@soowrites
bilingual(🇬🇧🇰🇷) cellist/writer/lawyer poetry as contemporaneous reflection, contemplating such topics as expression, sensory inspiration, power and its abuse, community, healing & agency. sometimes painting I worked on this book: tinyurl.com/3kjjxabv
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The new season of our podcast is accompanied by a series of pieces published in partnership with KCET.
Today's is by Erika Bsumek at UT Austin about the work of botanist and suffragist Ellen Powell Thompson.
www.pbssocal.org/ellen-powell...
“The Middle East supplies a huge amount of the world’s fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the critical spring planting season.”
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This is not my image, nor was it my camera. My hats off to whoever took this beautiful picture. It shows that life will allow more than one species to benefit from one thing at once. Even Bees and Hummingbirds can share water or nectar.
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So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.
That's roughly $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
People do not want this.
They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
The House Oversight Committee voted in favor of the subpoena with bipartisan support.
The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.
Why ?
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Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.
But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
It's almost mushroom season here.
Here's a pair of yellow boletes from last spring.
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Raskin: Based on what you know today, were Renee Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists?
Noem: What happened was an absolute tragedy.
Raskin: Were they domestic terrorists?
Noem: My condolences to their families
Raskin: You lied about them.
Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) on agricultural soils is being considered as a carbon dioxide removal strategy. However, uncertainties remain regarding feedstock availability, plant-soil impacts, CDR efficiency, and socio-economic considerations, limiting large-scale deployment. 🧪
Trump's Deputy Attorney General has rescinded the Biden Justice Department's policy that tightly restricted when law enforcement agents executing a search could take the exceptional step of bursting into a home without knocking first — known as no-knock warrants. www.ms.now/news/justice...
Banning the words “freedom” and “innovation” would improve the clarity of our ruling class’ statements.
“Going to war is never free.” - there, fixed it
Going to try to be super brave and go to a book club at a bookstore I’ve never been to full of people I’ve never met this week just because they’re reading a book thats been on my TBR
A bunch of pale yellow primroses and their green leaves against a background of dried leaves, twigs and rotted bark at the bottom of my London garden.
I’m usually away at this time of year, invariably missing the moment when the primroses start blooming at the bottom of the garden. It is difficult to think of a plant that carries the hope and freshness of spring the way a primrose does. Worth staying home for.
debate among friends wrt the strike targets is whether or not the targeting of a school was on purpose.
it doesn't matter, bc they're not trying to pretend to distinguish military and civilian lives.
it would be woke and soy to care about dead children to these people.
"The Executive Branch is the branch most prone to war, therefore, the Constitution, with studied care, delegated the war power to the legislature." — James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 1798
Isn’t it! Nature continuing quietly and beautifully
Oh my
Lichen on fallen tree trunk
Day 1340 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and a nice and simple clump of lichen, enjoying a bit of warm morning sunshine 🤗 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
‘Nemo Me Impune Lacessit’ - original oil on canvas. Latin for ‘No one attacks me with impunity’. The national motto of Scotland, it stands as a warning above the gate of Edinburgh Castle - captured from the Esplanade beneath an electric storm. 40x30cm DM for price #edinburgh #artforsale #skies #art
NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional.
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
We can so easily descend into unchecked aggression.
What a gorgeous spring day, and what lovely creatures!
