Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

White heron is not happy with me #birds # birdoftheday #PowerPose

So, what's up, little blue? Not much, big #birds

If you didn’t vote…you voted for this

Ain't nothin gonna breaka my stride #birds

As a matter of fact, I am looking at you #birds #heron

Rep. Ilhan Omar attacked at town hall anntelnaes.substack.com/p/rep-ilhan-...

Ditto

This should be a yoga position if it's not already #birds

Just looking for something to eat on the Homosassa River, Florida #birds

Little blue looking for brunch....a frog as it turned out #birds

Great white heron enjoying rehab after being hit by a car #birds #birdoftheday #sideview

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

Best 3 minutes you will spend on the internet today.

The blackness u can see stretching from the beyond skyline out to the horizon is of course the antifa hoarde

This residential neighborhood in southern Indiana has bunches of fairy rings of what appear to be Chlorophylum molybdates (spore print green) #fungifriends

Circle of life in my own back yard. Unexpected but such is life #birds

The American experiment itself is Antifa, and is organization comprised of every true American who honors the Constitution. Membership is our birthright.

Autumn is coming, whether or not we are ready

Note: sending me a screaming text 3 hours after the Kimmel news broke demanding money for some unclear use puts you on my block list permanently. Cause if your first reaction to this assault on free speech is to start a fundraiser, you're doing it wrong

My state senator!

Watching the Twin Towers collapse on 9/11, I remember thinking, "It was mostly air." Somehow it had never occurred to me that the inside of a building — even an enormous one — was mostly air. Having the same feeling now as I watch the Constitution collapse: Turns out... it was just air.

Not all those who wander are lost J.R.R. Tolkien

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

And yet he's still hounding us for donations so he can fight for us 🙄

Handy perch right above the Batavia dam on the Fox river in Illinois #birds

Just enjoying the last days of summer on the Fox River in Illinois

Beebalm indeed

Kankakee swamp mallow in bloom (Iliamna remota) #nativeplants

I'm with Emily Dickinson: "'Hope' is the thing with feathers— That perches in the soul— And sings the tune without the words— And never stops—at all...." Thank you for listening for that tune with us, Andrea.

Warnock: If I'm honest, there are days when I have to ask people of my faith tradition as a Christian, are we reading the same book?  The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Not sure they understand the lyrics to Fortunate Son.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Screaming into the vast beyond like many of us are #birds

Gentle reminder that Saturday, 14 June, is #NoKingsDay Please visit www.nokings.org to find the protest nearest you. #AltCitizen

Let me know when something actually happens #birds

Today’s pro tip: Read the bill before you vote on it.

The perp in question. Now I caught hi eating the jelly out of my oriole feeder 🙄 #birds

Pluto never gave up:)

A committee of vultures just hanging around waiting for a better idea #birds

Made the mistake of buying seed with meal worms in it. Now I have a Robin that thinks feeders are the best thing ever 🙄 #birds