Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Save The Swamp

And flush the toilet. “Swamp” was always a poor choice to describe our pervasive political corruption. Swamps, after all, are fantastic habitats. (Not that we have much swamp in NYC; that’s grassland above.)

The word that best describes our pervasive political corruption, now gone into overdrive with the naked kleptocracy of the Trump family and its Republican enablers, is “sewer.” As in, the national sewer is backed up with bobbing orange turds.

Common Cause is keeping track of this ethics-free regime robbing the future blind. The Times breaks down the multi-trillion dollar looting that is Trump’s plan to defund the future.
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If you’re in the far north of Manhattan this afternoon, so am I.

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