Jackie 💙

Sick of corruption and injustice🤮 One of 3.8M #50sWomen robbed by Gvt. 💥WOMENS BILL OF RIGHTS 👊🏼#WBOR #CEDAWinLaw Opinions my own

[Nick Volpe @nvolpewild]

Are we really just going to watch Indonesia turn into nothing but concrete and palm oil?
Just absolutely devastating 😭

[Tiger @tiger26931]

The attack happened at Canoe Lake in Southsea, England. Witnesses reported seeing the children throw stones and sticks at the swan before kicking and stamping on her. The injured bird was later rescued and taken for treatment, but she was unable to survive her injuries. 🦢💔

[Dr Elaine Cox 🍃 💚 🍃🌽🥬🐦‍⬛🐌🇬🇧 @ElaineCox11]

Modern farming has decimated #earthworms According to the Earthworm Society, populations have plummeted by up to 41% over the last 25 years. Worms are now rare or absent in two out of five farm fields & 42% of fields have poor worm biodiversity. https://t.co/fA6RUBPPUd

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

This is really happening.
This is really coming.
We need unprecedented public attention,
media amplification,
political ambition
and action,
Now.

[Dr Elaine Cox 🍃 💚 🍃🌽🥬🐦‍⬛🐌🇬🇧 @ElaineCox11]

Petition: Pause housebuilding targets imposed on councils, review & identify local need. We ask government to pause housebuilding targets & consult local communities to identify where house building is actually needed, not where developers prefer to build.
https://t.co/dZx1Pn64Ym

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

"Andy Burnham in his Makerfield by-election "an overwhelming case for public ownership of Thames Water."

Please RT this until Burnham is asked to & provides a satisfactory explanation why there is no longer "an overwhelming case for public ownership of Thames Water."

Thank you.

[ifaw United Kingdom @IFAWUK]

Injured and stuffed into sacks, four young spider monkeys were rescued after being abandoned beside a railway in southern Mexico. With support from IFAW and partners, they have been given a second chance at life. Join our mission to wipe out wildlife crime. Donate now >>

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

Let's make this count

On Monday 14th September MPs are debating whether there should be a referendum on who owns England's water

This is a huge opportunity to keep the pressure on Andy Burnham to bring our water into public hands

Take 2mins to email your MP: https://t.co/oIGTi1VpKk

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Developers are pushing to build a 600-megawatt AI data center on the edge of the Everglades.

Its waste heat will undo $6 billion in wetland restoration. 🌱

PBA Holdings and TPA Group are pushing "Project Tango" on a 202-acre site in western Palm Beach County, sitting 16 miles west of Mar-a-Lago and just 1,200 feet from Saddle View Elementary School. The parcel sits directly across from a critical pump station that serves as the very first step in pushing fresh water to the southern Everglades.

At peak capacity, a 600-megawatt facility consumes as much electricity as 500,000 homes. During a 12-hour zoning hearing packed with residents protesting noise, energy bill spikes, and environmental destruction, county commissioners voted 5-1 to deny expanding the land footprint.

But the project is far from dead.

Developers are now bypassing the commission using old 2016 zoning approvals for a smaller baseline facility while actively appealing the county's decision under state dispute resolution laws to force the larger plan through via a special magistrate.

To placate the public, developers claim the facility will use closed-loop cooling systems to reduce water withdrawal. But closed-loop systems do not eliminate heat - they discharge massive industrial thermal pollution directly into surrounding air and canals.

When you warm local canals like the L-8 by just 1°C to 2°C (2°F to 4°F) - waterways already choked with agricultural phosphorus and nitrogen - it acts like fuel on a fire.

It triggers rapid blooms of toxic blue-green algae. These cyanobacteria produce microcystin, a severe toxin that poisons drinking water across South Florida, kills local wildlife, and destroys fragile aquatic habitat in the nearby Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.

With developer appeals underway and administrative approvals still active, local residents and conservation groups are demanding state leadership step in and issue a total moratorium on hyperscale data centers near fragile public wetlands.

If tech giants require this much energy for AI, should developers be allowed to use administrative loopholes and state appeals to bypass public land protection? What’s your take? Are you as fed up as I am? Sound off👇

🦋HumanityUnited #DemsUnited

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Google wants to build its next AI data center on top of wetlands.

Not near them.

On them.

This is Indiana, where they've already lost 85% of their wetlands.

Google's own developer admitted it in writing: avoiding the wetlands entirely "was not feasible."

Translation: it was possible. They just didn't want to redesign the buildings and spend the money to do it.

This phase alone destroys over 4 acres of protected wetland, filled in with dirt and concrete for 3 new buildings, plus a maze of wastewater pipes and electrical lines.

Combined with what Google already paved over in earlier phases, the total reaches 8.54 acres of wetland gone. Permanently.

And there are still more phases coming, in a campus planned to eventually hold 12 buildings total.

This isn't an accident. In July 2025, Trump signed an executive order specifically directing federal agencies to fast-track permits like this one under the Clean Water Act, for any AI data center project pulling more than 100 megawatts of power, which includes campuses exactly like this one.

It's the reason wetland permits that used to take years now move in months. And it's a major reason the United States now has more AI data centers than any other country on Earth; companies racing to break ground and lock in approvals while this administration keeps the door held open.

Fort Wayne officials publicly promised residents Google's data center wouldn't raise their utility rates. But statewide, Indiana utilities are already shifting hundreds of millions of dollars in AI data center infrastructure costs onto ordinary customers' bills, for other companies' projects, right now.

The company promises no impact. Then the infrastructure costs get passed on anyway.

It's the same pattern with the wetlands too: promises that the damage is minimal, manageable, offset. Meanwhile the actual land keeps disappearing.

What's left of Indiana's wetlands now covers less than 1% of the entire state.

This land once supported salamanders, spotted turtles, and great blue herons; species that depend on wetlands to survive at all.

They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot. Now they're coming for that last 1% too.

How much of our natural landscape, our clean water, our wildlife are we expected to bulldoze, just to keep feeding an AI boom that never seems to have enough?

🦋HumanityUnited #DemsUnited

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

This is what we're gambling with 1% of a state to keep.

A great blue heron doesn't know about permits or executive orders or fast-tracked approvals. It just needs the water to still be there.

Somewhere in what's left of Indiana's wetlands, one of these is standing right now, completely unaware that the ground under it might not survive the year.

We don't get this back once it's gone. Not in a year, not in a generation. Once the water's paved over, it's paved over for good.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

7,000 sharks. Caught, then thrown back, dead or dying. Not an accident. That's what happened the last time these waters were opened to commercial fishing.🦈

The ban that stopped it is gone.

Right now, fishery managers are working out exactly how to reopen three Pacific marine monuments to commercial fishing, including Papahānaumokuākea, the largest fully protected conservation area in the United States. The order that made this possible came from Trump.

"We're reclaiming our maritime heritage, empowering American fishermen and putting American consumers first," Trump said. "America's fishermen have never had a better ally in the White House than Donald Trump."

These waters aren't empty ocean. Palmyra Atoll, one of the monuments in this fight, has one of the highest densities of predators found anywhere on Earth, blacktip and grey reef sharks patrolling coral colonies the size of city buses, a food chain still fully intact. Tuna swim hundreds of miles just to feed here, because in these nutrient-poor waters, atolls act like "bustling cafés," according to Nature Conservancy scientist Alex Wegmann.

That's exactly what commercial fishing boats are chasing. And when they cast lines for tuna, sharks get caught too, not the target, but the cost. That intact food chain, sharks included, is what's actually on the hook.

Papahānaumokuākea isn't just protected water. Its very name honors two ancestral deities, Papahānaumoku, the earth mother, and Wākea, the sky father, whose union Native Hawaiians believe created the islands themselves. In Hawaiian tradition, this is where the boundary sits between the world of the living and Pō, a sacred darkness that is the source of all creation and where ancestral spirits return after death, becoming deified. Their creation chant, the Kumulipo, names the very first living thing ever born here: Koʻa, the coral polyp, born before starfish, before sea cucumbers, before anything else that lives.

Solomon Kaho'ohalahala, a Native Hawaiian conservationist, called commercial fishing here "an affront to Native Hawaiian practices and beliefs." Given what these waters mean, that's not a euphemism. It's a fight over sacred ground.

This isn't the first time this fight has happened. Trump tried to open these same waters in his first term. Conservation groups sued. They won. Biden restored the protections.

Then in February, Trump opened a different monument entirely, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts in the Atlantic, to commercial fishing. NOAA skipped public comment altogether, calling it "unnecessary." Conservation groups sued in May. That case still isn't resolved, and commercial fishing is happening there right now.

NOAA Administrator Neil Jacobs put his name on it directly: "This historic action will lead to more U.S.-caught fish on American tables," he said. This isn't Jacobs' first tour doing this. He held this exact same post during Trump's first term too, appointed by the same president, back for round two.

Now he's back, with a new proclamation, on more monuments, including the one Native Hawaiians call the place where all life begins, and where their ancestors return after death. Some things aren't supposed to be for sale.

🦋HumanityUnited #DensUnited

[Neil Oliver @thecoastguy]

It’s never about what they say ... etc.

[Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) @CABS_REPORTS]

Check this for high-speed conservation in action! 🚆🐦‍⬛

While riding a train south of Brescia Italy, a CABS officer spotted a suspected poacher tending a illegal net.

Quick coordination with local police led to a rapid raid, seizing 3 trapping nets + rescuing 3 wild robins!

[You can’t eat money 🇺🇦🌻🕷💙🌍🔥 @KateD7]

@RichardBurgon @_snowbunting How were they allowed to proliferate in the first place? The public weren’t asked and no one wants them.

[Pippa Heylings 🔶️ MP for South Cambridgeshire @pippaheylings]

You just couldn't make it up! Less than 1cm of rain was all it took for Anglian Water to dump sewage into our rivers again! This is a dereliction of duty.

Anglian Water and the government must act now, before heavier winter rains fill our rivers with sewage.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

One of the questions I was asked on @LBC the other night was what can 'normal' people do to help.

The answer, we need to turn the volume up to number 15, here's your chance, sign it, then get your family to sign it, your friends, your neighbours, the people in the next street over, turn the volume up to number 15.

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

90% of countries in the world run their water in public ownership

Even here in the UK, Scotland's water is in public ownership - and they pay less for their water, invest more in their infrastructure, and pay £0 in dividends

We are not asking for too much. We want what Scotland has.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

I've tabled a new cross-party parliamentary motion for a moratorium on new AI data centres.

AI data centres consume vast amounts of energy and water, put pressure on local infrastructure and make our climate targets harder to meet.

We cannot allow their unchecked expansion.