Jill Davis Doughtie

North America's Bird Populations Are Shrinking Faster. Blame Climate Change and Agriculture - Slashdot "Billions fewer birds are flying through North American skies than decades ago," reports the Associated Press, "and their population is shrinking ever faster, mostly due to a combination of intensive ...

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Beautiful!

Bluesky is stressful; it's like old Twitter which is nice in some ways, but Twitter was never really my home. Mastadon on the other hand feels like the internet of 2006. ❤️

Cat on top of the armoire

This Startup Rearranges Atoms To Make Clean Air and Water Atoco, a startup built on Nobel Prize-winning work, aims to prove that atomically engineered materials can address water scarcity and climate change at scale.

www.wired.me/story/this-s...

Cat on an armoire

Today I unsubscribed from Apple Music (and switching to Tidal going forward).

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Bringing the "functionally extinct" American chestnut back from the dead Wiped out in its native range by invasive pathogens, the trees may make a comeback.

arstechnica.com/science/2026...

‘Workers get the thorns’: the moral ugliness of rose factories | Rebecca Solnit A rose is beautiful but a greenhouse with thousands upon thousands of roses, a place producing millions a year, is not

Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.

Red ribbon on red and white checkered tablecloth

Resist and Unsubscribe

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Today I switched from Audible to Libro.fm

Nighttime poppies

“We believe when peace is cultivated within, it naturally ripples outward into society.”

The Divide by Jason Hickel

Reading

Sunflowers in my garden

These are the high schoolers taking a stand against ICE: ‘You can’t let despair take over’ Thousands of students across the US have been walking out of their schools to protest ICE in their communities

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

And a poppy

Telegraph plant in my garden

An early showy penstemon flower in my garden

First phacelia of the year in my garden

Lupine report from my garden

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.

The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...

By Julianne Le

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An interview with Oliver Bullough, author of Everybody Loves Our Dollars

Downstream: Vape Shops, Crypto and Luxury Watches: How Money Laundering Is Everywhere w/ Oliver Bullough — Novara Media When it comes to the relationship between capitalism and crime, those on the left generally think of exploitation. People often turn to crime, so the thinking goes, because they can’t make ends meet b...

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Lupine in my garden