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It is absolutely a choice.

They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.

This seems like a great moment to talk about the importance of science communication! Science communication matters because it connects scientific research with people, giving folks information they need to make informed decisions about everything from health to hazards.

I think we are going to have a Democratic-controlled Senate. And all we will need for the leadership of that Democratic Senate to do is hold actual, real, impeachment trials. As the Constitution requires. Not the bullshit fake trials like the ones that the Senate held in 2020 and 2021...

Today is a good day to follow news outlets that explicitly disallow Generative AI slop: go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

The complete refusal from the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the allegations in the Epstein Files and made by Epstein survivors is also proof of what victims everywhere go through every day when authority figures refuse to do anything about what happened to them

I want people to really understand and grapple with how bad it is for victims and all of us to live in a system where sexual violence is not punished, but victims are punished more for coming forward. I need people to see it for what it is so that we can actually do something about it

New art commission from the fantastic @clanaghan.bsky.social!

All of that cEnSorsHip regiMe nonsense was projection. Elon better be fighting these requests real hard. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Ahem. Fellas. 👇🏻

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

"“El Paso must stand firm. There will be no concentration camps here..." elpasomatters.org/2026/02/06/e...

It is interesting to note Retallack’s name in the podcast but if is conduct in person is anything like how he publishes his doctrines then i’m not surprised.

From @geopetalfabric.bsky.social and @maryanningsrevenge.bsky.social. You can follow the podcast at @weirdanddead.bsky.social. www.patreon.com/posts/150459...

Happy International Women and Girls in Science Day from our team here at Hopkins! #internationalwomenandgirlsinscienceday

This is why we have NOT celebrated the FY26 budget. Trump doesn't follow laws. NASA science is the first victim of Vought's schemes to destroy science & Congress can't hide from their responsibility anymore. We will fight it in streets and the courts! subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

From @geopetalfabric.bsky.social and @maryanningsrevenge.bsky.social. You can follow the podcast at @weirdanddead.bsky.social. www.patreon.com/posts/150459...

My sense of Minnesota today is that there’s less tear gas and the same amount of unlawful detention, destruction of families, loss of livelihood, people in hiding. There is less tear gas at places like Lake and Lyndale, so it’s not making news.

The economic need has not changed but the fundraising on a national basis has dropped off at least to some extent, leaving us relying on local networks which are a bit tapped out right now. Local networks were always going to be robust but it was good when national resources were pouring in.

Sometimes I remember Reagan removing Jimmy Carter’s solar panels and I think we’ve been enduring this shit for way too many years.

it's a mystery

Bees 🐝

I remember when the harassment policy was created based on serious events that occurred at one of the meetings. The change in policy didn’t actually address the problem and then made hoops that clearly haven’t worked. It is sad that after all this time the society still has the same issues.

Sometimes it's hard to remain hopeful but I still remain hopeful. So much of the paleo community is truly made of wonderful people. (Yet unfortunately could have been made of even more wonderful people if many of us hadn't been driven out/scared off/etc in favor of "can do no wrong" creeps.)

As someone who has had to submit an ethics violation report in the past, to see not much really come of it, thank you for pushing for real change and improvement.

i really hope actual change happens this time, ive heard of many of the unpunished violations down the grapevine and wonder how many more were never uttered to another soul. it's just sad that it had to be this to create such an uproar rather than a good system from the start

Regarding events of last week in SVP and the wider vertebrate paleontology community.

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

I love Green Day so much and I’m so very happy they performed‘American Idiot’ because, well…you know… 😁

Republicans want to make it even more difficult for millions of eligible Americans to vote by passing the SAVE Act. Tell your Members of Congress to protect our voting rights and reject the SAVE Act: win.newmode.net/declarationf...

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Interview with @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about evil Palantir Get Palantir out of the UK now!! youtu.be/YftdpU4ElUQ?...

Friends in Minneapolis are very worried about this development. Both in terms of state police's role in arresting protestors and the worry that this could set off the kind of spiral of distrust and destruction that followed George Floyd's murder. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Regarding events of last week in SVP and the wider vertebrate paleontology community.

I've updated my Threadless store with the new designs. So if you want anything on a shirt, this is the place to get it. emmalerae.threadless.com

Important to note the $80 billion funding increase for the IRS to go after wealthy tax cheats from Biden's Inflation Reduction Act was expected to generate ~$200 billion in additional revenue over ten years.

The videos of the abduction today in heavy traffic in Columbia Heights is truly one of the most dystopian things I’ve seen since Alex’s murder. Ice surrounded a vehicle in heavy traffic boxing it in and then pulled everyone out of the car while other people were honking and then they just took off.

Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵) Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM. Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.

Too late for me, but this is excellent news for millions of people who suffer with this condition.

Let‘s open this question up: who are the kindest, most wholesome paleontologists you know (Current/retired/historical/whatever)? Who SHOULD be featured in documentaries? I’m tired of doomering, let’s focus on the bright lights among us.

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

The Mayor of Portland, OR after ICE shot tear gas into a crowd “To those who..work for ICE: Resign..Through your use of violence and..trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame. [G]o home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children”

Murphy on Fox News Sunday: "I mean -- c'mon. We're still pretending that ICE is going after dangerous people? They aren't. What is happening in Minnesota right now is a dystopia. ICE is teargassing elementary schools, it is disappearing legal residents into cars, it is murdering American citizens."

Epstein was very publicly convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution (I’m summarizing) in 2008. You can still find 2008 articles from The Guardian, The New York Times, and Fox News. (See comments.) That conviction included being registered as a sex offender.

Y'all need to go watch Wonder Man. I'm three episodes in and it's feeling like the exact kind of poignant, balanced, character-driven storytelling Marvel needs to do more of. It's really really good, and I don't understand why it's not getting more hype/buzz. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ youtu.be/wHuWmjXsReU?...

The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.

Just a shout out to all of the paleontologists out there that go out in the field, do all the research, and publish papers. I wouldn't be able to do what I do without all of the scientific papers, photos of fossils, skeletal diagrams, books, and the work of other paleo artists. Thank you!!!!!