Mary Smith Resists

Before you pull that "weed," take a quick look at what it actually is. The violet spreading through your lawn is the sole host plant for all 14 species of greater fritillary butterflies in North America. The caterpillars eat nothing else. If your yard has violets and your neighbor's doesn't, your yard may be the sole key to a butterfly's survival. Fleabane, those small daisy-like flowers that pop up in disturbed ground, is an early-season nectar source for native bees and one of the first things blooming after the dandelions finish. Bees find it. Skippers find it. Beetles find it. The plantain, the broad-leafed one with the parallel veins, is the host plant for the buckeye butterfly and also one of the first plants colonizing disturbed ground, meaning it's stabilizing your soil while feeding insects. It arrived in North America with European settlers and spread so thoroughly the Wampanoag called it "Englishman's foot." It's everywhere because it's good at surviving. So are the things that depend on it. None of these are failures of your lawn, but a sign your lawn is doing something useful. A short patch left uncut in a corner, or even a deliberate tolerance for what's already there, can provide host plants and early nectar at a moment in the season when almost nothing else is blooming. The question isn't whether it looks like a weed. The question is what's eating it.

@AnnieForTruth @midsummer_dream They used "truck bed liner" on granite. Did they even test it first? But did they test it with hydrogen peroxide??

@KDilanianMSNOW @NormOrnstein Garland’s inability to hold those who planned the insurrection may have cost us our democracy

@KDilanianMSNOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 👇

NEW: 35 retired fed judges escalate challenge against Trump $1.7 billion slush fund & IRS deal They say Trump Admin's latest filing "underscores the need to investigate whether the parties have perpetrated a fraud on this Court & corrupted the integrity of the judicial process"

@AnnieForTruth They constant lying and breaking every law that exists is incomprehensible, does NOBODY IN GOVERNMENT PLAN TO RESIST OR EXPOSE, crimes and lies 24/7 ??? He needs to be removed before we are no longer a country.

Instead of the orange 🤡 accepting responsibility for the green swamp, he’s claiming the Reflecting Pool was intentionally vandalized! 🤣 No Donny, the problem is you hired one of your incompetent billionaire buddies with no pool experience for the job! cnn.com/2026/06/20/pol…

Oh good, the Strait of Hormuz is closed again. Ceasefire lasted less than a Scaramucci

We've been forced to pay into social security our whole damn working lives, but this little weasel and the Republicans think we don't deserve OUR MONEY back in full when we retire? They say we're not "entitled" to it. Fuck that. See you in November, GOP. 🔥

THIS is what Republicans allowed to happen. There's as much respect for their voters as their is for their country. Just get rid of them. They're garbage.

For 330 years, everyone thought the bird was gone. Then, in 1951, a 15-year-old boy watched scientists pull one alive from a crack in the rocks. He decided, right there, that saving it would be his life's work. Seven decades later, the species still exists largely because he kept that promise. The Bermuda petrel, known locally as the cahow, had been presumed extinct since the early 1600s, wiped out by introduced rats, hogs, and relentless hunting soon after Bermuda was settled. For more than three centuries there was nothing. Then several fresh specimens turned up in the 1930s and 1940s, hinting that a few birds might still survive. In January 1951, a team searching the rocky islets of Castle Harbour invited 15-year-old David Wingate along because he was already known around Bermuda for his knowledge of birds. During the expedition, a living cahow was drawn from a nesting crevice and someone exclaimed, "By gad, a Cahow!" Wingate later said that moment determined what he would do with his life. After studying zoology at Cornell, he returned home and devoted decades to saving the species. He designed artificial burrows, restored Nonsuch Island with native plants, and devised ways to keep competing tropicbirds out of cahow nests, all at a time when conservation biology barely existed as a discipline. When the recovery program began there were only about 18 breeding pairs. Today there are more than 150. The cahow remains endangered, but one of the world's most famous "extinct" birds is no longer disappearing. Wingate turned 90 in October 2025. The species he saw rediscovered as a teenager now nests in burrows he designed and on an island he spent decades bringing back to life.

Steve Harness on reflecting pool contractor John Cafaro: “Look at this shit. Does this not look like a Dick Tracy villain or something? The comic book cigar, the jet black hair, the lack of eyebrows. The name of his company, this is not a joke, is Greenwater Services”

I I hope every rural red voter living in squalor is thrilled with what they bought. Trump has done nothing for them. While they struggle, he lines his pockets, enriches his family, slaps gold all over the White House, builds monuments to himself, demands ballrooms, and now gifts himself a luxury plane. This was never about working people. It was always about one man’s ego and everyone around him getting rich. A man of the people? Please.

The Trees cannot speak or defend themselves Or tell you how they act as a sponge preventing floods Or how they cool the climate How they sequester carbon How they produce the oxygen we need A home for birds and wildlife It all means nothing to Trump road building in 722,000 acres of Blue Mountains

More than 400 Blackfeet people, from small children to respected elders, stood together on sacred ground and formed the shape of a grizzly bear — not for attention, not for fame, but for something much bigger than themselves. They stood for the land. For generations, Indigenous people have protected mountains, rivers, forests, and animals long before the world started talking about conservation. To them, nature is not a resource to be owned. It is family. It is spirit. It is life itself. The grizzly bear is sacred in many Native traditions. It represents strength, wisdom, survival, and protection. So when hundreds of people joined together in this powerful formation at Badger-Two Medicine, they were sending a message the world could not ignore: “Our land is not empty. Our culture is not forgotten. Our voices still matter.” In a time when so much of the natural world is being destroyed for profit, moments like this remind us that there are still people willing to stand shoulder to shoulder to protect what is sacred for future generations. No violence. No hatred. Just unity, culture, respect, and love for the Earth. The image is powerful because it shows something many people have forgotten: When humans work together with the land instead of against it, something beautiful happens. Maybe that’s why this photo touches so many hearts across America. It is more than a protest. It is a prayer. A reminder. A warning. And a symbol of hope. Respect Indigenous land. Protect nature. Listen to Native voices before more sacred places disappear forever. If you could send ONE message to future generations about protecting the Earth, what would you say?

@Gtilleymatthews So incredibly beautiful 🤩

Good morning, here’s a pop of colour and whimsy for your timeline. A photo collage of snippets and details taken from a variety of my embroideries. I hope it brings a smile… 😉🪡🌿🌺 #stitchedart #thesewingsongbird