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Judith Gardener
@earther.bsky.social
Post-partisan social misfit. Insatiably curious, reader, over-thinker, gardener. Loves Earth, mountains, trees, plants, all creatures. Deplores predatory, greedy, willfully ignorant humans. Port Angeles, Washington, USA (Canadian border, Olympic Mountains)
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On Friday January 30, nurses in the US will strike nationwide in response to ICE killing Alex Pretti, RN.

• meet at your hospital
• gather at your state capitol
• stay home in solidarity

How you participate matters less than that you do.
Our voices count only if our numbers do.

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On Friday January 30, nurses in the US will strike nationwide in response to ICE killing Alex Pretti, RN.

• meet at your hospital
• gather at your state capitol
• stay home in solidarity

How you participate matters less than that you do.
Our voices count only if our numbers do.

1/2
January 25, 2026 at 11:11 PM
There are people here saying that the NY Times buried the story on an inside page. Reality: They were ahead of all others and here's today's front page.

PLEASE, PLEASE, people:

Read real news by real journalists, not just podcasts, Substack, social media. Be part of the solution not the problem.
January 25, 2026 at 7:45 PM
One way to help the brave people pushing back FOR ALL OF US in Minneapolis. The note is from the podcaster who apparently lives there.

beyondbeurreblanc.substack.com/p/support-ea...
January 25, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Reposted by Judith Gardener
"Fish, oysters, and other marine species are beginning to return, turning energy infrastructure into living reef-like environments. What started as a clean energy project is now quietly supporting marine recovery." 🌎
January 25, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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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 am seeing quite a few nurses calling for a nationwide strike over the killing of Alex Pretti. I think we are seeing one of the largest workforces being radicalized before our very eyes.
January 25, 2026 at 3:51 AM
SCIENTISTS:
1. Do you know why this info about geomagnetic field reversal would be under NIH rather than a not-health archive?
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

2. Was PubMed always under National Center for Biotechnology Information?
ttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Or is it reorganized [sic]?
Motonori Matuyama and reversals of geomagnetic field
In 1929, Matuyama published his paper on the magnetization of mostly Quaternary volcanic rocks. In this paper, he described the results of paleomagnetic measurements of volcanic rocks from Japan and nearby areas and concluded that the latest ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 25, 2026 at 6:22 PM
January 25, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Gift article from The New York Times

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...
January 25, 2026 at 5:25 AM
Reposted by Judith Gardener
Man Shot By Federal Agents Wanted to ‘Make a Difference’

time.com/7357687/alex...
Man Shot By Federal Agents Wanted to ‘Make a Difference’
Pretti was an intensive care unit nurse at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis, the city where he lived.
time.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Reposted by Judith Gardener
"Be grateful to the people of Minneapolis.…Every single person who steps out their front door in Minneapolis to observe, document, & protest the actions of our government is taking their lives in their hands. These men and women are the kind of patriots you would have seen at Lexington & Concord." 👇
NEW: "The government didn’t just use masked, armed, unidentified agents of the state to execute a citizen on the street, in broad daylight and in front of dozens of witnesses—it lied about the victim and what happened in the most brazen manner possible."
www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...
Emergency Triad: Another American Has Been Murdered by Our Government
It’s worse than it looks and it looks plenty bad.
www.thebulwark.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:54 AM
A few moments of respite from urban realities, thanks to The Guardian.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
January 25, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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January 24, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Everyone freezing on the East Coast or in the Midwest remember: Kyiv has the same weather, except that hundreds of thousands of people don't have electricity, heating or running water
January 24, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Seems like a good time to start reading at least several of the 8 Hainish Cycle books by Ursula Le Guin. Wikipedia description of just a part:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainish...
January 25, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Reposted by Judith Gardener
Time to delete TikTok if you haven’t! They’re asking specifically for immigrant status and transgender or nonbinary status, which should make people nervous about where we are heading
January 23, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Thousands of protesters shut down streets throughout Minneapolis-St. Paul to demand that federal immigration agents end their weekslong crackdown. Businesses closed in solidarity.
January 24, 2026 at 5:37 AM
I'm in the same position as Joe Quintana @jgqman.bsky.social , as are most people in rural areas. These bills are getting bipartisan support but need YOUR support to keep moving through the process to get to Senate and House floor votes. PLEASE nudge your reps to co-sponsor if they aren't already.
Medicare is not covering telehealth appointments anymore. Meanwhile, there is NO doctor in my rural community and getting to one is an all day trip, often a complete waste of time, money and gas. Passage of H.R. 4206 and H.R. 2263 are vital. Please contact your congressional delegation.
January 24, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Full video and transcript of the history speech by Mark Carney, Canada's Prime Minister, at the Davos World Economic Forum this week. He starts in French but then switches to English.

30 minutes

globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.
globalnews.ca
January 23, 2026 at 5:32 AM
BRAVO for Mark Carney and hooray for Canada!

Mark Carney Says Firmly That ‘Canada Doesn’t Live Because of the United States’

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/w...
January 23, 2026 at 2:41 AM
You can send AT LEAST one message a week to your US Senator or Representative re: something you want them to initiate or help pass, right? Tomorrow would be good -- or right now.

THANK YOU to all of you who take the few minutes to do this.
January 23, 2026 at 2:14 AM
UW Center for Human Rights report related to ICE

Roadside Assist: Washington State’s Continued Sharing of Drivers’ Information with Federal Immigration Enforcement

jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/...

#WA #PNW

@uwchr.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Police can request access to Ring camera footage, so there's a reasonable concern that ICE can tap into Flock Safety, the Ring partner that handles the Ring Neighbors network tracking. You can disable access in about 10 seconds (footage isn't saved unless you pay for that service). See 2/3 for how.
January 22, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Reposted by Judith Gardener
The United States government used armed thugs to kidnap a 5-year-old child off an American street, separate him from his dad, traffic him to another state, and sling him into a scary & unsafe concentration camp.

"This is not who we are!!!"

Yes, unfortunately, it now is.
Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.
January 22, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Reposted by Judith Gardener
look what they’re doing to my city. apologies for the camerawork
January 21, 2026 at 10:28 PM