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Nonprofit geek, writer, mom, widow, with an addiction to baking and Bayern München. Read me here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2023/03/what-a-widow-needs-to-know/

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ICE detained multiple kids (all under the age of 10!) in the last week alone. Still kidnapping people based solely on the way they look. Still arresting parents at school pick up.

Nothing has changed in Minnesota. Nice words from the Admin won’t change that. ICE leaving will.

03.02.2026 21:42 — 👍 1046    🔁 382    💬 28    📌 10
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No Dictators - Protest in Honolulu. 3/28/26, 11am #NoKings3 #IceOutForGood #Indivisible
www.mobilize.us/protecthawai...

03.02.2026 17:32 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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No Dictators - Protest in Kona (Hawai’i Island). 3/28/26, 4pm
www.mobilize.us/protecthawai... #NoKings3 #IceOutForGood #Indivisible #Resist

03.02.2026 17:34 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I think Melania and Manos should get together for a buddy movie.

03.02.2026 17:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Political Librarian Journal As an open source academic journal, The Political Librarian is dedicated to expanding the discussion of about library advocacy and activism while promoting research and new thinking about policy and f...

Call for Papers: The Political Librarian invites all levels of information, memory, library, and cultural heritage professionals, administrators, educators, researchers, policy analysts, and stakeholders to contribute to the Spring 2026 issue of The Political Librarian.

03.02.2026 14:33 — 👍 17    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1

It'd be great if some of the US named would feel some shame and resign.

03.02.2026 14:52 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

There is hope and beauty.

03.02.2026 04:29 — 👍 17    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

Hey everyone!

Huge news! Our trans girl scout list has sold a total of 146,000 boxes as of today!

But MANY trans girl scouts only have 20, 30, 40 boxes sold.

I just resorted our list to put those on the top.

Go get your girl scout cookies and make a trans kid's day!

03.02.2026 00:18 — 👍 3904    🔁 2345    💬 53    📌 75

This is a post about animal excrement and the English language.

bull$#!% = nonsense/lies
chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly
horse$#!% = nonsense/lies
dog$#!%= low quality
ape$#!% = wild
bat$#!%= crazy

Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).

02.02.2026 15:23 — 👍 2771    🔁 847    💬 87    📌 121
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30.01.2026 22:13 — 👍 61    🔁 18    💬 2    📌 0
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Guidelines Please go to our Submittable site for specific category guidelines and to submit work. jmww is a literary journal publishing fiction, flash, poetry, essays, interviews, and other miscellany weekly.…

@jmwwjournal.bsky.social is open for your flash fiction of 1000 words or less! Feb 1-15 or until we reach our cap.

jmwwblog.wordpress.com/guidelines/

01.02.2026 14:03 — 👍 12    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
Sign with picture of Muppet Elmo and words "T is for tyranny"

Sign with picture of Muppet Elmo and words "T is for tyranny"

Today. Greenwood, Seattle.

01.02.2026 00:32 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2

There was one in the Greenwood neighborhood today as well. ✊

01.02.2026 00:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Chicago mayor tells police to probe allegations of illegal activity by immigration agents Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has signed an executive order directing the city's police department to investigate any alleged illegal activity by federal immigration agents and refer the agents for pr...

If you are injured by ICE, please go to the ER and ask for a forensic nurse.

Chicago mayor tells police to probe allegations of illegal activity by immigration agents

01.02.2026 00:07 — 👍 46    🔁 33    💬 1    📌 0
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SEATTLE mayor announces plan to block ICE activity and use POLICE to verify federal agent IDs.
ABOLISH ICE!

31.01.2026 14:33 — 👍 29    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 1

Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Imaging the Self
Imaging the World
Experimental Theatre
Beginning Piano
Elements of War

31.01.2026 04:11 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
A dorm with a sign saying They can’t kill us all

A dorm with a sign saying They can’t kill us all

George Washington University, 1970 student protest against the shootings at Kent State and Jackson State.

31.01.2026 02:22 — 👍 1436    🔁 425    💬 13    📌 11

With the smells of vomit and stale cigarettes.

31.01.2026 02:12 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

In the last week I've found myself researching gas masks and burner phones. My daughter wants to take boxing classes.

This is fine.

31.01.2026 00:22 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

No funding for ICE or other terrorist organizations. It's that simple.

30.01.2026 23:28 — 👍 8710    🔁 1641    💬 190    📌 65

Exactly what I was thinking!

30.01.2026 23:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A promotional image for the book, Steel-Plate Subversive based on the front cover. The background is the surface of the sea at night, the view is from above, looking down at the deck of a small, steel-grey submarine, cutting diagonally across the lower half of the frame. The hatch in the low-profile turret is open. A bearded white man in a green woollen jumper and brown flat cap is standing waist-deep in the open hatch, holding up a Thompson submachine gun. He’s lit from below by the red light inside the submarine. The title is in orange below the hatch, and my name is in white below that. In the top half, against the dark water, the text reads: ‘Dublin City was a bomb waiting to go off.'

A promotional image for the book, Steel-Plate Subversive based on the front cover. The background is the surface of the sea at night, the view is from above, looking down at the deck of a small, steel-grey submarine, cutting diagonally across the lower half of the frame. The hatch in the low-profile turret is open. A bearded white man in a green woollen jumper and brown flat cap is standing waist-deep in the open hatch, holding up a Thompson submachine gun. He’s lit from below by the red light inside the submarine. The title is in orange below the hatch, and my name is in white below that. In the top half, against the dark water, the text reads: ‘Dublin City was a bomb waiting to go off.'

The story starts in 1920 on a day of murder in Dublin. A British spy is exposed and has to escape before she's caught. As the violence of the War of Independence peaks, one veteran rebel leader is asking himself how long he can go on.

#SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm #IrishHistory #SteelPlateSubversive

30.01.2026 14:04 — 👍 16    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

This would be nice.

30.01.2026 20:58 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

"Love thy neighbor" has always been radical and political.

30.01.2026 18:54 — 👍 20    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Today, people across the entire country will withhold their labor, withhold their dollars, and take to the streets to protest Trump’s ICE thugs terrorizing Minneapolis.

Solidarity with everyone participating.

Let this be one of many actions we take to fight back against this regime.

30.01.2026 16:49 — 👍 1933    🔁 528    💬 56    📌 19

Hi, fuck ICE, that is all.

30.01.2026 16:49 — 👍 110    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 2

Donald Trump and Pam Bondi once again violated the Constitution.

They’re wasting your tax dollars arresting journalists — while protecting pedophiles and the murderers of Renée Good and Alex Pretti.

That’s authoritarian bullshit.

30.01.2026 15:19 — 👍 3715    🔁 1165    💬 136    📌 29
The Minnesota Star Tribune, Minnesota Public Radio, the Minnesota Reformer, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, Sahan Journal, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:

“We strongly condemn the arrest of journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon, as well as any attempt to intimidate members of the press. The First Amendment recognizes the press as holding a distinct and protected role in our democracy. In America, we do not arrest journalists for doing their jobs. The Minnesota journalism community stands united in defense of press freedom and the essential role reporting plays in holding power to account.”

The Minnesota Star Tribune, Minnesota Public Radio, the Minnesota Reformer, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, Sahan Journal, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement: “We strongly condemn the arrest of journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon, as well as any attempt to intimidate members of the press. The First Amendment recognizes the press as holding a distinct and protected role in our democracy. In America, we do not arrest journalists for doing their jobs. The Minnesota journalism community stands united in defense of press freedom and the essential role reporting plays in holding power to account.”

The Minnesota Star Tribune, @mprnews.org @minnesotareformer.com , @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:

30.01.2026 16:55 — 👍 2759    🔁 1110    💬 23    📌 38
Picture of melting skeleton stickers reading “may all fascists decay at an alarming rate”

Picture of melting skeleton stickers reading “may all fascists decay at an alarming rate”

DIY sticker sheets are now up on my patreon for free — it’s been fuck ICE since the beginning, but look out for each other no matter the face of the violence www.patreon.com/posts/149447...

30.01.2026 00:28 — 👍 55    🔁 23    💬 2    📌 0

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