Monthly 2026 June

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"Over millions of years, plants like the common bean have evolved a specialized cell-surface receptor called the inceptin receptor just to detect In11. When this receptor interacts with In11, it sets off a signaling cascade in the plant’s cells, initiating immune responses. Proving that this specific receptor is responsible for releasing predator-summoning signals, though, was extremely tricky." I find it fascinating how much we are learning about plants immune responses.

"How one coalition is challenging the construction of mega-jails in Georgia." I absolutely love these illustrations as well.

"My practice of permaculture informs my approach to group social design and conflict, and my understanding of group dynamics informs my practice of permaculture. Permaculture principles can be translated into guidelines and approaches that will help us to work together more effectively and joyfully as we strive to change the world."

"After weeks of planning and a day of waiting, thousands of police were finally unleashed upon the crowds celebrating Paris Saint-Germain’s victory in the Champions League final. Like an endless tide they charge, draw back, and charge again, dragging with them a couple unfortunate souls each time. In most places the crowd has no stones or fireworks with which to respond to the tear-gas. As crowds flee or become trapped against walls, police formations break apart, truncheons ready, beating the people sheltering helplessly beneath their own arms."

"Essential workers, low-wage earners, people in the most economically precarious communities, those who have borne the greatest share of this disease, have the most at stake in demanding that tools of this kind are built, funded and controlled in the public interest rather than managed for administrative convenience or private profit. Scientific visibility is not the same as political action, and the distance between the two is not an oversight, but a deliberate policy."

"as the 2026 FIFA World Cup looms across Turtle Island, we’re pre-sharing an interview with Jules Boykoff about one of his latest books about international sports spectacles, the upward money flow and authoritarian political power they facilitate but also a bit about the folks that are fighting back entitled Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine (O/R Books, 2026)."