Listen up. Toomas Hendrik is awesome and an honorary Great American(™)

“Do people enjoy the hospital food when they are hospitalized for exploding diarrhea because you dismantled surveillance programs?”

Holy F-ing CRAP!!!

Always remember who hides their faces and who does not. The Patriot Front losers cover up not for fear of arrest but because they fear the judgment of a free people — their neighbors and co-workers and friends and family. No one hides their faces at a “No Kings” rally or an anti-ICE protest.

@alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #LifeInBalance, birds captured in precarious or unexpected positions. Here a baby crow is learning the ropes, doing her first high wire act above our backyard #birds #Corvids #Crows #pnwbirding #backyardbirding #naturephotography #BirdLife

Per @robcrank68.bsky.social today's #BirdOfTheDay Alt theme is #BlueSkies, birds were you can see Blue Skies. Here we see Aoitori the Stellar’s Jay judging ypu hard in all her blue ploofy wonderfullness- #ECK #photography #birds #StellarsJay #Aoitori

GOP Urges Democrats To Tone Down Rhetoric Used To Quote President Verbatim

A picture is worth a thousand words.

The criticism of Trump, Kennedy, and Bhattacharya that was so subversive that the ADA had to eject the Editor-in-Chief of their flagship journal from their annual meeting for sharing it? Prior today it had fewer than 1000 views. Do your thing.

@robcrank68.bsky.social Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections, any bird reflection clear or rippled, the Alt Theme is #Fringillidae, any of the species will do. #birds #PanasonicG85 #pnwbirding #birdphotography #Herons Blue Heron hunting in the late winter low-tide of Padilla Bay WA

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheWeek - Week of May 4 2026. Rock wall at the end of a Kyoto alley near Fushimi Inari. From a photograph from October 2019. #FushimiInari Kyoto Japan #HobonichiWeeks

Tell us you’re high on you’re own supply without telling us you’re high on you’re own supply

@alan678.bsky.social has chosen the theme #Parenthood, any capture of parents & young. His Alt Theme is #BirdOnAWire, any capture of a bird perched on a wire. Here’s a two-fer for today- Mom, Dad, and Junior Crow on the backyard line. Circa May 2924

DOGS ARE FANTASTIC!

Hasn’t whined about needing a ballroom to feel safe

#SomethingBeautiful #BellinghamWA archive- waterbased marker on #HobonichiWeeks #TomoeRiverPaper sketch of Ms Gwendolyn Greyborne of the Bellingham Greybornes furtively skittering across our backyard lawn. For the week of April 20 2026, from a photograph taken April 6, 2026.

#Birds #Ducks Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #PassportPhoto a photograph of a bird that could be its passport picture. Ichiban the #StellersJay mother of Aoitori) looks right back at ya from May 2023 in our #BellinghamWA backyard

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheWeek - Week of April 13 2026. Moss Garden Reflections. Water color felt pen, from a photograph taken at #Saihoji Moss Temple (Kokedera), October 2019. SaihojiRinzaiZenTemple, #Kyoto Japan #HobonichiWeeks

@robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #FeederFriends, birds that you might see at your feeder… (FYI I *think* this is the theme for 4/17/26. There are 2 16 hr old themes posted today as I type this. Yesterday’s outage might account for the overlap) #Songsparrow #SeattleWA #JuanitaBeachPark

@robcrank68.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay brief is #HeadShots. Here’s a #Kurasu (Large-billed or #JapaneseCrow ) who struck a profile pose for me in #Kyoto #Japan during the calm a day or two after #TyphoonHaribus. October 2019. #birds #WildlifePhotography

#SomethingBeautiful #SkagitWA archive- #greatblueheron fishing in #PadillaBay in #blackandwhite #BirdOfTheDay #Reflections #PadillaBayWa #blackandwhitephotography

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheWeek - Week of April 6 2026. #MomoKaiju and Blackie McSquirrel face off on the front porch. Felt pen and prismacolor sketch from a March 31 2026 photograph. #Dachshund #HobonichiWeeks

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LongNecks, birds with long necks… #SomethingBeautiful #SeattleWA archive. A nest-prepping #GreatBlueHeron preens in the tree branches.

#SomethingBeautiful #SeattleWA archive- The birthday girl. #elparchecolombianoseattle April 11 2026

Priorities

Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez: “The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” 🍿

What are the odds Trump and his sons shorted the market this morning then went long at 4:58pm EDT?

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheWeek of February 9 2026. Oona’s #Dahlia- “Karma Choc”. Water-based felt pen and pencil on #TomoeRiverPaper. From a September 2022 photograph. #BellinghamWA #Gardens #Flowers #HobonichiWeeks

For #BirdOfTheDay theme #snacking Ichiban the #StellarsJay with a peanut two-fer. Summer 2023. #BackyardBirding #BellinghamWA

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheDay Archive- #SkagitCounty #Heron on the edge of the marsh. From at photo taken on 3/1/26. Water based felt pen sketch on #TomoeRiverPaper #Hobonichiweeks

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOpenNotFlying; any bird with it's wings open but not in flight, the Alt Theme is #Eating, any bird with food in it's beak. #corvids #crows #backyardbirding #MFT #Lumix Baby crow showing off for mom and dad above our #BellinghamWA backyard. Early summer, 2023

Hey @peromyscus.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com - kooky inadvertent birding activity while biking home thru the urban neighborhoods between downtown and my home today- riding thru the lettered streets a heron came out from behind the parked cars and almost flew into me. 1/

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Migratory. Here's a few (Canada?) Geese. As I understand it about 50,000 fly over the #SkagitValley fields on their way to #Canada. This is part of a group of about ten thousand with our local volcano Mt Baker in the distance. Taken on 3/1/26. #Lumix 100-300 #MFT

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheWeek - Week of March 16 2026. #MomoKaiju sundogging it on the living room floor. Water-based felt pen and prismacolor sketch on #TomoeRiverPaper. From an April 25, 2025 photograph. #Dachshund #HobonichiWeeks

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheDay Archive- #SkagitCounty #Coot in the marsh. From at photo taken on 3/1/26. Water based felt pen sketch on #hobonichiweeks paper

Imma guess the ticketmaster convenience fee for a WS Game 7 private booth today would be more than $40 today.

IFEEL BETTER ALREADY BLUE SKY!!!

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOpenNotFlying, birds with wings open on the Floor/Water but not flying. Junior #Crow showing off his balancing skills while joining mom and dad on a guy wire. #BackyardBirding #Corvid

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheDay Archive- #SkagitCounty #Swans From at photo taken on 3/1/26. Water based felt pen and prismacolor pencil sketch on #hobonichiweeks paper

So much “winning.” 🙄

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone. But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

#SomethingBeautiful #SkagitWA Archive. View toward #AnacortesRefinery across the water at low tide with lone bird.

#SomethingBeautiful #Skagit Wildlife Area #FirIslandFarmUnit A #Heron hunting in her #Reflection. February 28 2026

#SomethingBeautiful #SkagitValley #Geese #Murmuration and #MtBaker March 1, 2026

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheWeek of 2/23/26. #WhatcomFalls #BellinghamWA . Waterbased #FeltPen and #PrismacolorPencil on paper sketch from a #HandHeld #LongExposurePhoto taken 2/15/26. #HobonichiWeeks

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Borb, a bird looking round or pear shaped. This mallard (me thinks) is a birb of the aquatic variety, considering his off-camera reflection in the pond ripples. #WhatcomFallsPark #BellinghamWA February 2016 #bird #photograph #duck #borb

She’s got my vote.

#SomethingBeautiful #SketchOfTheWeek of 2/26. Crowie waiting on a peanut. From a 2/15/26 photo. Our #Crow friends follow us down the street greet us in the front yard then head to the backyard for handouts, including this little person Love them all! #BellinghamWA #BackyardBirding HobonichiWeeks

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