You should put "Christian" in quotes since they certainly don't follow Jesus' teachings.

Four Yellow-billed Magpies, standing on a stump, with blurry yellow flowers in the background.

Yellow-billed Magpies, endemic to California. 🪶 #BirdOfTheDay #WhatTheFlock

Yes! New post going up in a few minutes.

Don't want to make you mad, but I have Yellow-billed Magpies as yard birds. 😁

It is awesome; I'm about 15 miles east of MB. Mark your calendar for the Morro Bay Bird Festival. Great event, MLK weekend every January. morrobaybirdfestival.org

For some reason the photo isn't loading; I think it's a Blue Sky issue and hope it will be fixed. To answer your question, this is on the north side of Cayucos before you reach Estero Bluffs. And it's not a recent photo; we get these birds in summer, typically August.

View from above of approximately 100 Elegant Terns, nicely spaced, resting on a beach.

Elegant terns enjoying a rest on a beach in San Luis Obispo County, California. 🪶 #BirdOfTheDay #WhatTheFlock

Two Nuttall's Woodpeckers, a juvenile with its head poking out of a nest hole, and an adult male gripping the side of tree trunk with a beakful of insects.

You want me to eat that?

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ComeEatWithMe, birds who have food in their beaks.

🪶 #NuttallsWoodpecker

Next trip to Maui . . .

Is this Hosmer Grove? I've made a few pilgrimages there, but never got a really close look at I'iwi.

Deep sigh

A total debacle that ranked choice voting would solve. In that absence, most of the Democratic candidates should withdraw. California can't afford to have a right-wing Governor.

Mosquitoes reach Iceland for the first time as the Arctic heats up In what is possibly another sign of climate change, mosquitoes have landed in Iceland for the first time. For many years, the island was the only Arctic country that could claim to be mosquito-free. B...

Another indication of our climate-changed future.
#climate

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Two Wood Ducks, out of water, walking up a slight slope, left to right

Wood Ducks taking a stroll. #DucksOutOfWater #BirdOfTheDay 🪶

There's a *lot* going on here, but I'm struck by the irony of Roberts taking umbrage at EPA officials' public statements.

Just 2 years later, in upholding Trump's Muslim travel ban in Trump v Hawaii, Roberts wrote that Trump's bigoted public statements weren't relevant to the rule's validity.

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

Still not breaking in numbers. Just look at today's abomination of a vote on the Boundary Waters.

More perfect union: BREAKING: The Senate just passed the legislation allowing the devastation of the Boundary Waters. The motion passed 50-49, and now goes to Donald Trump’s desk.

Republicans just handed the Boundary Waters to a foreign corporation.

For the GOP, it’s foreign billionaires first, America last.

‘He Just Lied to America’: Russ Vought Denies Violating Impoundment Laws, Prompting Sharp Response Despite his central role in the Trump administration, Office of Management and...

Just a filthy civic degenerate

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Forgot the 🪶

Neck and head of Western Grebe looking directly at camera. Bird has black feathers on top, extending to just below the eyes; the rest of the head and neck are white. The eyes are red with small black pupils.

The theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #headshots. Gotta love the red eyes on a Western Grebe.

Live: Senate voting on reopening mining near Boundary Waters Sen. Tina Smith spoke for hours to oppose the measure Wednesday night. If passed, the legislation would head to the president’s desk.

The U.S. Senate has voted, 50-49, to repeal the ban on mining near the Boundary Waters.

Steph Curry is just one of the most magical athletes the world has ever seen

Not a false hope. @wajali.bsky.social

I'm with you. The start of the fourth quarter is not encouraging.

This is news? Is it advertising in disguise?

i can't help but think about 10 or 11 years ago when conservatives insisted that obama was uniquely anti-catholic because his administration thought that catholic-led orgs could just fill out a form if they didn't want to cover contraceptives in their health plans for employees.

Chestnut-sided Chickadee holding onto vertical branch in soft yellowish light with (mostly) out-of-focus leaves.

Today's #BirdofTheDay theme is #LeafAndLight. Here, a Chestnut-sided Chickadee poses for me.

And a big hole in your heart as well.