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Lori Stinson @loristinson.bsky.social · 1d

#News: #Study reveals tropical #birds 🦜🪶are dying at alarming rates in the #Amazon 🇧🇷🇪🇨🇨🇴 due to human-induced #ClimateChange, heat stress 🥵 and habitat shifts. Demand corporate accountability #ClimateActionNow, be #vegan and 🌴🪔⛔️ #BoycottPalmOil @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-a5w

Climate Change Driving Mass Bird Deaths in the Amazon

A recent #study has revealed that even in the most isolated parts of the #Amazon, bird #populations are collapsing due to #climatechange. Research published in Science Advances found that a 1°C inc…

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Lori Stinson @loristinson.bsky.social · 4d

#Deforestation for #mining #palmoil 🌴 soy and meat 🥩 in #Brazil's Atlantic Forest 🌳 threatens #primates important to ecosystem seed dispersal like #muriquis 🐒 Resist and help them survive! Be #vegan #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-8ZZ

Declining primate numbers are threatening Brazil’s Atlantic forest

#Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, one of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world, is facing severe threats due to deforestation and habitat fragmentation. This has led to a sharp decline in prim…

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Problembear @problembear.bsky.social · 9d

A government shutdown is part of the plan to force America to accept a billionaire supported dictatorship in #PROJECT2025EndsInDictatorship

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Public Land Lover 🦋🌲🦬 @publiclandlvr.bsky.social · 9d

How can anyone support the intentional destruction of our shared ecosystem?

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Study finds 72% of Illinois wetlands no longer protected by federal Clean Water Act

Illinois once harbored more than 8 million acres of wetlands. By the 1980s, all but 1.2 million wetland acres had been lost, filled in for development or drained to make way for agriculture.

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 9d

1 transgender shooter
GOP: "We must institutionalize all transgenders!"

47,209 white male shooters
GOP: "This is the cost of freedom."

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors @originalist.bsky.social · 9d

"If you're ruthless for the right, you get money put behind you

If you're ruthless for the left, you get money put against you

America First Legal got >$50 million in funding. A left version of the same would get attacked by Dem orgs and donors, and everyone associated with it blacklisted forever"

NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors @originalist.bsky.social · 23d

Billionaires, Charlie Kirk, "Murdoch’s role in destabilizing democracy in North America, Europe Australia
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"They got working whites to hate the very people that want them to have more pay, clean air, water, healthcare and power to fight back against big banks & corps"

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 13d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 12d

Do you know how hard it is to get this many Americans to agree to something political

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 13d

This is what unity looks like.

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Motorhead @bradmunchen.bsky.social · 13d

CEOs who cast aspersions at short sellers are both financially illiterate & have something to hide, especially those who manipulate their stock via the options market.

When everyone, including the simps like Omar Qazi 🤡, dumps $TSLA indiscriminately, the shorts will be the only buyers.

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TheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 12d

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur

Pic of the day

#photography

The tall red mountains of Zion national Park

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11d

BREAKING: At least 72 Palestinians have been killed in relentless Israeli attacks throughout the besieged Gaza Strip since dawn, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/gikgd0

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11d

And Congress (captured by the far right authoritarian party) continues to do nothing while a runaway SCOTUS (also captured by the far right authoritarian party) does nothing in the face of this brazen, unprecedented theft of its constitutional powers.

<all together now>

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 12d

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Musk, Bannon and Thiel named in new Epstein estate documents

The House Oversight Committee is continuing to release redacted materials in its ongoing Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

www.politico.com

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 12d

"A warming of 3C by 2050, which we cannot rule out, is already within the scope of the possible scenarios of the latest IPCC report. As professional societies, we have a social responsibility to point out potential risks in a timely manner" Prof. Klaus Richter, Pres. of the German Physical Society

Erderwärmung: "Es braucht einen Plan, Hamburg kilometerweit landeinwärts zu ziehen"

Schon 2050 könnte die Erde 3 Grad wärmer sein, warnen deutsche Forscher. Das wäre schlimmer als erwartet. Alarmismus? Nein, der Klimawandel trete in eine neue Phase ein.

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 11d

There are zero reasons to hope that humans will change, other than hope for hope’s sake, and for avoiding the truth of human nature. I choose truth over hope a million times over - if anything it is much more “hopeful”, as it is more likely to lead to real action

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Lori Stinson @loristinson.bsky.social · 11d

As silent as a mouse 🐭 and smaller than a house #cat 🐱, Southern Pudus are miniature #deer 🦌🤎 who peer from rainforest shadows in #Chile 🇨🇱 Eucalyptus monoculture #deforestation 🌳🎋🔥is a major threat. Help them and #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-aoq

Southern Pudu Pudu puda

Darting around and hiding on the forest floor, the Southern Pudu, known as püdü or püdu in Mapudungun (the language of the indigenous Mapuche people), is the world’s second-smallest #deer species. …

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 23d

Worth a read.

www.noahpinion.blog/p/china-is-q...

China is quietly saving the world from climate change

Giving credit where credit is due.

www.noahpinion.blog

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Michael Fletcher @mefletcher54.bsky.social · 26d

"This was identified early on as the likely outcome."

Investors jumped on this technology, not because it would actually solve the problem, but because they could make loads of money provided by desperate governments eager to show they were doing something. /1

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Carbon capture – the get-out-of-jail-free card that does not actually work

Engineers have been trying to perfect the technology for years but the maximum effect it could manage is far short of what the planet needs

www.theguardian.com

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Lori Stinson @loristinson.bsky.social · 25d

Blue-streaked lorries are #Indonesia's 🇮🇩 rare jewels. These crimson and blue #parrots 🦜🌈 are 'Near Threatened' by the #pet trade 🙀 and #PalmOil #Deforestation. Protect these #birds when u #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-a8d

Blue-streaked Lory Eos reticulata

Brilliantly coloured and full of energy, the Blue-streaked Lory (Eos reticulata) is a striking and unique #parrot living in the forests of the Banda Sea Islands, #Indonesia. Their scarlet plumage i…

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Lori Stinson @loristinson.bsky.social · 29d

#News: #Indigenous women’s #landrights trampled in #Papua as #palmoil giants seize forests and jostle for power —the women will not be silenced! 🚫🌴☠️ #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect palmoildetectives.com/2025/09/10/p...

Papuan women will not be silenced while palm oil behemoths consume their land

In the colonised region of #WestPapua, Indigenous Melanesian women’s rights are being forgotten as companies and the Indonesian government seizes ancestral land for palm oil and sugar cane plantati…

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Lori Stinson @loristinson.bsky.social · Sep 6

Healthy #rivers 🌊🫧 are vital to community wellbeing, and culture. In #India 🇮🇳🪷 and #Bangladesh 🇧🇩pollution can be mitigated by recognising rivers as legal persons. #Boycott4Wildlife Story: @360info_global @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-77U

Rivers are still people in South East Asia despite court showdown

Healthy rivers are essential for community wellbeing, economic development, and society, culture, and spirituality. But current damage to India and Bangladesh’s rivers compromises their health, and…

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Lori Stinson @loristinson.bsky.social · Aug 30

Blonde #capuchins 🐒🐵 are #endangered due to #palmoil 🌴 sugarcane and meat 🥩 #deforestation in #Brazil 🇧🇷. Supremely intelligent, they use tools and mourn dead in their troop. Take action! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-a9q

Blonde Capuchin Sapajus flavius

The blonde #capuchin (Sapajus flavius) is an enigmatic and critically endangered #primate found in the northeastern forests of Brazil. With their striking golden-yellow fur and intelligent, express…

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · Jun 15

scholar of partisan violence/Latin American Dirty Wars here: there is nothing to distinguish this from how people were taken in Argentina, Guatemala, Chile, etc, except that it's all on camera

Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · Jun 15

ICE raiding a crowded supermarket in Rosemead, California with no identification, indistinguishable from cartel hitmen, pulling high caliber rifles on unarmed US citizens trying to ask questions about wtf is going on. #3E #StopICE

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Jun 15

Thank you for your attention to this matter! #NoKings

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jun 14

A reminder to reporters, when historians look back on this moment with the president throwing himself a military parade and the people throwing No Kings rallies across America, the media sources raving about the former and sneering at the latter are going to be quoted by name.

This is your legacy!

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