Elizabeth
@kitabet.bsky.social
earthquake aficionado & disaster studies scholar at large. "you know istanbul is always the first stop."
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i hate living in the second act of CABARET. i miss living in the first act of CABARET
January 25, 2026 at 5:27 AM
i hate living in the second act of CABARET. i miss living in the first act of CABARET
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i think about this picture of fred shuttlesworth looking at his bombed out house every day because it is in my classroom and so i see it five times a week. tired and defiant.
a face that says well, on we go
a face that says well, on we go
January 25, 2026 at 2:47 AM
i think about this picture of fred shuttlesworth looking at his bombed out house every day because it is in my classroom and so i see it five times a week. tired and defiant.
a face that says well, on we go
a face that says well, on we go
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
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I don’t know how this all ends. But the everyday courage of the free citizen in the free city is a place where the end can begin.
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How is this supposed to end?
Living and dying in Minneapolis.
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January 24, 2026 at 10:28 PM
I don’t know how this all ends. But the everyday courage of the free citizen in the free city is a place where the end can begin.
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Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
January 24, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
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Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
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Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
January 24, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
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I see folks outside MN lauding how organized we are & all I can say is: THIS IS IT. This is the whole organizing principle. You ask what you wish someone was doing & then you DO THAT THING. It doesn't matter if it's perfect or even enough. Just do it. Find other people doing it & do it with them.
My group chats are full of Minnesotans reacting to today’s murder by figuring out ways they can help.
We need people outside of the state to do the same thing. Whatever you wish everyone else was doing right now? Do it today.
Let’s make a list of things that could help.
We need people outside of the state to do the same thing. Whatever you wish everyone else was doing right now? Do it today.
Let’s make a list of things that could help.
January 24, 2026 at 5:03 PM
I see folks outside MN lauding how organized we are & all I can say is: THIS IS IT. This is the whole organizing principle. You ask what you wish someone was doing & then you DO THAT THING. It doesn't matter if it's perfect or even enough. Just do it. Find other people doing it & do it with them.
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I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.
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The fact of the matter is: a severe #IceStorm is developing across much of the country at this very moment, with potentially devastating and far-reaching consequences extending far beyond the region of maximum #ice concentration. Watch out for the #ice, and help your neighbors weather the storm.
CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….
January 24, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….
January 24, 2026 at 12:07 AM
CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….
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I feel like everyone who followed this story carefully knew that this was the role Canary Mission was playing but didn't have definitive proof yet. It's a weird feeling to just finally have something to point to.
A "subject profile" of Öztürk that was prepared "for/in collaboration with HSI Office of Intelligence" cites her profile on the Israeli-based website Canary Mission on the third page.
It also includes her op-ed.
It also includes her op-ed.
January 23, 2026 at 6:49 PM
I feel like everyone who followed this story carefully knew that this was the role Canary Mission was playing but didn't have definitive proof yet. It's a weird feeling to just finally have something to point to.
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(!) Newly-released State Department docs show the Trump-Vance-Rubio admin detained Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi for fake news *initially propelled by Columbia itself* — including that he was yelling at "Jewish bystanders," when what he was actually doing was confronting an antisemitic disruptor.
January 23, 2026 at 3:52 PM
(!) Newly-released State Department docs show the Trump-Vance-Rubio admin detained Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi for fake news *initially propelled by Columbia itself* — including that he was yelling at "Jewish bystanders," when what he was actually doing was confronting an antisemitic disruptor.
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Looking at some old Forest Service photos. Here's the Visitors Information Center at Spirit Lake, circa 1970.
It was here that Ranger Sharon Burchard felt the M4.1 earthquake on March 20, 1980, that indicated something was up at the mountain.
It was here that Ranger Sharon Burchard felt the M4.1 earthquake on March 20, 1980, that indicated something was up at the mountain.
January 22, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Looking at some old Forest Service photos. Here's the Visitors Information Center at Spirit Lake, circa 1970.
It was here that Ranger Sharon Burchard felt the M4.1 earthquake on March 20, 1980, that indicated something was up at the mountain.
It was here that Ranger Sharon Burchard felt the M4.1 earthquake on March 20, 1980, that indicated something was up at the mountain.
my elementary school PE teacher, my grandparents' next-door neighbor, the older generation of the family that lived across the street. Manzanar and Minidoka.
Being raised in Seattle in the 1970s and 1980s when internment was still a fresh wound meant knowing a lot of people who were interned. My stepmother's father was pulled from UW school of Medicine and sent to Camp Harmony and then Minidoka. 1/4
i like how this person thinks this is an own instead of the fact that Japanese-Americans believed in America more than the fucking idiots that interned them
January 22, 2026 at 6:46 PM
my elementary school PE teacher, my grandparents' next-door neighbor, the older generation of the family that lived across the street. Manzanar and Minidoka.
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ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry.
"They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.
"They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy as he came home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:21 AM
ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry.
"They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.
"They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.
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grim to think about all the things we would have known
January 21, 2026 at 4:27 AM
grim to think about all the things we would have known
I see many of us are having a moment of nostalgia for under-regulated intercity transport on the eastern seaboard in the early 2000s
I used to take the Fung Wah chinatown to chinatown buses which were very cheap and only a few times started on fire
Fondly remembering the time in 2009 when my friend texted me from a Bolt Bus “haha this is so weird, a cop pulled over our bus AND is making the driver do a field sobriety test??” and then five minutes later texted me “oh my God he failed”
January 20, 2026 at 6:10 AM
I see many of us are having a moment of nostalgia for under-regulated intercity transport on the eastern seaboard in the early 2000s
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Fung Wah was so good.. so awfully horribly good...
a PORTAL between Boston Chinatown and NYC Chinatown, wrapped in a bus
a PORTAL between Boston Chinatown and NYC Chinatown, wrapped in a bus
January 20, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Fung Wah was so good.. so awfully horribly good...
a PORTAL between Boston Chinatown and NYC Chinatown, wrapped in a bus
a PORTAL between Boston Chinatown and NYC Chinatown, wrapped in a bus
this but for fung wah and other chinatown bus companies whose names I can no longer recall but who certainly live on in my memories
back in the early bolt/mega bus days you could get a ticket for NY to DC for like 15 bucks. When it went well you were like “this is the best deal on earth!” and when it went badly you’d spend the whole trip thinking that no amount of savings could make this worth it.
January 20, 2026 at 6:04 AM
this but for fung wah and other chinatown bus companies whose names I can no longer recall but who certainly live on in my memories
Zencefil, a vegetarian restaurant un Beyoğlu that this incredible slightly dense herby bread + butter and pretty decent ev yemekleri. Closed years ago but I will always remember it fondly.
Sunday night timeline cleanse
please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there
please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there
January 20, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Zencefil, a vegetarian restaurant un Beyoğlu that this incredible slightly dense herby bread + butter and pretty decent ev yemekleri. Closed years ago but I will always remember it fondly.
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When you listen to The Mountain Goats once
January 20, 2026 at 4:53 AM
When you listen to The Mountain Goats once