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Honeybees pollinate roughly $150 billion worth of crops annually. About 1.6 million colonies died across the U.S. between June 2024 and March 2025. The administration's response? Close the lab that diagnosed the cause. This is not efficiency. It is willful abdication of the government's stewardship obligation to American agriculture.
"Alberta’s scientists have documented that waters downstream of both active and reclaimed (coal) mines routinely exceed safe selenium and other contaminant levels — sometimes by five to 25 times."
https://t.co/S4P1gglN6X
Northern White Rhino: functionally extinct in the wild.
Last male dead. Only 2 females remain
A creature that endured 55 million years—ice ages, asteroids, entire epochs—wiped out by human greed, poaching, and destroyed habitats.
We failed them. 💔🦏
Sec. Kennedy: Mercury is absolutely—it’s the most powerful neurotoxin we know of in the universe.
Rep. Harder: So why are you working for an administration that is doubling the amount of mercury pollution in our air and water?
Sec. Kennedy: I am running HHS and I’m ending the chronic disease epidemic. I’m not going to comment on that because I don’t know anything about it.
Rep. Harder: Well, that’s very convenient for you, and it shows a significant degree of cowardice. It’s not just mercury. President Trump in July 2025 granted 50 chemical plants—
Sec. Kennedy: Why don’t you ask me something that I’m in charge of instead of other things?
Rep. Harder: Are you not in charge of Health and Human Services?
BREAKING: Trump punishes Pope Leo for criticizing his Iran War by stripping $11 million from Catholic Charities in Florida that was supposed to help shelter and care for children who enter the country alone.
Trump is terrorizing kids in America while killing them overseas...
“The U.S. government has abruptly decided to end more than 60 years of relationship with Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Miami,” said Archbishop Thomas Wenski. “The Archdiocese of Miami’s services for unaccompanied minors have been recognized for their excellence and have served as a model for other agencies throughout the country.”
"Our track record in serving this vulnerable population is unmatched. Yet, the Archdiocese of Miami’s Catholic Charities’ services for unaccompanied minors has been stripped of funding and will be forced to shut down within three months," he added.
The Department of Homeland Security, through its Office of Refugee Resettlement, has paid Catholic Charities in Miami for years to help house children who enter the country without accompanying adults. The Miami Herald describes the program as essentially a "federally funded foster care system."
Bishop Wenski said that despite there being a recent decrease in unaccompanied minors “it is baffling that the U.S. government would shut down a program that it would be hard-pressed to replicate at the level of competence."
Robert Latham, associate director of the University of Miami Law School’s Children and Youth Law Clinic, said that the gutting of funding and possible need to move the children elsewhere could inflict serious damage on their developing psyches.
"It’s incredibly psychologically harmful to be moved,” he said. “For little kids, moving repeatedly creates bonding issues and destroys the sense of both self and community. They don’t know who they are and where they will be."
“This should only be done with a lot of emotional support that you normally would find within a family. Unfortunately, that is not there in a group home setting,” Latham added.
Of course, Donald Trump couldn't care less about the suffering of children. This man was friends with Jeffrey Epstein for years and been accused of sexual abuse himself. He started his Iran War by blowing up a school full of little girls and his administration has worked around the clock to strip funding from programs that feed, educate, and house children.
While the administration has not admitted that these funding cuts are payback against Pope Leo, the point A to point B is apparent. Trump is the most vindictive man to ever hold the presidency. He has been relentlessly attacking Leo for criticizing his Iran War. This is him using financial leverage in an effort to beat the Pope into submission. It will not work.
Please ❤️ and share to demand that the funding be doubled when Democrats take back control!
“Santa Marta is different, it is a space conceived and led by the nations most impacted. We will not be at the back of the room, but setting the agenda at the head of the table" -@MainaTalia1
👏👏👏 this is the bold leadership the Pacific is known for!
https://t.co/HCdiZLyUR0
2015 to 2025 were the hottest 11 years ever measured. Our oceans have absorbed this heat but there is no respite in sight.
Burning oil, gas, and coal have pushed our earth beyond its limits.
https://t.co/Gsy6FnRCsw
Private equity firms bought 500 hospitals. Death rates in their emergency rooms went up 13%. They fired 12% of the staff. Then they paid themselves billions in dividends.
A Harvard study just confirmed what doctors already knew: people are dying so investors can hit quarterly targets.
Exactly what happens. A PE firm buys a hospital using debt. The debt gets placed on the hospital's balance sheet, not the firm's. Now the hospital owes hundreds of millions it never borrowed. To service that debt, the hospital cuts costs. Costs mean nurses.
The numbers from the Harvard/University of Chicago study are horrifying. After PE acquisition, emergency department salary spending dropped 18.2%. ICU salary spending dropped 15.9%. Hospital-wide employees were cut 11.6%. Emergency department deaths rose 13%, seven additional deaths per 10,000 visits.
A separate study found patients undergoing surgery at PE-acquired hospitals had 17% higher odds of dying within 90 days.
Steward Health Care, owned by Cerberus Capital, filed bankruptcy with $9 billion in debt after closing hospitals across Massachusetts. The CEO lived on a $40 million yacht while emergency rooms went dark. Eight hospitals serving 2 million people nearly disappeared because a PE fund extracted more cash than the system could survive.
The private equity industry has poured over $1 trillion into healthcare. They operate a quarter of ERs nationwide. This isn't going away.
The investing angle nobody talks about.
Non-PE hospital operators like HCA Healthcare (HCA) and Tenet (THC) are the direct beneficiaries. Every time a PE hospital closes or deteriorates, patients flow to the nearest competitor. HCA has returned 1,200% since 2011. Patient volume from PE closures is a structural tailwind nobody's pricing in.
Medical staffing firms (AMN Healthcare, Cross Country) charge premium rates specifically because PE hospitals cut staff. The staffing shortage IS the business model for these companies.
The disruption play: outpatient surgical centers (SCA Health, now part of UnitedHealth) are pulling profitable procedures out of hospitals entirely. PE-owned hospitals lose their highest-margin surgeries to outpatient, and the death spiral accelerates.
Pull up tradevision and monitor healthcare M&A alerts, hospital closure filings, and patient volume migration data. When a PE-owned hospital announces "restructuring," the patient volume shift to competitors like HCA starts within 30 days. That 30-day window is when the competitor's earnings revisions haven't updated yet. Free to try.
(a private equity firm bought your local hospital. borrowed $500 million in the hospital's name. fired 12% of the nurses. emergency room deaths rose 13%. then they paid themselves dividends. nobody went to prison. they're currently buying another hospital.)
🚨 Senator Chris Murphy — one hour after walking out of a classified Iran war briefing — was asked why the US went to war with Iran.
His answer:
“The simplest explanation might be the one they gave 24 hours in and tried to backtrack from — Israel made us do it. Netanyahu decided on the timeline. He convinced Trump to join him by scaring Trump into believing US assets were at risk.”
Then Murphy asked the question every American should be asking:
“How weak are we if our allies can force us into wars of choice that are bad for US national security interests?”
Mark Warner confirmed there was no imminent threat to the United States.
The nuclear program is not even part of the targeting campaign.
Seven Americans are dead.
165 schoolgirls are dead.
700,000 Lebanese are displaced.
Mines are in the Strait of Hormuz.
Gulf allies cut 6.7 million barrels.
And a US Senator with classified intelligence access just said Israel forced our hand.
How weak does that make America look.
"Once a government convinces people that some among them are unworthy of rights or empathy, the rest becomes frighteningly easy," writes Andrew Weinstein https://t.co/fHdm0OtXrS
Rob Reiner:
"Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
New @standearth report shows that zebras don’t change their stripes.
Drax is STILL sourcing wood from ecological significant forests in BC, still the single biggest carbon emitter in Britain, and still receiving subsidies from the UK Gov.
https://t.co/WXiR4jgDEH
This is huge: Canada and other fossil-rich nations have an obligation to phase out fossils by 2030 to remain in compliance w international law.
If transition to renewables seems unrealistic it’s bc the fossil fuel companies have made it seem that way
https://t.co/i0sbvlxNEO
The town of Jasper is special to so many Canadians, myself included.
The community is still working to rebuild since last summer’s devastating wildfires, and today I’ve announced government funding to help restore and repair critical infrastructure in Jasper National Park: https://t.co/uQklxOOf3p