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Jen Britton
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This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors.

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Welcome The Stranger
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February 15, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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Members of the Shawnee Creek herd in their home pasture: these are wild horses living in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways in southern Missouri. #wildhorses #wildhorsepc #photography
In a field of tall green grass with brown seed tops, a white-gray mare with a pink muzzle stands more or less facing the camera and looking over her left shoulder towards the right side of the image. Behind her, in the left of the image, another light gray horse is grazing, head down in the grass. A forest of oaks, pines, and other trees is their background. The same mare is now standing in the right side of the frame, on a right-to-left angle facing the camera, with her ears pricked forward as she watches another herd mate. The gray horse behind her has picked her head up a little.
February 16, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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A very very handsome resident of Sable Island National Park Reserve #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
This is a black and white image of a horse, shown in a front-body profile, standing in more than knee high dune grasses, with an out of focus cloudy sky in the background. The horse has a long tangled mane that hangs well below her neck and she has paused in grazing to look at the camera, some grass hanging out of her mouth.
February 16, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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A lil sika stag rummaging around in the brush at Assateague Island Wildlife Refuge: these introduced deer arrived in this region after some boy scouts a hundred years ago decided to free their little petting zoo, or so goes the tale. #photography #wildlife
A small brown deer with a white tail and tiny antler spikes stands in tall coastal-ecosystem grass, with a thicket of bayberry shrubs in the background. The deer is looking right at the camera.
February 16, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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Look I'm no expert democratic party strategist or anything but it seems to me that having ethnic cleansing goons running around our cities disappearing people IS A KITCHEN TABLE ISSUE in the most basic sense.

Anyways here are some sandhill cranes in flight at Bosque Del Apache NWR. #photography
Against the backdrop of a clear blue sky, a sandhill crane in flight moves from left to right in the frame, wings upstretched so that we see the light plumage on the bottom side of its wings.We can also see the tops of an out of focus mountain range at the bottom of the image. With a shadowed mountain range in the background, a sandhill crane is flying generally towards the camera, in a left-to-right oblique angle. Its wings are held straight out side to side with the feather tips curving gently upwards. The same sandhill crane in the next phase of its wing-flaps, wings moving upwards with separation in the feathers at their tips, and the mountain range in the background below a clear blue sky.
February 16, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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For #Stunday, bachelor stallions plopping off down a hill into the sunset, at Salt Wells Creek. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
Against a darkening bright orange sky with bright yellow highlights in the clouds, we see the silhouettes of four horses walking in single file from left to right in the frame, down a gentle slope of a hill. Their heads are held at various angles and we can see the bouncy vibe of a wild bachelor stallion band.
February 15, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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I encountered this lil friend, a red fox, in the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge. #photography #wildlife
A red fox with a bright and curious expression faces the camera in this low angle shot such that she is peering over the photographer's left shoulder. We see the fox's face and upper body, and the brush of her tail behind her. her eyes are intense orange and her setting is a grassy meadow.
February 15, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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This stunning fellow is the stallion Clorox of the Onaqui herd in Utah. #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A bay roan pinto horse walks from right to left in the frame among tall knee-high grass and sagebrush, with the slope of a grass and dirt covered mountainside rising in the background. The horse's large color patches appear to be a faded bay roan, hence his name!
February 15, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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The super extra beautiful mare Kat, of Theodore Roosevelt National Park
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A bright bay roan horse with long fetlock feathers and hind socks walks with a cheerful expression along the top of a prairie hill, with a bright blue sky as the background. She walks left to right in the frame, with her ears pricked forward. The same mare continues walking along the top of the hill, now her neck arched as a chestnut stallion in her band approaches behind her.
February 15, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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Cactus wrens are some of my favorite birbs and I got to watch a pair for a bit at the Thunderbird Conservation Park last month. #photography #wildlife #birbs
A cactus wren - a large wren with bright mottled brown and white plumage - is about to take flight from the top of a cholla cactus, wings outspread and starting the crouch to take off. Another cactus wren perches at the top of a cholla, standing upright and looking right to left in the frame. The background is out of focus desert vegetation.
February 15, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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This Heber stallion in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest is here to remind us that American communities are best neat, no ICE
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
In this close head-shoulders-forelegs view, a chestnut horse in his winter coat, with a wide blaze, strides calmly across the frame from left to right, with out of focus pine forest scrub in the background.
February 14, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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This little love is a black bear in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge #photography #wildlife
A medium sized black bear stands in a meadow of grass, clover, and weeds, facing right to left in the frame and taking up much of the image. We can see water dripping off her coat from a recent swim across a canal to arrive at the meadow. Her mouth is open slightly as she munches on whatever she has found to eat here.
February 14, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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A vermilion flycatcher, Gilbert Riparian Preserve
#photography #birbs
A small bright red songbird with black wings, a black bill, and a black stripe across its eyes is perched on a mesquite twig with a bright blue sky and out of focus mesquite branches in the background.
February 14, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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Salt Wells Creek: these two BFFs are Valentines
#wildhorses #photography #wildhorsepc
A buckskin horse and a palomino stand close together and the palomino is chomping on the buckskin's neck. They are both having affectionate fun together. The buckskin horse has lowered her head to check out some grass, and the palomino stands close to her. The palomino horse has slung her head on top of the buckskin horse's neck while the buckskin accepts this clumsy affection. The buckskin and palomino look together at the camera with cheerful expressions, the palomino's head resting on top of the buckskin's neck.
February 14, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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This cute little roan colt was with a family band in the Little Book Cliffs HMA, when I visited in 2024
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A close-up, zoomed-in image of roan colt with a fuzzy light colored coat over a black base; his face has shed out to black while his body remains fuzzy and almost white. his mane and forelock are black. He is facing the camera with his head turned looking towards the right side of the image, and we can see two out of focus bay horses in the background, grazing among the sparse green shrubs. In this second image we see the same colt, upper body and close-up, looking relaxed and curious as he gazes straight at the camera. The shrub-dotted wall of a canyon rises in the background.
February 9, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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One of Sable Island's famous ipswich savannah sparrows: wayyyyy out in the North Atlantic, this island is critical for breeding and nesting. #photography #birbs
Against a soft green and beige backdrop of out of focus dune grasses, a small sparrow perches on a braided wire fence cable. The bird has a light brown mottled plumage and a small bill, and is sitting in the left side of the frame looking towards the right.
February 9, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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Stallion colleagues at McCullough Peaks HMA sharing a little moment of communications
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
Against a backdrop of distant mountains and a stormy looking sky, two stallions stand together in the center of the image. One is a black pinto, the other a bay. Both have scuffs, scars, and a bit of mud in their coats. The bay horse is leaning his face against the pinto's butt, and the pinto is stomping a front hoof, the image catching him with his right front hoof raised and outstretched as he looks at the bay with some mild vexation. Second image in this series, the bay horse is looking calm and almost sleepy, while the pinto is beginning to turn towards him, his neck arched. In this third image in the series, the bay horse still has his four feet planted, relaxed, as the pinto stretches his neck around so they can almost snuffle each other's muzzles. The pinto has gone from "grrrr" to "what ya doing." The two horses now step off in a walk side by side, looking purposeful
February 9, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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Today in #tardigrade news
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Scientists rediscover 'water bears' off the coast of Malaysia after 50 years
Scientists rediscover marine tardigrades, or "water bears," in Malaysia after 50 years, and describe a new species hidden in coastal sand.
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February 9, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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#Caturday with one of the Sweetwater Wetlands bobcats
#photography #wildlife
a cat's-eye view of a wild bobcat who is walking at a right-to-left oblique angle generally towards the camera. she is caught in a walk stride with her left front paw lifted and she is focusing on something on the ground ahead of her, out of frame off the lower left side of the image. Her setting is desert-wetlands vegetation and shrubs.
February 7, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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February 7, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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A few of the birbs of Whitewater Draw in southern Arizona:
🐦‍⬛ a black phoebe who seemed captivated by the sight of hundreds of sandhill cranes taking flight at once
🦆 a pintail duck
🐦sandhill cranes
🦅 a coopers hawk

#photography #birbs #wildlife
a black Phoebe is perched in a cottonwood tree in fall yellows and browns; we can see blue sky through the branches, and the bird is sitting in the right side of the frame, looking towards the left. A pintail duck is flying right to left in the frame, approaching a landing with wings upswept and landing gear beginning to come down. We can see brown marsh vegetation out of focus in the bottom strip of the image and the sky is a dull light blue-gray. Two sandhill cranes glide side by side in a clear blue sky, and coming down to land such that we see both of their wings stretched straight out side to side and their legs and feet swinging downwards. A head and shoulders portrait of a coopers hawk who is sitting in a fall-colors cottonwood tree, surrounded by twigs and yellow leaves, with blue sky peeking through. The bird takes up the right-center of the frame and she is looking downwards towards the lower left corner of the image.
February 7, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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Assateague Island National Seashore: N09O-J Dewey, N2BHS-CK Johnny's Star, and N2BHS-CKW Peytona Star are a little family band together. Dewey seems like a great stepdad to Peytona Star! #photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A pinto pony walks towards the camera atop a windswept sand dune with tall grass. The pony has a crooked blaze and blue eyes and his forelock, mane, and tail are flying in the wind, with a light blue cloudy sky in the background. A bay pinto two year old pony walks over the top of a sand dune among high dune grass, with a line of tall pines in the distance, under a cloudy blue sky. The pony's mane and tail are blowing a bit in the wind. A bay pinto pony mare is standing and looking intently towards her bandmates on top of a sand dune among grasses and other plants. While her body faces left-to-right, she is craning her neck around to look over her left shoulder towards the right side of the frame. Her tail lifts in the wind and the sky is cloudy.
February 6, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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For Foal Friday: this Salt Wells Creek family is so adorable - mare, foal, and yearling, all variations on a theme!
#photography #wildhorses #wildhorsepc
A spirited looking bay mare and her two kids - a yearling and a foal - walk closely together. They each are bay with stockings and blazes, you can tell they are related! Their setting is arid sagebrush and grassland, a gulch behind them with low bluffs in the background.
February 6, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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I just watched the Starfleet Academy ep “Series Acclimation Mil” and OH MY GOOD GRAVITATIONAL SINGULARITY. What a bunch of dingdang treats!
February 5, 2026 at 11:36 PM