EU leaders will celebrate it as a great step toward future peace and security. 🥳

We stand with Ukraine and truly hope for a solution, but this feels more like wishful thinking than strategy.

#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

'I don't buy it': Nicolle reacts to Tucker Carlson's apology for helping to re-elect Trump Former Fox anchor and far-right media personality Tucker Carlson says he's sorry for helping re-elect Donald Trump. Nicolle Wallace is joined by Angelo Carusone and Tim Miller for reaction on Deadline...

Nicole Wallace is not on that bandwagon: www.ms.now/deadline-whi...

A campaign to protect one of the planet’s only expanding kelp forests takes shape CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Diving in the Great African Seaforest, with its tightly packed towering kelp stipes that can rise up to 9 meters, or 30 feet, from the seabed, is a surreal experience, even…

South Africa is home to one of the world's only expanding kelp forests, yet most of it lacks protection.

Researchers are now documenting the thousands of species within the Great African Seaforest to drive new conservation efforts.

@alexandratalty.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

A vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents is weakening and closer to collapse than thought, new studies find | CNN New research provides alarming evidence this ocean circulation is slowing and could be heading toward a shutdown, which would have catastrophic impacts on the planet’s weather and climate.

New study: most climate models underestimate the decline of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC. The AMOC is on course to slow by more than 50% by the end of the century. 🌊
Very likely the AMOC will then be past the tipping point for full shutdown. 😨
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American combat deaths in World War I: 54,000.
American soldiers killed by flu in World War I: 45,000.
They would have given anything for a flu vaccine.

Because of the grift they pay

Media should stop saying Israel is “demolishing” villages in Lebanon. It’s misleading.

The accurate term is ethnic cleansing.

Trump’s argument boils down to this: if Congress investigates me, that’s treason. That is not constitutional government. That is dictator logic.

Kernen asks Trump if he'd drop the investigation of Powell in order to get Kevin Warsh seated on the Fed. Trump responds by ranting and raving about the Fed building renovation project and suggests Powell is taking a cut of proceeds.

Every accusation is an admission.

Gray whales are starving. Some have died off Oregon Coast Gray whales aren't getting enough to eat to survive their long migration toward Alaska.

Sorry to post this for those who abhor seeing this kind of news about wildlife. But while we are collectively agonizing over the state of our nation, the state of our planet is probably the more urgent news.

'Most important speech that should never have been given’: Fmr Judge pans SCOTUS justice's remarks YouTube video by MS NOW

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What is frightening is the piece by FOX- Charles "Cully" Stimson. Fawning over Thomas as if his wisdom knows no bounds. I’m grateful that Judge Luttig is speaking out. Sadly, all 3 branches are failing, and we need more hope than to rely on the midterms to counter the insanity.

The Most Important Speech of Political and Constitutional Philosophy That Never Should Have Been Given The speech that Justice Clarence Thomas gave last week at the University of Texas could prove to be the single most important speech of political and constitutional philosophy that never should have b...

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Remains of US soldier who went missing in Korean war laid to rest after 75 years

Sgt Celestino Chavez Jr, accounted for in 2025, given full burial honors and posthumous medals in New Mexico

Additions to Trump EPA Science Advisory Board
Shawn Gannon, Chemours maker of forever chemicals
Gary Minsavage, ExxonMobil
Matthew LeBaron, Dow Chemical sued by Texas for pollution
Jessica LaRocca, Corteva Agriscience maker of forever chemicals
Thomas Haren, AGPROfessional fertilizer lobbying firm

Maybe we should just inject bleach in our veins with this group of advisors

Hawaiian green sea turtles emerge as reef defenders against invasive algae An invasive algae already well-established in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands is raising concern among researchers as it threatens to spread into the main Hawaiian Islands. Scientists from the Unive...

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I don't think I'll ever get over Clarence Thomas ruling on cases related to Jan 6 knowing that his wife was an active participant in the attempted coup.

Or ruling on cases related to government regulations and a wealth tax knowing he took gifts from billionaires.

It's a disgrace.

The discussion must start at the local level, purging the GOP from everywhere. HOLD NO QUARTER politically speaking. They are collaborators in every sense of the word. Even Republicans who now disagree helped put him there. No mercy. Political banishment for ever.

Rusting Rivers: Alarm Grows Over Uptick in Acidic Arctic Waters Climate change has thawed permafrost and increased rainfall in the Far North, producing sulfuric acid that is turning rivers and lakes yellow or rusty orange. Scientists are scrambling to parse the im...

Climate change is increasing the acidity of northern rivers, causing low pH values and orange rivers. Ed Struzik in Yale E360 e360.yale.edu/features/rus...

It’s as if the Iran war was fought to sustain the Russian economy. Lifting sanctions for Russians does nothing for Americans. It just makes it easier for Russia to continue its war in Ukraine.

Two nights ago, Russia sent nearly 700 drones and dozens of missiles at Ukrainian civilians. In the fifth year of the war, aerial attacks on Ukrainian civilians have become even more intense and more frequent. Please join me in this campaign for air defense equipment. You can help protect lives.

Every day, I write the same story: Russian strikes claiming lives. One person here, five there, a child, a grandparent... These tragedies have become so routine that the world is growing numb.

I think he means growth of poverty.

FACT: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is FAR lower than private-sector retirement programs.

July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court: