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Jeanne Timmons
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Freelance writer (she/her) interested in paleontology and archaeology. Avatar by Natalia Jagielska.
https://mostlymammoths.wordpress.com/freelance-work/
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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · Nov 6
"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
Evergreen and inspiring tweet from the late Congressman John Lewis: "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. #goodtrouble"
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karishmaforsenate.bsky.social
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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matthewcort.land
'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'
matthewcort.land Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 11h
"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
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January 4, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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tiffany.thetriibe.com
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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thetriibe.com
👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 Please share, friends.
tiffany.thetriibe.com Tiffany W @tiffany.thetriibe.com · 1d
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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sifill.bsky.social
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
mostlymammoths.bsky.social
"...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
Screenshot of text: And part of what’s troubling here is not just that the President has used force in clear violation of domestic law and international law but that it’s clear he couldn’t care less about the fact that he’s breaking these rules. We’re talking not just about the U.N. charter but about the U.S. Constitution. And that just suggests there may be no limits, that he’s just going to do what he thinks is warranted based on his own kind of reasoning, as opposed to any kind of constraints or legal limits or having to seek advice or consent from the international community or the U.S. Congress. That, I think, is what’s so scary about this.
January 4, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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ichnologist.bsky.social
Yes, and fossil leaves with apparent insect herbivory traces! Thanks for sharing, Jeanne.
January 4, 2026 at 3:16 PM
mostlymammoths.bsky.social
Mastodons (and a mammoth) at @tarpits.org & Western Science Center, CA. Belated #FossilFriday.

#proboscideans 🦣🐘
View of a complete adult mastodon and a juvenile or baby mastodon display facing forward at the La Brea Tar Pits Museum. Other displays are in the background, and various people are milling around them. Side view of the same two mastodons at the La Brea Tar Pits Museum. In this picture, you can see their full skeletons, and the hint of a camel skeleton posed beside them. A giant ground sloth fossil displayed standing on its hind legs is in the background. Skull and tusks of Pacific mastodon nicknamed 'Max', displayed on sand in a display case. The glass was removed for research at the time this picture was taken at the Western Science Center in Hemet, CA. Displays of a Columbian mammoth skeleton and a Pacific mastodon skeleton, with fossils positioned on the body at the Western Science Center.
January 4, 2026 at 3:22 PM
mostlymammoths.bsky.social
Fossil squid 🦑 at Yale Peabody. Plesioteuthis prisca, 152 - 145 million yrs ago, #Germany, per the display sign. Belated #FossilFriday
Fossil squid displayed horizontally. The outline of its body and its preservation are superb. Tentacles are at its end. The fossil is behind glass, so, unfortunately, there are reflections of lights and other displays in the picture.
January 4, 2026 at 3:08 PM
mostlymammoths.bsky.social
Fossil leaves at the Yale Peabody Museum. A belated #FossilFriday
Two oblong leaves in a rock slab. Two large, somewhat complete leaves and the fragment of another in a rock slab.
January 4, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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ichnologist.bsky.social
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. 🧪🐦🐾🪱🪨⚒️
Gray-green fine-grained limestone held in a hand, with two 2.5 cm (1 inch) long three-toed fossil bird tracks, two tiny (1 mm wide) invertebrate trails with a "sine wave" pattern, and numerous 1-5 mm wide pockmarks that are likely gas-bubble escape structures.
January 2, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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extinctmonsters.bsky.social
he sleepin

#FossilFriday
In situ prep of a complete Bradysaurus with no head or tail. On a wheeled cart slid out from under a shelf
January 2, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Something exciting coming your way in the Current Biology tomorrow, it involves doodles...
January 4, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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toysdream.bsky.social
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.
Notes on chapters 2 through 4 of Mark P. Witton's "King Tyrant," mostly on anatomy and biomechanics, plus a few other big-headed megapredators.
January 4, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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villesinkkonen.bsky.social
Mammoths
September 5, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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paleowen.bsky.social
#FossilFriday the mandible of Notiomastodon platensis, one of the last gomphothere-grade proboscideans from the Pleistocene of Argentina.
Lateral view of a dhort dark brown mandible with a highly worn second molar and a third molar in place. The coronoid process and condyle are damaged. Occlusal view of a dark brown short mandible showing a highly worn 2nd molar and a less worn 3rd molar (wisdom tooth) with 5 lophids (ridge-crests) Close up on the 3rd lower molar (wisdom tooth) of Notiomastodon showing wrinkled enamel and double trefoil wear patterns. There are five ridge crests and a small heel.
October 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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fossilsinthills.bsky.social
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.

#FossilFriday
🏛️ Leeds Discovery Centre
📷 Stuart Robinson
a large mammoth tusk in two pieces laid out on a table with glass-fronted cabinets to the left and draws of bones to the right
January 2, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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aldpaleo.bsky.social
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
A piece of rock with fossil fern foliage on it (Pecopteris). Fingertips for scale.
January 2, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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monicamedhist.bsky.social
"[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."
cristianfarias.com Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 1d
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate: 1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without 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. 2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades. Cont’d: 3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable. Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling. And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze. The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
January 3, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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qasimrashid.com
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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stevevladeck.bsky.social
"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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ichnologist.bsky.social
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
mostlymammoths.bsky.social
Stocked up on some of the spices I need to make chai, and ended my day with a delicious mango lassi. Yum! 💛
Bags of spices: fennel seeds, star anise, green cardamom and ginger powder.
January 3, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
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