gwen

no freedom til we’re equal

[DONKFORTRESS (parody) @D0NKFORTRESS]

@Thafnine

[T9 @Thafnine]

so the government is planning MANDATORY CHANGES to how content is discovered on YouTube in the UK.

- they want YouTube to prioritise mainstream broadcasters like BBC, ITV and Channel 4 over user created content with a 'prominence regime'

this is absolutely insane and is going to severely affect everyone british youtuber should this go through. YouTube have started a campaign to fight this, but we need your help to ensure this doesn't go through like this, since this could RUIN the site

[Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis @CarrieCnh12]

ICE reported over the last week they've kidnapped 10,000 people; adults and children to be held captive in for-profit concentration camps where they're being kept in inhumane conditions, starved, beaten, girls are raped, trafficked and killed.
ICE is a death squad. #AbolishICE

[Lori @LoriMocha444]

How does being president for 4 years give him the right to redesign Washington DC, the monuments and the White House interior and exterior. He wasn't elected as builder/owner or contractor. He needs to be stopped, especially before he erects that monstrous Arc de Trump! What if every president wanted to do that? DC would be unrecognizable every 4-8 years. And the money??? Unbelievable gall.

[🄺🄰🅃🄴 ㋛ @Kate9675]

@DougWahl1 @hushnowlilbaby I wish we had a third branch of government that could rein in Trump’s powers & keep him from destroying even more of our country.

We’ll call them “Congress”. The key to this branch of gov’t will be the people having an unwavering moral compass & deep empathy. And a backbone! 😉

[Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog @DougWahl1]

THIS CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN!

Trump wants to cut down Washington DC's oldest grove of cherry trees along and eliminate the public biking path and picnic areas so he can build a golf course on public land, using public dollars, and taking spaces away from the public.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

In one region of Indonesia, malaria rates dropped from 16.5% to nearly zero. The fix wasn't pharmaceutical. It was fish.

Farmers there raise fish directly in flooded rice paddies, a practice roughly 2,000 years old. The fish eat mosquito larvae before they mature, which is what crashed the malaria rate. They also eat insect pests and weeds in the rice itself, and their waste fertilizes the crop as they swim through it. The rice gives them shade and cover in return. One field, two harvests, and a public health outcome nobody was trying for.

The numbers hold up under modern scrutiny. Studies have found rice-fish systems use 68 percent less pesticide and 24 percent less fertilizer than conventional rice farming, with equal or higher rice yields. Same land, fewer chemical inputs, plus a second source of protein and income from fish that were already doing the pest control.

The Green Revolution pushed rice farming toward chemical monoculture, and practices like this nearly disappeared in the process. It's coming back because it never stopped working. A flooded field isn't a factory. It's an ecosystem, and apparently it can out-perform a malaria program too.

[gwen @msgwentaylor]

@esjesjesj new reaction image just dropped

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Cities are planting trees for aesthetics, which is where urban tree planting often fails.

Most songbirds don't raise their chicks on berries or seeds. They raise them on insects, especially caterpillars. One nest of chickadees can need thousands before the young birds fledge.

Many common street trees are chosen because they are tidy, tough, symmetrical, disease-resistant, and ignored by bugs. Ginkgos, zelkovas, Bradford pears, London planes, ornamental cherries. Useful in some ways, but weak as bird habitat.

'Bugs leave it alone' is not a wildlife feature that any of us should be chasing. It is a food-web failure.

Native oaks can support hundreds of species of moth and butterfly caterpillars. Those caterpillars become chickadees, wrens, warblers, cardinals, vireos, and woodpeckers. Research on suburban chickadees found yards needed roughly 70% native plant biomass to support successful breeding populations.

Now look at the average streetscape: ornamental trees, mulch islands, mowed turf, imported shrubs. From a car, it looks green. To a nesting bird, it can be a food desert.

Cities should absolutely plant for shade, heat, drought, salt, pollution, root space, and survival. A dead native tree helps nobody.

But when we plant trees, the question cannot just be 'Will this survive?' It has to be 'Will this feed anything?'

What is your city planting?

[colie ✮⋆˙ the realm vod watching @cathaolic]

techno peaked at 800k viewers dude it really was a diff time 😭

[Hannibal999 @Hannibal9972485]

You guys are being TRICKED and its all a LIE ‼️‼️this BILL does not ban corporate landlords. It protects them. It enforces an oligopoly.🚨🚨🚨

News says “The legislation bans institutional investors from buying new homes if they own 350 or more units.”⬅️⬅️

This is the trick 👌 Who owns 350 homes? Only the Big Guys (Blackstone, Invitation Homes, Progress Residential). These are the firms who already bought up the neighborhood.

Who is trying to buy 350 homes today? Small competitors (Private equity firms trying to expand, regional investors).

So by setting the cap at 350, the government has effectively banned any new competitors from entering the market to challenge the giants.

The "350 Club" has been sealed. Blackstone can keep the 50,000 homes they already own. They are safe. But if a new try-hard private equity firm wants to grow to 351 units to compete with them they can't.

This is not a restriction; it is a License to Exist as a Monopoly. It freezes the current power structure in place. It prevents new Wall Street giants from destroying the old Wall Street giants. The incumbents wrote this rule to kill their future rivals.🚨🚨🚨🚨
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2. BUILD-TO-RENT" LOOPHOLE: THE 7-YEAR EXECUTION

The bill creates an exception for "build-to-rent" projects.⚠️

This ensures there are only new homes built specifically for rent."

An earlier version of the bill required these "build-to-rent" homes to be sold to individual homeowners after seven years. This was designed to eventually turn rentals back into owned homes.🚨🚨🚨

Congress removed the seven-year sell-by provision in the final bill.

Reality? 🚨🚨🚨

Wall Street can now build massive subdivisions of starter homes and rent them out forever. They never have to sell. They just got permission to become "Feudal Lords" on newly built land, instead of just buying up old neighborhoods. The government just incentivized the creation of permanent renter-classes on brand-new land.⚠️⚠️⚠️
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3. THE REGULATORY STRIP-MINE

The bill "streamlines environmental reviews" and expands the "Community Development Block Grant."

The Hidden Intent?⚠️

This is the "Bribe to Big Business" hidden inside the populist packaging.

Developers have been blocked for years by water rights, zoning, and NEPA reviews.

• This bill weakens those barriers.

The Exchange: The "Left" gets to say they punished Wall Street (the 350-cap). The "Right" gives the Developers what they really want: the ability to bypass environmental laws and penalties to build cheap, fast houses without oversight.
🚨🚨🚨
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4. THE "CBDC" STEALTH BAN

Section 1001 prohibits the Federal Reserve from creating a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) until 2030.🚨

The Logic ?

What does banning digital currency have to do with housing?
Nothing. It is a completely unrelated subject.

But The Hidden Driver?⚠️

The "Anti-CBDC" lobbyists used this massive housing bill as a "Must Pass" vehicle to kill digital currency surveillance.

Because If a digital dollar existed, the government could track every rent payment.

Hedge funds and landlords want privacy. They attached their pet project to the "Housing Relief" bill so no politician would dare vote against it.⚠️🚨

So By passing the "Housing Bill," Trump also signed the death warrant for Fed-issued cryptocurrency. The "Housing" title was a disguise for a financial coup against the Treasury.🚨

WHO WINS?
The Loser:
• New Startups: Private equity firms trying to enter the market are killed by the 350 cap.
• The Renters: They face a permanent future where "build-to-rent" is the norm because the law incentivizes corporations to build rental empires rather than sell to families.

@RepThomasMassie

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[alpha @omarsbigsister]

🚨🚨🚨
KOSA IS MOVING FORWARD IN THE HOUSE

It's part of a package called the KIDS Act, filled with digital ID and age verification and censorship.

MAKE THOSE PHONES RING!! CALL YOUR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES ALL WEEK

202-224-3121

[Kamikaze Cash @kamikazecash]

@Markus_Krall @Pontifex I do not agree that giving healthcare to the sick is the thing that’s bad about communism, or that Stalin and Mao are who people are talking about when they say social programs are good.

[Kamikaze Cash @kamikazecash]

I have to wonder: if Jesus preached today, how many people would call him a woke communist and immediately denounce him?

How many of those people currently consider themselves Christians?

How many Christians maintain double-think in which they love Jesus but hate everything he had to say?

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

It is important to resist the commodification of basic human needs. Food, water and healthcare cannot be subordinated to market considerations or geopolitical interests. Access to adequate food is a fundamental human right grounded in the dignity of every person. Meeting this need not only alleviates suffering but also addresses underlying causes of geopolitical instability. Indeed, food security is an essential component of global and integral security. https://t.co/DgkM9RegJ7

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

This will probably get suppressed, but I don’t care. It’s time.

Elon Musk promised DOGE would save taxpayers $1 TRILLION. But, it actually just paved his path to become a trillionaire. Let’s follow the money.

- “Claimed savings”: Final DOGE claim was $214B saved. The independently verifiable amount was less than 5% of that, not including the actually costs.

Costs
- The firing-and-rehiring churn cost ~ $135B.
- Week one: 17 inspector generals fired who return $26 per $1 spent and catch the very things happening right now with the Trump family ventures, Elon’s ventures, AI, etc.
- They didn’t touch the $850B Pentagon budget that has never passed an audit.
- Also untouched were the $38B in government contracts flowing to Elon.
- Data privacy breaches by DOGE employees

And before you say that he worked for free, he did not have to file a financial disclosure because he "worked for free". This looks more like a workaround.

Elon donated over $290M to Trump’s campaign. The morning Trump was sworn in, Musk's companies faced $2.37B in legal exposure across 11 federal agencies.

Then he was handed power over those same agencies. Inside the first quarter, six of the regulators investigating Elon’s companies were cut, closed, or told to stand down.

So, he spent ~$290M to elect Trump and he left office with his cases dead and SpaceX ~$6B RICHER in NEW defense contracts.
That is not a Department of Government Efficiency.

And as someone who was on the inside when this all went down, the strategy behind finding these contracts was incredibly inefficient and just caused defense contractors, such as Booz Allen Hamilton, to merely change their name from consulting to technology. It merely caused word changes in contracts. Contracts that are bloated and should be cut, weren’t even looked at. And in the end, it cost tax payers exponentially more than it saved, including data privacy,

Just want to call out the reality of how Space X and this shady IPO even came about.

[SPIEGEL English @SPIEGEL_English]

A young woman from Germany vanished without a trace 11 years ago. Now, her name makes several appearances in the Epstein files. Her family wants to finally learn what happened to her. https://t.co/cwnleksESl

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

This is why they want you to forget about the Epstein files. There are dozens of girls just like her who were taken and sold into human trafficking. They’re probably not even alive anymore. What happened to these girls is beyond comprehension, and the people responsible are getting away with it.

[Fullstance @DermaFaire]

@ShadowofEzra

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

A heartbroken elderly Albanian man says Jared Kushner has taken everything he spent a lifetime building, including his land, his home, and the future he hoped to leave behind for his children.

He says he returned home one day only to find his property sealed off behind barbed wire, with men in black uniforms standing guard and refusing to let him step inside the house he once called his own.

In a single moment, he says, the life he had worked for was gone.

“It was the end of the world. The end of the world.”

“I felt imprisoned.”

“They took my freedom.”

“They took my livelihood.”

“They took my land.”