CHOTINER: And you thought it would be funny to do a fake interview by me? ME: A lot of people have, so CHOTINER: You were looking for engagement? ME: Well, to make someone laugh I guess CHOTINER: How many likes and reposts did it get? ME: That's, uh, not really the metric...look can we start over

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

I think this is the best thing I've seen on the internet.

We just published pretty much the greatest collection of bird photos you could ask for. 🪶https://www.audubon.org/magazine/2025-audubon-photography-awards-top-100

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Chilling dispatch from Mario Guevara, the journalist trapped in ICE detention for...doing his job.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts. Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

It's very important for our democracy that many people in this regime go to prison during the coming era of truth, reconciliation, and accountability.

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

Dudes rock

Update: Jim Hautman has just won his 7th federal duck stamp contest, breaking his tie with brother Joe for the most wins in the competition’s history. Here’s our story about why he and his brothers are so good at what they do.

TODAY is the deadline to submit public comment on Trump’s proposal to rescind the Roadless Rule, which would expose 45 million acres of national forest to permanent roads and their attendant environmental ills. Register your disapproval here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... #roadecology

This conversation from last night —people simply replying with what they are reading—really raised my spirits, and gave me so many new books to try.

One of my favorite projects every year. I'm a sucker for urban wildlife so I'm partial to the parrot shot. www.audubon.org/magazine/202...

See images of winners and honorable mentions from the Audubon Society’s 16th-annual competition, including photos of bird life from around the world:

This is an important time to remember that responsibility is not a zero-sum game — recognizing one person’s fault does not necessarily diminish another person’s. The Trump administration is fascist. And ABC cynically caved and abandoned American values for money. Both are worthy of your contempt.

Chicago is so aquatic and beautiful

Early spring, while Dad was in his final stages of cancer, I went back to my block bird art & gave my mind the task to reduce the birds more, using circles this time. I ended up doing 36 warblers, making these WORBS as a result. Realized I never shared them here, so short thread. IDs in alt. 1/3

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Classically Midwest endorsement just in from Joe Hautman: “You made us sound interesting!”

Found a prickly pear cactus right here in the windy dang city.

JD Vance is bragging about ruining some poor Venezuelan fisherman's ability to feed his family. What a putz.

(nineties surfer dude "bodacious babe" voice) salient points

RIP GOAT Be like Robert. Support badass journalism.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Some of you aren’t sad enough about Robert Redford, and I WILL be calling your employers

Robert Redford in All the President’s Men was the coolest and hottest anyone has ever been.

For the umpteenth time: Today’s Republican Party does not believe in, and cannot handle, free speech.👇

Ahead of this year’s federal duck stamp contest, which begins on Thursday, check out my new profile of the Hautman brothers, the Minnesota painters who together have won the prestigious competition a staggering 15 times. www.audubon.org/magazine/hau...

Not only repugnant, but wrong. Gutfield claims that this was an "a specific crime against her by someone who knew her." The killer had a list of 45 elected officials, all Democrats.

Same guy who lied that immigrants were eating pets. Actual statistics show he's lying here, too.

Ahead of this year’s federal duck stamp contest, which begins on Thursday, check out my new profile of the Hautman brothers, the Minnesota painters who together have won the prestigious competition a staggering 15 times. www.audubon.org/magazine/hau...

They are slippery birds.

Other birders won’t tell you this but it’s also fun to look at fish through binoculars.

WaPo gets to decide who speaks on its opinion page. And I get to say they can't pretend they're for "personal liberties" when they join a coordinated state effort to repress the voices of people who don't speak the way Trump wants in response to a newsworthy event. Support @karenattiah.bsky.social

Not the point, but why on Earth would he put that apostrophe after Liddle?

The Post is irretrievably lost, broken without hope of repair, damaging to democracy itself.

In a shocking on-air moment, a “Fox and Friends” co-host said homeless people suffering from mental health issues who refuse help should be killed

HEY!

@ me next time

To heal America, I’m going to see @coryhanson.bsky.social tonight.

Something good: a new, nonprofit newsroom run by some wonderful, experienced folks (core crew from Outside mag's glory days) dedicated to journalism about American public lands! Looks like the plan is to collaborate a fair bit with other outlets.

It’s not simply important to denounce political violence because it looks bad not to. It’s the right thing to do on the merits. Even more specifically to this moment it’s important because the forces of fascism are inherently better at political violence than the forces of civic democracy.

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

It is genuinely weird, and a little sad, how the President requires his most senior cabinet officials and the VIce President to also be his friends.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

Protesters fill the streets against ICE in Chicago 9/6/25