Geo!

Pinecone made up of sulphur, so it’s a pale brown colour. It sits on a clear plexiglass plinth on a white background. At the Field Museum.

SO COOL!! Sulphur taking the shape of a pinecone!! It replaced the original material. #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪

Actually posting minerals on #mineralmonday this time, with a delicate specimen. Vanadinite on mottramite with some barite.
Locality: Midelt Province, Morocco. Personal collection.

#minerals #geology #mineralogy

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

Portrait of a coyote with its eyes covered

Spent my whole life looking back and wondering who i was

#art

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

ICE Agent Stuffs Sock Under Mask To Give Himself Chin

ICE Agent Stuffs Sock Under Mask To Give Himself Chin

Francis Wang in brown wool wrap holding mic with coyote in left hand side of screen behind her on street. Banner reads LOOK BEHIND YOU COYOTE WALKS THROUGH FRANCIS WANG'S LIVE SHOT

Hilariously, a coyote walked behind a San Francisco reporter as she was doing a segment on the mountain lion. 🤣

"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport

Yes, yes ICE is leaving Minneapolis, but where are the plane loads of people they hauled off?

Where are the kids?

Where are the parents?

Where are the people who are neither kids nor parents?

so incredibly proud of y'all. I miss this city often.

“i believe in music” is a new one in the brass solidarity band repertoire. very healing to be here in whittier next to alex pettri’s memorial among so many people

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really don’t have any higher opinion of Homan—a cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat who’s devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. He’s the architect of child separation.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

What if you knew him?
What if you loved him?
What if you saw him lying dead on the ground?

How do you turn away from that?
How do you look elsewhere?
How do you just keep moving like nothing happened?

No video of a gun “brandished” at ICE soooooo manyyyyyy cameras were out there. Hmmmm…

I'm so scared man. I'm so scared.

Thank you to everyone who worked hard to preserve this video. It shows ICE murdered Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse. Watch, save, and share. 💔

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

This is the way. Any 2028 Dem candidates need to start saying that on Day One: (1) all ICE agents fired; (2) pensions/benefits defunded; (3) forced to pay backpay as restitution to victims; and (4) only way to avoid prison is to become a cooperating informant

Murder

Watching this in particular. The effort to take witnesses to Whipple, as well as the police refusing to leave the scene, are key.

This is apparently on X. I have a few concerns: 1) why is DHS sending photos of (alleged) evidence that should be in a secure chain of custody that is now lying on a car seat??? and 2) being armed does not on its own justify the use of deadly force — there has to be evidence he was trying to use it

This is a really intriguing line of argument for why the protests this time around haven't been as "riotous."

Benitoite on natrolite with neptunite. Benitoite is a barium titanium cyclosilicate. Formed when Ba-bearing hydrothermal fluids pass through Ti-bearing blueschists during retrograde metamorphism associated with serpentinite mélanges.

I'm so upset.

Who can get the witnesses to the shooting and their evidence safely out of whipple?

ALERT: A man has died after being shot by ICE in the Eat Street neighborhood of south Minneapolis. Video shows agent used a gun to hit the man multiple times in the head before the first shot is fired.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.