I have a new article out today. It's about an environmental turn in Palestinian arts and activism, and how environmental framings of Palestine and the Palestinian struggle enable different forms of identification and solidarity: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
fyi: I spend less than 5 min per day on social media, (doctor’s orders) and your 3 posts ( 1) yr article on 2 of the most contraband subjects, 2) vintage button for sale, 3) confession re vintage buttons) brought me to tears in both the ways. You are a master of this art. Just saying. 🙏
lyrical nuance!
Screenshot from the Atlantic covering yesterday’s protest, showing a woman dressed as lady liberty being arrested. The caption reads Etienne Laurent / AFP / Getty LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as Lady Liberty in chains, following clashes near the Metropolitan Detention Center during the "No Kings" national day of protest in Los Angeles on March 28, 2026.
Her grin knowing how this arrest looks
(Published in The Atlantic today)
a butterfly
PINE TREE ACTIVISM CALENDAR Events for Wednesday MAR 25, 2026 Details confirmed as of 03/25, 4:15AM Share/Repost so Mainers know where to #RESIST! Pg 1/5 Submit events to: ptactivism@proton.me WED MAR 25 ----------------- MAR 25, Wed 9-11AM – Augusta Augusta Civic Center, Maine WELCOME HOME VIETNAM-ERA VETERANS BREAKFAST Hosted by the Travis Mills Foundation, this full-service breakfast and ceremony is a thank you and "welcome home" to Vietnam-era veterans for their service and sacrifice. To RSVP to this free event, please visit: https://give.classy.org/2026VVB MAR 25, Wed 10-11AM (& every Wed) – Bridgton In front of Food City, 295 Main St, Bridgton, Maine Weekly Solidarity Rally for Democracy – Lake Region Indivisible Join Lake Region Indivisible every Wednesday for our weekly Solidarity Rally. Bring your signs. This is a peaceful visibility event in support of our country and our democracy and in opposition to the regime that seeks to destroy it. We will stand in solidarity at the intersection of Rt 302 and 117 in front of Food City. Parking at Food City lot. FMI: mobilize.us/mobilize/event/880500/ MAR 25, Wed 11-12noon (& every Wed) – Damariscotta Damariscotta-Newcastle Bridge, US Bus Rt 1, Main St. Damariscotta, Maine By the Community, For the Community Rally – started last winter by four women with the courage to stand up, this inspiring rally stays strong! MAR 25, Wed 11:30-1:00PM – Belfast Sidewalk at Main & Church Streets, Belfast, Maine NO ICE – STAND UP FOR GOOD BELFAST ANTI-ICE STAND Join a coalition for Justice for ALL Daily: Monday-Friday, 11:30-12:30/1:00 Signs and Friends Welcome! Stand TOGETHER for GOOD (calendar cont'd in comments) PRO TIP: click ALT in lower right corner for links you can copy/paste. The SAVE ACT, an extreme effort to suppress voter turnout, has passed the House and is before the Senate. CONTACT YOUR SENATORS. Demand they REJECT the SAVE ACT: senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm
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The SAVE Act is voter suppression—not security. It would purge millions, especially married women with name changes, low-income voters without passports, and more.
Tell Your Senators: Vote NO to protect our democracy!
Votes recorded on hr 7661 in House Committee for Education and Workforce Development’s markup.
HR 7551, the National book ban bill, has passed the markup and is being recommended to the House with amendment. Here’s who voted how.
This isn’t over. CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS NOW.
THE UNTOUCHED KEY For Stalin-who, like Hitler, was born after the death of several siblings-there was nothing but loneliness, the constant threat of beatings, the belief in his own ostensible worthlessness and guilt, and nowhere another human being to protect him from constant persecution and abuse, to tell or show him that he was not guilty. There was no one of influence in his life who could avert his fate, just as there was no mercy later for the millions of prisoners in the Gulag Archipelago. Without even being sentenced, they could be tormented, tortured, killed—or released— for no apparent cause. Everything was determined by the arbitrary whim of a tyrant who suspected enemy attacks from all sides because he had experienced perpetual threats at an early age and because there had been no witness to teach him that the whole world was not like his father: wicked, dangerous, unpredictable, frightening. When a child's boundless powerlessness never finds sheltering arms, it will be transformed into harshness and mercilessness; when, in addition, it is spurred by a mother's ambition, it can result in a great career that introduces all the elements of the child's repressed misery into world history. Then millions of human beings are marched to Russian prisons or to Nazi gas chambers without knowing why, because once a little boy didn't know why he was being punished. How long are we going to tolerate these senseless marches now that we finally are in a position to discover their underlying causes?
“Then millions of human beings are marched to Russian prisons or to Nazi gas chambers without knowing why, because once a little boy didn't know why he was being punished.”
-Alice Miller (The Untouched Key)
#Stalin #history #His #Story
Sky
blue sky, pink cloud, pine tree, router
Don’t hate the earth out of boredom, dry up her aquifers for fun. I tell you, me.
Situation seems to be even worse than the AI nixing this short list of odious applications. This admin’s preference for hiring dumb, untreated sick-minded, criminal thugs extends to AI. Anthropic AI is raised to be ‘virtuous’ per latest Ezra Klein podcast. It’s just…too good.
Will need to re-listen, but as far as I can tell, at issue is that Anthropic raises their AI to be ‘virtuous’ and *not* dumb, unethical, blindly loyal or undemocratically minded, rendering it useless for the current admin. The rep added that ‘virtuous’ models work better. That he even had to say it.
world inside each of us, still in reach
#poetry #translation #empathy #HumanLanguage #humanity
Don’t wait—Booth 848! Poetry in bilingual editions translated from Mandarin, Russian, Catalan, Korean, Hebrew, Cantonese — 15 languages and counting! Everything on sale.
Sky
unreflective of the news cycle, and yet.
Alt text: sunlight through clouds
(Something new is now making the ALT Save button elusive)
Here’s a case to raise at the hearing for Markwayne “ballroom” Muller, next up to guard the rights of the disabled specifically and humanity generally.
www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
We are not viral media. We are vital organisms.
X is not the real world. Those who live by X usually get taken down by the platform as well.
Stream and subscribe:
youtu.be/B06XKbec75c
glass chessboard reflecting cartoons or past breaking news on a large screen television that won’t turn off
AI is now doing the thing w/o oversight. When asked why, it tells a new transparent lie which they repeat. No one grasps the actual mechanism, like advanced medicine. Cares.
When AI snuffs out the fires w/ the spinal fluid of our infants, who’ll ever take us in, a single one of us prisoner. Ask it.
oversaturated sideways view from here
mother nature meltdown
morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ... there's info on who to complain to to try to stop this at the end of the article, lets share this message and try our best to stop it.
a little light through sky of snow
In sum, the Trump administration is desperately trying—through lawsuits and legislation—to force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to a “single point of failure” before the 2026 election.
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Yes, why does the SAVE Act have Susan Collins' support, when Mainers resoundingly defeated the Maine Voter ID bill last Nov?
CALL YOUR SENATORS! Tell them to REJECT the SAVE Act:
202.224.3121. A switchboard operator will connect you directly to your Senator's office.
#RESIST #EveryEffortCounts
