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Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify

I'm canceling my Spotify subscription until the ICE ads are removed. Streaming hate is a choice and I refuse to fund it. #CancelSpotify app.sosha.ai/s/mKjwheyE

Farming the Sun: In Colorado, we are learning how it’s possible to harvest more than just electricity on a solar farm. Pioneering farmers in Colorado are making room for renewables by combining farm fields with solar panels.

Together
We can change the world

www.nature.org/en-us/magazi....

CW: Sexual assault

Women are being kidnapped and assaulted by men who impersonate ICE agents. This is one of many reasons why we can’t have a masked, unaccountable secret police force roaming the streets. Urge your elected officials to take action today: www.bluestatedefiance.org/no-secret-po...

Here is a link that should not require subscription:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

EPA moves to end climate regulation under Clean Air Act The agency proposal would rescind the landmark “endangerment finding,” which states that greenhouse gases are a threat to public health.

This was announced as 150 million people across the country were under heat alerts.

Fossil fuel interests spent nearly $100 million on Trump's re-election. Then the industry pumped $19 million into his inaugural fund.

They're cashing in at the expense of the rest of us.

Corrupt Ohio politicians

Thank you Senator for always showing up for the good. 💖

Speak up for public lands! Show your support for our nation's public lands now!

With important headwater streams and surface waters now under threat from misguided efforts to dispose of public lands, now is the time to show your support for public lands by adding your name below! ⬇️ act.americanrivers.org/page/84477/p...

And the sale of 3.3 million acres of parks and monuments, public lands.

American Conversations: Senator Jon Tester YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Thank you 🙏

The stakes for women just keep rising Since the Dobbs decision, we have weathered three years of extreme politicization of abortion rights.

This week’s news was relentless, but one story cut through the noise. After reading the New York Time's harrowing report on abortion access, Jennifer Weiss-Wolf knew she had to speak out.

Love Love Love

Is a super power.

Public Lands Sales on the Table as Congress Looks for Ways to Raise Revenue Americans could be locked out of thousands of acres of public lands if this proposal is signed into law

www.sierraclub.org/sierra/publi...

Trees planted by Mary Ellen Pleasant, a Blackwoman who became a powerful figure in 19th c. San Francisco, successful plaintiff in a transit discrimination case, Underground Railroad participant-- and who reportedly funded John Brown. Visited her little grove last week.

Campgrounds and visitor centers at federal lakes are closing amid Trump's budget cuts Campgrounds, boat ramps and other facilities in at least 30 locations at federal lakes and reservoirs in six states will be closed or have their hours curtailed as of mid-May.

apnews.com/article/army...

“And still we rise”

or we could just... #taxbillionaires

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

YouTube video by Robert Reich The Solutions to the Climate Crisis No One is Talking About | Robert Reich

Your Earth Day reminder that the dual crises of economic inequality and climate change are no accident. Both are the result of decades of deliberate choices made, and policies enacted, by ultra-wealthy and powerful corporations.

But we can fix them both. Here's how: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuXU...

Humble Francis A memory of transcendent humanity in Rome

"Humble Francis: A memory of transcendent humanity in Rome"
Others, more knowledgeable than me, will write memorials today. I want to share a single detail from one day in Rome, in January 2018.
snyder.substack.com/p/humble-fra...

Good.

Sorry it's late...

Happy Thursday x

#watercolour #BarnOwl #watercolor #owl #watercolourpainting #flight #birds #wings #indigo #textures #evening #art #wildlife #hunting #artist

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

April 6, 2025 (Sunday) After President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements on April 2 wiped $5 trillion dollars from the stock market, the Republican Party is scrambling.

April 6, 2025

Millions Stood Up: April 5 Hands Off Day of Action I was the closing speaker at the ebullient San Francisco Hands Off rally, and when I got home later I scoured the news for  reports on the more than one thousand other rallies. Of course people would ...

If one of us stands up, they can pick that person off. If ten or a hundred or a thousand, they can pick those people off. And they're picking off people--immigrants, dissidents--to make an example of them. But if ten million people stand up, they cannot stop us all.

April 5, 2025 It’s been quite a week.

April 5, 2025

Massive attendance at Hands Off protests nationwide. Americans don’t want what is happening. Defund DOGE, impeach DT.