🌿Richard Halttunen🪶

NEWS — European intelligence warns Russia could attack NATO within a year. Meanwhile, the Pentagon is drafting revenge plans against NATO for disloyalty to Trump. The alliance has two enemies now. One of them is us.

Every Republican who voted YES to another $70 billion ICE slush fund at 3 AM last night said NO to child care.   Republicans said NO to health care. NO to helping working Americans in any way at all.   I'll be making sure everyone knows it.

Unbelievably another in the same spot today.... Seriously, why would nan be having a nice time "up there" when you're putting the lives of animals in jeopardy. This beach will soon host breeding Terns, Plovers and Oystercatchers. This. Must. Stop!

Why isn't Trump talking about this every single day? Wildfires are spreading throughout Georgia, with homes burning down, and 91 counties under a state of emergency. Why isn't Trump attacking the Republican governor, and telling them to rake their forests? Oh that's right. He will never blame Republicans for anything.

This should be making international headlines. Every alarm bell known to mankind should be ringing. This is dangerous and genuinely catastrophic

Republicans have pulled their dangerous, egregious bill gutting the Endangered Species Act (ESA) from the House Floor🎉 Happy Earth Day! 🌎

Grandma takes you to a baseball game and you accidentally unlock a core memory on live TV that’ll follow you for the rest of your life. Props to the guy in the hockey jersey for giving the kid the ball.

Yea we joke about the double standard in the media, but this is legitimately insane.

mRNA vaccines are curing cancer whilst anti vaxxers want you to believe they cause cancer

An annual reminder: don’t spray spring dandelions with Roundup. One flower can be visited by 100+ bees in a day, and those chemicals can kill them all. 🌻

This should be a much bigger story. The Trump administration is about to hand TotalEnergies, a French oil company, nearly $1 billion of your money to cancel its American offshore wind projects. And they are pulling the cash from an account they are not allowed to use this way. Here is how it works. The government has something called the Judgment Fund. Think of it as an emergency savings account for when the government loses a lawsuit or settles a real legal fight. It is not a checkbook the President can use whenever he feels like rewarding a company. To get around that rule, the administration is pretending TotalEnergies was about to sue. But TotalEnergies had no case. The company signed a contract in January 2025 with clear rules: the government cannot cancel these leases unless it first pauses the project for five years. The lease is less than four years old and was never paused. TotalEnergies agreed to those terms. There was no real lawsuit coming. So the administration invented a fake legal threat to justify raiding an account Congress controls. That matters because the Constitution says Congress, not the President, decides how taxpayer money gets spent. It gets worse. The White House claimed TotalEnergies would take the money and reinvest it in American oil and gas. The actual paperwork, now public, requires nothing of the kind. The company gets a billion dollars of taxpayer money and owes us nothing. So Americans are paying a foreign oil company to shut down clean energy projects here at home, using money that was never supposed to be spent this way, with zero strings attached. That is illegal, unethical, and a scandal hiding in plain sight.

Here it is, my occasional reminder that balloons won't make it up to grandma in heaven. But they will return to Earth and choke wildlife.

Martyn Stewart has the last known recording of the now-extinct golden Panamanian frog. He says he is deeply worried about a catastrophic decline in wildlife populations around the world. cbsn.ws/4tpDcvc

Europe keeps asking who will protect it from Russia. Finland’s president just gave the clearest answer: Ukraine. ㅤ Stubb says he would prefer to see Ukraine in NATO, even if some still have political problems with it. His reasoning is brutally simple: the Russian threat is not going away, and the country giving Europe real security today is Ukraine. ㅤ The nation still treated by some as a burden is already Europe’s shield. ㅤ

This has gotta be one of the best Pirate player fan moments in PNC Park history. So cool.

The fossil fuel industry has done a masterful job in brainwashing a certain percentage of the populace that climate change is “fake.” You know who doesn’t think it’s fake? The actuaries who calculate risk when evaluating how much you should pay for homeowner’s insurance.

“If we keep stealing from nature, then the inevitable is going to happen… mass extinction,” says Martyn Stewart, a British naturalist. cbsn.ws/4chRYOs

Last week, the U.S. Senate gave a Chilean billionaire the green light to mine next to the most visited wilderness in America- the Boundary Waters. The ore mined would be sold directly to China. The public was completely cut out of the process. This sets a dangerous precedent for public lands everywhere - including right here in Montana. Our hunting, fishing, and recreating belong to us, not foreign billionaires and DC dealmakers. I will fight for our public lands as your Senator. Stand with us. Follow @SethBodnar for more. #declareyourindependence #mtsen #montana

The pristine Boundary Waters was protected under the Biden administration, Republicans have overturned the ban for mining within this proximity. We cannot give up the fight to protect the wilderness and our natural resources. @SenTinaSmith #Minnesota #BountyWaters

We see you @SenateGOP Especially you Mike Lee. Americans will not tolerate our protected lands being stolen, gutted, and depleted at your hands for greed. See you in November. 🇺🇸