Watching The American Revolution and enjoying it! Was v confused by the maps of Boston tho - apparently I did not know that the city began as an island and parts of the harbor were backfilled in the 1800s?! Feel like a bad new englander for not knowing this.

This is a real loss for the northeast kingdom.

Cool, overcast day on the farm - good for extended naps on the movable couch.

Vibes at #nokings in Montpelier, Vermont today: joyous, righteous and fun! It felt different from the past protests - more hopeful and energetic? Less despair and more empowered. And the creativity! Sculpture, costumes, artwork, music and plays! ❤️

The girlfriend of the founder of antifa

i don’t really understand why this made me start bawling i just really love seeing people try to help each other in creative ways and that this shit is necessary

I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.

I’m so bored with FAFO responses to this. Read what ppl say: seeing firsthand the chaotic, desperate immigration system in their literal backyards made them prioritize Trump’s promise of order and control. These are winnable folks to antifascism if we address their real needs.

Vermonters! I went to this last night in Barre and it was really grounding and motivating! There’s a big difference between knowing about this national shitshow vs. hearing how it directly affects my community and the mechanisms for change that are within my reach.

Driest summer in Vermont since 1913.

He’s cold and tired but also he wants to be outside

Got my Covid and flu shot in Vermont on Monday! Easily scheduled through CVS. Don’t wait to get your shot! The more people have updated vaccinations, the more protected we ALL are!

What poster did you have hanging in your room as a kid? I was not allowed to put posters up but my parents put this up (framed):

Had to post this gorgeous Czech black jalapeño this morning 😍 #smallfarms #farming

Cuties Posting

Now hands are wanted here, and then again hands are wanted there.

The basic rights of our allies are not luxury beliefs but the core of any solidarity movement. If you can’t see this, you have bo business trying to take the lead in this moment nor do you have any business telling us what to do with our political power.

We’re 3-4 yrs in to this living shadecloth experiment. Grapes don’t leaf out until June here, so the greenhouse warms up in the spring. Then the leaves shade the space for the rest of the summer. Started with concord (Z4) but planted seedless table (Z3) this yr. #agsky

Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward. Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything. www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...

Bluesky enables me to see the coolest freakin people! As someone who cannot focus on studying one thing long enough to gain any real depth of knowledge, I’m in aware of scientists.

We need much more research on this stuff. Veggie farms use so much plastic packaging and we are always looking for alternatives. Not in the least because all our bags come from ULINE (fuck them)

Good info in this article. I didn’t know the different ways that chemical and mineral sunscreens work. I’d like to get a good chemical sunscreen that is unscented… and maybe try to convince my coop to carry it.

Garlic harvest last week yielded some of the biggest garlic we’ve grown. Everything is so abundant and alive. I think my ‘good’ work has contributed maybe 20% to this favorable season - the rest is out of my hands.

Glory days on the farm: living pathways are robust and green, interplantings of brassicas and cucurbits thriving, pest pressure is manageable. #farming #agsky

New low score.

This incredible interview stuck with me for days after I first heard it. RIP Andrea Gibson on For the Wild:

One of my great joys is approaching something I love through the eyes and knowledge of someone else. B&P’s puppets were a part of my childhood and now part of my community. Huge influences on my art and creative work.❤️

This is a huge loss for Vermont. I would love to read more details about what went wrong here, how decisions were made, etc. Maybe it’s as simple as overcapitalizing after the pandemic boom but there seems to be some blame assigned to the employee-owned model.

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

Listening to Neko Case read her memoir, “The Harder I Fight, the More I Love You” and learning that this delicious song was the first one she wrote by herself, based on a dream.

Welp, my country just bombed another country. Again. Everyday I am here, tending to more variations in the color green than there are words to describe. More life, more life, as Tony Kushner wrote, the blessing: more life. #agsky #vermont

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

NEW: A protester was shot and killed at the Salt Lake City 'No Kings' march. A man is in police custody, booked on suspicion of murder—but not the one who fired the gun. From video, witnesses and interviews, @schotthappens.com and I tried to piece together what really happened Saturday. Our report-

Had a lovely time at #nokingsvermont in Hardwick, VT this morning! I made a bunch of signs last night so I got to hang up one in our greenhouse for the plant sale! #agsky Farmers against fascism

My #nokings signs for today, somewhere in Vermont

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

If your Ezra is Klein, you're on the decline. If your Ezra is Levin, you're cooking 24/7.

If you’re interested in food and farming, sign up for Sarah Mocks’s newsletter. “This place, this time, this life, it reminds us, is vast and glorious. Our universe is the biggest place we’ll ever live in, our lives the longest thing we’ll ever do.” #agsky

Federal judge in Vermont orders release of Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi Mahdawi, a lawful permanent US resident, was detained and ordered deported by the Trump administration despite not being charged with a crime

This interview is really powerful. “Trump said, 'People talk about change. Nobody ever changes.' And I believed that. And now I believe change is necessary for survival.”

I’m starting to subscribe to the evil-AI god hypothesis because trying to understand these responses make me feel insane. I’m being gaslit by a hallucinating computer.

I'm not saying the news wire photographers kept intentionally lining Trump's head up with the Easter Bunny's ears, but they were absolutely doing that

Halfway through this episode, listening to Vermont’s Becca Balint being a badass (an actual “scrappy little dyke” ❤️): rejecting either/or strategy and letting go of needing the perfect plan or message before speaking up. @balint.house.gov 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I’m willing to negotiate on the methods, the details, the logistics but never ever on the principles. Trans rights are human rights.

Nice writing and good description of my experience with the chickens on our farm… dead or dying often, helpless, aggressive and confusingly personable.

“I don’t know how much more serious it can get before we tell Vermonters we are not cooperating with a hostile, dangerous and unconstitutional federal government that does not care about the basic rights and freedoms of Vermonters.”

Good news out of NH from my old school district.

Repose with a favorite book from childhood. Weird poems weirder illustrations beloved by weird kids.

if we want to rebuild american institutions and earn back the world’s trust after this we cannot settle for half-measures. lots of people need to go prison. lots more need to be permanently stripped of wealth and power.

My suggestion for the next Montpelier, VT protest: food, art projects and more music!