Heide Estes

@heide.bsky.social

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Jewish, queer, post-covid crip, neurospicy, she/her. Environmental crisis/justice keeps me up at night. Live on Lenape land.

a dammed river. background, winter trees behind snow-covered, frozen river, foreground, rocks covered by snow and ice, with a few shrubs and small trees poking up.
duolingo cartoon person with a thought bubble saying, Si el cadáver camina, ¡es un zombi! If the corpse is walking, it’s a zombie!
A woman holds a sign that says, no facists. In the background, a crowd of people carrying signs.
Two coyotes in front of a bridge in central park.
Ocean water, a cone where a rock now in midair bounced. Background: moored boat in front of shoreline with trees.
screenshot of NYT spelling bee. Not in word list: HOICK
FlightAware Misery Map showing on-time flights versus “misery” for a dozen or so US metro areas.
screenshot. Matt Labash: Even if I hate the bill — and I do — it also seems to deeply irritate Elon Musk. And anything that irritates Musk as much as Musk irritates the rest of us should earn grudging credit as a karmic delivery system.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Tweet from Laura Loomer: “Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.”
screenshot of headline from the Austin Chronicle, June 4, 2025: “Texas man born to US soldier on US army base abroad deported.”
panoramic photo of ocean dotted with islands, several cloudbanks, deep gray to bright white
carton: person in a doctor’s office with an enormous bug clinging to their back and head, and open mouth surrounding the top of the head. Doctor: “well, your bloodwork came back fine, so I don’t think it’s anything we need to worry about.”
action figure: Black woman with afro, big gold hoops, sparkly gold jumpsuit. Her accessories: distorted disco ball, mic, gold-rimmed sunglasses, a record, one gold platform shoe, and two mystery items.
STILL ACCEPTING PAPERS THROUGH 15 SEPTEMBER. Medieval Ecocriticisms (3): Theory and Approaches. ICMS, WMich, Kalamazoo, 8-10 May, 2025. * Hybrid session: we would love this session to connect people working in and from different geographic, cultural, linguistic contexts * Scope: ecocriticism in connection with gender, sexuality, race, religion, dis/ability, and more; any discipline(s), global Middle Ages * We welcome single-field or interdisciplinary proposals from grad students, early career researchers, established scholars Submissions link: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=6349
Text in image: Tim Walz will never have ‘more of a comment than a question, really.’”
NASA World map showing huge extent of wildfires across Africa, South America
J. D. Vance: “We want to promote the type of virtues that exist in Kyle Rittenhouse,” a teenager who shot three men, killing two, during protests against police violence in Kenosha, Wisconson, in 2020.
Project 25 screenshot: “Restore Trump religious and moral exemptions to the contraceptive mandate.”
Race for the presidency is between codger and dodger. Codgers are trustworthy — dodgers tend to be scoundrels. Roger Bowen, Portland Press Herald
Red winged blackbird in flight over a pond with a rocky edge.
Today we are giving a pride month shout out to singular they, which has been in use for centuries. Among its most famous users: Chaucer, Shakespeare and Jane Austen.
White lady with two small dogs in lap: White dog’s shirt says Thing 1. Gray dog’s shirt, Thing 2.
Small gray and black dog in a car with gray seats, trying to see out the window.
Small gray dog in foreground, head of small white dog visible behind her, part of head of white human in the background.
Small white dog in red harness standing on green grass and looking at a dandelion in seed.
Storm coming, dramatic sky: thick dark cloud with branches in front of on left, bright and sunny on right.
middle-aged white lady on a big armchair holding a small dog, another small dog next to her
NY Times Spelling Bee hex with (fake) word IRRITATIO spelled out above it.
Graph showing dramatically increased ocean temperatures in 2023 compared to previous years, and even higher temps in the first months of 2024.
The beach at dusk. Sand, surf, low cloud.
Row of lights blurring together in the distance, illuminating the wood surface of the boardwalk. Belmar, NJ.
Small white dog in blue sweater sleeping on brown sofa.
Image: small furry white dog sleeping on a brown and maroon sofa. Dog ramp at right so she can get down if she wants.
leaves of various shades of brown in a puddle on pavement. Long ice crystals at oblique angles. A little green vegetation at left.
Menorah in the shape of tree with branches, with two little candles, and shadow in the background
Screen shot of text with the word “harrumphant” circled in red
Small white dog walking on grassy green field with gray coat, teal harness, and leash, looking up toward the viewer and smiling.
Small white dog burying her face between the sofa cushions
Numerous pumpkins and squashes
View from under a pergola of a flooded grassy area with table and chairs, surrounded by flowers, shrubs, and trees, and a red house in the background.
Railroad bridge, flooded road, drowned car.
A box of Lego bricks in various shapes, sizes, colors. In front, Luke Skywalker and C-3PO stand guard.
Small white dog with her head on the foot of a person, the rest of whom is out of view.
Lanternfly nymph perched on the rim of a backyard kiddie pool
Screenshot of the word TULK and the hex from today’s Spelling Bee, the New York Times word game.