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This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone. If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

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I did not have 🌱 gardening for insects 🐛 my late-mid-life crisis bingo card.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

It really is a death cult.

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I was struggling with my spent daffodil leaves 🌱 until my scrunchie came to the rescue so I could twine them. Probably not how @gardenersworldmag.bsky.social does it!

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

When you sneak that cherry tomato plant into your front garden bed and wait for neighbors to notice you’re actually farming 🌱

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

This is a nice Wild Yam! 🌱

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

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!

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

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!

submitted 59 days ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

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?

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

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...

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

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!

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

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/...

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

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."

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

The indispensable nation has become the inexplicable nation.

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

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 110 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 110 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

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 113 days ago • 2 comments

Good idea

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 119 days ago • 96 comments