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ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

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Man-made horrors beyond comprehension, and an extremely deep lore callback. Readers of this comic often ask the characters about their favorite animals, likely because they are Creature Enthusiasts, but Idrisah is the only one of the main cast who is a fellow Creature Enthusiast.

Drawing of a very shiny praying mantis. It has chunky, shiny forearms and is mostly green and red.

A close up of the drawing, showing the metallic shine on the mantis' green and blue forearm.

Earlier this year I drew this magnificent Metallyticus splendidus. I'm very pleased with how it turned out. That's all.

"But there is a humility to using gar as a yardstick, as these are long-lived animals. You do not rebuild a century-fish’s prospects in a single season. That is why the team keeps returning, and why this story is still being written."
They're like LOTR elves. 🥹 SingGAR or VanGAR, perhaps.

Giving alligator gar a lifeline in the Lower Mississippi River At dawn, the woods are hushed and damp. River water meanders between towering trees, and a long shadow glides just beneath the surface. A flash of silver breaches the surface before sliding back into ...

In newly reconnected backwaters of the Lower Mississippi River, an ancient fish finds its way home www.nfwf.org/media-center...

Update on National Fish & Wildlife Foundation and partners’ Mississippi River floodplain restoration work!

Nearly all drivers say vehicles' lights are too bright in study The study, commissioned by the Department for Transport, was completed by Berkshire's TRL.

I wish we, like, regulated shit nowadays. Between car bloat, blinding headlines, and neighbourhoods packed with rental suites but no on-property parking, driving is an absolute nightmare now.

Comic - Panel 1: close up of a worm face with two tentacles and a mouth shaped like a 'w', sort of cat-like, they are saying "Remember, when life gives you a dark cold void, cast your invisible mucus web to ensnare all the joy and nourishment floating in the world." Panel 2: large panel with the round butt-shaped worm barfing out a sheet of sparkling mucus, sound effect in the mucus "BLARGHHH"

Motivational Mucus! Behold the glorious Pigbutt Worm (Chaetopterus pugaporcinus)

#TidalFarce #SciArt #comic 🦑 more info about this critter -> tidalfarce.com/index.html?p...

This morning, there was a public hearing at Bessemer City Hall in Alabama to discuss the zoning of a new data center, which would likely cause the extinction of a newly-discovered small endemic fish, the Birmingham Darter. Best of luck to the fish people. abc3340.com/news/abc-334...

Prairie and edge habitats provide valuable nesting resources for bumble bees (Bombus) in the midwestern U.S - Apidologie Bumble bees use three main habitats to complete their life cycle: foraging habitat, overwintering habitat, and nesting habitat. Overall, the majority of bumble bee research has focused on the foraging...

a cool thing that happened is ppl destroyed a remnant prairie at Rockford Airport. While the rusty-patch bumblebee foraged there, there was no proof it *nested* there. So 💥

Publications only had proof they nested in forests

This paper would have saved the prairie
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The red knight is in the foreground, speaking to a distracted group. Grell is wistfully watched the snipe wading away. The blue knight is releasing the yellow knight's steed, the great bumblebee. The blue knight's dragonfly steed is hovering overhead. And finally, Bagglyn has her cap back–with arrow still lodged through it–and is tentatively picking up the yellow knight's discarded sword.

"Hah! That was no Dragon, but a mere malevolent minion of darkness!" scoffed the red knight. "Forget that yellow-bellied knight and her leaden greaves. Onward! I have a strong notion we shall find what we seek." So onward they went–toward certain disaster!

Kneesvember 2025 Day 11

A Common Blue Butterfly is speaking. The speech bubble says, "Welcome, even if it's just for a moment." Situation: Due to Twitter's server downtime, Koreans have temporarily regrouped on bsky.

🦋

Kind of feels like the IOC expected for the study to say "yeah trans women are like the hulk somehow" and when it completely undercut the reasoning behind banning us. They have simply elected to ignore their own work.

The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.

'I'll stop being in the news but I'll continue doing sexual harassment'

The story isn't so much that a senile rapist is having his inhibitory impulse filters dissolve, but that the media *does not seem to have a problem with this*

Think about how journalists who don't lick boots, would respond to this at that moment.

several sketches and rough paintings detailing a reworked version of totks sky map, here there are multiple different bioms with examples for the "yellow" area, the environment consists largely of naturally formed big white stone pillars with mushroom like platforms on them, shaped by the wind over hundreds of years, the only forms of vegatation is flat, yellow mosslike growth on the ground, rarely pale blue bushes that grow seeds birds love, long purple vines growing underneath platforms that occasionally bear stamina fruit and pink coral like mushrooms with a poison effect; sometimes there are broken old shiekah tech parts and labs revealed bc the erosion of the ground.

a design for an NPC in this reworked version of totk, they are an ancient monk that has lived in these sky islands, hidden by artificial clouds, possibly since the persectution of the shiekah, their body looks similar to the monks in game but elongated, their clothes and body growing some of the yellow moss growths of these sky islands, inlcuding their overgrown hat with long white streamers hiding most of their body. they wield a staff of shiekah tech used as a key for maintenance on the systems keeping the islands hidden- three birds, green orange and yellow perch on it, at night a fourth one designed after satori. their home is situated in an old shiekah lab, the stone pillar above it is full of birds nests and purple cloth are stretched around it as shelter from weather.

some more concepts for my botw2 project (complete totk overhaul, world, design, narrative, gameplay etc)

here some bits for the reworked sky area "yellow" (bc im adding dif bioms) featuring an ancient monk NPC that lets you register tamed birds

#art #fanart #zelda #botw2 (idk what tag to use lol)

Hello internets, there's a paleontological museum in danger of being closed. Please help.

Trio of the theropod Giganotosaurus carolinii, scene mostly in a reflection in a puddle, with only the feet of one dinosaur visible to the right of the screen.

Finally came up with a composition to have a take on Giganotosaurus! The group behavior based on the remains of Mapusaurus seemingly showcasing that lifestyle. Otherwise, I always love reflections and unconventional approaches to showcasing well known animals! #paleoart #paleosky #giganotosaurus

gay paleoart! nature is queer!! 🏳️‍🌈

A same-sex Pteranodon pair doing a courtship display 😌

"What a horror!" cried the yellow knight, "What a brute! What an ogre! Gaze upon its great lance! We haven't a hope to defeat this beast!" Unbuckling her sword's sheath and renouncing her knighthood, the yellow brid vanished into the wood. "I think it looks quite kindly for a Dragon" said Grell.

We see a snipe wading near the shore. Grell and the blue knight look on.

Kneesvember 2025 Day 10

Please, if you've ever wanted to help me financially, help PRI. They're an independent museum in Ithaca at immediate risk of foreclosure. I would be so crushed if they didn't make it.

Lol yeah man all that panic over "a Big Mac will cost $15!" if we raise the minimum wage. Well we didn't raise the minimum wage but a Big Mac is $15 now.

(Old Art) Leaellynasaura Illustration!

I haven't posted this here yet, so just gonna show it here.

I have depicted a "Months of Light Seasons Morph" (Dark Variant) and a "Months of Dark Seasons Morph" (Light Variant), Inspired by old illustrations with different morphs in books. #sciart #paleoart

Making some fresh models to sharpen my 3D skills, and what better subject to do that than our lovely brazilian Pleistocene megafauna?

#SciArt #artbyjulio

North Carolina GOP Is Cracking Down on the Black Sheriffs Who Stood Up to ICE Boosted by new supermajorities, Republicans are closing in on legislation to mandate more collaboration with ICE and preempt local policies hard-won by immigrants’ rights advocates.

“When the 8 African American sheriffs took over the largest counties in North Carolina, it became a threat to the good ol’ boy system,” says the sheriff of Charlotte. These new sheriffs broke ties with ICE.

But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:

Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social • 4h Respect Alice Wong's call here: "When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don't care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving." COVID-19 COVID Isn't Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life. © www.teenvogue.com

you don’t get to indulge in whataboutism as an excuse to not do anything.

stop insisting COVID-aware folk want you to shut down the world. we’re asking you to open it up—for everyone.

so be a big boy/girl: wear a mask, and it you want to help disabled people, take a cue from the late alice wong:

part of the reason for the rise of reform is labour trying to appeal to their supporters by aping their arguments and policies. all labour votes reward this strategy, your labour vote says "yes, i love racism, more racism please"