Erica Gibson

Show your country some love and request your ballot today at www.votefromabroad.org!

This is one of the first ways I got involved with Dems Abroad!

ON THE TRAIL NORTHSHORE on.the.trail.northshore ICE Out! If you or anyone you know on the NORTHSHORE could use (NO-COST) dog walking services, for fear of being out in the community, due to ICE pressure, please send us a private message! We would love to help. We are currently reaching out to local organizations, but would like to put the word out here, too.

This is really cool

Today starting at 14:00 - come write a postcard to your reps!

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Always rooting for America and Norway in the Olympics but if your last name is Gibson I’ll cheer for you too! (UK figure skater) ⛸️

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We have a sauna collective in Oslo. Highly recommend.

For Dallas area folks. Hutchins is where DHS plans to open a concentration camp for 9,500 people.

Same! Getting used to the two different shoes was hard for me.

More news, and finally some GOOD news!

Marissa J. Lang @Marissa Jae X.com I was laid off today by The Washington Post. I'm proud of the work I have done at this place — not just the award-winning work, but the stories that spurred change, that were steeped in this beautiful local community. Job tips welcome. DMs open. Or: marissalang(@)gmail(dot)com 9:15 AM • 2/4/26 • 76K Views

The Washington Post Sign in Marissa J. Lang Washington, D.C. Enterprise reporter Marissa J. Lang is an enterprise reporter for The Washington Post focused on high-impact stories in the D.C.region. She previously covered housing and gentrification, zeroing in on the affordable housing crisis, homelessness and the transformation of cities. She joined The Post in 2018 as its lead protest reporter. Her coverage of domestic extremism and the violence that led to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol culminated in her on-the-ground reporting of the insurrection and its aftermath. Marissa was part of the team of journalists recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

WaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

This just passed subcommittee. Keep calling your reps as I believe it's heading quickly on to the next step.

I'm trying to write notes on all that's happened in US political news for the past 2 weeks for tomorrow's radio recording and the news just keeps happening! I need a break.

Maybe you want to show your reps some 💗 love 💕 or maybe you have some other choice words for them 🤬💔 - come write them a valentine postcard this Saturday in Oslo! More info below 👇 (the things I do for social media 🤭)

This means that people who are wrongfully detained by ICE can force ICE to pay for the legal fees it takes them to get out. Could have big implications in how this legal work is paid for.

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Stavanger meet up tonight! They will also be calling into our Vent Event!

-DEMOCRATS ABROAD Norway STAVANGER Meet Up Tuesday, 3 February 18.30 Gamle Stavanger

Dems Abroad in Stavanger - join us tonight! www.facebook.com/groups/DASta...

I put Lyme on our list of places for our British coast trip later this year! I want to go see the statue of Mary Anning.

The Montreal Canadiens are playing the Minnesota Wild in Minneapolis tonight. The players have been recommended to stay in/eat at the hotel, take the team bus to the arena, and carry passports.

Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...

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City Council eyes rules for data centers after New Orleans East project dies The City Council on Wednesday imposed a temporary moratorium on new data centers and separately mandated city planners to come up with a new zoning classification to define what they are. The moratori...

The city of New Orleans has banned data centers for at least one year

I love those because you can rock just a little bit in them.

Texas residents the last day to register to vote is tomorrow! Even if you’re registered, check to make sure you haven’t been purged. www.iwillvote.com
Alt text on Gina’s pic: light blue calendar illustration saying Feb 2nd with text underneath saying “last day to register to vote in Texas”

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

Texas BLUE! 💙🤠 #GOTV and win. If you’re an American abroad and you vote in Texas - there’s a primary on March 3rd. Request your ballot from www.votefromabroad.org today so we can keep turning Texas blue.

Some colorful ink squares on a white bg with text on them. From left to right, top to bottom: -KINGS FALL- ICE MELTS - PEOPLE RISE -ICE OUT 4 GOOD -We skipped our lessons to teach you one!! -Don't roll over for facists (black and white drawings of a border collie) -IT WAS MURDER -Peace is patriotic -ICE ARE FUCKING LOSERS!!! (scribbled) -Democracy needs your courage (The our in your, and the rage in courage are in red. There's a print of red and black flowers above.) -ICE MELTS IN HELL -The only orange monarch we want (drawing of orange monarch butterflies) -FUCK ICE Yall fugly -Where ICE melts flowers grow (drawing of several flowers growing from a broken crown) -The wrong ICE is melting -Enough

Some good posters I saw today.

Berit and I used to work together and I was so proud of her offering to speak up and speak out Weds night about what’s happening in her hometown of Minneapolis. Her two daughters came to the candlelight vigil with her and I know they were proud of their mom too.