Nearly four years after planting this tree the Cedar Waxwings finally came to enjoy its fruit! Photographed with a Canon 5D Mark IV & 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L lens +1.4x III extender. #birds #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #photography #teamcanon

This is 65 and sunny in Feb: Chicagoans barefoot in the sand, with the lake’s ice shelf behind them

One week later people are swimming at this same spot.

Day 392. Day after Valentine’s Day 💘 #4yearslongproject . . #chicago #igchicago #pastel #dawnpatrol

Lifer pie, a time-honored tradition of using your lifer as an excuse to eat extra dessert: www.audubon.org/magazine/bir...

This is fucking sick

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

C’mon, Chuck. You’re fighting to “rein in” ICE? DEFUND ICE.

Crazy that Costco’s we value our customers message is so much more effective than everyone else telling us to fuck off

Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.

“It boggles the mind that the administration is rescinding the endangerment finding; it’s akin to insisting that the world is flat or denying that gravity is a thing,” said Dr. Howard Frumkin, a physician and professor emeritus of public health at the University of Washington.

this explains the complete herbs with 32 followers that have been replying to me lately.

The planet continues to warm from our heat-trapping emissions regardless of how much the government lies about it.

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

Going out on a limb to say 'ideally yes'

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

There are reports of red-winged blackbirds arriving in the Chicago area.

Shelf ice and pancake ice floats along the shore of Montrose Beach, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

A female Hooded Merganser communicating a message to a male Hooded Merganser. I think she wanted to go for a walk, because soon after this they were strolling along the icy shoreline together.

A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child. n.pr/4tx7oVq

Probably not great that the same burning plastic odor I've smelled a couple of times recently has also been reported in Indiana and southern Wisconsin. blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/10/w...

This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Navarro has repeatedly (and falsely) claimed that "illegals" were taking the jobs of Americans, including in this very interview. If that's the case, then why is he now warning that job growth will slow amidst mass deportations? Shouldn't this be boom times for native-born workers?

Salvin's albatross

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

great skjellyfetti, gillian welch & david rawlings are doing an all-dead mini-tour! www.gillianwelch-davidrawlings.com/tour

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

“Oh, did a sportsball happen?” I whisper smugly from my vantage point on a distant cliff, the sounds of celebration in the village far below just barely audible over the lonely wind whipping my tattered cloak

This guy gets it

All my rowdy friends have gotten into ambient

Investigations Charges Trials Prison Repeat #AbolishICE Prosecute ICE Agents

#BirdLinks www.audubon.org/magazine/our...

if i heard a dog talking in rfk jr's voice i'd think, Well obviously that's pretty amazing but it's not like, earth shattering

It will be a long time before it’s published, but I’m in 🇨🇦 reporting a really cool story.

They’ll be hearing from his father

“I won’t spend money on transportation infrastructure to make Americans’ lives better unless you name buildings after me” is a level of narcissism and corruption rarely seen, and it makes Trump sound like a big baby. www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/p...

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

I'm told the catastrophic Washington Post layoffs today include at least 14 climate journalists. Totally gutting. Details: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

For the true neck heads www.audubon.org/magazine/mor...

A reminder that elon musk’s hellsite is a stinking pile of garbage and his buddy Jeffrey Epstein would be so proud.

I went to a camel festival in the Gobi Desert this morning, a celebration of nomadic life, and it was absolutely amazing

Seems legit 👍🏻

On this Groundhog Day, I choose, once again, to celebrate the greatest lede ever written about a rodent's death, courtesy of @jonlemire.bsky.social