RIP Flaco 🪶🦉

The statistic I cannot shake is that the US Navy is authorized to harm 26 million marine marine mammals every 5yrs through sonar, explosives, ship strikes and military exercises. That excludes fish, reptiles, most ocean life and the empire's global footprint outside the US. How can we accept this!?

Just watched Abby Martin's latest documentary on the environmental devastation caused by the US military. An extraordinary piece of journalism. I work on climate and nature and write often about empire, yet even I had no idea how severe it was. What they are doing to this planet is heartbreaking.

More evidence for the ICC on premeditated war crimes to be committed by the USA.

Thanks for stopping by and having AI draft your responses to me with nonsense like this - When the facts reveal YOU to be a moron, the problem is not with the facts. It's that even AI couldn't write you a win. I'm honored. Since you're incapable of proper dialogue or respect I'll bid you goodbye.

Well done to these Irish activists. There should be no business as usual with the genocidal state of Israel, or with those who normalise its crimes, in this case the weak, snivelling FAI. Every one of them who signed off on this game should carry the shame of it wherever they go. #StopTheGame

More US infrastructure is literally crumbling, this time in the self-professed greatest city in the world, while the government keeps funneling US taxpayer money to Israel and the military industrial complex.

“When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, […] I come into the peace of wild things” Wendell Berry, 'The Peace of Wild Things' 🦋🐝

Frederick Douglass, 1852: "This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn." The country celebrating liberty today kidnapped Venezuela's president, bombed Iran's school girls, blockades Cuba, and is participating in genocide in Gaza.

6 World Cups between Argentina, Spain and Uruguay, and not one could beat Cape Verde in normal time. And tomorrow, on their 51st Independence Day, half a million people have plenty to celebrate and be proud of. Great to see!

Married just five months earlier, he left behind a pregnant wife and an unborn child he will never meet, a child who will never know their father. The weapons used to kill this innocent man were likely made and supplied by the FIFA peace prize winner and host of their world cup.

It stays with me that this DR Congo fan, passed around social media as a World Cup novelty, is honouring Patrice Lumumba, the first leader his country ever chose, a man the CIA killed in 1961, by holding his statue's pose at a tournament hosted by the country that killed him.

"I don't care if this sounds smug. I predicted what should have been obvious. Years before he entered No. 10, it was obvious that Keir Starmer’s project would end in catastrophe" - like seriously @owenjones.bsky.social ???

So good to get out into nature today and spend a few hours focused on real passions instead of war and atrocity. Worth remembering, though, that for too many people around the world, US policy denies them even this simple pleasure. 🦋

It's taken too long. But posts like this must surely make the US regime realize that they are in bed with the devil. This is the evil Israel wants the US tax payer to continue to fund.

🇮🇪 Thomas Gould is a good man who speaks with a passion and heart that represents the Irish people. Micheál Martin is an enemy of the Irish people. 🇵🇸 #StopTheGame

In the past, I can at least understand how US soldiers were brainwashed into fighting wars they believed were defending their country. Not today with the plethora of information available - Off they go to die for Israel, the oil companies, politicians, and their donors.

Ordinary Irish people like Mary Manning led the way in ending apartheid in South Africa. We must now stand up to Israel's genocide 🇮🇪 #StopTheGame

As am I

I won't pretend to have known a lot about Albanian politics before this week, but I can tell you that any prime minister who heads a so-called socialist party, yet is determined to sell off sovereign Albanian land to predatory Zionist capitalists, is one corrupt and/or compromised individual. #Sazan

The US brands liberators terrorists while making them necessary 🇨🇺

Mandela refused to abandon Cuba because they showed up when the US wouldn't. MLK called the US the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. Both men were labeled radicals for saying so. Rubio is still making the same argument their enemies made, but the world knows the truth.

When Rubio says Cuba funds subversive networks, he's talking about liberation movements like those led by Nelson Mandela in apartheid South Africa. The US labeled Mandela a terrorist for 18 years after he left prison, during which time he won a Nobel Peace Prize. Make of that what you will.

Rand Al Halawani and Natalie Abu Dayyeh are talented footballers and proud Palestinians, one of them training to be a journalist. These young women are exactly the type of beacons for an occupied people the Israeli regime has spent decades trying to silence and erase.

I'd encourage everyone to read the newly published English translation of Francesca Albanese's 'When the World Sleeps' in which she invites you into the Palestinian lives she experienced first hand. "Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?" — Thich Nhat Hanh

In the tradition of her father's hero Columbus, Ivanka Trump claimed to discover an uninhabited island and proceeded to begin its colonization process. The detachment from reality in both human and ecological terms in this conversation has to be seen to be believed.

I guess I won:

I'm still shocked by how many people have no Bluesky presence after Netanyahu publicly called X a battlefield and its owner a friend #ElonMusk

We hear constantly that global opinion is turning against Israel's genocide. Meanwhile Western governments are banning its critics, welcoming its war crimes suspects, and legislating to make their support permanent: shorturl.at/gTU4c

The old Attack = Defense argument from the Pentagon stenographers