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Sometimes I eat things I find outside. Foraging and Mycology in the Mountain West, USA.
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The Killing of Alex Pretti
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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January 25, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting. 2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value. 3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE. 4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on. 5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle." 6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground. 7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack. 8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video. 9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk. 10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun. 11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him. 12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes. 13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. 14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him. 15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1. 16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground. 17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building. 18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values. I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct. Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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January 25, 2026 at 1:33 AM
fungalforager.bsky.social
Friday #foraging through brambles to get to some perfect #oystermushrooms #IdahoEscape #boise #mushroomsky
April 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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chescaleigh.bsky.social
here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘
April 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Tariffs xkcd.com/3073
April 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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humanrightsindex.bsky.social
Dear US Government,

We mind our ice ❄️. You mind your tariffs 💸

Deal?

— The Penguins of Heard Island 🐧

#PenguinRights
April 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
fungalforager.bsky.social
First edible #mushrooms of the year for me! 😃 (Never found any Flammulina/enoki over the winter. 😞) These are Collybia brunneocephala (means “brown-headed”). They are related to Blewits which are blue(ish), so we have taken to calling them “Brownits”. They hide! Notes in alt text. #IdahoEscape
Two Collybia brunneocephala mushrooms held in a hand in front of cottonwood trees and leaves in Boise, Idaho in April. A collection of Collybia brunneocephala mushrooms among cottonwood leaves in Boise, Idaho, in April. One is sliced in half lengthwise Collybia brunneocephala mushrooms camouflaged among cottonwood leaves in Boise, Idaho in April. Krista, of FunGalForager.com, holding two Collybia brunneocephala mushrooms in Boise, Idaho in April.
April 3, 2025 at 3:32 AM
fungalforager.bsky.social
Same. 🐊🐸
rosemarymosco.com Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · Apr 2
Excuses. An older comic.
A four-panel comic. In panel 1, there's an excerpt from an email that says "Re: New Tasks. Thanks for your email. Please be advised that I may take longer to answer emails because I'm swamped." And there's a person sitting happily on a rock, deep in a red maple swamp, with a frog and ferns and such. Another email excerpt says "I'm just really bogged down." The person is sitting on a bog boardwalk, surrounded by bog and fen fauna like an arethusa orchid, a pitcher plant, larch and spruce, and a canada jay. The email says "I'm not out of the woods yet." The person is happily wandering through the forest, looking at lichens and mushrooms. The email says "Sorry, it's crunch time." The person is kneeling in a forest, watching a red squirrel crunch away at a pine cone.
April 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
fungalforager.bsky.social
Re #AprilFools, I’m wondering how anyone can know what’s a joke these days? 🤷‍♀️ I won’t be posting any “news”, but I did remember this post I wrote a few years ago. A nerdy combo of #mushrooms, #morels, and how or brains can fool us or help us. Enjoy! #Idaho fungalforager.com/morchella-fa...
Morchella fauxrelle ~ AKA the Fools' Morel
Don't get stumped by the Fools' Morel this April Fools' Day! How to hack your brain to find the mushrooms and information you're looking for.
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April 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
fungalforager.bsky.social
Like…this is so 🤪 😭😫 right?
pbsnews.org PBS News @pbsnews.org · Mar 24
Top Trump admin. officials – including the VP, defense secretary and national security adviser – used Signal, a secure messaging app, that is outside of the national security apparatus to discuss plans for military strikes in Yemen that include detailed, sensitive and confidential information. (1/x)
March 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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colleenfellows.bsky.social
Great turnout for the Rally for Idaho Public Lands. We cannot afford to lose our public lands to privatization. Do Not Sell off our Public Lands. We will lose our places where we hike, hunt, fish, camp, raft, and recreate. Privatization will lick out the public, and cost our local economy billions.
View from the 4th floor of the Idaho Statehouse, looking out at around a thousand+ public lands supporters at the Rally for Idaho Public Lands. Closer view from above of a myriad of people at the Rally for Idaho Public Lands in the park at the Idaho Capitol. Numerous signs supporting public lands. There are four horses at the back of the crowd, ridden by public lands supporters. Numerous people seen from above, that have come together to support public lands at the Rally for Idaho Public Lands at the Idaho Capitol in Boise. In the center of the crowd, is a mule and a horse, both ridden by public lands supporters. View from above of public lands supporters standing around the Gov. Steunenberg statue at the Rally for Idaho Public Lands. Many are holding signs supporting public lands, there is a US flag being flown upside down.
March 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Cat standoff! ⚔️

Orange thinks he has high ground. He strikes and Gray retreats...
But it's just the opening gambit...

#cats #catsofbluesky #cat #checkmate #4Dchess
March 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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davejorgenson.bsky.social
DOGE fired (then rehired) nuclear workers
March 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.
February 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
fungalforager.bsky.social
Here’s a #ValentinesDay mushroom heart for all of us eagerly anticipating #morel season. ♥️ 🍄‍🟫 Eight weeks or so for season start in #Idaho! Morchella sp. found in a riparian area of the Owyhee Mtns. June, 2024. #fungi #nature
Morchella americana morel mushroom shaped like a heart.
February 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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actioncookbook.com
looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.
February 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.
February 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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zebpalmer.com
I got a couple messages today asking what I charge for security advice; I probably should have been clearer on that.
February 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
Losing NOAA would be devastating. Project 2025 authors want to get rid of it because it monitors climate change, and privatize the information it currently provides for free, so you'll have to buy information about the weather and the winds (imperative for mariners).
February 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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crampell.bsky.social
It seems like the trick to negotiating with Trump is to realize he doesn’t have any idea what the current facts are.
"Oh you want 10,000 troops?" says world leader who already deployed 15K. "Great 10k it is"
February 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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davlin.bsky.social
Really good information from The Bulwark if you are watching the markets tomorrow. Source: open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
From The Bulwark: "First, some ground rules. The securities markets have a system of circuit breakers to halt massive declines. There are three circuit breakers that are measured by calculating a percentage decline in the S&P 500 from the close of the previous day: Level 1 (7 percent), Level 2 (13 percent), and Level 3 (20 percent). If Levels 1 or 2 are tripped before 3:25 p.m., all trading is halted for 15 minutes. If Level 3 is tripped at any point in the day, trading is halted for the remainder of the day." Here are the S&P’s circuit breaker numbers for Monday: Level 1: $5,617 Level 2: $5,255 Level 3: $4,832
February 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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davlin.bsky.social
How might the tariff war impact Idaho? We can look to what happened in 2018 for some hints. #Idaho

blog.idahoreports.idahoptv.org/2025/02/01/t...
Tariffs in place on two of Idaho's largest trade partners - Idaho Reports
By Melissa Davlin, Idaho Reports On Saturday, President Donald Trump announced he had enacted 25%
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February 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents.

WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.
US Government Websites Are Disappearing in Real Time
A growing number of US government websites have gone offline as of Saturday, including several related to USAID and others focused on youth programs, Africa, and more.
www.wired.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM