Jim Mason

Jim Mason

@jimmasonauo.bsky.social

Half man/half cat. Author. Animal freedom advocate. Retired lawyer. Vegan. Anthropology. Ancient history. Pre-history. Evolution. Agriculture. Western worldview. Climate crisis.

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i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

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AIPAC's super PAC funded attack ads through groups with progressive-sounding names. Here are a few of them: 👩 Elect Chicago Women ⚖️ Pro-Choice Majority Action 🗳️ Elect Democratic Women None of the ads disclosed AIPAC’s role.

levernews.comAIPAC Is Spending Millions — Just Not Under Its Own NameA Lever investigation traces how the Israel lobby is routing millions through groups promoting women, reproductive rights, and Latino candidates — and how AI interests and other power brokers are…

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This never had to happen. Bull rider Jason Blake Saylor died Saturday after suffering a chest injury at a Fox Hollow Rodeo in Ohio. Animals have long paid with their lives to satisfy human entertainment, but this tragedy reminds us that humans are at risk too. Don’t go to rodeos.

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The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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If we observed just one minute of silence for each land animal slaughtered worldwide in a single day, we would be standing in silence for nearly five centuries. And that doesn't include farmed fish, male chicks killed by the egg industry, or the countless animals who die before reaching slaughter.

Among the many bad things about animal farming (aside from its cruelty and environmental impacts) is the unscientific nonsense it requires us to believe about animals and nature in order for us to be somewhat comfortable with all of those bad things.

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If we really want to help, we need to move beyond vague questions and get specific: What can we actually do to save the oceans? The single most serious threat to marine life: industrial fishing and bycatch. The most effective thing we can do: stop consuming animals.

Christopher Cartwright@chriscartwright.bsky.social

This is our extraordinary 🌎 Why are we destroying our oceans ? killing whales? #ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis #WarOnNature

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We will never be able to mitigate the #ClimateCrisis the #BiodiversityCrisis and #MassExtinction if we don’t take the global animal industry out of business … and go plant based🌱

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Talarico: You want to know why they are spending $200 million against me? Because I don’t take their corporate PAC money and I never will. I don’t work for them. I work for you. When we flip this seat in Texas, I’m going to vote to ban corporate PACs so billionaires can’t buy our elections.

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Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

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The Budapest Memorandum was signed in 1994 giving security assurances to Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and borders in exchange for surrendering 1,900 nuclear warheads to Russia for dismantling. The U.S. pledged to seek United Nations action if Ukraine became the victim of aggression.

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There's a different air about the way people are thinking about animals now — and it gives us hope. New Hen Report: beagle rescuers in court, WY goes no-kill, & why companion animal events need to go vegan. Find it on your favorite podcatcher, on our YouTube, or check out ourhenhouse.org/ep994

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The egg industry does not want you to know about this everyday practice. Chick culling is the mass killing of newly hatched chicks—mostly males—because they can’t lay eggs or turn a profit. It is standard practice in nearly all modern egg production in the U.S. #ChooseCompassion #FriendsNotFood

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Forests stabilize climate better than ANY tech we've invented. And protecting an existing forest stores 8-12x more carbon than planting a new one. We don't need to invent the future. We need to protect it. 🌲

Foragers’ numbers crept up around water ways. They got crowded. Foraging limited. Forced into cultivating plants and controlling animals. Voila! Poor diet. Cities. Property. Kings. Warfare. Slavery. Civilization. Extinction. Climate crisis.

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We are all the same, living in different bodies, but sharing the same ability to feel love, fear, and pain. Seeing yourself in others will change the lives of so many animals who only wish to be given the opportunity to live in peace and free from harm. #ChooseCompassion #FriendsNotFood

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The very short life of a genetically modified chicken in animal agriculture is filled with suffering and pain 24/7. Growing so fast that just standing becomes an impossibility. Suffering, you're eating suffering 😞

Plant Based News@plantbasednews.bsky.social

A lot has changed over the last half a century... The average weight of a chicken after 56 days has more than quadrupled since 1957.

In addition to enslaving, torturing and killing millions of animals, animal agriculture has distorted and degraded our worldview. The belief that we are entitled to destroy other life for our benefit is what has made our climate crisis.

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Right-wing billionaires now own the Washington Post, the LA Times, CNN, CBS News, virtually every local TV station, virtually every news radio station, most local newspapers, X, Facebook, Threads, and TikTok. (Did I miss any?) They own almost the entire information environment.

Alex Gibney@alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social

Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

We are seeing in real time how great wealth gives great power. We’re also seeing that great wealth is owned by the worst assholes. Don’t you think it’s about time to take a big chunk of that wealth in taxes and spend it meeting peoples basic needs? De-power the assholes.

In case you did not know. Millions of dogs and cats and other pets are killed every year in pounds and shelters because of irresponsible people. Not put to sleep— killed. Now that you know this, why would you go to a pet shop or a breeder to buy a puppy/kitten when you can adopt and save a life?