Annie Adams Author

Author of cozy mystery series,The Final Arrangement, Deadly Arrangements, flower shop owner, basketball fan.

[Annie Adams Author @AnnieAdamsAuthr]

"My mother was the Picasso of potatoes, the Manet of macaroni and the Renoir of repurposing" @RWAKissofDeath #1lineWed

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Glyphosate is one of the most widely used herbicides on Earth. It's also what most people reach for when a dandelion pokes through a driveway crack. That's a significant chemical response to a very small problem, and there's a better one sitting on your stove.

Boiling water kills weeds on contact. The heat ruptures cell walls all the way down to the root, and unlike herbicide sprays, it leaves no chemical residue, produces no runoff into storm drains, and poses no risk to the soil biology around it.

Pour directly onto the weed and into the crack around its base. A kettle works better than a pot because you can direct the stream precisely. For established weeds with deep roots, a second application usually finishes the job. For new seedlings, once is typically enough.

Glyphosate applied to a driveway crack runs into the storm drain with the next rain. From there it goes directly to your local waterway with no treatment step.

The EPA classifies glyphosate as a possible carcinogen. The IARC classifies it as a probable one. Researchers continue to debate the exact risk level. What isn't debated is that it ends up in waterways.

The dandelion doesn't know the difference.

[Muzeum Auschwitz @MuzeumAuschwitz]

31 lipca 1928 | Czeski chłopiec żydowski, Adolf Immergut, urodził się w Pilźnie.

Został deportowany do #Auschwitz z getta #Theresienstadt 26 października 1942. Nie przeżył.

[Paul Freid @PaulFreid5]

An American hero. Retweet if you agree.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

700 tons of explosives.

Israel detonated 700 tons of explosives beneath Beaufort Castle in South Lebanon, in the middle of the night.

A 900-year-old Crusader castle that UNESCO just listed as endangered heritage.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed Rita today in Gaza.

They dropped a bomb on the tent she had taken refuge in, in Khan Younis.

Rita was only 8 years old.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BOMBSHELL: While Republicans drag Dr. Fauci, Gov. JB Pritzker just revealed that during COVID, Donald Trump told him he would only send life saving equipment if he agreed to praise him on the Sunday talk shows.

Is Donald Trump evil or just completely fucking deranged?

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Let me be very clear: opposing the genocide in Gaza is not antisemitism.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

A fully masked ICE agent pepper sprayed a woman in New York yesterday merely for videotaping.

This is what tyranny looks like in Trump’s America. Imagine if Biden had Trump supporters pepper sprayed for videotaping.

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

As America celebrates 250 years of freedom, we should all be asking ourselves: who are the masked people handcuffing individuals on our streets without identifying themselves or being held accountable?

A free society demands transparency, due process, and accountability—not anonymous power. 😔😔😔🇺🇸

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

31 July 1932 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Rivka Regina Krzywanowski, was born in Amsterdam.

She was arrested while trying to get to Spain. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Trump's Medicaid work requirements are putting even terminally ill patients through bureaucratic nightmares to keep their health insurance — all to fund even more tax cuts for the wealthy.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

BREAKING: Senate Republicans blocked Democrats' proposal to end Donald Trump's IRS sweetheart deal.

This deal gives him FULL IMMUNITY from audits on tax returns he's filed.

It's corruption on steroids.

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Witold Pilecki, a Polish officer, volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz in 1940 to gather intelligence and organise Resistance.

He escaped after 2.5 years, wrote the first detailed report on the Holocaust, and fought in the Warsaw Uprising.

Will you remember him?

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

29 July 1937 | A Belgian Jewish boy, Sylvain Laufer, was born in Antwerp.

In September 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and after the selection murdered in a gas chamber.
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▶ Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://t.co/Tx6rSvPyZL

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Why are Trump supporters so fucking stupid?

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

28 July 1940 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Joseph Bremer, was born in Rotterdam.

In September 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

[Willie Nelson @WillieNelson]

To whom it may concern and to everyone else as well,

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Scotland has just done something quietly brilliant for its birds 🐦

New buildings across the country will now have to include "swift bricks", hollow bricks built straight into the walls that give birds a safe place to nest.

It sounds like a small thing but it isn't. Swift numbers in the UK have fallen by around 60% since the mid-1990s, and one of the biggest reasons is heartbreakingly simple: modern buildings have nowhere for them to go. Swifts have always nested in the nooks and gaps of our houses, and as those disappeared, so did they.

The birds themselves make it worse by being loyal to a fault. Swifts return to the exact same nest site year after year, having flown thousands of miles from Africa to get there.

When they arrive to find it sealed up, some will keep flying at the spot again and again, sometimes injuring themselves in the process.

The bricks cost about £30 each. They need no maintenance, they don't affect insulation, and once they're in the wall, you'd never know they were there. Sparrows, starlings and house martins use them too, all species in trouble for the same reason.

One RSPB conservationist put it starkly. In his part of Glasgow, not a single swift bred in 2025, the first time in his 30 years there. He called it "nothing short of heartbreaking."

Scotland is the first country in the UK to write this into law. Campaigners are now hoping the rest follows.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: Men posed as ICE agents and detained and assaulted a woman… and Tom Homan is telling everyone that they just have to comply with this.

A woman was driving on Highway 211, in Oregon, when a vehicle with flashing red and blue lights pulled behind her.

Believing she was being stopped by law enforcement, she pulled over.

Two men approached her vehicle, one was carrying a rifle, and they claimed to be ICE agents and told her she was being detained.

They pulled her out of her car, searched her, and put her in the back of their vehicle.

Then, a third man… who remained inside the vehicle… assaulted her.

He told her he was the “guard.”

The men were wearing tactical vests labeled “POLICE,” carrying fake badges, and wore face coverings.

They held her for nearly 20 minutes before telling her she was free to go… and then she drove herself to the hospital.

And while she was there, she reported that she started receiving text messages from someone claiming to be a law firm offering legal representation for her detention.

Federal authorities later confirmed this was NOT an official ICE operation… These were people pretending to be federal agents.

And this is exactly why Tom Homan telling people to “comply” with anyone claiming to be ICE is so incredibly dangerous.

Because what is a person supposed to do when someone in a tactical vest, carrying a gun, pulls them over with flashing lights and says they are federal agents?

Just trust them?

This is not about telling people to resist legitimate law enforcement.

This is about the government normalizing a system where anyone can look like an armed federal agent, claim to have authority over you, and expect you to obey without being able to verify who they are.

That doesn’t make people safer.

It makes everyone more vulnerable to being kidnapped, assaulted, or killed by criminals who know they can pretend to be ICE.

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Vera Leigh, an SOE agent in Nazi-occupied France, was captured by the Gestapo and executed at Natzweiler-Struthof.

Remember her sacrifice: