Word. "The way to live your creed isn’t by curating a spotless feed of spotless minds but by helping people do better. Hew to the norm; judge the person by what he does next; show grace where it stands a chance to help someone grow. That’s the difference between moral vanity and moral work."

In another attack on public lands, Congress is voting to use the Congressional Review Act to invalidate 2 land management plans in Alaska. If passed, some of America’s greatest remaining wild landscapes--the Arctic Refuge and the Western Arctic--and would be opened to oil and gas leasing.

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"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." Malcolm X. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There is no excuse for treating immigrants like this None

Now, in true Orwellian fashion, the past is being erased. What’s going to be left of America when Trump is done?

well, that's (another) dealbreaker for Josh Shapiro in 2028 www.eenews.net/articles/rgg...

Trump says, “no one cares about veterans more than me.” But his playbook says something else: 📌 Strip disability pay from veterans 📌 Cut 30,000+ VA jobs that help disabled vets The Project 2025 agenda: Gut the government, gut veterans, and funnel the money to Trump’s billionaire friends. 1/2

Indeed. I so appreciate this man's writing. “…finally learning to move in sync with your own nature.”

Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire with Hamas started on 10 October, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"The IEA found that in all of the scenarios it modelled that renewables would grow faster than any other major energy source, led by a surge in cheap solar power across regions including the Middle East and Asia, which have abundant sunshine." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#Ukraine #UkrainianView

Republican senators buried a $500k-each payday for themselves in the bill to reopen the government because they were investigated after Jan 6. youtu.be/0Y3_FHb1V40

Ken Burns’s New American Revolution Documentary and Why It Matters 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

“Our oaths did not expire simply because we took off the uniform.” Former Navy pilot Ken Harbaugh shares a powerful Veterans Day message about service, sacrifice, and what real patriotism means — inspired by Marine Master Sgt. Mike “Top” Washington.

If, like me, you identify with this definition, you know what to do.

The misleadingly titled Fix Our Forests Act was passed by the House and is now in the Senate. Although it sounds like a bill to protect communities from wildfires, it actually allows increased logging in our public lands, reduces our ability to hold federal agencies accountable in the courts,...

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in MN is one of our most treasured landscapes. Each year, 150,000 people visit its vast network of pristine forests and >1,000 lakes. Trump now plans to revoke a 20-year mining ban and to site a sulfide-ore copper mine at Boundary Waters' headwaters.

"As droughts intensify & insects thrive in warming forests, trees are dying of thirst while being eaten alive. It's a double assault turning once-green mountainsides into graveyards of standing dead timber...'This trend could continue as our climate continues to warm."🌏 www.king5.com/article/tech...

Average healthcare costs in the US: Giving birth? $18,000 Cancer treatment? $150,000 One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k. That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through. Cost in Canada? $0. Cost in the UK? $0. Cost in Australia? $0.

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***URGENT ACTION ITEM*** Call the senators who are in negotiations to cave to the GOP ***without*** solid extensions to the ACA. This is giving away our ONLY leverage. Make them abolish the filibuster!

If we want to stop the kidnappings and these agents require anonymity to commit these actions, then we must remove the masks. So long as we allow masked law enforcement to terrorize people, we cannot be a democracy.

The father of four, who had settled in Colorado and gotten his commercial driver’s license, was driving a truck through Indiana when he was taken by masked ICE agents in October.

This racist administration.

“I’ve been a minimum wage worker my whole life. I feel like my government is attacking their own people.”

Confirmed: ICE Is Arresting American Citizens—and Lying About It newrepublic.com/article/2026... via @newrepublic.com

This administration. So many swear words.

I still can’t get over the 100,000+ patriots in Chicago who protested against the orange felon during the No Kings marches last month. More of this.

Harry Truman: If it benefits all the people, they call it socialism.

The Spanberger-Sherrill-Mamdani axis hints at the outlines of an emerging Democratic coalition for the Trump 2.0 era. It can and should be organized around both anti-Trump and affordability politics. Because they are often deeply complementary or even one and the same. trib.al/H2GGgET

What good is voting in the US if the Speaker won't swear in the person you voted for?

“as the…administration has rescinded its support for scientific research, restricted vaccine access, dismissed expert advisers, attacked doctors & scientists, & worked to curtail health-insurance coverage, researchers & health-care workers have had a surge of interest in running for office.”🧪🛟

Wow!

"A playful, beautiful, graceful way of life." #TEC

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... I never understood why ICE agents were allowed to be masked and unidentifable. They could be anyone and now it seems violent thug are impersonating them.

Olivia Laing: ‘I’m interested in fluidity, complexity, ambivalence, and that’s true politically and socially too’

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Succession and evolution in a pond environment. From my coming book PONDS: An Illustrated Guide, Yale University Press, ~January 2026. 🧪🌿🌎🐡 #succession #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #ponds #freshwater #ecology

Well done, Los Angeles Times, for naming the real villains in this story- the Republican party. #Shutdown www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Truth.

🚨BREAKING: Alabama Republicans are pushing a new law that would let the state redo its primaries if the U.S. Supreme Court weakens protections against racial gerrymandering — a move that would open the door for politicians to throw out election results after voters have already spoken.

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