The oxygen that keeps us alive comes from natural ecosystems: half on land, half at sea. It's not complicated: we are TOTALLY dependent on the living world. Yet it's still treated as nothing but 'resources', to exploit and destroy for profit.

France opened a human trafficking investigation after the US Justice Department released the latest cache of files from the investigation into the disgraced financier in January. #EuropeNews ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/bWSa

He’s seriously doubling down on this. 🤡

More than seven years before Trump became president he was named in a deposition by a an Epstein victim as someone who was well aware of what Epstein was up to. www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...

Ah, yes. Fewer air traffic controllers is the answer. www.reuters.com/business/wor...

Four Key Takeaways From Trump's Trip to China #ABlueView Given all the newspaper "takeaway" articles appearing today, I thought I'd share 4 deeper takeaways you're unlikely to find in those articles.

Donald the China Hawk, Donald the China Dove.

NEW: @annabower.bsky.social at @lawfaremedia.org has published the Fulton County grand jury transcripts in the criminal case against Trump for conspiring to overthrow the 2020 election. This is the first time they've been published. You can read them here: www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

Hantavirus may have spread between passengers on cruise ship, WHO says

GIFT ARTICLE The Justice Department again appears to be using the investigative power of the federal government to rehash debunked claims that Democrats stole the 2020 election. They have demanded the identities of every worker who staffed the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia.

Katie Longboat, contemporary Indigenous (Mohawk and Cree from Six Nations of the Grand River) beadwork artist #WomensArt

When billionaires take control of vital communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy. And when those billionaires justify their business motives by citing “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability. Don't be fooled.

"Developers plan to build six sprawling data center campuses in Archbald, Pennsylvania, covering about 14 percent of the town’s land. Residents are fighting back."

This, from Daily Beast's Exec Editor, who was in the room right next door to alleged suspect, is genuinely interesting. www.thedailybeast.com/i-slept-next...

“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.” ― Carl Sagan

There have been corrupt governments, incompetent governments, and theatrical governments. First time we have all three running the country.

140 police officers were beaten. With flagpoles. Batons. Baseball bats. Four died. Today the Justice Department erased the convictions of the men who organized it. And called it justice.

Trump pawing a mostly naked dude and telling him how beautiful he is during a global crisis he started for no reason. Words fail me.

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Priorities! Rather than focus on ending—and winning—a war, Trump attended a UFC bout. This is not a serious man or a serious commander in chief.

Happy Sunday everyone.

Trump's stated objective for the war has shifted yet again. Now it's to steal Iran's oil.

Ohh that's RICH @ohhthatsrich.bsky.social

"Trump is playing golf all weekend at Mar-a-Lago for the 15th straight weekend."

Hassett: "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."

NATO is a defensive alliance whose main goal is deterrence, not a mercenary force

Frequently, Trump claims he had nothing to do with the naming of things after himself.

What he says…

Happy Pi Day to all who celebrate

Wow, the President of the United States is bragging about genocide. He’s bragging about killing innocent children and citizens…

This is local law enforcement.

Pulitzer for the reporter that shoves a microphone into Pete Hegseth’s face that’s actually a camouflaged breathalyzer.

President Zelenskyy: More than ten countries have already turned to us for support in defending against Iranian Shahed drones. "These are, in fact, the same attack drones that the Iranian regime supplied to Russia and trained Russians to use against the civilian population of Ukraine."

Susan Collins voted against stopping Trump’s illegal war — and now he continues to put troops into harm’s way. At least 13 American servicemembers have now paid the ultimate sacrifice. Congress needs to hold the administration accountable, not allow another forever war.

Trump will depart to Palm Beach for the weekend to spend time at his private club and participate in a fundraiser. This is the second weekend in a row Trump has gone golfing as he risks the lives of American service members.

War has a way of exposing the difference between power and strategy. The United States has enormous power. What remains unclear right now is whether anyone running this war has a strategy. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

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I cannot get over the fact that the Trump is aggressively pro-cancer. PRO CANCER. Nearly 20M Americans have cancer and more are getting it every damn day including rising rates in younger Americans. But Trump has cut cancer research funding & eliminated regulations on cancer causing agents. WTF

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

Hegseth: Why do the headlines say inflammatory things like “war intensifies”? Pentagon official press release 3 days ago: Hegseth says war intensifies

We put an alcoholic rapist in charge of the military and he’s confessing to war crimes from the Pentagon podium. When we restore democracy, we need to put the people who committed crimes in prison.

The rates of more than a dozen cancers are increasing among adults under the age of 50. What are the reasons behind it? go.nature.com/4cKxhLN

HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

Dark money groups are paying influencers to spread attacks about our campaign. Voters deserve to know who is trying to manipulate our election.

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