Gary
@garygrowsplants.bsky.social
Lover of plants, hiking and foraging, rider of bikes & public transit, game dev, photographer (he/him/they/them)
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"The destruction of Palestine’s seed banks reveals ecocide as a weapon of temporal control — a strategy for extending genocide beyond the present moment into an undeterminable future."
This summer, Israeli bulldozers rolled through the West Bank city of Hebron with ruthless efficiency, targeting Palestine’s only surviving national seed bank. What happened in Hebron fits the legal definition of ecocide — the deliberate destruction of ecosystems to undermine human survival.
Israel’s Attacks on Seed Banks Destroy Millenia of Palestinian Cultural Heritage
When Israel targets Palestinian seed banks, it’s not just destroying buildings. It’s attacking the future itself.
truthout.org
September 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"The destruction of Palestine’s seed banks reveals ecocide as a weapon of temporal control — a strategy for extending genocide beyond the present moment into an undeterminable future."
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🚨 Support Los Angeles immigrant communities 🚨
Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:
Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate
LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
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Unión del Barrio:
uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...
Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:
Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate
LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor...
Unión del Barrio:
uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...
June 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
🚨 Support Los Angeles immigrant communities 🚨
Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:
Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate
LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor...
Unión del Barrio:
uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...
Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:
Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate
LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor...
Unión del Barrio:
uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...
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Massive #ICEoutofLA action today in downtown Los Angeles as ICE raids continue, one day after Trump announces deployment of National Guard and threatens to deploy the military.
📸 for @theintercept.com
📸 for @theintercept.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Massive #ICEoutofLA action today in downtown Los Angeles as ICE raids continue, one day after Trump announces deployment of National Guard and threatens to deploy the military.
📸 for @theintercept.com
📸 for @theintercept.com
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Baltimore March is now circling the building that houses the ICE field office. Crowd is making lots of noise so that they can hear us!
April 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Baltimore March is now circling the building that houses the ICE field office. Crowd is making lots of noise so that they can hear us!
Repost with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only)
April 13, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Repost with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only)
No one should entertain stated intentions for the cuts, attacks on science are not about taxpayer savings, they’re destroying foundations of evidence based public information & decision making. It’s about consolidating control making party elites uncontested arbiters of “facts” & acceptable thought.
The CDC's cruise ship inspectors have been laid off, as well as agency's head epidemiologist for investigating cruise ship outbreaks
That baffled health officials since this program is paid for by cruise ship fees, not taxpayer dollars
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...
That baffled health officials since this program is paid for by cruise ship fees, not taxpayer dollars
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...
CDC's cruise ship inspectors laid off amid bad year for outbreaks
The steep cuts to the cruise ship inspection team baffled officials in the program, which is not paid for by taxpayer dollars.
www.cbsnews.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
No one should entertain stated intentions for the cuts, attacks on science are not about taxpayer savings, they’re destroying foundations of evidence based public information & decision making. It’s about consolidating control making party elites uncontested arbiters of “facts” & acceptable thought.
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The important thing here is that some brave people said NO and they WALKED AWAY
April 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The important thing here is that some brave people said NO and they WALKED AWAY
What a dangerous mockery of science. Scientists do not confidently know or declare in advance that they will have meaningful conclusions at all let alone when. He has already made his conclusion & is stacking the processes to confirm his biases.
RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."
April 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
What a dangerous mockery of science. Scientists do not confidently know or declare in advance that they will have meaningful conclusions at all let alone when. He has already made his conclusion & is stacking the processes to confirm his biases.
Though predictable it is striking the depths of hypocrisy & audacity of those who falsely equated liberal/left social critiques & boycotts, “canceling” (which the Right also does) with state censorship, are championing literal thought police empowered to snatch people without due process for ideas.
For whatever reason ICE doesn't have a Bluesky account. So I thought I'd drop this in here. Note the Free Speech crowd has now put the good folks at ICE in charge of stopping, detaining and deporting "Ideas".
April 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Though predictable it is striking the depths of hypocrisy & audacity of those who falsely equated liberal/left social critiques & boycotts, “canceling” (which the Right also does) with state censorship, are championing literal thought police empowered to snatch people without due process for ideas.
Reading details of latest energy EOs has clarified for me Trump’s alignment with AI, crypto & large scale server farm heavy tech. Pumping energy sink industries acts as double subsidy to bail out coal industry Trump always fixated at the same time as collecting new money tech bro support for GOP.
April 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Reading details of latest energy EOs has clarified for me Trump’s alignment with AI, crypto & large scale server farm heavy tech. Pumping energy sink industries acts as double subsidy to bail out coal industry Trump always fixated at the same time as collecting new money tech bro support for GOP.
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“We need to get better at treating this like a business"
April 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“We need to get better at treating this like a business"
I’ve come to the view that the position of president in its current form is a failure & founders didn’t go far enough to avoid replicating a kind of king. I think it should be abandoned or curtailed to a role more akin to chief diplomat with few direct powers & fed agencies made independent.
One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months.
I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.
I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.
April 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I’ve come to the view that the position of president in its current form is a failure & founders didn’t go far enough to avoid replicating a kind of king. I think it should be abandoned or curtailed to a role more akin to chief diplomat with few direct powers & fed agencies made independent.
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Institutions need to stop just capitulating on everything in advance. Glad this policy, more accurately thought of as decongestion pricing, is being allowed to continue & demonstrate that our big cities don’t have to be congested car sewers, & creating new revenue for reinvesting in public transit.
Absolutely incredible: the Feds totally folded on Congestion Pricing, thanks to the MTA just...refusing to abide by their demands
www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
MTA, feds agree to keep NYC congestion pricing tolls through October
The MTA and the Trump administration have reached an agreement to keep New York City congestion pricing through October.
www.cbsnews.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Institutions need to stop just capitulating on everything in advance. Glad this policy, more accurately thought of as decongestion pricing, is being allowed to continue & demonstrate that our big cities don’t have to be congested car sewers, & creating new revenue for reinvesting in public transit.
Over 40,000 people die in U.S. car crashes annually, 100+ daily, with worse deaths per capita & distance traveled than many other countries. Maybe worry more about that. Transit safety in the U.S. can & should be improved, but it’s already safer than any of its alternatives.
Sean Duffy: "The truth is, transit across America is dangerous. And these liberals -- liberal mayors -- they want everybody out of cars and into trains but they made the trains unsafe so nobody really wants to ride them ... even big men don't want to ride the subway at those times of night."
April 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Over 40,000 people die in U.S. car crashes annually, 100+ daily, with worse deaths per capita & distance traveled than many other countries. Maybe worry more about that. Transit safety in the U.S. can & should be improved, but it’s already safer than any of its alternatives.
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We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.
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For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
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April 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.
I was hoping for closer to 20% decline but this is the biggest drop in the company’s history. A good start, but I think we can see steeper declines next quarter, I believe in us.
BREAKING: Tesla sales declined in the first three months of the year as backlash against Elon Musk and aging models hurt demand.
Tesla sales drop 13% in first quarter as Elon Musk backlash and aging models hurt demand
Tesla sales fell in the first three months of the year in another sign that Elon Musk’s once high-flying electric car company is struggling to attract buyers.
bit.ly
April 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I was hoping for closer to 20% decline but this is the biggest drop in the company’s history. A good start, but I think we can see steeper declines next quarter, I believe in us.
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(Bloomberg) - Tesla Inc.’s vehicle sales fell 13% in the first quarter, dragged down by the changeover of its most important model and international backlash against Elon Musk.
$TSLA @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
$TSLA @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
April 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
(Bloomberg) - Tesla Inc.’s vehicle sales fell 13% in the first quarter, dragged down by the changeover of its most important model and international backlash against Elon Musk.
$TSLA @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
$TSLA @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The living embodiment of posting through it never stop tweeting has finally shut up for once. A heartfelt thank you to the people of Wisconsin.
it has been two hours since Elon last posted
it has been one hour and twenty minutes since Elon posted
April 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
The living embodiment of posting through it never stop tweeting has finally shut up for once. A heartfelt thank you to the people of Wisconsin.
Love to see Elon take a big fat L after burning through Scrooge McDuck piles of cash accomplishing nothing. The Q1 Tesla sales reporting should be the next big L.
April 2, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Love to see Elon take a big fat L after burning through Scrooge McDuck piles of cash accomplishing nothing. The Q1 Tesla sales reporting should be the next big L.
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New — Institute of Museum and Library Sciences employees were allowed back in the building this morning to gather belongings after all being put on admin leave by DOGE yesterday. Supporters have gathered in front of the building and staffers inside have posted a visible sign that says "SOS IMLS."
April 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
New — Institute of Museum and Library Sciences employees were allowed back in the building this morning to gather belongings after all being put on admin leave by DOGE yesterday. Supporters have gathered in front of the building and staffers inside have posted a visible sign that says "SOS IMLS."
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On #TransDayOfVisibility, we revisit our piece on how researchers and volunteers—in the face of the Trump administration's anti-trans efforts—are backing up federally-funded studies, and vowing to keep the resources online.
A thread ⬇️
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Researchers Rush to Save US Government Data on Trans Youth—Before It Disappears
In the face of the Trump administration's anti-trans efforts, researchers and volunteers around the world are backing up federally-funded studies, and vowing to keep the resources online.
www.wired.com
March 31, 2025 at 6:16 PM
On #TransDayOfVisibility, we revisit our piece on how researchers and volunteers—in the face of the Trump administration's anti-trans efforts—are backing up federally-funded studies, and vowing to keep the resources online.
A thread ⬇️
A thread ⬇️
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Open letter from nearly 2000 NAS member scientists: "We see real danger in this moment. We hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united (...) in wanting to protect independent scientific inquiry. We are sending this SOS to sound a warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated."
Public Statement on Supporting Science for the Benefit of All Citizens
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE We all rely on science. Science gave us the smartphones in our pockets, the navigation systems in our cars, and life-saving medical care. We count on engineers when we drive acr...
docs.google.com
March 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Open letter from nearly 2000 NAS member scientists: "We see real danger in this moment. We hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united (...) in wanting to protect independent scientific inquiry. We are sending this SOS to sound a warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated."