Trump Adds Name To Kennedy Center Again

Years from now we'll have a specialized Sausage-roll Kite, with a finely tuned beak to extract sausage rolls from their packaging. When the native sausage roll population is impacted by climate change, the Kite will be saved by changing its diet to invasive bao and empanada. #birds

White-Crowned Pigeon outside our hotel in Manatí, Puerto Rico. Why is the best birding often in parking lots? #birds

This opening paragraph 👀 😂

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Excerpt from my written comment to Traffic & Parking Board tonight:

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

this game isn’t boring, the nfl is simply appealing to a global audience by incorporating more kicking into football

Lucas single-handedly destroying Youngkin’s legacy projects (sports teams in NoVa, suburban GOP that can win) was remarkable to watch

Egg-cellent news! The first California condor eggs of the season have been laid at our wildlife conservation center, and more could be on the way.

Another thing about falcons you might already know: their nostrils have got little cones in them like some jet intakes, so that the high speed air flow doesn't wreck their lungs and they can still breathe. You can see them in your picture. curioussengi.wordpress.com/2016/08/27/n...

Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Gonna beg media not to just repeat Trump's obviously bullshit framing in the headlines. Tell readers the truth in the headlines. Alternatives: "With Artists and Audience Fleeing, Trump Closes Kennedy Center Indefinitely" "Trump Says Kennedy Center Needs Renovation, Despite Recent $250M Renovation"

I'm used to having to convince coastal types that there are people out there who genuinely believe in libertarian and traditionalist principles (rather than as laundry for regular bigotry). rarely, however, do you see those types publicly confronted with how little company they actually have

He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason

This will be, or should be, featured in a million campaign ads

You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history

I voted against funding for DHS. Congress shouldn't pass funding for this lawless agency without major guardrails. And the House should impeach Kristi Noem. 4/4

This is from the NYT masthead editorial about the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The highlighted line invalidates not just the editorial, but the very idea of newspaper editorials crafted by the consensus of a board. Better to publish nothing at all than to publish a line like this.

The Department of Homeland Security is murdering American citizens. Congress cannot allow that to continue. Getting these people out of Minnesota and cutting off funding should be a minimum response. This is an outrage and an assault on our rights and freedom and it must stop.

Minnesotans are what Texans think they are.

Hey, does anyone know of a document that lays out what to do if a ruler quarters large bodies of armed troops among us, protects them for any murders which they should commit on us, abdicates government by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us?

Lots of good signs here, but I have to confess my favorite is a rebel alliance where they replaced the red insignia with blue and the Minnesota loon.

I was told it was an outrage when prayer and worship is disrupted.

Republicans want us to vote to fund more of this. Hell no.

Good. This is exactly what I want my congressman to say. Saves me a phone call.

*Hits head on desk* PUTTING ALL PERSONAL OPINIONS ASIDE... it would be so, so easy for Dem leadership to say what's happening right now is making it harder for actual law enforcement to do their job. It's removing trust and safety from the community! Etc! They could spin this SO easily.

Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…

King about Albany: “The mistake I made there was to protest against segregation generally rather than against a single and distinct facet of it. Our protest was so vague that we got nothing, and the people were left very depressed and in despair.” /10

Also, not a con law guy, but don’t think the idea is that the 4th Amendment aims to PROTECT arrest powers but to LIMIT them. They are trying to invert a Constitutional that focused on negative liberties (“state can’t do x”) to constrain the state into one of positive liberties FOR the state.

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

Let’s talk about abolishing ICE. Very few people who say “abolish ICE” mean “abandon all immigration enforcement.” Rather, they mean “the structure of immigration enforcement is irretrievably broken and needs to be reorganized, just like we did 23 years ago when we created ICE.” /1

Kristi Noem must be impeached.

Honestly, so much of the anger (not all but much of it) directed at the NYT should go to the editorial side who direct the coverage, the placement, the attention, and the terrible headlines. Yet they get to hide while they put the reporters out front to get yelled at.

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

ICE has detained 4 Oglala Lakota men in Minneapolis. Story here: rapidcitypost.com/four-oglala-... and tribal president's statement below.

1. Yes, this is real footage from Poland's Wrocław Zoo 2. The deer, a male muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi, aka "barking deer"), is hopped up on testosterone because its mate is in heat 3. Muntjac males weigh up to ~40 lbs (18 kg). Maruśka, the rhino, weighs 1.7 tons www.thesun.co.uk/news/3786348...

@nytimes.com This is how you write headlines. I look forward to re-subscribing some day when you catch up.

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

one of the things i hate most about this persistent line of argument is the implication that any of these actions would be fine if groceries were cheaper

This sucks but I think non-Americans being justifiably angry at Americans for what the American government is doing and threatening to do, and Americans experiencing that anger and frustration personally in ways that are unpleasant, is probably an important part of any path back to stability

Fine. Let’s hope Trump and Netanyahu get snatched up and taken away due their crimes.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.

It is especially revealing of Miller's obliviousness that he is making a "of course you'd refuse to house the stranger" claim *the week of Christmas*, which for everything else about it is fundamentally a story of hospitality denied then recieved. All nativism and no nativity for thise ghoul.