US disengages from Somalia - "the fall of Mogadishu a probable hypothesis." So much winning.

"Donald Trump was not enough: the United States humiliated"

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No fun rooting against the country you live in, but Belgie 🇧🇪 j'espere pour 5:0. Allons!

On NATO: “We don’t need their money — we don’t need anything,” Trump said. “I just want loyalty.” Loyalty? NATO???

Now that it is the 5th, the same questions: Are the files released? Is the Strait open? Are we killing fiaherfolk? Is there corruption? Do we have democratic oversight? Are people hungry and homeless? Do we fight the climate crisis? Is the govt abiding by our laws? The basis for my vote.

Sky News: '"Our history is one of people carving a great civilisation out of the wilderness," Vance concluded.' Sure, JD. And what wilderness, may I ask?

The great "I think climate crisis is a hoax" flooding of basementsof 2026. Tried to drive to a friend's house to help and turned around bc the street was a lake. And I live on a hill.

Bumblebee on milkweed. Small things that keep the world going a bit longer.

Happy birthday, Canada. May you stand strong and free, united, for a long time.

It was never AI killing humans because it was more intelligent. It was always humans killing themselves because they are too stupid.

First time I am walking away from publishing a text. Editor said I have to scientifically reference and demonstrate that the climate crisis is caused by industrial capitalism. Claimed it was a political statement. Not playing those games anymore. I am not citing that the sky is blue, either.

Drove 130 miles to a college visit with my kids yesterday. Plugged the car into the (free) slow charger. Came back 4 hours later, drove back. Waved at all the gas stations. I can do that in Iowa. We can do it everywhere.

I guess Donald will have to have a stern talk with Bibi, and then we will see what's what.

Coooongoooo! And well deserved!

Does this mean Trump has now ended 15 wars (sorry I lost count)?

Beginning to look like the "sustainability* initiative (the term a veil behind which racism hid) is being rejected in most areas. #Switzerland

This is my yearly note (a bit late) that IWGIA @iwgia.bsky.social has published their Yearbook on the state of Indigenous peoples and events affecting them in the world, a collection of accounts from around the world. iwgia.org/en/resources...

Ad on Swiss TV. Brilliant.

Nature provides. 45 mins of Mulberry harvesting. I will wait for a couple weeks, mix them with black raspberries, and make jam. There are millions of Mulberry trees, and people have forgotten that they taste good. Local, resilient, free food. What is better?

I did not see any coverage of this here... weirdly. But anyway, congrats Canada.

I will take time to relax. I will. I mean it. Doing nothing is underrated for your health.

My reminder that I have been voting on initiatives, referenda, street planning, military service laws, climate and energy policies by mail for over three decades, and for 28 years from across an ocean. By mail! And still no sign of real fraud.

This reminds me - had a student ask me if I could tell her which sections of the novel I assigned deal with specific things she did not want to deal with so she could skip those sections.

If your path seems blocked, keep going.

The voice of reason is speaking. I wish people were listening and taking notes.

My neighbors hate me, but bumblebees love it and I have at least some biodiversity iny yard (including some minitoads).

Settler "ownership" of North America is going to officially end when I get elected to the presidency. People throughout the world look forward to North America being returned to its rightful owner, and it will happen when I am elected president.

'How far and how fast the United States has fallen!' As Trump considers 'reviewing the UK's claim to the Falklands', and suspending Spain from NATO, @mrjamesob.bsky.social reacts.

We are seeing catastrophic consequences of the climate crisis unfolding as predicted for years. Yet the fed gov is pushing policies to exacerbate the crisis. Anybody in the SW who does notpay attention is denying the reality that continuing to live as is is impossible.

Tornado warnings are no fun for dogs.

It is wonderful to wake up to a Cardinal concert.

I am still wondering how universities know which viewpoints are underrepresented in their faculty, which ones need diversification, and whther the people they hire hold specific viewpoints. Also: what is a "viewpoint", actually?

He is a scientist bc his uncle worked at MIT. He is an author bc his name is on a book somebody else wrote. He is a businessman bc he went bankrupt. He is a general bc he knows better. He is a doctor bc he sees himself as a healer. He is president bc he starts wars.

You kind of know we have reached the last gasps of capitalism when the only use case for AI in higher ed is that it can detect the use if AI in higher ed and the use of AI in higher ed is a bad thing which is why I get twenty phone calls ad emails to tell me that I need to use AI...

Something you probably wont find in US news: Israeli army uses gas to disperse children whose access to their school was blocked by settlers in the West Bank.

OK, sorry but 7.5 miles/kWh -and yes, not over 40mph, but it was mostly uphill and without teying in any way. That is the best efficieny yet I have seen. So, had to post it.

I wonder if Trump knows where Canossa is. He might want to figure that out at some time.

I would say the tariff threat is by now so beaten that it maybe still evokes a slight chuckle. But there are one trick ponies and there are one trick horse and dog shows, and then there are one trick clowns. Dude. Give it up. Shoo.

And here is the next step: Iran calling Israeli continued attacks in Lebanon a violation of the ceasefire. If the U.S. wants this to hold, they better talk with Bibi. The Strait of Hormuz might run through Lebanon.

Turns out a ceasefire accord that is not public and where the parties supposedly covered by it do not agree on what was agreed is worth - well, not much. Hmm.

And here we go. Israel says Lebanon ist not included...

Good luck on those negotiations.

I know they wont read it, but it was satisfying to write. (My number formerly belonged to a GOP donor)

The chances that this ends up holding for two weeks are tied to a number of variables not easily controlled, and the guy in the big house thinks he won...

It is 3:43 pm on a Tuesday in April and everybody is waiting to see if the president of the US will give the orders for a genocide he threatened this morning because the war he started is not going too well while his VP is encouraging another nation to resist the EU. Also my plum tree is blooming.

This is the snow drought in the West. Instead of bombing infrastructure elsewhere, investing in some here might have been a much better idea. Or at least not firing people who would have put out the fires in a few months. Or at least not increasing emissions. Or...

I want to thank the president for setting the tone for Easter, when Christianity celebrates forgiveness and peace. Bombing civilian infrastructure because people resist an unnecessary war of attrition is the best example of the Easter spirit. Thank you for your service.

I want to thank the president for not importing the "third world" and instead proving once and for all the the US is, in fact a self-made "third world" country. If we want it, we make it ourselves. We don't import stuff. Thank you for the attention to this matter, and all other matters.