Earth’s Poet of Scale Edward Burtynsky’s monumental chronicle of the human impact on the planet.

Edward Burtynsky is one of the greatest visual chroniclers of the human impact on our planet, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

text screenshot: Mike Huckabee > Mr President, God spared you in Butler, PA to be the most consequential President in a century-maybe ever. The decisions on your shoulders I would not want to be made by anyone else. You have many voices speaking to you Sir, but there is only ONE voice that matters. HIS voice. | am your appointed servant in this land and am available for you but I do not try to get in your presence often because I trust your instincts. No President in my lifetime has been in a position like yours. Not since Truman in 1945. I don't reach out to persuade you. Only to encourage you. I believe you will hear from heaven and that voice is far more important than mine or ANYONE else's. You sent me to Israel to be your eyes, ears and voice and to make sure our flag flies above our embassy. My job is to be the last one to leave. I will not abandon this post. Our flag will NOT come down! You did not seek this moment. This moment sought YOU! It is my honor to serve you! Mike Huckabee

Trump just shared this alarming text from Israeli Ambassador Mike Huckabee, effusively praising him while telling him that no president has been in his position "since Truman in 1945" (when the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Japan) & that he "will hear a voice from heaven" telling him what to do.

Spiritual warfare and the roots of political violence American democracy is under attack from an authoritarian movement.

Vance Boelter, spiritual warfare, roots of political violence. My latest open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-... holy moly the Mississippi Free Press really told the heck out of this dreadful story. Wishing the family the best next week.

The road to hell is paved with “that can’t happen here” and “you’re overreacting”

Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague

“Empathy is not a sin, a toxin, or an evolutionary dead end. It is a tool, and like all tools it can be a weapon. We are going to need it.”

By @joolia.bsky.social

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“They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

~The Great Gatsby

Whether people are ready to acknowledge it or not, all of our backs are against the wall.

Best be ready to stand together and hold the line. It's going to be on the people if we want to preserve our freedoms and our rights.

Black and white bird with iridescent blue/green wings and long tail is standing in ankle-deep snow with back to the viewer, facing right giving us a nice profile.

Snow and sun and shiny magpies working on nests. It's April all right #birds

"An old professor of mine had this great thing. He said "On the level of individuals and civilization, personality predates ideology." Meaning that before you were a fascist, you were a bully and an asshole." -Brennan Lee Mulligan in conversation with Amy Vorpahl, Adventuring Academy S1E2

I desperately need interviewers to ask future presidential candidates 3 questions:

1) What was the last major issue you were wrong about?

2) When and how did you realize you were wrong?

3) What steps did you take once you realized?

We can't afford another president who thinks they're infallible.

Haley Britzky @halbritz AFRICOM commander Gen. Langley tells senators that China is "trying to replicate" USAID programs in Africa as the US scales back USAID. "They're trying to use that as an extension of the Belt and Road Initiative to gain favor by the African countries," Langley said.

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen

It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world

It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

Four frames from the movie Glass Onion. “It’s so dumb.”it’s so dumb it’s brilliant!” “No! It’s just dumb!”

Every day I wake up to the news

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually

"If America hasn't broken your heart, you don't love her enough." - @booker.senate.gov 😭😭😭

I feel this part of Senator Booker's speech in my gut.

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

it’s insane that it’s taken this long for any democratic senator to do what cory booker is doing

line art with flat shading showing a lonely space diner glowing in the middle distance within a dark and silent cybercity

wip. scanned in the lines and did some quick color flats.

A secondary volcanic fissure spewing 1200 degrees hot lava while creating this unbelievable fire wheel on the lava field. Fagradalsjfall, 2021, with a drone.

If I had to pick one favorite image from my career so far it would be this one 100%…

#photography #nature #volcano

"A medical condition has not given its country decades of military service. Or deployed into combat zones throughout the globe. Or earned countless commendations. People have," Reyes rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is officially the Haters' Superbowl not just because of Kendrick but because the good people of Philadelphia are known for being haters. The haters prevailed tonight. Long live haters.

people have died and not lost a rap battle as badly as drake got stomped by kendrick rip

Lenticular clouds over the Harris hills. The big camera version 💙 #scotland