At the Bottom of the Box was Hope

I wanted to use what ‘reach’ I may have here to share the Carolina Wildlife Center’s urgent plea for donations. If they are unable to raise $75,000 to cover ongoing and future care of their wildlife patients, the center will have to close July 20th, 2026. The services provided by CWC to the community are incredibly valuable, and without them, many wild animals will suffer without the care they need.

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This is a parasite that usually causes about 3000 cases of illness per year in the USA, Michigan currently has reported about 2900 (the confusion about “Michigan outbreak” is because Michigan is the first that caught an uptick in cases and has been very proactive about trying to trace them). Last official update from Massachusetts was 18 cases here centered in Greater Boston. The CDC recommends NOT assuming there are no sources of the parasite in your state even if no cases have been reported.

It isn’t an unknown illness but it is an unusual quantity of cases, and the fact that they haven’t been able to pin down the source after weeks of tracking is what makes it particularly concerning this year (harder to contain).

The famine is real. The suffering is deep.

Please help him by donating to his family's fundraiser, so that they can buy food when it arrives on the market. Thank you. ❤️

I understood why he wasn’t eating.

Stop the genocide. Lift the siege. Feed the hungry. Shelter the unhoused. Heal the hurt and ill.

End the occupation.

These past days have been harsh, but it is dignity and patience that have truly kept me going. Hardship has not broken me and by God’s grace, it never will.

This cannot go on. This needs to end, so the people in Gaza can have peace, food, water, housing, and their health and dignity back.

Pressure your governments, share fundraisers, donate when you can.

In what world is it normal for a person to have to go for 7 days without food? Please, please, please support them in this incredibly difficult time!

You can get a postcard after you donate!

It was one of the hardest periods our family has ever endured, and the memories of those days still haunt us.

We pray that those days never return, and that no one is ever forced to experience the pain of hunger and famine.

you are not out of paper

you have so much paper

it’s okay to function as intended

you are not out of ink

i just refilled that cartridge last month

you can connect to that computer you’re supposed to connect to

Tired of ICE mercenaries terrorizing your community?

Afraid that they're going to murder yet another person—perhaps one of your neighbors?

Find out where they sleep. Go there and make sure they cannot sleep.

Here's how people did it in Minnesota:

Tired of ICE mercenaries terrorizing your community?

Afraid that they're going to murder yet another person—perhaps one of your neighbors?

Find out where they sleep. Go there and make sure they cannot sleep.

Here's how people did it in Minnesota:

Sam Neill (1947-2026)

Things are heating up for the summer as we get ready to get in Good Trouble with old friends and new July 17-19. Tuesday night the Trump regime announced plans to send "election monitors" to six states—Arizona, Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Virginia—before their primary elections this summer.

This is the latest attack on voting rights from the regime, and this time it's focussed on deep-blue states that are likely to elect Democrats, and swing states where the mid term elections could determine control of Congress.

To get ready, we’re teaming up with the ACLU to offer a special virtual Know Your Voting Rights training on Monday, July 13th at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT as part of the Good Trouble Lives On Weekend of Action. Join us.

Protect bison from the Trump administration's new proposal by submitting a public comment now.

Thanks to former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native to run the department, public grazing land was opening up under her expansive Biden-era order to “restore wild and healthy populations of American bison.” She emphasized that the process would “prioritize Tribally led opportunities” and “advance shared stewardship with Tribes on federal land.”

Now, Trump’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has proposed new grazing rules that will destroy those gains and deny Tribally managed bison access to federal land in favor of “production-oriented livestock” like cattle.

Despite Native consumption of bison meat, which is less fatty than beef, bison are also raised for many nonproduction-oriented purposes. That’s why bison, which are better for prairie ecosystems and land conservation than cattle, don’t meet the commodity-producing requirement.

The BLM wants to take away indigenous stewardship of public lands and concentrate management in the hands of the livestock industry instead. 

The Trump administration wants anti-bison cattle ranchers and private corporations to exploit the land for profit. Buffalo will be evicted from tens of thousands of acres of federal land and replaced with cows so corporations can benefit from highly discounted grazing leases offered by the BLM. It’s worth potentially millions of dollars in increased profits as the BLM charges a per-animal fee that is about 90 percent cheaper than fees charged on privately owned land.

But people power has stopped big money interests before, and we must try to do it again. To protect our rights and sovereignty, but most importantly, protect Mother Earth and all her animals from corporate greed, we must stop this proposal while we still can. 

Click ‘Start Writing’ to sign and submit an official comment against the Bureau of Land Management proposal to stop Tribally-managed bison from grazing and thriving on federal land now!