We've submitted written testimony to the Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources regarding H.966/S.544, “An Act prohibiting the mistreatment of birds.” animal.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/u...

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

A new Harvard ALPP report finds that H.R.4673, the “Save Our Bacon Act,” Could Jeopardize Hundreds of State Regulations. The report includes an appendix with over 600 examples of potentially affected state laws and regulations. animal.law.harvard.edu/news-article...

Where are the red Make America Great Again hats out in the fields? You know, the same people who swore immigrants were “taking their jobs.” Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.

"fast, spooky, quietly devastating" –– @bonnienadzam.bsky.social on VISITING COMPOSER bookshop.org/.../visiting...

Finished reading LAMB by Bonnie Nadzam today. Very beautiful and deeply disturbing. As if Cormac McCarthy wrote LOLITA.

Harvard Animal Law semester begins! Here in Ann Arbor, I snapped a pic of Faculty Fellow, Harvard Law School & ALPP alum Andy Stawasz holding up HLS & ALPP alum Elizabeth MeLampy's 2025 book on animal exploitation in US entertainment. Here's to Professor Kristen Stilt and -all- of our teachers.

staying alive and whole in a world of hurt is best served by cultivating, practicing, and integrating our ability to bounce back, push back, and have our backs, together. www.johnpaullederach.com/dispatches/a...

Legal Scholars, Civil Liberties Groups join Kristen Stilt in supporting Animal Rights Activist Appeal: ‪@animal-justice.bsky.social @climatedefense.bsky.social @nonhumanrights.bsky.social ‬ @ccrjustice.org @aclu-norcal.bsky.social @nlgnews.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Amid catastrophic events in the Anthropocene, an enduring moral intuition about animals is revealing itself. VLGS Distinguished Scholar & our Faculty Director Kristen Stilt shares "Someone," based on an in-process paper w Research Fellow @bonnienadzam.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/live/YRlwB0-...

We propose a two-man debate with Pope Leo and Jesus on the proper meaning of the New Testament. by JD Vance and Satan

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

What can humans and animals suffering from traumatic grief learn from each other? Join us on campus or via Zoom on Monday April 7 at 12:15 EST to hear from the singular Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, founder of Selah Carefarm (and so much more). Details below.

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My grandmother used to say it's so important to remember that the majority of people in this world are good. Might tweak that a little, but I do agree--and it's wonderful medicine to be deliberately in the company of such folk. Here's one such man--Seizan: all heart. Total privilege to know him.

What we see all around us isn't what is making us cower; it is turning away from the insanity and trying to escape into a separate peace.

It's true! I think I recommended this book two dozen times last week, to two dozen different individuals. Here, I recommend it again.

Amazon boycott Friday 3/7-14. Reclaiming the power of the purse, the power of community, the power of voice. #lionsroar #belovedcommunity #shoplocal

how do you know a poem is done? first you write the poem. then put it into an egg without cracking its shell. then plant the egg. then, thirty years later, when the tree is full of singing birds, you'll have forgotten entirely about this question.

I turned away from drinking in the firehose of bad news last night to take my telescope out to a dark clearing in the forest. It was a bit cold, 4 degrees F, but stars shined bright overhead.🔭🧪

It is not easy to keep myself from being dragged into the rushing currents of anger and grief that are running through my heart right now. Others must feel the same. Yet these very feelings press me forward into action. Meet me there.

ever a wonder & gift co-authoring with Dale Jamieson. more to come on this subject.

According to NPR reporter Will Stone: "There has not been a single press briefing on bird flu with reporters & media since the new administration took over." Today at 12:15 EST, all your questions answered by Stone & infectious disease experts. Register here: animal.law.harvard.edu#:~:text=PROT....

Harvard's Animal Law Week kicks off tomorrow with an in-depth analysis of the science of avian flu, its relationship to animal ag, and media reporting under the Trump admin. "Has the Next Pandemic Already Begun?" Register & see the week's panel line up here: animal.law.harvard.edu/news-article...

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊

That press conference was the most disgraceful act of betrayal I’ve ever seen.

This is the most shameful day to be an American in my lifetime. Slava Ukraine.

Get in good trouble, necessary trouble.

The artists job is to say no in thunder. - Herman Melville

“It's too late to be ready.” ― Dogen Zenji

A chill wind in the heart of things. The season mirrors the country. We need poetry these cold days of late winter.

“Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of the Earth's greenings. Now, think.” ― Hildegard von Bingen

"Thank God for the things I do not own." --Teresa de Avila

Today’s beautiful thing. Big fat flakes falling down.

"...where there is no love, put love, and you will draw out love." St. John of the Cross