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Andrea M, mountain hermit, furious about all this shit
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Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 💙
Shepherd, weaver, flax and hemp grower/ researcher. Natural fiber educator. Vermont, USA. www.mountainheartvt.com for more info and my farm store.
Check out these wild colors! Bright pink cochineal+vinegar after rinse, then chopping up madder root made purple (higher ph in the roots or metallurgy of knife?). Yes, I have gloves, I just forget/don't care to put them on.

#botanicaldye #naruraldye #abolishice #redyarn 🧶
February 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Was feeling bummed that I didn't have any more red yarn, and then thought, "well, duh."

#red #naturaldye #fiberarts
#abolishice
February 5, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.

Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.

Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
February 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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Jingle dress dancers held healing ceremonies on Feb. 1 in south Minneapolis at the locations where Renee Good and Alex Pretti were fatally shot by federal immigration agents in January. Both Good and Pretti were shot and killed while observing immigration enforcement action.
February 4, 2026 at 9:18 PM
I am a slow knitter, so it took me a while to make this. A friend told me the pattern sales have raised more than $588,000 for organizations helping folks in Minnesota! 🧶💪

#melttheicehat
February 4, 2026 at 5:36 PM
February entertainment.

#seedcatalog #gardening
February 4, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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Ok Roadies, we are ALMOST there. We're in second place on Trending Tags. Can you all repost a little bit more, please? Thanks! #antiquesroadshow
February 3, 2026 at 1:16 AM
This message needs amplification, and we need to shut this shit down.

#abolishice

#impeachnoem
My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis.

This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg
Rep. Morrison details her oversight of the federal Whipple building
YouTube video by Rep. Kelly Morrison
youtu.be
February 2, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Happy Imbolc!

The sun is shining, the sky is blue, these cats are becoming friends, and we will crush the regime.
February 2, 2026 at 4:57 PM
The east coast Isengard is in Williston, Vermont.

vtdigger.org/2026/01/14/a...
February 2, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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I haven’t used former Minneapolis mayoral candidate Jazz Hampton’s TurnSignl app, but they added functionality to connect people to immigration lawyers. (The app was originally developed post-George Floyd to connect folks with civil/criminal lawyers.) jazzhampton.substack.com/p/we-just-la...
We Just Launched Instant Access to an Immigration Attorney Nationwide
When they struggle to legislate, we will innovate
jazzhampton.substack.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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This is my daughter’s friend from high school. She’s now in MN. She’s Yale law grad and runs a small low-cost immigration practice focusing on women and children. She has a habeas petition GRANTED to release her client and ICE can’t find her client. Listen to what she says about conditions please.
February 1, 2026 at 9:11 PM
January 31, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Full house in rural Vermont tonight at a community dinner/town hall with Senator #BernieSanders.
January 31, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Here are the sheepies at breakfast. The extreme elders get pulled aside for separate feeding, in hopes of keeping them going til spring.

I am officially tired of being cold all the time.
January 31, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community. n.pr/4thWiUr
A red hat, inspired by a symbol of resistance to Nazi occupation, gains traction in Minnesota
A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.
n.pr
January 31, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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Trump won by rallying his base to defeat the “deep state elites,” who were trafficking and raping kids, while corruptly running the country to further their own interests — and it was just him and his friends the whole time.

Every Trump accusation is a confession, example 1 million.
January 31, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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Here it is fully edited, the first harbor seal pup of 2026 pupping season in La Jolla, California kissing a VERY PROUD mama.

Full resolution: youtu.be/vDbShVpqvzk #sealsky 🦑 🦭
January 31, 2026 at 5:32 AM
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A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.

Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
www.404media.co
January 31, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.
January 30, 2026 at 8:31 PM
These two had vet visits this morning and both did great (Luna was not spicy *at all*, just purring and charming staff at the dr. office 🤷🏼‍♀️). Marlowe stole the cat bed as soon as everyone got home.

#pets #breathe
January 29, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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I would like to connect the dots between the Supreme Court’s upcoming Chatrie decision on geofence requests and the growing authoritarian and aggressive deployment of law enforcement around protests and dissent.1/12
January 29, 2026 at 6:38 PM