Beyond honey production, bees are crucial for biodiversity and ecosystem health. They contribute to the reproduction of many plant species.

If you invested $10,000 in Trump coin on Jan 20, 2025, it would be worth $415 today. People didn't buy these coins as an investment. They bought them to put money in Trump's pockets in exchange for something they want. It's the scummiest grift operation ever to hit the presidency.

Ulrike Rosenbach (b.1943) Performance ‘Glauben Sie nicht, dass ich eine Amazone bin’ (Don’t Believe I’m Amazon) 1976, Foto Klaus vom Bruch + "The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body." ~ Dr. Bruce Lipton, molecular biologist and epigeneticist

Miroslav Bartak + “We are all of us not merely liable to fear, we are also prone to be afraid of being afraid, and the conquering of fear produces exhilaration” ― Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

"…I was my own storm once, so young and eager to raise the sail of my wanting, and I just wanted to tell you I love this old boat, this settled-in thing." from “Keel” in Ramshackle Ode by Keith Leonard, p. 2 [revmeg]

“You can’t really change the heart without telling a story.” ― Martha Nussbaum

July 1, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Narelle Autio, School Of Dance. Melbourne, Australia, 2001 + “Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.” ― Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

Darwin Award for Swedish contract killer.

“People aren’t the apex species they think they are. Other creatures-bigger, smaller, slower, faster, older, younger, more powerful-call the shots, make the air, and eat sunlight. Without them, nothing.” ― Richard Powers, The Overstory

To read "Requiem" in full, visit allpoetry.com/poem/8507195...

Abbas Kiarostami + “It wasn’t what you said”, he told her. "It was how I felt when you said it".“ — Anne Tyler

"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead." ~James Baldwin

on forever's very now we stand - e. e cummings, 1940

Forgot my kids at a gas station. (Famnesia) Couldn’t recall the name of the Rubbles kid. (Bam Bamnesia) Didn’t wake you up before I went went. (Wham!nesia)

Hamburgers aren’t made of ham and cheeseburgers aren’t made of cheese and we live in a prison of lies

“The truth of the world is exhausting.” ― Don DeLillo, Libra

“There’s a kind of horror that shakes you to your core, when you start believing in the devil because of what you witness and in hell because you want comfort.” ― Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America

"The Name of the Wicked Shall Rot." Why Trump’s Kennedy Center Humiliation Is a Whole Sermon From the Book of Proverbs open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...

i smell a pulitzer

An automaton army approaches in the French historical sci-fi epic THE CHESS PLAYER

“XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud” ― Anne Carson

[..] You, my friend, are underground & will always be there. I did not help you, but you always helped me. When I was an atheist, I believed in people. Now as a nihilist, my grief has no hope. And I could say there is no reason to keep going, but then I think of, I think of you. -gina myers

Richard Eberhart

Lawrence Freeman: This is my assessment of why Trump’s war went so badly wrong. Underestimating an enemy and a belief in a quick victory are familiar sources of failure, compounded in this sense by incredible ultimatums and delusional claims.

Schubert's Hungarian Melody, played by Andras Schiff, who has been refusing to return to his native Hungary under Orban (out of principle, and also b/c pro-regime elements were threatening to break his hands if he returned). www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm39...

What Fr Martin says.

Miklós Radnóti, “Foaming Sky” (trans. Clive Wilmer and György Gömöri), excerpted from Steep Path: Poems Translated from the Hungarian [Text ID: “Sometimes the year looks back, lets out a scream, Looks back, then passes out appalled.”]

“Exactly. Its not the velocity or speed that kills you, but the force, resulted from mass times acceleration. You don't get pushed to the back in a train with a constant speed, but you will get pushed to the front when it brakes.” [Math]

The Pope is WEAK on crime is so gd funny; I am HOWLING

I love @mairakalman

“All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.” Marshall Rosenberg [alive on all channels]

SURVIVING THE FLOOD OF BULLSHIT open.substack.com/pub/tcinla75...

“I am a restrained person. Otherwise my heart would race past my tongue to pour out everything. Instead I mumble, I gnaw myself. I lose hope. And my mind is burning.” ― Anne Carson, An Oresteia

“While spacewalking I realized something, I used to think I was scared of heights but now I know I was just scared of gravity.” ― Artemis II Astronaut Reid Wiseman

“That your world is in agony is no reason to turn your back on it, [...]. Rilke reminded me that I had the strength and courage to walk out into the world as into my own heart, and to “love the things / as no one has thought to love them.“ ~ Joanna Macy :: ‘Rilke’s Book of Hours’

e.e.cummings

Facts spoken by an ex-trumper...

"Biggest scam in modern political history."

It never bode well for civilization to have the stupidest man on the planet also be the most powerful.