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This is ‘Sedna’, one from my ‘Sirens’ series, photos of storm waves named after mythological beings. Her story is in the next part of this thread. 1/2 🧵 🌊 📷

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It was so gloomy this morning, I almost didn't take my camera. But then I would have missed this shot of one of Central Park's coyotes! We stared at each other for maybe two minutes before it ambled off! 🎉🎉🎉 #Coyote #CentralPark

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Snowstorm. Bangor, Maine 1975. 📷 © Ken Regan | Morrison Hotel Gallery

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From my online ink demo session of Little Cormorant (Microcarbo niger), Hoskote Lake, Bangalore, Karnataka, India Wishing everyone #WorldArtDay #art #birds #sciart #scientificillustration #birdart #wildlifeart #traditionalart #mentoring #illustration #nature #indianwildlifeartist

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DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

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A lilac breasted roller looking resplendent

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What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

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This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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For today’s #stunday image a sunlit pink water lily hosts a resting dragonfly, while a curious turtle peeks from near a lily pad below — nature’s quiet moment, balanced and serene. #eastcoastkin #photography #stunday

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I’ve written many articles about Passover over the years, but I think this may be the most important one I’ve ever written. I hope you’ll read and share it widely. truthout.org/articles/thi...

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Time folds, stars burn, and stone takes the shape of dragons. This is Coyote Buttes, where ancient waves of rock ripple beneath the Milky Way, and the desert dreams in color. A moment suspended between galaxies and geology.

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These vile malefactors show contempt for the law, for justice, and for human life. It is untenable. They render the constitution as inconsequential and freedom as a grotesque delusion. In the balance lies the fate of not only Mr. Abrego Garcia, but the republic as well.

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🐌 Hurrah for Sunday Snailday once again & into every sun lit blue skied day a little rain must always fall, so the wish for all good folks is to kindly remember that this is what grows the flowers that bloom so prettily, & of course when it rains to look for beshelled snails...

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Barn Swallow lifts off with the perfect stick for his nest! #Swallows #birds #wildlife #nature #photography #Spring #NewJersey

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Bring back everyone who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. No one should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

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Resplendent Quetzal #CostaRica #birds #nature 🌿

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National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities has had the greatest relative cuts of any NIH Institute (unclear if NIMHD still exists). HIV has had the highest proportion of research grants cut. Black and Latinx people comprise 70% new HIV diagnoses. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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The grim Friday dump of cancelled #NIH programs continues. What did #RFKJr focus on killing this week? Community health programs and early-career faculty recruitment! 🧪 🧵 airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJ...

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NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts. About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone. See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

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The Trump admin & ICE need oversight, not a spending spree of $45 BILLION dollars that disregards basic human rights. Read our statement w/ @humanrightsfirst.org @detentionwatchnetwork.org @nipnlg.bsky.social @the-ilrc.bsky.social @nilc.org calling on Congress to stop new ICE contracts:

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My weekly curated list of must-read articles and some final thoughts for the week. "To keep as many of us alive and free as possible, we are going to have to recognize the nature of the fight we’re waging, and we are going to have to refuse characterizations that deem some of us disposable."

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I had a nice morning birding today. The highlight was a surprise migrator red-breasted merganser. He was by himself and afforded me my best shot of the morning. #Birds #photography #nature

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These Echinopsis cactus flowers opened last night, and with luck they might last until tomorrow morning. Each flower is nine inches wide. I have several different varieties, and this one is my favorite. I get 1-4 flowers from it every year. 🌸🌵

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Toucan flirting. A pair of Yellow-eared Toucans thinking about making baby toucans at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #ToucanoftheDay #birds #nature #costarica 🌿

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Hello, friends! A chickadee among white blossoms for today's #AColorADaypril theme of white. Chickadees are such cheerful little birds. Hope this one brightens your day!

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(1/2) The Kennedy Center withdrew its support for Crushing Colonialism’s annual Native pride event bc they refused to remove Drag, Drag-Adjacent gender-nonconforming, Two-Spirit, and trans performers from the lineup.

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Abolish ICE!

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The Kentucky labor movement is coalescing around defending all workers from the volley of attacks Trump has unleashed on the working class. labornotes.org/2025/04/kent...

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Everyday I think about the fact that iceland jailed the people responsible for their financial crisis

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Beadwork and traditionally woven pieces avail for purchase. All Black/Indigenous made. Proceeds will go to an Elder who is ill and in critical need. - Medallion w rope necklace - Beaded earrings - Cuff bracelet made with hand-dyed cane basket weaving DM if interested. Also taking donations. 💛

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Throwback, while I make new art, and grapple with reality. #ProjectAnimalia (my daily #animalart project) Day 44: Eurasian hoopoe (Upupa epops). #sciart #medart #dailyart #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #birdart #hoopoe #birds #birding

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Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

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Donald Trump kept his businesses while serving as president, which is going to lead to more conflicts of interest that could affect policy and more chances for self-enrichment. The American people don't like people using government to enrich themselves. As more comes out, it will anger people.

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Not much to investigate lol

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Also on today's walk? Bees! Blooms!! I LOVE SPRING (A Miner Bee on Spring Beauty) #invertebrates 🌿 🐝 #BugSky #BloomScrolling

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Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27

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Deporting people means a judge signs a final deportation order, and the person is returned to their own country. What we are doing is kidnapping a person off the street and paying for them to be held indefinitely in concentration camps outside US courts' jurisdiction. 100% deliberately extralegal.

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Rose-breasted Grosbeak looking well-rested and ready for spring. It amazes me that these little birds will be making the long flight back to the northeast US and Canada for the summer. San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica

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You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

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Ducks in a row

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