Geoff Wisner
@geoffwisner.bsky.social
Author of A Basket of Leaves (2007). Editor of African Lives (2013), Thoreau's Wildflowers (2016), Thoreau's Animals (2017), A Year of Birds (2024), and George Templeton Strong: Civil War Diaries (January 2026!).
personally I think "overhauled" underplays what happened which is that at least 300,000 federal workers lost their jobs
The Washington Sun@washingtonsun.com · 4d agoDOGE overhauled the federal workforce and slashed government spending — moves that inspired nationwide protests and lawsuits. The backlash has given Democrats nationally an opportunity to reclaim the government efficiency mantle.
Armed Israeli settlers on Tuesday beat an AFP photographer, leaving him requiring hospital treatment, as he covered ongoing violence by settlers against West Bank olive farmers. u.afp.com/S9Fe
OK one more tip, it's a big one. It's ol boy himself. He's using his office to enrich himself, did you know? Please look into it.
Trump Family Digital Grift Wealth Tracker | The U.S. House Committee on Oversight
The Official U.S. Congressional website of The Democrat Oversight Committee
oversightdemocrats.house.gov
also, did you know that former DHS secretary Kristi Noem bought planes for millions of taxpayer dollars from a donor? That's another thing to look into. It was in the Times yesterday.
Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
nytimes.com
OK thank you for letting me know, the government. I have another tip you should look into which is that "Border Czar" Tom Homan accepted a $50,000 cash bribe from undercover F.B.I. agents.
Jacob Silverman@jacobsilverman.com · 14h agoSeems like this would require accomplices. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/forme...
Biden: The MAGA wing, well gosh, listen, they’re, it’s, a bit of a flirt with fascism, no kidding around Media: Democratic rhetoric invites political violence Trump: The nuclear flames that burn every mongrel soul in San Diego will be a cleansing fire. Media: Trump makes his case in Nebraska
Last day for Library of America's Fall Preview sale! Get my new book George Templeton Strong: Civil War Diaries for only $27.20. That's an additional 15% off the already discounted direct-order price! Not bad for a hardcover with 300,000 words plus appendices. www.loa.org/books/
[LIke Robert Frost in "A Drumlin Woodchuck," Thoreau notes that woodchucks have a back door.] Oct. 5. 1851. Observed that the woodchuck has two or more holes, a rod or two apart: one, or the front door, where the excavated sand is heaped up; another, not so easily discovered, very small, round,
Oct. 3, 1851. Minott is, perhaps, the most poetical farmer — who most realizes to me the poetry of the farmer's life — that I know. He does nothing with haste and drudgery, but as if he loved it. He makes the most of his labor, and takes infinite satisfaction in every part of it. [Art by N.C. Wyeth]
Thoreau, Oct. 3, 1852. Hear the loud laughing of a loon on Flint's, apparently alone in the middle. A wild sound, heard far and suited to the wildest lake. Many acorns strew the ground, and have fallen into the water. [Loon on Sandy (Flint's) Pond by Norman Levey.]
The only name that belongs on the Kennedy Center is John F. Kennedy. Period. It's a memorial to a slain American president. Why is this so hard for Trump and the GOP to understand? #ResistTrump
Angie Nixon@angieforfl.bsky.social · 4d agoFolks have insulted: My Southern drawl. My loc’d hair. My clothes. My shoes. My intelligence. I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida
He’s even getting lazy at cheating and thieving. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Trump steals tax dollars to run his old campaign ad
What’s old is new again—this time with the theft of your tax dollars.
dailykos.com
Thoreau, Oct. 2, 1852. The beggar-ticks (Bidens) now adhere to my clothes. I also find the desmodium sooner thus as a magnet discovers the steel filings in a heap of ashes than if I used my eyes alone. [Photos Cbaile19, Prairie Moon Nursery]
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoHegseth: "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top."
When historians reflect on this regime, cruelty will be the word most often used to define it. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-deports-children
'Monstrous' US Deportation Hearings for Children Who 'Have No One' Shock Consciences | Common Dreams
Children as young as 3 facing deportation orders without legal representation in immigration court hearings. How can we
commondreams.org
Nobody asked for this gross fucking AI slop. STOP. You are legit maga coded. Stop fucking using this shit and make your own content you lazy fuck.
This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:
