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On a backbone trail in Bryce Canyon

One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.
-Omar El Akkad

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Abolish ICE.

Pass it on.

Commentary: National Book Month reminds me of the books we carry and that carry us Tribune guest columnist Michael O'Brien reflects on the beloved books that have influenced his life.

With a prompt from Jon M. Sweeney's 2024 memoir, a Salt Lake Tribune commentator asks, 'What books have carried you in life?'
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The split-brain patients who pick up a cigarette with one hand and have the other hand slap it away from them are fuckin wild. No wonder things like demonic possession were accepted as fact by so many people throughout human history

"If you want to write...you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling...You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfume."

Ray Bradbury

Pope Leo rebukes climate skeptics after Trump calls warming a ‘con job’ The Illinois native’s comments come a week after the U.S. president derided the fight against climate change.

Pope Leo XIV denounced people who deny climate change today, arguing that they are contributing to the destruction of God's creation.

In retrospect, it’s probably a good thing Trump chose a SecDef whose character, knowledge and comportment could only fill a genuine military professional with contempt and loathing.

that's why I often recommend "LILITH: A ROMANCE" by MacDonald. It was written by someone in his 70s, who had suffered a great deal, and it is one of the most strangely beautiful works of fantasy ever. It's about someone who finds magic as an adult

I had a judge presiding over one of my cases ask me if I had been a defendant in one of his cases because he recognized me. I was like nope. I'm counsel. I was dressed impeccably in a vintage Calvin Klein suit that I'd paid way too much money for. It happened in 2005ish and I still think about it.

of all of Coates’ many, many valiant stands in this horrible political era, one that i am most grateful for and wish more writers of his stature would emulate: consistently centering the fight for trans justice.

Magnificent piece of writing, infused with the outlaw country music spirit

ICE has erected a gate to keep protesters out. They are blocking a public street, despite the Broadview Fire Department ordering ICE to tear it down.

Join us at 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM. Tell Broadview to tear this fence down.

Kelly and Eman Abdelhadi. Both are wearing gas masks and goggles.

Menominee and Palestinian solidarity with all immigrants.

Hegseth has long praised murderers.

Worth reading @gregjaffe.bsky.social Clint Lorance’s platoon. Lorance, “a man they blamed for ruining their lives, an officer the Army convicted of second-degree murder” was championed by Hegseth before Trump pardoned him.
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“They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.”
Jonah 2:8

The only thing that I know about the male loneliness epidemic for sure is the people who are selling men cures for it are almost universally making it worse. You can't get strong as fuck and defeat loneliness or whatever, you have to consider other options that aren't part of your current toolkit.

Three acorns with extended taproots

Say hello to our little friends 🙂

Forced germination has made our acorn chums think they have been through winter, & they have extended their taproots to search for moisture

Time to find them homes

An acorn and taproot

The taproot is an acorn’s lifeline

It searches for depth to source moisture & anchor the seed. The straighter & deeper the taproot goes, the greater the root system & as a consequence, the tree itself

If the taproot is damaged, the seedling dies.

Tupaq Amaru, last Inca King, prisoner of the Spaniards, 1572 (drawing by Guaman Poma de Ayala)

453 years ago, on the 24th of September 1572, the last Sapa Inca, Túpac Amaru, was convicted for the murder of priests in Vilcabamba and beheaded by Spanish conquistadors. Amaru became Sapa Inca in 1571, after the death of his brother. He was 27 years old when he died. #otd #history #inca 🗃️

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A Different Kind of Courage | Charles Taylor Radical Hope is first of all an analysis of what is involved when a culture dies. This has been the fate of many aboriginal peoples in the last couple of

“The emergence of a world civilization…will go on exacting, a tremendous human cost in the death or near death of cultures. And this will be made worse because those who dominate modern civilization have trouble grasping what the costs involve.”
On Jonathan Lear (RIP)
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I always share this quote, which I *hope* speaks to them at least a little.

“why some people be mad at me sometimes”

they ask me to remember

but they want me to remember

their memories

and i keep remembering

mine

- Lucille Clifton [writing the most Black woman poem of all time]

Extremely fast sketch of a noble face from thousands of years ago, preserved by mummification.

I refused to placate the bully. Then I refused to placate the institutions who placated the bully. Then I refused to placate the shills who placate the institutions who placate the bully. I'm still standing; the rest are down.

Never placate the bully.

If you are involved in the arts in any way, you should know about Fall of Freedom. Let’s do something about this, together www.falloffreedom.com

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

Hell of a photo by my former Chicago Tribune colleague Stacey Wescott from a protest today at an ICE facility in the Chicago suburbs. Read the sign at the bottom. @staceywescott.bsky.social