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Birds are declining across North America, with some regions losing birds faster than others. Read more: f.mtr.cool/guhzrzbrag

@humanedrug @WashTimes @SaraCarterDC @ASwoyer I’m hoping the DULF case has some positive impacts.

@puffpieceMN @WashTimes @SaraCarterDC @ASwoyer Meanwhile, prohibition is clearly unconstitutional. The 18th/21st amendment makes no mention of alcohol. If I had the balls, I would get myself arrested for a schedule 4 drug, then drag it up to the Supreme Court & challenge the CSA. Just like alcohol. reuters.com/legal/governme…

WATCH: Drug czar @SaraCarterDC says cartels have been forced to find ways to diversify their income because President Trump has shut down the southern border and disrupted drug-running routes. She sits down with @ASwoyer:

@humanedrug @WashTimes @SaraCarterDC @ASwoyer Crimes Against Humanity Under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, "extermination" includes the intentional infliction of conditions of life (like withholding food or medicine) calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population.

@WashTimes @SaraCarterDC @ASwoyer Take anything coming out of ONDCP with a huge continent of salt. She’s literally paid to lie to you. The fact is that the US could eliminate mass-drug poisoning but actively refuses to save the lives of well over a million Americans a decade, costing ~a billion dollars a day.

Doug Burgum has been given countless opportunities to show he gives a damn about our parks and public lands, and every time, he makes it clear he doesn’t. His new budget that would mean longer lines, less safety personnel, and more chaos for visitors. bit.ly/41XqNCr

The threat to the Boundary Waters isn’t just about Minnesota — the legislative gymnastics being thrust upon us to allow copper-nickel mining in this watershed would mean no public lands are ever truly protected. We would be opening Pandora’s box… for what? The profits and shareholders of a foreign mining company? Not this mine. Not this place.

Burgum (with Budd-Falen lurking in the shadows) canceling the American Prairie BLM Bison permits is all about elevating the Taylor Grazing Act above FLPMA & any other envtl laws, & rewarding Trump cattle cronies. thewildlifenews.substack.com/p/puzzle-in-th…

Hussam Abu Safieh is one of the Palestinian doctors (among 95 other doctors) that will be killed by the “Israeli death penalty for hostages.” Do not let them murder him. Repost this.

Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for 40 years on every salary I received. Those jobs may not have always been the work I wanted to be doing at the time, BUT I always had a job. The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this. I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it. The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes. If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security. If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved! This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month. That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it’s a fact). And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts. Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger "Ponzi scheme" than Bernie Madoff ever did. They took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer. But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it. Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity! Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government. Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income. 😡😡😡✅

The most annoying thing about being human on Earth right now is the absolute waste of potential. Brilliant minds and artists could be solving world hunger, climate change, and ending cancer, etc. We could house, feed, clothe, and care for everyone. But instead, we’ve decided to let a handful of asshats become billionaires, start wars, murder and imprison people, and keep the majority in poverty while ruining the climate. It’s so stupid. The wasted ingenuity hurts to think about.

Do healthcare professionals really believe Buprenorphine and Methadone are the same? That they are interchangeable? I see Buprenorphine talked about constantly but rarely Methadone. @DrugPolicyOrg @DrSarahAxelrath @YaleADM @shdwstar @drcarlhart @HRCA_info

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us. 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 fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

Hundreds of girls in the US are confined by the juvenile justice system for “status offenses,” like running away or truancy. Confinement for these offenses is particularly troubling because those behaviors tend to be responses to abuse. More care, less confinement.

1 in 61 people nationwide are under some form of correctional control — and the vast majority of them are on probation or parole. The data is clear: The "land of the free" is committed to a system of mass punishment.

Call your Senators NO to changes to US Forest services 202-224-3121 ".... The logging executive running the agency. Headquarters moving to the state currently suing to seize 18.5 million acres of your public land...." @willpattiz/note/c-241227115?r=26n77&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@willpattiz/no…

Manatees in Florida are having a bad year so far. 31 have been killed by watercraft — and that's only the ones we know about. Many more suffer injuries. The biggest killer has been the cold. 39 have died of cold stress, triple the 5 year average. Last year, there were a total of 632 manatee deaths statewide, higher than the previous two years, when 555 and 565 dead manatees were recorded. A propeller guard, a dedicated spotter wearing polarized sunglasses and slowing right down would reduce deaths and injuries, and they should never be fed or touched, even if they approach you.

Trumps border wall isnt just a monument to xenophobia, its a monument to Ecocide. Watch this mountain lion, an apex predator reduced to a desperate scavenger, trying to squeeze through steel bars to find water. This is the "security" they sold us: a landscape turned into a cage. The ecological illiteracy of this administration is staggering. By slicing through the Arizona-Sonora border, they’ve blocked up to 85% of wildlife migration. They arent just stopping people; they are stopping the genetic flow of entire species, ensuring local extinctions for the sake of a photo-op. Tear down the barriers to survival. Protect migration corridors, not political egos. #SaveWildlife #NoWalls #WildlifeRights #ClimateAction #TrumpEcocide @BD_SCBG @realDonaldTrump @Wildlife_Update @Sky_Islands @CenterForBioDiv @SierraClub @Earthjustice @NatlParkService

@JamieBonkiewicz Not willing to preserve Democracy.

One of the biggest takeaways from the past few days is that not one Republican in Congress was willing to risk anything to be on the right side of history

Canadian Drug Policy Must Actively Uphold the Right to Life: UN Report filtermag.org/canada-drug-po… via @Filtermag_org #humanrights #harmreduction

@HumphreysHope Horrific. Every US taxpayer is funding the execution of childten. Please find a way to stop this. At least talk about it so Republican voters can call their congressperson (202) 224-3121 @HouseDemocrats @SenateDems @MSNOWNews @maddow @chrislhayes @AP

Hard to believe this is true . Just horrifying and sickening.