Independent journalist covering climate change, environmental justice, policing and other (mostly) social justice issues. Views are my own.

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#ETP lobbied for a new law to make pipeline protest a felony. Then it hired local sheriff's deputies as its private security. Deputies then tackled, choked, pepper-sprayed, Tased & arrested water protectors under the new law. #BayouBridge #SwampReporting inthesetimes.com/article/219…
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Esto no es la Alemania nazi de los años 40, es el norte de Irlanda ocupada, donde racistas colonos británicos han perpetrado un pogromo y han ido puerta por puerta atacando casas de inmigrantes, quemándolas con familias dentro. Este fascismo no nace como los hongos, son los medios de comunicación y sus amos capitalistas quienes lo fomentan cada día, para que la población culpe a los de más abajo que ellos, en vez de mirar hacia arriba, hacia la banda de oligarcas pederastas de la red Epstein que nos gobiernan... solo fíjense como no hubo disturbios algunos con el escándalo de Epstein y los medios rápidamente enterraron el tema. El fascismo se nutre del miedo, es algo muy antiguo, se utilizó en la Alemania nazi o en el genocidio de Ruanda, donde día tras día en la infame Radio de las Mil Colinas decían: "vendrán a por ti", "quieren quitarte todo lo que tienes", "o los matas tú o te matarán a ti".... es el mismo modus operandi, crear inseguridad, crear miedo, crear un caldo de cultivo que justifique la masacre y poder implantar un estado de terror.
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very important quote!!!
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... but can he really? 🐪
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Bill Clinton: I balanced the federal budget Barack Obama: I won a Nobel Peace Prize Joe Biden: I passed the largest long-term investment in US infrastructure since WWII Donald Trump: I can identify a camel
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How many ordinary Americans even know this is happening, let alone support sending their tax dollars to fund it? If only Americans knew…
Yesterday Israel ordered the inhabitants of Nabiteh to leave (population of 100,000) They then ordered the inhabitants of Tyre to leave (pop of 200,000). Now they've ordered the entire south to leave - up to 300 towns & villages. @AlexCrawfordSky reporting from Lebanon today
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Just once I’d wish that when this happens, the other reporters would take a stand and ask the exact same question you did — which, by the way, was an extremely fair and pointed question. Even if you are at a competing outlet, other reporters should stand in solidarity because this is unacceptable.
I asked the president why focus on these projects now amid the backdrop of the war in Iran and as gas prices soar. He said the question was “stupid” and a “disgrace to the country” saying he’s “fixing” the reflecting pool.
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The journalist who is being sued by Kash Patel and reportedly being investigated by the FBI is out with a new story. Is there a Pulitzer for being a fearless badass? If so, she should win it. theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States for the seventh time won the war that wasn’t a war, so the United States can open the Strait of Hormuz that was open before the not war. The not war that started to get the uranium that was completely obliterated, so that the Iranians can’t build the nuclear bomb that they weren’t building for the not war that the United States started. Then the United States which has nuclear weapons threatening to use nuclear weapons to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons because having nuclear weapons is dangerous. If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.
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The fact that @hannah_natanson just won a Pulitzer Prize and still hasn't gotten her phone, laptops, smart watch & other devices back after the FBI raided her Virginia home in January is wild. They seized them in a classified "leak probe." She wasn't the target and wasn't charged with any crimes. She just happens to have over 1,100 confidential government sources. Give her back her property.
Bravo to @hannah_natanson, whose Pulitzer Prize reporting overcame an outrageous and chilling FBI raid on her home, a threat to journalism in this country
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Nothing says Make America Healthy Again like appointing a tobacco executive to be a leader at the CDC
Former tobacco industry executive Stephen Sayle has been appointed to a senior leadership role at the CDC. Sayle was a lobbyist for Chevron before working for Big Tobacco.
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"detained" the word is kidnapped. that little baby girl was kidnapped.
ICE has detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis, despite a judge ordering the baby’s release.
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So cool. And the walking through a cemetery to skip paying for parking sounds exactly like something I would do. But the bees ... I woulda left them tf alone 😱
Rachel Fordyce walked through a cemetery to skip paying for parking. She came back to work at Cornell carrying a jar of bees. A few years later, that jar led to one of the biggest bee gatherings ever counted: 5.5 million wild bees packed into 1.5 acres of graveyard dirt. The patch is about the size of a football field. Cornell's research team published the full count this April in a science journal called Apidologie. Every one of those 5.5 million bees is on her own. A regular beehive is one queen with around 30,000 worker bees, all sharing one home, raising babies together as one big family. Each cemetery bee digs her own little tunnel in the dirt, lays her own eggs, raises her own young, and ignores everyone else around her. Millions of tiny solo workers, packed into the same patch of soil, with no queen and no shared hive. The density works out to about 80 bees in every square foot of ground. Add that up across the whole 1.5 acres and you get the pollination power of more than 200 beehives, in a population three times the size of Manhattan. East Lawn's soil is sandy and easy to dig, and the cemetery is rarely disturbed. Cornell's apple orchard sits about one-third of a mile away, giving the bees a feast right next door. These bees, a species called Andrena regularis (or the regular mining bee), sleep underground all winter and come up in early April, right when apple flowers start blooming. At Cornell's orchard, this one wild species is the most common bee on the apple flowers, more common than the managed honeybees beekeepers bring in every spring. The cemetery dates to 1878. These bees have lived in its soil since at least 1935, almost a hundred years before anyone bothered to count them. Before this paper, the last real study of the species came out in 1978. Roughly 70 percent of bee species in the US live underground like this one, and scientists have barely studied any of them. These bees won't sting you. The males don't have stingers at all, the females only sting if you squash one in your hand, and there's no hive or honey for them to defend. The "5.5 million bees" headline sounds like a horror movie. Walk through East Lawn Cemetery in spring and the ground is busy with tiny solo workers, each digging in the dirt and pollinating apple flowers, the kind of bee you'd walk past without ever noticing.
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Get straight out of Hormuz, Little orange man! Our New Lego-style music video is here!
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School Shooting: There’s nothing we can do about this. Don’t politicize these tragedies. Political Shooting: We need a $400 million bunker built immediately and you hate America if you don’t agree.
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I just can’t imagine wanting an entire secure ballroom for one man and not wanting gun reform for every child in America.
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All those politicians running for their lives during a shooting finally got to understand how kids in schools feel.
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Every journalist in southern Lebanon knows they could be next on Israel’s kill list. And yet they stand their ground and keep covering this war of aggression. They deserve enormous respect.
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Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was found dead after hours of searching under rubble. She was killed in an Israeli strike, after the Israeli army fired at ambulances trying to reach her, delaying her rescue. She is the fourth journalist killed by Israel while in the field since 2 March. She was a professional, kind and dedicated journalist, and always a pleasure to run into in the field.
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“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.” -George Orwell, 1984.
RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."
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