must love gulls

never enough time in seattle. been up for 22hrs. just had a lovely 5-course vegan dinner. i’m a simp. good night

When foxes decline, Lyme rates climb. A 2012 paper in PNAS tracked Lyme rates against fox populations across the Northeast and Midwest. Wisconsin saw an 80% decline in foxes from 1984 to 2009 and a 300% rise in Lyme. Martha's Vineyard, which has almost no foxes, has Lyme rates five times higher than nearby Woods Hole, which has plenty of foxes. Foxes are one of the primary predators of white-footed mice, which are the main reservoir for Lyme disease, infecting between 40 and 90 percent of the ticks that feed on them. Fewer foxes means more mice, more infected ticks, and higher Lyme risk for anyone spending time outdoors. If you want to help the foxes in your area: 1. Stop using rodenticide immediately. When foxes eat a rodent that's actively poisoned, the fox can die too. Rodenticide poisoning also kills owls and hawks. 2. Don't shoot or trap them. Kinda goes without saying. 3. Secure your trash, your chicken coops, and keep cats inside to avoid conflict. Next time you see a fox, tell it thank you.

Teenage twins, Angely and Alexka, were kidnapped by ICE and are now in a detention center in El Paso. I’m urging for their immediate release, alongside state and local elected officials, their teachers, and a pastor at their church. We all want them home. Release them NOW.

everyone is acting like if they have to cook vegetables for a week or two they’re going to burst into flames

42 years ago today, I was out for a run in Houston. A tree fell on me, leaving me partially paralyzed. My parents instilled in me the values that carried me through my darkest days: hard work, perseverance, and faith in God. Our lives are not defined by our challenges, but by how we respond to them. Some say you need a spine of steel to lead. I actually have one. And I will never stop fighting for Texas.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US issues $81,000,000,000 in refunds after Supreme Court ruled President Trump's tariffs illegal.

Almost every woman over 30 I’ve spoken to in the past few years feels some version of the same thing: feminism has failed us somewhere along the way, and made men increasingly passive, hesitant, and unwilling to take initiative. How do we course-correct from here?

Allowing poorly trained agents to roam our streets, kick down doors without warrants, and shoot people dead in the street is state-sanctioned violence—not immigration policy. The Trump admin must release all information related to these shootings, and we need independent investigations into each. These shootings are not inevitable. They are a policy choice being made by Donald Trump and Senate Republicans.

I got to know Senator Lindsey Graham traveling with him abroad in Afghanistan and Ukraine. We had just met to renew the fight for our Big Tech bill. Even though we disagreed on much, he was always willing to negotiate, with humor and wit. My heart goes out to his loved ones.

This is what shifting environmental baseline looks like. The original forest is gone forever.