Dana Bergstrom

One of the unintended risks/ consequences of war for the region 👇🏽

Greens senator criticises Albanese government for 'rushing' to back strikes on Iran – video 'Labor and the Coalition and One Nation are now the three war parties in this parliament,' David Shoebridge says

Greens senator David Shoebridge condemns #Albolini & Co. for 'rushing' to back what he describes as 'illegal' military attacks on #Iran by the US and #Israel. 'Labor and the Coalition and One Nation are now the three war parties in this parliament.'

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol

Study: Modest moss supports billions of tons of carbon storage Plant life plays a crucial role in fighting climate change by absorbing and transforming greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. For instance, over its lifetime, a tree can absorb more than a ton of car...

Mosses are a force of nature - save them
Mosses sequester around 6.43 billion metric tons more carbon in the soil than is stored in the bare patches of soil without any plants

Mosses can thrive in challenging environments where other plants struggle to survive.

news.umich.edu/study-modest...

A truly beautiful bird that is a light to medium muted pink color who's feathers cover it like a dress or skirt it has black legs and a very long light pink beak

Roseate Spoonbill bird in flight

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Today more than ever, it is essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime as is the case with the Iranian regime…and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”

Few things matter more than an awareness of these crossroads of humanity, the need for civil dialogues on options ahead, and governments’ preparedness to govern wisely and with their publics in unstable times ahead. As otherwise, things fall apart rather fast. 🧵2/3
www.euronews.com/2026/02/27/t...

Abrupt Gulf Stream path changes are a precursor to a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation - Communications Earth & Environment The northward shift and rapid displacement of the Gulf Stream provide an indirect early warning of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakening and collapse, revealed by both high-resolution ...

Another potential early warning sign of an AMOC collapse described by vanWesten and Dijkstra. “These findings provide indirect evidence for present-day AMOC weakening and demonstrate that abrupt Gulf Stream shifts can serve as early warning indicator for AMOC tipping”

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

“meticulously planned joint operation with the United States” over months

If they can track an individual’s detailed movements, detect a slight variation in daily activity, then assassinate, can it be concluded that the hit on elementary school, where tens of girls were killed, was planned to? 😵‍💫

People in the US do not understand that our science is already being gutted, and if this continues it will be essentially gone.

The science ecosystem must be maintained continuously or it dies. No funding = no young trainees = no knowledge transmission. A few years of this and it is gone for good.

YouTube video by Edwin Starr - Topic War

music.youtube.com/watch?v=hZJR...

“War - huh- what is it good for? Absolutely nothing “ 💯

👇🏽 Worth a read and save

Musk v. Arendt
#empathy #politics #philosophy

I think "killing children is always bad" is maybe the easiest simplest position to hold.

UpScrolled, the new alternate to tok tok, has strong uptake by people living in the Middle East. It now showing the chaos of the region with more granularity than legacy news or 🦋.
e.g Jordanian civilians angry at being hit with debris from Israel shooting down Iranian missiles. over their country

😵‍💫

The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

I wish this didn't seem so relevant so often: "In mainstream discourse, it's become standard to blame the excesses of the right on liberals, the left, feminists.... It's a way that the right is granted masculine prerogatives and the left feminine responsibilities for the right's behavior."

Thank goodness there are some mature voices in Australia

This map shows widely dispersed dots representing the guesses of US survey respondents about the location of Iran on a world map. 23% placed a dot in the correct area.

Where is Iran?
Each dot represents an American's guess.
pro.morningconsult.com/articles/can... 🌐

A long time ago, I used to know a lot about foreign-imposed regime change (FIRC) and study them.

I guess that makes me qualified to write a thread about them, especially in wake of Trump bombing Iran.

So here goes nothing. 🧵

A scorching summer has left Australian wildlife on the brink, but it doesn’t have to be this way | Euan Ritchie and Jess Harwood Unsettling predictions are now our catastrophic reality, but a brighter future is still within reach if our political leaders change course

“We must change course: we owe it to current and future generations and the extraordinary and unique plants, animals and other life we share this world with.”

🙏 @euanritchie.bsky.social @jessharwoodart.bsky.social

“Along with the subversion of democracy, personal corruption provides a second interpretive framework”

Your opposition to war can just be that war is evil. it doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.

A Gary Larson, Far Side cartoon of a kid pushing at a school door, clearly marked “pull”. There is a sign that reads “Midvale, school for the gifted”

Seems relevant today.

War is peace 🤦‍♀️😔

For those in need, 🦋 has a feed called Moss

I'm sure all of those Iranian protesters whose friends and compatriots were massacred are thrilled the US and Israel are coming to their rescue by...

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Bombing the fuck out of them.

(Before our govt tries THAT excuse. Again.)

article 8bis of the rome statute of the international criminal court

continuation of article 8bis

posting, once again, the well-established definition of the crime of aggression in the rome statute for the ICC

Old men sending young men to war, to hide their crimes and avoid retributions and little girls get killed. 😡

Backing illegal action that has just killed school girls.

Prof Ben Saul - UN SR Human Rights &... • 1h Deeply disturbing Australia supports the illegal US/ Israeli aggression against Iran in violation of the UN Charter. This is not lawful self-defence against an armed attack by Iran & the Security Council has not authorized it. Preventive regime change is an international crime Anthony Albanese • @AlboMP • 1h Australia stands with the brave people of Iran in their struggle against oppression. For decades, the Iranian regime has been a destabilising force, through its ballist...

UN special rapporteur on counter terrorism and human rights Ben Saul is “deeply disturbed” by Australia’s support for illegal US/Israeli aggression against Iran in violation of the UN Charter.

“Preventive regime change is an international crime.”