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A Grey Squirrel with a hazelnut in his mouth for #SquirrelSaturday!

#mammal #squirrel #photography #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited

Black and white historical illustration showing a close-up section of an elm tree trunk with rough, textured bark. A lifted burlap band at the top reveals a cluster of hairy gypsy moth caterpillars gathered densely beneath it. The caterpillars have distinctive segmented bodies with tufts of bristles along their length, and contrasting dark and light markings. The image documents the caterpillars’ behavior of congregating under protective coverings on the tree.

🐛 The gypsy moth
Boston, Wright & Potter printing co., 1896.

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ICE Abducts Nashville Reporter Estefany Rodríguez Watch now | She was in a marked press car. They took her anyway.

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#Music #MusicSky
#MusicChallenge
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic

Day 6: A song you recognize after two bars

Panic In Detroit - David Bowie

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Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

Illustration of full moon rising over hillside with fungi and fairies, tree on top of hill.

Goodnight.
🖼️ Asako Eguchi

A male Allen’s hummingbird sitting on a horizontal branch against a gray background. It is scratching its head and its face is lit up red and orange.

A male Allen’s hummingbird sitting on a branch looking towards the camera.

…including a candidate for the most majestic head scratch in history

Photo of wren. Description from ebird: ‘A small, rust-coloured bird with gray cheeks and white on the throat and belly. The upperparts are brown, and the rusty underparts lack the white streaks of other similar species. Skulks in undergrowth and low vegetation in evergreen forests, forest edges, and bamboo thickets. The song consists of about 3-5 strong, warbling notes.’

Wren of the Day:
Tawny-breasted Wren-Babbler
Near Threatened
📷 Rofikul Islam

Hearing Transcripts Unsealed From Subpoena Fights in Trump Cases - Charlie Savage I have been continuing my efforts to get material from the behind-the-scenes court battles in the Trump election and documents cases unsealed for the public and historical record. (See this post from ...

DOJ has produced, and Judge Boasberg has ordered unsealed, transcripts from three hearings in the investigations that led to Trump's federal indictments.

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If you were horrified by Grok making sexually explicit deepfakes of women and girls, you will want to read the research/reporting I have coming out later today. One of the most-active venues for that type of abuse is hiding in plain sight, and AFAIK my piece is the first to confront it head on.

We have heard from migrants subjected to ICE flights that guards/federal agents lay out the WRAP on the tarmac as a threat: Do what we say on the flight or you're gonna get put in a straitjacket.

The American King Goes to War This is not what the Founders intended.

Republicans "supposedly worship at the cult of the Founders," but they don't "venerate the Founders’ beliefs and democratic principles"

they "project their contemporaneous views backwards onto men who have been dead for centuries" tell em @adamserwer.bsky.social

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When they first released the Kinect on Xbox, the one thing that worked well was voice commands.

Some brilliant kid changed his handle to Xbox Go Home and whenever someone would get mad and yell at him in CoD, if they had a Kinect it would shut down their game.

Cover Art for Kristen Lopez's book POPCORN DISABILITIES

From CODA to FORREST GUMP, @kristenklopez.bsky.social touches on these films & more in her book POPCORN DISABILITIES (@bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social), but I was especially excited to ask about SIGN OF THE RAM, a film that needs a Blu-ray & which needs Lopez on that disc: comicon.com/2026/03/06/a...

Thank you, @emptywheel.bsky.social for flagging this post to me. I took a close look at another data source, and this plane appears to have made a stop in Dubai. Probably didn't show up on ADSBx bc some of their feeders are down and there is a lot of signal jamming in the region rn.

HOWEVER, 1/

ALERT: Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) files motion asking court to block Trump's closure and demolition of the Kennedy Center

Beatty is ex-officio member of Kennedy Center Board of Trustees

Beatty: "Emergency relief is necessary to prevent irreparable harm"

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Eyeing Voting Rights, Liberals Aim to Secure Wisconsin’s Supreme Court through 2030 - Bolts After flipping the court in 2023, Wisconsin liberals now hope to expand their majority on a body that could be a critical backstop for voting rights during the next presidential election.

NEW: Believe it or not, it’s that time of year: the Wisconsin Supreme Court election is next month.

Liberals have a huge opportunity: if they win, they can lock down the majority of this court thru 2030.

That means they’d have it in the next presidential race, a big democracy guardrail.

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How CBS' owner is trying to gaslight America David Ellison, chair and CEO of CBS’ parent company Paramount Skydance, is as delusional as ever. During an interview Thursday, Ellison said that he’s in the “truth business,” a claim that comes after...

How CBS' owner is trying to gaslight America www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

I actually saw some crocuses for #FlowersOnFriday! #photography #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #flowers

Walking around

The Poet X

Eight years ago today, one of the most important and celebrated teen novels of the 21st Century arrived -- THE POET X by Elizabeth Acevedo.

Elizabeth's brilliant, debut novel in-verse won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and the Michael L. Printz Award.

In the heat of the harsh desert—expressed through the yellows of a warm palette—a man and woman take refuge as a pair of dragons with wings flared claw and snarl at each other. The Dragon Prince extends one arm against rust colored rock for support. While his features are chiseled and his expression stoic, the set of his eyes reflect thoughts turned inward. His free hand grips his sword held low as the princess, with eyes pressed shut, leans close in a moment of vulnerability as they've just escaped from a harrowing experience.

DRAGON PRINCE (1988)

Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 29" x 19"



The scene captures a moment of harrowing escape through the desert. 1/3

#art #booksky

The US economy lost 92,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate rose to 4.4% | CNN Business Hiring at US businesses unexpectedly plunged last month as employers shed an estimated 92,000 jobs, according to new data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The news is absolutely brutal. The February jobs report shows 92,000 job losses. Inflation is creeping up. Citizens are being shot by their government in the streets. And now, a Middle East war. Trump must be stopped.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/e...

Grey bird hanging from a fern leaf

And here's a whitehead again, hanging from a tree fern frond. This guy was so entertaining that I almost missed the one and only boat back to the mainland.

Illustration of various fossilized gastropod shells from the Gosau formation in the northeastern Alps, dated 1852. The drawing features 19 detailed shell specimens of different shapes and sizes, including conical, spiral, and rounded forms. Some shells are shown in profile, while one central shell is depicted in a cross-sectional view revealing internal chambers. Each specimen is meticulously shaded to highlight texture and curvature. Labels and numbers accompany the shells, identifying species such as Actaeonella Renauzana, Actaeonella Voluta, and Actaeonella glandiformis, emphasizing their scientific and geological significance.

🐌 Die Gasteropoden der Gosaugebilde in den nordöstlichen Alpen /.
Wien: K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1852..

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Our English Bluebell Woodland

There is such a thing as Heaven on Earth

Illustration from an 1891 catalogue featuring botanical drawings and descriptions of various hardy herbaceous plants. The main subject related to "foxglove" shows tall, slender spikes of tubular flowers arranged vertically, typical of Digitalis purpurea. The flowers are depicted densely packed along the stems, capturing their characteristic shape and growth habit. Accompanying the foxglove are other detailed black-and-white sketches of flowering plants including gaillardia, geranium, hollyhock, and larkspur, each with distinct floral structures and foliage, presented alongside historic typographic plant descriptions.

🌼 Lovett's illustrated catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees and plants for the autumn of 1891..
Little Silver, N.J.: J.T. Lovett, [1891].

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Street art. Sad eyed robot guy covered in letters from the artists' names

Parkchester — zukie_art & John_Paul_OG

V good thread

A few messages in telegram chats I could find from Nikita Casap, the 17 year old who allegedly killed his parents to "obtain the financial means and autonomy necessary" for a drone and explosives that he planned to use in a terrorist attack.