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GenX; I care about the 6th Mass Extinction. Fight fascism everywhere. Support indigenous and BIPOC. Long COVID since 2/14/2020.

[Voters For Animal Rights @theanimalvoters]

🐘 BREAKING: The Bronx Zoo is officially considering moving Patty — its last remaining elephant — to a 3,000-acre sanctuary in Tennessee.

Patty has lived in captivity at the Bronx Zoo for over 50 years. After the death of Happy the elephant this past May, zoo officials say they're weighing whether it's time to finally let Patty go.

We're not waiting to find out. Last month, Voters For Animal Rights joined the Nonhuman Rights Project in sending a letter directly to the Wildlife Conservation Society urging them to release Patty to an accredited sanctuary — where she could have space to roam and other elephants to bond with, instead of living out her final years alone in a Bronx enclosure.

Zoo officials say they haven't made a decision yet. That means the pressure campaign isn't over — it's working.

📝 Sign the petition and add your voice to the growing call to send Patty to sanctuary: https://t.co/XGXBH2TOlx

[Parger @pargerais]

was discussing american abolitionism with friends and found out about this guy Ben Lay, who kidnapped white kids to make their parents see how black families felt about being separated

[Ralph Bakshi @ralphbakshi]

Wizards is now available to rent for free on Amazon (included with Prime):

https://t.co/o67Mxe0fx1

[CSPAN @cspan]

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses AI and the future of America: "The fact that we have convinced ourselves that our future and our children's future isn't in our own hands is an abomination."

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 BREAKING: Funding for Planned Parenthood has officially been restored, as Republican ban expires.

[ADI @AnimalDefenders]

Eleven years ago today, on July 2, Cecil the lion was killed by a trophy hunter in Zimbabwe. Yesterday, ADI joined campaigners in Parliament to renew calls for a UK trophy import ban. Please urge your MP to support an immediate ban on trophy imports https://t.co/fMsQ0voVLL

[Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them) @xriskology]

I think this is REALLY important to understand. For example, ocean acidification is happening about 2.5 times FASTER right now than it did during the Great Dying (end-Permian)—the worst extinction event in Earth’s history.

[Jen Rice @jen_rice_]

I doubt many people are going to read the 55-page report "From Vanity to Insanity: How the White House Cheated the American People Out of Their 250th Birthday" put together by Democratic staff of the House Natural Resources Committee so here's how it ends

[Emily Mills @sf_mills]

Some of the names affiliated with the purchase of this prison from Core Civic are Mary Flynn O'Neill, Lara Logan, Leigh Dundas, Gregg Phillips, Craig “Sawman” Sawyer, and Jim Caviezal. Media should ABSOLUTELY be inquiring ⬇️

[Oxygen @Oxygen_Token]

Iceland has now killed at least 11 fin whales this summer, the second-largest animal on Earth, for meat almost no one eats.

After two years without a hunt, commercial whaling resumed in June. The season’s quota is up to 150 fin whales, a vulnerable species that has still not recovered from a century of commercial whaling.

One of the whales killed was a pregnant mother, along with her unborn calf.

The deaths are rarely quick. Iceland’s Food and Veterinary Authority (MAST) documented one whale taking 31 minutes to die after being struck by four exploding harpoons. Previous investigations have also found whales taking up to two hours to die.

And it’s for almost nothing. Icelanders rarely eat fin whale. Most of the meat is exported to Japan, where much of it remains frozen and unsold. Whale watching generates far more value for Iceland’s economy than whaling ever has.

The Icelandic government has pledged to introduce legislation to end commercial whaling, but this season’s hunt is still going ahead.

[Source: Whale and Dolphin Conservation / Oceanographic (June 30, 2026).]

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

I wrote about the Court's latest disgusting anti-trans ruling.
I'm putting the post on this hellsite, because it's important that the trans community knows they are seen. However, I would encourage that community to NOT read the comments that are sure to follow. This bigots are winning and the more they win, the uglier they get.

https://t.co/VAv8i8XfNE

[Colorado 411 @Colorado411_420]

They need help to save the animals from the aspen acres fire happening in Pueblo Colorado. If anyone has stock and horse trailers please go help them save the animals. Head to Highway 96 and than turn left on siloam street and look for people giving directions

#help #fire #animals #colorado

[The Marine Mammal Center @TMMC]

Seal-ebrating the #FourthOfJuly outdoors? 🏖 Keep a safe distance of at least 150 feet from #wildlife. If an animal is reacting to you, you're too close ☎️ Call our hotline at 415-289-SEAL (7325) to report a #MarineMammal in distress. RT to spread the word!

📹 Brian Simuro

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

🌿📚 More than 64 million pages of biodiversity knowledge are freely available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library, a global digital archive built by hundreds of museums, libraries, and research institutions.

Now its future faces financial uncertainty after the loss of key support. The Internet Archive is proud to be one of BHL’s longtime preservation and digitization partners, helping ensure this extraordinary record of life on Earth remains accessible. 🌎🦋

Learn more 👇
https://t.co/6fVem6B86U

@BioDivLibrary

[ADI @AnimalDefenders]

GREAT NEWS: ILLINOIS GOVERNOR JB PRITZKER HAS SIGNED HB 4255 INTO LAW, officially banning the use of cougars, jaguars, leopards, lions, tigers, nonhuman primates, & bears in traveling acts statewide! Illinois is now the eighth US state with such a ban, which takes effect July 1.

[SFGATE @SFGate]

High levels of neurotoxin detected in Monterey Bay fish https://t.co/fzNIbTAefK

[Oxygen @Oxygen_Token]

Only about 370 North Atlantic right whales remain on Earth.

They are critically endangered, facing constant threats from vessel strikes, fishing gear entanglements, and an ongoing Unusual Mortality Event.

One of them is a 5-year-old male spotted entangled this month. The rope runs through his jaw and trails behind his tail. Rescuers reached him twice, but couldn’t remove it.

Only around 70 breeding females remain.

Entanglement is the number one killer of North Atlantic right whales. Many drag fishing gear for months, too exhausted to feed, too tangled to escape, until it kills them.

A slow death by a thousand ropes. One whale at a time. Of a species that can’t spare a single one.

We’re losing them faster than they can be born.

[Source: NOAA Fisheries, North Atlantic Right Whale Health Updates (#5192), updated June 16, 2026.]

[Adrian Ramsay MP @AdrianRamsay]

I visited Camp Beagle in Huntingdon, where beagles are bred and kept in tiny cages.

They have no access to outdoor space and are subjected to cruel experiments.

These outdated practices must end and be replaced by modern, reliable methods.

[🐶 NELSON @PupperNelson]

Hi. Nelsonmom here! I popped into the @PetSmart in Victoria, TX (store #1449) on a whim and found this: water so putrid you can’t even see the bettas through the cloud of their own waste. One was floating at the top of their cup, on the edge of death.

Do you know how many DAYS of neglect it takes for water to get like this? In cups this small, water changes should happen once a day, at a minimum.

Every time a fish breathes out, they produce ammonia into this closed system. When they breathe it back in, it burns their gills. It *hurts*. It causes psychological stress and organ damage.

Every. Single. Breath.

Treating fish like this at the start of their journey sets them up for shorter lives, weaker immune systems, and greater susceptibility to illness, even if they’re lucky enough to get a perfect owner and setup (and many of them will not get the perfect owner and setup).

I asked an employee in the fish department when they’re going to chance the bettas’ water — that they’re “rotting in their own waste” — and I received the most disinterested, uncaring “soon” of all time.

Meanwhile there was a cart of freshly-unboxed bettas in their medicated, Methylene blue water nearby. The latest recruits in a chain of corporate cruelty that sees living animals as disposable products.

Betta fish are the most delightful, wonderful creatures with unique personalities. It sickens me to my CORE to see a dozen+ little lives as valuable as my late Apollo’s. He is a betta (from a breeder, not a big box store) that I loved so much, I still cry about him FOUR years after his death.

I know retail associates are underpaid and overworked. But if you stock LIVING, FEELING creatures as products in your stores, your first priority should be their welfare. If you can’t do that, you should not sell animals. Period.

Like, give me a bottle of water conditioner and 30 fucking minutes and I’ll change the water for free myself. Zero excuse for this.

Nelson fans and animal lovers, please let @PetSmart know how you feel about this.

[Fire Ant Movement Defense @fireantdefense]

The purpose of the 450 year Prairieland sentence is to create enough fear around the possibility of acting that people convince themselves to see the anarchists protesting a concentration camp as scarier, more shocking, than the existence of the camp itself.