rufflefeather

A Crimson patch butterfly perched on a orange Mexican Sunflower. #Bluesky #photography #insectthursday #butterfly #Flower #dailyflowers #bloomscrolling

Butterflies are self propelled flowers. - Robert A. Heinlein
#photography #butterfly #蝶 #写真 #nature #sony

Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus)
Butterfly 2025-45

I wish what we should have said or done
Always lined up with what we actually did

#butterfly #butterflies #macro #insect #pics #photography #beauty #nature #photodaily #photos #thephotohour #mramsdellpics

Giant Swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes)
Butterfly 2019-228

Every lie is an attempted murder
Of a certain truth

#butterfly #butterflies #macro #photography #insect #beauty #nature #photodaily #photos #zen #thephotohour #mramsdellpics

Sara Longwing (Heliconius Sara)
Butterfly 2019-26

An injustice tolerated
Creates more injustice.

#butterfly #butterflies #macro #photography #insect #beauty #nature #photodaily #photos #zen #thephotohour #mramsdellpics

They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care. As their state pushes to expand some types of medical freedom, it has a...

NEW: They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth.

Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care.

By @amyyurkanin.bsky.social

"We try to understand the pain of others but we can only understand it our way."~Henry Rollins (Art to Choke Hearts)


#Artichoke #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #SmArtist #photography #photographer
#Art #BloomScrolling #flowers #CMBG #FlowersOnBlueSky

Butterfly on a Buddleia shrub in our summer garden. #FlyDay #bloomscrolling #scape #ECK #photography

Bombed Iranian girls school had vivid website and yearslong online presence The school’s online activity calls into question how the American military vets and reviews strike locations, a Reuters investigation found.

Bombed Iranian girls school had vivid website and yearslong online presence www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Double-crested cormorant
(Nannopterum auritum)

at crew flint pen strand nature trails 3-11-26

The teal eye contains #green for Rob & Alan’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme.

#stunDay #ColorADay #OrangeSun #BlueSkyMonday #rockinTuesday #TidesOutTuesday #ECK #photography #birds #birding #nature #florida

Traditionally the collective nouns for ghosts are an ambush, a stare, a whispering. In the county a risk of ghosts, a procession of ghosts and an unsettling of ghosts are common as are a nagging of ghosts and a disturbance of ghosts.

Early Dog-violet, Viola reichenbachiana, flowering this moring in the ancient wood pasture up the lane.
#wildflowerhour

The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel Watch now | Haitian Woman, 31, Dies Alone at Pittsburgh Bus Stop Days After ICE Released Her Far From Home to Die.

Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...

Tell HUD: Keep Families Together and Housed! HUD’s new proposal is cruel, costly, and counterproductive. It would rip families apart and increase eviction & homelessness during a housing crisis. Join me in telling HUD Secretary Scott Turner to…

🚨 The Trump administration published a proposed rule that would force people eligible for federal assistance who are living with ineligible family members to split up or all face eviction.

Tell the Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) to #KeepFamiliesTogether & housed: bit.ly/mixedstatus

Abolish ICE!

And a male northern shoveler.

After Detention, Families Stranded in Border Town Face Harrowing Journey Home Parents and children from a detention center in Texas found themselves dropped at a border town shelter with few means to leave.

Oksana saw her children suffer at Dilley for roughly 4.5 months. She said they found worms in their food. Her 4-year-old asked if they were in jail because they were bad people.

But Oksana said the release process was one of the worst experiences yet.

Inca, the red billed toucan, looking fabulous for you on this fantastic Friday

#Birds #BirdOfTheDay #HeadShots #Toucans @tracyaviary.bsky.social #SLC #FlyDay #Scape #Birdscrolling #BirdNerd #FeatheredFriends #FeatheredFriday

New Friends of the Library merch dropped and it's good. Here's one of the new shirts: www.bonfire.com/the-horrors-...

🎥 Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill on a potential US ground invasion:

“When you start to believe your own delusions, when you start to imply that every single Iranian is a prisoner to a dictatorship of a mullah—the rhetoric that these guys use at the Pentagon and at the White House on down—and you...

A juvenile Cooper’s Hawk for the #HeadShots theme of #BirdOfTheDay picked by @robcrank68.bsky.social

#birds #nature #photography #EastCoastKin

Parting shot from 10 days ago… Crested Caracara portrait 🪶

Blueberry blossoms are back!
#photography #art #bloomscoll #flowers

A male bufflehead at the lake for #BirdOfTheDay theme - #WingsOpenNotFlying
#birds #ducks #photography

Trump Administration Quietly Moves to Strip Food Aid From Millions The regulatory change would impact an estimated 6 million low-income Americans — including nearly 2 million children.

The Trump administration is pushing a SNAP rule change that could strip food aid from about 6 million low-income people, including nearly 2 million children, even as it spends billions on the Iran war.

Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

As millions of Americans were losing their SNAP benefits the Pentagon spent:

🔹️$6.9 million worth of lobster tails🦞
🔹️$15.1 million for ribeye steak 🥩
🔹️$2 million for Alaskan king crab 🦀
🔹️ and even $98,329 on a Steinway & Sons grand piano

✏️ by @newrepublic.com

Collared Sunbird (Hedydipna collaris) is a tiny, mainly insectivorous African passerine with a metallic-blue or green back, yellow belly, and short bill. #bwindiImpenetrableforest #Uganda #montaneforests #birdsofafrica #birdsseenin2026 #birds #birdphotography #bird #birdphotography markscheflen.com

Come out to support our NYC Public Libraries before the City Council preliminary budget hearing on March 18 at 9 am at City Hall Park. Details: actionnetwork.org/events/budge...

I stopped by a new taco truck for lunch and found this
New Zealand Tea Tree inviting honey bees with it’s shiny nectar 😃
#macromonday #bloomscroll #flowers #bees #photography #art

Late this afternoon, the rain paused long enough for me to go out to the wetlands with my camera.

Northern Shoveler (male).

#photography #PNW #wildlife #nature #ducks #BirdSky #birds