The owner of the Inklings used bookstore described my trade-ins as 'an eclectic collection of weird' and now I'm ever so pleased with myself.

As climate change makes oceans, lakes, and rivers warmer it has creates cascading effects that are only now being found. For Chinook ranging from Alaska to British Columbia to Colorado, it has been a sickness due to thiaminase that comes from changes in the creatures they feed on. #environment

The famous, and sometimes very smelly, marshlands around Venice hold a special plant called Limonium (sometimes called sea lavender) that sequesters an incredible amount of carbon while providing lush flowers that provides food for dozens of insect species. #environment

While state attorneys sue the Trump administration to restore funding to the Methane Emissions Technology Center, it has already made discoveries about pollution from fossil fuel extraction that show current record keeping is under counts the damage. #environment capitalandmain.com/colorados-oi...

Climate change won't only mean more deaths from heat stroke and degraded air quality, it means the slow destruction of residential stock by aggressive mold that will force poor people who cannot afford to mitigate the spread onto the streets but it will sicken millions, permanently. #environment

"...feed for livestock accounted for more than one-third of the overall cropland conversion globally, yet in certain growing regions, including Brazil, Argentina, the United States and China, that percentage reached more than 50 percent." #environment

Industrial agriculture has pushed many native plant species to the brink of extinction and climate change now threatens to finish them entirely. Despite cuts by the Trump administration, scientists are still fighting to collect seeds vital for future restoration and rewilding efforts. #environment

Besides gutting environmental regulations the Trump administration has slowed or stopped updating the endangered species list. The Hellbender suffers for this as its habitats are wrecked and the water gets warmer; though its name is everywhere in Appalachia it risks vanishing entirely. #environment

The Trump administration is intent on selling public lands to logging companies, mining corporations, and now ranchers. This despite that the BLM and USFS already lease 250 million acres which can be grazed down to 65%; meaning desertification and destruction of the water table. #environment

Chemical processing facilities across the United States, especially Texas, suffer incidents every day, with at least one catastrophic event a year that kills dozens and pollutes hundreds of hectares. When this administration is out there needs to be new rules and aggressive enforcement. #environment

Although I have no sympathy for dredging operations, it is absurd for the government to tell them no to fish in certain areas and then not identify those areas. It's also unacceptable for the government not to engage in recovering the dumped munitions for proper disposal. #environment

If you've got a few dollars to spare please send it MoonFeather's way so she can help her two horses that developed tooth problems.

The spread of guava as a cash-crop has had a devastating effect on eco-systems where the plant is invasive. In Madagascar, already afflicted with palm-oil plantations, this crop is wiping out and degrading areas, making survival difficult for for endangered lemurs. #environment

The DOJ going after environmental activists means the Eighties are totally back. Whether the FBI starts encouraging militants to kill activists, like it did with Judi Barr in 1990, remains to be seen but its clear Trump's backers are leaning on the government to intimidate the movement. #environment

Despite how news outlets treat it, carbon capture is not only unverified but untested and with little regulation. In 2020 a pipeline explosion in Satartia almost caused a mass casualty event, yet the government passed no rules or penalties, encouraging corporations to rush ahead. #environment

More grift/vice-signalling from Trump with an order to make the military buy coal, an exceptionally stupid idea as there about 200 coal plants left in the country, most are scheduled for decommissioning, and less than a quarter meaningfully connect to a military installation. #environment

Israel will not be content with merely mass slaughter, it wants to systematically kill the current and even the next generation by poisoning the land, thereby completing the genocide that started with the Nakba in 1948 with Cast They Bread where it poisoned the wells of Palestinian villages. #israel

Thermobaric weapons are not, and have never been useful for targeted strikes, they are deliberately designed to cause mass damage and casualties. Israel has been using them to murder as many Palestinians as possible and to erase even their bones so their very existence can be denied. #israel

America is littered with tens of thousands of poorly capped oil and gas wells, many of which are leaking, polluting ground and water sources or adding to climate change. In most cases oil companies have conveniently declared bankruptcy and run but New Mexico may stop this trend. #environment

Guns aren't just killing children in schools and people at the in churches and markets, they're also leaving behind lead in bullets across America and Canada where they're leaching into the ground or being mistakenly swallowed by birds, of which Loons are particularly susceptible. #environment

Good news as a Federal Judge calls out Forest Service for its blatant lie that clear cutting to prevent forest fires. We can thank Bill Clinton for allowing the creation of CE-6 back in 1992 which everyone at the time called out as a clear gift to the timber industry. #environment

Blue Ammonia is a scam that's never worked at scale, but its carbon capture process is being used as propaganda by the chemical industry as it rushes ahead with over twenty dangerous projects, the majority located near poor communities including those already suffering in Cancer Alley. #environment

The Bad River Band , are fighting the oil industry and the Canadian government which wants to slam an oil pipeline through a fragile ecosystem. The company running the pipeline, Enbridge, already dumped a million gallons into the Kalamazoo, and another 70,000 in Michigan last year. #environment

As the apple industry has consolidated and prioritized the search for the next Honeycrisp it has created a situation with too many growers and a process where the value of the actual apples has fallen to an almost unsustainable level as they're forced to chase the next hit to survive. #environment

She lies, she's a wonder to have in my life and its my mission to spoil her to the end.

Notoriously flawed drug tests and puritanical hospital staff have put tens of thousands of women through hell, with many losing custody, because of false positives. There's no bonus for guessing that Black women suffer disproportionately from this insidious snitching. #healthcare

Over the last two decades the Christian right has opened hundreds of clinics masquerading as pregnancy clinics but which only offer religious propaganda. They've stolen hundreds of millions from states that have looked the other way while women suffer increasing mortality rates. #healthcare

"According to the American Psychiatric Association, nearly 40 percent of men and 20 percent of women gamble online daily." This nation is fucked but it always was; the Gold Rush fundamentally rewired the culture of this nation to embrace blind, often terrible risk for riches.

This isn't just good news because it prevents states from passing laws that prevent fossil fuel industry disinvestment, but possibly provides a pathway for successfully challenging laws that targeted the BDS movement. #environment

My girl does amazing work; forget sad flowers and nasty chocolate boxes, get something arty for that special someone in your life.

Back in 2022 the ACLU fired Katherine Oh in retaliation for highlighting discrimination and abuse at the organization. The NPEU took them to the NLRB where they won, and since then the ACLU has fought to dismantle a basic worker freedom. Do not, ever, give them money.

Women are already dying at a higher rate because of various bans on abortion care and this policy reversal will allow conservative states to make things worse, increasing the death toll to satisfy christian fundamentalists.

When this is over, vaccinations will need to be made mandatory and without exception (except real, rare medical ones) and parents who refuse to protect their children will have them removed by the court. Otherwise we will be dragged, by charlatans, grifters, and the mad into darkness.

Sure is interesting how the payment processors threatened Steam and Itch for 'sexual' content but Musk's X has millions of new posts each day of child pornography and there's absolute silence as if the rules didn't really matter.

There's 30 to 40 people in downtown Plant City, Florida (Population 40k) protesting ICE so I'd say there's no goddamn excuse for anything short of abolition.

Black and Latino communities have always been targets of industrial projects because they often lack the political power to effectively fight them. It's the same for AI datacenters which, besides jacking up electrical prices, use diesel generators for back that emit dangerous chemicals. #environment

The ability of the shipping industry to hide behind dodgy shell companies and registration has allowed them to avoid responsibility for spills that have effected thousands of miles of the ocean, devastating areas decades and destroying the lives and health of people along the coast. #environment

The energy demand for AI, even when paired with renewable energy sources, is wrecking the environment. Towns like Fangyuan are seeing fish stocks plummet and their livelihoods falling apart because of recklessly installed wind turbines and the noise from ships performing maintenance. #environment

Another set of proposals from the Trump White House, the people who claimed to be about state rights, to weaken the Clean Water Act and prevent states and tribes from halting pipeline and extraction projects on their land in another case of the oil industry dismantling our democracy. #environment

The science-free, ideological commitment of conservatives to coal has meant plants that were already written-off and set for closure because they were no longer financially viable are being kept operational, often in contravention of state laws regulating pollution. #environment

No surprise that once tax-credits expired on the moratorium (that companies were already violating) Cargill and ADM plan to move ahead with obliterating the rain forest. This serves as a reminder that incentives are always abused and companies need to face regulations and jail. #enviroment

After nearly losing Detroit (Fermi 1), the eastern seaboard (Three Mile Island), and four prefectures in Japan (Fukushima) and the continued corruption and incompetence of the nuclear industry we have no reason to ever tolerate someone lecturing us on how nuclear power is a safe option. #environment

The Miccosukee have done more to protect and restore the fragile wetlands in Florida more than the reluctant State government and for daring to fight against having an illegal concentration camp on their land Trump has punished them by blocking the overdue return of their land. #environment

Incredible in-depth report about the break-neck expansion of oil and gas extraction and processing facilities in Texas that highlights how marginalized communities are to bear the brunt of pollution, the massive carbon output, and the legalized corruption in the state. #environment

Despite the economic ruin Trump brought to rural America, and in particular the farm belt, voters in those areas overwhelmingly voted for him again so I'm going to suggest maybe they deserve to lose everything.

This passed almost without notice a few weeks ago but seems appropriate to bring attention to in light of the ICE raids which have happened with police and FBI acquiescence (or support) that the military needs to be zeroed out as it presents a threat to our democracy.

It's not just the thousands, possible tens of thousands who will die as RFK Jr and the MAHA movement tear down health science, its the millions of children who will suffer for the rest of their lives because their parents wanted to believe lies.

This news kind of slipped past in the constant barrage of bullshit from the White House but is kind of important because it means a lot of people will be unable to afford not dying.

You would think that a Jewish organization would be hesitant to use McCarthyite tactics since that movement destroyed the lives of many Jews under the pretense of fighting communism but Zionists have proven themselves incapable of reflection or critical thinking. #israel