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Anna Morris retweeted
FLOATING NIGHTMAREĀ
3,000 cows trapped at sea for 58 DAYS on stinking, corpse-filled & fly-infested ship that canāt dock due to RED TAPE
@TheSun
Over 100 calves have been born at sea on the foul ship, but their fate is unknown
Ā Unimaginable Horror!
The cruel reality of this evil live export trade
Ā @CIWF_Global
thesun.co.uk/news/37337170/3ā¦
Anna Morris retweeted
Jack White just earned a new degree of respect from me.
An exceptional response to Trump's little people!
The White House melts down and attacks music legend Jack White after he insults Donald Trump's "disgusting" and "vulgar" redecoration of the White House
āJack White is a washed-up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career,ā claimed White House spokesman Steven Cheung.
āItās apparent [White]ās been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of āThe Peopleās House,'ā Cheung added.
this is Jackās responseā¦
"Listen, Iām an artist and not a politician so Iām in no need to give my answer or opinion on anything if Iām not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasnāt me calling out trumpās blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous 'wall' construction, his attacks on the disabled, his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress, his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake 'gunshot to the ear' that he showed no medical records or photographs of, his constant, constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. etc."
"No, it wasnāt me calling out any of that, it was the f*cking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults," he continued. "How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? 'Masquerading as a real artist'? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well hereās my opinion, trump is masquerading as a human being."
"Heās masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy," he wrote. "Heās been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing heās involved in has prospered except by using other peopleās money to find loophole
after loophole and grift after grift."
"His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and fomenting hatred and division in this country on a daily basis," White went on. "And I have 'ample time on (my) hands'? That orange grifter has spent more tax payer money cheating at golf than helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There is no progress with him, only smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy."
"So maga folk, enjoy your concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he aināt spending any money on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremacist country club rich idiot agenda,"
"Wow, he hates who you hate....good for you, be proud of yourselves, how christian of you all,"
"The only way you can support this conman is because you are a victim of the 2 party system and you 'defend your guy no matter what he does.'" he wrote. "No intelligent person can defend this low life fascist. This bankruptor of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka, trump water, etc."
"This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have fleeced the American people over and over," wrote White. "This professional golf cheat, this grifter who has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands, this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality
television stars."
"Being insulted by the actual White House that this particular conman leads is a badge of honor to me, because anyone who trump supports and likes is a villain who gives nothing to their fellow man, only takes what can benefit themselves,"
"And no Iām not a Democrat either, Iām a human being raised in Detroit, Iām an artist whoās owned his own businesses like his own upholstery shop and recording label since he was 21 years old who has enough street sense to know when a 3 card monte dealer is a cheap grifter and a thief,"
"I was raised to believe that we defeated fascism in World War II and that we would never allow it again in the world. I don't always state publicly my political opinions, and like anyone I don't always know all of the facts, but when it comes to this man and this administration I'm not going to be like one of the silent minority of 1930's Germany. This man is a danger to not just America but the entire world and that's not an exaggeration, he's dismantling democracy and endangering the planet on a daily basis, and we. all. know. it. -JW III...
Anna Morris retweeted
šØ Jeffrey Epstein: "I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body."
Anna Morris retweeted
And so the editor responsible for this front page is on tv now lecturing BBC on journalistic ethics
Weird
Anna Morris retweeted
The trees were talking. And no one had been listening. For decades, foresters believed trees were competitorsāsilent giants fighting for sunlight, water, and space. Cut down the weak ones, they said, and the strong would thrive. But Dr. Suzanne Simard, a Canadian forest ecologist, suspected something else was happening beneath the soil. So she did an experiment that would change how we understand forestsāand life itself.She discovered that trees aren't isolated individuals. They're part of a vast, intelligent, underground networkāa "wood wide web" where they share resources, warn each other of danger, and care for their young.The forest, it turns out, isn't a battlefield. It's a community.Suzanne Simard grew up in the forests of British Columbia, Canada. Her family were loggers. She spent her childhood among towering trees, watching them fall and new ones planted in their place.She became a forester herself, working for the logging industry in the 1980s. But she noticed something disturbing: when forests were clear-cut and replanted with a single speciesāusually Douglas firāthe new trees struggled to survive.Foresters blamed the birch trees growing nearby. "They're competing for resources," they said. "Cut them down so the firs can grow."But Suzanne didn't think that made sense. In natural forests, birch and fir grew side by side, thriving together. Why would they compete in replanted forests but not in natural ones?So she designed an experiment to find out. In the early 1990s, Suzanne planted birch and fir seedlings in a forest plot. She covered some with plastic bags to isolate them from each other. Others, she left uncovered.Then she did something radical: she injected tiny amounts of radioactive carbon into the treesādifferent isotopes for birch and firāso she could track where the carbon went.If the trees were truly isolated competitors, the carbon would stay inside each tree.But if they were connected somehow, the carbon would move between them.Suzanne waited. Then she used a Geiger counter to measure where the radioactive carbon had traveled.The results were stunning.The carbon didn't stay in one tree. It moved. From birch to fir. From fir to birch. Through the soil. Through their roots.But not directly. The trees were connected by mycorrhizal fungiāthread-like organisms that attach to tree roots and extend for miles underground.The fungi act as a living network, linking trees together. In exchange for sugars the trees produce through photosynthesis, the fungi provide trees with water and nutrients from deep in the soil.But Suzanne discovered something even more remarkable: the fungi weren't just passively transferring nutrients. The trees were actively sharing resources with each other. In summer, when birch trees had full leaves and were photosynthesizing, they sent carbon to the fir trees, which were shaded and struggling. In fall, when birch leaves fell and they could no longer photosynthesize, the fir treesāstill greenāsent carbon back to the birch to help them survive the winter.The trees were cooperating. Helping each other. Balancing the ecosystem.Suzanne called these networks "mycorrhizal networks"āand the largest, oldest trees in the forest became known as "mother trees" or "hub trees."These mother trees act as hubs in the network, connecting hundreds of younger trees. They send nutrients to struggling saplings. They share information about drought, disease, and insect attacks through chemical signals.When a mother tree is cut down, the entire network weakens. Younger trees lose their support system.Suzanne's research showed that clear-cutting forestsāremoving all trees and replanting a single speciesādestroys these networks. The new trees are isolated, vulnerable, and far less resilient.Her work was revolutionaryāand controversial.Logging companies resisted her findings. Some scientists were skeptical. The idea that trees "communicate" and "help each other" sounded too anthropomorphic, too sentimental.
Anna Morris retweeted
Train drivers and staff are heroes.
The driver had to call signal control to report that he was coming off the fast track and pulling up at Huntingdon. They then had to clear the track and direct him to a safe platform.
Next time they ask for fair pay, remember this.
Anna Morris retweeted
I grew up in an era when mainstream womenās magazines told girls they needed to be thinner and prettier.
Now mainstream womenās magazines tell girls that men are better women than they are.
Anna Morris retweeted
That tiny blue dot is a whale navigating busy ship traffic in Chileās Gulf of Ancud, tracked for a week.
Anna Morris retweeted
"The great irony is, of course that Donald Trump is the son of an immigrant, the grandson of an immigrant, and married to an immigrant. In fact, two of his three wives were immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that even Americans are not willing to do"
Anna Morris retweeted
Ironically, one of the biggest threats to wild bees appears to be an over-abundance of honeybees (including feral ones) so a tad unfortunate that the @patrick_barkham article uses a photo of Apis mellifera - possibly the least threatened bee in Europe @JeffOllerton @DaveGoulson
Anna Morris retweeted
If you're thinking of using these sunny autumn days to 'tidy' the garden, please don't.
It won't grow any more now, and will still be there in the spring (there's a very good reason why it's called a *spring* clean).
And until then it will provide precious habitat and food for our wildlife, and overwintering places for our endangered insects.
Those spent flower heads you're eager to chop contain seeds - precious calorific food for birds when all other food is gone.
Those dried out stalks that you're itching to tidy away are hollow, and tiny insects who have an enormous part in our fragile ecosystem are sheltering inside, protected from the cold nights.
The leaf litter beneath plants acts as a blanket, protecting the eggs and larvae that beetles have deposited there, to safely sleep through winter.
Right now your garden is a nursery.
Please tread gently.
Anna Morris retweeted
Tragic. Preventable. Final.
The Slender-billed Curlew is officially extinct, declared today by the IUCN. On our watch.
We are technically brilliant and carelessly blind.
Sit with the silence. Then fight for what remains. #Extinction #BiodiversityCrisis #Curlews
@DavidGray
Anna Morris retweeted
Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.
Tory peer @MichelleMone - who today rightly (& wonderfully) lost her legal case - dares to claim sheās been āscapegoatedā.
What, Michelle?
For the Ā£122 million you pocketed from taxpayers for delivering unusable PPE ā at least Ā£65 million of which went straight into your venal husbandās offshore accounts in the Isle of Man?
For being one of a small minority of corrupt grifters who saw a global pandemic as nothing more than a chance to get rich quick?
For caring more about lining your own pockets than the deaths of NHS staff & patients?
For being disgustingly cynical & avaracious - unlike all those millions of ordinary, decent Britons across the country who stepped up with such courage & decency?
I was given masks whose ear loops fell off & aprons so flimsy they ripped apart when you tried to put them on, Michelle.
Nurses and porters in our hospital died from the Covid they caught there, Michelle.
How dare you try to bleat victimisation now, Michelle?
You are the polar opposite of the values that should govern public life.
Repay what you owe & get your dishonourable form as far away from the House of Lords as possible.
Anna Morris retweeted
When are we going to realise that people from foreign lands are not automatically our enemyā¦ but the likes of Michelle Mone and her husband (and those millionaires and billionaires who are making money out of your misery and at your expense) are!
