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Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

On de-anonymizing the internet "...destroying online anonymity is a way for government to be able to identify ­— and ultimately punish — dissenters..." theintercept.com/2026/03/05/k...

Why We Must Fight to Stop HR 7661 Before It Destroys the Lives of American Children Lately I’ve been calling my House rep and screaming about one zillion things, and maybe you have too. But today I want to talk about one thing in particular you should add to your list: H.R. 7661 i…

"Blocking access to books does not change our history nor does it change who we are. It simply prevents readers from understanding the complexity and beauty of the world we live in." On book bans in America lithub.com/why-we-must-...

Awww that's sweet. I'm waiting for them to reach top volume and then I'll try and record them.

The spring peepers are starting their chorus! Two days in and what started as a wimpy 5-10 frogs sounds like a lot more tonight!

Susan Sontag's Playground of Ideas "I strive to compose myself..."

Interesting perspective on Susan Sontag's notebooks jillianhess.substack.com/p/susan-sont... ht @austinkleon.bsky.social

Water-stressed BC towns want the province to stop 'giving water away' to industry BC's top 10 industrial water users use more than 512 billion litres of water per year combined, and collectively pay the province about the cost of a Vancouver condo for the right.

Charging industrial water users more appropriate rates would raise money for watershed stewardship projects in BC. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/05/n...

Rimu forest with ferns

Timeline cleanse

EPA Hits 40-Year Lows in Staffing After Trump Targets Its Public Health Experts - Inside Climate News An Inside Climate News analysis of just-released federal workforce data shows more than 4,000 employees departed between January 2025 and January 2026, including a majority of team leaders.

The Trump admin's assault on science continues. An @insideclimatenews.org analysis of just-released federal workforce data shows >4K employees left between 1/2025 and 1/2026, wiping out institutional knowledge. @mlavelle.bsky.social & @peteraldhous.com report insideclimatenews.org/news/0603202...

What a great idea. Hope it works out.

“The extremely rapid loss of the snow that fell during the late Feb storm cycle, which in many cases dropped multiple feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada over just a couple of days, is genuinely remarkable.”

Haha they'd have to commit a lot more money for that!

Really enjoyed this, by @snowhydro.bsky.social - on bodies, how they change, and how we can move with that:

Thanks Kate!

Ha.

Fingers crossed for June!

"Stop using newcomers as cover for decades of underfunding. We are Canadian — and we are not fooled."

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.

That's roughly $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

People do not want this.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

Home Really Is Where the Heart Is Home Really Is Where the Heart Is: It’s an idea we create over time that gets imprinted in the brain

Interesting thoughts on what makes home in @nautil.us by @fleerackers.bsky.social nautil.us/home-really-...

ROFL

2025 Foreword INDIES Finalists in Ecology & Environment (Adult Nonfiction) These are the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the cherries on top a metaphorical ice cream sundae of indie books. The Ecology & Environment finalists of the 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Y...

So exciting! My book, Meltdown, is a finalist in the 2025 INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Ecology & Environment category. See other finalists here: www.forewordreviews.com/awards/final... @ualbertapress.bsky.social

Tennessee Wants to Let Schools Ban Immigrant Kids, Threatening to “End Public Education as We Know It” A Tennessee bill would take the right to education away from undocumented children. The Heritage Foundation is pushing it in other states.

Tennessee and other states are looking to ban undocumented children from schools unless they pay. The argument is that they are a drain on state resources. Which is not true as argued in this article. theintercept.com/2026/03/04/t...

Rainforests are rain-making machines worth tens of billions of dollars to farmers. A new study puts a price tag on forest-generated rainfall, making the economic case for protecting tropical forests as deforestation rises.

“In Brazil alone, the Amazon rainforest generates rainfall worth approximately $20 billion dollars per year if it went to agricultural activities”

🌎 www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/02/rain...

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

'OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is on track to lose $14bn this year. Its market share is collapsing, and its own CEO, Sam Altman, has admitted it “screwed up” an element of the product. All it takes to accelerate that decline is 10 seconds of your time.'

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Imagine finding this. How excited would you be?!

Close to 650 federal agents remain in Minnesota weeks after border czar announced end of operation There are still more than quadruple the 150 agents Tom Homan said there would be in the state by the end of last week.

They’re still lying to us.

www.startribune.com/close-to-650...

“[P]erched at the trailing edge of the Holocene, oppressed by the triple assaults of biodiversity loss, climate change, and pollution...we are looking for hope from the powerful creativity and passion that fuels the conservation movement.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal... ht @nijhuism.bsky.social

An adult class would be great! You can do it!

Wow, why are children under attack everywhere?

Assistant Professor- Tenure Track Position- Department of History - University of Prince Edward Island The Faculty of Arts at the University of Prince Edward Island, Department of History, welcomes applications for a tenure-track position, Assistant Professor level, beginning on July 1st, 2026, in the...

Assistant Professor- Tenure Track Position- Department of History – University of Prince Edward Island

Closing date for applications is March 13th, 2026.

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