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| Another delicious 'O' blood type located! |
Mosquito Bites
The writer of CNN’s ‘Five Good Things’ posted on July 26 included a whimsical mention of being highly susceptible to mosquito bites. Actually, those with blood type ‘O,’ the most common of blood types (37% of us have type ‘O’ blood), are more likely to attract these insects than other blood types, according to some scientific studies. To learn more, copy and paste https://www.healthline.com/health/mosquito-blood-type on your browser line or CLICK RIGHT HERE.
JL
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The Headlines are Happening Right Here in Palm Beach County
To read about the brutal ICE treatment of an American citizen locally (please copy and paste https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2025/07/25/us-citizen-in-ice-custody-in-palm-beach-county-florida/85357485007/ on your browser line or CLICK RIGHT HERE.)
Also, Heather Cox Richardson’s July 25 posting leaves the reader to compare the actions and words of the ICE personnel involved in that incident with those of the racists who lynched Emmett Till in 1955. CLICK HERE
or copy and pastehttps://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-25-2025on your browser line to read it.
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The Trump Administration has secured enormous amounts of funding for such ‘Immigration Control Enforcement.’ It is time for real Americans to speak up and protest this misuse of supposed law enforcement by the Trump Administration.
It is time for Congress to ask from where the thugs whom ICE hires are recruited and trained, and a lot more, including why they mask their identities. Perhaps it might be to avoid eventually being identified when true, real, honest, law enforcement catches up with them.
As part of an appeal for donations, a recent posting by ‘Move On’ included these well documented footnotes, of which the first seven dealt with ICE. They cannot be ignored by Americans and their elected Representatives in Congress.
1. "Trump bill gives ICE $45 billion for detaining immigrants - more than it received in the last 15 years combined," The Independent, July 8, 2025
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-bill-ice-detention-funding-b2782918.html
2. "'ICE will now become the country’s largest federal law enforcement agency, bigger than the FBI, bigger than the DEA.'" PolitiFact, July 11, 2025
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/jul/11/jon-favreau/ICE-FBI-bill-Donald-Trump-largest/
3. Ibid.
4. "ICE offering six-figure salaries and $50K bonuses as it ramps up hiring to fuel deportations," New York Post, July 23, 2025
https://nypost.com/2025/07/23/us-news/ice-offering-six-figure-salaries-and-50k-bonuses-as-it-ramps-up-hiring-to-fuel-deportations/
5. "Army veteran and US citizen arrested in California immigration raid warns it could happen to anyone," AP News, July 17, 2025
https://apnews.com/article/us-army-veteran-immigration-raid-53cb22251a01599a0c4d1a8d5650d050
6. "To Staff Trump’s Immigration Crackdown, ICE Entices Its Retirees," The New York Times, July 18, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/us/ice-recruit-retiree.html
7. "ICE, Army to build nation's biggest immigrant jail," USA Today, July 23, 2025
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/07/23/trump-largest-ice-detention-center-army-base/85341687007/
8. "About 17 Million More People Could be Uninsured due to the Big Beautiful Bill and other Policy Changes," KFF, July 1, 2025
https://www.kff.org/quick-take/about-17-million-more-people-could-be-uninsured-due-to-the-big-beautiful-bill-and-other-policy-changes/
9. "Trump’s Budget Bill: An Attack on Public Schools, Working Families, and Immigrants," NEA Today, July 7, 2025
https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/trumps-budget-bill-attack-public-schools-working-families-and-immigrants.
It is still our country unless we allow ‘them’ to take it away from us! Defining ‘them’ is something to be addressed in a future Jackspotpourri.
JL
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Two Important Headlines from Monday’s (July 28) Palm Beach Post
(more reasons to read a daily newspaper)
“Justice Dept. investigating voter rolls in some states – Attorney: Requests read like ‘fishing expedition." (from USA Today)
“Trump’s distraction methods fall flat – Epstein uproar persists among usual loyal base." (from Reuters)
Both sound like interesting stories to read in full. See link to the Post below and take it from there.
JL
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Some Source Materials Used by Jackspotpourri (There are others)
(repeated from prior July 25 posting on Jackspotpourri)
These links can be copied and pasted on your browser line or you might try to click on them directly. In any event, here they are:
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/
https://msnbc.com/
https://www.cnn.com/
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/
https://snyder.substack.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/
https://www.thefp.com (the Free Press’ ‘Front Page’)
Some of these sources call for a subscription to get past their ‘teaser’ first paragraphs, but generally, much information is available from them without subscribing in order to cross their ‘paywalls,’ wherever they exist.
If I were to select one source to access without paying to subscribe to it, Professor Richardson’s is the clear choice. Her daily ‘Letters from an American,’ usually posted late the preceding evening, includes material from many sites and to which she provides links. She has done the work for you.
Her lengthy posting dated July 23 (CLICK HERE to read it) concluded with this sentence, something which seems to be obvious: ‘It does not seem likely the Epstein story is going away anytime soon.’
JL
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Dowd's Comments on Kissing Trump's Ring
Maureen Dowd’s July 26 New York Times column (‘Caving, Bowing, and Scraping’) really sets some limits as to which media sources have not yet succumbed, or are shortly likely to succumb, to the pressures of President Trump. Its allusion to Shakespearian censorship is brilliant. Check it out at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/opinion/trump-south-park-cbs.html or CLICK HERE to find out if satire can be our salvation.
JL
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A Head Scratcher from Heather
I am still scratching my head about Professor Heather Cox Richardson’s posting dated July 27. It involves a lot of history, art, what was once declared to be our nation’s manifest destiny, and the dangerous direction in which the nation seems to be headed under the leadership of the present Administration.
To check it out, CLICK HERE or copy and paste https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-27-2025 on your browser line. I promise you it doesn’t mention Trump, Epstein, or any of the names in today’s headlines, which makes it all the more important.
JL
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Housekeeping on Jackspotpourri
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More on the Sources of Information on Jackspotpourri: The sources of information used by Jackspotpourri include a delivered daily ‘paper’ newspaper (currently the Palm Beach Post, a Gannett publication) and what appears in my daily email.
Be aware that when I open that email, I take these steps:
1. I quickly scan the sources of the dozen or two emails I still get each day at my old email address to see from where they are being sent. Most are from vendors which I may have used years ago. Without reading 99% of them, I usually immediately delete them.
2. I then go to the email arriving at jacklippman18@gmail.com. Gmail enables ‘Promotion’ emails to be so designated and separated out. I believe their criteria are whether or not they end up asking for donations or if they are no more than advertisements. I ignore most of these ‘Promotion’ emails without reading them, deleting them. A very few, perhaps one or two a day, get moved over to the two or three dozen other emails which I will actually open.
3. Then I read my email.
Besides email, my other source of information is the Google search engine where I can look up any subject I want.
Lately, these search results have been headed by a very generalized summary clearly labeled as being developed by AI (Artificial Intelligence). On occasion I might use such search results, but when I do, I will say that I am doing so. Generally, however, I try not to use such summaries in preparing Jackspotpourri.
Following such ‘AI’ search results, there follows the results of my initially having accessed Google (or any other search engine) for information. Contrary to the anonymous AI-generated summaries, the sources of these results are clearly indicated.
I feel that It comes down to who YOU want to be in the driver’s seat in seeking information, yourself or something else (AI), the structure of which somewhere along the way had to have been created by others, with whose identity I am neither familiar nor comfortable. Caution should be exercised in using Artificial Intelligence.
(In doing searches on Google, I have found that these AI summaries can sometimes … but not always … be avoided by saying so in your search. For example, instead of searching for ‘FDR’s New Deal,’ I might search for ‘FDR’s New Deal – No AI.’ This is a work in progress.)
JL
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