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David Levering

@biogeoverse.bsky.social

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Paleontologist --> Educator --> Administrator Director of the @sternbergcamps.bsky.social program. Co-Chair of the @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social Communications Committee Pragmatic progressive. He/Him.

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David Levering @biogeoverse.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hi folks! I'm a paleontologist by training who got enough museum-educator XP to become an administrator. Now my focus is creating job and training opportunities for others in earth/life science education, and leveraging my operational leadership skills+experience help solve problems.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 10h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 18h

#GetOutTheVought‼️ Trump and Vought are decimating the federal workforce. This isn't just a shutdown stunt, this is in line with Project 2025's goal of cutting our government by 1 million workers.

STAND WITH SCIENCE!
✊Rally to TAKE BACK SCIENCE 10/17 @ 3pm ET
200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h

After 10 long days, the hearing challenging Texas' gerrymandering ended. By the end, all of legacy media had vanished. But Democracy Docket stayed to keep you informed about just how far Republicans went to manipulate the state’s maps.

Support its vital work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 17h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 19h

This is good, actually. This is the kind of thing we need to build a pro-court expansion majority.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 23h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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NPR @npr.org · 17h

After months of layoffs and funding cuts by the Trump administration, the government shutdown has given some federal employees hope that their voices are finally being heard.

'I'm done being afraid': How the shutdown has led federal workers to speak out

After months of layoffs and funding cuts by the Trump administration, the government shutdown has given some federal employees hope that their voices are finally being heard.

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David Levering @biogeoverse.bsky.social · 1d

As an Oregonian this is exactly how I expected Portland to protest. I’m still waiting for an army of 90s cover bands and accordion enthusiasts on unicycles.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Eric Scott @captainfossil.bsky.social · 1d

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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David Levering @biogeoverse.bsky.social · 1d

🎶Boot scoot fossil!
FOSSIL!!
Little dude dragging its rear!🎶

Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages @climateages.bsky.social · 1d

A 126,000-year-old butt-drag just made fossil history.
A tiny rock hyrax scooted across the sand of ancient South Africa, and that moment was preserved in stone.

Even the smallest acts can echo through time.
🧪 #SciComm
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The 126,000-Year-Old Butt-Drag That Rewrote What Counts as a Fossil

How a small animal’s odd habit turned into one of the most unexpected stories ever preserved in stone Some discoveries make headlines because they’re dramatic: new...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

Republicans are lying about the peaceful No Kings Day protests because they’re desperate — the GOP is losing the shutdown fight while Americans reject Trump’s authoritarian takeover in huge numbers.

“These are the threats of a regime that is not secure in their power.“ - @ezralevin.bsky.social

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 1d

The huge Deinocheirus in its habitat. Illustration I did for the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan

In this illustration you can see a scene set in Late Cretaceous Asia where an adult Deinocheirus is scaring away a pair of young Tarbosaurus

#paleoart #dinosaur #art

Illustration depicting three Deinocheirus in a Late Cretaceous swamp. The one of the front is chasing a way a pair of juvenile Tarbosaurus in the foreground

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

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David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social · 1d

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This is a producer for WGN Chicago.

This is Putin-style autocracy.

WATCH

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Society of Vertebrate Paleontology @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social · 2d

SVP President @stuartsumida.bsky.social speaks to Open Access Government about the importance of vertebrate paleontology and science in the United States.

www.openaccessgovernment.org/the-importan...

The importance of palaeontology, Earth history, and science

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology discusses the significance of paleontology, Earth history and science in this insightful opinion piece

www.openaccessgovernment.org

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David Levering @biogeoverse.bsky.social · 2d

Having lived in Oklahoma (where I did grad school), YEAH can confirm.

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 2d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 3d

"Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans. The nation deserves a health and human services secretary who is committed to scientific integrity…”

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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David Levering @biogeoverse.bsky.social · 4d

Soulless behavior by small, vile people with so little else going for them that they terrorize helpless men, women and children asleep in their beds to feel big and important. Pathetic.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

David Levering @biogeoverse.bsky.social · 4d

In the oversaturated attention economy, few things are more valuable than genuinely, directly getting to the goddamn point.

David Levering @biogeoverse.bsky.social · 4d

Truly chilling...

As in these folks are obviously being super chill.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 5d

Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

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David Levering @biogeoverse.bsky.social · 5d

Currently looking for an @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social member with a broad familiarity with the JVP and related literature plus a warm, engaging talk-show-host kind of personality. (Yes this is Comms Committee recruiting.) Comment or message me suggestions if you've got any!

a man in a blue suit and black shirt stands in front of a cbs sign

ALT: a man in a blue suit and black shirt stands in front of a cbs sign

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onion person @junlper.beer · 6d

this will only continue to escalate, they want a civil war

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