There is a community of the spirit Join it and feel the delight Of walking in the noisy street And being the noise. - Rumi

For those being told they need to remove “climate change” from government funded documents, all in favor of replacing it with the phrase “ white boy summer”.

The bravery of journalists to reveal what would have come up in federal court if those indicted had not been kidnapped and sent to CECOT.

Undaunted by DOGE, these determined young people are fundraising to drive across the country and continue their service. Despite their entire program being shut down, they declare “we can't rely on previous systems to help our communities, we must take it upon ourselves and support one another.”

“You just gotta put your money where your mouth is and you gotta live by your conscience, and you gotta know that your livelihood cannot overpower your conscience.” Principal Jaime Cook

Here is the censorship search prompt being used at the Agricultural Research Service, the in-house research arm of the USDA: DEI: search terms: equity OR DEI OR DEIA OR equitable OR inclusive OR BIPOC OR "people of color" OR disadvantaged OR "social justice" OR "environmental justice" OR...

What if there was always a journalist in the room for discussions on war? The big reveal is that the whole administration is likely using signal. Americas involvement in Yemen has never been approved by congress. I’d like to see deportations to El Salvador with no due process be as big a scandal.

The Oregon rest stop bathrooms, long festooned with indicators of the public mind, have begun to center around a theme.

Of course, federal funding for the further restoration of the Klamath River has been cancelled - but what a blessing that the dams were removed before this administration.

Burning the wild strawberry patch. Great day for fire in the valley foothills!

Reminder that instead of attending Donald Trump's first address to Congress tonight I'll be hosting an open-to-all town hall on Facebook live at 6 PM PT. You don't need a Facebook account – or to be an Oregonian – to tune in. Look forward to seeing you all soon.

I just checked the homepages of Weather dot Com and Weatherunderground: neither of them have a single mention about the cuts to NOAA. If I ran a business that relies on access to free *quality* government data, I’d sure dedicate a massive portion of my business resources towards fighting NOAA cuts.

The USDAs “first traunch” (stupid word attempt to make something sound legit) covered less than 1% of contracts already obligated to farmers.

Cloud forest oaks of Costa Rica.

Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act added more than 19 billion dollars to NRCS cost share programs to help farmers implement practices on their land. Now, that funding is cut and farms funded through IRA are left with the debt from their 2024 installations. In Iowa alone that amounts to $11,000,000.

A department of peace building. Amidst the need for resistance on so many fronts, it is also important to advance a positive alternative. Thank you @ilhanmn.bsky.social

This (archived) report on USAID’s work in South Africa suggests why musk, whose rhetoric is that of someone born into and steeped in the apartheid regime, zeroed in on it first for the chopping block.

When the strategy is to put forward an impassable bill that seeks to prevent something that is already illegal it is time to rethink tactics.

“You are not authorized to access this page”. - the US government. Climate Smart Commodities website going dark is very bad news for many good folks doing the work to advance resilient food systems in the USA.

The report I wrote about the climate and environmental justice travesties we can expect from Trump 2.0, plus some mitigating actions that can be taken at the state and local levels, is finally out! tinyurl.com/DefendAdvanc...

"America was not founded on a love of democracy, it was founded on a hatred of authority." Spite is our fatal flaw and our secret weapon.

I was 19 years old in a crowd of 500,000+. Over the years I’ve wondered where all those folks are now, what they’re doing today. 25 years later and the stakes are much higher now. We need this energy again and I’ve been pondering on leverage points, movement strategy. (Seattle WTO protests, 1999).

Breaking our hearts till they open.

And the website has already been sideswiped. 😔

Must be one of the last acts of the administration. Here’s to resilience. There is the story of Ben Franklin and his exhortation that the liberty bell be wiped of its morning dew lest , under a lapse in care, it cracks.

Here’s some recommended viewing for January 20. This great documentary follows King through the last few years of his life as he bridges the struggles for racial and economic justice and helps to launch the poor people’s campaign. As always, his journey is inspiring and instructive.

For those at the center of the venn diagram of Tolkien, cartography, and reading the landscape…

We need positive forms of political opposition in the United States. The People's Cabinet would offer new ideas, new voices, and new forms of action. snyder.substack.com/p/an-alterna...

In light of POS posts from the right, this time regarding the LA fires, a suggestion for staying with the trouble in a productive way: review the science, envision strategies for regenerative human settlement, and build alternative economic and political structures in the shell of the old.

Do you dream of ponds and see their potential everywhere? Keyline design locates ponds within the "geography of landscape". This video outlines their common locations and uses. Marisha Auerbach and I made this video for her Permaculture Water Management Course at Oregon State University.

Efforts to save open source material before it is scrubbed from government websites are underway and you can suggest priority material to save. I’d suggest everyone include the National Agroforestry Center and USDA climate hubs in their nominations.

One of these is the rugged, do-everything #EV of the future. The other is eligible for climate subsidies

Keeping eyes on the prize for 2025. Myles Horton described two strategic periods: organizing and movement periods. Can we imagine the wheel turning toward another movement period as the “buddy in chief” and the other 1% hold 30% of wealth? www.commondreams.org/opinion/bern...

You can’t see Bob Dylan or Dave Van Ronk at the Gaslight, you can’t head over to the Keystone to see Jerry Garcia, but you can still catch Michael Hurley at the Laurelthirst Pub on a Saturday night.

Good fire is growing in Oregon. Thank you to the Rogue Valley Prescribed Burn Association for producing this great video. www.roguevalleypba.com/video

Wendell Berry

Precisely what I meant below - the Autocrat Mutual Support Association has a full agenda.

Bill Zeedyk has shown us how to restore whole watersheds with hand tools and available materials. His motto is let the water do the work. I’m excited about this upcoming docu-series about his life and methods. youtu.be/iDY-Zf8WFiQ?...

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Oregon farmers! There’s a growing movement to amend water law in the state to help small farmers. Read more about some of the work afoot here: friendsoffamilyfarmers.org/small-farm-w...

Mijin is spitting straight fire, check out the stream here! labor.ucsc.edu/just-transit...

A Grateful message of solidarity across the generations: in these troublesome times, we are everywhere and you are not alone :) youtu.be/BMADDgsk7WE?...

Friend in OR, this Sunday Dec 1 we are hosting a FREE biochar workshop at Cha Tumenma, an Indigenous-owned site in the North Umpqua watershed. Come learn about this important tool for increasing forest resilience and help out on this exciting land back project. Register here: shorturl.at/1iVce

Hey Bluesky, I am excited by all the energy coalescing on this platform. It seems like a place for strategic thinking, which we badly need. A few initial thoughts: 🧵

It is the season of giddy video messages from clients when their ponds fill up.