John Vaillant

This echoes US and Israel's rhetoric, holding all concerned hostage to Old Testament eye-for-an-eye-type vengeance:

A teacher in rural Russia took a stand against Putin. He could now win an Oscar

📢 The documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin started out as “really weird footage” of one man eating cabbage soup.

Texas GOP Fight Intensifies as Democrats Eye Senate Takeover Texas Democrats selected a Senate candidate who has staked his campaign on appealing to independent and swing voters after a surge of enthusiasm fueled by opposition to President Donald Trump.

James Talarico, a Texas state lawmaker, bested US House Rep Jasmine Crockett in the Dem primary Tuesday. Voters chose a candidate who focused on broadening the party’s tainted brand w/independents & disaffected Republicans over a progressive rising star

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⚡️ Russia has torched a staggering $2.5 trillion to seize a fraction of Ukrainian land equivalent to just 10% of Texas.

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My two faves

My photo shows part of a limestone wall panel carved in bas relief from the Fifth Dynasty mortuary temple of king Userkaf at Saqqara, Old Kingdom, 2465-2458 BC. It shows a Hoopoe, a crested bird with black and white wing pattern, and an ibis, with long curved beak, amongst papyrus plants in the marshes of the river Nile. My photo was taken in 2022 at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Lovely naturalistic relief of a Hoopoe and Ibis, carved by an Egyptian artisan some 4,500 years ago!

Limestone wall relief from the 5th Dynasty mortuary temple of Userkaf at Saqqara. Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me

#ReliefWednesday
#Archaeology

@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social

Keep in mind that Trump and Co. have removed -hundreds- of senior #USMilitary, #CIA, and #FBI officers since he took office. #Iran

In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.

The Postal Service’s new policy for issuing postmarks could trip up some people who rely on mail to register to vote. In states that don’t have stop-gap measures like same-day voter registration, some may miss out on voting entirely.

What Ukraine has been facing -every day- for -four years-

I am deeply honored to be giving a Lowell Humanities Lecture at Boston College on March 11, where I'll be discuss the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind - on full display in the #middleeast right now! Register here:
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YouTube video by Energi Media The Real Villains in North America's Low EV Sales? Legacy Automakers

The Real Villains in North America's Low EV Sales? Legacy Automakers

Max Fawcett and I discuss his column, "Canada's big bet on EVs can still pay off."

We may or may not have discussed EVs' impact on the future of Alberta oil.
#ableg #cdnpoli
youtu.be/h_Cp8z4HeiI

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ... there's info on who to complain to to try to stop this at the end of the article, lets share this message and try our best to stop it.

NEW: The US and Israel are striking Iran’s drone and missile facilities to reduce the pressure on missile and drone interceptors – a capability the US is denying Ukraine by refusing to provide Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Latest assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar030326

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New: Internal tension at the Associated Press over use of AI. One of the AP newsroom leaders leading the company's AI initiatives told staff that many editors preferred an AI-written article to a human one, and told them when it comes to using AI in the newsroom "resistance is futile."

A white Ford Transit van that is labeled "Midwest Plumbing". This is not a real company.

We saw an uptick in ICE activity today.

ICE continues to be spotted around the metro area - dining, driving, and hiding in between events.

Current vehicles on the short list include Black Chevrolet Tahoes, White or Silver Jeep Wagoneers, and White Ford Transit vans with fake branding.

A loveless people whose parents never took them outside . . .

Yes, it really seems that way - a vengeful, spiteful necrology seems to guide their actions.

Life After Cars book cover Sarah Goodyear Doug Gordon

"Cars are cars. The problem is cars, and the problem of cars cannot be solved with different cars."
#booksky #cars #infrastructure
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Honored to have an excerpt from my book, "In Trees" (out 4/7) in the pages of this week's
@newyorker.com

This piece is about the summer I spent in a treehouse to blockade an oil pipeline, and why some protest movements change history, while others fade quietly into obscurity.

“I want to state clearly: I will never abandon Donbas and the 200,000 Ukrainians who live there,” Zelensky said.

Ohne Worte 👇😏

Oil prices are up because of the war in Iran.

That means Russia's illicit profit margins are up.

There has never been a more important time for Ukraine to target and for us to seize the shadow fleet.

Don't let a tight global energy market fund a war machine

Probation for Mountie Who Ordered Witnesses to Destroy Evidence | The Tyee Bystanders said police told them to delete videos of the arrest of Dale Culver, who died in police custody.

A former Prince George Mountie will avoid jail after being found to have obstructed justice by asking bystanders to delete cellphone footage of the arrest of Dale Culver, a First Nations man who later died in police custody. @amandafollett.bsky.social reports.

Nothing to indicate the current admin cares about -any- country's citizens

Al Jazeera investigation: Iran girls’ school targeting likely ‘deliberate’ Al Jazeera investigation raises questions over deadliest single attack of war that killed 165 schoolgirls and staff.

US & Israel have such good intel that they know where members of Iranian leadership are to launch strikes or what is in their facilities. But didn't know the community school they bombed, killing ~180 including kids hasn't been a military location for 10 yrs. Bullshit
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'To avert defeat, he is "picking external fights," seeking to mobilize Hungarian voters against Ukraine while also pointing the finger at the domestic political opposition.'

#China is facilitating this depletion with cheap drone tech.

"War pricing"
Don't you mean "profiteering" ?
#Iran #oilandgas