I’m just going to go right ahead and let my freaky bird nerd flag fly free.
Fly, bird nerd flag, fly!
Saw my favorite bird today for only the second time.
The baddest bad ass in all of birdland.
The peregrine falcon.
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The toxic pesticide DDT almost wiped them out.
By the early 1970s, there were only four peregrines left in all of New York State.
But with the help of falconers on the west coast who donated their birds’ eggs to east coast peers, peregrines survived.
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They are marvels of nature.
Perfect machines.
Capable of diving at speeds reaching 200 mph.
We’ve literally modeled fighter jet engines after them.
They’re pint-sized wonders of vision and speed and agility.
Peregrines are just the best.
Second sighting. So cool.
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(Forgive the imperfectness of the photos. Small birds, far away, terrible light, too nerdy-psyched to wait til I ran them through Topaz Sharpen/Denoise before posting.)
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It **is** disinformation that the breakout of vaxed vs unvaxed cases isn’t being tracked just because it isn’t being tracked by one particular agency while there is ample data collection elsewhere.
If you’re going to talk smack, lady, maybe get a clue first.
Early in his criminal career, Trump got away with destroying documents he was ordered to produce in a lawsuit - and he has repeatedly gotten away with withholding documents.
All of that “success” lulled him into being unafraid of documenting his criminal tax evasion.
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After all, if you have always gotten away with shredding the evidence or simply not turning it over, you get a little overconfident about whether documents can hurt you.
From yesterday’s indictment, it appears the Trump Org. kept meticulous records of off-books tax evasions.
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And it appears those records have landed in prosecutors’ hands.
Trump’s businesses may be a labyrinthine tangle virtually impossible to pull apart…
but any jury can understand the very simple fraud of paying someone X but only reporting Y on their taxes.
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