By supporting Ukraine, we deter aggression everywhere, combat authoritarianism and reaffirm that the United States does not abandon those who fight for freedom.
While some have been unwilling to stand up to Vladimir Putin, the Congress must.
Tonight, House Democrats did.
It feels like Earth was designed perfectly for us, rain falling from the sky, food growing from the ground, yet somehow we’ve built a world where people need good credit scores, multiple jobs, and 40-hour workweeks just to survive
Note: it is 350 million dollar ocean monitoring system being dismantled, but they 250 million for Radio Free Europe, a thing from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s?
I just voted against the Ukraine Support Act tonight. It sends over $9 billion of your dollars overseas, and includes $250 million for Radio Free Europe, a Cold War relic that benefits no American.
https://t.co/BVmVFajN9I
How about "end all sharing of weapons" period? No good comes from us sharing weapons. We jave far too many ourselves and need to get rid of a lot of it.
The demands have not changed.
✅️Abolish ICE and ban CBP from enforcement outside of the border
✅️Abolish private prisons
✅️End transfer and sharing of all weapons and technology with Israel and sanction their government
✅️Full moratorium on AI Data Centers and a governing board led by workers, not oligarchs, who decide if, when and how the technology may be implimented
✅️Cash reparations for American descendants of slavery
✅️Cut the military budget by at least 50%
✅️Federal minimum wage of at least $30 per hour
✅️Federal housing guarantee
✅️Medicare for All including abortion on demand and gender affirming care
✅️Demilitarization of police and closing of all Cop Cities
✅️A complete end to new fossil fuel exploration, extraction permits and infrastructure
✅️Full rights for queer people including trans youth
✅️Racial and criminal justice reform including an end to all mandatory minimum sentences
Run a candidate who fully and legitimately pushes for these things and I will support them. Run a candidate opposed to these things and I will work to defeat them.
CORRECTION: Israel plans major settlement push across occupied West Bank https://t.co/1MGC3gNXdo
We will delete a post that referenced Israel’s latest settlement push as being seen by many as illegal; Israel’s settlements in the occupied West Bank are deemed illegal under international law
One man in California has spent 57 years recording the sounds of natural places. Much of what he's recorded no longer exists.
His name is Bernie Krause. He started as a folk musician and an early pioneer of the Moog synthesizer. In 1968, he began carrying recording equipment into rainforests, deserts, coral reefs, African savannas, and research sites associated with scientists like Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey.
The Wild Sanctuary archive now contains more than 5,000 hours of recordings and over 15,000 identified species. Krause coined the term "biophony" to describe the collective sound of living organisms in a habitat and helped establish the field of soundscape ecology.
Through thousands of recordings, he observed that healthy ecosystems often partition acoustic space, with different species occupying different frequencies and times of day. On a spectrogram, an intact habitat can resemble a densely layered musical score.
When Krause revisited many of the places he had recorded decades earlier, he found that over half had become silent, severely degraded, or so altered by human activity that their original biophonies could no longer be heard. His archive preserves sounds from ecosystems that have been transformed or lost.
Man's Best Friend? I'd say it's the tree he lives in, but remember: every seed he buries and forgets - he's quite forgetful - can become another tree.
Squirrels create forests. Treat them with great respect.
I'm afraid that this is why the US administration wants to shut down ocean observations: they don't want the people to know what is happening in our oceans, as it does not fit their ideology and the interests of their fossil fuel industry funders.
https://t.co/G1E5zXdyid
House Armed Services Committee REJECTS Ro Khanna’s Amendment to REMOVE Section 224 from the NDAA
I’m sharing the whole clip so you all can see for yourselves that these Israel Lobby bought lawmakers DID NOT LISTEN TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
WE DO NOT WANT TIES WITH ISRAEL.
Our remaining forests, mangroves, soils, and oceans are irreplaceable in battling climate change. They're not just beautiful - they're our planet's life support system. Protect them like your life depends on it (because it does)! #ClimateAction
Starting this month, more than 900 deep-sea ocean sensors will be pulled out of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans off the coast of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, North Carolina and Greenland. https://t.co/jmm86WQNcY
Rep. Adam Smith (D-Washington), top ranking Democrat on the committee, says that of course he does not like Netanyahu (like all good Democrats say now) but that "we benefit from that technology partnership..Israel's been actually having to fight."
This is known as the "Palestine Laboratory." Israeli weapons are tested in real time on the bodies of Palestinians, which the Israeli weapons industry uses in its marketing. Smith is arguing that we should benefit from that human experimentation too.