Melissa

WATCH: “We are American citizens. We were denied having our passports renewed at the 🇺🇸 embassy in Dakar (Senegal). This is absolutely asinine.” 🤔

YouTube video by Democracy At Work Global Capitalism: The Old Cold War Fades, A New One Expands

Today's must see TV.
youtu.be/bAjLHyMI_O8?...

Today's must see

youtu.be/yACk2jvtoUs?...

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Workers are cannibalised by the capitalist class: Nancy Fraser | UpFront

Today's must see.

youtu.be/RLoRoWrYo4E?...

#capatalism #howtosaveourskins

YouTube video by Garys Economics What does Elon Musk want?

A really great explanation. It's about a month hold, but I think can help to explain to people why tRump and the tech bros are not for them or "Americans" in general.
youtu.be/wPoXOwiEfrQ?...

Want to learn more about the wonderful world of soil biodiversity? Well then here's the starter pack for you!

If I've accidentally missed anyone off the list then please let me know in the comments.

Also check out @msteinwandter.bsky.social who has been working on one too!

go.bsky.app/UxXTyxD

YouTube video by Water Stories HOW WATER CAN SAVE THE WORLD FROM CLIMATE CHANGE

It's our job to slow spread and sink the rain water into the ground. #waterstories #climateaction #dosomething #wevegotthis #permaculture #watercycle #restoration #regenerative

youtu.be/kxjH3hHlMf4?...

#Oaxaca #Mixteca #photoart #filters #landscspe

YouTube video by Bernie Sanders January 31, 2025

youtu.be/mL0crkf5Dzw?...
Feel the Bern.

An I'm not saying you have to grow everything. Not everyone has a yard. Not everyone lives in a comfortable climate. Prickly pear makes a great crop in a hot dry place.

Edenicity ia a great YouTube channel for people interested in urban agriculture. Grow what you can. It's empowering.

YouTube video by Andrew Millison 7 Ways to Turn Your Yard into a Food Paradise (Neighborhood Tour)

The single most important thing you can know is how to grow and prepare food from scratch.
You can never be free if you're dependent on buying food.
#permaculture #growfood #victorygardens

youtu.be/YHUd05hgBNg?...

A sign from the People's March that has a caterpillar, with "Eat the rich." And says: The only minority destroying this country are the billionaires.

The only minority destroying this country are the billionaires. - The People's March 2025

Man holding homemade sign reading, "The Holocaust started as a mass deportation."

#istandwithmigrants #immigration #supportimmigrants #standingonthesideoflove

SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

(1/3)

YouTube video by Water Stories How Trees Regulate Climate: The Secret Superpowers of Nature’s Giants

Watch this beautiful, calming, uplifting, hopeful video from Zach Weiss and the #waterstories team about #trees and their role in the #environment , #ecosystem and #health of our #planet

The Never-Ending Gifts of Trees. youtu.be/2pOEMwFfLTY?...

We are all descendents of immigrants. Even and especially his own family.

I'm the descendant of illegal immigrants. (All immigrants were illegal in 1741, there's no legal way to invade). The USA is a country built by immigrants, the vast majority, illegal. I will always support immigration of all forms.
#immigration #immigrants #migrants #usa #nationofimmigrants.

Does fact-checking work? What the science says Meta’s planned shift away from third-party fact-checking on Facebook in favour of a crowdsourced approach has perplexed those who study the spread of misinformation.

Fact-checking has been in the news lately. So what’s the evidence it works? Those who study misinformation are perplexed by Meta’s decision to axe 3rd-party fact-checking
🧪
@nature.com
@natureportfolio.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Learning to read in a foreign language has taught me to embrace ambiguity – one sentence at a time | Patrick Lum In striving to understand Japanese books and comics, I’ve adopted the habits of a weightlifter: I find my comfort zone then push beyond it

I was just saying this to a student yesterday, sometimes it's not about understanding. You have to be willing to get the gist and slowly overtime things come more and more into focus.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Museo Regional de Huajuapan de León (MureH) en celebración de su XXVI aniversario. #Huajuapan #Oaxaca #mixteca #MureH

#Oaxaca #paisdelasnubes #mixteca #bluesky

My blue sky.

YouTube video by Water Stories The California Wildfires Won't Stop Until We Do This

Repairing the water cycle is what can prevent this from happening again. youtu.be/snN1yb3jDi4?...

YouTube video by Water Stories The California Wildfires Won't Stop Until We Do This

#Waterstories just makes sense. There's a better way to relate to the world. Please get on this train.
youtu.be/snN1yb3jDi4?...

Locals use Facebook marketplace, Facebook use if "free data" for most Mexicans. Word of mouth is still the best way though.

Manhattan smog: fog + pollutants. From 1971-77, the Documerica project captured 20,000 images of America’s environmental impact. Explore these through the National Archives. The photo below is from Documerica—join the movement! Let’s not forget our past, or we’re bound to repeat it.

How do we use feeds here?