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I just read that Donald Trump and his circus took down a website called reproductiverights.gov
This was a website to help women learn about their reproductive rights in the US and to find health care.
This is absolutely disgusting so Iâll share in this post some resources in case you need them:
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn
Trump kicked off his new administration with a laundry list of anti-environmental reforms that will pollute our air and water, accelerate climate change, and give away public resources to big corporations, all without doing anything to lower your power bill. Now, congress has plans to do even more damage.
In my latest article I review Trump's major changes on environmental and energy policy, as well as taking a look at what congress is considering next.
We've also set up a form that makes it easy to email your members of congress and let them know that we don't want more pollution, we want clean energy and a just transition.
From the article:
The Supreme Court on Monday said it will not consider whether to quash lawsuits brought by Honolulu seeking billions of dollars from oil and gas companies for the damage caused by the effects of climate change, clearing the way for the cases to move forward. The legal battle pursued in Hawaii state court is similar to others filed against the nation's largest energy companies by state and local governments in their courts. The suits claim that the oil and gas industry engaged in a deceptive campaign and misled the public about the dangers of their fossil fuel products and the environmental impacts. A group of 15 energy companies asked the Supreme Court to review a decision from the Hawaii Supreme Court that allowed a lawsuit brought by the city and county of Honolulu, as well as its Board of Water Supply, to proceed. The suit was brought in Hawaii state court in March 2020, and Honolulu raised several claims under state law, including creating a public nuisance and failure to warn the public of the risks posed by their fossil fuel products. The city accused the oil and gas industry of contributing to global climate change, leading to flooding, erosion and more frequent and intense extreme weather events. These changes, they said, have led to property damage and a drop in tax revenue as a result of less tourism. The energy companies unsuccessfully sought to have the case moved to federal court, arguing that the claims raised by Honolulu under state law were overridden by federal law and the Clean Air Act. A state trial court denied their efforts to dismiss the case.
"A tribal-led nonprofit is creating a network of native bison ranchers that are restoring ecosystems on the Great Plains, restoring native ranchersâ connections with their ancestral land, and restoring the native diet that their ancestors relied on.
Called the Tanka Fund, they coordinate donors and partners to help ranchers secure grazing land access, funds needed to install and repair fencing, increase their herd sizes, and access markets for bison meat across the country.
Thatâs the human part of the story. But as Dawn Sherman, executive director of the Tanka Fund, told Native Sun News, theyâre âbuffalo peopleâ and these four-legged, 2,000 lbs. âcousinsâ are equal-part-protagonists.
The return of the bison means the return of the prairie, one of the three great grassland ecosystems on the planet, of which just 1% remains as it was when the Mayflower arrived.
âBringing buffalo back to their ancestral homelands is essential to restoring the ecosystem. We know that the buffalo is a keystone species,â said Dawn Sherman, a member of the Lakota, Delaware, Shawnee, and Cree.
âBringing the buffalo back to the land and to our people, helps restore the ecosystem and everything it supports from the animals to the plants to the people. Itâs come full circle. Thatâs how we see it.â
As Sherman and the Tanka Fund help native ranchers grow their operations, everyone is well aware of the power of the bison to transform the environment: just as nations across Europe are, who are reintroducing wood bison to various ecosystems, for all the same reasons.
Sherman points out the variety of ways in which buffalo anchor the prairie ecosystem. The almost-extinct black-footed ferret, she points out, lived symbiotically with the bison, and with the latter gone, the former followedânearly.
The long-billed curlew uses bison dung as a disguise to hide nests from predators. Deer, pronghorn antelope, and elk all rely on bison to plow through deep snows and uncover the grasses that these smaller animals canât reach.
Everywhere the bison hurls its massive body, life springs in the beastâs wake. When bison roll about on the plains, it creates depressions known as wallows. These fill with rainwater and create enormous puddles where amphibians and insects thrive and reproduce. Certain plants evolved to grow in the wet conditions of the wallows which Native Americans harvested for food and medicine.
Native plants evolved under the trampling hooves of millions of bison, and that constant tamping down of the Earth is a key necessity in the spreading of native wildflower seed.
Indeed, Sherman says some of these native ranchers are bringing bison onto lands still visibly affected by the Dust Bowl, and already the animals are acting like a giant wooly cure-all for the landâs ills.
Since 2020, the Tanka Fund, in partnership with the Inter-Tribal Buffalo Council and the Nature Conservancy, has overseen the transfer of 2,300 bison from Nature Conservancy reserves to lands managed by ranchers within the Tanka Fund network.
â[T]he more animals that we can get the more of that prairie we can restore,â said Sherman. âWe can help restore the land that has been plowed and has been leased out to cattle ranchers.â"
-Article via Good News Network, February 13, 2025. Video via Tanka Fund, July 17, 2024.
Quietly losing my mind over the fact that Elon Musk has straight up orchestrated a coup of our executive branch and like....I don't even know what, if any, system we have in place to fix this. Like... He's just taken control of the money and locked out the actual appointed officials. What the fuck.
"Breathe looks like a thin, cropped tank top with mesh panels to keep the user cool. While it's normally tight fighting, Breathe contains a smart alloy material called Nitone that, when electrified, loosens the garment. It's battery operated and can be adjusted with a remote controller, so the user can discreetly change how tight the binding is -- there's no need to change their clothing or go into a private space in order to take a break. There's also an optional feature that will automatically loosen the device when the user is playing a sport."
Trump & Netanyahu really thought they can violate ceasefire agreement & plan to displace Gazans once they get all captives from Hamas & the latter would just simply comply.
Hamas is now postponing prisoner exchange until Israel delivers humanitarian aid according to agreement.
We still need your support and help. The occupation is still obstructing the entry of aid, especially to northern Gaza. Any small donation will help us restore our lives. Thank you. Donate here.
When we talk about rebuilding Gaza, itâs no oneâs business how we will be rebuild it.
We will do whatever we want because it is our land. It concerns no one except us Palestinians how we will live and what kind of houses we will build. We will also choose our furniture and the number of books in each house. And we will plant trees in the graveyards.
Just end the occupation so that we can get enough books and trees. Thatâs all you must do.
Your support is here to help us rebuild life. Donate here
Just in time for Valentineâs Day... đÂ
Ready to break up with Google?
So are we!
Weâve rounded up a bunch of privacy-centric alternatives for everything Google.
Check out the full list over on the blog!
- The Ellipsus Team xo
Just mentioning again...
...that all the prices on our Ebooks Direct ebook bundles are still holding at Black Friday levels (pretty much 50% off, and in some cases more...), because frankly I think everybody can use a little bit of a break around now.
I invite you to pause the doomscrolling (assuming that's what's been going on), take a few deep breaths, and visit another universe. Or two.
The complete* Young Wizards bundle is here:
Or maybe you want just the feline wizards? Their bundle's here.
And the LGBTQ-centered Middle Kingdoms bundle is here:
And if you're feeling like going utterly ham, here's the Whole Store bundle. At a truly silly price. (Possibly we need our heads felt, but that's an internal issue.**)
As usual: all these bundles are DRM-free and come with our lifetime free replacement guarantee. (Because as non-billionaires, we somehow don't feel any urgent need to make you pay for lost or mislaid ebooks twice.) Lose a loaded device, have a drive crash, or suffer some other local difficulty that results in ebook loss? Mail us with your order number and we'll send you new download links.
That's it! That's the post. Support your local non-AI-using authors!
And thanks, everybody. :)
(I keep forgetting to add this, probably because i hate it: UK friends, please note that we can't sell directly to you any more, because of Brexit. Dammit. But still: sorry.) :/
*Except for Games Wizards Play, which we can't offer due to not holding rights for it.
**As one of us used to be a professional head-feeler, so we can handle such requirements in-house.
Just mentioning again...
...that all the prices on our Ebooks Direct ebook bundles are still holding at Black Friday levels (pretty much 50% off, and in some cases more...), because frankly I think everybody can use a little bit of a break around now.
I invite you to pause the doomscrolling (assuming that's what's been going on), take a few deep breaths, and visit another universe. Or two.
The complete* Young Wizards bundle is here:
Or maybe you want just the feline wizards? Their bundle's here.
And the LGBTQ-centered Middle Kingdoms bundle is here:
And if you're feeling like going utterly ham, here's the Whole Store bundle. At a truly silly price. (Possibly we need our heads felt, but that's an internal issue.**)
As usual: all these bundles are DRM-free and come with our lifetime free replacement guarantee. (Because as non-billionaires, we somehow don't feel any urgent need to make you pay for lost or mislaid ebooks twice.) Lose a loaded device, have a drive crash, or suffer some other local difficulty that results in ebook loss? Mail us with your order number and we'll send you new download links.
That's it! That's the post. Support your local non-AI-using authors!
And thanks, everybody. :)
(I keep forgetting to add this, probably because i hate it: UK friends, please note that we can't sell directly to you any more, because of Brexit. Dammit. But still: sorry.) :/
*Except for Games Wizards Play, which we can't offer due to not holding rights for it.
**As one of us used to be a professional head-feeler, so we can handle such requirements in-house.
wait a bunch of ppl ( in mexico i belive) got togheter and made a mini movie where everyone is poorly pretending to be french in retaliation for the dogshit emilia perez musical this is awesome tjhey all have little mustaches drawn on with sharpie and are spealing the worst french ever
"The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them."
- Turkish Proverb
Okay, trees, I know it's hard to understand but those billionaires? That orange stain now in office? They're the axe, honey. They've always been the axe.
And we've never been anything but kindling to them.
âdonât be politicalâ âI donât want to see that on my dashâ âkeep your opinions to yourselfâ
NO. Absolutely not- over my dead fucking body, you hear me?!
Donât you dare try to make yourself small, donât you dare be passive and roll over while they run your country to the ground. Iâm not even American and this makes my blood boil, watching all the horrible things happening over there. They have taken your rights. Do you understand me? It is propaganda, plain and simple. Staying quiet just to appease other people is exactly what they want. They want you to remain passive, they want you to hope that things will get better on their own.
hereâs the simple truth- it wonât. not unless you do something about it. we all saw it with the UHC shooter, citizens being abused and refused for years, but the second someone leaps into actions, suddenly the gears start turning. I understand that politics isnât for everyone, and it may very well mentally affect you. but I believe this isnât the time for that.
YOUR PRESIDENT JUST PUT A BUNCH OF LGBTQ KIDS AT RISK. THE WORLDS RICHEST MAN DID THE NAZI SALUTE AT YOUR INAUGURATION. YOU ARE WATCHING THEM TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS IN REAL TIME ON NATIONAL TELEVISION.
for fucks sake, that doesnât bother you?
this is the time for action. Do not let them take away your voice. Be inconvenient. Be angry. Be a public menace. Be as fucking difficult to the government as you could possibly be.
it could actually save a life.
compiling some mutual aid projects and nonprofits working in sudan. though depending on where you get your news you may not see very much coverage of the unfolding crisis, millions of people are in danger every day as the situation continues to deteriorate. i've been really astounded by the scale of your response to the earlier list of gazan initiatives, and i hope you extend the same support to these organizations too!
khartoum aid kitchen - currently running 12 community kitchen sites and supporting five others that collectively provide food for over 10,000 people
fill a heart - provides financial support to sudanese hospitals and families displaced in egypt. updates are available on their instagram.
sudan solidarity collective - supporting civil society organizations and providing psychological and educational programs for displaced people. can also donate through their paypal
darfur women action - runs programs for displaced women and girls
sudanese american physicians association - provides medical treatment and supports healthcare infrastructure
amal for women - currently focused on providing water, food, hygiene products, and shelter for displaced people. general projects include education programs for children, support and professional training for single mothers, and providing trauma care. also has a gofundme
hadhreen - provides food, water, solar panels for hospitals, children's educational programming, and a variety of other support services
hometax - provides necessities for displaced people, including food, shelter, and medical assistance. updates can be found on their instagram.
barana hanabneiho - originally focused on rebuilding and equipping schools, currently providing food, water, tents, mosquito nets, and weather-appropriate necessities to displaced people. they have an instagram and also accept donations through zeffy
saving algeneina initiative - provides a variety of necessities, including food, rain covers for tents, and medical care. works with displaced people in both sudan and chad.
sudanese red crescent society - runs health programs across all 18 states as well as delivering essential supplies
sadagaat - various initiatives including water stations and community kitchens
hope relief and rehabilitation for disabilities support (hrrds) - originally focused on disability justice programs. currently providing food, water, hygiene products, mobility aids, and other necessities with a focus on supporting disabled people and other vulnerable groups
medglobal's sudan emergency appeal - provides medical supplies, equipment for doctors, and fuel for hospitals
sudanese american medical association - provides food, water, and medical equipment, as well as training clinicians and sending extra doctors to hospitals
siha network - provides menstrual products and obstetric/gynecological care
as before, this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add any similar initiatives or organizations you know of. and as always please donate whatever amount you can and share! every small action makes a difference, even if it feels inconsequential to you.
"He can't do that!"
"That's illegal!"
"He is violating the constitution!"
Then fucking stop him! Arrest him, throw Musk out, bar them from entering when they try to access shit.
Because guess fucking what, laws only have meaning when they are enforced. They only matter when someone fucking does something about it.
Republicans deliberately use coded language to trick people to vote for them and radicalize their group. Many don't even realize they're radicalized or what they're saying is even racist. This is why they think the Left is "over reacting" because the either know they're using coded language and don't care, or they don't know anything at all.
Target has helped so many save money since they want to kiss the ass of Trump. Costco is better anyway.
Hereâs a real boycott list
P.s: obviously everyone canât boycott everything but one also didnât need that Titoâs Vodka or Wendyâs đ
Itâs my hope that Tumblr is still a safe space from political interference when it comes to allowing the users to interact without fear that bots we interact with are sharing misinformation.
In light of the ceasefire agreement, Gaza needs resources now more than ever, and you absolutely should continue donating. Here are some important campaigns:
1. Gaza Funds - provide direct support
2. Life for Gaza - rebuild vital infrastructure
3. Crips for eSims for Gaza - keep Gaza connected
4. The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund - provide medical support for children
btw now is the best time to keep boycotting. the israeli economy has never been weaker. don't stop the protests or the demands for divestment. keep supporting organisations like the Hind Rajab Foundation and the Accountability Archive. ofc don't stop boosting and donating to Palestinians as Gaza is still uninhabitable.
enjoy this moment but the work has not ended
Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.
If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.
Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.
Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.
I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.