NaturalLightVee 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻

Amateur photographer & naturalist. Love all things nature & animal. Mother of felines & a canary. Instagrm: NaturalLightVee Blusky: @naturallightvee.bsky.social

[Vince Mpls @vincempls]

The Kennedy Center’s Grand Foyer is 630' long and 63' high. The crystal chandeliers were hand-blown by @orrefors and an official gift by the Kingdom of @Sweden in 1971. The huge mirrors at left were a gift the Kingdom of @Belgium on behalf of its people and nation.

[Negan @Roger_Negan]

This

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Joyce Beatty put baby in corner.

[Jim. Yellow Dog Democrat @CommentOnTWLB]

Sorta sums it up, doesn’t it?

[American Museum of Natural History @AMNH]

#DYK? The short beaked echidna is a monotreme, meaning it’s one of the few mammals that lays eggs instead of bearing live young. And? This species is unusually long-lived, with individuals living up to 50 years in captivity. This spiky critter can weigh ~15.4 lbs (7 kg).

[NaturalLightVee 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 @cosievee]

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[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

NBC's premiere of "The Monkees"--sixty years ago tonight:

[Micky Dolenz @TheMickyDolenz1]

Today marks 60 years since The Monkees first premiered on NBC.

The first episode to air was “Royal Flush,” although, in true Monkees fashion, it wasn't the first one we actually filmed. Typical for us to be already out of order before people had even seen us.

What followed was more than any of us could have imagined: the records, the tours, the fans, the Emmy, the reruns, the revivals, and all these years of people just like you telling me what the show and the music have meant to them.

Tonight, I get to celebrate that anniversary in the city where it all began.

Los Angeles, come celebrate with me tonight at The United Theater on Broadway for Micky Dolenz Celebrates 60 Years of The Monkees.

Bring your singing voice. I’ll bring the tambourine!

Tickets and tour dates:
https://t.co/LQpZZoClDG

#MickyDolenz #TheMonkees

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

The rule at Ground Zero has stood since 2012: no politician gets a podium. Just the names, 2,977 of them, read one by one.

Trump asked to speak. When organizers said no, he chose not to show up at all, headed to the Pentagon instead, where he would get a microphone.

Obama, Biden, Bush, and Clinton showed up anyway, with Michelle, Jill, Laura, and Hillary standing beside them, on the 25th anniversary of the worst day in this country’s history.

Four presidents chose silence over a stage.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

That scruffy-looking, half-grown raccoon wandering through your yard in broad daylight is in the most dangerous stretch of its entire life. It isn't sick and it isn't orphaned. It just left home for the first time.

September and October are dispersal season for a lot of young wildlife. The raccoons, foxes, opossums, skunks, and coyotes born this spring are leaving the territories where they were raised and trying to find somewhere of their own.

For the first time, they're doing all of it alone: crossing roads they've never crossed, moving through ground that already belongs to an adult, finding food with nobody showing them where it is, and locating shelter before winter.

That's why young animals turn up in places that look wrong. A raccoon crosses your lawn at noon. A young fox sits awkwardly next to a shed. An opossum looks thin and scruffy and unsure what to do next.

Daylight doesn't mean rabies. What actually warrants a call is neurological: stumbling, circling, paralysis, repeated falling, seizures, or an animal that barely reacts when you approach. That's worth a wildlife rehabilitator or animal control. Young, alone and confused is not.

And don't trap one and drive it somewhere nicer. You aren't releasing it into an empty forest. You're dropping it into another animal's territory with no den it knows, no food it can find, and no idea where it is.

The best thing you can do to keep what's yours yours is make your house a terrible place to move into. Cap the chimney, screen the vents, close the crawlspace, block the gaps under the shed and the deck, and secure the garbage. If you keep chickens, check the coop tonight. Hardware cloth instead of chicken wire, buried at the perimeter, birds locked in after dark.

Give the young upstarts passing through your yard a chance to keep going.

[NaturalLightVee 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 @cosievee]

WTF?

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Republican New Hampshire Senate candidate John Sununu says he supports a work requirement for seniors on Medicare:

"I certainly support a work requirement for able-bodied Medicare recipients."

[Owl Vibes @OWLYCURIOSITY]

@BlisterPearl It’s pretty disgusting….

[American Museum of Natural History @AMNH]

Who’s this fuzzy noodle? That would be the long-tailed weasel. North America’s largest weasel, this nocturnal critter feeds on small mammals, insects, and birds. It inhabits the burrows of other species, but it’s also a skilled climber that can often be found in the trees.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

For Republicans, this is called an INCONVENIENT FACT.

[NaturalLightVee 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 @cosievee]

Please share kindly.

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[Katherine Clark @TeamKClark]

They're using your tax dollars to make sickening video games instead of doing anything to lower your costs.

Remember that in November.

[NaturalLightVee 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 @cosievee]

Feed cleanse! ❤️

[American Museum of Natural History @AMNH]

The little pygmy possum is the smallest possum in the world. This marsupial typically weighs only 0.4 oz (10 g)—about the weight of 10 almonds. This omnivore has a taste for the nectar & pollen of flowering plants, and it can consume up to 7% of its body weight in a single day!

[NaturalLightVee 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 @cosievee]

*sigh* Such a disappointment. I’ve been following his career since he was mayor of Braddock, so I wasn’t under any allusion that he was some liberal wonder. There were things I disagreed with him on, but I agreed on more things than not. He has majorly changed.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

The new WSJ report on John Fetterman is absolutely brutal:

- Canceled on 3 paralyzed veterans who traveled to DC to discuss their care, then showed up less than an hour later for a Fox News interview

- Reportedly refused meetings with constituents and lawmakers, including Pennsylvanians seeking help on Medicaid, homelessness and flood relief

- Asked why he had to meet with Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, then reportedly said they “just want free trips to DC”

- Skipped 11 of 12 full committee hearings during one stretch

- Later had aides help ensure he was marked “present” at hearings even when he reportedly stayed for a minute or less

- Backed out of a funeral for 3 slain police officers after learning it would last three hours, responding: “3 hours??”

- Stopped regularly attending caucus meetings

- Told Israel’s ambassador he would write an op-ed based on points the ambassador sent over. Embassy staff later sent drafted talking points, but Fetterman’s own staff withheld them over concerns about potential Foreign Agents Registration Act issues

- Former staffers say he increasingly prioritized conservative media appearances and Israel advocacy over basic Senate work

And yes, there are texts…