Steven Godfrey 🌳

anthropocene human • carpenter • citizen • community gardener • photographer • 🌎🔥⏳ • Let's go! • Beyond Twitter (RIP) ➡️ @itcaughtmyeye.bsky.social 🦋

[Steven Godfrey 🌳 @itcaughtmyeye]

It's hot and getting hotter, folks. Could be dangerously hot this week according to @JWagstaffe & @50ShadesofVan. Birds, bees and other pollinators will need some help beating the heat. Trays/ saucers of cool water, preferably in the shade, will do the trick. Thanks! #PNW #BCheat

[George Lakoff @GeorgeLakoff]

How to keep democracy alive in 2025:

1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it.

[Ty @50ShadesofVan]

Holy smokes. #BCStorm

[Timothy Caulfield @CaulfieldTim]

Misinformation Decided the US Election https://t.co/ijIyQmCSDh

"Polling data show that Donald Trump’s supporters were deeply misinformed about most of the campaign’s defining issues."

"If the answer is that more than half of the electorate wants to be misinformed, America – and indeed human civilization – is in serious trouble."

by @delong via @ProSyn #ScienceUpFirst

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay

[The Tyee @TheTyee]

“Fascism is not a static artifact wearing a brown shirt.

“This damnable political force evolves like a COVID virus with ever-changing variants.

“It is not so much a definable political choice as it is a conditioned response to disorder.”

https://t.co/FwhILlFM8E

[Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @ItsDeanBlundell]

11/12 The fight against authoritarianism isn’t just about preserving democracy—it’s about maintaining the ability to address critical issues like inequality, climate change, and social justice.

[Steven Godfrey 🌳 @itcaughtmyeye]

@ItsDeanBlundell 4. Read @TimothyDSnyder: https://t.co/3JPB6YdGEn

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.

[Michiko Kakutani @michikokakutani]

In “Handmaid’s Tale,” Offred recalls her previous life:
“We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
“Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.”

[nature @Nature]

“I've witnessed something that I feel is extremely bad, not just for the United States, but for all of us in the world.”

Scientists around the world expressed disappointment and alarm as Republican Donald Trump has secured a second term https://t.co/VVtrivXZeH

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Valencia ♥️

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Just a quick note here in advance of Trump and Musk crashing the economy in 2025: Trump voters are going to blame Democrats for that too.

Read up on fascism and cults and stop assuming we have a rational electorate that’s actually looking at economic indicators. It simply isn’t.

[Edgar McGregor @edgarrmcgregor]

The state that just had its western side blown apart by a climate-worsened hurricane.... voted for a climate denier.

I am speechless.

[Rick Steves @RickSteves]

I produce all my TV shows on my own dime and offer them to public television stations for free.

I support public broadcasting, and you should, too.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

This platform will be set all day and in days to come to promote lies about election fraud. If you see that, remember that it is part of a plan by losers to ruin our democracy.

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

Eight years later, waiting for the results of the most important election in American history, these words still ring true to me.

Cynicism is obedience. Refuse to give in.

Resilient hope, defiant optimism, purposeful positivity, faith: whatever you call it, embrace it today.

[Connie Walker @connie_walker]

Tonight, I’m thinking about Justice Murray Sinclair and of the times that I was lucky enough to hear him speak about his work with the TRC. This moment stands out for me. It’s his answer when he was asked, “Why can’t you just get over it?”

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

This cartoon. 🥺

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

Murray Sinclair was a great Canadian, a great Manitoban, a great Anishinaabe. 

His career stands as a legacy of public service and a deep commitment to truth, fairness and dignity for all people. 

He was the first Indigenous person to be named to the Manitoba provincial court and the Court of Queen’s Bench of Manitoba. He was the first, but he will be remembered as one of the best. 

He was appointed co-commissioner of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry, which laid bare systemic racism within the justice system and is considered a foundational perspective on the system’s relationship with Indigenous people. He led the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Inquest and his report spurred systematic change in the delivery of pediatric cardiac care in our province. 

The penultimate moment of his career was his work as chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. He approached a process that could have been divisive and instead transformed it into Calls to Action for the future of our country, helping all Canadians to learn to walk together into a future of respect and understanding where we live up to the phrase residential school survivors taught us – Every Child Matters. 

It will be a long time before our nation produces another person the calibre of Murray Sinclair. He showed us there is no reconciliation without truth. We should hold dear in our hearts his words that our nation is on the cusp of a great new era and we must all “dare to live greatly together.” 

On behalf of the people of Manitoba, I extend my condolences to his family and to all Canadians for the loss of Mazina Giizhik. 

A sacred fire will be open to the public on the north side of the legislative building grounds until Murray Sinclair’s funeral later this week.