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🔁 politics & wildlife content. it's free palestine until palestine is free & it's the working class vs billionaires. organize your community. be kind 2all❤️🐿️
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It’s Free Palestine until Palestine is free.
To answer everyone’s question, @hasanthehun was crouching and I was on my tip toes. Also, I was released safely, thank you for your well wishes everyone.
And as always, it’s Free Palestine till Palestine is free.
auntifa squirrel retweeted
calling the people who, 5 times a day, wash themselves before prayer "dirty" is fucking hilarious. shouldn't you call them goat-fuckers or something? get your islamophobia correct jason.
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Susan Collins just walked out of a committee room to a swarm of reporters, including myself, who began walking alongside her.
A corporate media reporter walking directly to her left asked the first question. One might expect any journalist lucky enough to get the first question would ask about the obvious: the corruption scandal Collins is now embroiled in following ProPublica’s groundbreaking reporting about the FBI’s investigation into her quid pro quo dealings with defense contractor Navatek.
Instead, the corporate media reporter asked her for her thoughts about U.S. tariffs on Canada. What? If Graham Platner were the senator from Maine at the center of such a corruption scandal, would corporate media ask him about anything else with a long hallway of runway to press on it? For months, they relentlessly asked senators who endorsed him, like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, whether they’d condemn him for his tattoos or posts on Reddit. I watched it happen day after day.
Standing on the other side of Collins, directly to her right, I attempted to ask whether she called the Navatek donor after Scott Reed asked for his number so the senator could thank him for his contribution to her super PAC. But before I could do so, she promptly finished up her answer on the Canadian tariff question and darted into a stairwell, where we are not permitted to film.
If you’re wondering how corporate media insulates the powerful and well-connected, this is a great example.
auntifa squirrel retweeted
PSA: Your washing machine won't reliably kill ticks, but your dryer will.
A USDA entomologist figured this out after he found a live one crawling on his washer's agitator. So he bagged up tick nymphs and ran them through the laundry. Most survived the cold and warm cycles. 95% of the lone star ticks survived hot water.
What killed them is the dryer.
A CDC team later found that dry clothes tossed straight into the dryer on high heat killed the ticks in about 6 minutes. Washing first made it worse: the damp load took 50 minutes on high to do the same job. Ticks die by drying out, and wet clothes buy them time.
In a lot of the country, adult deer ticks get a second season in October and November, right when everyone's out raking leaves. They don't quit at the first frost. They're out on any day warm enough, even in winter.
When you come in from the yard or from a long hike this fall, put your clothes in the dryer on high for 10 minutes, then wash them. The ticks won't stand a chance.
auntifa squirrel retweeted
Care to comment?
From picking potatoes as a child in Caribou to working on behalf of Maine’s communities, small businesses, and first responders, I have always been proud of my Aroostook County roots and the strong work ethic they instilled in me. I will never stop showing up and working hard for the people of Maine.
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We think of ourselves as great tree planters, but a single group of blue jays was documented moving 133,000 acorns in one fall. They're foresters too.
Researchers in Virginia watched jays work a stand of pin oaks through one season. The birds carried off 54% of the entire crop, one to five acorns at a time, stored in the throat and bill.
They didn't drop them nearby. They flew them off and buried them one by one, pushed into soft ground and covered, often far from the parent tree. That's exactly how you'd plant an acorn if you were trying.
A jay comes back for a lot of them. Not all of them.
Every one it forgets is a tree planted somewhere a falling acorn could never reach. The acorns left under the parent oak mostly got eaten or ruined by weevils. The ones the jays moved got a chance.
Some ecologists think jays help explain how oaks spread back north so fast after the last ice age, much faster than gravity and squirrels could manage.
So leave the jays alone at the feeder. Protect the big oaks, plant native ones, and keep tree cover connected across yards and field edges.
They're doing the planting. We just have to leave them somewhere to do it.
auntifa squirrel retweeted
The Trump administration has lifted the ban on cyanide bombs that kill animals.
This action, carried out discreetly and quietly, was outrageous to those of us who know what this diabolical device does to animals.
humaneaction.org/blog/2026/0…
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If you've ever had a vaccine or an IV, a horseshoe crab probably bled for it.
Their blood is blue, and it does something pretty unique: it clots instantly in the presence of bacterial toxin, which makes it a near-perfect contamination detector.
In 1977, the FDA made it the standard safety test for anything that goes into a human body. IV bags, saline, insulin, syringes, hip implants, vaccines. Somewhere between 70 and 100 million of those tests run every year.
The crabs get caught, bled, and released. Most survive. Estimates put mortality around 15%.
A synthetic version of the clotting protein has existed for over 20 years. It works and it doesn't require an animal. Europe accepted it years ago, and US Pharmacopeia finally made it an official method in 2025.
Adoption has been slow because switching a validated test is expensive and regulators are conservative about anything touching injectable drug safety, which is a reasonable instinct that has kept a 445-million-year-old animal in a bleeding rack for two decades longer than necessary.
It's the rare conservation problem where the fix already exists and nobody has to give anything up. We just need to make the change.
auntifa squirrel retweeted
Well it’s good that we’re gonna store all of human knowledge like this
"A cloud region losing customer data because of an airstrike—I don't think that's ever happened before." wsj.com/world/middle-east/aw…
auntifa squirrel retweeted
My response to Prime's union-busting tactics at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. The company has suspended several nurses for standing up and demanding patients and nurses are put before profits.
Prime must immediately reinstate the nurses and give them a free and fair chance to vote on their union. Solidarity forever. ✊
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"Free-range" on an egg carton means the barn has a door. That's it. Just access to the outdoors.
No minimum square footage, no minimum time, no requirement that anything even be growing out there, and nobody checking whether a single hen ever walks through it.
Cage-free is an even weaker marketing term. It only means the hens aren't in battery cages. They still live indoors with no outdoor access required.
And pasture-raised isn't totally in the clear either. It's a label with no federal definition for eggs. The FDA never wrote a standard for the term. Anyone can print it on an egg carton.
The labels that actually mean something are all third-party given. Look for these:
Certified Humane Pasture Raised. 108 square feet of pasture per hen, outside at least six hours a day.
Animal Welfare Approved. Continuous outdoor access on living vegetation. The strictest one going.
Global Animal Partnership, Step 4 or higher.
Otherwise, take every marketing label with a mighty grain of salt.
We’ve known that an alghorithm was “going to eventually kill everyone” for around 200+ years now. It’s called the profit motive. An unyielding “line go up” eternal growth algorithm that has slipped out of human control for a very long time now. Skynet isn’t killer drones, it’s quarterly earning spreadsheets.
auntifa squirrel retweeted
A dying cattle ranch in the Mexican desert got handed to 47 bison last year. Within months the land started repairing itself, because bison and cattle treat the same ground in opposite ways.
Cattle camp. They park near water, eat everything in a radius, and compact the soil until rain runs off instead of soaking in. A century of that turned this stretch of Coahuila into crust and shrub.
Bison roam.
They graze a patch and move on. Their hooves punch through the hardened crust so water soaks in again. They eat the dead grass that fuels wildfires. Their dung pulls in beetles that aerate the soil, and seeds hitch rides in their fur and get planted miles away. Every behavior that made bison a nightmare for ranchers is exactly what degraded desert soil needs.
The animal is a walking restoration crew.
The results showed up fast. Camera traps at the reserve are catching pumas, lynx, and collared peccaries moving back in. Local birds are already lining their nests with shed bison fur.
Hunters wiped bison from this region around 160 years ago. The herd that fixed it descends from just 23 animals brought to Chihuahua in 2009.
Sixteen years from 23 bison to a desert that heals itself.
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Ms. Rachel announces she met with Troy Jackson today and is supporting his run for Maine Senate.
This is why I’ve been avoiding it. I’ve been watching the panel streams, and if I didn’t watch the full panel, I’m not commenting on it rn.
We have to remember how negative the media coverage is around us right now and how the literal *point* of these discussions is to tackle nuanced subjects.
