Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
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Great to see Red Squirrel at Loch Leven, wish we had them down South ,instead of the invasive Grey Squirrel .
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Decaying gray stump in a green forest during the summer.
Decaying wood
#wood #blueskyartshow #decay #stumps #photography #forestfriday
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Aurora from Alberta Canada
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15.02.2026 02:21 — 👍 557 🔁 65 💬 7 📌 1
Has anyone noticed that whenever one of Trump's mob
is talking they tend to throw in the phrase, " All the good things
Trump has done for the country," in their blathering?🤔
😏Someone needs to ask for the list.
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That cliff is a lit match, honey-bright;
the beach, a black screen.
Waves refresh the page, deleting my footsteps.
I text the wind your name, no signal,
so I kiss the salt and let my heart buzz,
tide-powered, wanting you.
#photography #poetry
14.02.2026 17:07 — 👍 163 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
Those of you saying trump can’t do this and he can’t do that, my question is Says who? Has he followed the law so far? No.
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Happy birthday to my orange babe who is 6 today! 🐈😻🥰
#cats #pets #kitty
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Naughty Mittens.
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Political cartoon showing a large chainsaw labeled “DEREGULATION” cutting into a tree. The tree’s canopy is labeled with words including “ENVIRONMENT,” “HEALTH STANDARDS,” “DIGITAL RIGHTS,” and “etc.” A figure labeled “Ursula von der Leyen” is pushing the chainsaw into the tree, which looks distressed and is cracking. On the left, a large figure resembling Donald Trump applauds, with “clap clap clap” written beside him. In the center, a smaller figure labeled “Milei,” wearing a suit and wild hair, raises both fists in celebration. The scene suggests deregulation aggressively damaging public protections while some political figures cheer. Cartoon by Khalil Bendib.
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Commission President von der Leyen & EU government leaders meet today for a 'competitiveness' retreat in #AldenBiesen 🇧🇪
VDL, since her reappointment in 2024, has unleashed an aggressive #deregulation agenda
Worryingly, she is now getting absolute backing from #Merz, #Meloni, #DeWever & others
12.02.2026 08:47 — 👍 35 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 6
Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware
Trump has made the hellish “hothouse Earth” scenario more likely than ever.
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people are unaware www.theguardian.com/environment/...
11.02.2026 17:51 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Talking of deaths caused by Trump & RFK Jr’s policies….
(It always blows my mind when “progressives” say they like RFK Jr because he is going after food dyes; if you think killing kids by rolling back vaccines & pushing raw camel’s milk & poisoning the environment is OK, you are NOT progressive)
12.02.2026 12:19 — 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Trump repeals U.S. government’s power to regulate climate
The Environmental Protection Agency finishes the repeal of the “endangerment finding,” a landmark legal opinion underpinning policies regulating climate change.
Trump Administration terminates scientific finding that climate change endangers health and environment, ending the federal government’s authority to control the pollution dangerously heating the planet:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
13.02.2026 22:52 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Donald Trump has done his best to destroy everything else that's good about America and the world. I guess it's no surprise that he would now want to completely destroy our environment!
God damn the poorly educated, brainwashed, gullible, cult following fools for voted for this loathsome prick!
12.02.2026 18:56 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Things Trump threatens:
* Free speech & press
* Rule of law
* Checks & balances
* Fair wages & taxes
* Soc. Security
* Health care
* Environment
* Education
* The rights of women, workers, voters, consumers, minorities, immigrants, LGBTQ
Resist!
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11.02.2026 14:17 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Trump screwed over the planet, the environment, and the people.
Trump is a fascist monster.
This was a hate filled racist insanity.
Trump repealed this scientific findings for only one reason. Obama got it done!
Fk Trump!
13.02.2026 00:53 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Trump to repeal Obama-era finding foundational to US climate rules
Climate groups vow to fight rollback of 2009 finding determining CO2 and other greenhouse gases harm health
“The science establishing harm to human health and the environment from global warming emissions was evident in 2009 and it’s even more undeniable today,” said UCS President & CEO @gretchentg.bsky.social to @theguardian.com regarding the Trump admin’s rollback of the endangerment finding.
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Trump Orders Defense, Energy Departments to Reinvest in Coal
One study showed that coal power plants led to nearly half a million US deaths over a 20-year period.
Trump Orders Defense, Energy Departments to Reinvest in Coal truthout.org/articles/tru...
This is just moronic. Coal is not just dirty and toxic to the environment. It is inefficient and antiquated. Let the coal industry effing die.
#EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateCrisis #TrumpIsAMoron
13.02.2026 00:35 — 👍 22 🔁 14 💬 8 📌 4
🚨 The Trump administration has repealed the Endangerment Finding, a legal framework for *more than 15 years,* that concluded greenhouse gases are dangerous to people and our environment. bit.ly/4bU7MqY
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As a Colorado River deadline passes, reservoirs keep declining
Seven states have missed a federal deadline to reach a water deal on the Colorado River. They remain divided on how to cut water use.
The leaders of seven states failed to negotiate a deal to share the diminishing waters of the Colorado River by a Trump administration deadline, leaving the Southwest in a quagmire while the river’s depleted reservoirs continue to decline. www.latimes.com/environment/... @latimes.com
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