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Drummer,CHOICE! Critical.thinker,SCIENCE, astrophysics,entanglement,BLM,BDS.Lifelong LGBTQ+Ally. Cat herder.FIGHT4DEMOCRACY

[(((jazzidiot))) 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @jazzidiot]

@DemocraticWins God Save the King 👑. 😉

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a complete and total surrender, Donald Trump has backed down from nominating Bill Pulte as the next Director of National Intelligence. This is another humiliating defeat for Donald Trump and one of his top allies.

[(((jazzidiot))) 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @jazzidiot]

WAKE THE EFF UP about the Platner Campaign. It's a much bigger story. https://t.co/Wx1o8tjSdw via @YouTube

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In the 1990s, Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard made a groundbreaking discovery that challenged everything we thought we knew about how forests work. While studying managed forests in British Columbia, she noticed something puzzling: when birch trees were removed to promote the growth of valuable Douglas firs, the firs did not flourish as expected, they actually struggled and grew more slowly.

Determined to understand why, Simard traced the movement of nutrients using radioactive carbon isotopes. What she found was astonishing. Trees were actively sharing resources through vast underground fungal networks known as mycorrhizae. These delicate, thread-like fungi connect the roots of different trees across the forest floor, forming a complex web that allows the exchange of carbon, water, nutrients, and even chemical signals, sometimes between entirely different species.

She discovered that older, larger trees often serve as central "hubs" or "mother trees," supporting younger saplings by redistributing vital resources and helping the entire ecosystem remain resilient. When these key trees are removed, the underground network weakens, and the health of the remaining forest declines.

Simard’s research overturned the traditional Darwinian view of forests as battlegrounds of ruthless competition. Instead, she revealed a far more sophisticated reality: forests operate as highly cooperative systems where trees communicate, support one another, and even warn neighboring trees about threats like drought, disease, or insect attacks.

What appears to the human eye as a silent, still forest is, in truth, a vibrant, interconnected living network, built not on isolation and rivalry, but on deep connection and mutual aid.

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

he was a kitten for approximately 1 business day

[(((jazzidiot))) 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @jazzidiot]

If I had their money… https://t.co/sZzoXfgrXW via @YouTube
Yup.

[Greta Berlin @Truegreta]

I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections…
He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments.
That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you.
It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity.
He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar.

Credit - Mathew Reed

[Global Insight Journal @GlobalIJournal]

This was HEARTBREAKING

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, who volunteered in Gaza, exposed Israel:

"I held a lifeless child in my arms. There was no equipment to save him. This is not a war; it is a massacre of the innocent."

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Now that Gaza lies in ruins—shattered, like a beloved face after a long brutality—Israel moves with a terrible confidence to the next act: The act of leaving every soul there not merely wounded, but permanently disabled. Injured, sick, hungry, homeless, without work, without hope. This is not war’s collateral damage. This is design.

As my friend Gideon Levy writes—and he knows, he knows—this is the prelude to expulsion. Think of it: a society without teachers, without doctors, without social workers, without engineers, without clerks. That is not a society. That is a holding pen. A slow erasure. And when nothing functions—no school, no hospital, no office, no heart—then it becomes ‘easy,’ they tell themselves, to scatter the people to the four corners of the earth. Like seeds from a broken pod, except no soil will take them.

We must name this. Not with rage alone, though rage is honest. But with the cold, clear tears of recognition: they are making life impossible so that departure becomes the only ‘choice.’ And the world watches, adjusts its spectacles, and calls for restraint. Restraint! There is no restraint in a slow drowning.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless or female – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and most are.
• You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

[matrixbot @thematrixb0t]

Israel is doing to Lebanon what they did to Gaza…

A FATHER AND SON KILLED FOR WALKING HOME.

They didn't carry weapons; they carried memories and a simple dream of going home.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

They're not even hiding it anymore - The Grayzone live https://t.co/CdwubboiqG

[HOUSTON STEVEN @HoustonSteven56]

@ImBreckWorsham

[TPBlue 🇺🇸🦅 @TPBlue4]

@Suzierizzo1 @retseck Absolutely.

The toilet trained infectious disease experts died because they thought they knew more.

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@Suzierizzo1 1. Yes

[(((jazzidiot))) 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @jazzidiot]

Peaceful people we should give all our money to. https://t.co/D4uN0smTEa

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They’re gonna kill us all https://t.co/NFTyQRWOox via @YouTube

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

A French aid worker: “We found a mass grave in Gaza containing 300 bodies. Small children were killed with their hands tied behind their backs"

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: YES! Congressman Ro Khanna shatters the emergency glass and calls for expanding the Supreme Court to 13 justices and term limiting their seats.

We're done letting this corrupt institution destroy our democracy...

"We must stand up to this modern day Dred Scott Court," Khanna said in a video posted to X, referring to an infamous 1857 Supreme Court pro-slavery ruling which held that Black people could not be citizens under the Constitution.

"They have unleashed a process that will eliminate the only Black majority district in the state of South Carolina. ," Khanna continued. "South Carolina has a Black population of 25%, but they would be left with not a single Black majority district or Black political representation in the house."

"We need term limits for these justices now. And we need to expand the Supreme Court from nine to 13 justices," he concluded.

Bravo congressman. Short, sweet, and to the point is the best way to handle this messaging. This court has totally shredded its legitimacy by handing down one far-right ruling after another in contradiction of legal precedent, good judgement, and moral valence.

Clarence Thomas has been bought and paid for by conservative billionaire Harlan Crow and Samuel Alito is every bit as corrupt, having accepted bribes in the form of luxury fishing trips and private jet travel from billionaire Paul Singer.

Corporations and oligarchs control our court and the only way to remedy that problem is to expand it, nominating justices who actually care about the rights and interests of the American people.

The alternative is to do nothing and watch as Republicans exploit the court to implement their deeply unpopular, minoritarian, fascist agenda. The gerrymandering assault on Black voters that Khanna mentioned is just the beginning. If we don't act now, the court will strip away more and more of our democracy until all that remains is white Christian rule.

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