Gov Jared Polis told a Colorado Sun event that his decision to give clemency to Tina Peters "will be remembered fondly." He was later interrupted by protesters carrying an enormous banner reading EAT SHIT POLIS coloradosun.com/2026/05/19/j...

Yellow warbler letting the water fly as it spiffs itself up in a little creek. Montrose Point, IL

#birds so fancy

Warm up sketch of a javelin thrower

Northern mockingbird doing its falcon impression. Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati

Prints are now available including canvas prints that are the same size as the original painting! www.soundoftheforest.com/prints

www.politico.com/news/2026/05... Ballroom won’t be funded after Senate GOP drops $1 billion Trump security request Multiple Republican senators objected to sending taxpayer dollars to the president’s East Wing revamp. Truth Social meltdown, incoming

A Purdue University institution since 1929. Don't let the XXX Family Restaurant name throw you. XXX didn't used to mean the same thing back then as it does now.

COOP! Cooper’s Hawk with a prey item, giving me The Stink Eye #birds

Kash is an insecure little wannabe frat fraud. He might not understand the joke. All that boozing might have affected his game. He’s not too bright; so call him “Jeb”. Short for J Edgar Boozer #USDemocracy

Not a metaphor or an exaggeration, this is literally true

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

Peter Navarro characterizes Trump's comments about allowing Chinese investment in the US as "a failure of messaging perhaps a little bit on our part"

Not The Onion ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Markwayne Mullin advises places of worship worried about acts of violence to "hire their own security"

Sometimes I get very vexed when people whine about uses of the passive voice that aren’t uses of the passive voice. This is a use of the passive voice.

Minnesota has indicted and charged another ICE-hole for the shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant. Christian Castro shot Julio Sosa Celis, then falsely reported a crime. #ProudBlue #Minnesota #FuckICE

I'm really happy with how this photo worked out. The composition just came together. #Birds.

Reuters: Trump played golf instead of attending the 'Rededicate 250' prayer event that was billed as a national rededication to God. Trump appeared in a video and read scripture, while issuing a separate profanity-laced social media post about Iran that day. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

time to take the pie out of the oven....bird.....OVENBIRD! new one for me...such an interesting gait...kind of bumbles along...very sweet! #birds

minnesota gov. tim walz has signed a bill banning prediction markes (kalshi, polymarket). first state-level ban of its kind. (sports betting via traditional/mobile sports books is still illegal here too)

But the money is designed to elicit or incite crimes.

I want to know the name of the judge who presided over this. I want that judge’s name and email address public. I want people to be able to ask that judge what the fuck was wrong with him or her. /1

Wilson's Warblers are very cute. They are little yellow birds with the males having a tiny black beret.

BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Mark Cuban stands behind Trump as Trump speaks on behalf of stealing from taxpayers. This is why you don't go to the White House to do events with Trump -- you end up disgracing yourself.

ICE goons lied under oath about shooting a man in the leg and falsely charged their victims with assault instead. They refused to cooperate and covered for their agents. Without video, an innocent man would have been imprisoned. But now one goon will face justice with four 2nd degree felony charges.

Pope Leo XIV was right: the MAGA-movement is an evil cult that abuses religion for their own political gain. What they do and believe is exactly the opposite of what Jesus taught.

@christebbens.bsky.social @birderk.bsky.social How was the biggest week?

Every GOP member of Congress should be asked by the press whether they agree Trump can use $1.7b that we, the taxpayers, paid so gov’t could work for us, as reward money to his supporters.

How much of this $1.7 BILLION in taxpayer funds will @RepOgles grab, claiming he’s a victim when he’s a liar who allegedly faked a loan to his campaign? What about @MarshaBlackburn, bc her phone was looked at re: the insurrection? So corrupt and insane. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm

Sometimes, a scandal is so big you have to pick off one piece of it. So in the case of Trump's insane stock trading, pick this: He did 6 trades of Intel stock. That company now counts the US government as a $9 billion stakeholder, thanks to Trump's intervention. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

#FunWithParaidolia I haven't had occasion to do a #TheWildThingsArt piece in a while. Everybody can see this one, right?

If you hadn't heard, Melania had a bee hive installed (looks as tacky as you might imagine), and some of them attacked Donald the other day. That there is some funny chit. 😁

I don't want to be disrespectful but, c'mon, this requires some sort of acknowledgment.

youtube.com/watch?v=XsE0... Found this little treat while looking up what tuning penny for your thoughts was in.

Librarians literally saved my life

"Pan fried in hog fat." Which diet is that? Is it RFK Junior endorsed?

I would've named this truck model of the Dodge Basset.

Melania Trump infesting the White House with bees is the funniest thing no one's talking about right now #Bees #WhiteHouse

🚨 Senate parliamentarian just knocked out the provision in the Republican bill to spend $1 billion on Trump’s ballroom—per Budget Cmte Dems. Merkley: “While we expect Republicans to change this bill to appease Trump, Democrats are prepared to challenge any change to this bill.”