Mark Sofferman

@RepJackKimble Dangerous path for satire. Easily misunderstood.

Just a friendly warning. We don’t even make $200k per year in Congress despite working nearly 140 days. If we aren’t properly compensated, a lot of us will go to the private sector and you will be left with some real idiots in Congress.

@gorillacd Thank you every day

This Endangered Species Day, we're launching a new pilot at Virunga National Park. Vultures are among the most threatened bird species in Africa. They are also, we believe, an underutilised tool in conservation. Five vultures will be fitted with lightweight GPS devices. Over 12 months, our teams will monitor their movement patterns and assess whether behavioural signals — unusual clustering, prolonged inactivity, sudden displacement — can support earlier detection of threats and more targeted Ranger deployment across the Park. Monitoring a landscape of this scale remains one of the core challenges in conservation. This pilot explores whether vultures' natural behaviour can extend our situational awareness into areas that are difficult to reach. 📸 Virunga National Park #EndangeredSpeciesDay #VultureConservation #DRC

@Axaxia88 Stop fishing for sharks. Stop fishing for large fish. Stop catch and release. Leave them alone.

Thank you to that young man—who did not turn away or just stand there taking photos of a heartbreaking moment, but instead chose to act and reach out to save a life that was slowly fading away 🦈💖

@TheVikingNomad_ @DMichaelTripi 46 Americans were killed on October 7. Disgraceful post.

NEW: Thomas Massie introduces bill requiring AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) to register under Foreign Agents Registration Act.

CNN: -" Gazze’ye geri döner misiniz?" Amerikalı Hemşire: -"Bir kalp atışıyla kalbim Gazze'de. Filistin halkı tanıştığım en muhteşem insanlar. Eğer onların sahip olduğu cesaret azıcık da olsa bende olsaydı,mutlu bir insan olarak ölürdüm."

@Axaxia88 Need more cars to make the scene vibrant.

Wow, this incredibly rare and emotional moment at Kruger National Park still gives me chills! 🐘🦁️ A massive elephant suddenly charged in, using powerful trumpet blasts and sheer strength to scare off a pack of hyenas that were surrounding a badly injured lion. Against all odds, the elephant stepped in and saved the lion from a brutal attack.

@RNDTHOT @TheSaurus831 Lol. Ok.

@TheSaurus831 Hochul just gave him $8 billion of everybody else's money and he stiffed the city's retirees out of $3 billion that he's got to pay back at 8.25%. Like all leftists, he keeps spending money though. New York is soon to be Detroit.

I was told by grown adults that he would implement sharia law

@postinnocence @GitaGopinath She was an oil executive.

Condoleezza Rice was the first African American woman Secretary of State. Instead of celebration, she faced intense hostility from large parts of the left, including some Black activists and liberal voices who attacked her as a ‘sellout’ or worse for serving a Republican president. Remember the radio host who called her ‘Aunt Jemima’? Protests, Senate opposition from Democrats, and constant smears because she didn’t fit the expected narrative. The ‘usual folks’ only cheer historic firsts when they align with progressive politics. Rice succeeded on merit and principle. That’s the real story. Try merit!

A painting of the end of meritocracy: A meeting of the two largest economies and not one woman at the table.

@downshifting___ @DavidUllrich202 What geographic science journals do you guys read regularly to inform your judgement? Hmm? Not necessary? You feel the answers?

@DavidUllrich202 Hm. Interesting. So AMOC is slowed by freshwater from the Pacific flowing thru Bering Strait to the Arctic Sea and along the long Russian coast into the Atlantic??? Quite a journey.

A vast dam across the Bering Strait could stop the AMOC collapsing If a key ocean current collapses it could plunge northern Europe into a big freeze. Now researchers are weighing up a drastic intervention ― building a 130-kilometer-wide dam between the US and Russia newscientist.com/article/252588… docs.google.com/document/d/1el…

Ten biedny byk był kompletnie wyczerpany po długiej walce o wydostanie się z błotnistego wodopoju. Był w stanie zapaści, zbyt słaby, by stanąć na nogi, a przez całą noc hieny szarpały mu grzbiet i uszy. Na szczęście informacja dotarła do pobliskich strażników, którzy przez noc pilnowali słonia przed drapieżnikami. Rano dotarła lotnicza pomoc i od razu został nawodniony, otrzymał lekarstwa, opatrzono mu rany i stał się kolejny cud. Byk poczuł się lepiej i przy pomocy liny został wyciągnięty i stanął na własnych nogach. Zawsze jestem wzruszony i pełen podziwu dla ludzi, którzy pomagają zwierzętom. Sheldrick Trust.

@Variety Then he should watch Katt do his part at the roast. Seems he didn't joke about shoes.

Michael Che was originally slated to perform at "The Roast of Kevin Hart," but he ended up pulling out due to scheduling difficulties with “SNL.” Now, Che is taking to social media to air some grievances about the event: “White guys and Black people joke different. Black guy roast like, ‘look at this n—- shoes!’ White roasts are like, ‘Slavery, math, slain teens, sex crimes, slurs, family secrets.’ White guys don’t give a f*ck about they shoes.” variety.com/2026/tv/news/m…

@aakashgupta Med school is 4 years. Chiropractic School is five years.

Caitlin Jensen, 28, walked into a Georgia chiropractor in June 2022. She came out with four dissected arteries, a stroke, cardiac arrest, and a traumatic brain injury. It took her nine months to say "Mom" again. She had come in for lower back pain. Your brain runs on four arteries. Two carotids in front, two vertebrals in back. The vertebrals don't run free. They thread up through narrow bone tunnels inside each cervical vertebra, C6 to C1, then loop around the top vertebra in a tight horizontal curve called the V3 segment. When a chiropractor performs a high-velocity rotational thrust on the upper neck, V3 gets stretched and snapped against bone. The inner artery wall tears. Blood seeps between the layers. A flap forms. Flow blocks, or clots break off and travel to the brainstem. In Caitlin's case all four vessels tore. Paramedics worked 12 minutes restoring her pulse. Surgeons placed a stent in one artery and repaired what they could in the rest. The brain injury came from the bleed that followed the stroke that followed the dissection. One in 20,000 spinal manipulations triggers this. Arterial dissection causes 2% of strokes overall but 8 to 25% of strokes in patients under 45. In 55% of cases symptoms start within 12 hours of the adjustment. No screening test identifies who's at risk beforehand. The American Chiropractic Association's own spokesman told the New York Times patients should get vascular scans before neck manipulation. Almost none do. Informed consent matching a surgical risk disclosure isn't standard. The average victim is 40. Caitlin's back pain lived four vertebrae below the artery the thrust tore.

@ScottHech Lying in a legal brief isn't likely to get you disbarred.

Lying in a legal briefing would get you disbarred as a regular lawyer. But when you’re an unelected, lifetime appointee with powers to write decisions that completely undo & remake the Constitution, the decision gets to stand & you get to keep your lifetime position. Outrageous.

@CrazyVibes_1 So many stories. Thank you for this one.

A man saved 24 Jewish lives in Nazi occupied Tunisia in 1942. He hid them on his farm for four months. He never told his own children what he had done. His name was Khaled Abdul-Wahab. You have probably never heard it. In November 1942, German troops landed in Tunisia. It was the only Arab country directly occupied by Nazi Germany. The orders came fast. Yellow stars. Confiscated property. Jewish men sent to forced labor camps. 5,000 of them. Then the soldiers started moving into Jewish homes and pushing the families out into the street. Khaled was 31. A Tunisian Arab. Muslim. Son of a wealthy landowning family. He had Jewish friends his whole life. Tunisia had been home to Jews for 2,000 years. He spoke German. The officers liked him. They invited him to dinner. December 1942. Mahdia. A coastal town. Khaled is sitting at a table with German officers. One of them is drunk. He starts bragging. He says the Germans have set up a brothel in town. With Jewish women. Forced into it. He says he has picked one for himself. A pretty Jewish woman. Already married. A mother. He doesn't care. He says her name out loud. Odette Boukris. Khaled knows the name. The Boukris family are old friends of his father. He keeps his face still. Pours the officer more wine. Smiles. Eats. Then he makes an excuse. Drives the drunk officer home. Then drives straight to where the Jewish families are hiding. He bangs on the door at midnight. Tells them everything. The brothel. The officer. Odette. Tomorrow night. He says: pack now. Bring nothing. Come with me. He takes 24 people. The whole Boukris family. The Ouzzan family. Cousins. Children. Babies. He drives them 20 miles through the night to his farm. He hides them in his olive press. In his stables. In his storage rooms. Then he keeps them there for four months. Hiding 24 Jews under Nazi occupation was not a single act of courage. It was 120 days of it. He had to feed them in a country where food was running out. He had to keep babies quiet. He had to keep his servants quiet. Any one of them could have turned him in. He had to deal with German soldiers who came to the farm to count Jewish heads. When they came, the families put on their yellow stars. Stood still. Were counted. When the Germans left, the stars came off. One night a drunk German soldier wandered onto the farm and found the families. A girl named Edmee Ouzzan was 11 years old. She was hidden under a bed. She watched the soldier laugh and tell the families he was going to kill them all. Then Khaled appeared. She remembered him later as a guardian angel. He talked the soldier outside. Took his gun. Sent him away. Nobody on the farm died. In May 1943 the British liberated Tunisia. The 24 Jews went home. Some had homes left. Some did not. All of them were alive. Khaled went back to his quiet life. He got married. Had two daughters. Faiza and Papo. Painted. Traveled. Worked in government. He never spoke about what he had done. Not to his wife. Not to his daughters. Not to his neighbors. He died on September 4, 1997. Age 86. His daughters did not know. This is where the story should have ended. A man who saved 24 lives, buried in a Tunisian cemetery, the secret going into the ground with him. Then in 2007, his daughter Faiza was sitting in Paris reading a Sunday newspaper. She turned the page and saw an interview with an American historian named Robert Satloff. He was talking about a Tunisian Arab who had hidden 24 Jews in 1942. He was using her father's name. She had been alive 45 years. She had never heard the story. She read it twice. She cried. She tracked Satloff down and asked him: is this true? He told her it was. Anny Boukris, who had been a child hiding on Khaled's farm, had given him 83 pages of testimony before she died. Satloff had gone to Mahdia. Found the old people who remembered. Confirmed every detail. Faiza spent the next years finding her father's old friends. His old papers. His photos. Building the man she thought she knew into the man he actually was. She said: "I rediscovered my father." Satloff nominated Khaled to Yad Vashem for the title Righteous Among the Nations. Khaled would have been the first Arab ever recognized. Yad Vashem said no. Said he had not risked his own life enough. Said he had hosted the Jews, not hidden them. Faiza answered with one of the most devastating lines any daughter has ever spoken about her father: "My father opened his home to Jews. Yad Vashem did not open their home to us." The 24 people Khaled saved have hundreds of descendants today. In Israel. In France. In America. In Tunisia. Many of them light a candle for him every year. The little girl who was hidden under the bed grew up. Moved to Paris. Had children. Those children had children. None of them would exist if Khaled had kept eating his dinner. He was 31 years old. He spoke German. He had a quiet life and an easy farm. He had everything to lose and no reason to put any of it on the line. He did it anyway. Then he never spoke of it again. His own children did not know. Anny Boukris died weeks after handing over her testimony. The chain of memory almost broke a second time. Yad Vashem refused him the title. Most history books still do not include him. The world forgot him once when he was alive. Forgot him again when he died. Was about to forget him a third time. Now you know. If you do not tell someone, the silence wins again.

“The time has come to put aside national ambitions and look for an international ambition of survival,” Sir David Attenborough told 60 Minutes in 2020. He turns 100 today. Attenborough warns that if world leaders don’t change, “It’s going to sink us in the end."

From 2002 to 2020, roughly 149 billion metric tons (164 billion tons) of Antarctic ice melted per year This is our natural air conditioning system and its disappearing Without it - Earth will be to hot for most life to survive science.nasa.gov/earth/antarcti…

Fuck! The Paris agreement was meant to stop the planet breaching 1.5C by 2100. The worlds leading climate scientist says well now see 2C by the 2030’s!!!!!! Almost no media is telling you climate change is accelerating!! @piersmorgan @mrjamesob @TomSwarbrick1 @vicderbyshire @jonsopel @maitlis @Emmabarnett @tombradby @WilfredFrost @CliveMyrieBBC @amolrajan @SophyRidgeSky @TVNaga01 @OborneTweets @JohnSimpsonNews @richardpbacon @rickedwards1 @MickBooker @MartinDaubney @PatrickChristys @MichelleDewbs @MrNickKnowles @bbcvickiyoung @KamaliMelbourne @BBCsarahsmith @kirstiemallsopp @krishgm @tombradby @skynews @itvnews @ITNProductions @esmewren @adamboultonTABB @KayBurley @alexberesfordTV @kayeadams @janem @rickygervais @rachelburden @bbcnews @skynews @NickyAACampbell @ShelaghFogarty @BenKentish @bbcnickrobinson @tomhfh @susannareid100 @alexberesfordTV

Los diamantes que llevó la cantante Beyoncé a la Gala Met estaban hechos con diamantes de 342 quilates extraídos de la mina Karowe en Botsuana. La mina de Karowe es operada por Lucara, propiedad de multimillonarios canadienses y europeos, que explota a los nativos negros botsuanos y que roba la riqueza del país. Para crear esta mina, desplazaron y expulsaron a miles de nativos de la tribu San, además de la tala de árboles, la excavación y el destrucción del ecosistema, provocando una grave escasez de agua debido al consumo en el proceso de minería. Beyoncé, además de estar con Jay Z, un tipejo que sale en la lista de Epstein e invierte en empresas de "Israel", es cómplice de la explotación y la miseria.

“We are at a unique stage in our history. Never before have we had such an awareness of what we are doing to the planet, and never before have we had the power to do something about that... The future of humanity and indeed all life on earth, now depends on us.” — Sir David Attenborough

How does he do that 😳 Michel Tirabosco and his pan flute