BertaB.bsky.social
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Environmental educator, science communicator, and air quality nerd. Artist. Skull collector. I bake and know how to find directions by the stars.
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@bertababy.bsky.social
· Mar 21
My sister just finished quilting my #climatestripes #sciart piece! Each color represents the annual U.S. temperature anomaly, from 1897-2024. Things are heating up. @katharinehayhoe.com @edhawkins.org @nicolekelner.bsky.social @kimmoldofsky.bsky.social @lecagle.bsky.social
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ICE detained a five-year-old child and used him as bait in Minnesota.
Let that sink in.
This is sick. No more funding for Trump’s ICE thugs.
Let that sink in.
This is sick. No more funding for Trump’s ICE thugs.
January 22, 2026 at 5:31 PM
ICE detained a five-year-old child and used him as bait in Minnesota.
Let that sink in.
This is sick. No more funding for Trump’s ICE thugs.
Let that sink in.
This is sick. No more funding for Trump’s ICE thugs.
This whole thread is where to go if you need some awesome, anti-ICE wearable that also give back to those impacted by ICE
anyone have a good answer here?
no idea where to ask so asking you - do you know where I can get a cool looking abolish ice shirt that benefits a good cause?
January 22, 2026 at 11:37 AM
This whole thread is where to go if you need some awesome, anti-ICE wearable that also give back to those impacted by ICE
Just pre-ordered mine!!
I’ve pre-ordered my Hamm’s-style shirt www.harebraineddesign.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Just pre-ordered mine!!
Just donated because BOVINO IS A BITCH
New— I wrote about the amazing success of the Greg Bovino Bitch Fund Benefiting Immigrant Rights in Minnesota (more than $18k raised just from bluesky!!!), how people far and wide are inspired by the fighting spirit, and why I feel it’s my duty as a journalist to use my platform for material change:
Calling Greg Bovino a "b*tch" raises thousands for Minn. immigrant rights
Spearheaded by The Handbasket, $18k+ in donations were made to spite the CBP commander.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 22, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Just donated because BOVINO IS A BITCH
@marisakabas.bsky.social is Greg Bovino still a bitch? 'Cause I just donated to the Bovino is a Bitch Fund.
January 22, 2026 at 11:23 AM
@marisakabas.bsky.social is Greg Bovino still a bitch? 'Cause I just donated to the Bovino is a Bitch Fund.
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listen, you can’t hate america more than americans hate america.
January 21, 2026 at 3:39 PM
listen, you can’t hate america more than americans hate america.
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE LOS ANGELES CHAPTER‼️
Hello all! We are formally announcing that our chapter of General Strike, has voted to endorse & support the strike happening in Minneapolis on January 23rd. We ask if you can, please strike and if not in a position to do so at this time, do not shop. Let us know if you have any questions 💪
![Orange background with black text [NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO SHOPPING]. Black background with blue text [ABOLISH ICE]. Black background with red text [FRIDAY, JANUARY 23rd]. Black background with a white box’s line around it, and gold text [SAVE THE DATE]. White text with a black background [Los Angeles in solidarity with Minneapolis]. Black background with yellow text [NO AMAZON. NO HOME DEPOT. NO PALANTIR]. Orange background with black text [NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO SHOPPING]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ikhw355inz653rg5li2g67rl/bafkreigth5m2zvwsu3uig3zrjcochag6fwafcsig3f5cubkjxxbny6azdq@jpeg)
![Fondo naranja con texto negro [NO AL TRABAJO. NO A LA ESCUELA. NO A LAS COMPRAS]. Fondo negro con texto azul [ABOLIR ICE]. Fondo negro con texto rojo [VIERNES, 23 DE ENERO]. Fondo negro con un recuadro blanco alrededor y texto dorado [RESERVA LA FECHA]. Texto blanco con fondo negro [Los Ángeles en solidaridad con Minneapolis]. Fondo negro con texto amarillo [NO A AMAZON. NO A HOME DEPOT. NO A PALANTIR]. Fondo naranja con texto negro [NO AL TRABAJO. NO A LA ESCUELA. NO A LAS COMPRAS].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ikhw355inz653rg5li2g67rl/bafkreigixihkrtqfjrp6oiemt7u7gsbn2fowsayvjfiq4d2yc7ykmmh5dy@jpeg)
January 20, 2026 at 1:17 AM
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE LOS ANGELES CHAPTER‼️
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ST. PAUL MAYOR: “We’ve received reports of ICE officers going door to door asking where the Asian people live… I myself have received advice to carry my passport with me because they may target me based on what I look like.”
January 19, 2026 at 10:52 PM
ST. PAUL MAYOR: “We’ve received reports of ICE officers going door to door asking where the Asian people live… I myself have received advice to carry my passport with me because they may target me based on what I look like.”
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When a neighborhood in Minnesota didn't have whistles to alert each other of an ICE raid, they began setting off their car alarms with their fobs so people would look out the window & see them. 🙌🏻🚨
All 10 ICE agents left.
Video taken by a Latin American couple whispering from their window. ❤️🩹
All 10 ICE agents left.
Video taken by a Latin American couple whispering from their window. ❤️🩹
January 19, 2026 at 8:33 AM
When a neighborhood in Minnesota didn't have whistles to alert each other of an ICE raid, they began setting off their car alarms with their fobs so people would look out the window & see them. 🙌🏻🚨
All 10 ICE agents left.
Video taken by a Latin American couple whispering from their window. ❤️🩹
All 10 ICE agents left.
Video taken by a Latin American couple whispering from their window. ❤️🩹
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Any one of these daily atrocities should result in a full congressional investigation and a disbanding of the agency. The fact that it’s all just shrugged off by those with the power to stop it is a national disgrace.
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
January 19, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Any one of these daily atrocities should result in a full congressional investigation and a disbanding of the agency. The fact that it’s all just shrugged off by those with the power to stop it is a national disgrace.
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You’ve all chipped in more than $100,000 for dash cams in the Twin Cities - thank you!
ICE observers in the Twin Cities are in need of dash cams to prevent further intimidation and frivolous claims.
Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!
Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!
January 17, 2026 at 5:14 AM
You’ve all chipped in more than $100,000 for dash cams in the Twin Cities - thank you!
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ICE observers in the Twin Cities are in need of dash cams to prevent further intimidation and frivolous claims.
Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!
Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!
January 6, 2026 at 3:05 AM
ICE observers in the Twin Cities are in need of dash cams to prevent further intimidation and frivolous claims.
Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!
Cams are $110, memory cards $35, and ship to us directly via this wish list: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
If you've been looking for a way to help, we'd sure appreciate it!
Please read this! It is insane that this is happening now, that our congress is allowing it, and the mainstream news is NOT covering it. The story contains links to places you can donate to if you want to help these besieged people.
Please share this!
I sent a version of these stories (before this was published today) to a non-Minnesota work network, w donation links, & asked people to share what’s happening
Just got an email from someone who sent it to her mom, who sent it to her church, where it‘s inspiring resistance plans
I sent a version of these stories (before this was published today) to a non-Minnesota work network, w donation links, & asked people to share what’s happening
Just got an email from someone who sent it to her mom, who sent it to her church, where it‘s inspiring resistance plans
Dispatch from the occupation
What life is like in Minneapolis now
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 18, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Please read this! It is insane that this is happening now, that our congress is allowing it, and the mainstream news is NOT covering it. The story contains links to places you can donate to if you want to help these besieged people.
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Went out for a walk in the park and ran into people distributing whistle kits and know your rights information
Brooklyn feeling very pro snow and anti ICE ♥️
Brooklyn feeling very pro snow and anti ICE ♥️
January 17, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Went out for a walk in the park and ran into people distributing whistle kits and know your rights information
Brooklyn feeling very pro snow and anti ICE ♥️
Brooklyn feeling very pro snow and anti ICE ♥️
Reached our horrible congressman's staff, left messages for McConnell and Paul. Will repeat again today!
They shot someone else in Minneapolis, so fuck it, we ball.
Ten bucks to Community Aid Network Minnesota for everyone who tells me if their demand to abolish ICE went to their House rep/Senator's voicemail or a live staffer.
Ten bucks to Community Aid Network Minnesota for everyone who tells me if their demand to abolish ICE went to their House rep/Senator's voicemail or a live staffer.
Bonus MPLS fundraiser!
I will *also* donate $2 to CANMN if you quote-post *this* post, but there's a catch!
For it to count, your quote-post has to say whether you got voicemail or a live staffer when you called your House rep/Senator to tell them to abolish ICE.
Get to work.
I will *also* donate $2 to CANMN if you quote-post *this* post, but there's a catch!
For it to count, your quote-post has to say whether you got voicemail or a live staffer when you called your House rep/Senator to tell them to abolish ICE.
Get to work.
January 15, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Reached our horrible congressman's staff, left messages for McConnell and Paul. Will repeat again today!
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Hey, @amyklobuchar.com and @smith.senate.gov: I'm not a senator, but if ICE thugs were rampaging through the major city in my state, I might try to impede Senate business as usual and try to bring everything to a halt until I could get answers or force some votes.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Democrats Appear Ready to Duck a Key Fight on ICE
Top Senate Democrats are focused on other priorities in the government funding fight.
open.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Hey, @amyklobuchar.com and @smith.senate.gov: I'm not a senator, but if ICE thugs were rampaging through the major city in my state, I might try to impede Senate business as usual and try to bring everything to a halt until I could get answers or force some votes.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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The people you elected should know when you have concerns — especially about ICE.
Calling members of Congress WORKS. Here's a quick rundown on how to do it.
Calling members of Congress WORKS. Here's a quick rundown on how to do it.
January 14, 2026 at 10:52 PM
The people you elected should know when you have concerns — especially about ICE.
Calling members of Congress WORKS. Here's a quick rundown on how to do it.
Calling members of Congress WORKS. Here's a quick rundown on how to do it.
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We are a city of under a half million people. There is one ICE agent for every 200 residents right now and it makes it all the more impressive how our response manages to outnumber them in so many places.
January 13, 2026 at 2:54 AM
We are a city of under a half million people. There is one ICE agent for every 200 residents right now and it makes it all the more impressive how our response manages to outnumber them in so many places.
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Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that:
If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
religiondispatches.org
January 9, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
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Stephen Sedley's letter strongly reinforces the point of this column: if, as seems imminent, the hunger strikers die, the government bears responsibility.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Stephen Sedley's letter strongly reinforces the point of this column: if, as seems imminent, the hunger strikers die, the government bears responsibility.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.
January 13, 2026 at 1:54 AM
i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.
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So grateful to have The Handbasket acknowledged in such talented company.
Independent journalism is absolutely a form of resistance, thanks to the important work of @marisakabas.bsky.social @autonomynews.co @404media.co @assignedmedia.org @boltsmag.org.
My latest in @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
My latest in @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
How independent journalism is a form of resistance: ‘I’m not answering to anyone’
Trump’s attacks on mainstream media have opened a window for journalists who want to operate independently
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:51 PM
So grateful to have The Handbasket acknowledged in such talented company.