Thank you. Since last week, over 7,500 of you have signed my letter to protect Exmoor ponies. Because of that pressure, I have good news.
I wrote to Natural England and asked them straight. They have now confirmed, in writing, that there are no current plans to change grazing on Exmoor, and they recognise the Exmoor pony as a rare breed and a vital conservation grazer. Exmoor National Park has said the same.
This isn't the end. I have outstanding freedom of information requests from Defra and the Rural Payments Agency, who run the funding schemes, to make sure those reassurances hold for the long term.
There is something lasting you can do TODAY! Exmoor Ponies came back from just 50 animals after the Second World War, and the breed's gene pool is still fragile. The Exmoor Pony Society is building a gene bank so we never come that close to losing them again.
Donate and help secure the future of the breed.
There's a falcon the size of a robin that'll hunt your yard for free. And you can build it a house this weekend.
The American kestrel hovers over open ground and drops on grasshoppers, voles, and mice all day. It's the most widespread falcon in North America, found in nearly every state, and it's down by roughly half since the 1960s.
The reason is fixable: kestrels nest in tree holes they can't dig themselves, and we keep cutting down the dead trees that hold them. No cavity, no nest.
So give them one.
The whole box comes out of a single 8-foot 1x10. A 7¾-inch floor, a body about a foot and a half tall with a sloped roof you hinge at the top for cleaning, a 3-inch round hole up near the front, and 3 inches of wood chips in the bottom, since they bring no nesting material of their own. White pine, an afternoon, about twenty bucks.
Hang it 10 to 20 feet up on a pole or a dead tree at the edge of a field, pasture, or big open lawn, with the hole facing the open ground and pointed south or east. Put a baffle on the pole so raccoons can't climb to it.
→ The administration said no wall in the park. Then they waived every law that could stop one — including the Endangered Species Act — in what the Center for Biological Diversity says is the first time in U.S. history this has ever happened inside a national park:
https://t.co/HlqolgGrER
→ The vote that just killed Big Bend's last legislative shield — and what it means for the park, the river, and everyone who fought to protect them. The Texas Tribune has the full breakdown of how each rep voted and what comes next:
https://t.co/ikQTe8PGlr
BREAKING: Undercover footage shows the nightmarish warehouse cells where NYC carriage horses are trapped in deplorable conditions when not in dangerous NYC traffic.
These poor animals have a HORRIFIC LIFE of walking the busy streets , in and out of congested traffic in hot and cold temperatures. These horses NEVER touch grass, never graze in pastures and no socialization with other horses .
They have NO pasture for grazing and interacting with other horses as herd animals NEED to be healthy and they are denied proper veterinary care.
THIS HAS TO STOP. TAKE ACTION BELOW TO END THIS ABUSE.
Everyone can call NYC Council Health Committee Chair Lynn Schulman at 718.544.8800 and press 0 to leave a message to ask her to cosponsor and fast- track #RydersLaw Intro 967 to end this criminal horse abuse!
NEW YORKERS: please make a quick call or send an email to your own New York City COUNCIL MEMBER urging them to POST sponsor and pass intro 967,
#RydersLaw.
#CentralPark #BanHorseCarriages #centralparkcarriagerides #nychorses #nyctourism #CentralPark #BanHorseCarriages #NYClass
#centralparkcarriagerides #nychorses #nyctourism #RydersLaw
🎦 Credit: Unbridled Heroes.
If you read one article today, it should be former CIA analyst Paul Pillar’s alarm bell of how the Senate wants to force the US to share sensitive intel with Israel at the expense of the US itself.
“In intelligence, Israel is more of an adversary than an ally. Being an adversary in intelligence means indulging in the hostile act of espionage. Israel has a long record of conducting that type of hostile act against the United States.”
https://t.co/KpdR33YrTw
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s message to the court today as relayed by his attorney:
“I am a pediatrician. I provide medical care to patients, the injured, and vulnerable people in the Gaza Strip. I have carried out my work in accordance with international law and humanitarian standards. My detention is unjust and arbitrary.”
Richard Burgon just exposed the most glaring double standard in British policy
"Imagine if this weekend in London there was a Russian real estate event selling Ukrainian land. The government would ban it immediately.
Instead, we have an Israeli real estate event openly advertising the illegal sale of land in occupied Palestinian territories. The government recognizes Palestine. Why isn't this banned?"
Arizona State University filed to use eminent domain to steal a 124 year old Phoenix home from a senior homeowner
The man who owns it is a 89 year old senior citizen who’s owned the home for 50 years
ASU says they need the land for their downtown health campus
ASU made multiple purchase offers, they’ve offered up to $850,000 for the home. The homeowner keeps refusing. So now they plan to just take the home with eminent domain
If eminent domain goes through he’ll be forced to accept the appraisal price
Drill baby drill met its match — and it wasn’t even close. Trump tried to sell the sacred place where life begins. Big Oil didn’t want it. Somewhere, a baby caribou is breathing easy. For now. Full story at Indigenous Insider: https://t.co/w7wvZIa1ob
This is Trump’s Watergate.
Today, the @nytimes released a truly stunning report on the Epstein cover-up by the White House.
Collusion, breaking the law, evading subpoenas—it’s all in there:
- Trump quashing the files
- The VP, COS, DOJ, FBI, and others colluding in the Situation Room to stop their release and compliance
- Officials lying to the public
- Admin in-fighting and exits
- Officials who appeared in front of Congress during this time
Read the report here: https://t.co/prgyF2Isfg
The Trump administration is dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a key monitoring system for tracking the climate crisis.
Policy expert David Helvarg calls it "the most advanced system for understanding the deep ocean," which was set to continue operating for at least another 15 years. He says the Trump administration, however, is more focused on oil drilling and deep-sea mining, treating the ocean "as a gas station and a garbage dump."
Yesterday, the Department of the Interior bragged "I know a spot" and posted an Utah overlook so alien it looks like another planet.
What they didn't post: tomorrow, the rule that said this land's health matters officially dies.
The spot is Moonscape Overlook — gray bentonite badlands carved by wind and water over millions of years. No facilities. No crowds. Just silence and a view that doesn't look like this planet.
People drive an hour down a dirt road just to stand on the rim and stare.
It's Bureau of Land Management land. Public land. Your land.
In 2024, the Public Lands Rule said something radical only in its simplicity: before leasing, drilling, or mining 245 million acres of America's public lands, conservation had to be weighed as an equal. 92% of public commenters supported it.
This spring, the administration rescinded it. 138,161 people wrote in. The rule was erased anyway — effective June 11, 2026.
So while Interior collects likes on that photo — replies full of "thank you for protecting our beautiful lands" — the same department has quietly erased the protection.
What dies with the rule? Protection for the drinking water one in ten westerners gets from these lands. Protection for the endangered wildlife that depends on them. And accountability when corporations leave the land scarred and walk away.
Utah's vulnerable public lands are already being leased. In March, 68,632 acres were signed away in a single day.
Tens of thousands more go up for auction this month — every 2026 lease sale is in the infographic sourced below. ⬇️ and while you’re there, check out the US Department of Interior’s own post just today — you don’t want to miss it.
92% of us said keep the rule. They threw it out anyway.
Who exactly are our public lands being managed for?
#DemsUnited