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"Involuntary parks: Human conflict is creating unintended refuges for wildlife"
#Wildlife #Animals #Nature

Involuntary parks: Human conflict is creating unintended refuges for wildlife
Few locations on Earth are as haunting or deeply ironic as so-called involuntary parks — places too toxic, dangerous, or otherwise made off-limits for human habitation, but which have paradoxically and unintentionally become sanctuaries for wildlife in our absence. As the name coined by science fiction author Bruce Sterling suggests, involuntary parks weren’t established for […]

I have two "house"/montessori beds for children that I bought 3 years ago or so that I wanted to sell but it turns out nobody on Kleinanzeigen wants non-IKEA furniture, so I looked at giving them away instead and I'm happy (?) to report that there are apparently no more refugees or otherwise disadvantaged families in Berlin.

What @… says is what a lot of us have been lamenting since the ICE invasion started. Shouldn’t local police protect citizens from ICE?? Why this hasn’t happened is a really good question. Factors to consider:
- “Obstructing a federal agent” is illegal, and local police / politicians feel constrained by that (even if the agents themselves don’t seem constrained by the actual law at all, only by what they think they can get away with)
- Police can in theory cite federal agents for e.g. traffic violations or illegal plate swapping after the fact, as long as they’re not “obstructing” the agents — but how do you cite a masked person with fake plates who refuses to give ID?
- Some police are visibly supportive of ICE, chumming it up with them and giving literal fist bumps; a nontrivial subset are outright closet Nazis. A lot of people don’t really see any need to go past “ACAB” as a full explanation for all of this — and certainly The ACAB Hypothesis is…um, not really being proved false right now in Minneapolis.
- I think some police quietly resent ICE for stepping on their turf, but that does not seem to have boiled up into actual confrontation in MSP. One police leader here painted it in early Dec as “some people want to instigate a confrontation between Minneapolis Police, and that’s not going to happen.” Police culture says that police should be a neutral party in a dispute between ICE and residents, and actually protecting residents would be taking sides. (Duh, yes, taking sides that way is your literal job, you dumbasses…but I digress.)
- Some police (especially leadership) really want to get on the community’s good side after the murder of George Floyd, and see this as an opportunity, but unfortunately this has materialized entirely as non-interventionist support: “We responded to a 911 call and help a distressed resident after her husband was abducted!” “We transported children left parentless on the streets by ICE safely back to their home!” “Our officers volunteered at the food shelf!” OK, nice, good for you buddy.
So yeah, I’m wondering this too, and am bitter about it. https://tilde.zone/@n1xnx/115928447564126393

20 former children at school with #NigelTheStockboker allege racist behaviour then, which he denies.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/

Last night Marienplatz, Munich #ChristmasMarket

Iraq is ‘Unrecognizable and Remarkable’ After Decades of Conflict – UN Coordinator Shows Why https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/iraq-unrecognizable-and-remarkable-after-decades-of-conflict-un-coordinator/

Iraq ‘Unrecognizable and Remarkable’ After Decades of Conflict: UN Coordinator
Now, the nation's poverty rate has fallen around 3% in the last 7 years, while more than 5 million internal refugees have returned to their homes

Objectively USA is already allowed to do anything it wants militarily on Greenland, Rutte probably "repackaged" it into a framework, well done
#greenland #nato #rutte

Under Siege By DHS Nazis, Charlotte Refuses To Hush, Hush. Sweet!
https://www.wonkette.com/p/under-siege-by-dhs-nazis-charlotte

It’s fascinating to see the administration constantly trial efforts at normalizing its Nazi core:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/us/politics/coast-guard-hate-crimes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Which means we have to *alwa…

Coast Guard Says Swastika and Noose Displays Are No Longer Hate Incidents
A new servicewide policy recasts swastikas and nooses as “potentially divisive,” revises harassment provisions and deletes protections for transgender troops.

His attack on Somali refugees is horrible and racist, but I have to admit, with years in my eyes sir, that nobody knows more about money laundering than Donald Trump.