Linda H.

My garden is full of beauty right now and it brings me such joy. My wish for this Memorial weekend is for peace in the world. I am proud to be woke, and I am not your enemy, I am your neighbor. 🕊️🌱

Talked to a business friend deeply involved in CEO world, knows Trump and Scott Bessent. Calls Trump “a drunk driver taking the economy off the cliff into a needless recession,’ says Bessent told him he agrees. Predicts “he’ll be the shortest tenured Sec of Treasury in history.”

What a heartbreaking photograph - the impact of satellite constellations on the night sky.

Taken above the Pinnacles in Nambung National Park, Western Australia.

Credit: Joshua Rozells

The financial headlines are brutal right now. It’s almost like the experts are shocked that a six-times bankrupt reality TV show host was elected president and is running the United States economy straight into a ditch.

Act of Congress Establishing the Treasury Department Chapter XII. An Act to Establish the Treasury Department. (a) Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shal...

Per @rwpusa.bsky.social on another platform:

"Attention DOGE: When you mess around in the Treasury Department's records and payment systems, remember that since 1789, self dealing and conflicts of interest at the Treasury Department have been a criminal offense. See Section 8."

Screen capture of an article that says I want to say clearly that requirements for vaccines for school entry are the most important public health strategy right now for preventing infectious disease, and he announced he's going look into it' after all, and that's alarming, because he cannot be trusted to oversee or interpret legit scientific research, Jacobs told Truthout.

RFK Jr. cannot be trusted to oversee or interpret legit scientific research.

‘Gender Ideology’ Ban is Already Harming Health, Experts Say (Gift Article) Documents purged from government websites include guidelines for safe contraception and information on racial inequities in health care.

SCOOP: Many of the pages that went missing on Friday from the CDC website on Friday have reappeared — in response to intense media coverage, backlash from the scientific community and concern for the public’s health.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/h...

We love our many American friends and family. Please do better.

Musk's assault on USAID -- which has been one of most important tools of U.S. foreign policy (in addition to saving countless lives) since JFK -- is also being openly cheered on by the Putin regime.

The hell you say! Do you know how hard it is to bring back both illiteracy AND polio?

- Red States

Hi Mad, I'm @Lindaxyz.bsky.social

The thing is, I can criticise gen ai exactly the same as I criticised crypto and I’ll be able to criticise the next *thing* the same way because they are all just shitty products disguised as technologies and they use potential to distract from lack of purpose

Disney CEO, Bob Iger, received $31.6M in compensation in 2023. He received over $45M in 2021. Disney fought against paying its everyday workers $15 hr, in fucking California, and flouted wage laws-despite receiving a tax payer subsidy. Elon and Bezos are suing to dismantle the NLRB. I wonder why…

They won’t take protective pardons even though Trump said he would jail them. Patriots, both. @claybennett.bsky.social

I've heard the reasons before (entrenched layers, bureaucracies of big HMOs) but as your neighbour, we Canadians look on the horrendous finger-pointing and blaming and think, "Why!!??" Why can you folks not put together a universal health care system. You've been told ours is terrible -- not so!!

This is something to think about as Trump continues to rant about tariffs.

Just give him time to do his thing, well worth while!

Leon wants to cut government spending now

Well here’s some good news, by the time it hits us you’ll be living in a dystopian hell hole with portraits of the Dear Leader everywhere and will be too busy performing your forced labor duties in exchange for a bowl of rice to care.

High school teachers may be interested and can bring in media literacy too. I decline to offer specifics TIA.

Observe death threats etc. in recent past?

This is challenging (so much reading!). But have you read Anthaney Doerr? I think Cloud Cuckoo Land is still my very top favourite. ? I am just about to start Richard Powers new book, Playground. Thanks for those recs -- A God in Ruins is awaiting pickup at library. "So many books, so little time."

The next administration is going to be a what if of The Handmaids Tale and idiocracy had a baby and it got thrown down the stairs.

Timothy Snyder in On Tyranny: 20 Lessons for the 20th Century says, among other things, make small talk (as in with strangers) -- it helps soften the vibe and break down barriers (this latter is my memory of that). On Freedom is his newer book. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Note also Chris Hedges' Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, first published in 2009.

Read Life After Life; then Behind the Scenes at the Museum, fantastic! Rereading most of that now.
Kate Atkinson - Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Kate Atkinson - Life After Life
Anthony Doerr - Cloud Cuckoo Land
James Clear - Atomic Habits
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

It sometimes would mean children would spend months walking to school in the morning in the dark. Just saying. "The world now" -- now Canada and other northern countries *must* be aligned with the US, etc. I love *spring* too. Be well.