Green Dragontails could be called the most exquisite and beautiful #butterflies alive 😻🤟🦋They are #vulnerable due to #palmoil 🌴🪔🚫 and other #deforestation. Help them to survive! Be #vegan and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2024/01/14/g...
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Showy penstemon (Penstemon spectabilis) is a beautiful local native plant here. I’ve been propagating them by seed. The hummingbirds love them!
An I'iwi (small vermillion honeycreeper) with black wings and a long curved beak sipping nectar from 'iliahi blossoms, which are dark red on the outside and bright white when opened
The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ComeEatWithMe , and for a nectivore this is what predation looks like LOL. :) I'iwi on 'illiahi, Haleakala National Park 🌿🦉📷
I love this guy. ❤️😀
Free the tomatoes 🍅😎!
Um, something like: “I’m growing cage-free tomatoes!” ;)
A bee with a foxy orangey brown thorax resting on a leaf.
Maybe an Orange-tailed mining bee, seen in Ely this week. 📷 #photography
Fothergilla bloom with its cream and green that look almost like an underwater coral.
Our first ever cluster of simple white blooms on our little Amelanchier alnifolia.
Tiny white buds at the ends of a beautiful shrubby Aronia arbutifolia.
Tiny white buds at the ends of a beautiful shrubby Aronia melanocarpa.
All the #NativePlants shrubs making their pretty white blooms right now, from Fothergilla to Amelanchier to multiple Aronias.
#gardening #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #SmallJoys 🌱
Wow. This is the FBI Director.
Several officials say Kash Patel’s drinking has been a recurring concern across the government.
At the FBI, it’s called reasonable suspicion. That’s enough to trigger testing or administrative action. So what are we waiting for?
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It’s funny how the audience thinks he’s joking but this is one of those rare moments when he’s being perfectly honest. Pathetic!
I agree with Representative Thompson!
Thompson: “Mr. Secretary you shouldn’t be in this office.”
Hegseth grilled by onlookers for 'embarrassing' moment he mistook Pulp Fiction for Bible
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A tweet showing a CBS News poll tracking Trump’s approval among White non-college voters over time, listing percentages from February 2025 to April 2026 and highlighting a 40-point negative swing.
Has any other president lost his core base of voters by so much so quickly?
Wouldn’t you fire an executive who was working for you if he couldn’t tell the difference between a doctor and Jesus?
your ➡️ you’re
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White House explodes after president’s doctor asked to prove Trump’s mental fitness The White House is fighting back after a prominent House Democrat demanded that the Physician to the President test Donald Trump’s mental fitness, citing the president’s recent remarks.“At a time when our country is
I’m a PhD chemist, my first job was in an air pollution lab. Lightning can cause acidification by facilitating the oxidation of N2 to NO2 and NO that then react with water to make HNO3 (nitric acid) and HNO2 (nitrous acid), which are both strong acids. No reaction with pine needles is required.
There isn’t any mention of this causing acidification in this article though. From the perspective of chemistry: electricity doesn’t create acid on its own. Decomposing plant matter can decrease the pH of soil through the production of acidic biomass through.
I’m in agreement with your perspective overall. Could you explain what you mean by ‘an electric reaction with their needles’? I’m not following that part of your post.
Penstemon spectabilis in bloom
Penstemon spectabilis in bloom
Spectacular Penstemon spectabilis in bloom in my wildlife corridor border garden. It’s growing next to an Orcutt’s hazardia, one of the rarest native plants in North America. I’ll post photos of that beautiful goldenbush this summer when it’s in bloom.
Dear Iran......
We ARE NOT A PART OF THIS HORROR!!
I couldn't be more sorry, I did not even think for a second of voting for this pedophile narcissist felon!!
Prayers for all....
The camera doesn’t seem able to pick up the deep red of A. maritima. In person it’s a very dark red. The video and the photo are of the same plants. I didn’t do any photo adjustments on either. My iPhone IDs the photo as desert sand verbena 😎
The plant that I posted isn’t pink, much darker in real life though! I do wonder about hybrids of these two species?
It’s time for him to go
Blooming now in Encinitas near Cardiff beach. Red Sand Verbena (Abronia maritima): A rare, salt-tolerant creeper with bright red-purple flowers that thrives on Southern California dunes, often blooming year-round.
Red Sand Verbena (Abronia maritima): A rare, salt-tolerant creeper with bright red-purple flowers that thrives on Southern California dunes, often blooming year-round.
BloomRed Sand Verbena (Abronia maritima): A rare, salt-tolerant creeper with bright red-purple flowers that thrives on Southern California dunes, often blooming year-round.
Screenshot of a post on X (Twitter) by former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (@FmrRepMTG) with a verified badge. Her post begins, “On Easter morning, this is what President Trump posted.” She criticizes Donald Trump and members of his administration, saying those who claim to be Christian should “fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God” and stop “worshipping the President,” calling Trump “insane” and saying his supporters are “complicit.” She says she is not defending Iran but argues the U.S. and Israel started an “unprovoked war” based on false nuclear claims, notes that Israel has nuclear weapons, and says Israel can defend itself without U.S. involvement. She criticizes Trump’s threats to bomb power plants and bridges, saying it harms Iranian civilians. Invoking Easter, she references Jesus’ teachings about forgiveness and loving enemies, and states, “Our President is not a Christian and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians.” She calls for peace, says escalating war is hurting people, and concludes, “This is NOT what we promised the American people when they overwhelmingly voted in 2024… This is not making America great again, this is evil.” Below her post is an embedded screenshot of a Truth Social post by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), also with a verification badge. Trump’s post reads: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP.” The post shows engagement metrics of “84 ReTruths” and “335 Likes,” with a timestamp of “4/5/26, 8:03 AM.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene urges Christians in Trump's administration to stand up against him: “This is not making America great again, this is evil.”
Do you want cancer treatment improvements to continue: support fundamental research at NIH and NSF and its translational follow-up! Write Congress! 🧪
