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submitted 19 hours ago • 728 comments

The Virginia Bluebells are still going strong in our woods. These are ones I transplanted from a vulnerable location in our yard to a safe spot in a garden. #nativeplants, #photography

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If you get the feeling you're being watched while walking through a forest, you probably are being watched. This Barred Owl watched me approach on the trail and continued watching as I departed. #birds, #owls, #photography

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Some more tern pics from yesterday. The first shows the dramatic difference between the big Caspian Tern and much smaller Forster's Tern. The second is a Forster's Tern preparing to land. #birds, #photography

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Forster's Tern flyby and landing. #birds, #photography

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

submitted 6 days ago • 1650 comments

I went to Cuyahoga Valley National Park this morning to see Yellow-throated Warblers. There were several singing high in the trees, but I didn't see one low and close until right before I left. #photography, #birds

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This little Eastern American Toad, Anaxyrus americana was sitting on the bridal trail in Cuyahoga Valley National Park this morning. Surprisingly it didn't hop away when I walked past it. #photography, #nature, #wildlife

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Pennsylvania Sedge blooming in our yard. #nature, #photography

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Osprey hovering over one of the impoundments along a local reservoir this morning. #birds, #photography

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Swamp Sparrow singing from this morning's bird walk at one of our local parks. #birds, #photography

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action. "It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us." www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...

submitted 13 days ago • 1960 comments

A New Hampshire real estate attorney and American citizen returning home from Canada says he was detained at the border without an explanation and "treated like a criminal."

submitted 13 days ago • 1436 comments

Every year, a pair of Common Mergansers take up residence on the river behind our home. This is the female of the pair, having just finished preening and getting ready to float downstream. #birds, #photography

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

In March, after blowing up Democrats’ unified opposition to the GOP’s gov't funding bill, Chuck Schumer defended his vote, saying his red line would be: “If Trump doesn’t obey the Supreme Court.” Well, that didn't take long.

submitted 13 days ago • 73 comments

Our yard is full of Spring Beauties and a multitude of insects feeding on them, such as this Dark-edged Beefly, Bombylius major. #insects, #nature, #photography

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.

submitted 14 days ago • 918 comments

EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

submitted 13 days ago • 308 comments

This is a male America Robin, one of many robins in our yard this spring. At least one pair has a nest and I expect at least two or three more to be nesting soon. #birds, #nature, #photography

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Illegal ideas.

submitted 18 days ago • 538 comments

I encountered this Rat Snake (Pantherophis spiloides) on a group bird walk in one of our local parks a little less than a year ago. #wildlife, #nature, #photography

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”

submitted 19 days ago • 1471 comments

Trump is exploring legal avenues to “deport” U.S. citizens to El Salvador, where the administration has arranged for individuals to be held in a prison notorious for human rights abuses.

submitted 19 days ago • 111 comments

We found the voter fraud!!!!!

submitted 19 days ago • 742 comments

A play in two acts.

submitted 19 days ago • 441 comments

New data from “Vouchers Hurt Ohio” 88.7% of EdChoice vouchers statewide are going to families with incomes greater than $140,400 (almost all are paying for schools the families already attended.) The statewide median income is $43,371.

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

G.O.P. leaders are planning to use the “nuclear option” to steer around the Senate’s in-house referee and allow the use of a gimmick that makes trillions of dollars in tax cuts appear to be free. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

Muskrat with a mouthful. #wildlife, #nature

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Hey @ihnatko.bsky.social, you may have already seen this, but thought you might find this interesting. techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/a...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

FOLKS: I've been told that Florida Dems and Wisconsin Dems DESPERATELY need volunteers to help phone back! I'm placing the links for BOTH below. Can you please repost this like crazy to help get the word out? Please and thank you! 🙏💪

submitted 27 days ago • 21 comments

Damn. Ranking Member Kamlager-Dove calls GOP witness Matt Taibbi a "serial sexual harasser" and enters articles into the congressional record about his history as a sex pest

submitted 27 days ago • 603 comments

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

submitted 30 days ago • 1132 comments

"This is my home - I really love my country. But a lot of my mentors have been telling me to get out, right now" 75% of US scientists who answered our poll are considering relocating. Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/3QS4TLC

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?

submitted 30 days ago • 1471 comments

This fish hook shaped string of fuzzy bright objects is Markarian's Chain of galaxies in the constellation Virgo. There are over 50 galaxies visible in this image, more easily viewed when the Milky Way stars are removed as in the second image. #astrophotography

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

This is an updated image of M82 the Cigar Galaxy I was able to make after collecting a few more hours of data last night. It is closer to where I want it but I still need more data before I'll call it done. #astrophotography

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments