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Traci Birge
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🌿DSc. agriculture & forestry #agroecology.
U. Helsinki, Ruralia Institute, Finland
#Biodiversity🪲 #Farming🥕 #Farmers 👩‍🌾🧑‍🌾 #Pollinators🐝 #Policy🐞
DEI and woke, y'all. 🇺🇦
#BanLiveExport
*Regularly scheduled program interrupted by current events
Not even a war crime, because there is no war. It is just murder by a foreign state.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing

"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."

Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
As one commenter said, "Just straight up Nazi shit"
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.

And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
There is a reason that, unlike USA, many European countries do not collect statistics on race.

Those lists can be weaponised when evil people are in power.

The example below shows that there is no bottom for this regime.
"We followed everything we were supposed to do"

Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
'There’s never enough data, no one even truly knows the true size of the economy, **it’s just inshallah and vibes**'

It's decades since I was in Nigeria, but back then people told me it doesn't make sense that it is a single country – too big, and too diverse.

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
‘Ignoring minorities is our original sin’: the complex roots of Nigeria’s security crisis
Criminal exploitation, economic opportunism and religious persecution are all factors in a broader picture of insecurity
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"OAJ:n mukaan suomalaiset ammattikorkeakoulut tekevät puolet pienemmällä rahalla tutkintoja ja yliopistot kolmanneksen pienemmällä rahalle kuin noin kymmenen vuotta sitten. "

#Koulutus #Budjetti #Hallitus
Koulutuksen kärkimaa Suomi romahti.
#Suomi, entinen OECD-maiden #ykkönen, on vajonnut 38 maan joukossa sijalle 31. Ministeriöstä todetaan, että koulutustasoromahdus näkyy heikkona työllisyytenä.
www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/ko...
#koulutus #romahdus #kokoomus #SGL Piirros 2015:
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Somehow fraud just doesn't seem GDPR compliant...
check in on old mate here and he's postin' through it
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Reposted by Traci Birge
check in on old mate here and he's postin' through it
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
There is nothing they have that we can't do without. Use less, find alternatives. #StandWithUkraine
Get serious, Europeans. You are your only hope.
"EU imports from Russia worth €124 billion have exceeded the amount of aid provided to Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion." - stated Sweden’s Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard.

censor.net/en/news/3586...
November 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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It is impossible for me to convey to Europeans how much the political media in America want to avoid talking about this Trump/Putin attack on Europe. Nobody wants to cover it. Nobody wants to admit what it means. People are talking about ANYTHING else to avoid this debacle.
November 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Essential reading. Donald Trump dispatches as his ambassador to Copenhagen a man who has been established by Danish intelligence to be deeply engaged in secret plans financed privately by Peter Thiel for an American invasion and occupation of Greenland, writes Danish intel analyst Jacob Kaarsbo.
Intel Brief Greenland Special
Denmark now hosts a US ambassador who personally supports the idea of US takeover of a part of our Kingdom
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Horizon-projekti ELOQUENCE avasi kyselytutkimuksen ihmisten suhtautumisesta tekoälysovelluksiin. Mukana jo 10 kieltä, ml. suomi. Vastaaja voi halutessaan identifioitua 0-6 kohderyhmään, joiden kautta haluamme tutkia mm yksityisyyteen ja syrjintään liittyviä kokemuksia eloquenceai.eu/eloquence-la...
ELOQUENCE launches a European-wide survey on perceptions, acceptance and acceptability of key AI technologies - ELOQUENCE
As part of its Work Package 6 on the Assessment and Validation of Emerging AI Technologies, the ELOQUENCE project has launched a European-wide survey to explore public perceptions, acceptance, and acc...
eloquenceai.eu
November 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
US Gov is #shutdown, gov sponsored violent fascist attacks are taking place across the country and the sundowning president is golfing.

"...$60.7 million the amount taxpayers have spent on the president’s 76 golf outings in his second term"

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-31...
October 31, 2025
Yesterday a reporter asked Representative Joe Neguse, a Democrat of Colorado, about the administration’s withholding of reserve funds Congress intended would fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Imagine if Congress had to make due on the same healthcare "benefits" the government provides to all Americans instead of their heavily subsidized healthcare.

Imagine if government shut down meant Congress had to work the same as designated critical workers do with no/delayed pay.
They’re stopping it to pocket it. To cause civil unrest. To divide the nation. To bankrupt the farmers so they can take their lands. To weed out the poor, sick and elderly. And to control the population.

And they’ll still take the healthcare and raise the prices regardless of it all.
October 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I was wondering what expertise Harrison Ford has about these issues. It's down toward the bottom but interesting to read he was friends with E.O. Wilson and received a conservation leadership award from the foundation. 🌱
I spoke to Harrison Ford about the climate crisis and he said -

- Trump's axing of climate policies “scares the shit out of me”
- of Trump: "I don’t know of a greater criminal in history”
- that the world is "teetering on the edge" due to the loss of nature
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Harrison Ford says Trump’s assault on climate policy ‘scares the shit out of me’
Indiana Jones star calls US president one of history’s greatest criminals for attacks on science and boosting of fossil fuels
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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The hallmarks of authoritarianism are on full display in the US right now. Recognizing them—and sharing this knowledge with others—is step one for any successful effort to counter what’s happening.
What Authoritarian Regimes Do
As we speak, the Trump administration is abandoning principles of democracy and dismantling the rule of law. The willful destruction of the federal science apparatus is but one harmful and onerous asp...
blog.ucs.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Reposted by Traci Birge
7 million people took to the streets across the nation to protest in defense of our democracy.

This country belongs to the people. We will fight for it with everything we've got.
October 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Cruel and evil. The very definition of "hostile environment".

Palestinian woman wins full scholarship for doctoral studies, but UK blocks her husband & children's entry despite her scholarship specifically covering tuition and family housing & living costs.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Gaza PhD student ‘heartbroken’ as family blocked from entering the UK
Manar al-Houbi’s husband and children refused entry despite her winning a scholarship to cover tuition fees, living costs and housing for them all
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Not even at a year into this and we're at the anxiously watching to see if an academic can successfully escape from America stage.
October 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Jesus christ these fascists
When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys
Absolutely heinous.
October 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
If you need another example that the intention is to destroy the country by destroying its institutions.

They are all #accelerationists.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."
September 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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This Tamagotchi-style app lets you support Ukraine's war-torn nature and local communities that depend on orchards and gardens.

Your donation and care for a virtual tree in the Reroot app result into a real fruit tree being planted in de-occupied frontline regions. ⤵️

📷Rescue Now
September 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Opened #BlueSky to see what was up with a shooting in Michigan, but the first thing I see is about a shooting in N. Carolina.

#GunViolence
September 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM