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unfortunate that the nyt & guardian have picked up "building" as what killed flaco, depressing to see the tweets blaming "skyscrapers." in collisions, it's untreated glass that kills birds-- and the lowest few floors of glass usually do more damage than any glass higher up
1) "building," for many people, will suggest there's no way to stop collisions-- when in fact there are solutions
2) "skyscrapers" makes tall buildings/urban density seem dangerous-- whereas the massive threat to birds is suburban sprawl (habitat loss, cars, climate change)
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BREAKING| Israel kills journalist Hiba Abadleh and her daughter in an airstrike that targeted their house in Gaza.
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12-year-old Dunia lost her leg in an Israeli airstrike that killed her whole family.
We filmed this video with Dunia during the seven-day truce, and yesterday an Israeli tank-fired shell killed her while she was recovering in Naser Hospital in Khan Younis.
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As Abu Ahmad, waving a white flag, follows Israeli instructions and flees their house, his son is shot in the head.
"I told you, let’s stay at home, my son! Let’s stay at home!"
His son didn't make it.
A neighbor's son, no more than 4 years old, watches the whole scene. Damaged for life.
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Shameful, devastating, racist. @DoselineKiguru is a brilliant and much-valued colleague - what she and her daughter have been put through is evil theguardian.com/uk-news/2023…
a few of the more than dozen stunned or dead birds at Ironside Newark this morning: this is *not* a skyscraper, it's a midrise with glass railings, floor-to-ceiling glass on the lowest floors, and some appealing plants.
behind that poor confused junco are about eight other stunned birds (including a hermit thrush also hunkered down by the glass). the railing is so unnecessarily deadly
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This is fascist fuckery
Republicans Introduce Bill To Expel Palestinians From The United States
Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) and a group of far-right House Republicans want to revoke visas issued to Palestinians. huffpost.com/entry/ryan-zink…
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🚨🚨🚨This is the most regressive piece of legislation in recent #bikenyc history and an alarming number of council members are signing on….and there are some surprising names.
This would be a disaster for people on bikes. A disaster.
legistar.council.nyc.gov/Leg… – at Brooklyn, NY
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The three populations most frequently invoked to justify automobile hegemony are the children, the disabled and the poor. These are the very groups most harmed by it. These are the exact populations most limited, trapped, immiserated, hit, hurt and killed by car dependency.
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People who drive cars in this pedestrian-dense, transit-rich city are running a successful campaign of grievance politics to roll back every improvement we have made to New York City’s streets in the past decade.
