@CarlBovisNature We used to have many, 10+ pairs on one occasion, come to our garden to gorge on the fallen acorns. Sadly a sight we don't see now since both our neighbours felled the TPO protected oaks.
@charliersmith1 "You'll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do."
Charlie, keep doing what makes you and your loved ones happy 😀.
Huge happy 80th birthday to the legendary @DollyParton 🎉- we are marking it with a parody of her 2nd number one hit, written by the @BeeGees.
Our 🎶 version's called "Donald's Sewage Stream" - since he brought his sick drivel to #Europe#Davos#NATO & our #armedforces this week
@PressSec Have a listen to this Karoline and then ask yourself if you believe in law and order, and if the amount of false propaganda you put out is justified and truthful?
https://t.co/DCMiQe8mjs
Huge happy 80th birthday to the legendary @DollyParton 🎉- we are marking it with a parody of her 2nd number one hit, written by the @BeeGees.
Our 🎶 version's called "Donald's Sewage Stream" - since he brought his sick drivel to #Europe#Davos#NATO & our #armedforces this week
BREAKING: The family of Alex Pretti releases a powerful statement about his senseless murder at the hands of Trump's masked fascist goons.
Please share this far and wide...
"We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital," the family said in a statement provided to CNN.
"Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman."
"The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed."
"Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."
It is our responsibility as Americans to get the truth out there. Petti was not attempting to harm anyone. He was swarmed, beaten, and disarmed by vicious federal agents who were looking for someone to hurt. Once they had removed his gun — which he had a legal permit to carry — they executed him in cold blood by firing numerous bullets into him. Then, the Trump administration proceeded to immediately falsely smear him as a "terrorist" who wanted to carry out a mass shooting against law enforcement. They're utterly shameless.
“He cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset,” said Pretti's father Alex. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests.”
Rest in power Alex. The rest of us will carry on the fight.
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@WhiteHouse@MariaCorinaYA What an absolute embarrassment Donald Trump is.
This is the last American President to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize by the Nobel Committee.
BREAKING: The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe demands that ICE immediately release three tribal members who are being illegally held at an ICE facility in Minnesota.
Now MAGA wants you to believe that Native Americans are somehow "illegal" immigrants...
“The Oglala Sioux Tribe’s memorandum makes clear that ‘tribal citizens are not aliens’ and are ‘categorically outside immigration jurisdiction,’" Star Comes Out, leader of the South Dakotan tribe stated. “Enrolled tribal members are citizens of the United States by statute and citizens of the Oglala Sioux Nation by treaty.”
The four tribal members in question were reportedly detained at a homeless encampment in Minnesota last week. Three of them were then transferred to an ICE facility at Fort Snelling while one was released.
“The irony is not lost on us,” said Frank Star Comes Out. “Lakota citizens who are reported to be held at Fort Snelling—a site forever tied to the Dakota 38+2—underscores why treaty obligations and federal accountability matter today, not just in history.”
The "Dakota 38+2" refers to the 38 Dakota men who were publicly hanged in 1862 in Minnesota in the largest mass execution in U.S. history.
“It has this really notorious anti-Indigenous, specifically anti-Dakota, history. It’s kind of like a continuation on the monopoly of violence from the military outpost to the ICE facility," Nick Estes, an associate professor in American Indian Studies, said of Fort Snelling.
Star Comes Out sent a memo to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to inform her that her agency refused to release information about the detainees unless the tribe "entered into an immigration agreement with ICE.” In other words, DHS is trying to use these men as bargaining chips to encroach on tribal sovereignty. Star Comes Out stated that the tribe will not be entering into such an agreement.
Star Comes Out is demanding information on the three men still in detention and the release of all tribal citizens in ICE custody. He has also requested a meeting between the tribe and the administration.
This shameful incident lays bare the ugly truth about Trump's "immigration enforcement." This was never about upholding the law (something which our felon president has flouted his entire life). This was always about seizing more power with brutal boots on the ground and targeting nonwhite people.
Nobody has more of right to be in this country than Native Americans. Trump must immediately free these detainees and make restitution.
Please ❤️ and share to demand their release!