It just never ends. The Trump administration has officially scheduled an auction for drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Companies can bid for the right to drill in ANWR starting June 5.
Can't see it
Australian here; was planning a US trip; won't now. The decline in infrastructure to national parks is 1 reason. My history posting anti-trump memes probably wouldn't help or would see me arbitrarily detained. Plus my kids say they don't want me to go because they worry about the gun violence...
House Otters.
Well done Rick a courageous and important piece of work
Yesterday we were all laughing at this supersharp skewering of art theft in broad daylight: the double standard when it’s big tech flagrantly stealing artists’ work to fuel AI.
Turns out, however, we laughed too soon: there’s troubling news out of Sydney🧵
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I didn't want to, but I saw a picture of the body of a Palestinian prisoner Israel released earlier today. Blindfolded, rope around his neck, severe burns all throughout his body. A severe, multi-layered war crime. The level of brutality within the Israeli regime really knows no bounds.
These dedicated FBI agents, fired before they were pension eligible, including a father of young children who lost his wife to cancer last month, are worthy of our support. Please take a minute to read: www.supporttheirservice.com
Release the Epstein Files.
National Geographic Nature
Candy Soriano Barbeo
🌍 Shapes that look like from another planet... but they are on Earth.
These spectacular natural structures are called hoodoos or fairy fireplaces, and they are formed over millions of years by wind erosion, rain, and extreme temperature variations.
US BUDGET DEFICIT SOARS
The deficit jumped 19% to $291B in July. This is despite $21B collected from Americans due to higher import taxes, which led to higher costs on goods like furniture, footwear, and auto parts.
The deficit for 2025 is already $1.63 trillion, up 7% from the last year.
Al Jazeera report on four more journalists murdered in tents by Israel
All the cowards in the West pretending to be journalists while covering up this depravity for the last two years need to meet justice. RIP
If genocide isn't your redline, then you have no redlines.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge was closed temporarily as tens of thousands of Australians made their voices heard against Israel's genocide in Gaza. #FreePalestine #3E
Matt Golding's cartoon is beautiful.
#MarchForHumanity #SaveGaza 🇵🇸 🍉 #RecognisePalestine #FreePalestine
A British crow is asking passersby if they're alright.
The coolest bird alive 🦕
The man's arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betrayal. [via @wbur.org]
Release the Epstein Files.
#JusticeForTrumpsVictims
It's not antisemitic to be against genocide & Apartheid, & we should not pass laws saying that it is:
#auspol
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Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:
Mike Pence tells CBS: "The time has come for the administration to release all of the files regarding Jeffrey Epstein's investigation and prosecution."
Baby Otter Sounds!
Israel murders men, women & children in Gaza. Israel targets journalists, surgeons, doctors, nurses, medics, uni lecturers, teachers. Israeli snipers shoot children in the head. The displaced are burned alive in tents. And STILL the AUS Govt refuses to act. 😔 #auspol #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide
Under the cover of the on-again/off-again Coalition drama, Labor is gearing up to approve an absolutely catastrophic gas project.
Woodside’s North West Shelf is an untapped climate bomb.
This approval would mean supercharged floods, fires and species extinctions.
Israel killed 75 people today—human beings with names, stories, and families. Our people aren’t numbers. Our people are precious; their lives matter, and their deaths aren’t trivial footnotes deemed not newsworthy. Shame on the west for allowing this daily slaughter to continue.
How could Australia Canada and America just pretend Gaza is not the site of an ongoing genocide?
They had good practice by ignoring and/or refabricating their own local histories. Sweeping massacres and dispossessions and discrimination under the mat.
Colonialism protects its own.
