#SilentSunday

#Lavendel #lavender #Biene #bee #Insekt #insect #Natur #Nature #NaturePhotography

https://flic.kr/p/wayUho

#SilentSunday

Globe Amaranth "Fireworks" flower in bloom.

#SilentSunday #Gardening #Flowers #Bloomscrolling #Nature #GlobeAmaranth

#currentlyreading #bookstodon #books
Set in Cyprus, this book is quite beautiful. The dedication says it all - ‘to immigrants and exiles everywhere, the uprooted, the re-rooted, the rootless, and to the trees we left behind, rooted in our memories.’

"What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy. Because that will make it easier to annex us. First of all, that's never going to happen. We will never be the 51st state."
- Justin Trudeau

Stay strong, #Canada. 💪 🇨🇦

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-vs-canada-51st-state-wildest-threats.html

'Enough is enough': Scientists from UCLA, USC protest Trump's policy changes
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-03-07/stand-up-for-science-los-angeles-protest-trump-cuts?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Entertainment @entertainment-LATimes

“The former head of the Social Security Administration warns that proposed cuts to the agency could lead the entire system to “collapse,” disrupting benefits payments to millions of Americans.“

https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-social-security-head-warns-system-could-collapse-in-next-30-to-90-days/

#SocialSecurity #SaveSocialSecurity

Warning, travelers! A certain rogue nation, openly contemptuous of international law, has begun randomly snatching up visitors with legitimate passports and visas and confining them incommunicado in detention camps. No legal process applies.

https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/02/28/german-tourist-held-indefinitely-in-san-diego-area-immigrant-detention-facility

"JD #Vance Flees To Undisclosed Location After Hundreds Of #Protesters Disrupt His #Vermont #Ski Vacation"

👏 👏 👏

https://www.politicususa.com/p/jd-vance-flees-to-undisclosed-location

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” ~ Elie Wiesel

#StandWithUkraine #freedom #truth
#bloomscrolling #sunflowers #butterflies #SolaceInNature #DelightOverDarkness

Snailfight. ‘The Smithfield Decretals’ (Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria), Toulouse ca. 1300, illuminations added in London ca. 1340. British Library, Royal 10 E IV, fol. 107r.
#medieval #MedievalArt

Some of the 500 or so people in SF today who marched in support of national parks, national lands and their workers. My first protest since Three Mile Island. It's been a while.
#NationalPark #SanFrancisco #Resist

#TheGremlinZoo #USPol #DOGE #NOAA

Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in latest wave of DOGE cuts

https://apnews.com/article/national-weather-service-layoffs-trump-doge-a65360a1eb2500b7d47c9c966e383f4a

Edit: Snopes looked into this: https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/03/04/norwegian-fuel-us-navy/

Norwegian fuel company Haltbakk Bunkers has announced it will cease supplying fuel to U.S. military forces in Norway and American ships docking in Norwegian ports, citing dissatisfaction with recent U.S. policy towards Ukraine.
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/norwegian-fuel-supplier-refuses-u-s-warships-over-ukraine/

#Germany’s president, Frank-Walter #Steinmeier, on Saturday sharply criticized #Trump over the WH meeting w/ President Volodymyr #Zelensky on Friday, saying that #Europe must #StandWithUkraine & prevent the country “from having to accept subjugation.”

“The scene at the White House yesterday took my breath away,” Steinmeier said. “I would never have believed that we would ever have to defend Ukraine from the #UnitedStates.”

#geopolitics #ForeignPolicy #NewWorldOrder
https://nordot.app/1268569760790692163

"On February 14th, one-third of our USDS colleagues were indiscriminately terminated by an anonymous email. These highly skilled civil servants were working to modernize Social Security, veterans' services, tax filing, healthcare, disaster relief, student aid, and other critical services. Their removal endangers millions of Americans who rely on these services every day."

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5308095/doge-staff-resignations-elon-musk

Today marks the 20th anniversary of me arriving in Germany with my parents. If they hadn't abandoned their jobs, friends and family and taken me out of Russia, I might very well have perished by now.

Cuts to research funding and the anti-science tenor of government policies are already prompting universities to cut back on post-graduate admissions. https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/19/trump-funding-freeze-grad-student-postdoc-acceptances-paused-nih-research/

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/macron-says-france-and-allies-united-on-ukraine