A majestic Great Horned Owl perched on a lichen-covered branch, staring intensely with piercing yellow eyes, natural background.
When you’re the silent guardian of the forest and everyone knows it. Those eyes don’t miss a thing! Photo:📸 mikullashbee
Trump's budget plan includes a record $1 trillion in military spending. At the same time, he wants to cut $163 billion in housing, education, healthcare, climate, and labor programs to pay for tax cuts that will mostly go to the rich. "Fiscal responsibility."
“There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.”
This is the energy I am trying to encourage people to cultivate instead of “they’ll arrest you next.”
Early spring leaves of sassafras, Sassafras albidum, in bright green tufts displayed to the sun. Copyright Tom Kimmerer
A branch of umbrella magnolia, Magnolia tripetala, unfolding in the forest understory. Pale green leaves are displayed in a fan to intercept light. Behind them is a brilliant green forest, with dark stems and green young leaves. Copyright Tom Kimmerer
Spring leaves of yellow buckeye, Aesculus flava, in the understory. Each leaf consists of five leaflets. Copyright Tom Kimmerer
Young leaves of red buckeye, Carya ovalis emerging from a bud. Copyright Tom Kimmerer
As much as we love spring flowers, I am fascinated by the unfolding of spring leaves. Here are four understory trees capturing early spring light. The way they display themselves for maximum sunlight interception is fascinating. What spring leaves do you find most attractive?
A blue, white, and tan Eastern Bluebird is perched on a branch in front of deep green leaves.
Eastern Bluebird
Moments of contemplation and appreciation...
#TrumpTariffs
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court’s newest member, denounced on Thursday what she described as "relentless attacks" on judges, and an environment of harassment that "ultimately risks undermining our Constitution and the rule of law."
In between the stories of horrific human rights abuses and trade war insanity I remember that they have also destroyed all our research and data infrastructure and effectively ended any environmental, health, or labor regulation.
My great uncle was lynched after coming home from WWI because he went to town & wanted a drink and they refused to serve him— a VET who just fought for this country
After missing for hours my granddaddy found him hanging from a tree
THATS why I protect my peace
Every time I shine it’s for THEM
"Toothless in Texas" is the name of my next big country song
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
Just deranged. This was a *solved* problem.
Me, my fellow panelists, and the first slide of my presentation to the United Nations on the dangers that offshore finance presents to democracy.
Presenting at the United Nations in Geneva earlier this week on offshore finance as the platform for a global elite insurgency against democracy.
Two airliners abandoned landing attempts at Washington’s Reagan National Airport on Thursday afternoon when an Army Black Hawk took a “scenic route” near the flight path and circled the Pentagon before landing at a military heliport.
Rubio and Vance tweeting in defense of the German far-right party, the AfD.
We are in a very, very dark place.
Oh, #USA is in trouble...! Stick with the #MeaslesVaccine
Today in the Tulips. All of the median beds on Michigan Ave from Delaware to Roosevelt were planted by A Safe Haven. They provide food and shelter for 3000 individuals. Many of them planted over the 70,000 tulips and 110,000 muscari bulbs last autumn. Donate at givebutter.com/asafehaven-d...
begging for money on the internet after calling a child racial slurs? these are gutter people raised in gutter families with a rotten, rancid culture
I am fed up to my back teeth with this whiny "[white cishet] teen boys simply have no CHOICE but to idolize amoral violent misogynist criminals like Tate, because modern life is so confusing now!!" excuse-making. Fuck off. Sack up. What you got, as the fellow said in the thing, ain't nothin' new.
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1. Climate change 2. Greenhouse gas emissions 3. Emissions 4. Racial equity 5. Gender identity 6. Diversity, equity and inclusion 7. Environmental justice 8. Justice40 initiative
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
And you thought the left was censorious. How about actual censoring?
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 357:
If you think of your characters as people, so will your readers. That means giving them a past, interests, people in their lives, likes, dislikes, a culture, an education, (dis)abilities, strengths, weaknesses. Your readers don’t need to know it all, but you do.
I like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages
A small bird with a green head, golden brow, blue cap, and bright yellow on the chest and belly. He is perched among leaves in dense vegetation.
Here is a fancy bird for your Friday evening, a male Golden-browed Chlorophonia. They are found in Central America, in Costa Rice and Panama, and Birds of the World describes them as short-billed, chunky tanagers.
San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica
Hell yeah! Put this on loop—this wise man speaks for me. 🔥
Living Colour releases their debut LP today in 1988 — with “Cult of Personality”, a song inspired by a chat during rehearsal about what makes a leader charismatic.
“Vernon played a riff,” said drummer Will Calhoun. “And next we knew we had a song. All while we were setting up for sound check.”
