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Marnilou @marnilou2.bsky.social · Mar 20

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker

Even if you don’t feel it, every act of resistance matters. From where you spend your money to refusing to be silent, no act is too small.

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SHRED

@tshred.bsky.social

ICE awarded Palantir a $30 million contract in April 2025 for ImmigrationOS, a platform delivering "near real-time visibility" on self-deportations and visa overstays.

Stephen Miller owns about $200,000 worth of their stock.

Expansion of ICE is a gold mine for him.

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Stephen Miller Owns Up to $250,000 in Palantir Stock, Report Finds

Palantir is reportedly building a mega-database of Americans’ personal information for the Trump administration.

truthout.org

January 9, 2026 at 3:46 AM

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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

Ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura: “We’re a 3rd world country now. I know. I’ve been to ‘em. I spent 17 months in SE Asia while the draft dodger was playing golf… that’s what happens in a dictatorship. In comes the military. That’s what’s happening here.” 🇺🇸

January 9, 2026 at 12:43 AM

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Alt National Park Service

@altnps.bsky.social

Let’s talk about something. The fact that the ICE agent who murdered Renee Good was dragged by a moving vehicle in a prior incident is not a defense, it actually makes the situation much worse for him.

January 8, 2026 at 8:45 PM

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Biodiversity Pics

@biodiversitypix.bsky.social

🥒 Revue horticole..
Paris: Librairie agricole de la maison rustique, 1829-1974..

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Illustration of Anemone japonica featuring one large, open flower with delicate pink petals shaded with darker streaks and a round yellow and green center. Two flower buds, one partially open and one closed, extend on slender green stems. Broad, deep green leaves with textured veins cluster at the base. A faint pencil sketch of additional leaves appears behind the main illustration, enhancing botanical detail. The artwork is on a cream background with the Latin name "Anemone Japonica" inscribed below.

January 8, 2026 at 7:23 PM

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Jon Cooper

@joncooper-us.bsky.social

“God damn them all.”

January 8, 2026 at 1:35 PM

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Robert Reich

@rbreich.bsky.social

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

January 8, 2026 at 3:32 PM

Marnilou

@marnilou2.bsky.social

Found this screenshot of a headline in my newsfeed from November 2021 - “Newsmax host calls Kermit a
"green monster commie" over
Sesame Street COVID PSA.“ So yeah, there were signs of America‘s impending collapse.

January 8, 2026 at 7:05 PM

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Acyn

@acyn.bsky.social

Swalwell: You better believe that accountability is coming. Immunity is going to be stripped. And to Kristi Noem, Tom “Cashbag” Homan, Greg Bovino—your asses are going to be in these witness chairs.

January 8, 2026 at 5:56 PM

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The Fake History Hunter

@fakehistoryhunter.net

😍

www.bbc.com/news/article...

'Extraordinary' Roman era bone box found in Worcestershire town

The excavation at Milestone Ground in Broadway uncovered 8,000 years of human activity.

www.bbc.com

January 8, 2026 at 3:27 AM

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Dictionary of Irish Biography

@dib.ie

#NollaignamBan
The first woman admitted to the all-male Royal Astronomical Society, Agnes Mary Clerke's analyses were so reliable, thoughtful & wide reaching that she became a revered authority. The Clerke lunar crater was named to commemorate her. www.dib.ie/biography/cl... #DIBLives

January 7, 2026 at 9:00 AM

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Mike Melton

@mikemelton.bsky.social

Black-crested Coquette at @tapirvalley.bsky.social

#hummingbirds #birds #nature #costarica

A small, colorful hummingbird with a spiky black crest and iridescent green and bronze feathers perches on a wet green stem, tiny water droplets clinging to its head and back.

January 8, 2026 at 2:38 AM

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Kat Abughazaleh

@katmabu.bsky.social

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

January 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM

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BERGΛMΛX

@bergamax.bsky.social

A group of beautiful amethyst specimens from left to right:
Mexico, Brazil & Namibia 🇲🇽 🇧🇷 🇳🇦

Photo credit: Albert Russ 📷

If you had to pick only one 🤔 ...

#geology #crystals #minerals #mineralogy #educational

January 7, 2026 at 10:49 AM

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Jon Bjork

@jonoflodi.bsky.social

When you rewatch the video of the shooting, pay attention to the front tires. If the deceased were trying to kill the ICE agent toward the left front of her car, she would not have been turning her tires toward the right.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Noem accuses Renee Nicole Good of "an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm to agents -- an act of domestic terrorism."

January 8, 2026 at 12:03 AM

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Mike Melton

@mikemelton.bsky.social

Sooty-capped Chlorospingus at San Gerardo de Dota #CostaRica for #birdoftheday #foodfinds

#birds #nature

A small bird with olive-green feathers and a black-and-white head holds a pink berry in its beak. The background is softly blurred leaves and warm colors.

January 8, 2026 at 12:36 AM

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Catherine

@shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social

Rare #Merlin and #KingArthur text found hidden in binding of #medieval #book. The ‘extremely significant' text was hidden for centuries.

Link for more photos, a video and information: www.popsci.com/science/king...

January 6, 2026 at 11:11 PM

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Ken Jennings

@kenjennings.bsky.social

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM

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Jon Bjork

@jonoflodi.bsky.social

These ICE deployments must stop!

Distill Social @distillsocial.bsky.social · 1d

A federal ICE agent fatally shot a woman Wednesday in Minneapolis during the largest immigration enforcement operation ever staged in Minnesota, a sweeping crackdown that has turned neighborhoods into militarized zones.