Category: Animals / Insects / Water Life / Plants / Nature
‘They Came in the Dark’: Settler Violence Intensifies in the West Bank
Dog Ticks Are Changing Their Diet. You’re on the Menu | Deep Look
Is The Orca Uprising Upon Us?
We Ignore Animals’ Cognition at Our Peril…plus a civics reminder/plea
As she always does, Annie wrote a grand post. The post has a wonderful video and a great message. However the post also has a lot of great election information, and WordPress is acting weird as always so is preventing her posts from being distributed to her followers. Please head over to her blog and check out the grand post. Hugs. Scottie
True Facts: Incredible Crab Stories
Midday Palate Cleanser
I thank Tengrain for their daily servings of news, funny things, and animal videos. They put a lot of hard work and effort in to the posts. Plus the commenters are top-notch. I really recommend following the site.
Ron and I have been family to dogs and cats most of our lives. Each one has had their own personality and presence, just like humans. This is a wonderful video of ability and reasoning ability along with determination. Hugs. Scottie
Texas installs barrier at New Mexico border to deter migrants
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4264027-texas-barrier-new-mexico-border-deter-migrants/
How greatly the republicans in that state must hate brown people. If given half a chance, they would gleefully restart slavery. I don’t see how this is even legal. Think of where this money could be spent to help the people. Hugs
BY LAUREN SFORZA – 10/18/23 9:51 PM ET
Texas is adding to its border wall to deter migrants from entering the state by constructing a barrier between itself and New Mexico.
“Texas installs fencing along NEW Mexico border. Our barriers around El Paso forced the migrants crossing illegally to enter into New Mexico. They then entered into El Paso from there. To end that, we are building a barrier on the New Mexico border,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Construction of a wall along the Texas-Mexico border has been in the works for months since Abbott committed to the project in 2021. He has continually posted videos and images of the border wall on X, but last week’s announcement revealing the construction of a wall between Texas and the neighboring state of New Mexico marks the latest step in his Operation Lone Star.
KFOX14 reported earlier this month that members of the Texas National Guard reinforced the wall between New Mexico and Texas with concertina wire — a type of barbed wire that already lines the Texas-Mexico border. Abbott said Texas had plans to build a barrier between the two states during an appearance at the Manhattan Institute last month.
New Mexico and Texas Democrats condemned the action in a joint statement.
“Earlier this month, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the placement of razor wire fencing along the Texas-New Mexico border north of the Rio Grande near Sunland Park, NM. This is the latest Operation Lone Star stunt funded by the working Texas family’s tax-dollar that will result in environmental damage, community division and injuries of vulnerable migrants,” the statement read.
“It’s clear that Governor Abbott has no plans on actually addressing our broken immigration system head on — but instead adding more fuel to Operation Lone Star’s dumpster fire,” the statement added.
Is Abbott aware that New Mexico is part of the United States and not “Old Mexico?”
I sort of being serious. There are people in this country who get confused about this. I’ve heard it from JMGers who reside in NM.
This is a real article that I saved years ago from USA Today newspaper.
I swear it was in the comments section of this blog that someone nearly had immigration called on him/her because s/he told a fellow American that s/he came from New Mexico and didn’t go through customs. It was a whole “facepalming” nightmare.
I remember a story decades ago about a man who had a huge hassle from the IRS because he wasn’t paying the right taxes. He lived in NM and they insisted he report his “out of the country” income.
I read that there is a surprising percentage of Texans that think New Mexico is part of Mexico. And an even higher percentage of non-Texans that think that. I’m not surprised on either count.
Fascist Abbott is building these walls to lock women in so they will be unable to leave the state to obtain legal reproductive care elsewhere.
THE STORY OF ZIGGY
For those that do not know, Jerry / Rawgod and Jill started a blog for and about furry members of the family, pets in common terms. I have fell in love with the stories, both the births, the deaths, and the stories in between as people talk about what their non-human family members brought to them. All my life, dogs and cats have been the balm to sooth the hurts happening to me. One of my greatest fears is losing my eyesight. I read a book called “Follow My Leader” as a child, and it was about a young boy blinded who learned to deal with his sudden blindness and to work with his new companion, a seeing eye dog. The post and video at the link above is wonderful. Please go, read and watch, and support our furry non-human family members. Hugs. Scottie
The race to mine the bottom of the ocean
This video explains the history and the debate over mining metals in the deep sea and why one Canadian company, The Metals Company, is leading the rush there. There are huge environmental implications for digging up seafloor ecosystems as well as ethical ones: Metal-rich zones like the Clarion-Clipperton Zone lie in international waters that technically belong to everyone. A United Nations body located in Kingston, Jamaica, the International Seabed Authority, is faced with an urgent dilemma over how to regulate mining, whether the environmental harm is worth the benefits to solving our climate crisis, and how to fairly share the profits from this shared resource.
