Judith Gardener
@earther.bsky.social
Post-partisan social misfit. Insatiably curious reader, over-thinker, gardener. Loves Earth, mountains, trees, plants, all creatures. Deplores predatory, greedy, willfully ignorant humans. Port Angeles, Washington, USA (Canadian border & Olympic Mountains)
PetSafe shock collars falsely advertised as ‘harmless,’ class action claims
"To conceal the true nature of the shock collars, Radio Systems uses euphemisms to describe what being electrocuted by a shock collar feels like for a pet, the lawsuit states."
PetSafe shock collars falsely advertised as 'harmless,' class action claims
Radio Systems markets its PetSafe shock collars as being safe and harmless, when they actually harm pets physically and psychologically, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
topclassactions.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
PetSafe shock collars falsely advertised as ‘harmless,’ class action claims
This "ocean-based carbon removal" & sea life harm is disturbing.
Microsoft wants this startup company to dump their CO2 into the Port Angeles harbor, which is on the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Canadian border. The operation is backed by the Washington state Ecology dept.
tinyurl.com/2pxnu23v
Microsoft wants this startup company to dump their CO2 into the Port Angeles harbor, which is on the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Canadian border. The operation is backed by the Washington state Ecology dept.
tinyurl.com/2pxnu23v
November 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This "ocean-based carbon removal" & sea life harm is disturbing.
Microsoft wants this startup company to dump their CO2 into the Port Angeles harbor, which is on the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Canadian border. The operation is backed by the Washington state Ecology dept.
tinyurl.com/2pxnu23v
Microsoft wants this startup company to dump their CO2 into the Port Angeles harbor, which is on the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Canadian border. The operation is backed by the Washington state Ecology dept.
tinyurl.com/2pxnu23v
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‘Father’ and ‘dad’ are synonyms.
‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms.
But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…
‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms.
But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
‘Father’ and ‘dad’ are synonyms.
‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms.
But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…
‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms.
But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…
Reposted by Judith Gardener
DYK? If you own an electric vehicle , it can potentially pose more danger to wildlife who may have learned to listen for vehicle engines to determine safe crossing ? Be vigilant
#electricvehicle #wildlife #nature
#electricvehicle #wildlife #nature
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
DYK? If you own an electric vehicle , it can potentially pose more danger to wildlife who may have learned to listen for vehicle engines to determine safe crossing ? Be vigilant
#electricvehicle #wildlife #nature
#electricvehicle #wildlife #nature
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November 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Support independent environmental journalism in the Columbia River Basin.
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I wish I could send you a copy of this book. The author intends for readers to spend 2 weeks on each chapter, thus reading, thinking, acting on it for a year. Based on =Engaged= Buddhism. Don't we all need this?
"Contemplative practices for meeting a world in crisis with courage, integrity & love"
"Contemplative practices for meeting a world in crisis with courage, integrity & love"
November 11, 2025 at 6:48 AM
I wish I could send you a copy of this book. The author intends for readers to spend 2 weeks on each chapter, thus reading, thinking, acting on it for a year. Based on =Engaged= Buddhism. Don't we all need this?
"Contemplative practices for meeting a world in crisis with courage, integrity & love"
"Contemplative practices for meeting a world in crisis with courage, integrity & love"
Reposted by Judith Gardener
I will not let people forget that the same Republicans who did everything in their power to make tax breaks for billionaires PERMANENT refused to even negotiate ONE YEAR of health care tax credits for working families.
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I will not let people forget that the same Republicans who did everything in their power to make tax breaks for billionaires PERMANENT refused to even negotiate ONE YEAR of health care tax credits for working families.
Reposted by Judith Gardener
During a power outage from the Russian attacks, an elderly lady with a flashlight selects seeds from a catalog to order them via post and plant in the spring.
"That's all you need to know about faith in the future," the writing on the video says.
📹: Darya Shut/Facebook
"That's all you need to know about faith in the future," the writing on the video says.
📹: Darya Shut/Facebook
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
During a power outage from the Russian attacks, an elderly lady with a flashlight selects seeds from a catalog to order them via post and plant in the spring.
"That's all you need to know about faith in the future," the writing on the video says.
📹: Darya Shut/Facebook
"That's all you need to know about faith in the future," the writing on the video says.
📹: Darya Shut/Facebook
Reposted by Judith Gardener
We should vote only for those who promise to make billionaires history.
We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
We should vote only for those who promise to make billionaires history.
We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I hate this, and it hurts my heart and head. Animals migrate, too, especially with climate change. And some species go extinct. This is an outrageous action.
'DEI for owls': Nearly half a million birds to be killed across the West www.sfgate.com/national-par...
'DEI for owls': Nearly half a million birds to be killed across the West www.sfgate.com/national-par...
'DEI for owls': Nearly half a million birds to be killed across the West
About half a million owls are expected to be shot under the wildlife protection plan.
www.sfgate.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I hate this, and it hurts my heart and head. Animals migrate, too, especially with climate change. And some species go extinct. This is an outrageous action.
'DEI for owls': Nearly half a million birds to be killed across the West www.sfgate.com/national-par...
'DEI for owls': Nearly half a million birds to be killed across the West www.sfgate.com/national-par...
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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
"Together, the studies, which align with an earlier year-long examination by The Washington Post of America’s life expectancy crisis, highlight that health in America is shaped less by medical care than by policy, place and power."
wapo.st/43Rm0nr
wapo.st/43Rm0nr
More people are dying before they turn 65. Who it impacts and what it means.
A new study reveals an increase in premature deaths among 18-to-64-year-olds, with Black adults and certain states disproportionately affected.
wapo.st
November 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
"Together, the studies, which align with an earlier year-long examination by The Washington Post of America’s life expectancy crisis, highlight that health in America is shaped less by medical care than by policy, place and power."
wapo.st/43Rm0nr
wapo.st/43Rm0nr
Your mama warned you.
A 2019 report in the Journal of Nutrition: Skipping breakfast just 1 day a week was associated with a 6% increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The risk rose with each additional day that breakfast was skipped per week.
A 2019 report in the Journal of Nutrition: Skipping breakfast just 1 day a week was associated with a 6% increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The risk rose with each additional day that breakfast was skipped per week.
November 7, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Your mama warned you.
A 2019 report in the Journal of Nutrition: Skipping breakfast just 1 day a week was associated with a 6% increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The risk rose with each additional day that breakfast was skipped per week.
A 2019 report in the Journal of Nutrition: Skipping breakfast just 1 day a week was associated with a 6% increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The risk rose with each additional day that breakfast was skipped per week.
Thanks to the Center for @biologicaldiversity.org for helping the marmots and demanding that the Fish & Wildlife Dept do their job -- for a change. Marmots live here, nowhere else.
@aaronkunkler.bsky.social gives a good explanation about what's happening to them and why.
tinyurl.com/yp77ahx6
@aaronkunkler.bsky.social gives a good explanation about what's happening to them and why.
tinyurl.com/yp77ahx6
Non-profit sues feds in effort to get Olympic marmots listed as an endangered species
BY PEPPER FISHER Olympic National Park – Should Olympic marmots, which live exclusively on the Olympic Peninsula, be listed as an endangered species? The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) thinks s...
tinyurl.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Thanks to the Center for @biologicaldiversity.org for helping the marmots and demanding that the Fish & Wildlife Dept do their job -- for a change. Marmots live here, nowhere else.
@aaronkunkler.bsky.social gives a good explanation about what's happening to them and why.
tinyurl.com/yp77ahx6
@aaronkunkler.bsky.social gives a good explanation about what's happening to them and why.
tinyurl.com/yp77ahx6
1of2 - ...reception hosted by Nature is Nonpartisan.
natureisnonpartisan.org/action-plan
natureisnonpartisan.org/action-plan
November 4, 2025 at 4:19 AM
1of2 - ...reception hosted by Nature is Nonpartisan.
natureisnonpartisan.org/action-plan
natureisnonpartisan.org/action-plan
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ENR RANKING MEMBER HEINRICH AND SENATOR SHEEHY LAUNCH SENATE STEWARDSHIP CAUCUS
...the Senate Stewardship Caucus to advance bipartisan efforts aimed at protecting and expanding access to public lands and waters, recovering wildlife, and restoring habitat.
www.heinrich.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
...the Senate Stewardship Caucus to advance bipartisan efforts aimed at protecting and expanding access to public lands and waters, recovering wildlife, and restoring habitat.
www.heinrich.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
ICYMI: ENR Ranking Member Heinrich and Senator Sheehy Launch Senate Stewardship Caucus | U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexico
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.)...
www.heinrich.senate.gov
November 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
ENR RANKING MEMBER HEINRICH AND SENATOR SHEEHY LAUNCH SENATE STEWARDSHIP CAUCUS
...the Senate Stewardship Caucus to advance bipartisan efforts aimed at protecting and expanding access to public lands and waters, recovering wildlife, and restoring habitat.
www.heinrich.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
...the Senate Stewardship Caucus to advance bipartisan efforts aimed at protecting and expanding access to public lands and waters, recovering wildlife, and restoring habitat.
www.heinrich.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
From a small county on the Olympic Peninsula (Canadian Border), in Washington which is entirely vote-by-mail (but there's a drop box drive-though option at the courthouse, too).
November 4, 2025 at 3:50 AM
From a small county on the Olympic Peninsula (Canadian Border), in Washington which is entirely vote-by-mail (but there's a drop box drive-though option at the courthouse, too).
A CONFEDERACY OF TODDLERS
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
By Tom Nichols
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
By Tom Nichols
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
November 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
A CONFEDERACY OF TODDLERS
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
By Tom Nichols
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
By Tom Nichols
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Reposted by Judith Gardener
UK campaigners launch bill to give nature legal rights
UK campaigners launch bill to give nature legal rights
Private member’s bill backed by Chris Packham and Natalie Bennett would impose a duty of care on government and business
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM
UK campaigners launch bill to give nature legal rights
Eloquent speech (25 minutes). But get this!
"Sen. Garrett's speech was so powerful that Senate Republicans moved to STRIKE the speech from the official Senate record."
youtu.be/WY8KNA-qTdg?...
"Sen. Garrett's speech was so powerful that Senate Republicans moved to STRIKE the speech from the official Senate record."
youtu.be/WY8KNA-qTdg?...
Sen. Michael Garrett Delivers Powerful Speech Against Republican Rigged Maps
YouTube video by NC Senate Dems HQ
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Eloquent speech (25 minutes). But get this!
"Sen. Garrett's speech was so powerful that Senate Republicans moved to STRIKE the speech from the official Senate record."
youtu.be/WY8KNA-qTdg?...
"Sen. Garrett's speech was so powerful that Senate Republicans moved to STRIKE the speech from the official Senate record."
youtu.be/WY8KNA-qTdg?...
Hurricanes. Flooding. Wildfires. As climate change makes natural disasters more severe and frequent, ...preparation can be the difference between life and death.
Take this New York Times quiz to test your knowledge of what to do before, during and after a disaster.
tinyurl.com/49ujaach
Take this New York Times quiz to test your knowledge of what to do before, during and after a disaster.
tinyurl.com/49ujaach
Are You Prepared for a Climate Disaster?
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Hurricanes. Flooding. Wildfires. As climate change makes natural disasters more severe and frequent, ...preparation can be the difference between life and death.
Take this New York Times quiz to test your knowledge of what to do before, during and after a disaster.
tinyurl.com/49ujaach
Take this New York Times quiz to test your knowledge of what to do before, during and after a disaster.
tinyurl.com/49ujaach
If you're still on Facebook:
"Dog sellers are using subtle tricks to bypass Meta’s Community Standards, which prohibit the sale of animals on Facebook and Instagram.
"If you spot a suspicious post, you can help by reporting it. Here's how to recognise common tactics."
tinyurl.com/4zrujxsw
"Dog sellers are using subtle tricks to bypass Meta’s Community Standards, which prohibit the sale of animals on Facebook and Instagram.
"If you spot a suspicious post, you can help by reporting it. Here's how to recognise common tactics."
tinyurl.com/4zrujxsw
Protect Puppies on Social Media
Have social media channels become a platform for cruel puppy offers? Find out more!
www.four-paws.org
October 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
If you're still on Facebook:
"Dog sellers are using subtle tricks to bypass Meta’s Community Standards, which prohibit the sale of animals on Facebook and Instagram.
"If you spot a suspicious post, you can help by reporting it. Here's how to recognise common tactics."
tinyurl.com/4zrujxsw
"Dog sellers are using subtle tricks to bypass Meta’s Community Standards, which prohibit the sale of animals on Facebook and Instagram.
"If you spot a suspicious post, you can help by reporting it. Here's how to recognise common tactics."
tinyurl.com/4zrujxsw
Reposted by Judith Gardener
Yes, this is a real post made by the Department of Homeland Security.
None of this is normal.
None of this is normal.
October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Yes, this is a real post made by the Department of Homeland Security.
None of this is normal.
None of this is normal.
Reposted by Judith Gardener
if knowingly starving millions of americans while he builds a gilded ballroom isn't cause for revolution then i'm not sure what is
October 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
if knowingly starving millions of americans while he builds a gilded ballroom isn't cause for revolution then i'm not sure what is
7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
1 of 2
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
1 of 2
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
www.nature.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:38 AM
7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
1 of 2
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
1 of 2
www.nature.com/articles/d41...