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The Devine Miss M, Bette Midler, just released her own version of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose." Give it a listen and get inspired to stand up to Trump and fascism. Woody and Bette understand how horrible fascists are for America. All of us should agree on that fact. #DemsUnited

Our Nana had an scariest episode over the weekend she had surgery to remove and colon cancer mass yesterday, seems more alert today if you have a second to wishing her a rapid recovery 🙏 Thank You

Shark has been with our #LosAngeles rescue since he was a kitten He will be 3yo next week and would love a #foreverhome for his birthday Please share to help get this guy noticed! #forgottensoulshour #CatsofTwitter #AdoptDontShop #AdoptMe #cats

Red creeping thyme is about 1000x better than a grass lawn. It barely needs water, requires no mowing, feeds pollinators, and is edible too. The GOAT.

That sigh your dog just did? It’s 16,000 years old. Two studies published this week in Nature pushed back the genetic record of dog domestication by 5,000 years, detaching it entirely from the story of farming. The humans who first lived with dogs had no fields, no livestock, no permanent address. They were ice-age nomads, moving constantly across a frozen continent, and they had dogs with them anyway. Not for agriculture. Not for herding. Just because somewhere along the way, a wolf that wasn’t quite a wolf anymore sat down next to a human fire and stayed. The particular way your dog presses against your leg when something feels wrong, positions itself with a sightline to the door, watches you without watching you – that’s not a quirk. That’s a collaboration 16,000 years in the making, running without interruption through every plague, empire, and revolution since. Dogs are great. I love my dog. 🐕 Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Cloud cover decreases have also been linked to ocean surface warming, which affects atmospheric humidity and, thus, cloudiness. Reduced cloudiness leads to more sunlight being absorbed at the ocean surface ― and more warming. This amplifying loop is known as a “cloud feedback”.

How declining cloudiness is accelerating global warming carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how… docs.google.com/document/d/16-…

Americans are being poisoned at an alarming rate. When are we going to start demanding the same protections for Americans that Europeans already have?

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a groundbreaking technique that transforms barren desert sand into fertile soil in just 10 to 16 months. Using lab-grown cyanobacteria — ancient microbes that harness sunlight — the method creates a living biological soil crust that acts as a natural stabilizer. These cyanobacteria produce sticky sugars that function like a biological glue, binding loose sand particles together into a thin but durable layer. This crust dramatically reduces wind erosion by over 90%, preventing sand from blowing away and creating a stable environment where grasses and shrubs can successfully take root. In addition to stabilization, the microbial crust jumpstarts the desert ecosystem by fixing nitrogen and capturing carbon from the atmosphere, rapidly improving soil fertility and water retention. The result is a significant reduction in sandstorms and a much faster ecological recovery than nature could achieve on its own. However, researchers caution that these fragile biological crusts are still vulnerable to damage from vehicles, livestock grazing, and human activity, meaning long-term protection will be essential to maintain the restored land’s fertility. [Deng, S., et al. "Biological soil crust succession in deserts through a 59-year-long case study in China: How induced biological soil crust strategy accelerates desertification reversal from decades to years". Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 141, 107665]

Acclaimed actor and producer @SamuelLJackson makes a powerful pitch urging the #TulsaZoo to do what the #LAZoo refused to do. Free #elephants Billy and Tina to sanctuary. Take action: bit.ly/4lTQihf Pls RT and support bit.ly/4c8AbZP #10WorstZoos #SamuelLJackson

“We think we’re so clever and brilliant wading into countries, plunging in and firing missiles. But we don’t think of the absolutely catastrophic effects that they can have many decades down the line.” On BBC Question Time, George Monbiot explains that the Islamic Republic was partly established in response to British and American imperial action. In 1953, Western powers overthrew a democratically elected Iranian government in the process of nationalising Iranian oil, paving the way for an Islamic Republic hostile to Western powers.

🚨 NEW: Jeremy Corbyn is caught on microphone whispering "this is such a load of nonsense, isn't it?" before he is about to be sworn in as an MP

Trump: "I'm the only president that ever took a cognitive test. I took it 3 times. It's actually a very hard test for a lot of people. It wasn't hard for me. It starts off with an easy question and by the time you get to the middle it gets tougher -- mathematical equations and things."

BREAKING: At his cabinet meeting, Trump just bragged about how hard the mathematical equations of his cognitive test that he passed were. FACT: The hardest mathematical equation on such a test is referred to as the “Serial 7s” Test: You start at 100 and keep subtracting 7, out loud: 100 → 93 → 86 → 79 → 72 → 65 → 58 → This is literally what he’s bragging about. My seven-year-old could do this.

Stop reacting to climate change; start being proactive. The idea that 'it can't be that bad because it hasn't been' is no longer a valid argument. Preparation is key. #ClimateAction #Preparedness

Currently, governments heavily subsidize feed crops (corn and soy) making the factory farm model artificially cheap. Redirecting those subsidies to help farmers transition to regenerative agriculture, plant-based crop production or more humane farming methods changes the financial incentives.

The hardest part is starting, and it's okay not to be an expert. The simplest first step? Talk about it. We often underestimate how many people care about climate change. #ClimateAction #StartNow

Don't know where to start? Simply talking about what you care about can spark change. It's a snowball effect: small actions in your community can grow, inspiring others and creating a larger impact. #CommunityAction #MakeADifference

Mono-culture farming devastates the rest of nature. Farmlands continue to lose much of their wildlife, bees, birds, insects, amphibians. But each generation measures "normal" nature against what existed in their childhood; not what existed before. So we don't mourn the Auroch, Quagga, Eastern Elk, or drained wetland. We never knew them. We each inherit a slightly emptier world & call it normal, a shifting baseline syndrome. Humans are remarkably adaptive... dangerously so.

The rapidly warming Arctic is reshaping our atmosphere by weakening the temperature gradient. This change allowing polar air to spill farther south & produce intense cold outbreaks even as global average temperatures continue to rise.