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Yesterday on fallow land I saw plants that once buzzed with bees & insects before 2000… now silent. Pesticides didn’t just kill pests. They wiped out the pollinators that keep us alive. No bees = no food security. This is environmental terrorism by design.

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Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

NEW: Trump is a Russian asset. And the UK government is finally waking from its decade-long slumber Read this. And order a wind-up radio. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-dark-t...

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Gotta post Rick's 2012 piece about just this thing.

And is Finland going to sue Google? In Korea, if a soldier killed a chicken, he'd have to ay out of pocket not JUST for the chicken, but for the value of EACH EGG the chicken would have laid in its lifetime. That's what Finland needs to do for these trees!

Beautiful story by Nicola Davis here, heart-breaking to recognise again the wonders we are losing to wanton planetary destruction in the name of economic “growth” www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

👏 Dänemark macht endgültig Schluss mit Nerzfarmen. Nach Massentötungen von Nerzen während der Covid-19-Pandemie wurde die Pelztierhaltung ausgesetzt, aber nicht verboten. Ausnahmen waren weiter möglich und es öffneten wieder Pelzfarmen. Diese Ausnahmen wird es nun auch nicht mehr geben.

Time to print current copies of bank statements…

Forests stabilize climate better than ANY tech we've invented. And protecting an existing forest stores 8-12x more carbon than planting a new one. We don't need to invent the future. We need to protect it. 🌲

Enjoyed seeing this woman's work. Sustainability isn't just about producer decisions, but also consumer decisions, namely their willingness to repair things when needed. This type of repair is easier on natural fibers, rather than stretch fabrics. Consider that when shoppping. IG loosethreadsrepair

It's like they do it on purpose to show they can, and to cause deep pain to all the rest of us.

Sam | Sustainable Living

How many birds are left without winter protection from cutting down 400 trees at this time of year.

since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

Katie was fired so fast the equation needs a rounding error.

Bravo, @kylec.bsky.social!

The dumbest people alive trying to tell me their speak'n'spell is conscious

happy Katie Zacharia Day Two to all who observe… enjoy it, savor it, don’t let it pass u by

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The wealthiest in our country should pay their fair share into Social Security. Scrap the cap!

🎶 Little ditty 'bout Jimmy and Janet, two American kids living on Trump's little planet. 🎶

Excellent piece, and ends with a quote from John Kenneth Galbraith: “People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.” Sums up a lot of what @astra.bsky.social have been writing about in ETF... www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/o...

BREAKING: We just sued Jared Kushner for unlawfully acting as one of the country's top diplomats without undergoing Senate confirmation or filing financial disclosures. It’s abundantly clear that he should be blocked from performing this outsized role: www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action...

Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

America if the news covered it like those countries Over There

Then there’s the fact that “after time in nature, we are more likely to act in ways that are pro-social, or are kind to other humans, and pro-environmental, or are kind to the planet.” Which just makes sense: after all, our lives and our health depends on the health of our home!

I was telling my daughter about Jon ‘off the top rope’ Ossoff’s thrilling debate performance. More of this, less kumbaja Dems. No more piffle about meeting hate with love or going high when they go low. Job 1 in those cases is keeping their grubby hands off the levers of power.

Whoever wins the governorships in the battleground states will certify the 2028 presidential election. There are election deniers running, in Wisconsin and elsewhere. We've got to beat them. My new NYT op-ed:

Diesmal geht es in der Sendung mit der Maus um ein besonders seltenes Tier: den #Gartenschläfer. Er ist vom Aussterben bedroht, doch in manchen Gärten findet sich solch ein Gartenschläfer noch. #dormouse #Bilch www.ardmediathek.de/video/die-se...

I think i read somewhere ,looong ago, that it was proven he was FBI informant. And that he got cushy job during WW2 because of that. Amongst other things. Everybody should watch Reagans, series that was made for Showtime by Tyrnauer. Nothing will beat books but that was close…

Hitler did it better, but they've finally consolidated the media. Now they control the narrative. But we still have the power to say "no." Boycott Paramount, Warner Brothers and all the properties included in this new media monstrosity called Skydance. psychopete1.substack.com/p/the-merger...

This is really quite astonishing. A butterfly migrating from Manitoba to Mexico in 40 days. Amazing! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Leave the Greenland sharks alone www.salon.com/2026/10/09/l...

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“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

I watched this with friends and we were all sobbing at the end. So, so good.

🐙 TODAY IS WORLD OCTOPUS DAY 🐙 Octopuses are intelligent, mysterious & vital to our oceans. Yet many suffer from overfishing, bycatch & cruel octopus farms. Protecting them means protecting ocean biodiversity. #FriendsNotFood #SaveTheEarth

I’m sad enough wondering if I’m going to watch the last polar bear die. I don’t want to have to explain that shit to a kid.

"In Latin America and the Caribbean, wildlife populations fell by 95% [in 52 years, and] 80% in Africa..." How do you even compute such whirlwind annihilation of nature? *THE* best thing we can do to alter such trends? Shift towards more plant-based diets. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is important—41 and 42 are poison pills in case 40 (the oligarch wealth tax) passes. To make sure 40 passes, it’s got to look like this: 40 ✅ 41 ❌ 42 ❌

Who is the government holding in its shelters for “unaccompanied” immigrant children? Turns out, a growing number of these kids were taken away from loving parents and other relatives.

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