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@authorpennyreid.bsky.social 11/6/25 is taking forever to get here...

Trump to rename San Andreas Fault Joe Biden’s Fault

Happy #Easter Weekend! 🤣

New London, 250th anniversary of the start of the first American revolution

Is it because of the price of eggs?

The CFPB Has Been Gutted The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

I wake up every day asking myself this.

Which four?

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I agree.

In a functioning democracy, we would already be in the midst of an impeachment trial.

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Good sign from New London, CT, Hands Off protest

I was at a protest Shelburne, VT today and a group of Quebecois drove by yelling what I thought was "Putin-Trump", but on second thought, I think they were yelling "putain Trump" which is even better.

The Don't Tread on Me Gadsden flag with a penguin

I am obsessed with the penguin Gadsden flag

Schmuck from Long Island puts country’s air and water at risk

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Awww, Torres del Paine in Chile.
The most beautiful place I have ever been to.

Now, this is a sight to celebrate! Thousands of Olive Ridley turtles arrive to nest on India’s Odisha beaches 🐢🇮🇳💙

🎥: Dr. Bivash Pandav

Homunculus Loxodontus

All I'm saying is, if you ran a campaign on democracy being at stake and democracy lost, isn't it time to be massively freaking out instead of doing this

Parasitoids FTW!!! Illustration in homage to Eric Carle by Sloan Tomlinson

So happy you are here!

Saw a possum-sized rat in the subway the other day. 😳

Happy Winter Solstice!

Could Cats Become a Vector for Bird Flu? A new study highlights the need for public health officials to ramp up bird flu surveillance in our feline companions.

According to a new study, domestic cats could provide an unexpected new route for the bird flu virus H5N1 to evolve into a more dangerous form.

Where billions of cicadas will emerge this spring (and over the next decade), in one map Cicadas will hear the call of spring. And then you’ll hear their mating calls, too.

#cicadas #map
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My homage to the 17-year periodical cicadas of 2021's brood X

#cicadas #invertebrates

Ascend to an otherworldly 'sky island' where something 'unbelievable' is going on The forest at the tip of Lord Howe Island's highest peak is an otherworldly place alive with animals and plants not found elsewhere on Earth. But it's taken radical action to save it.

Five years after eliminating 300,000 mice and rats from Lord Howe Island, 30+ threatened species have bounced back.

Nature will recover if we give it even the slightest chance. Seriously, check out these photos.

Oooh, good playlist!

Eels were so important to the survival of the Pilgrims that they named the river where they settled after those abundant, fatty and protein-rich fish. Writer James Prosek asks, “Why isn’t eel, instead of turkey, the symbol of colonial resilience and gratitude?”

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