Thank you. She was an extraordinary woman who touched so many lives.
Writer, addicted reader and climate activist, I live in San Francisco. Bluesky has helped me come to a reckoning with Trump and the 77 million Americans who voted for him. Books are my refuge, writing is my release. https://daverhodywriting.wordpress.com
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Thank you. She was an extraordinary woman who touched so many lives.
Survivors, victims, accusers - I don't think any of these words match up to the reality of what these women went through or underscore the strength and bravery of their testimony.
Trees are my friends 🌲 🦎 🌿 #greenwitchtea #greenwitch #harmnone #animism #nature #forest #trees #peace #love #bethechange
“I mean, I love it, and this is my dream job, and the shadow of Donald Trump is over everything I do.” - National Park Ranger - one of many doing the work of 3 rangers, many saying it's their last year. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Happy for my British friends - smuggling in 'Cali weed' from California - 8X more THC than what they're used to. Party on, dudes (and dudettes). www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
My dear friend, Sister Marion Irvine - the 'Flying Nun' - died Saturday 9/30 at the age of 95. In 1984 at age 54, she ran a 2:51 marathon becoming the oldest woman to ever qualify for the Olympic Trails. So much more, she was a champion for social justice: sheheroes.org/heroes/siste...
This image is from a Fox News feed -- I cut Jeanine Pirro's head off on purpose to focus on the message board below. The crap Fox feeds America is still jaw-dropping.
Brilliant!
This made my day.
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
The Revolution Wind farm was 80% complete when Trump stopped it. In the irony that has become ubiquitous to 2025, the fishermen who supplemented their incomes by working on the project (captains, deckhands, and fishing boat owners) mostly voted from Trump. www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
In arresting decorated Army Sgt. Bajun Mavalwalla II after he participated in an anti-ICE demonstration, the Trump administration violated his First Amendment rights. They want to see how much of our rights they can take away. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Kicking Bird (Ziŋtká Nagwáka) is unforgettable as is the man who portrayed him. May you rest with the Great Spirit, Graham.
"As the court today ruled, Trump is breaking the law by 'creating a national police force with the President as its chief.'" -Gov. Newsom with a win against the tyrant-in-chief
Let's hope this sets a strong precedence, cutting the legs out from under Trump's use of the National Guard: apnews.com/article/trum...
We're contaminating ourselves with our own shit.
Mitigating the climate crisis requires a global effort and the U.S. is now in a position of being grateful China isn't dropping the ball like we are. cleantechnica.com/2025/08/20/t...
...and I'm proud of that.
Coming soon.
Not only does Thunberg deserve a Nobel Peace Prize, it would have the added benefit of giving Trump a coronary.
If journalists today had any backbone they would be emulating Molly’s fearless commitment to speaking truth to power.
Pritzker's got it right. Sending US troops into Illinois, without a request from the governor, is nothing less than an invasion. @jbpritzker.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov
youtube.com/watch?v=K1Uj... Pammy Jo is a Monster!
Biden's massive IRA bill was a boon to jobs as well as clean energy. Pointing to Trump's clean energy purge, HCR says, "Trump often seems to construct policies mostly to erase the legacies of his predecessors." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Anyone who has a problem with Pride crosswalks is either homophobic or just plain stupid. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Trump administration chose its ambassadors to piss-off other countries. And they're doing a great job of it. The U.S. may never recover its standing in the global community. apnews.com/article/trum...
Greta Thunberg never set out to be famous, but no one uses their fame better. Leading the largest solidarity mission in history, 'with more people and more boats than all previous attempts combined', she's making history again and, as always, is on the right side of it.
In climate action, we distinguish between mitigation and resilience. Forests are the one thing essential to both. Trees mitigate climate change by sucking up CO2. And the capacity forests have to manage rain and cool the air is essential to resilience. @kneedeeptimes.bsky.social
There are dark forces at work when a legal immigrant can be snatched off the streets and held in detention for 13 days without any due process.
“When they look at the planet it’s hard to see a place for or trace of the small and babbling pantomime of politics on the newsfeed . . . If only politics really were a pantomime.” - Samantha Harvey / Orbital
“Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” — Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
"This is exactly how it happens — a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged. Then you wake up one morning and our country is different." - Mother Jones tells us the irrefutable truth. We are most definitely at the tipping point.
My mind needs a day off. So I leave you with my favorite goofy joke:
Yvonne @energyis.bsky.social this is a glorious pack of 💙💙 Democracy Defenders. Thank "you" for including me. Followed & Sharing. #StrongerTogether go.bsky.app/9pjZ4qh
I read Heather Cox Richardson today - as I do every day - and my gut tightens as I see the naked truth. We the people have never been so vulnerable. The government agencies that protect us are gone. People are going to die because of this. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-29-...
Sensible gun control is necessary as we continue to fight for our democracy.
When he wrote the song in 1971, critics and fans argued about whether Elton John was referring to Richard Nixon or Adolf Hitler. Now we know that he was prophesying Donald Trump.
'Sinking island' is a misnomer. It minimizes the global impact of what's happening. Rising sea levels are overwhelming islands and coming soon to a shoreline near you.
Listen to that shit -- "one of the world's foremost experts on public health" - RFK, Jr. - ??
Jim O'Neill is strongly allied with militarist techno-billionaire Peter Thiel and is a Trump sycophant.
In The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates notes that oppressors eventually devolve into self-absorbed incompetence. It's what we're beginning to see with the Trump administration. daverhodywriting.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/t...
Citizens United sent us down a path of self-destruction.
Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution explicitly and exclusively grants Congress the power to "lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises". If SCOTUS finds otherwise, they should be impeached.
We need a new word for this administration. Who about 'cotrumption' ?
Why would anyone feel betrayed by someone elses age of all things? That's some low self-esteem talking right there. I'm grateful too. I love it here.
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🚨Now in D.C. 🚨 “Hey hey, ho ho, millionaires have got to go!”
It's called 'swords to ploughshares'.
Betrayed? I feel grateful. #Bluesky
Homan isn't going to be happy until we have armed conflict - U.S. citizens battling it out with our own troops.
Wow!
So far, fossil fuel is winning. And we're slowly dying.
I don't see this has 'make-work'. I'd rather see these guys picking up trash than harassing citizens.
This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species Act. www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/laws...
🚨The worst of the worst criminals are going after kids with backpacks and leaving their scooters in the road. 📌 WAKE THE HELL UP AMERICA. We are running out of time. 🚨
The U.S. is not unpopular enough around the world, so let's stiff 'em again.
Another power-move by Trump, blocking $4.9 billion in foreign aid already approved by Congress. But I say 'by Trump' euphemistically. He's definitely not smart enough to come up with these strategies. Who's the puppet master? apnews.com/article/trum...
What an environmental disaster this would be - Trump wants to revive a slew of coal power plants that are set to retire. www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
1,000 Labor Day Protests happening across the U.S. An endless list of issues, the central theme is anti-Trump. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Wondering what to do with your Labor Day weekend? Mobilize. Join a 'Workers Over Billionaires' anti-Trump protest near you: www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Chicano journalist Rubén Salazar: “the Chicano’s ancestors, the Mayans and the Aztecs, founded highly sophisticated civilizations centuries before Columbus 'discovered' America." He was murdered by LA cops 55 yrs. ago today. - Heather Cox Richardson at her best. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
"Complete moral collapse of the United States government." - I couldn't have said it better myself.
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
With 300,000 fewer federal workers and government agencies gutted, it's much easier for Trump to take over everything. ICE agents terrorizing communities, troops taking over cities . . . just the beginning. TY - Heather Cox Richardson: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
August 27, 2025
The Trump administration is stripping us of protection -- from disasters, from consumer fraud, from poisons in our food, air and water . . . and disease: CDC Director fired because she "refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Newsom warns that Trump is definitely planning on a third term, elected or not. We should be paying attention. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
The steel industry was shifting to cleaner manufacturing methods. Then Trump came along. Even his own EPA reports poisonous gas polluting the communities around coal-burning steel plants. www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
Why did the Trump Administration award a $1.2 billion detention center contract to a firm with no experience? No one seems to know. But it's clear that, in addition to the horrible conditions that will exit inside, this deal wreaks with the stench of corruption. apnews.com/article/trum...
Mainstream U.S. climate reporting casts India and China as the big culprits. The truth: as Trump America stalls on clean energy, we're being outpaced by our scapegoats. @cleantechnica.bsky.social @kneedeeptimes.bsky.social
Electing a young progressive woman as their new prime minister, Lithuania shows us how to get it done.
Listen to the language - "We're going to drive out the homeless." To Duffy and all Trump's minions, unhoused people are as expendable as undocumented residents.
With Trump's minions trying to scrub the ugliness of slavery from American history, books like The Water Dance by Ta-Nehisi Coates become essential. daverhodywriting.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/t...
There is lots of hope to be had in this old world, even during the darkest of times. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
"The oft-mentioned tyranny being opposed by gun owners is really just the sense that the wrong people are encroaching on the privileges and prerogatives of whiteness." From 2020:
Every single day, I ask, 'How the hell did we let this happen?'
If it weren't for #Bluesky and cocktail hour with my wife -- both opportunities to express my rage against Trump and the MAGA mentality that has infested this country -- I would feel overwhelmed.
For the most part, broadcast media seems to ignore Trump day-by-day grab for power. They treat the invasion of cities by U.S. troops, for example, as Trump being tough on crime. Thank god we have someone telling us the awful truth. @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Bill McKibben, founder of the national climate action group 350.org, has done it again, establishing a national 'Clean Energy Day' -- called, of course, 'Sun Day.' This is the kind of clean energy momentum that can save us. @kneedeeptimes.bsky.social www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
U.S. oil and gas drilling sites are not just leaking methane - a GHG 80x more potent than CO2 - but also a host of toxic chemicals that pose an urgent threat to the health of those living nearby. Oil companies will be the death of us one way or another. e360.yale.edu/digest/gas-d...
Love the description of 'Mar-a-Lago face': "huge lips that look as if they could suck up a small child whole, frozen facial expressions, and cheeks so bulbous you could hide a gerbil underneath them." It's all about fealty to Trump. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
200 FEMA staff warned that recent changes by the Trump Administration could lead to “not only another national catastrophe like Hurricane Katrina, but the effective dissolution of FEMA itself and the abandonment of the American people.” Quick retribution followed. apnews.com/article/fema...
NutLick - Wrong again. Crooks run away. They definitely don't say, 'I'm not going anywhere.'
Is it just me, or is Hegseth aging one year for every day he's Defense Secretary?
Though my greatest hope is to see a progressive woman become President of the U.S. before I die, I sure would love AOC to be the one. @aoc.bsky.social
I love the legend. I love the image. Humanity at its best.
I have just one thing to say to this - 🤮
I hate litter and do a 'trash walk' through my neighborhood and Golden Gate Park twice a week. Yes, it's humbling. But it's useful -- definitely the best work the National Guard can do in D.C.
'Guns to a knife fight' -- I get it. But let's aim for a non-violent fight.
Good fucking point!
"This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city in a blue state to try and intimidate his political rivals." - Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker responding to Trump's plans to send the National Guard into Chicago open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Women's right to vote, enshrined by the 19th Amendment, is under attack by Hegseth and other Trump cronies. Reminding us of how hard women had to fight, Heather Cox Richardson is encouraging all of us, men and women alike, to fight once again. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Trump has no authority to remove someone from the Federal Reserve's board of governors, but when did illegality temper his actions. Fortunately, Fed governor Lisa Cook is fighting back! www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Trump is trying to stop the offshore wind industry in its tracks. Idiot that he is, he'll probably say it's because wind turbines cause cancer. www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...
In the face of Trump's anti-environment stance, I've tried to remain optimistic about the momentum of the clean energy movement. But as stories like this - from @canarymedia.com - keep piling up, it's hard not to face the truth. Climate action is failing. www.canarymedia.com/articles/emi...
Just like 'the beautiful black women who want him to send troops to Chicago', Trump says most Americans would prefer to live in an autocracy. Yep, he is batshit crazy. time.com/7312196/trum...