so i’m in my first trimester with our first (and only) kid, and i’ve had so much nausea and my headaches have only gotten worse, and i’m hungry all the time, and anytime i mention it, he’s so quick to grab his keys and run out the door to go get me whatever i need. 😭 he’s truly the best husband (and baby daddy) ever. and he does it with joy! he’s happy to take care of me 😭. (mind you we live in florida and he drives a 93’ 240sx project car with no ac) i truly couldn’t ask for anyone better 🖤

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Following another disastrous start Monday, the Toronto Blue Jays have optioned right-hander Alek Manoah to the Florida Complex League, the team announced Tuesday. Righty Bowden Francis was called up in a corresponding move. Link

The FCL is rookie ball and the lowest level of the minor leagues, and typically features young players who are very early in their pro careers, oftentimes teenagers. Games are played on the backfields at each MLB's organization's spring training complex and Manoah is essentially being sent down to the team's spring complex to work with coaches.

I'm wondering when May 2024 departures from Florida ports will be posted? Easter is late and we want to avoid sailing on a school holiday/ spring break time.

Introduction
In the tranquil town of Rock Springs, nestled in the heart of Naples, Florida, resides a real-life hero by the name of Sabin Barto. With his extraordinary strength, unwavering courage, and a heart filled with kindness, Barto embodies the qualities of a true hero. Having recently gained widespread recognition for his heroic actions in saving an unconscious man after a car accident, Barto's remarkable story is one that inspires and uplifts the spirit. As a retired Navy veteran and member of The Wounded Warrior Project, he has dedicated his life to serving his country and helping others. Additionally, Barto takes pride in being the proud owner and operator of Windy Ridge Gallery, a haven where art enthusiasts can connect with various forms of artistic expression.
The Heroic Act
Barto's heroism was displayed in a recent incident that unfolded before his eyes. As fate would have it, he found himself at the scene of a devastating car accident. With no hesitation, Barto sprang into action upon discovering an unconscious man trapped inside a vehicle. Drawing upon his military training and experience, he fearlessly approached the wreckage, disregarding any potential danger. In a display of immense strength and selflessness, Barto managed to extract the man from the vehicle, potentially saving his life. The news of his heroic deed quickly spread throughout the community, earning him the admiration and praise of all who heard his story.
Recognition and Award Ceremony
The extraordinary act of heroism performed by Barto did not go unnoticed. The people of Naples, Florida, along with various organizations, joined forces to acknowledge his exceptional bravery. In a grand celebration of his selflessness, Barto is set to receive a well-deserved award at a prestigious ceremony scheduled to take place this week. This ceremony not only honors Barto's individual heroism but also serves as a testament to the collective spirit that strengthens a community. It provides the people of Naples with an opportunity to express their gratitude and pay tribute to a local hero whose actions inspire hope and unity.
Commitment to Service
Barto's unwavering commitment to service is deeply rooted in his military background. Throughout his years in the Navy, he exemplified dedication and sacrifice, earning the respect and admiration of his comrades. Even after retiring from active duty, Barto remained steadfast in his mission to make a positive impact on the lives of others. As a member of The Wounded Warrior Project, an organization dedicated to supporting wounded veterans, he continues to extend his helping hand to those in need. Barto's involvement in philanthropic endeavors showcases his selflessness and reflects his belief in the importance of giving back to society.
The Artistic Journey
In addition to his noble military service and philanthropic contributions, Barto is also the proud owner and operator of Windy Ridge Gallery. This artistic endeavor allows him to create a space where individuals can appreciate and connect with various forms of art. Through his gallery, Barto shares his passion for artistic expression and seeks to inspire and uplift others. His dedication to the arts mirrors his unwavering commitment to making a difference in the world, as he believes that art has the power to transcend boundaries and touch the hearts and souls of individuals.
Conclusion
Sabin Barto, a retired Navy veteran, member of The Wounded Warrior Project, and the owner and operator of Windy Ridge Gallery, exemplifies the true essence of heroism. His remarkable strength, unwavering courage, and kind-hearted nature make him a hero in the eyes of those who have had the privilege of knowing him. Barto's recent heroic act has rightfully earned him recognition and a well-deserved award, highlighting his selflessness and unwavering commitment to making a difference in the world.

THE compulsive gambler sub consciously wants to lose his shirt, of course, along with everything else he owns, and so he again and again puts down the rent money on the Montreal Expos or 80‐to‐1 2‐year‐old maiden fillies wear ing blinkers and bandaged forelegs. And if he's nothing else, Walter Matthau, the 50‐year‐old stage and movie actor, is a compulsive gambler. A few years ago, for instance, while in Florida to film episodes of a TV series called “Tallahassee 7000,” Matthau breath‐takingly managed in a mere two weeks to drop no less than $183,000. He lost the money, moreover, not by backing crippled nags at Hialeah but mainly instead by betting on the outcome of spring training baseball games, a way of tossing bundles of money out the window that should surely that year have won him the Nobel Prize for masochism.
Since dropping that $183,000, sum that eventually took, him six years to pay off to his increa ingly impatient Mafia ‐ connected book maker, Matthau has cut down con siderably on the amounts that he bets, especially when he goes to race tracks, and on a good day at Holly wood Park he can now come happily home having lost only $400 or $580.
Still, he continues casually to bet thousand dollars or so on things like N.B.A. play‐off games or whether or not a friend can name the capital of Albania, and so remains a prime example of the evils of gambling to all those New Yorkers who are thinking of taking a first‐time fling at the ponies because of an easy access these days to offtrack betting windows in Grand Central Station and elsewhere. “I think that off‐track betting is great for New York,” dryly remarked Matthau during a recent three‐day visit to the city from his home in California. “I mean, it's so democratic—if they keep up off‐track betting long enough, every body in town will be on welfare.”
Of course, though he has the mo rose, hangdog look of a chronic loser, Matthas is scarcely a loser in everything he gets mixed up in. Far from it, as a matter of fact. For example, when signing contracts for his last several movies he chose to gamble on accepting a percentage of the profits in lieu of a salary, and at least one of these gambles has al ready handsomely paid off—his per centage of “Cactus Flower,” a film he made a couple of years ago with Ingrid Bergman and Goldie Hawn, has so far amounted, to more than a million dollars. And he's also on the way to making another million or so as his share of the profits from each of his two most recent pictures—“A New Leaf,” a wacky comedy in which he is co‐starred with Elaine May, and “Plaza Suite,” the film version of Neil Simon's exceedingly successful Broadway play. So, unlike almost every other compulsive gamb er in the country, Matthau is nowadays just about literally rolling in money. Besides, pleased with the way that his career is going, with his marriage, with his three children, and with his seaside home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., Matthau is even happy, an emotion not normally associated with the compulsive gambler.
HOW does a compulsive gambler get to be one? The story of Matthau's life is perhaps an object lesson to all of those who have lately been spend ing their lunch hours in Grand Cen tral Station to wait in line for the dubious privilege of giving away their money to Howard Samuels and his Off track Betting Corporation. In any event, Matthau was born on the lower East Side of Manhattan on Oct. 1, 1920, the son of an impoverished Russian‐Jewish immigrant from Kiev, in the Ukraine, and of a Lithuanian born Jewish mother.
When Matthau was 3 years old, and his older brother, Henry, was 5, his father, a worker at such odd jobs as serving subpoenas for law firms, lit out for parts unknown, leaving him and his brother to be raised by their mother, Rose, who managed to scrape a marginal living for herself and her sons by working as a sewing machine operator in garment district sweatshops. In 1935, when Matthau was 15 years old, he learned of his father's death in Bellevue Hospital. His mother is still living, and—sup ported in the grand manner by her sons (Matthau's brother lives now on Long Island and is a jobber of surplus Army‐Navy goods)—divides her time these days between a penthouse on West End Avenue and a condo in Miami Beach.
During his childhood, Matthau, his brother and his mother lived in succession of cold‐water tenement apartments in the Ukrainian area of the Lower East Side, that is, around East Fifth Street near Second Av enue, being forced to vacate each apartment after only a few months because they'd got so hopelessly far behind in the rent that their land lord would have them evicted. Years later, when Matthau briefly sublet Paul Newman's house in Hollywood for $3,700 per month, he recalled with a shake of his head that $3,700 was more money than the Matthau family had spent on rent during 20 years on the Lower East Side. Mat thau, however, hasn't the slightest nostalgia these days for his poverty ridden childhood. “It was a night mare—a dreadful, horrible, stinking nightmare,” he grimly remembers.
On the Lower East Side, Matthau recalls, the highest ambition of most of his class ates was some day to become a salesman for a garment district dress house, for he himself secretly had far more exalted am bitions — by the age of 8, a day dreamer, a loner, a reader of Shake speare, he'd already determined to become a famous writer and actor. Encouraged by a teacher who ad mired his speaking voice, Matthau appeared in a number of school plays and also regularly recited poetry in school assemblies. On East Fifth Street, anyone who evinced an interest in poetry was thought by his classmates to be seriously lacking in machismo, and Matthau often found himself getting beaten up at recess by schoolyard bullies. So, already feet tall by the age of 10 (he weighed only 90 pounds, however, and, says Matthau, who is today 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 180 pounds; “when I drank cherry soda, I looked like thermometer”), he put himself through a regimen of muscle‐building until “I had Popeyelike bumps on my skinny arms and could beat up any body who made snide remarks about my poetry reading.”
When Matthau was 11 years old, in fact, one of those whom he alleges to have beaten up in the schoolyard was none other than Rocky Graziano, who grew up, of course, to become the middleweight boxing champion of the world. Of Matthau's claim to having beaten up Graziano, one can unequivocally make the following statement: The story either is or is not true.
IN any event, along with being a compulsive gambler, Matthau is also something of a compulsive stretcher of the truth. Or, to put it perhaps a bit more tactfully, a compulsive weaver of fiction when it comes to talking about his past. For example, bored with repeating the story of his life over and over again to interview ers, Matthau has on more than one occasion told newspapermen and magazine writers that his father was a defrocked Russian Orthodox priest who'd had to flee for his life from Czarist Kiev in 1906 because he'd been preaching sermons in support of Pope Pius X. And this story, told by Matthau to interviewers with an absolutely straight face, has appeared several times as the God's truth in such usually accurate publications as Time and Current Biography.
NOT long ago, too, when Matthau was in New York for a round of newspaper, maga zine, radio and TV interviews to promote “Plaza Suite,” chanced to be in earshot when he told a story to Neil Simon that he'd heard the night be fore from Gene Saks, the director, about a somewhat aging and hard ‐ of hearing actor who'd had trouble re membering his lines in a play last winter at the Palm Beach Playhouse in Florida. So, as Matthau told the story to Si mon, a prompter, unseen by the audience, was hidden in a hole cut into the front of the stage and instructed to call out only key words to the actor when a line was for gotten. “Drastic,” whispered the prompter when the actor went up in his lines on the opening night of the play. From the hard ‐ of ‐ hearing actor, no response. “Drastic,” repeated the prompter in a somewhat louder voice. Again, no response. “Drastic,” the prompter now all but shouted. Still no response, upon which a man in the second row of the orchestra stood up and yelled “Dastic!” The actor heard him, smiled, remem bered his line, and the play went on.
As show‐biz stories go, not bad. Not so great, either. The following evening, however, happened to be on hand when Matthau was being inter viewed by David Frost on Frost's TV talk show and was asked, “What was your most embarrassing moment in the theater?” And, without batting an eyelash, Matthau pro ceeded to tell the “drastic” story as though it was some thing that had happened to him years ago on Broadway.
He concocts personal anec dotes that aren't true, Mat thau later somewhat abashedly told me, because they liven up otherwise boring inter views and make his past seem more colorful than it really was. “Like saying that my father was a Catholic priest — I figure that makes me more interesting than just another Jewish actor who had a pair of Jewish parents,” Matthau explained to me with a grin. “Jewish and Catholic— if I can just work a Protestant into my background, I'm all set.”

My kids took year-end state Math / ELA exams a month or so ago, but no results yet. Only the fall and December 2022 scores are available on the state family portal.
I’ve tried poking around online for more information, but Florida isn’t always the “transparency in open government” sunshine state that it once tried to be.
Edit: I called the district and they said that while the information “should” be available to parents in Family Portal, the state wouldn’t give the district the information for another 2 months shrug
I appreciate the comments from how the rest of the state is faring a bit better! Our fall and winter scores were immediate too, not sure what happened this time

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/lgbtq-rights-trans-gay-texas-florida-north-carolina?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1686061144
‘Do we need to flee the United States?’
In Maryland, Camille Rey’s son’s health has improved, while in Oregon, one year on from their move, Karen says her family is much happier. She has noticed a trend, though, among her new blue state neighbors, of talking about anti-LGBTQ+ laws as an “over there” problem.
The reality is that anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment is not limited geographically. Pride parades continue to be attacked. Shootings like that in Colorado Springs show that LGBTQ+ lives are at risk everywhere. Factions of the Republican party are pushing for a national “don’t say gay” bill. In the wake of Ron DeSantis’s 2024 presidential run announcement, campaigners worry that even blue states may not provide safety or shelter for queer people for long.
“The 14th amendment has been gutted with the overtaking of Roe v Wade. If the 14th amendment goes, our right to marriage and our freedom from sodomy laws, all that could go on a national level,” says McCranie. “So if we flee the state, but our rights go on a national level, the question becomes: do we need to flee the United States? I’m asking people I know: do you have a parent or grandparent from another country? You should go get that passport now.”
Mitchell and her wife are aiming to move to Minnesota due to its proximity to Canada, just in case. (Justin Trudeau has shown support for trans communities.) Rodriguez explains that she chose to leave the country, rather than Texas, so that she only has to move once. “My fear with the safe states is, what if the US passes federal anti-LGBTQ+ laws?” she says. “I had one house to sell, I had to do it to fund to go anywhere, so I should go where I don’t have to worry about what happens at the next election.”

Football

2024 Football Commits (#16 by 247, #13 by Rivals)

Player	Position	Location	Composite Rating	Rating at Commit
Kavion Henderson	DL	Leeds, AL	****(.9267)	****(.9245)
Dion Stutts	DT	Memphis, TN	***(.8753)	***(.8759)
Noreel White	CB	Ocean Springs, MS	****(.9006)	****(.9002)
Julius Pope	LB	Batesville, MS	****(.8993)	****(.8993)
KJ Jackson	QB	Montgomery, AL	****(.8917)	****(.8917)
Jade Allen	CB	Aledo, TX	****(.8960)	****(.8985)
Courtney Crutchfield	WR	Pine Bluff, AR	****(.9145)	****(.8933)
Charleston Collins	DL	LItte Rock, AR	****(.9304)	****(.9202)
Tevis Metcalf	CB	Pinson, AL	***(.8550)	***(.8550)
Jadan Baugh	RB	Decatur, GA	***(.8867)	***(.8867)

247 Crystal Ball Prediction Link
Top Football Targets

Player	Location	Rating	Crystal Ball/Committed
OFFENSE
QB
RB
Braylen Russell	Benton, AR	****(.9069)	Arkansas (1) 100%
Nate Palmer	Decatur, TX	****(.8908)	NONE
Traevon Dunbar	Aiken, SC	***(.8769)	NONE
Kewan Lacy	Lancaster, TX	****(.8828)	Ole Miss (2) 100%
Taylor Tatum	Longview, TX	****(.9817)	Michigan (1) 100%
WR
CJ Brown	Bentonville, AR	***(.8750)	NONE
Josiah Martin	Denton, TX	***(.8786)	NONE
Dozie Ezukanma	Forth Worth, TX	***(.8759)	NONE
Bryant Wesco	Midlothian, TX	****(.9788)	Clemson (3) 85.7% - Oklahoma (1) 12.5%
Ryan Wingo	St Louis, MO	*****(.9884)	Georgia(1) 100%
Parker Livingstone	Lovejoy, TX	****(.9086)	Arkansas (1) 75% - Texas (1) 25%
Dae'von Hall	Bellevue, NE	****(.8955)	Nebraska (1) 100%
Jeremiah McClellan	St Louis, MO	****(.9310)	Ohio State (2) 100 State
Delon Miller	Silsbee, TX	****(.9647)	NONE
TE
Kylan Fox	Loganville, GA	****(.9204)	Florida State (1) 100%
Decker DeGraaf	Glendora, CA	***(.8750)	NONE
OL
Kobe Branham	Forth Smith, AR	***(.8650)	Arkansas (3) 100%
JacQawn McRoy	Pinson, AL	****(.9313)	NONE
Max Anderson	Frisco, TX	****(.9276)	Tennessee (2) 100%
Jonah Logan	Saint Louis, MO	NR	NONE
Daniel Akinkunmi	NFL Academy (London)	NR	NONE
Fletcher Westphal	Leesburg, VA	****(.9123)	NONE
Kai Greer	Waxhaw, NC	***(.8867)	NONE
Makai Saina	Arlington, TX	****(.8917)	NONE
Daniel Calhoun	Roswell, GA	****(.9561)	NONE
Barry Walker	Cordele, GA	***(.8828)	NONE
Web Davidson	Macon, GA	NR	NONE
Jason Zandamela	Clearwater, FL	****(.9412)	Florida State (2) 100%
Waltclaire Flynn Jr.	Loganville, GA	****(.9131)	NONE
DEFENSE
DE
TJ Lindsey	Bryant, AR	***(.8900)	Texas A&M (1) 100%
Solomon Williams	Tampa, FL	***(.8826)	NONE
Danny Okoye	Tulsa, OK	****(.9355)	NONE
Zina Umeozulu	Allen, TX	****(.9381)	NONE
Williams Nwaneri	Lees Summit, MO	*****(.9971)	Oklahoma (1) 100%
Collin Simmons	Duncanville, TX	*****(.9965)	LSU (1) 100%
DT
Marcus Downs	Greer, SC	***(.8826)	NONE
Nigel Smith II	Melissa, TX	****(.9591)	Oklahoma (1) 100%
Jayden Jackson	Bradenton, FL	***(.8750)	NONE
Alex January	Duncanville, TX	***(.8865)	NONE
Malik Blocton	Pike Road, AL	****(.8908)	NONE
Terrell Spruill	Rockledge, FL	***(.8478)	NONE
Landon Marshall	Andalusia, AL	***(.8550)	NONE
LB
Brian Huff	Jonesboro, AR	****(.9096)	Arkansas (2) 100%
Jordan Burns	Atlanta, GA	****(.8933)	NONE
D'Angelo Barber	Pinson, AL	***(.8867)	Auburn (1) 100%
Xavier Atkins	Humble, TX	****(.9163)	Committed to LSU
Justin Logan	Marietta, GA	***(.8900)	NONE
CB
Braylon Conley	Humble, TX	***(.8883)	NONE
Chris Johnson Jr	Aledo, TX	****(.8927)	NONE
Elijah Hall	Tuskegee, AL	***(.8550)	NONE
Josh Philostin	West Palm Beach, FL	****(.8924)	NONE
Selman Bridges	Temple, TX	****(.9709)	NONE
S
Ka'Davion Dotson	Duncanville, TX	****(.9159)	LSU (2) 100%
Tyler Singleton	Many, LA	****(.9422)	NONE
KJ Bolden	Buford, GA	*****(.9957)	Georgia (1) 100%
Tomauri Johnson	Miami, FL	***(.8685)	NONE
Marqavious Saboor	Marietta, GA	***(.8800)	NONE
Ashton Hampton	Tallahassee, FL	***(.8689)	NONE
Kenyan Kelly	Denison, TX	***(.8886)	NONE
Tyler Woodard (JUCO)	Memphis, TN	NR	NONE

Basketball

2023 Basketball Signees (#9 by 247, #18 by Rivals)

Player	Pos.	Location	Composite
Layden Blocker	PG	Maumell, AR	****(.9869)
Baye Fall	C	Denver, CO	****(.9890)

Transfer Portal contacts via NWAHutch

Company Name	Title	City
United States Secret Service	Criminal Investigator	Fort Myers
United States Secret Service	Criminal Investigator	Jacksonville
United States Secret Service	Criminal Investigator	Miami
Aveanna Healthcare	LPN Private Duty Nurse - Day & Night Shifts	Alachua
FRESENIUS	Facility Social Worker	Altamonte Springs
FRESENIUS	Manager Social Work Svcs	Altamonte Springs
L3Harris Technologies	Senior Associate, Electrical Engineering	Anna Maria
Mutual of Omaha	Sales Agent	Apollo Beach
Mutual of Omaha	Sales Representative	Apollo Beach
Aveanna Healthcare	Aveanna Healthcare Private Duty Nurse LPN	Boca Raton
Aveanna Healthcare	Private Duty Nurse	Boca Raton
Aveanna Healthcare	LPN Private Duty Nurse - Boca Raton Area	Boca Raton
Aveanna Healthcare	Private Duty Nurse LPN - Nights Only	Bonita Springs
Aveanna Healthcare	Aveanna Healthcare Private Duty Nurse RN	Bonita Springs
Aveanna Healthcare	Private Duty Nurse RN - Nights Only	Bonita Springs
HCA Florida Blake Hospital	Registered Nurse Med Surg	Bradenton
American Family Dental	Dental Hygienist	Bradenton
Smiles at Lakewood Ranch	Hygiene Assistant	Bradenton
HCA Florida Oak Hill Hospital	Registered Nurse (RN)	Brooksville
HCA Florida Oak Hill Hospital	RN	Brooksville
Aveanna Healthcare	Private Nurse	Cape Coral
Aveanna Healthcare	Aveanna Healthcare Private Duty Nurse RN	Cape Coral
Aveanna Healthcare	Private Duty Nurse	Cape Coral
Avis Budget Group	Customer Service Representative	Clearwater
L3Harris Technologies	Senior Associate, Electrical Engineering	Clearwater

Hey guys, here are some recent job openings in fl. Feel free to comment here or send me a private message if you have any questions, I'm at the community's disposal! If you encounter any problems with any of these job openings please let me know that I will modify the table accordingly. Thanks!

Company Name	Title	City
Kaiser	Medical Social Worker	Ramona
FRESENIUS	Facility Social Worker	Altamonte Springs
FRESENIUS	Facility Social Worker	Saint Johns
UnitedHealth Group	Part-Time Social Worker (SSM Health) - Multiple Locations in Wisconsin	Monroe
Talkspace	Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Remote	Steese
Talkspace	Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Remote	Alameda Pt
Talkspace	Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Remote	Stamford
Talkspace	Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Remote	Iowa
Talkspace	Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Remote	Champaign
Talkspace	Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Remote	Elizabethtown
Talkspace	Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Remote	Allendale
Talkspace	Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Remote	Cooke
Talkspace	Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Remote	Bismarck
Talkspace	Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Remote	Fargo
Talkspace	Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Remote	Papillion
Talkspace	Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Remote	Concord
Talkspace	Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Remote	Merchantville
Talkspace	Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Remote	Mcminnville
Talkspace	Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Remote	Phoenix
Talkspace	Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Remote	Indiana
Talkspace	Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Remote	Woonsocket
Talkspace	Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Remote	Granite
Talkspace	Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Remote	Camp Johnson
Brown County	Immediate Openings FT Social Worker Child Protection New Ulm	New Ulm

Hey guys, here are some recent job openings in . Feel free to comment here or send me a private message if you have any questions, I'm at the community's disposal! If you encounter any problems with any of these job openings please let me know that I will modify the table accordingly. Thanks!

"I've looked around, I've looked everywhere, I haven't seen one white supremacist." - Former GOP Congressman and current Fox News shill Sean Duffy employing a classic

Obstruct By Lightning

Are we on indictment watch? Let’s get ahead of ourselves this fine Monday.

• As the Justice Department’s Special Counsel Jack Smith wraps up his investigation of disgraced former president Donald Trump’s (DFPDT’s) “mishandling” of classified White House documents, it looks like a new evidence bomb just dropped. According to a source close to DFPDT, a Mar-a-Lago employee drained the resort’s swimming pool last October and consequently flooded a room where computer servers containing surveillance-video logs were kept.
  
• It’s unclear if the room was flooded intentionally or accidentally, but we have an educated guess! And we’re not the only ones. This incident occurred as part of a series of events that federal prosecutors found suspicious. At least one witness there has been questioned by federal investigators about the flooded server room, which came roughly two months after the FBI retrieved hundreds of classified documents from Trump’s Florida residence.
  
• Federal prosecutors have been looking into efforts by Trump and his employees to obstruct the DOJ’s investigation after Trump received a subpoena to hand over any classified documents in his possession in May 2022, which he mostly did not, as we found out after the August FBI raid of Mar-A-Lago. At least 20 people—members of Trump’s inner circle as well as Mar-a-Lago staff—have been subpoenaed to testify in front of the federal grand jury.
  

Each new detail in the evidence pile points to overt corruption and obstruction of justice by Trump and his lackeys, and his legal team can sense that the walls are (maybe this time for real?) closing in.

• In April, Trump’s legal team protested that the classified-documents theft should be investigated as an administrative, rather than a criminal, matter. In late May, two of Trump’s lawyers sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland asking for a personal meeting to discuss what they characterized as “unfair treatment” of their client (lol) by Special Counsel Jack Smith. Lawyers asking for a meeting with DOJ officials in a federal case on behalf of their client is not unusual. Asking for a private audience with the attorney general is. On Monday, Trump’s cadre of lawyers made asked DOJ officials if the department would, pretty please, not charge Trump for stealing classified documents from the White House after leaving office.
  
• All of this is to say nothing of the myriad other investigations of Trump’s contemporaneous crimes. In the past week, the Fulton County, GA, district attorney has been zeroing-in on two firms hired by the Trump campaign to “study” the question of electoral fraud in the 2020 election. The DA’s office has asked the firms for both data and information about Georgia, but also for communications with Trump officials and a detailed accounting of the campaign’s activities in other states, as prosecutors aim to build a broader racketeering case. Earlier this year, federal prosecutors obtained evidence from one of the firms, Berkeley Research Group, that Trump’s White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows had berated its employees for not giving him sufficient evidence to overturn the election results and “encouraged” them to find fraud that didn’t exist.
  

Big legal consequences for Trump’s shameless crime streak could finally be on the horizon. Be there, will be wild!

Look No Further Than Crooked Media

Pride is about fighting the freaks, but also acknowledging the fact that being gay and trans and even bi is a great time. Since this is America, we're celebrating that by making stupid memes and buying stuff.
All Pride month long, you can shop from some of our favorite queer-owned businesses and authors at Crooked’s Little Gay Pop-Up Shop in the Crooked Store. Support the LGBTQ community while you browse a Crooked-curated selection of cool shit, like spices from Diaspora & Co, kids books Ron DeSantis has probably already banned, and much more.
Head to https://crooked.com/store to check out the whole Pride collection.

Under The Radar

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint in federal court on Monday listing 13 charges against cryptocurrency-exchange company Binance and its CEO and founder Changpeng Zhao. The SEC alleges that Zhao operated a “web of deception” and that Binance artificially inflated its trading numbers, diverted customer funds, failed to restrict U.S. customers from its platform, and lied to investors about its market-surveillance capabilities. Further, the claims allege that Binance and Zhao secretly controlled customer assets and allowed them to commingle and divert investor funds, which, in legal terms, is a big no-no. Binance is the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, and this lawsuit marks the second time this year that federal authorities have accused the company of evading laws designed to protect investors in the United States.

What Else?

Saudi Arabia announced it would make significant cuts to its oil output in July, compounding a broader OPEC deal to limit supply in order to inflate oil prices. Cool! Love those guys!
The IRS is readying its free online tax-filing pilot program for rollout as early as next year, so the major tax-prep corporations are arming themselves with a deep bench of lobbyists. Cool! Love those guys!
Someone bought a shitload of shares in Equitrans Midstream Corp—the company heavily involved in the long-delayed Mountain Valley Pipeline—days before the debt ceiling (which greenlit the pipeline) was announced, suggesting that the special someone in question did insider trading.
An investigation by California Attorney General Rob Bonta found that the state of Florida transported asylum-seeking migrants from the Texas border by private jet to California’s capital city of Sacramento on Monday as yet another inhumane stunt performed on the Florida taxpayers’ dime, the second in four days. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) did not mince words in excoriating Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), calling him a “small, pathetic man,” (get his ass, Gavin) and raising the prospect of kidnapping charges.
A Utah school district has banned the Bible in elementary and middle schools for “vulgarity and violence.” Sorry kids, no Song of Songs for you, it’s too horny.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) claimed she intentionally skipped the debt-limit vote as a “silent protest” but a new video shows her running up the steps on her way to vote in a panic, then learning she had missed it.
A private plane flying over Washington, DC, crashed in Northern Virginia on Sunday, killing all four passengers. F-16 fighter jets were deployed to intercept the plane while it was still in the air, causing a sonic boom heard across the region, but were unsuccessful.
Former Vice President Mike Pence has officially filed paperwork to launch his 2024 presidential campaign. Someone tell Mother!
Waning voter turnout in the blue stronghold of Philadelphia has the Democratic Party worrying about 2024.

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The Kremlin’s Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian army thwarted a major Ukranian attack in Donetsk, releasing a video showing military vehicles under heavy fire. Moscow claims their forces killed 300 troops and destroyed 16 tanks, but that has yet to be independently verified. Ukraine’s military spokesperson, however, said on Monday that the country had no information about a major attack on the key region. Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said in an interview on Monday that the country’s long-awaited counteroffensive is “taking place in several directions,” furthering speculation that the campaign to recapture land held by Russian forces is already underway. The counteroffensive has lofty stakes: Kyiv needs to show its people and its Western allies that it can push back advances Russia has made over the winter and early spring.

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A breakthrough pill for patients with non-small-cell lung cancer reduced the risk of patient death by a staggering 51 percent.
The California State Assembly is considering a bill that would prevent landlords from charging more than one month’s rent as a security deposit.
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Jen St. Jude ☄️ on Twitter: "This year June really feels like Pride AND Prejudice amirite"

I've owned several types of fins and my go-to sets are the Apeks RK3 and RK3HD fins for either open water diving or technical dives and I've never had a single problem with frog kicking, modified flutter, modified frog, or backfinning(sp?), plenty of power and they allow me to make minute adjustments as need me. However, I was razzle dazzled by someone to try the Fourth Element Tech Fins and here is why they're going to stay dry unless I need to loan them to someone or I've lost both sets of RK3s.
The size I bought was the Large size because I'm a Size 9 foot, my wife also bought the same size as it fit her foot as well, both were in black, if that makes any difference.
Things I like:

• Fourth Element uses natural rubber so its more "environmentally friendly"

Everything else:

• The fin foot pocket is rather small and way too stiff, my wife's fins gave her a cyst on the top of her foot and this was experienced by other divers too
• They're rather negatively buoyant and this wasn't helpful for me in open water with either a 3mm or 5mm wetsuit with either HP80s or Dual HP100s in tech
• The spring straps are insanely tight and my wife, and two other diving friends (Professionals in the SCUBA industry if that makes a difference) experienced the same thing with the feeling of pain while using them. The only option is to purchase the XL sized strap, but now you're already more money deep into a $200+ pair of fins and the instructor friend said those didn't work for him either so he went and made his own to work with the fin so it doesn't hurt while diving.
• Because of the above point these fins are a monumental PITA to take off and there is very little room for you to thread your hand through to put your fins on your wrist when climbing aboard a boat that doesn't have a christmas tree ladder
• These offered less maneuverability and power than my standard RK3 fins! You heard correct, all forms of finning were inferior to the RK3, brought all three pairs with me on a dive to test them out in open water, in a 3mm wetsuit, with a HP80 and the RK3 provided more propulsion and was significantly better at back finning compared to the Fourth Element fins. This was amplified when I switched to the RK3HD fins, I was able to do more with less effort.
• The little carrying strap, which is nothing more than a bolt snap with a lanyard, isn't all that useful, in fact, I don't even know where it is now, but its a claim they boast about.

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In conclusion, I blame myself for being razzle dazzled by some claim that Fourth Element "improved" on something which is already tried and true with various manufacturers. The SP Jet Fins, Hollis F1, Apeks RK3, and the various others who have been out for a long time are generally less expensive, have better, and proven, characteristics underwater with the various finning techniques to provide ample propulsion. Like anything with SCUBA gear, your mileage may vary and you may have a different experience with these fins; however, I've met a lot of people in South Florida who bought them and after a few boat dives I don't see them using the fins afterwards, and a quick chat reveals the same points I came to, which is similar to their masks, another review I'll post soon.