The Marvelous Spatuletail, found in just one valley in northern Peru and is one of the rarest hummingbirds on Earth. [📹Alex Fine]

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Mt. Hood. Dark green conifers, snowy mountaintop with some exposed rock, layers of white clouds in stripes of various sizes with blue sky behind.

Mt. Hood. Saturday. April 18. Have a peaceful day/night. 💙

#PNW #Mountains #Photography

Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking today:

Active Voting Rights Cases: 158
Active Redistricting Cases: 44
Active Anti-Voting Cases: 85
Active Pro-Voting Cases: 71
Active DOJ Lawsuits: 30

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Big Oil wants immunity for climate-related litigation. Because they didn’t plan well; and I guess 100s of billions of dollars in earnings hasn’t been enough to take responsibility for the harm they continue to do.

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Where it starts:

Use other tools.
Visit other sites.
Meet people around you who care.

Guy in the coffeehouse complimented my knitting and it turns out he knows how to knit (!) because a bunch of elder gay men in a Seattle coffeehouse adopted him and taught him how and that just sounds like the most impossibly charmed life.

Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online

A golden retriever has both paws up at a bank teller’s window.

“Are you the branch manager?”
“Yes I am, how can I help you?”
“I would like two branches, please.”
“How would you like that?”
“Two big sticks, four little sticks.”

“Reclaim your headspace.”

Musk leaves Memphis high and dry xAI is draining millions of gallons from the Memphis drinking water supply. Musk's promised fix has been delayed indefinitely.

#OligarchWatch

“xAI is draining millions of gallons from the Memphis drinking water supply. Musk's promised fix has been delayed indefinitely.”

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ProPublica

link.propublica.net/view/5f0a093...

"All of them. Deeply unserious and deeply unqualified...
Senate Republicans, like helpless sheep, went along with it all."

-Heather Cox Richardson

Heather Cox Richardson:

April 20, 2026 Late Saturday evening, Josh Dawsey and Annie Linskey of the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump was so unstable and angry after learning on April 3 that Iranians had shot down an American jet that...

"Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) posted: 'We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it. He’s just burning your tax money.'"

- Heather Cox Richardson
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#Birds

Lol Spike Lee is courtside wearing a Knicks jersey with “Pope Leo” on the back

#NBAsky

Facing the blue sea, a woman with long hair and a bare back, above her head a crescent moon in the sky.

René Magritte, The evening gown / La robe du soir - 1955.

Turns out the phrase “America First” is preceded by the words “Sell Out.”

Dogs are also a dog's best pal.

💕🐶💖🐕🐾

#dogs #friendships #sweet

www.huffpost.com The Alarmingly Common Reality Of Men Killing Their Partners And Children

The Alarmingly Common Reality Of Men Killing Their Partners And Children #HuffingtonPost

A reminder:

Blue Origin loses satellite in setback for Jeff Bezos’s moon rocket New Glenn rocket is being developed to send astronauts to the Moon as part of Nasa’s Artemis IV mission

Yet another failed Amazon delivery 😑 sent to the wrong address.
www.the-independent.com/space/blue-o...

Odesa. Nothing special. Just a family of turtles basking in the sun.
🐢🐢🐢☀️☀️☀️🐢🐢🐢

HERACLITOS. ASÀROTOS ÒIKOS MOSAIC, DETAIL, C. 125 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS This famous mosaic is signed by one Heraclitos, who may have copied the "unswept floor" mosaic by Sosos of Pergamon in the C2 CE, but as a border to a large and mainly vanished central scene with Egyptian and Nilotic details. Mosaic representations of pharaonic statues were set at the corners, and along the edge are lively riverside scenes like this duck which is peering into a curved lilypad leaf to see if a delicious frog or insect is hiding there. The duck's form is beautifully modelled in light and shadow, and the border of the mosaic at bottom is a wonderful undulating wave.

The splendid Asàrotos òikos #mosaic at the #VaticanMuseums is a #Hadrianic copy of a mosaic described by #Pliny the Elder at #Pergamon. Here, instead of looking at the famous "unswept floor" border, for #MosaicMonday we're looking at part of the #Nilotic mosaic it surrounded. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Just lovely!

Nice work. I bet they were delicious!

~50% of the flowers in this photo were not planted by a human
🐦🐿🌱

Soooo fancy! 🥰

Good morning
The tree peonies are starting, along with everything else, its the most glorious time of the year!
Soon the iris will join in
Have an excellent day 🌱🌸

Chicago Turns All Public School IDs Into Library Cards To Boost Student Access Chicago Public Library and CPS announced the expansion of The 81 Club, building on a pilot launched in 2022 to give students access to the library system's vast collection and databases.

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