"An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person." Leo Tolstoy
Young women who grew up in Sweden are being deported alone to countries where they face documented risks of gender persecution, discrimination, and violence. These decisions separate families and raise serious human rights concerns.
@hrw: https://t.co/tGKTI8RNtL #Sweden
Some kind organisations are posting messages urging people to leave out water for our precious wildlife in this hot dry weather, which is brilliant, thank you.
But this rumour doing the rounds that hedgehog mums abandon their nursing babies is utter nonsense.
Hedgehog mums are the most patient, loving parents you can imagine.
They are tightly bonded and would NEVER willingly abandon their babies.
But they die.
They die because lactation places a massive continuous drain on a mother's water reserves.
If she is deprived of water, her body is forced to pull from its own tissues and blood supply to maintain milk production, resulting in rapid blood volume depletion and thickening of the blood.
Producing milk requires a massive amount of calories and water.
If resources are scarce, the mother's body goes into a negative energy balance, which drastically accelerates the depletion of her internal reserves.
But they stay with their babies, protecting them, loving them, literally giving them their last drop of life.
The starving dehydrated babies eventually stagger out of the maternity nest, instinctively seeking sustenance.
By the time they are found by humans they are so near death and their dehydration so extreme that only subcutaneous fluids from an experienced rescue can save them.
All this heartbreak and tragedy can be avoided, and rescues freed from bed-blocking babies, if only everyone simply puts out a dish of water.
Right now.
And tonight.
Front and back.
Under cover in the shade, if possible.
A turn of the tap can save so many lives.❤️
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Two dogs die in a race at Geelong today. Paw Shervington and Just Telling, both from foreleg fractures (Just Telling suffered scapula fracture in Jan). Almost 90 dogs killed racing this year - what a sick industry, and a sick country where this is endorsed by political leadership
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🤬 For just a moment, imagine if ANYONE did this to a Jewish family ANYWHERE in the world.
Imagine the outrage.
It would be BREAKING NEWS.
We’d know their names.
We’d see their stories.
Condemnation would be UNIVERSAL and INSTANT.
And you know I’m right.
27 injuries in the first two days of July on NSW tracks, and one dog killed. A typically horrific start to the second half of 2026. 7 injured at Taree and one killed, 6 injured at Wentworth Park, 6 injured at Richmond Straight. The Govt knows no NSW track meets minimum standards.
Major injuries on Western Australia tracks over the weekend:
First is "Tarawi Mike" falling suffering a tail fracture at Mandurah. May be more injuries later apparent. 28 days incapacitation.
Next is "Tarawi" at Cannington. He suffered a right hock "injury" (assume fracture). Unclear where it happened, so many collisions. He is number 7 in footage. Report says: "TARAWI & GARRITTY collided on the first turn ... SPENCER checked off the heels of TARAWI on the second turn ... SPENCER & TARAWI collided on the home turn"
Reports and replays
Mandurah:
https://t.co/l32SthMk6e
Cannington:
https://t.co/htuCkq1yMV
This is modern greyhound racing: Four dogs scratched, one dog injured and stops running, one dog finishes the race. On a wet and dangerous Ladbrokes track. Nowra, 5 July. To feed the global gambling machine. Pointless.
Just to be clear, then. FIFA:
1) can't possibly intervene when Iran are forced to move, a referee is denied a visa, or fans are barred from the USA
2) can absolutely intervene when a decision goes against the USA that Donald Trump doesn't like
Smashing. All know where we stand
Playing the Trump Card.
Under Infantino, there’s no longer such thing as an ‘independent FIFA Committee.’
There is only the ‘FIFA Committees for the protection of image, promotion of autocrats and any and all regimes with money to fill FIFA pockets, and the capitulation to power irrespective of the damage to what’s left of its Statutes or the integrity of the game.’
Trump proudly proclaims how he influenced the unprecedented decision during a World Cup.
What an embarrassment for football.
The same Judge which issued contempt of court proceedings against the leading barrister of Palestine Action activists, reinstated a barrister who lied about his qualifications.
The stitch-up of the Filton trial is entirely political.
Greyhound injuries, deaths kept offline out of 'respect' for trainers and 'their animals', Tasracing says https://t.co/zCFYXn2PmX via @ABCaustralia#dogs#greyhounds