🔴 NEW: Releasing pheasants into the countryside may boost the risk of humans catching Lyme disease, according to new research from universities and the UK Health Security Agency.

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Alfred “Alfie” Date, recognized as Australia’s oldest man, spent his final years knitting tiny sweaters. During an oil spill near Phillip Island in 2001, 96% of the 438 affected penguins were successfully released back into the wild, thanks in part to the use of these protective sweaters.

New proposals to ban heather burning on peatland to protect air, water and wildlife Extension to ban of burning on deep peat proposed by Government, so that an extra 146,000 hectares are protected

This is progress, as far as it goes. But land-burning should be banned here for all purposes other than firebreaks and emergencies. There should be no burning by grouse estates, and no "swaling" on Dartmoor and Exmoor (torching regenerating woodland for sheep pasture).
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Major Reform U.K. Donor Sold Weapons Parts to Russian Supplier The aerospace company H.R. Smith Group was an early backer of the party after Nigel Farage became leader. Reform has faced criticism over comments seen as supporting Moscow.

Terrific reporting by @nytimes.com. Shame the British media can’t expose this for themselves. Will only fuel suspicion that Farage and his Brexit gang are - and have always been - a Putinist front

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.

This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

This is a mission everyone should be able to get behind. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been torn from their families. No effort must be spared to bring them home:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-program-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-lawmakers-2025-03-18/

Trump-Musk Scandal on Ukrainian Kids Stolen by Russia Just Got Darker Data vital to tracking these abducted Ukrainian children may have suddenly disappeared. A bipartisan group of House members wants to know: Who did this, and why?

Trump's State Department terminated a contract with a humanitarian group tracking the fate of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.

The revelation suggests the U.S. may now be helping Russia bury a potential war crime

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3) Trump and Putin are closely coordinating their actions and remain happy to work with each other.

If you were told this would be the situation in November for Ukraine, you would say it was much worse than expected.

This is veteran Thomas Begay, one of the last two living Navajo Code Talkers from World War II. The Trump Administration is removing Navajo Code Talkers from military websites as part of its DEI purge.

REPOST if you stand with Begay against Donald Trump!

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"Opposing Fascism Is a Jewish Tradition"--JWP at Trump Tower today.

New weather forecasting approach since Trump is killing NOAA

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

A tweet from John Cusack featuring an edited image of a red Tesla Cybertruck with a swastika on its side. The image includes bold white text reading "SWASTICAR" and a subheading in red stating "...THE FASCIST THING ON FOUR WHEELS."

At least the memes from this era will be killer.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Make sure it's viral 💯

𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Just Say Thank You and Shut Up Trump said it to Ukraine today, and was planning to say it to Europe tomorrow.

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