"When species disappear before documentation, we lose these innovations – along other critical value to ecosystem services – before recognising their existence."
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"When species disappear before documentation, we lose these innovations – along other critical value to ecosystem services – before recognising their existence."
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"The 91% of reef species we haven’t named likely contains solutions to antibiotic resistance, cancer, chronic pain, and diseases we don’t yet understand."
#TippingPoint
#IrreversibleReefCollapse
#Biodiversity loss
#WorldOceanSummit2026 March 4
Montreal
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oceanographicmagazine.com/features/gue...
"In contrast, the falling prices, improved resilience, and strategic autonomy offered by renewable sources make them a secure option for countries looking to minimize their exposure to risk."
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"Countries that react to this moment by [stockpiling] or shift[ing] suppliers of oil & LNG simply exchange short-term energy security for longterm vulnerability, prolonging their exposure to geopolitical shocks & failing to meet [rising] energy demands"
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Sierra Nevada mountains just north of LA, CA, USA. Jagged snow covered peaks rise above green trees and a yellowish plain. A small blue lake peeks around a bend.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel -Maya Angelou
Pic of the day
#photography
Breaking news; New evidence shows that it was a USA bomb that blew up the school with upto 200 little girls. Motive not known yet. In Iran some people are saying the Epstein Class hates little girls they are either sexually abuses or killed.
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
#NotNormal
How Was Trump Able to Start Iran War Without Congressional Approval? | Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman
youtu.be/IjKHdwL6Swg?...
... not to mention USAID, the defunding of which, in the end, is likely to have cost immense numbers of lives — many of which in what POTUS has disparangely (but unsurprisingly) termed sh**hole countries.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.
But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
"Some state constitutions still contain explicit exceptions that allow forced labor for incarcerated people, a direct legacy of the 13th Amendment’s 'exception clause.'"
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"After the Civil War, states—especially in the South—built a network of laws to criminalize formerly enslaved people and created a system of prison labor that sent almost entirely Black men and women into coal mines, plantations, and railroads under the banner of 'convict leasing.'"
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IMHO, U.S. military leadership has no right to complain about negative press coverage over U.S. servicemen paying the ultimate price in an unprovoked, aggressive and expensive exercise of military prowess — not unlikely undertaken in part at the behest of an embattled hawkish Israeli Prime Minister.
"[L]eaders of Ukraine.. have more experience countering these drones than any other country."
According to President Zelenskyy, countries in the Middle East fired about 800 patriot missiles in just three days — more than Ukraine has had during the entire war.
Commonsense proposition:
The prevalence and intensity of anti-American sentiment in the world are leading indicators of the threat to American safety and security.
#SoftPower matters.
Word of the Day: flimsy
"badly made and not strong enough for the purpose for which it is used
synonym: rickety"
www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definitio...
Balint to Noem: "You're the secretary of DHS -- for now. And you think you're immune from accountability. But I promise you this: one day he is not gonna be president anymore. And when that day comes, we will still be here. And in hearings like this, we are going to continue to prove your guilt."
Still going...
#Iran
#Epstein
#EpsteinFiles
"Some of the companies notified the people whom the government had requested data on and gave them 10 to 14 days to fight the subpoena in court."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]
Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group.
“Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
NOEM: I would disagree with the judge
CROCKETT: I'm sure you would, but can you tell me whether or not you have a law degree?
NOEM: A what?
CROCKETT: A law degree
NOEM: No I do no-
CROCKETT: Okay
"As long as Russia wages war against Ukraine, it will have no peace anywhere — neither at sea, nor on land, nor in the rear,"
@crockett.house.gov
I am devastated to hear you lost the Democratic primary for senate in Texas.
You are a battle-ready natural leader with a strong moral compass.
America needs folk like you in high places.
13 DAYS UNTIL THE ELECTION!
We need all hands on deck.
Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks.
They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors.
Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption.
Watch how they vote this week.
...seconding that emotion.
