Our Country was unnecessarily RANSACKED by the United States Supreme Court, which has become little more than a weaponized and unjust Political Organization.
The refusal to overturn a legitimate election aside..even Mike Pence passed that ultra low bar test. The more I see the worse Trump’s attempts to overturn that election look.
I agree with that characteristization of your SC and I am not even American.
Here is the always reliable Chauncey DeVega:
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/31/john-roberts-betrayed-america-for-donald-trump/
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/15/john-roberts-is-slowly-dismantling-america/
The thing is, it is rarely only about the Louisiana frog.
https://www.courthousenews.com/supreme-court-revives-battle-over-frog-habitat-in-louisiana/
The Niemollar poem has rarely been applied to our treatment of earth, factory farmed animals etc, but the logic is the same. A species (aka humans) that doesn’t give a shit about anything or understand anything will cannibalize itself eventually starting at the bottom and working its way up to the top.
Tejas Thackeray is someone here in India I like. I like how he thinks:
https://www.theweek.in/theweek/specials/2024/05/04/tejas-thackeray-shares-his-passion-for-wildlife-conservation-and-photography.html
“But I always had a good understanding of the relationship various species had with their habitats.” In the years that followed, Tejas went from the Sahyadris to the Eastern Ghats, the northeast, the Andamans, the Malayan archipelago, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. “Everything in the tropics is interlinked,” he said.
I liked him as soon as I read this piece. Here is a human who thinks. Of course with the widespread abuse of language and now of other forms of processing (probably to shill Michael Kosinski’s tacky facedar; Aaron Elkins’ “Ai border security”, a scammy lie detector to terrorize immigrants with; Epstein & Intelligent Design humping MIT Media Lab’s Rosalind Picard/Rana Al Khalouby and their sleazy “emotion ai” Affectiva/SmartEye; Ben Waber’s sleazy “Humanyze”-Orwellian name that one; anything Alex Pentland ever) and disregard for evolutionary biology and the earth/ecological sciences, one has to be careful it isn’t perverted like this:
https://crookedtimber.org/2022/12/08/your-platform-is-not-an-ecosystem/
An ecosystem is a set of unbidden organisms and the physical environment with and in which they interact. It’s constantly evolving, and the real interest, value and drive for change all come from the emergent properties of the relations between its many parts. An ecosystem is not the plaything of a pampered princeling, like Meta, but a set of living, striving things, both competitive and cooperative, and the place they live. The two kinds of system are almost impossibly different. One is biological, the other technological. One is complex and adaptive, the other only pretends to be.
Why are the maddening, built environments that certain investors and their pet CEOs want us to spend our lives inside called ecosystems, when they’re the very opposite of anything truly alive? It may be that to people with a radically simplifying and totalising mindset, a tech maze governed by decision tree really does seem wild. Adding a few menu options makes a walled garden into the savannah, to someone who believes freedom is a luxury product. But whatever it says about the denuded imaginations of system-owners, the use of ecosystem as a pure marketing term has a strong halo effect. ‘Ecosystem’ implies competition, dynamism and choice, even as the systems it describes are restrictive and monopolising. It invokes our natural world, even as it conjures a stampeding flight from it. As a PR strategy, the misused metaphor is a sleight of hand. But it’s more than that.
I have saved a few pieces like these over the years from the piles of junk out there.
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