American Redstart banded by researchers to track population changes. The program that manages this data is threatened with elimination.

“we were wealthy from the water…”
—Mitch Smallsalmon, 1977

“I know what I am asking is impossible. But in our time, as in every time, the impossible is the least that one can demand…”

— James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become.”

They are trying to illegally fire 200,000 government employees without cause.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

“A border guard spits cud onto a barbed wire fence, wraps braided rope across posts, says movement is dead. The country is closed to the outside while a virus breaches skin and mucous membranes; a visitor crosses intracellular spaces left unguarded.”

@doctoryasmin.bsky.social

The story of Fort Mose, like most stories, is a weave of race, colonialism, and climate.

this was 1738, before
america was America
this was wood storks
surrounded by salt marsh
this was surrounded by
steady sea levels