heather gm (she/her)
@heathergm.bsky.social
Nonprofit design and interenet stuffs for work, cats and cooking for home, politics and anti-racism for making a better world and fighting fascists. Chronic illness & COVID safety concerned.
Rarely post but reskeet lots of smart folks I follow.
Rarely post but reskeet lots of smart folks I follow.
well look at that - I still was following him. Dang. This is a good thing to do. No reason to follow predators on here
Whole lot of you following Neil Gaiman, and I assume it's because you forgot you did so and he stopped posting when it was revealed he is a rapist.
Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.
Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.
February 2, 2026 at 10:26 PM
well look at that - I still was following him. Dang. This is a good thing to do. No reason to follow predators on here
seems important
February 1, 2026 at 9:34 PM
seems important
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If there comes a day when police put their bodies between the feds with guns and their targets, I will praise the police for doing so. I don’t expect to see that day. It might even be a dangerous escalation. But until that day comes … I assume they are helping the feds.
January 31, 2026 at 11:41 PM
If there comes a day when police put their bodies between the feds with guns and their targets, I will praise the police for doing so. I don’t expect to see that day. It might even be a dangerous escalation. But until that day comes … I assume they are helping the feds.
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“Unpaywalling” is good not only for democracy but for business, writes FPF board member @johncusack.bsky.social.
Outlets that dropped paywalls for their FOIA-based reporting, like @WIRED.com and @404Media.co, saw significant increases in subscriptions and revenue.
Outlets that dropped paywalls for their FOIA-based reporting, like @WIRED.com and @404Media.co, saw significant increases in subscriptions and revenue.
Paywall-free news coverage of ICE raids, deportation campaign aids those who need it most
Paywalls create a two-tiered citizenry — one that can afford to be informed, and one that cannot, actor and political activist John Cusack writes.
chicago.suntimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:20 PM
“Unpaywalling” is good not only for democracy but for business, writes FPF board member @johncusack.bsky.social.
Outlets that dropped paywalls for their FOIA-based reporting, like @WIRED.com and @404Media.co, saw significant increases in subscriptions and revenue.
Outlets that dropped paywalls for their FOIA-based reporting, like @WIRED.com and @404Media.co, saw significant increases in subscriptions and revenue.
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It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
February 1, 2026 at 3:10 AM
It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
seems important
"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it."
- Fred Korematsu
Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/
- Fred Korematsu
Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/
January 31, 2026 at 4:15 AM
seems important
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Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.
👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.
January 30, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.
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Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Jim Pattison won't sell U.S. warehouse proposed as new ICE facility | CBC News
Jim Pattison Developments has announced it will not sell an industrial building in Ashland, Va., that was set to be turned into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility.
www.cbc.ca
January 30, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.
January 30, 2026 at 5:28 PM
If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.
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ICE has a code of conduct. The Constitution requires warrants. Jonathan Ross gleefully filmed himself murdering Renee Good.
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said the party agreed on three main goals:
° Require warrants in some cases and ICE coordination with state and local law enforcement
° Create a code of conduct and enforce it
° Require agents to wear body cams and not masks
° Require warrants in some cases and ICE coordination with state and local law enforcement
° Create a code of conduct and enforce it
° Require agents to wear body cams and not masks
Democrats demand new ICE restrictions as government shutdown looms
After federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Senate Democrats say they’ll block a massive government funding package without policy changes.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:59 PM
ICE has a code of conduct. The Constitution requires warrants. Jonathan Ross gleefully filmed himself murdering Renee Good.
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Exactly. But eventually they will corrupt the judicial system to the point where they can rig your conviction. Which is why it's now or never if we are going to fight.
This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
This just in: "Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards," Lemon's attorney Abbe Lowell says.
January 30, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Exactly. But eventually they will corrupt the judicial system to the point where they can rig your conviction. Which is why it's now or never if we are going to fight.
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“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.
January 30, 2026 at 3:45 PM
“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.
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the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system
President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 30, 2026 at 4:33 AM
the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system
WTAF with this bullshit? I don't like the law they want me to enforce, so we won't do it?
I get that it is scary and dangerous to tick off DHS but uh... scary for us too & we do it anyhow. Buck up LAPD police chief - the knitting circle in MN can give you some tips if you need them. Fire his ass,
I get that it is scary and dangerous to tick off DHS but uh... scary for us too & we do it anyhow. Buck up LAPD police chief - the knitting circle in MN can give you some tips if you need them. Fire his ass,
January 30, 2026 at 5:42 AM
WTAF with this bullshit? I don't like the law they want me to enforce, so we won't do it?
I get that it is scary and dangerous to tick off DHS but uh... scary for us too & we do it anyhow. Buck up LAPD police chief - the knitting circle in MN can give you some tips if you need them. Fire his ass,
I get that it is scary and dangerous to tick off DHS but uh... scary for us too & we do it anyhow. Buck up LAPD police chief - the knitting circle in MN can give you some tips if you need them. Fire his ass,
I don't think this is going to work the way the Dems may think folks aren't going to forget in 2 weeks. We can make A LOT of noise and I have no doubt ICE/CBP are ramping up everywhere like they are in my OR town. We can make them do something better - at least that's my hope.
Yeah, this makes the DHS funding the sole focus for two weeks with an engraged electorate and continued atrocities by ICE/CBP.
Obviously lots of people pushing in different ways on reforms, but it's very likely going to get harder not easier to settle for the minimal and insufficient tweaks
Obviously lots of people pushing in different ways on reforms, but it's very likely going to get harder not easier to settle for the minimal and insufficient tweaks
January 30, 2026 at 3:24 AM
I don't think this is going to work the way the Dems may think folks aren't going to forget in 2 weeks. We can make A LOT of noise and I have no doubt ICE/CBP are ramping up everywhere like they are in my OR town. We can make them do something better - at least that's my hope.
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It’s kind of like when they do “vote for us because Trump is a dictator” and then “we will work with Trump on a bipartisan solution.”
January 29, 2026 at 5:08 PM
It’s kind of like when they do “vote for us because Trump is a dictator” and then “we will work with Trump on a bipartisan solution.”
👀💯
Yes it's the racism. Yes it's the cruelty as the point. It also has the benefit to the administration of helping advance other goals. Consider what's happening a kind of holistic political repression. More here: newrepublic.com/article/2057...
January 29, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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I just want to note (so I keep remembering) just how stratospherically illegal, unacceptable, major scandal worthy something like this is. That it is now a non-story is a sign of how bad things are that it slips by in the onslaught of the daily horrors.
So the President of the United States of America is posting to his personal social media network blatantly fake news videos that I'm pretty sure are AI generated slop. This one is supposedly about Gavin Newsom panicking that Walmart is pulling out of California (it's not).
January 29, 2026 at 6:17 AM
I just want to note (so I keep remembering) just how stratospherically illegal, unacceptable, major scandal worthy something like this is. That it is now a non-story is a sign of how bad things are that it slips by in the onslaught of the daily horrors.
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Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you
January 28, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you
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If you believe MAGA will follow laws or restrictions they pass, I have a full Epstein file to sell you.
Chuck Schumer just announced demands on DHS to avoid shutdown:
1. End roving patrols, tighten rules on warrants
2. Enforce accountability & unified code of conduct for agents
3. No more masks & require bodycams
There are *already* standards on much of this.
The issue is DHS isn't following them!
1. End roving patrols, tighten rules on warrants
2. Enforce accountability & unified code of conduct for agents
3. No more masks & require bodycams
There are *already* standards on much of this.
The issue is DHS isn't following them!
January 28, 2026 at 9:43 PM
If you believe MAGA will follow laws or restrictions they pass, I have a full Epstein file to sell you.
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This tracks with LA. They make the spectacle, act like it's over when Bovino leaves and then continue the same level of crackdown without a spotlight after everyone gets used to it.
Federal deployment to Minneapolis "is steady state and expected to continue as planned," per Border Patrol memo leaked to me
January 27, 2026 at 10:43 PM
This tracks with LA. They make the spectacle, act like it's over when Bovino leaves and then continue the same level of crackdown without a spotlight after everyone gets used to it.
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getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
January 27, 2026 at 6:10 PM
getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys
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A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line
January 27, 2026 at 2:12 AM
A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line
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The people of Minnesota did that. Not Schumer and Jeffries, not Walz and Frey, not the standard-bearers of decorum. The People.
January 27, 2026 at 12:42 AM
The people of Minnesota did that. Not Schumer and Jeffries, not Walz and Frey, not the standard-bearers of decorum. The People.