Still“Trying”2 Remain an Eternal Optimist☮️🟧🇺🇦
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We’ve made a mess 4 our kids & grands. Let’s be a more empathetic species🙏 Pls stop enabling/celebrating stupidity & Tax the rich. Family, Nature, Cats=❤️
Border Patrol bulldozed three century-old cottonwood trees on the US-Mexico border this week. Nesting birds were still inside them. Before touching a single tree, Border Patrol put a promise in writing. Environmental monitors would check the trees first. Any active nests they found would get a protected buffer zone, left alone until the babies were old enough to leave on their own. The Sierra Club didn't just take their word for it. They sent Border Patrol actual video, proof that birds were nesting in those exact trees, weeks before construction started. Border Patrol never even responded. Then the promise meant nothing anyway. No monitors showed up. No buffer zone was set. Crews brought in heavy machinery and took the trees down with the nests still in them. The same trees that hold nesting birds every single spring. The same trees whose roots cross the border underground and lean on each other for support, one country's tree holding up another's. The same trees that shelter antelope, bighorn sheep, and one of the last jaguars left in the US, all of whom use this valley to cross between countries too. The same trees standing in Lochiel, a ghost town that hasn't had a working border crossing since the 1980s, disturbed by almost nothing until this week. A protester named Logan Miller, who tried to stop the crews, got arrested. One tree is still standing. An activist named Kate Scott is camping next to it right now, for as long as she can. "Us as humans could take a little chapter out of their book about coexisting," she said. Taxpayers are footing a $309 million bill so a company called Fisher Sand and Gravel can bulldoze nesting birds the government promised to protect. Crossings in this area collapsed by more than 95% in a single year. DHS itself stood in Nogales, right next door, this February, and called it the most secure border in American history. The law that let them skip NEPA, the Endangered Species Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and the Clean Water Act dates back to 1996. It allowed Noem to waive almost any environmental protection on the books. No review. No appeal. All at her sole discretion. In the decade before Trump's first term, it was used seven times total. Trump used it 29 times in four years, and is still using it to date. Project 2025's own foreword, written by Kevin Roberts, dismisses environmental protection as "the Left's love affair with environmental extremism." Who's protecting the birds when the agency that promised to won't even keep its word on paper? 🐦 #DemsUnited
We're near the ten-year anniversary of this interview, which was viewed as wildly controversial at the time. It led to hit pieces on me from liberal outlets like The New Republic as well as death threats. Now it's seen as conventional wisdom -- but it always was!
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
