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I’m actually surprised jfk jr didn’t try selling this as a health tonic…

Kevin Robillard at HuffPost:

Former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin easily knocked off incumbent Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) in a primary in Connecticut on Tuesday night, becoming the fourth challenger this year to defeat a significantly older incumbent Democrat in a primary. While never specifically saying the 78-year-old Larson was too old for the job, Bronin suggested a new approach was needed and implied Larson was out of touch after serving in Congress for 28 years. But while the other successful primaries for generational change this cycle involved millennial candidates who are members of the Democratic Socialists of America, Bronin is a 47-year-old mainstream liberal. Bronin, a Rhodes Scholar who served two terms as mayor, also worked in President Barack Obama’s Treasury Department and did a tour of Afghanistan as a member of the U.S. Navy Reserve. With the help of the super PAC VoteVets, which backs Democratic veterans for office, he was able to outspend Larson and his allies on television ads. But his comparatively conventional ideology ― he still backs Medicare for All and abolishing ICE ― and elite background did not prevent him from capitalizing on Democratic voters’ anger at the party establishment following the political failures of President Joe Biden, who planned to run for a second term in office as an octogenarian.

The CT-01 House Democratic primary featured a decisive win for challenger Luke Bronin against entrenched incumbent John Larsen.

Americans are having difficulties paying for food, fuel, housing, and medical care. But Trump is using taxpayer money to build kitschy monuments to himself.

Speaking at MS NOW, Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky says that the first order of business for the next Democratic president should be to "detonate" the Trump ballreoom.

I totally agree that it should be torn down but it should be done in a more methodical way. Victims of ICE, the Trump-Epstein scandal, and Trump's political prosecutions should be given the opportunity to take ceremonial swings at it with picks and sledgehammers.

Also, liens should be placed on all properties of the Trump crime family until they have paid for the cost of the physical damage they've caused and the cost of replacement and restoration.

As the California pipevine plant was displaced from San Francisco by urban sprawl, the California pipevine swallowtail, which relies on the pipevine plant to feed its caterpillars, also disappeared. That is, until a biologist named Tim Wong made it his mission to repopuplate the species in his own backyard.

Armed only with a cutting of California pipevine from the San Francisco Botanical Garden, Tim created a screened in butterfly enclosure in his backyard and began to reproduce California pipevines.

As new butterflies were born, Tim would donate them to the San Francisco Botanical Gardens where their pipevine host plant could still be found.

“At first he brought them in by the hundreds. Now he brings them in by the thousands every few months.”

While most of us don’t have the power to create habitat for endangered rhinos or tigers, anyone with a little bit of outdoor space can help create habitat for endangered insects!

You can:

-plant a pollinator garden with native nectar-producing plants

-plant host plants of local butterfly species

-leave piles of fallen leaves or sticks in your yard as habitat for native bees

-avoid using pesticides (or use them as sparingly as possible) around your home and yard