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Thanks for the helpful video to identify birds and some of their voices! I’ve seen all of the birds in the video here (in central Virginia) except a red-headed woodpecker and northern flicker. What are you putting in your feeder? I see peanuts, but what else?

What’s even more sinister is that they also snitch when you view these products. “Potential or actual purchase… viewing, searching for, or buying these products…”

Screenshot of a new notice on the Wal-Mart app, telling users that their purchases of reproductive products and baby products will be collected and reported.

In Virginia, Wal-mart now collects and reports data about your purchases of reproductive products and baby goods. Time for me to #BoycottWalmart.

“Depriving adults and their kids of healthcare and saddling our grandkids with crippling debt is ‘immaterial’ as long as we get to keep kidnapping people with darker skin.”

What sick bastards.

My mom had polio as a child in the 1930s, walked with a limp— and in her 50s, her symptoms reappeared, totally crippling her. Polio is a cruel time bomb!

Moulton: I have heard that a lot of officers are considering resigning their commissions because they question whether this is constitutional—whether they’re violating their oath to protect and defend the Constitution, not the president, by carrying out these orders. These are active discussions

“This combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces”

This is brutal. India says Trump is lying about a trade deal and says he also lied about brokering a peace deal between India and Pakistan. We are a joke around the world. bsky.app/profile/meid...

@bsky.app , HELP! In mobile iOS , safari, I can’t mute thumbnail videos — when I click to mute, it stops the video. Then when I make the video fullsceeen to start it again, the mute still has to be clicked again. I’m waking up my spouse trying to watch videos without sound!

First they arrested a mayor.
Then a Congresswoman.
Then a judge.
Then they manhandled and handcuffed a US Senator.
Yet somehow, they weren't held accountable for egregiously crossing the line.
Now they are murdering Democrat officials. Have they crossed the line yet America?
THERE IS NO LINE! 💀

A photo montage from cities all over America of people marching peaceably exercising their first amendment right to freedom of assembly to petition their government on No Kings Day to protest President Trump and his draconian and illegal anti-immigration policies. Nearly a dozen major cities with aerial photos of the massive crowds from coast to coast are represented. Millions of Americans showed up on June 14, 2025 to protest.

A woman holds up at a homemade protest sign with bold handwritten letters at the No Kings Day protest in America 🇺🇸 on June 14, 2025. The sign reads: Hey Trump, Nobody paid us to be here! We all hate You for free!

To our #Canadian 🇨🇦 cousins to the North: This is what democracy looks like. And, no one “paid us” to exercise our first amendment right to “peaceably” assemble. 😉 Solidarity 💪 with our strongest allies always.

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

I want to ask ICE employees why they wear a mask if they believe their duty is legal?

“I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me.
And I’m afraid that’s something I cannot allow to happen.” — Hal, 2001: A Space Osyssey

F. Scott Fitzgerald understood personal wars within and interpersonal wars with others.
#books
#TheGreatGatsby

After emailing and calling Rep. Wittman many times to express my disdain for GOP idiocy, I’m on his email list. His email after the vote actually included bullet points about how the bill HELPS citizens by reducing taxes and protecting Medicaid/Medicare etc. — typical truth-twisting propaganda.

Kudos and respect for the detailed ALT text! (As well as a fun and informative graphic!)

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

Large hawk (possibly a red-shouldered hawk) facing the camera while perched on a stop sign beneath a tree canopy. The hawk appears to be about 18 inches (45.72 cm) tall. Its head is turned to one side as if watching something.

A side view of a large brown rabbit nestled between two boulders while nibbling nearby plants. The bunny’s length appears to be approximately 24 inches (61 cm).

A neighborhood hawk visited us on our walk this morning. My little dog probably looked delicious, but there was bigger prey nearby. (Hawk, you don’t stand a chance capturing that monster bunny!)
#Birds #Nature #Bunny

Here’s Every Local Police Agency Enforcing for ICE – The Markup Partnerships more than doubled during the first months of Trump's current term under a program known as 287(g)

Here's a list of states' counties whose police officers or sheriff's departments are working with ICE.
themarkup.org/tools/2025/0...

Picture from the 1927 silent film, showing a robot surrounded with electronic halos and wires. The caption is the final title in the film, “The mediator between head and hands must be the heart.”

Watching my favorite film, Metropolis, from 1927 — a visionary preview of dystopian sci fi, with a moral we need now more than ever.

Caroline Kennedy warned that he was incompetent, unstable, and dangerous. I’m paraphrasing; she says it better.

tinyurl.com/CarolineKenn...

Shocking, easy to believe based on current events, but where is the source? When we post without a credible source, we’re adopting the MAGA strategy of fear-mongering & accusing without due process. Innocent until proven guilty! And tbc, I’m liberal and furiously anti-MAGA.

Wrens' songs are lovely, so bold and loud but softened with a melody! We have a few wrens who take turns visiting us, perching on our upstairs deck and performing private concerts for us. I love their little round bellies.

Screenshot of a paragraph from the article about jerks, with the following section highlighted: "... the jerk culpably fails to appreciate the perspectives of others around him, treating them as tools to be manipulated or idiots to be dealt with rather than as moral and epistemic peers. This failure has both an intellectual dimension and an emotional dimension, and it has these two dimensions on both sides of the relationship. The jerk himself is both intellectually and emotionally defective, and what he defectively fails to appreciate is both the intellectual and emotional perspectives of the people around him. He can’t appreciate how he might be wrong and others right about some matter of fact; and what other people want or value doesn’t register as of interest to him, except derivatively upon his own interests."

In 2014, Eric Schwitzgebel wrote an article defining a jerk. I do believe he was prophetically describing our current jerk of a president. 🦨
aeon.co/essays/so-yo...

#Resisters
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Yes, her posture/body language wasn't right; for example, children generally don't turn their faces away. That's an adult who understands shame. Children behave much differently in fearful situations. They usually show emotions when they panic because they don't know how not to. She's weirdly calm.

YouTube video by US National Archives Don't Be a Sucker

The dishonorable and unconstitutional acts that POTUS, VP, AG & minions are committing are what tyrants, Nazis and fascists do. This movie #DontBeASucker was made by the @usarmy.bsky.social 🇺🇸 to show US Citizens how Nazis destroyed their country. Please #ProtectTheConstitution🇺🇸 youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4

Small long-haired dog (a Maltipoo) sleeping on her side with one paw tucked up near her chin. She is lying on the footstool of a recliner snuggled between her owner’s legs.

I have insomnia these days but Alice sleeps in my behalf.
#SleepySaturday #AllDogs #Dogs #DogsofBluesky #DogsofBSky