Lena 😷🍉🌍

Info hound, Gen X. Tweets: politics, COVID, music & arts, tech, climate, transportation. Free Palestine & end imperialism & oppression. she/her/they

[Cinemarxism @CinemarxismBret]

ICE has been absolutely relentless in Kansas City since the World Cup started, just as we expected, and not a single local media outlet has reported on it once.

They took everyone from an agua Fresca stand in Olathe this morning. Just a total dragnet. Fucking pigs.

[ARMY for Palestine @ARMY4Palestine]

Let’s share and support our friend Raji today where we can!!!

[راجيٰ |𓂆 𝗥𝗮𝗷𝗶 @_Raji__]

If you are already doomscrolling share this so someone can see the progress we are making and help.

[Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention @LemkinInstitute]

Words matter: "Ethnic cleansing" is a term first used by perpetrators to downplay genocidal acts, and it’s not recognized as a crime in international law. Using this language can obscure atrocities that often meet the threshold for genocide or crimes against humanity. Instead, let’s call these acts by their rightful names—forced displacement, murder, rape—and confront the gravity of these crimes. Take a step toward genocide prevention: Refrain from using the term "ethnic cleansing." 🧵

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign.

Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately.

Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s.

The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants.

Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept."

They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans.

If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.

[El Jones @ElJonesPoet]

Take a slave owner or residential school founder’s name off a street or remove a statue and there’ll be endless screaming about preserving history. But when Israel destroys Tyre - older than all European capitals - in Lebanon and destroys ancient monuments it’s silence.

[⦻ RAZOR ✃𓄧꒷꒦ #TENOÍ @outhcrowfreak]

So Mississippi just introduced a copycat law of the Tennessee trans ID law, but with the addition that any cop that sees ur ID doesnt match ur natal sex has to report you to FUCKING ICE

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

this is my friend Hussein, who has dedicated his life to rescuing animals in Lebanon. he lives humbly, giving everything he has to keep these animals safe.
zionist parasites are getting closer to the farm he rents for the animals, and danger is upon them. still, he refuses to leave them.
he's just one of many unsung heroes in Lebanon.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

There are 3 billion fewer birds in North America than there were in 1970.

This data is from a 2019 Science paper that combined 48 years of citizen-science bird counts with continent-wide weather radar tracking nighttime migration.

The losses are concentrated in the birds people see most often: grassland birds (down 53%, 700 million gone), forest birds (1 billion gone), and shorebirds (down 37%). Even common species (blackbirds, swallows, warblers) are vanishing.

Habitat loss is the biggest reason, but the rest of the list is short and largely fixable for the average person.

1. Pesticides killing the insects birds eat.

2. Outdoor cats kill an estimated 2.4 billion US birds annually.

3. Window collisions killing roughly a billion more. Lawn chemicals.

4. Light pollution disrupting migration.

What you can do, ranked by impact: keep cats indoors, treat your windows for bird strikes, plant native trees and shrubs, stop spraying pesticides, leave the leaves and seed heads through winter, and turn off outdoor lights at night during spring and fall migration.

No one person killed 3 billion birds, obviously, but your yard can be a part of the solution that rebuilds their numbers.

[راجيٰ |𓂆 𝗥𝗮𝗷𝗶 @_Raji__]

Even those of us in tents have to pay rent to landlords. I want to keep my tomato patch. Please help us here.
https://t.co/bAoBI8CUok

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

I interviewed Palestinian researcher Hala Hanina last year who introduced me to the term reprocide. Israel’s sexual torture is intended to destroy reproductive capacity and the ability for intimacy. Its deliberate nature makes it diabolical

[taylr @taylr]

sd55 have an empty chair at the table at the DFL convention in memory of khalid abdi, a 26 year old union member and community leader who was killed outside canterbury park this week after eid services. they are taking donations for his pregnant window

https://t.co/ngPhLSnfzB

[Wedge LIVE!™ @WedgeLIVE]

Mayor Frey unmentioned in a story about his police department being insanely expensive and non-responsive during a major public safety crisis.
https://t.co/xlY7glqNgg

[National Homelessness Law Center @homeless_law]

BREAKING: The Louisiana Senate passed a disturbing anti-homeless bill that pushes homeless people into jails, forced treatment, and unpaid labor. Hours earlier, the same lawmakers voted to give themselves $1,000 to cover housing expenses, recognizing housing is too expensive.

[Jessica Rojas 🇺🇸💪 @VoicesUnheard]

Virginia residents are breathing emissions from 10,000 diesel generators…and it’s worse inside the buildings.

I received word from a family member with insider knowledge yesterday that due to how hot the water they use to cool down their data centers gets, it actually begins to vaporize, releasing unimaginable concentrated amounts of toxic water treatment chemicals into the atmosphere.

And now The Washington Post has confirmed it: this infrastructure boom is a direct threat to human life. 👇

[Oliv⁷ 🍉🐋🏴‍☠️ #SpeakYourselfBTS @N_P_E_A]

No screening in the apartheid state thankfully but they will screen in the UAE, they haven't been screening there the last few times,
Pls call for stopping the screening in the UAE for its cr!mes in Sudan

BOYCOTT THE UAE!
DefundTheUAE!
#HybeBoycottTheUAE
#KeepEyesOnSudan

[Miriam FESTA⁷🎬 (⟭⟬ face🪞 ✨💜) @hobiriam]

bts movies no longer airing in isntreal is even MORE of a reason for them to join the no music for genocide campaign to geoblock their music from isntreal!! Pls sign and share!!! https://t.co/N3OirJhAqM #SpeakYourselfBTS #HYBEDivestFromZionism

[Oliv⁷ 🍉🐋🏴‍☠️ #SpeakYourselfBTS @N_P_E_A]

This is the 9th screening that doesn't happen in the apartheid state, rmmbr when ppl used to say it is not in the company's control and that this won't change, we can do this for Sudan, pls speak up about this
BOYCOTT THE UAE!
DefundTheUAE!
#HybeBoycottTheUAE
#KeepEyesOnSudan

[zellie @zellieimani]

Everyone needs to see what’s happening outside the ICE detention center Delaney Hall once media leaves at night.

Assaulting non violent protestors. Imagine what they do to detainees.