The bird singing outside your window before sunrise hasn't eaten in 8-10 hours.
The dawn chorus is a seriously costly display to a bird. Most songbirds wake up at their daily energy low point and the first thing they do is broadcast their location, fitness, and territory ownership to every other bird, predator, and rival within earshot.
Why do it at the worst possible time? Because it's an honest signal. A male that can afford to sing first, loudest, and longest before he has eaten is telling every female in the neighborhood that he is well-fed, healthy, and has access to a good territory. You can't fake that.
Research has consistently found that males who lead the dawn chorus hold higher-quality territories and attract mates faster. Birds in noisy human environments sing earlier and harder to compensate, at real metabolic cost.
The half-hour of birdsong outside your window before sunrise is the most energetically expensive 30 minutes of that bird's day. It's not background. It's a fitness audition.
Croatia has stormed the Eurovision final with a historic anthem that denounces the Ottoman occupation and revives the ancient Christian tattoo tradition to protect young girls from rape
Performed entirely in Croatian, the song slams centuries of Islamic Turkish occupation of their lands and recalls how Catholic girls were tattooed with Christian motifs to stop them from being abducted, converted to Islam, and forced into sexual slavery
"That’s why many chose the grave, our mothers did not birth slaves”
Turkey is already attacking the group for performing the song
🇺🇸NOW: Tommy Robinson stood before thousands and declared: “We will NOT remain silent while our Christian brothers and sisters are being raped and pillaged in any country in the world!”
He challenged the BBC, mainstream media, Church of England, and the Pope: “Why are you not speaking up for the Christians of Nigeria?”
Lord, we pray for Your protection over persecuted Christians in Africa and around the world. Raise up voices of truth and bring justice to those who suffer for Your name. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
President Trump posts a video on TruthSocial:
Video: Today, is there any Muslim here?
United Nations, I know you're watching me. American Senate, you are watching what I'm doing.
I'm saying here, special advisor to Trump. Now, please tell Trump to save our life in Nigeria.
They are killing Christians in Nigeria. Massacre Christians. If they say they kill Muslims, Muslims are being killed. By who? By Muslims.
The moment Eli Sharabi, who was held hostage in Gaza, told the UN the truth.
"NO ONE in Gaza helped me. I was treated worse than animal. The civilians saw us suffering and they cheered our kidnappers. They were definitely involved."
Share this. The mainstream media won't.
Doctors recommended killing this baby in an abortion because she has spina bifida.
But her parents REFUSED!
Doctors warned Bethan and Kieron Simpson to “expect the worst” when their unborn baby was diagnosed with spina bifida.
But today their daughter, Elouise, is thriving thanks to a pioneer prenatal surgery that helped to lessen the effects of her disability.
The Simpsons, from the UK, learned about their daughter’s diagnosis during a 20-week ultrasound scan.
Though Elouise was approaching the point of viability, doctors encouraged her parents to consider abortion.
But after learning about a new prenatal surgery, Bethan said the decision was a “no brainer.”
“I couldn’t justify terminating a child I could feel kicking."
She decided to undergo a new fetal surgical procedure in which doctors repair the unborn baby’s spine in utero. During a four-hour procedure, doctors at the University College Hospital in London worked to close a hole in Elouise’s spine.
Though the surgery does not cure spina bifida, it can minimize the effects of the disorder.
For Elouise, the surgery was a huge success. She was born on April 1 “kicking and screaming,” her mother.
“It’s a miracle, that’s the only way I can describe it. We may have been through a lot, but I’d do it for Elouise all over again in a heartbeat."
Just a few years ago, the mayor’s wife celebrated their murder. She was an adult. She has apologized for racist social media activity but not for celebrating the death of Jews.
She appears on magazine covers, publicly hosts terrorist supporters and more, but apparently her excuse is that she is a “private person.” Shameful.
@realDonaldTrump@POTUS@NYCMayor
I love it when people of other races take lyrics that Black people should be singing and make it all about themselves.
Especially when it’s the same group that enslaved 10-17 million Black Africans over a thousand years, castrated the men by the tens of thousands (most died bleeding out), and erased their bloodlines so completely they barely exist today.
Video credit @zriboua
🚨PRINCE REZA PAHLAVI JUST WENT FULL NUCLEAR ON THE ENTIRE EU PRESS & PARLIAMENT! 🔥🧨
I want to speak DIRECTLY to the people of Europe. In the past two weeks I held TWO MAJOR press conferences — one in Stockholm, one in Berlin. Over 150 JOURNALISTS showed up. We spent MORE THAN TWO HOURS with them…
And guess what?
NOT ONE SINGLE of those 150 journalists asked about the 40,000 IRANIANS SLAUGHTERED on the streets of my country on January 8th and 9th!
NOT ONE asked about the 19 political prisoners EXECUTED in the last two weeks.
When I told them 20 more are currently sentenced to death — CRICKETS. Not a damn question.
I stood right next to a grieving mother and father who lost their sons in that massacre and begged them to listen to their stories…
NOT A SINGLE ONE of those 150 journalists asked them a thing.
Let that sink in.
My 40,000 BRAVE INNOCENT COMPATRIOTS who were butchered fighting for liberty? They don’t give a damn.
They are too busy criticizing America and Israel for taking out the dictator who’s been slaughtering our people for 47 YEARS — instead of going after the regime that’s actually doing the killing!
They’d rather dig up Iran’s history than talk about what’s happening RIGHT NOW or the free democratic Iran we’re fighting for.
One EU parliament member even had the nerve to say Iranians aren’t ready for democracy. To that coward and to every fake journalist in the room I say this:
Iranians aren’t just “ready” for democracy… 40,000 of them just DIED for it! And I will NOT let their blood be in vain.
SO HEAR ME LOUD AND CLEAR:
Whether Europe stands with us or not…
Whether your journalists do their damn jobs or not…
Whether your politicians grow a spine or not…
I WILL FIGHT FOR MY PEOPLE AND MY COUNTRY.
Even if we have to do this ALONE — we are fighting until IRAN IS FREE! 🇮🇷💪
#RezaPahlaviForIran
@PahlaviReza
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Muslims are carrying out a genocide against Christians in Nigeria.
Please don’t stop sharing this until everyone sees it.
The Muslim terrorists are displacing countless Christians; those who can’t flee will not survive.
The Islamic persecution of Christians across Africa and Asia must be stopped!
WOW. Kirk Moore, the Principal of Pauls Valley High School in Oklahoma, was injured after he TACKLED a would-be school shooter.
Moore suffered a gunshot wound to the leg but was able to subdue the shooter and prevent further casualties.
This man is a HERO.
Quite tired of the narrative that @PahlaviReza is not supported by all Iranians. Name ONE leader in the world history until today that has been supported by each and every single citizen?
Why this unreasonable other standard for Iranian people? Don’t we deserve to be democratic? Did you miss the part of us wanting to take down a dictatorship? Why do you expect us to be 100% united behind one leader now?
👉🏼Nevertheless: a majority of us yet are! Yes, despite your higher standards for us.