Karen Savage

Independent journalist covering climate change, environmental justice, policing and other (mostly) social justice issues. Views are my own.

[Karen Savage @mathsavage]

#ETP lobbied for a new law to make pipeline protest a felony. Then it hired local sheriff's deputies as its private security. Deputies then tackled, choked, pepper-sprayed, Tased & arrested water protectors under the new law. #BayouBridge #SwampReporting

https://t.co/sTy6fPx1Ma

[💖Sophie💖 @PinkPonyS0phie]

very important quote!!!

[Karen Savage @mathsavage]

... but can he really? 🐪

[Covie @covie_93]

Bill Clinton: I balanced the federal budget

Barack Obama: I won a Nobel Peace Prize

Joe Biden: I passed the largest long-term investment in US infrastructure since WWII

Donald Trump: I can identify a camel

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

How many ordinary Americans even know this is happening, let alone support sending their tax dollars to fund it? If only Americans knew…

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

Just once I’d wish that when this happens, the other reporters would take a stand and ask the exact same question you did — which, by the way, was an extremely fair and pointed question.

Even if you are at a competing outlet, other reporters should stand in solidarity because this is unacceptable.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

The journalist who is being sued by Kash Patel and reportedly being investigated by the FBI is out with a new story. Is there a Pulitzer for being a fearless badass? If so, she should win it. https://t.co/bSnJemJ1eo

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States for the seventh time won the war that wasn’t a war, so the United States can open the Strait of Hormuz that was open before the not war.

The not war that started to get the uranium that was completely obliterated, so that the Iranians can’t build the nuclear bomb that they weren’t building for the not war that the United States started.

Then the United States which has nuclear weapons threatening to use nuclear weapons to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons because having nuclear weapons is dangerous.

If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Lauren @cabsav456]

The fact that @hannah_natanson just won a Pulitzer Prize and still hasn't gotten her phone, laptops, smart watch & other devices back after the FBI raided her Virginia home in January is wild.

They seized them in a classified "leak probe." She wasn't the target and wasn't charged with any crimes. She just happens to have over 1,100 confidential government sources. Give her back her property.

[Ron Wyden @RonWyden]

Nothing says Make America Healthy Again like appointing a tobacco executive to be a leader at the CDC

[David @dqveed]

"detained" the word is kidnapped. that little baby girl was kidnapped.

[Karen Savage @mathsavage]

So cool.

And the walking through a cemetery to skip paying for parking sounds exactly like something I would do.

But the bees ... I woulda left them tf alone 😱

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Rachel Fordyce walked through a cemetery to skip paying for parking. She came back to work at Cornell carrying a jar of bees. A few years later, that jar led to one of the biggest bee gatherings ever counted: 5.5 million wild bees packed into 1.5 acres of graveyard dirt.

The patch is about the size of a football field. Cornell's research team published the full count this April in a science journal called Apidologie.

Every one of those 5.5 million bees is on her own. A regular beehive is one queen with around 30,000 worker bees, all sharing one home, raising babies together as one big family. Each cemetery bee digs her own little tunnel in the dirt, lays her own eggs, raises her own young, and ignores everyone else around her. Millions of tiny solo workers, packed into the same patch of soil, with no queen and no shared hive.

The density works out to about 80 bees in every square foot of ground. Add that up across the whole 1.5 acres and you get the pollination power of more than 200 beehives, in a population three times the size of Manhattan.

East Lawn's soil is sandy and easy to dig, and the cemetery is rarely disturbed. Cornell's apple orchard sits about one-third of a mile away, giving the bees a feast right next door. These bees, a species called Andrena regularis (or the regular mining bee), sleep underground all winter and come up in early April, right when apple flowers start blooming. At Cornell's orchard, this one wild species is the most common bee on the apple flowers, more common than the managed honeybees beekeepers bring in every spring.

The cemetery dates to 1878. These bees have lived in its soil since at least 1935, almost a hundred years before anyone bothered to count them. Before this paper, the last real study of the species came out in 1978. Roughly 70 percent of bee species in the US live underground like this one, and scientists have barely studied any of them.

These bees won't sting you. The males don't have stingers at all, the females only sting if you squash one in your hand, and there's no hive or honey for them to defend. The "5.5 million bees" headline sounds like a horror movie. Walk through East Lawn Cemetery in spring and the ground is busy with tiny solo workers, each digging in the dirt and pollinating apple flowers, the kind of bee you'd walk past without ever noticing.

[Karen Savage @mathsavage]

😂😂😂

"I said inshallah!"

[Explosive Media @ExplosiveMediaa]

Get straight out of Hormuz,
Little orange man!

Our New Lego-style music video is here!

[shut up, josh @ChiefJosheola]

School Shooting: There’s nothing we can do about this. Don’t politicize these tragedies.

Political Shooting: We need a $400 million bunker built immediately and you hate America if you don’t agree.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

I just can’t imagine wanting an entire secure ballroom for one man and not wanting gun reform for every child in America.

[Covie @covie_93]

All those politicians running for their lives during a shooting finally got to understand how kids in schools feel.

[Kevork Almassian @KevorkAlmassian]

Every journalist in southern Lebanon knows they could be next on Israel’s kill list. And yet they stand their ground and keep covering this war of aggression.

They deserve enormous respect.

[Will Christou @will_christou]

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was found dead after hours of searching under rubble. She was killed in an Israeli strike, after the Israeli army fired at ambulances trying to reach her, delaying her rescue.

She is the fourth journalist killed by Israel while in the field since 2 March.

She was a professional, kind and dedicated journalist, and always a pleasure to run into in the field.

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.” -George Orwell, 1984.

[Karen Savage @mathsavage]

@SollenbergerRC A total SLAPP suit.

I hope The Atlantic fights back so hard it makes Patel panic and file a motion to dismiss.

And then I hope The Atlantic opposes just to freak him out a little bit more.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

If I am The Atlantic, I do not file motion to dismiss. I go straight to discovery and wait for summary judgment. Get Kash Patel on the record under oath. A lot of great content there by the way. Set a precedent that you will fight and you will seek to punish.