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Douglas Main
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Environmental journalist, writer, artist, naturalist. Bylines: The Guardian, The Atlantic, NYT, Tech Review. Former senior editor/writer at Nat Geo.
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Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social · 20d
New weirdo plant just dropped.

Merry Christmas!

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/s...
Who’s the Parasite Now? This Newly Discovered ‘Fairy Lantern’ Flower.
www.nytimes.com
dmain.bsky.social
tyranny is when you can't voice yer heterodox opinion on a micro-blogging site w/o reputational harm, not when paramilitary forces occupy a US city

tyranny is when they suggest you wear masks to keep ppl healthy, not when masked federal agents w/ guns abduct people or ask to see minorities' papers
January 15, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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douglasmack.bsky.social
Following David's lead, I also posted on FB and was surprised by the positive response. Spread the word about what's happening here. People want to know.
I don't post much on here anymore but I need everyone to understand what it's like in Minnesota right now. It's terrifying here. Our communities are under attack. ICE is pulling people out of cars, rolling up to business and child care centers, detaining people based on the color of their skin, the language they're speaking, or the simple act of filming ICE. There are "guardians" stationed outside my daughters' schools to make sure kids and families are safe when they're just trying to attend classes. We should not fucking have to do this. I do not have the words to properly express my fear, anger, and heartbreak. Every day brings new scenes, new horrors that should not be tolerated even once, let alone on an ongoing basis, all encouraged by the president and his supporters, which I know includes some of the people reading this. We are just a normal city trying to do normal things, but instead we have to worry about federal agents-from the party that claims to support "small government" and "safety"-invading our neighborhoods and making everything more dangerous. Not one person I know in Minneapolis-not a single person, not even my most conservative local acquaintances-supports this or thinks it's anything other than an actual attack on our beautiful city. Many of our neighbors are immigrants. Doctors, nurses, teachers, the teller at the bank, the Uber driver getting you to the airport-the everyday people who make up the fabric of our city. These are the people being harassed and kidnapped and worse. Good people, not "bad guys." Some families just aren't sending their kids to school right now; some parents aren't going to work. I logged on and the Facebook algorithm served up a NY Post story about the murder of Renee Good. The algorithm showed me that people I know had liked it. Honestly, shame on you. Shame on you for buying the propaganda. Shame on you for feeding the machine of hatred. Have some empathy. I'm begging you.
January 14, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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windjunky.bsky.social
Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
January 14, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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willoremus.com
This is the kind of thing an authoritarian regime does. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home
The reporter, Hannah Natanson, covers the federal workforce and has been part of The Post’s most sensitive coverage of the first year of the second Trump administration.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
This video is the perfect encapsulation of the illegal, thuggish, unprovoked, violent conduct of ICE. Rep. @benniethompson.bsky.social, I trust that you and the House Homeland Security Committee will have interest in this.
January 13, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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kimkelly.bsky.social
It really is upsetting to see the Department of Labor—once headed by Frances Perkins, the woman behind the New Deal, who unapologetically bent immigration rules to save thousands of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany—posting fascist Reichslop like this
msainato.bsky.social Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 2d
A recent Department of Labor post uses a slogan similar to the Nazi propaganda slogan "One People, One Empire, One Leader”
Department of Labor posting "one homeland, one people, one heritage, remember who you are, American."
January 12, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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drericding.bsky.social
☢️THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR LIFE—E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution. the EPA plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives.

Gift🎁🔗

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:50 PM
dmain.bsky.social
The dirty tricks crowd hard at work trying to let a Chilean company mine in Minnesota’s famous Boundary Waters wilderness.

My question: why the f-ck didn't the Biden Admin file the mining ban in the Congressional Record? Is it really this simple / stupid?

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
January 10, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
www.reddit.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
DAVE MATTHEWS: “I don’t want my taxes to pay for masked thugs to roam our streets & terrorize our communities... She was trying to get away. He shot her 3x in the head. Murdered in cold blood. They’re trying to tell us not to believe what we see. FUCK ICE.”

(H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )
January 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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nicholasbednar.bsky.social
I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 5d
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 9, 2026 THE HONORABLE TIM WALZ Governor of Minesota 130 State Capitol 75 Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bivd. St. Paul, MN 55155 THE HONORABLE JACOB FREY Mayor of the City of Minneapolis City Hail 350S. Fifth St., Room 330 Minneapolis, MN 55415 Dear Governor Walz and Mayor Frey, It is my responsibility as Secretary of Agriculture to ensure sound stewardship of taxpayer dollars by climinating fraud, waste and abuse in all programs funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The widespread and systemic fraud associated with federal benefit programs in the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis demonstrate an inability to handle federal resources without additional oversight and accountability measures in place. During your tenures as Governor of Minnesota and Mayor of Minneapolis, numerous non-profits and businesses have defrauded the federal government in what a federal prosecutor in Minnesota called "a staggering, industrial-scale fraud".! Most notably, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit— Feeding Our Future defrauded U.S. taxpayers of nearly $250 million in federal funds given to them by the Minnesota Department of Education.? This fraud scheme involved USDA funding provided to the State of Minnesota to feed hungry children under the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). As of late November, 78 defendants had been charged in what the Department of Justice characterized as the largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country? Other recent examples of'alleged fraud in Minnesota include exploitation of the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program", a scheme to defraud the Housing Stabilization 1-Whut te know about Minnesoca' "industrial-scale fraad" scandal, as more charges are fled and Trump weighs in, "CES Nows (Dic. 19, 3025) available at ht:/www.cbsnews.com/news/atas-do-know-alonesota-frawf-candal were-changes-fled- tump-water. /Federal Jury Finds Feeding Our Future Masternind and Co-D… Services Program", and alleged fraud in daycare centers*, Your Administrations have refused additional accountability and oversight, claiming that criticism of rampant fraud and abuse is "racist." While the full extent of fraud in Minnesota is not yet known, it is clear that, under your leadership- or lack thereof fraudsters can take advantage of federal funds and the American taxpayer with impunity. This necessitates federal action to protect taxpayer dollars until adequate safeguards can be established. Despite a staggering, wide-reaching fraud scandal, your Administrations refuse to provide basic information or take common sense mcasures to stop fraud. In fact, rather than conlin your SNAP rolls are accurate to prevent continuing fraud, you asked the courts to block USDA's directive to recertify the State's SNAP recipients. Recent news reports also emerged that the Minnesota Department of Human Services repeatedly reported incorrect information about SNAP to the federal government.? The Trump administration refuses to allow such fraud to continuc. Therefore, because of your failed Icadership and abysmal financial management oversight, 1 am notifying you that, effective immediately, I am suspending payments on all active awards and any future awards from USDA to the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis, currently totaling over $129.18 million. Within 30 days, you shall provide USDA with payment justifications for all federal dollar expenditures from January 20, 2025, to the present. Going forward, all transactions on awards to the State of Minnesota or the City of Minneapolis will require such payment justification. If those payment justifications are not received, awards will remain suspended. While your Administrations have turned a blind eye to documented fraud, the Trump Administration has made clear that fraud, waste, and abuse are unacceptable. The American people deserve to know that their taxpayer dollars are helping those in need-not criminals. …
January 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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unusualwhales.bsky.social
Underemployment rate for recent college graduates rose to 41.8%, per New York Fed.
January 9, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
She is aggressively trying to turn the wheel AWAY from the ICE agent. It is her very last action. They provoke her, surround her, then kill her in cold blood. I have barely slept since this happened and I don't think I'll ever stop being angry about this.
proptermalone.bsky.social post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 6d
i have watched the shooter's video. it's going to make you way the fuck madder.
proptermalone.bsky.social post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 8d
I have watched the video. I think you probably do not need to watch the video. it shows what you think it's gonna show in terms of lack of justification.
January 9, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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billmckibben.bsky.social
"I'm not mad at you" as your last words on earth are really not all that far from "forgive them father for they know not what they do."
January 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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biketrouble.bsky.social
interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car
January 8, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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jamellebouie.net
what you clearly see, CLEARLY, is a driver who is spooked by the agents grabbing her door, takes steps to drive away, and is immediately shot as moves her vehicle *away* from the agents.
mikehixenbaugh.com Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 7d
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
January 8, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Violence is too often sloppy; it spills over. Misogynists kill a lot of men, racists kill white people, ICE in its attacks on immigrants and anyone who looks like them just killed a white US citizen. When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when you're a gun everyone is a target.
January 8, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
January 7, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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jamellebouie.net
masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.
skyspider.bsky.social Kelly Stuart @skyspider.bsky.social · 7d
This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.
January 7, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.
January 7, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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pensoft.net
🧐 It might be named a "fairy", but there's little fairy-like about this parasitic #plant (especially if you happen to be a peaceful #fungus!), described as a #newspecies in November in our journal @phytokeys.pensoft.net.

🗞️ Story on @nytimes.com by @dmain.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/s...
Who’s the Parasite Now? This Newly Discovered ‘Fairy Lantern’ Flower.
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:27 PM
dmain.bsky.social
Awful news: razor wire is ”spreading like cancer” along the Arizona-Mexico border. This stuff really does not prevent illegal crossings, and it is a nightmare for wildlife (and unlucky humans).

A needless cause of suffering and death, IMO

By @emilybregel.bsky.social

tucson.com/news/local/s...
Razor-wire use spreading 'like a cancer' in borderlands, advocates say
For Star subscribers: Concertina wire is already placed along the top of the border wall in urban areas, including around Nogales. But agents now are installing concertina wire on the
tucson.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:15 PM
dmain.bsky.social
Feed cleanse — a Brazilian farmer built this incredible tree house in a Ficus tree without nails or a lot of experience ... pretty cool

youtu.be/aCZayBei8lE?...
AGRICULTOR CONSTRÓI CASA NA ÁRVORE SOZINHO! 🥰🥰
YouTube video by Vale Agrícola
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January 6, 2026 at 9:09 PM
dmain.bsky.social
Meet the world’s only known parasitic conifer, known as Parasitaxus usta, found in New Caledonia.

It gets its energy from its ”host,“ another conifer, from whose roots it sprouts, but also likely from fungi. A dark purple color, it lacks functional chlorophyll.

Fascinating and bizarre!
A photo of Parasitaxus usta, a parasitic conifer that lacks functional chlorophyll, and appears dark purple. It sprouts from the roots of its host, another conifer. Credit: Kristal Watrous. A photo of Parasitaxus usta, a parasitic conifer that lacks functional chlorophyll, and appears dark purple. Here it is sprouting from the rain forest floor in New Caledonia. Credit: Kristal Watrous.
January 6, 2026 at 12:30 AM
dmain.bsky.social
First US tornado of the year touched down in … Tucson, Arizona

tucson.com/news/local/w...
Nation's first tornado of 2026 hit just west of Tucson
The Tucson area notched the nation's first tornado of 2026, with a weak landspout that briefly touched down on New Year's Day in the desert near Three Points.
tucson.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:57 PM