Herb Walker
@receptor67.bsky.social
Music, art, web, politics, guitar, geekery, science. Anti-fascist "Don't hate the media, become the media." - Jello Biafra "Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think." - Niels Bohr Sacramento, CA.
Wild Horses Are The Next Victims Of Trump's Wildlife Protection Rollbacks: NYT “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” Mahatma Gandhi www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Wild Horses Are The Next Victims Of Trump's Wildlife Protection Rollbacks: NYT
huffpost.com
Nearly 2,000 science and climate webpages and datasets have gone missing under the Trump administration. EPA's cancer risk data is one of them.
The EPA’s Data Bank on Cancer Risk From Air Pollution Has Gone Dark
For decades, communities have relied on the agency's cancer risk estimates to hold polluters accountable. This year, it's missing.
truthdig.com
57 years ago today, Miles Davis began recording “Bitches Brew”. Three days later, a masterpiece was born. #jazzsky
"If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes." - Sun Ra #quote
“It was a scorcher,” McSpadden said, but it was the only way to find out for sure what was really going on at the 330,000-acre #NationalPark Service site 150 miles southwest of #Tucson. “That’s a treasured Sonoran landscape that has been bulldozed."
Arizona Daily Star@tucson.com · 5d agoThe Center for Biological Diversity has released the first photos of secondary border wall construction at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.
A city in Kansas is suing residents who tried to ban data centers. Edgerton, Kansas, is suing multiple women and an organization in an effort to void a citizen petition that would have banned AI data centers. /1
Edgerton calls citizen petition ‘void and invalid,’ files suit to block data center ban
The City of Edgerton has filed a lawsuit to block a potential data center ban, calling the petition surrounding it "void and invalid."
kctv5.com
Instagram is packed with footage of bulldozers just destroying Big Bend at Trump’s behest and it is so upsetting. There are glyphs there dating back thousands of years and we will never get back what he’s done here. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/u...
Trump Backed Away From a Wall at Big Bend. But the Bulldozers Are Here.
Over the objections of environmentalists, local sheriffs and some state leaders, the Trump administration appears to be moving ahead with border infrastructure in one of Texas’ most beloved parks.
nytimes.com
The company that killed bookstores is now killing books, literally.
404 Media@404media.co · 7d agoSCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
"We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right." Remembering Aretha Louise Franklin who died today 16th August 2018 #arethafranklin #photooftheday 📸 Stephanie Pfriender Stylander
𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝘁𝗵𝘂𝗴𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝘃𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗺'𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱🚨 Nazis have infiltrated our government & they're rampaging through our cities and attacking POC! They're being paid with our taxpayer dollars to brutalize abduct & even murder. #ICELawlessness Don't sit idly by while they violate our civil rights. Do something🧵
After Alex Pretti was killed, Trump’s DHS didn’t investigate the man who shot him—but spent months spying on Minnesota unions, churches, and bike shops instead.
Documents reveal the federal government’s vast Minnesota surveillance dragnet
After Alex Pretti was murdered, Trump's DHS didn't investigate his killer—but spent months spying on Minnesota unions, churches, and bike shops instead.
motherjones.com
U.S.-Israeli strikes killed 249 women in Iran in one month — all of them civilians, the Iranian government said.
US War on Iran Devastating for Women Who Want Life and Freedom
Iranian feminists asked the international community for help, not bombs — but the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has killed women, left many jobless and provided the government with a pretext to stifle the…
truthdig.com
Its getting good. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
The Largest Data Center In California Has Been Denied Water For Cooling — Now It's Suing A Public Agency
A developer wants to combine water rights from several plots of farmland to help cool a data center. Regulators said no, and now the developer is suing.
yahoo.com
Settler siege of Palestinian homes in the West Bank a 'horrific act of terror,' U.S. ambassador says www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
Settler siege of Palestinian homes in the West Bank a 'horrific act of terror,' U.S. ambassador says
Israeli settlers have besieged three homes in the occupied West Bank for several days, including one owned by a Palestinian American.
pbs.org
If you're thinking about buying a mummy online, think twice. Ancient microorganisms can kill you.
Science X / Phys.org@sciencex.bsky.social · last wk.Mummified human and animal remains sold online may pose hidden health risks. An analysis of 128 listings found signs of hazardous microbial growth and suggested shipping noncompliance. doi.org/hcfhqz
Delta Airlines charging me for my bag? That's obnoxious. Delta Airlines charging me to book a seat? That's obnoxious. But Delta Airlines working with ICE to ship people to concentration camps is COLLABORATION. Boycot #delta
The Trump administration has pulled federal funding for the Arctic Report Card, an annual scientific assessment that has tracked the rapidly changing Arctic for the past two decades.
Hundreds of local police departments are preparing to deploy autonomous, AI-driven surveillance drones. The drones are capable of following a single vehicle across an entire city, capturing footage through apartment windows, and generally recording daily life from the sky without being noticed.
First Came the Flock Cameras. Now Local Cops Want Autonomous Drones.
Hundreds of local police departments have received waivers to fly surveillance drones that navigate with AI.
truthout.org
When the plan was initially announced, Stephanie Kurose, deputy director of government affairs at the Center for Biological Diversity, told the Guardian that such an action would be a “death sentence” not just for Florida #manatees, but also for many other animals. #EndangeredSpecies
Why Trump Just Made It Easier to Kill Manatees and Butterflies
The administration has weakened protections against both habitat destruction and the killing or trapping of newly threatened species, prompting one conservation expert to call the changes a “death sen...
vegnews.com
Mike Davidson, a tour guide in Big Bend, told Newsweek; "They might as well send a bulldozer through the graveyard where my parents are buried or something like that. It hits me very strongly." Soulless, wretched people are responsible for this. They have to go. www.newsweek.com/bulldozers-p...
Bulldozers plow through Big Bend National Park, sparking fury in Texas
Video and photos show work underway in Big Bend National Park, the location of a border project which has sparked bipartisan fury.
newsweek.com
This is a triggering image of a museum display in the natural history museum in DC about life before smartphones. Me and a fellow 40+ person were laughing at how we are now LITERAL MUSEUM PIECES. MY teen was like did you have a clear phone? An address book? A book of maps. Yes, yes I did. 🫠🫠🫠
Bulldozing a National Park for Trumps border wall. The crimes go on and on.
Luca@lucagalletti.bsky.social · 2w agoBulldozers tearing up Big Bend National Park, just downriver from Santa Elena Canyon. This is a crime scene. IG: @ laiken_jordahl
Blues legends John Lee Hooker, B.B. King and Buddy Guy New York City, 1991. #bluesmusic Photo by Ebet Roberts
Grizzly bears need our help. The Trump admin is proposing to hand over significant management of grizzly bears to hostile Northern Rockies states, making it easier for them to relocate or kill grizzly bears. The public comment period is open now. Speak up for grizzlies⬇️
The Trump Administration Proposes Handing Grizzly Management to States Hostile to the Bears
Under the proposed rule, states would gain significant new authority to relocate or kill grizzly bears.
earthjustice.org
How the Epstein Network is Privatizing the Government & Building Out the Surveillance State (w/Whitney Webb) | TCHR #chrishedges chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-the-ep...
How the Epstein Network is Privatizing the Government & Building Out the Surveillance State (w/Whitney Webb) | TCHR
Whitney Webb explains how Leslie Wexner privatized Ohio’s state government, and is using his position between the markets and the state to help the Thielverse build out the ‘Silicon Heartland.’
chrishedges.substack.com
