I'm just here for the happy :)

Everything I have could be gone in the morning. Too often I'm cynical, focusing only on the negative. I want to practice being positive and sharing gratitude.

[Keisha For Georgia @KeishaForGA]

Listen to @KeishaBottoms share the difference between her and Rick Jackson: “While I’ve spent my career serving the people of Georgia, as a judge and as a mayor, Rick Jackson has been making a profit off the people of Georgia.”

[Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman]

Y’all Republicans nominated an old billionaire for Governor and a hateful weirdo for Senate to lead and represent one of the youngest and most diverse populations in the country.

We nominated them 💃🏻

[CleanLAwithMe @CleanLAwithMe]

People are living in these conditions, and the surrounding community has been dealing with rats, trash, drug use, and a terrible smell for far too long.

This is a public health and safety issue. We urge the appropriate authorities to inspect this property, provide help to those in need, and take action to protect the neighborhood.

Everyone deserves to live in a clean and safe environment.

Please share this video so it reaches the people who can make a difference.

#CleanLAwithMe #LosAngeles #CommunityFirst #PublicSafety #KeepLAClean

[CleanLAwithMe @CleanLAwithMe]

Another tunnel in Los Angeles has become home to people living in unsafe conditions.
We cleaned this tunnel, but unfortunately it’s once again filled with garbage, human waste, needles, and burned trash. Neighbors say they’re worried because it’s becoming a serious safety hazard.

This isn’t about judging anyone—it’s about finding real solutions that protect both the people living here and the surrounding community.

Help us keep Los Angeles clean and bring attention to these issues. Watch until the end, like, comment, share, and follow to support our mission. Links are in our bio! ❤️♻️
#CleanLAwithMe #LosAngeles #KeepLAClean #HomelessCrisis #tunnels

[Keisha For Georgia @KeishaForGA]

Here are 3 things you should know about Rick Jackson.

[CleanLAwithMe @CleanLAwithMe]

Every full view makes a difference! ❤️
Please watch our videos until the end to help us monetize our content. Your support helps us continue cleaning Los Angeles while raising funds for Julián’s transplant.

🙏 Follow, like, comment, and share to help us reach more people.

🔗 All links are in our BIO!
#CleanLAwithMe #LosAngeles #CommunityCleanup #SupportJulian #GoFundMe @machinhats

[Trae Crowder @traecrowder]

How hard is it to clean a damn (reflecting) pool anyway?!

[CleanLAwithMe @CleanLAwithMe]

If you watch this video for more than 8 seconds, you’ll help me monetize my content so I can continue this mission to keep Los Angeles clean and help pay for my son Julián’s transplant.

Please follow, like, comment, and share—every interaction helps us reach more people and continue making a difference.

Thank you for your support! ❤️🙏

[Keisha For Georgia @KeishaForGA]

BREAKING: This race is now a toss-up!

Because of your support, Inside Elections upgraded this race from “Tilt Republican” to “Toss-up”. We won’t stop working until we flip Georgia blue in November!

[Keisha For Georgia @KeishaForGA]

WATCH: In her new ad, "How Long," Keisha shares her plan to expand Medicaid, lower health care costs, and protect rural hospitals.

While hundreds of thousands of Georgians lose health care coverage, Rick Jackson opposes Medicaid expansion.

The choice is clear. #gapol

[Christopher Tester @CGTester]

‘PLEASE USE AI’ by Jo Atkins-Potts

[I'm just here for the happy :) @MeBenefits]

Like cops acting on a "probable cause" would even give anyone the chance to ask, "Do you have a warrant?"
Also, no one knows what they will do in high-stress situations until they experience them. I know what I do in certain scenarios. There are others I have yet to know.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

is this a joke? why do you think so many people wind up dead at the hands of "cops at the door without a warrant"?
they do not need a warrant if they have "probable cause" to suspect that a crime is being committed on the premises; in fact, they can break down the door.

& whatever they say, you had better obey or they can shoot with the excuse that they "feared for their lives" or you "lunged at their gun."

& whatever the legal consequences, if your family sues & wins an enormous lawsuit because you were killed, it isn't the police officers who pay but, surprise, you yourself along with other taxpayers. police have all but 100% immunity in the US & taxpayers bail them out every time.

[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.

[I'm just here for the happy :) @MeBenefits]

💔💔💔

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A poisoned rat doesn't die fast. It goes slowly and painfully.

It clumsily wanders out in the open for a day or two, which makes it the easiest meal around for the owl, the hawk, the fox, or the snake that was already hunting your rodents for free.

They eat the dying rat and swallow the poison with it. Then it builds up in them.

The numbers are grim. At one Massachusetts wildlife clinic, 100% of the red-tailed hawks tested carried anticoagulant rat poison in their bodies.

In California, testing found it in 69% of endangered San Joaquin kit foxes. These second-generation poisons linger in tissue and pass from one animal to the next, killing by slow internal bleeding.

So you poison the rats, and you poison the exact predators that keep rats in check. The yard ends up with more rodents, not fewer.

Skip the bait. Seal the gaps where they get in, cut off their food, and use snap traps if you need them, indoors and away from kids and pets.

Then let the hawks and foxes handle the rest.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

One milkweed plant, blazing star, or sunflower alone in your yard isn't all that attractive to a bee. Planting a bunch of them together is like a flashing billboard.

Bees don't wander flower to flower at random. They forage with what's called flower constancy, working one kind of bloom at a time, because it's more efficient to handle the same shape over and over than to relearn a new one every few seconds.

A single scattered plant barely registers. A solid block of the same flower is easy to spot from the air and fast to work once they arrive, so they stay, and they come back.

This is why pollinator gardeners often get better results by planting several individuals of the same species together rather than scattering them individually throughout the landscape. The Xerces Society puts the target at clumps of a single kind at least three to four feet across.

So at the nursery, resist the urge to buy one of everything. Buy three of fewer things, and plant them together.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

That bread you're tossing to the ducks malnourishes the adults and can leave the babies unable to fly for the rest of their lives.

Bread is junk food for a duck. It fills them up so they quit foraging for the bugs, plants, and seeds that actually feed them.

In a growing duckling, a diet that heavy in empty carbs makes the wing grow too fast and twist at the joint. The feathers jut out sideways, the wing never works right, and the bird is grounded for good. It's called angel wing, and in an adult it can't be undone.

It doesn't stop at the birds. A pond where people dump bread gets crowded and aggressive, ducklings never learn to find their own food, and the soggy leftovers rot into algae blooms and draw rats.

If you want to feed them, give them food, not filler: cracked corn, oats, halved grapes, chopped lettuce, a handful of thawed peas.

Better yet, just watch them. A healthy pond already feeds its ducks. They were doing fine before the bread showed up.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Holy shit, 40,000 new friends in a single day?

I'm still stunned at how many of you are showing up and giving a shit about nature. As a massive thank you, I'm doing another free "Give A Shit About Nature" sticker giveaway.

→ Find the link in first reply

They'll look way better on your water bottle, laptop, or bumper than piled on my desk 😅

Grateful as hell for every single one of you. Y'all are the best.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man."

A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life.

Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

Exciting news: my legislation, the BARK Act, is now one step closer to becoming law! The bill will help pet food manufacturers and pet food stores donate usable, surplus food and supplies to shelter cats and dogs in need.

I joined my friends Penny and Julie at the Big Bad Woof, a beloved local business, to celebrate our progress.

[Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon @RepMGS]

Take a look at $30 of fresh fruits and vegetables that Head Start programs provide. Under the White House's proposed cuts, this is all a Mom and her kids would have for a MONTH. This is plain wrong, especially given the lavish lifestyle of the President and his political allies.