Scott Edward Anderson

La Piccioletta Barca | To Learn Attention: Encounters in the Anthropocene Backyard - by Scott Edward Anderson Thud! Something hit the glass of our sun porch overlooking the beaver pond behind our house. It wasn’t the first time

Many thanks to the editors Micaela Brinsley & Eponine Howarth of La Piccioletta Barca for publishing these pieces “To Learn Attention: Encounters in the Anthropocene Backyard.”

Here’s a link: www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/to-lea...

Yeah, that was lame…

Easy fix to DC’s homeless problem: spend $200 million on affordable housing instead of on a White House ballroom fit for a mafioso

Kristi Noem Melts Down Over Her Face Melting Down On South Park A letter from God to Kristi Noem.

Thou shalt not cry about being mocked when you are literally the person in charge of ICE kidnapping people off the street.

This image, featured in WH newsletter today, shows how much more pathetic the WH press pool actually is.. they were standing on the ladders screaming their questions at him.. from across the road

WTAF?!?

Opinion: Don’t let New Bedford erase its Portuguese soul - The New Bedford Light The proposed closure of Casa da Saudade isn’t just a budget cut, it’s cultural erasure. The library has been the beating heart of Portuguese American identity in one of America’s most Lusophone cities...

Opinion: The proposed closure of New Bedford's Casa da Saudade library isn’t just a budget cut, it’s cultural erasure, writes poet Scott Edward Anderson @greenskeptic.bsky.social

Opinion: Don’t let New Bedford erase its Portuguese soul - The New Bedford Light The proposed closure of Casa da Saudade isn’t just a budget cut, it’s cultural erasure. The library has been the beating heart of Portuguese American identity in one of America’s most Lusophone cities...

My Opinion piece in the @newbedfordlight about the proposed closure of the Casa da Saudade Library: newbedfordlight.org/opinion-dont...

Contracts Show Millions of Dollars and Diverted Disaster Resources Were Used to Build DeSantis’ ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ TPM has obtained and analyzed over a dozen contracts and invoices related...

It is very important to me to name the businesses profiting off of this detention camp.

The Miami Herald has also done great work on this that we link to in here. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/contrac...

#AlphaNooner - Psychedelic Healing in Practice: A Conversation with Scott Edward Anderson YouTube video by AdvisorShares

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Mackenzie Peterson of Advisor Shares on her podcast AlphaNooner, talking about my psychedelic journey, mental health, and even some summer reading recommendations!

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They will be blaming the left even as they pop cyanide tablets into their mouths in the bunker.

"It's all Bidmrmphn's fault."

Social Security Social Security Applauds Passage of Legislation Providing Historic Tax Relief for Seniors

is it weird that the Social Security Administration is sending out celebratory emails about legislation and also not explaining how it doesn't even affect 64% of social security recipients

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

EDF shuts down Golftech nuclear plant due to high river temperature French utility EDF said it shut down the No. 1 reactor at the Golftech nuclear power plant in southwestern France late on Sunday, ahead of an anticipated rise in the temperature of the Garonne river that supplies the plant's cooling water.

French nuclear power plant has to close during intense heat wave, because temperatures in the river that provides cooling water are too high.

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My Wife Gave Me Magic Mushrooms For My 60th Birthday. It Transformed My Life In Ways I Never Expected. "While my intention had been simple ... the mushrooms had other plans."

Some of you have been wondering why I was at the Psychedelic Science conference in Denver this week (see previous post). Here’s why: probably the most vulnerable essay I’ve ever written, about one of the most transformative experiences I’ve had. Out now in HuffPost: www.huffpost.com/entry/psiloc...

My “office” for the next few days…

#ps2025 #psychedelicscience2025

Screenshot of post from X “initial_rhi 8h Everyone in LA, when the Marines get here hand them your screenplay so they leave immediately”

A terrifying escalation:

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Your moment of beaver zen

On Not Writing Kathleen Jamie considers the fallow times

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Oooh, I want to do this…

National Poetry Month 2025, Week Five: My Poem, “On Roots and Resilience”

Furnas, Azores, photo by SEA To close National Poetry Month for 2025, I’d like to share a poem I wrote in the tradition of occasional poetry—a form composed to mark a specific moment or honor a particular request. I was…

“The rise in treasury yields since Trump’s tariffs were announced leads to an increase in US debt interest payments that is larger than all the DOGE savings.”
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DOGE “cost cutting” goals chart by @steverattner.bsky.social:

National Poetry Month 2025, Week Four: Seamus Heaney’s “The Cure at Troy” Ulysses and Neoptolemus Taking Hercules’ Arrows from Philoctetes by François-Xavier Fabre (1800) Life in America today feels chaotic—unmoored, even. Not long ago, we were enjoying the strongest pos…

My latest post for National Poetry Month: Seamus Heaney’s “The Cure at Troy”:

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National Poetry Month 2025, Week Four: Seamus Heaney’s “The Cure at Troy”

Ulysses and Neoptolemus Taking Hercules’ Arrows from Philoctetes by François-Xavier Fabre (1800) Life in America today feels chaotic—unmoored, even. Not long ago, we were enjoying the strongest post-pandemic economy in the…