Some fireworks in the backyard on the Fourth of July. A young Eastern Screech-Owl (Megascops asio) showed up in the early afternoon for a bath. We were thrilled, but Blue Jays -- not so much. Had a lot of jay photobombers. Photographed 07/04/2024
In Gaza, we know very well the meaning of love, 🇵🇸🍉🇵🇸 In the picture, my daughter Lana is hugging her bird as if she is bringing her light back to life It reminds us that hope is born out of pain My daughter Lana in the destroyed neighborhood where we displaced in Khan Yunis 🕊⬇️ gofund.me/54e019a2
Neighborhood south of Gaza City… it is obscene to me that I’m supposed to pretend like people who deny this are the lesser evil tbh
If you trust me you don’t need to video call Fidaa- she is who she says she is and her family needs help.
there is a human being who works at the NYT and the Washington Post who makes these choices. The same human being who covered the front pages in a drumbeat of "Biden's mental fitness" coverage after the first debate. Who are they? What is their motivation? Why do they act in this way? Who benefits?
"In a previous era, Jack Smith’s newly unsealed brief would generate Watergate-level coverage. These days, though, the new details about Trump's frantic efforts to steal the election had already rolled off the top of the NYT and Washington Post homepages by Thursday morning."
In a sane world it would be Watergate-level news.
Again I feel compelled to note that when there was a hint that Hillary Clinton had used a private email- which turned out not to actually rise to the level of criminality- the Times published 40+ articles on it in a month.
The system is truly fucked if Amazon Prime delivery drivers are the ones bringing bottled water when police chases people away from "looting" abandoned crashed trucks filled with them...
Why does that other billionaire allow Zuckerberg PR in his newspaper, the Washington Post?
