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Laws of Nature, Laws with Nature: Nature on Board with Alexandra Pimor of the Earth Law Center Across the world, our legal systems are crumbling, the rule of sane law dismantled in real time. Yet at the same time, rivers, mountains, bees are being granted legal rights in ways that would have be...

How do we shift business from extractive/destructive to *actually* working as if we were all integral to the Web of Life - and our joy, our duty, our meaning and purpose were its flourishing?

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#NatureontheBoard
#LawyersforNature

What's the overlap between people who weren't supportive of Trump in term 1 but suddenly lived to serve him in term 2 and people in the Epstein files?

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NEW: CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping has expanded his military purges to include two of the most senior PLA officers. The purges risk isolating Xi while further consolidating his control and influence.

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“Domestic abuser” all the way down, all the way up.

Domestic as in his wives.
Domestic as in his mistresses and trafficked child abuse victims.
Domestic as in his home nation.
Domestic as in our shared home, the whole world.

#resist #rebel #revolt #revolution

Brian Griffith’s book, The Gardens of Their Dreams: Desertification and Culture in World History (2001) goes into this to some extent, how patriarchal cultures seem to originate in geographic areas where desertification happened.

and views by other indigenous cultures that maybe were not as traumatized by having their river goddesses dry up and leave them bereft, like that espoused by Robin Wall Kimmerer in her books, and much North American First Nations cosmology is pretty revealing that way.

blame women for the rest of eternity and bake that into a system we call patriarchy to ensure it never happened again. But there also seems to be some kind of weird epigenetic, or maybe just years of social conditioning, element to it.

The difference between the views on nature of the old world

and desertification) after the last glacial maximum 20+ k yrs bp. It seems that goddess based nature cults were de rigeur during those changes, so men in general partially equated women & those goddess faith w the trauma they all felt and decided to worship a cosmic dude in the sky instead and

I think about this a lot. It seems to have deeper cosmogenic/ problem of evil linkages (reflected in things like the Jewish faith’s history of wrestling with god ), & my own hunch is it stems from some deep shared epigenetic trauma linked to the dramatic biogeographic effects (i.e. flooding

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Copied from the linked text: The saved are the ones who tenaciously preserve themselves from the de-personalization that the Lager operates on the prisoners. They reach this aim using a particular feature of their character, a particular aptitude that can be natural or acquired. The result is that throughout their ability, they reach a different position of power: they become the Prominenten, that is to say, they acquire a position of privilege.

While of course America as a whole is far from the prison Auschwiz was, the analogy of the entire nation state as a prison system, where some people (billionaires, oligarchs etc.) manage to “become the Prominenten, that is to say, they acquire a position of privilege” still holds.

I’ve found the overall analogy of Primo Levi of the “gray zone” he formulated fm Auschwiz (that predates the current hybrid warfare definition & is ignored by it) to be a useful lens that’s pretty fit for purpose for understanding the method in Trump’s ascent to autocracy.

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What Is Political Violence? Pundits and politicians conceal the truth: it’s all around us, perpetrated by our political system itself.

“The powerful kill with impunity while vulnerable populations are persecuted simply for speaking out against injustice. Political violence includes the lone gunman, yes. But it also includes the Congressperson who signs off on Medicaid cuts that kill thousands.”
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They Say They’re Protesters. The DOJ Says They’re Terrorists. The federal government rounded up 18 activists tied to an anti-ICE protest in Texas, claiming they were part of an antifa cell. The case is the first big test of Trump’s crackdown on left-wing groups ...

They Say They’re Protesters. The DOJ Says They’re Terrorists
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Signed Tiffany Doe, FBI tip, under penalty of perjury June 18, 2016

Witness told FBI Trump threatened to ‘disappear’ girl and have her ‘whole family killed’ Under penalty of perjury, a witness told the FBI back in 2016 that they had “personally witnessed” President Donald Trump threaten to “disappear” a girl and have her entire family killed, according to...

“I personally witnessed Defendant Trump telling Plaintiff that she shouldn’t ever say anything if she didn’t want to disappear like the 12-year-old female [redacted], and that he was capable of having her whole family killed”

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But during his second term, the violence meted out by Trump’s acolytes – now organised into a state-sponsored vigilante army – has been taken to a whole new level.”

#resist #uspoli #fascism

“America hasn’t yet descended into full-blown fascism, becuase there’s still the semblance of democracy - and reistance. But Trumpism itself is, I would argue, a fascist movement. This much has been obvious since at least the Capitol Riots.

authoritarian powers, decades or literally thousands of years, that doesn’t sound like a winning strategy to achieve freedom from the fascistic to autocratic state trajectory the US is on.

2. “was destroyed by a foreign power”

Umm.. Say what? Like who?China??

Peachy. Just peachy.. 🙄

Watching fm Canada as prominent Americans say that if the USA was actually fascist they would be:

“just trying to stay intact until the regime destroyed itself or was destroyed by a foreign power.”

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1. “until the regime destroyed itself”…

Considering the history of the duration of other

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

1) Climatology III
2) Earth system science
3) Palaeoecology
4) Ethology
5) Avant-garde music performance

be the solar bidet revolution you wish to find

A couple of pieces of pottery on a white wheel. One small wonky vase and one little yunomi type cup. #ceramics #pottery

Three pieces of ceramics on a wooden table. The two pieces in the last pic are painted with unfired glaze of sun and clouds with blue sky on the vase and a sun type circle with a white rim partially over the orb. The other piece has a bubble type glaze and a little seal.

Had some fun glazing some ceramic pieces yesterday w the lo.

The price of Russian oil, the country's primary export, has declined under the weight of surging global supplies and Western sanctions related to the war. Last year, Russia's oil and gas revenue fell by almost a quarter, according to the Finance Ministry. The Kremlin is resorting to tax increases and deficit spending to bridge the gap.

A strong oil economy allowed the Russian state to deliver an improved standard of living. That, the Kremlin hoped, would keep the public content even as the government eroded personal freedoms.

“Russia’s Oil Revenue, the Lifeblood of Its War Machine, Is Plummeting”

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A 25% drop. Let’s keep that going folks. Then the Russian ppl will likely do what the American ppl should be doing. Overthrow their oligarchy & its dictator in chief.

"Listen, I realize that it might look bad that I was emailing a man who had already been convicted of soliciting children for the purposes of prostitution and asking when the wildest night of partying would take place at the island he used for pedophile parties ... Hang on, let me come in again."

This thread by @timnitgebru.bsky.social deserves a lot more attention. Really we need to be looking through all the TESCREAL, Edge Foundation connections.

John Brockman was the literary agent for Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Jared Diamond, he was a key Epstein nexus.

symbiosis and interbeing underscores all of life.

Dawkins & his selfish gene ilk have done such a great disservice to the myopia of some in the biological sciences and lending credence to the ‘rational selfish actor’ brainwashing of flawed trad economics foundations.

have shown our notions of the story of humanity are flawed. And bio theorists like Stephen J Gould, Lovelock & Lynn Margulis (not to mention sages like Buddha, Thich Nhat Hanh & that Jesus guy, & poets like John Donne (no man is an island)) have shown beyond a shred of doubt that collaboration,

Also, @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social’s partnership vs dominator model is a good framework for understanding this. The last few thousand years of the empire building phase of human history has been overshadowed by the dominator model. But ppl like @davidwengrow.bsky.social & Graeber