It is good to hear something besides avarice and defeat.

@blueskyartshow.bsky.social #light #kourbus #tunisia

Men with power tools at dusk. High adorableness en route to the village of Dead Deep, beneath Old Deep mountain. #balkans #mrtvica

Remembering my love for this world. #balkans #beauty

We should kill off the weak?

The family of a young British tourist is pleading for legal help in releasing their daughter from an ICE detention center, where she’s been held for ten days after being classified as an “illegal alien.” Becky Burke was on a backpacking trip across North America. #tourism #crimmigration

Protests continue throughout Montenegro after the inept police response to the country’s second mass shooting on January 1. Tomorrow, educators and artists will join students in the nation’s old capital of Cetinje in a march to the police station. #Balkans #Montenegro

Standing in line at the grocery, eavesdropping, I’m struck at how much more regular people here understand about government than the people sending the memos. If only confirmation hearings included nyc cab drivers or the halal truck owner.

Today’s news was an acid bath. Here’s a tree. One of my favorite trees, a chestnut I think, on an old shepherding route between the Adriatic Sea and the biggest lake in southern Europe. Below, a village of abandoned homes.There are wrought iron fences and stone walls and persimmons.

Stop getting dark while I’m sitting at my desk please, it gives me ennui.

Hello! I’m a journalist and researcher who loves wild places. Geopolitics, law, courts. More soon, friends. #freepress