One of my pet roadrunners in Yuma Arizona. They eat like royalty.
It's eating chicken
They visit my yard everyday and come up to the porch window. This is the baby one.
Here is another roadrunner fluffing its feathers. To warm up after a cold desert night, a roadrunner will turn its back to the sun, fluff its back feathers, and expose skin along its back. This skin is black in order to absorb more solar energy

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26 Nov
Healthcare workers will not continue to risk their lives with ZERO help from state and federal leaders. A nationwide healthcare worker strike is nearing...
In Chicago, 700 nursing-home workers are striking to demand hazard pay, better working conditions and PPE. We stand with you @SEIUhciimk. The world is watching! #StrikeForOurLives
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I’ve been sounding the alarm for the past week!
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BREAKING: Pima County, Arizona implements a "voluntary curfew" amid record-breaking 878 new cases & unprecedented hospitalizations. Pima Co. has 1 million residents and contains Tucson, 2nd largest city in Arizona, also home to @uarizona 1/5
.@dougducey this is a cry for help from the County Administrator, Chuck Huckelberry: “We’re trying to get people to pay attention since we’re now at the worst point we’ve ever been with infections.” 2/5
The county does NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY to mandate a curfew, but it’s clear that one should be implemented. If @dougducey is not willing to implement preventive health measures to help frontline healthcare providers, we demand he grants powers to county officials statewide 3/5
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🧵NO ICU BEDS! When our rural Arizona hospital ICU is full, we medevac patients to different hospitals across the state, BUT NOT TONIGHT, because there were NO ACCEPTING HOSPITALS, so for an entire 12 hour shift we managed ICU patients, while treating other emergencies. 1/13
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Just got to work and was notified there are no more ICU beds in the state of Arizona.
What happened to the 175 beds??? We likely don’t have nursing to staff them. This is not good.
ZERO ICU Beds!! @dougducey what are you going to do??
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