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Please read and share. The “grassroots” support for the SAVE America Act is a lie. The campaign pushing this bill is being run by Cleta Mitchell and Scott Presler, two of the most notorious election deniers in the country.

Bumblebee Queens Can Breathe Underwater

NEW: for @nytimes.com, I wrote about a new study showing that queen bumblebees can breathe underwater, surviving submerged for a week

the “remarkable” study stems from a lab snafu, when a co-author thought she accidentally drowned several bees—but later found that they were alive 🧪

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The reporters who remain at the post after the Bezos Purge continue to show up and do the work... especially the team covering the Pentagon.

To think MAGA was out here clutching pearls over whether someone might buy candy, cookies, or soda with food assistance, while so many bigger issues go untouched.

Get loud!!!!

#Iran

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Slowly, Slowly, ‘Darwin’s Finches of the Snail World’ Return From Near Extinction

I'll never forget visiting Kewalo Marine Lab decades ago to give a seminar, after which Prof. Mike Hadfield showed me a room full of fridges full of endangered land snails-for some species I think the only ones left were in that room. So I loved this #EarthOptimism www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/s...

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How dare her!! 🧐🤨

"When people like Kamala Harris send our sons and daughters, our young people, to fight in stupid wars, it is the young generation that carries the burden of that. We're gonna stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world."

Nope!!!!

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Thought I would have gotten used to it by now, but I’m still grappling with the realization of just how stupid the men running this country are.

Not good.

Recovering to 112.

I do worry that Trump is going to look at the market numbers and send in the navy escorts to the SoH in a totally reactionary manner that the IRGC has been hoping for.

Release the files...

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Pete Hegseth’s Troubled Soul The defense secretary appears unable to approach matters of of life and death with even the slightest bit of reverence or humility.

Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon briefings since the war against Iran began “have reminded the world why he is exactly the wrong person to hold the position he does,” Peter Wehner argues:

Trump's dad was in fact born in New York City

Romania to strengthen climate-resilient water networks with EIB advisory support The European Investment Bank (EIB) will advise its Romanian counterpart on strengthening water networks across the country. Under a new advisory services agreement, the EIB will provide advisory suppo...

Romania to strengthen climate-resilient water networks with EIB advisory support. #water #resiliency #Romania #infrastructure www.eib.org/en/press/all...

US military launches operation in Ecuador to combat drug trafficking US Southern Command said joint mission with Ecuadorian forces involves ‘decisive action’ against narco-terrorists The US military’s Southern Command said on Tuesday that Ecuadorian and US forces launched operations against what it said were designated terrorist organizations in Ecuador. Southern Command, which encompasses 31 countries through South and Central America and the Caribbean, said the action was aimed at combating illicit drug trafficking, but did not provide more details in a statement on X. Continue reading...

US military launches operation in Ecuador to combat drug trafficking

100+ Complaints From Troops Over 'Divine Plan' Rhetoric Service members allege commanders are framing Iran conflict as biblically ordained battle

Well this is disturbing. I for one am not in favor of Armageddon.

US troops were told war on Iran was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’, watchdog alleges Religious freedom group says 200 troops sent complaints of superiors using extremist Christian rhetoric to justify war

One service member said their commander had “urged us to tell our troops that this [Iran war] was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and imminent return of Jesus Christ”.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?

NOEM: Yes

WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?

NOEM: No.

14 measles cases reported at El Paso ICE tent camp The latest outbreak comes after a spate of COVID-19 and tuberculosis cases were reported at Camp East Montana, which holds more than 3,000 immigrants.

New: At least 14 active measles cases have been reported at a troubled El Paso tent camp holding more than 3,000 immigrants, Democratic U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar said Tuesday.

Another 112 people in the facility are being isolated.

Farmers get advice from an agricultural specialist (center) as part of a community agriculture project outside Kamina, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sponsored by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), the project increases food security in poor communities, especially for women and children. Photo: Paul Jeffrey/Life on Earth Pictures

From the global Blue Community World Council of Churches WCC:
Seven Weeks for Water 2026 | Week 3 – Fields, Food, and Water: Women and Men, Agriculture, and the WASH Connection.
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‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics Plastic production has doubled over the last 20 years – and will likely double again. For author Beth Gardiner, metal water bottles and canvas tote bags are not the solution. So what is?

Petrochemicals for plastic are, says Beth Gardiner, “expected to be the largest single driver of oil demand in the decades to come."

Oil companies understand that the shift away from fossil fuels is a threat to their profitable business model.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Mayor Johnson Signs Executive Order Designed to Lay ‘Groundwork’ to Prosecute Federal Agents for Actions During Immigration Raids “If the federal government will not hold these rogue actors accountable, then Chicago will do everything in our power to bring these agents to justice,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said.

FULL STORY: The order directs members of the Chicago Police Department to document actions by agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection and attempt to identify those responsible for suspected misconduct or criminal violations. @wttw.bsky.social

Buttigieg on Fox News: "When you see an American woman opening the door to her home and on her doorstep finds half a dozen federal agents in tactical gear that is more tricked out than what I would take outside the wire in Afghanistan -- I think most people get that that is wrong."

They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.

This is tear gassing protesters just for protesting. There is no threat, and the only danger presented is ICE behaving recklessly. There is no provocation; this is just straight up assault.

Yes, we need ALL the Epstein files.