Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Noem's in town to ramp up ICE in MN. Rapid response rally at Whipple today at 4pm.

This picture really is a great summary of what this *word I try not to say anymore*-ed ass administration has done to America. While we haven’t quite collapsed yet, the seeds have been planted and it seems more likely than not to me. Never, ever vote for a fucking republican ever again.

lol trump just made this guy ambassador to malaysia

I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.

Some old classic footage of Canadian Texas tornado. Still one of my fav tornadoes.

I've been following the Shiloh Hendrix situation closely since it is in my home state. As of now she's raised over $560,000 on the GiveSendGo platform for calling an elementary school kid the N word. I have a CSV of all donations + messages up to last night. I'd like to get it to someone.

I beat the Sandhills today

HAPPENING NOW: The Justice Department has missed a 5pm deadline to file details about Kilmar Abrego Garcia's whereabouts and efforts to comply with a judge's otder to facilitate his return. Still waiting to see if they're just a few minutes behind or not planning to file at all

NOAA just fired us, again 🤡 Retroactive to February 🤡

Social media is hard. I think I’ve alienated half my Facebook friends by being an annoying never Trumper. X ain’t worth opening. Bluesky still doesn’t feel natural to me. I really hope something feels solid to use when chase season makes it up here.

Quick phone edit of what I’ve been up to tonight - Tim Walz held a town hall in Eau Claire, WI to get out the vote for the Wisconsin Supreme Court race that Elon Musk has already spent $13,000,000 attempting to influence. I could listen to Walz calling Elon a dipshit every single night of the week.

Can always count on the migrant snowy owls we get here in Minnesota to pick the most beautiful perches. Very majestic #birds

“It was a bust” Nope. Multiple significant tors and fatalities occurred with at least 37 tornado reports so far. Just because you didn’t get your disaster porn in a heavily populated area doesn’t mean the forecast was a bust. Some of y’all need therapy.

i was a part of the probationary employee firings at the national weather service today. being a part of the environmental modeling center is all i have ever known in my career. it is where i always wanted to be.

Seeing posts from people I know voted for Trump talking about being scared of losing their dream job. I want to be mean, petty, vindictive, but I think this probably had to happen. This current wave of conservatism has to end sometime, hopefully careers and lives being destroyed is the catalyst.

4 big ol margaritas in, dare me to DM my conservative friends?

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

My states got a few of these boreal owls hanging around this winter. It’s about time, I’ve been waiting for an irruption year for a long while now. 🦉

I love living in Minnesota. 🦉

Got a photo pass for one of my favorite local hiphop artists tonight. This is such a saturated and tough market to break into but I’m excited for any opportunities I can get!

Growing up I remember people used to make fun of us millennials. Now I realize we’re the generation that knows how to tell information from misinformation. We’re intelligent. We’re kind. We can feel empathy. We’re good. We need more millennial politicians to save America. We are the only hope.

The Elf Owl is the smallest owl species in the world - here's one I photographed in April. These owls are very small and nocturnal, making getting a shot without artificial light very hard. We wanted to do better though - so we set our tripods up with remote shooting and waited. Here's the result. 🦉

Carbon, IA tornado roping out on 5-21-24. The tornado being in the gap of the trees there was pure luck, this was a stick the camera out the window and hold the shutter button down while driving scenario.

Got my first Short-eared Owl of the season tonight #birds

Created a shortcut for myself on my iPhone so my home screen wouldn’t be all weird if I move stuff around. Twitter logo + text but it opens Bluesky

This picture kind of sucks - but this is a Mexican Spotted Owl, an endangered species. This spring I ventured out to Arizona to find the last 5 owls remaining to complete my goal of photographing all 19 US species of owls. This was a very quiet and peaceful encounter - as it should be.

Sent out a couple photo pass requests for an artists I really like yesterday and haven’t heard back, but the one I’m not familiar with responded almost immediately. I’m going to feel out of place at a jazz club but hey maybe it’ll be really fun!

I've spent the past week or so sending emails, trying to make contacts, looking into press wire agencies and it's exhausting. I just want to be able to go take pictures. The nice thing about tornadoes is that they don't require permission or networking.

Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

Also, part of the reason we did bought InfoWars is because people on Bluesky told us it would be funny to buy InfoWars. And those people were right. This is the funniest thing that has ever happened.

Not trying to flood Bluesky with my political thoughts right now. Anyway, last week I had an opportunity I never thought I would have - to photograph a former President at a rally. I'm pretty happy with how I did.

I saw some nice storms and tornadoes this year, but an encounter with this rare Canada Lynx in northern Minnesota is still my favorite photo I have taken this year, maybe ever. Nature photography really did save me from just playing video games and doing nothing but working every day.

If the RDPS is to be believed, last night was probably my last night photographing comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. The dark sky did wonders for this comet. I can't fathom how good it would have been with slightly better timing.

All I want is a media pass to photograph local events (political/concert/etc) and I’m struggling to find anyone that wants to work with me in Minnesota. Photographing every species of owl in the US(19!) and ~30 tornadoes doesn’t get ya as far as knowing the right people. So discouraging.

Still having trouble training myself to open this app when I have a few minutes to mindlessly scroll instead of the other one. Anyway here’s a picture I took that I like somewhere near Barney, ND.

Moon bad

Hey

When I first started chasing tornadoes and getting deeper into photography, growing my social media presence was important to me. With the continual decline of Twitter, it’s been easy to not care about it nearly as much anymore. I might start using this app a little more as it’s less exhausting.

Picture of a tornado for my 4 followers

First bsky post will be my puppy