We need ranked choice voting and progressives grassroots candidates, instead of the DNC rigging the game for the lobbyist picks.
Corporate America choosing our candidates is a terrible model. We get PAC candidates like Schumer and Jeffries, playing for the other side.
Mamdani. AOC. More like them.
I vote for genocidal corporatist Democrats instead of the genocidal fascist oligarchy.
But maybe it's the broken two party system, where one head of the beast is looking backwards, in the direction of democracy and a decent society, and the other looks forward toward destruction, and it gallops on.
Weeping Willow twig and catkins, with pollen spent, tired catkins, and leaves just beginning to form.
They're not buds, of course! Weeping Willows, like other willows, produce catkins before they leaf out. They are longer and thinner than most Willows, which we call pussywillows. They are responsible for the pale yellow-green color.
Photo credit to C. Williams.
Environmental destruction is growing at unprecedented rates, as unstable climate causes floods that level cities as effectively as Israel Zionist colonizing genocide. It's all connected. It's all wealth extraction funneled up to the few, but if the siphon leaks you'll laud the trickle.
Billionaires have us bought, brainwashed, and boggled by and large, and that's how history will see this era. With the techno-fascist billionaires controlling social media, and right-wing Zionist billionaires creating a classic news media monopoly that runs deep and goes to local news everywhere...
First Nations infrastructure an opportunity Canada ignores.
The federal government has made it clear it does not want to invest in First Nations. Same old, same old.
We may have to hire back an expert on US/Iran relations.
A turn as shocking as the continued failure of trickle-down economics: it turns out that ignorant men who gain power by groveling to wealthy elites, then go in demanding to get their way, are actually less effective than expert negotiators.
Allegheny Outfitters just joined the Save the Forest Service movement and they came prepared.
Genocide by proxy is still genocide. Please give the USA some of the credit.
Hopefully we'll get plenty of credit on the international stage. I hope the world makes the US and Israel pay
I agree: lovely Plantagos. Well done.
But I thought you meant the well-drawn leaf of Plantago major up front, then I saw the lovely Plantago lanceolata in the back L, and now I'm not sure which species of Plantain species you mean.
I'm always relieved when the first set of workers appears and I stop seeing the queens. Here, queens working long hours deep into May means things are not going well. Queens disappearing and smaller workers swarming by mid-May means a good year.
Pay attention to the bees folks! They need friends.
“In a modern democratic situation where everybody is competing for defining what the problem is and what the solutions are, it’s never as clear as it was in those [early Forest Service] days what the greatest good for the greatest number really is.” - Peter Pinchot, grandson of Gifford Pinchot
Ever tried to grow Angelica atropurpurea? Maybe it doesn't make it that far down the coast. It takes a few years to get established, but it's a wicked cool plant. Not sure if the medicinal uses differ from A. sylvestris.
A tea regiment is such a good habit. I'll get back on my fridge green/herbal (Mugwort, Mint, Mullein, Hemlock {Tsuga}) tea concentrates. I mix it with seltzer, lemon, and homemade bitters (Gentian, Chamomile). I should add some ginger.
Authentic Skunk Cabbage foliage, courtesy of my (Eli's) wife Emily.
The school she works for has a wetland boardwalk, with identification plaques: pictures drawn by students. I'll post it on Field Day, when I help with activities.
I'll bet half the school could identify this plant.
#ecoregion59
Genocidal imperialism goes much deeper than right vs left in the US government. The only bipartisan issue left seems to be continuing to bankroll the genocide in Gaza.
This is bigger than the old culture wars the corporatists and fascists (blue and red) distract us with.
The president of the United States is openly threatening genocide and the best resistance the rest of the government can come up with is performative whining.
We need to take our country back. Get ready for the strike, and know it's just the start. Spread the word, it's up to us, but we can do it.
Are you really so shocked? Usually we hide it better, but the US is a country built on genocide, in the midst of committing another one. But yes, Trump is threatening to commit yet another genocide. We are probably the most genocidal country in history.
Weeping Willows growing new leaves where throwing shadows on the pavement. Taken from the third floor the Alewife Station parking garage, in North Cambridge, MA
"Why the Weeping Willow?" I always ask, assuming they mean Salix babylonica when someone says their favorite tree is a Willow. They ain't talking Salix nigra, and I know it, though our native willows host more species of butterfly and moth than any genus but Quercus.
But I get it.
Buds are out.
Deer trail and scat. I'd need my tall boots to follow. I didn't, but I had nice encounters with a Tufted Titmouse and a Garter Snake.
Judge invalidates Trump’s Endangered Species Act changes
missoulacurrent.com/endangered-s... @missoulacurrent
Leafy sprouts that definitely aren't Symplocarpus but may be Oenothera, coming up next to the yellow-green-dappled burgundy spathe of a Symplocarpus foetidus flower
April Fool! This little leafy plant, possibly an Oenothera, is pretending it made that Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) flower!
#nativeplants #ecoregion59
I agree. Completely evil.
Count one #BiocentricPantheist-Vegan-Socialist
I had to share this lovely Pokeberry (Phytolacca americana) bouquet! Poke hasn't sprouted in MA,as far as I've seen. But IDK if you want to see all of the little green sprouts in excited about watching develop and identifying this year.
That's the hell what I'm talking about! 🖕🧊
What's shocking is that 28% of Latino voters would still support him. How many Jewish Germans were pro Hitler in the late 1930s?
"From the Sea to the River, when will humanity deliver?"
A black and white graphic describing the sale of a shipping warehouse to the Choctaw Nation of OK.
🟢 Durant, OK warehouse has sold… to the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma!
ICE previously sought to buy the space to create a mega detention center capable of holding 8,500 people. This is the 13th warehouse they have been denied.
The Steampunk Tree & Birds: a flat black, eggshell-reflective tree, a few inches from a beige wall, illuminated and reflecting at the top (esp. the crow) with metal organic spirals and geometric gears (bicycle), birds with large stylized round steel button eyes and texturally sketched feathers, a cluster of clocks built into the trunk which also has sketched vertical bark texturing.
Plaque for the piece: Steampunk Tree & Birds By Yvette Monstad, Babacool Arts -- Bolton, MA The piece was created by hand cutting a tree design in steel with a plasma cutter (torch) and assembling the branches and birds with gear art. ...
A cool piece of steel art on the wall at Dirigible Brewing Company, in Littleton, MA.
I've always liked the Steampunk vibe, or at least since hanging out at Java Wally's, at RIT, where it went nicely with tech wind brick and snow. Thense to Waltham MA, home of the Steampunk Festival, for 6 years.