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Bison are leading one of the most remarkable ecological comebacks in North American history.
For more than a century, the great herds of the American bison were fragmented, broken into isolated groups by roads, fences, and human development across the Great Plains and Yellowstone region.
Now, in a powerful wildlife success story, those artificial barriers are being overcome. On their own, bison are instinctively reuniting and reopening ancient migration corridors that had been lost for over 100 years.
This isn’t just movement: it’s a profound return to ancestral memory. Large, unified herds are once again flowing across the landscape as they did in centuries past.
As they travel, these iconic animals act as masterful ecosystem engineers. Their powerful hooves aerate compacted soil, their selective grazing encourages the growth of diverse native plants, and their dust wallows create seasonal watering holes that benefit countless other species. In doing so, they spread nutrients and help restore the health of the grasslands.
By simply allowing bison to roam freely across their historic ranges, nature is showing us that wild ecosystems recover best when their original architects are given the freedom to lead.
[Texas A&M University. After 120 Years of Conservation, Yellowstone Bison Are Now a Single Breeding Population. Journal of Heredity]
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Kudos to the camera man. He decided NOPE - ain’t letting him pull this shit. Not today. Not on my watch.
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Sean Glass, an Israeli IDF soldier who gave the order to shoot a 5 year old Palestinian girl named Hind Rajab 355 times, is currently in the US under Trump's protection.
Let's make this baby killing cocksucker famous and let
@POTUS know what we think about that.
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🚨NEW: Neil Bush, brother of President George W. Bush and son of President George H.W. Bush, has endorsed Democrat James Talarico for the U.S. Senate in Texas.
RETWEET to thank Bush for putting country over party!
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A young humpback whale, fatally injured by a krill trawler, is thrown away like trash.
An eminent marine biologist, Leonid Pshenichnov, a Ukrainian known for his kindness, who devoted his life to the research and protection of krill and marine life in the Antarctic, was illegally jailed for up to 20 years by Putin, because he tried to protect these whales with marine protected areas.
Dr Pshenichnov is 71 and seriously unwell. He will die in prison—and we must understand the implications of unlawfully jailing an innocent scientist whose only desire was to protect a vitally important marine ecosystem.
Trump's pal Putin is ruthless and merciless. Make no mistake:
Putin's crimes and future plans are far-reaching and Trump backing him will enable even worse genocidal, lawless behavior and make this world a more dangerous place for all.
(Sources and petition for Dr Pshenichnov's release in 🧵)
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In case you were wondering if Larry Ellison would use his partial ownership of TIKTok to shut down the exposure of his billionaire buddies and their weirdness, corruption and grifting … wonder no more. TikTok just shut down the media page of the world renowned, Oscar winning director Alex Gibney’s documentary film “MUSK”. The comprehensive documentary on all things Elon. It’s more f&@&’d then you can imagine. The best thing any of us can do now is to go see it! It will blow your mind. Billionaire broke mind virus. Hear it from the people who have known Elon over the years. #BrokeMindVirus
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Great point.. Any challengers?
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A comprehensive environmental study led by researchers at Stockholm University warns that rainwater across every geographic region of Earth is now heavily contaminated with toxic synthetic pollutants. Analytical testing reveals that global precipitation consistently contains per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at concentration levels that vastly exceed the lifetime drinking water health advisories established by major global regulatory agencies.
Commonly referred to as "forever chemicals" due to the exceptionally strong carbon-fluorine bonds that make them virtually immune to natural environmental degradation, these substances have integrated entirely into the Earth's hydrologic cycle. Because they cycle continuously between the oceans and the atmosphere via marine aerosols, they have successfully contaminated even the most isolated locations on the planet, including the remote ice sheets of Antarctica and the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau. This global saturation means that untreated rainwater everywhere on Earth is now unsafe for human consumption.
For decades, industrial manufacturing sectors have used PFAS compounds extensively to produce everyday consumer goods, including nonstick cookware, stain-resistant fabrics, waterproof outerwear, and specialized aqueous film-forming firefighting foams. Over time, these chemicals leached out of landfills and industrial wastewater streams, permanently infiltrating primary aquatic systems and cycling upward into the upper atmosphere.
Biomedical research has definitively linked chronic exposure to these persistent pollutants with a wide array of severe, long-term health anomalies. These risks include the development of specific malignancies, compromised immune function, decreased fertility rates, elevated cholesterol, and notable developmental delays in children.
As international regulatory bodies actively work to lower permissible drinking water thresholds, environmental health experts warn that humanity has crossed a critical planetary boundary. Because these persistent chemicals are already distributed globally throughout the atmosphere and water cycles, reversing this widespread contamination is practically impossible using current remediation technologies.
[Cousins, I. T., Johansson, J. H., Salter, M. E., Sha, B., & Scheringer, M. (2022). Outside the safe operating space of a new planetary boundary for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Environmental Science & Technology, 56(16), 11172-11179]
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So Hegseth is blaming the Ukrainians and saying Elon made the decision to downgrade Ukraine’s Starlink service? Isn’t that completely different from Rubio’s explanation that it was a technical glitch? Days into this scandal and they can’t seem to get their stories straight.
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Incredible scoop by my @WSJ colleagues: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of a military-grade version of Starlink relied on by Ukraine, a decision that sparked panic in Kyiv and confusion inside the Trump administration. wsj.com/world/ukraine-starli…
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The penalty for grossly violating the Geneva Convention is death
@SecWar
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"BOMBSHELL NEW UPDATE: "THE INSIDE JOB: It just got worse for Elon Musk." CREDIBILITY: DESTROYED."
On January 20, 2025, Trump signed an executive order giving Elon Musk's DOGE "full and prompt access" to every federal agency's systems. Unelected and never Senate-confirmed, Musk sent in young staffers. Edward Coristine, 19 — self-styled "Big Balls" on LinkedIn — was fired from a cybersecurity internship for leaking company data. Marko Elez, 25, received read-write access to the Treasury's payment system; the Treasury later admitted in court it was granted "inadvertently." He resigned after racist posts ("normalize Indian hate") surfaced; Musk rehired him, and Trump endorsed it.
They accessed the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, which moves $6 trillion a year — 88% of all federal payments, including Social Security checks, Medicare, tax refunds, and veterans' benefits. Systems held names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, birthplaces, addresses, phones, emails, and bank details. A federal judge listed every item.
Laws violated include the Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. § 552a), barring disclosure of records without written consent; 26 U.S.C. § 6103, making unauthorized taxpayer data disclosure a felony (up to 5 years); 18 U.S.C. § 1030, criminalizing unauthorized access to government computers; and the Appointments Clause (Article II, Section 2), requiring Senate confirmation for such power. Musk was never confirmed.
Connecticut's Attorney General called it "the largest data breach in U.S. history." Nineteen states sued. A federal judge called DOGE's operation "chaotic and haphazard" and ordered all copies destroyed. The Supreme Court allowed continued access to Social Security records 6-3, including medical and family court files.
In January 2026, the DOJ admitted DOGE moved sensitive Social Security data to unauthorized Cloudflare servers; the agency cannot determine what was shared or if it remains. Whistleblower Charles Borges, SSA's chief data officer, was forced to resign: 300 million Americans' records exposed — "a generational problem" and "national security risk." Unchangeable data like mother's maiden name and birthplace means permanent exposure.
The "fraud hunt" was cover; the GAO found solid evidence for only 4% of claimed savings. The same week DOGE began, Trump fired 17 inspectors general — five investigating Musk's companies.
The Labor IG had 17 open Tesla and SpaceX cases; the Agriculture IG was escorted out while probing Neuralink monkey deaths. SpaceX defense contracts then tripled to $5.9 billion. Musk co-leads the Pentagon's weapons-buying study while holding $6.4 billion in Pentagon contracts. He gutted the CFPB — which polices digital payments — while building a payments business on X.
Trump signed the order, gave Musk a White House office, endorsed the rehire, and his administration fought every lawsuit to the Supreme Court, securing the right to keep the data.
Congress must investigate with subpoenas and hearings. Democrats must not let this die. An unelected billionaire's team obtained 300 million Americans' Social Security numbers, and the sitting president held the door open.
