Yes! It’s the number of people who vote, not the number of counties. Once again, MAGA plays the victim when they lose.

The canopy above—old branches twisting like remembered stories, leaves filtering the light into something softer. A good place to stand still, look up, and remember that not everything in life needs improving. Some things simply need noticing.

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

I think most people would prefer this. #Science

Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯👊👊👊

This isn’t a debate between “development”& “conservation.”

It’s a war between short-term greed and long-term survival.

Our forests aren’t luxury green spaces,they are life-support systems.

Destroy them,& we destroy the air we breathe,the water we drink,& the climate that keeps us alive.

Today's Headline And then one day, while I read aloud to my husband the news and felt the widening hole in my heart, he raised his hand to quiet me. I followed his gaze out the window to see in the yard a small fluffy thing with black and white eyespots on its head. A northern pygmy owl beside our door, stout body slightly smaller than my fist. It turned its neck a full half circle to look at me with bright yellow eyes. In an instant, I shifted from disgust with the world to awe. Awe for this fierce bespeckled miracle, this wonder of feather and beak and claw, this small being in the grass looking back at me as if to say, Here is also the news. How surprising the world can be. How quickly, when I let it, amazement overwrites my fear and makes of the hole in my heart a home. -Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

#poetry #writingcommunity
#nationalpoetrymonth #poem

Close-up of vibrant yellow dandelion flowers with green stems and blurred dark green foliage background.

#photography #unedited

These trees grow wood without being cut down. In Japan, an ancient technique called Daisugi has been doing exactly that since the 14th century. [🎞️ thebrainmaze]

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The story of the Sea Squirt has a parallel in humans.

Suryia, the orangutan who learned to bottle-feed orphaned tiger cubs by watching humans

This is so well done. 👌

1/2. Notice that after losing the war Trump threatens his allies rather than Russia — even though Russia quite literally helped Iran defeat the US and he knows it.

I'm deep down the rabbit hole on FROGFISH, 60 species of anglerfish in family Antennariidae.

They are deeply, utterly WEIRD & MARVELOUS.

Most walk on modified fins.
Others use jet propulsion.
Some are capable of air-breathing.
Some are "hairy", others blend perfectly in sargassum.

A black-and-white, head-and-shoulders portrait of a young Phyllis "Pippa" Latour. She is captured in a three-quarter profile, gazing upward and to the left with a contemplative expression. Her dark, wavy hair is styled in a voluminous 1940s fashion, and she wears dark lipstick. She is dressed in a dark, patterned blouse with a high neckline. The background is a simple, dark gradient, focusing all attention on her face.

Remembering the legendary #WWII spy Pippa Latour who outwitted the Nazis with a silk hair tie.😮

Six weeks before D-Day, she parachuted into Nazi-occupied Normandy (age 23). Codename Genevieve, she bicycled across France selling soap while secretly transmitting 135 coded messages to London. (1/2)

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. - Mary Oliver

God this poem is haunting me again.

What a f*cking waste of lives and money. 😠

He says it all.
#USDemocracy

Ok, now do the bass clef.

- Pair of Collared Falconets (Microhierax caerulescens). With a size of 15-18 cm, these falconets are one of the smallest raptors in Asia.
- Photo courtesy of Sheau Torng Lim, in Doi Inthanon NP, northern Thailand

If the Ferrero Group does not use this as an ad for Nutella, they are out of their collective Italian minds.

They should also put up funds for STEM scholarships or something... Nutella Space Camp anyone?

Ellen Martin

On this day in 1891, Ellen Martin went to the polls in Lombard, IL & demanded to vote. Martin noted that the town’s charter did not explicitly limit voting in town elections to men. The election judges reluctantly agreed with Martin, who reportedly became the 1st woman to vote in Illinois. #WeTheMen

Be careful what you wish for. When you are old and have hearing loss, you will miss this early-morning chorus/cacophony more than you can now imagine. Try to enjoy it while you can, for one day it will be gone, and you will be cursed with the silence you now long for.

🎶 a single mom who works two jobs
Who loves her kids and never stops 🎶

Saving a tiger shark from fishing line. [📹 junobrandon]

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“One of the cutest beings on this planet, an opossum, also one of the most misunderstood. They are marsupials, they do not transmit rabies, and are indispensable for pest control, they are naturally docile and gentle, and when scared they show their teeth and hiss to appear menacing, but when they…

She's a great cartoonist