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@JamesGleick American CItizen? Do we know yet?
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@ghelt WTF! How hard is it to prove you are a citizen? If the guy lied about everything else...
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Assuming he’s a citizen, that’s true. Can someone please verify his citizenship before Congress seats a foreign national?
RT @thehill@twitter.com
"Sinner or saint, George Santos must be seated" (@TheHillOpinion@twitter.com) https://trib.al/aNOgDx5
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RT @RawStory@twitter.com
Ukrainians in Kyiv buildings sing the national anthem as Russian bombs fall
https://www.rawstory.com/ukraine-attacked-missiles-sing-anthem/
A miracle butterfly (Zebra Longwings, Fla State butterfly) who survived 5 nights in the 20s. Feeding on the remains of my Pentas and a huge Basil survivor that is still blooming. #invertebrates, #nature, #wildlife photography
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The DeSantis administration was sued for failing to release official records relating to its infamous migrant flight to Martha’s Vineyard. Then it dumped the documents right before Christmas, hoping no one would notice. But we noticed. I’m doing my part to amplify this story.
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/a-top-desantis-aide-behind-the-marthas?sd=pf
@w7voa So is he a US citizen? Has anyone checked out this claim?
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The USDA has published an updated version of the Christmas Food Pyramid for 2023 despite the protests of some nutritionists arguing for different chocolate to peanut butter fudge ratios. Standard snickerdoodle and sugar cookie recommendations remain unchanged.
This was taken earlier this year while I was standing in my front door. The Penta this swallowtail was feeding on is three this year and has become a giant plant, a veritable garden in itself and there have constantly been butterflies visiting: zebra wings, Gulf Fritillaries, Monarchs, yellow sulfurs, black swallowtails, and this lovely yellow swallowtail. But like most of the US this week the weather has dealt us a hard blow. I covered the red and white pentas and their companions but they were down the priority list below the banana grove, papayas, and the food gardens. But they got the leftover covers. We have one more hard frost tonight, and tomorrow I remove the covers and see what is left of my garden, wondering where the butterflies have gone and hoping for resurrection.
One of our favorite hiking trails during the Pandemic was this Flatwoods, full of blooming pitcher plants in the Spring and thousands of blazing stars in the Fall. You always expect a surprise of some sort like these marvelous curving grass seed heads.
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Roses on Jupiter
This image was captured by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft on February 17, 2020, during Juno's 25th perijove pass.
Credits: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS<br/>Image processing: Rita Najm © CC BY
Instrument: JunoCam
Mission: Juno
Tags: Jupiter
More: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA24293
#space #NASA #JPL #photography #astronomy #astrodon
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BREAKING: We just filed a motion with fellow environmental groups and local businesses to intervene in defense of the Biden Administration's cancellation of Twin Metals’ mineral leases near the BWCAW.
Twin Metals thinks they have the right to roll over science, the law and public opinion in order to open their toxic mine.
Not on our watch.
A foreign-owned mining conglomerate isn’t entitled to operate a polluting mine on public land at the edge of a pristine wilderness.
Photo by Crystal Olson
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Gonna write this up in longer form, but folks complaining that the $45bn Ukraine costs are high miss two key points:
1. The direct costs in military aid are surprisingly small; in the order of $19bn this year, and $10.8bn committed (so far) for next year
2. The indirect economic costs of the Russian war to the US economy (i.e. to the private sector not via the government) are in the order of $600-700bn per year. To pick a random company, it's nearly $6-10bn in costs to Apple *alone*.
Went out to the giant wet prairie near my home recently hoping for Sandhill Cranes. These two and a few hundred others came into the Prairie for the night while we were there. But later in the Season, thousands of cranes will come in, and it is a sight to behold and to hear. The flocks circle first making their haunting calls and birds on the ground answer. They finally settle for the night, sailing in like the pair in the photo. I look forward to the full show later in the year.
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Scientist, Teacher, Children's writer, Photographer, Lover of nature, especially dragonflies #kidlit, #natureofscience, #Odonata, #dragonfly #naturephotography
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