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Here’s an awkward red-faced warbler from this morning in New Mexico … to get eyeballs. The band on its leg was provided by the USGS Bird Banding Lab. It’s a thankless task, but they support permitting, band supply, data curation etc for TONS of researchers. They do such good, efficient work and … 🦉🧪

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Scanlon: The Gulf of Mexico was so named over 500 years ago. If we want to update that name to reflect our current culture, maybe we should call it the Sea of Emoluments—you know, the place where we can board the Ship of Fools and navigate from a State of Ignorance to the Confederacy of Dunces…

San Antonio and Austin at night, as photographed by Astronaut Karen Nyberg from the international space station. I think I see my porch light!

Keep our homeland secure?

She cant even keep her handbag secure.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/politics/homeland-security-kristi-noem-purse-stolen/index.html

National security clearances? Overrated.
Now you too can stay in the loop—thanks to Pete Hegseth’s Friends & Family Plan!

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Dipped HARD on the vagrant Tufted Flycatcher in Las Cruces today and yesterday with @msbbirds.bsky.social (apparently scared away a few days ago by some aggressive landscaping works) but managed to tick a rather unexpected lifer, Painted Redstart!

Trump hugged the flag, then stabbed veterans in the back. Cutting 80,000 VA jobs won’t improve services-it’s a betrayal of those who served. Veterans kept
their promise, why won’t he? Read more:

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/betrayed-a...

Organ mountains New Mexico

Wow Kimble is a special kind of stupid!

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