She raised concerns about her company's contracts with ICE. Then she lost her job Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.

www.npr.org/2026/04/21/n...

Can we trust Reuters to report news with a measure of journalistic neutrality?

The Thomson family (net worth $90bn US) earns much of its wealth from Thomson-Reuters. Selling data is a large component of that.

Supermarkets raising prices to offset fuel increases. Consumers also paying to secure ridiculous profits in the face of Trump-Netanhayu Mideast war. As happened w pandemic. Time to start taxing mega corporations & billionaires who are profiting massively & directly off low & middle income folks.

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

Guess who is getting rich off the spoils of war, and consumers are paying them to make it so

light speed
we need something revolutionary, to slow things down, keep things livable

What Are Universities For? | The Tyee They’ve reached a breaking point. Meet the educators charting their future.

thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...

Covid, the rise of anti-knowledge regimes, AI, authoritarianism, immigration fear & protectionism, and fear of free academic expression.

Time for a grassroots counter movement

High country, Kaua’i, 2024
Looking down into Kalalau Valley, Napali
Places of power

Ruff

Ruff

High country, Kaua’i, 2024
Looking down into Kalalau Valley, Napali
Places of power

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Add the spikes of super-accelerated emissions from bursts of militarization & mass-destruction wars & warfare

Stop the planetary burning.
Fire the autocrats. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@katharinehayhoe.com

What Are Universities For? | The Tyee They’ve reached a breaking point. Meet the educators charting their future.

thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...

Covid, the rise of anti-knowledge regimes, AI, authoritarianism, immigration fear & protectionism, and fear of free academic expression.

Time for a grassroots counter movement

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Add the spikes of super-accelerated emissions from bursts of militarization & mass-destruction wars & warfare

Stop the planetary burning.
Fire the autocrats. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@katharinehayhoe.com

winter

Any updates? 2026 looming

light speed
we need something revolutionary, to slow things down, keep things livable

‘Not going to happen’: First Nations threaten to end Carney’s pipe dream The Canadian PM’s breakthrough oil deal with Alberta cost him a cabinet minister and will still face stiff opposition

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Standing for the earth & seas, and against Colonial State presumption… power to them

Primate Encounters A provocative collective reflection on primatology and its relations to broader cultural, historical, and social issues, Primate Encounters brings together both scientists and those who study them to ...

Honoured to write in <Primate Encounters> Fieldwork & thinking of #JaneGoodall transformed #Primatology
Opening worlds of possibility for Human-Chimpanzee understanding, grounded in women’s immersive counter-knowing

Cf my piece “Politics, Gender, & Worldly Primatology: The Goodall-Fossey Nexus”

66 million-year-old dinosaur ‘mummy’ skin was actually a perfect clay mask | CNN New research in a North American “mummy zone” in eastern Wyoming reveals how giant duck-billed dinosaurs were preserved in striking detail.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/s...
#FossilFriday

Soft tissue imprints change how to imagine dinosaurs. Phantasms materialized.

As deadline for Trump's colleges compact looms, schools signal dissent Of the original nine schools that received the Trump administration's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, the majority have indicated they are not planning on signing.

www.npr.org/2025/10/20/n...
Support dissenting Colleges & Universities

If yours is not 1, urge your decision makers to refuse & push back

#Trans, Trans-Identifying students being denied their rights are rights-bearing citizens

Institutionalizing oppression is a cog in the authoritarian machinery

‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir At 86, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian world?

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

“In one of the essays in Burning Questions, Atwood recalls advice on how to escape a crocodile: zigzag…. You have to be wary of the teeth and the tail”

66 million-year-old dinosaur ‘mummy’ skin was actually a perfect clay mask | CNN New research in a North American “mummy zone” in eastern Wyoming reveals how giant duck-billed dinosaurs were preserved in striking detail.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/s...
#FossilFriday

Soft tissue imprints change how to imagine dinosaurs. Phantasms materialized.

A theory why the internet is going down the toilet A new book diagnoses a sickness affecting some of America's biggest companies.

www.npr.org/sections/pla...

Table of contents… amazing range of contributors… leading thinkers in Primatology, Science Studies (Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway) , Philosophy, History of science, Animal ethology, more

As deadline for Trump's colleges compact looms, schools signal dissent Of the original nine schools that received the Trump administration's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, the majority have indicated they are not planning on signing.

www.npr.org/2025/10/20/n...
Support dissenting Colleges & Universities

If yours is not 1, urge your decision makers to refuse & push back

#Trans, Trans-Identifying students being denied their rights are rights-bearing citizens

Institutionalizing oppression is a cog in the authoritarian machinery

Judge dismisses activists' lawsuit against Trump, but concedes 'very real' climate harm | CBC News A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from young climate activists seeking to block U.S. President Donald Trump's executive orders promoting fossil fuels and discouraging renewable energy.

www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

“A United Nations agency said on Wednesday that heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere jumped by the highest amount on record last year, "turbo-charging" the climate and making weather more extreme.”

Seems a bit weird that a position held by about 2/3 of american jews (israel is committing war crimes against palestinians) can get you fired for antisemitism

Good question, except he forgets that it’s all stolen Indigenous land, and that taxes are drawn from an economy built on growing layers of resources extracted from the fruits of that land. Another “thought pretzel”

'There is no B.C. coast. It's Canada's coast': Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal | CBC News Sask. Premier Scott Moe repeated his support for the proposed pipeline between Alberta and the northern B.C. coast earlier this week by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

Wait. So Alberta’s federal income taxes don’t belong to Canada but BC’s coastline belongs to Alberta?

What in the When It Suits Us kind of Trumpian thought pretzel is this now?

She’s losing the battle of working hard at trying not to lose

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)