El Tecolote isn't happy with ICE.

At the Luchadores in Tucson

BREAKING: the Trump admin is green-lighting Utah's attempt to assert control over 8 million acres of public land without a vote, notice or public input.

After failing to seize public lands outright, Utah is chipping away at at public land ownership at large.
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Is Your Pet Thinking: I Think Therefore I Am? - JEMA JEMA is a planning, architecture, and design firm located in St. Louis. Our strength is collaboration. Our mission is to transform and inspire.

4. Descartes' claim that animals feel no pain, have no psychologicalvexperience was rejected by his 16th century audience. We've learned vastly more since then. More every day.

We have to act on this knowledge that every normal person possesses. Treat animals humanely.

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3. Humans are also a domesticated species: most of us live in densely populated, highly controlled, Nature-limited environments. Of course, we also suffer high levels of anxiety, depression, fear, perceived lack of meaningful agency

We also need to be rewilded. Aims of urban planning need to change

2. The big psychological improvement of rewilded lab rats, while surprising to the researches, is not unique: we've long known spending time in Nature is good for human well-being. Nature-based therapy has been used for 100s of years.

We are as much mammal as human, as much animal as mammal.

1. Human psych drugs are tested on lab rats for negative effects. But the rats are not healthy: they're anxious, afraid, depressed. It's like using the response of prisoners to measure health. The authors speculate this may be why 90% of drugs "successfully" tested on lab rats don't work on humans.

What A Week Of Freedom Can Do For A Lab Mouse | Defector Each time Matthew Zipple, a behavioral ecologist at Cornell University, releases a mouse that was born and raised in a laboratory into the green expanse of a field, he is amazed. He transports the mou...

Rewilding erased the fear & anxiety rats developed while living in highly controlled labs environments. They need the harmonious diversity, simultaneous stimulation of body & mind, agency, competency (and beauty?) that Nature provides to thrive

4 implications 4 humans:

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This is great.

I read it! One of your footnotes to an article chronicling the multiple closures of the Beara mine helped me pin down the year my grandfather emigrated.

Sen. Lee Declares War on National Parks With Land-Sale Amendment Center for Biological Diversity: WASHINGTON— Sen. Mike Lee has introduced an amendment to the Interior appropriations bill that would remove language preventing the sale of America’s national parks an...

UT Congressman Mike Lee's war on #PublicLands continues. This time it's a rider to sell off National Parks.

The future of public lands isn't privatization, it's W³: Water, Wildlife and Wonder for people.

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‘The result was amazing’: one man’s mission to reforest a barren Irish hillside Eoghan Daltun has spent 14 years rewilding part of Beara peninsula into a showcase of diversity

@irishrainforest.bsky.social doing God's work on the Beara Peninsula.

My grandfather and 1000s more emigrated from Beara to the Butte, MT mines in early 1900s. He took up bootlegging instead. Took $ back & moved the family north to easier farming in County Meath

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It’s scientifically and ethically wrong to say, “It’s too late to stop climate change.”

At Project Drawdown, we will never give up.

Environmentalists sue to erase Trump’s ‘bloated’ face from appearing on national parks pass An environmental group filed a lawsuit Wednesday asking a judge to stop the government from putting President Trump’s face on a new national parks and monuments pass, saying the country doesn’t want t...

This headline.

And followed by "“the country doesn’t want to see his “bloated, fragile, attention-seeking” headshot.”

Ouch!

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Lawsuit Challenges Park Service Passes Featuring Trump

“Blotting out the majesty of America’s national parks with a close-up of his own face is Trump’s crassest, most ego-driven action yet,” said Kierán Suckling, the executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity.

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Here's the contest-winning photo legally required to be on the National Parks Annual Pass next to the pass Trump is forcing everyone to use instead.

You tell me, which best invokes the majesty and beauty of America's national parks?

Lawsuit filed!

“Blotting out the majesty of America’s national parks with a closeup of his own face is Trump’s crassest, most ego-driven action yet.

The national parks are not a personal branding opportunity. They’re the pride and joy of the American people"
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2666 is one of my favorites, though in places, a slog.

@biologicaldiversity.org is suing to wipe Trump's face off the America the Beautiful National Parks pass.

By law, the pass must display the winning photo of a federal #PublicLands picture contest. Instead, Trump plastered his own face on it.

Trump's vanity pass is not American, beautiful, or legal

Here as the majestic National Parks and #PublicLands featured on the last 14 America the Beautiful - National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands passes:

The 2014-2022 National Park passes.

Not a bloated ego in sight.

Every president but Trump, regardless of political party, agreed that National Parks are America's great treasure, above partisan politics & personal ego. That's why the law mandates the image reflect timeless Nature, not politicians

Which of the 2023-2026 National Park passes do u think meet the legal standard of being "used as a means to educate the American people about Federal recreational lands and waters"?

Which pass screams: "Look at me! I'm not a failure. I'm not cringy sensitive to flattery. I'm extremely powerful"?

@biologicaldiversity.org is suing to wipe Trump's face off the America the Beautiful National Parks pass.

By law, the pass must display the winning photo of a federal #PublicLands picture contest. Instead, Trump plastered his own face on it.

Trump's vanity pass is not American, beautiful, or legal

Watch this video from @kieransuckling.bsky.social and @biologicaldiversity.org I have been a member for many years.

We Are Eating the Earth is a must read.

There's no viable future on Earth without deep agricultural reform. It's our largest and least talked about planetary impact, especially meat production. @mikegrunwald.bsky.social cuts thru the feel good "regenerative ranching" promos show it doesn't scale.

A must read.

“Trump has turned government websites into campaign billboards. This isn’t public service, it’s Trump fan fiction.”

@biologicaldiversity.org files Hatch Act complaints against US Forest Service and Dept of Health and Human Services.

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Johnson accused of delaying Democrat's swearing in to avoid Epstein vote Democrats are accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson of delaying swearing in a new representative over Epstein files.

Unbelievable! Seaker Johnson is refusing to swear Adelita Grijalva into the House of Representatives, though her election was a landslide.

She's the tipping vote that will force the release of the Epstein files against his campaign to suppress them.

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Donald Trump is extremely mad at @biologicaldiversity.org today for winning a last-minute TRO saving sacred Apache land at Oak Flat from being given to a foreign mining company to destroy.

He can choke on his own sickening allcaps bile for all I care. We'll never give up the fight for Oak Flat.

More on the TRO here. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Donald Trump is extremely mad at @biologicaldiversity.org today for winning a last-minute TRO saving sacred Apache land at Oak Flat from being given to a foreign mining company to destroy.

He can choke on his own sickening allcaps bile for all I care. We'll never give up the fight for Oak Flat.