Patricia

Some tried to mute science. It roared back.

A bird has never paid rent to live in the sky. A tree has never paid to stand in a forest. The sun has never been charged for rising. The river has never paid to flow. Yet humans spend their whole lives trying to earn permission to exist on earth

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it. This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect. "Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage. You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail. Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates. Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you. And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again. And you're calling Greenland poorly run? Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no. 'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years. And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess. So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth." - Tony Locke

@covie_93 What if the new White House “ballroom” isn’t really a ballroom at all? 90,000 sq ft. East Wing demolished. Underground military/security bunker. Drone port on the roof. Reinforced defenses. Expanded Secret Service infrastructure. Emergency medical facilities. Mar-a-Lago-style ceremonial interiors. What if it’s being designed as a fortified executive compound meant to survive political chaos after 2028 — a place from which Trump could attempt to govern indefinitely? Wild theory? Absolutely. But in 2026, who even knows anymore.

@covie_93 There's a meme for that. 😆😆😆

@covie_93 @ScoutFella Balls vs no ballsroom!

Shoutout to Volodymyr Zelenskyy for surviving actual assassination attempts and never demanding a ballroom once.

People are talking about solving LongCovid and they don’t even mention infection prevention. There will never be a magic pill that resolves all the damage (especially organ/immune system damage) that Covid causes. There is no way to “safely” get reinfected forever. It has to stop

With fervent hearts, let us pray today that the Spirit of the Risen One may save us from the evil of war, which is overcome not by a superpower, but by the omnipotence of love. Let us #PrayTogether that God may free humanity from misery, which is redeemed not by immeasurable wealth, but by an inexhaustible gift.

If you poured a gallon of poison in a CEO's pool, you'd be arrested, for attempted murder. They pour 10,000 gallons into your drinking water, that's just business.

You fucking idiots — you let that megalomaniacal moron send our troops into an illegal war he had NO fucking plan for, and 13 of them came home in coffins and FOR WHAT?!?! To make Iran even stronger. That’s what he did. That’s what he was always going to do. Because he is a fucking moron. Because he is an impulsive toddler. He got rich off of this shit. While making a terrorist regime even more powerful. And you all helped him do it. You have blood on your hands, Lindsey. You fucking tool.

Good morning. We won the war so hard that Iran now has privileges it didn’t have before we started it, The gaslighting is actually impressive

Clean air will be the sanitation revolution of the 21st century. Or it won’t. And we’ll pay for it for three generations.

Western burrowing owls don't dig their own homes. They live in burrows abandoned by prairie dogs, ground squirrels, badgers, marmots, and tortoises. Ranchers and developers have spent a century treating prairie dogs as pests, shooting and poisoning them across most of their historical range. The owls are going with them. A 7-year study in Nebraska documented a 63% decline in burrowing owl nesting pairs as prairie dog colonies were controlled. We've tried artificial burrows. They work, sort of, but they have to be maintained, replaced, and monitored forever. Real prairie dog colonies maintain themselves. Most ecosystem destruction looks like this. We exterminate the "pest" we don't value, and then realize too late that something we did value depended on it entirely.

One part of US history I hate most is the so-called “Louisiana Purchase.” It’s always taught as legitimate when neither France nor the US had any right to buy or sell those lands belonging to the Native American nations who are never included on the maps used in schools! Ripoff!

Lou Perrotti spent 25 years saving an endangered beetle most of us wouldn't recognize. He runs the American burying beetle recovery program out of a converted storage building behind Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence, Rhode Island. The beetle was federally endangered in 1989 after vanishing from 90% of its range. Perrotti rears them in his lab, ships them by hand to Nantucket every June, and has personally released thousands of beetles to rebuild the eastern population. The work paid off. In 2020 the beetle was downlisted from endangered to threatened. The same year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service named Perrotti a Recovery Champion. Before this, he was a retail manager who did snake outreach at libraries on weekends. He got hired as a zookeeper, was handed the beetle assignment by USFWS in the early 1990s, and never stopped. He has a burying beetle tattoo on his arm. He's still doing the work. Most species recovery looks like this. One person. One species. One quiet career.

@GrandpaHarris65 They also understood the value of a well-fitted shoe.

I miss having Cabinet members so competent we didn’t even know their names.

Will be interesting to see @foxnews try to shovel this horse balls of a deal down its viewers throats, and explain why allowing Iran to have $25 bills and control of the strait and keeping their nukes is making America great again. Good luck

@AdamKinzinger Trump got handed his ass. I like presidents that don't get handed their ass.

Wow. Absolute surrender

I love coming home and being at home and sitting inside my house and staying home