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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

25th Amendment? We can’t even get network news to air it or even mention it. It’s a massive national media coverup to hide the fact the we have an addled president.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I mean… there’s nothing intelligent about that man to begin with. So, I am not surprised at all. 😂

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steve3797.bsky.social @steve3797.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

.. How can Americans be so stupid ?

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jack Smith is an American hero 👇

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This makes what happened far worse. These people need to be jailed for insider trading, but the Department of Justice is equally corrupt and will do nothing. www.hcn.org/articles/min...

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Mining execs bought big in company stock days before Bears Ears’ cuts - High Country News

House Democrats have opened an investigation for insider trading.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Thunderstorm and rain! And nowhere else in the state...

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Cursed liars. Our precious lands (sacred to many tribes, and to me) are being sold off for short-term profits. I've "recreated" and taught on these lands for years (gift article from The New York Times). www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/c...

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Documents Undercut Trump’s Claims About Bears Ears National Monument (Gift Article)

President Trump said recreation in Bears Ears National Monument was virtually impossible. Documents reviewed by The New York Times show officials knew otherwise.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

So incredibly proud to find that my brother has been named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. If you're not familiar with what that means, it's a huge honor.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Last night's sunset and full moon rising over the California prairie.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Nearing the end of our PNW field studies, we traversed a part of NV that doesn't look like people's conception of NV: the Ruby Mtns, which were proposed as a nat'l park, and should have been one. Alpine topography in Lamoille Canyon with exposures of a metamorphic core complex.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Day 14 of our PNW field studies found us driving home across northern Nevada. We stopped for the night at at Angel Creek and Lake in the Eastern Humboldt Range. This Range was considered for national park status in the 1990s. The rocks are part of an ancient metamorphic core complex.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Day 12 of our PNW field study was a near-total loss to the rain, but what a morning on Day 13! The Grand Teton Range is a fault scarp that rises abruptly a mile above Jackson Hole. The crustal rocks are among the oldest rocks in the western US, at 2.7 billion yrs. And there was the wolf pursuit!

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Day 11 of our field studies of the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies. Despite the rain and almost snow, I wanted to explore the Upper Geyser Basin near Old Faithful, as I had few chances to do so over the years. The variety of geysers and hot springs is unique in the world. 1/2

Beauty Pool, a multi-colored hot spring pool with forest in background

Castle Geyser, a mound of silica with a hole at the top

Wave Spring, a multi-colored pool at the edge of a forest.

Heart Spring, a blue hot spring pool with steam vents and forest visible in the distance.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Day 11 of our PNW field trip, the 7th day of summer, and we awoke...to snow. We left to see iconic Old Faithful. My students wouldn't have let me get away with anything less! They had 3 hours to explore in the freezing rain (or drink lattes and earn Jr Ranger Badges). 1/2

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Day 10 of our field course in the PNW...Yellowstone NP on a weekend. Despite the rain and snow (!), we had to plan our stops carefully. We managed to find spots at the Norris Geyser Basin, the hottest, most acidic landscape in the park. We walked the Porcelain Basin. Fantastic!

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Day 10 of our Pacific Northwest field course, cont. We arrived at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park and found myriad rock formations developing from the calcite-infused hot water. Part 1 of 2.

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

He’s not even in office anymore and he’s still more presidential than the man who is.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

On day 10 of our PNW journey, we awoke to cold, almost freezing rain. But we were in Yellowstone! On a weekend. Our stops were carefully calibrated to avoid the worst crowds. 1st stop was Yellowstone Falls and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. This is a young feature, less than 1 million yrs old.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Day 9 of our PNW exploration (my day count is off!). A change of pace: not spectacular in the scenic sense, but rich in history. The Madison Buffalo Jump St Pk preserves a cliff where bison were stampeded to their deaths, providing the hunters with food and clothing and shelter.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I'm stunned, as I've never witnessed anything like this. Wolf pursuing a pronghorn baby while mama tries to distract the predator. We were at Grand Tetons National Park.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Day 10 of our Pacific Northwest Field studies found us exploring one of the few limestone caverns to be found in the Northwest: Lewis and Clark Caverns in MT. Though L&C camped nearby they never found the cave.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Day 8 of our studies in the Pacific Northwest was a 400 mile long journey across Idaho and Montana with few stops. But one was spectacular: the Camas Prairie near Perma reveals gigantic ripple marks as high as 50 feet caused by the Missoula floods traveling at 80 mph

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Day 7 of our Pacific Northwest field studies found us in the Grand Coulees, incredible gorges carved in days or weeks by massive floods during the latest part of the ice ages.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Our dinosaur is on display! The Zephyrosaurus that our MJC students discovered in 1996 is at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman Montana! Not quite the grandeur of a T. rex, but there it is! @xenolith.bsky.social @phaneritic.bsky.social

A fossil vertebrae on display in a museum

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Day 5 of our exploration of the Pacific Northwest...Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park! Perfect weather...

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

On the mima mounds prairie near Tumwater. No one really knows how these mounds formed

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Smith Rock is one of the most wonderful little-known places in Oregon!

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Start of day 2 of our Pacific Northwest field studies. Exploring Lava Beds National Monument, including an unexpected thunderstorm.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

First day of our geology anthropology field studies class in the Pacific Northwest. A look at Mt. Shasta

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Where are Kid Rock & Lee Greenwood when you really need them?

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05... Marvelous news. His name is a stain on our nation's history, and needs to be removed.

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Trump Administration Live Updates: Court Orders Trump’s Name Stripped From Kennedy Center

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Three volcanoes from our trip north: Adams, Rainier, and St. Helens. The weather was perfect!

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

geotripper.blogspot.com/2026/05/geot... Who is your favorite geologist character in the movies? Does your list match well with mine? Can you guess my favorite geologist? We are showing my favorite at the State Theatre in Modesto as a fundraiser for our students on May 20 at 7pm.

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Geotripper Rates Hollywood Movie Geologists (AND, see "Tremors" at the State Theatre on May 20!)

One of my earliest blog posts (in 2008) was a list of my favorite depictions of geologists in movies. I've revisited it once or twice. It ca...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

MacFarlane: People in Virginia voted by the millions. Their voices were heard and now have been silenced. And you want to talk about what starts a political wave in a year like this: a mass of people who think their voices have been silenced. That doesn't stop a wave that fuels one.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Favorite moments of our first day on the road: Mount Shasta and the Castle Crags in Northern California

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Some people special to me donated their lifelong collection of rock and fossils to the department. One item stood out... I've never held one and rarely seen one for sale. Can any of my geology friends identify it, and explain why it's important in our science?

Very lumpy looking sample of a dark mineral or rock about 3 inches across.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Walz: The president said it's a bunch of radicals. You're damn right we've been radicalized. Radicalized by compassion, radicalized by decency, radicalized by due process, radicalized by democracy.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The House can do what they want tomorrow, but they ain’t getting Cancun Cruz back in the Senate anytime soon.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

With all the disturbing things going on, I want to think of something more positive. Here are some (locally) rare birds I've seen this week; a Hudsonian Whimbrel, and a Hooded Oriole. Both arrived in the region a bit early.

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Garry Hayes @geotripper.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

geotripper.blogspot.com/2026/03/one-... We were out at the Red Hills last weekend, and the flowers were putting on a show, although conditions are drying out quickly. I wrote about the strange geology of the area a few years ago and reposted today, for anyone who wants to see this unique area.

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One of California's Rarest Ecosystems: The Serpentine Soils of the Red Hills

The Red Hills are blooming right now, so I am posting an abridged version of my post from May 21, 2021 explaining the geological condition...

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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

“When the very rich so controlled the means of communication that it would be almost impossible for ordinary people to make informed decisions and so democracy would then be broken…” - attributed to Albert Einstein We have been here before, and we know what to do. RESIST!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Let’s put an unhinged malignant narcissist sundowning into dementia in control of the most powerful military force in the history of mankind because what could go wrong.

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Out looking at southern Motherlode rocks with @geotripper.bsky.social.

Bush lupine blooming on steep serpentine hillside with mountains and valleys in background.

Close up of a cluster of new-to-me yellow flowers known as yellow clustered broomrape.

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