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Western Sandpiper preening it's flight feathers. Point reyes National Seashore, CA #birds #shorebirds

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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🗞️As a former Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes I can tell you it is the most important newspaper in the world because it exists to inform and protect our troops from people like the despicable Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump who do not believe they — or anybody for that matter — are owed the truth.

Least Sandpiper, Little Compton, RI #shorebird #bird

The EU Wall of Shame - Eastern Europe edition robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/the-eu-wal...

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

John Ruskin was born on this day in 1819. Ruskin was one of the most influential writers on art and architecture in 19th-century Britain. The use of colour in art was important to Ruskin. He believed that the colours of the natural world could inspire and guide artists. WA.RS.RUD.201

This speech is over 400 years old. It is gripping even now. He could be speaking of Steven Miller, Donald Trump, JD Vance, Tom Homans. It is devastating: "This is the strangers’ case And this your mountainish inhumanity." Share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DceE...

it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society

My buddy just called Robert Kennedy Jr. “Dr. Felchi” and I don’t think I’m gonna recover…

The gems of my yard. Anna's Hummingbird defending it's territory. Cypress Grove, Marshall, CA #birds

Pathogenic Germline Variants in Cancer Susceptibility Genes url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Our new @science.org paper is out! Cuckoos and hosts are locked in a coevolutionary arms race over egg mimicry. But how are these egg types inherited, and could this drive speciation? We sequenced hundreds of genomes to find out! doi.org/10.1126/scie... 🧵1/6

Pathogenic variants in key #cancer susceptibility genes were detected in 5% of US adults in the All of Us study, exceeding prior estimates and highlighting race-based differences in prevalence. ja.ma/477ppzh

Anna's Hummingbird coming in to the Coastal Hedge-nettle. Point Reyes National Seashore, CA #birds

GOP Rep Gabe Evans has used his heritage and his family's immigration story as a shield against criticism of his support for Trump's deportations. @chasewoodruff.bsky.social reports that the story isn't true.

Thank you, Daniel Engber, for bearing witness to the debacle of RFK Jr's ACIP. The ignorance on display is profound. Unfortunately, they're just getting started. The plans to review the entire childhood vaccine schedule will likely further undermine public trust. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Every guy with a tragic backstory (in a movie):

The Darth Vader of bot flies. This one apparently likes to parasitize bunnies and mice. Cuterebra spp. Marshall, CA #insects

It shouldn't need to be said, but "People who followed an early version of my religion lived in this land a couple of thousand years ago" is not a slam-dunk excuse for ignoring international law and committing ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Elegant Trogon, Ramsey Canyon, Sierra Vista, AZ #birds

Painted Redstart hunting insects on the grounds at Cave Creek Ranch, Portal, AZ. #birds

ADL: here to provide the Kosher stamp for Nazis, as long as they mainly hate Muslims

Dark-eyed (Oregon) Junco, Cypress Grove, Marshall, CA #birds

Yellow-rumped Warbler before the storm - Point Reyes National Seashore #birds

Peregrine Falcon pursuing tired landbirds as they fly past the lighthouse at Point Reyes National Seashore. This one was chasing a flock of Lesser Goldfinches.

Harris’s Hawks at our backyard fountain in Scottsdale trying to keep cool and hydrated (it’s 108 F).

Berkeley 1985 protests from divestment from apartheid South Africa. Students on the right side of history again and again. www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancro...

Nuttall's Woodpecker (for now) getting its punk look on. Fremont, CA #birds

Long-billed Curlew surrounded by Willets, Tomales Bay, CA #birds

Before too long, these Dunlin will be molting into their breeding plumage and heading north. Tomales Bay, CA #birds

Three species of shorebirds in flight at Walker Creek Delta, Tomales Bay, CA.

Like a Caravaggio.

Dark-eyed Junco, Fremont, CA

Winter solstice Snowy Plover roosting on beach at Point Reyes National Seashore, CA #birds

Instead of making them do those calculations and wasting all that electricity and water to mint BTC, they could’ve just made people cut down trees and burn them. Like now maybe 1 BTC for every 100 trees. About the same environmental impact but at least we’d be able to still get the processing chips.

Hard to think of a more crystalized example of backlash politics than a white South African billionaire taking revenge for the end of Apartheid.

Public Service Announcement: "A popular and incorrect view on the evolution of virulence, frequently expressed in the context of SARS-CoV-2, is that in the long run, pathogens will tend to evolve to be decreasingly virulent" From www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wisdom the Laysan albatross — the world's oldest known wild bird — is back at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge! She was banded by the US Geological Survey (USGS) in the 1950s. 🧪 earthsky.org/earth/oldest...

Harlequin Duck, Little Compton, RI #birds

Beautiful male Townsend's Warbler this morning at Cypress Grove, Marshall, CA #birds

Sanderling feeding up in the dunes, Point Reyes National Seashore, CA

Townsend's Warbler in coyotebush, Cypress Grove, Marshall, CA #birds

Masters of War. m.youtube.com/watch?v=K4uM...