@us.theguardian.com You report on Trump family buying land for a golf course in Vietnam with cash compensation “as little as” $12 per square meter. That’s $48,500/acre, which is almost 10 times the average price of irrigated land in the US. Is that right??? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

My painting of Kirkjufell (literally “church mountain”) near Grundarfjörður, #Iceland. I worked from a sketch I had made while boating past the mountain last summer. A remarkable sight. 12 x 9 inch, acrylic on wood. #acryllic #landscape #painting #paletteknife jvacreate.com/2025/06/15/i...

My latest painting (a mini mural) is now on display as part of a summer scavenger hunt for art in downtown Antigo, Wisconsin. “Nice to Meet Blue”, 24 x 24 inch, acrylic on wood. jvacreate.com

The end of informed #GreatLakes Fish Mgmnt is at hand. My heart aches 4 former colleagues, the future of the GL, & all the small businesses that depend on GL fishing: hotels, restaurants, marinas, charter & commercial fishers, fish shops, vibrant small towns that dot the shoreline. shorturl.at/Wilzt

Ugh. This is my former agency, where I spent much of my career on Great Lakes fish research. www.science.org/content/arti...

Every single Republican in the Wisconsin Congressional delegation just voted on a budget resolution to cut billions in federal funds for BadgerCare, directly endangering their most vulnerable constituents, while adding trillions to the national debt.

This study, co-authored by my UW–Madison colleague Dietram A. Scheufele, confirms what many of us know: Black women in STEM face deep, persistent bias. We must keep pushing for equity. I stand with Black women in science. Always. #Blacksky #STEM #SciComm #UWLSC www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Open for bidding! www.32auctions.com/organization... www.32auctions.com/organization...

I'm donating two paintings to the annual fundraising auction for the Ice Age National Scenic Trail. They will be available for bidding on-line starting Sunday April 6 (I'll post again when the auction opens up).

Go Emily Ford! She is so amazing. She was also the first woman to thru-hike the Ice Age trail in the winter (over 1000 milkes!)

Exactly, Stephen.

I've got three pieces hanging in the Antigo Visual Arts gallery right now. The first one was selected to go to the Association of Wisconsin Artists’ statewide exhibit! Woohoo! #art #landscape #acrylic #paletteknife #mixedmedia #collage

The Playbook #Trump

2020: attacks on “BLM” 2022: attacks on “CRT” 2024: attacks on “woke” 2025: attacks on “DEI” BLACK. THEY MEAN BLACK.

We “made tremendous conservation gains the past five decades, but we can still lose them faster than our parents and grandparents built them.” - Patrick Durkin www.patrickdurkinoutdoors.com/post/federal...

I dropped Twitter, Instagram, Amazon Prime. Switched from Amazon's Goodreads to StoryGraph. Left State Farm Ins (member of ALEC). Leaving FB and Google is more challenging. Some small businesses/orgs only exist on FB. And what can substitute for G mail/drive/photos/calendar/maps/YouTube? Any advice?

"What's it going to take for us to wake up...? Is it going to be too late?...when the President has secreted all this power and the Congress is an afterthought?" “[T]his a constitutional crisis, and we've got to respond to it." - Angus King (I-ME) Feb. 20 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Timothy Snyder is an expert of modern authoritarianism.

❌ Ukraine started the war ❌ America provides more funding than Europe ❌ Ukraine needs immediate elections Sir Ben Wallace fact checks President Trump's recent 'fake news' about Russia's war in Ukraine.

I saw a pair of short-eared owls yesterday! I spotted one at the top of a conifer. After 20 minutes of watching the one, another one suddenly flew out of the same tree! Then they both started flying their circuits over the fields, hunting. So cool! #birding #owl Wisconsin

That's right. I'm looking at YOU. :)

One snow bunting stands alone amongst the activity of its companions. I started an account on Flickr recently to share photos. Spending time watching birds with both binoculars and a camera is good medicine for my mental health. flic.kr/p/2qKTvdn

1st week “on the job” as an AARP Tax Aide volunteer, doing free tax returns for the elderly and disabled. It’s lifted my spirits to make a small tangible difference in a few people’s lives. Highly recommend serving the vulnerable in your community. What better time? www.aarp.org/money/taxes/...

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth Feb 1. You know the drill by now. We always kick things off with the Statue of Liberty. Americans look at it every day, and don't even know what its creator and funders intended it to stand for. You can't learn US history from US textbooks, so you get my typos instead.🤷🏿‍♂️

Retired Federal civil servant here. I'm so proud of our Federal workforce. They work their asses off and keep the machine running. The oath is forever. #HoldTheLine

Concerned for the well being of my former colleagues in US gov't, I reached out to a friend employed by DOI. She said the "noise" from the White House is "intended to sow confusion, fear, and intimidation. But the people I've chatted with are just trying to do their work and stay calm." PROUD!!

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

I think I'm going to ditch Instagram and start posting my art here instead. So, brace yourself. :) I started painting in late 2022, a few months before I retired, and absolutely love it. Here are the highlights from 2023 and 2024, to give you some idea of my work.

Meant to add hashtags #bookreview #nonfiction

Whiskey Tender. Touching coming-of-age memoir by Deborah Jackson Taffa, raised by a #NativeAmerican father and a Hispanic mother on and off the rez. Particularly moving is her relationship with her father, a tough philosopher, with reflections on family and community. #bookreview #nonfiction

My favorite read of 2024, Erik Larson's "The Splendid and the Vile," absolutely captivated me. I couldn't put it down. It's a narrative spun from letters/diaries of Winston Churchill's inner circle as well as the general public during his first year as PM, while Germany bombed Britain in WWII.

Thumbs up for “Bad River”. Outstanding cinematography of the reservation on Lake Superior. Inspirational Native American interviews. David and Goliath story of the tribe (<2,000 people) vs Enbridge (trillion $ Inc.) with a pipeline on the reservation. Streaming on Peacock. youtu.be/5tPJklYBKxQ

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Just finished an amazing workshop, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, with Brian Bomeisler, son of the author of the book by the same name, Betty Edwards. Super fun and empowering. Here’s my self portrait. #artshare #pencil-drawing

Okay. This blew my mind. Some grizzlies fatten up for winter by eating MOTHs. amp.theguardian.com/environment/...

Earlier this year, I received news that fake peer reviews were allegedly being submitted impersonating me and approximately six others I shared my story with Science to, hopefully, reduce the chance of this kind of breach happening again www.science.org/content/arti...

This is pretty funny.

At 4207 meters above sea level on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, photographer Andrew McCarthy set out on a challenging climb. His goal was to capture a rare sight, Saturn slipping behind the moon. From the peak of the dormant volcano, he finally witnessed and photographed the stunning event.

The mainstream media routinely spreads the talking points of racist and sexist propagandists. These WaPo reporters wrote Walmart “will no longer consider race and gender when choosing suppliers, a practice it leaned into after the 2020 murder of George Floyd.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

🚨 Maine just became the 9th U.S. state to sue Big Oil for climate deception! Big Oil companies have lied for decades about the catastrophic harm they knew their products would cause. Now it's time for accountability. climateintegrity.org/news/view/ma...

Oh so NOW you’re telling America?!

"The historic Black press can serve as a guiding light for practicing journalism in pursuit of a healthy democracy...by opting against adopting a false neutrality and poor framing, opting instead to tell the truth in the plainest terms." theemancipator.org/2024/11/09/t...

A poem by M. R. Defibaugh.

Your daily reminder that CCS sounds like a good idea until you learn about it.

please remember and inform others that ICE cannot search a home, business, or other non-public part of an indoor space without a JUDICIAL warrant SIGNED BY A JUDGE. if they show you an ADMINISTRATIVE warrant from DHS, that does NOT give them access.

Love this excerpt from Keisha N. Blain’s book “Until I Am Free”. It’s a description of activist Fannie Lou Hamer by Essence magazine’s editor in chief Marcia Gillespie after meeting Hamer in 1971. “I met a woman who defied any little platform or pedestal I might have wished to place her on. I met …”