Geoff Wisner
@geoffwisner.bsky.social
Author of A Basket of Leaves (2007). Editor of African Lives (2013), Thoreau's Wildflowers (2016), Thoreau's Animals (2017), A Year of Birds (2024), and George Templeton Strong: Civil War Diaries (January 2026!).
The eternal lure of the cardboard box.
December 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The eternal lure of the cardboard box.
Thoreau, Dec. 8, 1850. I find that the indigo-weed, whose shade still stands and holds its black seed-vessels, is not too humble to escape enemies.
December 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Thoreau, Dec. 8, 1850. I find that the indigo-weed, whose shade still stands and holds its black seed-vessels, is not too humble to escape enemies.
Reposted by Geoff Wisner
Hegseth's war crime spree. Trump's pardons and prosecutions. A big blue wave on the horizon. We break down the week's biggest stories on today's Coffee Klatch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUUA...
The “Peace President” Kills Again | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich
YouTube video by Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Hegseth's war crime spree. Trump's pardons and prosecutions. A big blue wave on the horizon. We break down the week's biggest stories on today's Coffee Klatch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUUA...
Thoreau, Dec. 7, 1856. The swamp white oak leaves are like the shrub oak in having two colors above and beneath. They are considerably curled, so as to show their silvery lining, though firm. Hardy and handsome, with a fair silver winter lining. [Photos Heritage Seedlings, YourLeaf.org]
December 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Thoreau, Dec. 7, 1856. The swamp white oak leaves are like the shrub oak in having two colors above and beneath. They are considerably curled, so as to show their silvery lining, though firm. Hardy and handsome, with a fair silver winter lining. [Photos Heritage Seedlings, YourLeaf.org]
Thoreau, Dec. 6, 1854. To Providence to lecture.... I see thick ice and boys skating all the way to Providence, but know not when it froze, I have been so busy writing my lecture; probably the night of the 4th....
December 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Thoreau, Dec. 6, 1854. To Providence to lecture.... I see thick ice and boys skating all the way to Providence, but know not when it froze, I have been so busy writing my lecture; probably the night of the 4th....
Reposted by Geoff Wisner
December 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Reposted by Geoff Wisner
When everyone knows it's probably Grandpa's last Christmas so everyone makes a big deal about him
December 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
When everyone knows it's probably Grandpa's last Christmas so everyone makes a big deal about him
Reposted by Geoff Wisner
Layoffs have hit over 1.1M so far this year — the most since the pandemic.
Yet corporate profits continue to hit record highs, with corporations increasingly spending those earnings on stock buybacks to enrich execs and shareholders.
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
Yet corporate profits continue to hit record highs, with corporations increasingly spending those earnings on stock buybacks to enrich execs and shareholders.
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
December 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Layoffs have hit over 1.1M so far this year — the most since the pandemic.
Yet corporate profits continue to hit record highs, with corporations increasingly spending those earnings on stock buybacks to enrich execs and shareholders.
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
Yet corporate profits continue to hit record highs, with corporations increasingly spending those earnings on stock buybacks to enrich execs and shareholders.
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
Reposted by Geoff Wisner
Hegseth lied after leaking classified information on Signal. He also lied after the second boat strike.
He is unfit to serve. Hegseth must resign.
He is unfit to serve. Hegseth must resign.
December 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Hegseth lied after leaking classified information on Signal. He also lied after the second boat strike.
He is unfit to serve. Hegseth must resign.
He is unfit to serve. Hegseth must resign.
Reposted by Geoff Wisner
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
Reposted by Geoff Wisner
Looks like hands groping a globe on Epstein island.
Like hands above the ocean tides holding onto to a shipwreck.
December 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Looks like hands groping a globe on Epstein island.
Reposted by Geoff Wisner
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Reposted by Geoff Wisner
There is no legitimate reason not to release the complete Sep. 2 video.
They released video of the first strike. What national security justification could there be for releasing video of the first part of the action but not the second? They wanted to cover up what happened after the first strike.
They released video of the first strike. What national security justification could there be for releasing video of the first part of the action but not the second? They wanted to cover up what happened after the first strike.
December 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
There is no legitimate reason not to release the complete Sep. 2 video.
They released video of the first strike. What national security justification could there be for releasing video of the first part of the action but not the second? They wanted to cover up what happened after the first strike.
They released video of the first strike. What national security justification could there be for releasing video of the first part of the action but not the second? They wanted to cover up what happened after the first strike.
Reposted by Geoff Wisner
News:
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is taking full responsibility for ignoring Judge Boasberg's order to turn around deportation planes back in March.
Let's see what the judge does with this.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is taking full responsibility for ignoring Judge Boasberg's order to turn around deportation planes back in March.
Let's see what the judge does with this.
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
News:
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is taking full responsibility for ignoring Judge Boasberg's order to turn around deportation planes back in March.
Let's see what the judge does with this.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is taking full responsibility for ignoring Judge Boasberg's order to turn around deportation planes back in March.
Let's see what the judge does with this.
If you are both a Thoreau nerd and a fungus nerd, this may interest you. (Anybody?)
I think I've identified what Thoreau calls the "geiropodium" fungus, which he describes as something like an earthstar, only red.
I think I've identified what Thoreau calls the "geiropodium" fungus, which he describes as something like an earthstar, only red.
December 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If you are both a Thoreau nerd and a fungus nerd, this may interest you. (Anybody?)
I think I've identified what Thoreau calls the "geiropodium" fungus, which he describes as something like an earthstar, only red.
I think I've identified what Thoreau calls the "geiropodium" fungus, which he describes as something like an earthstar, only red.
Thoreau, Dec. 5, 1853. I rode home from the woods in a hay-rigging, with a boy who had been collecting a load of dry leaves for the hog-pen; this the third or fourth load.
December 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Thoreau, Dec. 5, 1853. I rode home from the woods in a hay-rigging, with a boy who had been collecting a load of dry leaves for the hog-pen; this the third or fourth load.
Reposted by Geoff Wisner
When I bought my toilet with a camera that watches me shit I never dreamed it would be used for something weird.
December 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
When I bought my toilet with a camera that watches me shit I never dreamed it would be used for something weird.
Reposted by Geoff Wisner
I’m not usually afraid of moss, but every now and then…
(Sphagnum moss with spore capsules, #Newfoundland Canada)
#moss #bryophyte #fungifriends #hiking
(Sphagnum moss with spore capsules, #Newfoundland Canada)
#moss #bryophyte #fungifriends #hiking
December 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I’m not usually afraid of moss, but every now and then…
(Sphagnum moss with spore capsules, #Newfoundland Canada)
#moss #bryophyte #fungifriends #hiking
(Sphagnum moss with spore capsules, #Newfoundland Canada)
#moss #bryophyte #fungifriends #hiking
Reposted by Geoff Wisner
The President is actively dying right next to his team of simps yelling about what a Big Strong Leader Man he is. Just sitting there, eyes closed, croaking in front of our eyes.
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The President is actively dying right next to his team of simps yelling about what a Big Strong Leader Man he is. Just sitting there, eyes closed, croaking in front of our eyes.
Dec. 4, 1854. Already the bird-like birch scales dot the snow. [Photos by Jennifer Brockway, Susan Pike] www.somersetswcd.org/woodlands-bl...
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Dec. 4, 1854. Already the bird-like birch scales dot the snow. [Photos by Jennifer Brockway, Susan Pike] www.somersetswcd.org/woodlands-bl...
Reposted by Geoff Wisner
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Reposted by Geoff Wisner
The Nodfather.
December 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The Nodfather.
George Templeton Strong, Dec: 21, 1867, Saturday. C.E.S. off for Providence by the Shore Road. R.R. travel is a solemn business, witness the frightful slaughter at “Angola”, a station 20 miles west of Buffalo.
December 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
George Templeton Strong, Dec: 21, 1867, Saturday. C.E.S. off for Providence by the Shore Road. R.R. travel is a solemn business, witness the frightful slaughter at “Angola”, a station 20 miles west of Buffalo.
Reposted by Geoff Wisner
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social