Libby Ball

An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible

Check out what your library has to offer. Besides books, mine offers access to Kanopy (movie streaming), DVDs (I watched the Tale of Princess Kaguya earlier tonight), and many other services, like language learning. And they really need our support now.

just building this awful camp system is a crime against humanity imo

I speak to so many people who think they haven’t caught COVID but don’t mask or test. It might be that a few of you didn’t but it’s far more likely most of you had asymptomatic COVID. Between 40-49% catch asymptomatic infections but it’s not a cold. Mild doesn’t necessarily equate 🧵

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

Tell Your Members of Congress to rein in ICE NOW On January 24, federal forces with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. This was just over two weeks after the killing of Renee Good. These killings are a direc...

The DHS funding deadline is six days away and we can’t settle for empty reforms with the regime’s death squads.

Demand that Democrats hold the line and refuse to fund DHS without ironclad limits on ICE and CBP, actual accountability for abuses, and clear guardrails to stop raids and intimidation.

We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.

I keep the 50,000 reasons I oppose this guy in a Cava takeout bag.

#SayNoMan2Homan 👎

YouTube video by Lucky Tran Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he still wears a mask on the subway

Tom Hanks also masks.

‘I’ve had Covid enough in my life. I don’t need to do that again’

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THIS is exactly why I mask in every indoor space I do not control & do other (unmasked) things only in spaces I can control or mitigate. It’s literally the only way I have to protect myself from Long Covid Russian roulette.

It’s been 8 days and we still don’t know the names of the men who murdered Alex Pretti.

DHS must be abolished. No ICE. No palantir surveillance police state.

There’s no “fixing” a sociopathic agency designed to trample on our freedoms.

Exxon's Own Models Predicted Global Warming--It Ignored Them Scientists working for the oil giant Exxon in the 1970s and 1980s estimated temperature increases with remarkable accuracy. Those findings could now be used as evidence in climate litigation

Warm air masses in the atmosphere rise upward, causing cooler air from neighboring areas, sometimes from the arctic, to rush in. This is how atmospheric heat powers storms. In other words, global warming causes colder, more intense winter storms. www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxo...

U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says - Salem Reporter A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

What we found is bleak. Attorneys told us they’re struggling to get information in to or out of ICE and Customs and Border Protection facilities, which are holding nearly 69,000 people this month. And detainees often are forced to choose between remaining in crowded, squalid conditions or leaving the country immediately. Judges in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have ordered the government to facilitate attorney-client communications at Homeland Security buildings. But attorneys say that doesn’t always happen. Even if detainees get the option, some worry they’ll be punished if they take it.

Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying.

Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.

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Portland City Council member

Open letter to our Senators:

Gentlemen, Ladies, we don't really care about ICE not getting even more funding. We don't care about more "training" and more rules they won't follow.

We want ICE de-funded. Dismantled. Gone. Driven out of our cities.

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

This is a funny looking deescalation. Sure looks like they're ramping up their capacity to arrest, detain, deport, and terrorize Americans exercising their constitutional rights. Should Senate Dems give the regime the benefit of the doubt and agree to more funding for DHS?

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

“.. It was laughable, if there was something to laugh about,” said one of the nurses .. “There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall.”

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It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.

But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

They said "free speech" and "academic freedom" but never believed in either and now in texas you need a permission slip to mention race in class and they're fine with it. Might not have worked if people with large platforms weren't furious about marginal increases of black people in their offices

We live in a world where a convicted child rapist and sex trafficker is treated better in prison than the children who’ve been detained by ICE.

Ghislaine Maxwell gets to be in a cushy minimum security facility …

5 year old Liam Ramos is locked up in a camp where kids are screaming “let us out”.

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A bright and colorful protest sign on a black board that reads "Democracy dies when Pretti Good people stay silent."

A powerful and poignant sign at the protest at the State Capitol in downtown Phoenix. ❤️

"Democracy dies when Pretti Good people stay silent." 💔✊

#ABOLISHICE #nationalstrike

Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants

Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants https://theonion.com/democrats-condemn-ice-for-murdering-without-proper-warrants/

So let me suggest this:

You have a few hours before midnight, so spend a little on the websites of your independent, locally owned shops.

Or make Saturday a cash mob day, and tip well.

No cash? We get it. Drop an email to say how you feel. That's currency with real value to shops like ours.

Can Minnesota pay Tom Homan $50,000 to get ICE out?