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Andrea M, mountain hermit, furious about all this shit
@mountainheartvt.bsky.social
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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.
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minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/06/r...

Thinking of my friends in western Wisconsin.
💔💪
Twin Cities ICE presence extends into Wisconsin • Minnesota Reformer
ICE agents involved in the agency's surge into Minnesota have regularly crossed the border into nearby western Wisconsin communities.
minnesotareformer.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:25 PM
mountainheartvt.bsky.social
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 🧶
Picture of my hand, with the palm and fingers bright pink and purple from the interactions of different ph levels in cochineal and madder dyes. I am chopping up madder root I pulled from the active dyebath to get maximum color from it. A wooden cutting board with a small mound of chopped roots is in the frame, along with an ulu-style knife used for the root chopping
February 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
mountainheartvt.bsky.social
Was feeling bummed that I didn't have any more red yarn, and then thought, "well, duh."

#red #naturaldye #fiberarts
#abolishice
View of a variety of tools and materials for natural dyework, laid out on a table. There's a notebook, digital scale, dried madder root, cochineal, weld, a mortar and pestle, skeins of yarn, and some books of natural dyed recipes.
February 5, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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lalahaenzy.com
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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projectsaltbox.bsky.social
🚨 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...
Screenshot of a map and table listing ICE warehouse purchase data.
February 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
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
mountainheartvt.bsky.social
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
Me, an old Norwegian-American lady from Minnesota, wearing a handspun and handknit red, "melt the ice hat." I'm sitting by a window, and it is snowy outside.
February 4, 2026 at 5:36 PM
mountainheartvt.bsky.social
February entertainment.

#seedcatalog #gardening
February 4, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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sgswritereditor.bsky.social
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
mountainheartvt.bsky.social
This message needs amplification, and we need to shut this shit down.

#abolishice

#impeachnoem
kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social Rep. Kelly Morrison @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social · 4d
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
mountainheartvt.bsky.social
Happy Imbolc!

The sun is shining, the sky is blue, these cats are becoming friends, and we will crush the regime.
Two cats looking at me like I have interrupted a conversation. There's an orange one and a tortishell one. Both are fluffy. The same two cats, both on adining table. Again, I appear to be interrupting them.
February 2, 2026 at 4:57 PM
mountainheartvt.bsky.social
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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dbrauer.net
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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cwalworth.bsky.social
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
mountainheartvt.bsky.social
Bernie Sanders
January 31, 2026 at 11:46 PM
mountainheartvt.bsky.social
Full house in rural Vermont tonight at a community dinner/town hall with Senator #BernieSanders.
A big American flag and a banner reading, "Bernie Sanders" hanging on the wall of a high school gym in Poultney, Vermont. A paper plate with a slice of lasagne, a dinner roll, a bit of salad, and a cinnamon roll (!). A high school gymnasium filled with people waiting to hear from Senator Bernie Sanders. Most of us have hat hair because it's cold af in Vermont in January.
January 31, 2026 at 11:10 PM
mountainheartvt.bsky.social
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.
A pair of white, wooly sheep look at the camera from inside a barn. It's breakfast time, and they are waiting for grain. A big brown sheep (Ergo, a Romney ewe) stands at the gate in the barn, waiting for me to get breakfast for her and the rest of the flock. Two light-colored sheep and one dark one are focused on eating grain I have put out for them in the feed room of my little barn. The two white ewes are both fifteen years old, which is very old for a sheep. The dark one is only 11, but has had some health challenges and lijes to join the old ladies when private dining is available.
January 31, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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npr.org
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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darrigomelanie.bsky.social
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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banditelli.org
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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skiles.blue
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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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
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
mountainheartvt.bsky.social
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
A large dog sleeping "in" a very small cat bed, by putting his chest and elbows onto the bed (the only parts of his body that fit). His cat friend is sleeping on the floor behind him. A tortishell cat holding her head up for petting. The picture shows off her beautiful markings; a snow-white chin and bib, one side of her face orange tabby, the other black. She has fluffy fur and long white whiskers.
January 29, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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profferguson.bsky.social
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