Ivis Bohlen
@ivisbohlen.bsky.social
Black Lives Matter. Lived in London, Munich, & Fieberbrunn (Austria), now in North Carolina. Retired UNC Press. Episcopalian. Gardening, music, reading. kdrama addict. she/her
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FYI below -- also can confirm that @jessicashortall.bsky.social is a real person I know from the ExTwitter days and not a scammer
Got some MN folks to help who are falling through mutual aid cracks. Their needs are significant.
My Venmo is @jessica-shortall, look for the llama. Will ask friends to comment or QT here since I’m a stranger. Also giving here is great too:
www.hopkinseducationfoundation.org/hopkins-strong
My Venmo is @jessica-shortall, look for the llama. Will ask friends to comment or QT here since I’m a stranger. Also giving here is great too:
www.hopkinseducationfoundation.org/hopkins-strong
Hopkins Strong Relief Fund — Hopkins Education Foundation
In response to urgent community needs, the Hopkins Education Foundation and Hopkins School District have partnered for the #HopkinsStrong Emergency Relief Fund to help students and families in this ti...
www.hopkinseducationfoundation.org
January 30, 2026 at 4:36 AM
FYI below -- also can confirm that @jessicashortall.bsky.social is a real person I know from the ExTwitter days and not a scammer
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Well, when you pay people from Craigslist to go…
January 29, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Well, when you pay people from Craigslist to go…
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Between Micah and Matthew, the lectionary serves it up this week!
If you are a lectionary preacher, it is like being handed a gold-plated invitation to speak DIRECTLY to this moment -- in the clearest, most passionate way possible.
Go for it, friends. Let the WORD loose this weekend.
If you are a lectionary preacher, it is like being handed a gold-plated invitation to speak DIRECTLY to this moment -- in the clearest, most passionate way possible.
Go for it, friends. Let the WORD loose this weekend.
January 29, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Between Micah and Matthew, the lectionary serves it up this week!
If you are a lectionary preacher, it is like being handed a gold-plated invitation to speak DIRECTLY to this moment -- in the clearest, most passionate way possible.
Go for it, friends. Let the WORD loose this weekend.
If you are a lectionary preacher, it is like being handed a gold-plated invitation to speak DIRECTLY to this moment -- in the clearest, most passionate way possible.
Go for it, friends. Let the WORD loose this weekend.
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I will be putting in notice Friday morning with DHS to return to Dilley to check on Liam again and the many other children and families there. Liam did not look well. My staff and I are very concerned about him.
January 29, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I will be putting in notice Friday morning with DHS to return to Dilley to check on Liam again and the many other children and families there. Liam did not look well. My staff and I are very concerned about him.
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Wrote about the observers. The people standing by and filming and the risk they are taking to let the world see what is happening. It's crucial and its the only way to combat the lies and blatant propaganda. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Believe Your Eyes
People are risking their lives to document agents in Minneapolis.
www.theatlantic.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Wrote about the observers. The people standing by and filming and the risk they are taking to let the world see what is happening. It's crucial and its the only way to combat the lies and blatant propaganda. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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And the sponsors, global and national.
echoing the calls for people outside the US to pressure their country to boycott the Olympics and the World Cup
January 25, 2026 at 1:56 AM
And the sponsors, global and national.
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Our government murdered a good and kind man today. This damn near broke me.
January 25, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Our government murdered a good and kind man today. This damn near broke me.
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"I insisted that the agents let me assess him. Normally, I would not have been so persistent, but as a physician, I felt a professional and moral obligation to help this man, especially since none of the agents were helping him."
BREAKING: A young doctor who lives near where Alex Pretti, a nurse, was killed by ICE says in a declaration he saw the shooting, went out to help, was not let through at first then patted down before being let by, and was apparently the first to try and provide any medical assistance to Pretti.
January 25, 2026 at 2:01 AM
"I insisted that the agents let me assess him. Normally, I would not have been so persistent, but as a physician, I felt a professional and moral obligation to help this man, especially since none of the agents were helping him."
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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
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.
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One of the reasons I am so insistent that everyone remember that only 22% of the US population voted for Trump is that the Christian Nationalists want the myth of a mandate in circulation.
We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.
We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.
The new NYT poll finds Trump 17 points underwater on immigration, and the nonwhite and young voters who went to Trump in 2024 have snapped back to Dems
It's almost as if 2024 might not have represented a seismic cultural realignment on immigration after all, despite 1,000 NYT op eds to the contrary
It's almost as if 2024 might not have represented a seismic cultural realignment on immigration after all, despite 1,000 NYT op eds to the contrary
January 22, 2026 at 5:17 PM
One of the reasons I am so insistent that everyone remember that only 22% of the US population voted for Trump is that the Christian Nationalists want the myth of a mandate in circulation.
We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.
We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.
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good morning, I wrote about some exceptionally nerd shit today
(that does matter if you're a reporter, researcher, or anybody making or caring about college sports policy)
tl;dr: THE FRS REPORTS ARE DIFFERENT THIS YEAR
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/what-i-m-l...
(that does matter if you're a reporter, researcher, or anybody making or caring about college sports policy)
tl;dr: THE FRS REPORTS ARE DIFFERENT THIS YEAR
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/what-i-m-l...
What I'm learning from the latest athletic department budget reports
The FY25 reports are trickling in. Here's what I'm seeing, and why you should care.
www.extrapointsmb.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:59 PM
good morning, I wrote about some exceptionally nerd shit today
(that does matter if you're a reporter, researcher, or anybody making or caring about college sports policy)
tl;dr: THE FRS REPORTS ARE DIFFERENT THIS YEAR
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/what-i-m-l...
(that does matter if you're a reporter, researcher, or anybody making or caring about college sports policy)
tl;dr: THE FRS REPORTS ARE DIFFERENT THIS YEAR
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/what-i-m-l...
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My point is not to pat myself on the back, but to say that this doesn't happen with other topics - and I am struck each time that the students who respond feel that their history is invisible in other contexts. I use this excellent documentary as part of that module: www.pbs.org/video/master...
Artbound | Masters of Modern Design | Season 10 | Episode 1
Japanese American influence in postwar American art and design is unparalleled.
www.pbs.org
January 22, 2026 at 4:29 PM
My point is not to pat myself on the back, but to say that this doesn't happen with other topics - and I am struck each time that the students who respond feel that their history is invisible in other contexts. I use this excellent documentary as part of that module: www.pbs.org/video/master...
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Federal officer murders a woman in the street? Not even a federal inquiry
Civil rights leader disrupts a church service? Arrested
Civil rights leader disrupts a church service? Arrested
The feds have arrested Nekima Levy Armstrong, who led the protest in a Minnesota church over the weekend.
apnews.com/article/just...
apnews.com/article/just...
A woman who led a protest that disrupted a Minnesota church service has been arrested
Attorney General Pam Bondi says a woman who led an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church has been arrested.
apnews.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Federal officer murders a woman in the street? Not even a federal inquiry
Civil rights leader disrupts a church service? Arrested
Civil rights leader disrupts a church service? Arrested
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January 22, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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Let the picture of the little five year old boy standing facing the car and the old man being dragged out of his house with no shirt on, let those images burn into your brain. We don’t have to be this country. We don’t have to live this way.
Donald Trump was a choice, Republican voters made for us.
Donald Trump was a choice, Republican voters made for us.
January 22, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Let the picture of the little five year old boy standing facing the car and the old man being dragged out of his house with no shirt on, let those images burn into your brain. We don’t have to be this country. We don’t have to live this way.
Donald Trump was a choice, Republican voters made for us.
Donald Trump was a choice, Republican voters made for us.
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The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”
January 19, 2026 at 2:03 PM
The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”
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Well. I think it's time to sell
January 18, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Well. I think it's time to sell
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So to keep people in the loop, one of the biggest school districts in the state is closed Tuesday and Wednesday because they need to give teachers time to build hybrid options for families worried about their children getting kidnapped on the way to school by lawless masked armed federal goons.
January 18, 2026 at 7:38 PM
So to keep people in the loop, one of the biggest school districts in the state is closed Tuesday and Wednesday because they need to give teachers time to build hybrid options for families worried about their children getting kidnapped on the way to school by lawless masked armed federal goons.
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Less cooperation is not what you think it is. It's losing Estonia is what it is. Don't fall for Russian operations.
January 17, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Less cooperation is not what you think it is. It's losing Estonia is what it is. Don't fall for Russian operations.
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Here’s to the Nobel committee for posting this bit of history yesterday
January 17, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Here’s to the Nobel committee for posting this bit of history yesterday
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.
French troops deploying to Greenland because the United States might try to take it over.
Today in 2026 sentences.
Today in 2026 sentences.
❗️An initial group of 🇫🇷French mountain troops has arrived in 🇬🇱Greenland to prepare for the reception and deployment of the main contingent. French authorities have stated that additional land, aviation, and naval units will be dispatched in the coming days.
January 17, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.
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Since starting this acct (on Twitter) in 2016, I've used the same header. That image has personal meaning. But, so does this and I'm making a change. The Gadsden was created in 1775 to protest a King. We need to take it back! I'm sharing this image with you, if you agree and want to use it. #NoKings
January 17, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Since starting this acct (on Twitter) in 2016, I've used the same header. That image has personal meaning. But, so does this and I'm making a change. The Gadsden was created in 1775 to protest a King. We need to take it back! I'm sharing this image with you, if you agree and want to use it. #NoKings
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The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.
January 17, 2026 at 2:20 PM
The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.