Three Iranian soccer players granted asylum in Australia are returning back home where they will likely face the death penalty.
Since their stance against the Iranian Regime, family members have been detained and gone missing.
Pray for these women.
She did it AGAIN!!!! Idk how @JenniferSey keeps doing it but she does.
I’m definitely not crying over this one. My eyes just leak like this sometimes.
Happy #InternationalWomensDay
To all the women being forgotten about. Except by a few of us.
California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Each almond requires 3.2 gallons of actual irrigation water to grow. Not rainfall. Actual tap water pumped from aquifers.
One gallon of almond milk requires 162 gallons of irrigation water. Compare that to dairy milk at 8 gallons of tap water per gallon, with the rest being rainfall that falls on pasture anyway.
But here's where it gets properly grim. Almonds bloom for exactly three weeks in February. During those three weeks, California needs every pollinating bee in North America transported to the Central Valley or the crop fails entirely.
Commercial beekeepers truck in 31 billion honeybees. That's two-thirds of America's entire managed bee population, all concentrated in one valley for three weeks. The bees are packed into trucks, driven across the country, dumped into almond groves drenched in pesticides, worked to exhaustion, then packed up and shipped to the next crop.
The mortality rate is catastrophic. Beekeepers report losing 30 to 50% of their hives annually. That's billions of bees dead. Not from natural causes. From being used as disposable pollination machines for your almond milk.
The pesticides don't help. Almond groves are sprayed with neonicotinoids which scramble bee navigation systems, fungicides which weaken their immune systems, and herbicides which eliminate the wildflowers they'd normally forage on between almond blooms.
Meanwhile the aquifer depletion is permanent. The Central Valley has sunk 28 feet in some areas from groundwater extraction. That water took 10,000 years to accumulate. It's being drained in decades for almond milk.
Your vegan latte killed more bees and used more water than a year's worth of dairy milk. But it's got "plant-based" on the label so you're definitely saving the planet.
Unchecked extreme rhetoric, like labels as Hitler or fascist, will foment more extreme outcomes.
Political violence is always wrong—no exceptions.
We must all turn the temperature down.
On this day 8 years ago, @MosabHasanYOSEF shocked the UN by telling the truth about the Palestinian Authority.
His words are more relevant now than ever:
https://t.co/k7YVZtQ5Mq
Watch: A British TV host finally says what so many are afraid to tell Palestinian Muslims and their Western enablers the truth:
"You are evil liars who always play the victim while being the exact opposite."
Do you agree with every single word? Retweet if yes!