A Closer Look at “Billionaires’ Shocking Plan to Silence Working-Class Voters” Start Here A popular video has been making the rounds online (linked below). It is called “Billionaires’ Shocking Plan to Silence Working-Class Voters.” It comes from a news group named More Perfect Union, and it runs about 14 minutes. People often share it with... Continue Reading →
So Can I: A 14-Year-Old, a Republic, and the Future We Owe Him
A human-and-AI collaboration. The questions are my nephew's. The heart is his too. My 14-year-old nephew has been watching. Not the way kids are supposed to watch — half-distracted, scrolling past. He watches the way you watch a storm coming in over water: closely, quietly, calculating. He has been studying this country's politics since the... Continue Reading →
The Empty Chair: Where Democracy Is Begging for a Leader
Democracy Is Begging for a Leader Somewhere tonight there is a town hall with the lights still on, and no one is certain who will unlock it in the morning. Not because the town failed. Because the ballot was blank, and no one came forward. We have learned to speak about the climate and ecological... Continue Reading →
Some doors only open after something breaks.
The notes vanished. The path got clearer. The setback is the setup. Hi friends, I lost my notes. All of them. Every electronic note I had built studying the CLCPA, the Scoping Plan, and the broader climate-learning tips I had been collecting along the way — gone in a single sweep. Months of careful work.... Continue Reading →
Growing Trees Fast: A Practical Guide to Quick Shade, Food, Habitat, and Climate Resilience
Fast-growing trees are more than a landscaping shortcut. They can cool homes, provide food, restore soil life, create privacy, support pollinators, protect against wind, and help communities adapt to a hotter, more unstable climate. Whether someone is planting a backyard orchard, a privacy screen, a school garden, a community food forest, or a small container... Continue Reading →
The Green Cabinet Is Coming…
“The Green Cabinet will not arrive because it is fashionable; it will arrive because reality will leave us no other choice.” - Tito The Green Cabinet Is Coming… It will arrive by necessity. There was a time when climate leadership could be treated like a niche issue, something for specialists, activists, or people who cared... Continue Reading →
Seven Years After the Warning: I Pressed Play Again — and the Earth Had Already Answered
A personal reckoning with David Wallace-Wells, then and now I pulled up the old episode again this week. The Doctor's Farmacy conversation with David Wallace-Wells — recorded in July 2019 — sat in my browser like a letter I had written to myself and forgotten to open. Back then, his book The Uninhabitable Earth was... Continue Reading →
The Operating System the Emergency Demands — direct, unapologetic, matching your manifesto register.
Why atomic Linux distros — Bluefin, Aurora, Silverblue, Secureblue — and Qubes OS deserve a seat at the climate table, alongside the AI we are learning to wield with care. "Qubes OS is a security-focused operating system that allows you to organize your digital life into compartments called 'qubes.' If one qube is compromised, the... Continue Reading →
Sleeping Through the Emergency: What Thomas Moore’s Quote Means for Our Time
“In many of the segments of culture today, the meaning of life is often reduced to cruising with the popular culture. It doesn’t take a course in psychoanalysis to glimpse severe anxiety behind this posture of know-nothingness. If you had ideas and took yourself seriously, you would have to be constantly awake, educating yourself, and... Continue Reading →
Climate Emergency, Elections & Mother’s Day
“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” — Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights leader and voting rights organizer. Climate Emergency, Elections & Mother’s Day A Note in My Mother’s Spirit: To Voters in Gerrymandered America I write this with my mother in my heart. If she were still here, I believe she would speak plainly. She would... Continue Reading →
A Note to White Voters in Gerrymandered America
MOTHER’S DAY OPEN LETTER · MAY 2026A Note to White Voters in Gerrymandered AmericaClimate Emergency · Democracy · Justice · Solidarity Written in the spirit of a mother who marched, who wept, who refused to look away — and who would have shouted these words from every corner of this aching country if she were... Continue Reading →