Seen on the trail today, a zebra swallowtail! Saw a red spot purple on the walk yesterday. And the small flowers are starting to pop up above the leaves. Rue anemone | Continue reading
This is the kind of response I get when I email or call "my" representatives in congress: Meanwhile... Videos of malnourished children show Gaza’s forced starvation crisis | Al Jazeera Newsfeed - YouTube Starvation is getting worse in north Gaza where 31% of children under the ag … | Continue reading
I’m glad I avoid posting hot takes. Yesterday, Serif, the maker of the very popular Affinity suite of apps, shared the news that it had been acquired by Canva. The thing is, the Affinity apps are very popular alternative to Adobe’s subscription apps. They’re popular because they … | Continue reading
Pondering a white supremacy that is so deeply embedded in the organization of US society in 2024 that it’s just become a kind of invisible foundational bias that allows us to think of ourselves as “civilized” when, on a daily basis, large sectors of our economy engage in war prof … | Continue reading
The tide of public opinion in the US has finally turned against Israel and it only took the deaths of 32,000 civilians, countless war crimes, a declaration by the ICJ of plausible genocide and a deliberate campaign by Israel to starve over a million humans. Majority in U.S. Now D … | Continue reading
Listening to the current episode of the Politically Depressed Podcast: Who pays for your silence? and while the whole episode is excellent, this unspoken truth gave me pause: Palestinians are paying the price of European anti-semitism. It’s generally a good podcast by a young Leb … | Continue reading
Extreme heat could trigger the worst global financial crisis ever seen | New Scientist Without dramatic action to curb greenhouse emissions, even high-latitude countries with cooler climates will suffer devastating, if indirect, financial losses as extreme heat disrupts global su … | Continue reading
War on Gaza: UN special rapporteur accuses Israel of acts of ‘genocide’ - YouTube Francesca Albanese says Israel has violated three of the five acts listed under the UN Genocide Convention Including: Killing members of a specific group, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and … | Continue reading
Ex-U.N. Official Craig Mokhiber: Israel Must Be Held Accountable for Violating Ceasefire Resolution - YouTube “Israel has the world record” for violating U.N. resolutions and is certain to violate this ceasefire resolution, as well, even though it expressed “the very broad consen … | Continue reading
Israel’s attempt to destroy Unrwa is part of its starvation strategy in Gaza | The Guardian Israel’s vendetta against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Unrwa) illustrates the callousness with which Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right g … | Continue reading
Study documents slowing of Atlantic currents While scientists have observed oceans heating up for decades and theorized that their rising temperatures weaken global currents, a new study led by a University of Maryland researcher documents for the first time a significant slowing … | Continue reading
UN Security Council passes resolution demanding immediate Gaza ceasefire - YouTube The United Nations Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza and the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages as the U … | Continue reading
I opened photos to look for a photo and ended up at some older images. My cabin in the evening. Giving Petunia a neck scratch. A sunset over the lake. | Continue reading
Yes, and the US is complicit. Half of Gaza’s population is at risk of famine - Vox Every resident of Gaza is at risk of crisis levels of food insecurity — and half are at risk of famine. Yes, you read that right: Nearly six months into the Israeli invasion after the October 7 att … | Continue reading
Does Israel need to be forced by the US to end the war in Gaza? | YouTube All of Israel’s modern wars have ended with US intervention, but the current war in Gaza has gone on for half a year because “Biden is a slow learner”, argues University of Pennsylvania political scientist … | Continue reading
One of these men has spoken to US Congress and is currently invited to speak again: Adolf Hitler (Date of genocide: 1941 - 1945) Pol Pot (Date of genocide: 1975 - 1979) Benjamin Netanyahu (Date of genocide: 2023 - present) The list of historical genocides does not yet list Israel … | Continue reading
Engaging in land theft, forced famine and genocide, Israel is embracing its status as a pariah state. Israel seizes 800 hectares of Palestinian land in occupied West Bank | Al Jazeera The US said last month that Israel’s expansion of settlements in the West Bank was inconsistent … | Continue reading
“A Failure of Humanity:” IRC’s David Miliband on Impending Famine in Gaza | Amanpour and Company Israeli military action continues to devastate the civilian population in Gaza. A three-day siege of Al-Shifa Hospital is in progress despite the fact that thousands are sheltering th … | Continue reading
What unfolding genocide looks like: “If you want to know what an unfolding genocide looks like, open your eyes. It looks like the forced famine of 1.1 million innocents. It looks like thousands of children eating grass as their bodies consume themselves, while trucks of food are … | Continue reading
Floods, Wildfires & Hurricanes: US Home Insurance Teeters on Financial Crisis | Amanpour and Company - YouTube Around the world, climate change is impacting the way we live. In the U.S., the housing crisis is being pushed to the brink as insurers struggle to cover homes impacted … | Continue reading
Again, look to the US as a root cause. ‘The Greatest Heist In History’: How Haiti Was Forced To Pay Reparations For Freedom : NPR In recent weeks, thousands of refugees from Haiti have arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border, desperate for a better life. Most left Haiti years ago, afte … | Continue reading
Chuck Schumer warned that Israel risks becoming a pariah. Too late. As if the genocide, ethnic cleansing and current, deliberately created famine in Gaza were not enough Israeli settlers are actively engaged shooting Palestinian farmers and stealing land in the West Bank | Democr … | Continue reading
With no progress to reduce driving or flying it would seem most Americans agree. Americans love their trucks and cars. Their children? Not so much. World’s top fossil-fuel bosses deride efforts to move away from oil and gas | The Guardian “We should abandon the fantasy of phasing … | Continue reading
Climate researcher on what’s causing the record rise in ocean temperatures - YouTube The World Meteorological Organization issued a red alert warning Tuesday about warming and climate change, saying 2024 is shaping up to be another record year. One of the many worries about how t … | Continue reading
I’ve never been more disgusted and ashamed to be a citizen of the US. We have passively accepted our complicity in ethnic cleansing, genocide and now deliberate famine. Experts warn of ‘imminent’ famine in Gaza with lack of aid reaching Palestinians - YouTube More than half of No … | Continue reading
If food does not get in NOW 100,000+ will die of starvation on top of the 30,000+ who have already died. Action must be taken NOW. Israel’s Ultimate Goal Is Ethnic Cleansing: Dr. Mustafa Barghouti on Growing Famine, Al-Shifa Attack - Democracy Now A new U.N.-backed report has fou … | Continue reading
The US transition to Green Energy is going well. United States Produces More Crude Oil Than Any Country, Ever - CleanTechnica The United States produced more crude oil than any nation at any time, according to our International Energy Statistics, for the past six years in a row. … | Continue reading
Heartbreaking and predictable. Also, the response is an irrational, stubborn denial of reality. And yes, of course it’s climate change. And it’s people and capitalism that are to blame. This Louisiana town lost 90% of its population. Is climate change to blame? A series of hurric … | Continue reading
So good. An Honest Chevron Ad - YouTube Did you know Chevron was found liable for $9.5 billion in damages from decades of dumping toxic oil waste in the Amazon basin? And instead of paying, they spent years persecuting and stripping the rights of Steven Donziger, the lawyer who l … | Continue reading
The climate emergency is just getting started. Homeowners Are Losing Their Insurance Homeowners insurance costs have soared across the country partly due to unpredictable weather patterns, particularly in places like California, Texas and Florida, a development that has led to in … | Continue reading
People living this close to the ocean are still in denial of what’s coming. They spent $500,000 on a sand dune wiped away in 3 days. Massachusetts town grapples with sea rise after sand barrier fails… As weather patterns get more extreme and oceans get warmer, sea levels rise due … | Continue reading
It’s been three weeks since Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire at the gate of the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC as an act of protest against the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. CrimethInc. : Memories of Aaron Bushnell : As Recounted by His Friends | Continue reading
Climate activists across Europe block access to North Sea oil infrastructure | The Guardian Climate activists in four countries are blocking access to North Sea oil infrastructure as part of a coordinated pan-European civil disobedience protest…. The protest comes in the same wee … | Continue reading
Rachel Corrie Gave Her Life for Palestine This day in 2003, the IDF killed American activist Rachel Corrie as she defended homes in Rafah from destruction. As Israel threatens to invade the city, a volunteer who stood alongside Rachel writes on her legacy — a call for steadfast s … | Continue reading
Donated! World Central Kitchen | Operation Safeena: WCK aid boat offloads in Gaza World Central Kitchen’s team in Gaza is offloading 200 tons of desperately needed food that arrived on our first maritime aid shipment to the region. Carried on the Open Arms vessel, the cargo is pa … | Continue reading
Mehdi Hasan Debunks 7 Israeli Myths About UNRWA - YouTube As Israel launches a propaganda campaign against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), millions of Palestinians continue to rely on the agency’s critical support when i … | Continue reading
A review/check-in after 19 months of hosting on Micro.blog: It's a mixed bag After many years of using WordPress for my blogs I decided to transition to Micro.blog in late 2022. I'd grown frustrated with what felt like overly complex posting and feature bloat in WP. Whether using … | Continue reading
Love in the time of genocide | Israel War on Gaza | Al Jazeera For weeks in southern Gaza during a recent visit, I collected stories of women admitted to hospital, each of them there to recover from what they call “war wounds”. But it’s not a war, because only one side has an act … | Continue reading
Human-caused climate change fuels hottest February on record, all-time high ocean warming | CBC News For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world’s oceans setting new high-temperature marks, according … | Continue reading
Moving in the wrong direction on climate. Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power - The Washington Post… Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the … | Continue reading
Lou Plummer: List 10 albums that have stayed with you over the years in some way. A fun question but impossible. For example, R.E.M - well, I could just as easily list any of their first 10 albums: Life’s Rich Pageant, yes please. Reckoning. Uh huh. Document? Sure. But for the mo … | Continue reading
A perfect afternoon visiting the bees as they collected pollen from a flowering plum tree. #nature #bees #spring #flowers | Continue reading
A variety of bees, flys and butterflies were busy pollinating the plum trees today - the western honey bees especially! | Continue reading
Is there famine in Gaza? | Reuters The United Nations said in February that more than a quarter of Gaza’s 2.3 million people were “estimated to be facing catastrophic levels of deprivation and starvation.” It said without action widespread famine could be “almost inevitable.” The … | Continue reading
Pro-Palestinian protesters block roads leading to Oscars Love to see it: Pro-Palestinian protesters chanting “Cease fire now” blocked roads leading to the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, delaying the start of the Oscars. Some ceremony attendees in formalwear shoved past protesters. | Continue reading
A male relative today made a sexist, stupid comment, not for the first time. My reply, not for the first time: Your sexism isn’t funny and it’s never acceptable. Stop. I know that he won’t stop. I get the same from most of the other males in the family. Patriarchy has deep roots. | Continue reading
See the USA in your Chevrolet! www.youtube.com/watch | Continue reading
YJA Star (Free Women’s Troops) Central Headquarters Command made a written statement on the occasion of March 8, International Working Women’s Day. Our uninterrupted struggle for women's freedom, from Saras to Zîlans, from Bêrîtans to Doğa Viyans, created great gains for women an … | Continue reading