Ariel Kalishman Walsh
@arielbkw.bsky.social
Earth Tourist in Colorado. Pro-Palestinian Jew, pro-abortion, pro-Trans, pro good jokes, anti-assholes. Asking my kids what to do when I grow up.
Some Aurora borealis pics from Lafayette, CO tonight. Better on camera than the naked eye. Magical regardless.
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Some Aurora borealis pics from Lafayette, CO tonight. Better on camera than the naked eye. Magical regardless.
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“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.”
-Ta-Nehisi Coates
-Ta-Nehisi Coates
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.”
-Ta-Nehisi Coates
-Ta-Nehisi Coates
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in any case it is wild that voters just sent a huge message and a bunch of senate democrats are all, “it doesn’t look like anything to me”
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
in any case it is wild that voters just sent a huge message and a bunch of senate democrats are all, “it doesn’t look like anything to me”
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Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”
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If you do one thing today, read and share this link. It is the tech oligarchs’ plan to take over the government and build a post-democratic America, proven to be well underway.
To understand the tech bros, we must think like them—they view our democracy as an outdated system that must be replaced:
To understand the tech bros, we must think like them—they view our democracy as an outdated system that must be replaced:
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
If you do one thing today, read and share this link. It is the tech oligarchs’ plan to take over the government and build a post-democratic America, proven to be well underway.
To understand the tech bros, we must think like them—they view our democracy as an outdated system that must be replaced:
To understand the tech bros, we must think like them—they view our democracy as an outdated system that must be replaced:
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will kim is still in ICE detention
will taeheung kim, a korean american scientist and doctoral candidate with a green card, is still being detained by ICE. he's been in detention since July 21, first at SFO for over a week and then in various ICE facilities all over the country.
October 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
will kim is still in ICE detention
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"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
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it's important to call things what they are
"mass deportations of legal residents for cultural homogeneity" is an ethnic cleansing policy
"mass deportations of legal residents for cultural homogeneity" is an ethnic cleansing policy
October 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
it's important to call things what they are
"mass deportations of legal residents for cultural homogeneity" is an ethnic cleansing policy
"mass deportations of legal residents for cultural homogeneity" is an ethnic cleansing policy
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Here's something that's not talked about enough
The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year
1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year
1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Here's something that's not talked about enough
The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year
1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year
1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I both love this and also find it so gutting and melancholy.
October 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I both love this and also find it so gutting and melancholy.
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I never knew that in the United States literally the president can do anything as long as everybody agrees not to stop them. Very weird, realizing the entire thing was made of cotton candy
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I never knew that in the United States literally the president can do anything as long as everybody agrees not to stop them. Very weird, realizing the entire thing was made of cotton candy
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America, 2025.
Three young children fled from an ICE raid in Idaho and managed to reunite with their family.
"I didn't get caught," boy says
"I didn't get caught," boy says
October 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
America, 2025.
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is this a metaphor for something, idk, maybe too subtle
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
is this a metaphor for something, idk, maybe too subtle
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I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.
October 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
Wheezing laughing
October 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Wheezing laughing
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every day is vacillating between everything matters too much and lol nothing matters
October 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
every day is vacillating between everything matters too much and lol nothing matters
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tonight is the night I became Dale Gribble and blocked the feds
October 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
tonight is the night I became Dale Gribble and blocked the feds
Really informative data driven piece on declining enrollments in Boulder valley school district, why and the implications for what will come.
My new #ChartingBoulder column in @boulderrl.bsky.social is out today!
Declining school enrollments and its implications for the intergenerational social contract.
boulderreportinglab.org/2025/10/14/b...
Declining school enrollments and its implications for the intergenerational social contract.
boulderreportinglab.org/2025/10/14/b...
Opinion | Brian Keegan: Boulder's next political divide is generational – and already visible in school enrollment trends
What do demographic shifts and short-sighted policies mean for Boulder’s schools, and its civic future, over the next 25 years?
boulderreportinglab.org
October 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Really informative data driven piece on declining enrollments in Boulder valley school district, why and the implications for what will come.
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He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.
He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
The cruelty knows no bounds, the insatiable thirst for inflicting pain can never be quenched. ICE, DHS and this admin are horrible and loathsome and should be given no benefit of any doubt, no quarter, no negotiation.
A man was wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he did not commit for more than 40 years. As soon as he was exonerated, ICE picked him up to deport him to a country he has not lived in since he was a baby www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The cruelty knows no bounds, the insatiable thirst for inflicting pain can never be quenched. ICE, DHS and this admin are horrible and loathsome and should be given no benefit of any doubt, no quarter, no negotiation.
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Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them.
Need a laptop? This retiree refurbishes laptops, gives them away to those in need
Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them.
n.pr
October 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them.
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“ICE kidnapped a community member here,” reads one. “Never forget/no nos olvidamos,” says another.
The signs have appeared across some of D.C.’s heavily immigrant neighborhoods where federal immigration arrests have escalated.
The signs have appeared across some of D.C.’s heavily immigrant neighborhoods where federal immigration arrests have escalated.
Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’
The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“ICE kidnapped a community member here,” reads one. “Never forget/no nos olvidamos,” says another.
The signs have appeared across some of D.C.’s heavily immigrant neighborhoods where federal immigration arrests have escalated.
The signs have appeared across some of D.C.’s heavily immigrant neighborhoods where federal immigration arrests have escalated.
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Not a comfortable read—but sugar-coating does not help. No countryis currently on track to meet 1.5°C Paris target. To reach it, individual lifestyle emissions in high-income countries must fall by up to 94%. Transport & nutrition remain largest sources of emissions.
hotorcool.org/publications...
hotorcool.org/publications...
A Climate for Sufficiency: 1.5-Degree Lifestyles Report
The report “A Climate for Sufficiency ” examines how lifestyles, shaped by infrastructure, policy, and culture, must transform to align with planetary limits.
hotorcool.org
October 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Not a comfortable read—but sugar-coating does not help. No countryis currently on track to meet 1.5°C Paris target. To reach it, individual lifestyle emissions in high-income countries must fall by up to 94%. Transport & nutrition remain largest sources of emissions.
hotorcool.org/publications...
hotorcool.org/publications...
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The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
bit.ly
October 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.