Libraries could be community centers that offer more than just books.

Happy Summer Solstice! Midsummer is one our our family’s main celebrations/ritual times. We give thanks to the nourishing energy of Sol ☀️ the ancient provider. And we also give thanks to this planet, our mother, whose gifts of abundance sustain our own life. 🙏🏼

Mamdani is a transformational because he asked the question, what if a public servant actually served the public instead of lobbyists? Both Trump and Mamdani have shown the government can move fast if it wants. The question is whether we want it to move quickly to help us or to hurt others?

"It's the other who others whoever On the quest to get open and free"

"Nature is not improved save through its own nature" -Parmenides "Thus our material cannot be improved save through itself" -Bernardus

"They calculated that the fungi networks, if stretched end to end, would reach a length of 110 quadrillion kilometres, which is almost 750m times the distance from the Earth to the sun." Absolutely mind blowing.

"Paradox is a characteristic of all transcendental situations because it alone gives adequate expression to their indescribable nature." -Carl Jung

"Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green' capitalism, to make it 'ecological', are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth." Murray Bookchin

Someone asked me the other day, “If Trump can just do whatever he wants, then a Democratic president can too. why is Medicare for All impossible? Why are reparations impossible? Why is anything off the table?”

"But just as feedback loops can cause damage, they can be harnessed as a pathway to recovery. They are not objectively good or bad: they are simply agents of change. If we can work with nature’s feedback loops rather than distorting them, we can reap the benefits of their self-sustaining momentum."

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Nature is healing.

This happened multiple times when I was writing my giant Tetsuo & Youth piece. They messed up a pretty basic Latin translation 🤣.

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

With one notable exception, THERE ARE NO (truly) GREEN BIRDS. And this ain't it. So how do birds like this Green Broadbill pretend to be green so convincingly that it fools our eyes? Through a combination of structural & pigment color. See, the Green Broadbill is a yellow-pigmented bird.

If there is a god, then nonbinary is way more likely to be an accurate descriptor than the common MAGA descriptor of god being Donald Trump.

A lot of left ideology fails at the metaphysical level, with too much mechanism/materialism and not enough ontology. Most people have legitimate cosmological questions that lead to existential frustrations. Leave those questions unaddressed and something much more toxic will fill the gap.

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Instead of a call for resentment-filled “unity” or traditional fronts, we can look to what former Black Panther, Black Liberation Army member, and political prisoner Russell Maroon Shoatz called “the mosaic:” by @williamcson.bsky.social

I'm not voting for a candidate that wants fascism for trans kids, but safety for me. Don't try to sell me that you're worried about rising fascism, if you think there's enough of a safety margin to throw away the 5% to 10% of anti-fascist votes that you will lose by backing an anti-trans candidate.

Is Google's CEO telling us something about himself because other than being a billionaire he still looks pretty human to me.

Something something societal collapse leads to increased political violence.

Many disabled people over the years have been like “no matter how difficult it is, full acceptance of never getting ‘better’ is essential to your wellbeing” And for years I was like “no no can’t do that too difficult too painful.” And then I gave it a try for real and yeah, they’re right.

Long before modern science, humanity viewed biodiversity as sacred. A new analysis of global rock art reveals that ancient societies placed wildlife at the center of daily and symbolic life, raising urgent questions about our era’s rapid destruction of nature. Read this analysis by Kerry Bowman.

Honestly, no other social media platform discourages me more than LinkedIn. More than X, Facebook, Bluesky, etc. LinkedIn is by far the most synthetic and discouraging platform. Spending more than 10 minutes scrolling on the main feed is enough to make you want to quit planet Earth 😂.

Razorbills have the slickest design in the animal kingdom. They look like they were made by Yves Saint Laurent

I don't like this argument & have stopped using it, because it puts the focus on the wrong topic: We are more than our chromosomes. We're social beings with complex cultural identities. It also needlessly drags people with non-standard karyotypes into a debate about gender identity.

Union hotel housekeepers in New York City will soon make over $100,000 a year. A new contract the union and the owners of nearly 250 hotels would raise wages by more than 50%. If workers ratify the deal it'll mean life-changing money for 27,000 union members and their families.

The average liberal critic of the left has no better understanding of left ideology than the average viewer of Fox News and it shows each time I engage with one.

It needs to be said that Marx did not invent or discover communism.

BREAKING: Zohran just announced that the first NYC city-run grocery store will open in the Bronx by the end of the year. The 20,000 square foot store will open in Hunts Point at The Peninsula, an 100% affordable housing complex.

Today is a good day to remind everyone that Drake, using AI to disguise his voice as 2pac, invited Kendrick to call him a pdf on Taylor Made Freestyle, and then still sued when UMG promoted Not Like Us.

Drake has the following lines from the very first song on Iceman: "Sometimes I only see myself in my therapist glasses But I'm not taking it serious 'cause she's very attractive" That line basically explains Drake's entire career.

Drake needs to be popped in the mouth for saying “I reserve the shit like I’m Indigenous” racist asshole

Writing has been independently invented maybe four times in human history. Radiocarbon dating has found evidence that the original inhabitants of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) invented writing independently. buff.ly/PS5nm5j #ShareGoodNewsToo

Funny, Drake calling out DJ Khaled for not publicly supporting Palestine manages to reduce a genocide to a punchline in one of his petty beefs. Congrats to Drake for continuing to be trash. Also, Iceman is terrible. Sounds like his last 5 albums.

Maybe Drake can get his friend Adin Ross to ask his friend Barron Trump...oh wait.

That new Isaiah Rashad album is dope. Good album to listen to today since nothing else came out 😌.

Things that are required for human survival shouldn’t be locked behind a paywall.

Do yourself a favor and listen to this classic Peggy track before Iceman drops tomorrow 🤣.

No, it’s not ‘normal’ for humans to be in competition all the time. It’s not normal to work for most of your waking hours of the day. It’s not normal to be stressed 24/7. Stop taking a few hundred years of capitalism and pretending that’s just how being human is. It’s not.

"When people try to sell you on the idea that the future is already settled, it is because it is deeply unsettled.” - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

One thing about MAGA is they will always play out stories from the Bible as the role of the idolaters. Without failure.

From the 'Shared Sky' exhibition, 'Jupiter and Ten Moons' by Indigenous Australian artist Barbara Merritt #WomensArt

"Supreme" bodies of any kind exercising authority and power over people are undemocratic and should all be abolished en masse, not expanded.

In the United States, democracy has always been fundamentally intertwined with white supremacy. It functions as a means to portray government as representing the entire population while systematically disempowering elements of the population along lines of race and class. crimethinc.com/democracy

I completely reject these fake *rules* of political engagement in this country. I had no role in making the so-called norms because they are ridiculous. I do not subscribe.

Drake stans are annoying until you meet the most conspiratorial Kendrick stans. The new theory is that every Kendrick song ever written from Section.80 on is about Drake in one form or another. Wesley's Theory? About Drake Money Trees? About Drake His verse on Collard Greens? About Drake