Dr. Diana / Prtfish

As those soft downy chicks would say (after hatching on the ice) Fluff Off & FLIPPERS UP

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Today, the California coast we cherish and the delicate ocean ecosystems just beyond it face a renewed threat from offshore drilling. We oppose the Trump Administration’s 5-year oil and gas leasing program and will continue to defend our coastline, wildlife, economy, and health from this threat.

apnews.com/video/baby-s... A great organization has a wonderful win in their work to rescue and preserve marine mammals!! Need a mental lift today? Watch this video. 🥰 🦦

The "extinction caucus" in Congress is supporting radical legislation to drastically weaken the Endangered Species Act and decrease protections for threatened and endangered species—including imperiled species that call Wilderness home. TAKE ACTION >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose_hr189...

Arctic seals edge closer to extinction as sea ice vanishes

Agents snatching up a young protester off the floe today. Resist! Flippers up!

Say hello to one of CAL FIRE’s four-legged officers, K-9 Flash! 🐾 Flash works side-by-side with his handler, Arson Investigator Nick Schroeder, sniffing out explosives and firearms to help keep California communities safe. #Pets #K9Training #PublicSafety

Southern right whales are having fewer calves: what this says about ocean health

🐶🐱 New California pet laws! 🐾 3rd party, for-profit sales of cats, puppies and rabbits are now BANNED 🐾 Cats CANNOT be declawed for non-medical reasons 🐾 Sellers MUST disclose origin and health info 🐾 Contracts for pets that include non-refundable deposits will be VOID

You’re my little otter-half

Donald, you can either stand behind Operation Warp Speed… or let RFK Jr undermine it by banning Covid vaccines. Which is it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEHc-0JVXQ0

Mongabay shark meat exposé sparks call for hearing and industry debate

thehill.com/homenews/sen... The world is topsy-turvy when I start agreeing with Rand Paul more often … Hey Alice, where is the looking glass?

thehill.com/homenews/adm... Me thinks someone protests too much…

With a cacophony of experts calling for 🧠🪱’s firing, let’s never forget Cassidy’s role in all of this. Dr. Cassidy knew better. And yet, he still chose himself. The future will judge him. Not just for what he did, but for what he refused to stop. (Heck, we judge him now.)

"It is also unclear why the military did not interdict the boat instead of blowing it up. In the past, the Coast Guard and even the U.S. Navy have interdicted boats bound for the United States with drugs, detaining and prosecuting the crew." It's not a CG standard to blow up boats, even w/ drugs...

When I wrote this for SciAm, the thing that genuinely surprised me most was the number of emails I got (mostly from men) telling me that prior generations of women in science would be ashamed of me for my weakness in writing it. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

I applaud workers at the CDC for standing up against Sec. Kennedy’s dangerous anti-vaccine crusade. We are witnessing a full-blown war on public health from the Trump Administration. History will not look kindly on those who stayed silent in the face of this assault on science.

This kind of enthusiasm from the non-political CDC staff - the clapping, shouting, nonstop handshakes - for the now-resigned CDC leadership is something that Trump Admin officials will never have. Which will only make them hate the competent administers even more.

My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge harbors some of the country’s rarest species. New wall segments threaten endangered ocelots, aplomado falcons and hundreds of migratory birds such as green jays, Altamira orioles and plain chachalacas.

The Trump administration waived 31 laws for border wall construction through the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. The waivers clear the way for walls across 13 refuge tracts, slicing through wildlife corridors, endangered species habitat and communities. More: biodiv.us/45WzH4N

I have lived in Mississippi and California. I did not feel safe in Mississippi and did not walk at night unlike California. As a woman you get a sixth sense on safety.

An excellent look at what we are facing in the economy

Everyone deserves a place to call home. The solution to homelessness is safe, affordable housing.

thehill.com/homenews/adm... Is that what Stephen Miller tells the close to 90 yrs old President to go home and take a nap?? Miller is so rude to his elders!!

thehill.com/opinion/lind... Talk about being one of the elite … 8 vacations in the few months Vance has been in office!! With the drastic increased cost of gas, food, housing, essentials for existing, & healthcare there is no way I can afford to take a long weekend let alone EIGHT VACATION TRIPS!!

I don’t know if better traceability in the fisheries supply chain could have stopped this but it certainly couldn’t hurt www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Just a reminder: the Constitution gives the president no authority over administering elections. Trump is once again trying to federalize what he has no power to control and is openly working to end free and fair elections. It’s not the first time.

thehill.com/homenews/cam... “Speaker Johnson, but what about Texas redistricting in the middle of the decade? … Speaker Johnson, how is the Texas redistricting not disenfranchising voters? … Speaker Johnson…” . . . {crickets} . . .

thehill.com/homenews/545... This administration is cruel inhumane and wrong for Americans!! What kind of person puts a seven year old in prison?

Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc

Trump administration halts visas for people from Gaza after Laura Loomer questions arrivals apnews.com/article/stat... Denying children entry for medical care is just plain cruel. These aren’t American values - who does this and what type of morals do they have?

Humans post video of “close call”... which is misleading. We were actually trying to banish Gary, but he has an uncanny ability to stick to with us like an octopus sucker

Anchorage was a disaster so now, "All the King's Horses and All the King's Men..." need to course reset.

Trump was only aiming to distract from all his other troubles, principally Epstein, and wrack up points for his forthcoming Nobel Peace Prize. 🤦 🤷‍♂️

Yeah, this is a highly unusual all-hands-on-deck meeting that wouldn’t be happening if Alaska was productive. 5 European leaders, the head of NATO and the head of the EU don’t just drop everything and fly to DC. H/T: @radiofreetom.bsky.social

They need a few more to support the group. Is this why Vance took a vacation? To not be in this optics?

We want to put up more billboards in more GOP districts that call Republicans out for covering up the Epstein files, but we need to raise more money to make this happen. Please pitch in if you can: secure.actblue.com/donate/epste...

Soldiers in MRAPs rolling around Union Station—blocks from the Capitol—seems silly, performative, and useless. But it raises a much darker question: What would Trump have done on Jan. 6, 2021 if he had possessed then the kind of control over local law enforcement that he seeks to acquire today?

Prominent economist says higher prices coming in second half of year ( great … just in time for Christmas) and is worrying about falling job creation and rising unemployment… not something we were worried about in 2024…

Check out Home of the Brave's Mike Fanone, a 20-year D.C. police veteran, on @velshimsnbc.bsky.social discussing Trump's takeover of Washington, D.C.: