Windhorse

@windhorse.bsky.social

Conservation, democracy, human rights, anti-fascism. Democrat living in the beautiful Great Lakes State. Corporate escapee turned one-time butterfly farmer, full-time cat butler. Education is key to our survival but beauty will save the world.

FTA. I'm sitting in a room right now with 2 of the best people on planet earth who have degrees in religion & library science respectively and they've spent their lives helping people and building bridges of cultural understanding in the Middle East and elsewhere. Trump isn't fit to tie their shoes.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

What if Eden wasn't a place, but a relationship? A relationship with our fellow humans A relationship with the land A harmony with nature What if The Fall was a shift in mindset? A disconnect with whom we evolved to be When life became a series of transactions When love became proprietary

Nature is biocentric. The *laws* of nature are biocentric. We are just a part of the web of life. By living anthropomorphically and treating nature and living things as dead, worth only to eat or sell, we've unbalanced ourselves and the planet and are teetering on the brink of our own destruction.

Larisa A. White@larisa-a-white.com · last yr.

Great article by Dana O'Driscoll of the AODA, on how Druids (and others) can develop honorable relationships with Nature, rather than seeing it only as a resource for use by humans. /|\ thedruidsgarden.com/2025/02/09/r...

“Ex Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel to infiltrate A.I. chatbots… Clock Tower X holds a $46.5 million contract with the Israeli government…”

Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.

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Yep 100%! That's because those are jobs the local gentry can't gatekeep. So if you ever wondered why local leaders in rural areas keep getting rid of schools & medical services & thought "That makes no sense!" Now you know why they do that. Public services bring people they can't control. 💀

Mom for Gliberty@fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 5d ago

It's also notable that rural areas with some sort of middle class employment center tend to be much less right wing. Places with colleges, federal projects, etc. Even the conservative small towns with the hospital or county seat are usually a bit less stiflingly right wing.

Trump touts the excellent work by the Board of Peace-convincing Hamas to disarm in Gaza Except Hamas didn't agree to disarm And Netanyahu said Israel doesn't accept the deal either But-other than that-truly "HISTORIC" 🙄

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Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5d ago

Trump: "Today, the Board of Peace reached a HISTORIC agreement for the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas." Hamas: "We didn’t say disarmament, we didn’t say handing over the weapons." www.wsj.com/world/middle...

This 👇🏻. He's shooting for the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France. What he's getting is a Temu version of Washington, D.C., that looks like a gaudy Las Vegas casino, all while he robs the Treasury, the debt skyrockets, the economy crashes, and people are being killed in his wars. #corruption

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 7d ago

The guy who campaigned on grocery prices is gold-plating horse statues on our dime. It’s going to be hard to tell the difference between Washington, DC and the Las Vegas Strip in a minute.

The Trump administration spent $5.1 million to coat four iconic bronze horse statues in Washington, D.C. with 23.75-karat gold leaf. Federal records show the contract was awarded without a full, traditional competitive bidding process due to its "urgency” but no Medicare part D

Not a great photo but a great encounter with a butterfly I've never seen or even heard of before, a Northern Pearly Eye. They have a very unusual diet of fungi, sap, carrion (!) and dung, and will often get minerals from damp gravel or sand. This guy was on gravel near bear scat, so: buffet!

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