TarheelPalmetto

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Amateur birder taking amateur photos. Gardener for wildlife. A North Carolina Tarheel living in the Palmetto state of South Carolina.

Trump set the overtime pay threshold at a disgraceful $35,500 per year. Biden just raised it to $58,600.

Biden banned noncompete agreements. A plaintiff trying to reverse the ban is a Trump tax adviser.

Biden is fighting for workers. Trump wants to tear them down.

Earth has a lot of humans & cattle. But not too many wild mammals. #science #data

The idea that Biden’s difficulty in pinning down the year of his son’s death shows his incapacity — in the middle of the Gaza crisis! — is disgusting.
As it happens, I had an hourlong off-the-record meeting with Biden in August. I can’t talk about the content, but I can assure you that he’s perfectly lucid, with a good grasp of events. And outside that personal experience, on several occasions when I thought he was making a serious misjudgment — like his handling of the debt ceiling crisis — he was right and I was wrong.
And my God, consider his opponent. When I listen to Donald Trump’s speeches, I find myself thinking about my father, who died in 2013 (something else I had to look up). During his last year my father suffered from sundowning: He was lucid during the day, but would sometimes become incoherent and aggressive after dark. If we’re going to be doing amateur psychological diagnoses of elderly politicians, shouldn’t we be talking about a candidate who has confused Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi and whose ranting and raving sometimes reminds me of my father on a bad evening?

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/06/opinion/thepoint/krugman-biden-age?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The New York Times leads the paper today with a slip of the tongue by Biden. Meanwhile, Trump declared that Jan. 6 was an insurrection organized by Nancy Pelosi, but apparently that isn’t worth reporting.
Red-breasted nuthatch chisels at bark in search of seeds and insects.
#GriffithPark #Birdphotography #Birdphotos #naturephotography #naturephotos #birds #birders #birding #redbreastednuthatch

"We found out today that the Supreme Court is not at all serious about its own Ethical Code.

Ginni Thomas was directly involved in the plot to overturn the 2020 election. The same plot that got Trump kicked off the ballot in Colorado.

Clarence Thomas is hearing the case. Hello?"

The discourse about Tracy Chapman "finally" being recognized for Fast Car is weird because it was a huge hit. Massive. Rolling Stone called it the best song ever written by a woman (and it was still no. 167 on their ranked list). I'm delighted that she's getting new royalties, new awards, new invitations to sing it, but there's this edge like she's supposed to be so grateful to Luke Combs. No, Luke Combs should be grateful that she let him sing it. Audiences should be so grateful to hear it.
Well, it's #GroundhogDay, again.

“Only in America do we accept weather predictions from a rodent but deny #ClimateChange evidence from scientists.”

I share this meme every year on February 2. #science