Josie Blanton

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Josie Blanton

Josie Blanton

@bbqlover79

I am a Triple-threat; Geek, Dweeb, AND Spaz! We keep our supraesophageal ganglion to ourselves.

Houston, TX Katılım Mayıs 2011
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Josie Blanton
Josie Blanton@bbqlover79·
@LttleGel @Titus_CaeserV @johnkim575 @NBCNews Yes, she was on HER employer's health insurance. She had the choice of going to work and keeping her insurance, or to leave and loose her income and insurance. If she had made the choice to give up her employment and insurance, her child may have lived.
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𝒢𝑒𝓁 ❣️@LttleGel·
@bbqlover79 @Titus_CaeserV @johnkim575 @NBCNews This has nothing to do with me personally. I’m American and my husband provides for me lol Read the article. It says she was faced with two choices: go into the office or take a leave of absence without income or health insurance.
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NBC News@NBCNews·
An Ohio-based company that initially balked at granting a mom's request to work from home during a high-risk pregnancy has been found liable for the newborn's death and ordered to pay $22.5 million in damages. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/o…
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Josie Blanton
Josie Blanton@bbqlover79·
@ManOfKent15 Sure, as long as you use the same language for industrial agriculture.
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Spitfire@RealSpitfire·
My father, who will be 101 yo in April, and a WWII Navy vet, made the mistake of turning on the news today. He saw where European nations refuse to help the US with the Strait of Hormuz. His words “Fk em! Fk NATO. Stop helping them!” I love the Greatest Generation.
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Jonathan R
Jonathan R@Relayer1200·
@bbqlover79 @RealSpitfire Article 5 was only invoked once and it was by the US. And allies responded and fought alongside US soldiers for 2 decades.
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Josie Blanton
Josie Blanton@bbqlover79·
@aakashgupta Trees can destroy plumbing, unlevel sidewalks and cause cracks in driveways. Strategically placed trees are good, but still need regular maintenance.
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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.
bitfloorsghost@bitfloorsghost

we ruined such a good thing

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Anders Åslund
Anders Åslund@anders_aslund·
If Trump had directed all the arms he has wasted on Iran to Ukraine instead, Ukraine could have defeated Russia by now & Trump would have avoided giving Iran control over the Strait of Hormuz. Is Trump treasonous, stupid or just senile?
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Winter 🖤
Winter 🖤@thewinterdollx·
LADIES : Are you OK with a trans woman as me using the ladies room if you're in there?🏳️‍⚧️
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Darren Holmes
Darren Holmes@darren_holmes·
@McFaul Russia better aligns to western values than most western countries.
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Michael McFaul
Michael McFaul@McFaul·
Putin is helping our autocratic enemies in Iran and killing our democratic friends in Ukraine. Why Trump is choosing to help Putin right now is hard for me to understand.
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Polymarket
Polymarket@Polymarket·
JUST IN: Trump says he's not afraid of his special military operation in Iran turning into a situation like Vietnam.
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TheFrenchie
TheFrenchie@ML3democrats·
America, your President is a clown
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Bob Golen
Bob Golen@BobGolen·
Somebody born in ‘33 was 45 in ‘78. That's gotta be some sort of record.
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