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Here's the #BeaverMoon from tonight, the last #SuperMoon of 2025. Shot from La Cumbre Peak, above #SantaBarbara.
#MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography

Camera settings:
Canon T5i
Sigma 150mm x 600mm
Focal length: 600mm
F-stop: f/11
Exposure time: 1/640
ISO: 800

Trump violated the law by firing government watchdogs, yet they won’t be reinstated, got it, so violations of the law are apparently okay? A federal judge in Washington rejected a bid to restore eight inspectors general who were dismissed shortly after Trump became president.

With fall color season fast approaching, I couldn’t resist sharing some of my favorite Fall shots from the last couple of years. 🍁🍂 📷 #BlueSkyPhotography #BlueSkyPhotographers #Nature #Fall #Landscapes

Baby bluejay on a bare branch with green background. You can see his pink gape flange!

Fledgling bluejay for #ThursJay #birds 🪶

The most majestic thing you will see on #bluesky today. 😇

Greenland Trip Cancelled After Locals Refuse to Meet Usha Vance Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Bless you, Greenland! 🇬🇱

NEW: The National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods is (or was) an advisory committee housed within the USDA which provides outside expert advice to advance food safety across the US and across different levels of govt. It was ordered disbanded this afternoon.

Federal marshals forced entry into the US African Development Foundation and escorted Musk staffers inside, after agency employees resisted their entry. Once inside, they changed the federal agency’s locks. Musk staffers were seen plugging in an external hard drive and going through everything.

Well this is some crap!

Ontario, Canada cancels Elon Musk’s Starlink contract and bans all U.S. companies from government contracts. 🇨🇦

Some federal workers are going back to work.

The USDA has been ordered to temporarily give over 5,000 workers their jobs back.

Dozens of CDC scientists have been reinstated after being illegally fired.

The National Science Foundation has rehired half of the workers it fired.

A federal judge extended her injunction against the National Institutes of Health, preventing it from implementing or enforcing planned cuts to federal funding that supports various medical and scientific research projects.

cc: @Gavin Newsome It’s time to build a CDC & NIH in California with the folks who were fired from the feds. In fact, I think each blue state governor needs to scoop up these scientists, healthcare workers and laboratory workers asap. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

Elon Musk’s staffers have taken an additional $7.4 million this week in expenses, bringing the total to $14.4 million.

Valentines to all!

A Barnum and Bailey inspired circus poster of Hank and John: Green and Green Awesomest project on Earth

Tomorrow Project for Awesome begins! #p4a2025

I found this image recently and truly believe this.

Conflict of interest? The State Department’s procurement forecast lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to purchase $400 million worth of “Armored Tesla” vehicles.

Uncertainty around PEPFAR program puts millions of people at risk MSF is calling on the US government to immediately resume funding for the full range of PEPFAR operations as well as other critical health and humanitarian aid.

#USA: We are calling on the US government to immediately resume funding for the full range of PEPFAR operations as well as other critical health and humanitarian aid.

Uncertainty around PEPFAR program puts millions of people at risk

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NEW: ICE operations are underway in Denver and Aurora this morning, following similar operations in Chicago and New York
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El Salvador offers to house violent US criminals and deportees of any nationality in unprecedented deal | CNN El Salvador has agreed to house violent US criminals and receive deportees of any nationality, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday, in an unprecedented – and legally problematic deal – ...

Well, this is terrifying.

Sure, it’s illegal to deport a US citizen.

It should be no problem to get El Salvador to return your illegally deported loved one, shouldn’t it?

(Thanks to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for shining a light on this alarming development.)

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Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).

Please subscribe to Mrs. Richardson. She is a voice of sanity in chaos.

NC needs to pull its head out of its arse before we are completely f***ed.

During my former life, I accepted being shot at, dodging IEDs and the occasional rocket…Let me tell you, waking up to yet another Fork in the Road email knowing it originated from a 19-y/o incel at the behest of an oligarch has me enraged like never before.

People Rally Outside USAID Building to Confront Elon Musk What Elon is doing is illegal.

Well done, more of this!!