On the ten year anniversary of his death, Muhammad Ali is remembered as a boxing icon, devout Muslim and fearless activist.
Born in the segregated American South, he refused to fight in Vietnam, defied white supremacy, and became a global symbol of anti-racism and resistance.
A decade later, his legacy remains undefeated.
🕊️ Today marks 10 years since the passing of Muhammad Ali, a legendary WBC Heavyweight Champion whose courage, charisma, and greatness forever changed the sport of boxing. 👑
News: Louisiana just became the latest state to ban intentional balloon releases, starting August 1, following the passage of House Bill 851 (Act 196). It treats a release as littering with a $500 fine for a first offense.
A balloon let go for a memorial or a graduation travels for miles, loses its lift, and falls into a marsh, a field, or the ocean. A deflated latex balloon looks almost exactly like a jellyfish or a squid to a sea turtle or a seabird, and they eat it, and it blocks the gut.
The ribbon is arguably worse. It tangles around legs, wings, and necks, and it doesn't rot. Birds even try to build it into their nests. The shiny Mylar kind has a second trick, conducting electricity, and it knocks out power for thousands of people when it drifts into a line.
The wish to send something upward for someone you've lost is one of the most human things there is. It's just that what goes up comes down somewhere, and the results are devastating for wildlife.
Israel has used American-supplied munitions to kill tens of thousands of innocent civilians.
America is morally obligated to end support of Israel’s devastation of Gaza and its people. I’m cosponsoring the Block the Bombs Act to limit the transfer of offensive weapons to Israel.
Russian warships only do this when they’re in extreme distress.
(Russian Navy corvette Boikiy burning in drydock after a Ukrainian drone attack via @vantortech)
The United States of America is a sovereign nation.
Section 224 of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act must be removed.
Our military should not be integrated in any capacity with a foreign country’s military.
Nor should we be funding it.
Muhammad Ali is no longer with us but is, and always will be, the Greatest.
He died #OnThisDay in 2016.
No boxer ever rocked the world like Ali and, dare we say it, ever will again.
Kuwait and Bahrain have condemned an Iranian missile and drone attack, which Tehran says targeted US military facilities in the Gulf. A strike hit Kuwait’s airport, causing at least one death, dozens of injuries and flight suspensions.
The United States has more than 90,000 dams on its rivers. Many of them no longer generate power, hold back floods, or serve a purpose at all. They just sit there, aging, holding the water back.
Take one out, and the ecological recovery can happen breathtakingly fast.
In 2024, the largest dam removal in American history finished on the Klamath River, where four dams came down along the Oregon-California line. Within days, Chinook salmon were pushing into water they hadn't reached in generations.
By the fall of 2025, they had climbed all the way into the upper basin, spawning in streams that had been sealed off for more than a hundred years.
Damon Goodman, a regional director for California Trout, put it plainly: the rivers "seem to come alive almost instantly after dam removal."
Maine's Penobscot tells the same story. After two dams came down, the river herring went from a few thousand fish a year into the millions, and with them came back the eagles, ospreys, and otters that live off the run.
A dam is one of the few environmental problems you can fix by subtraction. Take the wall away, and the river seems to remember what it was.
VIDEO | Hezbollah publishes thermal footage, dated 1 June, showing its fighters targeting a gathering of Israeli troops on the southern outskirts of Yohmor al-Shaqif in south Lebanon with an Ababil attack drone.
Some of the best-preserved native plant communities North America aren't in parks or refuges. They're in old cemeteries.
Pre-1900 cemeteries have a specific land-use history: they often experienced less intensive mowing, tillage, herbicide use, and development than surrounding lands. Some rare grassland and prairie species persist in old cemeteries after disappearing from much of the surrounding landscape.
Pioneer cemeteries in the Midwest still host fragments of original tallgrass prairie: leadplant, prairie blazing star, compass plant, native grasses that the surrounding farmland erased a century ago.
New England burial grounds often hold native sedges, woodland wildflowers, and old-growth lichens.
Some Southern cemeteries preserve remnants of longleaf pine understory communities that have become much rarer across the region.
You can help protect them. Most are managed by underfunded cemetery associations, historical societies, or local governments who don't always know what they're sitting on.
A simple conversation, a photo of a rare plant, or a request to delay mowing until after seed-set can be the difference between preservation and a routine spray.