Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

Crazy

No Kings! Asheville, NC. Over 2,500 in attendance (unofficially).

Badar Khan Suri has not been charged with any crime, but his lawyer says DHS whisked him to detention Monday night. He's since been trasnferred to a facility in Louisiana. His lawyer compares Suri's plight to Mahmoud Khalil. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

This lovely hermit thrush has been at my feeder every morning for over a week. Helps me to focus on what is real. Here. Now.

The cover-up… USAID officials were ordered to destroy classified documents, raising concerns about compliance with federal law. An internal email sent to remaining bureau leaders at the agency’s Washington headquarters provided guidance on “clearing our classified safes and personnel documents.”

A break from the bad news. Snow in Western North Carolina was lovely yesterday.

Conflict of interest? The State Department’s procurement forecast lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to purchase $400 million worth of “Armored Tesla” vehicles.

And every once in awhile we get views like this. May at Myakka River State Park in Sarasota.

The sun will still rise, and the birds are still singing. We just need to remember that. (Don’t worry, Cat stays on the inside).

How I keep my house warm when it’s 26degrees at 11am: lentil shepherd’s pie.

Happy Thanksgiving from the turkeys of Kenilworth. I counted 19!

Roughly 1/4 of the total US budget is subsidies. If we reallocated the most harmful of them. Just 1/3 of 1% We could change the world

I’m here. Let’s do this Bluesky thing!