The superb fairywren (Malurus cyaneus ) is a passerine bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae, and is common and familiar across south-eastern Australia. It is a sedentary and territorial species. The superb fairywren was named ‘Australian Bird of the Year’ for 2021, after a survey conducted by Birdlife Australia saw the species narrowly defeat the tawny frogmouth with a margin of 666 votes (over 400,000 votes were cast in total).
Appearance
The males in breeding plumage have a striking bright blue forehead, ear coverts, mantle, and tail, with a black mask and black or dark blue throat. Females, immatures, and non-breeding males are a plain fawn color with a lighter underbelly and a fawn (females and immatures) or dull greyish blue (males) tail. The bill is brown in females and juveniles and black in males after their first winter.
Superb fairywrens are found throughout most of the south-eastern corner of the continent, from the south-east of South Australia (including Kangaroo Island and Adelaide) and the tip of the Eyre Peninsula, through all of Victoria, Tasmania, coastal and sub-coastal New South Wales, and Queensland, through the Brisbane area and extending inland – north to the Dawson River and west to Blackall. These birds inhabit almost any area that has at least a little dense undergrowth for shelter, including grasslands with scattered shrubs, moderately thick forest, woodland, heaths, and domestic gardens. They have adapted well to the urban environment and are common in suburban Sydney, Canberra, and Melbourne.
Superb fairywrens live in small social groups consisting of 3 to 5 birds that maintain and defend their small territories year-round. These groups include a social pair with one or more male or female helper birds that were hatched in the territory and may not necessarily be the offspring of the main pair. These birds assist in defending the territory and feeding and rearing the young. Members of the group roost side-by-side in dense cover as well as engage in mutual preening. Superb fairywrens are active and restless feeders; they are active during the day and feed mainly on open ground near the shelter, but also through the lower foliage and accompany their foraging with song. They move with a series of jaunty hops and bounces. During the heat of the day group members often shelter and rest together, however, when the winter comes and food is harder to find they spend the day foraging continuously. Superb fairywrens communicate with other members of the group primarily for advertising and mobbing or defending a territory. Their alarm call is a series of brief sharp chits, universally given and understood by small birds in response to predators. Females also emit a ‘purr’ while incubating.
Superb fairywrens are socially monogamous but they exhibit a polygynandrous (promiscuous) mating system; pairs bond for life, though both males and females regularly mate with other individuals. Young are often raised not by the pair alone, but with other males who also mated with the pair’s female assisting. Breeding occurs from spring through to late summer. Males perform courtship displays which include the ‘sea horse flight’, named for its seahorse-like undulations. During this exaggerated flight, the male – with his neck extended and his head feathers erect – tilts his body from horizontal to vertical, descends slowly, and springs upwards by rapidly beating his wings after alighting on the ground. The ‘face fan’ display involves the flaring of the blue ear tufts by erecting the feathers. Superb fairywrens build their nest close to the ground, under 1 m (3.3 ft), and in thick vegetation. These are round or domed structures made of loosely woven grasses and spider webs, with an entrance on one side. Females lay 3 or 4 matte white eggs with reddish-brown splotches and spots; they may lay two or more broods in such extended breeding season. The eggs are usually incubated for 14 days. Newborn chicks are blind, red, and featherless, though quickly darken as feathers grow. Their eyes open by day 5 or 6 and they are fully feathered by day 10. All group members feed the chicks for 10-14 days. Fledglings are able to feed themselves by day 40 but remain in the family group as helpers for a year or more; after that, they move to another group or assume a dominant position in the original group. In this role, they feed and care for subsequent broods and also repel cuckoos or predators.
SOURCE: ANIMALIA.BIO
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“The Public Must Be Psychologically Prepped for the Insurrection Act”
Clandestine, Jan 15, 2026
“For those asking why Trump has not invoked the Insurrection Act yet, the answer is always PUBLIC PERCEPTION. POTUS is legally within his Constitutional authority to invoke the Insurrection Act unilaterally. Giving the order is the easy part.
Convincing hundreds of millions of Americans that we need to send the US MIL into US cities nationwide to help deport millions of illegal aliens that the Dems are using to steal elections… that’s the hard part.
Trump has been teasing the Insurrection Act for months for a reason. It was soft disclosure. He was softening the landing for when the time comes. The public needed to be psychologically prepped before undertaking something of this magnitude, especially considering the Dems/MSM have been telling their sheep that Trump is Hitler, ICE are the Gestapo, etc.
This is an extremely delicate situation, and one false step could be catastrophic. This must be done surgically, without causing a full-on civil war with unfathomable civilian casualties.
It must be clean and swift, and the public must be downloaded on why it is happening BEFORE it happens. POTUS will do it when the time is right, and when the public are psychologically prepared to what must happen.”
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the normies are asking for it, the leftists will never be ready for it, so who’s left???
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“The term ‘checkmate’ has one of the clearest linguistic trails in the history of games. It originates in classical Persian, where ‘shāh māt’ meant “the king is helpless” or “the king is defeated.” This phrasing reflected the strategic heart of early Persian chess (chatrang), which focused on cornering the king rather than capturing every piece. When the game spread across the Islamic world after the 7th century, the phrase was adopted into Arabic as ‘shāh māta’, preserving both the sound and the meaning.
As chess moved westward through Moorish Spain and Mediterranean trade routes, the term entered medieval European languages almost unchanged. Early Latin manuscripts on chess refer to ‘scaccus mat’, while Old French texts use ‘eschec mat’, both direct descendants of the Persian original. These linguistic borrowings show how faithfully European players preserved the terminology of the cultures that transmitted the game to them. The phrase eventually settled into Middle English as “checkmate,” with “check” itself coming from ‘shāh’, the Persian word for “king.”
This linguistic journey mirrors the broader cultural transmission of chess. Originating in India, refined in Persia, and expanded by the Arab world, the game carried with it a vocabulary that revealed its intellectual lineage.
Checkmate’ is one of the clearest surviving markers of that heritage, showing that the modern global game still speaks, quite literally, in the language of its Persian past.”
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“Progressive Researchers Claim They Are 15-20 Years From Finding Out What A Woman Is”
Science · Jan 15, 2026 · BabylonBee.com
U.S. — Progressive researchers working with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU ) said they were only a mere 15-20 years away from finding out what a woman is.
“We’re very close,” said Dr. Nina Rangleford, a medical doctor and biology expert. “We’ve studied hundreds of human bodies and cross-referenced those findings with what people feel. We’re confident we’ll be able to provide an accurate definition of what a woman is in just 15 years. Twenty, max.”
Researchers said they have left no stone unturned in their experiments, even deigning to look up the definition of woman in a dictionary.
“Well, this is obviously wrong,” one researcher said after examining a Webster’s Dictionary. “We’ve got our work cut out for us, boys. I mean girls. I mean… whatever.”
In an effort to maintain professional neutrality, the ACLU made sure to recruit one scientist from each and every one of the 437 known genders. The team was then sequestered to avoid recent political discussion on the matter so they could focus on what really matters: their feelings.
“I mean, I we might not be close, but I feel we are very close, and that means something,” Dr. Xiang Ling, a Chinese research assistant on loan from the People’s Republic of China. “I hope so, anyway. I really want to go home.”
At publishing time, researchers had asked for an extension on their project and an additional $5 billion in grant money to support their work.
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Want to see a career ended on Live TV?
A Fake News “reporter” just called the ICE agent who defended himself against left-wing attacker Renee Good a murderer…
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt absolutely DEMOLISHED him in less than 60 seconds.
“You’re a left-wing hack, you’re not a reporter. You shouldn’t even be sitting in that seats. You’re pretending like you’re a journalist, but you’re a left-wing activist, and the question that you just raised and your answer proves your bias.”
“Do you have the numbers of how many American citizens were killed at the hands of illegal aliens who ICE is trying to remove from this country? I bet you don’t. I bet you didn’t even read up on those stories.
“I bet you never even read about Laken Riley or Jocelyn Nungaray or all of the innocent Americans who were killed at the hands of illegal aliens in this country.”
“Shame on people like you in the media who have a crooked view and have a biased view and pretend like you’re a real honest journalist.”
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Just The News: “The Senate passed a trio of government funding bills Thursday, which will now go to President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature after it passed the House last week.
The appropriations package includes funding for the Departments of Justice, Energy, Commerce and Interior, along with the Environmental Protection Agency and other significant science agencies.
The Senate passed the funding package in a bipartisan 82-15 split, which comes as Congress faces a Jan. 30 deadline to keep the government funded through September. The passage means Congress has approved six of the 12 appropriations bills so far.
The House has now passed eight of the 12 appropriations bills, with four remaining, after it passed two more on Wednesday. All 12 bills have passed the House Appropriations Committee.”
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Exclusive: Bird Flu Outbreak 40 Miles From Wisconsin Lab Sparks Concern About Gain-of-Function Experiments — A bird flu outbreak in a Wisconsin dairy cattle herd has fueled speculation that gain-of-function research at a nearby university lab — where scientists are working to develop a bird flu vaccine for cattle — may be behind the outbreak. The lab has a history of safety violations.
by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., January 15, 2026
EXCERPT: “A bird flu outbreak in a Wisconsin dairy cattle herd has fueled speculation that gain-of-function research at a nearby university lab — where scientists are working to develop a bird flu vaccine for cattle — may have played a role in the outbreak.
Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) identified what it said was the first known case of highly pathogenic bird flu in a Dodge County, Wisconsin, dairy cattle herd. The USDA’s Animal and Plant Inspection Service (APHIS) characterized the outbreak as a new “spillover” event — from wildlife to cattle.
The two scientists who conducted the whole genome sequencing for APHIS and identified the virus responsible for the Dodge County outbreak work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, the university confirmed. Those same scientists — Keith Poulsen, DVM, Ph.D., and Yoshihiro Kawaoka, DVM, Ph.D. — have also co-authored studies on gain-of-function research, including studies related to the H5N1 virus.
One of the scientists, Kawaoka, directs the university’s Influenza Research Institute, known to conduct gain-of-function research on H5N1. Kawaoka was director of the high-security lab in 2019, when it came under scrutiny for a safety breach. The institute’s lab is about 40 miles from the bird flu outbreak in Dodge County. Kawaoka is also the co-founder of flu vaccine manufacturer FluGen. And he is among a group of scientists working on the development of a bird flu vaccine for livestock.
Will Cushman, with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Office of Strategic Communication, confirmed that virologists Poulsen and Kawaoka are performing H5N1 research. However, he denied that it is gain-of-function research…..”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/exclusive-bird-flu-outbreak-40-miles-wisconsin-lab-sparks-concern-gain-of-function-experiments/
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Good night, Pat!
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Good Night Filly!
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Good night All!
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