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Forest Goddess
@a-reynolds.bsky.social
· Nov 28
Happy to share every last pear with this bear.
#gratitude #thankful #nature #blackbears #bears #NatureTherapy #photograpy
#gratitude #thankful #nature #blackbears #bears #NatureTherapy #photograpy
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I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
December 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
"The stakes are high. But when we stand together, we are powerful....because the only way to fight back is collectively....And if we don’t speak now, we may have no industry — and no democracy — left to defend."
The Committee for the First Amendment was formed to fight for our right to free expression. A WBD merger puts it at risk. Read more from @JaneFonda on @theankler.
theankler.com/p/jane-fonda...
theankler.com/p/jane-fonda...
December 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"The stakes are high. But when we stand together, we are powerful....because the only way to fight back is collectively....And if we don’t speak now, we may have no industry — and no democracy — left to defend."
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Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Texas request to restore redistricting maps
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
December 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Now the public has 30 days to comment on these proposed rollbacks. Tell the Trump administration: Don’t slash protections that keep thousands of species alive.
Defend the Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act is wildly effective and widely popular. The law has prevented extinctions of numerous iconic species, recovered imperiled plants and animals, and protected the ecosystems we...
earthjustice.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Now the public has 30 days to comment on these proposed rollbacks. Tell the Trump administration: Don’t slash protections that keep thousands of species alive.
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Happy to have an essay from my forthcoming collection up @literaryhub.bsky.social today! "The time a library lends, I suspect, is a little like love: the more it gives away, the more comes back to it in kind."
On the Infinite Lives of the Library
One might say that a library’s most abundant resource—what it lends most freely—is not books and information but time. Time to think, breathe, be, and become. Last spring, in exchange for my servic…
lithub.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Happy to have an essay from my forthcoming collection up @literaryhub.bsky.social today! "The time a library lends, I suspect, is a little like love: the more it gives away, the more comes back to it in kind."
Loving the snowy silence this morning.
December 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Loving the snowy silence this morning.
"this country's old motto e pluribus unum (out of many one) is a patchwork motto and one under attack as a hate-fueled administration tries to define down who has rights, who matters, who belongs – to tear up the great national patchwork and reject pieces of it no matter how long they've been here."
An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.
Solidarity Stitches Us Together: Today, World AIDS Day, Is Also the 70th Anniversary of Rosa Park's Historic Protest
I saw two radically different versions of what a quilt could be yesterday and yet they spoke to the same issues. I caught the show Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"this country's old motto e pluribus unum (out of many one) is a patchwork motto and one under attack as a hate-fueled administration tries to define down who has rights, who matters, who belongs – to tear up the great national patchwork and reject pieces of it no matter how long they've been here."
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If you are going through a hard time, this #birddivination is for you. Find it as a solo print and part of the deck of 100, along with the story and process behind these strange creations, at almanacofbirds.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
If you are going through a hard time, this #birddivination is for you. Find it as a solo print and part of the deck of 100, along with the story and process behind these strange creations, at almanacofbirds.org
"When I am sad, I like to imagine myself becoming a tree. Branches that bend without breaking, fractal with possibility, reaching resolutely toward the light. Roots touching the web of belonging beneath the surface of the world... "
Proximity – gorgeous visual poem about reaching for what you cannot grasp, inspired by the wisdom of trees www.themarginalian.org/2021/03/10/p...
Proximity: A Meditative Tree-Inspired Visual Poem About Reaching for Something You Can’t Quite Grasp
Soulful sylvan consolation partway between David Byrne, Bill T. Jones, and the Buddha.
www.themarginalian.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
"When I am sad, I like to imagine myself becoming a tree. Branches that bend without breaking, fractal with possibility, reaching resolutely toward the light. Roots touching the web of belonging beneath the surface of the world... "
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New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
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Is Piggy referring to his attempted coup on January 6th?
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Is Piggy referring to his attempted coup on January 6th?
You were right of course @karenattiah.bsky.social when you said,
"Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open."
"Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open."
This is a foul development:
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
You were right of course @karenattiah.bsky.social when you said,
"Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open."
"Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open."
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Congratulations to Omar El Akkad for winning the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction! ICYMI: Omar's appearance on the show was one of the great all-time conversations so far.
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Tin House
In late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video showed a lifeless moonscape with endless empty streets...
tinhouse.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Congratulations to Omar El Akkad for winning the 2025 National Book Award in Nonfiction! ICYMI: Omar's appearance on the show was one of the great all-time conversations so far.
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
I've never even eaten a turnip, but wanted to try growing something new for #Thanksgiving dinner this year. Not a bad harvest for a late summer planting, but no good ideas what to do with them. Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
November 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I've never even eaten a turnip, but wanted to try growing something new for #Thanksgiving dinner this year. Not a bad harvest for a late summer planting, but no good ideas what to do with them. Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
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Some of you never paid enough attention to professional wrestling and it shows. A surprising “face turn” always, always, ALWAYS ends back in a return to “heel”.
This is of course a post about Marjorie Taylor Greene.
This is of course a post about Marjorie Taylor Greene.
November 19, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Some of you never paid enough attention to professional wrestling and it shows. A surprising “face turn” always, always, ALWAYS ends back in a return to “heel”.
This is of course a post about Marjorie Taylor Greene.
This is of course a post about Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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A pair of snowy owls on the coast of Chicago
November 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
A pair of snowy owls on the coast of Chicago
This gives me glimmers of hope. Thank you.
"The ability to connect the past and present is one of the most crucial functions of learning history. A curriculum that ignores these connections promotes a kind of lie by omission. We owe it to our young people not to lie to them anymore."
"The ability to connect the past and present is one of the most crucial functions of learning history. A curriculum that ignores these connections promotes a kind of lie by omission. We owe it to our young people not to lie to them anymore."
I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
www.theatlantic.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This gives me glimmers of hope. Thank you.
"The ability to connect the past and present is one of the most crucial functions of learning history. A curriculum that ignores these connections promotes a kind of lie by omission. We owe it to our young people not to lie to them anymore."
"The ability to connect the past and present is one of the most crucial functions of learning history. A curriculum that ignores these connections promotes a kind of lie by omission. We owe it to our young people not to lie to them anymore."
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i am saddled with the thought of how different our world would be if we believed women.
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
i am saddled with the thought of how different our world would be if we believed women.
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Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves
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This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
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Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??
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A #birddivination for your Sunday. Find it as a solo print and part of the deck of 100, along with the story and process behind them, at almanacofbirds.org
November 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A #birddivination for your Sunday. Find it as a solo print and part of the deck of 100, along with the story and process behind them, at almanacofbirds.org
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A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.