Snow. Yay!!

I can only agree.

As people go to work in New York today, they should be trying to avoid the mass migration caravans of capitalist refugees fleeing the city. Or so I have been promised.

Where the path leads.

Proof that wolves love soft things soooo much - at least this one does.

This is very probably the most consequential thing (outside of the climate crisis) that has happened in the past two decades. Goodbye American superpower, for better or for worse. It was a matter of time. Hubris ---) downfall

A cool swampy forest with a flock of turkeys and a herd of deer shared only with my dog. Public lands adventure hiking.

In small town Iowa, protests are more like a picnic. But don't underestimate the picnic. #NoKings #Iowa

Apart from the compact, increasingly uni admins are trying to silence students and faculty. Not just in Indiana. (But IU hurts badly - I used to be proud to be an alum).

When the constitution will be rewritten, we need proportional representation as an anchor for the whole thing.

This is what the Air Force should be doing, not flying deportations. Thanks to everybody helping - although many of these villages will have to relocate.

Rule #527: If you are jealous of a Nobel Peace Prize winner, make sure her govt can accuse her of working for your secret service. Rule #5: if you face growing opposition, start a war. Rule #734: When you can, combine #527 and #5.

It is Indigenous Peoples Day. We propose that every day should bring a step forward for Indigenous rights. We can all contribute to that by understanding the history of the land and respecting the treaty rights to which we are bound.

We are now in the phase where the govt is slowly revealing to all how it plans to operate, and is hurting people from all political sides. Reps have children w disabilities, have relatives who are sick, and have neighbors who get kidnapped. Keep fighting and they will find a voice, too.

It is essential to sometimes take a breather and regain mental sanity.

If the government insists that only residents with correct papers can use ERs, it should refund all undocumented immigrants who paid taxes.

Will the president be at the Ryder Cup to hand the trophy to the winning team today?

It is true, their place in history is settled. And Pete cannot rewrite it. Neither can any number of medals. #NotHowHistoryWorks

Giving a presentation on upcoming work on why the Lakota Nation still has title to the unceded territories in the 1868 treaty. This includes all of North Dakota south of the Heart River.

I admire everybody at the UN who did not burst out laughing at the real estate development reminiscences, the third person references, the grandiose bs, the lies, the arrogance and delusions, and the stark madness displayed in the open. And did not walk out. WTF

This is all a big sarcastic joke, right? How deep can a formerly repitable newspaper fall within a few months? Through the floor. Democracy dies in Washington.

Anger and frustration are building in the UN over continued vetos by the US over a ceasefire in Gaza. Nations are expressing them openly now. The US is pissing off everybody. I mean, everybody.

Proud of my daughter to identify the problem with having to define German immigrants, Irish immigrants, and German / Irish immigrants...

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German newspaper musing if Charlie Kirk's murder waa a "brainrot murder" - no stable poilitical ideology, but trying to carry online/gaming memes into the real world. Here is also the original blog to this. If you can translate it, worth the read. beritmiriam.substack.com/p/brainrot-m...

So we preemptively kill people suspected of drug trafficking. But we no longer support people fighting drug trafficking. This all makes sense in the upside down world of foreign relations through bullying and petty personal vendettas.

You cancel Jimmy, I cancel hulu and Disney.

This is the kind of reporting that has gone missimg in the American media on a daily basis. Here about Qatar: "No more trust in the USA". Putting all the little and large gestures together from around the world, only one conclusion .the USA is on the fast track to pariah status.

I am working to put a course on Political Polarizqtion and Violence on the course catalog for the spring. We need to educate students about the liberal state and how people are trying to dismantle it. Otherwise, they won't know and will follow those who pretend to save them by destroying it.

It's great that the Board of Regents cares about civility on social media. I say that without sarcasm or irony. I also have not seen statements like that - distributed to all students, staff, and faculty through email - on any of the shootings - or Gaza - some idiots celebrated.

It seems to me that in many ways we are back to the debate at Valladolid (1550). And still those arguing to oppress their fellow humans call themselves Christians.

Making friends all over the world by not "giving a shit" as a strategy. apnews.com/article/sout...

R.I.P. Rick Davies –------= www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygo6...

There is still beauty.

Coal and oil energy imfrastructire is essentially worthless when society has collapsed because there is no water and the storms are overpowering.

Can we please stop being insane and leave nature the fuck alone? How about instead we stop watering golf courses in deserts, prevent glaciers from melting, and clean the water there is???

Stop burning stuff.

And then they will rename the BIA the Office of Indian Affairs and put it back under the Department of War. And send the Maine to Cuba. And Pete will don a hat and lead the Marines to Nicaragua - sorry, Venezuela. And they will build railroads. And live in mansions.

Imagine being president and the people in the capital refuse to allow prosecution of people who mention they might want to harm you. What might have caused that, I wonder.

Once a year, I have to soak in some Americana. It is great in small doses.

Oh look, a functioning democracy sends out voting ballots to all its citizens (all of them, each one) and has them vote. You fill in the ballots and send them back by - gasp - mail, and they are counted. Sounds so easy...

I really wish I would not have to think that, but - Chicago?

Maybe. A significant minority of the party, however, is not expecting any leadership anymore and has already left.

1/ Google Scholar would be missed, but mostly because libraries have given up being libraries and have shifted much of their functionalities to things like Google Scholar. Which makes it so convenient. However...

Sometimes it is good to remember that beauty is just around the corner (especially on public lands).

Isn't using "apparent ethnicity" as a category DEI? It is such defined in Iowa state law. I would assume that if the federal govt can engage in DEI initiatives, they would be legal.

I understand now. We are all held hostage in a sado-maso pseudo comedy that resets every two weeks and kills people on the side, where we are audience and victims simultaneously and are told by roaming clowns that all is normal.

Hi Midwest, would you like a vibrant landscape with diverse wildlife (for example butterflies)? If so, look, there is more data supporting the notion that monocropping from here to nowhere is not getting that. If we need more data. Or we can continue to just not care.

I Am not sure, but if you are a teacher from anywhere, would you really move to Oklahoma? Voluntarily? On the other hand, maybe it is time to safefuard aome schools from radical right ideology. To save what we have left of education.