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I wrote about why slugs are better than clankers.

@RBYW42 Horses lived in North America for at least 50,000,000 years and were absent for maybe 12,000.

@Unpop_Science umm, I think the Europeans brought horses to the Americas, as there was basically none here for a very long time. There was some, but they were hunted to extinction.

Reminder that horses evolved in North America — they are not an invasive species and they are not being “managed” for ecological reasons. They are being eradicated from public lands to benefit the ranching industry and shipped en masse to slaughterhouses in Mexico.

@sunraysunray I think the lesson is that we really need to stop idolizing the military.

The lesson of Maine is not that we need fewer amateurs. We need far more of them, recruited seriously, through class-rooted organizations. This is old wisdom on the left. My latest in The Guardian. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@JTommins I noticed that in the video, honestly looks to me like really bad luck.

Wild story—the man who got injured was the recommended distance away, but a pickup truck spooked it and made it charge

The Trump administration has moved to allow drilling, mining, and construction in all endangered species' habitats.

@wideofthepost This should be illegal.

is this a joke?

Remember: capitalism is in the process of annihilating the majority of Earth's species with 45-47% of plants now at extreme risk of rapid extinction

Five Australian marsupials, newly recognised through taxonomic review, have been confirmed Extinct on the @IUCNRedList: the little bettong and crested-tailed, southern, northern and little mulgaras. No individuals have been reported for at least 60 years. info.iucn.org/3SOEhz8 #IUCNRedList #Extinction #Biodiversity #Marsupials

great article about how the recent erasure of climate change from political messaging and media coverage is not an organic reaction to voters’ concerns, but a coordinated command from corporate think tanks:

@imjenell @MappingFL These are just the ones they murdered outside of prison.

ICE has murdered Keith Porter Jr, Renee Nicole Good, Alex Pretti, and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

People killed by ICE just this year: Geraldo Lunas Campos, Luis Gustavo Núñez Cáceres, Luis Beltrán Yañez-Cruz, Renée Nicole Good, Parady La, Heber Sanchez Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Alex Pretti, Alberto Gutierrez-Reyes, Jairo Garcia-Hernandez, Lorth Sim, Pejman Karshenas Najafabadi, Emmanuel Clifford Damas, Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal, Royer Perez-Jimenez, José Guadalupe Ramos-Solano, Tuan Van Bui, Alejandro Cabrera Clemente, Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt, Denny Adan Gonzalez, Mamuka Artmeladze, Felix Alcorta-Rodriguez, Nenko Stanev Gantchev, Delvin Francisco Rodriguez, Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir, Jean Wilson Brutus, Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani, Pete Sumalo Montejo, Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, Ismael Ayala-Uribe, Santos Banegas Reyes, Genry Donaldo Ruiz-Guillen, Serawit Gezahegn Dejene, Maksym Chernyak, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.

@kenklippenstein can’t really take this seriously

Let me know if my Graham Platner apology is debasing and self-flagellating enough 👇kenklippenstein.com/p/my-graham-pl…

@RadishHarmers In all seriousness, choosing to volunteer for the United States military reflects a deep moral weakness and susceptibility to propaganda that should be seen as immediately disqualifying for any leadership role.

Never trust a military person. They think it's okay to kill people. I dream of a world where military service is career-endingly scandalous.

💔The Last Dolphins In The Adriatic Sea Are Left Scavenging Fishing Boats To Survive The Adriatic Sea, the strip of water between the Italian Peninsula and the Balkans, is one of the world's most overfished seas, leaving natural prey stocks severely depleted frontiersin.org/journals/mamma…

@JTommins In marine science, everyone follows a doctrine invented by the fishing industry that says 25% of the baseline population is “fully recovered”. Forgetting is institutionalized.

I’ll tell you what really pisses me off about this: it proposes forgetting what we’ve lost. I know nobody likes to admit we live in a diminished landscape around here but to me, if we manage to do a single thing right in this field, let it be refusing to forget

The Trump administration approved three new “forever chemical”-based pesticides last week for use on food crops, including corn and soybeans — the most widely grown crops in the country — as well as wheat, kiwi, oats, peas, broccoli and coffee. These new chemicals — diflufenican, epyrifenacil, trifludimoxazin — have all been quietly approved without a standard press release. Trump approved other PFAS-based pesticides cyclobutrifluram and isocycloseram earlier this year, and the first food use of chlormequat — which is already found in 90% of Americans’ blood. An EPA scientist wrote in the approval documents that at least one of these new PFAS-based pesticides is “suggestive evidence of carcinogenic potential.” These approvals come just days after the Supreme Court sided with chemical maker Bayer and the Trump administration in limiting Americans’ ability to sue pesticide companies for harms linked to pesticides. Now, Americans will have a harder time holding companies accountable for the cancer-causing effects of their pesticides.

@thebiologistisn one of the stupidest talking points in the world

@Unpop_Science Beef grows on land where nothing else edible to humans will grow.

By pretty much every metric, a hamburger actually costs more to society than it benefits. The external costs in emissions, water, land, pollution, labor abuse, and animal torture are enormous. Even by nutrition, farming cows consumes around 50X the calories it produces.

Little Blitzen Steens trailhead.BLM War on cooling carbon sequestering wildlife habitat Western Junipers. Trees clearcut/piled/burned. Now a blistering hot hostile cheatgrass tinder box. They hate trees.