YouTube video by Jesse Welles WELLES OBLITERATES COVERUP #folk #singersongwriter #poetry

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U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

A couple things…

The “conflict“ in Iran *IS* a war.
It is a war of choice.
It is warfare without conscious.
It was unprovoked.

And I’m sick and tired of people suggesting & implying the only tragedies herein are that US Service Members have died. The people of Iran are innocents in this conflict!

thanks so much my friend!

Americans Stranded in the Middle East Are Having a Hard Time Getting Help From the State Department “Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation,” a State department hotline said when NOTUS called Tuesday afternoon.

Americans in the Middle East calling the U.S. State Department hotline after Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Americans to contact it were hearing an automated message saying, “Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation at this time.”

Balint to Noem: "You're the secretary of DHS -- for now. And you think you're immune from accountability. But I promise you this: one day he is not gonna be president anymore. And when that day comes, we will still be here. And in hearings like this, we are going to continue to prove your guilt."

Black wolf trotting through a sage field and about 6" of snow.

Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org

A Europe of clean, green cities and resurgent industry is a fantasy – unless we get really creative | Hans Larsson If we want things to be ‘Made in Europe’ again, we need to be realistic about how grimy and grey our centres of commerce once were, says architect Hans Larsson

A Europe of clean, green cities and resurgent industry is a fantasy – unless we get really creative.
If we want things to be ‘Made in Europe’ again, we need to be realistic about how grimy and grey our centres of commerce once were.
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Protesters rally against N.S. budget cuts, call on government to honour Indigenous rights Hundreds of people gathered outside the Nova Scotia legislature in Halifax Tuesday afternoon for the “Shoulder to Shoulder” rally, which called on the Progressive Conservative government to honour Ind...

'We have to start working together, that’s the only thing that‘s going to save us, is working together, shoulder to shoulder with all our neighbours.'
Protesters rally against N.S. budget cuts, call on government to honour Indigenous rights www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

Northern Lights Alert: 10 States In Line For Aurora Thursday Night NOAA is forecasting a G1-class geomagnetic storm on Thursday, March. 5, through Friday, March 6, with the aurora borealis possible from northern U.S. states and Canada.

Northern Lights Alert: 10 States In Line For Aurora Thursday Night

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

Homeland Security wants Social Media sites to expose Anti-ICE Accounts!!!!

The Government is trampling on our CIVIL LIBERTIES!!!!!

#ICE

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles
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A massive heatwave will encompass most of the nation this week with 2 heat surges and temps 20-40° Above normal. 100s of heat records will be broken from now through next Wednesday, with 70s as far north as Chicago and New York City and 80s to DC.
A cold blast follows late next week.

Line graph time series of February Arctic sea ice extent for every year from 1850 through 2026. Two datasets are compared in this time series. The Walsh et al. 2019 reconstruction is shown with a solid blue line. The NSIDC Sea Ice Index v3 is shown with a dashed red line only for the satellite era. There is large interannual variability and a long-term decreasing trend over the last few decades.

February #Arctic sea ice extent since the year 1850 - comparison now updated through 2026. Climate change leads to declines in ice during all months of the year, not just around the minimum.

I have a couple of other sea ice reconstructions on my website too: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Gas just hit $3 a gallon in rural Iowa…

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that.

Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/40qbXnv

ChatGPT is struggling so badly from the boycott that it’s already running new ads in the App Store.

I think now that WW III is all but inevitable, trump is trying to walk back his stupid, stupid, stupid decision to start a war with Iran. He's now claiming he thought Iran was going to attack the US first. How can a president be so stupid and how can Americans be for electing him.

Notice extensive thinning leading to lateral retreat denoted by trimlines T1 and T2, in Sentinel images from 2023 and 2026. There is expanded rifting at R. All accompanying the frontal retreat.

You ever notice that the people always questioning AOC’s intelligence (who worked her way through college and graduated with honors), never question the intelligence of Trump no matter how idiotic his statements or actions are?

Opinion | The Nation Faces a Crisis. Colleges Have a Unique Role to Play.

I urge every American university to participate in this effort to repair our broken democracy.

@georgemasonu.bsky.social
@aaup.org
@aaupmason.bsky.social

Photo of a blue-green lichen growing on a birch tree. The lichen is in sort of an octopus shaped mound, with frilly edges instead of tentacles. It’s covered in numerous disc shaped apothecia which have blue-grey edges and dark brown centres.

Physcia sp lichen on a birch tree.
NWT, Canada. Photo covers about 5cm, left to right. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Scientific American has updated the figure, now grouped into swimmers, fliers, walkers/runners, and vehicles. A person on a bicycle remains the most efficient way to travel, compared to all forms of biological locomotion and mechanical transport.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

I'm over the god shit this administration is pushing. They are literally the least godly people around.

Our nation is again at war, not because we had to but because the president recklessly chose to.

Now we must recognize who pays the price: not the president and his wealthy allies, but service members and ordinary Americans.

U.S. Shuts Kuwaiti Embassy And Evacuates Diplomatic Personnel From 6 Countries As Iran War Escalates—Iran War Live Updates Iran continued its retaliatory strikes on U.S. assets and allies in the Middle East and also threatened to sink any ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran continued its retaliatory strikes on U.S. assets and allies in the Middle East and also threatened to sink any ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

Nah. The real debate in America is between people who know Trump is evil and say so, and the people (like Laura!) who know Trump is corrupt and evil and lie about it for personal profit.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 03: U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) speaks as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 03, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Cory Booker to Kristi Noem: “Either you are utterly incompetent or you are violating laws with impunity — You should step down from your position. If you don’t, you should be removed by this president, and if not, Congress should impeach you”

Western US snowpack is still looking BAD. Hope for snow, but plan for low river flows and severe wildfire risk.

Rubio Today: It’s false to say I said the U.S. had to attack because Israel was going to attack. That’s not what I said.

Rubio Yesterday: We knew Israel was going to strike Iran, and that would trigger attacks on U.S. forces. If we didn’t act first, Americans would suffer higher casualties.