NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter...

Apple Creek, boundary between Cape Girardeau and Perry Counties, Missouri.

Trump’s proposed 1.5 Trillion dollar military budget is $4385 from every person in the US, including babies. Do you really want to spend that much on his “excursions?”

The whole article is tongue in cheek. The “experts” were people at the Waffle House in Rome, GA. The reporter showed his picture around and nobody recognized him.

Bird nest in flowerpot with five brown-speckled eggs.

Carolina Wren has nested in an empty flowerpot by our deck. #birds #birding #Missouri

March 21, 2026 On March 21, 1861, former U.S.

March 21, 2026

March 19, 2026 After yesterday’s revelation that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is blocking the release of a memo related to a Drug Enforcement Agency investigation into sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and 14 co-con...

March 19, 2026

Trump said he spoke to a former president about bombing Iran. Four denials suggest otherwise. Trump said twice Monday that he spoke to one of his predecessors about the Iran war and that the former president said he wished he had taken the action Trump did.

He was probably talking to Reagan.

From Ulysses S. Grant to Donald Trump: How “Unconditional Surrender” Became Unconditional Bluster President Trump is channeling his inner Ulysses S.

From Ulysses S. Grant to Donald Trump: How “Unconditional Surrender” Became Unconditional Bluster #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Actually not. We have a local group and aren’t members of the national organization.

I’m a Unitarian Universalist and not a Christian in any sense that War Bro would recognize. I’m not paying taxes to support Christian Nationalism.

March 3, 2026 About a week before Trump launched Operation Epic Fury, attacking Iran alongside Israel, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine warned that the lack of support from allies and deplete...

March 3, 2026

No one can predict how the war with Iran will unfold | Rajan Menon and Dan DePetris

The war has already become regional: Iran is attacking American-aligned Arab states in the hope that they will pressure Trump to sign a ceasefire

When your polling is bad, start a war.

Perched bird with metallic blue back, wings, and head, and white underparts.

First Tree Swallow of the year 26 Feb at Perry County Community Lake, Missouri. #birds #birding

Merlin (a small falcon) perched in a bare tree.

Happened onto this Merlin at Amidon Conservation Area, Madison County, MO today. #birds #birding

“This afternoon, Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker sent an invoice to Trump, charging him $8,679,261,600, or $1,700 for every family in Illinois, as “reimbursement owed to the Illinois families for illegally imposed tariffs.”

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Seedling flat with a couple of Silene regia seeds sprouting.

Seedling flat with many very tiny germinating Monarda punctata seeds.

I planted seeds on February 12 in my basement with grow-lights and heating pads. First to germinate today: Monarda punctata and Silene regia. You have to zoom in to see the Monarda seedlings, but there are loads of them. #nativeplants

Largely white bird sitting on the ground in a fallow field.

I was briefly excited to see this bird among some Horned Larks in a field in East Cape Girardeau, Illinois. My first thought when I saw all that white was Snow Bunting, but with the scope I saw it was a leucistic Horned lark. If you look closely you can see the cheek patch and bib faintly.

Flower arrangement with gold sunflowers, purple flowers, and green cedar branches.

Mardi Gras season is upon us.

The "92 Percent Tell", Trump's Go-To Number When Making Up Statistics President Donald Trump has developed a peculiar habit of invoking the number 92 percent across a wide range of unrelated claims, according to an analysis published in The Atlantic on December 20, 2025...

www.context-corner.com/p/the-92-per...

Trump wrong that 92% of Minnesota Somalis don’t work In an interview with podcaster and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, President Donald Trump said 92% of Somalis in Minnesota don’t work. The real number is about 28%, and that’s a smaller rate t...

Admittedly, anything the Orange One says is likely to be a lie, but “92%” is a dead giveaway. It’s the fake stat he used for everything.

January 31, 2026 White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller posted on social media this morning:

January 31, 2026

January 25, 2026 As the nation mourned the killing of VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti yesterday at the hands of federal officials in Minneapolis, President Donald J.

January 25, 2026

Timeline: How the Shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti Unfolded (Gift Article) A moment-by-moment analysis of video from the scene shows that Mr. Pretti was already restrained when fatal shots were fired, which appears to contradict the federal government’s account of the event.

Ice murders citizen.

January 24, 2026 This morning, on a street in Minneapolis, at least seven federal agents tackled and then shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse for the local VA hospital.

January 24, 2026