TACO Tuesday, of course.

Operation Epstein Shield...

Fennel... eaten to the ground by each Swallow Tail cohort, but comes back strong every year.

Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra - Brothers In Arms (Dire Straits Cover) | The Anti-War Sessions YouTube video by Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra

From Paul Krugman's Substacl thos mprning -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0Ju...

NMDP Bernalillo County Ward 11 legislative debrief with Speaker Martinez
Thursday, Feb. 26, 7 pm MT
RSVP 505-453-3938 for zoom link

NM Gov. L-G signed a bill prohibiting state and local cooperation with ICE. Basically, we're an entire sanctuary state.

We're closing in on the magical 3.5%.

@kalikinz505.bsky.social Looks like ABQ got 8500-10,000 marchers out last Friday. 🙂

Greenland Defense Front - The Hungry Giant (Official Music Video) YouTube video by demonflyingfox

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS0w...

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

🤬🤬🤬 again

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Nothing could make it clearer that this administration passionately hates our environment.

Tonight's homework assignment: watch the movie "Wag the Dog."

6" diam. Clematis at the ABQ Botanic Garden yesterday.

How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history

Mass movement and protest is very effective and has shaped the arc of US history, say historians and political scientists.

#ORGANIZE #RESIST #OPPOSE
#EveryEffortCounts
#GetInvolved

Koulourakia

Holiday Koulourakia

About 40 folks showed up for today's Kadomatsu workshop at the ABQ Botanic Garden.

According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵

@shoredweller7.bsky.social #riveroflight

2/3 of the way through November and flowers are still blooming.

If corporations have rights, then trees, rivers, wolves, mountains, and cotamudis have rights, too.

My CrowdMap polygon differs and I came up with 24.4K participants. Even at the low end, out estimates are orders of magnitude larger than what was reported in the local media.

Thx! Using CrowdMap plus the drone video and my own ground truthing, I think there were between 17,000 and 23,000 people at the march.

Stealing this.

Hillside covered with golden aspen showing dead snags from previous wildfire. Brown meadow grasses and blue spruces feature in the foreground.

@usa-npn.bsky.social Populus tremuloides in New Mexico: What percent of the potential canopy is filled with color change?

Helianthus maximillianus to the max off of Rio Grande Blvd behind Los Poblanos.

Isn't that the Mad Magazine "Spy vs Spy" hat?!

Seen in Edmonds, WA while walking back from dinner.

Dilution is the solution!

Your occasional daily Hibiscus, 9" diam.

A late July garden.