Brother Warnock lays it plain.

Fish in Michigan are getting smaller. Warming water, agriculture runoff, microplastics, and chemical toxins now flow through every tributary, every gill, every egg. Climate change heats the surface. Pollution poisons the depths. Between them, the lakes are starving. apple.news/AhaipZbCLT5G...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition experienced their highest number of grizzly bear encounters along Montana's Musselshell River.

This serves as an illustration of how racism can be subtly woven into policy.

A recent "Lizard People: Death Valley Underground" 5-star review: “For readers drawn to desert noir, strange Americana, or stories that challenge the boundary between truth and myth, this book offers a gripping ride with plenty of unexpected turns.”

“Freedom begins between the ears.” ― Edward Abbey #AmericanAuthors

I enjoy watching the antics of the yellow-billed cuckoo. I look forward to its spring return to the E. woodlands. I haven't watched it as much out West, partly due to its rarity. Today marks the 11th anniversary of the Threatened listing of the Western race. Someday, the W race may too return.

Drought is quietly pushing American cities toward a fiscal cliff | grist.org/cities/droug...

I am so ashamed of my country’s representatives. The sheer ignorance is staggering.

“No American should go through life without knowing a river, some river, and the wilder the better.” —Wallace Stegner

There's no easy escape for us either...

And one more thing I forgot to mention, the USDA is not only holding their contingency funds for SNAP, but telling every state that if they use their own state funds to cover their SNAP benefit residents, they won't be reimbursed for it from the USDA. This is cruel, heartless & inhumane.

“The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.” ― Edward Abbey

The DOI is planning mass firings of more than 1,500 public servants at the Department of the Interior, including the Bureau of Land Management, which manages nearly 23 million acres of federal public land in Utah. Below is a statement from SUWA Legal Director Steve Bloch. suwa.org/suwa-stateme...

“It is great art to saunter.” —Henry David Thoreau

The "road" less traveled...

I bet we hit 100K today. #NoKings

Fish, shellfish, watering crops, carrying silt to form fertile deltas that grow food for millions of people worldwide - healthy, clean, abundant rivers are vital arteries of food security - a must-read from @wwf-water.bsky.social 👇

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Recently, a new bat species was discovered in Africa. However, today marks the 33rd anniversary of the Endangered listing for Stenogyne bifida. With only one plant left, we may have lost the species before we even realized it was there. We are losing species faster than we can learn about them.

The latest Amazon 5-star comment for my book, "Lizard People: Death Valley Underground": "For readers drawn to desert noir, strange Americana, or stories that challenge the boundary between truth and myth, this book offers a gripping ride with plenty of unexpected turns."

A 12-foot statue titled "Best Friends Forever," showing President Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein holding hands and smiling, briefly appeared on Washington D.C.'s National Mall. It included plaques with excerpts from a birthday letter Trump allegedly wrote Epstein.

"Ek skillfully weaves a narrative that goes beyond the surface, delving into themes of hope, trust, deceit, & the intricate facets of character. It is a testament to the power of resilience and the human spirit, offering a narrative that lingers in the mind long after the last page is turned."

Random photo attached to a woefully naive social media question. I routinely see social media accounts that have zero postings & zero social media activity, yet they have thousands of followers. How can this be? I usually don't follow an unknown account that has such a blank slate. I'm baffled.

T. Paine [in Common Sense]: “If we omit [a constitution] now, some [huckster] may hereafter arise who, laying hold of popular grievances, may collect together the discontented, & by assuming to themselves the powers of government, finally sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge.”

“The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.” —Aldo Leopold

One of the greats has passed. Robert Redford was a celebrated actor, director, and someone who held a mirror up to America. His work will live on, but we Ordinary People will feel The Sting of his loss for years. Rest among the stars now, and when you see heaven, may a River Run Through It.

Good to see European nations working together on Defence for their mutual benefit - Europe needs to stand together, as it remains clear we can no longer rely on the US. https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-chooses-franco-italian-air-defense-system-over-us-patriots/

BOOM !! Brazil’s Supreme Court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup. Shame on SCOTUS for protecting Trump. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

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Oh SURE MAGAtz vote this perverted ass MFer to run our Nation.

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'Pervasive problems': New Trump admin report likened to 'Soviet show trial' by experts www.rawstory.com/trump-energy...

There’s Pain in my Heart imagining all The Happy Songs and musicians that played & Tramped under this Mar-Key. All day and up to The Midnight Hour. They were all Born Under A Good (sic) Sign. However, now, no more dog walking and no Mo-Onions. Pitiful. For the time it lasted—I Thank You.

Never forget. .

Today marks the 41st anniversary of the "Endangered" listing of the Little Mariana Fruit Bat. However, instead of an Endangered Species Act success story, unfortunately, this fruit-eating tropical bat is now believed to be extinct.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

Florida bans "The Diary of Anne Frank" in school libraries. Whoever made this decision should have to eat every page of that amazing book, page by page.