Betty Cracker of FL

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Twitter refugee. Postcards from the sedge, mostly about dogs, birds, politics and swamp life.

A rare leucistic Bald Eagle:

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#BaldEagle #WashingtonState

Barry Croft, Jr. plotted to kidnap Michigan’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer. Barry Croft , Jr. is a domestic terrorist and was just sentenced to nearly 20 years in jail.

This is how you help preserve our democracy: ACCOUNTABILITY.

Excess death rates were already higher among Republicans before vaccines came online, possibly due to red states taking a more lax stance on social distancing etc, but once vaccines came on line, the gap widened dramatically 📈

And to be clear, this is after adjusting for age, so it can’t be explained by Republicans simply being older on average. This is the result of a party and its voters turning away from science

@Stonekettle Amazing shot!
@ChadMeyer Wonderful shot of a truly magnificent heron!
@JimsPhotos Someone once said that Canadians are famously nice because they channel all their malice and fury into their geese. 🤔
@auschwitzmuseum Today is this remarkable survivor’s birthday.

22 December 1913 | A Polish woman, Jadwiga Apostoł, was born in Nowy Targ. At the beginning of 1942 arrested for her resistance activity.

In Auschwitz from 1 December 1942
No. 26273

On 18 January 1945 she was taken on a Death March to Malchow, a sub-camp of Ravensbrück. She later escaped from another evacuation transport. She survived.

More about her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadwiga_Aposto%C5%82

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #history #woman #NowyTarg #otd #facts #resistance

Jadwiga Apostoł - Wikipedia

It happened…

[Outside ER]

Cop: “Sir, can you describe the vehicle that struck you?”

Me: “Absolutely. It was some kind of horseless carriage. A roaring metallic dragon with wheels instead of legs, with bright skin shimmering in the sunlight, passing foul vapors from its rear.”