Forest Snow 🍁❄️🌲

YouTube video by COP30 Brasil Amazônia 🔴 Press conference on the second day of COP30

NOW: Governor Gavin Newsom delivers remarks at the Ministerial Meeting co-hosted by the #COP30 Presidency, Brazil’s Ministry of Cities, and UN-Habitat.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o8r...

I just signed an MOU with the Brazilian Governor of Parà, @helderbarbalhoreal.bsky.social, to strengthen cooperation on wildfire prevention and response.

We're identifying areas of risk, enhancing forest monitoring, and sharing research and expertise for emergency response.

A pleasure meeting with Environment Minister Thekla Walker to celebrate 10 years since the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg launched the Under2 Coalition with California.

Proud to further our partnership in the fight against climate change.

Governor Newsom oversees the signing of a new MOU on climate between California and Nigeria.

California just teamed up with Nigeria on a new climate partnership at #COP30 — focused on cleaner transportation, climate adaptation, and cutting pollution.

Real action, global collaboration!

This poor frightened boy is at Queens Animal Care Center if anyone in NYC can help. 💔

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

The Bliss of Silent Places
Steve Driscoll
2021

I love glacial lakes and Banff Lake is spectacular…..❄️❄️❄️

YouTube video by Yusuf / Cat Stevens Yusuf / Cat Stevens – Morning Has Broken (Official Lyric Video)

Morning Has Broken

Trump-Putin Meeting Live: Russia-Ukraine War Summit Begins in Alaska U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are talking face-to-face to discuss what it would take to end the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will not be p...

The Trump-Putin summit will no longer be a 1X1 format but 3X3 to include Russian and American diplomats joining Trump and Putin.
But don’t worry: all 6 officials will be on the same page

Haha very true!! Thank God not all licorice is like salmiak but sometimes it is nice to enjoy that uniquely weird flavor 😂🙏

Gavin Newsom: “Wake up America. You will not have a country if he rigs this election. These guys are not screwing around. The most corrupt president in history. He is wrecking this country, wrecking the economy. He is a lawless president. Wake up America.”

On November 4th in California, you will have the power to stand up to Donald Trump. You will have the power to stand up for people.

We're going to give the people of this state the power to stand up for democracy.

And Lördagsgodis can often include eating salty licorice like salmiak.
It’s an interesting but acquired taste and best eaten in small amounts because of ammonium chloride ☺️🇸🇪

Even before Alaska summit, Putin is redrawing global order to his liking The Alaska summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin represents a return to great-power politics in which big countries call the shots.

Redrawing global order has been the publicly declared joint agenda of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping since March 2013.
But Western leaders did nothing to counter that plan/protect the rules-based international order.

Now the world is on the brink of a geopolitical tectonic shift

Trump gets a lot of his info from Russia

European Leaders, Zelenskyy Reportedly to Confer With Trump Before Putin Meeting in Alaska European leaders will join President Zelenskyy for a video call with President Trump on August 13 to discuss strategies against Russia.

European Leaders, Zelenskyy Reportedly to Confer With Trump Before Putin Meeting in Alaska

DC is just the beginning

US ambassador makes history in Judea and Samaria visit Shift US policy on display as Ambassador Mike Huckabee visits Shiloh, where the Tabernacle stood for hundreds of years after the Israelites entered the Land

Evangelical Christian Zionism and Jewish Zionism overlap in US policy on Israel, and the US ambassador met cows:

“Huckabee began his tour by meeting with five red heifers being raised at the site, in accordance with the biblical commandment and in preparation for the future building of the Temple.”

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Saturday flatly rejected the idea that Ukraine could cede land to Russia after President Trump suggested that a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia could include “some swapping of territories.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/w...

Trump to meet Putin in Alaska next week US President Donald Trump says he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska next Friday, as his Ukrainian counterpart says, "Any decision made without Ukraine ... will never work".

Trump to meet Putin in Alaska on Friday, August 15 as Zelenskyy condemns any decision made without Ukraine

What’s Inside the Tiny Miracle Food Pouches That Can Save the Lives of Starving Gazans Packed with calories and protein, the same magic mixture has successfully treated famine for decades—but due to funding cuts it's now in short supply.

As starvation bites and famine takes hold, MSF nutrition clinics in Gaza are fast running out of RUTF stock, claims Berbain. But there are broader supply chain concerns. The shuttering of USAID has led to hundreds of thousands of boxes of sachets collecting dust in warehouses around the world.

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff arrives in Moscow two days before Trump’s ceasefire deadline — Meduza U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff has arrived in Moscow, Interfax reported on August 6, citing a source with knowledge of the matter.

Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff has arrived in Moscow
and was met by Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and Putin’s special representative for economic cooperation with foreign countries.

This marks Witkoff’s fifth visit to Russia in 2025

That’s why he was chosen

Russia says it has removed limits on intermediate-range missile deployment Western security analysts say the announcement is intended as an aggressive signal to the West after Trump ordered repositioning of U.S. nuclear submarines

Russia said on Tuesday that it would no longer place any limits on where it deploys intermediate-range missiles that can carry nuclear warheads

I agree

Phang: Good for Pritzker, good for Hochul, good for Newsom—good for these other Democratic governors who are saying, “You know what? F off.” We’re not going to let people in these other states—people who are under attack and trying to do the right thing for their constituents—go without support