#phoenix-arizona

[desert-love]

The "cougar shadow" has returned to the western face of Superstition Mountain Arizona. The best shadows of the Cougar Chasing Prey appear during the third weeks of March and September. It ties to both spring and fall equinoxes These are the two times of the year when day and night are of approximately equal length. This amazing phenomenon is visible across Apache Junction just before sunset. The actual sighting depends upon the weather and viewing location, but along Superstition Blvd is usually a great place to see it.

[mishacollins]

This was today at @UNLV… Thanks to everyone who turned out with me! Are you in NV or AZ? Wanna come say hi? Take some selfies? Shoot the Breeze? I’ll be at UNLV in Vegas talking politics and stumping for Harris/Walz again tomorrow, Sept 19 at 10 AM and then in Phoenix, AZ tomorrow afternoon:

➡️ 10:00 AM: UNLV Free Speech Space

4505 S Maryland Pkwy Las Vegas, NV 89154

➡️ 1:00 PM: Arizona State University, (by the Memorial Union)

1290 S Normal Ave, Tempe, AZ 85281

➡️ 2:30 PM: Paradise Valley Community College

18401 N 32nd St, Phoenix, AZ 85032

Hope to see you there!

[fatchance]

Black-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus californicus) at Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.

None of the animals or birds at the botanical garden are captive, but many of the critters that live on the grounds become habituated to people. I have never encountered a more laid back jackrabbit than this fellow. When I see them in truly wild conditions they vanish before I can lift my camera. This one was practically posing.

[maureen2musings]

Western Screech Owl

c.gutierrez_photography

"These little owls use saguaros like apartments. Sometimes multiple species will use the same cactus with multiple cavities. Usually woodpeckers do all the hard work of carving out a space. Then other species move in, everything from owl species, song birds, mammals, and woodpeckers use these cavities during nesting season especially. The saguaros are an icon of Arizona, but they’re also critically important to our local wildlife."

[chlobody]

Held back

[humanoidhistory]

Spotted in Phoenix.

[evan-collins90]

ABCO Desert Market - Phoenix, AZ (1990s)

Designed by Arizona Western Fixture & Display

Scanned from the book, 'Market, Supermarket, and Hypermarket Design 2' (1992)

[lionofchaeronea]

Arizona Landscape, Audley Dean Nichols, 1920s

[jailenelizeth69]

[billionbrilliantstars]

Humanity vs Evil

The difference between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is that Trump’s flaws come from a disordered personality and from hatred. Kamala’s flaws come from her humanity. She is human. She is real. She is compassionate and courageous and yeah she did flub up a few interviews as vice president. Because she is a good and genuine human being. She’s been accused of not knowing where she stands because she stands out by not giving the simple easy answers that we crave. She understands the nuance to important issues. Most things are not all or nothing. That is a cognitive bias that all human beings are prone to, but we must fight it. All you have to do to understand who Kamala Harris is, is to read her book. She cares deeply for others and she cares deeply for diversity and justice. When she falls down, because she is human, she fights and gets back up. The things she is criticized for, her joy, her laughter, her occasionally imperfect interviews, her complex view of issues etc., are all things that prove her humanity. We need her leadership. America is a beautiful and wonderful place but we have our skeletons. We have our prejudices. We need to fight them. We need to move towards unity.

Donald Trump has abandoned his humanity a long time ago. I’d argue he abandoned it when Barack Obama became president. He believed his birth certificate conspiracy would have prevented a black man from becoming president, and it didn’t. He knew it was a racist conspiracy. His own mother was an immigrant. It wasn’t about Obama’s father being an immigrant. It was about the color of his skin.

Let’s make the right choice this November. Let’s choose unity. Let’s choose cohesion. Let’s choose justice. Let’s choose a person who does genuinely care about our economic well being.

[deadmotelsusa]

Dead motels of Phoenix, Arizona

[desert-love]

[unplaces]

S Central Ave, Phoenix, Arizona.

[fatchance]

Queen butterfly (Danaus gilippus) visiting mulefat flowers (Baccharis salicifolia), at the Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.

[maureen2musings]

@a.bit.of.lux

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Morgan Stephens at Daily Kos:

With a competitive House race in the balance, arsonists set democracy on fire.  Early Monday morning, ballot boxes at two locations in the Pacific Northwest were destroyed by fire—one in Vancouver, Washington, and another in Portland, Oregon—with election officials estimating that “hundreds of ballots” may have been burned. In Portland, Oregon, police found that an incendiary device had been placed inside a voting drop box. However, a fire suppressant inside the box protected all but three ballots, and the local elections office planned to reach out to the affected voters to help them obtain replacement ballots. Shortly thereafter, another fire was set at a ballot box in Vancouver, Washington, near a public transit center. Clark County Elections Auditor Greg Kimsey confirmed to Forbes that mail-in ballots dropped off in the receptacle over the weekend had not been picked up, and that “hundreds” have been destroyed. He urged voters who dropped their ballot in the box at Fisher's Landing Transit Center after 11 AM PT Saturday to contact Clark County Elections for a replacement. 

[...] At the presidential level, Washington and Oregon are historically solid Democratic states, with Joe Biden winning them in 2020 by over 19 percentage points and 16 points, respectively. However, there’s a crucial House race in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District between Democratic incumbent Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and Republican Joe Kent, whom Donald Trump endorsed. She narrowly won in 2022, with a margin of 2,633 votes over Kent, who also ran that year. Her victory was a shock in this red-tinted district, which 538 calculated as having a partisan lean of R+11.2.

MAGA voter intimidation games are going on, as hundreds of thousands of ballots got burned in key Democratic strongholds such as Portland, Oregon, Vancouver, Washington, and Phoenix, Arizona in recent days.

See Also:

Arizona Republic: Phoenix police ID suspect in connection with mailbox fire where ballots burned