What we know, 10:20pm

—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG
—BIG Dem gains in VA House
—Dems win NJ-Gov
—Mamdani wins
—Dems keep PA supreme court
—Larry Krasner & Bragg win
— GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
—JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy
—Dems sweep Orlando council
—ME anti-mail vote measure loses

Done

A carpet of Grindelia, Erigeron, and lupine on the Sea Ranch bluff trail #californianativeplants

Dudleya farinosa at Sea Ranch, chalky and non chalky versions of the same plant growing just a few feet from each other. #californianativeplants

This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com

At the San Francisco No Kings protest there were thousands of American flags in the crowd!

Dolores Park, San Francisco, 6/14/25. Couldn’t see the end of the crowd. #NoKingsDay

Pacific Reedgrass (Calamagrostis nutkaensis) in full bloom
#californianativeplants

California's Yurok Tribe gets back ancestral lands that were taken over 120 years ago Roughly 73 square miles of ancestral homelands once belonging to California’s Yurok Tribe have been returned to them.

The largest land back deal in state history so far
#CaliforniaNativePlants
#NativePlants
#LandBack

apnews.com/article/yuro...

Tiburon mariposa lily, Calochortus tiburonensis

It’s Tiburon mariposa lily season, a highly endangered species, limited to a few acres of serpentine outcrops on Ring Mountain, Marin County. Alien satellite dishes come to mind
#CaliforniaNativePlants
#NativePlants
#RingMountain
#SFBayArea

1. Giant chain fern (Woodwardia fimbriata)
2. Western sword fern (Polystichum munitum)
3. Deer Fern (Blechnum spicant)
4. Western Wild Ginger (Asarum caudatum)
5. Starry false Solomon’s seal (Maianthemum stellatum)
6. Redwood sorrel (Oxalis oregana)
7. Inside-Out Flower (Vancouveria hexandra)

I got this yellow hummingbird sage from the Bay Natives nursery years ago and it was a half dead stem with a single green leaf on it. I stuck it in the ground and forgot about it. It’s now happily taking over one corner of my shady San Francisco backyard. #salviaspathacea #californianativeplants

My SF shade garden is thriving! There are 7 California native plants in this photo, can you name them all? #californianativeplants

A carpenter bee checking out my pink California poppies this morning 😍 #californianativeplants

What’s the tldr for those of who don’t subscribe?

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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Correction! The Sparaxis tricolor is not native. But it’s impressive. And it was growing on the side of the Dipsea trail.

Hello! Thank you for keeping the rodents at bay.

Please don’t kill these beautiful creatures.

#westernrattlesnake

Phacelia divaricata, growing at the edge of a serpentine outcrop

California goldfields at Rock Springs

Calypso orchid

Checker Lily, Fritillaria affinis

California native wildflowers on Mt Tamalpais two weeks ago #californianativeplants

Manzanita in the sunlight. Image by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/yarmsicle-7124662/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=2968257">Carmen Medlin</a> from <a href="https://pixabay.com//?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=2968257">Pixabay</a>

🔥🌿 California manzanitas have fire survival down to a science.

Some resprout from underground burls after wildfires.

Others rely on heat or smoke to trigger seed germination.

Two fire strategies. One resilient genus.

#CaliforniaNativePlants #Manzanita #Ecology #FireAdapted

Apparently, we can’t have any nice things

The dose makes the poison.

That’s true of everything. Water. Oxygen. Vitamin A. Vitamin D. Aspartame. Formaldehyde.

Yep, we make 425,000 TIMES MORE formaldehyde every day than what might be in a vaccine.

Read more:

news.immunologic.org/p/every-huma...

Wildflowers on Mt. Tamalpais today: Sparaxis tricolor, Calypso bulbosa, Toxicoscordion fremontii, and Prosartes smithii #californianativeplants

The cybertruck is possibly the most hideous vehicle that has ever been designed. I have come to believe that it is a physical manifestation of Elon Musk’s barren soul.

The Netanyahu government has killed 50,000 people in Gaza & wounded 112,000.

Two weeks ago, they broke the ceasefire and have since killed 322 children & wounded 600.

The US must end its complicity.

Tomorrow, I will force votes to block $8.8 billion in arm sales to Netanyahu.

It’s a death cult

I used to study Adélie penguins in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Here are some of my favorite photos of Adélies at Cape Crozier, Ross Island. #addBirder #antarctica #penguinscience #birds

I’m starting to think that everyone who promotes antivax is a eugenicist. It’s the only “logic” that explains the otherwise lack thereof in their death cult.

He’s worse than that