Beth Underwood

[City of Bozeman, MT @CityofBozeman]

A huge shoutout to the community and our partners for coming out on June 6th to celebrate water efficient landscaping during our annual Garden Party. Water-wise plants were passed out along with drip tubing, compost, seed mix, and various resources from community groups.

[Jon Ralston @RalstonReports]

This is a superb dissection of how a guy nobody heard of up North until March beat a guy who has lived there his whole life to become the frontrunner in Nov. for an open congressional seat. The winning campaign was despicable in many ways, but very effective.

via @MiniRacker

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A hundred years ago, the eastern bluebird was one of the most common birds in the country. Then it nearly disappeared.

Here's the problem: a bluebird can't build its own home. Neither can a chickadee or a wren. They're cavity nesters with no tools to dig a hole, so they move into ones that already exist: an old woodpecker hole, a rotted knot in a tree, a hollow in a dead limb, a soft spot in a wooden fence post.

Then we launched a relentless effort to tidy the world and put everything in its right place.

We cut down the dead trees, the "ugly" snags, and hauled them off. We swapped the old wooden fence posts for metal. We cleaned up every hollow stump and dying branch. And just like that, the nesting spots were gone.

Worse, two birds we'd imported from Europe, house sparrows and starlings, muscled into the few cavities left and threw the bluebirds out. By the 1970s, bluebird numbers had fallen by nearly 90%.

Here's where things began to turn. Ordinary people started nailing wooden boxes to posts. Just boxes, with a hole the right size. And the bluebirds came back, all the way back, one of the greatest comebacks in American conservation, built almost entirely by regular folks in their own yards with a little lumber.

So here's where you come in. A nest box isn't a cute decoration. It's a replacement for the dead tree we took down, a hole in the world for a bird that can't make its own.

Put one up, with the correct hole size for the bird you want, on a smooth pole a predator can't climb, and you stop being a bystander to that story.

[Victor Narro @NarroVictor]

Must-read by @GustavoArellano about the amazing Jessie Lopez

Commentary: In Orange County, a progressive Latina pol beats back well-funded haters — again

“Voters proved that while money can influence politics, it can’t buy community support"
https://t.co/9eeIY5Y4FB

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

🤳 CDC Director, Surgeon General, Assistant Secretary for Pandemic Preparedness, FDA Commissioner...is anybody there? 

Ebola and hantavirus are on the rise—who’s in charge here? Well, thanks to Trump…nobody!

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Everybody plants for butterflies and bees, but not many folks are planting for the graveyard shift.

There are far more species of moths than butterflies, and more pollination happens after dark than most people realize. While you sleep, moths are out working the garden.

Feed the adults with pale, fragrant flowers that open at dusk. Evening primrose, native phlox, yucca, and native coral honeysuckle are all favorites. Yucca is especially remarkable: its flowers are pollinated only by yucca moths, and those moths depend on yucca in return.

Feed the caterpillars too, because caterpillars are baby bird food. Oaks host more moth species than almost any other North American plant, and native cherry, willow, birch, and spicebush are all excellent hosts.

And the single best thing you can do costs nothing: turn off the porch light, or switch to a warm amber bulb. Artificial light at night disrupts moth navigation and behavior.

Plant the flowers, dim the lights, and the night crew shows up in droves.

[Gregory Highway Hasman @GregsHighway]

Looking north on US 66.
#NewMexico

[Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. @neoavatara]

True.

It's mostly a risk for ranchers.

[Brett Chapman @brettachapman]

This is a 1912 photo of my great great grandma Alberta Four Eyes, a unique and smart Native American woman. She faced a mountain of discrimination but showed them—she was an oil millionaire and had better business skills investing her money than White Okies who hated Native women

[Chad Livengood @ChadLivengood]

Former @Tigers employee attacked by grizzly bear hiking in Montana

https://t.co/tA7XA70Oqc

via @TonyPaul1984 & @detroitnews

[SD Democratic Party @SoDakDems]

While billionaires - and now, trillionaires - rake in unimaginable amounts of wealth, South Dakotans are struggling to pay their bills. This is not the American Dream.

[Sherrod Brown @SherrodBrown]

My statement on reported FBI raid of Ohio Voting Rights Organization:

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

Donald Slump

[Ken Martin @kenmartin73]

Republicans say we can’t afford healthcare, but are happy with Trump spending billions on vanity projects, war in Iran, and lawless, masked ICE agents.

Vote them out.

[Rep. Ted Lieu @RepTedLieu]

The trump administration's corruption is a danger to our democracy.

Proud to be a cosponsor of this important legislation introduced by @repraskin.

[Reed Galen @reedgalen]

This person has no idea what she's talking about.

[SouthSideObama™ @TheAvgBlackMan]

@DemocracyDocket @thanosgt Why is tv and social media not FLOODED with ads on how the GOP is trying to CHEAT and rig the elections???
#WeNeedNewDemocrats

[Dasha Burns @DashaBurns]

NEW: “Knives are out” at the White House

The ascension of Bill Pulte is a clear sign of the recent mood inside Trump’s White House: angry, insular, grievance-driven and increasingly shaped by a group of loyalists with direct access to the president.

Interviews with Trump allies, GOP Senate aides and people close to the White House reveal a president “increasingly frustrated with everyone, from his own team to the Senate,” a MAGA world operative close to the White House told me.

Much more in today’s @playbookdc.

https://t.co/B2prKkJ9Kf

[NWS Rapid City @NWSRapidCity]

Snow is falling across portions of the higher elevations of the Black Hills this morning. Over the past week we've had high temps, fire wx, severe wx, wind (always wind), and now a little snow. We have fun here! #sdwx #wywx Image courtesy of @SouthDakotaDOT

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Three and a half months into the war, and he still thinks bombastic statements and threats will change anything on the ground. Iranians, and pretty much everyone else in the world, can clearly see that Trump is the one who’s desperate for a deal.