Animals interrupting wildlife photographers - a thread 🧵

1. A curious fox by Dan Dinu

This June at SCOTUS: Abortion, guns, guns, separation of powers, speech, social media, POTUS immunity, the future of the CPSC, free speech, and much, much more. I’m grading so I need to yell: THIS IS WAY TOO MUCH POWER FOR UNELECTED JUDGES. HOW DO YOU NOT SEE THIS?

A group of 5-10 white men, organized and fundraised with 800 people, to mobilize a vote of 17,421 people to breakaway and create a new city in my home town.

People often ask me why I’m so direct about race. It’s in my face everyday how clear some in our city think about Black…

Tina's Hospital For Dogs Who Aren't Doing So Good - A Big Update 🏥🌴🐶

Tina’s time with me (and everybody around the world on their phone screens) was very short but her legacy is going to live long into the future.

In the days and weeks leading up to her passing I talked to…

New investigation:

Dozens of federal judges attended week-long seminars at luxury retreats - receiving free rooms, free meals and free money for travel worth thousands - and failed to fully disclose as required.

The judges with disclosure issues included some big names.

Yesterday the House of Reps passed HR 764, which would remove protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states. The bill passed along party lines + sets a dangerous precedent - that species' status could be determined by Congress, not scientists.
newsday.com/news/nation/wo…

Boeing's 787 'Dreamliner' is manufactured far from the company's Seattle headquarters, in a non-union shop in Charleston, South Carolina. At that shop, there is a cage full of defective parts that have been pulled from production because they are not airworthy.

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Let's be clear about what happened. The Voting Rights Act was put in place to stop racist whites from gerrymandering Black ppl out of representation. Two Trump appointees just said that requirement of the VRA violates the Equal Protection Clause by discriminating against whites.

Today Gov. Kemp signs #SB420 , part of a national conservative push to restrict people from certain countries from buying or leasing property.

I promise you, many voters clustered in GA’s few remaining swing districts are paying attention.

And they vote.

ICYMI: A few weeks ago, Elon Musk had a secret billionaire’s dinner in Hollywood called the “Anti-Biden Bash.” Dozens of billionaires, including Rupert Murdoch & Peter Thiel attended. Even former members of Trump’s cabinet were there, e.g. Steven Mnuchin. puck.news/elon-musk-davi…

Extreme far right Catholic Robbie George is on the board at Heritage, which picked extreme right Catholic Kevin Roberts to run Heritage, which gave us Leonard Leo’s Project 2025. He and Leo also sit on Becket Fund, which gave us Hobby Lobby, board.

Cigna - like all private health insurers - has two contradictory imperatives:

I. To keep its customers healthy; and

II. To make as much money for its shareholders as is possible.

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If I seem a bit more strident this weekend, it’s because something important happened Thursday. I had the opportunity to listen to a two-and-one-half hour academic circle-jerk performed by our so-called Supreme Court, ignoring (a) facts in the record of the case before it, and

Don’t lecture me abt Hamas. I’ve always opposed them. At first, Israel saw them as an alternative to the PLO, then as a useful foil to avoid fulfilling Oslo, then used them to weaken the PA, funneling money to them & finally using them to justify strangling & now demolishing Gaza

A law in Florida charges inmates $50 a day to stay in prison cells. Plunging them into lifelong debt. A woman who was sentenced to 7 years but only did 10 months still owes $127K and can’t work in her dream job even after graduating from college.

The 'lung float' test is being used to charge women with murder. Many experts say it's unreliable.

“There’s no way you can determine live birth versus stillbirth with this test,' said one doctor, who called the test “an outrageous breach of science.” propublica.org/article/is-lun…

I’m a scholar of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a longtime advocate for peace and for Palestinian rights. I have publicly opposed Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, and its blockade and now destruction of Gaza. I support the rights of students and faculty to peacefully…

NEWS --> Prominent conservative Michael Luttig excoriates the right wing SCOTUS justices as 'radical,' predicting that in the 1/6 case, they'll protect Trump entirely.

“I now believe that it is unlikely Trump will ever be tried,' Luttig tells me.

Link:
newrepublic.com/article/181059…

Well, here we go. Full steam ahead for fetal personhood.

The only answer I have for this question is because the Biden folks don't want the fucking world to end. They want to hit the Paris Agreement targets and so that America can lead by example, even if there is a political cost and very little gain.