Mama Great Horned Owl of North Pond was found dead this morning, joining Papa and Baby as victims of rodenticides.

We must do better by urban wildlife, Chicago.

NSJP has received reports that Cal State Sacramento has won full divestment, set to officially start on 5/24

- no direct, indirect, or auxiliary investments that support any genocide, ethnic cleansing or human rights violations
- divestments will be disclosed on the CSUS website

The point of this raid was terror. They waited for those kids to fall asleep. And then they pulled the tents from under them while they were sleeping. Shame on the University of Chicago.

By cleanup they mean destroying the only real community space that’s existed on this campus.

UCHICAGO YOU CAN'T HIDE, YOU INVEST IN GENOCIDE

All out to the supporter rally at 970 E 58th street now! Bring water, goggles, helmets, or heat resistant gloves if you can!

The university’s “deal” they offered students, btw, didn’t have the word Palestine or Palestinian once.

Listen to Bear Divide researchers on NPR All Things Considered! 🐤🐦🐧
npr.org/2024/05/06/124…

Israel is heavily bombing Rafah, Gaza’s last place of refuge, in the middle of the night, killing scores of civilians, most of them children.

There are many others injured and buried under the rubble.

Don’t stop talking about Rafah.

My Wisconsin detour this afternoon has featured Varied Bunting, Great Tit, and over a dozen Iceland Gulls. What??

Line of campus police facing The University of Chicago encampment

This has to be the darkest day I’ve ever experienced as an academic. Universities ordering physical violence against the students to whom we’ve been entrusted to educate. Again and again. It goes against everything I believe in. I feel disgusted by my vocation.

The stark contrast between UCLA — where cops let psychotic fascists assault defenseless kids — and Columbia — where cops themselves assaulted defenseless kids — on opposite sides of the country, on the same night, while the mainstream media spins it, is legitimately maddening.

Warblers part 2! Today, over 20 species of these fantastic little gems. Really spent the morning going “omg my favorite!” At every bird 😆

ebird.org/checklist/S171…

The warblers are baaaack!

Seeing spring Cape Mays, the most beautiful male Blackburnian, hearing a Golden wing sing his heart out, and just being surrounded by these little jewels made for a really good start to the week

HAPPENING NOW: over a hundred students have launched the UCHICAGO POPULAR UNIVERSITY FOR GAZA, a palestine solidarity encampment, on the main quad 🔥🔥

Watching the Blue Rock-Thrush on the livestream for SE Farallon Island rn is honestly one of the coolest birds I’ve ever seen virtually…youtube.com/live/fHb0eB9RU…

INSTANTLY one of the best most legendary eBird lists ever HOLYYYY ebird.org/checklist/S170…

Mass graves uncovered in Gaza show victims’ hands were tied before they were killed and buried. Among the dead are doctors, zip tied and still wearing their scrubs.

Further evidence of Israeli forces extrajudicially executing Palestinian civilians.
news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

700 bodies now discovered at Nasser hospital alone (1,500 uncovered at Al Shifa), patients, some with catheters still attached, children, with hands still bound, doctors and nurses, still wearing their scrubs, many shot in the back of the head at point blank range execution-style

gm from ucla