For Rolling Stone, Steve Earle writes that from Woody Guthrie to Bruce Springsteen, American artists have long used music to fight for change. "You can sing ideas that you can’t say, and people will process them differently and probably more positively than if you just tell them."

Wonderful read on wonder and the meaning of life, lenses through a nautilus and a leopard www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/25/w...

Business as usual.

“All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured.” The Moomin strategy for living with uncertainty www.themarginalian.org/2014/09/29/t...

Tonight’s dinner: homemade split pea soup. And for dessert-Ben & Jerry’s Karmal Sutra Ice Cream. 🤗

My goal is met, and at this time all fundraising is for Straw for Dogs, where I will also be sending the adoption fee. I will post receipts at that time. I appreciate it so very, very much

#uglydogs, I need your help. Yesterday I took in Akielah, a 6 years old husky whoae humom died of pulmonary embolism. Turns out she is not spayed and needs vaccines, which I cannot pay for right now since I went back to school

#uglydogs!!!

Can I ask that you help me fund her care, and whatever I get for the adoption fee can go to the group's charity of choice? The cost is about $878.00 for everything. @antje-spethmann for venmo $antjespethmann on cash app [email protected] on PayPal.

Mom is a poll worker for the Alabama primary today And someone just asked her “why isn’t Trump on my ballot?” We would like to applaud her self control, she didn’t say anything to get herself removed from her job as poll clerk. Miracles DO happen.

I hope they’ll be enough bees to dance or that they’ll want to. youtu.be/EWlDd7-Yvmk?...

Beat cops for Trump and not only will you get a pardon, you'll get a paycheck.

Un-effing-believable. Just when you thought they couldn’t find another universe in the many levels of low they’ve achieved, they create a whole new one. Are we de-evolving?

Oh ffs 🤦‍♂️

Turning the page on the "Rule of Law" era.

Thanks to the Rye Resurgence Project, the drought-tolerant grain is catching on — and saving huge amounts of water. https://reasonstobecheerful.world/colorado-farming-rye-resurgence-project/

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: Air power alone doesn’t win wars. Symbolic strikes don’t create strategy. And if you engage in war, you either commit to an achievable outcome or you shouldn’t start it in the first place. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Hey @gop! Is this the Hunter y'all were worried about 🙄

The DOJ goes full DEI! Department of Election Inteference

What a life.

I’ll miss him so much. This is so wrong. The Voices of The People being silenced. I’m so grateful we had him for as long as we did. This feels like a big “death” to our Country.

My thoughts. Part 1. #AlaskaPolitics

Our generation has a responsibility, its more than being the Silent Oreo Generation. Its OUR jobs to defend and reinstate the Civil Rights that were fought for. We must NOT remain silent as everything is being stripped away. NOT ON OUR WATCH. #GOTV2026 #GenX

They need to be taught financial literacy IN HIGH SCHOOL. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

"They call it the triangle." Thank you, President Brains

Why isn't he screaming about North Korea,which already has them, which is testing real ICBMs, and which is much crazier than Iran?

This is what we did today.

A poem by Ted Kooser

Sen. Kennedy: In America, if you are too poor to be sick, we will pay for you, correct? Blanche: Correct. [WITAF delusional world are these two living in?!]

Well, well.

Anyone who thinks Iran is not busy talking with Pakistan and North (and maybe a couple of other nuclear powers that need oil) about ways and means is...naïve enough to work in the Trump regime.

My comments @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

Of course he did... Petty, vindictive little 🍊 shithead. 🤬

This is a great 🧵 about the ongoing propaganda operation we're living in and witnessing in real time. ⤵️

On writing ... theconversation.com/writing-buil...

Good morning! Sunrise was so peaceful this morning, I decided to do a 20-minutes #OceanDevotion. Take a few minutes to just breathe—you will feel better.

WHO Ebola update: 1. 513 cases, 130 deaths — sharp rise 2. deaths reported among health workers, indicating healthcare-associated transmission 3. significant population movement in the area, >100K people displaced 4. epidemic caused by Bundibugyo virus for which there’re no vaccines or therapeutics

Rep. Ogles: "Muslims don’t belong in American society," Rep. Fine on "mainstream Muslims": "I think you should destroy them first" Sen. Tuberville: "The enemy is inside the gates". Rep. Roy posted "No more Muslims" on his social media. None of them censured by Democrats. No penalty.

Ohhh… and further. Bombs don’t hold territory. They don’t end many wars. They don’t solve many problems. Not even Paratroopers do that at some point (the other hardware we drop from planes)… we take, we hold, we hope the follow on isn’t too late as there aren’t many of us. Troops hold ground.

Early morning tea: a 2021 Liu Bao, a fermented dark tea often said to have cooling properties. From Guangxi. Brazil nuts, rising bread, aged tangerine. Gives a cleansing body feel. Yes, that is a new Gong Fu teapot! 🤗 “We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.” -Rumi

A fan of clouds above the tower. Photo taken a few days ago as it is very overcast today in Glastonbury.

"Sorrow comes in great waves ... but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain." ~ Henry James The Beach at Palavas (1854) 🎨 Gustave Courbet

Women grow more radical with age. One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth! ~ Gloria Steinem

Plz, Plz Parents you have a right to the 2nd amendment. For the sake of your own children (and others) LOCK THEM UP! This isn’t the same world you grew up in you don’t what’s happening to your kid online or in the gaming world. Can’t afford to lock it up hide it and don’t talk about it.

My peas are flowering! Ya know what? None of us even eats peas! But we can set them out by my LittleFreeLibrary!

Yuck. You always hope Mark Cuban is smarter than this but clearly he is not.

I cooked today with wild ramps from Epiphany Farms. I might grow them. This recipe was a good one. I subbed cream cheese for the marscapone & shiro miso for the miso. I made extra of the ramp mixture to rub on chicken & air-fried. It was so yummy! Free recipe! cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/7760...