Tariffs. Stock market down. Medicaid slashed Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans. National guard and marines deployed in LA. No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine Bombing Iran This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.

YCSTA: "This hostile takeover of the government of a superpower is astonishing and should be front-page news every day. Yet denial, cowardice, and normalization have affected media coverage of this catastrophe." Also, the utter failure of the great majority of our reps to respond appropriately.

On this World Env Day: The agenda of decolonizing environmentalism has never been more imp. We outline a praxis for environmentalism fit for the purpose. Grateful to @amitav.bsky.social, whose work has inspired us, for his kind words @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...

WTH Europe?!

The irony of a felon who used the courts relentlessly to keep himself out of jail & dispensing of due process for others will probably not be lost on historians.

Tapping the sign.

the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps block the path

A really important email from my friend Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social . As he says "this is a 5 alarm fire." America is under attack right now.

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🧵Trump is robbing your grandma to pay off the ultra-rich. He promised to help everyday Americans, but now he's gutting Medicaid to bankroll massive tax-cuts for his greedy, jet-setting, loophole-loving billionaire cronies. During his Faux News interview with his co-president, Elon Musk, 1/5

If it's about saving government money why are they firing people who make money for the government? DOGE is a lie, start to finish.

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“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” - Marcus Aurelius #stoicsky #pagansky

unfortunately for these folks the odds are that they aren’t going to go after violent criminals at all — too hard — and going to go exclusively over the easiest targets, which are law abiding workers

One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it *should* be about 10%. The actual number is less than 1%. Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.

This book is 99 cents on Amazon, today.

I've coined the phrase "non-consensual capitalism" to describe this phenomenon/era.

Psychologist Peter Gray: "The real problem, of course, is an economic one. We’ve figured out how to reduce the amount of work required to produce everything we need and realistically want, but we haven’t figured out how to distribute those resources.." evonomics.com/less-work-jo... @scottsantens.com

“The phenomenon is known as #InducedDemand. The result is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more trips, which brings back traffic…The pattern is so inevitable that economists have dubbed it the iron law of congestion.” slate.com/business/202...

When Stephen Harper was elected, I worked for the Geological Survey of Canada. The very next day we were told we had to remove “climate change” from our grant applications. The muzzling soon followed. US scientists need to be preparing now. @whysharksmatter.bsky.social has good advice here. 🧪

Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions

Post a pic you took to add some calm to the timeline.

Addressing climate change requires local action -- taken all over the world. Want to connect with change-makers across the planet who are leading their communities forward with climate solutions? Check out the new Drawdown Solutions Diary! drawdown.org/programs/dra...

Post your favorite Pokemon, wrong answers only

🚨 A year ago, I wrote a review of Erik Larson's "In the Garden of Beasts," an account of the US Ambassador to Germany's tenure there in the early-mid 30s. I shared lessons from the account that feel more relevant now than ever. Here is a snippet of them: 1/

"The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those...are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them." ---Wendell Berry 📷

Craig Callender in Frackademia: how fossil fuel industries enter and influence academic research #PSA2024