Liz Ard
@macrophyllum.bsky.social
Landscape designer, ecology nerd, artist. Mostly here for the parasocial relationships.
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sweet mother of god
January 9, 2026 at 3:45 AM
sweet mother of god
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ICE has failed to meet a congressionally-mandated deadline to release more details about the in-custody death of Huabing Xie, a Chinese immigrant, held at an Imperial County detention center in late September.
www.kpbs.org/news/border-...
www.kpbs.org/news/border-...
January 8, 2026 at 4:22 PM
ICE has failed to meet a congressionally-mandated deadline to release more details about the in-custody death of Huabing Xie, a Chinese immigrant, held at an Imperial County detention center in late September.
www.kpbs.org/news/border-...
www.kpbs.org/news/border-...
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and i've got a few words for 2026 while we're at it
January 9, 2026 at 3:08 AM
and i've got a few words for 2026 while we're at it
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#PORTLAND - ICE agents are pretending to be utility workers to kidnap people. Stay vigilent. Verify. #fuckICE
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
ICE officers impersonating utility workers, Oregon lawmaker says
NW Natural issues notice telling public how to ID its employees and contractors.
www.oregonlive.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:32 PM
#PORTLAND - ICE agents are pretending to be utility workers to kidnap people. Stay vigilent. Verify. #fuckICE
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
January 8, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
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They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
"The Department of Homeland Security plans to pause operations in Chicago — where Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official, has led controversial arrest efforts — to support the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota."
Trump Administration Deploying More Border Patrol Agents to Minnesota
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:17 PM
They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
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Also: " Border Patrol officials also plan to send all nonlethal weapons housed in Chicago to Minnesota, according to the documents."
"The Department of Homeland Security plans to pause operations in Chicago — where Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official, has led controversial arrest efforts — to support the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota."
Trump Administration Deploying More Border Patrol Agents to Minnesota
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Also: " Border Patrol officials also plan to send all nonlethal weapons housed in Chicago to Minnesota, according to the documents."
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American Samoans, unique among *everyone* born in US states or territories, are denied US citizenship.
That means they are banned from voting.
That's made some a target of vicious GOP prosecution for fraud; even if they were told incorrect info from public officials.
A. New. Must. Read.
That means they are banned from voting.
That's made some a target of vicious GOP prosecution for fraud; even if they were told incorrect info from public officials.
A. New. Must. Read.
Americans by Name, Punished for Believing It - Bolts
This story was produced in partnership with High Country News. I. The state troopers came first for Tupe Smith. They arrived in a pair on November 30, 2023, traveling a stretch... Read More
boltsmag.org
January 8, 2026 at 4:26 PM
American Samoans, unique among *everyone* born in US states or territories, are denied US citizenship.
That means they are banned from voting.
That's made some a target of vicious GOP prosecution for fraud; even if they were told incorrect info from public officials.
A. New. Must. Read.
That means they are banned from voting.
That's made some a target of vicious GOP prosecution for fraud; even if they were told incorrect info from public officials.
A. New. Must. Read.
Also agents who murder non-citizens. This part is not optional
The only thing that's going to prevent ICE from becoming a federally sanctioned death squad is prosecuting agents who murder of American citizens.
January 8, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Also agents who murder non-citizens. This part is not optional
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our job is to document what's happening and help people understand how today's events fit into the larger picture.
what we write today will outlive us. there's power in having a written record that declares, "this happened, no matter what you try to say."
what we write today will outlive us. there's power in having a written record that declares, "this happened, no matter what you try to say."
January 8, 2026 at 4:12 PM
our job is to document what's happening and help people understand how today's events fit into the larger picture.
what we write today will outlive us. there's power in having a written record that declares, "this happened, no matter what you try to say."
what we write today will outlive us. there's power in having a written record that declares, "this happened, no matter what you try to say."
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this.
telling the truth is always scary but especially right now—and especially within institutions that are less interested in truth than they are in maintaining power/making money.
but that's why it's all the more important that we do it.
telling the truth is always scary but especially right now—and especially within institutions that are less interested in truth than they are in maintaining power/making money.
but that's why it's all the more important that we do it.
journalists are falling prey to the same preemptive complicity we’ve seen from lawyers, judges, professors/university’s, etc.
any form of short term damage reduction you receive by groveling to fascists will lead to 10x damage on the back end
you don’t fight lies with deference
you speak the truth
any form of short term damage reduction you receive by groveling to fascists will lead to 10x damage on the back end
you don’t fight lies with deference
you speak the truth
the deference the media *still* gives dhs after months of straight-up lying isn’t much different from how it treats cops.
despite decades of evidence that cops lie about literally everything, journalists are still more willing to believe, or at least repeat, the “official” line.
why?
despite decades of evidence that cops lie about literally everything, journalists are still more willing to believe, or at least repeat, the “official” line.
why?
January 8, 2026 at 4:12 PM
this.
telling the truth is always scary but especially right now—and especially within institutions that are less interested in truth than they are in maintaining power/making money.
but that's why it's all the more important that we do it.
telling the truth is always scary but especially right now—and especially within institutions that are less interested in truth than they are in maintaining power/making money.
but that's why it's all the more important that we do it.
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Very cool how her queerness and Actual Wife Who Was There When She Was Shot is being constantly erased by both the media and now elected senators.
Not at all a chilling trend to set
Not at all a chilling trend to set
Renee Nicole Good was a mother of three, including a 6-year-old boy who is now an orphan.
Renee was deeply loved by many. Her mom described her as “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.”
This is who we lost yesterday.
Renee was deeply loved by many. Her mom described her as “one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.”
This is who we lost yesterday.
January 8, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Very cool how her queerness and Actual Wife Who Was There When She Was Shot is being constantly erased by both the media and now elected senators.
Not at all a chilling trend to set
Not at all a chilling trend to set
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Renee Good, who was murdered in cold blood today by ICE, was a queer woman. June "T-Rex" Knightly, who was murdered in Portland, was a queer woman. The ICE detainees who were sexually assaulted in Louisiana are queer women and trans men.
Queer and trans immigrants allege forced labor and sexual assault in Ice facility: ‘I was treated worse than an animal’
At the South Louisiana Ice Processing Center in Basile, detainees say they were forced into hard labor – and sexually assaulted and stalked by an assistant warden
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Renee Good, who was murdered in cold blood today by ICE, was a queer woman. June "T-Rex" Knightly, who was murdered in Portland, was a queer woman. The ICE detainees who were sexually assaulted in Louisiana are queer women and trans men.
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Republican voters decide they DO like foreign invasions and national building after all and learned nothing from a decade of hearing "As they stan up, we will stand down" in Iraq.
January 8, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Republican voters decide they DO like foreign invasions and national building after all and learned nothing from a decade of hearing "As they stan up, we will stand down" in Iraq.
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The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"
January 8, 2026 at 4:03 PM
The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe.
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:17 PM
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe.
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
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I now firmly believe Trump’s handlers are constantly showing him AI slop content - created to support those handlers own individual, often-clashing agendas.
GenAI companies have created Grima Wormtongue as a service.
GenAI companies have created Grima Wormtongue as a service.
January 8, 2026 at 4:17 PM
I now firmly believe Trump’s handlers are constantly showing him AI slop content - created to support those handlers own individual, often-clashing agendas.
GenAI companies have created Grima Wormtongue as a service.
GenAI companies have created Grima Wormtongue as a service.
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Facts. America in a nutshell is “we as a society can’t have nice things because Black people would also have them”.
Our entire history has been this, and it’s far past time for all of us white people to wake up to these facts.
Our entire history has been this, and it’s far past time for all of us white people to wake up to these facts.
White people have always felt a fraction of what Black people feel. That's the agreement they signed up to. Less safety so Black people have none. Less access to healthcare so Black people have less. Housing insecurity so Black people can't accrue wealth. All to satisfy their desire to erase us.
January 8, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Facts. America in a nutshell is “we as a society can’t have nice things because Black people would also have them”.
Our entire history has been this, and it’s far past time for all of us white people to wake up to these facts.
Our entire history has been this, and it’s far past time for all of us white people to wake up to these facts.
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I can’t get over all the journalists and centrist pundits who sneered that “Twitter isn’t real life” when it was full of weird leftists but now insist it’s a vital window into the public mood when the entire site is Nazis, illegal porn, bots, and Belarusians calling themselves “Iowa MAGA Farm Guy”
thinking about how long leftists were blamed for making twitter inhospitable for MPs who are refusing point blank to leave now it's full of nazis and child porn
January 8, 2026 at 2:21 PM
I can’t get over all the journalists and centrist pundits who sneered that “Twitter isn’t real life” when it was full of weird leftists but now insist it’s a vital window into the public mood when the entire site is Nazis, illegal porn, bots, and Belarusians calling themselves “Iowa MAGA Farm Guy”
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New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
www.404media.co
January 8, 2026 at 2:03 PM
New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...