SweetMapleSugar VT

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Owned by 4 cats and love it. Small farmer, chicken tender, mushroom harvester, honey collector, sap boiler, berry picker, canner, preserver, dehydrator, freezer and eater. Mead maker, Hard Cider presser and single malt whisky snob. 🏳️‍🌈🐝🍄🐔👨‍🌾🍎🌿🍅

JHC! Trump wants "Freedom Haulers" now. In the Gay community those are what some would call Lot Lizards waiting for a "trick" in parking lots. First YMCA and now "Freedom Haulers" Trump is really deep in the closet looking for Lindsey's Christmas Presents.

We identified a network of at least 10 political nonprofits that raised more than $33M on the promise of supporting admirable causes, but that spent little on activities that could be construed as having a political purpose. (Published June 2024)

How a Network of Nonprofits Enriches Fundraisers While Spending Almost Nothing on Its Stated Causes

ProPublica identified a group of connected political nonprofits — with names like American Breast Cancer Coalition and National Coalition for Disabled Veterans — that appear to be funneling more than ...

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Everyone using the old Soviet style food stores to poo poo and criticize Mamdani’s pilot program is a fucking idiot. Context, motherfuckers. Context. Jesus fucking Christ. You people are just as bad as MAGAs resurrecting the Red Scare. Get a fucking life.

“You don’t need rare earths, critical raw materials & the beauty is you can also charge up the battery when electricity is cheap.” Sand battery heats this Finnish town for a week in winter or a month in summer 👀 And unlike lithium-ion batteries, energy can be stored for days and maybe even weeks:

Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery

A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.

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News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW

A nuclear deal for the Saudis. A media blackout for Kushner’s corruption.

On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that paves the way for the kingdom to enrich its own uranium.

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