"A strange paradox: in his freshman year, my former student ... was required by Martin to read a book insisting that free society tolerates Nazi protests. A year after [he] graduated, Martin had him arrested for pro-Palestinian protest."

Starter pack: go.bsky.app/UxQCnfV. Should have all 122 in there, but a couple of the handles are misbehaving in search so a chance something is amiss.

20-30 inches--and perhaps locally 40+ inches--of rain fell along highest ridges of the Southern Appalachians due to 1-2 punch consisting of extreme "predecessor rain event" (PRE) that was historic in its own right followed by further extreme rain directly from #Helene. [2/n]

Can I bring to your attention the baby rhino I saw at the wildlife preserve today

I knew a biologist--still do technically, she's not dead--who went on a field expedition and came home with a NASTY code. No symptoms but absolutely DEVASTATING congestion. She was talking like a plugged-up cartoon character for months. Nothing helped.

Free public transit is one of the simplest ways to fight climate change and environmental destruction and poverty in one go, and it would cost a fraction of police budgets in many places...and yet here we are.