Can anyone help me ID this fungus? Found in VA on the ground in leaf litter in mixed woods today, May 31. iNat keeps sending me to Amanitas (which it clearly is not) and Russulas (which I doubt). It's very hygrocybe-like (waxy, broad gills).
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Can nobody stop this man? Seriously. Not Congress, not SCOTUS, not a single person in his cabinet or among advisers--e,g. his raft of cynics and cowards. Also not economists, not bankers, not Wall Street, not citizens, not the plain old facts. Astonishing. Below: from WSJ 10 Point.

From The New Yorker Daily, April 1, 2025

I have identified the critters below as Trametes gibbosa on the left and Galerina marginata on the right, but am seeking info on how otherwise to get mushroom IDs on Bluesky. I miss the mushroom ID sites and interactions on Fb (having quit Fb). Advice, pls?

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While it is still difficult to read the news, I've found two books extremely helpful in beginning to understand the path America is going down. Masha Gessen's Surviving Autocracy and Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc. Both women are brilliant analysts with a global outlook.