She/Her. Former chef, wine nerd, bacon addict, music junkie, nature worshipper, animal lover, Braves fan.
South Carolina, USA
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EnviroWarrior311 retweeted
BREAKING: HOLY SMOKES! Democrats now control enough states to effectively abolish the Electoral College through the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
Republicans did NOT have this on their bingo cards...
Under the Constitution, states control their electoral votes and are allowed to decide how they are allocated during presidential elections. Currently, almost every state gives its votes to whoever wins the state.
In practice, the current system means that a candidate can win the national popular vote, but lose the election because small states like Wyoming exert undue influence on the outcome. That state has 3 electoral votes with a population of just 577,000 people. California has 54 electoral votes and a population of 39.5 million people. So a vote in Wyoming is essentially 3.8 times as valuable as one in California.
Since 1992, Democrats have won the popular vote seven out of nine times.
Under the NPV, states that join agree to give their electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote, not just their own state. So a state could go red on the map, but if the Democrat wins the national vote, they still get that state's votes. And vice versa of course.
The crucial mechanism is that the compact doesn't trigger until the member states have a combined power of at least 270 electoral votes, the number needed to win the White House. So far, 18 states plus D.C. have joined, totaling 222 electoral votes. We only need 48 more.
Now is the chance to pass this measure in every state possible. Democrats won both houses of the legislature in Wisconsin for the first time in 18 years (10 electoral votes). We won the Pennsylvania state Senate for the first time since 1993 (19 votes). We now have a trifecta in Michigan (15 votes). And we won the governor’s race in Nevada (6 votes).
10 + 19 + 15 + 6 = 50.
222 + 50 = 272.
And if we hold our lead in the Arizona Senate, that number could climb as high as 283, more than enough to trigger the compact.
In addition to removing an imbalance in our system that favors Republicans, this novel approach would fundamentally change how candidates run their presidential campaigns. Currently, they are incentivized to ignore most of the country. If you live in a “safe” state, red or blue, your vote for President is basically decided before you cast it. Campaigns spend their time and money in a handful of swing states while the rest of us watch from the sidelines. If the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is adopted, they'll have reason to hit every state because they're aiming to win the largest swath of the country as a whole, not just certain states.
States have until July 20, 2028 to join the compact in time for the next presidential election.
We can fix our democracy. The time is now.
Please like and share if you support this idea!
EnviroWarrior311 retweeted
If you voted for Mississippi Democrat Scott Colom by affidavit because you didn’t have voter ID, you have until Tuesday, November 10 to fix it. Colom leads by 43 votes, and he needs every single vote to win.
EnviroWarrior311 retweeted
I am deeply grateful to everyone who has retweeted generating 11K views from which 4 people donated totaling $175. Thank you so much for your kind hearts❤️🙏🫂. I have 12 vet appointments to schedule. Please continue to retweet to help me be in a position to help this black floof🙏💔. paypal.me/ppknox
9 precious souls rescued in the last 4 weeks and 37 since May. I can only get 67 free retweets💔. I don’t need accolades or likes just retweets. This black floof is next. I have posted videos before of the 2 coyotes and they always miss each other by minutes every night. She is struggling amongst the outside elements. Food is not always available when she shows up. This will be her lifelong sanctuary home, while 99% of people are trapping cats and dropping off at Cobb AC never looking back. They have euthanized 2000 this year. Can I please just get free retweets for the CASH MATCH that runs through November? PLEASE 🙏 Monthly expenses are in the thousands. 42 babies plus outside colonies only have me. Thank you 🙏
EnviroWarrior311 retweeted
New arrivals at Bradford Cat Watch Rescue and Sanctuary.
This is a heartbreaking story.
This is Jasper and Tabitha.
They are around 12 years old and are desperately looking for a quiet home together.
They have come to Bradford Cat Watch Rescue and Sanctuary as their elderly owner has had to go into a care home due to worsening dementia and sadly there is no family to care for them.
They are such a sweet pair that simply need a loving quiet retirement home.
If you feel you are the right fit for them and are ready to adopt please complete the pre adoption enquiry form by clicking the link below and quoting Jasper and Tabitha.
bcwr-kittens.co.uk/adoption-…
EnviroWarrior311 retweeted
.@realDonaldTrump Beep beep… the trash truck is nigh.
EnviroWarrior311 retweeted
Some races won't be called tonight.
That's not fraud. That's counting.
Alaska, Maine and California routinely take days, even weeks, to count every ballot. Trump needs you to forget that.
Share if you agree that every vote should count.
EnviroWarrior311 retweeted
In case you're not paying attention:
Two years ago...
• We didn't have internment camps
• We didn't have masked military shooting people in the streets
• We weren't at war in the Middle East
• We funded science
• We funded education
• We weren't handing over public land to oil companies
• We were friends with Canada, Mexico and Europe
• Gas was 1/2 what it is now
• Solar and wind energy was a good thing
• Inflation was going down, not up
• Our food was safer
There is not one single thing better now than 2 years ago.
#FlipCongressBlue
EnviroWarrior311 retweeted
“POTUS comes from an unscrupulous and eternally greedy family that somehow turned an immigrant grandfather’s brothels into an empire of mediocrity, while the family tree continued to spawn men known more for their mendacity than morals.
Their genetic inadequacies ooze from their pores like the teeth that jauntily protrude from mouths made seemingly of all gum, no lips.
You really can’t fully appreciate just how loathsome a brood they are unless you have been misfortunate enough to be around them in person, but run the self-dealing numbers in Trump’s second term and a picture emerges that places them at the apex of the organized crime hierarchy in the United States.
We do not have a POTUS, we have a mob boss - and his children are his consiglieri. We need to NOT lose sight of this fact when Democrats take back the House and begin their investigations.
Jared and Vanky were given a pass after the first term; Don Jr. & Eric were no where on the congressional radar - this time they must not be afforded the same courtesy. I would often tell anyone that would listen that Trump’s concerns are of the immediate. He wants music to play when he walks in the room, he wants to get high, and he wants to hit on women. Jarvanka want to rule the world.
This was quite apparent in my days on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’, as was the fact that Trump wasn’t an actual billionaire and was deeply ensconced with the Russian Mob. We have witnessed, with brutal efficiency, what those relationships have meant to the world order - and how they exacerbated Putin’s aggressions in Ukraine, and left our diplomatic corps unmotivated to resolve the situation in any way that doesn’t immediately reward Russia for the bloodshed and horror they have foisted upon innocents.
The fact that Jared and Steve Witkoff have led the negotiations says it all about what is truly motivating the Trump regime: their own ability to profit.” noelcasler.substack.com/p/cr…
EnviroWarrior311 retweeted
“Christianity may be good and Satanism evil. Under the Constitution, however, both are neutral. This is an important, but difficult, concept for many law enforcement officers to accept. They are paid to uphold the penal code, not the Ten Commandments…
The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
EnviroWarrior311 retweeted
Repost this, then comment "VOTED" below. Let's build the world's longest conga line.
Your turn⬇️
EnviroWarrior311 retweeted
9 precious souls rescued in the last 4 weeks and 37 since May. I can only get 67 free retweets💔. I don’t need accolades or likes just retweets. This black floof is next. I have posted videos before of the 2 coyotes and they always miss each other by minutes every night. She is struggling amongst the outside elements. Food is not always available when she shows up. This will be her lifelong sanctuary home, while 99% of people are trapping cats and dropping off at Cobb AC never looking back. They have euthanized 2000 this year. Can I please just get free retweets for the CASH MATCH that runs through November? PLEASE 🙏 Monthly expenses are in the thousands. 42 babies plus outside colonies only have me. Thank you 🙏
🎂 3,081 REASONS...
TO CELEBRATE ONE WOMAN ❤️🐾
October 28th is Priya's birthday🥳
3,081 little souls have been helped over 21 years because this heart was born. If we could gather them all together, what a birthday celebration it would be.
There would be magnificent chaos.
But imagine, for just a moment, if every one of those lives could tell her what she meant to them...
"I was so hungry, and you fed me."
"I had forgotten what kindness felt like until you touched me."
"When I was hurting, you made the pain stop."
"I thought my life was nearly over. You thought it was still worth living."
"I have the best family and the most profound love because you saved me, tamed me and found me a home".
"You made my life on the streets a little safer, and you cared enough to make sure there wouldn't be more babies born into the same hardship."
And the ones who are no longer here?
Oh, I think their voices would be the most tender of all.
"You couldn't make me stay forever, Mummy. But you made the time I had beautiful. I knew I was loved. And when it was time to go, I didn't have to go alone."
Imagine hearing all of that.
Imagine being able to see, all at once, the enormous tapestry of lives woven together by one woman's compassion.
And if she’d never come along, where they would be today?
It began with a little girl, just eight years old, who found a woeful street cat and named him Fat Harry. A beautiful tabby, she called him her "sweet smelly boy". It was her first experience with an FIV cat. She learned these are the dangers of life on the street.
She couldn't have imagined what that one small act of kindness would become.
She couldn't possibly have known it then, but something began that day.
A life had secretly found its calling.💫
There were other plans. Possibilities. All the things we imagine a young life might become.
And then came the twists and turns that make up a lifetime.
Looking backward from here, it feels as though fate kept quietly leaving cats in Priya's path.
One became another. And another.
Eventually, a little girl who couldn't walk past one homeless cat became a woman who couldn't walk past any of them.
And now, 21 years of rescuing have given us 3,081 reasons to be grateful that she answered it.😽
There have been extraordinary victories and heartbreaking losses. Sleepless nights, impossible decisions, frightening veterinary emergencies, physical maladies that set in when the stress was too much and more tears than anyone should ever have to cry.
There have been days when the financial burden of rescue seemed insurmountable, when the exhaustion of 8 hour work days + 8 hour rescue duty making every day 16 hours of laboring stole the joy from another hard won victory, and when the suffering still waiting beyond the rescue's doors seemed endless.
Yet somehow, through it all, and I believe by grace, she has continued to answer the same quiet plea.
"Please help me".
Again and again.
So what do you give a woman whose life has been devoted to giving others a chance at life?
This birthday, we have a beautiful opportunity to give her something that would mean more to her than any gift wrapped in ribbons.
The means to keep saying YES.
A bit of relief from the pressure of worry, financial struggle and a moment to fully,deeply breathe.
If just for a moment.
🎁 A $2,000 BIRTHDAY CASH MATCH FOR PRIYA!
A generous friend has offered to match every birthday donation, dollar for dollar, up to $2,000, through November 18th..
If we can raise the full match, together we'll provide $4,000 to help Gandolf's Legacy @gandolf_s continue caring for the precious lives entrusted to Priya.
Food for hungry bellies. Medicine for the sick. Veterinary care.. Prescription diets for fragile seniors. Warm beds, clean litter and the security of knowing that someone will be there tomorrow.
Every gift is an expression of gratitude for a woman who has asked nothing for herself and given so much to others.
Priya deserves our help. She does what many others can’t or wouldn’t do by saving the lives of 1000’s of abandoned street cats and kittens.
And every dollar, large or small, becomes twice as meaningful while this match is open.
If Priya has ever touched your heart, if you've followed the stories of her rescues, celebrated their happy endings or wept with her when love simply wasn't enough to keep someone here, please consider making a birthday gift in her honor.
And if giving isn't possible, please consider a message of appreciation & a share of this birthday wish. Help us find more hearts willing to stand beside her.
Because there is something I would dearly love for Priya to understand on her birthday.
Those 3,081 lives are not simply a record of what she has accomplished.
They are 3,081 reasons why her life has mattered...why the world is kinder because she is in it.
3,081 reasons to celebrate the day she was born.
And if somehow we could gather them all beneath one enormous birthday sky, I imagine the ones who found their forever homes would come from every corner of the country.
The sanctuary cats would gather at her feet.
Fat Harry would have a place of honor!
And somewhere beyond our sight, all of the others who have gone ahead would be shining like little stars.
Then, for one impossible, glorious moment, perhaps every voice would join together.
Not merely to sing Happy Birthday.
But to say...
"Thank you for my life, Mummy."
Happy Birthday, Priya. ❤️
May all the love you have poured into the world for so many years find its way home to you.
And may this birthday remind you that the beautiful work of your life is still being written, one precious little soul at a time.
Love Lives Here. Because you do. 🐾❤️🫂
*The ways to contribute are in the reply below.
**Please let me know the amount of your gift or DM me if you wish it to remain private, so I can keep track of running total.😽
Thank you for staying to read.🙏
Here is a birthday tribute video. It was impossible to choose from so, so many faces and stories. It would have to be a full length movie to tell them all...💫
EnviroWarrior311 retweeted
The U.S. Army is doing drills for digging MASS GRAVES in an operation called “DRAGON COVENANT”. 🚨🚨🚨⚠️⚠️⚠️
Yes, you read that correctly…DRAGON. COVENANT.
Why is this alarming?
This is the first time since the Korean War that the U.S Military has conducted such a drill like this at scale, which is necessary and preparatory for MASS CASUALTY EVENTS & INTERNMENT SCENARIOS IN COMBAT.
In other words, it wouldn’t be necessary to do drills like this unless the military was about to take part in operations that are expected to have an abundance of war fatalities…
Like a mass ground invasion of Iran, or a Mass Casualty scenario of some kind here on American soil, for example.
On a side note…Who is the “dragon” referring to in the book of Revelation?
SATAN.
Quite the name for this operation, definitely a sign of the times.
