Today in The Daily Gathering: supertankers slipping out of Hormuz, the porta-potty doctrine arriving on a South Carolina school lawn, 160 megawatts pointed at Cape Town's already-shaky grid, motherwort for the anxious pulse, the elderflower opening anyway along the creek beds. Hard news and plant medicine in the same breath because the body keeps two ledgers and we will not pretend otherwise. Thistle and Moss has no paywall. We exist because paid readers and ad-clickers refuse to let us go dark. If today's images moved you — if the work matters — click an advertiser, share a post, subscribe, send it to one person who needs it. Mycelium under the forest floor. The long slow conversation through soil the chainsaws never reach.
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Imagine the frame: a plastic chemical toilet placed on grass outside a South Carolina elementary school, late May sun bleaching the blue siding. A 14-year-old has to walk past her classmates to use it. The bathroom inside is locked to her. HB 4756 — the Student Physical Privacy Act — signed by Henry McMaster Friday. South Carolina becomes the 22nd state to pass a trans bathroom ban, per the Movement Advancement Project. The bill mandates same-sex college roommates (already near-universal practice), which makes the porta-potty clause the actual point. Idaho criminalized trans bathroom use in April with possible life imprisonment. A child should not have to walk past her classmates to a plastic box in a parking lot to relieve herself. A child.
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King David Golf Club, Cape Town. Green so cultivated it looks computer-rendered. Underneath: a city whose Day Zero water crisis four years ago made every front page on earth, a grid that still rolls blackouts. Equinix wants 160 megawatts here — two data centers, power equivalent for 130,000 South African households. The application discloses no substantive detail on water use, emissions, diesel capacity, or even the buildings themselves. Foxglove and the Housing Assembly filed formal objection this week. Rosa Curling: "There is simply not enough information for a decision on a project of this scale." The land remembers what the contracts forget. So does the well running dry under the green.
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Drone footage at dusk: the Strait of Hormuz lying flat and metallic, the haze coming off Musandam like smoke off a held cigarette. Then the hulls move. The Yuan Gui Yang and the Ocean Lily — Chinese-flagged, Hong Kong-flagged — clear the chokepoint after sitting at anchor since mid-March. Four million barrels. Two months of waiting. Trump says Iran is "begging." Brent crude hits its 2022 high. The U.N. cuts global growth to 2.5%. Low-income families in developing countries eat the cost first; the U.N. report names them. When an empire pauses, it is not mercy. It is bookkeeping.
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A little closer of the road from above looks like a mosaic from the decades of graffiti voices layered over each other. I may have added some tags over the decades.

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