RE: https://c.im/@RadicalAnthro/116866404048011601

Tagging for #SolarPunkSunday!

Fascinating paper on interspecies signals and cues for mutual cooperation

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000334722600148X?via%3Dihub

Overcast Again

Yesterday we had cloudy skies all day, with spotty showers around the valley. We didn’t see a drop. We spent a few hours over at my nieces house and came home to get ready for the BBQ and swim party. I drove us over there and took 100 mg of my THC gummies when we got there. It was a wonderful time spent together swimming and visiting with each other. I took another 100 mg of THC gummy around 7 and another 100 mg around 8:30 am. I had a nice mellow high, I was relaxed and ache free for the evening. Once it got dark we had our own fireworks display at the same time the neighbors down the street did theirs. We got everything cleaned up and my daughter drove us home and my son-in-law followed to take her back home. It was fun catching up with all my grandkids and watching them all in the pool with their cousins. Overall, I’d say it turned out to be a blast and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Overnight I had another damn cramp in my foot so I’m back to a stiff foot. This morning it is once again overcast and we are looking at a high of 107, with the clouds I don’t think we’ll get that hot but we’ll see if the clouds go away and the sun comes out at some point during the day. I know starting tomorrow we are expecting temps to start climbing again with 110+ temps expected all week. It is that time of year when our temps climb and stay hot until September. We had a pleasant June, so these temps are expected, they come each summer. Sometimes they start as early as the middle of June so we were lucky last month and didn’t see many 110 days at all. Today we are heading back over to my niece’s house as soon as this is posted. We can’t stay over there long because my husband has a different run tomorrow and starts work tonight at 11 pm. He’ll need to go to bed even earlier than he normally does as he’ll be starting a half an hour before he normally wakes up. Nothing like messing with his sleep schedule. I don’t know how he has done it all these years. As for me, I’ll be sitting outside in the shade for those couple of hours we are at my niece’s house today, letting the heat warm my joints. Yesterday the humidity was up a bit so I imagine it will be the same today with all the clouds. I just go in the house more often if I get too sweaty. This morning my body feels stiff, it could be from all the dancing around I was doing last night or the clouds we have this morning. Either way, I’m not in pain, just stiff and moving slower than usual. I’ve got the heating pad on high, warming my lower back to help loosen it up for the day as well. The pressure-like feeling I have in my neck and shoulders does not feel more pronounced so that tells me we probably won’t get any rain with these clouds. The only thing I’ve noticed is it feels like a heavy weighted blanket is laying across my upper shoulders. It doesn’t hurt, it just feels like pressing on my upper back on my shoulders. I’ll take it, it sure beats the bone deep constant horrible pain I lived with all those years on opioids. With a neck made of titanium, two metal rods from the back of my head into my shoulders and a body full of arthritis, I don’t think I’m too darn bad at this point. Each morning I wake up with little to no aches or pain. At my age a few aches are to be expected, those I can deal with. I don’t miss all the pain and misery I lived with for close to 14 years while still on opioids. Now that I manage all my chronic pain with marijuana, I’ve found I can go all day until 4 pm to take a ½ gram of Rick Simpson Oil for the day. I enjoy each evening relaxed and without aches. As an added bonus, I get to enjoy a nice mellow high each evening as well. On some days I wake up without any aches and other mornings they are there. I take each day I wake up without horrible pain as a win in my eyes. All because I chose a plant over a pill. Thank you marijuana!

This July 4th reminds me that I only learned a few years ago that the Statue of Liberty is an anti-slavery monument created by a French abolitionist back in 1865 to celebrate emancipation, so I tell my little cousins about the broken chains at her feet any chance I get.

https://www.nps.gov/stli/learn/historyculture/abolition.htm

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116861680555802364

Former Attorney General Merrick Garland is partly to blame for Donald Trump's corrupt behavior after Trump was re-elected. As Attorney General, Garland refused to prosecute Donald Trump for corruption during his first four years in office, even though Trump's actions violated the Constitution's anti-corruption Emoluments Clause.

Trump is trying to use the levers of the federal government,
along with personal influence over state and local lawmakers,
to reshape the rules governing the 2026 midterms and future elections in extraordinary ways.

Many of these efforts have been blocked by courts, stymied by the Constitution or stopped in Congress.

But the relentless assault by the president on the electoral process
— both administratively and rhetorically
— is likely to sow doubt
and lay groundwork for extensive challenges to election results.

Agencies and officials across the federal government have, at the direction of Trump,
undertaken dozens of actions grounded in novel strategies
and aimed at insulating Republicans from potential losses in November.

Those actions fall into six major categories (and some fall into more than one).

🔸Taking steps to nationalize elections

🔸Trying to tighten voting restrictions

🔸Pushing for mid-decade redistricting

🔸Cutting election security

🔸Undermining faith in the electoral system by questioning previous results

🔸Punishing those who have worked against election denialism

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/07/02/us/politics/trump-midterm-election-strategies.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Heh. Trump is worried about the commies. Buddy, you need to be worried about the middle aged, middle of the road folks like me who are becoming socialists by the hour in response to your nazi nonsense. We were raised on a steady diet of Freedom (TM), underdog stories, and DEI armies saving middle earth from an evil bastard hellbent on our destruction.

So Nice of Tom Kean to Take 4 Months of Paid Sick Leave After Voting Against Paid Sick Leave!

https://www.jezebel.com/so-nice-of-tom-kean-to-take-4-months-of-paid-sick-leave-after-voting-against-paid-sick-leave

Someone ordered that and left.

Diabolically genius

With the photo of the EXPLICITLY FASCIST marchers in DC going around today - particularly the one of them on a bus with one black woman looking towards the camera - please remember:

THIS IS EXPLICITLY A FASCIST FLAG.

Yes, there's pre-fascist history of the fasces. There's also pre-fascist history of the swastika, but that doesn't make _it_ not fascist either.

It was the symbol of the Italian fascists of Mussolini:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Fascist_Party

And several other explicitly fascist parties since:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_symbolism

Their flag is an _explicit declaration of World War II-style fascism_.

A lot of fascists around Shitstain and his followers pretend they aren't fascists. These guys put it on a flag.

#uspol #uspolitics #politics #fascism

A thought on this, the 250th birthday of the U.S. which is, I’m very sorry to say and primarily because of the FOTUS and his goon squad to include assholes like Stephen Miller, Scott Bessent, Russell Vought, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Whiskey Pete Kegsbreath, in a world of shit.
#USpol

The United States is 250 years old today and, like some seniors, it shows signs of memory problems, has fallen victim to scammers, and is struggling just to stay alive.

Did you know

@kkarhan @VeroniqueB99

All I can find quickly is this -- https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/02/1166980 -- from which I gather that experts have testified to the UN along the lines described in the meme, but as far as I can tell the UN has not ruled on the matter.

...but that article is from February.

'A Grave Miscalculation': Jack Smith Insists There Is 'No Way' He Could Be Silenced by Trump

#SpecialCounsel #LegalIntegrity #DonaldTrump #PoliticalConflict #JackSmith

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/a-grave-miscalculation-jack-smith-insists-there-is-no-way-he-could-be-silenced-by-trump/

Do you know how bad you have to fuck up to make a fairground so repulsive that no one in America wants to come to it?

Fairs are one of those things America does best. Fairs are supposed to be about cheap tshirts, greasy food, painting a butterfly on your face, stupid games with even stupider prizes, a shit ton of carnival rides, music, drinks, someone doing woodcarvings of animals in pg-13 suggestive poses, and kissing a stranger at dusk near the port-a-potties which you'll later regret and refer to only as "the mistake".

Trump somehow saw all that deeply entrenched American culture, art, and cuisine and said "fuck that shit what if instead we do 24/7 christofascist podcasts about me plus a single ferris wheel that will immediately break and literally nothing else".

What a bunch of fucking loser freaks these people are. Everything Trump touches turns to shit.

> What emerges is a picture far larger than a single election, a single billionaire, or a single political party.

We have an election-equipment ecosystem that has existed within a far-right political network since the 1970s—one that election-security experts, computer scientists, statisticians, and cybersecurity professionals have been warning Congress and the American people about for decades. ...

What we’ve uncovered is a decades-long transnational organized crime syndicate and a safety net established to protect the wealthy pedophiles in the Epstein files.

#thiswillhold #substack #trump
#uspol #uspolitics #Epsteinfiles
#epsteinclass #republicans
#democrats #votingmachines
#petertheil #rupertmurdoch
#elonmusk #leonardleo #barreseid
#larryellison #davidellison #reidhoffman #leonblack #jesstaley
#ashleystclaire #kamalaharris
#markritchie #vincentreed
#danrather #whistleblowers
#2024election #putin #netanyahu

https://open.substack.com/pub/thiswillhold/p/how-a-last-minute-change-to-election

HE. IS. AWESOME.

Now if only that started a whole wave....courage is contagious.

ARREST Trump