Kay-Bear
@kay-bear.bsky.social
Naturalist, reader of words, pictures, and nature’s signs, story teller, animal lover, tree hugger, star gazer, creek wader with a fly rod.
“Hellbenders, like all species, embody the story of the place where they live and hold a thread to the deep past and to a living future.”
Planetary Thinking: Hellbenders as Emissaries of Appalachia
Hellbenders are prehistoric salamanders that have thrived in cold rivers since before the continents divided. Once found throughout Appalachian watersheds, due to exploitation and habitat degradation ...
mds.marshall.edu
July 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
“Hellbenders, like all species, embody the story of the place where they live and hold a thread to the deep past and to a living future.”
Respite in summer light.
June 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Respite in summer light.
Rest when you need it, find joy in something everyday, and don’t give up.
Joyce Vance on Substack
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June 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Rest when you need it, find joy in something everyday, and don’t give up.
Here is some good news!
Amazing news to wrap up the week 🎉: The #Okefenokee swamp — one of the world's largest intact freshwater ecosystems — has been saved.
Today the Conservation Fund announced the purchase of the proposed Twin Pines mine site adjacent to the Okefenokee preserve.
More ➡️ biodiv.us/3HSnGFa
Today the Conservation Fund announced the purchase of the proposed Twin Pines mine site adjacent to the Okefenokee preserve.
More ➡️ biodiv.us/3HSnGFa
June 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Here is some good news!
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Captain: “What is it they’ve sent us?”
Leia: “Hope.”
Leia: “Hope.”
June 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Express yourself.
How to Wheat-Paste Posters
How to Wheat-Paste Posters
How to Wheat-Paste Posters (Published 2020)
www.nytimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Express yourself.
How to Wheat-Paste Posters
How to Wheat-Paste Posters
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Join us in standing up for the Endangered Species Act and all of the species this law protects.
By changing the meaning of a single word, the Trump administration could gut habitat protections for all endangered species. We can't let that happen.
Comment period closes on 5/19: biodiv.us/3YOLBe6
By changing the meaning of a single word, the Trump administration could gut habitat protections for all endangered species. We can't let that happen.
Comment period closes on 5/19: biodiv.us/3YOLBe6
May 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Reposted by Kay-Bear
$400 million "palace in the sky" private jets for him.
No toys for you.
No toys for you.
May 12, 2025 at 5:46 AM
$400 million "palace in the sky" private jets for him.
No toys for you.
No toys for you.
Self care = creek wading.
May 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Self care = creek wading.
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If it annoys you that the president is accepting airplanes from potentates, sign up for mass peaceful protest on June 14
Qatar may have a monarch but we don’t
thirdact.org/act/no-kings...
Qatar may have a monarch but we don’t
thirdact.org/act/no-kings...
No Kings! June 14 National Day of Action – Third Act
thirdact.org
May 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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They missed a typo. That should be “grift,” not gift.
Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources
President Trump poised to accept "palace in the sky" as a gift from Qatar: Sources
abcnews.go.com
May 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
They missed a typo. That should be “grift,” not gift.
Art is not neutral—it holds power, shapes culture, and carries history.
Wendy Red Star
Wendy Red Star
May 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Art is not neutral—it holds power, shapes culture, and carries history.
Wendy Red Star
Wendy Red Star
Cruelty is a strategy. We can resist. When we resist, we win.
For the authoritarian faction, cruelty is both strategic and useful, but it can be faced head-on and overcome. Today's briefing covers four tips to help confront cruel, dehumanizing, scapegoating tactics in ways that reject the division autocrats demand. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-not-to...
April 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Cruelty is a strategy. We can resist. When we resist, we win.
Wings and flippers up, y’all.
We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff
April 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Wings and flippers up, y’all.
👇This.
We need new leaders in Washington. I’m running for Senate to be one. Let’s go.
April 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
👇This.
Speaking truth to power, hour after hour.
LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
YouTube video by Associated Press
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April 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Speaking truth to power, hour after hour.
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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Self care includes finding joy in the little things.
March 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Self care includes finding joy in the little things.
Never ever give up.
Rebellions are built on hope.
March 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Never ever give up.
“Rand adopted an assumed name to seek government funds for her treatment.”
For the good of the Nation. 🤢 🇺🇸 🤢
If your Senator is a Republican, remind them that Ayn Rand depended on Social Security and Medicare.
(h/t @owdle77.bsky.social)
If your Senator is a Republican, remind them that Ayn Rand depended on Social Security and Medicare.
(h/t @owdle77.bsky.social)
Conservative Darling Ayn Rand Died Loving Government Handouts
A new book reveals that Ayn Rand, the late conservative author and opponent of the welfare state, actually relied quite heavily on welfare programs.
www.good.is
March 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
“Rand adopted an assumed name to seek government funds for her treatment.”
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He was always a used car salesman at heart.
March 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Agreed.
I have no idea what Mahmoud Khalil said, but I know that arresting him for saying it is un-American.
March 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Agreed.
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Musk is attempting to blame Ukraine for the X cyberattack, but word has already spread that it was a false flag. What is a false flag? A false flag operation is an act committed to disguise the actual source of responsibility and shift blame onto another party.
Musk is attempting to blame Ukraine for the X cyberattack, but word has already spread that it was a false flag. What is a false flag? A false flag operation is an act committed to disguise the actual source of responsibility and shift blame onto another party.
March 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Musk is attempting to blame Ukraine for the X cyberattack, but word has already spread that it was a false flag. What is a false flag? A false flag operation is an act committed to disguise the actual source of responsibility and shift blame onto another party.
Musk is attempting to blame Ukraine for the X cyberattack, but word has already spread that it was a false flag. What is a false flag? A false flag operation is an act committed to disguise the actual source of responsibility and shift blame onto another party.
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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that DOGE is subject to government transparency laws, allowing the public to access government records—a legal defeat for the White House, which had designated DOGE as an office exempt from open records laws.
March 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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