Last week, I encountered THE biggest wild native Irish tree of my life: the Brian Boru Oak, once part of Galway and Clare's mighty Slieve Aughty rainforest. (Zoom in to see Sonia of the Woodland League for scale.) Can you even imagine when this sort of magnificence was nothing special?

Birutė Galdikas: The last of the ‘angels’ in primatology’s most extraordinary chapter theconversation.com/birute-galdi...

"If you are trying to protect life on Earth, you are working in an era defined by loss." As with climate scientists, many on the frontlines fighting for the living world are suffering a mental health crisis. It's *vital* we mind ourselves, and each other. www.butlernature.com/2026/03/22/t...

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊

Wishing everyone a joyous NO KINGS DAY 3.0- Thank you to everyone across the globe for your participation in the Resistance... an inspiration to us ALL!!! 🙏 The signs you're carrying are off-the-charts perfection. 👌 7 months until the Midterms! 🗓️ #NoKings2026 👎 👑 #AccountabilityIsComing

Four things we know. 1. Trump cannot stand to lose face. 2. The Iran debacle is the biggest humiliation of his presidencies. 3. He is entirely lacking in moral restraint. 4. Nuclear weapons offer a swift apparent "resolution" to the crisis he has created. It is not a happy chain of thought.

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Word.

Sometimes silence screams

I prefer non-lethal distractions from the tRUMPSTEIN Files like renaming the Gulf of Mexico, making Canada the 51st state & buying Greenland. Sure it was hugely offensive to longtime friends & allies, but at least no one died.

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

Merz: For four years, every day and every night has been a nightmare for the Ukrainian people. And not only for them, but for all of us. Because war has returned to Europe. Only with our united strength will we bring it to an end. Because the fate of Ukraine is our fate.

Withhold UN contributions. Announce $10B for a parallel “Board of Peace.” Place close associates in key roles. This is institutional drift in real time. Norm erosion outlasts personalities. #AntiRulesBasedOrder #AntiMultilateralism #OligarchicGovernance #DynasticPolitics #EliteCapture

Profits first. Sentient beings engineered for speed, not life. Customers kept comfortably uninformed. Out of sight. Out of mind. The bill always comes due. #FactoryFarming #ProfitOverLife #AnimalWelfare #ConsumersChoose

From mass graves to beachfront investment opportunity. More than 60,000 dead. Mostly women and children. And the label is “peace.” Original residents optional. Bravo. #PeaceForProfit #RubbleToResort #GravesToGlamour

Two things are simultaneously true: 1. The Iranian regime treats its people with extreme brutality and cruelty, and we should honour the citizens seeking to overthrow it. 2. A US attack on Iran would turn a crisis into a catastrophe.

France authorizes the shooting of 200 #wolves and calls it “management.” Management with guns is never a sustainable approach. When politics steers ecology instead of science, ecosystems pay the price. #HerdProtectionDogs #LandscapePlanning #Coexistence #NonLethalManagement

FIFA: “No politics in football.” Also FIFA: shaking hands with power under the banner of “peace.” Rainbow armbands? Too political. Presidential partnerships in live war zones? Leadership. Their true face isn’t apolitical. It’s selective. #NoPoliticsExceptOurs #Sportswashing #SelectiveNeutrality

Another great sad cartoon from @deadder.bsky.social

The Brazilian political system is, structurally, very similar to the American one. But when they elected a Trump-style authoritarian back in 2018, their Congress and Supreme Court actually fought back. I went to Brazil to find out why. And what I learned surprised me. www.vox.com/politics/479...

First #ICE at home. Now ISF, a shiny new “peace” force abroad. When you can’t win trust, just rebrand power projection as stability. Nothing says diplomacy like outsourcing your ego in uniform. Totally about peace. Obviously. #LegalFiction #PeaceInNameOnly #TrumpPowerProjection

Beara grasshopper! Grasshoppers are amazing: they can jump 20 times their body length in a single leap, have ears on their abdomen, and create their characteristic stridulating sound by rubbing legs against wings!

Its not just floods storms droughts wildfires Its disease too Excruciating tropical disease chikungunya virus can now be transmitted in most of Europe The disease can be fatal in young children and older adults. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

The vermiform appendix contains lymphoid tissue and helps defend the body. But when it becomes chronically inflamed, we remove it so the organism can survive. Surgery. Recovery. Move on. Just anatomy. Nothing geopolitical here.

"I want the presidency because I want to affirm my belief that leadership is colorless and genderless." --Jesse Jackson (1983). R.I.P. #CivilRights #SocialJustice #Equality

Great sitting down with Brian Tyler Cohen to talk about everything from the courage we saw in Minnesota, to how Democrats can be true to our values and get stuff done, to how we’re building a community of changemakers at the Obama Foundation. youtube.com/watch?v=uI-hgSE5QIw

There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

OMG

It would be the right thing .

"[A new British intelligence report] echoes warnings some of us have made for years, only to be dismissed as nutters, doomsayers and extremists." "Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse...” You won't find more crucial reading than this.

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Amid these dark moments, something important is beginning to shift. It's clearly the result of healthy political pressure - which we must sustain, and build.

Boycott the World Cup Not a foot should be set in that country until the madness stops

I know not what to say after this day. Please accept some natural beauty. We are but nothing, We return to the great void, Make the best of it. #Photography #Auroraborealis #Haiku

ICE uses extrajudicial violence and intimidation for political ends. It's unconstrained by the law, unaccountable to the public. Its crimes are endorsed at the highest levels. What does this tell us? That it's the force of paramilitary thugs all fascist movements & governments use. It is Trump’s SS.

Your 'moment of doom' for Jan. 25, 2026 ~ heat locally, warm globally "This new study points out that while the overall effect on climate is small, the local effect on ocean temperatures in the tropics can be larger." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Beautiful

Wild places are the *real* gold in life.

A friend just asked me this: Why can’t people be kind to one another? #GeopoliticalDecay #DictatorsPlaybook #WarLogic #NormalizationOfEvil

Board of Peace - Season 1

You misspelled "BORED".