PBS has a documentary called Sacred Planet with Gulnaz Khan where the host travels the world to show us how spiritual practices are informed by the natural world. Anyway, the episode about Japan is lovely and peaceful and is perfect “sleep stories” content pbs.org/show/sacred-...

Jane Goodall’s final message is clear: we are part of nature, yet destroying our only home. She urged us to act now, before the small window to change closes. Her legacy is a call to rethink growth, embrace renewables, and live in harmony with Earth. tinyurl.com/bddephcj #JaneGoodall #ClimateAction

China and Russia are doing very well, thank you, as the USA suffers an end to affordable health care, end to privacy rights, rising inflation, soaring unemployment, oncoming economic recession, American cities under occupation, and attacks on our Great Democracy. Xi and Putin hv reasons celebrate.

The long game is to crush the small, entrepreneurial farms and coalesce the properties under mega-corporate ownership. The classic American family farm has been under assault since at least the 1960s. They don’t want small, independent owners of businesses, or farms.

Switching from chemical based farming, (no longer tilling, special GMO seeds, herbicides, insecticides, pesticides or chemical fertilizer), Rick Clark farms organically, & saves ~ 400$ per acre on input costs! If all the Grain farmers in the US switched to this model, they'd save billions of $.

Americans need to be keenly aware of the fact that Trump, in his first and second terms in office, has provided Russia with a vast new food export market in China. By crippling US farm production and paying farmers off, lucrative food production for China is now centered in Russia! #RussiaFirst

I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.

Einstein deriving his famous equation E=mc^2

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice & wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. ~ Frederick Douglass

“Ignoring the military’s mission of preventing wars thru deterrence, its professional and highly educated officer corps, and its modern structure as a triumph of logistics, Hegseth told the military leaders that today was “the liberation of America’s warriors, in name, in deed and in authorities.”

More about Douglass in Scotland. www.bulldozia.com/glasgow-30-s...

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

The delicate sewn artworks using real leaves by UK artist Susanna Bauer #womensart

GOP Sen. Ted Cruz says, “Let’s stop attacking pedophiles” during Congress speech www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/gop-...

Hegseth is a joke.. Country over Party 🇺🇸 Fuck you and your loyalty test.. #SheShed

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."

A tiny Pete Hegseth preaches to America's military giants Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social for Raw Story #PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #Trump #USPolitics #Hegseth

Hegseth to Geneva Conventions: drop dead

NEW: Sen. Tammy Duckworth is calling for Pete Hegseth to resign. "If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."

Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

“Misleading” “falsely” You can call it a “lie”, @nytimes www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

FAFO

Hegseth Lectures "Fat Generals" and Trump Threatens War Against U.S. Cities youtu.be/hlS5um3WJqg

.@SpeakerJohnson: @HouseDems are here & ready to work. The American people can’t afford your obstruction. The GOP caused devastating healthcare cuts - you have a duty to undo them. Stop the games. Open the doors. Let us do our jobs.

Gift link! NYT: Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech By Zach Montague, @zjmontague.bsky.social

The Right Wing is heavily armed, vastly financed, now calling our own military to use violence against us. They threaten our American #FreedomOfThought #FreedomOfChoice They are a danger to no enemy on Earth other than Fellow American Citizens. Their laws endanger us. Their guns are pointed at us

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

FYI. If the Govt shuts down, everyone stays in town including the president but you’re just bored with nothing to do because it’s all messaging and negotiations. GREAT TIME TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

#Republicans know exactly what they have been doing. When they began labeling political opponents w/the sights on guns, they knew it. When Hannity targeted Dr. Till, he knew it. They seek to normalize hatred and violence against American Citizens #UnAmericanActivities‬ #TheEnemyWithin

Trump just called American citizens “the enemy within,” encouraging the men and women of the armed forces to use OUR cities as military training grounds. It’s time to wake up, put aside our differences, and create a united front to oppose Trump’s unconstitutional and illegal abuse of power.

I am old enough to remember when our national media organizations actually worked to educate American citizens about the major issues facing the nation. Now, they just repeat quotes by politicians with no context or background. They even allow lies to go unchallenged. We Deserve Better

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

Today’s poem: Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art” #lunchpoems

Environmental crime is surging: illegal logging, sand trafficking, mining, and fishing now rank among the world’s most profitable transnational crimes. Their toll deepens climate change and devastates communities. tinyurl.com/y6zjzj9m #ClimateJustice #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalCrime

In which the US AG purports to have the authority to conscript state and local police officers as federal agents for the purpose of levying federal charges against protesters ⁉️ www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attor...

‘tis the season

“The economy is skating as close to the edge of recession as you can get,” said Christopher Rupkey, chief economist at FWDBONDS. “Companies are clearly hunkering down and refusing to hire and the blame can be traced back to Washington’s economic agenda.” Read more here: bit.ly/4pngpye

US photographer Margaret Bourke-White on top of the Chrysler Building, New York, 1931 #womensart

"Corruption is why hedge funds get to buy up all the houses in your neighborhood, driving you out of the market and then your corporate landlord ignores your calls during a gas leak." - @ossoff.bsky.social

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive: 2015: 332 2016: 383 2017: 347 2018: 335 2019: 414 2020: 611 2021: 689 2022: 644 2023: 659 2024: 503 So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days. We do not have to keep living like this.

The poet, Maria Popova

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ~ George Orwell

“Nothing was your own except a few cubic centimeters inside your skull.” ~ George Orwell

Suzi Eszterhas, award-winning wildlife photographer known for documenting animal family groups #WomensArt