A second #BirdOfTheDay for me - the Coopers hawk that has been regularly posing outside my office window. #RedBeakFeetEyes

this crackdown on all dissent against the US' concentration camp policy is just getting started - these sentences mean that anybody who works against ICE or spreads information about that work can, with precedent, be sent away for the rest of their life

Trump “reported more crypto-related income last year than any publicly traded US digital-asset company earned.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Black-crowned Night Heron for the #BirdOfTheDay theme #RedBeakFeetEyes 🪶📷 #photography #birdphotography #ECK #canonr5mkii

This black-crowned night heron is my contribution for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme: #RedBeakFeetEyes.

"DiD yOu kNoW hE dOeSn'T tAkE a SaLaRy?"

Court can't go on like this. The Constitution as plainly as possible says people who were born here have an unequivocal right to citizenship. Four people whose ONLY job is to read the Constitution for the rest of their lives just tried to overturn it because they're tired of brown people. Pack it.

Today's #BirdoftheDay theme is #BestofJune2026. These Coopers Hawks have been eating their meals outside my office window and presented some great photo opportunities.

pass our law or we'll try to overthrow the republic every time we lose an election. because we're criminal degenerates.

21st century America is a multiracial democracy whose commerce, culture and cuisine reflect the influence of immigrants from every country on earth. The only people seemingly unable to assimilate into this society are white Republicans.

Just for kicks, here’s the interview I did with D’Souza in which it quickly became obvious that he and Phillips were full of shit. Gift: wapo.st/4oWG0P2

Love to catch up with my buddy, the heir to an international manufacturing conglomerate, during my meetings with foreign diplomats.

A pair of house sparrows caught in the act of making more #littlebrownbirds for today's #birdoftheday

Every "centrist" believes political views are a great big bell curve with the overwhelming majority of people near them, but that's just not true. The number of people truly in "the middle" is vanishingly small—the real middle is "incoherent mixture of views"—and courting them is a guaranteed loser.

QAnon theories were often so ridiculous that they felt comical, but there was an incredibly dark side to what they set off in society at their peak. There's nothing cute about the government leaning on it to make jokes. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

part of the reason i'm more certain that 2026 is going to lead to some level of constitutional hardball or crisis is that when you notice how the ecosystem of the right works, there's basically no perception of the fact that Dems are likely to going to retake one (or two) chambers of the legislature

this is one of the weirdest things conservative elites tell themselves and it's become load bearing to their entire anti anti Trump ideology

They really let a UFC fighter call our only Black First Lady a man on the White House lawn at an official White House event … while thousands cheered and the biggest podcaster in the world smiled. There is no economic policy fix for this. Many of these people are just racist.

"far left" is almost always a stand-in for "eminently reasonable and broadly appealing"

I have yet to hear a reason why taking a week to count votes presents any substantive problem. Everything boils down to "it's annoying, to me"

hey its actually a gigantic problem that 1 of the 2 major political parties in this country are consistently claiming any election they dont win has been “stolen” or “rigged”

Hope everyone is buckled up for midterms this year. I expect this sort of election denialism stuff is going to make 2020 look quaint in comparison.

We quite literally have a whites only refugee program and somehow the media won’t call the Administration white supremacists.

Just thinking how Bill Clinton's meeting with Loretta Lynch on a tarmac was a tsunami-level political scandal in 2016, and now we have the president literally nominating his personal lawyer to be the nation's attorney general -- and it's greeted with a shrug. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

The regulatory state is more important to the smooth operation of society to which we’ve become accustomed than anyone in this administration realizes, and in a lot of ways, we’ve already run off the cliff and are just starting to look down

One of the wildest things about Kavanaugh's now-notorious quote is that there was ample evidence *on the record before the court* that this was untrue, yet he stated it as an undisputed statement of fact. Did he bother to read the record before writing his opinion?

I don’t think we are prepared for how batshit they’re all gonna get by the time the clock really starts ticking, like if they lose in 2028, even if they don’t try to do Jan 6 again, that finally set of months gonna be…. something. Esp if this is the shit we’re seeing not even at the halfway mark

INFERNO, OUT NOW. boardsofcanada.com

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth, your best capture/s of May. Green heron with a snack. Herons & egrets are some of my favorite birds, I just love watching them hunt.

3 variations of star trails at the same bridge, on the same night. 3 different cameras/lenses/perspectives. #StarTrails #Astrophotography

While I eagerly await the start of this year’s grebe water taxi service, here’s a shot from a previous year. #BirdOfTheDay 🪶 #podicipedidae

A Pied-billed grebe with a perch dinner for #BirdOfTheDay category of #Podicipedidae

This is one of the quiet triumphs of the right-wing media ecosystem. This is just horseshit and exaggeration but it has wormed its way into the foundation of grievances.

Today’s free newsletter is about how LLMs are the perfect grift to exploit an economy dominated by do-nothing managers and executives disconnected from any real work, and how the facade is crumbling as companies pay the true cost of AI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Anatidae - ducks, geese, and swans. I'm going all in on ducks.

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

The only product I think Elon Musk ever actually designed is the Cybertruck. I absolutely believe that is 100% him. And not just because it is a low quality product, but it looks like someone who doesn't understand cars (or aesthetic design in general) came up with it.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdOnAWire A kestrel with a vole for lunch

Wrote for BadFaithTimes.com about the new January 6 insurrectionist slush fund as a direct product of the right wing's unreality of the day's events. badfaithtimes.com/an-insurrect...

A sharp-tailed grouse dancing at the Namekagon Barrens 2026-05-17 #BirdOfTheDay #Grassland

Two months ago. [March 15]

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

Eric Trump joining Donald Trump on an official state visit to China is much more corrupt than anything involving Joe and Hunter Biden, yet New York Times coverage indicates the opposite. I show the contrast here, and challenge anyone to explain how it isn’t media bias in Trump’s favor.

The largest ever settlement or jury award for government violations of constitutional rights to a single person is $100 million, or 1 percent of what Trump demanding for the leak of his tax returns. That case -- a killing by police -- was reduced to $1 million on appeal.

Imagine thinking that the *Trump* administration agreeing to pay a *Trump* supporter a settlement claiming *Biden* "censored" him in a case that every single court dismissed as frivolous... is a "huge victory for free speech." The Free Press continues to beclown itself.

"this would be really bad and so, ipso facto, it can't happen" is the assumption underlying the entire Trump era and it's sort of bleakly funny to see people clinging to it even as the train is jumping the tracks

Goslings getting a drink, looking like backup singers. #birdoftheday #linedup

“For the good of society, your son will work in the trades. Oh, my son? My son will be a titan of politics and industry. For the good of society, your daughter will be a tradwife. Oh, my daughter? My daughter will host a lucrative rightwing podcast.”