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Desert bird of paradise (Erythrostemon gilliesii) at Fairbank Townsite, San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, Cochise County, Arizona.

Elegant earless lizard (Holbrookia elegans

♀). Seen on the river loop trail at Fairbank Townsite, San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, Cochise County, Arizona.

The entire Breonna Taylor Incident/Investigation report, released today by the Louisville Metro Police Department—90 days after her murder by officers of the self-same police department. Her attackers have not been charged.

Injuries: None.

This is obscene.

Photo of a statement from Donald Trump—shameless and unabashed white supremacist and President of the United States—handed out to reporters during a White House press briefing today. Posted to twitter by

Franco

Ordoñez, White House correspondent for NPR.

The irony of training at bases named for those who took up arms against the United States, and for the right to enslave others, is inescapable to anyone paying attention. Now, belatedly, is the moment for us to pay such attention.

David Petraeus, retired U.S. Army general and former CIA director for The Atlantic, Take the Confederate Names Off Our Army Bases.

It’s about the history. When you build a statue of someone and place it at a center of civic life, it’s not a statement that they existed, or that they did things. Many people have lived and died and done things in between. It’s a statement that they should be honored, revered, held up as an icon around which we should organize our society. That their deeds, and the values they lived by, should be a source of inspiration for us all in the here and now. […] It’s about history, but not in the way people who defend Confederate monuments like to talk about it. These statues are not constructed to communicate history: they tell you little about Columbus, or Nathan Bedford Forrest, except that they were worthy of honor. But they are not. They are the the beneficiaries of false histories, written and rewritten down the decades as much to absolve ourselves as these men.

Jack Holmes, for the Esquire politics blog,

Tearing Down These Monuments Doesn’t Erase History. It Rescues History.

Untitled.

There was a noisy ruckus in the treetops as I walked by the cottonwoods in this photo. A nesting pair of common ravens (Corvus corax) had raided a Cassin’s flycatcher nest, and the flycatchers were enraged by the loss of their egg, calling and diving at the ravens. Then the ravens got upset with me for observing the fracas from 20 meters away. The raven nest (third photo from top) is a messy, untidy thing, but there are two raven chicks hunkered down inside, apparently unconcerned by all the commotion.

Yesterday’s path though an unnamed arroyo.

Breakfast.

Gila woodpeckers (Melanerpes uropygialis) feeding their chicks at San Pedro House. There is at least one other baby in their knothole nest.