I have made fun of mourning dove nest, and it seems perhaps I judged hastily.

Here’s the same path in November. I can’t wait to see it in spring! 🌿

Simply horrific. What are we becoming?

Horse for #LunarNewYear. 🔥 🐴 A painting by Joris Hoefnagel, late 17th century. Buy as a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/white-horse/

This was drawn a few years ago but might as well be apt for how I'm feeling this #YearOfTheHorse. Riding #PudgyHorse onto a pyre of my sketchbooks and materials. 🙃 Obvious nod to Arthur Rackham's 1911 illustration of Brünhilde's immolation scene from Götterdämmerung. #ChineseNewYear #LunarNewYear

This is why I grow food in my back yard and flowers in my front. I Don’t have an HOA, but a couple neighbors already don’t like us. 🌱 #GardenSky #GrowYourFood #resist

After watching a documentary about the horrors of industrial food production, Nicole and Dan Virgil decided to plant their own garden on their lawn. It wasn't long until the city’s zoning board tried to shut them down.

Do Americans know that in 39 states it is ILLEGAL to boycott Israel? I wrote about it today because we have a chance in Illinois to right this wrong. But I'm realizing most Americans have no idea Netanyahu spent at least $25M to criminalize boycotts of Israel. www.qasimrashid.com/p/illinois-m...

A private equity–owned airline is profiting from Trump’s migrant crackdown. Now, deportation flights are getting longer and crueler as a result. Migrants said they sometimes soil themselves in their seats. Even when permitted to use the lavatory, it's difficult to clean themselves while shackled.

My Irish ancestors couldn’t get jobs when they first arrived in the US. Being proud of Scottish and Irish heritage has not always been a thing, Elon.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.

Today i’ll be going state-by-state to make sure everyone has at least a place to start looking for food assistance in their region. You can help by replying to the post for your state/territory with any resources you know of. #HelpSky #Hunger

The federal government is barreling toward yet another shutdown. This crisis was entirely avoidable. Here’s what Democratic leadership must do to stand their ground this time. www.qasimrashid.com/p/another-sh...

honey, it's time to share the dicynodont husbands again

Since the start of Trump’s second term, the number of children in ICE detention has increased sixfold. In their letters, kids held at the Dilley center told us about missing their friends, being unable to go to school and feeling trapped.

I dearly love the hoverfly, more than any other fly. Don't be fooled, it's not a bee, though quite adept at mimicry!

Featured today is one of the fossils that stumped Darwin: Toxodon! This beast proved challenging for young Darwin to identify, featuring rodent-like, ever growing teeth - albeit much bigger than any living rodent! Richard Owen, later Darwin's rival, formally described and named them. #FossilFriday

Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).

I saw a live birthed harbor seal pup for the first time in my life today. I thought it would be horrifying because I have a weak stomach, but it turned to UNGODLY CUTE very fast! Using this thread for some moments in the minutes after. All shot on my z8, edited on phone for now. 🦭 🦑

A) This is a lie. Other countries have it. B) Trump uses it regularly. Bottom line: They are afraid of you voting.

When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.” For these Americans, that wasn’t true. (Published Oct. 2025)

Yikes — Epstein showing appreciation for @GovBillLee pal Betsy Devos making it harder to report sexual abuse on campuses

"The Dow is over 50,000 right now." - Pam Bondi, doing the cost-benefit analysis for child rape

If you hate Generative Al, the best way to fight back is to support real artists ✍️

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

Billionaire Wealth Tax factoid of the day Your homework. Read the Billionaire Wealth Tax Act oag.ca.gov/system/files... #EatTheRich #TaxTheRich

“But I didn’t understand a word he said.” Guess what, that’s the experience of many immigrants when they arrive in a new country, including the United States. You get humbled. Then you work hard and start understanding. We could all use that experience

#OnThisDay, 10 Feb 1917, plant pathologist Johanna Westerdijk becomes the first woman appointed as a professor in the Netherlands when she joins Utrecht University. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM 🗃️ 1/2

At a #SuperBowl party: Me: *hands someone a drink* Them: Gracias Me: De nada Host: Como estas? Guest: Donde esta el bano? Geez, a couple #BadBunny songs and we are speaking in tongues. It’s like a high school Spanish sleeper cell. 😂

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

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“I needed it for my own ego.”

Pritzker can lose weight, but Trump will always be a racist.

Maybe we need to take a different approach: who in this administration is *not* in the Epstein files?

#OnThisDay, 6 Feb 1918, the Representation of the People Act receives royal assent, allowing some women in the UK the right to vote in general elections. #VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️ 1/2

Far beyond 'sex slaves' and 'sex trafficking' which are already demonstrably bad. But the sheer enormity of what the elites quite literally got away with is an evil that can barely be comprehended. The systemic coverup for their evils and how they enabled that It's something we need to reckon with

PSA: The U.S. Postal Service has announced a change to their postmark date system, which could impact filing taxes, mailing important government documents, and voting.

Gestapos opened fire, striking Martinez 5 times in the arm, chest & both legs 1 gestapo had body cam ... Martinez has said in court that it shows an officer shouting "do something b--" The gestapo who shot her, in a group text: "I fired 5 rounds & she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys."

The Justice Dept. unit responsible for prosecuting potential wrongdoing by law enforcement — including during the crackdown in Minneapolis — has lost two-thirds of its prosecutors and is under orders to scale back its investigations of excessive force, people familiar with its work told Reuters.

The conflict in Minneapolis plays out to a certain degree as a clash between mainstream Christians, led most notably by Catholics and Lutherans, on one hand, and white Evangelicals, especially Southern Baptists, on the other.

Folks outside SF/F don't know that Asimov was a sexual harasser because while he was alive fandom thought it was cute (up to and including Asimov being invited to give a lecture on "The Power of Positive Posterior Pinching" at Worldcon, which he, wisely, declined). daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...

Crocheted wheelchair decor is a thing, and it is AMAZING! 🩷

Excellent news.

Why even have a constitution if you aren’t going to use it to crush tyranny when it rears its ugly orange head?

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.