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NorCal Lynne

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Gardening to help pollinators and birds | sharing pics of nature and art | human rights | climate change | politics and law | 📷 my own, please use Alt Text

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17h
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 19h
My phone says this is a Panicled Aster and I thought it said Panicked Aster and I was like “yeah I get it, it’s rough out there.” #BloomScrolling 🌿
A cluster of white flowers with very thin petals and round yellow centers, surrounded by a lush green background of leaves.
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NPR @npr.org · 06/10/2026
Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border, the last of a grove estimated to be up to 250 years old. (via @kjzz.org) n.pr/4hKJ79B
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At least 10 arrested at Arizona-Mexico border as 250-year-old cottonwood tree cut down for wall
Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border in the tiny town of Lochiel. The tree was the last of an old grove estimated to be up to 250 years old.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For #FrogFriday an Orinoco Lime Treefrog (Sphaenorhynchus lacteus) from NE Peru. They live in and around bodies of open, slow-moving water such as ponds, oxbows, and the quiet backwaters of rivers, blending in with the emergent vegetation. #herps #frogs #NaturePhotography 🌿
Side image of a green frog perched on a brown leaf, facing left and towards the camera on an angle. The frog's body and limbs are pale green, with a faint yellow stripe running from the eye to the groin. On the front of the face is a two-toned stripe running from eye to eye along the edge of the nose - the upper stripe is pale yellow, the lower is a rusty brown. The iris of the eye is gold and the dark pupil is horizontally elliptical.
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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #BestBeaks ....well, what other bird could I choose? An I'iwi shot through a hole in the understory, showing off Resting I'iwi Face LOL #birds 📷🌿🦉
An I'iwi (vermillion honeycreeper) with its long, curved, nectar-seeking bill standing against a grey 'ohia trunk and framed by out of focus foreground vegetation
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The term “remigration” is associated with the extreme right and only came into widespread usage in 2023-4. Even Germany’s AfD avoided using the term in 2024 for fear of scaring away voters. Today the US government is celebrating the “victories” it’s racked up in the “ethnic cleansing” column.
Department of Homelan... • Follow •.• X
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Net negative migration for the first time in HALF a CENTURY.
Americans are amassing victories NEVER seen before thanks to President Trump.
We will continue to grow our efforts to fulfill the mandate given to this administration.
REMIGRATION REPORT
94%)
3.3+
MILLION REMOVALS
INCLUDING DEPORTATIONS AND VOLUNTARY REMOVALS
ASYLUM DENIAL AT 94%
250,000
VISAS REVOKED
REVOKED
TRAVEL BANNED
FROM 39 COUNTRIES
2,600+
287(G)
AGREEMENTS
NATURALIZATIONS
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75%
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 02/10/2026
Here's another perspective on how quickly the melt season has started for #Antarctic sea ice this year... More views at zacklabe.com/antarctic-se...
Line graph time series of 2026's daily Antarctic sea ice extent compared to 1981-2010 climatological statistics. The graph shows the seasonal cycle, and ice-free conditions are indicated at 1 million square kilometers. Sea ice is currently below average for early October.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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UC Agriculture & Natural Resources @ucanr.edu · 01/10/2026
Where does #California’s water go, and how could climate change reshape it? A new UC-led COEQWAL tool helps Californians explore water flows, management choices and trade-offs. UC ANR’s Kristin Dobbin, a #UCCE specialist, is part of the project. ucanr.edu/blog/green-b...
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New tool shows where exactly California’s water goes – and how climate change might disrupt it | Green Blog
The UC Berkeley-led COEQWAL project is helping communities explore how shifting the state’s water priorities could impact agriculture, cities and ecosystems.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fabulous fragment of an ancient Egyptian wall relief with three bears and an oil jar. The paint has survived some 4,500 years! Limestone relief from the Pyramid Temple of Sahure, Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, c. 2496-2483 BC. Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology
My photo shows a circa 4,500-year-old limestone relief with some well-preserved paint in places, from the funerary temple of Sahure at Abusir, measuring 39 × 35 × 8.5 cm. It shows three bears (partial view only) and a tall one-handled pottery vessel, across two registers. The upper register at left, shows the two leds and hindquarters of a bear, and at right, a bear’s lowered head, chest, and foreleg, painted mid-brown. The lower register at left shows a tall, dark-reddish-brown pottery vessel with a long neck and single handle, and at right, the lowered head, neck, shoulder, and top of foreleg of a dark-brown bear. The bears wear collars tethered by ropes to looped fixtures in the ground. The fragment comes from a wall scene depicting tributes from the Levant. Bears were not native to Egypt. The bears represented are Syrian brown bears  (Ursus arctos syriacus), which were quite common in Levantine mountain regions in antiquity. They were kept as exotic animals in enclosures by Egyptian kings, and also hunted.
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Emily Hare @emilyhare.com · 29/09/2026
'The Striped Bravogg' - watercolour on board. Appears in my book Secrets Of Strangehollow (you can find that here: buff.ly/kor46L0
a large dark blue grey and white striped creature sits on a branch, it has claws like a bear and a face a little like a big cat but with wide set ears with a point to them.
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Kate Anderson @kateanderson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here's a crow and their charms :) #birds #WildlifeArt #natureart #BirdArt
digital illustration of a crow standing in yellow green orange grass. Underneath is a gold bracelet with charms of an acorn, bird skull, a key, a sun medallion and a fish.
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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If “irreparable harm” means anything, it means being sent to a country you’ve never seen, where you may well be imprisoned, tortured, or killed, under a policy that (the cert grant implicitly acknowledges!) may well be illegal
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A sorta odd request. I’m looking for an artistic cartographer or an illustrator to commission to make a cute, useful street map of an actually existing village. Searching the internet produces a bunch of fantasy map specialists and AI slop, which isn’t quite it. Know anyone? (This is paid, ofc.)
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026
Jeez. The court may have stopped some third-country removals at the last second yesterday, but ICE recalibrated quickly. Sept. 24 saw the most ICE flights+removals in the months I've been keeping a daily log. --at least 90 flights --at least 18 removals, including Haiti --plus a stop at Gitmo
A map of North and Central America showing dozens of flights emanating out ICE Air's hub of Alexandria, LA
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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Goooooood morning, pika fans It's September, and you know what that means! That's right, we are Making Hay, we are Perching On Rocks, we are Squeaking
An American Pika carrying a branch across rocky terrain

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.Am American Pika crouched on a rock at a 3/4 view towards the camera

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.An American Pika with a mouth full of dried vegetation sitting on a rock

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.An American Pika perched on a rock and calling

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026
America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...
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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels
Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Jason Odell @luminescentphoto.com · 24/09/2026
I've been shooting in the South Dakota badlands since 2011... this is one of the best evenings I've had here in over a decade
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...
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DPS voter registration applications weren’t sent to counties
Counties will start receiving a surge of applications less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 registration deadline, adding work at one of the busiest points in the election calendar.
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Is it just me or does this moth look like Eeyore? I promise this is not Ai, nature is just weird and wonderful #invertebrates 🌿 #BugSky
A head on photo of a beige moth sitting on a boardwalk. It’s head is somehow shaped like a donkey’s and its slumped posture calls eeyore to mind.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Thierry St-Laurent Dion @tstld.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New little sketch Ballpoint pen and watercolor on paper #art #birds #nature #sciart
Sketch of a corvid made with a black ballpoint pen and watercolor on paper.
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Steve McKerrall @photosteve.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A Brown Bear mom checking out if the coast is clear before she leads out her two young cubs #bears #slovenia
An adult female brown bear standing between two trees looking out An adult female brown bear walks out of the trees and looks off to see any sign of other bears. One of her two cubs is waiting behind her in the trees
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A fine selection of falcons for #BirdOfTheDay #Raptors American Kestrel aka the best mini murderbird, Prairie Falcon, Peregrine Falcon
A bird with a slate cap, dark streaks under the eye like a football player, warm tan chest with a few polka dots at the edges, and a warm tan tail with a dark band and white tips. He is perched on a rusty pole and you can see blood spatter on the underside of his tail. Gray storm clouds fill the sky. A bird with brown on white patterning. It is in flight and zooming past a brown cliff face. A bird with gray wings and a light belly with dark gray horizontal banding. He has streaks below his eyes like a football player, and a black cap. He is standing on the concrete structure underneath a bridge.
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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.social
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Sandra Aamodt @sandra-aamodt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cream-backed woodpecker males foraging together at Fazenda Barranco Alto in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil #BirdOfTheDay #Redheads #Twosday #birds #photography
Two large woodpeckers with red heads and black bodies pecking on a tree trunk, against blurred branches and blue sky. The one in back is a head higher than the one in front, which shows the cream patch in the middle of the back that gives them their name. They have a tiny black stripe above a tiny white stripe on their cheeks. Their eyes are yellow with a black circle around them, and their beaks are pale. Their scientific name is Campephilus leucopogon.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026
Happy mushroom season!
A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".
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Yale Environment 360 @yalee360.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In the first half of this year, Tasmanian salmon farmers detonated nearly 1,800 underwater explosives to scare away seals intent on nabbing fish, government figures show.
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To Deter Seals, Tasmanian Salmon Farmers Have Set Off 1,800 Bombs This Year
In the first half of this year, salmon farmers on the Australian island of Tasmania detonated nearly 1,800 underwater explosives to scare away fur seals intent on nabbing fish, government figures show. 
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
EPA allowed pesticide giant Bayer to pick from a menu of regulation options for the controversial and destructive weedkiller dicamba. Dicamba is drift prone and kills vegetation and crops for miles around fields where it is sprayed, and is linked to liver cancer and Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
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US environment agency let Bayer pick regulations for destructive weedkiller, documents show
Environmental Protection Agency asked firm to choose rules it wanted for dicamba, then put the choices in a proposed federal rule
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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Crowned Woodnymph at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #birds #hummingbirds #nature
Iridescent green and violet hummingbird perched on a green branch against a soft, blurred background.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bari Weiss has plunged CBS News into ratings calamity. —"Evening News" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —"CBS Mornings" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —And now "60 Minutes" has posted worst ratings of 21st century More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...
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Bari’s ‘60’ Bust
Bari Weiss blew up “60 Minutes," ostensibly to create a better show. Instead, her revamped premiere just suffered its worst debut ratings of the 21st century—what one longtime TV executive told Status...
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Marc Venema @marcvenema.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Pine Marten. Such curious little creatures. Always on the move, always posing for a photograph for 0.01 of a second before jumping to another branch. Challenging but so much fun to photograph. #marten #pinemarten #wildlife #photography #nature #weasel
A Pine Marten poses on a branch looking straight ahead toward the camera.
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A spectacular sunset with silhouetted Snow Geese. I love silhouettes so much! #birds #BirdOfTheDay #silhouette #SunsetAndSilhouettes 🌿
A flock of geese in shallow water at sunset. The water reflects pink below and orange above and the silhouettes are black and dark blue, making a very vibrant photo.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 15/09/2026
Temperatures across the Tropics set another monthly record in August 2026. The long-term warming trend is also very clear for all times of the year (i.e., human-caused climate change), which leads to growing heat stress impact concerns. Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.
Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Tropics region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to 2026. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year.
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NorCal Lynne @norcal-lynne.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A Bouquet of Flowers with Insects. Pierre Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). National Gallery of Art. #BloomScrolling #BlueTue #SciArt
Watercolor over traces of graphite with gold on vellum. A mixed bouquet of flowers with varying shades of blue, such as primrose with its leafy leaves. Among the flowers are a butterfly, a beetle, and a crane fly.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
That's like saying a pickpocket got into a "property dispute" with the person whose wallet he stole. The Kennedy Center's name is established by STATUTE. A judge MANDATED that his name, put up illegally and--again, in violation OF THE LAW--be taken down. Come ON, @apnews.com. This is NUTS.
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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#BirdOfTheDay theme #silhouette Sandhill Cranes and teal at Bosque Del Apache NM
Four cranes and six ducks in shallow water in silhouette.
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NorCal Lynne @norcal-lynne.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A classic. #BirdOfTheDay #Finches 🪶
A photo of a male House Finch with his bright crimson red feathers, he’s perched on a dried branch of a sunflower. Photo from my garden two summers ago.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#BREAKING: Over public dissents from Justices Thomas and Alito, #SCOTUS *denies* the Trump administration’s request for a stay in the mail-in ballots case. The USPS Rule will remain blocked—almost certainly through the midterms.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Spectacular Roman octopus mosaic from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum. 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology
My photo shows a monochrome Roman floor mosaic depicting an octopus. The octopus is composed of small black tesserae (tiles) and has eight writhing arms with suckers and narrow curling tips. It is set against a white tesserae background. This octopus detail comes from a monochrome marine mosaic featuring Triton with a cherub and various sea creatures which include the octopus, dolphins and a cuttlefish. From the floor of the women's changing room at the Central Baths in Herculaneum.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Today's theme of #BirdOfTheDay is #Mamas&Papas Here's a mated pair of Agami Herons gettting ready for nesting season. #CostaRica #herons #birds #nature
Two colorful herons with long pointed bills and blue-gray, maroon, and white plumage perch among dense green foliage.
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Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Checking the prices before he decides to go in. Smart chicken. #BirdOfTheDay #iridescence #AlphabetChallenge #WeekJForJocular #ArtYear #EastCoastKin #ECK #birds
A stunning red junglefowl rooster standing in front of a chalkboard with soda prices and hours written in French. The rooster's body is facing left, but his head is turned to look at the sign. He has a golden head, a dark brown iridescent body, and wings that are bright red, then dark brown, then an orange-brown. His spectacular tail has long feathers that are dark with puprple and blue iridescence.
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NorCal Lynne @norcal-lynne.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For #InsectThursday, this female Praying Mantis has been living on the dried seed heads of a cone flower since she was teeny tiny. It’s been over four months, she’s like a little garden friend. 🌱🌿
A photo of a brown and tan praying mantis hanging upside down on the dried brown seed head of a cone flower plant.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 10/09/2026
Thursday El Niño update - Ocean temperatures have again ticked upwards in the key Niño 3.4 region. There continues to be growing confidence from nearly all types of forecasting systems in a historic event over the next couple of months. Though it doesn't always mean bigger impacts Data: OISSTv2.1 🌊
Line graph time series of daily sea surface temperature anomalies in the Nino3.4 region. Years are shown from 1982 to 2025 in shades of blue to light yellow, and 2026 is shown in red. Climatologically, the largest anomalies are during the boreal winter in terms of magnitude. Data is from OISSTv2.1. 
Map of September 9, 2026 average sea surface temperature anomalies in the ENSO monitoring regions. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1 with anomalies relative to a 1991-2020 baseline.Graphic showing the 1-week change in sea surface temperature anomalies across the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean from September 2, 2026 to September 9, 2026. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1Graphic showing the 4-week change in sea surface temperature anomalies across the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean from August 10, 2026 to September 9, 2026. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1
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