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t. addison brown
@conservationistah.bsky.social
you are not deep in anything,
except potential, ideas and possibilities.
👋🏾 earthling | conservationistah.org
creative director | www.emergingworldproject.org
… elephants validate my research
Pinned
"We're not designing an exhibit-we're creating a portal.
When you enter this space, you'll feel what it means to exist in deep relationship with another species."
- Creative Director, t.addison brown
#imagination #art #connection
emergingworldproject.org/projects-in-...
Projects In Development
Nun Cho Ga | a journey through deep time REIMAGINING CONNECTION We are creating a sanctuary for imagination—not a museum with artifacts behind glass, but a living experience where the boundaries be…
emergingworldproject.org
a cause for celebration !
Celebrate a win for the elephants! Indonesia has banned #elephant rides nationwide, directing facilities to offer tourists "ethical, observation-based experiences" instead and revoking permits for facilities who fail to comply. www.worldanimalprotection.org/latest/news/...
Indonesia bans elephant riding in landmark welfare move
Indonesia announces an end to elephant rides, a major win for animal welfare and encourages ethical wildlife tourism.
www.worldanimalprotection.org
January 29, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
"Cause and effect assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension.” -Hope In The Dark, Rebecca Solnit

thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Oops, wrote a thing. Didn't mean to. "One habit I see all too often is the assumption that the future will be an extension of some obvious force in the present: that force will continue to enlarge in power and impact or just stay steady."
"Past Performance Is Not Indicative of Future Results": On Immigration and Assumptions
This morning the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial warning about the consequences of the persecution and deportation of immigrants and its impact on the overall labor force: "The Census Bureau repo...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:43 PM
May our hearts refuse the spell. May our mouths refuse the lie. And may our hands, trembling and furious, still choose the work of mercy, because anything less is hell on Earth.
substack.com/@angelldeerw...
Angell Deer (@angelldeerwisdom)
There’s a line you don’t cross, and we crossed it many times. When a “culture” can watch people murdered in cold blood, children bombed or stolen from their parents, ground into statistics, and still ...
substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:45 AM
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💙💚 Sun, Jan 25
Observing & admiring our cetacean friends brings light to our spirits. Grays & orcas around again today. Good luck! 🍀

📸 Beautiful 25 year-old endangered Southern Resident K33 Tika (1st born to K22 Sekiu). Love watching him & his wavy dorsal grow up. By Jami Cantrell 1/7/26.

#psws
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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Tree swallows, NYC — Allan D. Cruickshank, 1942

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January 25, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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It's time for a truly massive general strike. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-enough
January 25, 2026 at 3:12 PM
May whatever practices you choose—large or small—help you stay connected to your values, your breath, and the possibility of shared responsibility in uncertain times.

5calls.org
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
5calls.org
January 25, 2026 at 4:27 AM
3 Spiritual and Practical Keys - Along with staying in touch with that which gives us Life, relationships are fundamentally important. Your ability to survive and thrive in these times is directly related to the health of your community connections.

open.substack.com/pub/maiaduer...
3 Spiritual and Practical Keys to Make it Through End Times Fascism
a curated new moon list
open.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 4:23 AM
What can we say to each other today? Let us share moments of power that you saw in the life of another: courage, compassion, creativity, resistance, truth, dismissal, refocus. #poetry #compassion #truth #focus open.substack.com/pub/poetryun...
"how often and how well"
poetry of life and death
open.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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Liam Ramos, a preschooler ICE detained the five-year-old Minnesota boy as he returned home from school and transported him to a detention center in Texas.
January 22, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Welcome to the Attachment Economy
How AI chatbots are turning human connection into the next extractive economy #HumanConnection
#HumanConnection open.substack.com/pub/centerfo...
Welcome to the Attachment Economy
How AI chatbots are turning human connection into the next extractive economy
open.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Let Julian Aguon have the last word: "No offering is too small. No stone unneeded ... All of us, without exception, are qualified to participate in the rescue of the world."

🙏🏾 @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/one-long-yea...
One Long Year Later: It's Not Over, and We Haven't Surrendered
I wrote an essay in the immediate aftermath of the 2024 election, an essay to encourage people to not give up and not assume that the Trumpists had won. It follows, after this prelude about where we a...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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A huge congratulations to @katiephang.bsky.social on reaching 500,000 YouTube subscribers — and in record time. This is a historic milestone for independent media.

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Katie Phang
Welcome to the official Katie Phang YouTube Channel, powered by the MeidasTouch Network — your new destination for fearless, fact-based reporting that cuts through the spin and gets to the truth. Host...
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January 19, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Interested in helping #Minnesotans ? Their main need is food for their immigrant communities. People are scared to leave their homes. We have systems in place to safely deliver food and essential items to people in need.
2nd Harvest Heartland | Local Minnesota, Wisconsin food bank | www.2harvest.org
Second Harvest Heartland | Local Minnesota, Wisconsin food bank | 2harvest.org
There is more than enough food for everyone. As one of the nation’s largest hunger relief agencies, it’s our job to make sure healthy, nutritious food gets to the households who need it. Every day, we...
www.2harvest.org
January 17, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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You may feel helpless — a powerless observer of this hurricane of violence. Please do not succumb to helplessness, despair, or fear. You are needed — desperately. Here are some things you can do. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/mobilizing-america
January 15, 2026 at 4:06 PM
thank you @nbedera.bsky.social for clarifying
I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch.

It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵
January 13, 2026 at 7:10 PM
in a world quick to invent new images with AI tools, it’s worth remembering what already exists. #real #birds are far more beautiful and complex than anything we could fabricate. the real thing has always been enough.

📸 Hoatzin | Kevin Vande Vusse
January 10, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
www.forbes.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:29 AM
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#CurrentlyReading
How To Stand Up To a Dictator
By Maria Ressa

Democracy is fragile. An urgent cry for readers to recognize & understand the dangers to our freedoms. In telling her courageous story, Ressa forces readers to ask themselves: What are you willing to sacrifice for the truth?

#booksky
January 10, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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Pioneering psychoanalyst Karen Horney dared defy Freud pessimism about pathology with her visionary work on possibility, changing the course of psychology. Her astute insight into the key to personal growth: www.themarginalian.org/2023/05/14/k...
What It Takes to Grow: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on the Key to Self-Realization
“Self-knowledge… is not an aim in itself, but a means of liberating the forces of spontaneous growth. In this sense, to work at ourselves becomes not only the prime moral obligation, bu…
www.themarginalian.org
January 10, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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Morning.
January 8, 2026 at 7:33 PM
may we continue, this year, to hold in our hearts the vision of a possible world, and continue to trust — like invisible bluebell bulbs lying low during a long winter, nourished by decay and dissolution — in the promise of a future yet to be born.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
How to Fall in Love with the Future
January book club updates
substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:07 PM