Okay, this is just heckin' cool. Better official names for birds, please! (Except for the heron behind my house, who will continue to be officially known as That Screaming Asshole.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/11/01/bird-names-racism-audubon/
Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory. For several decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extreme climatic conditions because of escalating global temperatures caused by ongoing human activities.
Unfortunately, time is up. We are seeing the manifestation of those predictions as an alarming and unprecedented succession of climate records are broken, causing profoundly distressing scenes of suffering to unfold.
It’s like a non stop full moon lately. The loss and pain we are experiencing is really impacting communication and relationships. Folks are hyper vigilant. I was a part of, or observed, many miscommunications here today.
This level of stress makes us turn inward for self preservation. The antidote is to intentionally give grace and reach outward, leaning into relationships.
I love this community. Please be gentle with each other and yourselves. ❤️
Pro-Hamas extremists are flooding social media platforms with calls for attacks on Jewish communities in the U.S. & Europe, prompting U.S. law enforcement agencies to step up their readiness postures amid deep concerns about possible violence.
#News
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-hamas-extremists-neo-nazis-flood-social-media-calls-violence-rcna121043 via @nbcnews
“During nearly 12 hours of labor, staff gave her only Tylenol for her pain, the suit says, allegedly telling her to “stop screaming”, to “deal with the pain” and that she was “not in full labor”. Caswell lost amniotic fluid and blood and was alone and standing up in a jail shower when she ultimately delivered her child, according to the complaint and her medical records. She nearly bled to death, her lawyers say.”
Alabama hates women.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/13/alabama-pregnant-woman-jail-lawsuit
Interesting: Editorial board of Haaretz, Israel's leading newspaper, says Netanyahu himself is squarely responsible for the disaster, having ignored the potential consequences of escalating aggression toward Palestinians. https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2023-10-08/ty-article-opinion/netanyahu-bears-responsibility/0000018b-0b9d-d8fc-adff-6bfd1c880000 #Israel #rightwing #theocracy
The IRGC planned the entire Hamas atrocity top to bottom throughout August and then signed off on it in Beirut in a joint meeting with Hezbollah, Hamas, and other IRGC organs...
Archive link to Wall Street Journal...
Israel is not by any definition an "apartheid state".
But both of the Palestinian ruled states are apartheid states where Jews are not allowed to live or buy property simply because they are Jews.
The Palestinians have been trying to kill or drive out all of the Jews in the Holy Land since 1938. They think that it's their right to do so (and they say that often). That's the "freedom" that they demanding. When they fail to kill more Jews they call that abuse.
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David Axelrod: "Just to put it into perspective, 600 dead in a country Israel's size would be like 20,000 in the U.S--which would be more than 6 times the number of casualties we took on 9/11, the worst terrorist attack in our history. And the tally doesn't even include the wounded & hostages!"
If you hear that a bunch of teens and twenty-somethings hanging out, listening to music, got attacked and *hundreds* of them were killed and others raped, kidnapped, beaten, held hostage;
And your brain goes straight to:
• Well, they chose to have their music festival in the wrong place
• Well, they were an entitled bunch of kids
• Well, their music probably sucked
• Well, they dressed provocatively
Then you need to take your brain in for an immediate tune-up because it's not working right.
Formerly @agunn and @agunn_at_work on that dead bird site, but free of the fouled nest. Hi there!