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henderda.bsky.social
An environmental philosopher and historical fencer. Born in Texas, living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of NC. 🦎⚔️☕️ (he/him)
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Our current President is a traitorous, convicted felon, and a court-adjudicated rapist who lacks the intelligence, character, decency, and cognitive ability to lead. His presence is doing us irreparable harm. We should not normalize him, but normalize stating the truth about him.

Some of us need to fight within the system, some of us need to create new systems, some us need to tend the wounded, some of us need to stand in the way of harm, and all of us need to support the ones doing the things that is not, right now, our thing to do. Good thing there are a lot of us.

Nice 😆

More of this please

We are all much safer with immigrants on our streets than with these “ICE Agents” or whoever the fuck they are

A bit of relief

Now let’s get rank choice voting for everyone

Ohhhh! I love this climate forcing visualization and used it in my #climatechange classes all the time! Thanks for the reminder @eroston.bsky.social FWIW it pairs well with old Jon Stewart clips featuring the Senate's Committee on Science & Technology 😂

If you're a New Yorker and still wondering how ranked choice voting works, watch this.

ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her *mother* failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...

We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well. We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.

This feels like a real damned if we do, damned if we don’t dilemma. For the possibility of dignity and integrity being restored to democracy, we must mock him ruthlessly. But if mocking him starts wars …

Excellent checklist

I remember when our Military wasn't run by a disgraced Fox host and a convicted felon who is beholden to Russia. It was 6 months ago.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."  -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

18 U.S.C. § 242, also known as Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law, is a federal criminal statute that makes it a crime for anyone acting under the color of law (or pretending to be law enforcement) to willfully deprive a person of rights protected by the U.S. Constitution or federal laws.

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

Wow

“We have observed approximately 90% of the workers targeted for terminations due to a perceived association with diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are women or nonbinary,” said an attorney representing federal staffers. By @davidmcswane.bsky.social

Interesting new paper that very much goes against the idea that older trees stop sequestering carbon. "Delaying harvests of healthy large trees in these forests would likely enhance wood production and undoubtedly carbon sequestration and storage." 🌎🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We desperately need some high profile convictions of ICE/HSI personnel for wrongful arrests. Without accountability their lawlessness is metastasizing. This seems like a good place to start.

#MomSky Republicans need to stop their obsession with culture wars and help protect our children. Gun violence thrives in ignorance.

Protests were held in towns across Western North Carolina on Saturday as part of the nationwide “No Kings" protests. www.bpr.org/bpr-news/202...

Nothing to see here: just cops on horseback, bicycles, foot, and vehicles harassing a small group of peaceful protesters in a Charleston, South Carolina neighborhood.

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

In the 42 years since the start of the Reagan revolution, bought-off politicians have so altered our tax code that fully $51 trillion has moved from the homes and savings of working-class Americans into the money bins of the morbidly rich money hoarders. https://trib.al/fOpI1NU

States should be arresting ICE agents for multiple state felonies.

We’ve uncovered fraud, waste, and abuse! ICE has now exceeded its congressionally approved budget. ICE is violating the Antideficiency Act by spending beyond Congressional authorization.

It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice.

I wrote something for the Warriors of Ash newsletter - “DEI for Warriors” #HEMA #DEI

Why don’t we put the energy and force into stopping real crimes like this that we put into fighting pretend crimes like immigration? Just a suggestion

Folks, CBO estimate of the distributional effect of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is out: www.cbo.gov/system/files... It's grotesque

MEMPHIS: “I’M UNDERAGE!” ICE officers forcefully grab a young girl after saying they don’t need a warrant to enter. Trump’s Gestapo busts into homes, grabs anyone? When do police protect people from blatantly unconstitutional raids? @mayorpaulyoung www.facebook.com/share/v/1Bih...

Lawrence: Musk says he 'went too far' attacking Trump, but not killing the world's poorest children www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

Wow 🤢

www.instagram.com/reel/DKpXRIH...

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

Dismissed FAA staffer Ronicsa Chambers said her team members — five Black women and one white man with a disability — were told they would be reassigned but remain without work. “As far as we know, we’re the only ones still on administrative leave.”

What if we went this hard after real crimes, like tax evasion, wage theft and bribery, instead of pretend crimes, like immigration?