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Trump has taken his destruction to 'another scale' as he turns DC into 'swamp': expert

President Donald Trump has taken his destruction to another level as he turns Washington, D.C. into the grimiest swamp of all time, according to one political expert. David Rothkopf, global affairs columnist for The Daily Beast, said on a new episode of The Daily Beast Podcast with host Joanna Coles that Trump's failed renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become the perfect symbol of Trump's presidency. Trump promised to turn the old pool into a beautiful specimen, complete with American flag blue waters with absolutely no algae, at a cost of just 2 million. However, the project didn't go as Trump thought it might. The total cost ended up being around 16 million, and the algae that Trump derided has returned in full force. Some visitors even saw a dead duckling floating in its waters, according to reports. It’s such a symbol of his vandalism, his failure, his inability to take responsibility for anything, his turning Washington into the grimiest, slimiest swamp of all time,” he said. “This is a metaphor for Trump.”Rothkopf also noted that Trump's failure to renovate the Reflecting Pool represents a pattern of behavior where the president fails to live up to his own expectations. “He didn’t do enough damage as the worst, most tasteless developer in America. Now he’s taken it to another scale with tack,” Rothkopf said.

Callum had bubbles in his urine. Doctors told him not to worry... now he's on a transplant waiting list after being diagnosed with a disease that affects millions. Here are all the vital signs you can't ignore

Callum had bubbles in his urine. Doctors told him not to worry... now he's on a transplant waiting list after being diagnosed with a disease that affects millions. Here are all the vital signs you can't ignore

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Trump's America, where everything Trump touches dies. Source: Washington Post A duck carcass was photographed floating in the algae-filled water, days after the “American Flag Blue” paint began peeling off the bottom of the pool. Then, two other dead ducks were found in a pond at Constitution Gardens on the National Mall — roughly 250 feet from the Reflecting Pool. City Wildlife, one of the lead animal rescue and rehabilitation groups in the area, said a staffer collected their bodies Sunday and brought them to the organization’s facility. It’s not immediately clear how those two ducks — one was a juvenile and the other was an adult — died. But animal experts said ducks, which know no boundaries, typically go back and forth between the two water spots of the Reflecting Pool and Constitution Gardens. They expressed concern that the construction activity is placing additional stress and “drama” on the ducks and their habitat. They also worry that algae blooms containing toxins called cyanobacteria, or chemicals from the paint in the Reflecting Pool, could harm wildlife. Certain types of algae are part of a duck’s natural diet, but if the birds consume blue-green algae, it can be toxic. “They walk and fly back and forth,” said City Wildlife President April Linton. “They could have had exposure to the Reflecting Pool. It could be something related to peeling paint or algae.” read more

[Photo] The man who wants to live forever may have hit a speed bump.A fan of telling all about [...]

The man who wants to live forever may have hit a speed bump.A fan of telling all about his longevity journey, biohacker Bryan Johnson recently shared on social media that he has an incurable autoimmune disease where his “stomach is eating itself.”And true to his biohacking ways, the 48-year-old wrote that he would “try and solve [the condition],” which he says only 2 to 5 of people have.While his current health routine involves optimizing everything from sleep to fertility, this wasn’t always the case, as Johnson shared he regularly ate fast food and sugary beverages as a kid.Then, after years of struggling with stress, weight gain and chronic depression, his body began developing an autoimmune process that affected his thyroid and stomach lining — autoimmune gastritis (AIG.)And the outlook is grim, with the tech mogul writing that “standard medical care concedes defeat, stating that nothing can be done except managing the condition.”Link@WeTheMedia

Trans-WHAT-icide? Chicago's Brandon Johnson Invents a Whole New Word to Deflect From His Failures

Trans-WHAT-icide? Chicago's Brandon Johnson Invents a Whole New Word to Deflect From His Failures