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Jake Withee @witheelabs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's why I (and dozens of amazing coworkers before me) left the Bell Museum

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Jake Withee @witheelabs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Aha! Love a good set of ear bones.

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Jake Withee @witheelabs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wait maybe I'm totally missing something – other than the lack of visible knuckles, what's biologically off about the bat wing bones?

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Anne Kosseff-Jones @annekosseffjones.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I’m grateful for this research and also it feels profoundly dark to think about how the acute occupation of Metro Surge poisoned the actual earth of this already-occupied Dakota land.

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What did a winter of tear gas leave in Minneapolis soil? U of M researchers are trying to find out.

The study aims to determine whether chemical munitions used by federal agents left contaminants in neighborhood gardens and soil.

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Darcy Shapiro @darcyshapiro.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Museum folks! What are the most common questions you get asked about exhibits/objects? #museumsky #scicomm

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Jake Withee @witheelabs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

At the Bell Museum, I ended up making a whole video series just to try to address them all 😂 One of the most common was, "Did you kill all those animals?" but a favorite of mine was, "What's the most flexible snake in Minnesota?"

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Honest Answers to Ridiculous Questions (16:9, open-captioned) - Google Drive

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Jake Withee @witheelabs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Wanna learn about a salamander species that lives its whole life in treetops? Good, because that's what I got. Check out my latest for Bizarre Beasts! I research and write all of these and I'm real proud of how they turn out and of the whole team who makes it happen!!!

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The Skydiving Salamander of The Redwood Forest

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

California is debating legislation right now that would ban all ICE employees from ever being hired by a public agency for life. This is good and next year's Democratic House needs to provide a full roster of ICE employees to help facilitate state efforts like this one.

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Jake Withee @witheelabs.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The gritty remake of "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" none of us expected

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Andrea LaFlamme @andrealaflamme.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I’m ready to answer the call.

Andrea LaFlamme for US Senate 2026

As a victim of sexual assault, myself, I'm still processing the news that came out yesterday about Graham Platner. I have a lot of feelings about the public reaction to it, but I want to focus my energy on the path forward and the needs of Maine.

Mainers showed up in a huge way in the primary. That's really exciting and it's necessary if we're going to beat Susan Collins. Maine voters made their voices heard. They made it clear that they want a candidate who isn't a part of the political realm--someone who supports Medicare for All, workers' rights, and reproductive rights, a person that fights with our communities against ICE, and, most importantly, someone who isn't afraid to speak truth to power. All of those things bring me so much hope. I'm proud of Maine for stepping up and I'm hopeful that we can use that energy to make some incredible policy changes, bring relief to struggling Mainers and beat Susan Collins in November.

If you've been following along on social media, you've seen that even after the primary, l've continued to show up for Maine in any way I can. As a young voice, a union leader, public health professor, and lifelong feminist, I've championed all of the things that Maine has said that they want in a candidate. I want to thank you all for your incredible messages of support since the primary.

I'm still here and I still believe that I'm the best person to take on Susan Collins.

We're going to see things start to move really quickly over the next week. We don't know what the future of the Senate race looks like, but one thing I can say with certainty is, whether l'm in an elected position or not, I'm always going to be here-standing up for Mainers and leading us forward.

Together, we lead.

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Jake Withee @witheelabs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I wrote about some cute li'l snakes, and I can assure you that they are both cute and li'l. Oh and they're also exclusively female, clones, and slowly taking over the world!

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These Snake Clones Are Everywhere (And It’s Our Fault)

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Jake Withee @witheelabs.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

YES this exact thing breaks my heart so much – I feel like the overwhelming majority of people by default get left out of such a big part of what makes being alive wonderful (i.e: learning about how goddamned weird and amazing absolutely everything is)

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 23/03/2026

Having failed to secure the Snickers or M&Ms that were my original objectives, sources tell the Washington Post I will now be refocusing all energy on extracating my hand from where it is stuck inside the vending machine and restoring said machine to the working order it was in prior to my arrival.

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D.A. Bullock @bullycreative.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The elected officials who rep a majority of the city have to beg Jacob Frey to not veto an extension in eviction notices. @Jacob_Frey who rode the wave of our collective suffering on his national PR tour, the most vulnerable in our city have to beg Jacob Frey to not impede help.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/02/2026

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school. They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/02/2026

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

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Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories

Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

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Jake Withee @witheelabs.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The only exception I've ever been open to is the time I saw a sign on a popup outside of a shop that said "Now is the winter of our Discount Tent"

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Pardoning drug lords but deporting sick little kids straight from the hospital really sums the whole thing up doesn’t it

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

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Christina Holland @mortalwombat.info · 11/02/2026

It's not only that they're not going after "the worst of the worst" in any way, but their whole approach of going after whoever is easiest, to get their numbers up, means they are punishing the best of the best, the people who are putting in the most effort to follow the rules and do what's right

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Matt Privratsky @mattprivratsky.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Anyone in Minnesota will tell you that this matches the eye test. They are simply grabbing anyone who's not white. Full stop. There is no other strategy to this at all. It's a racist, heinous federal occupation. Dismantle the agencies. Prosecute everyone involved. Redistribute all the funding.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 06/02/2026

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I can’t overstate that nearly every good headline coming out of Minnesota has been followed up by retaliation by the Trump administration—which tends to get a lot less attention. This is infuriating and devastating.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 02/02/2026

This is how Tom Homan reacts to losing a court case to free a medically fragile 5-year-old who was used as bait to lure his dad so they could be imprisoned in a measles factory. Fuck any de-escalation stories that come out.

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Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

People are getting on board with dissolving ice but we really need to drive home that ice is just a police dept that cares less if you see them be awful. The police do all this and get away with it because they've done it to black people and white america has long held the belief that it's just.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 30/01/2026

A compromise with fascism is still fascism

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Pro tip for any Hill journos, the Speaker can approve 24hr protection for Members who are under heightened threat. Omar used to have this, but Mike Johnson took it away. You should ask him about that

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Jake Withee @witheelabs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

And I may or may not have purchased six dozen vuvuzelas after the first wide awake protest and handed a bunch out during the march last Friday…

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I continue to believe that the fastest way to get Stephen Miller fired is to convince Trump that Miller's ICE operations are what cost him the Nobel Peace Prize.

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maureen @maureenf.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

A lot more people should know about the bravery Marimar Martinez displayed in the midst of Chicago’s occupation and the murder of two observers in MSP. They tried to kill her, shooting her 5 times, and it’s a miracle she’s alive to push for transparency like this after being persecuted by the DOJ.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/01/2026

The disparities in these numbers are fucking terrible. A quantification of how much more valuable a white and then American life is than an immigrant POC. Links to fundraisers in thread. bsky.app/profile/last...

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mediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

If this is what they do when they're out on the street with people pointing cameras at them, what do you think is happening inside the ICE prison camps that they keep denying Members of Congress access to?

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🌈miski🌦️ @miski.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

if youre somehow still following this account please stop

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 24/01/2026

People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Why are they sending witnesses to Whipple? WHY ARE THEY SENDING WITNESSES TO WHIPPLE?

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Mr. Buddy @alexfirer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

People are nervous about watching video, but this one is not of the murder, it's of the lead up, and people need to see it before the spin takes over.

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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Help bring 2-Year-Old Chloe & Her Father Home. They were kidnapped today in South Minneapolis. With the permission of the mother, we are reaching out to raise funds for lawyer fee’s, food, bond requests, rent, livability, & resources to keep this family together. gofund.me/6295b51b3

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Donate to Help bring 2-Year-Old Chloe and Her Father Home, organized by Jason Chavez-Cruz

On January 22, 2026, Chloe Renata Tipan Villacis who is 2 years of a… Jason Chavez-Cruz needs your support for Help bring 2-Year-Old Chloe and Her Father Home

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Nekima Levy Armstrong is a hero—not a goddamn criminal.

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