@teledamage@jimstewartson If only every journalist and member of Congress was more frightened of fascism than their jobs, imagine where we'd be now. Likely looking forward to a truly celebratory 250th anniversary.
@Microinteracti1 I'm with you except for Reagan. He's at the top of my list as the president most influential in giving us the likes of trump/maga. RR despised the federal government and his hatred had a tremendous negative impact on our politics for decades, and lives on.
Today, as I entered the campus of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem to speak at a conference, I noticed again a simple but powerful reality: most of the students walking through the gates at that moment were young women — many of them Palestinian students from East Jerusalem, my own city.
For me, this was a living example of something many people have forgotten: Israelis and Palestinians are still capable of coexistence, partnership, and building a shared future together.
Those who believe that October 7 and the terrible war that followed permanently destroyed every possibility of trust and human connection are wrong.
Something was broken. Deeply broken. But not beyond repair.
Every day, in hospitals, universities, businesses, and ordinary human encounters, Israelis and Palestinians continue to prove that another reality is still possible.
The picture below is living evidence.
@Microinteracti1 I worry about residual radiation effect on their health & genes. But this reminds me of the first year of covid.
Animals emerged in cities, suburbs. They must have been thrilled with the lack of cars and people. And I was so happy for them.
Mother Nature always bats last.
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we live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through underground networks. where octopuses dream. where elephants return to the bones of their dead and stand over them in silence. where bees communicate through dance, showing each other where to fly. where flowers bloom...where crows remember human faces -especially those who were cruel to them - and pass that memory on to their young. where ants build entire cities. where cats purr at a frequency that can help heal bones. where forests, after fires, grow flowers first.
This is appalling.
Indigenous people are the original inhabitants of this continent and, here in New Mexico, we live that truth every day. The fact that the Solicitor General of the United States would hesitate on our citizenship is outrageous and horrific. He doesn’t understand basic American history or the law, and he has no business holding this position.