Shawn Alma

The only way to protect the future is to protect our planet and the nature around us. Believe science. Love each other💙😸

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Russian opposition figure Igor Eidman claimed that Senator Lindsey Graham may have been poisoned in a Kremlin intelligence operation. Graham had announced progress on new Russia sanctions roughly two days before his death, but US officials have not reported any foul play.

[Badd Company @BaddCompani]

Jack Posobiec is one of the biggest Q trolls on the planet!

Jack is Whack!

Putin and Flynn just love Ole Jack!

PizzaGate!

Macron Leaks!

...

[Badd Company @BaddCompani]

Israel!

Guess where Cellabrite comes from, the company investigating phones from Kirk's murder and the Butler incident, Israel!

Shit is getting loud!

Ask Posobiec!

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Donald Trump cannot cancel elections but he can try to make it harder for people to vote and easier for the GOP to cheat. That includes misuse of the federal government and inciting his MAGA mob of election vigilantes.

We need to be ready to send up and protect elections.

[Drey @thedreydossier]

Trump Accounts are no longer going to be optional- so if you ever plan on having a child in the USA, you should read what I found:

According to the @SocialSecurity Administration's announcement last week, they are modifying the hospital birth registration form so that a Trump Account is AUTOMATICALLY created for your child through that same process.

It will be bundled into the Enumeration at Birth program (EAB), which is the already automated gov pipeline that gives your newborn a Social Security number. It’s one box that you check, you don’t have the option of unbundling it. So if you want your kid to have a Social Security number, they have to have a Trump account.

Which is strange, because according to the IRS and @USTreasury’s public announcements, these accounts only open when a parent actively elects to open one. So which is it? Why is nobody in the government interested in explaining this flagrant contradiction?

Who is going to answer the basic question of what a parent does if they don’t want a government-linked investment account (one that collects biometric data, by the way) created for their child at the exact moment their child’s Social Security number issued?

They can call it a savings account all they want, but a $1,000 deposit is a hell of a cheap price for building a lifelong financial file on every American child before they can consent to anything.

And once the government normalizes linking a person’s identity, financial activity, and predictive systems from birth, who gets to decide what that data will be used to predict later?

We deserve answers immediately. @ndstudio @WhiteHouse

[Badd Company @BaddCompani]

I have one question, did Twiggs have Tyler's phone, effectively messaging with himself!

So many questions!

As I 've said, Trump needs a distraction from Iran and Israel, not to mention the blowing up Epstein Files!

I'm just asking questions, Who killed Charlie Kirk and exactly how did Graham die, suddenly?

What happened in Butler?

What happened to the coraspondents dinner alleged shooter?

What are the connections between Russia and Iran?

Netanyahu/Trump...

Vlad's mad!

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE detain boy with Down syndrome—family has no idea where he is.

He is non verbal & hearing impaired—cannot advocate for himself.

Requires specific medication for epileptic seizures.

"Please help find him. His family is desperate—they don’t know where he is or if he's safe."

His mother says she needs to be with him or he cannot survive on his own.

"Please tell me where my son is. And if they are going to deport him, then deport me with him. He cannot take care of himself or be alone."

Yeison Saúl Menjívar Portillo was detained in the Bridge City suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Alejandra doesn't have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.

[Shawn Alma @AlmaShawn]

Another good reason to save the rainforest

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: Scientists have found a fungus in the Amazon rainforest that naturally eats plastic and could help reduce plastic pollution

[Shawn Alma @AlmaShawn]

Save the 🐝 🐝 🐝

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Researchers in Georgia removed one invasive shrub from a patch of riparian forest and watched native bees swarm back. Bee species variation nearly tripled.

The shrub was Chinese privet. And if you live in the south, there's a good chance it's in your yard or on your fence line right now.

Ligustrum sinense was imported from Asia in 1825 as an ornamental hedge plant. By the mid-1900s it had escaped cultivation and started moving through forest understories, streambanks, roadsides, and fence lines across the South. It now occupies over a million hectares across 12 states from Virginia to Texas.

The USDA Forest Service study was straightforward: two adjacent plots of similar riparian forest in Georgia's Piedmont, one cleared of privet by mulching machine and subsequent herbicide treatment, one left as a heavily invaded control.

Native bee abundance and species richness were monitored for five years after removal. The results were consistent every year: cleared plots had dramatically more bees in more species than invaded plots, and both metrics converged toward what researchers measured in uninvaded reference forests.

The mechanism isn't complicated. Privet forms dense thickets that shade out the native understory plants that native bees depend on for pollen and nesting habitat. It doesn't feed native insects the way native shrubs do. A forest floor under heavy privet cover supports almost nothing.

Here's how to recognize it: semi-evergreen shrub, six to thirteen feet tall, small oval leaves with a slightly pointed tip arranged in opposite pairs on the stem. White flower clusters in spring with a strong unpleasant smell.

Small dark purple berries in fall, toxic to humans, spread readily by birds, which is how it moves into new areas. It leafs out earlier than native shrubs in spring and holds its leaves later in fall, making it easy to spot in a dormant winter understory.

Small seedlings pull by hand very easily after rain. Larger shrubs need to be cut at the base with the stump treated immediately with triclopyr before the plant seals itself off. Don't let it go to fruit. The birds are its dispersal mechanism and they're very efficient at the job.

Replace it with native understory shrubs: spicebush, native viburnums, beautyberry, or sweetshrub. Plants that actually feed the native food web.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

ICE lied about how Renee Good was shot.

They lied about how Alex Pretti was shot.

And now they’re lying about how Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot.

Don’t believe their story for a second.

[Lorraine E-Van-Off @LorraineEvanoff]

Keeping track of Trump mob crimes and taking names.

"Trump has promoted the new “Freedom Fuel Network,” a group of 25 gas stations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey selling gasoline for up to 50 cents below market prices, but the White House will not identify who is behind the company or explain how the discounts are being financed.

Officials insist no outside entity is subsidizing the lower prices and claim the retailer is simply accepting smaller profit margins, even as industry experts say the economics do not add up.

The mystery has deepened because business records show the company was incorporated just days before Trump promoted it, many participating stations changed branding almost overnight, and fuel industry groups say they had never heard of the network before the White House announcement.

Several participating stations sit on properties owned by affiliates of Blue Owl, although both the White House and Blue Owl deny the asset manager has any involvement.

Analysts say many of the stations appear to be selling gasoline at or below wholesale cost, raising questions about how long the discounts can last and whether the model is financially sustainable.

The rollout comes as the administration faces pressure over rising fuel prices following the Iran conflict, while industry experts argue retailers are already operating on thin margins and cannot realistically maintain such steep discounts without another source of funding."

Saturday Night Update—I am Fighting With the Justice Department Over the Epstein Files https://t.co/oWSiombt9g

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Some thoughts about how Trump’s various “renovations” are not just about his megalomania or aesthetic, but it’s also about corruption.

It’s important we recognize it, understand what’s happening, and then call them out for their corruption.

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

:::::taps microphone:::::
Me again.

I have spent hundreds of hours reading the Epstein files.
They are a class indictment.

They show powerful people treating survivors as disposable, regular people as beneath them, and accountability as something meant for everyone else—over decades.

This should be a universal reckoning. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Climate Watcher 🔥 @pmagn]

Dry hot winters every year now 🔥🥵💦🤔 #ClimateBreakdown

Dry winter leaves farmers along Colorado River facing greater water shortages

https://t.co/8MY2kezZgg

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump is trying to gut the Endangered Species Act. This is a big deal, and he must be stopped.

For half a century, harming a protected animal meant you couldn’t destroy the place it lives. The Supreme Court backed that up in 1995. Six justices said the obvious thing, that if you wipe out an animal’s home, you wipe out the animal.

Trump wants to throw this out so his friends can pave over the last nesting ground of a vanishing species and call it legal, as long as they don’t personally kill the animal.

Starve it, drill it, mine it. Go right ahead. It’s a permission slip for oil and mining companies to speed up extinction, and habitat loss is already the number one reason species disappear.

This rule ignores the plain text of the law Congress wrote. The 1995 ruling is still on the books, and a rule this lawless is exactly what judges are there to strike down.

Congress must act too. I’ll push for a vote to overturn this, and I’ll fight any spending bill that tries to lock these rollbacks in.

And you have a role. Public comments already are hundreds of thousands strong against this.

Keep the pressure on.

https://t.co/cL43VqJoLf

[Dog @Dog66515910]

No living calves born. All stillborn calves, since d[ata] centers were built near the land of farmers. The noise coming from them, are causing stillbirths. If these are the effects these centers have on mammals, what are they doing to pregnant human mothers
😡🤬😤

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

To safeguard global coffee supplies from droughts, Brazilian farmers in Minas Gerais, the heart of the country's coffee production, completed a massive 600-million-liter agricultural reservoir. The project stores rainy-season water to ensure thousands of farms can maintain steady irrigation during dry spells, stabilizing harvests

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to Donald Trump:

"Twenty-three years ago, the U.S. dragged us into Iraq over claims of weapons of mass destruction. None were found. You cannot fool us twice."

[Tim Hogan 浩勤 @TimInHonolulu]

1/ Trump administration seeks testimony from @nytimes reporters for reporting that real AF-1 92000 has defensive systems and the one that Qatar, an Iranian ally, and where that Trojan Horse plane likely went, doesn't. This is from 2012. They're visible on the fuselage.

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

"The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects." https://t.co/1RuXDDN3I9