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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 16h

[Enter Governor to the Citizens.]

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20h

The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 1d

The political right's greatest project is discrediting experts. Only in a "do your own research" world can their cultural preferences - anti-abortion, anti-gender affirming care - claim equal legitimacy to the left's medically-backed positions on those issues. SCOTUS is a full partner in that effort

TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 1d

The Supreme Court's conservatives advanced the right's greater project of discrediting experts Tuesday, feigning that there is no medical consensus against conversion therapy.

The Medical Science Is Always ‘Uncertain’ When It Pushes Against Supreme Court’s Bias

If you came into Tuesday’s oral argument over Colorado’s conversion therapy ban...

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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 2d

"Any vacuum of facts and values will be filled with spectacle and war."

— Timothy Snyder, "On Freedom."

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Kay on the Prairie @kayontheprairie.bsky.social · 4d

Traffic jam 🦬

#nachusagrasslands #prairie #bison

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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 6d

In 15 wild-card series, the game one winner is 15-0.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 8d

Steller's jays are such assholes, but so are great horned owls, so I guess they belong together. 🪶

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Jim @jgoved.bsky.social · 8d

You really captured the "when things go wrong" feeling

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Jim @jgoved.bsky.social · 8d

Carson Kelly looking shocked by a post from The Onion

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Milena @milenarejc.bsky.social · 8d

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 8d

The slow simple pleasure of watching your favourite trees change with the seasons 🌱🌳📷

#ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #TreeClub #nature #woods

An English Oak, quercus Robur, in a meadow at the edge of a small woods, the same tree as in the quoted post but six months later at the end of summer

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Jim @jgoved.bsky.social · 9d

First fall colors starting here with Virginia Creeper. 🌱

Red leaves of native vine Virginia Creeper lit up with sunshine. In the background, limbs of a large maple tree with green leaves arch across a clear blue sky.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 9d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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ione blue @ioneblue.bsky.social · 10d

japanese bridge
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#stunday
#photographersofbluesky
#nature
#reflections
#art
#eastcoastkin

the wooden bridge to the japanese gardens.
reflected in the lagoon at the chicago botanic garden.

every kind of green.
sun threading through the willows.

photograph.

photograph of the wooden bridge that crosses one of the lagoons at the chicago botanic garden. it connects the main garden to the japanese garden. the bridge itself if gray-green. the entire photo is a range of greens. in the center, reflections of the bridge trees, and sky. there is sunlight filtering through the willow trees on the water's surface..

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Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 10d

Asters and goldenrods, Maple Grove Forest Preserve, yesterday morning. Fight for democracy, science, human decency, and the natural world, and continue celebrating what you are fighting for.