Wait I Saw A Leaf

We can’t put profit or performance incentive on penalizing people & ruining their lives. It’s supremely evil, totally unfair and antithetical to a free society. But that’s how the whole game works. So it’s gotta go.

Well done. We have to start thinking that we are in dangerous times &, if possible, we should save books that cover topics which this & similar administrations are trying to eliminate.
History truly matters.
Imagine what we would not know if we had no paintings, books or sculpture prior to 1900

Brown leaf floating just under the surface of translucent water with reflected trees

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

This is absolutely the wrong season for it but I really really want a fresh summer peach. And no the grocery store rubber balls won’t suffice

I’ll give it a try based on the description and also a college of mine came from south bend 😄

Yellow daffodil with orange center in a pot with hyacinths out of focus in the background

You did right by her. I still regret not letting one of mine go soon enough.

Purple hyacinth blooming in a pot with daffodil leaves around and behind it

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Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

We asked whether principal investigators have plans in place for how research can continue without them Researchers must be mindful of unexpected events that may leave them incapacitated or unable to lead their research projects or labs.

So the question here is mis-specified. There is no "alternative" research funding in any way that would make American biomedical research whole for researchers to seek out. 1/ www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/p... via @statnews.com

I hope they have the resources needed to heal from the trauma

It’s so CRAZY to me that the UK is mobilizing criminal charges against everybody they can within the law for the Epstein files.

And over here in the US? Nothing. It is FULL mask-off white supremacy driven authoritarianism.

Laws are for the poor.

This is obviously some strange use of the word “hospice” that I wasn’t previously aware of

Second weekend winter storm is on its way. This time it’s cancelled a Scout trip and honestly I’m kind or relieved. I don’t want my kid that far away if the roads get blocked.

I feel very strongly that now is the time for NIMBY’s to shine. Every regulatory and procedural lever should be tested. Slow them down.

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

“Hamstrung by human rights laws” is one of those phrases that should be a dead giveaway that you’re trying to do the wrong thing

a mother duck and her ducklings are swimming in a lake . ALT: a mother duck and her ducklings are swimming in a lake .

the most beautiful word the mind can imagine is “merganser”.

Self-deprecating attempt to bum a cigarette or vape? Hiking brags, maybe? Complaining about dying while trying to jog? 🫁

I peeked out the door to see what kind of ice we had, which wasn’t much yet thank goodness. But what I couldn’t hear from inside was this low hissing noise that the falling drops made.
This is the kind of sound the word eerie was invented for.

Gentle reminder that disabled and marginalized people can’t “just leave” to escape fascism.

Many are too sick to go anywhere.

Other countries won’t accept disabled people.

Leaving is not the solution.

People are scared. Leave no one behind.

You: It can’t happen to me.

The state: we looked into this white guy we killed and we do feel a need to bring up these parking tickets

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"A harrowing cartoon by Peter de Wit depicts parents sunbathing on an idyllic beach in Gaza, while their toddler blissfully digs up skulls in the sand.

De Wit’s “Gaza Beach 2030” won the award for best political cartoon in the Netherlands last year.

Now, a plan unveiled by US(...) might just

There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy

Trump’s message to politically active mothers: Stay home, or your children will suffer the consequences | Opinion But where the regime has sought to instill fear, they have instead inspired righteous fury. After all, hope is a mother.

I have an op-ed out in the @inquirer.com today about misogyny, motherhood and resistance in the age of Trumpian fascism.

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"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences.

Don't say the second when you mean the first.

Red maple leaf with a few small holes in it still clinging to the twig, against a neutral background

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO

this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s