On the UN's draft treaty on #plastic #pollution , including in the marine #environment .
https://www.wired.com/stor...
https://www.wired.com/stor...
06:26 PM - Sep 28, 2023
#LevarBurton : “Books bring us together. They teach us about the world and each other.The ability to read and access books is a fundamental right...But books are under attack. Shelves have been emptied because of a small number of people and their misguided efforts toward censorship." #bannedbooks
12:30 PM - Sep 24, 2023
#Bookbans are on the rise. According to PEN America, in the 2022–23 school year, there were 3,362 instances of book bans in US public school classrooms and libraries. Read the full report here:
https://pen.org/report/boo...
https://pen.org/report/boo...
09:19 AM - Sep 21, 2023
I'm grateful to have made the longlist for Alternating Current Press's Electric Book Award in poetry. Congrats to all of those chosen and good luck for the next round!
https://medium.com/the-coi...
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11:29 AM - Sep 20, 2023
Today I learned that plant roots are attracted to 220 Hz sounds, which means they can hear. Trees also talk and smell. Amazing.
livescience.com
#nature
https://www.livescience.co...
livescience.com
#nature
https://www.livescience.co...
07:23 PM - Aug 04, 2023
“I think when the history of this period is written, our children, our grandchildren will ask, ‘What were you doing when our house of democracy was on fire?'”
https://www.motherjones.co...
https://www.motherjones.co...
06:52 AM - Jul 31, 2023
#HillaryClinton : "This is a terrible moment for our country to have a former president accused of these terribly important crimes. The only satisfaction may be that the system is working."
#trumpindictment
#trumpindictment
'A terrible moment for our country': Clinton reacts to string of Donald Trump indictments
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks with Rachel Maddow about her feelings about the indictments and accusations Donald Trump is facing, noting that she does not feel any satisfaction at having predicted Trump's authoritarian inclinations and expressing "great, profound sadness&..
06:58 AM - Aug 15, 2023
A tribute to #SineadOConnor on Bray Head, Co, Wicklow. The letters measure more than 30ft tall and were created by tenthmanhello Agency & mack_signs__ ❤️
05:41 AM - Aug 07, 2023
Today I'm thinking of Harry Dunn/ @LibraDunn , #MichaelFanone , #AquilinoGonnell , and the other extraordinary officers who defended our Capitol on #Jan6 . I'm so grateful for them and pray that some accountability is coming for what they endured.
05:44 PM - Aug 03, 2023
The fight for gender equality continues for the 100th year since the 1923 Seneca Falls Convention. This summer, #VoteEqualityUS , #AAUW , #genratify , #Maryland_NOW , & #LWV are joining forces to demand the publication of the #EqualRightsAmendment in the US Constitution. #ERAYes
06:38 AM - Jul 21, 2023
This April, Jenna Villforth Veazey launched the #Poetry on the Trail project on the Dahlgren Railroad Heritage Trail in King George Co. The project continues to evolve & was profiled this week in the local Free-Lance Star. I'm grateful to have work included in this special space in #Virginia .
07:23 AM - Jul 08, 2023
07:59 AM - Jul 07, 2023
Please read and share my latest on the obligation of the Supreme Court’s majority to maintain its own legitimacy.
"It is not the job of the dissent to make the majority opinion seem reasonable."
https://www.democracydocke...
"It is not the job of the dissent to make the majority opinion seem reasonable."
https://www.democracydocke...
08:02 AM - Jul 06, 2023
Happy Fourth. 🇺🇸
"UNITED" by Naomi Shihab Nye
When sleepless, it’s helpful to meditate on mottoes of the states.
South Carolina, “While I breathe I hope.” Perhaps this could be
the new flag on the empty flagpole...
https://poets.org/poem/uni...
"UNITED" by Naomi Shihab Nye
When sleepless, it’s helpful to meditate on mottoes of the states.
South Carolina, “While I breathe I hope.” Perhaps this could be
the new flag on the empty flagpole...
https://poets.org/poem/uni...
08:46 PM - Jul 04, 2023
PLEASE ECHO
https://www.dailykos.com/s...
https://www.dailykos.com/s...
Democrats need to flip just three seats to win back the Virginia House this year
The field is now set for all 100 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates following Tuesday’s primaries, setting up one of the most consequential election battles of the year. Riding now-Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s coattails in 2021, Republicans brought an...
08:44 PM - Jun 28, 2023
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09:37 AM - Jul 01, 2023
#scotus just issued a ruling legitimizing unlawful discrimination in the name of religious freedom in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis. The plaintiff's case was built around a request for gay wedding website that never happened.
!?!?
!?!?
02:22 PM - Jun 30, 2023
This conservative SCOTUS, faced with a policy they disliked, just blew up #studentloanforgiveness even though Biden cancelled the debt legally via the HEROES Act (a 2003 law enacted by George W. Bush).
You know, even colonial indentured servitude ended after 7 years.
You know, even colonial indentured servitude ended after 7 years.
12:57 PM - Jun 30, 2023
Justice Jackson: "Deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life...
The best that can be said of the majority’s perspective is that it proceeds (ostrich-like) from the hope that preventing consideration of race will end racism.” #scotus
The best that can be said of the majority’s perspective is that it proceeds (ostrich-like) from the hope that preventing consideration of race will end racism.” #scotus
12:55 PM - Jun 30, 2023
Not good news for coastal #Virginia . 1-in-100 year storms now
Hampton: 13 yrs
Newport News: 14 yrs
Norfolk: 16 yrs
Portsmouth: 19 yrs
Va Beach: 25 yrs
Hope it's better for you.
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.washingtonpost...
Hampton: 13 yrs
Newport News: 14 yrs
Norfolk: 16 yrs
Portsmouth: 19 yrs
Va Beach: 25 yrs
Hope it's better for you.
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.washingtonpost...
06:55 AM - Jun 28, 2023
It's still #PrideMonth , y'all. Check out these poems by #DC -area writers in celebration. #Poetry #lgbtq
https://www.pridepoems.com
https://www.pridepoems.com
08:14 AM - Jun 27, 2023
Happy birthday to the “Mother of Afrofuturism,” Octavia E. Butler, who was born #OTD in 1947 in Pasadena, California! Learn more about her literary and cultural impact in the Smithsonian #NMAAHCFutures exhibition and companion book
https://nmaahc.si.edu/afro...
https://nmaahc.si.edu/afro...
08:21 AM - Jun 22, 2023
The #GlastonburyFestival opens today. In honor, here are a few #soundscapes from past festivals. https://www.vam.ac.uk/arti...
08:40 AM - Jun 21, 2023
"While at the equinoxes the sun rises and sets due east and west, respectively, during June's solstice it rises in the NE and sets in the NW. Across the world, there are hundreds of monuments, temples and other buildings aligned to the solstice."
🌌☀️🏛️ #SummerSolstice #archaeology #Astronomy
🌌☀️🏛️ #SummerSolstice #archaeology #Astronomy
10:55 AM - Jun 20, 2023
“The enemies of equality, the enemies of freedom, have always recognized that the 1st thing you attack when you want to strip people of their rights is the imagination—the ability to imagine those rights in the 1st place.” Ta-Nehisi Coates #BannedBooks
https://www.youtube.com/wa...
https://www.youtube.com/wa...
2023 PEN World Voices Festival: ARTHUR MILLER LECTURE: TA-NEHISI COATES - YouTube
PEN America’s annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture will be delivered by MacArthur Fellow Ta-Nehisi Coates. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, the...
08:15 AM - Jun 12, 2023
