Beautiful tribute by Adam Schiff to Stephen Colbert. #StephenColbert #AdamSchiff #StandWithColbert #NoToCancellation #NoToOligarchs #NoToAutocracy #NoToHypocrisy #YesToComedy #ComedyMatters #SatireMatters youtu.be/dXAtcQfYWeU?...

Atlantic sunset over a rewilding farm. It really doesn't get much more lovely to my eyes.

Make Hate Weird Again.

Nomura’s jellyfish can grow from the size of a grain of rice to over 6 feet wide in just six months. A marvel of the ocean with a sting that packs a punch.

Beauty in motion

Great grey owl showing off its hide and seek skills for today’s #birdoftheday #camoorcontrast. #birds #owls #markcoupephotography

Around 60 nations are gathering in Santa Marta, Colombia, to plan something the COP climate summits have failed for decades to agree - how to end the use of fossil fuels. #SantaMarta www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A rare win for a misunderstood scavenger. Striped hyenas just got stronger global protection. Countries agreed to safeguard them across borders. Less hunting. More coordination. They roam far. Cross borders. Without joint protection, they fall through gaps. This helps close them. #IUCN #CMS

A black heron using its wings like an umbrella, creating shade to attract fish, a behavior known as “canopy feeding”.

One of the most fascinating facts about the ocean, is that there are whales alive today who were born before Moby Dick was written. Some of the bowhead whales in the icy waters off of Alaska today are over 200 years old. Original post

We could have left fossil fuels earlier. But the system was profitable. No reason to change. The risks were far away. Easy to ignore. The alternatives were weak. Easy to dismiss. Now it flipped. Alternatives exist, impacts are real, but the system is harder to unwind. That’s the paradox.

We keep staring at wars and more wars. And lose sight of the bigger one. Climate. Probability rising for a Super El Niño. Warm Pacific. Winds shift. Weather flips. Heat. Drought. Floods. Storms. Huge suffering. Billions for disaster repair. #ClimatePreparedness #AdaptNow #Resilience

Galapagos marine iguana is the only lizard species on Earth that has adapted to forage for food exclusively in the ocean. These "mini Godzillas" can freedive to depths of up to 30 meters (100 ft) and hold their breath for up to one hour. IG: matiasvargas12 marine biologist

Witness the astonishing trap feeding behavior of Eden's Whale in the Gulf of Thailand. Nature's wonders continue to amaze us every day.

Rivers do not forget. Mines close. Companies move on. The pollution stays. For decades. Sometimes centuries. Cleanup costs millions. Often paid by the public. Private profit. Public legacy. #Mining #EnvironmentalJustice #PolluterPays #NoRiverDumping #MineClosurePlanning #RehabilitationFunds

Blame the crocodiles? No. Destroy wetlands for mining and oil palm, then act surprised when displaced wildlife appears in human space. This is not “crocodile aggression.” This is habitat loss. #HumanWildlifeConflict #Indonesia #Wetlands

Olympic National Park Rainforest #Nature #Flora

It has taken over five years of murderous chaos for Republican voters to start to see what was obvious all along: that Donald Trump should not be trusted with a box of matches, let alone the most powerful office on Earth. That's the power of propaganda for you.

Common Tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius)…avian architects … they use their beaks to sew plant leafs together with plant fibers, spider silk, or insect cocoons…tropical Asia. #birds #nature #wildlife #photo #ecology

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

US “special envoys” outside formal diplomatic channels. No clear mandate. No real oversight. Private dealmaking repackaged as “peace.” That’s not diplomacy. That’s how accountability gets bypassed. #Ukraine #Diplomacy #RealEstateDoRealEstate #RespectForUkraine #PeaceNotDeals

"You just don't, in the 21st century, behave in 19th-century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped-up pretext --Then-Secretary of State John Kerry, March 2, 2014 We heard it. We ignored it. Now we live it. #Ukraine #Crimea

King of the who? Still hits. Harder than ever. #MontyPython #PowerAndLegitimacy #StillRelevant

Loved his music, an intelligent man.

"Which country in the Middle East has nuclear weapons? It's not Iran, it's Israel... Which country in the Middle East attacked six countries last year? It wasn't Iran, it was Israel." From my Piers Morgan debate with Israeli spokesman Doron Spielman. Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkk1...

What a decent President says.

Yes. Finally. One less autocrat. Power looks permanent. It isn’t. It cracks. It ends. It falls. #Authoritarianism #EndOfPower #DemocracyWins #Panarchy

Entire villages erased. Not collateral. Pattern. When civilian space becomes a target, law has already failed. #InternationalLaw #WarCrimes #Lebanon #NetanyahuWarCriminal

What is he going to do? Make genocidal threats again? Surrender again? If this is a play for anything it would be to make sure the US negotiators get a personal cut. But Iran’s victory is so decisive that I am not sure why they would even consider paying off Kushner, Witkoff, and new guy Vance.

Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu. Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran? Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.

Projection. #BlameShift #AuthoritarianPlaybook #ElectionInterference

“We want to live in a free, European Democracy. After 16 years of sorrow, corruption and Russian influence. We have had enough” The organisers & singers at the massive Budapest concert told me why Orban has to go.

I hate when fantasy films I made a long time ago begin to come true in real life.

With this settlement the US is worse off in every way than it was before the war; Iran is strengthened by the huge new tolls in the Straits of Hormuz, paid by the whole world. (1/14)

Do something that matters! Check this out.--- act.link/gi-bbmlm youtube.com/shorts/uY3fe...

This is so well done. 👌

The Trumps. The Netanyahus. The autocrats. And others. No clarification. No hesitation. Create facts first. Make the system adapt. #StrongmanPolitics #MightOfPower #ActThenJustify

Netanyahu is bombing Lebanon because his political career (and therefore avoidance of prosecution) depends on constant war. How many more people must die for the sake of one man's standing?

The combination of a very strong #ElNiño - which should reduce harvests across Asia, Australia, Africa, and parts of the Americas - with soaring fertilizer and fuel prices, owing to the ongoing closure of the Strait of #Hormuz, could make for a devastating year of food shortages and social unrest.

Spanish PM Pedro calls for the IMMEDIATE ARREST of Netanyahu He said: "Netanyahu launched the worst possible unjustified attack against Lebanon. His contempt for life and international law is intolerable. He is a criminal that must be arrested immediately.” #cdnpoli

In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists. Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.

Power concentrates. Then it cracks. #Panarchy

"We have normalised genocide, total annihilation of entire people, the systematic destruction of the biosphere which we are all depending on to survive, and that corrupt, racist war criminals can act with complete impunity,” --Greta Thunberg

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something. For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

This is not rhetoric. Genocidal framing. It lowers the threshold of violence. Complicity extends across the chain. Silence is agreement. So must legal consequence. #ThisEmboldensAuthoritarians

Yup.

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

Trump’s actions are what section IV of the 25th amendment was written to address. Will the Republicans use it? youtu.be/pLFiD7s74Xk