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Pelicans are reclaiming a Louisiana island that very nearly vanished. The Houma Navigation Canal Bird Island near Cocodrie had shrunk so badly that less than one-third of its area still offered nesting habitat, but a $40 million restoration has made nearly 100% of the island usable for waterbirds again, at the same time as giving south Louisiana one more line of defence against storm surges. Nola.com https://www.nola.com/news/environment/pelican-island-coastal-restoration-louisiana-bird/article_0c302092-686c-49c3-ae9b-9ffc083dd206.html
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A rebuilt Louisiana island is providing a home for the state bird. 'A win-win.'

The revitalization of the remote island restores a key nesting area for scores of waterbirds, including Louisiana's state bird, the brown pelican.

NOLA.com

THMcGuire 3d ago

Ben 3d ago

If you use Ai images to support / highlight your post - even if you think they're hilarious - they undermine your point and your credibility

THMcGuire 3d ago

Jennifer C 3d ago

Nobody predicted frog costumes and choreography at the No Kings D.C. protest but here we are and honestly? We needed this. 🐸💃 Protestors dancing to “War — What Is It Good For?” reminds us that joy IS the resistance. You can’t crush a movement that knows how to dance. #NoKings2026

THMcGuire 4d ago

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Max Leibman 4d ago

Nonviolent resistance movements have historically become more likely to bring about change when a critical mass of the population (thought to be around 3.5%) gets involved. Are mass protests on a few Saturday a year "involved" enough to bring change about? Probably not. But it's a way in. It's building the muscle. You have to get someone to show up one day before you can get them to show up often, or every day, or for the long haul.

THMcGuire 5d ago

GayDeceiver 6d ago

Honestly… I thought that the Christian Rapture was a religious concept going back to the very beginning of the religion.

Nope. John Nelson Darby created it in the 1800s, after he had a fall and a knocked his nogging real hard.

Look him up. It’s a hoot.

THMcGuire 6d ago

Gooder Living 6d ago

Not every strange feeling is a problem to fix. Sometimes it’s just your brain stretching its legs and walking around the room a bit. #gooderliving

THMcGuire 6d ago

Gooder Living 6d ago

You don’t actually need to understand everything you’re doing. Most of your life already runs on "seems about right" and surprisingly, that’s been enough so far. #gooderliving

THMcGuire 6d ago

Texas Observer 6d ago

Featured story: "I returned to #Texas—not because I expected to fit in, but because it is home. And through a circuitous career path, I found myself a librarian sitting at the circulation desk of a high school library in Abilene." https://www.texasobserver.org/abilene-isd-librarian-book-ban/

#education #schools #politics #USpol #censorship #FreeSpeech #news

How a High School Librarian in Abilene Fought Back Against Moms for Liberty

I entered this profession just as the storm clouds of the current book-banning push were starting to gather; now I’m in the middle of it.

The Texas Observer

THMcGuire 6d ago

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myrmepropagandist Mar 25

To put it more succinctly: the way my job is structured "teaching" is thought of as something I do in a classroom with students. Maybe "teaching" is also grading papers and writing comments about how students are doing.

But teaching is also developing materials, deciding what to teach, how to teach it. Research, testing lesson ideas, refining them, tailoring the lessons to particular groups of students, or individual students.

THMcGuire Mar 25

Joanne Freeman Mar 25

Saturday, Peeps.

Saturday!

You don’t need to sign up for anything.

Just Google-find a meeting point, and show up!

The internal fuel of mass protest.

The proof that you’re not alone.

The proof that the majority is AGAINST this regime.

The energy boost to resistance of all kinds.

Go!