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Oregon Senate Passes Bipartisan Measure Investing in the State’s Natural Environment and Wildlife House Bill 4134 relies on taxes paid by visitors in hotels, motels, and other vacation stays SALEM, OR – The same gorgeous landscapes that draw tourists to our state will get new investments funded by those visitors under legislation passed today in the Oregon Senate. A tax on hotels, motels, and vacation stays will help pay for wildfire resilience, invasive-species eradication, wildlife conservation, and prevention of poaching. The broadly supported, bipartisan measure helps reverse decades of underfunding for protection of fish and wildlife.

INBOX: The Oregon Senate passed the 1.25 Percent for Wildlife bill, which will raise the state’s lodging tax by 1.25 percent to fund wildlife conservation programs, mostly through the Dept of Fish and Wildlife. This has been a long time in the making.

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."

A photo realistic close-up of a mixed selection of biscuits, including chocolate fingers, chocolate digestives, and a lemon puff

The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield.
‘Biscuits ’
(Yes, it is a painting - from First Picture Book, 1970)

NASA unveils dazzling new images of the ‘Cat’s Eye Nebula’ The space-based telescopes Hubble and Euclid combined forces to capture a dying star in stunning new detail

The space-based telescopes Hubble and Euclid combined forces to capture a dying star in stunning new detail

Haitian man dies in US immigration custody with untreated toothache, brother says A Haitian man confined at an Arizona immigration detention center for months after the denial of his asylum application has died in the hospital

Emmanuel Damas, another individual killed in ICE custody.

He had a toothache. They ignored it. He died of spesis. Read that again.

Why do we need to fund this murderous agency?

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It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for.

Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.

Maybe two...

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I think I’d better buy a lottery ticket @davidboo.bsky.social

Duh!

If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...

As revealed by my colleague @adambienkov.bsky.social last year, the BBC drew up a strategy to appeal more to Reform voters.

Might be waiting a while for them to do the same for Green voters...

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column.
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Call To Action | Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 | Substack Hello! I write about what politicians are really doing to the NHS, because the media doesn't explain it properly. I also write about UK politics+other bits & bobs! Call to Action is a Substack bestsel...

I’ve been campaigning for over a decade, + with the surge in support for the Greens, this is the most positive I have felt about the NHS’s future in a v long time. But there’s something they’re missing - a massive open goal. I’m writing about it tonight: jujuliagrace.substack.com

OUT NOW: New research reveals the link between First-Past-the-Post and the rise of Reform UK.

Read our paper ‘Lifting the Lid on Britain’s Pressure-Cooker Politics’ by Stuart Donald.

🧨“The Government’s refusal to look at Proportional Representation is dangerously short-sighted.”

Brendan O'Hara MP eloquently warns of the possibility that Reform may win majority power in 2029 on barely 30% of the vote if #FirstPastThePost stays.

#ElectoralReform #Democracy

Shabana Mahmood seems to be intent on speed-running the Reform entrance exam.

Given the long timelines in book publishing, someone might want to start drafting "The Last Ever Labour Government" already.

Has your MP joined the Parliamentary Call for a televised emergency briefing to the nation on the threats from climate change and nature loss?
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Have they watched the expert briefings?
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#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp

How an underground fungal map of the world's oldest, slowest-growing rainforest trees can boost Earth's resilience The temperate rainforests of the Chilean Coast Range are home to a spectacular array of life: iridescent blue lizards, tiny wild cats called kodkods, and curly vines of waxy red bellflowers. Towering ...

Globally, mycorrhizal fungal communities move roughly a billion tons of carbon per year into Earth's soils, above all in old-growth forests.

Wild, natural ecosystems are the bedrock of a healthy planet. It's time we started recognising and acting on that.
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Lobbyists send legal threats to councils over anti-wood burner campaigns At least eight councils receive legal threats alleging flyers criticising wood burners are in breach of advertising codes

Lobbyists send legal threats to councils over anti-wood burner campaigns

#AirPollution

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"Niemand wil voor Israël vechten!" Brian McGinnis (veteraan, vredesactivist, Green party kandidaat) bij een hoorzitting van de subcommissie Defensie VS.

🚨 SHOCKING / WARNING: Senator Tim Sheehy breekt Brian z'n arm. 🚨

Dit is hoe ver ze gaan om hem te verwijderen / het zwijgen op te leggen.

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There was a time when if anyone touched a Marine like this, Americans would beat the shit out of them. What happened guys?

Pro-Israel Sen. Tim Sheehy and security guards attacked veteran Brian McGinnis after he got up to protest the US going to war for Israel, and broke his arm.

There is just something deeply disturbing and offensive about watching a Labour govt keep kicking the most vulnerable in our society.

A group of young people hold up placards saying "electoral reform" & "we are voting"

The new electoral reform Bill changes a lot, but why not fix all the problems? In 2024, Labour won two-thirds of seats with one-third of the vote. That’s not democracy. Are we avoiding the elephant in the room? Stephen McNair reports

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MARINE: “NO ONE WANTS TO DIE FOR ISRAEL”

U.S. Marine Brian McGinnis got dragged out of a senate hearing for standing up and saying what everyone is thinking.

Reports that Sen Tim Sheehy broke his hand.

The ghouls in US Senate and US military heads stifling free speech #Auspol #USpol #Scotus #Potus #Israel #Ukpol

the_thinking_great_ape You know what WON'T get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz? Sunlight and solar panels. @nickofnz

China Starts Sea Trials for Largest Electric-Powered Containership China’s first 10,000-ton electric containership is beginning sea trials. The shipyard is billing the ship as the largest of its kind and a further bre...

Large electric powered container ships are already a reality.

When posting about this 2 years ago the so-called “experts” said it is impossible.

Can people stop listening to oil and gas “experts” soon?