Abbas is a friend and a dedicated public servant. He always speaks up for anyone targeted by hate. Anyone. Now he’s the target, the latest example of violence and Islamophobia — just days after white supremacist Jake Lang marched through the streets of Dearborn, burning a Quran.

These trees look like Jimmy Hendrix & Claude Monet did a collab, but this is just what the rainbow eucalyptus (Eucalyptus deglupta) looks like every day: fabulous. The only 'rainforest' eucalyptus, it's native to the Philippines & Indonesia, but introduced in Hawaii, Florida & California.

My mermaid soul is so happy. Mendocino coast does not disappoint! 🩵🤍🩵

I really hope this is true…

Finding these rare geodes involves hunting through decomposed basaltic host rock. But here's the good news: You can just go buy them. With money. Specimens range in price based on size & coloration. Ones with baby dragons still inside are EXTRA. (📷: Diamond Mountain Mining)

...so we find them near ancient volcanic craters. The outer layers are partly basaltic rock. Over eons, silicate rich water near the surface seeps into these vesicles, depositing layers of 'chalcedony', microcrystalline quartz. Also in the water: iron oxides, which create the red coloration.

"Oh no, my dragon hatched while I was away!" You're looking at a crater agate from Argentina, described as "Red Fox agate" or Orellanite. Let's learn something about these amazing earth-dragon eggs & how they form. But first... (📷: The Mineral Collective FB)

An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID in people exposed to the virus at home. The drug could be a lifeline for those who still face real danger such as people who are immunocompromised. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

COVID-19 death toll far higher than official numbers, says WHO "The World Health Organisation estimates that the COVID-19 pandemic caused 22.1 million excess deaths globally between 2020 and 2023. The figure is more than 3 times higher than the officially reported 7 million COVID deaths worldwide"

Source for those looking: www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... A bit disingenuous to splice the second paragraph from the foreword- changes the context a bit. Still disgusting, nothing new though, just the same M.O. of this government sponsored terror program as it has ever been. Fucking cowards

For greater transparency, the two paragraphs from my previous post are from different parts of the same document, but part of the argument that he’s making is that political opponents are enemies of the state in his eyes.

Johnson is the equivalent of navel lint.

Due process is the single most important right you have, because it's the one that protects all the others. No one has ever had their civil rights violated, their rights to life and liberty violated, without their right to due process being violated FIRST. It's why protecting it is so important.

Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers. /1

These stickers are amazing- I would love to see the little defiances that you find in your towns….

- Fire-tailed Myzornis (Myzornis pyrrhoura) in India - Photo courtesy of Mitash Biswas.

Cuban Tody. The Cuban tody (Todus multicolor) is a bird species in the family Todidae that is restricted to Cuba and the adjacent islands. The species is characterized by small size with a length of 11 cm (4.3 in) and weighing 5.9 g (0.21 oz). 📸: @yadielveunes

I have loved birds since I was a child. My delight has not diminished.

- Blue Grosbeak, Picogrueso Azul, Passerina caerulea. Enjoying the tropical rainfall in Costa Rica - Photo courtesy of Jory Freimann

One of my favorite hummingbirds from our Costa Rica Trip! Crowned Woodnymph 📷 Gregory Reynolds

Let this radicalize you

The state’s No. 1 forest sprayer in 2023... was Sierra Pacific Industries, a timber company owned by billionaire Trump supporter Archie Aldis “Red” Emmerson. Sierra Pacific is the largest landowner in the state and the second-largest in the country,

A Shark Tank investor just got a three-person county commission to approve one of the largest data centers ever built and the people who actually live there found out about it the same way you did.

🌱 First poppy of the season dancing in the late afternoon sun. #bloomscrolling #Zone8b #Garden

🌱the last of the "redonkulous" as Mr W refers to them 🧡🧡🧡

I always forget to support the Ixia. They get a bit top heavy once the flowers open - but they're a show at the moment #GardensHour 🌱

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Ukrainian artist, Igor Velichko

Somewhere in the last couple weeks I passed my 30,000th anti-ice whistle printed and shipped to organizers, neighbors, and friends around the country. the work has become second-nature at this point, the chirp of the printer a sound nobody in my house even notices. Get yours: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

A NYC pop-up just opened displaying all 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files. Admission is free, but reservations are required. New groups are admitted every 20 minutes for one-hour sessions, with a limited number of walk-ins available. You can learn more or schedule a visit at trumpsonian.us

Intimidation, full stop.

Our capital is not a theme park.

May the Fourth be with YOU, from the Obama Presidential Center. Opening June 19.

Open letter calling for the reinstatement of the National Science Board. This letter is from leaders of the National Academies Note: This does not refer to the leaders on paper such as presidents of the NAS, NAM, and NAE. www.standupforscience.net/nasem-letter... @standupforscience.net

Alan H says: Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LockedOn any bird with an intense gaze. The alt is #Breezy birds in windy conditions. #birds #photograhy #ECK A twofer! I have posted this before but it's one of my favourite photos so I'm posting it again! A male Mandarin Duck with the wind at his back!

This is mesmerizing and really fabulous

These are actual Freedom Riders, now elderly, sitting together decades after risking their lives to challenge segregation in the American South. On May 4, 1961, they rode buses south to defy illegal segregation in terminal facilities.

This is crazy. We have truly gone off the slippery slope and are in freefall.

New concert. September 12, London. Tickets at camdenstewart.com

If you are having a hard day just remember there are dogs

Will Leo Hawkes

Behold… the OTTER TREE!

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

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My thoughts on this article: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Grandma's house is where it's at. Our big dog is does this too!

Just had Canvas stop working as I was typing comments on a student paper. I now can’t access anyone’s work or grades. Strangely, this never happened back when I used a grade book and had students email me their papers, a system no shareholders extracted money from.

I just don’t know how you stand next to people doing stuff like this and not want to physically punch them. I respect the heck out of the Dems in TN. They have amazing restraint