The Chief Justice and his wife took 20 million dollars from firms with cases in front of the court. A level of corruption no one expected from the nation's highest court

ICYMI: Three historians lift up Black women journalists, organizers and activists who were critical to Black freedom movements but often erased from history. inthesetimes.com/article/blac...

The silence of the political leadership in Congress on this issue is deafening.

#PopeFrancis unveils #ChristmasNativity with #BabyJesus atop a #keffiyeh The #scarf was added to a nativity scene in #VaticanCity The pontiff declared "Enough #wars, enough #violence!" while presenting a scene by two #PalestinianArtists near the Vatican on Saturday www.huffpost.com/entry/pope-f...

Another attack on the wearing of the #Keffiyeh. actionnetwork.org/letters/wear...

🌿 Today is Endangered Species Day, a reminder that protecting native plants means protecting entire ecosystems. Learn more at wildones.org 🌿

On Wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh 1/ Do you want to be on the front, pushing back against genocide? One of the tools of genocide is criminalization of identity. It is important to believe a culture about what their symbols mean. First Step: believe #Palestinians about what the #keffiyeh means.

We are all animals. There is empathy rooted in our animal nature. What separates us from other animals is the ability for cold, rational logic. 'Good' is when we use the logic to expand on the empathetic impulses, and suppress the impulse to do harm. 'Evil' is when logic is used the opposite way.

Movement in the right direction, but please always go to the communities it affects instead of watching politicians pat themselves on the back. This could be better. They could do more. www.lucemass.org/peopleprotect

The monstrous things *still* done to the most vulnerable throughout the country, and even in the liberal states (neo-liberal) didn't start with and won't end with Trump. Please read. Please pay attention to the groups around you that most need help.

🚨"Pepper spray, pepper spray!" pro-Palestinian protesters screamed as they clashed with NYPD near NYC synagogue holding land auction for stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank. Over 100 anti-Zionist protesters clashed with NYPD and pro-Israel supporters. Via Jon Farina

WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."

A new poll finds that 72% of Americans — including 55% of Trump voters — agree there is too much money in politics. How do we get that money out? Montana (and now Hawaii) could have the answer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fPbGHe3xE

Things are too charged. We need to learn how to reach out across the aisle. But NOT when that means ceding control of the country into the hands of the fascist regime. We need to simultaneously fight tooth and tail for control, and have the strength to turn from anger and educate. Can you do it?

This is who I'm proud to make calls for: RepresentUS. I was pissed at the DNC when I made calls for Hilary, the corporatist. I was sick to my stomach making calls for Kamala, who would have funded genocide, and grown ICE, just like Biden did. We need ranked-choice voting and anti-corruption laws.

One million EU citizens have signed a call to withdraw trade privileges from Israel. Rather than take that basic step, the EU governments have imposed more sanctions on Iran, the target of aggression by Israel and the US. electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-...

A sea of people in red spread out, raising signs and chanting through the streets of downtown Grand Rapids on Tuesday to demand justice and honor victims as they marked Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Day. From Erick Diaz Veliz

It is time for the world to stop the US/Israeli genocide of Palestinians. These are criminals, who violate the Geneva conventions and commit war crimes against peaceful protesters. My government and the government of Israel need to see that the world will not tolerate this. #warCrimes #protest

Green Party stands with Palestine. "The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of Earth" Andreas Malm -- Read it. The genocidal corporatist left call us antisemitic. Let's compromise and choose progressives, not corporatist neo-liberal colonizers. The left needs to clean house, globally.

IMO it's dishonest to point at Israel, when so much of our imperialist policy has had bipartisan support. Republicans are worse, of course. They have the record of wars in the middle east to show it. The difference is in degrees of abstraction: do we fund it or send troops? How about we STOP!?

Blueberries are blooming! They don't look like much from a distance, but they are among my favorite spring flowers. #LookHarder This is Vaccinium corymbosum: a wild type used for breeding cultivated blueberries. Middlesex Country, MA #bloomscrolling #spring #wildflowers #nativeplants #ecoregion59

The criminal, genocidal state of Israel leveled a town in Lebanon. Will the world turn away as they spread the genocide and colonize another sovereign nation? It looks that way from the news, or lack thereof. #israel #terroristState #genocide #warCrimes #Lebannon #imperialism #colonizers

Considering that any time Elon does any *actual* work (vs letting the actual smart engineers do their jobs) it backfires spectacularly — one could argue that ‘showing up, insisting on some improvement, and then leaving to do drugs and be a Nazi’ *is* the monomaniacal focus.

The USA is a place with no healthcare, but 1000 billionaires. At least 49 of those billionaires made all their money from Private Healthcare. Perhaps you can connect the dots.

#Poaching of #endangered, legally protected #PinkLadysSlipper (Cypripedium acaule) sprouts. Recognizing these for what they were with just leaflets, one with their eyes open to the living world killed a rare being, and didn't even cover over the wound. #ecoregion59 #orchid #nativeplants

SKY NEWS: UK Terror threat level raised to "severe" ^ All very nice. I wonder what the threat level is in Palestine today? I wonder what the threat level is in Lebanon today? ^ I mean: 150,000+ babies, children, women & men massacred vs Fired up ambulances & an unhinged assault on two men

Jeffries: The Collaborator in Chief While Trump's racist slurs might seem like attacks, they're actually the perfect cover for Jeffries' real betrayal. Every racist comment becomes another opportunity for Jeffries to play the victim, boosting his progressive cred while doing nothing.

This is me. I am one of the hosts of the Genus Bar Podcast, I run Eli's Native Plants (just the page, and a seed fridge for now --ask for my inventory), and this page is where I let loose and say what I really think. I try to be a responsible public speaker in the other two. Here, I'm just human.

okay, when you’ve lost the former director of Mossad, maybe it’s well past time to rethink your policy decisions

There are Israeli resistors. The government of Israel is genocidal, and has deliberately been indoctrinating the population into its racist Zionist ideology, but no group of people is universally evil. No country. No belief system but those built on hate, like Naziism, Zionism, and white supremacy.

Never a more vile view have I heard than this. The idea that we can continue to support genocide and war crimes because we are committing similar crimes. Everyone please throw stones. Let us shatter the edifice of oppression at home and abroad.

Palestinians in Gaza Want to Rebuild Food Systems. Israel Isn’t Letting Them. #TruthOut

They were both happy to fund genocide, continue the American imperialist agenda in the global south... The lesser evil, but both corporatists who weren't about to make real change to the skewed tax system or imperialist agenda. I want more. I want ranked-choice so I don't have to pick between evils.

Your deflection fails. I condemn Netanyahu's genocide, not all Israelis. But we must stop enabling war crimes. Countries DO have moral duty to refuse supporting genocide - just as Spain, Italy, France refused US bases for Iran attacks [1][2].

As bombs rained down on Gaza, the US media was quick to downplay, obscure, and repackage an emerging campaign of extermination into a slick “war on terror” framework. www.plutobooks.com/product/how-...

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

I wish Tammi Hartung and her Desert Canyon Farm were on BlueSky, so I could paint her posts with my critiques until she blocked me or stopped her appropriation of Indigenous beliefs and practices. Instead I'm writing her a long letter, and sending her my edits on her book to make it less tearable*

Today is the day for remembering the Armenian #genocide which started 111 years ago. Please reflect on how long it takes the USA to recognize the atrocities of the past. Biden had the US officially recognized the Armenian genocide in 2021, but the US has never recognized its own genocide.

#davidrowe @roweafr #cartoon: a letter to you BIBI @FinancialReview #alttext

Trump bombs Iran, declares war with Venezuela, kills civilians, new Dept of War arms Puerto Rico Netanyahu escalates Gaza attacks, bombs Iran & now Qatar Putin escalates Ukraine attacks & now "attacks" Poland All these leaders face growing numbers of citizens that want them replaced See a pattern?

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#Israel has lost all sense of itself and why it was created in the first place. Imagine becoming the thing that you were born out of that was so evil the entire world mobilized to stop it 85 years ago. #Netanyahu must go. #FreePalastine www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online

It is a privilege to be amongst this group of advocates and scholars in science education, where we speak up about the collective responsibility required of us to create a safe and inclusive environment for all to pursue science and scholarship Just published in @scienceed-wiley.bsky.social

Want to hear how a big strong capitalist nation deals with a small state whose people chose socialist government? Check in on our treatment of Cuba, and perhaps take a second to think about how US capitalist imperialism has made it a deliberate and overt strategy to go after every socialist nation.

Cover drop and I'm in love press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Any candidate that takes money from Palantir should not receive your vote. Co-founder Joe Lonsdale is pouring millions into a PAC to buy off Democrats, especially in California. techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/p...

Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like. [Via @itep.org]