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Sarah Nizzi, a pollinator conservation specialist at Xerces, spotted a rusty patched bumble bee queen flying to its nest on the forest floor. This was a wonderful chance to learn more about this endangered species! ⤵️ xerces.org/news/organiz...

Here is the gift 🎁 article for others to read. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/u...

The only way this could have been better is if Smith said "Fuck Trae Young."

Tired of your university trying to force you to use AI? Here's an idea: DO IT. Do it all day. Tell it to count and list the frequency of adjectives and articles in War and Peace. Tell it to analyze and debug the university website. Burn through those fucking tokens they paid millions for.

NYT: “.. Slaughtering wild horses is illegal, but the [Bureau of Land Management’s] actions create a loophole that enables people to get mustangs on the cheap and then quickly resell them to be exported alive, processed into cuts of meat and sold abroad.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...

My office has been in contact with the woman who recorded this video of an ICE agent drawing a gun on her. She is a Northern Virginia native and a mother.

Russia frees ex U.S. Marine Robert Gilman after 4+ years. He spent the last 47 days in a "dissociative stupor" brought on by abuse. He had been moved to a civilian hospital, hooked up to a feeding tube, & handcuffed to the bed. He's now bound for a military hospital in TX. apnews.com/article/russ...

As a friend noted, this is another version of little green men www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

stan for grasslands

Three people were killed, and seven others were injured in a shooting at an In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho, on August 1, authorities said. Several of the injured remain in critical condition.

Please read this story and share. Thank you, readers, for supporting our journalism. Transparency matters. Accountability matters. Here again is a free link to the story. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u...

Compared with the Great Lakes, the six-acre Schiller Pond is a puddle. But this tiny body of water could make a huge contribution to conservation practices at the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, with a first-of-its-kind project for the district. https://to.wttw.com/4vJtR1G

Zendaya and Anne Hathaway shine as well-written women in Christopher Nolan's otherwise bloated and lame version of Homer's epic In cinemas everywhere now: dmovies.org/2026/07/15/t...

Now in print. Thank you so much to everyone who read and shared the story — it generated a big response! More than 26K likes on Instagram, more than 700 comments on the NYT website, a lot of reader emails — a truly spirited discussion. Plants provoke our passions.

Live look (as of a few moments ago) from the Field Museum. You can see 1000 S Michigan, but that’s about it.

In collaboration with the Munk School, I am sharing a ten-lecture course I taught at @utoronto.ca this past year. The course is called “Hitler and Stalin Today.” Watch the first lecture here: snyder.substack.com/p/new-lectur...

Justin Harbison, aka the "Sewer Monster," helps reduce mosquito populations that might carry the West Nile virus by treating Chicago-area sewers with insecticides aimed at killing recently hatched larvae before they become blood suckers.

Nearly forgot it was #RoseWednesday so sharing this beautiful pastel ‘Louise Clements’. She starts off a brilliant bright orange, smells amazing, and seems to be fending off the crispies from the miserable heat wave quite well. #gardening #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #SmallJoys 🌱

Photos from this morning's native garden walk. It was a hot one. 🥵🌡️ #nativeplants #birds #insects #garden #nature #Wisconsin

#AgSky #EnergySky This is the way. A green circular economy that supports sustainable land use is right there for the taking.

At least Lindsey had Disneyland

The same people who complain about dead people are voting don't mind have a dead senator

I would have liked to see a handwriting sample of graham platner

For the @nytimes.com Magazine, I wrote about the increasingly fervent native plant movement; its esteemed guru, the entomologist and bestselling author Douglas Tallamy; and the complexities of ecologically responsible gardening in our modern era. Gift link 🎁 : www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/m...

Six years ago, my partner and I ripped out all the grass on our property in Portland, Oregon and began creating a wildlife garden from the ground up. We included some Pacific Northwest natives, but we didn’t prioritize them, instead focusing on hardiness and bountiful blooms.

Maybe we should put AOC in charge of the Democratic Party.

The guy with a nazi tattoo is not a good candidate. Move on.

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

Mary-Dell Chilton, NC biochemist who revolutionized agriculture, dies at 87 www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a... #PlantScience #PlantBiotech 🧪

What promises or concessions did trump make to get the billions of dollars he obtained last year?

It’s incredibly sad that a 25 year old died of flu—a vaccine-preventable illness that can be deadly The big anti-vaccine push by the MAGA and MAHA crew is a deadly one; I don’t know what the final tally of deaths will be, but even one death is too many www.expressnews.com/news/article...

Washing line painted by Beatrice Williams, Welsh artist.

Pieces of long-lost Louis Sullivan building revealed on Chicago’s south lakefront (gift link)

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The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it www.theverge.com/science/9576...

All the more that the ultimate solution to this is to significantly remake the Supreme Court so that it would have more checks against this, and if that were not possible in the next POTUS term the quick fix is 7-8 more liberal justices

Alito’s dissent in the vote counting case makes perfect sense if you think of it from the perspective of a braindead fox news viewer who thinks dems are “cheating” when more vote get counted and a republican lead in the count is erased.

The Supreme Court Gives Donald Trump Full Control Over the Executive Branch, Except the Part of It that Impacts Their Retirement Portfolios

To fight Japanese beetles, don’t overwater grass

are we supposed to be doing anything for our county's birthday like ribbons around a tree or something?

this is ...totally intentional, friends. and next he's going to start casually mentioning in passing that literacy tests for voting weren't the worst idea and he also has been thinking about separate water fountains a lot lately

there is cruel, then there is Alito cruel