Still“Trying”2 Remain an Eternal Optimist☮️🟧🇺🇦

We’ve made a mess 4 our kids & grands. Let’s be a more empathetic species🙏 Pls stop enabling/celebrating stupidity & Tax the rich. Family, Nature, Cats=❤️

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In September 2007, a bird weighing barely more than a pound lifted off from Alaska and flew across the Pacific Ocean without stopping once.

No landing.
No food.
No water.
No sleep on the ocean.

Seven days and nine nights later, she arrived in New Zealand.

Her name was E7.

She was a bar-tailed godwit — a shorebird small enough to fit comfortably in your hands.

Scientists had long suspected these birds made one of the greatest migrations on Earth, but nobody had ever tracked an individual bird across the entire journey in real time.

E7 became the proof.

Researchers fitted her with a tiny satellite transmitter before migration season began.

Then they watched in astonishment as the signals kept moving south.

And south.

And south.

More than 7,000 miles across open ocean with no break.

What makes the journey even more unbelievable is how a godwit prepares for it.

In the weeks before departure, the bird transforms itself into a living fuel tank.

E7 spent late summer eating constantly, nearly doubling her body weight in fat reserves.

Then something extraordinary happened inside her body:

Her digestive organs began shrinking.

Her stomach and intestines partially atrophied because they wouldn’t be needed during the flight.

At the same time, her heart and flight muscles grew larger and stronger to handle the nonstop effort ahead.

By the time she launched into the sky, her body had essentially rebuilt itself for one purpose:

Survival in the air.

Once E7 left Alaska, there was no room for mistakes.

A bar-tailed godwit cannot rest on the ocean like a seabird.

If she landed in the Pacific, she would drown.

So she kept flying.

Hour after hour.
Day after day.

She navigated using the sun, stars, Earth’s magnetic field, and atmospheric patterns scientists still don’t fully understand.

She rode favorable winds southward while slowly burning through the fuel stored inside her body.

And when the fat reserves finally ran low, her body began consuming its own muscle tissue to keep her alive.

After more than 200 straight hours in flight, E7 finally descended onto the mudflats of New Zealand.

She had lost over half her body weight.

Her digestive system had effectively shut down.

Her muscles were severely depleted.

But she survived.

Within hours of landing, her organs began rebuilding themselves again.

The tiny bird that crossed the Pacific started eating, recovering, and preparing for the next stage of life as though this impossible journey was simply normal.

And that’s the part scientists found most humbling.

E7 wasn’t some miraculous exception.

She was just the first godwit carrying technology that allowed humans to witness what her species had quietly been doing for thousands of years.

Every year, tiny birds rise into the Arctic sky and cross an entire ocean powered only by instinct, endurance, and a body engineered by evolution to do something that still feels almost impossible.

A one-pound bird.
Seven days nonstop.
Over 7,000 miles of open ocean.

And somehow, she knew exactly where she was going.

[Tim @trouble_man90]

266,000 jobs under Biden:
“slowed”
“muddled expectations”
“fell short”

172,000 jobs under trump:
“upswing”
“vigorous”
“strong sign for economy”

This is the double standard Dems have had to deal with for the past 10 years.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

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[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Entering month 6 of the Mamdani mayorship of NYC and Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, and Murder is down an astounding 21%.

And he did so without "Adding 5000 new cops" to the streets. Instead, he's invested in public safety with free childcare, accessible infrastructure, and better funded schools and libraries. He's proven once again that if we want safer communities, we must invest in People—not Punishments.

[Risk Expert tells the Truth about Climate @MarkCranfield_]

I'm a professional insurance risk assessor, not an alarmist. It doesn't matter who you are or where you are, you need to be preparing for power outages and disaster recovery due to the coming El Niño and closure of the Strait of Hormuz. This is the overwhelming priority during the remaining window of relative stability.
https://t.co/Gow8weNcmy

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

Israel & its lobby are attempting a complete takeover of our gov thru a myriad of bills.

One bill virtually no one is talking about is @SenTomCotton’s Section 622, of the FY27 Intelligence Authorization Act which locks US into permanent unbreakable intel entanglement with Israel

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

This means ICE has killed people in custody.

https://t.co/RJWiNYuOed

[Stacey Abrams @staceyabrams]

Children can’t vote, but their hunger is real. Yet, once again, Gov. Brian Kemp has refused to help — vetoing funding for summer nutritional assistance. Georgia families are struggling to afford groceries, rent and health care, and this would be a lifeline. During this election season remember that your elected officials should serve you and the needs of your community. If you're in need of assistance, visit: https://t.co/7Na8k7bgNp

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

An audience member at a Q&A recently asked me why I'm so apocalyptic. The genocide in Gaza, beyond being a tragedy, marks an irreversible shift in the global world order. Before the genocide, the imperialist ambitions of the Western oligarchic class were partially constrained by the utopian ideal of the rules-based order. Now that ideal is gone, and unrestrained barbarity will characterize the methodology of the war-making ruling class. In other words — our future is an apocalyptic one.

[George Proust @GeorgeProust]

16 bases were destroyed in 2 days.

Trump's team hid that information for 9 weeks.

Most Americans still don't know this basic fact.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

I LOVE how @NicolleDWallace is covering this, with the same gusto the right wing went after Biden.

The White House SWEARS trump was wide awake yesterday, but we all know what wide awake is, don't we? trump was OUT.

He is a total laughingstock.
25th Amendment NOW

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

PM Edi Rama said that no amount of protesters can stop him, so the Albanians took that as a challenge!!!

Protests against Kushner's Epstein Island 2.0 continue into the night.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Republican candidate Tommy Tuberville committed voter fraud by voting in Florida while living in Alabama.

Many legal scholars now claim he is not eligible to run for governor of Alabama.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel executed baby Sam today with a bullet to the face in the occupied West Bank.

They killed his mother too.

Sam was only 7 months old.

They murdered a mother. And her infant.

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

A person who is being protected by redactions wrote to Jeffrey Epstein:

“You don’t have to worry personally because I’m sending you somewhere beyond extradition.”

Release the Epstein files

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

California just held an election with paper ballots, signature verification, audits, bipartisan oversight, and public vote counting procedures.

You don’t get to yell “fraud” every time voters make a choice you don’t like.

Take the whiny little b*tch act somewhere else. We’re not buying that bullshit in this state!

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Donald Trump is lying about California elections, threatening criminal prosecutions and this is what WaPo writes.

Legacy media is broken, it is compromised and failing us. Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. https://t.co/0StGlWz45f

[Meriwether Farms @MeriwetherFarms]

BREAKING: USDA confirms a SECOND New World Screwworm case in Texas, 5.6 miles from the first case

[Warren @swd2]

The socialist did it without sending in the National Guard.

[Maj. (Ret.) Richard Ojeda @Ojeda4America]

Trump’s new acting director of national intelligence has never even received an intelligence briefing before this Thursday.

For context, the White House janitorial staff held a higher security clearance than the new Intelligence Director.

This is DANGEROUS.