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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Are you as disgusted by the idea of holding a baseball game in a national park as I am? Here's Rob Manfred's (commissioner of major league baseball) email address: rob.manfred@mlb.com You know what to do.

npca.org

No Baseball Stadium in Grand Teton, Now or Ever.

It’s long past time for this administration to start treating our national parks with the respect they deserve

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Not only is illustration art, WSJ has artfully illustrated that no matter how rich you get, you’ll never be accepted in old money circles. They think they make culture. We all do, for better and worse.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sometimes your grad students come back from the field with a tattoo of their study subjects* Since grasshopper sparrows have individually unique songs, we know which one this is (YBGX, if I remember correctly - she decided not to include its color bands) *(I did not ask her to do this!... :-) )

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In the "broken clock is right twice a day" department.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Just starting to get most of our peppers now. The ones on the left are jalapenos. The peppers on the right are Carolina reapers, 340x hotter. They've been described as having "a sweet, fruity taste immediately supplanted by the sensation of molten lava." Really enjoyable, in other words... :-)

Photo of jalapeno peppers (left) and Carolina reaper peppers (right).

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Classic "projection", honed over decades by Republican operatives like Roy Cohn and Carl Rove, now embraced by Trump & co: Accuse your opponent of the very thing (in this case, antisemitism) of which you yourself are guilty to tar them & immunize yourself. Putin has used this tactic w/ Ukraine.

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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Mike Davidson, a tour guide in Big Bend, told Newsweek; "They might as well send a bulldozer through the graveyard where my parents are buried or something like that. It hits me very strongly." Soulless, wretched people are responsible for this. They have to go. www.newsweek.com/bulldozers-p...

newsweek.com

Bulldozers plow through Big Bend National Park, sparking fury in Texas

Video and photos show work underway in Big Bend National Park, the location of a border project which has sparked bipartisan fury.

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

medicine.yale.edu/news-article...

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 30/07/2026

This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Clearly, Republicans are unfamiliar with the concept of dishabituation. Once this show "trial" is over, folks will immediately go back to forgetting about Fauci, and their interest in Trump's domestic and foreign policy failures will come roaring back to the front burner with a vengeance.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Don’t let this clip get memory-holed

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Stop what you’re doing and listen to the Mr. Trash Wheel song. Now. I’m not kidding. Do it. Do it now. youtu.be/KUgAOBlEEzM?...

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Mr. Trash Wheel: Hero of the Harbor OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

YouTube video by Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore

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Natalie Wallington @narwhallington.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

this is the most Baltimore thing I've ever seen

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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Okay this is pretty hilarious 😆

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Appoint a replacement. Let them object and prove that McConnell is alive.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/07/2026

IT’S TIME FOR BLUE STATES TO FIGHT BACK. HARD. Why are we funding a federal government that openly punishes states for not voting for Trump? The Trump administration admitted in court it canceled nearly $8 billion in clean energy grants because the states didn’t vote for him. Blue states only.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Carolina mantis (Stagmomantis carolina), the native species, on milkweed in the front yard. Glad to be seeing more of these.

Close-up photo of a Carolina mantis (Stagmomantis carolina) on milkweed plant.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My latest is a tale of two clerical errors involving noncitizens registered to vote. Texas got a pass. New Jersey got a conspiracy theory. Don't believe the lies Trump is telling. Don't buy into the right wing smears. newsletters.democracydocket.com/-a-tale-of-t...

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A tale of two clerical errors: Texas got a pass. New Jersey got a conspiracy theory.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Pandora sphinx moth (Eumorpha pandorus). This one got in the house (and was gently released back out).

Photo of a large sphinx moth, the Pandora sphinx, against a white table background.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Clymene moth (Haploa cylmene) in the yard.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I hate that we have two Dakotas. Republicans got greedy for new states in the 1880s and we're still paying for that a century and a half later. Two states that, when combined, have the same population as The Bronx. They shouldn't get four senators.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

One person (the president) should not be able to arbitrarily reduce the size of national monuments. That power should be taken away from the executive branch.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Trump must go. This abysmally bad decision needs to be held up in courts until his administration is replaced. Similarly, any businesses or individuals taking advantage of it need to be boycotted out of existence.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I've been on the national mall at least a dozen times attending events: folklife festivals, book festivals, musical events, rallies, protests, etc. These are BY FAR the smallest crowds I've ever seen. There are more tourists on an average day than the number milling around at "Freedom 250."

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Guess who's using our pond as her personal bathtub? (we don't mind)

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

One of my grad students is doing an experiment with artificial perches in grassland habitat to examine their effects on grasshopper sparrow territories. Of course, grasshopper sparrows aren't the only ones using those perches...

Red-winged blackbird on artificial song perch (tomato stake), singing.

Field sparrow sitting on artificial song perch (tomato stake) used to test whether additional perches affect territory settlement.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Yesterday our bluebirds fledged. There were three. Four if you count the egg that remained in the old nest after the house sparrows evicted them. They probably fledged a day or two early, and had some trouble flying, though by the end of the day at least one had made it high up into the trees.

Male bluebird on top of nest box, with chick perched at exit hole.

Female bluebird feeding chick at entrance to nest hole.

Young fledgling bluebird on ground under nest box.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I'd be in favor of breaking in now and sabotaging the facility. If we suffer a near-extinction event, it would be better if whatever intelligence eventually emerges from that isn't us. Because we'll likely have been the cause.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

One thing that’s striking about all of this Is that they keep denying offshore wind permits, which are a critical solution to climate change, because they falsely claim it’s bad for whales But then they keep doing things that actually will kill whales

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I can think of 9 counties in Virginia that need a substantially enhanced presence of Virginia state troopers.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Hey, Congress? You need to make this sort of thing impossible. You can't retroactively alter someone's employment status without cause.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/05/2026

Meanwhile, more on the shitweaselry within the NSF. For unexplained reasons they've put all grants to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Duke on hold.

nature.com

Exclusive: NSF puts new research grants to top universities on hold

US science funder once again restricts awards to Harvard University and other research institutions.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

What a defeatest. Slinging falsehoods for the fossil fuel execs he's in the pocket of.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel n ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

If Trump ever manages to erect that monstrosity of an arch, I'd like a small piece of it when it's demolished during the following administration. I have a piece of the Berlin wall, after all, and they'd make a nice pairing on the fireplace mantel.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

LOL. "Many decades to come"? It'll be demolished as soon as he's out of office. If it even gets built.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Freya fascinated by the splashdown. Perhaps wondering if there was any good food to be had on the far side of the moon...

Freya the cat watching the splashdown on a television.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Great to be watching the Artemis feed from NASA. But... what's with the religious guy on the crew? Sounds like a typical proselytizer. Too bad. (It's not "belief" in your particular deity that got you where you are, buddy).

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

If you've seen the local ads from "Energy Future Maryland" understand that they are an undisclosed front for the Public Service Enterprise Group, the developers of the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project (MPRP), a highly-contested 70-mile transmission line.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"Call your representatives. Tell them it's not a reorganization — it’s the destruction of a federal agency by executive fiat and that Congress must intervene. Tell them to block all funding for this relocation and restructuring until the full implications have been studied, debated, and voted on"

morethanjustparks.substack.com

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Sometimes, there's good news.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

No Kings rally, Baltimore. March 2026.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Abolish ICE (Bears repeating)

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

We all kind of figured this would be Fetterman's only term. But Heinrich is a disappointing surprise. Maybe he's figuring folks will forget, since his term isn't up until 2030. Good riddance. His exit can't come soon enough.

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Bernie Lohr @blohr.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

How many people were fired for posting something like this?

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