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😱 Squash blossom stamens look like little mushrooms!! 🍄 🌱

It has been eight days since Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was shot by ICE while making a DoorDash delivery in Austin, Texas. He is currently facing a severe medical emergency. The bullet remains lodged in his back, and he is being held at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall.

“Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list.”

Democratic Party challenge: Reject the GOP framing for any given issue. Difficulty: Impossible

I have also seen local reporters in California (TV and print) basically verbatim repeat a Sheriff’s pro-Flock advertisements with little-to-no pushback.

“U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has directed its officers to misrepresent themselves as voters on state election agency websites while checking dozens of people’s registration and voting records, the whistleblower said. “

PSA: Election officials in California, Oregon, Washington and elsewhere are telling voters if you can, return your ballot through an official ballot drop box rather than trusting it to the mail.

I go away for 2 weeks on my first international trip and come back to giant squash! (Click to enlarge) Now, I have “Attack of the Giant Zucchini” stuck in my head 😆 Time to bust out the squash recipes! #gardening 🌱 🥒

A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...

This isn't an exaggeration: Republicans literally kicked KIDS off of food assistance so they could give billionaires more tax breaks. This wasn't an accident this was a deliberate Republican policy CHOICE.

Whoever designed the seats on the Boeing 777 has some extra special torture waiting for them in The Bad Place 😤

Happy Pride from Nantes! We danced, we hugged, we held each other in love 💕 🌈 It felt like the whole city was out to celebrate, with multiple city blocks full of celebration 🕺 ✨ 🏳️‍🌈

In upsetting news you may have missed - ~40 detainees in a California concentration camp have been on a hunger strike since *mid-May* Their demands? Basic rights: access to clean food and water and adequate medical care This is happening in our country. We should all be ashamed.

California just held an election w/paper ballots, signature verification, audits, bipartisan oversight & public vote counting procedures. You don’t get to yell “fraud” every time voters make a choice you don’t like. Take the whiny little b*tch act somewhere else. We’re not buying it in this state!

Adorable young kestrels surprised by a butterfly.

The Delaney Hall strikers are hitting GEO Group where it hurts

By Jim Benton

June 6th Annual Appendix Cancer Awareness Walk & BBQ! 1 mile will walk starts on the corner of 25th Ave & MLK @ 11AM Block party BBQ starts at 12PM

🫛 Getting ready to sauté some redbud seed pods & garden greens. Redbud tree seed pods are also edible! A member of the legume family, they taste just like lemon peas! Gotta get ‘em when they’re very small & tender. I like to make sure they’re really flexible/malleable 🫶 #foraging 🌱 #nativeplants

Sweet pea blossom in the garden at sunset 🌱 #soft #blueskyartshow #bloomscrolling #macrophoto #nature

Today’s foraged treats: meringue cookies using lilac-infused sugar. Found the lilac growing over the back fence of a neighbor’s yard and couldn’t resist its delicious fragrance 😋 These are the first meringue cookies I’ve ever made! What a great use for leftover egg whites! 🍪🧑‍🍳 #foraging #baking

Today’s #Blueskyartshow theme is “odd”, so I thought of my #macrophoto of a springtail riding a dew drop on a saprophytic mold #natureart #naturephoto 🌱#macro #mold #fungus

Beautiful view from the garden this morning 🌞🌹🌱 #bloomscrolling #naturephoto #nature #gardening

I found one of my planters chock-a-bock full of invasive three cornered leeks and when I pulled one out, the bulb looked like pearl onions, so I made cocktail onions! 🧅 🍸 #foraging #foragedfood #invasiveplants #eattheweeds 🌱

The yellow irises are popping all over the garden and smell divine 🥰 Snapped this photo just before the rain hit 🌦️ #bloomscrolling #spring #flowers #iris #bulbs 🌱 #nature #naturephoto

Tip-toeing though the poppies 🌱 #nativeplants #canativeplants #macro #insects #nature

I foraged some rose hips & magnolia “tulip tree” blossoms, then harvested a bunch of freesias, a couple roses, and a few Catalina currant leaves from the garden to make champagne 🥂 #foraging 🌱 #cocktails #brewing #fermentation #wildfood

The first mystery heirloom poppy bloomed and it’s so pretty! #bloomscrollimg #stunday 🌱 #nativeplants #wildflowers #heirloomseeds

Ernie doing his best Cheshire Cat impression 😸 Happy #caturday !

Magnolia blossoms are one of my favorite early Spring things to forage! I picked a few blossoms from each tree to make a syrup & pickled magnolias - so yummy & taste like pickled ginger! I think the earlier-blooming pink, “tulip tree” magnolias have a better flavor than the white 🌸 #foraging 🌱

New: I wrote about how the SPLC let union breaking and fear of MAGA drive it away from its own civil rights principles. After I spoke up about Gaza, the SPLC disciplined me and terminated my employment—leading to a discrimination settlement: substack.com/home/post/p-...

NEW: WIRED has unmasked the agents behind Trump’s violent immigration crackdown, identifying dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians in Chicago and other cities around the US.

A great reminder to never put batteries or electronics in the trash! 😅 Went to the dump & saw this truck smoking after being consumed in flames. An employee who said it was the result of a lithium battery in the trash. Can’t use water to put it out 😯 it had been burning for two days already 🫠

🌱 This California poppy seems to glow gold when the sun hits it! May it be a good omen for your weekend 🌟 #nativeplants #canative #gardening #timelinecleanse #flower #bloomscroling

Newly uncovered memos show the basis for RFK Jr's decision to end the Covid vaccine recommendation for pregnant people and children. They're light on evidence and heavy on ideology, sources told me in my latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The House voted 357 - 65 to block the release of Congressional sexual misconduct reports. 182 Democrats & 175 Republicans voted to shield their misconduct from the public. They want the Epstein files released but not the files on themselves released. The entire system must go!

HB 764 would make it a crime to provide: legal assistance to undocumented immigrants shelter financial support transportation Offering help could result in misdemeanor chargers or felony charges if helping a group of 5 or more people. Orgs could be fined and lose permits. Really bad bill.

The top 1% in America now hoard $55.8 trillion — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.

Call to action: Contact your reps to say absolutely not on HS 7661!

this bill is legitimately a three-alarm fire. if they manage to define trans existence as explicit then there is nothing stopping them from genocide. i need every single cis person talking about this, calling their reps, getting out in the streets.

Chris Lynch, a filmmaker with brittle bone disease, has created what he believes to be the world’s first wheelchair camera system, increasing accessibility within the film industry. trib.al/whJYODn

Reading Steve Hilton’s policy stances and cannot understand how this man is leading the polls for CA Governor. The amount of cringe occurring on my face while I was reading 🙄😬 We need better political and media literacy.

NEW: Three homeless men froze to death on Sacramento County sidewalks this past winter. Activists are pushing the city, county to open more warming centers www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

Remember folks: If it doesn’t smell like onion, it’s not an onion! 🧅 🌱 I nearly added daffodil bulbs to dinner my first year #foraging until there was no onion smell 😬 #gardening

We've got the numbers: Last year we published (in partnership with the @brennancenter.org and @umd-cdce.bsky.social) survey results showing that some 21.3 million Americans could be disenfranchised by the SAVE Act, which the House''ll vote on tomorrow. Time to send this thing back to its grave.

An ink cap glistens in the sunshine #fungus #macro #naturephoto #nature #photography #macrophoto