Carl Heilman II

Landscape photography, Photo Workshops & Tours, Photoshop classes, commission work, fine art prints, coffee table & how-to books, calendars, jigsaw puzzles

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

I genuinely don’t think people understand how insane this is.

In just 50 years, we’ve wiped out around 70% of animal populations on Earth.

Not hundreds of years ago.
Not ancient history.

In one lifetime.

Entire species disappearing.
Forests going silent.
Oceans being emptied.

And somehow the world treats it like just another statistic instead of a full-blown emergency.

That should scare all of us a lot more than it does.

[Carl Heilman II @NaturePhotoTips]

First light on the clouds and landscape was quite special this morning here at Brant Lake!

[Hussain “Hoz” Shafiei @HussainShafiei]

Follow and Share.

If you are a follower of mine you need to follow Courtney doing the work of God in Lebanon in between the bombs and every where else that is being attacked.

Thank you for all you work Courtney.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel just dropped bombs on the Qaraoun Dam in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley — a key water reservoir serving civilian populations across surrounding villages.

This is not a battlefield target.

It is a critical water infrastructure.

This is an act of genocide.

[Carl Heilman II @NaturePhotoTips]

4 photos as the sunrise light changed on Saturday morning at the Boreas Ponds. 4:51 AM, 5:11 AM, 5:17 AM, and 6:13 AM

[𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

"Israel beat, tortured, and sexually assaulted me and my fellow humanitarian peace activists for days."

Statement by Australian activist Violet Coco after her release from an Israeli prison.

Listen to every word carefully.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Honestly- where the fuck are the people that can stop this atrocity??

[Nadiia Omelchuk 🇺🇦 @Ukrainian_Art_]

Algorithms are now actively downplaying the reach of Ukrainian accounts after massive russian attacks, trying to hide the truth. Don’t let them silence our voices.

Leave a comment, subscribe 💙💛 or repost so the world can see: we stand, we are alive, we create beauty even in the darkest of times!

#StandWithUkraine

[Grant Stoll @grantonsoil]

How is it even possible that they’re about to spray glyphosate across Lake Tahoe’s national forests and it’s not front page news

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Over a million acres of pristine wilderness lakes in Minnesota.

The most visited canoe country in America.

Generations of families have paddled it, fished it, camped it.

The Senate just sold it out outright.

They called it "America First."

Then handed it to a Chilean billionaire — so his company can ship the copper to China.

The Senate voted 50-49 to gut 20 years of Boundary Waters mining protections.

Here's the deal they made.

A Chilean billionaire's company digs the mine.

America can't smelt the copper — we don't have the capacity.

So the ore ships to China.

China processes it.

Sells it on the world market.

Chile keeps the profits.

Minnesotans don't even get the jobs.

Minnesota keeps the pollution.

And Americans get to buy it back from China at full market price.

This same company has a documented history at their Chilean mines: pipeline spills, regulatory fines, and locals fighting back for years.

They paid a former Trump Interior Secretary $380K.

The protection died by one vote.

Here's exactly how it happened — and who made it happen.

Who do YOU think this mine actually serves?

#DemsUnited

[J @Jen22Colorado]

Retweet !

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

This is outrageous.

A small town in Michigan did everything right to stop OpenAI & Oracle from building a $16 billion data center in their town.

The people of Saline Township flooded their council meeting, put up signs all over town, and convinced their officials to reject it.

The officials voted against the data center 4-1, and that should have been the end. But two days later the developers sued, and the town couldn’t afford to fight back in court.

We are not a free nation when billion-dollar corporations can take over the land of our communities and towns. We are a captive nation ruled by corporations and billionaires.

[Carl Heilman II @NaturePhotoTips]

The early bird gets the sunrise? 5:08 AM this morning at the Boreas Ponds in the Adirondacks.

[Prof. John McLaughlin @Harvard1988]

🚨🚨The Trump Crime Family is more corrupt than the totality of All Previous Organized Crime Families Combined in the history of the United States.
———————————————
I spent thirty (30 years investigating Major Organized Crime Families & Gangs and without a doubt, Donald Trump has committed more crimes against the United States of America and its citizens than all Organized Crime Syndicates.
TRUMP is directly responsible for the theft of billions of dollars and the systematic destruction of our economy, the rule of law and our democracy.
TRUMP must be Impeached and Removed from office by the U.S. Congress this year. Both Democrats & Republicans must join together to save our nation.

[Carl Heilman II @NaturePhotoTips]

We had a spectacular sunset here at Brant Lake a couple of evenings ago on 5/20/26.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

WHO’S WITH ME?? 💙🌎

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

The $1.7B border wall contract through Big Bend equals more than half of the operating budget of the entire National Park System—the same budget the admin tried to slash by $900 million this year.

This administration is systematically gutting the National Park Service while handing more than 1/2 of the entire NPS operating budget to a billionaire contractor to build a completely pointless wall that will destroy this crown-jewel of the national park system.

H/T @sammiecarrots for flagging this jaw-dropper in @bigbendsentinel.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Despite his promises to protect Social Security, Trump is cutting it.

DOGE slashed 7,000 agency staff – and local offices nationwide are shuttering. 70 million Americans are navigating a crisis to get the payments they need.

“It’s almost like you’re being punished.”

[Romina @allefuerallee]

🆘 DON’T LOOK AWAY 🆘

The Islamic regime is going to hang Diana Taherabadi because she participated in the January protests.

She’s only 16.
This is pure barbarism.
Share this before they kill her.

#IranMassacre
#StopExecutionsInIran

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it.

Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago.

IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued.

The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk.

The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit.

Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.” 

Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million.

The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out.

This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president.

Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?

https://t.co/La0nlLuz1r