Edie Strom

Every morning, our Keepers walk out with the herd. Why? Because even though these orphans are starting to hear the call of the wild, they haven't entirely found their feet. A burst of antelope through the bush or unintentionally rousing some sleeping buffalo can give our big babies a fright – and when that happens, our Keepers are there to restore calm and order. For the newest herd members – new arrivals like Toto, Natibu and Mwinzi – these walks build familiarity with a landscape that will one day be entirely their own. When that day comes, they'll no longer need our Keepers, though the bonds remain. Until then, our guardians in khaki continue to stand sentinel over the herd. Ex-orphan Manda's recent visit goes to show that these walks are pivotal to a successful reintegration – and help ensure the orphans remember the path back home whenever they want: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/news/updates/m…

🔴BREAKING : This 45 years old 🇭🇺 Hungarian PM is the new headache for Trump. 🔥 🇭🇺Péter Magyar : "American puppet Orbán, has links to oligarchs who are transferring tens of billions to the United Arab Emirates and the United States. I am going to suspend it."🔥 He is new FIREBRAND 🔥🔥

@harryjsisson He needs his ballroom, Harry, so he has a place to go and hide-out when we impeach him and come knocking on the door. He’s insane and everyone knows it except MAGA. While we choose humor to deal the insanity and not believe any of this…we are all in serious danger.

MAGA is saying that Democrats want our political opponents dead when just a few weeks ago Trump celebrated Robert Mueller’s death publicly and they were all quiet. I don’t think anybody should be killed over their political views. Trump can’t say the same.

Extreme winds in Patagonia 📹tomas.alganaraz

Andrey Pavlov, a Russian photographer, takes stunning macro photos of ants like you’ve never seen before

In 2003, Kathy Bates was quietly undergoing grueling treatment for ovarian cancer, choosing to keep the diagnosis a secret while continuing her acting career. On screen, nothing showed. She was still delivering powerful performances, steady and composed, the same presence audiences had known from Misery and Fried Green Tomatoes. But away from cameras, she was going through surgery, chemotherapy, and long stretches of uncertainty—without telling the public. It was a private fight. Nearly a decade later, everything changed. In 2012, Kathy revealed she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and had undergone a double mastectomy. This time, she didn’t stay silent. She spoke openly, not for sympathy, but to reclaim the narrative. She wanted people to see the reality—what survival actually looks like. And what it costs. After the surgery, she developed lymphedema, a condition that causes swelling due to lymphatic fluid buildup. It’s common after lymph node removal, yet rarely discussed. Instead of hiding it, Kathy brought it forward. She talked about it. Showed it. In interviews, she rolled up her sleeves, revealing the compression garments she wore every day. It wasn’t about making a statement—it was about removing the silence around something millions quietly live with. That led her to advocacy. She became the national spokesperson for the Lymphatic Education & Research Network, using her platform to push for awareness, funding, and research. Her message stayed consistent: the condition wasn’t rare—it was overlooked. And that needed to change. At the same time, she returned to work. Roles in American Horror Story and Harry’s Law came during and after treatment. She didn’t slow down. If anything, her performances carried something deeper—an added layer of truth that came from lived experience. Her work in American Horror Story: Coven earned her an Emmy, a reminder that her ability hadn’t faded. It had sharpened. What stood out wasn’t just that she survived. It was how she shifted. Instead of stepping back, she leaned forward—into conversations about health, body image, and recovery. She spoke with honesty, often using humor to make difficult subjects easier to face. At one point, she said she used to be afraid of the word “survivor.” Now, she owned it. Her story moved beyond illness. It became about visibility—about making sure others didn’t have to go through the same silence she once did. She showed that vulnerability didn’t weaken strength; it defined it. Even with physical challenges, she stayed present—on red carpets, at events, in roles that demanded intensity. Offscreen, her voice became just as important as her work. Kathy Bates didn’t just endure what happened to her. She turned it outward—into something that reached others, and made sure they didn’t feel alone.

Zelenskyy 🇺🇦 just handed Putin the one thing Moscow hates more than truth: An invoice. "Russia 🇷🇺 will pay tens of billions for its war against Ukraine," because empires love conquest until the bill arrives.

@donwinslow You nailed it!

I PREDICT SOME SERIOUS BS THIS WEEK FROM THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO DISTRACT FROM THEIR FAILURES IN ALMOST EVERY SINGLE DEPARTMENT THEY ARE IN CHARGE OF. LOOK FOR THE F.B.I. TO BE INVOLVED ON SOME LEVEL.

Российская студентка,пропавшая в Гималаях в 2021 во время одиночного похода, спустя четыре года была найдена журналистами National Geographic в роли хранительницы высокогорного буддийского монастыря в Непале. Алина Ветрова,24 года,вышла из базового лагеря Аннапурны и не вернулась

The military is completely outraged by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. An expert Republican analyst exposes the incompetence at the Pentagon, confirming the Trump administration placed a Christian nationalist with a severe drinking problem in charge of a global war.

You know Asia is truly short of crude oil when Japanese television covers the arrival of a single oil tanker from America as a major news story

I can confirm. I’m at the same party. And they’re not letting anybody leave. It’s in the Renwick Gallery, which is across the street from the White House.

MS NOW host Symone Sanders Townsend recounts how poor security was at the WHCD. She says she was able to roll up to the front door on a scooter and security did not ask to see her ID nor see her ticket, they assumed she was a guest at the hotel: "I actually showed up to the Hilton shortly after 8 P.M. And I actually took a scooter right up to the front of the Hilton driveway. And this matters because, as you know, usually there's a lot of protesters outside that's outside of those barricades before you can actually enter into the driveway of the Hilton. But this year, there are no protesters outside. I come to find out the people were actually milling about into the lobby. When I got off of the scooter and into in front of the barricade, usually you have to show ID and a ticket. The folks, the security at the gate, these were not agents, the Secret Service agents. They were not identified as Secret Service agents that I could see at the gate, but they did not ask me to show ID, and they did not ask me to show a ticket. They said, 'Oh, you're good. I'm sure you're going to your room.' I am not staying at the Washington Hilton. As I entered into the driveway, I saw the president's vehicle. The Beast was driving around in the circle of the Hilton driveway, and people walking around near it, taking photos. Secret Service was not keeping a perimeter. And it went around about two or three times while I was outside. When I entered into the Hilton, I asked Secret Service agents, which I saw they were identified as Secret Service agents, which way the ballroom was, and they said they didn't know. When I finally got my way onto elevator, no one asked me to show ID. No one asked me to show a ticket. I got all the way down to the red carpet area without ever showing a ticket to anyone in the Hilton. I am saying it like this because this is unusual."

Absolute paranoia. Donald Trump uses a security incident to justify turning the White House into a militarized fortress. He unhinges about drone proof glass and claims the military demanded a ballroom for 150 years. The President is completely losing his grip on reality.

Terrifying reality check. Donald Trump literally glitches on live TV, repeating the exact same sentence seven times before pivoting to his disastrous war in Iran. The US President is in severe cognitive decline and entirely unfit to command the military.

@hippyygoat Director Kash Patel threatens Jeff Bridges personally and claims he can "disappear" anyone as head of the FBI 🤣 youtube.com/watch?v=WRk2Xw…

She was called "Hey, you" by her own husband. Never by her name. Never once. Her name was Bryna. She crossed an ocean with nothing — no education, no English, no guarantee of anything — just a ticket bought by a man named Herschel who had promised her a better life in America. They settled in Amsterdam, New York, a working-class mill town far from the dreams she had carried on that ship. The better life never came. Herschel collected rags and scraps for a living. What little he earned disappeared into alcohol and card games. He was cold, rough, and careless — the kind of man who raises his voice and never raises his children. Bryna raised them herself. Six daughters and a son, in a house where hunger was a regular visitor. She couldn't read or write. She took in laundry. She scrubbed floors. And when even that wasn't enough, she walked to the Jewish butcher with a quiet, dignified request: "The bones you don't need — may I have them?" She'd take those discarded bones home and boil them for hours. That thin soup fed her family for days. Her youngest son, Issur — everyone called him Izzy — watched all of this. He watched his mother fight for them with everything she had and nothing in her hands. And somehow, impossibly, he told her he wanted to be an actor. She didn't laugh. She didn't tell him to be practical. She looked at this poor ragman's boy from a town nobody had heard of, and she believed him. Izzy left. He struggled. He clawed his way forward. And eventually, the world came to know him as Kirk Douglas — one of Hollywood's greatest stars. Spartacus. Paths of Glory. Lust for Life. A legend. But he never forgot the soup made from bones. He never forgot the woman who made it. When Kirk formed his own film production company, he didn't name it after himself. He named it Bryna Productions — after her. In 1958, Bryna Productions released The Vikings, one of the biggest films of the year. And Kirk had something he needed to show his mother. He took her to Times Square. Among all those lights, all that noise, all that impossible American spectacle — he stopped in front of a massive billboard and pointed. BRYNA PRESENTS THE VIKINGS. Her name. Enormous. Illuminated. Seen by thousands of strangers every single day. The woman who had never learned to read her own name stood in Times Square and wept. Not from pain, for once. From joy. A few months later, in December of 1958, Bryna passed away peacefully — her son by her side. Her last words to him were not of fear or regret. They were a mother's instinct, right to the very end: "Izzy, son, don't be afraid. This happens to everyone." Even dying, she was still trying to protect him. Kirk Douglas went on to live 103 years. He became a Hollywood icon, a philanthropist, the father of actor Michael Douglas. He achieved things that boy boiling bones for soup could never have imagined. But he said it his whole life: she was the reason. Every single time. Every film bearing the words "A Bryna Production" was never really a business credit. It was a love letter. Written in lights. From a son who never forgot that his mother fed a family on bones — and somehow still found enough love left over to fuel a legend. She deserved to have her name in lights. And her son made absolutely certain she lived to see it.

🚨NEWS: Mexican Chemical Engineer Sandra Pascoe just created a Cactus-Based Plastic that dissolves completely in water within days.

Major fire reported at RAF Fairford overnight, a British airbase hosting a sizeable forward-deployed contingent of USAF bombers for Iran strikes. The fire reportedly gutted a commissary building.