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Inspired by @mark-carney.bsky.social and Canadians everywhere. We’re all fighting back on our home ice!
As those soft downy chicks would say (after hatching on the ice)
Fluff Off & FLIPPERS UP
Fluff Off & FLIPPERS UP
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Reposted by Dr. Diana / Prtfish
Today, the California coast we cherish and the delicate ocean ecosystems just beyond it face a renewed threat from offshore drilling. We oppose the Trump Administration’s 5-year oil and gas leasing program and will continue to defend our coastline, wildlife, economy, and health from this threat.
November 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Today, the California coast we cherish and the delicate ocean ecosystems just beyond it face a renewed threat from offshore drilling. We oppose the Trump Administration’s 5-year oil and gas leasing program and will continue to defend our coastline, wildlife, economy, and health from this threat.
apnews.com/video/baby-s...
A great organization has a wonderful win in their work to rescue and preserve marine mammals!! Need a mental lift today? Watch this video. 🥰 🦦
A great organization has a wonderful win in their work to rescue and preserve marine mammals!! Need a mental lift today? Watch this video. 🥰 🦦
Baby sea otter is reunited with mother in California after long search
Using a Bluetooth speaker, a recording of its cries and a small boat, staff and volunteers from The Marine Mammal Center were able to reunite an otter pup with its mother in a central California bay l...
apnews.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
apnews.com/video/baby-s...
A great organization has a wonderful win in their work to rescue and preserve marine mammals!! Need a mental lift today? Watch this video. 🥰 🦦
A great organization has a wonderful win in their work to rescue and preserve marine mammals!! Need a mental lift today? Watch this video. 🥰 🦦
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The "extinction caucus" in Congress is supporting radical legislation to drastically weaken the Endangered Species Act and decrease protections for threatened and endangered species—including imperiled species that call Wilderness home.
TAKE ACTION >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose_hr189...
TAKE ACTION >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose_hr189...
October 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The "extinction caucus" in Congress is supporting radical legislation to drastically weaken the Endangered Species Act and decrease protections for threatened and endangered species—including imperiled species that call Wilderness home.
TAKE ACTION >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose_hr189...
TAKE ACTION >>> wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/oppose_hr189...
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Arctic seals edge closer to extinction as sea ice vanishes
Arctic seals edge closer to extinction as sea ice vanishes
Three Arctic seal species have moved closer to extinction, as rapid sea ice loss continues to erode their breeding and feeding grounds, according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List of…
news.mongabay.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Arctic seals edge closer to extinction as sea ice vanishes
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Agents snatching up a young protester off the floe today. Resist! Flippers up!
October 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Agents snatching up a young protester off the floe today. Resist! Flippers up!
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Say hello to one of CAL FIRE’s four-legged officers, K-9 Flash! 🐾
Flash works side-by-side with his handler, Arson Investigator Nick Schroeder, sniffing out explosives and firearms to help keep California communities safe.
#Pets #K9Training #PublicSafety
Flash works side-by-side with his handler, Arson Investigator Nick Schroeder, sniffing out explosives and firearms to help keep California communities safe.
#Pets #K9Training #PublicSafety
October 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Say hello to one of CAL FIRE’s four-legged officers, K-9 Flash! 🐾
Flash works side-by-side with his handler, Arson Investigator Nick Schroeder, sniffing out explosives and firearms to help keep California communities safe.
#Pets #K9Training #PublicSafety
Flash works side-by-side with his handler, Arson Investigator Nick Schroeder, sniffing out explosives and firearms to help keep California communities safe.
#Pets #K9Training #PublicSafety
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Southern right whales are having fewer calves: what this says about ocean health
Southern right whales are having fewer calves: what this says about ocean health
The link between feeding and breeding makes whales a living barometer of ocean health.
theconversation.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Southern right whales are having fewer calves: what this says about ocean health
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🐶🐱 New California pet laws!
🐾 3rd party, for-profit sales of cats, puppies and rabbits are now BANNED
🐾 Cats CANNOT be declawed for non-medical reasons
🐾 Sellers MUST disclose origin and health info
🐾 Contracts for pets that include non-refundable deposits will be VOID
🐾 3rd party, for-profit sales of cats, puppies and rabbits are now BANNED
🐾 Cats CANNOT be declawed for non-medical reasons
🐾 Sellers MUST disclose origin and health info
🐾 Contracts for pets that include non-refundable deposits will be VOID
October 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
🐶🐱 New California pet laws!
🐾 3rd party, for-profit sales of cats, puppies and rabbits are now BANNED
🐾 Cats CANNOT be declawed for non-medical reasons
🐾 Sellers MUST disclose origin and health info
🐾 Contracts for pets that include non-refundable deposits will be VOID
🐾 3rd party, for-profit sales of cats, puppies and rabbits are now BANNED
🐾 Cats CANNOT be declawed for non-medical reasons
🐾 Sellers MUST disclose origin and health info
🐾 Contracts for pets that include non-refundable deposits will be VOID
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You’re my little otter-half
September 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
You’re my little otter-half
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Donald, you can either stand behind Operation Warp Speed… or let RFK Jr undermine it by banning Covid vaccines. Which is it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEHc-0JVXQ0
The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) on X
x.com
September 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Donald, you can either stand behind Operation Warp Speed… or let RFK Jr undermine it by banning Covid vaccines. Which is it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEHc-0JVXQ0
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Mongabay shark meat exposé sparks call for hearing and industry debate
Mongabay shark meat exposé sparks call for hearing and industry debate
Endangered shark meat and heavy metals found in Brazil’s public food trigger a reckoning.
news.mongabay.com
September 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Mongabay shark meat exposé sparks call for hearing and industry debate
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
The world is topsy-turvy when I start agreeing with Rand Paul more often … Hey Alice, where is the looking glass?
The world is topsy-turvy when I start agreeing with Rand Paul more often … Hey Alice, where is the looking glass?
thehill.com
September 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
thehill.com/homenews/sen...
The world is topsy-turvy when I start agreeing with Rand Paul more often … Hey Alice, where is the looking glass?
The world is topsy-turvy when I start agreeing with Rand Paul more often … Hey Alice, where is the looking glass?
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With a cacophony of experts calling for 🧠🪱’s firing, let’s never forget Cassidy’s role in all of this.
Dr. Cassidy knew better. And yet, he still chose himself.
The future will judge him. Not just for what he did, but for what he refused to stop.
(Heck, we judge him now.)
Dr. Cassidy knew better. And yet, he still chose himself.
The future will judge him. Not just for what he did, but for what he refused to stop.
(Heck, we judge him now.)
“In the end, Dr. Cassidy had to choose between being a senator and being a doctor who had taken an oath to do no harm. He had to choose between his career and the lives of Americans. He chose himself. And now he has to live with the consequences of that choice.”
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
The (un)Conscience of Bill Cassidy
He knew that RFK Jr. was dangerous. He voted for him anyway.
open.substack.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:33 AM
With a cacophony of experts calling for 🧠🪱’s firing, let’s never forget Cassidy’s role in all of this.
Dr. Cassidy knew better. And yet, he still chose himself.
The future will judge him. Not just for what he did, but for what he refused to stop.
(Heck, we judge him now.)
Dr. Cassidy knew better. And yet, he still chose himself.
The future will judge him. Not just for what he did, but for what he refused to stop.
(Heck, we judge him now.)
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"It is also unclear why the military did not interdict the boat instead of blowing it up. In the past, the Coast Guard and even the U.S. Navy have interdicted boats bound for the United States with drugs, detaining and prosecuting the crew."
It's not a CG standard to blow up boats, even w/ drugs...
It's not a CG standard to blow up boats, even w/ drugs...
You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants *
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
September 4, 2025 at 3:34 AM
"It is also unclear why the military did not interdict the boat instead of blowing it up. In the past, the Coast Guard and even the U.S. Navy have interdicted boats bound for the United States with drugs, detaining and prosecuting the crew."
It's not a CG standard to blow up boats, even w/ drugs...
It's not a CG standard to blow up boats, even w/ drugs...
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When I wrote this for SciAm, the thing that genuinely surprised me most was the number of emails I got (mostly from men) telling me that prior generations of women in science would be ashamed of me for my weakness in writing it.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The Dark Side of Being a Female Shark Researcher
Being a scientist should not require developing the grit to continually endure misogyny, discrimination, harassment, assault or bullying
www.scientificamerican.com
August 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
When I wrote this for SciAm, the thing that genuinely surprised me most was the number of emails I got (mostly from men) telling me that prior generations of women in science would be ashamed of me for my weakness in writing it.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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I applaud workers at the CDC for standing up against Sec. Kennedy’s dangerous anti-vaccine crusade.
We are witnessing a full-blown war on public health from the Trump Administration.
History will not look kindly on those who stayed silent in the face of this assault on science.
We are witnessing a full-blown war on public health from the Trump Administration.
History will not look kindly on those who stayed silent in the face of this assault on science.
August 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I applaud workers at the CDC for standing up against Sec. Kennedy’s dangerous anti-vaccine crusade.
We are witnessing a full-blown war on public health from the Trump Administration.
History will not look kindly on those who stayed silent in the face of this assault on science.
We are witnessing a full-blown war on public health from the Trump Administration.
History will not look kindly on those who stayed silent in the face of this assault on science.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. 52 years later, his words ring loud and true.
"Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of (1/2)
"Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of (1/2)
August 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. 52 years later, his words ring loud and true.
"Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of (1/2)
"Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of (1/2)
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This kind of enthusiasm from the non-political CDC staff - the clapping, shouting, nonstop handshakes - for the now-resigned CDC leadership is something that Trump Admin officials will never have. Which will only make them hate the competent administers even more.
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
August 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
This kind of enthusiasm from the non-political CDC staff - the clapping, shouting, nonstop handshakes - for the now-resigned CDC leadership is something that Trump Admin officials will never have. Which will only make them hate the competent administers even more.
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My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery."
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Paxton tells Texas schools to follow Ten Commandments law despite court ruling
Attorney General Ken Paxton's guidance comes days after U.S. District Judge Fred Biery sided with 16 families who sued their school districts to stop the law from going into effect.
www.houstonchronicle.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery."
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge harbors some of the country’s rarest species. New wall segments threaten endangered ocelots, aplomado falcons and hundreds of migratory birds such as green jays, Altamira orioles and plain chachalacas.
August 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge harbors some of the country’s rarest species. New wall segments threaten endangered ocelots, aplomado falcons and hundreds of migratory birds such as green jays, Altamira orioles and plain chachalacas.
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The Trump administration waived 31 laws for border wall construction through the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge.
The waivers clear the way for walls across 13 refuge tracts, slicing through wildlife corridors, endangered species habitat and communities.
More: biodiv.us/45WzH4N
The waivers clear the way for walls across 13 refuge tracts, slicing through wildlife corridors, endangered species habitat and communities.
More: biodiv.us/45WzH4N
August 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The Trump administration waived 31 laws for border wall construction through the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge.
The waivers clear the way for walls across 13 refuge tracts, slicing through wildlife corridors, endangered species habitat and communities.
More: biodiv.us/45WzH4N
The waivers clear the way for walls across 13 refuge tracts, slicing through wildlife corridors, endangered species habitat and communities.
More: biodiv.us/45WzH4N