The Holocaust. Babyn Yar.
I thank everyone who honors the victims of the Nazi massacre in Babyn Yar and the Righteous Among the Nations who saved Jews during WWII.
Nazi evil was punished and will never return. Because people remember, Ukraine remembers, and the world remembers.
Six far-right extremists who support massive tax breaks for the rich are trying to shut down the government. This is what they want:
$14.7B cut to public schools in high poverty areas.
70% cut to nutrition assistance for children.
$750M cut to Head Start.
Ain't gonna happen.
Here is George Clooney response after Trump accused him of being a "Hollywood elite."
"Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years.
So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.
People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble?
He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people!
When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction.
He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!"
- George Clooney
actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist
'An Irish Atlantic Rainforest' was released a year ago today.
So far, almost 16k have sold. The reaction has been far and away beyond even my wildest hopes, at times nearly overwhelmingly so.
It could not be more clear there's a **profound** yearning now for a wilder Ireland.
I was a believer of the 9/11 inside job conspiracy theory for 15 years. It was my gateway to the rabbit hole. Thankfully, today, I am now an ex-truther.
This picture clearly shows the core of WTC 1&2. This picture is one that no 9/11 conspiracist will show you because it destroys their argument.
You can see quite clearly that there would have been no controlled demolitions needed for it to collapse.
Do all the mental gymnastics you want, but the truth is simple. A plane flew into each building. The impact, explosion, and fire weakened the core. The weight of the floors above the impact zone buckled the steel. And it all came down.
No mystery. No inside job. Stop believing fantasies and wake up!
"We need to start understanding our Earth as a living system."
And one of the many conclusions to draw from that is, to truly fight climate collapse, we need lots more *native forest ecosystems*, NOT deadzone plantations.
My piece in today's @IrishTimes
https://t.co/R0Xq6rSvRN
What does it say about Ireland, about us as a people, that for a half century now we have proved utterly incapable of reversing the ecological decline of what is by FAR our most important remaining native forest: Killarney National Park?
We ought to hang our heads in shame.
‘Trees for climate, not for profit’. 🌲🌳🌲
Today @SaveLeitrim & climate activists from across Ireland pulled 100s of Sitka spruce saplings from Coillte peatland. Straw Boys were among 150 on the direct action targeting industrial conifer plantations & demanding policy change.
"Interest income is supposed to go to the people who save, not the institution that is holding those savings in trust. If the institution breaks that trust by taking that money it is cheating its customers out of income. The banks are robbing your money"
https://t.co/aRCOaCQuMe
If this is just "postage stamp"-sized ecological restoration in Scotland, what have we got in Ireland?
Pin heads, if even.
As Alan so rightly says, a nature-depleted landscape is very definitely a *choice*. One which ever fewer people are willing to accept.
#Rewilding