The end of sea turtles.

Pay attention! Kiss species & habitat protections goodbye. Goodbye to whales, plovers, eagles, and 100s of others.

Bit of background, this is the result of reinterpreting the legal definitely of "harm" in the Endangered Species Act to exclude habitat modification (destruction). By this logic, if someone sets your house on fire, they have not harmed you.

No shit: "Cyclosporiasis is now considered an "important neglected parasitic infection" by CDC."

Pro wrestler.

Trump stalls Minnesota's windfall jobs. #econsky

Running an errand at 3pm and worried you'll miss the Spain VS Belgium quarterfinal? We got you. Sidewalk streams are back today. Find the closest Link NYC kiosk showing the game near you.

Case in point, Trump's Chief Design Officer posted this a few days ago. Imagine how smooth brained you have to be to imply that Black women in basketball is an example of DEI donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-chi...

A Victorian-made replica of the Bayeux Tapestry, displayed at the Museum of Reading, can be viewed online: web.archive.org/web/20110719...

For all Insta users....

Test runs and a shock-absorbing cage: how Bayeux tapestry was moved to UK

Who Tiddles? Oh he wouldn’t hurt a fly…

In fact, some species' distribution shifts reflect a retreat to ecologically suboptimal refuges in the face of habitat loss and other human threats. bit.ly/pandasau

Rosanne Cash is an author and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter. Cash recounts the 1970 Kent State killings, when National Guardsmen opened fire, leaving four students dead and forcing a national reckoning over protest and police violence. #WeAreAmerica250

The House will vote next week on legislation making daylight saving time permanent nationwide, reviving a years-long effort to eliminate the twice-yearly clock changes.

Zelenskyy taps European allies to build Freya, a cheaper Patriot-alternative to Russia’s ballistic missiles - https://www.defensenews.com/industry/techwatch/2026/07/10/zelenskyy-taps-european-allies-to-build-freya-a-cheaper-patriot-alternative-to-russias-ballistic-missiles/

If you have Insta, where ya go. It's owned by Meta, so I don't have it. ;-)

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OMG yes.

Great choreography!

No. Just read the effing book, lazy-brain.

??? Another reason I am happy without tv or cable etc.

Ending the iPod was one of Apple's stupidest decisions. Most people I know who had them did not move to something else; they just quit.

A friendly reminder: life can feel heavy and sometimes even brutal, but make space to look for joy each day, in every small opportunity, even in the midst of rough times.

No, Macy's, I will not pay $11 for shipping on a $35 pair of earrings.

Friends who have retired during and since last fall are STILL waiting for their interim payments, apart from 1st pension payment. www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

Clean energy project cancellations have decimated nearly 500,000 jobs, this E2 report estimates.

There are lots of vegetables that can be sown in July. Many can be grown in containers – so if you only have a small outdoor space, such as a patio or balcony, you can still enjoy fresh homegrown produce 🥕 littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/Wha...

Is that thunder or are my neighbors moving very heavy furniture again?

OMG WHAT?!

Read this splendid essay by Emily Eakin, the brilliant author of the forthcoming book, “The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/b...

And the names of trees and flowers, too!!

Precisely why several friends left a year ago.

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From @edwardluce.bsky.social

Whether they're for an eye condition or not, I do like the potential symbolism of the aviator sunglasses. I can't remember who else wore them regularly....

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One has to wonder why, suddenly, the White House is afraid. I dunno, maybe this was bound to happen anyway.

I am so utterly excited about Nolan's The Odyssey. 17 July here in NOLA, I believe.

Yeah, well, we don't do this sort of thing here.

You can sign up for a free 30-day trial and read this. Odysseus: "'There is something admirable about his tenacity, obviously terrifying as well, and also the poet-like virtuosic ability to come up with a different story for every occasion.'" Trump: Agamemnon, proud, amassing wealth, petulant.

What’s in a wetland? eos.org/articles/cal...

Via @morethanjustparks.bsky.social: “USDA’s answer is one of the most brazen legal dodges you’ll ever see from a federal agency. Instead of waiting for a court to weigh in, the department’s own general counsel wrote an internal memo declaring these appropriations laws unconstitutional…”

New one-minute learning, and of American History #250to250 by @hcrichardson.bsky.social team The Trail of Tears #WeAreAmerica250 #TrailofTears #AmericanGenocide #AndrewJackson #DoctrineOfDiscovery #NativeAmerican #SurvivingIsResistance youtu.be/a0UQRnJpwq8?...

“Trump ran on a platform, and ran his first term, in a way that made it clear that he saw the intelligence community more like a press and propaganda office,” said Steven Cash, [@thesteadystate.org Executive Director] “That’s fundamentally at odds with why there is an intelligence community.”

WTH?

Pips #327 Easy 🟢 1:40

Nine years ago today 🌿 Mitella pentandra, our Alpine Mitrewort, blooming in Indian Peaks Wilderness #nativeplants