This is one of the most dystopian sentences I could ever imagine a person uttering.

Small farm plot in steep rocky conditions with citrus, olives, grapes and much more.

A real place on Earth where people live better lives by cooperating with life to advance their mutual agendas.

Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

HOLY SHIT.

A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.

Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

Is he 12?

It’s near the Canadian border.

Scientists Are Trying to Resurrect Ancient Forests to Battle Climate Change A 25-year-long study shows just how important those ancient forests are to the planet’s health.

Ancient forests are not simply collections of trees.

They are centuries, sometimes millennia, of accumulated soils, fungi, nutrients, and relationships.

We can plant trees quickly.

Rebuilding ecological time is another matter entirely.

Vouchers lose at the ballot box. So how do they keep winning? Vouchers lose when voters get a say, yet they keep spreading. That’s not a mystery; it’s a business plan. For 30+ years, a small circle of billionaires has funded think tanks, lobbyists, and candidate...

"The voucher advocates are pushing hard for regulations that slam the door on any approach that does not further the growth of this largely unregulated voucher program." #COpol #COleg

Substantial through stone steps (X3) to allow access over a dry stone wall. Gentle hills beyond in brown end of winter vegetation.

Them there cantilever through stone stilin' steps, Potter Tarn.

Lemme get this straight…

Republicans have control of Congress.

Democrats introduce a clean bill to fully fund TSA.

Republicans block it.

Then they blame Democrats for long wait times at airports?

This is on them.

Republicans target public lands protections in a new way | Colorado Newsline Republicans in Congress want to allow more mining and oil drilling on federal public lands, and they’ve recently turned to an obscure legislative maneuver to open areas for business.

Over the past year, GOP leaders have used an obscure law to push for mineral extraction on public lands while also attempting to reverse protections for a national monument in Utah. Only in the past year has the law ever been used to overrule public land management plans.

From @stateline.org

looking for his nuts

Brilliant

Mind is going back to that quote about how most people experienced the fall of the Roman Empire as the bridge falling down and no one coming to fix it.

No Kings and 50501 organize protests with permits and marshals and plans for safety.

Tillis to Noem: "A 14 month old dog is basically a teenager in dog years. You decided to kill that dog bc you hadn't invested the appropriate training, then you have the audacity to write a book & say it's a leadership lesson! ... Those are bad decisions not unlike what happened in Minneapolis"

Trump DOJ appeals loss in Michigan voter roll case, asks for emergency expedited hearing "The security and sanctity of elections in Michigan would be questioned absent an immediate ruling on this issue," the DOJ wrote.

NEW: The DOJ asked the 6th Circuit to review a lower court order blocking the DOJ’s effort to gain access to Michigan’s unredacted voter registration lists.

The department asked the appellate court to weigh in well ahead of the midterms, potentially setting itself up for an appeal to SCOTUS.

Trump and Republicans keep getting asked what’s next in Iran. Their answers are “hopefully” this or “we hope” that. 

Hope is not a strategy, and a plan built on hope alone is how we end up in decades-long wars that cost thousands of American lives.

I will venmo any reporter $2,000 to give trump a map of the middle east and ask him to identify iran

“Mr President, the bombings have begun in Tehran and also customers are complaining we have run out of shrimp at the pool buffet.”

In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.

In any other administration, this would be a HUGE story! But in this regime, it gets lost with the daily onslaught of corruption.

I am baffled by this view.

#walnutink #turmeric
Print with natural pigments and acrylic. Abstraction of plant cells .

Jesse Jackson Fought for Justice at Home & Abroad: Juan González & Bishop William Barber Tributes are pouring in from across the globe for Reverend Jesse Jackson, who died on Tuesday. The civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate was 84 years old. Democracy Now!’s Juan Gonzále...

In the interests of remedying the appalling dearth of comments on Bluesky re the loss of this major contributor 2 civil/human rights:
www.democracynow.org/2026/2/18/je... . @joycecaroloates.bsky.social @sylvainbourmeau.bsky.social @dougwendt.bsky.social @johnghoakes.bsky.social @mlejnas.bsky.social

Remember how Michelle politely suggested maybe people might consider occasionally eating A vegetable , and conservatives acted like she shot their dog? And then to make it all better, they made a nutcase who eats roadkill and "ferments" and talks like a backed up sewage line the King of Heath? I do.

Web sites ranging from the staid C-SPAN to satirical but well-informed Andy Borowitz are all reporting that the unredacted version of the Epstein Files -- the version being kept from the public by Bondi -- include compelling, sworn first-person evidence of Trump raping little children.

We are off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Seen on that other site...😆
What's really in the Epstein files!