C_Rae
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C_Rae
@craecan.bsky.social
Fleeing the bird app. Desperate for positive change, dismayed at the change we're witnessing.
"I'm going to lean right up against you and you'll lean right up against me, that way we don't have to sleep with our heads in the mud." ~Benjamin Buford Blue
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Well hey there new friends. Pleasure to make your acquaintance where the skies are blue. I'm an MSc in Epidemiolgy, working on a sinking ship in the middle of a burning sea. Looking forward to setting down some roots here and getting to know y'all better so we can prop one another up.
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The nurses are pissed
January 25, 2026 at 4:48 AM
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Holy shit.
January 25, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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“I live on a rural island in Alaska, reachable only by plane or boat. In our little town, 50 to 100 people stand outside each week at our town's roundabout to protest and hold vigil and stand in solidarity with you. We hold signs supporting Minnesota and demanding ICE Out.”

Rachel, Alaska
i havent shut off the notification for this form and it has just been vibrating every minute in my hand.

just a steady beat.
Love Notes
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January 25, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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I’m a big fan of civilization. Rule of law, public health, universities, science, all good things. Great stuff. It may not be ‘politically correct’ to say this but I’m also a fan of what civilizations have done to idiot barbarian hordes who attempted to trample on those things.
January 25, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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But this was okay…
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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Noem is a fucking lying Demon.
January 24, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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this is it. this is the level. this is the standard for democratic officials. anything less is intolerable.
January 24, 2026 at 9:09 PM
These ICE larp losers are thriving on their fantasy of being a hero. But they're murdering the actual heroes.
Reminds me of that saying: Whonever made us believe we should fear the witches and not the ones that burn them?
Renee Good should be alive.

Alex Pretti should be alive.

Geraldo Campos should be alive.

Trump and his ICE agents are the reason they’re dead.

This has to stop.
January 24, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights.

There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.

This is my favorite guide.
CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC
You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...
www.nonviolent-conflict.org
January 24, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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The administration is genuinely furious that Minneapolis hasn’t rioted yet
Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
January 24, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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Don’t know now who I’m more vexed by, the authoritarian asshats doing all this, or all the useful idiots defending and cheering them on.

It’s all really very disheartening.
January 24, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
January 24, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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Completely insane. AltNPS claimed to know the name of Alex Pretti's killer, refused to say it because "the truth always comes out," and then just deleted the post.

A man was executed on the street in my hometown, and AltNPS is using that as an excuse to vaguepost for attention.
January 24, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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It’s time to play, “Describe that Video!” This Hour Has 22 Minutes at its most blistering - and prescient. This was posted yesterday. But it couldn’t be more timely. Whether or not you can bear to watch “that” video today, you need to watch this one. #Minneapolis #CBC
It's time to play... Describe! That! Video! | This Hour Has 22 Minutes
YouTube video by 22 Minutes
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January 24, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.
January 24, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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It is mindblowing that many people see now that we were right for calling it fascism years ago and yet we still have to point out that we are watching things unfold largely as predicted. Fascism now may look different but you can spot the patterns. We aren't overreacting.
Paramilitaries, you say?
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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Ice pack on the sternum can also do wonders.
If you’re struggling, I’m copy pasting what a trauma therapist friend suggested here:

“Highly recommend dunking your face in a bowl of cold water, drinking some water to help your body flush the adrenaline and finding something to smell or touch for grounding and avoiding dissociation”
January 24, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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You did not bear the shame.
You resisted.
You bestowed the eternally vigilant symbol of change by sacrificing your impassioned lives for freedom, justice and honour.

— The German Resistance Memorial in Berlin
January 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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I can't watch anymore. It's only going to get worse. They will escalate until they get the violence they need to justify the next steps they want to take or they just take the next steps anyway. There have been no consequences to date and none are coming.
The US is lost. And I can't watch anymore.
January 22, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
January 24, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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When I was a lawyer with the National Inquiry into MMIWG, the interim report recommended a civilian task force to investigate and prosecute cops.

Flatly refused by the Trudeau government; a no-way-in-hell level of refusal.

Cops protect the state, not the citizenry.
Absolute lawlessness. This is another (imperfect) protection of democracy we have in Canada - the ability to bring private prosecutions.
January 24, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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*Horse jumps over woman* Convoyers: "POLICE STATE TYRANNY!"
*Two innocent people get shot point blank in the streets*
Convoyers: "Now that's the kind of freedom we want here in Alberta!"
January 24, 2026 at 6:05 PM