Marcea the Traveler
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She/Her | Freelance Travel Writer | Loves old movies, reading & sleeping | Hates an Oxford comma | UCF alum
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Marcea the Traveler
@marcea.bsky.social
· May 22
Let me be clear: if I am having a bad time, it's everyone's problem
I need this tattoo’d on my forehead . . .
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She’s a Black woman in power. And, in the eyes of this administration, that is something that cannot ever be accepted or tolerated.
Prosecutors going after Letitia James for financial transactions with her hairdresser.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
Prosecutors Said to Pursue New Investigation of Letitia James
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:23 AM
She’s a Black woman in power. And, in the eyes of this administration, that is something that cannot ever be accepted or tolerated.
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It's time to state clearly that if MAGA and Republicans can't condemn any part of this shooting, continue to blame the victim for it, and even hint that it's a just outcome that others "deserve," that's a crossing of the line that the rest of us won't ever be able to forget.
Rep. Randy Fine: "If you impede the actions of our law enforcement as they seek to repel foreign invaders from our country, you get what's coming to you. I do not feel bad for the woman that was involved."
January 8, 2026 at 8:19 PM
It's time to state clearly that if MAGA and Republicans can't condemn any part of this shooting, continue to blame the victim for it, and even hint that it's a just outcome that others "deserve," that's a crossing of the line that the rest of us won't ever be able to forget.
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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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So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact.
When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
January 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact.
When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
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Black folks are not being "mean" to you when we are truthful concerning the historical pathologies of your kinsmen...
Truth is the greatest love
Truth is the greatest love
January 8, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Black folks are not being "mean" to you when we are truthful concerning the historical pathologies of your kinsmen...
Truth is the greatest love
Truth is the greatest love
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“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"
Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt
Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.
www.mprnews.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:09 PM
“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"
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Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
January 8, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
A big ole “F you Hilton Hotels!” for making me put you on my boycott list.
As a travel writer, I could be screwing myself with comp’d stays but 🤷🏾♀️. Love their hotels but I’d rather not take a trip or pay for a hotel myself if they’re forcing franchisees to house ICE.
As a travel writer, I could be screwing myself with comp’d stays but 🤷🏾♀️. Love their hotels but I’d rather not take a trip or pay for a hotel myself if they’re forcing franchisees to house ICE.
Hilton said it is breaking from a franchise that was accused of canceling ICE agents' reservations at its Minneapolis-area location
Hilton To Break From Franchise Hotel Accused Of Canceling ICE Agents' Bookings
www.huffpost.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:21 PM
A big ole “F you Hilton Hotels!” for making me put you on my boycott list.
As a travel writer, I could be screwing myself with comp’d stays but 🤷🏾♀️. Love their hotels but I’d rather not take a trip or pay for a hotel myself if they’re forcing franchisees to house ICE.
As a travel writer, I could be screwing myself with comp’d stays but 🤷🏾♀️. Love their hotels but I’d rather not take a trip or pay for a hotel myself if they’re forcing franchisees to house ICE.
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The focus on training misses the mark. Yes, many federal agents are sloppy and unprepared, but years of organizing against police violence have taught me that more training doesn't stop violence. It just makes the death-making more respectable (sometimes) and more expensive.
January 7, 2026 at 7:55 PM
The focus on training misses the mark. Yes, many federal agents are sloppy and unprepared, but years of organizing against police violence have taught me that more training doesn't stop violence. It just makes the death-making more respectable (sometimes) and more expensive.
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Evergreen:
The first thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.
The first thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.
Black folk will tell you: The 1st thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.🤷🏿♂️
They lie because there's upside in it for them, and no downside.
No matter how many times they get caught lying, newspapers will print their next lie as the gospel truth.🤡
And people stop caring before truth hits
They lie because there's upside in it for them, and no downside.
No matter how many times they get caught lying, newspapers will print their next lie as the gospel truth.🤡
And people stop caring before truth hits
ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....
January 7, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Evergreen:
The first thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.
The first thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.
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One of the things that has been lost in the history of the Boston Massacre is that the citizens had assembled in protest of the murder of an 11 year old child who threw a brick through the window of a post house in protest of the Stamp Act and was killed by a British officer in retaliation
Paul Revere's 1770 engraving of the Boston Massacre is historically inaccurate, but helped inflame sentiments against the British. Revere omits Crispus Attucks, a formerly enslaved man of African & Native American descent— the first casualty.
Bob Tomolillo's Boston Massacre Reboot Project added him
Bob Tomolillo's Boston Massacre Reboot Project added him
January 7, 2026 at 9:36 PM
One of the things that has been lost in the history of the Boston Massacre is that the citizens had assembled in protest of the murder of an 11 year old child who threw a brick through the window of a post house in protest of the Stamp Act and was killed by a British officer in retaliation
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“ICE just needs to be traine–“
ICE needs to be abolished.
Hope this helps.
ICE needs to be abolished.
Hope this helps.
January 7, 2026 at 8:40 PM
“ICE just needs to be traine–“
ICE needs to be abolished.
Hope this helps.
ICE needs to be abolished.
Hope this helps.
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70% of voters oppose invading Venezuela and THIS is what Democratic leaders come up with?
You have to read it: click to the thread.
It’s 15 different Dems all pivoting to kitchen table issues.
ChatGPT can produce more moving statements, more leadership than this.
You have to read it: click to the thread.
It’s 15 different Dems all pivoting to kitchen table issues.
ChatGPT can produce more moving statements, more leadership than this.
January 7, 2026 at 8:05 PM
70% of voters oppose invading Venezuela and THIS is what Democratic leaders come up with?
You have to read it: click to the thread.
It’s 15 different Dems all pivoting to kitchen table issues.
ChatGPT can produce more moving statements, more leadership than this.
You have to read it: click to the thread.
It’s 15 different Dems all pivoting to kitchen table issues.
ChatGPT can produce more moving statements, more leadership than this.
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They will murder you and put the gun in your hand
Kristi Noem accuses the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis of committing an act of "domestic terrorism"
January 7, 2026 at 7:46 PM
They will murder you and put the gun in your hand
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but: you don't have to force yourself to watch, even if the video isn't explicit
you don't have to see someone die out of a sense of moral obligation
we, as a society, must respond to what happened but traumatizing yourself is not praxis
you don't have to see someone die out of a sense of moral obligation
we, as a society, must respond to what happened but traumatizing yourself is not praxis
if you do not want to watch the video, go to settings > content and media and uncheck the "autoplay videos and gifs" box right now
January 7, 2026 at 7:22 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this, but: you don't have to force yourself to watch, even if the video isn't explicit
you don't have to see someone die out of a sense of moral obligation
we, as a society, must respond to what happened but traumatizing yourself is not praxis
you don't have to see someone die out of a sense of moral obligation
we, as a society, must respond to what happened but traumatizing yourself is not praxis
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It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.
I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK
I’m eating lunch, I’m having a panic attack, I’m charging my phone, and then I’m going back out to try and keep my neighborhood safe.
January 7, 2026 at 6:13 PM
It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.
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In a very real way the muted response to the racism stoking this state violence which made Minneapolis a target can no longer be tenable for anyone claiming to oppose this.
January 7, 2026 at 6:47 PM
In a very real way the muted response to the racism stoking this state violence which made Minneapolis a target can no longer be tenable for anyone claiming to oppose this.
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I need to collaborate with an expert on Southern plantation economies in the post-Reconstruction period aka the Nadir for a project. Please tag any folk you might recommend in the replies. Thanks!
January 7, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I need to collaborate with an expert on Southern plantation economies in the post-Reconstruction period aka the Nadir for a project. Please tag any folk you might recommend in the replies. Thanks!
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Just a reminder that George Conway is not fundraising right now to run against a MAGA republican.
He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.
He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.
January 7, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Just a reminder that George Conway is not fundraising right now to run against a MAGA republican.
He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.
He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.
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"You gonna murder someone else? You can't kill us all, Nazis."
ICE agents stopped by protesters after the shooting an observer in Minneapolis, according to witnesse. ICE deployed pepper spray and tear gas.
January 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
"You gonna murder someone else? You can't kill us all, Nazis."
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they are recruiting for the worst, bottom-of-the-barrel chuds imaginable and those chuds are behaving exactly as you'd expect
MPR playing an eye witness account right now of ICE shooting directly through the windshield at her face and not giving her medical care for 10 minutes.
MPR News is live right now bringing you updates on this. mprnews.org/listen
January 7, 2026 at 5:02 PM
they are recruiting for the worst, bottom-of-the-barrel chuds imaginable and those chuds are behaving exactly as you'd expect
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8 blocks from where George Floyd was murdered.
It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead
January 7, 2026 at 4:48 PM
8 blocks from where George Floyd was murdered.
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We cannot say enough: This is insane. Just insanity start to finish.
Q: Does the US intend to buy Greenland?
MARCO RUBIO: That's always been the president's intent
MARCO RUBIO: That's always been the president's intent
January 7, 2026 at 4:34 PM
We cannot say enough: This is insane. Just insanity start to finish.
