The single biggest irrigated crop in America isn't corn, wheat, or soybeans. It's not even avocados or almonds. It's lawn. We grow more grass than any food crop in the country, around 40 million acres of it, and almost none of it feeds a single living thing. Think about how strange that is. We took a grass that isn't even from here, planted it coast to coast, and now we pour water, fertilizer, and pesticide into keeping it short, green, and perfectly useless. To a bee, a butterfly, or a bird hunting caterpillars for its chicks, a manicured lawn is a desert. Nothing to eat, nowhere to nest, mile after mile of it. But here's the good news, maybe the easiest win on this whole account: you don't have to fix the entire desert. You just have to claw back a corner. Pick one strip. The hellstrip by the sidewalk, the run along the fence, that awkward patch you hate mowing anyway. Stop mowing it and plant it with native flowers, a few black-eyed Susans, some bee balm, a couple of coneflowers. That's it. No ripping out the whole yard, no fight with anybody. Just convert one piece. And that piece stops being dead space and starts being habitat: bees, butterflies, and birds showing up to a spot that offered them nothing a year ago. Now picture your neighbor doing the same, and the one after that. That's how a desert turns back into a meadow, one reclaimed corner at a time.

In Ojibwe our word for flower is waskoneh (wa-sko-neh). Art by @mishiikenhkwe.

Leading medical journal The Lancet publishes call to expel Israeli Medical Association over Gaza genocide —— Medical journal The Lancet has published a petition calling for the Israeli Medical Association to be boycotted and expelled from the World Medical Association over its failure to condemn what the petition describes as Israel's genocide against Palestinians and the collapse of Gaza's healthcare system. The campaign, launched by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, Healthcare Workers for Palestine, and Doctors for Gaza, has so far received support from more than 1,150 healthcare professionals and medical organizations. The call for expulsion is expected to be raised at the World Medical Association's general assembly in October. The Israeli Medical Association opposed the move, arguing that its expulsion would not advance peace, healthcare, or human rights, and would instead create a precedent for using political pressure campaigns to isolate healthcare workers based on their nationality.

TAIWAN: Stop union busting at TaiDoc, Taiwan R.O.C. industriall-union.org/taiwan…

CANADA: CUPE condemns Senate attempt to roll back workers' Charter rights at ports and in rail sector cupe.ca/news/cupe-condemns-s…

In Ojibwe our word for bridge is aazhigan.

Ahead of the 150th anniversary of the Indigenous victory against Custer at the Battle of Greasy Grass, also known as Battle of Little Big Horn, several events are planned to celebrate. #CusterGotSiouxed ictnews.org/news/tribes-nati…

Full fascism by the British state. Destroying weaponry being used to commit genocide is an act of humanity not terrorism. All solitary with the Filton 4 and their families 🇵🇸

Calling every Palestinian in Gaza “Hamas” has normalized every killing, rape, torture and act of destruction. Forgive us, Marwa, Motaz, Montaser,& the dozens of thousands already lost -along with the millions still trapped in this genocide- for being so late, slow, and complicit.

Remember when flying WestJet actually felt different? That airline is gone. WestJet’s flight attendants are fighting to bring back the airline you deserve. They need public support to stop the race to the bottom. endunpaidwork.ca #canlab #endunpaidwork

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's @TorontoStar

Kickoff in Toronto as Canada's first #FIFA #WorldCup begins! Go Canada #Canada !

Just weeks before Agropur announced the closure of its Sussex dairy plant, the New Brunswick government approved a non-repayable contribution for the company’s Miramichi expansion. Unifor is asking the provincial government to reevaluate this decision to provide Agropur with $2.4 million in public funding. unifor.org/news/all-news/let…

Today starts #WorldCup2026. Canada welcomes the world. Mexico welcomes the world. The US under Trump? Detained Somali referee Omar Artan for 11 hours, then turned him away. Valid visa, one dream. A tournament built on unity can’t kick off with discrimination. Do better, @FIFAWorldCup. #LetOmarRef

Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's @TorontoStar

In Ojibwe our word for thunderbirds is nimikii-bineshiiyag (ni-mi-key-bi-ne-she-yug). Music by Thunderhill. Art by n. johnston.

In Ojibwe our words for birchbark canoe is wiigwaasi jiimaan.

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention. The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean. And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them. Record-breaking temperatures. A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse. The response? Yank out the instruments and walk away. That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency. For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives. The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident. That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first. cnn.com/2026/06/03/climate/o…

Remember the USA thinks public Healthcare is radical left-wing terrorism.