this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

One ancient tree can be home to thousands of species—insects, birds, fungi, plants. Reducing it to ash isn't clearing land; it's demolishing an entire city of life. That is ecocide. #Biodiversity #Forests

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.

I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."

The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

12-year-old Palestinian raps about life in Gaza under constant Israeli bombardment. [MC Abdul - Shouting At The Wall (2021)

The Dismantling of the US Forest Service Is Imminent
Trump plans the national Environmental Protection Act, Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act, to be eased or bypassed, so he can obliterate millions of acres of forests www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This speech is such an extraordinary combination of lies, delusions, narcissism, hatefulness, ignorance and lunacy that it could have been given by no other person than the president of the United States. It could well be the low point of US public diplomacy in our history.

"In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness."

-Richard Louv

Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.

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Did anyone ever think we would be having our own Tiananmen Square moment in the United States?

It's here.

One of the most overlooked features of the museum? LABELS! Without them, we're all just guessing, but with them is a life more completely lived. Try it! #museum #science #funnyvideos #details #houston #hmns

CDC was gutted today, entire departments wiped out, including much of the global HIV program. Career scientists and doctors lost their jobs overnight. This isn't just bureaucracy; people will die from preventable diseases, and public health will suffer for years. A massive step back for science.

National Park rangers have been ordered to describe Trump’s cuts — or “attrition” and “workforce management actions,” according to the talking points — as “prioritizing fiscal responsibility” and “staffing to meet the evolving needs of our visitors.”

The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie.

An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.

So finish the thing.