Rick
@ricktgarrett.bsky.social
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“If we all light up, we can scare away the dark” ~ Passenger 🎶 🎧
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“If we all light up, we can scare away the dark” ~ Passenger 🎶 🎧
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@ricktgarrett.bsky.social
· Oct 18
“The only way to defeat fear is to tell it: NO”
~ Captain Michael Burnham, Star Trek Discovery 🖖🏼
~ Captain Michael Burnham, Star Trek Discovery 🖖🏼
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"We invented phonetic writing so we could put our sounds down on paper and, by glancing at a page, hear someone speaking in our head—an invention that became so widespread in the last few thousand years that we hardly ever stop to consider how astonishing it is."
-Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions
-Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"We invented phonetic writing so we could put our sounds down on paper and, by glancing at a page, hear someone speaking in our head—an invention that became so widespread in the last few thousand years that we hardly ever stop to consider how astonishing it is."
-Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions
-Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions
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while in the midst of horror
we fed on beauty—and that,
my love, is what sustained us.
— Rita Dove
youtube.com/shorts/Yu2J-... #poetry #Gaza
#art by Palestinian artist, Sliman Mansour
we fed on beauty—and that,
my love, is what sustained us.
— Rita Dove
youtube.com/shorts/Yu2J-... #poetry #Gaza
#art by Palestinian artist, Sliman Mansour
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
while in the midst of horror
we fed on beauty—and that,
my love, is what sustained us.
— Rita Dove
youtube.com/shorts/Yu2J-... #poetry #Gaza
#art by Palestinian artist, Sliman Mansour
we fed on beauty—and that,
my love, is what sustained us.
— Rita Dove
youtube.com/shorts/Yu2J-... #poetry #Gaza
#art by Palestinian artist, Sliman Mansour
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Tribe Releases Native Elk Back onto 17,000 Sacred Sierra Nevada Acres
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/calif-tribe-celebrates-land-return-by-releasing-native-elk-back-onto-17000-sierra-nevada-acres/ #goodnews
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/calif-tribe-celebrates-land-return-by-releasing-native-elk-back-onto-17000-sierra-nevada-acres/ #goodnews
Tribe Releases Native Elk Back onto 17,000 Sacred Sierra Nevada Acres
By turning the land over to the tribe, a substantial conservation corridor for animals including these Tule elk will be established.
www.goodnewsnetwork.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Tribe Releases Native Elk Back onto 17,000 Sacred Sierra Nevada Acres
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/calif-tribe-celebrates-land-return-by-releasing-native-elk-back-onto-17000-sierra-nevada-acres/ #goodnews
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/calif-tribe-celebrates-land-return-by-releasing-native-elk-back-onto-17000-sierra-nevada-acres/ #goodnews
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Made you a podcast episode to chop veggies to and commute to family to this holiday season. 🍠🥦🧅🥕
Insights on food, farming, and policy featuring Dave Herring of Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment
Listen wherever you get you listen. 🎧 pod.link/1773809532
Insights on food, farming, and policy featuring Dave Herring of Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment
Listen wherever you get you listen. 🎧 pod.link/1773809532
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Made you a podcast episode to chop veggies to and commute to family to this holiday season. 🍠🥦🧅🥕
Insights on food, farming, and policy featuring Dave Herring of Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment
Listen wherever you get you listen. 🎧 pod.link/1773809532
Insights on food, farming, and policy featuring Dave Herring of Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment
Listen wherever you get you listen. 🎧 pod.link/1773809532
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I AM ONCE AGAIN ASKING YOU TO PHONE BANK WITH
@standupforscience.bsky.social TO SEND AFTYN TO CONGRESS IN THE TN-07 IN THE SPECIAL ELECTION 12/2!!
OUR GOAL IS 20+ CALLERS A SESSION. Current counts:
Wednesday: 8
Friday: 7
Saturday: 9 *SPECIAL GUEST!*
Sunday: 21 🥳
Monday: 12
Sign up links below!
@standupforscience.bsky.social TO SEND AFTYN TO CONGRESS IN THE TN-07 IN THE SPECIAL ELECTION 12/2!!
OUR GOAL IS 20+ CALLERS A SESSION. Current counts:
Wednesday: 8
Friday: 7
Saturday: 9 *SPECIAL GUEST!*
Sunday: 21 🥳
Monday: 12
Sign up links below!
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I AM ONCE AGAIN ASKING YOU TO PHONE BANK WITH
@standupforscience.bsky.social TO SEND AFTYN TO CONGRESS IN THE TN-07 IN THE SPECIAL ELECTION 12/2!!
OUR GOAL IS 20+ CALLERS A SESSION. Current counts:
Wednesday: 8
Friday: 7
Saturday: 9 *SPECIAL GUEST!*
Sunday: 21 🥳
Monday: 12
Sign up links below!
@standupforscience.bsky.social TO SEND AFTYN TO CONGRESS IN THE TN-07 IN THE SPECIAL ELECTION 12/2!!
OUR GOAL IS 20+ CALLERS A SESSION. Current counts:
Wednesday: 8
Friday: 7
Saturday: 9 *SPECIAL GUEST!*
Sunday: 21 🥳
Monday: 12
Sign up links below!
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LAST DAY TO EARLY VOTE!!!!!
Woke up with the energy of 1,000 Dolly Partons 💅🏼✨ A new poll has us just 2 points behind. It’s the LAST day to early vote! COLLEGE KIDS COMING HOME: hug your fam, kiss the dog, then find your polling place at iwillvote.com?utm_so.... Let’s flip TN-07!
Woke up with the energy of 1,000 Dolly Partons 💅🏼✨ A new poll has us just 2 points behind. It’s the LAST day to early vote! COLLEGE KIDS COMING HOME: hug your fam, kiss the dog, then find your polling place at iwillvote.com?utm_so.... Let’s flip TN-07!
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
LAST DAY TO EARLY VOTE!!!!!
Woke up with the energy of 1,000 Dolly Partons 💅🏼✨ A new poll has us just 2 points behind. It’s the LAST day to early vote! COLLEGE KIDS COMING HOME: hug your fam, kiss the dog, then find your polling place at iwillvote.com?utm_so.... Let’s flip TN-07!
Woke up with the energy of 1,000 Dolly Partons 💅🏼✨ A new poll has us just 2 points behind. It’s the LAST day to early vote! COLLEGE KIDS COMING HOME: hug your fam, kiss the dog, then find your polling place at iwillvote.com?utm_so.... Let’s flip TN-07!
Today Nov. 26 is the last day to early vote in the TN-07 special election. Visit Engageyall.com to find out where you can vote! #vote #tn7
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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@evelyn.northsky.team talked about @transrights.northsky.social, a group of web developers and community moderators working to build a digital space designed around active moderation and user safety, specifically for people from marginalized groups. vimeo.com/1140709811?s...
Showcase: Northsky
Showcase: Northsky with Evelyn Osman Northsky Social Cooperative is a group of passionate web developers and community moderators working to build a digital space…
vimeo.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
@evelyn.northsky.team talked about @transrights.northsky.social, a group of web developers and community moderators working to build a digital space designed around active moderation and user safety, specifically for people from marginalized groups. vimeo.com/1140709811?s...
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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Food loss & waste is a huge issue, when ~40% of the world's food is never eaten.
That means that ~40% of the world's agricultural land, water, chemical inputs, and greenhouse gases *weren't even necessary* to feed the world.
And much of this waste ends up in landfills, where it releases methane.
That means that ~40% of the world's agricultural land, water, chemical inputs, and greenhouse gases *weren't even necessary* to feed the world.
And much of this waste ends up in landfills, where it releases methane.
The holiday season is here — a time for good food and good company! 🍽️ It’s also a reminder that reducing food loss and waste is one of the most effective climate solutions available today.
Learn more about action you can take in the Take Action section of each solution! ⬇️
🔗 https://bit.ly/4ia789A
Learn more about action you can take in the Take Action section of each solution! ⬇️
🔗 https://bit.ly/4ia789A
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Food loss & waste is a huge issue, when ~40% of the world's food is never eaten.
That means that ~40% of the world's agricultural land, water, chemical inputs, and greenhouse gases *weren't even necessary* to feed the world.
And much of this waste ends up in landfills, where it releases methane.
That means that ~40% of the world's agricultural land, water, chemical inputs, and greenhouse gases *weren't even necessary* to feed the world.
And much of this waste ends up in landfills, where it releases methane.
“But it is not just the conquest of nations that prosecutors will show was pre-planned. They will soon reveal how propaganda was used…
to lay out how they eventually induced people to think that the evil that they were being asked to participate in was virtue of some kind.”
youtu.be/u7eVxAw7MPc?...
to lay out how they eventually induced people to think that the evil that they were being asked to participate in was virtue of some kind.”
youtu.be/u7eVxAw7MPc?...
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony | SPECIAL | National Geographic
YouTube video by National Geographic
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 AM
“But it is not just the conquest of nations that prosecutors will show was pre-planned. They will soon reveal how propaganda was used…
to lay out how they eventually induced people to think that the evil that they were being asked to participate in was virtue of some kind.”
youtu.be/u7eVxAw7MPc?...
to lay out how they eventually induced people to think that the evil that they were being asked to participate in was virtue of some kind.”
youtu.be/u7eVxAw7MPc?...
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Brazil's ex-President Bolsanaro ordered to serve 27-year prison sentence over coup plot https://www.axios.com/2025/11/26/jail-brazil-president-prison-bolsanaro-coup https://www.axios.com/2025/11/26/jail-brazil-president-prison-bolsanaro-coup
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Brazil's ex-President Bolsanaro ordered to serve 27-year prison sentence over coup plot https://www.axios.com/2025/11/26/jail-brazil-president-prison-bolsanaro-coup https://www.axios.com/2025/11/26/jail-brazil-president-prison-bolsanaro-coup
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Good grief.
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Good grief.
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The truth is that the sentence wasn’t inaccurate – it was removed because of legal fears. And that’s exactly the concern my lecture raises: when institutions start censoring themselves out of fear of those in power. /3
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The truth is that the sentence wasn’t inaccurate – it was removed because of legal fears. And that’s exactly the concern my lecture raises: when institutions start censoring themselves out of fear of those in power. /3
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‘The chill wind from the White House is already rippling through New Broadcasting House.’
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
‘The chill wind from the White House is already rippling through New Broadcasting House.’
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
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Cheers to Joseph Gordon-Levitt for speaking out on behalf of creatives and the importance of ‘Developing Guardrails for AI’: "Your digital self should belong to you." journal.hitrecord.org/p/your-digit...
Your digital self should belong to you
Speaking to an arena crowd about internet serfdom, AI’s fictitiously looming Hiroshima moment, and why my kids make me optimistic
journal.hitrecord.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Cheers to Joseph Gordon-Levitt for speaking out on behalf of creatives and the importance of ‘Developing Guardrails for AI’: "Your digital self should belong to you." journal.hitrecord.org/p/your-digit...
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Another solicitation: MEN most of these are posted by trafficked woman. Every time you indulge this shit it encourages more. Tuck your dicks in and fight sex trafficking by drying up their money!!! Be a fucking man!
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Another solicitation: MEN most of these are posted by trafficked woman. Every time you indulge this shit it encourages more. Tuck your dicks in and fight sex trafficking by drying up their money!!! Be a fucking man!
“…trial testimony reveals shocking new details about World War II and the inner workings of the Nazi war machine.”
youtube.com/watch?v=u7eV...
youtube.com/watch?v=u7eV...
Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony | SPECIAL | National Geographic
YouTube video by National Geographic
youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
“…trial testimony reveals shocking new details about World War II and the inner workings of the Nazi war machine.”
youtube.com/watch?v=u7eV...
youtube.com/watch?v=u7eV...
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Considering how much has been changed in the past ten months, I want to hear Merrick Garland's arguments again as to why Trump couldn't have been tried and sent to prison in four years. Actually, I don't want to hear from him ever again.
More than one thing can be true at a time. The Trump regime blaming Biden for everything is ridiculous AND the Biden administration could’ve done more to prevent us from being in this situation right now.
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Considering how much has been changed in the past ten months, I want to hear Merrick Garland's arguments again as to why Trump couldn't have been tried and sent to prison in four years. Actually, I don't want to hear from him ever again.
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"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them"
November 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them"
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Quite amazing to be reminded how good the CBC can be--and @mattgalloway.bsky.social is a truly gifted interviewer, who knows when to listen and when to press
Could solar energy save the world?
@billmckibben.bsky.social joins @mattgalloway.bsky.social on CBC Radio’s The Current for a conversation about his new book, “Here Comes the Sun”.
@billmckibben.bsky.social joins @mattgalloway.bsky.social on CBC Radio’s The Current for a conversation about his new book, “Here Comes the Sun”.
© CBC/Radio-Canada 2025. All rights reserved.
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Quite amazing to be reminded how good the CBC can be--and @mattgalloway.bsky.social is a truly gifted interviewer, who knows when to listen and when to press
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NEWS: Democrats could move one step closer to flipping the House next week.
In Tennessee's 7th Congressional district, the Democrat Aftyn Behn, has narrowed the gap from 22 points to just 4.
I just spoke to her: youtu.be/iGFQe7zMs-8
In Tennessee's 7th Congressional district, the Democrat Aftyn Behn, has narrowed the gap from 22 points to just 4.
I just spoke to her: youtu.be/iGFQe7zMs-8
BREAKING: Republicans PANIC Because Democrats Set to FLIP The House!!
YouTube video by Aaron Parnas
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
NEWS: Democrats could move one step closer to flipping the House next week.
In Tennessee's 7th Congressional district, the Democrat Aftyn Behn, has narrowed the gap from 22 points to just 4.
I just spoke to her: youtu.be/iGFQe7zMs-8
In Tennessee's 7th Congressional district, the Democrat Aftyn Behn, has narrowed the gap from 22 points to just 4.
I just spoke to her: youtu.be/iGFQe7zMs-8
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"No. Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try." — Yoda
Janis Joplin
#CatchThePhrase
Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
song.link/TryJLBH
#MusicChallenge #musicsky
Janis Joplin
#CatchThePhrase
Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
song.link/TryJLBH
#MusicChallenge #musicsky
Janis Joplin- Try (just a little bit harder)
YouTube video by briemkiki827
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
"No. Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try." — Yoda
Janis Joplin
#CatchThePhrase
Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
song.link/TryJLBH
#MusicChallenge #musicsky
Janis Joplin
#CatchThePhrase
Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)
song.link/TryJLBH
#MusicChallenge #musicsky