All posts tagged "Straws"

Social media users are ridiculing a Donald Trump advisor who reportedly told NBC that a major issue liability for Kamala Harris, whom President Joe Biden recently endorsed to be the next president, is that "she wants to ban plastic straws."

Jason Miller, senior advisor to the 2024 Trump campaign, was previously accused of "a cycle of sexual coercion, rape, sexual assault, abuse, battery, sexual harassment, and sex trafficking." Now, he's coming at Harris with all he's got.

Dem pollster Matt McDermott flagged the development on Sunday. ...

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It was the face that launched a thousand plastic straw bans.

The video begins with a close up of the turtle’s head, its dark green, pebbled skin out of place against the stark-white boat deck. Robinson’s hands approach, moving the pliers toward the turtle’s nostril. The tool clamps down on the edge of something — A barnacle? A worm? — barely visible within the dark tunnel. The creature squirms and dribbles blood as the pulling begins. A long, thin object begins to emerge, inch by excruciating inch....