Conservationist,Bird watcher,Master gardener,fly fishing,usually found at #therapycabin creating varied habitat for animals

Southeast Mn/Mpls Metro
Joined November 2016
Sunday in small-town America.
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Happy Alaska Day Frens! Today is the 158th anniversary of the Treaty of Cession, negotiated by U.S. Secretary of State William Seward, to pay Russian two cents per acre for Alaska. The purchase was widely ridiculed as, "Seward's Folly."
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Tim Grady retweeted
๐ˆ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š๐ง ๐š๐›๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž that while the media fixates on specific fraud cases and political figures, they conveniently ignore the massive, democrat created taxpayer-funded incentive structure that makes Minnesota a magnet for Somali immigrants who have no interest in assimilation or contributing to our economy. The issue isn't just all their illegal schemes; the system itself is rigged to reward those who despise our nation. ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐š๐ง ๐ฎ๐ง๐ž๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฒ๐ž๐ ๐’๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ฅ๐ข ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐ž๐ž ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ง. ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐š ๐ฉ๐š๐œ๐ค๐š๐ ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ "๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฅ" ๐›๐ž๐ง๐ž๐Ÿ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐Ÿ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐š๐ค๐ž-๐ก๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฉ๐š๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Œ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐จ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ฌ: โ€ขHousing: Subsidized rent, often reaching $2,500 monthly. โ€ขCash and Nutrition: Roughly $2,000 per month in combined cash assistance and SNAP benefits. โ€ขHealthcare: Complete, premium-free medical coverage for the entire family. โ€ขUtilities: Energy assistance grants that effectively wipe out heating and electric bills. โ€ขConnectivity: Heavily discounted or fully covered cell phone and internet services. โ€ขNutrition Support: WIC benefits and universal free school meals. โ€ขChildcare: Up to $2,500 monthly for childcare, which can be funneled to neighbors. โ€ขSSI Windfalls: If children are labeled as having autism, the family receives $990 per child, per month, in tax-free Supplemental Security Income. โ€ขUp to $35,000 totally forgivable first generation first time home buyer down payment assistance It is high time we stop pretending that rooting out fraud is enough. We are incentivizing the permanent settlement of a population that largely rejects American values while putting the burden of the cost squarely on the shoulders of hard-working, native-born citizens. The data confirms this is a systemic failure, not a series of anomalies. Analysis of Census Bureau American Community Survey data (2014โ€“2023) by the Center for Immigration Studies reveals that approximately 81% of Somali-headed households in Minnesota utilize some form of means-tested welfareโ€”a figure that jumps to 89% for those with children. Looking at the breakdown, roughly 54% are on food stamps and 73% rely on Medicaid. Even after living in the United States for a decade or more, these trends remain largely unchanged, paired with child poverty rates near 52% compared to roughly 8% for native households. We are importing and subsidizing a permanent underclass that refuses to integrate, and our state leadership remains complicit in this demographic and economic transformation. This totally disgusts me.. How about you. ๐ŸŒถ๏ธ
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The summer side of life: 400 cameras, one wild place, lots of cool moments.
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Elon nailed the double standard. If we shipped 100,000 Americans to Greenland, elected an American prime minister, and voted the place into the U.S., the left would lose their minds. Do that to Europe through mass immigration and they call it progress. Same playbook here. Import the votes. Change the country. Then act shocked when the natives notice. Europe is the warning. November is the off-ramp. Vote Republican. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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โ€œWe cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun.โ€ โ€” Henry David Thoreau, from Walden.
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Another Blackburnian Warbler from summer in northeastern Minnesota. It sure will be nice to see them again next year. 7 months to go till, God willing, I'm back in Galveston watching them arrive on their way north. #birds #birdphotograpy #naturephotogrpahy
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Here is Mamdani crying his eyes out over his "aunty" not wearing a hijab because 9/11
Zohran Mamdani at a 9/11 memorial vs at a speech about Islamophobia:
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A nice photo of a Great-crested flycatcher.
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It deliberately changed it's path across the paddock to sniff the Landcare cat/fox lures. Echidna build a life-long, place-based memory of smells cross-referenced with good or bad events to guide how to react to the same smell in future. Just like us. #SHLDG
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As the #1 prospect in WNBA history, I would like to extend an apology to these 2 women. Free speech is a pillar of America and we infringe upon it at our own peril. Iโ€™m not so sure why anybody would be so upset anywayโ€ฆ Chromosomes are just a social construct, science is a cis normative patriarchal oppression. We are moving beyond that. Clock it! ๐Ÿค๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿ‘ธ๐Ÿฝ Thank you ladies! Youโ€™re stunning and brave!
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The American dream must be restored and defended. A family, a home, a reliable job, and a country to believe in and love.
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Never really thought I would get close to a 20# muskmelon but here we are. Avatars are huge this year. Flavor is excellent also.
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A Bald Eagle doing some late day hunting in northern Minnesota near Pequot Lakes (Whitefish Chain of Lakes).
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Gopher Tortoise A common, yet threatened keystone species of the pineland scrubs of Florida, the gopher tortoise is extremely important to so many of the species it lives with, tremendous conservation efforts are being put into place to save this vulnerable animal and its habitat. This long-lived and only native North American tortoise is found throughout much of the coastal Southeast, and the most important thing it does for its home is dig. Gopher tortoises build enormous burrows that can be up to 50 feet long and nearly 10 feet deep, and not only just one burrow. Over the area of several acres, it can build many burrows to suit its needs over a lifetime. These tunnels keep it safe from predators, cool in summer, warm in winter, and more importantly - become homes and shelters for other species who have evolved to take advantage of this master burrower's talents. Biologists have named at least 360 species that rely on these burrows for their own livelihood, such as foxes, skunks, rattlesnakes, etc.... This one was photographed near the Estero River in Estero, Florida. See more at: richleighton.com
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7-31-2026 Sunset Central Minnesota
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Virginia Mountain Mint Monarda(BeeBalm) Purple Coneflower Rattlesnake Master All in bloom in the native patch Fillmore County,Minnesota
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