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Fourth: A rare sidestep from my usual work: on the hunt for Malaysia’s elusive wildlife trafficker with Bellingcat.
The Hunt for Malaysia's Elusive Wildlife Trafficker - bellingcat
After a decade of elusive wildlife trafficking, we traced one anonymous dealer to a house in Malaysia, all thanks to a customer complaint.
www.bellingcat.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Fourth: A rare sidestep from my usual work: on the hunt for Malaysia’s elusive wildlife trafficker with Bellingcat.
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Some species officially bid us farewell this year. Recent IUCN assessments now list the slender-billed curlew, Christmas Island shrew, three Australian bandicoots, plants in Mauritius and Hawai‘i, and a Cape Verde cone snail as extinct.
Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered…
news.mongabay.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Some species officially bid us farewell this year. Recent IUCN assessments now list the slender-billed curlew, Christmas Island shrew, three Australian bandicoots, plants in Mauritius and Hawai‘i, and a Cape Verde cone snail as extinct.
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Joann Andrews treated conservation in Mexico’s Yucatán not as romance but practical work: institutions, funding, politics.
A diplomat-turned-orchid expert, she co-founded Pronatura Península de Yucatán in 1987 and pushed youth engagement. She died Dec. 22 in Mérida at 96.
A diplomat-turned-orchid expert, she co-founded Pronatura Península de Yucatán in 1987 and pushed youth engagement. She died Dec. 22 in Mérida at 96.
Joann Andrews, a patient force behind Yucatán’s protected landscapes
Conservation has a habit of being treated as either romance or emergency. In practice it is closer to logistics: permits, budgets, awkward meetings, long drives, and the slow work of persuading…
news.mongabay.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Joann Andrews treated conservation in Mexico’s Yucatán not as romance but practical work: institutions, funding, politics.
A diplomat-turned-orchid expert, she co-founded Pronatura Península de Yucatán in 1987 and pushed youth engagement. She died Dec. 22 in Mérida at 96.
A diplomat-turned-orchid expert, she co-founded Pronatura Península de Yucatán in 1987 and pushed youth engagement. She died Dec. 22 in Mérida at 96.
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We are not a third world country, we are a third grade country.
December 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
We are not a third world country, we are a third grade country.
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They sure have an aesthetic...Lani Reifenstal would have been impressed
Reminds me of certain episodes, in the alternative universe, from S2 of the show Peacemaker #IYKYK
Reminds me of certain episodes, in the alternative universe, from S2 of the show Peacemaker #IYKYK
December 29, 2025 at 4:46 AM
They sure have an aesthetic...Lani Reifenstal would have been impressed
Reminds me of certain episodes, in the alternative universe, from S2 of the show Peacemaker #IYKYK
Reminds me of certain episodes, in the alternative universe, from S2 of the show Peacemaker #IYKYK
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December 29, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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I’ve seen no serious engagement from senior Dems about what, exactly, they plan to do in terms of reasserting congressional power, as in identifying the available tools and thinking seriously about ways to use them to dig us out of the current state of total constitutional collapse.
Pelosi: "Right now, Republicans in Congress have abolished the Congress. They just do what the president insists that they do. That will be over as soon as we have the gavel."
December 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I’ve seen no serious engagement from senior Dems about what, exactly, they plan to do in terms of reasserting congressional power, as in identifying the available tools and thinking seriously about ways to use them to dig us out of the current state of total constitutional collapse.
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Because Trump is an idiot and crap business person who bankrupts and Elon is a toxic narcissist who thinks because he is good at one thing he is good at everything: How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Because Trump is an idiot and crap business person who bankrupts and Elon is a toxic narcissist who thinks because he is good at one thing he is good at everything: How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
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MeanCat has pushed his morning meetings until after lunch, and those meetings better not be able to be emails
December 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
MeanCat has pushed his morning meetings until after lunch, and those meetings better not be able to be emails
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Oh he’s so mad. Painting his Orangey Door a nice blue. A couple coats to go and will finish tomorrow, but MeanCat is so mad right now.
December 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Oh he’s so mad. Painting his Orangey Door a nice blue. A couple coats to go and will finish tomorrow, but MeanCat is so mad right now.
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We can regurgitate regime propaganda on Nigeria or we can see what’s really happening. Trump is working with the opposition party led by a Christian to try and topple the gov led by Muslim to take their oil and lithium for Trump’s billionaire buds.
December 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
We can regurgitate regime propaganda on Nigeria or we can see what’s really happening. Trump is working with the opposition party led by a Christian to try and topple the gov led by Muslim to take their oil and lithium for Trump’s billionaire buds.
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December 27, 1831, HMS Beagle with 22-year-old naturalist/geologist Charles Darwin on board departs Plymouth harbor, England, for a survey of South America - it will become a 5-year-long geologizing voyage around the world ⚒️
www.bressan-geoconsult.eu/darwin-the-g...
www.bressan-geoconsult.eu/darwin-the-g...
December 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
December 27, 1831, HMS Beagle with 22-year-old naturalist/geologist Charles Darwin on board departs Plymouth harbor, England, for a survey of South America - it will become a 5-year-long geologizing voyage around the world ⚒️
www.bressan-geoconsult.eu/darwin-the-g...
www.bressan-geoconsult.eu/darwin-the-g...
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NEW DATA: in November, the unemployment rate rose to the highest level since September 2021. That’s Trump’s economy.
December 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
NEW DATA: in November, the unemployment rate rose to the highest level since September 2021. That’s Trump’s economy.
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also, this happened this year:
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co
December 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
also, this happened this year:
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
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A lovely urban beaver pond complete with lodge and dam.
December 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A lovely urban beaver pond complete with lodge and dam.
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Monarda fistulosa, our Wild Bergamot, blooming at Buttonrock Reservoir #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 26 🌿
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 26 🌿
December 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Monarda fistulosa, our Wild Bergamot, blooming at Buttonrock Reservoir #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 26 🌿
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 26 🌿
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The top is after Trump’s DOJ redactions below is without, I can almost figure out who they are protecting
December 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The top is after Trump’s DOJ redactions below is without, I can almost figure out who they are protecting
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On behalf of everyone in The Resistance movement following the massive EPSTEIN coverup, I want to wish all my fellow Radical Left Scum the happiest of holidays!- ♥️, Mar🐫
December 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
On behalf of everyone in The Resistance movement following the massive EPSTEIN coverup, I want to wish all my fellow Radical Left Scum the happiest of holidays!- ♥️, Mar🐫
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can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
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MeanCat wishes very few of us a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
December 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
MeanCat wishes very few of us a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
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Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
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WHO GIVES A DAMN?
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
WHO GIVES A DAMN?
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts.
Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.
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A wet desert lily flowering with a grand view while storm clouds are moving in from the west this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).
December 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A wet desert lily flowering with a grand view while storm clouds are moving in from the west this morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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We see him when he's sleeping (at cabinet meetings), we know when he's awake (whining about late night comedy).
December 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
We see him when he's sleeping (at cabinet meetings), we know when he's awake (whining about late night comedy).