Mayor Mamdani and a group of children hold hands while running through red tape in a hallway.
For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust.
We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.
Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%
This withered panache
I bring to the world
Two Mourning Doves at a bird feeder with a built-in camera. One dove is in profile, very close to the camera, and appears to be looking at it, and the other dove is further back, but also looks like it’s staring straight into the lens.
These two Mourning Doves at my feeder cam look like they just rang my doorbell because Tony Soprano sent them to collect a debt I owe.
We need science to help us meet reality on its own terms, and we need poetry to help us broaden and deepen the terms on which we meet ourselves and each other.
Queen of the Hum. An owl with big green-pupilled eyes looking out at the viewer, an electricity pylon behind the owl. Oak leaves and oak flowers surround the owl on their left and right. Linocut, white, black and green, Maria Strutz
3.05 am
Owl eyes
Bat wings
Moon dance
Night things
- Siana Bangura
#OwlishMonday
Frances Featherstone
A wildlife disaster unfolds alongside the human tragedy in the Strait of Hormuz
@greenpeace.org reports Iranian vessel Shahid Bagheri, stuck by a US warplane in early March, is still leaking oil near the Strait, with nearby wetlands at risk:
www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/s...
🧵 1/5
Us too, Curlew… us too. 😴
#MondayMotivation
Dawn chorus this morning from an Irish Atlantic rainforest.
🌍
Painting showing the same view of a park with grass, trees and figures at five different times of thecl day and night in twenty four hours
Emma Haworth
"One Day To The Next", 2019
UK painter #Womensart
#Monday
This year's Lyrid meteor shower is getting a boost thanks to a dim crescent moon. Skywatchers could see 10 to 20 shooting stars per hour soar across the spring sky, according to NASA, when the fiery display peaks Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. https://to.pbs.org/4tWbyG2
It was too cold to play outside today so Janey, Cornelius, and Floyd had playtime in one of the horse stalls in their adorable little coats! 🧥
If you dig deep enough into the corruption of our democracy, down there at the bottom of the hole you find...a lot of oil
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
These guys were cool in the 70’s
Now, they are cool in THEIR 70’s
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez addresses a meeting of Hispanic left leaders in Barcelona: “The right wing is on the decline. People are realizing that they have no vision or solutions, just hatred and empty slogans. All they’ve brought to the world is war, inflation, inequality, and social division.”
Mayor Mamdani and President Obama read a picture book to a group of children.
Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh with a group of children.
Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh.
Children hug Mayor Mamdani.
Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.
In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.
Freda, a dark grey Maine Coon lying on a tan multi-colored rug paws up, hoping for unsuspecting prey to come by-or her mom.
Hi! Care to be ambushed?
#caturday
#catsofbluesky
It just never ends. The Trump administration has officially scheduled an auction for drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Companies can bid for the right to drill in ANWR starting June 5.
A black-and-white cat lying on a bed, looking relaxed
Uni is melting
If you could spend a day working as any kind of scientist, what would you study? 🔬✨🧪
At 1.5C of global warming, up to 90% of coral reefs could be lost. The next few months could be a defining moment, writes Jason Momoa.
#wildlife #WildlifeCrossings
More photos of wildlife crossings in comments. Great idea!
A nice study of 38,000 people across 75 countries found that feeling connected to nature consistently predicts higher well-being, hope and resilience – regardless of wealth or national culture (our story in Nice News)
Too many folks have swept aside ecological and community values and concerns in their zeal to permit energy, technology, and other extractive infrastructure and cede control of our future to energy and tech oligarchs.
Today, we threw down the gauntlet.
View of the night sky from Siding Spring Observatory in NSW, with the Anglo Australian Telescope visible in the lower left hand corner. Image Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (Macquarie University)
Happy International Dark Sky Week! 🌌 Access to dark skies:
🔭 enables world-leading science
✨ preserves shared cultural knowledge and traditions
🌠 sustains wildlife ecosystems
🌌 encourages people to look up
Learn more at: idsw.darksky.org
Image Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (Macquarie University)
NRDC condemns Senate vote opening the Boundary Waters to a toxic mine.
www.nrdc.org/press-releas...
SO FRIGGING COOL. "Gašper Beguš, a linguist at University of California, Berkeley who led the new paper, said that this level of complexity in sperm whale speech was beyond anything he had studied in other creatures, such as parrots and elephants."
