In short Jindalee Road Wines and its former manager stole 365 megalitres of water by bypassing meters and illegally tapping into an irrigation pipeline. Their combined financial penalty dropped from $887,500 to $558,000 on appeal.

The billionaire and author MacKenzie Scott revealed $7.1 billion in donations to nonprofits Tuesday, bringing her overall giving since 2019 to $26.3 billion.

I do love Kestrels & any opportunity I get to photograph them is always just pure pleasure like this up-close portrait shot of a Female Kestrel 🥰 Photo taken in Somerset last August 🪶 🦉 #ukbirding #ukwildlife #naturephotography #wildlife #birdphotography #birdsofprey #kestrel

Robin in a Halifax farmyard. #ThePhotoHour #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #photography @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

Now total of 16 arrests in the foxhunting investigation by Cumbria Police. Maybe this is the start of proper investigations into foxhunting. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fox sitting on top of a Yorkshire dry stone wall

Since the psuedo-ceasefire on 10 October, 6,500 tonnes of aid have been turned back from Gaza by Israeli authorities. It’s ‘ethnic-cleansing’ by starvation and healthcare denial. It’s imperialism and colonialism and barbarity.

Shirley Baker, UK photographer, best known for her street photography and street portraits in working class areas of Greater Manchester in the 1960s #WomensArt

Katja Lang, contemporary German artist who focuses on stillness and spaces #WomensArt #December

Torrential rain has left Sri Lanka and parts of Indonesia's Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern Malaysia under water

Good morning. Brown Falcon. Taken in July during the desert trip.

Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.

To everyone saying that people in our military already know not to follow unlawful orders, how do you explain almost 100 civilians murdered on fishing boats in the Caribbean so far?

Here’s a fun chart..

READ: There’s outrage in Israel over the leaked video of Israeli soldiers gang-raping a Palestinian prisoner. However, the outrage isn’t about the rape itself but the fact that the video was leaked in the first place. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/outr...

There is zero excuse for police, in a free society, to wear a mask. Cowards

One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.

Hideo Tanaka, Japanese (1959- ), Balance, 2021, acrylic on canvas

The reason theists talk in terms of moral standards is that they feel this position favors whatever god claim they happen to subscribe to. Otherwise, they would be talking about empathy and weighing the consequences of our actions with regard to others.

Blackbirds feeding on hawthorn berries

Good morning ☕ Today's themes in #BirdOfTheDay are #sunlit or #flocks by @alan678.bsky.social A Crow enjoying, I think, a sunlit afternoon. Have a lovely day everyone.

'Fishing Otter' linocut and silkscreen print by Angela Harding, contemporary artist based in the UK #WomensArt

Morning Kitten

louiserumian_seascapes 𝓛𝓸𝓾𝓲𝓼𝓮 𝓡𝓾𝓶𝓲𝓪𝓷 Photographer Sunrise Gold Coast, Queensland Australia

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

Hampstead Heath, 07:23

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!! Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

Pete Hegseth's view of 21st Century warfare is about as up-to-date as his Crusader tattoo.

Republicans are noisy when they get called "authoritarians" or "fascists" for behaving like you-know-whats, but dead silent when one of their colleagues says a leading congressional progressive should be hanged. Her crime? Calling for nonviolent resistance. www.commondreams.org/news/congres...

Climate action is emerging as a wedge that may increasingly separate China from the petrostate alliance of Russia, Saudi Arabia and U.S. (under Trump)

"6. Journalism that holds both American political parties to equal scrutiny." Journalism that fits this description has not existed in the US for decades now and is effectively impossible within the informal social & economic constraints in which US journalism works.

Protest this. 💥

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German (1880-1938), Porträt des Kindermodells Lina Franziska Fehrmann (Portrait of Child Model Lina Franziska Fehrmann), 1910, photograph

Kananginak Pootoogook, Inuk (Nunavut, Canada) (1935-2010), Caribou Family, 2001, lithograph, 48.4 x 62.2 cm, edition: 50

Michael Ancher, Danish (1849-1927), Redningsbåden går ud (The Lifeboat Is Leaving), 1920, oil on canvas, 128 x 165 cm, Panbo Museum, Aabenraa, Denmark

Lotte Laserstein, German-Swedish, 1898-1993), Abendunterhaltung (Evening Conversation), 1948, private collection

Édouard Cortès, French (1882-1969), Rue Du Temple And Place De La Republique, Paris, oil on canvas, 66 x 92.5 cm, private collection

Kawase Hasui, Japanese (1883-1957), Tsuruoka Hachimangu Shrine, 1931, color woodblock print on paper, double oban, sheet: 51.0 x 35.6 cm, image: 49.0 x 32.7 cm

I know y’all are as pissed off as I am. I need to ask a favor. Do something kind for a stranger today. Hear me out please. Can be simple as complimenting the person at the check out counter. A smile at a stranger on the street. Anything. We need more smiles.

Autumn painting by US modern impressionist Erin Hanson #WomensArt

These are some of the things that make the day worth it. Peace! #sunset #sundown #endofday #ahhh #relax #breathe #peace

A shot I got from June in the Yukon. A Canada Lynx up close and personal. It’s a picture of her looking at me looking at her. She’s obviously sizing me up here. #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #canadalynx #wildcats #nikonD850 #nikon #wildlife

Happy Thursday! We’re almost through the week! We had overcast clouds today so here is one of the runner-up photos from Tuesday. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

Landlords don't provide housing. Builders provide housing, what Landlords do is take housing and keep it so people can't buy it while constantly hiking their rents so people will never be able to buy it.

Bamburgh Castle Flowers, by north-east artist Emily Ward. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

Loretta Lizzio, muralist from Melbourne, Australia #WomensArt

Michelle Kingdom, fine artist based in Los Angeles, California, specializing in embroidery #WomensArt