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Jeanne Timmons

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Freelance writer (she/her) interested in paleontology and archaeology. Avatar by Natalia Jagielska. https://mostlymammoths.wordpress.com/freelance-work/

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · Nov 6

"Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Do not become bitter or hostile. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. We will find a way to make a way out of no way." - the late Congressman John Lewis

Evergreen and inspiring tweet from the late Congressman John Lewis: "Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Do not become bitter or hostile. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. We will find a way to make a way out of no way. #goodtrouble"

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 7h

"But there is nothing noble about what Vought is doing. He is a fully competent, utterly committed radical ideologue...There is no line he doesn’t feel justified to cross. He is at war...w/ the very idea of a democratic society defined by egalitarian pluralism." @thomaszimmer.bsky.social

Screenshot of text: Key to understanding Vought’s worldview is the idea that the constitutional order - and with it the “natural” order itself - has been destroyed: The revolution has already happened, “the Left” won. Therefore, conservatives categorically err when they try to preserve what is no more. Vought certainly sees himself in the modern conservative tradition, but he also disdains the conservative establishment for their inability to understand and act upon the radical demands of the moment. Power, Vought claims, now lies with a “permanent ruling class” of leftist elites who control all major institutions of American life and especially the “woke and weaponized” agencies of the state. In order to defeat them, conservatives must become “radical constitutionalists” - and take radical action. While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020. Vought is convinced that America is facing an existential threat, a situation he has likened to 1776 and 1860: (Counter-) Revolution and total war, that is what America must face if it is to survive. Vought is therefore not interested in “normal” democratic politics: He seeks to “traumatize” civil servants, use the military to suppress protests, and sees Trump as an agent of God’s will.

Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 8h

More pictures from yesterday's hike

Sunlight shines brightly on largely orange and green leaves in the trees. Smaller conifers are interspersed among deciduous trees. The sky is very, very blue, and there are hints of mountains in the distance.

The narrow path leading upward is all rocks. At the top is bright blue sky. On either side is forest.

Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 9h

That looks amazing!!

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 10h

According the article, the Everett Police still have not told the parents why they arrested their 13-year-old child, nor why they handed him over to ICE while his parents waited in the station to pick him up.

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 9h

Nothing says a nation irredeemably gone to hell like its government kidnapping children and whisking them out of state.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 10h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 9h

"'Books need to have someone loudly clamoring behind the scenes to rise above the general masses,' Ms. Ringo said.

"They each aim to be that for their writers, and are always on the lookout for more opportunities to do so." - Quinn Moreland

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 9h

They’re Trying to Publish the Best Books You’ve Never Heard Of

Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo, the creators of Hagfish, an imprint they started in 2022 after leaving jobs at Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Their small press is focused on out-of-print and obscure books by women.

Gift link!

They’re Trying to Publish the Best Books You’ve Never Heard Of

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you for the gift link!

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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 5d

#Paleoctober2025 day 6 paleoart sketch of the giant Late Triassic ichthyosaur Ichthyotitan.

#Paleoctober #Paleoart #ichthyosaur #Ichthyotitan

Painterly hour long digital sketch of the massive ichthyosaur in cool ocean waters with much smaller ammonites swimming past.

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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 5d

#Paleoctober2025 day 7 paleoart sketch of the extinct conifer Sequoites.

#Paleoctober #Paleoart #Sequoites #Enantiornithes

The genus existed until the Miocene, but I chose the Late Cretaceous Sequoites dakotensis so I could include an enantiornithine bird. The juvenile avialan is begging for food from an unseen parent perched atop the conifer branch with a cone and speculative leaves below it. The scene is overcast with fine rain.

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 9h

#ichnology

Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 1d

Neste estudo mostramos alguns equinoides (ouriços-do-mar) fósseis da Formação Jandaíra (Cretáceo Superior, Bacia Potiguar) que foram perfurados por gastópodes (caramujos) durante ações de predação e até mesmo relações parasíticas ocorridas há cerca de 80 milhões de anos!

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Aline Ghilardi @alinemghilardi.bsky.social · 1d

🚨New paper Alert! 🚨 (still in pre-proof!)

Gastropod predation and parasitism on echinoids from the Jandaíra Formation (Turonian–Maastrichtian), Potiguar Basin, Northeast Brazil

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

GASTROPOD PREDATION AND PARASITISM ON ECHINOIDS FROM JANDAÍRA FORMATION (TURONIAN-MAASTRICHTIAN), POTIGUAR BASIN, NORTHEAST BRAZIL

Fossil echinoids bearing boreholes offer valuable information about the paleoecology of both the echinoids and their tracemakers, assisting paleobiolo…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 10h

LOVE this eerie artwork by @holboldoart.bsky.social. The setting, the snowfall, and the cloaked figure seem ominous, but the fox makes it charming. I find that juxtaposition very compelling.

From the artist's alt text: "A snowy scene in which a humanoid figure in long black robes with the head of a rook stands in a churchyard holding a long spear. By its feet is a red fox. Both are flecked with fallen snow. Around them are many weathered snow-covered graves. In the background is a medieval church of warm coloured stone with large rectangular windows and a battlemented parapet topped with pinnacles. Behind the main body of the church is the tower with clock face and belfry. Behind the church are tall but bare trees dusted with snow. More snow falls in the air."

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Maija Karala @maijakarala.bsky.social · 23d

#SciArtSeptember 19 - Depths

Fintail angler is one of the nightmarish-looking fishes haunting the ocean depths. They are diverse, fascinating, and virtually unknown. This species was first observed alive in 2018.

This is a mating pair: the male is the little worm-like thing hanging from her belly.

Illustration of a female black fintail anglerfish on a simple dark blue background. The fish has a large mouth full of sharp teeth and most notably, numerous bioluminescent thread-like growths all over her body, some of them longer than the entire fish. Underneath her, a tiny, elongated male is attached from his head into her belly.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10h

Just days after the indictments of James Comey and Letitia James, Trump says online that Sen. Adam Schiff is "dishonest and corrupt" — and he hopes "the necessary authorities" are looking into his first impeachment.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you! I'm looking forward to reading that!

Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 1d

Stopped at my local independent bookstore. Discovered @matthaig.bsky.social.

This book was *delightful*.

www.matthaig.com/books/thehum...

The Humans - Matt Haig

THE HUMANS out now in UK and in USA This is the book I am most proud of. I have never written anything like it and probably never will again. I have no idea if you will like it. I really hope you do. ...

www.matthaig.com

Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 1d

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 1d

This is great by @motherjones.com. This is also great by @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social: ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 1d

Views from another summit later on the same trail. (2/fin)

A cloudless blue sky over mountains and a lake. The colors are mostly dulled for the season (past peak).

View of rock at the top onto part of a ski slop and mountains in the distance.

Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 1d

The view from one of the summits on today's hike (1/)

The sun shines in a cloudless sky over several mountains. A lake is to the right; a highway is to the left.

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 1d

Scenes from today's hike

A rare stretch of green ferns (rather than yellow or brown) is highlighted by the sun. The green contrasts with the sepias and oranges of dead leaves all over the ground.

Orange and yellow leaves contrast against the dark tree trunks and blue sky.

If you're going to hike in NH, you're going to see rocks. Lots and lots and lots of rocks. Pictured here, some of the many rocks and boulders among the pines. The ground is covered in pine needles.

A view between pines to distant mountains and a clear blue sky.

Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 1d

I've never been on a more crowded hike. (There were people as far as the eye could see in front; same thing behind.)

Loved hearing numerous languages spoken all around me.

An even longer view of the people on a narrow path climbing up the mountain, surrounded by trees.

Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · 1d

I generally avoid popular hiking spots, especially during tourist season (ie: now), but it's a different story if I'm hiking alone. In that case, I want to be surrounded by people.

Wow, did I get my wish today.

People dressed warmly for an early-morning hike in the mountains. The narrow path is filled with people ahead of me. Rocks and colorful leaves are all around.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 2d

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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