Alex Harken

If you live it up you won't live it down | University of Iowa 2019

[Bam Adobobayo @Bam_Adobobayo]

It's "Keep politics out of sports" unless it's their politics

Most embarrassing moment in College Gameday history.

Absolutely heartbreaking what has happened to this show knowing what it used to be

[Alex Harken @Alex_Harken14]

@AlecGathright @jdpickell 😂🤷‍♂️

[Philip Lymbery @philip_ciwf]

There are only 50 of these whales left on Earth!
They will now be going extinct on our watch
What a terrible way to treat this beautiful and diverse planet and what an appalling legacy we are leaving our children
#RespectAllLife
https://t.co/olR0NdBCIV

[Ben Stan @HawkeyeBBFan]

Thank you for everything 🐐! What you did for this program will never be forgotten!

[Jon Rothstein @JonRothstein]

Dear Bennett Stirtz,

Congratulations on an incredible college career.

You wrote a story that will NEVER be forgotten.

Walk proud.

Today.

Tomorrow.

And Forever.

Sincerely,

America

[David Eickholt @DavidEickholt]

Ben McCollum: Bennett, Tavion, those guys started this. It’s pretty cool. I think they will look back in 10 years— hopefully we’ll be going to Final Fours and winning championships, they’ll sit there and say “Man, I did that. I think the University of Iowa and myself and my staff are very thankful for Tavion, Bennett and Brendan.

[Cullen Holt @CullenJHolt]

Alvaro Folgueiras. The hero. Hugging his mom after hitting the game-winner for Iowa. @KCCINews

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

WHY! 😢 😡

BREAKING: A permit has been issued allowing an endangered Wolf to be killed.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a controversial lethal permit allowing ranchers in Catron County, New Mexico to shoot a Mexican Grey Wolf if one is encountered attacking livestock.

This is not just any Wolf.

The Mexican Grey Wolf is the rarest Wolf subspecies in North America and one of the most endangered Wolves on Earth.

By the late 1970s the species had been virtually wiped out, and the entire recovery program started from just seven remaining Wolves captured for breeding.

Today, after decades of conservation work, the wild population is still incredibly fragile. Recent estimates put the number at around 257 Wolves in the United States, primarily in Arizona and New Mexico, with roughly 45–50 more in Mexico.

That means the entire wild population is barely around 300 animals worldwide.

Every Wolf in the population matters ~ genetically and socially. Packs rely on breeding pairs to raise pups, and the loss of even one Wolf can destabilise an entire family group.

Conservation groups say this permit is particularly troubling because it does not identify a specific problem Wolf. Instead, it allows the killing of any Wolf encountered under the permit conditions, meaning a breeding animal or genetically valuable individual could be lost.

For a population that took over 40 years of recovery efforts to reach just a few hundred animals, the loss of even a single Wolf can set conservation back.

The Mexican Grey Wolf is still listed as endangered, and many scientists say the population is not yet secure or genetically healthy enough to withstand additional human-caused deaths.

Which is why many people are asking a difficult question tonight:

How can a species still fighting for survival be given a permit to be killed at all?

#mexicanwolf #greywolf #NewMexico #wolf #wolves #wolfconservation #wildlifeconservation #AnimalNews

Credit: Animal Watch 🐺.

[Daniel Boguslaw @DRBoguslaw]

Trump's Fish and wildlife is introducing a rule to let oil and gas companies kill polar bears and walruses for five years.

[Joseph Allen @j_g_allen]

Trump has collapsed cancer research.

—> The National Cancer Institute hasn’t made a single grant this fiscal year

https://t.co/3mKjoMua8Q

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Oh.

[Covie @covie_93]

Everyone in this photo was pardoned by trump except the unconscious cop who Republicans blame for the attack.

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

Guess which one of these two people the federal government murdered for "holding a weapon."

[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

Stephen Miller wants you to think that the paramilitary force he keeps empowering to kill innocent white Americans, on camera, is the real victim. A world-historical coward who is incinerating Trump’s deformed political movement in real time

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

WHERE ARE THE 2A ACTIVISTS?

WHERE ARE THE “DON’T TREAD ON ME” BROS?

WHERE IS THE NRA STATEMENT CONDEMNING THIS?

WHERE ARE THE “BACK THE BLUE” PEOPLE?

WHERE ARE THE “ALL LIVES MATTER” ADVOCATES?

[Oliver Alexander @OAlexanderDK]

Imagine going back 15 years and telling Republicans this:

One day, you will cheer federal agents for killing people who were carrying firearms while exercising their Second Amendment rights.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

He had a permit to carry

He was legally exercising his 2nd Amendment right.

He did not draw the weapon.

He was filming when they approached him.

They had taken his weapon from its holster before they shot him.

It was murder.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Frey: "I'm done being told our community members are responsible for the vitriol in our streets ... the invasion of these heavily armed masked agents roaming around on our streets of Minneapolis, emboldened with a sense of impunity, it has to end"

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 CONFIRMED: ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minnesota and put her on a plane to Texas despite a judge’s order requiring her release, per the Star Tribune.

Read that again.

A court order said release the toddler… and ICE said no.

This is state-sanctioned kidnapping with a boarding pass.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

There's a 5-year-old boy in a Texas detention facility who should be home in Minneapolis with his mother and middle school brother.

Why isn't he? What is the rationale for keeping a 5-year-old locked up 1,000 miles from his home?