Photo of a small purple flower with large round leaves. The flower is a vibrant violet with white and green at the center.

Bloodroot flower- a white flower growing through dried leaves. It has white petals and a bright yellow center. There is a grey and pink shoe in the background.

A child with long brown hair and fair skin uses a purple crayon to make a leaf rubbing on a clipboard. They wear a rainbow shirt, floral leggings, a pink bag with a rainbow strap. They sit on moss covered rocks.

Three blood root blossoms growing through dried leaves on a crack in rocks. The flowers have narrow white petals and yellow centers.

Local wildflower spotting and junior naturalist program attendance.

A close up of tulip sprouts pushing through dried leaves. The tips of the sprouts have a red hue.

An over turned white wire basket covers tulip sprouts among dried leaves and plants. A small metal sign with black sharpie lettering reads “Tulips-NOT a deer treat”.

Gonna need to find cute(r) tulip cages. Signage is new, but I suspect our local herd is not going to bother reading it before munching.

Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.

VACCINES SAVE LIVES

Vaccines ended the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vaccines and other public health measures save the lives of millions of children worldwide.

Do not let RFKJr and the Trump admin take us back to a time when 5 in 10 children died before the age of 5.

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BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732.

Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.

You are witnessing the normalization of fascism right in your face. You are seeing the media’s “unbiasedness” sanitize fascism by giving these people the benefit of the doubt. These are not “Nazi-like”, these are Nazis. Beware the rhinoceros, before it’s too late.

Final thought

“Lamar is creating art at the intersection of Black men being the world’s scariest boogie men and the world’s most profitable commodity. And I think he’s accepted that’s where he is.”

All quotes from The Youths™️

“the point of this deluge is not to persuade, but to overwhelm and paralyze our capacity to act. More recently, researchers have found that the viral outrage disseminated on social media in response to these ridiculous claims actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action. “

Read it, plz.

Remember. It’s never:

We fight for (these people) because maybe we’re more at risk if we don’t.

No more Niemölling.

We fight because they are coming for anyone.

Every single person matters.

Each and every human being’s life and safety is worth the fight.

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

Here’s the thing about fascism: it’s actually a spiritual project. That’s why when you say “migration is great for the economy”, fascists don’t care. They think “well, the idea of racial purity is more appealing to my soul than a strong economy, so screw the economy”. That was Hitler’s argument.

They never have to take any responsibility for the livelihoods of the people they are entirely reliant upon. It would be more accurate then, to think of artists as a natural resource to be mined by others, rather than as valued workers in an economy. Let’s take publishing as an example . . . 5/