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I meant earthjustice! Ecojustice is my Canadian connection🍁

I follow eco justice and since I lived in Yukon & visited Alaska it bugs me I can't be part of this but it's come up many times over yrs of petitions😉

Notice a difference in how Democracy Docket framed Trump's threats vs how legacy media did? This is no accident. They are more interested in normalizing Trump to please their corporate overlords. Democracy Docket is only interested in providing you the truth. Support its work. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

My legal team will be in federal court in North Carolina today fighting against the state's unconstitutional redrawn congressional map. Before you listen to those in the GOP who say we can't win, ask Texas how that worked out for them.

Anytime you’re feeling embarrassed, remember that Clay Higgins woke up this morning to the realization he was the only one in the whole ass Congress who voted to defend pedophiles.

He gets to carry that vote with him like a scarlet letter for the rest of his unremarkable existence.

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Meet my friend @buzzgrambo.bsky.social. Radicalized by his oath to the constitution. Long time member of the @dailybeanspod.com community. Proud of you, shipmate.

Mark Kelly: "He's talked about sending troops into more cities, he's talked about invoking the Insurrection Act. You don't have to go too far back to his 1st administration when he went to his Sec Def & said, 'Can't we just shoot these protesters in the legs.' That is an example of an illegal order"

Morning Kittens

Rep. Jason Crow: “Karoline Leavitt is outright lying. Actually, what she said from the podium is that there was an encouragement of disobeying lawful orders. We actually said the exact opposite.”

Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."

Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for $54.7m to set new auction record for a female artist The 1940 painting of Kahlo asleep in bed has surpassed the record set by the $44.4m sale of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 in 2014 A 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7m (£41.8m, A$84.7m) at a New York art auction, setting a new top sale price for a work by any female artist. El sueño (La cama), or The Dream (The Bed), which depicts Kahlo asleep in a bed with a smiling skeleton wrapped in dynamite on the canopy above her, sold on Thursday night at a Sotheby’s auction of surrealist art after four minutes of bidding. Continue reading...

Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for $54.7m to set new auction record for a female artist

California needs a fighter and protector. I’m running for Governor.

@deadder.bsky.social

Earthjustice Responds to Another Trump Administration Attack on Endangered Species Set of proposed rules would hollow out bedrock environmental law

These proposed regulations follow a series of other attacks on the ESA and wildlife by the second Trump administration.

“Most people are not going to allow the sacrifice of our natural world to a bunch of billionaires and corporate interests,” said Earthjustice attorney Kristen Boyles.

We're Suing the Trump Administration Over Its Unlawful Gulf of Mexico Oil Sale The Interior Department plans to hold an 80-million-acre oil sale in the Gulf of Mexico on Dec. 10.

Earthjustice is fighting back. Earlier this week, we filed a lawsuit to challenge the Trump administration's first offshore oil sale in the Gulf.

BREAKING: The Trump admin has unveiled a new federal offshore drilling plan to dramatically expand oil and gas sales in the U.S., by auctioning off public waters across approximately 1.27 billion acres.

She Studied How Logging Affects Pollinators

More: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s... (gift). Consequences? Bee & other pollinator populations are crashing, with disastrous consequences for plant & animal biodiversity, agriculture, and ecosystem health. More research—not no research—is needed to save all of us: pollinators, animals, and humans. 🌎

E.P.A. Rule Would Drastically Curb Protections for Wetlands

...that have lobbied to scale back the Clean Water Act of 1972, which requires permits before releasing pollutants or dredged/fill material (sand, silt, construction debris, etc.) into waterways: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/c... (gift).

The public will be able to comment (watch this space). 🌎

We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.

...of butterfly species and how to reverse their declines: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s... (gift).

A free app lets you follow the progress of individual butterflies. Here's how to create pollinator gardens to attract them and to support their journeys: xerces.org/monarchs/cit.... #insects 🌎

Well that must be awfully lonely! I live in Ontario cottage country, in the last 25 yrs we've exploded with turkeys. I love seeing huge families on my property. Thankfully they are very traffic savvy on sides of roads/hwys 🦃

Defend the Western Arctic from oil and gas drilling Add your name today and tell the Department of the Interior: Don’t trade these essential and sensitive Arctic ecosystems for short-term oil profits.

...than 18-million acres to oil and gas development. We need to overwhelmingly say NO! @earthjustice.org makes it easy with a comment you can personalize and they'll send for you: earthjustice.org/action/the-w.... It takes just minutes to save those lands for generations. Comments due by Nov. 21. 🌎

Tried to sign petition but it rejects me - Canadian

Trump Moves to Weaken the Endangered Species Act

...the gov't to assess economic factors, such as lost revenue, before deciding to list a species as endangered. The ESA requires the gov't to consider only the best available science when making decisions: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/c... (gift). We'll have a chance to comment. #birds #wildlife 🌎

NEXTA
NOV 19

Putin sees the end of the war as a threat to his own power – WSJ .

According to US intelligence, the Kremlin cannot explain to Russians, the enormous losses and expenses, so it is trying to prolong the war for as long as possible. Any negotiations are a risk for Putin.

ABC NEWS-Australia
Nov 19

All road crossings between
Finland and Russia are closed. A 3 meter fence, 200 miles long is currently being built by Finland on its border with Russia.!

Finland has joined NATO
and its citizens eagerly join the military and look at their service as a privilege.

How little plastic does it take to kill marine animals? Scientists have answers Ocean plastic kills sea creatures. For the first time, researchers set out to find out how much it takes. The answer: Surprisingly little.

How little plastic does it take to kill marine animals? Scientists have answers www.latimes.com/science/stor... 🦑🌎🧪

Today we're celebrating the official 25th birthday of the Millennium Seed Bank - 25 years of pioneering seed-saving science and a future of restoring habitats across the globe 🌍🌱🎉

Want in? Access 25 years of research, partnerships and seed collections right here 👇
www.kew.org/wakehurst/wh...

In Washington, Birds Are Giving ‘Yelp Reviews’ of Forest Restoration Work

Instead birds can tell researchers, through small audio devices strapped to trees across 4,533 acres of protected land in western Washington. Bird calls are analyzed by AI, volunteers, and students; the data guides habitat restoration work: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c... (gift). #birds 🌎

Tell your senators to stop Steve Pearce’s nomination! Another blow has landed against public lands with the nomination of former Congressman Steve Pearce (R-NM) to run the Bureau of Land Management.

His nomination sends an unambiguous message that Trump intends to continue dismantling and privatizing public lands. You can send an unambiguous NO! @wilderness.org makes fast & easy with a letter you can personalize; they'll send it to your US senators: act.wilderness.org/a/steve-pear...? 🌎