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Sustainable April
They say April showers bring May flowers. These days, blooming booms in April, and May rains more hereabouts. Meanwhile, wild swings of heat, drought and unprecedented storms have become the norm worldwide. Thanks, carbon emissions.
Read on...
#April
#sustainability
#OnEarth
This is brilliant, daunting and true. Read this piece, and act on it...
"You don’t lose a country all at once. You lose it in pieces, so slowly that most people don’t notice until the place they loved is gone." Heather Delaney Reese #OnEarth
The US blockade-no fuel shipments to Cuba for over three months. Hospitals can't run generators. 11 million people in darkness. Meanwhile, we're telling Iran that restricting energy flows is unacceptable. Evidently blockading energy is an act of aggression — unless we're the ones doing it. #OnEarth
Out-of-date intelligence fed into a strike decision is not a battlefield accident. It is a choice made in advance: a choice to be insufficiently careful with other people's children. Right intention is not satisfied by good wishes. It requires the effort to make those wishes real. #OnEarth
"Despite immense cost in lives and treasure, both the American and Iranian people seem, for now, to be in a worse place than before Trump started the war." #OnEarth
Across roughly 150 U.S. military installations — Camp Lejeune, Ramstein, Quantico, and scores of others — there are elementary schools. Children of service members, learning to read, learning arithmetic, growing up inside the perimeter.
In Minab, Iran, there was a school like that too. #OnEarth
The Church has always held that war which cannot distinguish a soldier from a schoolgirl has already lost its moral standing.
A war which cannot protect the innocent forfeits any claim to justice — and the children of Minab are proof that this one never had it. #OnEarth
Now we know for certain. In the first hour of America's war of choice, our Tomahawk killed ~175 girls in their school in Minab, Iran. This is not an aberration - this is what choosing war looks like. Trump won't own it, but he chose this...and now we own it. These children are ours now. #OnEarth
Rise like the sun and always leave the shadows
behind you.
#bloomoftheday #suddenly #monochrome #onceuponatime #onearth
"Millions of Americans — from white collar to blue collar, entry level to executive — may soon find themselves jobless and without prospects." - worth reading, from Gina Raimondo. #OnEarth #giftarticle
Trump likes to assert he has accomplished things no other president has. With the opening of his military assault against Iran, he has achieved another distinction: He is the first president in the era of modern polling to take the United States to war without the support of the public. #OnEarth
March Attacks!
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Mars, god of war, monikers month III, because the Romans would resume their military conquests when winter abated. Had to rewrite this intro about our imperial-minded, arch “Caesar” possibly thinking similarly when he started a day early...
#march
#sustainability
#onearth
The White House disinvited two people from a pair of events held during the National Governors Association. One of them is Colorado’s Jared Polis, the nation’s only gay governor. The other? Our very own Wes Moore. Everybody else is straight or white. #OnEarth
"You can’t humiliate someone who so consistently and thoroughly humiliates himself. 'Bad advice' is a plausible excuse only if the person you’re trying to excuse had little to no part in picking his advisers or had reason to believe they weren’t who they turned out to be." #giftarticle #OnEarth
Trump’s Kennedy Center has no Black History Month events following cancellations… #OnEarth
Brooks is exercising a bit of prophecy here, and I think he’s spot on. Definitely worth reading… #GiftArticle #OnEarth
“The lies this administration is telling about Ms. Good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything. They’re a projection of power.” — Radley Balko #OnEarth
"....We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done,” journalist Garrett Graff wrote today: “A superpower is [dying by] suicide because the [Republican] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in geopolitics ever.” #OnEarth
After a century of defending other countries against foreign aggression, the United States is now positioned as an imperial power trying to seize another nation’s land. (NYT today) #OnEarth
“I miss believing that we Americans could never be led by a fearmonger to commit atrocities he claimed were necessary and good.” #GiftArticle #OnEarth
Worth reading, but scary too. From my view as a practicing psychotherapist, this is a clear and detailed analysis of Trump’s malignant narcissism and how it is ramping up. As we go on, there’s nothing this man won’t do to serve his need for increasing power… #OnEarth #GiftArticle
I’m in Monica. Resist until he and they are gone! #OnEarth
"Both DHS and Trump they are demanding Americans abandon reality in favor of whatever the administration says. If this works, it would be a demonstration of totalitarian power, the ability to control how people think." Heather Cox Richardson #OnEarth
Stephen Miller on CNN - “We live in a world, in the real world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world.”
And they claim to be Christians, where "if you want to be great, you must serve." Seriously twisted. #OnEarth
As Trump’s 2nd presidency continues, three more years lurks like communal capital punishment when his potential for wickedness is considered. With no checks, his obvious mental and physical decline will only serve to magnify his malevolence gong forward domestically and around the world. #OnEarth
In Trump protest: Doug Varone and Dancers withdrew from a two-night stand in April at the “Kennedy Center”, that was intended to celebrate the company’s 40th anniversary. Varone said it would lose $40,000 by pulling out. “It is financially devastating but morally exhilarating,” he said. #OnEarth
