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“I don’t believe in welfare,” Republican Gov. Jim Pillen said of declining a federal program that would feed food-insecure children in the summer of 2024. The Republican governor of Nebraska is standing by his decision to reject a federal program that would give the state $18 million to help feed food-insecure children next summer. Gov. Jim Pillen reiterated his stance in a statement Friday on why the state won’t be participating in the 2024 Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children or Summer EBT program. At a rally on Friday in front of the Governor’s Residence, advocates for the federal program argued the Summer Food Service Program doesn’t reach thousands of kids who aren’t able to participate in those on-site programs, the Nebraska Examiner reported. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nebraska-governor-reject-summer-electronic-benefits-transfer-children-federal-program_n_65906194e4b0cd3cf0e57a6c

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the 84-page application: https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf

He was so young :( may he rest in peace

President Joe Biden's current approval rating is lower than that of the last four presidents who failed to win a second term, according to polling data. Biden's popularity among voters has been a major talking point in the 2024 campaign. His approval rating percentage has steadily been in the low 40s for most of his presidency. It was at its highest when Biden first took office in January 2021 at 53.1 percent and at its lowest in July 2022 at 38.2 percent, according to poll aggregator FiveThirtyEight. A recent poll conducted by the American Research Group from December 17-20 found that 37 percent of Americans approve of Biden's handling of his presidency, while 57 percent disapprove. The poll surveyed 1,100 adults living in the continental U.S. and had a margin of error of 3 percentage points. Looking at how Biden's popularity fares compared to past incumbents who lost their reelection campaigns, he has a lower approval rating than Donald Trump, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford at the same point in their presidencies. Biden's approval rating is about 10 points behind former Democratic President Jimmy Carter's at this point in their presidencies. On the 1,074th day of the Carter administration, the president had a 49.2 percent approval rating. Carter lost to Republican candidate Ronald Reagan in the 1980 election. Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-less-popular-last-4-presidents-who-failed-win-second-term-1856574

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More pictures can be seen here: https://www.fendi.com/us-en/cm/articles/fendixfrgmtxpokemon-teasing ATRL, which part of the collection would you be most interested in buying?

https://www.newsweek.com/conservative-womens-swimsuit-calendar-angers-christians-demonic-1855774 Conservative Dad's Ultra Right Beer released its "Real Women of America 2024 Calendar" earlier this month in "celebration of conservative women who are fighting woke [extremists] to preserve real women." It features several well-known conservatives, such as swimmer Riley Gaines, radio host Dana Loesch, former House candidate Kim Klacik and author Ashley St. Clair, among others. But the beer calendar has been heavily criticized by conservatives, some of whom have called the calendar "demonic" for sexualizing women (including some who are married) and lacking images of women with children, as well as for being marketed to conservative dads.

TMZ: GYPSY ROSE BLANCHARD RELEASED

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A 14-year-old Florida teen fatally shot his sister in an argument over Christmas gifts, only to be shot moments later by his own teenage brother, authorities said. The argument started when the brothers, ages 14 and 15, were out shopping on Christmas Eve Sunday with their mother and sister, and got into a spat over who was receiving more Christmas gifts, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said during a news conference. After shopping, the boys, their mother, their 23-year-old sister Abrielle Baldwin, and Baldwin's two young children, ages 6 and 11 months, went to their grandmother's home in Largo where the argument continued. That's when the 14-year-old brother "stood in the doorway, he took out his .40 caliber semi-automatic handgun, and he pointed it at [his brother] and told him he was going to shoot him in the head,” Gualtieri said. The 14-year-old tried to get his 15-year-old brother to fight and an uncle ended up separating them and moving the 14-year-old outside into the driveway area. That’s where he found Abrielle carrying her 11-month-old baby in a carrier. She told him: “You all need to leave that stuff alone. Why are you trying to start it? It’s Christmas,” Gualtieri said. The 14-year-old ensued to argue with her, called her “derogatory” terms, and shot her in the chest as she was holding her infant in the carrier, the sheriff said. She fell, and the baby fell too, but was unharmed. The 15-year-old brother then came outside, and brought out a .45 caliber semi-automatic handgun, and exclaimed, "You shot my motherf------ sister!" and shot the 14-year-old one time in the stomach, according to the sheriff's office. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-teen-accused-fatally-shooting-sister-argument-christmas-gifts-rcna131280 Omg so sad

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nigerian-villagers-missing-two-days-after-suspected-nomadic-herders-kill-140-2023-12-26/ https://time.com/6551014/nigeria-farmer-herder-mass-killing/ https://punchng.com/outrage-as-plateau-massacre-claims-150-over-10000-displaced/

google translate: "In Waechtersbach a house burned down completely. The family has lost everything. I receive pictures where “Foreigners out” can be seen on the walls. Not in one room, but in several rooms. Dear @Polizei_soh , I hope you have these pictures and I seriously hope that this doesn't remain at "cause of fire unclear". It obviously looks like a hate crime. We are waiting for the investigation and will monitor the progress closely."

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This is a new study from Pew Research. It shows that those people who say religion is most important in their lives support gay marriage the least. Check out the graph below. They did not make distinctions between different religions, they just asked how important religion is to people in different places. You see Sweden being perhaps the least religious country in the world and also the most supportive of gay marriage (nearly 100%), and then Nigeria and Indonesia being totally opposite (nearly 0%). Link to the whole study: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/11/27/how-people-around-the-world-view-same-sex-marriage/