There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power
(video: defiancedispatch/IG)
This is what local accountability looks like:
In Festus, Missouri, a town of about 14,000 people, the city council quietly approved a $6 billion Ai data center to be built on 360 acres just north of Highway 67.
Residents say they were never properly heard. Meetings were held in private. Documents were released too late. A week after the approval, the town held a regular election. Voter turnout jumped 129 percent.
Every single council member who had voted yes lost in a landslide. A 70-year-old first-time candidate beat an 8-year incumbent by 40 percentage points.
Now a recall petition is circulating to remove the mayor as well. The lawsuit against the city is already filed.
Has your local government ever been held accountable like this? 🔥
Hey so this is literally how nazi germany was able to create a genocide: painting all jews as terrorists to justify capturing and murdering them. This is literally what’s happening right now to trans people in America and anyone who opposes the trump administration
Don’t let them destroy the biggest cave system in the world or drain/poison it’s underground river
Mammoth caves is a national treasure and a wonder of the entire world
I am sick and tired of people mocking those who care about the planet. Clean air matters. Living forests matter. Healthy oceans matter. Animals matter. Biodiversity matters. Wanting a livable world for future generations should not be controversial.
The fact that this man was saving the lives and upholding the autonomy of thousands of women despite multiple attempts on his life since 1973…Absolute Hero
Columbus water district is banning lawn watering from May-October because they do not have adequate water supply.
Ohio is running out of water and yet some candidates want to build AI data centers that consume 18 billion gallons of water annually.
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2022: “Stop overreacting, they won’t overturn Roe.”
They did.
2023: “Stop overreacting, they won’t let women die rather than get an abortion.”
They did.
2024: “Stop overreacting, they won’t arrest women for miscarriages.”
They did.
2025: “Stop overreacting, they won’t turn women into incubators.”
They did.
2026: “Stop overreacting, they won’t attack mifepristone.”
They did, today.
Now: “Stop overreacting, they won’t go after birth control next.”
They will.
Very Important Message!!
Do NOT, and I repeat do not buy plants treated with Neonicotinoids. Bees take the pollen back to the hive and feed it to the brood.
This is a number one cause of the colony collapse. It's important to NOT buy these plants!
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The county just mowed the roadside in June, and an entire generation of monarch caterpillars went with it.
In a lot of America, the strip of grass and wildflowers along rural roads is the last place milkweed still grows.
Farm fields got sprayed. Suburbs got paved. The roadside ditch is where ground-nesting bobolinks, meadowlarks, pheasants, and bumblebee queens raise their young because almost nothing else is left.
June and early July are peak nesting season. They are also when most counties run their mowers.
A pheasant nest in early July still has eggs in it 21% of the time. A monarch caterpillar in June is 11 days from becoming a butterfly. The mower doesn't know. The mower keeps going.
But there's a fix.
Counties that delay roadside mowing until after July 15, mow at higher cutting heights (8–12 inches), use flushing bars on equipment, and target only the visibility-critical edges instead of the entire shoulder have seen big results.
Iowa, Minnesota, and Washington have programs along these lines. Most states don't.
If you live in a county that mows everything in June, call your county supervisor. Ask for a mowing delay until late summer. Most rural counties have never heard the request and would consider it.
The roadside isn't a lawn. It's the last refuge for a lot of species we keep wondering why we don't see anymore.
AEP is spraying Roundup herbicide OVER OUR HOMES while we stand right outside! This is dangerous and toxic.
We pay sky-high utility rates every month so AEP Kentucky Power can spray us like weeds with cancer-causing glyphosate pesticides. No consent, no warning just toxic drift landing on our yards, kids, pets, lungs… and now devastating our bees.
A close friend and multiple of her neighbors watched their hives collapse after the latest spraying. Bees were dying by the hundreds right at the hive entrances crawling, twitching, and gone within days. Entire colonies wiped out: strong, productive hives that had survived winter, producing honey and pollinating local gardens. Beekeeping isn’t cheap or easy, it costs thousands in equipment, woodenware, feed, mite treatments, and protective gear, plus hundreds of hours of hands-on work every single season tending, inspecting, and harvesting. All that investment and labor destroyed overnight by AEP’s chemical drift.
If we let this continue, we’re killing off the pollinators that make our food and flowers possible gardens fail, fruit trees don’t produce, crops suffer, and the whole local ecosystem takes a hit. This is exactly why we must hold AEP and the companies producing these poisons fully accountable. They do NOT deserve immunity. These are costly, cancer-causing chemicals with zero regard for our health or livelihoods.
Side effects they don’t want you talking about:
• Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma & other cancers in humans
• Respiratory damage, headaches, nausea, and neurological issues
• Skin/eye irritation that lingers
• Hormone disruption & reproductive harm
• Mass bee deaths, foragers poisoned in the field, hives collapsing with dead bees piled at entrances, queens failing, entire colonies lost, threatening pollination, honey production, gardens, and our food supply
We’re funding our own poisoning and the destruction of local beekeeping while AEP gets a free pass. Demand accountability NOW… no more spraying over homes, no more bee killing drift, no more hiding behind immunity, and no more jacking up our rates for toxic “vegetation management.”
Who else in Pikeville or AEP areas is losing hives and seeing dead bees?