Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. - Mary Oliver

God this poem is haunting me again.

This is the truest truth of all the truths (and there aren't many).

America, we really need to have that talk.

i think it's time for a few words from my favorite poet, Mary Oliver

#poems #Despair #ecocide #extinction #politics

Federal Court Strikes Down President Trump’s Attacks Against Endangered Species Act, Restores Bedrock Environmental Law to Pre-Trump Status Ruling derails future attempts to weaken law

BREAKING: Huge win for the Endangered Species Act! Today’s ruling restores the Endangered Species Act to the status it held for decades before the *first* Trump administration attacked the ESA.

Teenage dolphins experiment with the puffer. 🥴

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This is why California Dems are freaking the F out. Chad Bianco is polling number 2 in the latest poll for the governor’s race.

Not only has he seized more than 650,000 ballots from last November’s election, he’s an election denier and had ties to the Oath Keepers, which he acknowledged years ago.

This rarely-seen Glass Octopus was caught on camera. The clear sea creature was filmed by an underwater robot during an expedition off of the Phoenix Islands more than 3,200 miles northeast of Sydney, Australia.

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“This is one of the most grotesque crimes of our time.”

Inspiring speech

🚨 Iranian Revolutionary Guard says the Strait of Hormuz is SHUT DOWN and any ship that tries to pass will be fired upon

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

Thank you to Democracy Forward for compiling and documenting the growing list of National Park sites and public exhibits where the Trump administration has attempted to remove, alter, or flag historical and scientific materials.

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Let’s go!!

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

A Letter to Stephen Colbert By Ben Meiselas

Thank you Ben for calling this fascism. 💯 It would be amazing to have Colbert on MeidasTouch, even as an occasional guest.

Stephen Colbert SLAMS CBS for not letting James Talarico on Late Night

Wow.

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Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

BREAKING: A federal court just upheld California’s law REQUIRING federal agents to identify themselves.

Why isn’t every politician, leader, prosecutor, and news channels focused on this. The President is accused with significant proof of killing and raping minors.

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."