Dan Beaudet

Northern Flicker…flicking.
#birds #photography #nature

Northern Flicker…flicking.
#bird #photography #nature #OMSystem

The Tale of the Honeysuckle and the Humble Bumble
#insect #photography #macro #OMSystem

American Goldfinch caught entering a texture indecision zone.

While China Builds, America Litigates As the Chinese economy surges forward, the U.S. has lost its capacity for physical improvement.

China is an engineering state that values construction projects and technological primacy, Dan Wang argues, "whereas the United States is a lawyerly society, obsessed with protecting wealth by making rules rather than producing material goods."

Ruby-throated Hummingbird acrobatics.
#bird #nature #photography

American Goldfinch just winging it.
#bird #photography #nature

American Goldfinch just winging it.
#Birds #photography #nature

Whitelined Sphinx hummingbird moth swooped in for a visit during patio coffee time this morning.

Crooked Media (@crookedmedia) Crooked Media is now here on Substack. Read why from @Jon Favreau @Jon Lovett and @Tommy Vietor

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Simple. A new-ish coneflower in an area of wild flowers.

An isolated coneflower in a wild flower area along the roadside.

Tree Swallow (m) checking things out.
#bird #birds #birdsofbluesky #blueskybirds #omsystem

Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done He’s using the White House to get rich from anonymous investors—and it’s hardly even a news story.

Imagine if Joe Biden, newly in office, had launched a company with Hunter Biden and used his social media to recruit financial backers.

Then promised the most generous among them would earn an invitation to a private dinner with him ... Trump just did that.

Patterns

Great image! Saw my one and only at Madeira Canyon AZ several years ago.

1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse.

2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."

3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."

This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

We just watched Trump & Vance do Putin’s bidding in the Oval Office & it was horrific. Not even two months into this administration & it’s a disaster for the free world.

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

While watching that horrifying, globe-shifting exchange with Zelenkskyy, I couldn't help but think about what a deliberately staged reality-TV moment it was, with two people ganging up on one and screaming a classic, totally petulant reality-TV accusation: They hadn't been thanked enough.

President Trump announces kleptocracy is here.

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1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA

7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

“When the richest man in the world can so easily undermine our [U.S.] place on the global stage, it is, quite simply, a harbinger of decline: a sign of a corrupted superpower so brittle that its sources of influence can be taken apart from within.”

Ben Rhodes, fmr. Deputy National Security Advisor

The research doesn’t come without the overhead.

Really appreciate your integrity in holding this unqualified nominee accountable. Stay strong - we need you!

Deep thoughts…
Is it harder to enter the kingdom
of heaven since Brexit?
- Philomena Cunk
# Um… #comedy #nonsense #Cunk

Like the framing, nice!

Embarrassed that he was our Gov for multiple terms and enthusiastically promoted the destruction of public education.