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A female Joro spider, #Trichonephila #clavata, hanging out on her web in the North Carolina Arboretum. Joro spiders are invasive but not threatening to humans. #Trichonephilaclavata #spider #nature

Death of a huckster. www.npr.org/2026/10/06/g...

Moon over Lake Erie

Allium flowers

Bumblebee on allium flower.

Turtles enjoying their patriotic American Flag Blue lake.

Lololo

Quite a week. Trump declared a peace deal with Iran, then raged when Iran publicly contradicted his account of the terms. Inflation hit 4.2% and Trump loves it. And Johnson quietly announced on a radio show that Republicans plan to cut Medicare and Medicaid next year. Not as slick as he thought.

Woodchuck! #woodchuck #moriarty #moriartythewoodchuck #nature

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

Northern flicker #northernflicker #Colaptesauratus #pocidae #flickers #nature #birds #aves

Mint leaf and droplets

Rabbit - eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus)

Common blue violet. #flowers #violet #nature

Calling All GIS Educators: "The Guide" Is Here! www.esri.com/about/newsro... #gischat #geogchat #geogsky ⚒️ 🌎 🌍 🌏

The measles outbreaks in the US are so bad and out of control that pediatricians are reaching out to colleagues in developing countries for input on how to manage severe complications of the disease that they have never seen before. Measles was eliminated in the US for 20 years then #RFKJr happened.

Van Hollen: "The Trump admin has essentially said to folks at ICE, 'Anything goes. You have a license to kill. And by the way, we won't investigate you. We'll take care of this for you.' When they're calling these Americans 'domestic terrorists,' what they're saying to ICE is we got your back."

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Montessori Adolescent Guide training opportunity. www.trainmontessori.org/ami-adolesce... #montessori #montessoriadolescent #montessoritraining

This is cool www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Green heron sitting on a branch. #greenheron #bird #birds #lowershakerlake #ohio

Cute raccoons!

1/ Congress just passed the largest #Medicaid cuts in U.S. history: $1 trillion over 10 years. Only 8% of Americans are aware that this was included in the “Big Beautiful Bill." There’s also been a stunning lack of plain-language explanations that don’t answer the basic questions: How? Why? 👇

Amazing. NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli strikes were "playing" on Fox News, which drove him to want credit for it

No kings! CLE

"These supplies include more than 26 million condoms, 2 million doses of inj birth control, millions of packages of oral birth control, hundreds of thousands of implantable contraceptive devices, and over 50,000 vials of a drug that prevents HIV contraction" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

"Horror show doesn't even come close actually" to describing the situation," Berg said. "It's tremendously damaging to the United States' ability to do research, the U.S. economy, our competitive position in the world." @jeremymberg.bsky.social #bethesdadeclaration

"It's a Yes or No Question"

It will also kill a lot of people.

Pardon fellow fraudsters. ✅ Trump pardons reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley www.npr.org/2025/05/28/n...

Great blue heron walking on dam edge. #greatblueheron #ardeaherdias #addBirder #bird #aves #lowershakerlakes #cle

🧪Making the U.S. unsafe from dangerous weather events again! www.cbsnews.com/news/doge-cu...

Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

Bad people know that one way to control people is to make them feel economically uncertain, so more of their time is spent worrying about their own precarity and less on the general welfare and/or what the bad people are doing. There's a reason the current administration is undermining the economy.

100% decrease in graduate education funding (80% decrease in overall education funding) means we will not have scientists. Between this and the brain drain, you can say goodbye to American science. But the wealthy will have their tax cuts, and that’s what’s important /s

New Forbes story about the economic consequences of science cuts. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... Thoughtful and thorough analysis. 1/n

Had a great time at #PyConUS! So many great people, conversations, and presentations!

Tree rings show Earth was hit by an extreme solar storm 14,300 years ago, likely caused by multiple CMEs striking in succession. It flooded the atmosphere with radiation, far beyond modern levels, and shows how intense solar activity can become. 🔭🧪⚒️ #SolarStorms #SpaceWeather #Paleoclimate

Moody’s Ratings downgraded the United States’ credit rating, as the country’s debt soars and interest rates remain high. The downgrade, from the highest rating to one notch below, comes as the president’s budget bill suffered a blow in Congress.

We must keep fighting! News here via @lizneeley.bsky.social about some climate datasets that are being restored to the public after farmers’ groups fought for them in court. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

I thought this was a cool lightning talk. #PyConUS Also made me think of the newish book I heard discussed on NPR (yet to read) Killed by a Traffic Engineer.