Anne OFarrell
@anneofarrell.bsky.social
“The power of attention is the real superpower of our age. Attention, aligned with intention, can make mountains move.”
Consultant. Facilitator. Awareness based systems change + trauma Informed Leadership San Diego, CA
Consultant. Facilitator. Awareness based systems change + trauma Informed Leadership San Diego, CA
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ICE slipping on ice… 🧊
January 13, 2026 at 7:00 AM
ICE slipping on ice… 🧊
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Hiya! I am excited to announce that I am now the inaugural South Bay regional writer for @buildsd.org, which focuses on documenting development in San Diego.
If you're interested, you can read my debut journal article here covering the planned Chula Vista University! buildsd.org/journal/chul...
If you're interested, you can read my debut journal article here covering the planned Chula Vista University! buildsd.org/journal/chul...
In the South Bay, a new chapter of higher education takes shape
Bringing the area its first four-year university is no easy task. Chula Vista is taking it on anyways.
buildsd.org
December 31, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Hiya! I am excited to announce that I am now the inaugural South Bay regional writer for @buildsd.org, which focuses on documenting development in San Diego.
If you're interested, you can read my debut journal article here covering the planned Chula Vista University! buildsd.org/journal/chul...
If you're interested, you can read my debut journal article here covering the planned Chula Vista University! buildsd.org/journal/chul...
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I was trying to explain to my husband the other night how the Gar Guy - a scientist who posts exuberantly and almost exclusively about his study fish - is now posting about ICE alerts and how this indicates both the level of danger we're in and the confidence we should have in our fellow Americans.
This is where we gar in Minnesota.
I always have a little gar figurine in the vest pocket of my fleece, but was recently given a whistle (ICE alert) that now goes alongside the gar. 1/3
I always have a little gar figurine in the vest pocket of my fleece, but was recently given a whistle (ICE alert) that now goes alongside the gar. 1/3
January 14, 2026 at 10:22 PM
I was trying to explain to my husband the other night how the Gar Guy - a scientist who posts exuberantly and almost exclusively about his study fish - is now posting about ICE alerts and how this indicates both the level of danger we're in and the confidence we should have in our fellow Americans.
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McBride: Look, people are clutching their pearls at this guy yelling something at the president. They are more offended by a worker standing up to the president and calling him out for his hypocrisy than they are by the president trying to cover up for a human trafficking ring
January 14, 2026 at 11:10 PM
McBride: Look, people are clutching their pearls at this guy yelling something at the president. They are more offended by a worker standing up to the president and calling him out for his hypocrisy than they are by the president trying to cover up for a human trafficking ring
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Just guessing here, but I suspect the White House is pushing so hard for wars of conquest on multiple fronts because they see their support collapsing ahead of the midterms and worry they won't get another shot. An example of how tyrants become more dangerous as they get weaker, not less.
January 14, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Just guessing here, but I suspect the White House is pushing so hard for wars of conquest on multiple fronts because they see their support collapsing ahead of the midterms and worry they won't get another shot. An example of how tyrants become more dangerous as they get weaker, not less.
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Donald Trump is trying to con Americans into believing that immigrants are the greatest threat to our democracy in order to hide the the fact that Donald Trump and his corruption is the greatest threat to our democracy.
January 14, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Donald Trump is trying to con Americans into believing that immigrants are the greatest threat to our democracy in order to hide the the fact that Donald Trump and his corruption is the greatest threat to our democracy.
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What Trump and his viceroys are doing - shooting white women in the face, beating up protestors, threatening to seize Greenland - is incredibly unpopular. It is electoral poison. It doesn't matter to Trump, but his conduct is ensuring massive Dem turnout and GOP disinterest in the midterms.
"Do you think it would be a good idea or a bad idea for the U.S. to use military force to take possession of Greenland from Denmark?"
Good idea: 4%
Bad idea: 71%
(Ipsos)
4%. He did it. He finally hit Lizardman's Constant.
Good idea: 4%
Bad idea: 71%
(Ipsos)
4%. He did it. He finally hit Lizardman's Constant.
January 14, 2026 at 7:10 PM
What Trump and his viceroys are doing - shooting white women in the face, beating up protestors, threatening to seize Greenland - is incredibly unpopular. It is electoral poison. It doesn't matter to Trump, but his conduct is ensuring massive Dem turnout and GOP disinterest in the midterms.
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When we tell ourselves we won't have elections, or that they won't matter, they win. They want you so demoralized that you don't bother voting, or volunteering, or donating, or even learning about the candidates. You're giving up without even trying.
January 14, 2026 at 8:38 PM
When we tell ourselves we won't have elections, or that they won't matter, they win. They want you so demoralized that you don't bother voting, or volunteering, or donating, or even learning about the candidates. You're giving up without even trying.
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I am imploring people to stop saying we won't have midterms. Trump can't cancel them. States run their elections, not the White House. Assuming we'll never have a say in who governs us again is spreading authoritarian propaganda and panic. Don't wallow in despair, find a candidate to support.
What Trump and his viceroys are doing - shooting white women in the face, beating up protestors, threatening to seize Greenland - is incredibly unpopular. It is electoral poison. It doesn't matter to Trump, but his conduct is ensuring massive Dem turnout and GOP disinterest in the midterms.
"Do you think it would be a good idea or a bad idea for the U.S. to use military force to take possession of Greenland from Denmark?"
Good idea: 4%
Bad idea: 71%
(Ipsos)
4%. He did it. He finally hit Lizardman's Constant.
Good idea: 4%
Bad idea: 71%
(Ipsos)
4%. He did it. He finally hit Lizardman's Constant.
January 14, 2026 at 8:36 PM
I am imploring people to stop saying we won't have midterms. Trump can't cancel them. States run their elections, not the White House. Assuming we'll never have a say in who governs us again is spreading authoritarian propaganda and panic. Don't wallow in despair, find a candidate to support.
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Trump wants Congress to fund 44,500 additional ICE detention beds and massive warehouse facilities for immigrants capable of holding 80,000 people at a time.
Your tax dollars.
Abolish ICE now.
Your tax dollars.
Abolish ICE now.
ICE Wants 10,000 More Agents on Our Streets
Is this the America we want?
contrarian.substack.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Trump wants Congress to fund 44,500 additional ICE detention beds and massive warehouse facilities for immigrants capable of holding 80,000 people at a time.
Your tax dollars.
Abolish ICE now.
Your tax dollars.
Abolish ICE now.
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JD Vance is in Copenhagen right now, where local newspapers have published detailed psychological profiles ranking his personality as authoritarian and noting his strong proclivity to the firehose of lies technique.
Markey: Vance said that he was just doing his job. Murdering a young mother and orphaning her child is not a job. It is a crime
January 14, 2026 at 2:55 AM
JD Vance is in Copenhagen right now, where local newspapers have published detailed psychological profiles ranking his personality as authoritarian and noting his strong proclivity to the firehose of lies technique.
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This man owns JD Vance
January 13, 2026 at 8:39 PM
This man owns JD Vance
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Until 2025, the 2017 Women's March was the largest 1-day protest+2020 BLM uprisings the largest protest mvmt in US history.
The 1969 Alcatraz Occupation by Indians Of All Tribes lasted 19 months.
The 1990 Disability Rights Capitol Crawl led to the ADA; ACT-UP changed LGBTQ+ futures & US healthcare
The 1969 Alcatraz Occupation by Indians Of All Tribes lasted 19 months.
The 1990 Disability Rights Capitol Crawl led to the ADA; ACT-UP changed LGBTQ+ futures & US healthcare
people think that americans don't fight facism because they are just as racist and misogynistic and homophobic and ableist
aka; anyone who is not cis white straight dudes protesting rarely counts as anyone protesting
they literally do not see or recognize it when others are doing the work
aka; anyone who is not cis white straight dudes protesting rarely counts as anyone protesting
they literally do not see or recognize it when others are doing the work
January 14, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Until 2025, the 2017 Women's March was the largest 1-day protest+2020 BLM uprisings the largest protest mvmt in US history.
The 1969 Alcatraz Occupation by Indians Of All Tribes lasted 19 months.
The 1990 Disability Rights Capitol Crawl led to the ADA; ACT-UP changed LGBTQ+ futures & US healthcare
The 1969 Alcatraz Occupation by Indians Of All Tribes lasted 19 months.
The 1990 Disability Rights Capitol Crawl led to the ADA; ACT-UP changed LGBTQ+ futures & US healthcare
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Danish Foreign Minster Lars Løkke Rasmussen speaks after WH meeting: "For us, ideas that would not respect the territorial of the Kingdom of Denmark and the right of self-determination of the Greenlandic people are of course totally unacceptable. We therefore still have a fundamental disagreement."
January 14, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Danish Foreign Minster Lars Løkke Rasmussen speaks after WH meeting: "For us, ideas that would not respect the territorial of the Kingdom of Denmark and the right of self-determination of the Greenlandic people are of course totally unacceptable. We therefore still have a fundamental disagreement."
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many of the smartest people in energy and decarb told us they want people to find descriptions more relatable and appealing than “climate change”
One answer that hit us in a big way: When we asked what jargon climate experts most want to ban, many said the word “climate” itself.
Here’s @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on the verbiage insiders are veering away from:
heatmap.news/insiders-sur...
Here’s @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on the verbiage insiders are veering away from:
heatmap.news/insiders-sur...
Climate Insiders Want to Stop Talking About ‘Climate Change’
They still want to decarbonize, but they’re over the jargon.
heatmap.news
January 14, 2026 at 6:04 PM
many of the smartest people in energy and decarb told us they want people to find descriptions more relatable and appealing than “climate change”
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That means their forces doing this instead of doing something better. It means they are having to plan to do this instead of doing something else. It means them thinking through scenarios where the US is an enemy, instead of thinking through scenarios where the US is an ally. These are costs *now*.
January 14, 2026 at 6:07 PM
That means their forces doing this instead of doing something better. It means they are having to plan to do this instead of doing something else. It means them thinking through scenarios where the US is an enemy, instead of thinking through scenarios where the US is an ally. These are costs *now*.
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Folks in the US still like to treat the whole Greenland invasion stuff as sufficiently unserious to engage with, but it is sufficiently serious that NATO allies are actively deploying tripwire forces to deter the US. That is *already* a political and actual cost to them, and to US relationships
January 14, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Folks in the US still like to treat the whole Greenland invasion stuff as sufficiently unserious to engage with, but it is sufficiently serious that NATO allies are actively deploying tripwire forces to deter the US. That is *already* a political and actual cost to them, and to US relationships
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Trump is an actual and mental/ political cost to all of us.
A year and a half ago, we could go about our business and family life without thinking about the president. He just did his job and kept things going. Congress was not great but sorta worked.
No thugs in the streets, no threats to friends
A year and a half ago, we could go about our business and family life without thinking about the president. He just did his job and kept things going. Congress was not great but sorta worked.
No thugs in the streets, no threats to friends
Folks in the US still like to treat the whole Greenland invasion stuff as sufficiently unserious to engage with, but it is sufficiently serious that NATO allies are actively deploying tripwire forces to deter the US. That is *already* a political and actual cost to them, and to US relationships
January 14, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Trump is an actual and mental/ political cost to all of us.
A year and a half ago, we could go about our business and family life without thinking about the president. He just did his job and kept things going. Congress was not great but sorta worked.
No thugs in the streets, no threats to friends
A year and a half ago, we could go about our business and family life without thinking about the president. He just did his job and kept things going. Congress was not great but sorta worked.
No thugs in the streets, no threats to friends
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2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate
⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content
⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps
⬆️ Second warmest troposphere
⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs
⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice
New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...
⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content
⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps
⬆️ Second warmest troposphere
⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs
⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice
New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...
January 14, 2026 at 2:53 PM
2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate
⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content
⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps
⬆️ Second warmest troposphere
⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs
⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice
New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...
⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content
⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps
⬆️ Second warmest troposphere
⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs
⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice
New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...
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It used to be that victims of murders in the U.S. would be smeared by InfoWars and Gateway Pundit as a way to fetishize guns and violence for ad dollars and supplement sales, with the added benefit of cozying up to far-right politicians. Now that work is done by CBS News.
January 14, 2026 at 8:14 PM
It used to be that victims of murders in the U.S. would be smeared by InfoWars and Gateway Pundit as a way to fetishize guns and violence for ad dollars and supplement sales, with the added benefit of cozying up to far-right politicians. Now that work is done by CBS News.
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Mike Johnson compellingly making the case for abolishing ICE ...
Mike Johnson: "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do"
Mike Johnson comes out against additional guardrails on ICE as Democrats call for it.
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
“I think there's a lot of Democrats playing games right now with national security and with law enforcement. And I think it's dangerous. Ice is doing what ice is designed to do by its very name.”
January 14, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Mike Johnson compellingly making the case for abolishing ICE ...
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A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has found that President Donald Trump's top budget official violated the Constitution by terminating environmental grants during the federal government shutdown, but exclusively to states that voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris. bit.ly/4sE46PI
Trump's budget chief brazenly broke the law to punish blue states: judge
A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has found that President Donald Trump's top budget official violated the Constitution by terminating environmental grants during the federal government shutdown, bu...
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January 14, 2026 at 7:44 PM
A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has found that President Donald Trump's top budget official violated the Constitution by terminating environmental grants during the federal government shutdown, but exclusively to states that voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris. bit.ly/4sE46PI
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NEW and WOW: Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, and Canada are sending troops to Greenland amid continued threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to annex the territory, multiple outlets reported. www.newsweek.com/greenland-ge...
Germany, other NATO allies sending troops to Greenland amid Trump threats
Trump said Wednesday anything less than U.S. control of Greenland would be "unacceptable" in a warning to NATO allies about Arctic security.
www.newsweek.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:59 PM
NEW and WOW: Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, and Canada are sending troops to Greenland amid continued threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to annex the territory, multiple outlets reported. www.newsweek.com/greenland-ge...
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Well, those boots were not made for walking
January 11, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Well, those boots were not made for walking
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