My dear friend Will Ryan succumbed to pancreatic cancer yesterday. He wasn't on twitter but he did among other things work so that we might all have access to quality medical care in the form of #Medicare4All https://t.co/KDtc7Md2xK
Good luck Hunter - I look forward to learning that you've decided to reconnect with your young daughter Navy. I hope you care about her enough to let her know that she is worthy of her father's love.
@OJoelsen If 🇺🇸 comes back & reopens their Arctic bases again, they can clean up THEIR toxic sh*t.
🇺🇸 abandoned their bases in 🇬🇱 & left large amounts of (RADIOACTIVE!) trash behind.
🇩🇰 is paying for the cleanup, as THEY care about 🇬🇱.
🇩🇰 should ask 🇺🇸 for reimbursement of the costs.
On Thursday, Malene Vahl Rasmussen, mayor of Kujalleq — Greenland’s southernmost municipality with 6,000 inhabitants — delivered a letter of protest to U.S. Ambassador Kenneth A. Howery.
She says that the municipality’s citizens are still affected by the aggressive American statements regarding Greenland.
Malene Vahl Rasmussen explains that she had not previously had the opportunity to deliver the protest letter — but now she has.
“I represent the citizens of the municipality, but I also represent my country, and I will do everything I can to protect it.”
Q: Do you still feel that your country is in danger?
“Yes,” replies a visibly emotional and crying Malene Vahl Rasmussen.
“It’s damn unacceptable. That is not how you treat your allies,” she says about the American government’s way of acting.
—TV2
It's insane that the USFS is spraying glyphosate on the forests around Lake Tahoe. Sometimes they even put signs on trees warning of pesticide use and not to forage and consume wild food (& medicine) from the area. Because they know it's poison.
I'm a big fan of wildcrafting & foraging but we have to use extra discernment now that we know they are spraying poison in the wild places.
A bio-regional network is coming together to stop the spraying of toxic herbicides in the Tahoe area forests and we need your help.
Keep the phones ringing off the hook. We will have more calls to action in the next few days but if you haven't already, please call these key offices and tell them why you don't want glyphosate sprayed. Leave a message if they don’t pick up.
TRPA - Tahoe Regional Planning Association
(775) 588-4547
Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit
530-543-2600
Tahoe National Forest
530-265-4531 (Option 0)
Plumas National Forest
530-283-2050
Lassen National Forest
530-257-2151
Eldorado National Forest
(530) 622-5061
A sample script:
I am calling because I do not want glyphosate or any herbicide used in the forest. There are other ways to manage forest regrowth and fire prevention that do not involve carcinogenic chemicals that will contaminate the entire area and kill ecosystems. This plan to spray is unacceptable.
Finally, please go and tag these accounts on X:
@LakeTahoeUSFS@EldoradoNF@Tahoe_NF@LassenNF@USFSPlumas
@forestsevice
@USDA@SecRollins@TahoeAgency
Instagram:
@trpa_tahoe
@SecRollins@usda
#SandyFire Air Quality Update: Due to the Sandy Fire’s proximity to the Santa Susana Field Laboratory area, air quality monitoring is being conducted around the fire perimeter. Monitoring equipment has been proactively deployed to establish background air quality readings and to help assess conditions should the fire advance further into the area. At this time, the fire has not crossed into the Field Laboratory property.
Air monitoring information helps incident personnel and public health officials evaluate smoke and air conditions and provide timely updates to the community.
Residents can monitor current smoke and air quality conditions using the AirNow Fire and Smoke Map: https://t.co/isrU19nOby
@CountyofLA@LAFD@LAFDtalk@CountyVentura@SimiValleyPD@City_SimiValley@Venturaoes@VENTURASHERIFF
President Trump’s special envoy to Greenland, Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana, came to the island this week on a self-proclaimed good will mission to “make a bunch of friends.”
So far, he has not found many.
Within hours of landing on Sunday in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, Mr. Landry was touring the town in a cold drizzle when one Greenlander gave his entourage the finger.
After he offered some MAGA hats to Greenlandic children, several shook their heads.
—NYT
https://t.co/sa0JgIMetX
When Donald Trump’s special envoy to Greenland, Jeff Landry, arrived in Nuuk on Sunday, he was accompanied by physician Joseph Griffin, who told Danish broadcaster TV2 News that he had traveled to gain insight into Greenland’s healthcare system.
However, Greenland’s Department of Health told Sermitsiaq that it had not been contacted regarding any planned meetings.
“The Department of Health and Persons with Disabilities is not aware of any plans for a meeting,” the department stated.
Greenlandic health minister: “Deeply problematic”
According to Griffin, he is in Nuuk as a volunteer and has no affiliation with the U.S. government.
On Sunday, Greenlandic Health Minister Anna Wangenheim wrote on LinkedIn that she viewed the Americans’ approach as deeply problematic:
“It is deeply problematic when individuals with a political mission to make Greenland part of the United States send a so-called ‘volunteer doctor’ to Nuuk to ‘assess our needs.’”
“Greenlanders are not test subjects in a geopolitical project,” the minister wrote.
— Sermitsiaq
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Hi @tarapalmeri & @Acosta, I caught a bit of your substack conversation re Michael Tracey - and I was reminded of the time Tracey tweeted that Maxine Waters shoved him. I saw the video. I believe my eyes - not Tracey.
BREAKING: U.S. Military veterans are occupying the Cannon building in the nation’s Capitol to protest the US’s war on Iran and Israel’s genocide on Gaza.
AIPAC is cheering on Trump and Netanyahu's disastrous war.
We do not share the same interests as this dark money organization, and every Democrat should say no to their money.
Including Eric Swalwell.