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Cory J Godwin

@biostrat.bsky.social

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Geologist / Conodont Biostratigrapher (Geology posts will have a severe Carboniferous bias). Number of posts I have deleted before posting, thus saving you time: 1,209 and counting.

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Cory J Godwin @biostrat.bsky.social · Feb 20

My submission:

Cory J Godwin @biostrat.bsky.social · 6h

I blame Patrick Dempsey

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 16h

UTTERLY SURREAL LOW ANGLE GLACIER SLIDE!! 😮😱

On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊

asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309
📽️ via @volcaholic1

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Cory J Godwin @biostrat.bsky.social · 10h

I have more aunties than I know what to do with, a few of whom I am in no way related to outside of evolutionary genetics.

Cory J Godwin @biostrat.bsky.social · 10h

So, no Brits? Seriously, this is some creepy shit that DHS puts out. The use of “homeland” for an official gov’t department was always a bad idea.

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Parul Johri @johriparul.bsky.social · 11h

The Johri Lab has an open postdoc position. Please send me an email, if interested. Start date is flexible. Please do share! Thank you in advance.

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Cory J Godwin @biostrat.bsky.social · 10h

As the article notes.

Cory J Godwin @biostrat.bsky.social · 10h

Well she is the 461st ranked women’s junior golfer, so how is that a problem…oh, that’s low. Nevermind.

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Elevation Science Institute for Natural History Exploration @elevationscience.bsky.social · 10h

We're having field flashbacks!

As it gets colder in our little corners of the world, we're throwing it back to field season: covered in dust, sun-soaked and sunscreened, and taking it one discovery at a time.

Who's ready to get back to the quarry next summer!?

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Cory J Godwin @biostrat.bsky.social · 10h

Damn, not great spelling or sentence structure. Sorry

Cory J Godwin @biostrat.bsky.social · 10h

CEOs are gonna CEO. It’s almost like the whole “we need a business person as president to run the county like a business”, what the GOP said for years, thing is a fucking terrible idea.

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Cory J Godwin @biostrat.bsky.social · 10h

“Behold, The Constitution, the document that we hold so sacred……..unless you can find a way around it, then that’s cool with us!.”

Cory J Godwin @biostrat.bsky.social · 13h

Feels like we are now governed by a 1980s teen flick. The baddies are just so, obvious, in-your-face, and one-dimensional.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

"Dress for the job you want, not the job you have"

Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 2d

Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19h

Border Control commander Gregory Bovino, a driving force in the Trump regime’s campaign to terrorize Chicagoans, has been ordered to appear in federal court this morning as a judge examines whether he and his thugs violated her court order.
Will Bovino show up? 1/3

Border Patrol's Gregory Bovino expected in federal court today in tear gas case

The top U.S. Border Patrol commander has been ordered to appear at 10 a.m.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Cory J Godwin @biostrat.bsky.social · 19h

A true POS human.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.

Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in:

- Los Angeles
- Phoenix
- Philadelphia
- Denver
- El Paso
- San Diego
- Seattle/Portland
- New Orleans

Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both.

Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed.

Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino.

ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.

I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations.

I am hearing from both sides of this friction.

One senior DHS official tells me:

"ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?".

Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me:

"What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table."

It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there.

Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results.

Official statement to
@FoxNews
via
@TriciaOhio
:

"While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country."
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Cory J Godwin @biostrat.bsky.social · 1d

I am a simple person who likes rocks, butt seems pretty f-ed up to me.
Also, although spread across the entire military it comes to a single ~$100 payment, what is to keep the DOD from targeted payment to servicemen and women who are directly involved domestic operations? INCREDIBLY problematic.

Cory J Godwin @biostrat.bsky.social · 1d

No 5th place in a debate

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Cory J Godwin @biostrat.bsky.social · 1d

Really attacking the issues of the modern world here.

Cory J Godwin @biostrat.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, could they be more obvious?

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Cory J Godwin @biostrat.bsky.social · 1d

Tan. Suit.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

My big takeaway from Trump's lengthy Air Force One gaggle is that he's talking about shredding the Constitution by being in office for a third term increasingly openly.

If you don't think he try it, you're in denial.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on a third term: "I would love to do it. I have the best numbers ever. Am I not ruling it out? You'll have to tell me."

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Cory J Godwin @biostrat.bsky.social · 2d

But how bright? Like, on a scale of shades-wearing.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

How George Will describes the unlawful arrest of George Retes in the Bezos Post.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The ICEmen were presumably looking for undocumented immigrants. Retes’s driver’s license, which he says the ICEmen never asked to see, identifies him as “Veteran Army.” His license plate includes “DV”: disabled veteran. While ICE’s warriors were trying and ultimately succeeding in smashing his driver’s-side window (the better to pepper spray him), they apparently did not notice his rear window’s “Iraq Combat Veteran” sticker.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

For an administration that came out of the box threatening Canadian independence, Greenland’s sovereignty, the Panama Canal, etc., it sure has a glass jaw. 🤡

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

WELKER: Why is the president setting trade policy based on a TV ad he doesn't like?

BESSENT: This is a kind of propaganda against US citizens. It's psyops

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