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David Clark

@clarkeocrinus.bsky.social

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I'd rather be crinoid hunting. Invertebrate enthusiast, Paleo artist, Fossil prep, President of Friends of the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · Jul 31

All right, let's do this one last time.

My name is David Clark. I was bitten by a radioactive crinoid, and for 13 years I was on the bird site as clarkeocrinus.

I'm pretty sure you know the rest.

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 8h

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 2h

Goniatite fossils packed throughout this piece of shale. The shells of these ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus must have littered the sea floor that covered this part of the earths surface over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13h

You can’t talk seriously about gun violence in Chicago without talking about where the guns come from. www.pbump.net/o/the-red-st...

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Howie @howardbr.bsky.social · 12h

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 3h

a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .

ALT: a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 8h

This isn’t the first time Miller has used the term “plenary authority” with respect to the Presidency. He did so already in March, but that time he was referring to the president’s authority in foreign policy. What’s new here is now to say this absolute power also applies domestically.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 14h

Elect a reality TV President. Get a reality TV administration.

Nothing is real. It's all performance art for an audience of one.

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 17h

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 14h

I speak at my kid's classes every year about fossils and it's my favorite day. I've saved every card or letter the kids have written and drawn over the years.

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Bruce Mirken @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 18h

"Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns." […]

Original post on mas.to

mas.to

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 23h

[Trump announces that ICE agents will now wear white hoods]

New York Times: the president makes a bold fashion statement

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Cam Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time ⏰ ⚒️) @cambriancam.bsky.social · 17h

1#trilobitetuesday

Circled are two cranidia from the trilobite Tricopelta breviceps. They are less common than trilobites like Flexicalymene and Isotelus within the Cincinnatian Series. This specimen comes from the Upper Ordovician (Richmondian) Liberty Formation in Franklin county, Indiana.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is made up of men who have failed the human test and have nothing of value to offer this nation.

Adults with decency and options and possibilities don’t do this shit.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

I know we're all used to the president talking like Livia Soprano all the time, but this is a goddamn outrage

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

“.. we’re going to take care of our people,” Trump added. “There are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of. And we’ll take care of them in a different way.”

@thehill.com
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 16h

I don't doubt that Trumpism will soon crumble and things will return to a seeming normal. But what worries me is whether we will again make the mistake of offering impunity to these degenerates because if so, we're just waiting around for fascism that sticks.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15h

It's one thing to be politically divided into red states and blue states. We are now being militarily divided into red states and blue states. It's crossing the Rubicon, a bright-red flashing warning that the constitutional order is coming unglued, in a way that will have monumental consequences. /x

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15h

What's it like living in Chicago today? This image gives us a strong sense of the fear that Chicagoans fear from Trump's secret police.

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 18h

Both.

I'm taking the kids fossil hunting this weekend and will be disconnected. Hoping to recharge and take out my aggression on rocks.

David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 21h

Senator Collins thinks Charlie Brown should try to kick the football.

Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 22h

I don't know what Democrats think of this either, but I do know what Democrats SHOULD think about something suggested by a conniving viper who has fucked them over on every single occasion she's had the opportunity

Burgess Everett tweet: "One of Sen. Collins idea to break logjam: Dems give votes to reopen government with a “commitment” to negotiate on ACA premium tax credits. She says it’s not entirely clear what Democrats think of this"

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22h

Members of the GOP openly calling for a "cleansing."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Schmitt: "Let's just call it out. We need a cleansing here. Let's just be truthful about what's happening. This left-wing political violence is not a both sides thing. It's not."

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 1d

See that small, moving splotch?

That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter.

A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS

last Friday

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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