‘Luggage’ is an everyday word I don’t really think about and then I realise it means ‘stuff I lug around’ and now I am very fond of the word luggage.

A Cedar Waxwing flying off to join the rest of the flock. Cedar Waxwings are sociable birds and like to be in flocks year-round.

Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.

BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office

You know how Rome had republican institutions but in times of crisis they'd appoint a dictator with absolute power? What if we did that but we appointed our worst guy in a time of relative peace and prosperity? Now I know what you're thinking: why would we do that? Well it's to mix things up

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

The cover for this week’s Future Issue is “New Horizons,” by Christoph Niemann. See what’s inside: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Aifa_g

This face #birds

One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

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The roundest American Robin I have ever seen. Looks like the bird swallowed a grapefruit. (The bird was fluffed up due to it being a cold morning.)

wow, looks like a rough patch for stocks AND bondis

A male Northern Flicker (yellow-shafted) pauses on a fence post before hopping back down into the grasses. Instead of hammering on wood, these birds prefer to dig in the dirt to look for ants.

That’s one hell of a cover…..

There's an airbase in Spain called Móron. Seems a bit unfair not to let Donald Trump use it.

speak loudly and ask if you can borrow somebody else’s stick

"Inhimillinen virhe ei ole pelkästään Venäjän jääminen otsikkoon, vaan ajattelemisen ja työn ulkoistaminen. Kun aikansa tarkistelee tekoälyn tuotoksia, eikä joka kerta löydä radikaalia korjattavaa, lakkaa tarkistamasta. Niin ihmiset toimivat."

"These slow, odorous, half-blind creatures are perhaps the closest thing to eternal this planet has to offer." Oi miten hieno teksti.

The Department of This Operation.

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

A female Eastern Bluebird hunting in the marsh for insects. She would look for food from her perch before diving down into the reeds.

I can't return this car I stole because I'm currently driving it.

It's perfectly normal and all governments do it

Dying empire embroiled in a quagmire of its own making attempts outlandish conquest to restore faith

A recent books cartoon for @theguardian.com

President who thinks every problem can be solved by bullying harder somehow has caused significantly more, much worse problems in every possible facet of life.

the president lying about high level peace talks taking place with the country were at war with, all to juice the stock market, is a gigantic scandal but also its just kinda another monday

Me now that Brent crude oil is up 50%

A curious Tufted Titmouse in a cedar tree wondering when the peanuts will be offered.

Comparing the Democrats to a country he’s bombing. This is authoritarian demagoguery. If a Republican doesn’t denounce this, s/he is enabling it.

It is hard to turn an institution into a propaganda outlet but it is much easier to just render it incapable of producing reporting that damages the regime.

An anti-suffragette postcard from the early 1900s 'First she gets the vote, then she gets your wife!' #WomensHistoryMonth

Oh @economist.com

Least aware religious fanatic I’ve ever seen.

Vaikka Venäjän täysimittainen hyökkäyssota jatkuu nyt jo viidettä vuotta, Eurooppa rahoittaa yhä Putinin sotakassaa ostamalla Venäjältä mm. öljyä, metalleja ja lannoitteita. Tämän pitää vihdoin loppua. Allekirjoita eurooppalainen kansalaisaloite, joka vaatii kaupan lopettamista Venäjän kanssa.

Dorothea Lange, Tractored Out, Childress County, Texas, 1938, US photographer #womensart

A Red-winged Blackbird about to deliver a kick to the tail feathers of a Red-tailed Hawk passing over the marsh.

In 44BC it took 60 senators to stab Julius Caesar to death. Crazy to think that nowadays, thanks to modern technology, he could be killed by one senator running him over with a snowplow

”Tästä eteenpäin minä pärjään”, hän totesi ja käveli tiskille taakseen katsomatta.

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

If the government really is worried about Iranian sleeper cells, then it was probably a mistake to systematically reorient the majority of US counterterror resources toward arresting immigrant grandmothers and five-year-olds in bunny hats

"The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better." The Defense Secretary calling for a billionaire ally of the government to take over a media outlet & make it more pro-government. This is what authoritarianism looks like. But in other countries they try & hide it.

The Trump administration's war memes are not merely grotesque — they are symptomatic of an administration that experiences the online-media world as more real than reality www.vox.com/politics/482...