Thought while harvesting fresh plums: Hominids developed such intricately sensitive nerves in our prehensile hands to feel precisely when nourishing fruit is perfectly ripe.

Objective evidence that ‘America First’ increasingly means ‘America Goodbye’.

Thank you Zack Beauchamp for these crucial insights on how every facet of resistance to the Administration’s plan (by ordinary citizens, on corporate boards, by elected officials, and judges) can still save democracy in America. Shocking how close we are to losing the American dream forever.

Remembering we are all capable of wonder and gratitude as guiding lights, even as we resist the dismembering of our freedoms and rights.

Thank you Mr. Letterman.

Exactly!

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Contributor: The patrol that haunts me wasn't in Baghdad; it was in Dupont Circle - Los Angeles Times Thoughtful. Troubling. Concern for the erosion of trust and good faith between civilians and the military this veteran cites is so important to our nation’s future. We must not normalize this.

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Incessantly Recovering Like all beings, living yet, from webs and crevices in whatever wet niche can sustain me, my tribe, I am wounded and incessantly recovering according to my nature, exuding pungent aromas, grateful to receive gentle rain, as small birds of insight fly through

Important to keep remembering our hard won Constitutional checks and balances, and keep resisting their dismemberment.

Exactly.

Yes. This exactly. 🙏🏔️🌿☀️

The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost. Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions. No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.

Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."

Yep.

Operating outside the rule of law, and routinely violating core Constitutional protections, are now the norm. But resistance is not futile. Nor is insisting that our institutions return to obeying the law.

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He fired her because her numbers were right. Erika has had a distinguished public service career, serving with excellence and integrity. My many thanks to her.

This is how they managed statistics in the old USSR.

i already have to take out a loan just to buy eggs

Magical night.

NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s" An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us: www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...

Elegant and clear summary!

This is key. NY AG act fast.

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

I can relate. That last point especially — dissolution, dismemberment of our Union, by cynical design. Been naming it since before the 2016 election.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

Something so poignant and beckoning in floating lotus flowers and fulsome yellow roses in the morning light.

Perspective. Somewhere above Alberta.

Unconscionable. Unjustifiable. Who benefits from such stupidity?

Concur. Their lack of warrants, identification, accountability, etc is as shocking and un-American as their brazen, callous antipathy for human dignity and their disrespect for working families who assure our economy actually functions. It needs to stop. Congress and SCOTUS must intervene.

What I don’t understand is how such public land sales can happen legally without violating bedrock NEPA and Endangered Species protections. Does it simply waive off these protections? How can such sales survive nullification by US courts if they fail to abide by long-standing legal protections?

At local No Kings protest with 5000+ others. My sign should’ve said “Aging Normal Folks For Rule of Law”. Like me! Saw a sign I liked: Born to Garden, But Fighting Against Fascism. Yup.

Exactly.

Remember beauty.

Perhaps Newsom should have spent less time chumming around with authoritarian buffoons on his podcast and more time preparing and strategizing for the entirely predicable thing that is happening in his state right now.

Today: Tanks are being moved en masse into DC. Trump is deploying a state national guard over a governor’s objection to police protests. Trump threatened a major donor with “severe consequences” if they support his political opponents. If you’re still wondering what time it is, read this again

Sunday moment.

Must not stand. Objective, verifiable, statistically significant human-led evidence meeting rigorous peer review must be the standard for advancing knowledge and forming sensible policy.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

And this… first yellow rose of the year!

A brief moment of perfect beauty.

The best and brightest will leave, and America will be intellectually bankrupted along its current road to fiscal bankruptcy. Totally avoidable. Congress and SCOTUS have to do their jobs to protect US universities and colleges from being dismantled.

In plain sight. Congress must do its job now.

Earth Day Everyday

I'll say it again, the tariff system is being put in place by very rich men at the top of the U.S. power system and they'll be fine whatever happens. It's worth keeping that in mind when you see something like this from the president.

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

Grateful for this day of remembrance and renewal.