I find the news very frightening right now, but one thing that helps me is noticing the birds all around me Do you want a reason to spend 10 minutes a day noticing your local birds? Then join me for this spring’s #TenMinMerlin, using the (free) app Merlin to notice birds. No experience needed! 1/5

Based on genetic work from our lab .. let’s go! 🦉🧪

Have we ever bothered to notice there aren't any foreign military bases here in the United States but we've got them all over the world. Is this why we can recruit people to join the military by telling them they'll see the world if they do...

“Unfortunately, because Congress is not taking any steps to rein ICE officers in, there really is no option other than states protecting their constituents’ rights," said Joanna Schwartz, a law professor at UCLA.

My entire adult life

It's 50 degrees today in Boston...but here is what the North End looked like a few days ago. Only in New England!

every single psycho thing Donald Trump does he does only because almost every single federally elected Republican has chosen unilaterally, independently, and with complete freedom to go along with it unconditionally

The news is terrible but I’m going to continue posting birds and frogs and flowers and the sky because looking at nature can help us keep going in the face of all the awful. Please take good care of yourselves #birds 🌿

We are a global scourge but the world won’t do anything to stop us

Seems to be the pattern…

This winter storm has kept most of the usual critters away, but it didn't keep this ringtail from licking the iced-over watering pan.

A couple of early morning ringtail bleps.

Heard Trump was talking about Massachusetts during the State of the Union. Let me be clear: If he tries to hold our federal funding hostage based on a fabricated "fraud" crisis, we'll take him to court as we’ve done nearly 50 times already. Congress appropriates funding, not the President.

Not the same guy, you brick-brained clown. The one who came to power in 1979 died 10 years later in ‘89.

~45 minutes outside Minneapolis this afternoon, a small but spirited crowd is gathered to protest outside the gates of Sherburne County Jail. According to organizers: the jail has held an average of 131 ICE detainees daily for nearly 20 years. As of 2023, the jail makes $110 per detainee per day.

One truth remains: Wars are easy to begin and very difficult to end. Longer conflict gets institutionalized by both sides of the conflict - resulting in financial gains, which then keep wars ongoing.

SO TRUMPS IRAN WAR IS ALREADY OUT OF CONTROL Central Dubai has been hit including right next to the Birj Khalifa - the world’s tallest building. Civilians have been killed in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Qatar, Iran has closed the straits of Hormuz the oil price has spiked, almost all of the Gulf states

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

As we were setting up for our community feedback session today, the librarian, mural artist, & I were quietly putting folding chairs in place & setting out worksheets. Suddenly the artist was like "Does anyone feel like they're losing their mind after reading the news today?" & we all yelled YUP.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️

Sen. Tammy Duckworth: "If there was ever a time for Republicans to find their spines, it's now, when the Commander in Chief readily admits that he is choosing to put our troops' lives at risk without a legitimate imminent threat to our homeland or our citizens."

This week, the USFWS announced the removal of the Lesser Prairie-Chicken from the Endangered Species Act. The species has lost more than 90% of its historic numbers due to loss and fragmentation of grassland habitats across five western states. More about the Lesser Prairie-Chicken: bit.ly/403xzFX

SO MUCH magic on the sand for about 8 minutes tonight! 🪶

Checking on #kakapo Waa's nest on Anchor Island a couple of nights ago: a day-old chick (Waa-A3-2026), and an externally-pipped egg, which hatched a few hours' later. #conservation #parrots #birds

This guy is dropping truth. Awesome man.

When you manage to understand the assignment fully :) President of Estonia, Alar Karis 👗

In a win for the Gullah Geechee people on St Helena Island in South Carolina, access to a long-used cemetery has been restored

Wrote about how the incredibly thin-skinned leadership of Palantir sued a small Swiss publication for publishing a deeply researched article that was only mildly embarrassing for the company (about why the Swiss gov't keeps ghosting them).

Kamala Harris just threw her weight behind Jasmine Crockett in the Texas Senate race 🔥

“Xiao Sang sat at her desk writing in her diary.” Read from Can Xue’s The Enchanting Lives of Others, translated by Annelise Finegan. buff.ly/kd1Hiij

Measles cases have now been confirmed in Mass. Vaccines save lives—and our federal health leaders should be saying that loudly and clearly. Instead, RFK sows doubt about vaccine safety while his Surgeon General nominee won't commit to recommending the vaccine. Baystate families deserve better.

Good morning! 🪶

There’s a rotten branch on a tree in my backyard and every day I check to see if it’s finally fallen apart and crashed to the ground. Which is kind of the same thing I’m checking for every day when I read the news. Maybe both will happen on the same day.

This is why I am a member of the ACLU…

y'all mind if a magnapinna squid is low poly ?

🧊✈️ BIGHORN AIRWAYS ⛓️😲 👉 A second Bighorn Airways DHC-8 (tail: N992BH) is making daily round trips between the Louisiana ICE hub and two ICE-contracted detention centers in Alabama: ⛓️ The Pickens County Jail (Tuscaloosa Airport) & ⛓️ The Etowah County Jail (Gadsden Airport) 👀

In 1962, President Kennedy deployed 127 U.S. Marshals and 300 Border Patrol agents to protect James Meredith from violent white rioters as he attempted to enroll as the first Black student at the University of Mississippi. For the past 12 years, this story was highlighted on CBP's site—but no more.

Like, The Handbasket was started because I couldn’t make enough money freelancing but i couldn’t not write, so i just gave myself assignments and started writing. That spirit (perhaps mental illness) is something billionaires will never understand. We want to do this work against all odds.

So much ICE out there today in South Minneapolis. They’re prowling around harassing schools. Stay frosty, friends

I do think we’ve got a responsibility to really sit with the truth that some Trump administration things we’re horrified by were Obama administration things too, and we just didn’t listen.

Lmao

🧊✈️ BLACK HOLES ⛓️😲 👉 Bighorn Airways Bombardier DHC-8 (tail: N993BH) begins another round trip between the Louisiana ICE hub & Florida's Everglades Concentration Camp 🐊

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Dutch Bros employees surprised a shelter volunteer with enough pup cups for every dog in the shelter. 13/10 for all (TT: juliesaraceno2)

Timeline cleanse Central Park coyotes howling along to sirens

Chemicals used in smartphone screens have been found in deceased dolphins 😔 Scientists detected synthetic liquid crystal monomers in their blubber, muscles and brains. Our marine pollution lead, Sonja, spoke to The Telegraph about what this means for our oceans 👇 https://ow.ly/6bMS50YmPnq

Red-tailed black cockatoo. Sunset Strip, New South Wales.

Purity test is shorthand for “you care about the people I have already decided are expendable.”

Rightwing media is now just MeToo Welfare.