I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

If you had a trillion dollars and spent half a million dollars a day. You’d get an overdraft notice 5480 years from now. Except that your money makes money by existing, so even spending at that rate your account balance would increase.

Racist trillionaire is an unsurprising word pairing.

Sparrows in my yard acting strangely. I looked up to see a bird waaaaay up in the sky looking like a chimney swift. Until they came to a stop in the sky and then plummeted into a stoop! Legs extended just as the female kestrel disappeared behind a neighbors house only to emerge empty taloned.

Putting the gory into allegory. A Bald Eagle on a not so fresh roadkill raccoon. Northern Iowa.

Let's GOOOOOOOOO! Spots are filling up fast for my retreats in Colombia this September. We'll spend five days immersing ourselves in nature, visiting indigenous communities and making things together. Use the code DUET for $200 off registration for two or more. www.jerthorp.me/btb-retreat-... 🪶📊

Rose-breasted Grosbeak in the canopy. #birds 🪶

For the first cohort, Sept. 4th - 9th, my co-facilitator will be Walter Kitundu, a person whose work I've admired for a decade. Walter is a phenomenal artist mixing performance and sculpture into a practice that speaks about place, nature and community. kitundu.com

For my inaugural BtB Retreat last year, I was lucky to have the writer and naturalist extraordinaire @ryanfm.bsky.social as my co-facilitator. I'm happy to say that Ryan will be back in Colombia in 2026, for our 2nd cohort, running Sept. 11 - 16th. www.jerthorp.me/btb-retreat-... ❤️🪶🐛🌿

I’ll be co-facilitating the first week of this with @jerthorp.bsky.social who invited me along! I’m beyond excited to think and imagine with this group, and receive the gifts the surroundings will offer during our time there.

Eastern Red Bat in the neighbor’s tree.

Rainbow generating waves. Point Reyes, CA

Jeffries is incapable of meeting the moment.

Check out this eagle-eyed traffic reporter! We spotted this beauty perched over I-35W in Minneapolis 🦅 Want to see road conditions, traffic impacts and some more wildlife? Explore our cameras on 511mn.org today.

One of the 50 people that ICE kidnapped today is a mother from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who has a pending asylum application and no criminal record It’s an ethnic cleansing campaign. Pure and simple. www.instagram.com/p/DTyFTp8E9k...

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

More than 5,000 people here in Powderhorn Park protesting ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis. #FuckICE #iceout #mpls #FuckTrump

Translation: Have you not learned that we can kill you without consequence?

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

School has been cancelled tomorrow and Friday across the city of Minneapolis, because our federal government has made it unsafe for children here.

MAGA and Donald Trump want Americans to literally reject the evidence of their eyes and ears. The way they shamelessly lie to us should infuriate everyone, including their voters. We have the video of January 6th. We have the video of an ICE agent murdering a woman in cold blood in Minneapolis.

The squirrel has inspired others!

Hope to see my first this year!

Golden Eagle 🪶

Stellar Oak in Browns Valley, CA. Yes, there’s a hawk in the tree too.

Racist in chief

credit to NYT for not sanewashing the appalling bigotry we saw today in the WH "Even for Mr. Trump — who has a long history of insulting Black people, particularly those from African countries — his outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry."

Female Belted Kingfisher🪶

Just sit down somewhere and play this loud today. Thank me later. youtu.be/oK1Jl8tLzls?...

Meet our newest patient here at the Alaska Raptor Center, a Northern Pygmy Owl named King Owlbert by his rescuers. Owlbert arrived with a drooping wing, making flight difficult. We’ve given him a supportive wing wrap, plenty of tasty mice, and time to heal. #small #owls #adorable

Swainson’s Hawk mama telling me to f*ck off cause I parked too close to her grown ass kids. The kids had fledged but she was still the authority figure. Klamath Basin. And yes, I heeded the message and f*cked right off.

Merlin stoop! 🪶

Night Hunter. Red-tailed Hawk. 🪶 stay safe out there tonight.

Another angle on this morning’s altercation. 🪶

Morning drama in the neighborhood! A young Cooper’s Hawk decides to test a Gray Squirrel and a stalemate ensues. 🪶

Breaking News: The U.S. will allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the largest remaining tracts of pristine wilderness in the country. nyti.ms/3WhrQui

Mantis

One life fuels another. Predation is a special thing to witness. This is one way energy flows through the natural world. #birds

A Cooper’s Hawk surveying the surrounding forest. #birds

Red-tailed Hawk

A red-tailed Hawk watches a coop fly by. #birds

Monarch moves

Monarch on migration

Figuring out how to use video as a photographic technique. It’s only 30 fps at 8K and while I can do 120 at 4K it’s just that the resolution isn’t enough to pull stills. This is a still from 8K footage and looks great. I processed the frame in Lightroom.

Highly recommended!