the wet bear

DRUGS ORGASMS AND CHEESE

[Cassandra Garcia Hernandez @CasforTX]

The #txlege knew this was coming, and lawmakers have been sounding the alarm for more than a year.

Texas leadership chose to spend its time pushing racist gerrymandering, voucher scams, and other MAGA priorities instead of focusing on preparedness and demanding action from both Trump’s USDA and state agencies.

This was never a question of if it would reach our doorstep - it was when. The failure to prepare is a failure of leadership, and its Texas families, ranchers, farmers, and consumers who will pay the price.

Texans deserve leaders who prioritize protecting our economy, food supply, and communities.

Leaders who work for us, not Trump.

🗳️

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

They're walling off the last place in America where jaguars still walk free. 🐆

In November, a jaguar crossed into Arizona. Researchers named him Cinco—the fifth jaguar documented here in 15 years.

He found the San Rafael Valley—the last open wildlife corridor on the entire U.S.-Mexico border. The last place jaguars can still move between two countries.

They're building a wall through it.

30 feet of steel. 27 miles. The administration waived the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and NEPA to build it faster.

No environmental review. No mitigation. Just a $309 million contract and a signature that erased every law protecting this land.

Border crossings here are down 78%. Wildlife experts say almost no one crosses in this valley. The jaguars cross more than the people do.

86% of jaguar habitat along this border is already walled off. The San Rafael Valley is what's left.

Cinco crossed right through the construction zone.

Who gets to decide that the last jaguar corridor is the right place for a wall? 🐆

#DemsUnited

[Lisa @Lisa_Asillie]

Your United States Congress saw a big jar of this water this week, and declined to help. Same people that cut SNAP and Medicaid.

I just keep thinking about that.

[Al Smizzle @AlZeidenfeld]

They published a 900-page book in 2023 that told everyone exactly what they planned to do if/when Trump won.

Many people chose not to believe them.

[CrazyUs @crazyus]

It’s spreading. Not being dramatic. Canada won’t accept beef from Texas. Could’ve been prevented. Instead of dealing with an ongoing issue, this administration cut funding to the program that would’ve protect us.

VOTE OUT all GOP REPs who supported this & those who stay silent.

[Grand Rapids Businessman @GR_businessman]

TODAY: Flock Security camera torn down in Plainfield Township, MI.

People have begun ripping down these cameras across the country due to privacy concerns over mass surveillance.

Public backlash also intensified after third party audits revealed that FLOCK data was being shared with federal agencies including ICE.

[PalMedia @PalMediaOrg]

Breaking: Kushner’s Pedo Island Project has been cancelled.

Don’t let anybody tell you citizen activism doesn’t work.

[Prez @PrezLives2022]

So Ivanka claims she came across this island swimming in the Mediterranean and she came ashore barefoot to explore the islands😂😂

Here is the problem with this: First, the island is in the Adriatic Sea. Secondly, the Albanians say the island is full of snakes making her barefoot story implausible. Lastly, in the words of Steve Schmidt, the island is full of landmines thus making her extremely lucky or a liar. I’m going with liar.

[Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated]

Former @USAID detailee here. Those kids have killed/will be responsible for killing MILLIONS of people. Shameful doesn’t come close.

[sam🌪️ hit the wall @star1ightstan13]

genuine question, why does a train line or a new park have to go thru years of votes and environmental impact studies but something like this can just? happen?

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Incredible that the rule of law in the US is so weak that we need Albanians to provide support for anti-corruption activities in the US!
The US is unable to even check the corruption of the Trump family.
Pathetic!
The US can no longer lecture anybody about anything!

[Roy Drones Jr @chiweethedog]

Record number of detainee deaths in camps not seen in the world since Auschwitz

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

The Trump Administration is getting major backlash from MAGA ranchers because of Elon musk cutting funding for programs that would have prevented this whole mess with the screw worms from happening.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨NEWS: Scientists Were Handcuffed At A Medical Conference.

Researchers and physicians attending the American Diabetes Association conference in New Orleans were reportedly detained and removed while distributing a paper criticizing cuts to federal research funding.

Think about that for a second.

Scientists were not accused of sabotaging research.

They were sharing research.

If the reports are accurate, the question isn’t whether you agree with their conclusions.

It’s why distributing a scientific paper resulted in handcuffs.

[Jamesetta Williams 💕 @jamesetta_w]

This is the type of crisis that a Democratic president would be held personally responsible for by the media. Instead it’s getting virtually no national attention despite the issue being directly connected to federal cuts enacted by the Trump administration

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

they've built concentration camps and i'm expected to act like it's a mere difference of political opinion

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

They have roamed America's open land for centuries.
Wild. Free. Untouchable by law.

Right now, helicopters are chasing them down.

The BLM is conducting large-scale roundups across the West—thousands of wild horses and
burros pursued to exhaustion, separated from their
families, and loaded into government holding facilities.

In those pens, herds are broken apart. Stallions fight in close quarters.
Horses built for open land crash into the bars of their enclosures in desperate escape attempts.

The leading cause of death in holding facilities is traumatic injury.

Over 64,000 wild horses and burros are already warehoused in these facilities. More arrive every day.

And every budget cycle, the administration tries to open the door to slaughter. Project 2025 calls them a problem to be "disposed of.

Congress has pushed back - so far. But without permanent protection, this fight never ends.

If slaughter isn’t the goal, why keep removing the protections against it?

#DemsUnited

[Sawyer Loves Movies 🎥 @sawyeurism]

I am a herpetologist. My research focus is lizards. Heartbreaking doesn't even cut it, but I'm hardly surprised.

This man is the reason qualified scientists cannot even get jobs in their fields. There are no jobs. There is no science. Just Christo-Fascist destruction.

[╰┈➤ 🇮🇪 Brònzy 🇮🇪 @BronzyGuevara]

Albania has officially drawn the
line, Sazan 'lsland is being cleared. In an stunning turn of events, Albanian authorities have
launched an active enforcement operation to kick
out foreign developers and private security
personnel occupying Sazan Island. The decisive
action marks a total collapse of the controversial €1.4 billion luxury real estate deal that aimed to turn the protected national marine reserve and
former military base into an exclusive private playground for global elites,
The eviction comes after four consecutive weeks of historic
hundred-thousand-strong protests that completely
shut down the capital city of Tirana, refusing to allow their native coastlines and ecologically sensitive wetlands to be privatized by foreign
investors, the Albanian public unified under a
single, unyielding demand: "Albania is not for sale, the courts faced with a historic political crisis, mounting
domestic fury, and a widening anti-corruption
investigation by special prosecutors (SPAK), the
government was forced to pivot, by deploying state forces to reclaim Sazan lsland, Albania has
sent a clear message to international billionaires
and foreign developers trying to bypass environmental protection laws, This historic victory for citizen-led activism proves that the collective voice of a nation can successfully overpower backroom corporate deals and protect sovereign land.
The people spoke, and the
government had to listen.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Sometimes I feel like this man hates planet Earth. The trump administration just auctioned off 689,000 acres of Alaska's gorgeous Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas companies, and the result was almost darkly comic: only two bidders showed up, the industry's biggest players ignored it entirely, and the whole fire sale netted a whopping $3.7 million, per Alaska Public Media. It is the third attempt at this, and the 2025 sale drew literally zero bids. Even the blood sucking fossil fuel industry doesn’t want to destroy this land for profit and keeps sending back the rejection notice, and the administration keeps pretending it did not get it.

But do not let the weak turnout distract from what is actually happening here. This is one move in a relentless, grinding assault on the natural world. Since January 2025, according to the Sierra Club, the National Park Service has lost over 2,700 staff, the Fish and Wildlife Service shed nearly 1,800 employees, and the EPA lost 2,000 workers. The Clean Air Act has been gutted. The Clean Water Act weakened. The U.S. pulled out of the Paris climate agreement on day one. The NRDC has been tracking what amounts to roughly one harmful environmental action every single day since trump took office. This man would literally pave paradise and put up a parking lot for a shiny nickel. So gross.

Meanwhile the Gwich'in people, whose culture and survival are tied to the Porcupine Caribou herd that calves on this very coastal plain, are still fighting. Some places, they say, are too important to sacrifice. That should not be a radical position. And yet here we are, watching an administration that calls climate change a con job try to pry open one of the last truly wild places left in America, not because the market wants it, but seemingly out of spite.