Manifest Destiny and Monroe Doctrine are still being forwarded in Latin America. The Indian Wars never ended & they've really heated up since Pinochet in Chile, Musk in Bolivia & now in Venezuela. They want the land, the water, resources & the DNA from our dead bodies www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

First day of summer. Yay!

William Blake ~ The Youthful Poet`s Dream (1816 - 1820) #WilliamBlake

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1781: The Zong Massacre begins. The crew of the British ship Zong begin systematically murdering more than 130 enslaved Africans. The crew committed the murders to claim insurance money, treating the enslaved people as disposable cargo. /1

Australia has recognised a fundamental truth: that *everything* depends on healthy wild ecosystems. Time for the rest of the world to follow suit, and then ACT on it. search.app/phsEf

Breaking News: Viola Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre who testified a century later in Congress to the terror she witnessed in the hope of winning reparations, died at 111. nyti.ms/4or9B1e

"ha ha bitches, I got a new scooter" is a Top 20 line of the 21st century

This is why for a long time I've found the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science a rather insulting propaganda exercise www.abc.net.au/news/science... CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP: 1982-83 = 0.17 2024-25 = 0.03 ... Scientific extinction event imminent?

Admiring this wooden spiral staircase adorned with gilded six-pointed star motifs at the Yeşil Mosque in Kütahya, Turkiye www.facebook.com/groups/arche...

Israeli air raids have taken place in southern Gaza as well as Gaza City.

Colonialism in Europe: the Swedish government's assault on the indigenous Sami redlinecollective.substack.com/p/the-sami-i...

The best thing I have encountered on this site (or perhaps any site) ever.

“Twelve-year-old Raghad al-Assar’s…story is one of the many to emerge from Israel’s war on Gaza, which UN experts have described as a genocide. According to the UN Children’s Fund, some 64,000 children have “reportedly been killed or maimed” in Israeli attacks on coastal Palestinian territory.”

Under Trump 2.0, tech platforms have proven to be much more responsive to the demands of a rising authoritarian than to pressure from workers, users, or civil society, writes @davekarpf.bsky.social. If we are going to repair democratic institutions, we to have to do it ourselves, he says.

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

www.yahoo.com/news/article... either this, or Trump’s dirty destructive energy

18-year-old street musician who performed anti-war songs is sent to jail for a third time as Kremlin mounts a no-limits crackdown on any signs of dissent or opposition in Russia u.afp.com/SnNA

Trump Solemnly Lays Wreath At Site Where He Would Have Died During Vietnam War If He Weren’t Rich https://theonion.com/trump-solemnly-lays-wreath-at-site-where-he-would-have-1832907992/

Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue-bbc-over-misleading-edit-of-the-vicar-of-dibley/

'Timothy Roberts, president of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties, said police already had the ability to challenge protests in court, as they recently demonstrated. "But with respect to neo-Nazis, they have let this one straight through to the keeper." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Wonderfully wet and wild. Make up all the bug hotels and bird boxes you want, but without way more healthy wild natural habitats like this, nature will continue to crash. Rewilding is how we make that happen.

Also, there are two sides to the perception that this was some kind of coincidental collaboration. W&C may not have intentionally "pinched" Franklin's data but Wilkins certainly felt that way. 👇

Mm hm. No mention of the sexism Franklin was constantly forced to endure in this cosy little, “they were all respectful colleagues, actually” article.

'A former Australian soldier recruited to support a controversial Albanese government deportation plan is demanding answers after discovering a bikie gang [Finks] had infiltrated the critical border security operation.' www.theage.com.au/national/min...

Mourning Land That Leaves: Alaska Native communities grapple with ecological grief as their ancestral lands slowly vanish. themargin.us/features/mou...

"She was an equal player."

Sad, but that’s the reality in the U.S.

uh i would say it's mildly alarming that the Trump administration is using its sanction powers to compel tech companies into taking its critics offline. First, the ICC's chief investigator says he was blocked from his Microsoft-hosted email after US sanctions. Now, this

I don't see a lot of people talking about this, so I want to highlight something GOOD Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?" She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.

This isn’t true, but it is true that slaveowners routinely enslaved and sold their children.

Nankeen Night-Heron showed up on our dam last week, which was very nice of since I got to record it in my #AussieBirdCount surveys. Doesn’t like having its photo taken, but I finally got it! #ausbirds

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

The Silent Hunter Graham Eaton, photographer

You know you've been taken in by a book when only a few pages in to the library copy, you buy your own. Conspiracy Nation by @arielbogle.bsky.social and @cameronwilson.bsky.social publishing.hardiegrant.com/en-au/books/...

we are being robbed of so many weird little guys (complimentary)

Trump: I don't think we're gonna necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we're just gonna kill people. Okay? We're gonna kill them. They're gonna be, like, dead.

Project Gutenberg is one of those places that exemplifies what the internet was initially all about: studying, preserving, and celebrating the arts, especially the written word, and Greg Newby was a huge part of that. Thank you, Greg, and rest well.

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

My favorite sign at the Montclair NJ No Kings today:

More #nokings in #portjeff. Thousands showed up in our red county! #longisland @handle.invalid @meidastouch.com

Enjoy:

Bonjourrrr

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

This - which I explored today - is the kind of thing I live for on walks in the deep countryside: a 200+-year-old abandoned walled garden, totally overgrown and teeming with wildlife and ghosts. Finding lost magic places like this, untouched and undeveloped, always fills me with weird kind of hope.

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."