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In 1947, a 57-year-old Miami journalist published a book that saved the Everglades from destruction. Marjory Stoneman Douglas spent five years researching The Everglades: River of Grass. Before she wrote it, the conventional view held that the Everglades were a worthless swamp to be drained for development. After she wrote it, the conventional view was that the Everglades were a one-of-a-kind ecosystem worth protecting. The book was published the same year Everglades National Park was established. She didn't stop there. She founded Friends of the Everglades at 79 and lobbied for protection laws into her nineties. She was still fighting development projects when she turned 100. She was functionally blind in her last decade and still giving speeches, still writing, still driving the Florida legislature insane. She lived to 108, outlasting most of the developers she fought. Her book's opening line became the foundational sentence of American wetland conservation: "There are no other Everglades in the world." She wasn't a scientist. She was a reporter who looked at something and realized nobody was telling the truth about it.

anjelica huston for vogue italia, 1972

Younger guys now have haircuts like the Golden Girls. No shade at all just an observation.

Some of the most beautiful architecture in the US was built by the Works Progress Administration in the late 1930s and early ‘40s We need a bold return to ambitious public projects

⚪️According to the @CNRSL , Israel has destroyed approximately 37,836 homes in Lebanon since March 2nd. 1.2 million Lebanese are currently displaced. Forced displacement of civilian populations and destruction of civilian homes and infrastructure are war crimes.

This clown. Witherspoon sold a majority stake in her production company, Hello Sunshine, to the Blackstone-backed Candle Media for $900 million in 2021. Blackstone is currently a massive investor in AI infrastructure, including a $25 billion project for AI data centers.

A 90-year-old woman emailed me this week. She told me she was raped by her doctor 60 years ago. "A woman lawyer told me not to prosecute him because I would be dragged through the mud," she explained. I get emails like this almost every day. These women aren't asking me for anything, except to acknowledge them and their pain. They want the world to understand that they have been silenced by a system in which men say "eight years ago?" as if there is a deadline that expired for their trauma.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: texasobserver.org/immigration-co…

This Tax Day and unfriendly reminder that some of America's biggest companies paid $0 in federal income tax last year. Amazon Citigroup CVS Haliburton Hasbro Kohl's Palantir PayPal PG&E Roku Southwest Airlines Tesla United Airlines Walt Disney And dozens of others all avoided paying federal income tax in 2025, despite making billions.

Another hearty “fuck you” to @NPR for airing the Israeli ambassador saying that they are working on liberating the Lebanese people from Iran. Let me be crystal clear; the only country bombing Lebanon for the last two years is Israel. The only country forcibly displacing over a million people is Israel. The only country killing children, paramedics and journalists is Israel. The only country committing egregious acts of ecocide with white phosphorus is Israel. The only soldiers who have threatened me and my colleagues for telling the truth are Israeli soldiers. I am a witness. I have photos and video of all of it. NPR, do better. Your correspondent in Beirut knows what’s actually happening. Let them say it.

ICE agent tells the New York Times they were nervous showing up in Minneapolis and how they travelled with “girly suitcases” to not be detected. A Senior ICE official details how officers would block in and kidnap United State Citizens. Gift link in next post.

"can't ask her to take off the keffiyah if it's covering her breasts" is some high level chess i have to be honest

From early Nirvana to Phish, a Chicago fan’s secret recordings of 10,000 shows are now online. blockclubchi.co/4t6zW7R

God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.

Fuck you for this headline, @latimes . Your correspondent in Beirut knows full well that the airstrikes targeted civilians areas. I hope you are all put on trial one day for your propaganda.

Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.

Texas before the islamic revolution

Got into trouble at Madame Tussauds cus i was taking pics of all the wax models with my weed vape in their mouths lol

But families whose kids were already in private school now have school vouchers to cover their costs so nothing to see here