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Oh hey 🌱 rare Chestnut-sided Warbler bathing so hard he almost falls over the waterfall! It’s a bananas birding day here.

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This is a nice Wild Yam! 🌱

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This is a nice Wild Yam!

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“People understood the urgency and the opportunity. And together, we began to reimagine the work not just as a continuation of what had been cut short but also as something new and more alive. A rigorous, independent effort to tell the story of nature in America.” 🌱 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...

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Here’s a nice Mayapple.🌱 Caterpillar host for the Variegated Fritillary butterfly, as well as several moth and sawfly species. Its nectar-rich flowers attract bumblebees, miner bees and carpenter bees, while its berries are eagerly consumed by box turtles, opossums, skunks and raccoons!

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Discovering wasp galls on a young 🌱 white oak tree, which beautifully color coordinate with the non-native azalea, is the moment where family text chain says “oooh pretty!” and then “wait, wasps?” and then you have to say “I’ve got a podcast that explains why this is spectacular!” #iamjoegardener

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When you have to prune a big azalea branch 🌱 because it’s fallen into the pathway to the English Ivy removal project!

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Honk if you’ve ever planted only one 🌱 Fringe Tree and one Spicebush, and then later realized they were dioecious and need male and female plants together. Honk twice if you then realize this is justification for planting more trees and shrubs!

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Spotted this about 2 miles from my house and whipped around the block to come back and get a better look at the 🌱whole garden.🌱 Then I realized that’s probably what pollinators do too. homegrownnationalpark.org

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Rhododendron periclymenoides, the native pink azalea, showing off in Monticello Park in Alexandria, Virginia. 🌱

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Non-native Miscanthus grass monster successfully removed after 3 years of dawdling over it. A broad fork was used. 🌱💪

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Don’t you mean a giant can of whup ass on all of us?

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Can y’all give one of northern Virginia’s most knowledgeable 🌱 native plant 🌱restoration champions, and delightful trans garden gals @madelinebright.bsky.social a follow to get her out of this devilish 😈 666 😈followers rut?

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Timeline cleanse: Boaty McBoatface 😂 - the yellow submarine named after the UK allowed the Internet to vote on boat names - got an underwater camera, deployed to spot the Loch Ness Monster, tangled up in its propeller. We have jumped the shark again. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Whoa! Good job New Mexico, and all the 🌱advocates who pushed this through.

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I was behind in my winter 🌱sowing, but we’re getting there!

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ffs npr

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ffs nyt

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Y’all. 🌱 I’ve just cycled thru the 7 stages of whatever you have when you first see nightcrawlers AT NIGHT in your yard, pulling back into their holes, and you read about how they are invasives in N America, munching forest floor plants, and altering proper soil structure. Back to native reseeding!

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This is stupid times stupid. Turns out federal workers have important jobs. “The impacts of that could be millions or billions of dollars in economic damage.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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I feel like among cave people, the first, vital, collective need — the dawn of government — must’ve been taking turns staring at the volcano. www.notus.org/health-scien...

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More of this. Finding joy in the revolution builds power exponentially.

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MAGA became Russian assets as reward for already being loud homophobes. “They didn’t push Russian talking points for the money — the Kremlin gave them the money because, like so many of their MAGA colleagues, they were already pushing Russian talking points.” www.mediamatters.org/trumprussia/...

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Let’s ignore him and his weird hair and instead lift up Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.

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Why do they hate weather science? Aren't their golf games, satellite launches, and skiing all impacted by weather? Even George Orwell cared about weather. His diary entries were "a diligent and often tedious summary of flora and fauna sightings, gardening exploits and above all weather updates."

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This is A) a great read and B) a model for stories we need to be telling all across government now,in channels people actually see, so they understand that government is … what enables our quality of life

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Succinct summary of 🔥what's to come🔥 from @danamilbank.bsky.social.

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The indispensable nation has become the inexplicable nation.

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Musk claims to be removing fraud from government, but the corruption is happening in plain sight. He called for the FAA chief who regulates his companies to resign FAA then cancels a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon and gives it to Musk instead donmoynihan.substack.com/p/musks-frau...

submitted 71 days ago • 30 comments

I'm convinced this is a genuine problem. The reality of Trump is so cartoonishly, comically awful that an absolutely neutral description sounds like a hit piece, even to me. So if you're at all predisposed to think of press as biased, factual reporting looks like some relentless vendetta.

submitted 71 days ago • 36 comments

Civil 1. relating to ordinary citizens and their concerns. Servant 1. a person who performs duties for others. In appreciation today for civil servants, like my neighbor Sarah, who thinks she will be fired today after 27 years’ service. Her job? Ensuring our tax dollars are spent legally. #altgov

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If you haven’t been to Glenstone, America’s largest private art museum, don’t forget that it’s got trails through ~ 100 acres of native plantings, regeneratively managed. It’s the backdrop for outdoor sculptures. Or maybe the sculptures are the backdrop for the nature. 🌱 Late February beauty.

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I get it that my neighbors still love their lawn more than their birds and biodiversity 🐛, but I just had to stop NINE guys with gas powered leaf blowers from blowing the leaves I had left for nature off OUR yard. 🌱 Penn State guidance: wait until apple trees are blooming to clean up.

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Good idea

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Two big trees that came crashing down in a windstorm in our local park, both on the hill below an extremely invasive new home construction that everybody in the neighborhood had protested for its environmental impact. Both took out multiple other 10 and 20 year old trees. Grrrr.

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Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

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Peter, you really need to rethink whether you are in fact, contributing anything. Your latest: Interviewing three white men, one of them a Republican, about why Democrats might want Trump to colonize our closest ally and trading partner is debating club sophistry bullshit that enables Nazis.

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We called a wise, politically active friend in her mid-80s for advice on what we should be doing. Her advice? Acknowledge what's been lost, how it's not coming back, and figure out what your "essence" is so that you don't become one of the "downtrodden" and lose the ability to make a difference.

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Garrett’s Saturday posts = must reads. “…Musk operating as an illegitimate head of government and the senile Trump content to serve out his ramblingly incoherent dotage as a ceremonial head of state” “Musk…[paid] Trump $10M personally this week, apparently as part of [a] power-sharing agreement…”

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Happy Valentines Day ❤️@apnews.com ❤️.

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@marcelias.bsky.social: This may not end well for Trump: "Federal courts have the power of criminal contempt...They can appoint their own prosecutors from the private bar. If the U.S. Marshals Service refused to enforce court orders, judges...have the power to contract privately for that as well."

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I agree with this, but also wanted to uplift the brilliant use of the word “inmiseration,” which may become the word of 2025. Unless it’s kakistocracy.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

They are keeping the ceremonial monarch busy with petty business — while the techno-dictator breaks the country.

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