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• Post #4066367

  "Here, at this half-ass state park without a sign, with its cracked concrete bench and triangle of dying cottonwoods, the Missouri joins the Mississippi, meeting not like a ballet, or a twisting of silk scarves, but maybe like construction workers, shaking hands before a building forever half-built. And what is there to do now but love this unfinished work of the river, carrying everything it has ever been given: snow-melt streams like a cold bandana circling its neck, shreds of styrofoam c...

• Post #3919525

  "The Greenland shark is the planet's oldest vertebrate, reckoned to be somewhere between 272 and 512 years old. They are slow, as befits a fish so venerable. They live deep-down and secret lives. I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don't have enough thoughts to fill five hundred years. But I find the very idea of them hopeful. They will see us pass through whichever spinning chaos we may currently be living through, and the crash that will come after it, and they will live...

• Post #3312330

  And now I'm wondering how many multinationals are quietly supporting Starmer's "closer ties with the EU" so they can pay slavery-level wages here too. "A social dumping disaster? EU’s ‘ 28th Regime’ plans could help corporations bypass member state rules" https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/social-dumping-disaster-eus-28th-regime #EUPol #FairPay #JoinAUnion #WorkersRights

• Post #3312329

  "Short of some drastic and unexpected intervention, divine or otherwise, it will be a permanent change in the climate. And short of the arrival of some kind of Noah’s Ark, the British university as we know it is destined for extinction sooner rather than later." https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/irreversible #UKPolitics #Education

• Post #3312328

  Students at the Conservatori Superior de Dansa de València showed their support for striking teachers from the stage of the Palau de la Música last night. The president of the region was in attendance at the performance. #FairPay #Protest #Education

• Post #3312327

  “When you have a class of people who are hyper-exploited, then that brings down the conditions of the entire working class.” Karl Schwartz, a library worker in Newark, speaking from yesterday's picket outside Delaney. Some good news from last night - all pregnant inmates, and at least two under 21s, have been released (ICE guards were asking all under 21s to identify themselves, but only two releases have been confirmed). The freedom of these categories of prisoner were two of the dem...

• Post #3312326

  Global uprising in defence of immigration: US edition People across Texas took to the streets this weekend, condemning Greg Abbot's racist agenda. #USPolitics #ClassWar #MigrationIsNotACrime #Racism

• Post #3312325

  "But, in the end, whether people know how small a portion of time is given to the butterfly, how large a portion to the caterpillar, does not matter. For they can never infect the caterpillar with their anxious urges to 'Become!'. A small apple-green caterpillar who somehow loses a foothold while walking across a stem to get to a leaf, slips and is hanging on by only two crotchet-hooked feet, is not thinking: 'Alack! I shall fall into the icy water! I shall b...

• Post #3312324

  "Summer on the high plateau can be delectable as honey; it can also be a roaring scourge. To those who love the place, both are good, since both are part of its essential nature. And it is to know its essential nature that I am seeking here. To know, that is, with the knowledge that is a process of living. This is not done easily nor in an hour. It is a tale too slow for the impatience of our age, not of immediate enough import for its desperate problems. Yet it has its own rare value....

• Post #2852748

  G'nite

• Post #2549998

  Cornell University is deeply connected and profits directly from funding via weapons manufacturers and oil companies. When the war on Gaza began, the chair of the board also sat on the board of a weapons company, whose share price has more than doubled since 7th October 2023. Students who protest on campus against these companies, or calling for an end of the genocide, are routinely suspended without investigation. Recently, President Michael Kotlikoff drove his car directly at students. He...

• Post #2534467

  This is how to do it. Every major highway in Bolivia is blocked today - the third day of a national strike - calling for the resignation of neoliberal president Rodrigo Paz. More people from every town and village are joining the march as protesters head for La Paz. #CivilRights #ClassWar #Protest

• Post #2455881

  Quite amazing how Keith can even make a dogfight within his own party over whether he should resign a total snooze-fest. #UKPolitics

• Post #2440743

  Seen on the entrance to Spain's exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Twenty-seven pavillions closed their doors, in protest at the prescence of Israel at the festival. #FreePalestine #BoycottIsrael #DontArtwashGenocide

• Post #2415895

  Morning Mastonauts ✊ 👋 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #UKPolitics #CymruAmByth #Annibynniaeth

• Post #2390047

  Keir Starmer's "values". #UKPolitics

• Post #2328865

  Some good news from the US. The Lakota Youth, who chained themselves to drilling equipment at the sacred site of Pe' Sla, are victorious! https://indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/they-planted-their-feet-on-sacred?r=9iuka&triedRedirect=true&_src_ref=t.co #DirectActionWorks #USPolitics #ClimateCatastrophe #LandBack