💔🐶 Westchester County, NY (?) #AdoptDontShop 💔

Meet the lovely Ladybug! 🐞 Ladybug, a super sweet calico, had ears that were showing signs of frostbite. After expert treatment, they're healing nicely, and she's in good spirits. Now, Ladybug is going up for adoption. We know her pretty face and charming personality will light up someone's home! 💙

Cetti's Warbler, today at Ham Wall

The Chicago Fed Real-Time Unemployment Rate Forecast for March is 4.49%, up slightly from the BLS value for the previous month. www.chicagofed.org/research/dat...

An osprey catches a fish at Sandpiper Pond in St. Vrain State Park, Longmont, Colorado. #BirdOfTheDay #LargeBirdsInFlight #Gulls #birdphotography #EastCoastkin #ECK #bird #birds #photography #photograph #photographs #photo #photos

Ancient Greek coin from around 500 - 480 BCE

Black Kite considered the world's most abundant raptor, with a population up to 6 million widespread across Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia 📷: Thomas Strudthoff #birds

Sapphire-throated Hummingbird Beautiful tiny Hummingbirds. At times, they perched less than a metre away. The M43 system comes into its own league for shots like this as the minimum focus distance is so small. #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography

This is the Coppergate Helmet, named after its find location in York. It’s Anglo-Saxon & one of only 6 helmets surviving from the period. If you look at the nose guard, it has fantastical animals weaving through the decoration. It’s wonderful. 🏛️Yorkshire Museum 📷Museum Trust #AncientBlueSky

🔥🛢️This morning, Russian Novoil oil refinery in Bashkortostan, ~7.1 million tons/year. 1,400 km from the frontline was struck by drones.

I feel no need to unpack last night's speech. I'm glad most people are waking up to the fact that we have a deranged madman, an incompetent president surrounded by sycophants, running the world order into the ground. But saying so would be a repeat of everything liberals have been saying for years

People need to come to grips with the fact Trump no longer cares about anything other than the glorification of his ego. He's not on the ballot again, he's grifted billions, will never be prosecuted for anything he's done, and couldn't give a shit about the country.

Golden-crowned kinglet on pussy willow 🪶

Poland PM: 🇵🇱

Chicago Commuting. The morning grind from Monday this week.

The Saguaro blossoms are starting to open 🪶🌵 (image from 2025)

This is a jaw dropping story from @wired.com about the paramilitary monsters Trump sent to Chicago to terrorize us. It focuses on three of the many high profile incidents that shook our city to it's core including the assault on a quiet neighborhood street getting ready for a kids halloween parade.

So RFK, Jr is finally getting the pushback he has long deserved- and not just from the public & every credible health scientist. His terrible decisions putting millions of kids at risk and his mass firings that have decimated vital agencies are now too much, even for Trump. His days are numbered.

Severe thunderstorms capable of producing a few tornadoes appear probable across parts of eastern Iowa, northern Illinois, and southern Wisconsin this afternoon. Additionally, damaging thunderstorm winds will be possible from eastern Iowa northeast into Michigan. Visit weather.gov for the latest.

This is a male Broad-billed Hummingbird flying in my backyard Look at the sparkly blue and green feathers!

Male Woody from last week: #birds #ducks #waterfowl #nature

🐈‍⬛💕💕 Woodstock, IL #AdoptDontShop Super-cute Tuxie!

We first unmasked (or not—Donahue never actually covers his face) two CBP agents in November at great personal risk as two reporters who have been repeatedly targeted by the feds, including with assaults and arrest. Since then, more and more outlets have felt comfortable naming agents:

Did you leave No Kings 3 all fired up, but unsure what to do now? Organizers (finally?) have some concrete suggestions. Read this and pass it on. www.headsupnews.org/p/yes-there-...

May your day be filled with morning meows, velvety ears, fresh biscuits, comforting purrs, and teeny toe beans.

💕💕🐱 Woodstock, IL #AdoptDontShop Snookie!!

the president of the United States is a madman seriously damaging the entire world

Fabulous photograph of one of the Cromer Peregrine Project falcons captured by a fisherman at the end of Cromer pier. It is assumed the crab was pirated from a gull. #ukwildlife

This weekend and always, NO LILIES FOR KITTIES. www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius): "This is a small plover. Their breeding habitat is open gravel areas near freshwater, including gravel pits, islands and river edges" Thank you Amila K Madige for sharing this info and your splendid photo taken in the UK. #LittleRingedPlover #RingedPlover

As our Rapid Response Team was about to leave a veterinary clinic in Oahu after covering care for a cat affected by the flooding in Hawai‘i, another resident hurried in with an injured cat. When the orange tabby, Pumpkin, poked her head out of her carrier, the wound on her ear was apparent. (1/4)

April 1, 1926: Chicagoans dig out after a major storm dumped over 12 inches of snow over two days, still a record for the last day of March. On April 2-3 an additional 6 inches of snow will fall.

These woollen chitons (or long tunics) have - incredibly - survived from Roman Egypt due to the dry climate. Amazing finds showing a wonderful insight into past fashions. 🕰️5th-7th century AD 🏛️📷Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki

Unknown artist/maker Pair of Gold Disk Ear Studs, 525–500 B.C. Etruscan (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California)

Short-eared Owl on the Isle of Sheppey this evening - its fair to say we surprised each other! A Merlin five minutes later was a little too fast for me... @kentishplover.bsky.social #KentBirding

Bees are small, fragile, and easily overlooked. And yet, in their heavy pollen-laden wings, they hold something of the planet's balance. With every flight, with every touch of the petals, the bee gathers not only nectar—it gathers life, color, hope.

This is Honey. She's a half-blind senior who survived a bear attack while protecting her family and farm. “She protected our chickens and our family," said her mom. "She’s our little savior." Honey has been treated for her injuries and is on the mend. We're awarding her our highest honor, a 15/10

It may be #AprilFoolsDay, but we're not fooling around about how adorable Obsidian is! Thank you for helping us save and care for him and his siblings after they were discovered without their mother cat. 💙 (Look closely to see Obsidian 'holding hands' as he eats!) 🐾

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✔️ @hedgewatchers.bsky.social

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'St Paul's at Sunset' (1914) by William Hyde (Private collection)

NewsInsideUkraine t.me/c/1966917236... The Latvian government has decided to provide Ukraine with an aid package worth €6.8 million. “This aid package will help strengthen Ukraine’s energy network, shelters, infrastructure, social and civil resilience, as well as drone capabilities.

She's back! This lady was missing for a few days, but she was back in her usual places today. Good to see her, as she is very friendly. #LondonBirds #nature #wildlife #birds #kingfisher #birdphotography #eastlondon

Grey-lag Goose today at RSPB Greylake

On a gray morning, a ruby-crowned kinglet (Corthylio calendula) checks me out from behind a protective screen of twigs. Photo taken at Capulin Spring, in the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico, on March 31, 2026. #nature #naturephotography #birds

BREAKING The Jan. 6-related civil suits seeking to hold Trump liable for inciting the insurrection SURVIVE, as a federal judge rejects his latest bid to scuttle the case on immunity and First Amendment grounds. Doc buff.ly/ZjGrJOP

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock. straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

🍸 April is Art Deco month! Join us to explore how this style helped shape Chicago! The Merchandise Mart is a clear example of Art Deco working at an enormous scale, using geometry, repetition, and ornament to impose order on size. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/47xWIwy

Breaking: The president has signed an executive order on mail voting. He has no lawful authority to write the rules that govern our elections. He tried a year ago; we sued him; we won. A year later, he has tried again. He can expect the same result. 1/2