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sarah
sarah@sahouraxo·
Israel killed Maryam and her entire family today in Jibsheet, South Lebanon.
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Bernie Dowling
Bernie Dowling@bentbananabooks·
Labor's redistribution of income from Meta to Murdoch, also known as the News Bribery Initiative (NBI) assists the survival of a product nobody wants (MSM) in the hope that Labor gets less bad MSM coverage. tinyurl.com/yc2hvx8f
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Jason Bassler
Jason Bassler@JasonBassler1·
We’ve officially reached the part of the timeline where war crimes are pitched like product features.
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Anish Moonka
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
A single veterinary painkiller killed 500,000 people in India. The drug was for cows. It was harmless to humans, but it shut down the kidneys of any vulture that fed on a treated carcass. Over a few years it killed 99.5% of India's vultures. With the vultures gone, dead cattle piled up in fields where the birds used to clean a carcass down to bone in 40 minutes. Stray dogs took over the job and multiplied around the dumps. India loses more people to rabies than any other country in the world, and the dog population was suddenly booming around mountains of rotting cow. Two economists ran the numbers. Eyal Frank at the University of Chicago and Anant Sudarshan at the University of Warwick published a paper in 2024 in the American Economic Review. They compared death rates across more than 600 Indian districts, separating places that used to have lots of vultures from places that never did. In the vulture-rich districts, human death rates climbed 4.7% above normal between 2000 and 2005. That works out to about 100,000 extra deaths a year, half a million in total, and roughly $69 billion a year in economic damage. The drug behind it was diclofenac, a cheap anti-inflammatory you might recognize as the active ingredient in Voltaren. Indian cattle owners gave it to their animals for pain. Any vulture that ate the carcass of a recently treated cow died of kidney failure within days, and they ate a lot of treated carcasses. A team led by Lindsay Oaks at The Peregrine Fund pinned down the cause in 2003. India banned the veterinary version in 2006. Some populations are slowly coming back, but the three worst-hit species are still 91 to 98% below their 1990s numbers. Africa is running the same experiment with different chemicals. A January 2024 study in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution went through 42 species of African birds of prey and found 88% of them shrinking, with vultures and eagles falling fastest. The poison this time is carbofuran, a farm pesticide poachers smear on dead elephants and lions. The point is to kill the vultures that circle overhead, because circling vultures show rangers where the poaching happened. Three poisoned elephants killed 537 vultures in a single 2019 incident in Botswana. In May 2025, one poisoned elephant in Kruger National Park killed 123 more in a morning. A vulture's stomach acid is some of the strongest in the animal kingdom, strong enough to dissolve bones, hide, and the pathogens for anthrax, cholera, botulism, and rabies. When the vultures disappear, the pathogens that used to die inside them spread instead. They end up in the water, the soil, and the dogs that took the vultures' place.
Give A Shit About Nature@giveashitnature

Vultures eat anthrax, botulism, rabies, and cholera for breakfast. Their stomach acid is among the most corrosive in the animal kingdom, with a pH around 1, low enough to dissolve the bones, hide, and pathogens of dead animals that would kill almost anything else. A vulture eating a diseased carcass isn't a vector for disease, it's a terminus. The disease chain ends in the vulture's gut, and that's pretty hardcore. When vulture populations crashed in India in the 1990s, rotting livestock carcasses sat where vultures used to clean them. Feral dogs and rats took over the cleanup, both of which actually do spread rabies. Researchers later linked the vulture collapse to roughly 500,000 deaths in India over the following decade. The same collapse is now underway in sub-Saharan Africa. Six of eleven African vulture species are threatened with extinction, primarily from poisoned poaching baits. The animals nobody finds cute are doing more public health work than most of the species we actively protect.

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Sulaiman Ahmed
Sulaiman Ahmed@ShaykhSulaiman·
JUST IN: VIGIL FOR THE MINAB SCHOOL CHILDREN FROM IRAN HELD AT UC BERKELEY IN CALIFORNIA
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TheRealThelmaJohnson
TheRealThelmaJohnson@TheRealThelmaJ1·
The Maduro Regime is still in power in Venezuela. The IRGC regime is still in power in Iran. The Epstein regime is still in power in D.C.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Tens of thousands of lawsuits have been filed against Bayer for failing to warn people about the risks of glyphosate exposure. Now, EPA Administrator Zeldin and Trump are pushing for legal immunity to protect Bayer from being sued by Americans getting cancer from their product.
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Power to the People ☭🕊
Power to the People ☭🕊@ProudSocialist·
A protestor is holding a sign outside of Auschwitz that says: “Israel exploits the memory of the Holocaust to carry out genocide.” Being the victims of a Holocaust does not give you license to commit one yourself. NEVER AGAIN MEANS NEVER AGAIN FOR EVERYONE.
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Barbara Pocock
Barbara Pocock@BarbaraPocock·
NO affordable rentals for low income households. Nationwide. Homelessness up 10%. Thousands on long public housing wait lists. Past time to fix tax breaks for wealthy investors, rebuild public housing stock, cap rents in a war-driven inflation crisis, & rapidly ⬆️ affordable 🏠
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Gary Marcus
Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus·
Sheer insanity. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta collectively are spending more money than the Manhattan Project *every single month*. More than 12x the Manhattan Project every year. And what they have got to show for it? None are making major profits on AI; none has a technical moat; a massive price war is inevitable. And few of their customers are seeing major returns on investment. Greatest capital misallocation in history.
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Joe Wrote
Joe Wrote@joewrote·
The Politico CEO called an all-hands meeting to say the outlet unequivocally supports Israel. He also said any reporter who disagrees with his personal Zionism should quit. When pressed by reporters on the need to follow journalistic ethics, he said: “I don’t need to prove Iran is seeking a nuclear weapon.”
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Step and fetch
Step and fetch@FetchStep·
The interim report of the #Bondi royal commission showed the obscene growth in "security" agencies funding. All of them dismissed the threat from the #Bondi terrorists. These bloated agencies are not keeping Australians safe. 2020-21 = $4.1B 2024-25 = $7.0B Funding growth of 70%
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nordacious
nordacious@nordacious·
no gas company left behind ❤️
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Jenni
Jenni@hashjenni·
In case anyone isn’t aware, Trump is demanding Zambia to hand over its mineral rights by end of day tomorrow or the U.S. gov’t will cut off the country’s access to the AIDS medications that are literally keeping its citizens alive. Just thought y’all should know.
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Dr Monique Ryan MP
Dr Monique Ryan MP@Mon4Kooyong·
Why can't we have nice things? There are plenty of reasons, but one of the biggest is that the government refuses to tax gas exports—resources that belong to all Australians—properly. My thoughts on reports the Albanese Government has backed gas company profits over the health of the budget and the will of most Australians.
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