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FrankenGardner @glacierpique.bsky.social · 5h

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A poor quality picture of the night sky in western Washington. Behind a row of trees and house lights, and just above the northern horizon, a break in the clouds glows gray, barely brighter than the cloud ceiling.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10h

DeLauro: The president went to the supreme court to deprive kids of food. Unbelievable. And now wants to deny their parents healthcare.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE

Federal jury awards $112M to immigrants detained by Suffolk for ICE

A federal jury found the county and the Sheriff's Office violated the Constitutional rights of 674 people.

longisland.news12.com

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Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 11h

🇺🇸 For my US friends - the lovely people at @foxlanebooks.bsky.social will ship to the USA! You just need to contact them for a shipping quote. Link in Bio! 🌋

Dr Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · Aug 2

It's about time I announced a project that I've been working on in the last year... I wrote a book!

'Volcanoes: 10 things you should know' published by @orionbooks.bsky.social Seven Dials will be out in September. It's available to pre-order now. Links: linktr.ee/volcanologist

A graphic of a book. The cover is a deep red and had a good line illustration of an erupting volcano.

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Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21h

🚨BREAKING: In a sweeping victory for voters, a Utah court struck down the GOP-controlled legislature’s congressional gerrymander and a companion law designed to entrench partisan power — restoring a fair map for the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Utah Judge Strikes Down GOP Gerrymander, Restores Voter-Approved Fair Map

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 21h

🎯🧵"I now understand after reading this book why enslavers feared any free Black men, whether from foreign or domestic ships, intermixing with their enslaved population."

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 23h

Finished reading @juliagaffield.bsky.social 's biography of Jeans-Jaques Dessalines, one of the founding fathers of Haiti. The book is a story of what Dessalines did versus the way he has been sometimes inaccurately portrayed for political reasons as a bloodthirsty unthinking man unfit to rule. 1/

Striking cover of a painting of Dessalines for the book "I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jaques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom" by Julia Gaffield

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FrankenGardner @glacierpique.bsky.social · 18h

“British officials believe the US military strikes, which have killed 76 people, violate international law, the sources said…The UN’s human rights chief, Volker Türk, said last month that the strikes violate international law and amount to “extrajudicial killing.””

Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social · 19h

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics

The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...

edition.cnn.com

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1d

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 1d

1/3 Well this is a first (for me): Native #copper replaces ancient cross-bedded sedimentary rock perfectly preserving the original cross-bedding. Copper does amazing stuff in Michigan. 🤯 More below! Pinging @richardgibson.bsky.social

#OreCup ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🍎 🔭🪐

Lustrous wavy copper stripes this museum specimen of a copper pseudomorph where copper has replaced the original sedimentary bedding. From: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Native_copper-replaced_cross-bedded_sedimentary_rocks_%28Nonesuch_Shale,_Mesoproterozoic;_White_Pine_Mine,_Upper_Peninsula_of_Michigan,_USA%29_1_%2817110279879%29.jpg

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Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 1d

#Copper has been holding on to an 8% lead most of the match. It’s a lot, but #Molybdenite could catch up.

What topics should we cover in the #OreCup victory post?

Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 1d

#OreCup finals are between a pair of bewitching ore minerals that glitter and gleam. But only one can have your vote.

Will it be native copper or molybdenite? You’re running out of time to choose!

Vote:

Vote in Ore Cup FINALS — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup

Pick the Ore Mineral of the Year! Voting for Copper vs Molybdenite will remain open for 48 hours. Credit: David M. Maietta and Harold Moritz

www.mineralcup.org

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the final hours of #OreCup. Did you vote?

Vote in Ore Cup FINALS — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup

Pick the Ore Mineral of the Year! Voting for Copper vs Molybdenite will remain open for 48 hours. Credit: David M. Maietta and Harold Moritz

www.mineralcup.org

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 1d

Patinating copper is a thing apparently. Not for the faint of heart.
It involves ammonia, salt, water and a fumigation container.

www.instructables.com/Blue-Patina-...

#OreCup

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Chris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 1d

🧪⚒️ Note how the alert level is ramping up ahead of any seismic waves reaching land-based instruments.

A sad/enraging contrast with the news of the cuts to even land-based instruments in Alaska yesterday. This is what a rich nation actually committed to its duty of care to its citizens does.

Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · 2d

The underwater seismometer network is so great, as evidenced from yesterday's EQ off-Tohoku.
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 1d

Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.

Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!

2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

The image shows detail from a floor mosaic of a brown mouse on a pale background facing left with its nose close to half a walnut in its shell. The mouse has a long thin tail stretched out behind. The mosaicist has used a mix of lighter and darker brown tiles for the mouse’s body to hint at fur. The walnut is created with warmer light and dark brown tiles. Slightly darker background tiles have been used beneath the mouse and walnut to create subtle shadows

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Erika Anderson @andersonmineral.bsky.social · 1d

The metamorphic mineral staurolite with its distinctive penetration twinning forming a cross. It’s positively delightful!! #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪

Brown crystals forming a cross in white matrix. It sits on a black background.
At the Sorbonne.

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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · 2d

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A M6.8 earthquake struck offshore Japan today - another large earthquake from the subduction zone that produced two recent great earthquakes. The earthquake was preceded by a "cascade up": foreshocks progressively increasing in maximum magnitude.

What do we know? What might happen next?

M6.8 earthquake offshore Japan preceded by upward cascade of foreshocks

What do we know about seismic hazard in the Japan-Kuril subduction zone?

earthquakeinsights.substack.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump regime is looking for new ways to kill people.

Trump officials set to approve ‘forever chemical’ as pesticide ingredient

Critics say that fifth Pfas Trump’s EPA has proposed for approval this year would put food and water supply at risk

www.theguardian.com

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 2d

*falls off chair*

Sir, the federal govt has absolute control over offshore wind farms b/c they are all built in federal waters.

They keep the grid stable and power bills from going up. Trump froze permitting for new wind farms and is being sued for blocking construction of one already 80% done.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pressed by Stephanopoulos on the fact that electricity prices have in fact gone up, Bessent punts: "Electricity prices are a state problem ... look, there are things the federal government can control. Local electricity prices are not one of them."

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J. Raasch @jraasch.bsky.social · 2d

#Copper

Learning about Old Copper Culture in North America ca. 4000-1500 BC. I should know about this — born and living in Wisconsin — but apparently not covered in grade school or high school history classes.

So THANKS! #MinCup #OreCup #OreCup25

www.mpm.edu/research-col...

Old Copper Culture | Milwaukee Public Museum

www.mpm.edu

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J. Raasch @jraasch.bsky.social · 2d

Check out the array of Old Copper Culture tools and points hammered out of float #copper.

Float copper … almost pure copper ore carried from Upper Michigan to Wisconsin by glaciers.

#OreCup #OreCup25

www.mpm.edu/index.php/re...

Copper Artifacts | Milwaukee Public Museum

Over the past century and a half the discovery of thousands of copper artifacts, primarily on Wisconsin soil, has given rise to speculation and interpretation of their manufacture and function. Many o...

www.mpm.edu

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 1d

We’re in the final stretch of #OreCup!

Native #Copper is an ore so integral to our history that we named several eras after it and its alloys

#Molybdenite spent centuries tricking us into thinking it was something else entirely

Vote:

Vote in Ore Cup FINALS — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup

Pick the Ore Mineral of the Year! Voting for Copper vs Molybdenite will remain open for 48 hours. Credit: David M. Maietta and Harold Moritz

www.mineralcup.org

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 2d

I voted NO. As long as there is still any time left to reverse the MAGA health care hike, I believe we should do everything we can to force Republicans to the negotiating table.

The fight for health care does not end tonight.

Senator Murray Statement on Government Funding Vote: “The Fight for Health Care Does Not End Tonight—This is the MAGA Health Care Hike” | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

www.appropriations.senate.gov

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 2d

DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie]

SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

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