Nicolette Tou
@nicolette970.bsky.social
Colorado artist, writer, nature-lover, feminist and lifelong Unitarian-Universalist. If you understand anything about that hyphenated descriptor, I don’t need to tell you I’m liberal.
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How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That said, I do have a section of lo…
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January 22, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes.
What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one
What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes.
What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one
What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one
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I don't want to paint a rosy picture, because it's a city under siege. People are being abducted all the time. One person told me about watching 1-2 abductions a day, just in her own work following ICE.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I don't want to paint a rosy picture, because it's a city under siege. People are being abducted all the time. One person told me about watching 1-2 abductions a day, just in her own work following ICE.
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Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
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Today I talked with a 76 year old who'd been standing in the cold for hours guarding her neighbors. I was getting kind of chilly, even in the new winter gear i bought for this trip (and I live in the goddam mountains myself).
She didn't even have a hat on.
She didn't even have a hat on.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Today I talked with a 76 year old who'd been standing in the cold for hours guarding her neighbors. I was getting kind of chilly, even in the new winter gear i bought for this trip (and I live in the goddam mountains myself).
She didn't even have a hat on.
She didn't even have a hat on.
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Before I came, I asked a local friend if the cold (it's going to be -20 or so in the coming days) would stop people from coming out. "No, we'll be there. It's ICE who can't handle it."
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Before I came, I asked a local friend if the cold (it's going to be -20 or so in the coming days) would stop people from coming out. "No, we'll be there. It's ICE who can't handle it."
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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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Half the street corners around here have people--from every walk of life, including republicans--standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles, which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that tracks ICE vehicles and mobilizes responders.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Half the street corners around here have people--from every walk of life, including republicans--standing guard to watch for suspicious vehicles, which are reported to a robust and entirely decentralized network that tracks ICE vehicles and mobilizes responders.
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I got in late last night. First thing this morning, I saw cars following an ice vehicle down the street, honking at it.
Later, we didn't drive more than three blocks before we found people defending a childcare facility. (The idea that people have to defend a childcare facility... let that sink in)
Later, we didn't drive more than three blocks before we found people defending a childcare facility. (The idea that people have to defend a childcare facility... let that sink in)
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I got in late last night. First thing this morning, I saw cars following an ice vehicle down the street, honking at it.
Later, we didn't drive more than three blocks before we found people defending a childcare facility. (The idea that people have to defend a childcare facility... let that sink in)
Later, we didn't drive more than three blocks before we found people defending a childcare facility. (The idea that people have to defend a childcare facility... let that sink in)
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Quiet Piggy.
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Quiet Piggy.
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So incredibly proud of those who marched in the many #NoKings gatherings across the USA. 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸
a close up of yoda from star wars with the words `` incredibly proud , i am '' written below him .
ALT: a close up of yoda from star wars with the words `` incredibly proud , i am '' written below him .
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October 19, 2025 at 2:49 AM
So incredibly proud of those who marched in the many #NoKings gatherings across the USA. 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸
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Do you know what a group of frogs is called?
AN ARMY
AN ARMY
October 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Do you know what a group of frogs is called?
AN ARMY
AN ARMY
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS LAFAYETTE” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS LAFAYETTE · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.**
Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS LAFAYETTE” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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“I obviously started a movement of people showing up looking ridiculous, which is the exact point. It’s to show how the narrative that is being pushed with how we are violent extremists is completely ridiculous. Nothing about this screams extremist and violent.”
—Seth Todd, Portland Frog 🐸
—Seth Todd, Portland Frog 🐸
October 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
“I obviously started a movement of people showing up looking ridiculous, which is the exact point. It’s to show how the narrative that is being pushed with how we are violent extremists is completely ridiculous. Nothing about this screams extremist and violent.”
—Seth Todd, Portland Frog 🐸
—Seth Todd, Portland Frog 🐸
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Longmont” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS Longmont · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.**
Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
www.mobilize.us
October 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Longmont” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Renewable energy produces more electricity than coal for the first time, experts say
Renewable energy produces more electricity than coal for the first time, experts say
For the first time in history, renewable energy has produced more of the world's electricity than coal, according to a new analysis of global energy trends.
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October 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Renewable energy produces more electricity than coal for the first time, experts say
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Portland — a city recognized for its civic activism, creativity, & commitment to democratic values — is now subject to an unjustified deployment of federal troops. This action undermines local authority and threatens the very freedoms our democracy is meant to protect. Full statement: bit.ly/4gODhDc
September 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Portland — a city recognized for its civic activism, creativity, & commitment to democratic values — is now subject to an unjustified deployment of federal troops. This action undermines local authority and threatens the very freedoms our democracy is meant to protect. Full statement: bit.ly/4gODhDc
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“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
September 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
Pix of war-torn Portland on Redditt! www.reddit.com/r/Portland/c...
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September 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Pix of war-torn Portland on Redditt! www.reddit.com/r/Portland/c...
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Senator Mark Kelly: This is a fight over the cost of your health care. Does your rural hospital stay open or not? Does somebody's grandmother get pushed to the curb when she was in the nursing home? Those are the things we are fighting for—and the president says no.
September 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Senator Mark Kelly: This is a fight over the cost of your health care. Does your rural hospital stay open or not? Does somebody's grandmother get pushed to the curb when she was in the nursing home? Those are the things we are fighting for—and the president says no.
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