The Unassailable Case: Israel's Genocide in Gaza as Determined by International Judicial Bodies. The ongoing Israeli military campaign in the Gaza Strip constitutes a clear case of genocide as defined under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

In a free democracy, the government does not get to suppress political beliefs with a blacklist. Any politician who supports laws that punish free speech cannot be trusted to protect yours.

16 hours ago, Credit @earthtoeve.bsky.social "earth.to.eve: 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙇𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡 𝙊𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚™ - piss off your local bigot today! Now streaming on all platforms 🫡 #fdt #originalsong #nokings #explorer #newmusic"

These are the words of the children that the felon-in-chief and his Gestapo have locked in concentration camps for months. I urge you to go through the comments, and read some of the letters posted there. Comment on them. Raise awareness of what we are doing to innocent children in this country.

Walking in Assabet River National Wildlife refuge is a treat in any seaon. I always see birds. I didn't hear the Redwinged Blackbirds announce their return, I was lucky enough to watch some chatty Bluebirds (Sialia sialis) get a nightcap. #ecoregion59 #wildlife #bluebirds #wetlands #nature #winter

A Turkey trail Tuesday to you. May you see something bright and beautiful, like these Wild Turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) in a snowy trail at sunset. Or, rather, a snow-surrounded, snow-free trail. One that was good for scratching and pecking in the grasses on the snowy edge.

This is a story of #community and #resistance from #Minnesota. The guests (@lindablackelk.bsky.social) are heroes of my heroes. None better to talk herbalism and community. Right, @samthayer.bsky.social (Sam Thayer) @foragerchef.bsky.social (Alan Bergo) @blackforager.bsky.social (Alexis Nicole)?

I'm attending Kat for Illinois's event, “Phone Bank for Kat!” - sign up now to join me! AIPAC had grown their funding by a factor of 20x: from $5 million to $100 million. Corporate PACs are pouring in the funding too. If we want to fight back, to get the word out, we have to do it or fund it.

ONE MONTH UNTIL ELECTION DAY!!! DOOR KNOCK, PHONEBANK, AND TEXT BANK FOR US!!! discord.gg/katforillinois

What you would have done in Germany in the late 30s is what you're doing here today. If you're taking bigger actions, did you miss the little ones that have a profound impact when we do them en masse? #BOYCOTT! #boycottICE #boycottAmazon #boycottATT #boycottGoogle

Our third episode is out! Genus Sambucus: Elder/Elderberry. Elder is a gateway to foraging, to permaculture, to herbalism, to the Fey. Please step through! www.iheart.com/podcast/269-... #podcast #plantpodcast #newpodcast #nativeplants #ecoregion59 #foraging #grownative #permaculture #herbalism

#Assabet National Wildlife Refuge: I like to step off the trail when the snow is deep. With a floating step that never pierces the snowpack, no plants are harmed. Plus, walk on H2O! I took hundreds of pictures of White Pines (Pinus strobus)! #winter #adventures #nativePlants #wetland #ecoregion59

Time to get serious about leaving Google AWA Meta. Proton.me for email Ecosia as a search engine/browser www.ecosia.org They are no longer the leading edge of tech. They are now a surveillance and data company that works with a fascist regime. #boycott #google #boycottFascism #boycottOligarchy

Beautiful. Love of the freedom our country has promised us our whole lives is going to continue uniting us. This is how a good human being responds to evils committed by their government.

These #grassroots #progressive #candidates / #reps are going up against hundreds of millions of dollars of #PAC money. Let's get serious about the primaries, and supporting them. I made this list because I started looking them up here, and to my dismay many had <200 followers. Let's change that.

They were ready for chaos. What they got was discipline. An update to my January piece: why ICE is reportedly drawing down in Minneapolis...and why the absence of violence may be the real story. Sometimes the headline isn’t what exploded. It’s what didn’t. www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Never, ever tip ActBlue when you donate. They may fund progressive candidates, but we need to be working toward another trusted platform, because they are complicit in fascism through the spread of corporate power, and genocide through AIPAC. open.substack.com/pub/jweeds/p...

Please call the Senate they will vote very soon on whether to allow dangerous sulfide-ore copper mining on the edges of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Tell them to vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140 (H.J. Res. 140).

This nonprofit is a great feed to #follow. They are getting anti-corruption measures around campaign-funding, and ranked-choice voting ON BALLOTS, state by state. My brightest hopes for the future rely on their success. Short term, check @trackaipac.com before primaries. #democracy #corruption

As the US Federal Gvt rapidly expands their network of #ConcentrationCamps, we must think on our responses. Will we forever remember how we sat back, or how we pushed back? Let's fight this at the local level, as well as through our #representatives in #Congress. From #TownMeetings to #Primaries.

Winter life in waiting (Cherry Birch seeds), waiting underground (Common Milkweed), bursting forth from the snow (Skunk Cabbage), Breaking down and flowing back into the soil (Red and Scarlett Oak leaves, water) #winter #nature #forest #meadow #nativeplants #ecoregion59 #ecoregion58

There is almost a complete overlap between these 7 and the #traitorous7 in the house who voted to increase ICE funding. These are Jeffries fall-guys for when we're watching and the AIPAC Democrats want to save face. Check @trackaipac.com before voting in the primaries! And let's give these 7 Hell.

We do have some true blue representatives who will fight for us. Becca Balint is one. She speaks for her constituents, and doesn't take a cent from AIPAC.

I got this keffiyeh cap, and a baseball cap from West Bank Apparel. I will be wearing it every day I commute on the train as a symbol of #solidarity, to show that I support Palestinian independence, to call for an end to Israeli occupation and genocide. #FreePalestine www.npr.org/2023/12/06/1...

I went to the White Pine Cathedral today, up on the hill over my grandparents' house. I missed mass: the Cardinals were gone and all of the White-tailed Deer had left their pews. A spiritual experience doesn't require an organized religion, or mysticism. What is sacred to you? #nature #pantheism

October Farm Riverfront, Concord MA: a winter hike, with river views, and wildlife. Dog friendly. This is a great place for seeing Hemlocks, from seedlings to big stately trees. I hope we get a fierce cold snap, to kill the invasive Hemlocks Adelgids on them. #Hemlocks #nativeplants #ecoregion59

After storms and high wind, I look for fallen pine limbs for making pine needle tea. I'm happy when I find a clump of Usnea attached to a fallen chunk of bark or a limb. This find will make a year supply of tincture. unrulygardening.com/forage-use-u... #foraging #herbalism

The American lotus is a bane of fishermen and a boon to foragers. The seeds make a tasty, healthy cereal, or a phenomenal flour. And it hosts lots of life in the Eastern States where it is native. feralforaging.com/american-lot... #GreatMeadows #waterplants #nativeplants #foraging

Happy New Year! Here's the hawk who hunts rabbits at our old house, perching for a picture in November, as we finished moving out. Red-tailed? For me, it seemed a sign that we left this little patch of the planet better than we found it. Lawn became habitat where a hawk can hunt.

Flagg Hill Nature Preserve, in Boxborough, MA These popular trails are easy to walk in sneakers, even after recent snow. They take you through White Pine dominated forest, with some oaks and birches. Openings to marshes are bordered by alder and Highbush Blueberry. #winterwoods #ecoregion59

PSA: You can scatter native plant seeds any time, all winter. Hello from the Helderberg hills, West of Albany, NY. I was visiting my grandparents in Berne, and I brought seeds of our native Hibiscus to scatter around their pond. #nativeplants #seedsowing #winterplanting

Merry Christmas, from the Terry Land, in Harvard, MA. I was raised Catholic (an altar boy) but this is my true place of worship: somewhere with clean air and water, and a diversity of life. #nature #pantheism

Joining the Ash Graveyard. A brittle White Ash (Fraxinus americana) that shattered in the wind shattered again as it hit the trail. I cleared the debris from the tail, in #BoxboroughMA, in Beaver Brook Meadow / Steele Farm, but there is some chainsaw work needed.

Hey #BoxboroughMA, Beaver Brook Meadow / Steele Farm has tree lines completely given over to Asiatic Bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus). It spreads from the highway (I495) and destroys advancing forest and edges faster than overpopulated deer, then works that edge back. #invasivespecies #parks

Check out who voted yes to strip searching immigrant children (H.R. 4371). The pedophile party all voted yes, of course, but 7 Democrats joined them, including representatives from CA, ME, NC, NY, TX, and WA. Traitors. #immigrantsrights #humanrights #pedophiles www.govtrack.us/congress/vot...

Marcescence: The leaves that intend to #fall have fallen. Some trees, like White and Red oak, retain leaves throughout the winter, especially when they are young. Is it to protect buds from frost or deer? To shelter the soil? It seems that we have more to learn. #nativeplants #ecoregion59

We got our first Aronia berries this year. I learned that each Common Milkweed seed pod comes from one of the 120-200 flowers in an inflorescence. Our lonely northern mallow species, Hibiscus moscheutos proliferated, as did H. sawflies, Elderberry sawflies, and birds. #nativeplants #ecoregion59

Our house will be listed today. I'm going to miss the gardens that I poured my heart and soul into for the past three years. I will definitely consider who will keep the birds and the bees safe and fed when considering offers. #nativeplants #ecoregion59 #actonMA #houseforsale

This group is taking real action to end corruption in our political system. They are a nonprofit getting anti-corruption measures around campaign finance and lobbying on ballots state-by-state. Please check out their website, sign the petition for ballot measures and share.

Witchhazel is blooming! Hamamelis virginiana is easy to miss. Look up and you might look right past these arching understory trees, but look closely and you may be rewarded with our latest bloom of the fall. #nativeplants #forests #newengland #ecoregion59 #bloomscrolling #flowers #trees

Oaks are in full fall regalia, here in Acton, MA. They took their time, then changed fast over this rainy Tuesday-Wednesday. They are just in time to join the maples and birches before the maples go bare. Look at the colors on these three saplings! #quercus #nativeplants #ecoregion59 #fall

First frost here in Middlesex Cty, MA. This is probably the end of the Touch-me-nots and Tomatoes. The Calendula may pull through. Our lovely sugar maple will probably drop its bright orange leaves quickly now. #nativeplants #fall #firstfrost #ecoregiin59 #frost

Wouldn't it be cool to scroll your local ecosystem - seasonal #nativeplants info? I started #ecoregion59 with @jp0610.bsky.social so you can see at least our perspectives on the Northeastern Coastal Zone. Find your ecoregion: bplant.org/ecoregion_lo... Ecoregion 59: archive.epa.gov/esd/archive-...

It's Aster season! American asters (genus Symphyotrichum) are diverse and ubiquitous. Take a closer look and I bet you'll find some new-to-you species you've been walking by. My favorite Disney quote: "Look harder" -Rafiki #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #fallflowers #ecoregion59

Some Purplestem Asters volunteered? I probably dropped seed uphill, and they wound up right by the road. I'll move them somewhere with moist soil where they won't block the view of incoming traffic, but I couldn't bring myself to move them in the growing season. #nativeplants #ecoregion59

In the lower courts, should I say 'the people's courts?' the Republican-appointed judges as well as the Democrat-appointed ones are upholding limits on executive power and protecting the constitution. Our supreme court is, however, supremely corrupt.

What could be more wonderful than a tiny capsule that is ready to create life if left in the right place? I love seeds. Here are some that I'm particularly excited about. My favorite right now is American Hog-peanut, partially because I love a native legume. #nativeplants #ecoregion59 #seedsaving

Sharp-toothed Nodding-aster (Oclemena acuminata), can be one whorl of leaves, and an inflorescence. Images and descriptions typically show it taller, with leaves spread along a stem. gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/ocle... #nativeplants #ecoregion59.