Dena Caretti

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

Have you met Nyambeni? If you tuned into Sesame Street’s special episode at our Nairobi Nursery, you’ll know her as Elmo’s adopted elephant. Here’s a little more about her:

She came to us in 2022, a tiny calf found stuck and abandoned in a ditch by a farmer. Our Keepers call her a ‘kali mama’ – fiery but nurturing – and she’s one of the naughtiest members of our Nursery herd. She does what she wants, when she wants, and makes her own rules.

These are some glimpses of her growing up. Now a sturdy four-year-old, she’s still every bit as determined.

Like Elmo, you can adopt Nyambeni and support her journey back to the wild: https://t.co/UpAixEqBYX

If you missed the episode on PBS, you can stream it here: https://t.co/KBAxGK2jhl

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

Such an amazing window through time: I've cleaned-up this stunningly contemporary-looking autochrome of the original Moulin Rouge - the famous Parisian cabaret venue which burned down in February 1915. This colour photo was taken by Stéphane Passet 112-years-ago, on Wednesday 24th June 1914 (4 weeks before WWI). It was taken using an early colour glass-plate process and isn't colourised.

[Gregory K Bovino @GregoryKBovino]

Folks, what I find interesting is that Katie Zacharia was an immigration patriot who openly supported mass deportations. She lasted five days.

The stated reason is a rough briefing and the bar exam issue. Fair enough. But Trump picked her himself while Susie Wiles preferred someone else. Then the problems surface and she is out almost immediately.

You do not need a conspiracy theory to notice the pattern. The person most aligned with the base on the core issue got removed by the gatekeeper. That is how these systems usually work.

This story has a paywall. Hit the grok button to get the synopsis of what happened in this story

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

https://t.co/UFGznSoSS4

The trouble with a generous article like this one is that it makes a long series of questionable career decisions look like a plan. I’m tempted to take the credit, but too many of you have been here long enough to know better.

Big thanks to Jessica Manfre and @WeAreTheMighty for making me sound considerably more organized than I am, and for drawing attention to the work we’re doing at mikeroweWORKS—including opportunities for veterans to learn a skilled trade. Sorry it took so long to share, but I've been busy, making it up as I go along.

If you’re unfamiliar with We Are The Mighty, they’re a veteran-led media company dedicated to informing, entertaining, and supporting service members, veterans, and their families. They tell the stories of that community and help the rest of us better understand the people who serve. It’s worthwhile work, even if their editorial judgment occasionally leads them to highlight a former opera singer who became marginally famous for crawling through sewers with no discernible mechanical ability.

As always, the people worth lionizing are the ones who actually know how to build the stuff we all rely upon, and I’ve been fortunate to meet a lot of them, and smart enough, occasionally, to get out of their way. That's the only plan I've ever had, and I'm sticking to it....

[Kris Luckenbach @KrisLuckPhoto]

My 4 favorite animals to photograph in the wild

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

Ravens sometimes just walk up and yank a sleeping wolf’s tail to get the pack moving once they’ve spotted a carcass. They can’t open up a frozen or tough kill on their own, so they need the wolves to do the heavy work, then both of them feed. The wolves mostly put up with the pestering.

[Kris Luckenbach @KrisLuckPhoto]

I truly hope to change your X experience.

[Brian Entin @BrianEntin]

The Sanda Birchmore case is beyond awful.
Trial ongoing now.
Massachusetts police officer accused of grooming, raping, and then murdering the pregnant girl.
And the alleged corruption and coverup is insane.
https://t.co/NGvS01AFFQ

[Carol Erskine @TheCarolErskine]

Remember this face. This is Sandra Birchmore in 2014, a young teenager in the Stoughton Police Explorers program. By then, under Massachusetts law, Matthew Farwell had already raped her in April 2013 when she was 15. His own text messages confirmed this fact.

This is the child Farwell’s defense attorney told jurors had an “affair” with him.

Grooming is about trust, manipulation, power and control. Sandra believed Farwell loved her. He exploited that belief to get what he wanted.

As the trial unfolds and we debate evidence, witnesses and rulings, remember this face.

It is not the face of a girl having an "affair." It is the face of a sexually exploited child. It's the face of thousands of children who are sexually exploited every day.

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

Is Wangalla nudging Keeper Misheck along because it’s nearly milk time, or just eager for a nuzzle? We’ll let you decide.

It’s fair to say she is obsessed with her Keepers. When they gather for tea in the evening, she pops into her stable, grabs a branch or two to munch on while they have their chai, and bimbles around the terraces from one Keeper to the next until bedtime. The adoration cuts both ways. Misheck, for one, refused to leave her side for a full five months after she was rescued.

Discover her story in full: https://t.co/loS0hJV6JZ

[explore.org @exploreorg]

Friendship.

[Kris Luckenbach @KrisLuckPhoto]

Um seriously what the fox today. Unbelievable encounter with 2 foxes this morning!

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

TERROR ANNIVERSARY: Most of the USS COLE dead were junior enlisted sailors in their late teens or early 20s. The families have waited for justice longer than their sons were alive.

26 years ago today, Al-Qaeda suicide bombers struck the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen; killing 17 sailors and injuring nearly 40 others.

We met USS Cole survivors, retired Master Chief Paul Abney and retired Petty Officer Kathie Lopez as part of our 2025 investigation at Guantanamo Bay.

Jury selection at Guantánamo Bay is scheduled to begin later this month. Never Forget.

[Jack Carr @JackCarrUSA]

At 11:18am on October 12, 2000, a small boat pulled alongside the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Cole in Aden Harbor, Yemen. After waving to the sailors on deck, the crew of the smaller boat detonated an explosive shaped charge estimated at 200-300 kg, killing themselves and seventeen U.S. sailors onboard the USS Cole. 

Costing close to two-billion dollars and designed in the 1980s to counter the Soviet threat, this symbol of U.S. military power and technological superiority was nearly sunk by a non-state actor for a relatively small investment of resources. The attack on the USS Cole was a victory for bin Laden and al-Qaeda, attracting funds and recruits to the cause. As with previous attacks on U.S. military assets and civilians abroad, the U.S. did not respond. Bin Laden had issued “fatwās” declaring war on America in 1996 and 1998 and had attacked the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. The United States failed to realize it was already at war. That realization would come on a sunny Tuesday morning less than a year later on September 11, 2001.

For more on the attack on the USS Cole, read FRONT BURNER by Commander Kirk S. Lippold, USN (Ret) @KirkLippold .

[The Floof Lady @TheFloofLady]

We've had some wonderful broody hens this year and this little Orpington was one father best.

Tiny the Orpington started the year by raising a clutch of 8 Orpington chicks before hatching and raising these 9 Brahma chicks.

Tiny is now in Norfolk with a wonderful family

[explore.org @exploreorg]

The polar bears are arriving on our live arctic cams 🐻‍❄️

Stay tuned for the buggy tour schedule.

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

Update from Bungalu’s quest to feed himself: We have liftoff!

Keeper Jonas helps him find the right position, waits until he’s drunk enough to lighten the load, then lets go – and Bungalu takes over like a pro! His trunk is still too short to wrap around the bottle, so he cleverly uses his two ‘fingers’ to grip the handle. He’s such a smart, determined little elephant. We’re proud of him – and he knows it!

Before his rescue, Bungalu spent weeks alone, trying to fend for himself. Still milk-dependent and terribly vulnerable, he somehow survived a lion attack and earth-shaking storms.

Now, he has the round-the-clock care, companionship and love he needs to grow up strong and, one day, return to the wild.

You can be part of his journey, too. Read Bungalu’s rescue story and adopt him: https://t.co/FeeHgVO9wM

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

I've cleaned up this wonderful Autochrome glass plate photo by Thomas Shields Clark, of a nun tending flowers 116 years ago, pictured at the photographer's summer house in Lenox, Massachusetts in 1910. It is one of a series of shots taken of the same nun which I've shared over the past year. I think the lighting is beautiful 😍
This is one of my old favourites, which I thought I'd reshare for the benefit of all my new followers. It was taken via an early colour glass-plate process and isn't colourised.

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

I couldn't disagree more with this post.

From what I've seen, Yorkshire Wildlife Park appears to have done an incredible job today in an almost impossible situation.

If someone chooses to climb into an enclosure with an apex predator, the consequences can be fatal within seconds.

It sounds like the team reacted quickly, with reports of shots being fired. If those were warning shots intended to move the tiger away rather than kill it, that was an extraordinary outcome in such difficult circumstances.

It's absolutely tragic that a man has reportedly lost his life today, but the tiger was simply behaving like a tiger.

An animal shouldn't have to pay with its life because a human decides to enter its enclosure.

I'm incredibly relieved the tiger appears to have survived.