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Practicing Urbanist. I’m on Bluesky to learn things I don’t know and contribute things I do. I’m an old grandma and do not want DMs.

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Another child to save. He must be released! He’s 2 months old! WTAF?! Call Your Congress members!!!
☎️ ☎️ ☎️

17.02.2026 03:43 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 2

Good question. I’ll ask my tribe.

17.02.2026 01:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Once a natural treasure like the Boundary Waters is despoiled, it may never recover. These are resources but also sacred places.
Not to mention polluting waters connected to this place, of which there are many.

17.02.2026 01:12 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You need facts. Starting with Reagan, every R Pres. trashed the economy for everyone except the oligarchs. Every D Pres. improved the economy for the rest of us, funded education, social safety nets, peace, and civil rights.
Trump is the worst; he goes full Fascist, funding concentration camps.

16.02.2026 20:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot of a tweet jokingly naming a band “The Klanberries,” showing a collage of four blonde conservative women commentators and officials in separate headshots side by side.

Screenshot of a tweet jokingly naming a band “The Klanberries,” showing a collage of four blonde conservative women commentators and officials in separate headshots side by side.

Well played.

16.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 3325    🔁 615    💬 320    📌 38
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pretty stunning chart

15.02.2026 19:58 — 👍 3158    🔁 1149    💬 229    📌 524

www.dmagazine.com/micropost/br...

16.02.2026 17:54 — 👍 542    🔁 126    💬 0    📌 8
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Gee, who could have seen this coming?

16.02.2026 17:36 — 👍 43    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 1
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Onboard an expedition to study a massive, melting glacier in Antarctica Some call it the ‘Doomsday Glacier,’ a vast expanse of Antarctic ice roughly the size of Florida. As temperatures rise, the Thwaites Glacier is melting fast and threatens to raise global sea levels. T...

Some call it the ‘Doomsday Glacier,’ a vast expanse of Antarctic ice roughly the size of Florida. As temperatures rise, the Thwaites Glacier is melting fast and threatens to raise global sea levels. https://to.pbs.org/4q20O7v

16.02.2026 03:02 — 👍 219    🔁 88    💬 11    📌 4
ICE: What They CAN and CANNOT Do
NOT A POLICE FORCE
ICE is an immigration agency, NOT general law enforcement.
STOPPING VEHICLES
Can only stop a vehicle if they have:
• Reasonable suspicion of an immigration violation OR
• An official warrant.
NO RANDOM STOPS
DETENTION RULES
Can ONLY detain if:
• Reasonable suspicion of being undocumented OR
• A valid immigration warrant.
CANNOT DETAIN U.S. CITIZENS
USE OF FIREARMS
Can ONLY draw gun if:
• IMMEDIATE THREAT of serious harm.
NO GUNS TO INTIMIDATE
BYSTANDERS
ICE has NO authority over:
• U.S. citizens
• People filming or passing by.
POLICE
ICE
On the right is a man in a black tactical vest that says police ICE on the back wearing a ball cap ICE: what they can and cannot do

ICE: What They CAN and CANNOT Do NOT A POLICE FORCE ICE is an immigration agency, NOT general law enforcement. STOPPING VEHICLES Can only stop a vehicle if they have: • Reasonable suspicion of an immigration violation OR • An official warrant. NO RANDOM STOPS DETENTION RULES Can ONLY detain if: • Reasonable suspicion of being undocumented OR • A valid immigration warrant. CANNOT DETAIN U.S. CITIZENS USE OF FIREARMS Can ONLY draw gun if: • IMMEDIATE THREAT of serious harm. NO GUNS TO INTIMIDATE BYSTANDERS ICE has NO authority over: • U.S. citizens • People filming or passing by. POLICE ICE On the right is a man in a black tactical vest that says police ICE on the back wearing a ball cap ICE: what they can and cannot do

You didn’t read that post. The first panel defines the original ICE, see below.
I agree with firing and investigating everyone in DHS now, including ICE.
We had and will have an agency to enforce immigration laws as we did before Trump. It will have to start from zero with a new name/acronym.

16.02.2026 04:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great, pick your choice candidate and start working for them now!
Promote your candidate as clearly and loudly as possible; try to avoid disparaging other candidates to their supporters.
It’s usually better to persuade than to demand, but you do you.

16.02.2026 04:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Did you read all of the post you replied to? If the current DHS and its components followed the laws and rules laid out in that post, we wouldn’t have the Fascist brutality going on now.

16.02.2026 03:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh, right, Harris=Trump. 🙄
Not having single-cause speakers on stage has been the norm for decades, for good reason.
Anyone who didn’t/doesn’t vote all Republicans out has some responsibility for the resulting evil.

16.02.2026 03:50 — 👍 26    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0

Purists gave us this disastrous regime.
Elect a Democratic Congress and whatever D wins the nomination.
And then lobby Congress! No Democratic President will be the sole decision-maker.

16.02.2026 03:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

It’s my understanding that the Supreme Court approved gerrymandering by political party. So as long as you don’t consider race, gender, age, or any other demographic characteristic, it’s okay to use people’s chosen political party affiliation when drawing districts.
Yes?

15.02.2026 01:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Editor's Notes: Gaming Out Antidemocratic Tactics How worried should we be about election interference in 2026, exactly?

"Disqualify people from voting, stop people from voting, stop votes from being counted, and overturn the result. Those are the four broad areas." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

14.02.2026 23:10 — 👍 101    🔁 45    💬 1    📌 3

When you have a baby, you learn to do everything with one hand. With the second one, you grow a third hand.

14.02.2026 19:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

Since the start of Trump’s second term, the number of children in ICE detention has increased sixfold.

In their letters, kids held at the Dilley center told us about missing their friends, being unable to go to school and feeling trapped.

14.02.2026 02:30 — 👍 892    🔁 468    💬 17    📌 25

And up to Utah to join in the effort to protect the Boundary Waters from mining, right?
We all need to push Congress to stop these destructive ideas.

14.02.2026 03:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Has anyone searched the files for these Republicans Senators?

12.02.2026 21:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Of course. Trump wants compromised people in his administration so that they will obey without even slightly questioning his commands. (That he probably gets from Putin.)

12.02.2026 21:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@wangchungyooon.bsky.social
@meidastouch.com
@inglorious.Bsky.social
And others, please
Use ALT when posting pictures

Thanks

07.02.2026 20:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

MN singing to ICE
amazing people doing amazing things to fight evil

07.02.2026 06:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

01.02.2026 20:55 — 👍 4170    🔁 1410    💬 127    📌 74
Daily number of kids in ICE detention

Daily number of kids in ICE detention

Actually.

01.02.2026 23:14 — 👍 65    🔁 24    💬 2    📌 0

👋 Hey, journalists:

In light of multiple recent attacks against reporters at immigration-related protests in Minnesota, check out this thread for resources to help you prepare for covering demonstrations and protecting yourself in the field, wherever you are.

Share and bookmark.

15.01.2026 21:18 — 👍 38    🔁 23    💬 3    📌 2
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Trump's intimidation of Fed's leadership threatens economic stability, Yellen says As Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell pushes back against a criminal probe from the Trump Justice Department, Amna Nawaz discusses the developments with Janet Yellen. She served as chair of the Feder...

"Once central banks lose their independence and are forced to help governments finance deficits, that's always a precondition for high and even hyperinflation," said former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. https://to.pbs.org/4qCfD0V

13.01.2026 02:40 — 👍 331    🔁 137    💬 10    📌 4

Can he be recalled or prosecuted for breaking some State law?

13.01.2026 02:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe the Republican
senators will realize that Trump only liked them when he needed them.

13.01.2026 02:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pretense, distraction, fake fake fake!

13.01.2026 01:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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