Relish

[Amalorpavanathan Joseph @AmalJos95950131]

Planting trees is certainly good. But it doesn't create a forest. Existing forests should be aggressively protected. There is NO substitute for a natural forest.

[Friends of the BWCAW @FriendsBWCAW]

This is what we’re fighting for!

Because of you, calls are coming in strong and your voices are being heard in the Senate. It’s making a difference.

Keep going!!! Call 202-224-3121 and tell your Senators to vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140.

[Nick Offerman @Nick_Offerman]

•The U.S. Senate may hold a floor vote TODAY which would overturn a 20-year moratorium on sulfide-ore copper mining on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest land in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) Wilderness in northern Minnesota. The Boundary Waters is the most visited Wilderness in the United States. 

🛶 Enjoying the Minnesotan/Canadian wilderness by canoe or other lesser watercraft is one of our nations greatest available pastimes, and one I have personally enjoyed my entire life. We must protect these public lands from the rapacious capitalists threatening to turn them into a poisoned wasteland.

•This vote in Congress would open the door to copper mining at the headwaters of this entire ecosystem. This kind of mining produces toxic pollution, including acid runoff and heavy metals, that can contaminate nearby waters.

•The Boundary Waters supports a major outdoor economy that sustains thousands of jobs and generates over a billion dollars a year - built on clean water and intact public lands. But this vote would clear the way for toxic mining that puts all of that at risk. It would also set a dangerous precedent, making it easier to roll back protections for public lands across the country, including wilderness areas, national monuments, and national parks. 

•This is a defining moment. If you care about clean water, public lands, and protecting places we can’t replace, now is the time to speak up.
•Protect the Boundary Waters, and vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140. Let’s save this treasured place for all of us—forever. https://t.co/JhNAR6Za2O

[angel @raimcandies]

please please please never stop talking about lebanon, this is genuinely horrific. bombing civilians was already bad enough but using extremely toxic chemicals with long lasting damage is an EXTREME low. wake up you people.. in no world should this ever be acceptable

[Basel Musharbash @musharbash_b]

Today’s fresh hell: The same private equity termite that has rolled up much of the fire truck manufacturing industry has also rolled up the vast majority of the ambulance manufacturing industry — and it has spent the last several years cashing in: tripling the price of new ambulances, delaying deliveries for years on end, and fueling a preparedness crisis at EMS departments around the country.

[Dr Ruby (she/her) jaboukies everything @PaperWhispers]

Speaking about that Venn diagram. If trans people can be tracked, ALL people can be tracked. Rights get eroded by chipping away at marginalised groups to set precedent. Soon enough it will be your turn in the seat.

[Ben Inskeep @Ben_Inskeep]

If you live in the green-shaded areas, your rates are going to go up to pay for 2 dilapidated coal plants in Indiana that the Trump administration has unlawfully commandeered, citing data center energy needs.

FERC approved shifting the data center-driven costs onto ratepayers.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Last hope to save Apache sacred land fizzles out at Supreme Court
Trump has transferred the land to a private mining company that will obliterate this ancient land
A massive copper mining project to turn a sacred religious site into a 2-mile-wide crater

https://t.co/2S1hhgpeHb

[Fu Cookies20 @FCookies20]

The first victims of war are always disabled people. Thousands of Cuban dialysis patients are going to die because hemodialysis needs electricity.

This, too is a genocide

[j.a.h.n.a.v.i._.i.y.e.r @JahnaviIyer]

We arent just witnessing a decline; we are witnessing an unravelling of the systems that make our air breathable and our soil alive. New data from the Living Planet Index confirms a terrifying reality: global wildlife populations have plummeted by 73% in just 50 years (1970–2020).

The burden of this extraction is not shared equally. The Global South is being hollowed out to fuel endless growth:

Latin America & Caribbean: -95%
Africa: -76%
Asia-Pacific: -60%
North America: -39%
Europe & Central Asia: -35%

This isnt an accident. It is a calculated result of:
1. Industrial Food Systems: Forests cleared for meat and soy.
2. Fossil Fuels: Driving a climate collapse that bleaches reefs and melts habitats.
3. Endless Extraction: Rivers choked by dams and chemicals for profit.

Every extinct species is a warning sign. Every forest cut is a wound. We, specifically our economic systems and the wealthy elite, are acting as the asteroid.

The window to change is closing fast. We must move beyond. We must BOYCOTT FOSSIL FUELS.

#ClimateAction #WildlifeCollapse #BiodiversityLoss #FossilFuelTreaty #ActNow #SixthMassExtinction

@WWF @IPBES @ZSLconservation
@IUCN
@UNBiodiversity
@moefcc
@WCTIndia
@wti_org_india

https://t.co/GiXp3MAoKB

[Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard]

Hidden on page 744 of the farm bill the House Agriculture Committee passed Thursday is a provision that would condemn millions of pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates.

Rebranded the 'Save Our Bacon Act,' it's a pork-industry play to wipe out every state law banning the sale of pork from crated pigs — laws the conservative Supreme Court upheld in 2023.

Over 85% of Democrats and Republicans oppose these crates. Voters have backed ballot measures to ban them in state after state.

The pork industry knows it can't win a straight vote on this. So it's burying the provision in an 800-page bill and hoping no one notices.

Contact your senators and representative today and tell them: oppose the farm bill unless the Save Our Bacon Act is stripped out. You can reach them at https://t.co/MQvByA4atR and https://t.co/v6ghw99u1K — it takes two minutes and it matters.

[Mike Prysner @MikePrysner]

X has just suspended @CCW4COs for informing service members of their legal rights.

[alpha @omarsbigsister]

LIST OF ALL HOUSE COMMITTEE MEMBERS VOTING ON KOSA TOMORROW!

Type in 202-225 first, these are the last 4 of every rep's phone #

REPUBLICANS:
Bilirakis 5755
Fulcher 6611
Dunn 5235
Palmer 4921
Obernolte 5861
Evans 5625
Neal 5235
Cammack 5744
Lee 5626
Carter 5831
Allen 2823
1/x

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Texas has thrown thousands of voters, many who are women and democrat, off the voter rolls and then when they go to re-register they place a waiting period on these voters, meaning that they couldn’t even vote in the midterms. @AshleyDCan

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

In Dallas County,Texas today black and brown people like this woman showed up at their polling place and was told that it was only for Republicans now and they had to go to a different polling place to vote for Democrats! This is Voter Suppression & it happened all over Texas.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: Meta sold 7 million Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025 alone.

Workers in Kenya are watching the footage.

Not metadata. Not anonymized clips. The actual videos. People undressing. People in bathrooms. People having sex. Bank cards. Medical documents.

The blurring is supposed to protect privacy. It fails constantly. The contractors see everything.

Here is the part that should stop you cold: You did not buy the glasses. You did not agree to the terms of service. You did not consent to anything. But if someone wearing Meta glasses walks into your bedroom, your bathroom, your doctor's office, your home, a contractor on the other side of the world may be watching you right now.

The person wearing the glasses consented. Everyone else in the room did not.

Meta's defense is that this is all disclosed in the privacy policy. They are technically correct. Buried in language so dense that 99% of users never read it. And even if they did, it would not matter, because the terms govern the wearer's data. Not yours. You are not a party to the contract. You are the product being annotated.

Millions of AI-enabled cameras walking around in public. Recording constantly. Uploading to servers. Reviewed by humans earning a few dollars an hour to label your most intimate moments so the algorithm gets smarter.

This is not a bug. This is the business model.

The EU is already asking questions. MEPs submitted formal inquiries to the Commission this week demanding answers on GDPR compliance. The problem is obvious: European data protection law requires consent from data subjects. Bystanders are data subjects. Bystanders never consented. The entire architecture violates the regulation by design.

Meta's response has been silence and a reference to terms of service that do not apply to the people actually being filmed.

Google Glass died because people called the wearers "Glassholes" and banned them from bars. Meta solved the social problem by making the glasses look normal. They did not solve the privacy problem. They hid it.

Seven million units sold in 2025. The installed base is accelerating. Every unit is a potential surveillance node operated by someone who may not understand what they are feeding into the system and reviewed by contractors who see everything the algorithm cannot process.

The question is not whether this becomes a scandal. The question is whether the scandal arrives before or after the glasses are on 50 million faces.

Watch the EU. If Brussels moves on GDPR enforcement, Meta faces a choice: disable human review in Europe and cripple the AI training pipeline, or accept fines that could reach billions. Neither outcome is priced into the stock.

The glasses are selling faster than ever.

The contractors keep watching.

And somewhere right now, someone you have never met is looking at footage of you that you never knew existed.

[Nick Cleveland-Stout @nick_clevelands]

Amidst the attack on Iran, Israel's influence campaign is quietly ramping up. 🧵

California firm Show Faith by Works is launching a Christian Bible study program taught by IDF soldiers and West Bank settlers as part of a $3 million contract with Israel.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The EPA has drafted new rules to increase the level of "forever chemicals" that can be legally present in public drinking water.

[Clover 😷🌈🍉 @ForNarwhals]

With the federal government punishing Minnesota by eliminating SNAP, now more than ever it's important to support food banks and mutual aid here in Minnesota: https://t.co/hypMOoOtMt there's a section to get info, donate, or volunteer to help provide those in need with food

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

They won't start by banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then they'll dictate who prescribes it, funds it, and uses it, for how long and in what forms. Then one day, your doctor won't call you back. It's exactly what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now