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Hummingbird Sage today, transplanted in November. Yanking it out of the ground and stuffing it into small holes agreed with it. 🌱 #californianativeplants

It's time for the Spring Beauties. Claytonia virginica. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱 #flowerreport

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Manhattan DA drops assault charge in Washington Square Park snowball fight

Market near 3rd St, circa 1912 3 Percheron horses pull a smoking SF fire engine down Market Street, Photographer Sam Crow was adept at capturing a high speed scene. (scanned from a deteriorating 4"x5" glass negative) #sfmemory #sfhistory

Washingtonia filifera, the California Fan Palm, thriving in Borrego Palm Canyon today #nativeplants 🌿

surrounded by friends

A friend found the new Texas Purple Sage, Leucophyllum frutescens. 🌱 #nativeplants

learning gavin newsom was basically a Getty family leech slash pet for his entire formative years explains so much about his listless efforts to claim he's somehow just like us working stiffs

For more than 153 years, The Boston Globe has printed a daily newspaper despite tech issues, pandemics or weather But in an unprecedented decision, "executives determined that the conditions during Monday’s blizzard made it impossible to print and deliver a paper Tuesday morning"

Rad day on the Del Mar mesa with my plant friends. #CaliforniaNativePlants

NEW STORY // Seattle Library Workers Raise Alarm About Security Crackdown Hitting Homeless People By Justin Ward via @urbanistorg.bsky.social // www.theurbanist.org/2026/02/23/s...

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Oakland’s 130-year-old Fenton's Creamery (est. 1894) is celebrating Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu the sweetest way: 🍦 FREE ICE CREAM FOR LIFE🍦 I fondly remember riding my bike over to Fenton's as a college student at Berkeley. A classic!

Before the vaccine, 10% of measles infections resulted in deafness. Measles currently causes 100K children/yr to become blind. Even those who recover completely can later develop the fatal encephalitis. Every infection disrupts the immune system and can cause loss of all immunity to other infections

Martinez’s death would mark the 1st shooting victim under DHS in 2025, and overall 5th under the Trump Administration alongside Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, Keith Porter, Renee Good, and Alex Pretti.

Four years of California native plants birthday celebration at Mother Natives plants on Sunday, February 22nd, 11am-1pm. Location is 4421 24th St, Sacramento, CA. Will probably not be raining! 🌱 #californianativeplants

Cedar waxwings hanging out in the winter red twig dogwood. #BlueSkyArtShow #Two #birds #nature #photography

Getting seeds to sprout is an endless quest. In this go-round, I mixed potting soil with 20% garden dirt, placed pots on the ground to regulate temps, and timed it for a storm series because seeds find the local tap water yucky. So far, only the yarrow has fallen for it. 🌱 #californianativeplants

GLORIOUS pelican roll this morning! Thank you, bird! 🪶

Camp on Camp! The Sacramento Queer Community Says: ICE OUT NOW! PERFORMANCES BY LOCAL ARTISTS February 22nd Starting at 6 pm 650 Capitol Mall, N St. Side! Tips will be donated to NorCal Resist.

Here are some perennial native plants that have seeds without any germination requirements! #nativeseeds #nativeplants #nativegarden #gardening #flowers #pnw #oregon #westcoast #wildlifegardening #pollinators

I have this on my wall, with thanks to the artist

NEW: US President Donald Trump stated on February 19 that he will likely decide on whether the United States will strike Iran within the next ten days. Read More: isw.pub/IranUpdate02... Other Key Takeaways:

I have no idea if this is going to be good, seems to be taking a lot of historical liberties. But I salute them for building an entire movie around weather predictions. It is one of those things that people forget how hard it is, and certainly was, during the SWW.

Reminding myself Spring exists. 🌱 #californianativeplants

Aren't footpaths brilliant?

The annual Plant Celebration and Freecycle Giveaway at South Sacramento’s Rainbow Mini Park marks a new chapter for the South-Central Sacramento Community Garden initiative.

Made a garden path with sawdust from the huge invasive privet, removed last summer, so I can tread on my enemies. A giant buckwheat celebrates with already-emerging flower stalks. A few Purple Haze Aster stalks left for bugs. Invasive oxalis will soon be sun-shriveled. 🌱 #californianativeplants

"When Lewandowski was told Noem's personal items had been left behind, including a heated blanket, he yelled at Coast Guard staff The pilot came out of cockpit to see what was happening & Lewandowski insisted plane return to collect Noem's items When he refused, Lewandowski announced he was fired"

Huge announcement: Girl Scouts on our trans girl scout cookies list have sold 250,000!!!!!! Boxes of girl scout cookies, a record for EITM's trans girl scout cookie drive. Some have only sold 20 boxes though. I put those at the top of the list. Lets close out this season and make their day! :)

The Trump administration has formally denied Minnesota law enforcement access to information and evidence from the FBI investigation into the shooting death of Alex Pretti by federal agents on Jan. 24 in Minneapolis.

This is one explanation for no one involved answering the question: "How exactly is AI going to make money?" Because the answer is "By coming up with new ways to rip you off."

The California Figwort Beeplant (Scrophularia californica) I planted near a magnolia in Fall '25 has tripled in size among the cut-leaf geranium and other European invasives. 🌱 #californianativeplants #nativeplants

🌱 @joyf.bsky.social @flutterbyflora.bsky.social @saunieindiego.bsky.social Look who's arrived! Monarch season has begun. 🐛

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Hearts appear throughout the natural world, in leaves, flowers, seed pods and unfolding fronds. A small gathering of botanical hearts for St. Valentine’s Day. #ValentinesDay

#art #photography #BlueSkyArtShow #wood #trees #sacramento

Hey I'm back! As some of you know, I experienced some scary harassment here last month when a user threatened me and the sanctuary I work for and I was shocked when they received only a 3-day suspension for that. I have now been assured that the offending account is permanently suspended, and

Let's just admire this massive wicker basket for a while

There seems to be a lot of discussion about Gavin Newsom today. I wanted to re-share this piece that I wrote, because I have a lot of center-to-left Dems that follow me that want to understand. There are very good reasons transgender people do not like Gavin Newsom.

Oakland’s 91-year-old queer bar is still a site of resistance.

“The urgency of the threat” is prompting the Defense Innovation Unit to solicit products in time for a spring 2026 demonstration.

These parents used our nesting boxes last season, so I had many opportunities to watch insect deliveries! 💚 #Birds&Bugs #BirdOfTheDay #Birds 📷

AI making money at last!

you can’t possibly be a company that acknowledges ai is “alive” and then say you “own” the ai and use it for profit right

The witch hazels are in bloom at the UW Arboretum. Saw a couple of cherries starting to bloom as well in this too-warm and dry Seattle winter. 🌱

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Botany valentine. Another oldie.