Let us in. Hold ICE accountable. Tear down the fence.
This is what we are demanding from the Broadview ICE facility, and nothing less.
Our leaders can decide whether they stand with the people or with ICE. There is no middle ground.
@felicesea.bsky.social
These are ecological times, my friends. Connection is strength. Here I'm gonna write down the little connective stories. Also, I like jars with labels that come off easy. *think*read*walk*write*rinse*repeat*
Let us in. Hold ICE accountable. Tear down the fence.
This is what we are demanding from the Broadview ICE facility, and nothing less.
Our leaders can decide whether they stand with the people or with ICE. There is no middle ground.
Albanian PM Edi Rama mocked Trump to Macron: βYou should congratulate Ilham Aliyev and me. Trump has ended the conflict between Albania and Azerbaijanβ
Earlier Trump claimed he ended a war between Albania and Azerbaijan. It was a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
We are here now, getting a tiny slice of education-pie. Then we are gone, and they have the meadow back for their own weave-web for, I hope, a long while. (8/8)
02.07.2025 00:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0underwater. Perhaps a goose nested there, on the beaver-built island in the stream. Maybe the bear found its egg and ate it. Maybe the beaver also splashed into the water when the bear walked here not long ago. (7/8)
02.07.2025 00:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0and someone steps on the lodge itself and a bigger stick cracks and SPLASH unseen under the mud-and daub dome of the lodge a beaver startles into the water. At the edge of the lodge, a nest. In the nest, a big, empty egg. Ripples in the water as our disturbed friend swims away (6/8)
02.07.2025 00:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0crevasses among the sedges and the sticks that go all the way to the water below. I feel the sting, like a gentle insect bite or a paper cut, of the sedges on my sandaled feet. We follow the bearβs path out to where the beavers sleep under the mud roof they built themselves (5/8)
02.07.2025 00:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0some bear paths flagging through the sedges, to a hand-pattied beaver berm that holds a calming half-moon pool, onto their lodge area. We try to go lightly but the edifice snaps slightly underfoot. It is made of hundreds of tooth-harvested sticks, and we are careful where we stepβthere are (4/8)
02.07.2025 00:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0comb the undercoat out, with teeth and maybe paws, for a sleeker summer pelt. I can almost see them lying back in the warm sun, muleβs ears flower-shining yellow nearby, as they pluck their bellies and listen to the birds.
That meadow is made by beavers, and we follow (3/8)
unusual. It is a sunny meadow, and a few tufts of downy cinnamon underfur are caught in the stems that are pressed down every which way by the wintery weight of those hefty bodies. That underfur is soft as soft can be. But spring-summer is well under way, so it is time to (2/8)
02.07.2025 00:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0There is a slender red line on my foot. Oh, a few of them. Bloodred at first, now they are dark burgundy threads, slight traces of the edges of sedges that made up the bear beds in a high Sierra meadow. The bear beds are out in the open, which is (1/8)
02.07.2025 00:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Greenpeace activists lit up Londonβs Tower Bridge with a protest calling for people to βresist Donald Trump and his Billionaire bullies.β
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@greenpeaceuk.bsky.social
Freedom is Diversity and Diversity is Freedom. Everything is on a spectrum. Every Think Is On A Spectrum. Change me mind.
28.05.2025 19:31 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I don't think I have watched anyone light a cigarette with their car's cigarette lighter in hey, thirty or forty years? Do people still do that? Get that coil of electric wire glowing hot and press and puff the roll of tobacco against it till it takes?
24.05.2025 20:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This morning 2 women in my dream hotel were recounting *their* wild dream to each other. "Eagles," she said. "And clowns, candy-floss clouds, and grassroots. That rabbit."
How poetic, I thought, as I left, back to my wavy-haired black racehorse to finish a 3rd leg of the 100mile night run. We won.
12-year-old boy left alone on sidewalk after ICE raid in Massachusetts
13.05.2025 16:26 β π 146 π 84 π¬ 12 π 13Sorry, didnt' mean to sound like a brat.
30.04.2025 04:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0ILLINOISβ¦ Gov. Pritzkerβ¦
28.04.2025 03:28 β π 33526 π 9229 π¬ 630 π 708HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan
25.04.2025 20:25 β π 32124 π 7971 π¬ 607 π 500Gift her the respect of calling her a woman?
25.04.2025 23:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit.
ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.
She wrote an article in the student newspaper. Thatβs all she did. The U.S. canβt call itself a free country if that gets you sent to jail.
17.04.2025 05:01 β π 1440 π 373 π¬ 10 π 10RESIST!
Before it is too late
#GOPFascism
#STOPGOPFASCISM
#DEFENDDEMOCRACY
#DEFENDTHECONSTITUTION
#DueProcessForAll
#Defeatfascism
#NONAZIS
#WHEREISCONGRESS
#MakeAmericaDemocraticAgain
A US veteran was forcibly removed from Marjorie Taylor Greeneβs town hallβfor asking a question.
This is Georgiaβs 14th.
This is what fascism looks like.
Silencing patriots isnβt freedom. Itβs fear.
#Resist #MTG #VeteransSpeakTruth #FascismInAmerica #TrumpAmerikkka #MAGATerrorism
Tennessee folks are pretty cool
16.04.2025 01:41 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Dear Decent Human Beings in the Military and Law Enforcement,
If you are ordered to violate the Constitution by this president, please disobey.
The millions who served, suffered, and died before you deserve your courage now.
Days before ICE detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, the State Dept. determined that the Trump administration had not produced evidence showing she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
14.04.2025 00:27 β π 3240 π 1110 π¬ 47 π 60Whatβs the statute of limitations on market manipulation and insider trading?
Asking for 75 million friends!
As someone who escaped a high-control group, I can tell you: Trumpism uses many of the same tactics I was once subjected to. From blind loyalty and fear-based control to language designed to shut down thought, the similarities are deeply unsettling and impossible to ignore.
10.04.2025 19:57 β π 101 π 40 π¬ 5 π 5Images of protests and crowds across the country. HANDSOFF APRIL 5TH 2025 BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO PORTLAND SAN FRANCISCO SAN DIEGO IDAHO UTAH OAKLAND (AND SOOOO MANY MORE!)
They are now estimating 2.3 million across the country. Keep it going folks.
#handsoff #50501protests