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Eric Brakey @Eric8rekey I was detained by Border Patrol and Customs for 90 minutes coming back from a @RoyalCa ribbean cruise today in Florida. After they rifled through all my belongings, read my personal joumal, and confiscated rny phone and computer, I had to explain to them that the aFreeStateNH is a non-violent, peaceful libertarian movernent that builds community, culture and political change. We were invited to New Hampshire in the early 2000s bythe Govemor of the state. We reject violence as a path to creating change. In detail, I had to explain the nature of the Defend the Guard rnovernent and assure them that I was not part of a violent extremist group seeking to raise a militia for insurrection against the government. At one point during my detention, I asked for clarification on what rights I had here as a US. citizen and was told that they did not næd a warrant for anything in my possession, including all my elæ•tronic devices. They eventually let me gu Truth be told, I am shaken up and in shock right now. Rate "oposed CMnmu nity 11:59 AM 5, Views

Reminder: Never travel out of the country with your main cell phone (or without backing it up and then doing a factory reset) or laptop.

CBP agents are effectively Redcoats and they WILL delight in reminding you that they owe you no rights.

A split-screen image showing (top) a face view of an elongated ant standing on a reflective surfave, facing us with toothy brown jaws held 180 degrees open, and (bottom), the same ant with jaws closed, the bluntly toothed tips held together.

A textbook image I did a few years ago showing a trap-jaw ant (Odontomachus rixosus) with her mandibles held open and trigger hairs forward, and then in the closed position.

The snapping shut of the trap is one of the fastest measured animal movements.

Classic body down, heads up pose for a nuthatch. He's holding on to a single small branch.

The bird directly over me but in horrible light! Nice feather detail tho.

got to maintain those flight feathers. the bird preening.

Habitat and the classic pose.

I found a White Breasted Nuthatch today... and got to watch it for a good 5 minutes or more. aka... Forever in bird viewing. #birds 😂

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

A Nelson’s Sparrow perched upright among tall green and brown grass stems, lit by soft golden morning light. The bird’s buffy face, streaked breast, and small bill are clearly visible as it stands alert amid the autumn vegetation.

A Nelson’s Sparrow seen from behind at the edge of a muddy shoreline. The bird’s warm brown and olive back shows bold streaking as it holds a small insect in its bill, with water rippling beside it.

A Nelson’s Sparrow partially hidden among dense green and brown marsh vegetation. The bird peeks through stems and seed heads, its pale chest and subtle face markings catching the sunlight.

Just a couple of Nelson’s Sparrows being ridiculously cute 😍 Fall migration never disappoints! 📷👐🏾🫶🏾🪶

Folks who have gone the fabric poster route and LIKED the quality of their poster, which company did you use?

want to close your Wells Fargo account because you want to punish them for siccing ICE on a building of impoverished immigrants that Wells Fargo execs wanted to foreclose and sell?

here's how

Hopefully I’ll run into you sometime next year so I can get it signed!

NEXRAD radar composite map showing a storm line in the east and “donuts” of bird migration to the west of those storms. There’s no bird activity further west because it is still too early in the evening there for nocturnal migration.

Okay, early in the evening still for a proper migration post, but there’s south wind ahead of and with the storm/rain line and north winds behind that system, and it’s cool to see birds taking advantage of those favorable winds right behind the exiting rain. #birds

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Someone literally just included the line

'Stickermule can eat me'

in an email.

I love you people <3

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Interesting. I’ll have to poke around, but I swear I’ve seen several Saw stations report earlier and higher numbers this year.
I just want to have a yard one this winter. 😅

Fluffy lil potato 🥔

(Northern Saw-whet Owl)

I feel like it’s gonna be a big Saw year.

Photo of a cute fluffy gray cat curled up sleeping. He is holding his fluffy tail between his front paws and is snuggling it to his face.

I do not have a dog, alas, but I can offer a fluffy cat using his tail as a cuddle toy.

Yay!

If you are a Texan being investigated for your connections to "radical leftist" groups, I am interested in representing you against harassment by Ken Paxton's office.

A warbler with a gray head and back, yellow throat and belly. It is perched on a branch facing down and to the right.

A close up of a warbler that it gray on its head and back, yellow underneath, with a white eye ring.

A Nashville warbler perched on a small branch with green leaves hanging around it.

Here’s a Nashville Warbler from the weekend. 🪶

Our colleagues at @therevelator.org collected some of the best remembrances of conservation icon #JaneGoodall and gathered a reading list of great books by and about her.

Eeeee! Anis using tapir as a prey beater!! Love it!

We have reached a level of authoritarianism, let’s use the word FASCISM, where the President, based entirely on lies about violence and disorder, and against the will of the governors of the states, can send hostile state’s National Guard to invade and sit on citizens

So, checked the records back to May. A single session of 47 minutes, all less than 37 otherwise, some as low as 15 minutes, all billed at the full hour per aetna.

We got a shitshow on our hands.

FFS.

If this year takes Miss Dolly we riot.

a large trans flag sticker, broken along one edge where someone has tried to remove it

the dropout game changer loop de loop symbol as a sticker in the trans flag colours, with text that says we've been here the whole time. The design is broken down one edge where someone has tried to remove it

Just added a couple of limited edition stickers at canopyrobin.etsy.com! They're an A6 trans flag and trans dropout loopdeloop.

Unlike my normal easy-peel stickers, these are an eggshell design with extra-strong adhesive, so they'll break at the edges if tampered with and become very hard to remove