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A Wilson's snipe on a (very) brief break from foraging in the mud. Michigan USA for #StunDay. #Birds #ShoreBirds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Nature #Wildlife #Photography #ShoreBird #WildlifePhotography

New York! Early voting starts tomorrow, and my office’s Election Protection Hotline will be open to support you at every step of the voting process.   New Yorkers deserve to cast their ballots with confidence.   Get ready to make your voice heard!

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

The American Bittern will stick his/her neck straight up to mimic a cattail reed, sometimes swaying in the wind to add to the reed vibe.

“A gaping wound of earth” 🌎 😕 Google illegally knocked down 250,000 trees in Finland to build a data center. @nonewdatacenters (From the Guardian)

Bald Eagles Lifespan 25+years Monogamous pairs mate for life They return to same nest year after year and enlarge it. Incubation period lasts 36 days and M/F share incubation duties parents feed their chicks 14 weeks. After fledging the parents continue to feed and protect them for up to 12 weeks

A Sandhill Crane giving a look as he/she was passing by on the nature trail.

Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap

Eastern Bluebird 16-21cm Southern Canada down to the Gulf States, Mexico, and Central America, primarily east of the Rocky Mountains Migration: Northern populations migrate to southern US or Mexico in Oct, Nov returning north March, April ROW of juveniles huddling closely together to stay warm!

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter, 1841–1919 Bouquet de lilas, 1878 Oil on canvas Private collection 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Iza Erdei | Botanical Art

🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.”

Bohemian waxwings 17-22cm Breed N forests of North America and Eurasia during the summer Migrate south for winter They have uncanny ability to find fruit nearly everywhere! female incubates 15 days, male feeds her, Parents feed chicks 18 days Chicks join the same flock as parents after fledging.

“Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies… ex British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide…Simon Andriesz was previously a managing director at Wall St firm where Lutnick was CEO…” www.thebanker.com/content/0228...

#LLRX 9/26 8 8 New Articles, 6 New Columns www.llrx.com; Trump Admin Con't #War Against #Science #Research #PublicHealth Rule of Law; #Iranian Lawyers Under Attack in #Iran, Abroad; #AutonomousAgents Cant Be Given Keys Your #Law Practice; 13 #AI #Books For #Lawyers; #Climate target fails by 1.5°C

This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇

Kathryn Anne Edwards @kedseconomist.com

A MORATORIUM ON DATA CENTERS SHOULDN’T EVEN BE IN QUESTION AT THIS POINT And we definitely need more reporting on this issue: HEAT Data centers devour electricity and water, dump heat into communities, and Big Tech is building them faster than lawmakers are dealing with the consequences.

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Winsor McCay, from the comic strip“Dream of the Rarebit Fiend” New York Herald, 1913.

Why Autonomous Agents Cannot Be Given the Keys to Your Law Practice. How & why implementing AI in a law practice demands caution, solid grounding, adherence to professional obligations, and continuous, effective communications, training, across the firm, AI guardrails. www.llrx.com/2026/09/why-...

#LLRX www.llrx.com/2026/09/thir... Good books are still better than a vendor demo or a LinkedIn post at providing a framework for understanding what these systems do well, where they break down, and which failures should worry someone holding a bar card.

This Virginia Rail was spending most of his/her time hiding in patches of bright yellow flowers. He/she popped out for a brief moment before heading back into the foliage.

A Green Heron closeup. This one still has a few downy feathers on the noggin.

Mother of Renee Good: I voted for Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the US, innocents like our family and the others here, against terrorists. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness.

Today, Oversight Dems are hearing from family members and witnesses of Americans killed by ICE—Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Renée Good, Johan Guerrero, and Alex Pretti. We’ll be streaming across platforms at 3:30 PM EST.

A Great Blue Heron hunkering down in the rain, waiting out the wet weather.

BREAKING: We won! And we get discovery into this crazy demolition threat to boot. Kudos to our wonderful client @repbeatty.bsky.social and to my colleagues at DDF and WLG. Formal statement to follow.

Olga Sławiecka-Kotwicka "Edek is sitting on my shoulder, singing Don’t Worry, Be Happy just for me. 🐦🎶💛 Honestly, everyone needs this kind of personal therapist. 😂❤️"

A Green Heron hanging out in the Nodding Beggartick flowers.

Giant Pacific Octopus Spotted in Bellingham Bay, Near Vancouver

Hidden Financial Risks of AI Boom; Graduating in2 Disruption: Labor Market Outcomes for AI-Exposed College Majors; AI's Economic Winners; Credible Measurement, Inference in Age of AI; Economics of Transformative AI; Why Generative AI Economics Decide What You Can Deploy. www.llrx.com/2026/09/ai-i...

What is a Rube Goldberg machine and why is it so fascinating?

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My daughter’s shot of the moon and Venus sharing a moment the other evening over Brisbane

Plover chick: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

Common Flame-back woodpecker 29cm S and SE Asia Lifespan 11 years Diet ants, termites, larvae inside bark, fruit and nectar Pair are monogamous sharing equally all duties, incubating for 28days, feeding 28 days, and 3 more weeks after the fledge until they are fully independent Beautiful video

Inca tern (Larosterna inca), a unique seabird immediately recognizable by the long, white curly feathers on the sides of its face that look like a mustache

PRO PUBLICA: “Don JR’s wedding secretly bankrolled by Russian oligarch close to Putin” 🤔 So weird how this keeps happening 🤷🏼 www.propublica.org/article/dona...

Yikes! That ballroom isn’t going to complement the White House. It’s going to overpower it. Look at the scale of this thing. The people’s house is being swallowed by one man’s monument to himself.

The moon and Saturn.

Scaly thrush 27-31cm Breed Himalayas southwestern China, , and parts of Indonesia southern Japan. Migrate Himalayan foothills, and lowlands in S and SE Asia during colder months. They dance to vibrate the ground, so earthworms come to the surface, also scares camouflaged insects to reveal them

Garcia: There’s a group of Jeffrey Epstein’s survivors that are here in Dallas. And the survivors are saying that they are also disgusted that Todd Blanche is out there giving speeches while refusing criminal convictions, while refusing to release the rest of the files.

While the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says the Flock cameras installed throughout Altadena have been decommissioned, residents seek further action and demand the removal of these cameras. Read the full report: lataco.com/altadena-flo...