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Dan Beaudet @danbeaudet.bsky.social · 20d

Northern Flicker…flicking.
#birds #photography #nature

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Dan Beaudet @danbeaudet.bsky.social · 20d

Northern Flicker…flicking.
#bird #photography #nature #OMSystem

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Dan Beaudet @danbeaudet.bsky.social · 27d

The Tale of the Honeysuckle and the Humble Bumble
#insect #photography #macro #OMSystem

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Dan Beaudet @danbeaudet.bsky.social · Sep 2

American Goldfinch caught entering a texture indecision zone.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Aug 19

China is an engineering state that values construction projects and technological primacy, Dan Wang argues, "whereas the United States is a lawyerly society, obsessed with protecting wealth by making rules rather than producing material goods."

While China Builds, America Litigates

As the Chinese economy surges forward, the U.S. has lost its capacity for physical improvement.

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Dan Beaudet @danbeaudet.bsky.social · Aug 17

Ruby-throated Hummingbird acrobatics.
#bird #nature #photography

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Dan Beaudet @danbeaudet.bsky.social · Aug 16

American Goldfinch just winging it.
#bird #photography #nature

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Dan Beaudet @danbeaudet.bsky.social · Aug 16

American Goldfinch just winging it.
#Birds #photography #nature

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DemCastDonGA @donshantajr.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Dan Beaudet @danbeaudet.bsky.social · Aug 13

Whitelined Sphinx hummingbird moth swooped in for a visit during patio coffee time this morning.

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Dan Beaudet @danbeaudet.bsky.social · Aug 12

substack.com/@crookedmedi...

Crooked Media (@crookedmedia)

Crooked Media is now here on Substack. Read why from @Jon Favreau @Jon Lovett and @Tommy Vietor

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Dan Beaudet @danbeaudet.bsky.social · Jul 26

An isolated coneflower in a wild flower area along the roadside.

Simple. A new-ish coneflower in an area of wild flowers.

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Dan Beaudet @danbeaudet.bsky.social · Jun 30

Tree Swallow (m) checking things out.
#bird #birds #birdsofbluesky #blueskybirds #omsystem

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · Apr 25

Imagine if Joe Biden, newly in office, had launched a company with Hunter Biden and used his social media to recruit financial backers.

Then promised the most generous among them would earn an invitation to a private dinner with him ... Trump just did that.

Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done

He’s using the White House to get rich from anonymous investors—and it’s hardly even a news story.

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Dan Beaudet @danbeaudet.bsky.social · Apr 23

Patterns

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Dan Beaudet @danbeaudet.bsky.social · Apr 23

Great image! Saw my one and only at Madeira Canyon AZ several years ago.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Apr 4

1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse.

2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."

3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."

This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · Feb 28

We just watched Trump & Vance do Putin’s bidding in the Oval Office & it was horrific. Not even two months into this administration & it’s a disaster for the free world.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · Feb 28

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

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Jennifer Senior @jennifersenior.bsky.social · Feb 28

While watching that horrifying, globe-shifting exchange with Zelenkskyy, I couldn't help but think about what a deliberately staged reality-TV moment it was, with two people ganging up on one and screaming a classic, totally petulant reality-TV accusation: They hadn't been thanked enough.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · Feb 25

President Trump announces kleptocracy is here.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 25

Trump: "We're gonna be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We're gonna put a price on that card of about $5 million and that's going to give you green card privileges, plus. It's gonna be a route to citizenship, and wealthy people will be coming into our country."

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Dan Beaudet @danbeaudet.bsky.social · Feb 26

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · Feb 25

President Trump announces kleptocracy is here.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 25

Trump: "We're gonna be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We're gonna put a price on that card of about $5 million and that's going to give you green card privileges, plus. It's gonna be a route to citizenship, and wealthy people will be coming into our country."

Dan Beaudet @danbeaudet.bsky.social · Feb 20

substack.com/@robertreich...

Robert Reich on Substack

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Feb 16

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA

7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

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Dan Beaudet @danbeaudet.bsky.social · Feb 9

“When the richest man in the world can so easily undermine our [U.S.] place on the global stage, it is, quite simply, a harbinger of decline: a sign of a corrupted superpower so brittle that its sources of influence can be taken apart from within.”

Ben Rhodes, fmr. Deputy National Security Advisor

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