By Lambert Strether of Corrente.<\/p>\n
Bird Song of the Day<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Sedge Warbler, Parque Ambiental de Vilamoura, Loul\u00e9, Faro, Portugal. \u201cFotos e vocaliza\u00e7\u00f5es a adicionar.Aves a vocalizar ao mesmo tempo em s\u00edtios diferentes.\u201d A child\u2019s bicycle horn in there, somewhere?<\/p>\n
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In Case You Might Miss\u2026 <\/p>\n
(1) Hunter Biden \u2014 dear Hunter! \u2014 convicted on gun charges.<\/p>\n
(2) Luntz focus group on Trump conviction<\/p>\n
(3) Library card catalogs.<\/p>\n
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Politics<\/p>\n
\u201cSo many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.\u201d \u2013Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles<\/p>\n
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2024<\/p>\n
Less than a half a year to go!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
RCP Poll Averages, May 24:<\/p>\n
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No discernible effect from Trump\u2019s conviction yet (though Democrats have only just begun to exploit it). Swing States (more here) still Brownian-motioning around. Of course, it goes without saying that these are all state polls, therefore bad, and most of the results are within the margin of error. If will be interesting to see whether the verdict in Judge Merchan\u2019s court affects the polling, and if so, how.<\/p>\n
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Trump (R): \u201c\u2018Antihero\u2019 or \u2018Felon\u2019: 11 Undecided Voters Struggle With How to See Trump Post-Verdict\u201d [New York Times]. \u201c\u201dHow the heck can you be undecided at this point?\u201d Four hours after the conviction of Donald Trump, the focus group moderator Frank Luntz posed that question to 11 voters who said they were still torn \u2013 even post-verdict \u2013 between whether to support Mr. Trump or President Biden (and, for some, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) in November\u2026. All 11 participants in our Times Opinion focus group were swing voters: They had supported or been open to Hillary Clinton or Mr. Biden at least once in 2016, 2020 or 2024, and backed or considered Mr. Trump at least once in those years as well. \u2026 Inflation, the economy, immigration and abortion were the things that they said would ultimately determine their votes.\u201d That\u2019s the Times intro. I highly recommend you read the entire article, whose body consists of free-form Q&A with the focus group, which Luntz is very good at. I can\u2019t summarize, but this exchange caught my eye:<\/p>\n
Jonathan, 37, Florida, Black, operations manager<\/p>\n
Trump is not a moral compass to a lot of his supporters. He\u2019s the bad guy that\u2019ll do things on our behalf. He\u2019s the Tony Soprano or the Walter White \u2014<\/p>\n
Ben, 42, Texas, white, college adviser<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t bring my \u201cSopranos\u201d into this.<\/p>\n
Jonathan, 37, Florida, Black, operations manager<\/p>\n
He\u2019s an antihero.<\/p>\n
Ben, 42, Texas, white, college adviser<\/p>\n
Come on, man.<\/p>\n
Moderator, Frank Luntz<\/p>\n
OK, hold on. Hold on. Hilary, you\u2019re grimacing right now. Explain why.<\/p>\n
Hilary, 55, California, white, social worker<\/p>\n
Jonathan, when you brought up \u201cThe Sopranos,\u201d I got it. He\u2019s the antihero. And that\u2019s why I cast a vote in 2016 for him, though I did expect at the time that a lot of the shtick was just shtick and that once elected, if elected, no grown 71-year-old man would comport himself in the way he did. What does that portend, though, for a democracy if we have nothing but antiheroes, going forward? That these people, these complicated, murky, ambiguous, morally ambiguous people, are the models? And maybe that\u2019s putting it mildly and gently. What does that portend for our system of government?<\/p>\n
Again, I highly recommend that you read the whole thing.<\/p>\n
Trump (R): \u201cTrump Sexual Misconduct Allegations: What We Know\u201d [Teen Vogue]. \u201cAs he runs for president again, The 19th is pulling together allegations of sexual assault and harassment against him and people who worked for or with him in his campaigns or in his time in the White House. Some resigned only to be later welcomed back into the fold; some have stayed connected to Trump.\u201d \u2022 Quite a list.<\/p>\n
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Trump (R) (People vs. Trump): \u201cWhat potential grounds does Donald Trump have to appeal his hush money conviction\u201d [ABC]. Various: \u201cWhile the crime of falsifying business records \u2014 which Trump was charged with \u2014 is a misdemeanor, prosecutors charged Trump with a felony, arguing he falsified records with an intent to conceal another crime. \u2018I think the statute is at risk of being declared unconstitutional because the statute that charged the former president with the felony does not say what that other crime is that elevates the misdemeanor to a felony,\u2019 Randy Zelin, a Cornell University Law professor, told ABC News.\u201d And: \u201cIn U.S. criminal law, a jury needs to unanimously find a defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. But, one expert argues the judge\u2019s jury instructions were not clear and could be grounds for appeal\u2026. \u2018It is equally a bedrock principle of our system of justice, that a defendant\u2019s guilt must be proven beyond reasonable doubt by a unanimous jury, and for the judge to essentially permit the jurors to disagree over what this other crime was \u2026 [and] still convict the defendant \u2014 that flies in the face of everything that this country was built on,\u2019 Zelin said.\u201d And: \u201cOther experts say a similar Sixth Amendment argument Trump\u2019s attorneys could make is that they didn\u2019t have notice of the three different theories of the unlawful means Trump intended to commit in violation of New York election law, which prosecutors told the jury in closing arguments.\u201d And: \u201cTrump could potentially also argue the charges were unconstitutionally \u2018vague\u2019 based on the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.\u201d Finally: \u201cWhile experts said Trump could move for an expedited timeline of appeal due to the upcoming election, it is unclear if the appeal could be concluded before November. [Brian Buckmire, an ABC News legal contributor] said it could still take a year before the appeal is concluded.’\u201d \u2022 I am sure readers are familiar with all these points already, but here they are at ABC!<\/p>\n
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Biden (D): \u201cHunter Biden convicted on all 3 charges at federal gun trial\u201d [CNN]. \u201cA federal jury has convicted Hunter Biden on all three federal felony gun charges he faced, concluding that he violated laws meant to prevent drug addicts from owning firearms. The conviction marks the first time a president\u2019s immediate family member has been found guilty of a crime during their father\u2019s term in office, though his crimes predate Joe Biden\u2019s tenure as president. The jury, which deliberated for just under three hours, returned guilty verdicts on all three charges, which stemmed from a revolver Hunter Biden bought in October 2018 at a Delaware gun shop. The first two counts were for lying about his drug use on a federal background check form, and the third count was for possessing a gun while addicted to, or using, illegal drugs. Hunter Biden could face up to 25 years in prison and a fine of up to $750,000 at sentencing, though he likely will receive far less than the maximum as a first-time offender. Before dismissing the parties, the judge told them sentencing is usually set for 120 days following a verdict, which means it is likely to happen before Election Day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Biden (D): \u201cWhat son\u2019s conviction means for President Biden\u201d [BBC]. \u2022 It means that there\u2019s nothing in court about Dear Hunter\u2019s business dealings, which is all to the good (for Biden).<\/p>\n
Biden (D): \u201cHunter Biden trial shows the first family\u2019s agony \u2014 and its bond\u201d [Financial Times]. \u201cUnsavoury as the trial\u2019s revelations have been, though, some believe it might also remind voters of Biden\u2019s virtues as a father, particularly at a time when so many American families are dealing with drug addiction. That is the view of Chris Whipple, who chronicled the family in his book The Fight Of His Life: Inside Joe Biden\u2019s White House. \u2018For, me, the trial confirms what we\u2019ve always known about Joe Biden,\u2019 Whipple said. \u2018It\u2019s just hard to overstate how strong the bond is between him and Hunter. How close they are.\u2019 Even if his political career demanded it, Whipple is convinced the president would never cast Hunter aside. \u201cFamily is everything to Biden,\u201d he observed.\u201d \u2022 I left out all the Beau Biden stuff. Give it a rest. I wonder if Biden\u2019s dogs started biting people only after Beau died, or whether they\u2019ve always done it. My money\u2019s on the latter.<\/p>\n
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Biden (D): \u201cLaptop deniers conspired to make Hunter Biden news disappear. They can\u2019t now\u201d [FOX]. \u201cWatching the coverage this week out of Delaware was like finding oneself in a parallel universe. There were ABC, NBC, CBS, the Washington Post and other news outlets reporting matter-of-factly that the Hunter Biden laptop showed no evidence of tampering and was both real and authentic. These are the same outlets, and some of the same reporters, who eagerly spread the false claims that the laptop was \u2018Russian disinformation.\u2019\u2026 Yet, what followed the testimony of FBI agent Erika Jensen was absolute crickets. There was no effort to track down the signatories of the now-debunked letter from former intelligence officials just before the election. In the letter, figures such as Leon Panetta, former CIA director in the Obama administration, claimed that the letter had all the markings of a Russian disinformation effort by intelligence services. (Panetta continued to make the assertion even in late 2023 in pushing what the federal government is now calling a \u2018conspiracy theory.\u2019) There was no attempt by the media to confront associates of the Biden campaign (including now Secretary of State Antony Blinken) who pushed a long effort to get former intelligence officials to sign a letter. \u201d \u2022 But surely that was \u201celection interference\u201d?<\/p>\n
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Kennedy (I): \u201cRFK Jr. sues Nevada\u2019s top election official over ballot access as he scrambles to join debate stage\u201d [Orlando Sentinel]. \u201cRobert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s campaign filed a lawsuit Friday against Nevada\u2019s top election official, alleging a requirement that independent candidates must name their running mate by the time they start gathering signatures for ballot access is unconstitutional. The filing in the U.S. District Court of Nevada comes just over two months after Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar\u2019s office clarified guidance that would likely nullify signatures that Kennedy Jr\u2019s campaign collected for November\u2019s ballot due to the petition not listing a running mate. Kennedy Jr\u2019s campaign said in the lawsuit that they received approval in January from Aguilar\u2019s office allowing them to collect the required 10,095 signatures for a petition that did not list his vice presidential selection. The requirement to name a running mate on the petition, the campaign alleges, violates the 1st Amendment and the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Realignment and Legitimacy<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018Jesus was the best affiliate marketer in the world\u2019: How a \u2018Reverend CEO\u2019 allegedly stole $1 billion in a crypto scam\u201d [MarketWatch]. \u2022 Indeed!<\/p>\n
Syndemics<\/p>\n
\u201cI am in earnest \u2014 I will not equivocate \u2014 I will not excuse \u2014 I will not retreat a single inch \u2014 AND I WILL BE HEARD.\u201d \u2013William Lloyd Garrison<\/p>\n
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Covid Resources, United States (National): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; includes many counties; Wastewater Scan, includes drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); \u201cIowa COVID-19 Tracker\u201d (in IA, but national data). \u201cInfection Control, Emergency Management, Safety, and General Thoughts\u201d (especially on hospitalization by city).<\/p>\n
Lambert here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To update any entry, do feel free to contact me at the address given with the plants. Please put \u201cCOVID\u201d in the subject line. Thank you!<\/p>\n
Resources, United States (Local): AK (dashboard); AL (dashboard); AR (dashboard); AZ (dashboard); CA (dashboard; Marin, dashboard; Stanford, wastewater; Oakland, wastewater); CO (dashboard; wastewater); CT (dashboard); DE (dashboard); FL (wastewater); GA (wastewater); HI (dashboard); IA (wastewater reports); ID (dashboard, Boise; dashboard, wastewater, Central Idaho; wastewater, Coeur d\u2019Alene; dashboard, Spokane County); IL (wastewater); IN (dashboard); KS (dashboard; wastewater, Lawrence); KY (dashboard, Louisville); LA (dashboard); MA (wastewater); MD (dashboard); ME (dashboard); MI (wastewater; wastewater); MN (dashboard); MO (wastewater); MS (dashboard); MT (dashboard); NC (dashboard); ND (dashboard; wastewater); NE (dashboard); NH (wastewater); NJ (dashboard); NM (dashboard); NV (dashboard; wastewater, Southern NV); NY (dashboard); OH (dashboard); OK (dashboard); OR (dashboard); PA (dashboard); RI (dashboard); SC (dashboard); SD (dashboard); TN (dashboard); TX (dashboard); UT (wastewater); VA (dashboard); VT (dashboard); WA (dashboard; dashboard); WI (wastewater); WV (wastewater); WY (wastewater).<\/p>\n
Resources, Canada (National): Wastewater (Government of Canada).<\/p>\n
Resources, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux us\u00e9es); BC (wastewater); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).<\/p>\n
Hat tips to helpful readers: Alexis, anon (2), Art_DogCT, B24S, CanCyn, ChiGal, Chuck L, Festoonic, FM, FreeMarketApologist (4), Gumbo, hop2it, JB, JEHR, JF, JL Joe, John, JM (10), JustAnotherVolunteer, JW, KatieBird, LL, Michael King, KF, LaRuse, mrsyk, MT, MT_Wild, otisyves, Petal (6), RK (2), RL, RM, Rod, square coats (11), tennesseewaltzer, Tom B., Utah, Bob White (3). <\/p>\n
Stay safe out there!<\/p>\n
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Maskstravaganza<\/p>\n
Masking as an ADA accommodation:<\/p>\n
Important life-saving info: if you have a condition on the CDC’s list of risk factors for COVID-19 you can get universal masking as an ADA accommodation. <\/p>\n
Here’s some helpful info on how this applies to healthcare from @PeoplesCDC : <\/p>\n
\u2014 Anna (@Annatated) May 9, 2023<\/p>\n
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Lambert here: Patient readers, I finally gave up the unequal struggle and went with CDC\u2019s wastewater maps; they will at least give us some at-a-glance sense of how cases are changing in time and space. <\/p>\n
TABLE 1: Daily Covid Charts<\/p>\n
LEGEND<\/p>\n
1) \u2605 for charts new today; all others are not updated.<\/p>\n
2) For a full-size\/full-resolution image, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Windows) on the chart thumbnail and \u201copen image in new tab.\u201d<\/p>\n
NOTES<\/p>\n
[1] (CDC) This week\u2019s wastewater map, with hot spots annotated.<\/p>\n
[2] (CDC) This week\u2019s wastewater map, not annotated. Next week I will move the map at [1] to [2], and update [1].<\/p>\n
[3] (CDC Variants) FWIW, given that last week KP.2 was all over everything like kudzu, and now it\u2019s KP.3. If the \u201cNowcast\u201d can\u2019t even forecast two weeks out, why are we doing it at all?<\/p>\n
[4] (ER) This is the best I can do for now. At least data for the entire pandemic is presented.<\/p>\n
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Slight leveling out? (The New York city area has form; in 2020, as the home of two international airports (JFK and EWR) it was an important entry point for the virus into the country (and from thence up the Hudson River valley, as the rich sought to escape, and then around the country through air travel.)<\/p>\n
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). This is the best I can do for now. Note the assumption that Covid is seasonal is built into the presentation. At least data for the entire pandemic is presented.<\/p>\n
[7] (Walgreens) 4.3%; big jump. (Because there is data in \u201ccurrent view\u201d tab, I think white states here have experienced \u201cno change,\u201d as opposed to have no data.)<\/p>\n
[8] (Cleveland) Going up.<\/p>\n
[9] (Travelers: Positivity) Up. Those sh*theads at CDC have changed the chart so that it doesn\u2019t even run back to 1\/21\/23, as it used to, but now starts 1\/1\/24. There\u2019s also no way to adjust the time rasnge. CDC really doesn\u2019t want you to be able to take a historical view of the pandemic, or compare one surge to another. In an any case, that\u2019s why the shape of the curve has changed.<\/p>\n
[10] (Travelers: Variants) Same deal. Those sh*theads:<\/p>\n
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[11] Deaths low, but positivity up.<\/p>\n
[12] Deaths low, ED up.<\/p>\n
Stats Watch<\/p>\n
Business Optimism: \u201cUnited States NFIB Business Optimism Index\u201d [Trading Economics]. \u201cThe NFIB Small Business Optimism Index in the US rose to 90.5 in May 2024, the highest in five months, from 89.7 in April and above forecasts of 89.8. 22% of owners reported that inflation was their single most important problem in operating their business, unchanged from April and the top business problem among owners.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Tech: \u201cThe iPhone Is Now an AI Trojan Horse\u201d [The Atlantic]. I hope I can turn it off. \u201cApple reportedly has been in talks with both Google and OpenAI to integrate each company\u2019s generative-AI products into the iPhone. As today\u2019s event revealed, Apple made a deal with OpenAI first, and its ChatGPT model will be available to supplement Apple Intelligence features later this year. (Apple said it plans to incorporate models from other AI developers in the future.) It\u2019s likely a lucrative contract for OpenAI, but the start-up is arguably getting something even more valuable out of the agreement: access to millions of normal people\u2026. Apple is betting that its AI offering will be greater than the sum of its parts. Adding up iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs, Macs, and AirPods, billions of the company\u2019s devices are used by people all over the world, perfect delivery vehicles for AI. The Apple announcement is the clearest sign that generative AI, foisted onto an enormous web of mainstream devices, will be essentially inescapable. But the plan isn\u2019t guaranteed to work. AI, although popular, is far from widely adopted\u2014Apple is now taking a chance to see what happens when all the mundane tasks in our lives come with a little pop-up widget that asks if we\u2019d like a bot to rewrite that email with a slightly more \u201cprofessional\u201d tone. Already last month, Google began forcing AI-written responses upon 1 billion users of its search engine. The results, including medical misinformation, conspiracy theories, and plain nonsense, were so embarrassing that the company quickly appeared to roll back the function, at least temporarily.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tech: \u201cFirst Came \u2018Spam.\u2019 Now, With A.I., We\u2019ve Got \u2018Slop’\u201d [New York Times]. \u201cThe use of slop as a descriptor for low-grade A.I. material seemingly came about in reaction to the release of A.I. art generators in 2022. Some have identified Simon Willison, a developer, as an early adopter of the term \u2014 but Mr. Willison, who has pushed for the phrase\u2019s adoption, said it was in use long before he found it. \u2018I think I might actually have been quite late to the party!\u2019 he said in an email. The term has sprung up in 4chan, Hacker News and YouTube comments, where anonymous posters sometimes project their proficiency in complex subject matter by using in-group language.\u201d \u2022 Hmm. #slop not prevalent on the Twitter.<\/p>\n
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Today\u2019s Fear & Greed Index: 44 Fear (previous close: 47 Neutral) [CNN]. One week ago: 39 (Fear). (0 is Extreme Fear; 100 is Extreme Greed). Last updated Jun 11 at 1:45:09 PM ET.<\/p>\n
Rapture Index: Closes unchanged [Rapture Ready]. Record High, October 10, 2016: 189. Current: 188. (Remember that bringing on the Rapture is good.) \u2022 Bird flu not a concern, apparently. Still flirting with the 189 ceiling\u2026.<\/p>\n
The Gallery<\/p>\n
More Midwest modern:<\/p>\n
Cobbs Barns and Distant Houses, 1930 pic.twitter.com\/e1v6Y9uJ1A<\/p>\n
\u2014 Edward Hopper (@artisthopper) June 11, 2024<\/p>\n
The Conservatory<\/p>\n
Not typical Beato content, but interesting::<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
It all goes back to Clinton?!<\/p>\n
Guillotine Watch<\/p>\n
\u201cCan money conquer death? How wealthy people are trying to live forever\u201d [Los Angeles Times]. \u201c[L]ongevity influencers and enthusiasts [are] experimenting, especially those with the money and time needed to immerse themselves in the booming market of treatments, superfoods, pills and powders, concierge doctors and med spas, IV nutrition drips, biometric screenings and strict regimens that they believe will extend their lifespans and, crucially, their healthspans\u2026. A separate analysis by Deloitte found that the top 50 longevity-focused companies raised more than $1 billion in venture funding as of 2020 and noted that \u201cwe are at the cusp of a new multibillion-dollar longevity industry\u2026. Twice a year, [Peter Diamandis] leads a \u2018Platinum Longevity Trip\u2019 that links 40 ultra-high-net-worth individuals with top scientists, chief executives, startup founders and laboratories in the age-reversal field. For $70,000, promotional materials promise, participants will \u2018gain unparalleled access\u2019 to the latest treatments and clinical trials and learn about research into tissue and organ regeneration, epigenetic reprogramming, neurocognitive regeneration and AI drug discovery. The \u2018five-day, five-star longevity deep-dive; includes private air travel and resort lodging; upcoming trips this fall in San Francisco and San Diego are already more than half full\u2026. Other groups catering to the uber-wealthy are assembling their own anti-aging programs. Last year R360, an exclusive organization for centimillionaires, led a longevity trip to the Harvard laboratory of David Sinclair, a genetics professor and leading researcher on reversing the aging process at a cellular level. This July members will visit the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato. \u2018If you\u2019ve been fortunate enough to make $100 million or more, you want to do whatever you can to live forever,\u2019 said Michael Cole, managing director of R360\u2026. While Diamandis likes to say that 8 billion people all face the same disease of aging, what he\u2019s selling is a luxury currently out of reach for most people. He insists costs will come down as AI, biotech and imaging technologies improve. \u2018When technologies don\u2019t work well, they\u2019re paid for by the rich, who experiment,\u2019 [Diamant] says. \u2018When they finally work really well, they\u2019re in mass production and available to everybody.’\u201d \u2022 Lol, no.<\/p>\n
News of the Wired<\/p>\n
\u201cVintage Photographs of People Using the Card Catalog at the Library in the 1970s\u201d [Vintage Everyday]. \u201cBack before computers were invented, librarians put information about their books on cards and filed those cards in cabinets called card catalogs. Multiple copies of the card for a particular book were printed, and particular bits of information\u2013such as the title, the author\u2019s name, or a subject the book was about\u2013would be added at the top of different cards. The cards were then filed in alphabetical order in the card catalog so people who wanted to find a book (patrons) could search and find the book they wanted. The people who decided what to put on the cards were called catalogers. The information on the cards is human created metadata.\u201d \u2022\u00a0I remember when the Boston Public Library made the transition from a card catalog to search. Search was lousy. In fact, it still is. I think the transition was for library adminisrators, not librarians let alone patrons (prove wrong). An image from that time:<\/p>\n
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A card catalog will still work after the data centers go up in flames, too.<\/p>\n
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SR writes: \u201cHellebore, known as Lenten Rose and native to Greece and Turkey, photographed in Mt. Tabor Park, Portland, Oregon, on Easter 2024. It is, unfortunately, poisonous!\u201d<\/p>\n
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