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Ecology, water, science, gardening, wildlife, dogs, photography. Not in that order. Northeastern U.S.
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When you’re making a video about wildlife but the wildlife has notessss #wildlife #animals #bird #birds #turkey #nature #forest #forester #vermont

I math-ed it out, and right now your DOGE dividend is on track to be $4.29. Let me show my work.

The best thing about the idea of the DOGE dividend is that it'll force a certain transparency on the process. Look at the size of your dividend check and you'll quickly understand how little Elon is getting done.

Do super wealthy executives who also inherited wealth not realize government salaries are not like theirs?

⚡️US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine won't sign minerals deal, sources tell Reuters. The U.S. first raised the prospect of shutting off Starlink after Zelensky rejected the deal presented on Feb. 12. Starlink terminals are critical in securing Ukraine's battlefield communications.

I'm sending my fourth weekly dispatch of how the US media *should* be covering the unprecedented coup by Musk's junta later this morning. Sign up here to get it straight to your inbox: www.doomsdayscenario.co

Sometimes we'll get asked "If I have all-electric appliances, do I still need a carbon monoxide alarm?" The answer is always yes. CO sources exist beyond appliances in your home. In this story, the source was a propane-powered concrete saw being used next door. www.pressherald.com/2025/02/19/k...

The first reaction to this news should be concern about the future of voting by mail www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

@jenpsaki.msnbc.com: "Inspectors general are a headache for everyone. You know why? Because they're investigating every agency and they find stuff! Including waste and fraud and abuse! They wouldn't be firing them if they cared about waste, fraud, and abuse."

$39M+ has been earmarked to DOGE in Trump admin’s first month. For perspective, in recent years Congress had allocated around $50M a year for the IT modernization initiative that DOGE supplanted. Unclear what time frame DOGE's $39M is meant to cover www.propublica.org/article/doge...

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

MapQuest 2001: If this unlocked a core memory, your knees probably creak now

Turkey FULLY supports Ukraine’s territorial integrity — Turkish President Erdogan at the press conference with Zelensky

France is convening a second emergency meeting of EU leaders in three days to discuss the war in Ukraine and security in Europe — Reuters

For those that don't understand what is happening here: ASMR is listening to sounds that cause a pleasurable, tingling sensation. Elon and the official White House account apparently experience that from the sounds of chained migrants being deported by plane. Monsters.

Jim Acosta: I think the AP should consider whether or not to sue the administration… and the rest of the press corps should start seriously considering whether it’s worth sending everyone into the Oval Office, onto Air Force One, or into the briefing room.

Listening to radio show Today Explained that came on VPR just now and they said for pennies you either have to roll them yourselves or use Coinstar and that's not true. Even small credit unions have coin counting machines - at mine, free in their lobbies.

We're excited to join the incredible #MedSky community. Thank you to all the dedicated health care professionals working hard out there.

For folks in DC with animal pals

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

In my city there is one cybertruck and one DIY parody of a cybertruck and the parody truck has become a local celebrity. Meanwhile, I always wish I had some rotten eggs to throw at the tesla whenever I see it.

Even if you ignore the most severe effects of measles (hospitalization, pneumonia and in rare cases encephalitis), you're still talking about a 104-degree fever; a painful rash; swollen eyes and sometimes ear infections. If you could spare your kid all that, why wouldn't you?

Foreign wars… #maga #tariffs

Hyperloop, boring company, full self-driving, cpap machines when promising ventilators during covid, promising to clean Flint's water, promise to save the kids in a cave, promise to land on mars...

This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.

Last night @60minutes.bsky.social opened an otherwise superb segment on Germany’s approach to online hate speech by saying “in the U.S., most of what’s said on online [social media] platforms is protected by the First Amendment.” No.The First Amend protects us against GOVT infringements on speech.

Much of Vermont finished digging out this morning from one of the larger snowstorms of the past few years, while meteorologists remain nervous about high winds later today. www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

If people have this kind of energy in the winter they should volunteer to shovel out fire hydrants and front walks not put our limited EMS at risk.

Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...

My cartoon on Trump's Ukraine peace deal. It is a back stab on Ukraine and a betray to world peace. it opens a dark chapter of our time. 漫画 《川普和平协议》首发大声 @dashengmedia.bsky.social ———— Support my art & Pre-Order my graphic novel ‘You Must Take Part in Revolution’ 🙏 :badiucao.com/book

There’s been so much interest in from US 🇺🇸health workers and jobs in Canada that I’m posting recruitment links for all 10 provinces and 3 territories: 🧵 #healthcarejobs🇨🇦

"I was going to make a noose, but instead I made a basket." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-crafts...