🍁 Left of Woke Warrior

never forever? 😉

a painting of a young Art Garfunkel in a black poloneck and the watermark "fine art america: in the bottom right. I grabbed this from https://pixels.com/featured/1-art-garfunkel-music-legend-john-springfield.html

I don't know Art, but I know what I like.

Simon says? 🙃

There is a *lot* of really interesting info and analysis here......

It's hard with that 300-character limit. And capturing the context is easier with the complete quote (& has NOTHING to do with my finding it easier/lazier to grab screenshots of the stuff that has grabbed ME the most.)😇

You have a bigger audience though, so in turn I'm happy YOU posted on this too.

🐽 no one would know...

What could possibly explain the intensity of Western interest, over the past century and more, in this region?

Turning the clocks forward to a time when he's finally dead

OMG, I should have checked your timeline first, as I just posted on this half an hour ago, using part of the same quote!

Shouldn't be surprised I guess... that 🌊length, eh?

For sure, Canada has its own 🍁Maga problem, and we definitely dodged (but only nearly) the #NeverPoilievre bullet, but I think while most of us hate the US administration many of us DO support American friends as shown by, for example, holding our own No Kings protests. We feel badly for you, truly.

Shame has to change sides, Pelicot says. And maybe that should apply not just to rape and sexual assault but to war crimes too. Shame on the men - the broligarchs and their accomplices - who’ve brought this war to pass and to every technology company, politician and media outlet that is dancing to their tune. We can’t stop them but we can expose them. We can name them. We can at least try and make shame change sides.

You don’t want to face this. None of us do. It’s too dark, too bleak. But to understand what is happening now, in Iran and Lebanon, and the forces behind it, we need to see that this is a continuum. Dominique Pelicot and Andrew Tate and Jeffrey Epstein are only symptoms. They are the doorway through which we can understand the forces behind not just another catastrophic Gulf War but a global power structure in which state violence, commercial profit and the control, domination and violation of women are inextricably entwined.

The Broligarchy's First World War? AI-guided weapons, two out-of-control authoritarians, no legal authority and a toxic mess of masculinity: welcome to the manosphere's first major conflict

Just read @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's excellent newsletter, but when she says that she can't "help make sense of what’s happening in the world for anyone else" I have to disagree, as I find her laser-focus beam of insight on how all these disparate puzzle pieces fit together sense-making indeed. 💯

Get the Facts on Gender-Affirming Care Every person has the fundamental right to access the health care they need without fear of discrimination, prejudice, or barriers to treatment that…

Came across a handy resource today filled with facts on just about everything you'd want to know (the what/why/how + pushback) about gender-affirming care. Good not only if you're not as familiar with the topic as you'd like, but also to counter malicious misinformation.

www.hrc.org/resources/ge...

Chipmunks are back now that the weather is warmer, and this little chippy found some sunflowers seeds left in one of the plates I leave out for the squirrels. Birds will be coming soon too, so will start leaving more food out. Photo is likely a bit blurry as I took it through the kitchen window (if you look close, you can see the reflected outline of a cushion on the fence) with my cell phone.

How sweet, but yeah, your tent is not a Chippybnb, thus, off limits it should be! Just took a photo a little while ago of a 🐿️ in one of my squirrel feeders. Hard to get a good pic as they're so quick and I'm behind a window with not enough time to get my actual camera, thus cell has to do the trick.

Ah, embarrassingly enough I learned how to take screenshots not THAT long ago, so will have to learn the next step as well. Thanks!

"The vitriol and menace came out of the blue for Canadians who had long been told by our political leaders not to take the bluster of Trump seriously. In America, cooler heads always prevail. Right?"

Wrong.

Canada is right to be cautious & aware. Donald may be a 🤡, but he & his admin are no joke.

Israel and the US appear to want to do to Tehran what they have done to Gaza: reduce a busy and complex society to a toxic wasteland.

Interesting though how puberty blockers (deemed safe for decades already) are apparently absolutely fine if taken by cis kids for precocious puberty, and other gender-affirming care procedures (boob jobs anyone?) also dandy as long as you're cis. 🙄

first - protect kids!
now - protect adults too!!

🥱 Morning everyone,

🎵 Getting Up Is Hard To Do... 🎵

...when your clock says 8 but your body knows it's 7... 😬

But then I saw this 👇 and laughing made it easier.

🤣

And if that isn't quite enough to lift any more-down-than-up spirits, here's an otter one!

Goodnight all. 😴

Ending the night on a lighter more pawsitive note: celebrating difference, resilience, strength, courage, playfulness, affection, and companionship. Oh, and 🐈 cleaning. 😀

May we all be more like Little T-Rex and playmate!

I posted this as well, along with a related one by Sarah Kendzior talking about the war on Iran, because at this point there are so many potential possibilities and suspects—US, Israel, Russia—and collusions between them, that who knows how it's all going to go down.

I love her daily letters.

And I'm gonna have to learn to do what you did in putting different snippets in one post!

Meanwhile, the wars against immigrants and refugees ignore that in many cases these are climate refugees and unchecked climate chaos will produce far more of them; this too is about nature. The war against trans people insists on outdated notions of biological sex in which there are exactly two of them and they are strictly segregated into airtight boxes; contemporary science recognizes that sex has many determinants that vary widely from individual to individual in our species and that across the animal kingdom there are far more possibilities. The war against women insists that women are a kind of nature men should be able to control.

There's always so many good bits in a Solnit essay that's it hard to pick which one to highlight, but I liked the linkage between these different but interconnected wars: against immigrants, climate (immigrants often being climate refugees), trans people, women... wanting to subdue/control them all.

Visions of Life / Agents of Death: On Love Thy Neighbor and Love Thy Nature Donald Trump's world is a dead and lonely world, a world in which everything is for sale and nothing really means anything and no one else matters. Earlier this year, he pressed Nobel Peace Prize winn...

Rebecca Solnit writes about the conflict between two competing worldviews underlying so many political issues: one that recognizes and stresses the aliveness and connections between humans, nonhumans and nature, the other that turns everything (people included) into dead commodities to be exploited.

You thought right, it's an excellent name. 👍

American democracy began in 1965. It will end in 2026 when the Roberts Court overturns the Voting Rights Act.