JOHN MCCORD

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Feds retract statement about Chester purchase; opponents target realtors involved in deal CHESTER - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Wednesday backtracked on its statement last week that it had purchased the former Pep Boys warehouse in Chest

and now another retraction/reversal in Chester, New York:

midhudsonnews.com/2026/02/18/c...

Who doesn't want their belly rubbed after this past year?

That’s a cute kitten

Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!)

This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

Page 15 of the GOP’s Save America Act wld force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s centralized voter purge program (called “SAVE”), which they know has had error rates as high as 14% & links to an SSA database that they know was compromised by DOGE. #NoOnSave 1/

Yeah you’re right

2026 To date 2025 Full year Total Cases 910 2280 Age  Under 5 years 227 (25%) 582 (26%)  5-19 years 527 (58%) 1014 (44%)  20+ years 136 (15%) 671 (29%)  Age unknown 20 (2%) 13 (1%) Vaccination Status  Unvaccinated or Unknown 94% 93%

To my surprise, CDC is still tracking how many children RFK condemns to measles. Cases are getting younger and, of course, it is spreading faster.

www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

The Disastrous First Year of RFK Jr. The damage the HHS secretary has done to science and public health is appalling—and it could have been avoided.

"It is beyond comprehension that the Senate confirmed this man to oversee America’s health. The risks are so immediate and constant that it can be difficult to keep track of them all."

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Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.

You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?

Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.

You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

My sentiments exactly!

A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

YouTube video by MeidasTouch Texas Paul REVEALS PLAN to BEAT DOWN Trump

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The Trees That Miss The Mammoths - American Forests Trees that once depended on animals like the wooly mammoth for survival have managed to adapt and survive in the modern world.

"For a tree that lives, say, 250 years, 13,000 years represents only 52 generations. In an evolutionary sense, the trees don’t yet realize that the megafauna are gone..."

This article is fun, and sobering...

The Trees that Miss the Mammoths
www.americanforests.org/article/the-...

Top: Surveying for grasshoppers below the Flatirons in Boulder, Colorado. The initial grasshopper survey was led by Gordon Alexander and focused between 1958 and 1960. Photo credit: Donald Van Horn. Bottom: A collection of grasshoppers. Photo credit: Cesar Nufio.

Declining body size is a widely anticipated response to #anthropogenic #ClimateChange, but how general is it? @lbuckley.bsky.social &co use a >50-year study of montane #grasshoppers to show that size shifts depend on both elevation & species’ seasonal timing 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3CEBrF6

Now more than ever.