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Oh I can clear that up. Lots of US farmers today are rich AF thanks to inherited wealth, & way more skilled at complaining than they are at farming. I don't know Batten, but Kim Kornegay in particular is one of the least reliable narrators you could hope to find on agriculture.

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Toad sat on the edge of his bed. “Blah,” said Toad. “I feel down in the dumps.” “Why?” asked Frog. “I am thinking about tomorrow,” said Toad.

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No, no, no, Biden made the farmers work. That’s why farmers prefer Trump, because they get paid handouts without needing to work for it. Wait, no, it sounds bad when I put it that way.

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MIT following Harvard's lead here

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The Glory Potter wasp, Lanzarote, Canaries. Canon R5 and Sigma 150mm. SS1/3200 F7.1 ISO3200 #insects #macro #nature #insect #naturephotography #macrophotography #bugs #photography #insectphotography #wildlife #butterfly #naturelovers #entomology #bug #animals #wildlifephotography #macroworld

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We have already seen how deporting “only hardened criminals” has quickly come to include “anyone not politically aligned with the ruling party”. How fast will this turn into a program for disappearing citizens exercising their First Amendment rights?

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TIGER BEETLE HEAT SHIELDS! one of my favorite examples for teaching insect biomechanics and thermal ecology

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Now who is this little weirdo?

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The beautiful cryptic underwing patterns of a Female Orange-tip butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines) on Garlic Mustard. Spotted today along the Water of Leith in Currie. #Butterflies #Insects #Inverts #Nature #Photography #Nikon @savebutterflies.bsky.social @wolct.bsky.social

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Deported for thoughtcrime. Welcome to the New America.

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Some great footage in the old Eyewitness series. Also, I did not remember that it was narrated by Martin Sheen (I probably didn’t know who Martin Sheen was when I was 12 anyway) youtu.be/3d1_zi9o6Qk

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Keep pushing back. Every win matters. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Ectopsocus briggsi #macrophotography #macronature #macro #nature #photography #trees #spring #flowers #bloom #booklice #barklice #psocoptera #entomology #insecta

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I guess it’s kind of funny, the way Trump tried to reverse course on the recession he started—like watching a remorseful arsonist trying to put out a house fire.

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A Mourning Cloak Butterfly....they are some of the first to come out in early Spring.....Interior of B.C....Canada. #insects #butterflies #nature #outdoors #wildlife

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This is Orbanism, brought to America. It’s a fascist takeover of US universities, stripping free speech, because the Trump regime wishes to control universities, end free thought and fight truth. We fight now, inside and outside NIH, or US science becomes Soviet science.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Beware the death spiral

submitted 6 days ago • 163 comments

California Sister Butterfly #wildlife #insects #photography #naturephotography

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Trump is clearly trying to destroy US universities, which, to date, have largely just complied and tried to go along to get along rather than organize together to fight back. This is the result of a decades-long neoliberal corporatization of universities without principles, courage, or real purpose.

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Happy #Wednesday! #AlphabetChallenge ##WeekOforOodles Oodles of Milkweed Beetles #Insects #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #BlueskyPhotography #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings #TheWildImages #EastCoastKin #

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Sanders does not mince words. He is doing an effective job at decoupling Netanyahu from Israel and focusing criticism where it belongs: on the illegal actions of the Netanyahu Government.

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Dwarf Snowfly aka Capnia nana #insect #bugs #photography

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Our first friend of the year. #Butterflies #Caterpillars

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I will now be sharing a photo of an insect for every news post I make. It is a new mental wellness program I call “Doomscrolling Offsets”. Easy to sign up: there’s no paperwork and benefits arrive immediately. I think it may work with non-insect photos as well, but I am unsure.

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This guy is on a level of supervillainy only approached by the kind of ham-fisted sci-fi allegory found in comic books of the 1990s.

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I am really glad to see the kidnapping of Alfredo Juarez de Federino covered by @coolzonemedia.bsky.social @miawong.bsky.social Good background on Familias Unidas por la Justica, as well. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely this. It’s especially telling that they revived an extinct mammal rather than an insect. While I’m unsure what ecological role a dire wolf could fill in the present day, I know insect species are going extinct at an alarming rate.

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