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Trump's threats to annex democratic countries even though their citizens do not vote for this move show that he has mentally abandoned democracy and thus severed his government from the Constitution. No American owes his government loyalty if he invades.
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Read all about a mind-blowing week of birding action on our Tour for Two in Yorkshire last week guided by ace birder Marc Hughes aka @marcbuzzard An amazing 140 species of birds enjoyed! Join our tours for amazing birds & great fun! birdwatchingtrips.co.uk/
#birding #Yorkshire
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Open herbarium weekend in Herbarium Frisicum
In het weekend van 7 en 8 november 2026 houdt Herbarium Frisicum, voor de 27e keer, een open Herbarium weekend. Herbarium Frisicum wordt het laatste half jaar overspoeld met vele unieke herbaria. De meeste zijn levenswerken en worden door ons, voor de toekomst, als botanisch erfgoed bewaard. In dit weekend worden vele van deze ontvangen plantencollecties getoond. Verder vinden er op beide dagen presentaties plaats.
Zaterdag geef ik een presentatie over de belang van waardplanten: Waardevolle Waardplanten.
Zondag geeft Prof.J.Schaminée een presentatie met als titel: Het Levend Archief, zorgen voor de natuur van morgen.
Herbarium Frisicum is op beide dagen geopend van 11.00 - 16.00 uur. Op beide dagen beginnen de presentaties om 13.30 uur.
herbariumfrisicum.nl
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- Chechen wars: Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia joined.
- War in Ukraine: Sweden and Finland joined.
Russia is the best promoter of NATO membership.
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Note to #Google...
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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year, and may support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Let's look after the trees. Via @WoodlandTrust
#wellbeing #nature #wildlife
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To address the "root causes" of the war in Ukraine, Putin is demanding a veto over the sovereign choices of Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Finland and Sweden.
MORE: Putin reportedly provided Stubb and Store with his assessment of the current situation in Ukraine and explained the war’s “root causes,” the Kremlin’s shorthand for Russia’s maximalist war demands that include a puppet regime in Ukraine and retrograding the membership of NATO states that joined the alliance since 1997 — effectively granting Russia a veto over NATO internal policies and curtailing the sovereignty of many European states to choose to join alliances.
Putin also reportedly told Stubb and Store that a peace agreement must recognize the “realities on the ground,” another Russian rhetorical line used to demand the recognition of occupied Ukrainian territory as part of Russia as a precondition to any ceasefire or peace agreement in Ukraine.
A source close to the Kremlin claimed that Putin’s statement about “ground realities” signifies that Russia would not compromise on its goal of seizing all of Donbas. Putin has repeatedly outlined Russia’s demands that extend far beyond Ukraine’s Fortress Belt and Donetsk Oblast and may include the entire territory of Ukraine.
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Gisteren een zeldzame notenkraker kunnen fotograferen. Er is een invasie aan notenkrakers in Nederland. Ze komen helemaal vanuit Siberië of Noord-Scandinavië en Finland deze kant op gevlogen ivm voedselschaarste. De laatste keer dat dit gebeurde was in 1991 (bron @vogelnieuws)
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U.S. Ambassador Hoekstra makes the case for Canada's sovereign push 🇨🇦 🛰️
At Space Canada's SpaceBound conference in Gatineau last week, U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra came with one message for Ottawa: Canada is making a mistake by going its own way.
🎤 He spent three minutes on tariffs before the moderator cut in: "Back to space."
🚀 He said Canada is "closing the market to SpaceX," even though Telesat has booked 14 Falcon 9 launches for Lightspeed.
⚠️ He praised Elon Musk's "excellence" a week after Ukraine's Starlink and Starshield terminals slowed in the middle of a war.
By the time he was done, he had made the case for why Ottawa is right.
In my latest Observer column, I explain why. 👇
spaceq.ca/hoekstra-canada-so…
#SpaceQ #Space #Canada #SpaceBound #Defence #Sovereignty #Telesat #SpaceX
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If Trump and Hoekstra want to blame Canada for democrats winning the midterms. I'm totally ok with that.😂
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Carolina Wren lifer I got the other day :3 it flew up on close branch to yell in my face before flying off #wrensday
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There it is MAGA! Your orange racist child-raping cult leader has already declared victory in the midterm elections! So no need to worry about all that pesky voting. What will you do with all that free time? Get your tooth cleaned? Date night at Applebee’s with your sister-wife?
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This image is not a real Trump post. The screenshot could not be matched to any authentic Trump post and was traced to a Facebook account that describes itself as satirical. ibtimes.co.uk/fake-trump-pos…
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Allegedly a MAGA couple Matthew & Shelby Zerrusen have been exposed by CBS as the people behind the false transgender fliers sent to children especially to MAGA to make it look like Democrats did it.They run a Catholic nonprofit that connects College students to faith communities & he’s the cofounder of Three Z printing.
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About 130 million years ago the first flowering plants emerged, eventually bearing a dazzling array of fruits that would grow alongside the dinosaurs. But researchers have long questioned whether dinosaurs ever made these earliest fruits a main course.
Now, a toothless, turkey-size oddity with a parrotlike beak may be the first known dinosaur frugivore.
Researchers report a newly discovered dinosaur that lived alongside Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops named Infernogallus jamesi—meaning “hell chicken”—that was fully adapted to a fruit-based diet.
The anatomy bears a striking resemblance to modern parrots, the authors say. Learn more: scim.ag/3W7YW2R
ALT The first dinos that only ate fruit munched like parrots Toothless, turkey-size oddity may have evolved alongside the emergence of flowering plants
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A new paper by John Catanzaro, Nicolas Hulscher, and Peter McCullough proposes that mRNA COVID vaccines may produce persistent biological effects and potentially transfer vaccine-derived material between people.
The accompanying article goes further, calling for an immediate halt to mRNA technology.
Those are extraordinary claims. But the paper also cites several genuine scientific observations that deserve to be understood rather than dismissed.
So what does the evidence actually establish?
And where does a plausible biological mechanism become an unsupported conclusion?
Let’s examine the science.
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