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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 6 days ago • 1589 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 7 days ago • 1340 comments

“Make good trouble.” ~ John Lewis

submitted 37 days ago • 381 comments

Jeff Tweedy and Mavis Staples are getting me through this week: “You are not alone Every night I stand in your place Every tear On every face Tastes the same”

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Have been on Bluesky quite a bit the last two days (for info & resources) & it’s not social media that’s broken. I think it’s us that’s broken now. I’ll post about places ppl can donate because LA is in bad shape & my replies are full of “ummmm sounds like somebody’s never heard of Pompeii.”

submitted 50 days ago • 1308 comments

A reminder that Los Angeles had its hottest summer in history last year. Southern California has received just 2% of "normal" rainfall during the current "rainy" season. These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels. We are in a climate emergency.

submitted 51 days ago • 184 comments

Los Angeles received just 0.16 inches of rain since May 2024, the second-driest period on record. Wildfires are now engulfing the city in January. But some politicians still claim the climate crisis is a "hoax" as they do the bidding of Big Oil. What planet are they living on?

submitted 51 days ago • 1178 comments

Vivian Maier Chicago 1976

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

The irresistible case for eco-populism, beautifully made by @aldasky.bsky.social and @triofrancos.bsky.social in the NYT! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o...

submitted 52 days ago • 4 comments

Robert Hayden

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From Yoko Ono’s GRAPEFRUIT: A Book of Instruction and Drawings

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Insects make up about 40 per cent of living species, and we tend to kill them without pause. New research explores the possibility that they are sentient.

submitted 54 days ago • 13 comments

Oh wow, they rang a farm bell 39 times at Carter’s funeral because you ring the bell at the end of the day as a way of saying “your work is done, it’s time to rest.” That’s so beautiful!

submitted 55 days ago • 23 comments

I Am Not I By Juan Ramón Jiménez Translated by Robert Bly

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Trying to start off my reading year with a little quiet beauty and tenderness before the world comes crashing in, and this book (mosaic novel? prose poem? unclassifiable enchantment?), about a melancholy man wandering the Andalusian countryside with his beloved donkey, is just what I needed.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

HBD Patti Smith

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Rest in peace, Jimmy Carter. I had the honor of interviewing him twice. He was lighthearted and laughed easily and was as warm as anyone I’ve ever met. In 2015, he played along with me for this photo I took of him.

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

“It’s been enormously frustrating to realize that if we had started with Carter and continued after his administration, we could have been on a smooth trajectory to reduce fossil fuel use. If that had happened, we could be getting out of the fossil fuel business right now.”

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Jimmy Carter was right about climate change. He was right about the Mideast conflict and apartheid in Israel and South Africa and the ongoing plagues of poverty and racism. It was he not Reagan who freed our hostages in Iran. A true man of God, he died beloved, which not many presidents do or will.

submitted 61 days ago • 149 comments

Today, we mourn the loss of a true American hero, President Jimmy Carter. A champion of human rights, urban renewal, and peace, his legacy will forever inspire.

submitted 61 days ago • 154 comments

Still the best two sentences on climate action.

submitted 61 days ago • 51 comments

“Candles of joy, despite all sadness Candles of hope, where despair keeps watch Candles of courage for fear ever present Candles of peace for tempest-tossed days Candles of grace to ease heavy burdens Candles of love to inspire all my living Candles that will burn all the year long” ~Howard Thurman

submitted 64 days ago • 20 comments

I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.

submitted 63 days ago • 105 comments

"Thomsen has made discoveries at Lake Mendota that stand as some of the state’s oldest: Carbon dating places her first find at 1,200 years old, and her second around 3,000 years old. The Mendota cache currently includes the survey’s oldest, an elm dugout carbon-dated at more than 4,500 years old."

submitted 63 days ago • 6 comments

Noel, y’all

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

If you’ve never watched It’s a Wonderful Life give it a go. It’s not schmaltzy. It’s raw. It’s very 2024. About the little guy against the machine. Humans against economies. About why we matter. About the difference a life can make. About why we should stay alive.

submitted 66 days ago • 102 comments

Christmas Special Salt Lake Tribune, December 1961

submitted 66 days ago • 4 comments

My New Year’s Resolution. What’s yours?

submitted 67 days ago • 563 comments

“He could construct defeat from any available material and live inside it, but for once Dellarobia didn't go there with him. She was going ahead.” #FridayReads #BookSky

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Night Owl on a Winter Eve Flight by Walter King Stone (1875-1949)

submitted 70 days ago • 5 comments

The Montana Supreme Court’s decision protecting the right to a stable climate isn’t just a symbolic victory—it’s a real, enforceable check on the state’s ability to authorize more greenhouse gas emissions. With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social: slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 70 days ago • 17 comments

You know it's bad when your doctor is like, "I'm not sure if this is depression or if you are simply having appropriate emotional responses to an unending cavalcade of terrible events."

submitted 71 days ago • 62 comments

“I want to draw at 'full speed'. Once the hand doesn’t tremble, one gains total certainty.”

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Great images showing the 40% pollution reduction in Paris thanks to bike lanes & traffic changes. It works and people in Paris are loving it! #ShareGoodNewsToo

submitted 72 days ago • 11 comments

“Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That’s the question that needs to be asked.” - Police Chief in Madison, WI

submitted 74 days ago • 129 comments

Home for a funeral, reading Elizabeth Bishop’s last poem

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

Not thrilled about this flight delay from MSN to DCA, but at least my favorite governor and the cutest couple in Wisconsin are waiting it out with us. Here they are at the gate pointing out their house on the mosaic of Madison’s lakes.

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

“Far and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise—is the reader.” —Shirley Jackson (b. Dec 14, 1916)

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

From an interview I did with Nikki Giovanni back in 2017:

submitted 80 days ago • 15 comments