Good morning. Cozy today. #caturday
Lisa Schamess
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Writer, editor, strolling thinker.
Image: white woman with dark hair, laughing. I have a baby pic of me w/ just this expression! Banner: twilight sky through tree branches.
I hack at invasive vines in the woods when I’m not at my desk. #nature #geography #writing #nonprofits #science #scicomm #antiracist pronouns: they/she
William Lindsey 
"Here’s the thing: It was obvious that they were illegal from the minute Trump imposed them. The Constitution very clearly assigns that sort of power exclusively to Congress. The tariffs were an arbitrary exercise of power well outside the rule of law.
But the mainstream news reporters covering Trump just couldn’t bring themselves to say so."
~ Dan Froomkin
#Trump #SupremeCourt #tariffs #Constitution #media
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https://criticalread.substack.com/p/the-news-media-chose-not-to-tell
David Westwood
Happy Christmas to all who celebrate—and all who don’t! #christmas #holidays #family
https://lisaschamess.medium.com/the-best-lie-i-ever-told-my-kid-at-christmas-5fbce8b27129
https://lisaschamess.medium.com/the-best-lie-i-ever-told-my-kid-at-christmas-5fbce8b27129
Hope is a muscle. #newyear #newyear2026 #hope #resist https://medium.com/soulfight/hope-is-a-muscle-6842af5adf1d?sk=89d12fbd23fae878605defdc0196015e
Mind the Grackles! https://medium.com/the-new-outdoors/grackles-dont-get-no-respect-26c02e5c3cdb #birds #BirdsofFediverse @nature @medium
Birds: Why Grackles Deserve More Respect | The New Outdoors
Grackles can be mistaken for any number of other blackbirds, except as one writer describes them, they're like stretched-out crows. One thing Grackles have in common with crows and corvids generally is that they are smart, smart, smart.
Dan GillmorSad but totally unsurprising to see Bezos destroy the Washington Post brand in such a craven way...
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/feb/26/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion
Texas ObserverWrite an ode to misfits. A poem of praise for those who don’t belong here or there. A lyric ballad for the children of nowhere. https://www.texasobserver.org/poetry-prompts-for-detained-children/
Stephen Cornfordholy crap!
USGS now has publically available 3D elevation point cloud data for large areas of the United States.
(they might have had this for ages, but new to me!)
