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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 9h

🧵🧊✈️ ICE AIR – WED 15 OCT 2025

👉 An Omni Air 767 (tail: N423AX) is loading human cargo at the ICE hub in Alexandria, Louisiana for transport to Bogota, Colombia 👀

Follow this thread for updates ⤵️

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 3h

Ghost turnip, Fintown, County Donegal, Ireland, c. 1900 (replica), National Museum of Ireland

Frightening face carved into a turnip to place a candle in

"In 1943 the National Museum of Ireland received a turnip lantern from a schoolteacher, Rois Ní Braonáin who was teaching near Fintown, Co. Donegal. She stated that it was the type that was always made in that locality around 1900. This plaster-cast model was created and painted by the museum artist, Eileen Barnes.

Candles were placed inside the turnips and they were used to frighten people on the night of 31 October. The pumpkin that is prevalent today is an American development of this Irish tradition." https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/Collection/Top-things-to-see-in-the-Irish-Folklife-Collection/Artefact/Ghost-turnip/b202e8ea-0728-4b3d-b0f1-82660fe45ce9

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Dannyboy wildlife @dannyboywesthawk.bsky.social · 4h

Pine marten

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 5h

Rural Northern Missouri will be well represented on No Kings day.

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 6h

👉 AVELO IS A CRAP AIRLINE 💩✈️

Not only do they enable human rights abuses on a daily basis, but their planes are constantly breaking down 👀

🚫 DON’T - FLY - AVELO 🚫

JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 6h

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🧊✈️⚠️ LOS ANGELES‼️

👉 Creepy White Avelo Jet inbound to Burbank 😬

This all-white 737—which has been used for several deportation flights to Central America—will likely cover for a commercial passenger route out of Burbank 👀

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Sue @cameratrapsue.bsky.social · 6h

👑 Raccoonosaurus 👑 and friend.

Great size comparison photos showing how huge Raccoonosaurus (on the right in all these photos) is, compared to a normal sized raccoon.

I think his size is likely in part due to genetics & knowing where to get constant sources of food.

#mammals

A black and white night photo from my garden giving a good size comparison between Raccoonosaurus, on the right, and a normal sized adult raccoon. There are shrubs and plants to the sides and behind the raccoons.

Another black and white photo from the garden showing Raccoonosaurus, on the right, and a normal sized adult raccoon on the left. Shrubs and plants are to the side and behind the raccoons with small landscaping rocks on the ground in the foreground.

Black and white photo from the garden showing Raccoonosaurus, on the right, and an adult, normal sized raccoon on the left. Raccoonosaurus is huge, and, I think, very friend shaped. I think we could become the best of friends and he could help me assemble a raccoon army (should I need one).

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 7h

S O W I D E

(Song Sparrow) #birds 🌿

A small brown and white streaked bird sits in a bird bath, its feathers fluffed out so it looks three times its normal width.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

EISEN: What do you say to people who say the government taking stakes in private companies and picking winners and losers sound socialist?

BESSENT: We're not going to come in and takes stakes in non-strategic industries, but we've identified seven industries

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JunkboxJim @junkboxjim.bsky.social · 22h

The Great Pumpkin Patch.
Dexter, MI

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

Not only that, just days ago, he was claiming there were no drug boats in the entire Caribbean left. That is, of course, not true. So we’re going to go through a cycle where they just keep killing more and more people, and keep claiming success as the body count rises.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19h

After signing up for self-deportation, Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved to an unfinished basement. But DHS never sent them the promised plane tickets.

Now they worry about surviving winter. Weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to pay rent.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4ohnDm6

Article excerpt: Emily said she made clear the family didn’t have Venezuelan passports but was told that wouldn’t be a problem; the U.S. government would procure any necessary documents for them. They said the operator gave them an Aug. 1 departure date and told them to expect their plane tickets by email.

Emily and Deybis sold their car and moved with their children to Columbus, Ohio, where Deybis’ nephew let them stay in his unfinished basement apartment until their departure. The plane tickets never came.

Then the nephew was detained in a traffic stop and deported. Panicked, Emily and Deybis said they called the toll-free number again and again, leaving messages that went unanswered. Emily submitted a new application and sent more emails.

Article excerpt: ...They found travel agencies that offer to procure travel documents at a cost but said they were told the Venezuelan government requires an arrival date and proof that plane tickets have been purchased. Emily and Deybis can’t afford them.

“Thank you so much for your patience and we understand your frustration,” they heard back in another email. “Wait for new instructions from DHS.”

As they wait, they worry about how they’ll survive when winter comes. Most days, Deybis visits local food pantries and looks for discarded items in alleys and on street corners that they can resell. A few weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to help pay the rent.

“We’d rather be in Venezuela with our family than suffer here,” he said.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16h

Remember when you tried to tell us “the younger generations don’t think that way.” And “the young people will save us.” There are a lot of great, humane, decent, bright young people out there. But there are also a lot of these young people. And they’re not going anywhere.

Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 1d

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Orca Behavior Institute @orcabehaviorinstitute.org · 22h

New Bigg's killer whale calf alert! 👀

This little one was seen today in the San Juans traveling alongside T36A2 Kailas. If she is confirmed as the mother, this is her first known calf at age 13.

OBI's research assistant Alex got on scene while out with Maya's Legacy and sent along this photo! 😍

New killer whale calf traveling with the T36As

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 13h

Sat up to its neck in food, this #wombat only gets up from the dinner table to have a good belly-scratch.
#WombatWednesday #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombat

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lights out for migrating birds @lightsoutforbirds.bsky.social · 20h

Migration Alert for the night of 14 Oct 2025
birdcast.info

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 12h

End of a very intense but very successful regent parrot field trip - gorgeous birds doing it a bit tough

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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 12h

Penguins boycott Bird of the Year for anti-sea bird bias?! No! Climate change is the real problem. Or is it?! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s an exciting week for the penguin community, we’re all waiting to see who is the winner … I mean loser | First Dog on the Moon

Bird of the year? Hell no!

www.theguardian.com

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Sue @cameratrapsue.bsky.social · 16h

3 coyotes commuting on the Raccoonobahn!!!

It’s possible one of them is a 6 month (or so) old pup as they’re almost fully grown at this age.

I have a soft spot for coyotes and dislike how they’re vilified.

❤️🐺❤️

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Thisistheforestsuccessional @thereinthedistance.bsky.social · 16h

Before Halloween this year, please read the original “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” story by Washington Irving, might not read like you think:
www.gutenberg.org/files/41/41-...

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving

www.gutenberg.org

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 17h

Banana's toes when he came to visit me tonight. The Baird's Tapir belongs to the order Perissodactyla, or odd-toed ungulates, with horses and rhinos.

At @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica

#tapirs #tapiroftheday #nature #mammals

A closeup of the three toes of the Baird's Tapir.

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Thisistheforestsuccessional @thereinthedistance.bsky.social · 17h

Eye idols from Tell El Brak in the collections of British Museum:
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

eye idol | British Museum

Carved gypsum eye figurine; eye heavily emphasised; large figure with smaller one carved on body, possibly intended to represent a mother and child.

www.britishmuseum.org

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 20h

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)