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cheer up lad it's Spiral Newt time
Wildlife comes in all shapes, sizes and…gymnastic abilities. 🤸♂️
For National Wildlife Day, we're highlighting this rough-skinned newt (Taricha granulosa) from the Pacific Northwest.
Rough-skinned newts are known for their bright orange bellies and their ability to produce a powerful toxin that helps protect them from predators. They also have some unusual behaviors, including this defensive posture known as an “unkenreflex.”
We're not sure what this move is called in the gymnastics world, but we're impressed!
From amphibians to mammals, wildlife has evolved a wide range of adaptations and behaviors that help animals survive in their environments. USGS science is used by managers, policy makers, and others for decisions that conserve and enhance healthy fish and wildlife populations across the U.S.
Learn more about the USGS Species Management Research Program: ow.ly/LCWs50ZJy0f
📸: Rough-skinned newt in defensive posture, EPA ponds, Corvallis, OR. Credit: Brome McCreary, USGS
#NationalWildlifeDay
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little american goldfinch you are triangular and cute. i wish i could be as yellow as you
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Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war. Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.
I am focused on making sure that every New Yorker is safe. I have been in contact with our Police Commissioner and emergency management officials. We are taking proactive steps, including increasing coordination across agencies and enhancing patrols of sensitive locations out of an abundance of caution.
Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.
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To be clear about what this depicts: An immigration officer threw a woman onto the ground. Alex Pretti, a registered nurse on scene as a legal observer, is filming and goes to help the woman up. He is then pepper sprayed and thrown to the ground for no discernible reason. Many officer surround and assault him; one removes his firearm, which police say appears to have been legally registered. They then execute him with a hail of bullets.
They are, objectively speaking, both cowards and criminals, while Pretti is what we teach people an American ought to be.
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GRAPHIC: CBP officers shoot another person in Minneapolis at point-blank range. Footage obtained exclusively by BT shows federal officers on Nicollet Ave. on top of a man on the ground, before one CBP officer pulls his gun and repeatedly fires. Witnesses say that after the shooting CBP then walked down the block filming bystanders. Nothing else is known at this point about what preceded this, the identity of the man shot, or his current condition. FBI agents and an ambulance are at the scene.
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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: federalreserve.gov/newsevent…
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🚨 JUST IN: ICE agents are storming homes in Minneapolis and detaining an entire family.
This is happening right now; on video.
Federal agents kicking in doors, rounding up families, while the city is already reeling from the killing of Renee Good.
This is not “law enforcement.” This is escalation.
