What are you saying? This has nothing to do with the current republican party or their talking points!

Mohn also calls for the end of “all woke and gender ideology propaganda in schools and other public places

I'm sure it's a coincidence...

Mohn spouts several far-right talking points, including:

"America is rotting from the inside out as far-left woke mobs rampage our once prosperous cities, turning them into lawless zones."

" A fifth column army of illegal immigrants infiltrates our border"

Oh...

Even better, he is suing because the charges against him make him look like a traitor:

The filing states that as a result of the government’s actions Flynn was “falsely branded as a traitor to his country, lost at least tens of millions of dollars of business opportunities and future lifetime earning potential, [and] was maliciously prosecuted and spent substantial monies in his own defense.”

Discovery in this suit will be amazing. It'll be interesting to see the details we didn't get to see that led to the Judge in one case against Flynn to say "arguably you sold your country out".

It's because the article is withholding information* to "guide" the viewer towards conspiratorial explanations. Especially with lines like this:

What China’s lab was targeting with so many dangerous pathogens remains a mystery

Meanwhile, elsewhere, this was already answered:

https://apnews.com/article/california-biolab-covid19-test-kits-china-arrest-3ee30af1548356e017276860ebb21f53

The Chinese owner of an unauthorized central California lab that fueled conspiracy theories about China and biological weapons has been arrested on charges of not obtaining the proper permits to manufacture tests for COVID-19, pregnancy and HIV, and mislabeling some of the kits.

Also note, the OP article is not originally from AOL. AOL is quoting another article from a "Scripps News", practically in its entirety without any additional journalism on their part. If they had done any journalism, they would have found the AP article I linked with more info or the DoJ article on the charges that were brought up.

Edit:

This story broke in July 25, 2023:

https://midvalleytimes.com/article/news/2023/07/25/investigation-on-reedley-building-uncovers-bio-health-hazards/

investigators discovered that one room of the warehouse was used to produce COVID-19 and pregnancy tests

* Note, the words "test" or "tests" do not appear anywhere in the OP article.

The orcas thought the humans wanted to start a mosh pit.

It's also by a pretty decent margin so far:

With 59% reporting:

55.9% For

44.1% Against

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/07/us/elections/results-ohio-issue-1-abortion-rights.html

Edit:

56.6% For

43.4% against

The specific quote:

“Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions and insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country.”

From the article:

Laura Barrón-López, White House correspondent for PBS, told viewers last night, “I checked with a historian, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, and she said that language that he’s using ... echoes language used in Nazi propaganda by Adolf Hitler when Adolf Hitler actually said that Jewish people and migrants were ‘causing a blood poisoning’ of Germany.”

Additional site reporting the same (in an interview):

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-amplifies-violent-rhetoric-against-his-perceived-enemies-as-civil-fraud-trial-begins

First off, the water would need to be desalinated or you would ensure the land would be unsuitable for farming (and really growing anything) for generations.

Also, sand doesn't hold water. In fact, when planting trees and other bushes, if you want more drainage, you typically add rocks and sand.

Second, most plants need non-sandy soil to grow on (palm trees and other beach bushes and plants aside) though those grow in areas that have lots of rain already.

Thirdly, the soil will need bacteria to aid the plants in obtaining nutrients and breaking down waste (dead leaves, dead plantlife, etc).

The way to do it is to look at a couple of projects that are fighting against desertification in Africa:

1. The Great Green Wall https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-green-wall/

2. Using compostable waste to fertilize soil https://jstories.media/article/greening-the-desert-with-trash

You'll notice that many of these projects start at the edges of deserts. Instead of relying on pumping water onto sandy soil (which would just suck up the water as sand doesn't hold water that well) they focus on extending the non desert ecosystem onto the desert so that the new soil will absorb water better, the weather over the newly terraformed area will be less dry, and it will eventually be self sustaining.

Why I prefer this prediction:

Should also start calling tweets: X'cretions.

Twitter Feed: X'crement feed

Their public relations is pretty much a poop emoji already.

For those that want the source and confirmation:

Doing some math:

The writers that were paid $3000 in the story wrote 11/134 episodes or 8.2%

The episodes are 42 minutes each, round down 2 minutes for skipped credits, divide 3x10^9 by 40 we get:

75 million episodes streamed (approx)

If they wrote 8.2 % of those streamed, then they wrote 6.15 million individually streamed episodes.

So writers got 0.049c per episode streamed or 0.00012c per minute streamed.

The average American watches 160 minutes of TV Video a day, so round that up to 5000 minutes a month, and say $10 a month per sub on that, we get $10 of revenue for 5000 minutes streamed, or 0.2c per minute.

So streaming revenue (using the above math and assumptions) would be 0.2c per minute of which the writers of the content that was streamed got 0.00012c or 0.06%.

Netflix 2023Q2 revenue was 8.18B and expenses were 6.36B.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NFLX/netflix/revenue

2018 estimate figures the combined Netflix users streamed 164M hours per day

https://www.soda.com/news/netflix-users-stream-164-million-hours-per-day/

14.9Billion hours for that Quarter.

2018 saw 15.8 Billion annual revenue and 14.2Billion in costs. Gives us an estimate of 3.55B in costs for 1 quarter in 2018

894B minutes / 3.55 B in costs = 0.397c in costs per minute streamed.

Out of the 0.397c of costs (0.442c revenue) writers got 0.00012c or 0.0302% of the costs or 0.0272% of the revenue.

While the title of the story is interesting, this tidbit was buried further down:

Sound of Freedom" surprised critics by smashing box office projections, grossing more than $150 million so far. The film had a $14.5 million budget. Social media users have suggested that the film is using "astroturfing," a practice of buying up hundreds of tickets to make theaters appear sold out, to inflate its success.

Several TikToks have gone viral showing "Sound of Freedom" theaters that were supposedly sold out completely empty once the movie begins.