EPA To Monarch Butterflies: ‘Count Your Fucking Days’ https://theonion.com/epa-to-monarch-butterflies-count-your-fucking-days/
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“The fossil fuel industry has convinced us the climate crisis is a suicide rather than a homicide. And we’re all just still blaming ourselves.” — Nathaniel Stinnett, founder of @environmentalvoter.bsky.social
The public should be camping out in front of the Nat’l Park White House to stop this ⛺️
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3mo agoNEW: Internal National Park Service records obtained by MeidasTouch’s Scott MacFarlane reveal more than $400 MILLION has been steered toward Trump’s White House and D.C. projects, while funding for major national parks is being slashed.
The Trump admin just changed the definition of "harm" to animals under the Endangered Species Act, in what environmentalists called the biggest erosion of protections for wildlife in 50 years. @nytimes.com gift link to the story w/ @catrineinhorn.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
Trump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species (Gift Article)
The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.
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"The fact that the more-or-less-trillionaire owner of a major social media platform is cosplaying a James Bond villain obsessed with brown invaders and 'white genocide' really should scare us all." ICYMI Cathy Young: lnk.thebulwark.com/4v0DBUB
Elon Musk’s Race War Hobby
He doesn’t like brown people and he isn’t trying to hide it.
lnk.thebulwark.com
BP not only funded the research behind the influential “Wedges” climate science paper, but company execs even tried to revise versions of it. “Chaps, I have had a go at rewriting the paper,” a BP climate adviser wrote the researchers at one point.
How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
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American foreign policy is now shaped by people whose personal proximity to the President—through family, business, donations, or flattery—is their principal qualification. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Inside the Ludicrous, Deadly Serious Plan to Take Over Greenland
“We want Greenland,” Trump said. Four men sprang into action to make fantasy a reality.
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Pioneering photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White was born #OTD in 1904. * 1st American female war #photojournalist * 1st staff photographer at Fortune magazine * 1st female photojournalist at LIFE & its first-ever cover photo was hers Pic: 61st floor of the Chrysler Building, NYC #photography
On the other place, Hugh Laurie just delivered a Death of Expertise smackdown for the ages
#IDme and its founders #BlakeHall & #MatthewThompson Today, for 12 hrs yur spinning wheel said 1 hour wait time. Same on Friday. The best is the "make-an-appointment" option that has u click dates that are all unavailable. My 99-year-old grandmother will be dead before you help her. Yur truly evil.
"Trump administration paying wind developers to walk away from California offshore leases" www.latimes.com/environment/...
Trump administration paying wind developers to walk away from California offshore leases
In the second such highly unusual move, the Trump administration is paying to make wind power go away
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Old Appalachian baby names from Appalachian cemeteries. (IG: appalachian_bluebird)
by @andertoon.bsky.social “Authoritarian movements survive partly by convincing people they are alone. They want citizens to believe that resistance is futile, that nobody else cares, that everyone has accepted the new reality. The No Kings protests shatter that illusion”
No Kings
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend today’s “No Kings” protests.
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Thank you for making No Kings 3 the biggest day of mass protest that America has ever seen. #NoKings
ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her. (Published Nov. 2025)
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
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A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement
Worms in food, poor medical care, lights on 24/7: Families tell of life in Texas detention center
When ICE officers in Minneapolis detained a 5-year-old boy and his father last month and sent them to a Texas detention center, many Americans were alarmed.
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Georgia woman faces murder charge after taking abortion pill reut.rs/4rLEsHc
Georgia woman faces murder charge after taking abortion pill
A 31-year-old Georgia woman has been charged with murder after she took abortion medication and gave birth to a premature infant who died within hours, according to court documents and arrest records.
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I’m taking this as a compliment- because it means some of the biggest anti groups are afraid of my work 💅
Nebraska battles largest-ever wildfire and other blazes as more than 600,000 acres burn reut.rs/3P9pr4w
Nebraska battles largest-ever wildfire and other blazes as more than 600,000 acres burn
Multiple wildfires, including the largest in Nebraska's history, have burned through more than 600,000 acres of the state, local officials said Sunday.
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Oliver Darcy comments on new mogul man David Ellison. "His well-rehearsed talking points are, really, meaningless platitudes. Every news organization wants to be in the 'trust business.' Every news organization wants to be in the 'truth business.'" There are reasons why the trust is gone.
A judge on Friday approved a $345 million verdict against Greenpeace in a Dakota Access Pipeline lawsuit that could push the group to bankruptcy.
Judge Approves $345 Million Verdict Against Greenpeace in Dakota Access Pipeline Suit
Greenpeace has said the verdict could bankrupt it. The lawsuit was over the group’s role in protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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#Fury3 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Record heat and raging fires ring in 2026 across the Southern Hemisphere
From Argentina to Australia to South Africa, record heat and raging wildfires are rampaging through the Southern Hemisphere at the start of 2026, with scientists predicting that even more extreme temp...
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And join us, and our allies across the country in standing in solidarity with Minnesota tomorrow, 1/23. We need ICE Out for Good. iceoutforgood.org
ICE Out for Good
On January 23, people across the country are taking action in solidarity with Minnesota to demand ICE out of our communities. Join the day of action.
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"The Ice Memory Foundation ensures that future generations of researchers will be able to study past climate conditions using technologies that may not yet exist" — Prof Carlo Barbante, Ca' Foscari University of Venice ▶️ www.cbc.ca/news/science...
New sanctuary preserves ice cores from melting glaciers | CBC News
Scientists on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth's atmosphere in an Antarctic vault for future generations to study as global ...
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NEW: Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.
We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
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