Irma Rodríguez Mitton
@irmwrites.bsky.social
Lover of nature, books, and textile arts. Novice writer and farmer. Instrument of peace.
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
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The fate of the planet’s coastlines depends on how fast Antarctica’s ice sheets melt. We don’t know what’s coming
The fate of the planet’s coastlines depends on how fast Antarctica’s ice sheets melt. We don’t know what’s coming
Some regions of the continent have enough ice to push up sea levels by 15 metres if they all melt, but researchers don’t yet fully understand the consequences
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2026 at 7:20 PM
The fate of the planet’s coastlines depends on how fast Antarctica’s ice sheets melt. We don’t know what’s coming
Right on schedule. I’m old enough to remember when we set “aggressive” sustainability goals for 2020 to avert the impact we knew was coming by 2025. Then industry said, not so fast, maybe we can reduce emissions by 2030. Then it was, no, maybe 2050….
Melting glaciers, coastal areas wiped off the map and regular 40C heat in Europe. #Climate experts warn the gloomy predictions of long-term environmental change are no longer the future - they are already here.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/c...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/c...
‘Climate change is here’: Experts warn global crisis is decades ahead of forecasts
Drought, heatwaves, hurricanes, and wildfires are arriving sooner than we imagined according to scientists
www.independent.co.uk
January 19, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Right on schedule. I’m old enough to remember when we set “aggressive” sustainability goals for 2020 to avert the impact we knew was coming by 2025. Then industry said, not so fast, maybe we can reduce emissions by 2030. Then it was, no, maybe 2050….
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Today, 17 January 2026, the BBNJ Agreement enters into force. 🎉👏
#BBNJ creates a long-awaited legal framework to protect marine biodiversity across nearly half of our planet, strengthening ocean governance, enabling marine protected areas, and safeguarding the high seas for future generations.
#BBNJ creates a long-awaited legal framework to protect marine biodiversity across nearly half of our planet, strengthening ocean governance, enabling marine protected areas, and safeguarding the high seas for future generations.
January 17, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Today, 17 January 2026, the BBNJ Agreement enters into force. 🎉👏
#BBNJ creates a long-awaited legal framework to protect marine biodiversity across nearly half of our planet, strengthening ocean governance, enabling marine protected areas, and safeguarding the high seas for future generations.
#BBNJ creates a long-awaited legal framework to protect marine biodiversity across nearly half of our planet, strengthening ocean governance, enabling marine protected areas, and safeguarding the high seas for future generations.
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if someone punches your neighbor and you go to protect them, that does not make you a protester. that makes you someone who protects your neighbor.
January 18, 2026 at 4:43 PM
if someone punches your neighbor and you go to protect them, that does not make you a protester. that makes you someone who protects your neighbor.
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If God is reading the news correctly, the US government is deploying two army battalions to Minnesota to distract from their illegal non release of the Epstein files, is that right?
January 18, 2026 at 4:06 PM
If God is reading the news correctly, the US government is deploying two army battalions to Minnesota to distract from their illegal non release of the Epstein files, is that right?
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Raise your hand if you feel that, if Maria Machado is going to give away the Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump, she should return to financial part of the prize (over $1,000,000) to the Nobel Prize Committee in Norway. 🙋🏻♂️
January 18, 2026 at 5:17 AM
Raise your hand if you feel that, if Maria Machado is going to give away the Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump, she should return to financial part of the prize (over $1,000,000) to the Nobel Prize Committee in Norway. 🙋🏻♂️
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I think it would be a good idea for D politicians to be declaring this publicly, pre-emptively. They should state it as an abstract, legal proposition: an order by the President to seize Greenland would be unlawful, here's why. Trump does not have the legal right to attack a NATO ally. Say it.
If the U.S. military is given direct orders to seize Greenland—pull down another nation’s flag, and then claim the ground in the name of the United States—every senior commander has a moral obligation to refuse to accept or support such a command.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Trump’s Greenland Ambitions Are No Joke
The Danes seem to believe him, and so should Americans.
www.theatlantic.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:13 AM
I think it would be a good idea for D politicians to be declaring this publicly, pre-emptively. They should state it as an abstract, legal proposition: an order by the President to seize Greenland would be unlawful, here's why. Trump does not have the legal right to attack a NATO ally. Say it.
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Investigating elected officials for speech is not law enforcement but intimidation. If governors and mayors can be investigated for criticizing federal actions, neither elected officials nor anyone else is truly free to speak. #holdfast
January 17, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Investigating elected officials for speech is not law enforcement but intimidation. If governors and mayors can be investigated for criticizing federal actions, neither elected officials nor anyone else is truly free to speak. #holdfast
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Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
January 15, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
Go Greenlanders!! Keep telling him to F off !
Photo of the Day.
Around HALF of Greenland’s adult population is believed to have attended anti-Trump protests today.
This photo was taken by Sean Gallup for Getty Images. It captures the thousands who gathered in the capital Nuuk, to reject Trump’s threats to take the island.
Around HALF of Greenland’s adult population is believed to have attended anti-Trump protests today.
This photo was taken by Sean Gallup for Getty Images. It captures the thousands who gathered in the capital Nuuk, to reject Trump’s threats to take the island.
January 18, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Go Greenlanders!! Keep telling him to F off !
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It is Love that we're seeing from the good people in MN, and all over this sick and beleaguered nation right now, in those streets, out in the cold.
There is no greater love than to love your neighbor... it's love as a verb.
And one day, maybe not in our time, but if we do the work... one day...
There is no greater love than to love your neighbor... it's love as a verb.
And one day, maybe not in our time, but if we do the work... one day...
January 17, 2026 at 7:42 PM
It is Love that we're seeing from the good people in MN, and all over this sick and beleaguered nation right now, in those streets, out in the cold.
There is no greater love than to love your neighbor... it's love as a verb.
And one day, maybe not in our time, but if we do the work... one day...
There is no greater love than to love your neighbor... it's love as a verb.
And one day, maybe not in our time, but if we do the work... one day...
They took down a dancing fox.
Federal agents attack and abduct Furry Fox because they could never dance this well
January 17, 2026 at 11:06 PM
They took down a dancing fox.
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Pepper spraying a 15 YO girl last night and threatening to shoot a child - a child! - in the head aren't exactly good optics, either. bsky.app/profile/male...
Would your child be traumatized if this happened to her for him?
Would you be?
Never miss an opportunity to talk about #ICELawlessness with your neighbors.
"Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world,"
—Dolores Huerta
Would you be?
Never miss an opportunity to talk about #ICELawlessness with your neighbors.
"Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world,"
—Dolores Huerta
January 17, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Pepper spraying a 15 YO girl last night and threatening to shoot a child - a child! - in the head aren't exactly good optics, either. bsky.app/profile/male...
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The DJT regime has declared war on an American city.
This isn't about protection.
Or immigration.
Or policy.
Or crime control.
It's about fear, violence, brutality, repression, and control.
WE ARE ALL MINNEAPOLIS.
Stand up and speak out.
This isn't about protection.
Or immigration.
Or policy.
Or crime control.
It's about fear, violence, brutality, repression, and control.
WE ARE ALL MINNEAPOLIS.
Stand up and speak out.
January 14, 2026 at 9:31 PM
The DJT regime has declared war on an American city.
This isn't about protection.
Or immigration.
Or policy.
Or crime control.
It's about fear, violence, brutality, repression, and control.
WE ARE ALL MINNEAPOLIS.
Stand up and speak out.
This isn't about protection.
Or immigration.
Or policy.
Or crime control.
It's about fear, violence, brutality, repression, and control.
WE ARE ALL MINNEAPOLIS.
Stand up and speak out.
Oh ffs.
Based on the City of Minneapolis and confirmed by a friend in the city, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been involved in another shooting in the northern part of the city, two people shot by ICE officer(s). Situation is developing, more information to come.
January 15, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Oh ffs.
They make everything up.
"While senior administration officials spoke of 'invasion,' 'irregular warfare,' and 'narco-terrorism,' field-level reporting consistently portrayed Tren de Aragua in the US as a fragmented, profit-driven criminal group, with no indication of centralized command"
BREAKING: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.
January 14, 2026 at 9:09 PM
They make everything up.
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This isn’t just Trump speaking off the top of his head. The idea that white men are the primary victims of discrimination in the U.S. is driving administration policy.
Trump’s claim that, as a group, white men are discriminated against in higher education and the job market is flatly false.
Trump’s claim that, as a group, white men are discriminated against in higher education and the job market is flatly false.
The truth about being a white man in America
In an interview last week with reporters from the New York Times, President Trump claimed that the civil rights movement resulted in discrimination against white men.
popular.info
January 14, 2026 at 12:27 AM
This isn’t just Trump speaking off the top of his head. The idea that white men are the primary victims of discrimination in the U.S. is driving administration policy.
Trump’s claim that, as a group, white men are discriminated against in higher education and the job market is flatly false.
Trump’s claim that, as a group, white men are discriminated against in higher education and the job market is flatly false.
There’s a lot to unpack in this compelling essay by @davidbollier.bsky.social and Natasha Hulst, published on the @postcarbon.org Resilience blog.
But mostly I appreciate the shout-out to the value of #bioregional #fiber and #textile production systems in item J
www.resilience.org/stories/2026...
But mostly I appreciate the shout-out to the value of #bioregional #fiber and #textile production systems in item J
www.resilience.org/stories/2026...
Toward Socio-ecological Markets
We must move from a finance that demands private benefits at scale, as purely transactional and extractive, to finance systems grounded in particular places and cooperative relationships, all closely ...
www.resilience.org
January 13, 2026 at 4:22 PM
There’s a lot to unpack in this compelling essay by @davidbollier.bsky.social and Natasha Hulst, published on the @postcarbon.org Resilience blog.
But mostly I appreciate the shout-out to the value of #bioregional #fiber and #textile production systems in item J
www.resilience.org/stories/2026...
But mostly I appreciate the shout-out to the value of #bioregional #fiber and #textile production systems in item J
www.resilience.org/stories/2026...
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"Increasing our reliance on overshoot Hail Marys like Direct Air Capture & Sulfate Aerosol Injection increases the dangers we face as they lock us into technological solutions. If these fail to deliver — & well-informed people have very little confidence that they will succeed — we face catastrophe"
January 12, 2026 at 1:07 PM
"Increasing our reliance on overshoot Hail Marys like Direct Air Capture & Sulfate Aerosol Injection increases the dangers we face as they lock us into technological solutions. If these fail to deliver — & well-informed people have very little confidence that they will succeed — we face catastrophe"
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In the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement with Denmark, the US unambiguously recognized ‘the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark’ over Greenland. https://bit.ly/4qH0yug
Who owns Greenland?
Denmark’s claim is unimpeachable. In the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement with Denmark, the US unambiguously recognizes ‘the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark’ over Greenland.
www.chathamhouse.org
January 13, 2026 at 7:00 AM
In the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement with Denmark, the US unambiguously recognized ‘the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark’ over Greenland. https://bit.ly/4qH0yug