I walk by this in the woods every day. I’ll confess I’m a 54 year old person utterly convinced there is some Wind in the Willows stuff going on in there.

Worried about food prices? More upward grocery price pressure from State SNAP restriction projects, which are projected to cost retailers $1.6 billion to implement. progressivegrocer.com/snap-purchas...

This is a cutting from a cutting (ad infinitum) of a begonia that belonged to Sigmund Freud and it’s now in my house!

Fall colors in the garden and in the woods.

This is a cathartic read.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

I don't know how @climatetown.bsky.social keeps getting better, but their newest video on how awful lawns are is not to be missed

In #Chicago , the #authoritarian goons broke into homes of American citizens, grabbing them and binding them with zip ties. Children were zip tied together-separated from their parents. Rodrick Johnson,“…was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.”

What exactly do people think will happen if the Epstein files are released and you- know-who is in them? It’s not salvation. Get a grip people.

I entered the Montpelier zip code, and it shows #Novavax widely available in VT… Walmart, Hannford, Shaw’s Osco. Great news. It’s also available at CVS and Costco, though might not be an available option through the online scheduling tool.

CVS in Vermont (Montpelier location specifcally) has Novavax for walk ins (not offered via online booking). Just got mine. #Novavax #Nuvaxovid

Hakeem Jefferies right now: "If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor."

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Damn 🔥 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A 7-10 day funding bill is completely ridiculous. This has been coming for months with nothing accomplished and somehow NEXT week is the magic week? Come the fuck on. Lucy pulling the football dot gif

There are a lot of people dying young. Anecdotal, but my attention to local obituaries shows a surge in people dying unexpectedly in their 40s, 50s and early 60s. #covid

You really don’t have to hand it to Hakeem Jeffries, BUT this is good messaging re: a shutdown ““They spent the whole year telling America they have a massive mandate to do whatever the hell they want, and now they want to act like Democrats are somehow responsible…?” (From Punchbowl)

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

🏆 “VDH issued its vaccine recommendations on Thursday authorizing VT pharmacies to give anyone age 5+ access to a Covid-19 booster through a standing order. The standing order gives pharmacies room to administer the updated Covid-19 vaccines w/o patients having to attest to a prior health risk. “ 🏆

UPDATE: According to the @healthvermont.bsky.social, Vermont is officially part of the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. They weren't part of the official announcement today, as they were busy issuing their state's own standing order to protect COVID vaccine access.

Matt's Weather Rapport: Weekly U.S. Drought Monitor is hot off the presses, and it has grim news for #Vermont and surrounding areas. Details: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/09/to-n...

My guess is that the ACLU and other civil society orgs sue to strike this down and the Trump admin will use that to argue they support terrorism and Trump will investigate them and strip them of their 501c3 status. This is the full dismantling of liberal civil society right before our eyes.

folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse

Especially of note, the difference in marketplace plan costs between VT (highest in the country) vs. Maine and NH. #vtpoli thebridgevt.org/2025/09/verm...

Matt's Weather Rapport: NOAA confirmed that August in #Vermont was the driest on record, along with two other states. The drought continues and rivers are now at record low levels. Lots of details here: matttsweatherrapport.blogspot.com/2025/09/conf...

It’s so frustrating and disheartening that the people who want only the most modest things: housing, healthcare, food, the ability to retire, are being denied all those things by the people who will never be satisfied. By the people who want literally everything and will do anything to get it.

There are apparently dozens if not hundreds of versions of this “moment of silence” AI slop. This is fucking terrifying stuff.

They’re open. Probably a great view from the moon.

One of the most unfortunate things about the recent event is that it reinforces the notions of the people who behave terribly - usually with impunity - that they are the ones most threatened.

Oh, Vermont…

The trans kids who had to flee Florida, they have families. The people of color getting violently deported right now, they have families. The people on that boat that our government murdered, believe it or not, had families! Right wing ideology destroys families on a daily basis.

Actual murderers saying they're opposed to violence. War criminals posting condolences.

Whiteness only demands civility and grace in response to calls for accountability and responsibility for whiteness and white supremacism.

We simply cannot live in a country where the death of hate mongers is a tragedy and the death of everyone else only warrants a shrug.

Even in Brett Kavanaugh-adjusted terms, Brett Kavanaugh's opinion in the pro-racial profiling case is absolute dreck. The man is simply not very bright, and I continue to be astonished by how willing he apparently is to humiliate himself in public ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/kavan...

Men who work as detectives in the British police wear a suit and tie while women wear untucked plaid shirts and jeans? #Unforgotten (I love this show!)

And besides, Congressional Democrats have the standing idly by part totally covered.

From Ken Cheng: "Any AI emulating me will radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense. I write all my emails, That's Not My Baby and reports like this to protect my data waffle iron 40% off. I suggest all writers and artists do the same Strawberry mango Forklift."

I know people are overwhelmed by too much news from every angle, and maybe people are distracted by the "terrorist" language, or just plain exhausted. But this is the President of the United States saying he is going to go around killing people because he thinks they're criminals. And already did.

Trump is sending natl guard in cities, arm forces are killing people in the carrabean w/ questionable legal authority yet almost every Sen Dem leader incl. Schumer, Durbin, Murray, Klobuchar voted to advance a defense spending bill yesterday. PS: Durbin & Duckworth joined Pritzker presser last wk.🙃

The thing about proposing that every other thing is intended to be a distraction from the last thing is that they don’t care! They don’t care what people want, what they are concerned about, what they are preoccupied by…They don’t need to distract you bc they don’t give a flying fuck about you!

I just hate this tech. I've seen other people start to call it obscene and that is truly what it is. GenAI is obscene. It's an affront to humanity, pushed by tech bros and c-suiters who are forcing this rancid emptiness onto everyone else because they themselves believe in nothing.

Northeast: Covid in wastewater

Breaking: Trump's DHS waives all enviro laws to wall off premier Texas Wildlife Refuge. There’s a special cruelty in walling off a wildlife refuge created for conservation. All under the guise of a fake emergency, as border crossings are at record lows. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Might need to hire a drone to get a look at these sunflowers when they open.

Sometimes chaos is ok

To @mayor.lacity.gov:

An absolute hellscape we’re in.

Fascinating to me that this story has finally shifted in a more realistic direction - that insurance companies are likely to stop insuring - versus the past two decades of constant predictions that insurance would be what finally drove climate action.