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your yearly PSA: want to do something positive wrt the ecosystem while saving yourself a bunch of time and effort? skip the bagging and just rake leaves into a pile wherever convenient (bonus points if you do it under a tree). www.nps.gov/articles/000...

A federal judge in Brooklyn on October 15 dismissed the Justice Department's lawsuit against New York City's sanctuary policies, writing that no federal law obligates states to take part in immigration enforcement. www.courthousenews.com/trump-loses-...

“The right to live with dignity” I long for that right for everyone and am grateful this child can lead a more dignified life after this ruling and procedure

oh look we finally found the guys who support AI data centers... www.nj.com/opinion/2026...

Baiting bears with doughnuts and bacon grease, then shooting them at close range. That’s what the Trump administration is bringing back to Alaska’s national preserves.

Recent >> ‘Incredible’: bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

MacKenzie Scott donated $7 billion in 2025 bringing her five-year total to $26.2 billion, even as she stays out of the spotlight. fortune.com/article/mack...

Starting tomorrow on Indigenous Peoples’ Day federal contractors are scheduled to begin removing thousands of saguaros and other desert plants from Tohono O’odham land in Arizona for Trump’s border wall, according to tribal officials.

“Guinea-Bissau has some of the highest rates of hepatitis B in the world, with about 18% of adults carrying the virus… Children who are infected with hepatitis B in the first year of life are significantly more likely to develop severe outcomes, including chronic infection and liver cancer.” Cruel.

Question: Does Israel have a right to exist? Correct answer: Your question is racist because it centres the coloniser rather than its victims. It's not Israel whose land is being stolen. It's not Israelis who live under brutal occupation. Ask me about Palestine's right to exist.

My heart breaks for all the living things our government is destroying. They will kill us all. There is no life to live on Mars. Where is the humanity?

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

To think of the tears wept by all their mamas breaks my heart. We are a cruel society.

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

USA minimum wage $7.25 per hour & AVERAGE restaurant BURGER (no side or drink) = $14 Assuming an 8 hour workday: the worker has to work 25% of his day for PART (not even all) of his lunch. I'd call that SLAVERY.

Giving an external committee power to veto research funding because it doesn’t align to a political agenda will not only harm science, it is a threat to democracy.

War costs so much more than peace

What I hate most about 9/11: 1. People died. 2. US used 9/11 as a justification to hate on Muslims. 3. The US used 9/11 as a justification for more war mongering & imperialism in Middle East. 4. The majority of the US stops at number one & never considers the rest of this list.

The next phase in the abortion wars may come down to one question: Do the rights of red states to enforce bans override the rights of blue states to protect access? If Louisiana's lawsuit succeeds, it would wipe out online and mail access in states where abortion is legal.

Our neighbor, Mexico, seems to care about the food their people eat. Wish that were so here.

This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Uber just announced it will lay off 10% of its workforce, or around 3,300 workers. Last year, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi made $35M — 360 times his median employee's pay — and announced a $20B stock buyback program to further enrich shareholders and himself. Textbook corporate greed.

Apple Maps has caved too and changed it to “Lake America.”

Target paid its CEO $21.8M last year — 794x the median Target worker's pay of $27,506. Target has also spent $13.9B on stock buybacks since 2019, while remaining among the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients in America. This is what I mean by a rigged economy.

Millions of people rely on the information they obtain via a search engine corporation which just proved it would alter digital reality if instructed to do so by those in political power. That’s some crazy shit, Google.

Dolly Parton wasn't just a country music star—she loved nature and had hopes for the environment's future. In a 2022 interview with National Geo, the late musician shared her appreciation of her Tennessee mountain home while urging fans to take better care of the world. Video by Jerry Owens

We will march as Dad marched and continue building the Beloved Community he envisioned: a nation where every person can live with dignity, opportunity, freedom, and justice. #MarchOnWashington2026

Getting my job back at the Washington Post would not have been possible if it wasn’t for me belonging to a union. @postguild.bsky.social and @wbng.org are the unions I belong to. I was able to challenge my wrongful termination because of the collective bargaining agreement / union contract!

Never stop talking about @zohrankmamdani. Zohran’s success in delivering results for NYC and being loved undercuts all the lies and fearmongering everywhere.

REMINDER: Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in now 73 days. Yet he still: •Has his job •Gets paid, and •Gets free world-class healthcare The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, & against guaranteed paid leave—gets all three as he needs it most.😐

DEVASTATING FLOOD Security camera footage shows the moment the flood crashes through the Nepal-China border. The flash flood wipes out everything in its path. People, houses, roads, and power projects were swept away in Nepal, while officials in Tibet said they feared “major casualties.”

Starbucks union calls for boycott. "‘What we’re fighting for is... $17 per hour..., enough hours to live on, better staffing... & basic workplace protections,’ said Starbucks Workers United Tuesday. ....[Starbucks']... profits... rose to $25.5 billion in 2025.” www.commondreams.org/news/why-boy...

Why do 8 data centers in Gary, Indiana have power BUT MOST OF THE RESIDENTS HAVEN'T HAD POWER OR WATER IN DAYS.

Amazing news!!! Birthing is a natural process - doulas and midwives reduce the need for medical interventions that insurance co’s want to shorten time in L&D beds. Can you next reinstate hospital privileges for midwives? Late 2010’s I birthed in nyc 2x & scavenged for midwife care with hospital ties

So we're going to start arresting the men when their wives have miscarriages, right? www.scientificamerican.com/article/sper...

Horrific actions.

🚨 NATIONAL FORESTS They just moved to open 45 MILLION ACRES to logging and roads. 625,000 people already told them no. They did it anyway. Congress holds the budget. Congress can stop this. 👉 SEND A LETTER RIGHT NOW: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

It’s horrific that we live in a timeline where reporters have to get government officials to say on record that the MMR vaccine is not lethal.

What’s the German word for “want to read to learn and bear witness but wish this story never existed”? Spent 2 wks with my kids seeing how settlers colonized Africa and now this will be a good way to pivot our education to our own country’s history. Thank you @ziibiing.com for writing this

On 9/11, US airspace closed, Canada launched Operation Yellow Ribbon. Gander, a town of 10,000, received 38 airliners. Residents immediately sheltered, fed, clothed, and supported stranded passengers for days, providing this hospitality free of charge. interestingengineering.com/culture/oper...

Shocking. Mars looks even more inhospitable up close in high res

Worth a listen. “If I was gonna stage a coup in 2028…”

US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.

EXCLUSIVE: Family members share with MeidasTouch that women aboard the USS Boxer have been “begging” for extra pads and tampons as basic feminine hygiene supplies run out at sea.