For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type. By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.

Truculent from Philadelphia at Material Room in RVA last night.

Graphic Violets at Material Room in RVA last night.

No kings RVA

Name a protest movement, anywhere or at any time, that has achieved its goals without being annoying and obstructive. People like this enjoy the freedoms our political ancestors gained for them, while attacking the means by which they were achieved.

Added Dimensions shredding as usual at their record release show at Gallery 5 in RVA on Sat.

We at The Steady State have studied the indicators of authoritarianism for decades — usually dry words in intelligence reports. But sometimes, a single photograph says it all. Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive all at once. It creeps in under cover of “order,” cloaked in uniforms, justified by fear.

The incredible Nape Neck at Gallery 5 in Richmond, VA tonight!

PR in marathon today!

bestaquadrada.bandcamp.com/album/besta-... Bandcamp Friday. Get some. I got this one.

Inside Congress www.politico.com/newsletters/... THE BUCK STOPS HERE:

Portland’s Antifa headquarters.

here’s korean protesters throwing their shoes at a likeness of netanyahu

Monarch on Joe Pye Weed in my wild garden.

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life

I am ANTIFA! 🌊💙

Tee Vee Repairmann keeps it rockin’ at @blackcatdc.bsky.social on 9/9/2025.

@superchunk.bsky.social at black cat on Tuesday night (9/9/2025). “My Gap Feels Weird”

It’s Bandcamp Friday. In case you forgot. mercilessacceleratingrhythms.bandcamp.com/album/mercil...

The problem is sociopathic corporate greed. 🧐

It should be obvious by now that Netanyahu won't stop until every Palestinian in #Gaza (and perhaps the West Bank) has been murdered, maimed or expelled. He wants it all. Governments like ours should cut off all military equipment, diplomatic support and other relations until the genocide ends.

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars - defector.com/neither-elon...

Could it be that the destruction of the habitable planet is not just an accidental outcome of Trump's policies, but is in fact the policy? My column this week asks another question that most people, I think, would rather not face. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

1. A common mistake is to look for ideological consistency on the far right, and to become confused when some of the things it claims to stand for sound positive and even progressive. Here’s a thread on how to understand this. 🧵

There is no automatic reversion to "normal" in politics. Nor will the timid business-as-usual which got us into this mess get us out of it. We'll achieve a better society after Trump and similar tyrants only through massive and focused movement-building. It has to start right now.

Musk's fascist salutes are a signal, showing how far he intends to go. They point to the destruction of democracy he seeks, the impunity, the violent pursuit of power. They point to the empire he wants to build, and to the degradation of all our lives as he sets out to crush our humanity.

A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"This is the great discovery of the conflict entrepreneurs: what counts in politics is not how well people are doing, but how well they are doing in relation to designated out-groups." So people support a class war against themselves. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘A small act of patriotism’: Canada’s anti-Maga hats go viral