It’s day 14 of my journey as an urban shepherd with Sarah and Rebecca. The project will become a movie and art installation called Seeking Pasture about our relationships to our yards, our ecosystems, and the species who live here with us: seekingpasture.net/2025/11/04/d... #seekingpasture

My film, Razor-Sharp: When Arguing Is A Good Thing, is screening tomorrow (Nov 7) at 12:45 pm at the Yathakatha International Film & Literature Festival at SVKM’s Usha Pravin Gandhi College of Arts, Science and Commerce in Mumbai The movie is nominated for Best Experimental Film www.yathakatha.com

It's day twelve of my journey as an urban shepherd with Sarah and Rebecca. It's been an intense and beautiful process so far! Sarah and Rebecca are seemingly always hungry. They want to eat for 5-6 hours a day, at least!

My new sheep companions, Sarah and Rebecca, are seeking pasture. And they would love to graze on the grass in your yards and to nibble on other yummy tiny green plants that they find there—plants that we too easily dismiss as weeds.

My film, Razor-Sharp: When Arguing Is A Good Thing, is screening at the 2025 Alibag Short Film Festival. The festival is happening on October 5, from 8 am to 5 pm, at Sandy’s Hotel in Alibag, India. Here’s the trailer: vimeo.com/joeltauber/r...

My first feature film, Sick-Amour: A Love Story, is streaming on Amazon and Vimeo OTT. And I would love it if you watched the movie. It’s a documentary and love story that celebrates the forlorn and lonely Tree that I adopted in the middle of a giant parking lot. www.amazon.com/Sick-Amour-S...

A really important article. Empathy is foundational to leading an ethical life. If we continue to destruct whatever empathic and ethical tendencies and structures that we have, then we are collectively doomed. We have to build a society built on ethics, and we have a long way to go.

Many California officials have condemned President Trump’s move to send National Guard members to Los Angeles.

I've been thinking a lot about how we can engage in real conversation in our time of deep division. So, I've made a project about it. It's a film and art installation focused on the ancient Jewish practice of chavruta: heated discourse and constructive debate. (Part 1/4)

3 art project highlights from my visit to NYC yesterday: • Steve McQueen at Dia Chelsea • Thomas Demand at Mathew Marks Gallery • Max Neuhaus’ Times Square sound installation (1977) www.diaart.org/exhibition/e... matthewmarks.com/exhibitions/... www.diaart.org/visit/visit-...

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Big turnout for the #handsoff rally in Winston-Salem, NC yesterday. It was so encouraging to see so many people there. Yes, our democracy is under assault. Yes, there’s big trouble on many fronts. But there’s also hope. We can turn things around. #democracynotoligarchy #resist

Rally tomorrow in Winston-Salem from 2-4 pm. #democracynotoligarchy #resist www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...

Rally in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on Monday at 4:30. Event organized by the Forsyth County Democratic Party. On the Green Street pedestrian bridge overlooking the Interstate 40 highway: www.mobilize.us/forsythcount...

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Musk staffers are joking about how upcoming Social Security changes will restrict access by requiring in-person visits while simultaneously shutting down offices. They are touting the cost savings from limiting access.

This is disgraceful and un-American. The Trump administration defended its removal of articles highlighting the achievements of minority service members, including Navajo code talkers, Marines at Iwo Jima, and famed Black baseball player Jackie Robinson.

The tragedy of people dying alone during the early pandemic has been ignored, Sunita Puri writes: theatln.tc/B9YxNL0s

We are fighting like hell to stop Musk’s staffers. They come into our buildings, forcibly removing us with the FBI, U.S. Marshals, and police. This coup must be stopped.

Fascism is no joke. This is terrifying stuff.

I keep thinking about the Nazis burning books. Education and free thought are essential. We cannot let them be taken away.

Exciting what the Red Sox are building!

Education and the pursuit of knowledge are essential for any healthy society. They are essential for democracy. That’s why they’re under attack now, as the United States is veering towards authoritarianism. We can’t let this happen. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...

Such an important article. The severity of the crisis that Trump and Vance pose cannot be overstated.

So alarming.

I love this.

President Trump posted on Saturday that a president "who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” as he tests legal and constitutional boundaries in the process of upending the federal government. It's not the first time he has suggested he has divine backing to enforce his will.

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

The Nazis burned books. Any attack on academia, on learning, hurts us all deeply.

Thousands of protesters rallied in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday against President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration and his aggressive deportation policies.

Encouraging to read this LA Times story about the many trees in LA, including many California Sycamores and Oaks, that withstood the fires. There is still hope in our climate crisis. Sending hugs and blessings to everyone in LA. www.latimes.com/lifestyle/ne...

An important, big picture analysis of the many problems of turning migrants and refugees away. I can’t believe there is talk about putting migrants in Guantanamo Bay. We have to be better than this.

Sick-Amour: A Love Story — a movie celebrating a forlorn Tree stuck in a giant parking lot — is screening on Saturday at 9:50 am at the Chambal International Film Festival in Kota, India. www.ciff.co.in #tree #sickamour #lovestory #loneliness #ecology #environment #activism #parkinglot

oh?? we like photography on bluesky?? here's a shot of mine of miss milkyway from hurricane ridge in wa :) #photography #mountains #stars #milkyway #night #landscape

What Trump didn’t say in his inauguration speech | Bernie Sanders

‘Anyone who claims that the dawning of the coal age in the 19th century freed us from our reliance on organic materials has never been down a mine.’ @adamtooze.bsky.social on the myth of energy transition: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Oligarchs are more visible than ever. That also makes them more vulnerable | Jan-Werner Müller

"Brutes have risen to power. But they lie!"" The final speech of Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator remains more urgent than ever (from our archives): dmovies.org/2016/11/14/g...

Humanitarian partners seek US$1.42 billion to assist 4.6 million people in Somalia in 2025 [EN/SO] #Refugees

Had a beautiful conversation with Michelle Lewis on her podcast, Finding Hope In The Climate Crisis. We talked about the #Tree I adopted & the challenges it faced. And we talked about the enormity of our #climate crisis & how we can find hope in the midst of it. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

The Circle Bridge is a movable passage for pedestrians and bicycles in the center of Copenhagen. The five overlapping circular decks were designed by artist Olafur Eliasson.

- Monday 1/13/25 Identify the bird! Answer at the end of the audio clip. For extra points, guess the country :) 🎵🐦 Audio Link birds ornithology nature art cover art kindly by birdsinprint.com

I lived in Altadena, and I know a number of people who lost their homes and art studios there. So tragic what is happening.

Hundreds of Mexican firefighters have arrived in Southern California to help combat the wildfires. Thank you, Mexico🇺🇸🇲🇽

We’ve been in collective denial about the enormity of our climate crisis for far too long. We are in dire need of massive systemic change.

Separation of church and state. Can we please remember how important that is?

President Biden canceled a three-day trip to Italy to remain in the U.S. and coordinate the federal response to the devastating fires raging in Los Angeles. He was set to meet Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Pope Francis during what would have been his last presidential trip abroad.

The Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded, writes @ericholthaus.com - the conditions for a January LA firestorm have never existed until now #climatecrisis #LAfires www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...