Reminder: November 4th is extremely important, don’t forget to vote!

#NoKings ever.
Public land not ever for sale.
Climate change is real.
Clean water is life 🌊💙

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Thou shalt not shoot pastors in the head with smoke bombs. I shouldn’t have to say this.

In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.

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We’ve been organizing groups to travel across the country to register voters at events. If you’re not registered yet, now’s the time—we strongly encourage you to take that step. What’s the number one thing MAGA fears? People voting.

The hits keep coming: Republicans are quietly preparing to sell off public lands – owned by the taxpayers – to pay for their tax breaks for billionaires.

In 72 days, Donold has taken 14 days off and spent $26 million of taxpayer money at his golf clubs.

If masks are gonna be banned at college protests then ICE agents shouldn't get to hide behind them either.

USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks The USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the progr...

If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same

When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state

www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...

Meet Gracie Himes, age 20.

Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines.

On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer.

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

The Cat's Eye Nebula, one of the first planetary nebulae discovered, also has one of the most complex forms known to this kind of nebula. Eleven rings, or shells, of gas make up the Cat's Eye. The full beauty of the Cat's Eye Nebula is revealed in this detailed view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The image from Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) shows a bull's eye pattern of eleven or even more concentric rings, or shells, around the Cat's Eye. Each 'ring' is actually the edge of a spherical bubble seen projected onto the sky -- that's why it appears bright along its outer edge. Observations suggest the star ejected its mass in a series of pulses at 1,500-year intervals. These convulsions created dust shells, each of which contain as much mass as all of the planets in our solar system combined (still only one percent of the Sun's mass). These concentric shells make a layered, onion-skin structure around the dying star. The view from Hubble is like seeing an onion cut in half, where each skin layer is discernible. The bull's-eye patterns seen around planetary nebulae come as a surprise to astronomers because they had no expectation that episodes of mass loss at the end of stellar lives would repeat every 1,500 years. Several explanations have been proposed, including cycles of magnetic activity somewhat similar to our own Sun's sunspot cycle, the action of companion stars orbiting around the dying star, and stellar pulsations. Another school of thought is t...

Cat's Eye Nebula - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/7GLbNG

If I send out an email with a typo it crushes my spirit for the whole day and meanwhile like the Attorney General puts out daily memos saying, “Professional infiltrators indanger and ruin our beautiful and previous Campuses which must change.”

Do NOT assume that senators are done for the night. They and their staff regularly work into the wee hours negotiating the schedule of the official activities. Don't be afraid to keep calling until no one is picking up. Then switch to staff emails.

No cloture on the DOGE funding bill.

Tim Walz to launch national tour of town halls in Republican House districts | CNN Politics Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans, some of whom have stopped holding town halls amid the raucous receptions their colleagues...

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Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans who have stopped holding in-person town halls amid the raucous receptions some of their colleagues have gotten across the country. www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...

An assortment of aging blue and green turkey tail mushrooms, some grown over with algae, on the side of a bare log. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

Some ideas for today.
We can do this 🇺🇸

A few things we can do.

As if it could be trusted that the September promises will be honored?

Oh, how I feel this too!! 💔

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