Molly
@mhuzzell.bsky.social
PhD student in Evolution, studying lizards. Former AK Press worker. Still an anarchist.
@mhuzzell on twitter (inactive) and mastodon.social
@mhuzzell on twitter (inactive) and mastodon.social
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Molly
@mhuzzell.bsky.social
· Jul 24
Reposting my recent fieldwork thread from Twitter so as to have Content. Posts/images from July. Incoming: lizards, science, beautiful Alpine vistas 🧵
I'd meant to make a new fieldwork thread like this one for 2025, but instead we've gone and made a whole account for it: @teamlizard.bsky.social -- follow for cute lizard pictures &c.
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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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ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.
January 24, 2026 at 3:46 PM
ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.
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well well well look who’s afraid of memes now
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 12:48 AM
well well well look who’s afraid of memes now
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Me: Huh there's fewer posts from Minnesota on the general strike day than I would have expected
Me a few hours later: Oh they're BUSY
Me a few hours later: Oh they're BUSY
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Me: Huh there's fewer posts from Minnesota on the general strike day than I would have expected
Me a few hours later: Oh they're BUSY
Me a few hours later: Oh they're BUSY
Even more impressive when you remember that when Americans say -9º(F), they mean -23º(C)!
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Even more impressive when you remember that when Americans say -9º(F), they mean -23º(C)!
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So once ice vehicles have been discovered and are being followed, they often become incapable of doing their sinister work.
This is why people risk their lives to tail federal agents, all over the twin cities and the suburbs.
This is why people risk their lives to tail federal agents, all over the twin cities and the suburbs.
January 23, 2026 at 7:20 PM
So once ice vehicles have been discovered and are being followed, they often become incapable of doing their sinister work.
This is why people risk their lives to tail federal agents, all over the twin cities and the suburbs.
This is why people risk their lives to tail federal agents, all over the twin cities and the suburbs.
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Essentially, what stops abductions is when crowds outnumber the masked kidnappers. When people aggressively follow ICE with whistles and horns, crowds are ready to show up. If they show up fast enough, ICE leaves and a family is not broken. (People here understand the stakes).
January 23, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Essentially, what stops abductions is when crowds outnumber the masked kidnappers. When people aggressively follow ICE with whistles and horns, crowds are ready to show up. If they show up fast enough, ICE leaves and a family is not broken. (People here understand the stakes).
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Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.
January 23, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.
This is all such a weird argument. Hitler sang the praises of the US genocide of indigenous peoples. Lots of things are like other things! The reason people reach for 'Gestapo' before 'slave patrols' is not for the relative aptness of the analogy but because of how much closer it is to living memory
This weird thing where people are like “ICE is not the Gestapo, they’re slave patrols” and then others are like “ICE is not slave patrols, they’re CPS“ and it’s like ok the guy in charge of ICE is dressing himself like a Nazi so yeah Gestapo but also fascists can learn from more than one thing!!!!!!
January 23, 2026 at 8:09 PM
This is all such a weird argument. Hitler sang the praises of the US genocide of indigenous peoples. Lots of things are like other things! The reason people reach for 'Gestapo' before 'slave patrols' is not for the relative aptness of the analogy but because of how much closer it is to living memory
Hugely impressed by my sister-in-law, who had a baby *less than two weeks ago* and is now talking to me about how she wants to get involved in community support for migrant families, as ICE has recently been spotted just a few streets away from her.
January 23, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Hugely impressed by my sister-in-law, who had a baby *less than two weeks ago* and is now talking to me about how she wants to get involved in community support for migrant families, as ICE has recently been spotted just a few streets away from her.
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I just thought everyone should see this
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I just thought everyone should see this
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it's never the crazy weird conspiracy theory weapons. they are poisoning you with toxins they are well-documented to have. they are beating you with ordinary sticks and shooting you with ordinary guns
the only conspiracy is how they gained legal immunity to do this
the only conspiracy is how they gained legal immunity to do this
My group was able to recover a spent canister from a green smoke grenade in Minneapolis. We now confirm with physical evidence that it was a green signaling grenade.
Please don't spread rumors about hexachloroethane or nerve agents.
#PublicPreparedness #Minneapolis
Please don't spread rumors about hexachloroethane or nerve agents.
#PublicPreparedness #Minneapolis
January 22, 2026 at 4:12 AM
it's never the crazy weird conspiracy theory weapons. they are poisoning you with toxins they are well-documented to have. they are beating you with ordinary sticks and shooting you with ordinary guns
the only conspiracy is how they gained legal immunity to do this
the only conspiracy is how they gained legal immunity to do this
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I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
January 23, 2026 at 12:15 AM
I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.
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I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.
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It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.
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I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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Kurdistan needs us.
Rojava needs us.
Wherever you are, however you can.
Speak up for Rojava, they are mounting a heroic defense of Aleppo.
My friend died defending the Rojava Revolution.
It will not be in vain.
Her Bijî Rojava!
Jin, Jiyan, Azadî!
Rojava needs us.
Wherever you are, however you can.
Speak up for Rojava, they are mounting a heroic defense of Aleppo.
My friend died defending the Rojava Revolution.
It will not be in vain.
Her Bijî Rojava!
Jin, Jiyan, Azadî!
January 22, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Kurdistan needs us.
Rojava needs us.
Wherever you are, however you can.
Speak up for Rojava, they are mounting a heroic defense of Aleppo.
My friend died defending the Rojava Revolution.
It will not be in vain.
Her Bijî Rojava!
Jin, Jiyan, Azadî!
Rojava needs us.
Wherever you are, however you can.
Speak up for Rojava, they are mounting a heroic defense of Aleppo.
My friend died defending the Rojava Revolution.
It will not be in vain.
Her Bijî Rojava!
Jin, Jiyan, Azadî!
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If you live in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont save these numbers for the various ICE watch hotlines
January 22, 2026 at 5:31 PM
If you live in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont save these numbers for the various ICE watch hotlines
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You've heard of COW TOOLS, but did you know the Gail Valley is also home to an incredibly cool lizard hybrid zone?
Here's a thread about our work on the Eurasian common lizard, Zootoca vivipara, and its egg-laying x live-bearing hybrids.
(Thanks @biotay.bsky.social for the spur to get posting!)
Here's a thread about our work on the Eurasian common lizard, Zootoca vivipara, and its egg-laying x live-bearing hybrids.
(Thanks @biotay.bsky.social for the spur to get posting!)
January 22, 2026 at 6:14 PM
You've heard of COW TOOLS, but did you know the Gail Valley is also home to an incredibly cool lizard hybrid zone?
Here's a thread about our work on the Eurasian common lizard, Zootoca vivipara, and its egg-laying x live-bearing hybrids.
(Thanks @biotay.bsky.social for the spur to get posting!)
Here's a thread about our work on the Eurasian common lizard, Zootoca vivipara, and its egg-laying x live-bearing hybrids.
(Thanks @biotay.bsky.social for the spur to get posting!)
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In tears reading this story of people in Chicago figuring out how to mass produce whistles and sent A HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND of them across the country to help people resist ICE
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
Chicagoans send 150,000 whistles to cities besieged by federal immigration agents
On Friday, Emily Hilleren and Lauren Vega ferried a care package containing whistles and instructional zines to Minneapolis, the focus of the latest federal immigration action.
www.wbez.org
January 21, 2026 at 9:59 PM
In tears reading this story of people in Chicago figuring out how to mass produce whistles and sent A HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND of them across the country to help people resist ICE
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
I know the real answer is "don't use chatGPT" but like, is there a way to make chatGPT not fuckin shine me up every time I ask it something? I don't need it to waste data centre resources complimenting how good my question is; I just want the answer.
January 21, 2026 at 4:40 PM
I know the real answer is "don't use chatGPT" but like, is there a way to make chatGPT not fuckin shine me up every time I ask it something? I don't need it to waste data centre resources complimenting how good my question is; I just want the answer.