Spring Butterflies Are Back: How to Spot Monarchs, Painted Ladies, and Red Admirals Spring is a popular season for butterflies, with many arriving as early as March. Learn all about which butterflies you might spot this year.

"Spring—and as early as March—often marks the arrival of butterflies in many regions. While most people assume Monarchs are the star players during this time, other species—like Painted Ladies and Red Admiral Butterflies—are just as common."
☀️🌱🪻🌺🦋 #Butterflies #Spring #Identification #Biology

Black Elders Without Birth Records Could Lose Vote Under SAVE America Act Decades after segregation left gaps in citizenship documents, a controversial voting bill could create barriers at the ballot box.

"Documentation of births, if it existed at all, was written down in a family Bible."

"That absence of a legal record [..] is now part of a bitter political fight over voter eligibility."

"SAVE America Act, would narrow ballot access, especially for Black communities."
#USA ##Voting #Identification

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Well, we don't decide what the customers decide to ship, or where it goes. We don't enforce policy like that; our job is just to provide a neutral platform for others to use to accomplish their goals. We don't even know what they ship - we just build the train cars. We don't even know where […]

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Update from Aaron:
🚨 #ICE will stop people for #Identification ahead of #TSA checkpoints.🚨
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Do 1 in 10 Americans lack ID needed under SAVE America Act? Democrats opposing the SAVE America Act, which would require certain documents to register to vote and cast a ballot, point to a study showing 9% of adult U.S. citizens would have difficulty with thos...

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#TammyDuckworth stated on March 18, 2026 in an X post:
“9% of #American citizens don't have the #identification that the #SAVEact requires to #vote. Almost 1 in 10.”

"We rate this statement Mostly True."

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Crossing the border: Indigenous people assert their right to move freely between the U.S. and Canada A centuries-old treaty recognizing cross-border mobility is colliding with modern immigration policy.

"This is our continent."

"Indigenous people should be able to travel within our own territories."
#Canada #USA #Identification #Courts #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

People have IDs but they lack maiden names alongside married names and citizenship information. This is the problem with that part of the bill. #Identification #Citizenship #Information
Next mail-in ballots are one of the most secure ways to vote plus the convenience gets more voters to participate.

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Canadian parliament seeks to expand biometric background checks nationwide Canada’s lower legislative branch is looking for a supplier to help extend its fingerprint biometrics capability for bac...

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La reconnaissance faciale déployée à grande échelle sur les téléphones des forces de l’ordre Les policiers et gendarmes français ont accès à un logiciel de reconnaissance faciale sur leur téléphone professionnel depuis 2022. Relié au TAJ, le fichier d’antécédents judiciaires, l’outil permet g...

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Minnesota Diary: Notes from a Somali Mother During ICE's Winter Invasion Minnesota is showing up for one another right now, and there's a reason it's easier. These are long-built coalitions, long-built questions since Jamar Clark was murdered in 2015.

"Maryan Sheikh Abdinur grew up in Somalia and Kenya, and moved to the U.S. as a teenager when her family was granted refugee status."

"These are her notes two months into [DHS's] 'Operation Metro Surge.'"
#Minnesota #USA #Somalia #Identification #Protest #Education #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

They may not be every birder's 'cup of tea' but if you like an ID challenge then gulls are right up there!

Know your Pallas's Gull from your Herring Gull and so much more.

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#BirdingGear #Birding #Gulls #Identification

I spent the last couple of weeks being trained on identification of plant parasitic nematodes at Ghent University. One step to proper management is correct identification. This was profound!
#Nematology #Identification #Ghent_University

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

"Stripping anonymity from the internet."

"'[C]hild online safety' bills [are] moving forward in the House [..] with bipartisan support."

"Online protest, documenting war crimes, even news articles could be suppressed."
#USA #Media #Identification #Surveillance #Censorship #Whistleblowing

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ChatGPT Can Spot Phishing Scams — Here’s How to Use It as Your First Line of Defense ChatGPT can effectively identify phishing red flags by analyzing suspicious emails and URLs for social engin...

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Transgender Residents Sue Kansas Over New Law Outlawing Their Current Driver's Licenses The law "is a direct attack on the dignity and humanity of transgender Kansans," an ACLU official said.

"Two transgender residents of Kansas are suing the state over its newly enacted anti-trans law that has invalidated the driver's licenses of hundreds of trans people."

"[S]tokes fear and puts trans people at serious risk."
#Kansas #USA #Identification #Bathrooms #Transportation #Courts

Study reveals new technique to identify individual night-flying birds for the first time Millions of birds invisibly migrate through the night sky each autumn, most flying in near silence toward their wintering grounds. Now, scientists have developed a way to see and identify many of thos...

"In a study published in Ornithology, researchers describe how they used thermal imaging optics, flashlights, and high-speed photography to detect and photograph birds in flight after dark."

#Birds #Nature #Identification #Night

🐝 Bee Identification Course – Kenfig NNR

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The blue streaks on the forehead of this Steller's Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) mark it as a coastal bird. Interior birds have white streaks.

#birds #photography #nature #identification

#Reptiles #PuertoRico #Species #Identification

New on the blog! Graeme Lyons talks to us about Pan-Species Listing 📖

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#panspecies #identification #species #taxonomy #authorinterview

#Kansas #Identification #Invalid #Trans

How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

"[I]nstruction that DMV employees must email the government helpdesk after issuing the updated [ID] with an individual's license number."

"[A] list is being compiled."

"I'm definitely not a fan of being marked as a trans person in a state database."
#Kansas #USA #Identification #Transportation

Her License Was Invalidated For Being Trans "I wish I could convey to them that the people they're hurting are real human beings," says Juniper, 24, of Witchita Kansas.

"In Kansas today, trans Americans are waking up to a nightmare."

Licenses "have been invalidated overnight, potentially subjecting them to criminal charges if they're caught driving with an expired license, simply because they are trans."
#Kansas #USA #Identification #Transportation

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