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Iran has submitted an Article 51 letter to the Security Council, invoking its inherent right of self-defense. These words in particular should be read and remembered. The total and complete evisceration of the prohibition against aggression affects all of us. No one will be safe. No one can escape

Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi, 38, Reveals Cervical Cancer Diagnosis: ‘I’m Going to Tackle This’ Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi revealed she was diagnosed with stage 1 cervical cancer. The ‘Jersey Shore’ star, 38, plans to undergo a hysterectomy and encourages others facing similar challenges to connect...

Please listen to Snooki and get annual pap smears if relevant to your body. Best way to beat cancer is to catch it early. Thank you.

people.com/nicole-snook...

We already know that offshore #OilDrilling leads to spilling. That’s not pessimism — it’s just what history tells us.

But Donald Trump is ignoring this reality and insisting on pushing for more and more offshore drilling in the #oceans that belong to all of us.

TURKEY VULTURES!! WOOHOO, LET’S GO SPRING!!!

Forecast: snow tonight and cold temps next 7 days🙃

#birds #spring #migration #PAwx

A rosette of dark purple oblong succulent leaves with a bright green center.

Went to the Northwest Flower and Garden Show this morning w/ one goal in mind: to find a black rose aeonium. Ended up finding something even cooler: a new aeonium x sempervivum cross (I hd no idea you could cross those 2 things) bred for better cold tolerance. This is 1 of only a handful in the PNW.

Lovely!

In progress: "Crow", pencil crayon/graphite on watercolour paper, 9x12" #art #wip #birds

📣 Exciting news 🌏
The American Meteorological Society (@ametsoc.org) and the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (@amosupdates.bsky.social) have signed an MoU to boost collaboration on meetings, communication, climate science, and education. 🤝

#AMOS #AMS #Climate #Australia

Who needs a anuenue (rainbow) break today?🌈

HPPA' Christine at the Kahuku Unit of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park thought you might. 🌋

Go experience your national parks this weekend!

#KahukuUnit #HVNP #Anuenue #Rainbow #HawaiiParks #WeekendIncoming

A landscape page with a pale green background and two illustrations of Ginkgo on it. On the left is an inaccurate one with leaves coming directly from a branch. On the right is an accurate one with clusters extending from short shoots.

I, too, would like to have a go at the new Spinosaurus soon, but in the meantime:
Here's a slide from my recent talk, which covers the DOs and DON'Ts of restoring ginkgoes within palaeoart!
Enjoy! #Ginkgo #FossilFriday #paleobotany #paleoart #SciComm

I would go nuts seeing that. Wow!

the only reason corporations ever put a woman of color in charge is if that person is going to have to publicly eat shit in a big way. sarah bond has clearly chosen not to be microsoft's sin eater, and asha sharma has taken on that role.

We can definitely see a difference between places that are just finding out about us and places where the knowledge has trickled out to the people doing work, who are very much not always super-online!

The whistle production is not the bottleneck here.

No, the SAVE Act won’t solve rampant noncitizen voting—because it’s not a problem in the first place. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Bumping this for the End Of Week crowd. Thanks in advance for your assistance! ❤️

Alright...Where ever you are in the US, what would be the most number of (likely) species of Owls that you can find in a single day? And, what is your record so far? I am at 5 species for a day in Fargo, ND

Great Horned ✔
Barred ✔
Screech
Long-eared ✔
Short-eared
Snowy ✔
Northern Saw Whet ✔

I fully expect BlueSky will be how I learn.

Photo of a cute gray Eastern Screech-Owl puffed up in a tree hollow.

Photo of a cute red Eastern Screech-Owl sitting in the opening of a tree hollow enjoying the day.

We have one snag that isn’t allowed to fall down because the Screechies love it too much😂 Both a gray and red individual have been using it as a day roost over the last couple years.

South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark. Physicians across South Carolina, home to the largest measles outbreak in decades, are advising patients without the benefit of real-time data on hospitalizations due to measles-related pneumonia, bra...

NEW: South Carolina, which doesn’t require hospitals to disclose measles-related admissions, has reported only 20 such hospitalizations since Oct. 2.

That leaves doctors with an incomplete picture of how the outbreak is affecting the community.

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Appreciate it, Elie. I really busted my ass to cover Trump's presser, live-posting half of it through bad wifi on a flight and then racing to an airport bar to get the rest. If you find value in my efforts, it would mean a lot to me if you signed up for my newsletter: www.publicnotice.co/subscribe

Plus, maybe the universe decides we need an incredible laugh and that’s when it happens, you never know!

Neil I need you to have this conversation with your friend John, not us

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This would be the same group one could theoretically get in a day here, although it would have to be during an irruption year for the Snowys and late winter to maximize Saw, Short and Long-eareds overlap with Snowys. Barred, Screech, and Great Horneds are almost gimmes here year round.

Trump claimed his big EPA climate rollback will save Americans money. That's very unlikely. The agency's own analysis shows that the costs will probably overwhelm any savings.

The Trump administration claims its latest move to gut climate regulations and end all greenhouse gas standards for vehicles will save Americans money.

But its own analysis indicates that the new rule will push up gas prices, and that the benefits of the rollback are unlikely to outweigh the costs.

every single day we get a new article with 23 different reasons why this guy should be in jail

Historians, has anyone ever written about how exhausting it is to live through historic events? Like, did Juvenal ever just have a scroll that starts "“Futue infernam..."

Look, you may blame The Writers for really going overboard in an already crazy year, but who among us has not struggled with fucking clearances on character names.

Imagine having all the resources on earth to make people love you with almost zero effort on your part and this is what happens

A very easy message to run on at every level of government is “MAGA politicians are stealing our money for their own desires,” because it’s true. We see it here in Huntington Beach! We see it at the state level! We see it nationally!

We need to stop these assholes from stealing our money!