 without paying full rent will be treated as if they have a benefactor. The value of their bedroom as well as any income and assets their family may have will be calculated and recalculated as often as every month and deducted from their SSI check. [.] If enacted, the change will require intellectually disabled young people like Burton as well as very elderly people to file extensive monthly reports if they want to continue their benefits even at the reduced level. They’ll have to provide details about the property where they live: whether it’s leased or owned, as well as the names of anyone in the home, and whether any of these people has any new income or assets. They’ll also have to include documentation of all household bills and expenses, showing how much they do or don’t contribute personally, as well as financial documents such as bank statements and any pay stubs.
Burdensome, time-consuming monthly requirements. An idea void of compassion. It's heartless and cruel. I wonder who's behind it?
The poll, conducted by Reuters/Ipsos, found the president languishing at 34 percent approval, with 64 percent disapproving — the lowest of Trump's second term.
It also found that a dismal all-time low 22 percent approve of his handling of cost-of-living issues, as the Iran war continues to drive up gas prices and destabilize inflation. [.] "This includes AFTER the shooting at the correspondents' dinner," wrote Eric Michael Garcia of The Independent. "Voters are just done with Trump. They are angry about the economy and gas prices."
Gasoline prices in the United States hit their highest level in four years on Tuesday as negotiations over the Iran war appeared to show little signs of a resolution.
The price of an average gallon of gas stands at $4.17, marking an increase of $1.19 per gallon since the war began on Feb. 28, AAA data showed. That amounts to a 28% jump in about two months.
Ahmad Tibi, another Palestinian member of the Knesset, wrote on Facebook that those who blow up mosques and churches in Gaza and spit on Christian clergy in Jerusalem without punishment are not afraid to destroy a statue of Jesus Christ and publish it.
“Perhaps these racists have also learned from Donald Trump to insult Jesus Christ and insult Pope Leo?” he asked[.]
[...] Glenn Greenwald mocked how Christian Zionists may defend Israel over smashing the statue.
“Christian Zionists: This Israeli soldier was absolutely justified in smashing the head of the Jesus Christ statue because Hezbollah and Hamas were hiding inside. We owe him our gratitude,” Greenwald wrote on X.
The anger echoed growing scepticism [sic] of the close alliance with Israel in Trump’s “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) constituency.
Despite what Bo Bo says, nothing will happen RE reprimanding the soldier. Bo Bo's nation provides safehaven for pe*ophiles. What makes anyone think a cowardly so-called soldier smashing a statue of Jesus Christ will face disciplinary consequences?
Any rabbis out there condemning this? Any of the many jewish orgs denouncing this? Any Conservative Christian or Jewish bloggers or other traditional social media platforms even writing about this? Not anywhere I could find. Not even on the non-traditional platforms (teh Chans, Kuhn, others). They're still busy barking at Pope Leo because he replied to Trump's unprovoked rage on his stupid Truth Soooooooooooooshhhhhuuuuuuuuuulllllllllllll. Derp Derp.
The jab comes amid the backlash over a controversial social media post by the US president.
An Iranian embassy has shared an AI-generated video depicting Jesus casting Donald Trump into hell, following backlash over a social media post in which the US president appeared to portray himself as a Christ-like healer.
Trump posted the image on Truth Social on Sunday but deleted it the following day after a wave of criticism, saying he had not recognized its religious implications.
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On Tuesday, the Iranian embassy in Tajikistan posted a clip that opens with the image that Trump had posted. The glow coming from his hands quickly fades as Jesus descends from heaven, slaps him across the face, and sends him tumbling into a fiery abyss.
Trump, serial liar that he is, initially claimed he didn't know anything about the original "Trump As Jesus" meme posted on his Truth Social Media, instead blaming a staffer. Now we learn that Trump DID know and discussed it prior to publishing.
Before President Trump posted an image of him as a Christ-like healer, he discussed the meme with his controversial housing finance chief Bill Pulte, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: Trump's Truth Social post Sunday night drew such a fierce backlash from Christians that he pulled it down, an extremely rare move for him. But the mystery of who may have helped introduce the meme to him wasn't clear, until now.
Pulte declined to comment, as did the White House.
Two of four videos from the above RT story are below. They are "as is" from X. While some may consider them "Sensitive or 'Violent' content, Blogger TOS allows this under their COMMENTARY policy. They aren't republished here for gratuitous reason. It's AI. It's stylish cartoon "violence." There is no intent on my part for any harm against Trump. It's SATIRE and PARODY. If you don't know the difference, go figure it out for yourselves. Or, don't watch them.
Every Mexican with a cell phone has until July to hand over their fingerprints, iris scans, and facial data to a government whose last two attempts at phone registration ended in a data leak and a Supreme Court smackdown.
Mexico’s government wants you to believe that handing over your fingerprints, iris scans, and facial data is voluntary. President Claudia Sheinbaum has said so publicly.
But by July 2026, every one of the country’s roughly 130 million mobile phone lines must be linked to a biometric national ID, and unregistered numbers get suspended on July 1.
As a rule of thumb, when I hear the government (fed, state, local) giving us a cost estimate; I immediately double the amount. A bit later I triple it.
Israel’s Pluri has secured a $6.5M investment and entered the cell-based chocolate space with the impending purchase of a majority stake in Rehovot-based Kokomodo.
After innovating with cultivated meat and lab-grown coffee, Haifa-based firm Pluri is dipping intocell-based chocolate.
The cellular agriculture specialist has acquired at least 71% of fellow Israeli company Kokomodo, which makescell-cultured cocoa, in a transaction with $4.5M.
Pluri is purchasing these shares from Chutzpah Holdings and Plantae, both of which are under the control of health and tech investor Alejandro Weinstein, who has concurrently poured $6.5M into Pluri’s business.
“Pluri has already demonstrated the great potential of cell-based technologies[.]
Stem Cell Chocolate! Yum!
⏫ ⏫ WOW! A company that makes stem cell therapy for disease treatments AND makes fake chocolate? "Uh, is that batch for Cerebral Palsy stem cell therapy or the batch for Oreos?" "Duh, didn't I label it?"
Kokomodo is the result of a joint venture between The Kitchen FoodTech Hub and Tel Aviv-based Plantae Bioscience, whose technology has been developed behind closed doors for the last two years. [Like Teh Coof "vaccine" ? -DD]
Oreo, Mondelēz VC, Cadbury, Toblerone are all on board.
Despite a deadlock over funding for the agency, lawmakers left town and left Democratic and White House negotiators to try to work out a deal in their absence.
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The Capitol emptied out on Thursday, a full day before the midnight Friday deadline for funding the Department of Homeland Security. Lawmakers who were deadlocked over new restrictions on immigration officers jetted off to Munich for a security conference or headed home for a weeklong recess, seemingly unconcerned with the looming closure. It was a jarring change from the past, when lawmakers were reluctant to seem like they were giving up for even a moment before time ran out for a deal.
"We can't do our job, we can't agree to anything (except when it's giving away U.S. money to Ukraine and Israel), so we're taking a week long recess."
Put your profession in their place: "I can't to my job so I'm going to take a week's long recess and still get paid." How long would your employer tolerate this?
The parasite, commonly called a New World Screwworm (NWS), lays hundreds of larvae in the wounds of animals and humans, which hatch within hours and consume their victim's tissue.
These infestations can lead to deep, painful wounds that become infected and often result in death if left untreated.
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The worms were eliminated in the US in 1966, but sporadic cases have been detected since amid outbreaks in Central America.
President Trump on Monday announced he is dispatching his border czar, Tom Homan, to Minnesota -- bypassing the normal chain of command -- where Noem and Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino have been overseeing ICE operations.
Bottom line: multiple reputable outlets report an undercover FBI sting in which Homan was recorded taking $50,000 and allegedly promising to help win government contracts; Homan denies wrongdoing, no charges were filed, and the investigation was closed [by the DOJ] amid disputed explanations about evidentiary doubts and possible political intervention.
[...] new polling from the American Research Group (ARG) [...] finds Trump at 35 percent approval and 63 percent disapproval, yielding a net approval of –28 points—his worst recorded by ARG since the Republican's return to office.
Recently it's been ICE in Minnesota as Top Headline. Give this the usual MSM attention span and focus until another event occurs staged distraction, keeping attention off Israel’s daily ceasefire violations.
It is a comet. [Benjamin] Jacobson-Bell [of the University of California] acknowledged a few false alarms during the observations. The team later traced those signals back to Earth-based radio interference.
The Justice Department says there are two million more documents to be reviewed before releasing them. It said on Dec. 31 that it would take "a few more weeks" to go through them.
Some of the ideas under development feel akin to science fiction – like Swarm Biotactics' cyborg cockroaches that are equipped with specialised [sic] miniature backpacks that enable real-time data collection via cameras for example.
Electrical stimuli should allow humans to control the insects' movements remotely. The aim is for them to provide surveillance information in hostile environments - for example information about enemy positions.
"Our bio-robots - based on living insects - are equipped with neural stimulation, sensors, and secure communication modules," said CEO Stefan Wilhelm. "They can be steered individually or operate autonomously in swarms.
