In a new video, Climate Targets MISSED. What happens now?, the Just Have a Think YouTube channel discusses a new paper about measuring climate change progress with clean energy targets, not temperature targets, “to avoid the insidious narrative of climate failure, which risks backlash and doomerism.” They go on: […]
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Trump NSF Backs Down from Dismantling Critical Ocean Monitoring Systems – CNN
After bipartisan backlash Trump admin backs down from unilateral and sudden dismantling of ocean monitoring network to ‘consult’ and ‘study’ ‘path forward’. Some of the kinds of news coverage / content that can be expected to disappear if the Skydance-Paramount / Warner Bros. Discovery merger is able to go through […]
Why Democracy May Prevail – 6/5/2026
Direct link to my original post:https://verysmallocean.org/blog.html#democracy-may-prevail An interesting YouTube video, 31.5 minutes, called Why Trump’s Power is Fading by UK person Brendan Miller. I was somewhat heartened by it. He says he’s more persuaded by this one but there’s also another he made called How Trump is Building an American Dictatorship. This is of course important for mitigating […]
Large Systemic Change is Necessary
A new addition to the Things to Do page at my site verysmallocean.org
#MEGA – Make the Enlightenment Great Again
#MEGA – Make the Enlightenment Great Again
“Characterized by an emphasis on reason, empirical evidence, and the scientific method, the Enlightenment promoted ideals of individual liberty, religious tolerance, progress, and natural rights. Its thinkers advocated for constitutional government, the separation of church and state, and the application of rational principles to social and political reform.”
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The Pestilence of ‘Christian’ ‘Nationalism’
Steven Colbert reported Tuesday that there had been 110 grievances filed by military members stationed at dozens of places in the Middle East that commanders have told them that “President Trump is annointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth…”.
I Vote Because – VoteForward.org
Vote Forward (https://votefwd.org) connects volunteers to voters to increase voter turnout without resorting to partisanship. I have updated my statement that I’ve used on Vote Forward letters and also in my own postcard campaigns. It’s included below. I still have some of the Victory 2024 postcards left and I have been printing out and gluesticking […]
Night Notes
“Night Notes”, a poem with irregular rhythm. First draft was 2/2/2017, has been extensively cut down because parts were mostly incoherent. A movement awakened, a crowd exposed.Who holds the loudspeakers? Whoweathers the trolls? How long dothey carry? How long hold the seams?What must think the neighbors, andwhat words do they speak? Whatmethods to mend? What […]
The Revolt, Ever to Collect Its Due
A poem with a more concrete narrative than most from my book Synaptic Syntactic. Read more from Synaptic Syntactic by checking out the posts tagged Synaptic Syntactic. Buy the whole book in one neat offline package with no clicking around page loads at BookBaby or Synaptic Syntactic on Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Apple iBooks, […]
Lost in Mist 