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Jeanne Timmons
@mostlymammoths.bsky.social
Freelance writer (she/her) interested in paleontology and archaeology. Avatar by Natalia Jagielska.
https://mostlymammoths.wordpress.com/freelance-work/
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"Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Do not become bitter or hostile. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. We will find a way to make a way out of no way." - the late Congressman John Lewis
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We're facing an uphill battle against wealthy interests. But I'm committed to saving our people and our planet. Read my interview with Salon.
Progressive long-shot takes on Democratic establishment in New Hampshire Senate race - Salon.com
Karshima Manzur is fighting an uphill battle against Rep. Chris Pappas
www.salon.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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'We have a moral obligation and civic duty to recognize that the USA, under the Trump Regime, is a corrupt, lawless state willing to murder & invade, seize & plunder at Trump's will. We must demand our elected reps behave more like @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social + less like @repchrispappas.bsky.social'
"Here are three minutes from Yes, Prime Minister, a BBC sitcom from 1986, that I would show to every single Congressional Democrat if I could; it's a lesson in authoritarian escalation that is badly needed on the Hill...."

www.patreon.com/posts/147410...
Opposition Party? | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
Get more from Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon
www.patreon.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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not at all. i’m open to writers in and outside of the U.S.
January 3, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 Please share, friends.
ok, y’all.

I’M LOOKING FOR WRITERS: who understand 1) global politics, 2) colonialism and 3) liberation struggles across the African/Black Diaspora

tag yourselves or others, or DM me
January 3, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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We cannot become numb to the outrage of this. The wife of the President’s Senior Advisor threatens a sovereign nation.
January 4, 2026 at 11:45 PM
"...the U.S. has not got a perfect record. There’s no doubt about that, and it has betrayed its values many times, but this is of a different order. This is just a blatant throwing-the-whole-thing-out and making a claim to be able to use force whenever it wants." @oonahathaway.bsky.social
January 4, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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Yes, and fossil leaves with apparent insect herbivory traces! Thanks for sharing, Jeanne.
January 4, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Mastodons (and a mammoth) at @tarpits.org & Western Science Center, CA. Belated #FossilFriday.

#proboscideans 🦣🐘
January 4, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Fossil squid 🦑 at Yale Peabody. Plesioteuthis prisca, 152 - 145 million yrs ago, #Germany, per the display sign. Belated #FossilFriday
January 4, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Fossil leaves at the Yale Peabody Museum. A belated #FossilFriday
January 4, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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For the first #FossilFriday of 2026, an ichnological 2-for-1 deal: shorebird tracks & tiny invertebrate trails on a surface with probable gas-bubble escape structures from a former lakeshore in the Green River Formation (Eocene Epoch, ~50-55 mya), Utah. 🧪🐦🐾🪱🪨⚒️
January 2, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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he sleepin

#FossilFriday
January 2, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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Something exciting coming your way in the Current Biology tomorrow, it involves doodles...
January 4, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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While I'm laid up, I'm catching up on reading and note-taking. Here's what I jotted down from chapters 2-4 of @markwitton.bsky.social's "King Tyrant" before I had to take it back to the library.
January 4, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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Mammoths
September 5, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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#FossilFriday the mandible of Notiomastodon platensis, one of the last gomphothere-grade proboscideans from the Pleistocene of Argentina.
October 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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The weather is set for an icy blast here in Yorkshire - an ideal time to revisit the Ice Age faunas from the region.

There aren't many wooly mammoth fossils from Yorkshire, however this enormous tusk was excavated from Leeds in the 1960s.

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🏛️ Leeds Discovery Centre
📷 Stuart Robinson
January 2, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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For the very first #FossilFriday & #FernFriday of 2026, the leaf of a #fern that was growing in what is now southern France at the end of the Carboniferous, ~300 million year ago 🌿⛏️
#paleobotany #botany
January 2, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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"[I]nternational law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost w/o exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest."
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
January 3, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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My analysis as a human rights lawyer where I cite:
•The international & constitutional laws Trump violated
•His absurd justification for this attack & why it will absolutely fail in any court of justice
•The horrifying global implications that Trump just unleashed
www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-ill...
Trump's Illegal Act of War In Venezuela
Trump’s bombing of Venezuela and abduction of Maduro shatters sovereignty, invites global chaos, and establishes a doctrine no democracy can survive
www.qasimrashid.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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"If we hadn’t already, we’ve unquestionably joined the league of ordinary nations—a league in which we’re acting as little more than a bully, and in circumstances in which no obvious principle of self-defense, human rights, or even humantarianism writ large justifies our bellicosity."

Me on Maduro:
200. Five Questions About the Maduro Arrest Operation
Friday night's U.S. military operation in Venezuela was a textbook violation of international law. It's also entirely unauthorized by U.S. law, which ought to (but probably won't) matter.
www.stevevladeck.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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In 1990 I taught an Environmental Geology class for the first time, & for that class I put together a lesson plan showing how U.S. control of fossil fuels was the main incentive for the Persian Gulf War. In 10 days I'll teach the same topic for the same class, just using a different place.
January 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Stocked up on some of the spices I need to make chai, and ended my day with a delicious mango lassi. Yum! 💛
January 3, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize
January 3, 2026 at 7:06 AM