second Raven post today because this little fledgling is just so adorable. It is the one that comes the closest with Chips and Gravy and is also the most noisy and demanding. Itโs a shame he canโt stay with them as he/she is going to be such a character ๐
๐จBREAKING: @POTUS just opened three marine monuments to destructive industrial fishing. These areas are vital for protecting whales, sea turtles, sharks, and sensitive ocean ecosystems. This is an egregious attack on our public waters. #ProtectOurOcean#MonumentsForAll
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Built in the 1880s and later expanded, Micca House in Paradise Valley, NV, north of Winnemucca in Humboldt County, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Jun 11, 1975. PDF: https://t.co/8ypvzXtdai
Very eerie feeling walking up to this place several years ago.
Governor Abbott closed out his speech at the Texas GOP convention with a live elephant. It then peed on the floor as it left the room.
The perfect metaphor for the Texas Republican Party.
I have walked past this deer every morning this week and guessed that she must have had a fawn nearby. I have had the video on my phone ready every day and today was rewarded with a few seconds glimpse of the baby deer.
Bragging that you dropped $250 million dollars worth of bombs on Iran IN ONE NIGHT, while people are starving and struggling to pay bills and can't get health insurance, is NOT the flex you think it is.
IT IS OBSCENE.
"It's a race against time. ... People like @realDonaldTrump, narcissistic sociopaths like the ones we've seen throughout historyโthe Hitlers and the Stalinsโthey blow themselves up in the end. And the question is the blast radius, and the longer we let this go on the bigger the blast radius is."
BREAKING: We're suing DHS for unconstitutionally wiping out decades of environmental law to blast border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Parkโone of the most remote, wild, and least-crossed stretches of the entire southern border.
I told you they were coming for the Roadless Rule.
Yesterday, Republicans made their move โ and they hid it inside a wildfire bill.
Here's what makes this so enraging:
59 million acres of America's wildest national forests are now on the table.
The 2001 Roadless Rule has protected nearly 60 million acres across 39 states for 25 years. No logging. No road construction. No drilling. No mining.
Built after 1.6 million Americans showed up โ at 430 public hearings nationwide โ to demand it.
What lives here: bald eagles, elk, black bears, Cerulean warblers, marbled murrelets. Species that need large, intact, unfragmented habitat to survive. For many of them, roadless forests aren't just home โ they're the last places left.
What the amendment does: guts the rule. Opens the backcountry to logging and road construction under the cover of "fire prevention."
The administration is pursuing repeal through the executive branch at the same time. And unlike the original rule โ they aren't holding a single public hearing.
1.6 million people showed up to protect these forests.
The administration isn't asking anyone this time.
What do you call a wildfire bill that opens forests instead of protecting them?
#DemsUnited
Five months before his own assassination, JFK poses with family of Mississippi NAACP's Medgar Evers, who was assassinated today 1963, hours after Kennedy gave his civil rights speech:
Congress is trying to delist Gray Wolves through a backdoor.
A rider in the Interior funding bill would strip federal protections and block judicial reviewโbased on politics and not science.
Tell your Rep to oppose this poison pill: https://t.co/4Wy6SWqWF0
"This Sunday nightโs UFC spectacle on the South Lawn...captures something about this moment in our history.
It's vulgar, violent, commercial, grandiose, tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, itโs Donald Trump."
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