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turbinetree's JournalWe are witnessing the playbook of the Authoritarian Breakthrough being implemented to take down the
the republic and its/ this Constitution and small d democracy............. in real time..............Orban used in Hungary and Putin used it in Russia, the Chinese used it in Tiananmen Square..........for example...........and look no further than the traitor using troops in California, and now going to Florida, Louisiana, Texas with enabling governors in those states........and the Civil War was an Authoritarian Breakthrough attempt by the Confederacy.........
GOP senator insists 'Biblically, you're supposed to work' to earn medical care
By Matthew Chapman
Published June 20, 2025 7:34 PM ET
Sen. Jim Justice (R-WV) defended the GOP's planned deep cuts to Medicaid that could kick over 10 million low-income people off health insurance.
According to The Independent's D.C. bureau chief Eric Michael Garcia, when confronted over the plan in President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" to force states to institute work requirements for Medicaid, Justice said, "Biblically, we are supposed to work."
"We have taken the dignity and the hope and the belief away from a lot of people where they are hopeless, they think they can't," he said.
https://www.rawstory.com/jim-justice-2672407677/
These supporters of the authoritarian breakthrough wanna be always use the bible.............Hey justice what do you have to say about this information...............
https://wchstv.com/news/local/report-jim-justice-once-wvas-wealthiest-resident-has-net-worth-less-than-zero
https://wchstv.com/news/local/court-issues-garnishment-summons-to-sen-jim-justice-for-3-million-in-debts
'Farms will vanish': Cherry farms become ghost towns amid Trump's ICE crackdown
By Daniel Hampton
Published June 19, 2025 8:31 PM ET
Cherry growers say they're seeing a severe labor shortage amid President Donald Trump's nationwide immigration crackdown, leading to a massive shortage of berries.
A grower in the Mattawa, Washington, area lost about 300 bins — each weighing at least 350 pounds, horticulturist Erik Zavala told area told The Spokesman-Review in a report published this week.
“People watch the news,” Zavala said, referring to masked federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detaining people as part of Trump's ramped-up immigration effort. “It’s definitely having an impact."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-farms/
If you are a republican farmer and thought that they were not going to do this...........................well how's that coffee you now smell...........
Bear necessity: lid stuck around US animal's neck removed after two years
Associated Press
Wed 18 Jun 2025 20.08 EDT
Michigan wildlife experts surprised by the bear’s ability to eat and sleep despite the uncomfortable accessory
Michigan wildlife experts finally were able to trap a black bear and remove a large lid that was stuck around his neck – after two years.
“It’s pretty incredible that the bear survived and was able to feed itself,” Cody Norton, a state bear specialist, said on Wednesday. “The neck was scarred and missing hair, but the bear was in much better condition than we expected it to be.”
The bear first turned up on a trail camera as a cub in 2023 in the northern Lower Peninsula. After that, the department of natural resources was on the lookout for the elusive animal with a hard plastic lid around the neck, Norton said
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/michigan-bear-lid-removed
Flavour of gin and tonic could be impacted by climate change, study finds
Helena Horton Environment reporter
Wed 18 Jun 2025 19.00 EDT
The flavour of a gin and tonic may be impacted by climate change, scientists have found.
Volatile weather patterns, made more likely by climate breakdown, could change the taste of juniper berries, which are the key botanical that give gin its distinctive taste.
Scientists from Heriot-Watt University’s International Centre for Brewing and Distilling (ICBD) have found that changing weather patterns may be altering the flavour compounds in the berries.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/19/flavour-of-gin-and-tonic-could-be-impacted-by-climate-change-study-finds
I am a gin and tonic person that really like three types gin and only one tonic water.....
1) Bombay Sapphire
2) Beefeaters
3) Tanqueray
Tonic Water....
Fever Tree Premium Indian quinine water
And a slice of lime stirred...........over ice..........
New 'Dictator Approved' statue pops up on the National Mall
Scott Gelman
June 18, 2025, 5:41 AM
A gold thumb, a crushed Statue of Liberty and satirical quotes are all part of a new statue generating a buzz along the National Mall.
The artwork is called “Dictator Approved” and is scheduled to be on the part of the Mall closest to 3rd Street until Sunday, according to a National Park Service permit.
The statue includes a gold thumb appearing to crush the top of the Statue of Liberty. There are quotes from various world leaders on gold plaques along the sides, including a quote from Russian President Vladimir Putin that said President Donald Trump “is a very bright and talented man.”
https://wtop.com/dc/2025/06/new-dictator-approved-statue-pops-up-on-the-national-mall/
Anne Burrell, TV chef who coached the 'Worst Cooks in America,' dies at 55
June 18, 202512:05 AM ET
By
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — TV chef Anne Burrell, who coached culinary fumblers through hundreds of episodes of "Worst Cooks in America," died Tuesday at her New York home. She was 55.
The Food Network, where Burrell began her two-decade television career on "Iron Chef America" and went on to other shows, confirmed her death. The cause was not immediately clear, and medical examiners were set to conduct an autopsy.
Police were called to her address before 8 a.m. Tuesday and found an unresponsive woman who was soon pronounced dead. The police department did not release the woman's name, but records show it was Burell's address.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/18/nx-s1-5436999/anne-burrell-tv-chef-worst-cooks-in-america-dies
Opinion/ Deeply ignorant MAGA cashed in on lawmaker's assassination
By J. Patrick Coolican, Minnesota Reformer/ Commentary
Published June 16, 2025 8:15 AM ET
Just hours after Minnesotans learned that Democratic House leader Melissa Hortman had been assassinated, right-wing influencer Collin Rugg, who has 1.8 million followers on X, posted a “report” that hinted that she’d been killed because of a recent vote on ending undocumented adults’ ability to enroll in MinnesotaCare, a subsidized health insurance for the working poor.
Mike Cernovich, another right-wing influencer who has 1.4 million followers on X, took Rugg’s post and amped it up, but in the “just asking questions” style of many conspiracy theories:
“Did Tim Walz have her executed to send a message?”
They were deeply ignorant about the MinnesotaCare issue.
https://www.rawstory.com/a-democratic-legislator-was-assassinated-right-wing-influencers-coughed-out-dis/
Maybe, Cernovich, Rugg, Mannarino.....and others ........ should have people call in and demand that all of them for example retrack what they are doing along with that rag under the Murdoch Banner.............we really need another Fairness Doctrine.............or maybe the two courageous survivors should sue these people asses off...........
Fox News Already Politicizing Minnesota Lawmaker Assassinations
Fox turned the shootings of two Minnesota Democrats into one about the martyrdom and heroism of Donald Trump.
By NewsHound Ellen — June 14, 2025
How does a MAGA propaganda network cover the obviously-political shootings of two Democratic Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses? By emphasizing the greatness and victimhood of Donald Trump, of course.
Anchor Bryan Llenas (I’m guessing all the A-list hosts were partying with Trump's North Korea-style birthday bash) set up the propaganda by suggesting that Dear Leader and/or his followers could be endangered during his birthday “military parade” in D.C.
“Taking all of that in context, your thoughts on what the FBI needs to be doing here to perhaps do more to protect the lives of our politicians?” Llenas “asked” former FBI agent Nicole Parker.
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/06/fox-news-already-politicizing-minnesota
Hey Parker .............. ................do you think an administration of traitors that pardon people that committed a crime under the insurrection act and the guy that incited said violence and only got immunity from your bunch on the supreme court and got off by your bunch in the senate cares................. ...............and then you say Patel and Bondi are working around the clock..........you really are a disgrace............JFC............. 
Fox News Already Politicizing Minnesota Lawmaker Assassinations
Fox turned the shootings of two Minnesota Democrats into one about the martyrdom and heroism of Donald Trump.
By NewsHound Ellen — June 14, 2025
How does a MAGA propaganda network cover the obviously-political shootings of two Democratic Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses? By emphasizing the greatness and victimhood of Donald Trump, of course.
Anchor Bryan Llenas (I’m guessing all the A-list hosts were partying with Trump's North Korea-style birthday bash) set up the propaganda by suggesting that Dear Leader and/or his followers could be endangered during his birthday “military parade” in D.C.
“Taking all of that in context, your thoughts on what the FBI needs to be doing here to perhaps do more to protect the lives of our politicians?” Llenas “asked” former FBI agent Nicole Parker.
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/06/fox-news-already-politicizing-minnesota
Hey Parker .............. ................do you think an administration of traitors that pardon people that committed a crime under the insurrection act and the guy that incited said violence and only got immunity from your bunch on the supreme court and got off by your bunch in the senate cares................. ...............and then you say Patel and Bondi are working around the clock..........you really are a disgrace............JFC.............
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