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Pennyjs
@pennyjs.bsky.social
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I love this amazing beautiful planet.
Garden with passion. Ecology, wild places, climate, nutrition, origami art. Introspective. Mindful. Live with gratitude. Former science teacher, traveler. Politics blue. Try kindness. Photos mine unless reposted.
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Pennyjs @pennyjs.bsky.social · Jul 7
Here is a look at my backyard from a previous year. Photo is taken from the top of a berm at the rear of my lot, looking down towards the house. Almost all of this was grass when I moved here. Now it’s almost all cultivated. Things have been rearranged a bit since then but the layout is the same. 🌱💙
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maoandthesparrows.bsky.social
Spring memory
An iridescent-feathered starling perched on a pink blossom covered bough in Maplelawn Garden. Tulips, irises and their tender green foliage are soft focussed in the background.
January 26, 2026 at 3:03 AM
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During the Great Depression, the WPA hired 274 librarians, mostly local women, to carry books from local libraries to rural Appalachian residents, riding 100-120 miles a week, across rugged terrain.

They also prepared special collection scrapbooks with recipes, canning techniques, how-to guides.
These Women Rode Miles on Horseback Just to Deliver Library Books
Librarians are amazing.
www.atlasobscura.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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My attempt to bring the emotional energy down just a little. So we can sleep tonight. 🤍🤍🤍
January 26, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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Night night sweet dreamies

The most beautiful souls are those who walked out of the fire, then returned with water for those still in it.

Thank you friends for being so kind to one another 🧡
January 25, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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I’m working with some beautiful origami paper and thought I’d share with you because it has doves and peace cranes. It will become a string of paper cranes with beads. I made a glass pendant to match. Trying to get my mind on something creative and calm for a while. 🕊️
January 25, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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A frigid day during an otherwise temperate winter allows for snow cover and crystal skies paired with shimmering water, vulnerable in her beauty without her protective ice. A beachy snow covered shore, open water bordered by a this slice of her opposite shore and a wide and brilliant sunny sky.
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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I'm going to lower the bar here. Instead of a good day, let's just try to get through it without an ICE murder. And remember that it's okay to not be okay. Love and peace to you all.
#OrangeSun
#Stunday
#backpacking
#Utah
January 25, 2026 at 2:05 PM
pennyjs.bsky.social
Hang on.
January 25, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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My emotions are all over the place. Flowers don’t feel appropriate, but they do. I chose this one because it expresses mourning and turning inward, yet still reaching out; sitting in both sunshine and shadow.

I think it’s normal to feel confused and conflicted in these uncertain times.

Love ya.
January 25, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Good morning everyone!

Stay strong today.
Stay safe.
Take care of yourself and each other.

In Solidarity. 🧡💛
January 25, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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This is Alex Pretti.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 AM
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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.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting. 2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value. 3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE. 4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on. 5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle." 6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground. 7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack. 8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video. 9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk. 10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun. 11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him. 12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes. 13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. 14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him. 15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1. 16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground. 17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building. 18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values. I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct. Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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January 24, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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My heart feels heavy today.
January 24, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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createnewpaths.bsky.social
I took a tour through Mother Nature‘s Ice Art Gallery today. Her ice sculptures are magnificent.
~ I needed the beauty of ice to counteract other current forms of ICE…

This one, “Ice Tree” is Mother Nature showing off her many varied beautiful forms of trees

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Cold
#eastcoastkin
January 24, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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Ice Mountains!!

#BlueSkyArtShow #Cold
January 24, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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Another damned shooting in Minneapolis.
January 24, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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“In a Cold Caddo Morning”

It was right at freezing when the sun began to rise on Caddo Lake. The cold air over warmer waters caused “lake smoke” to rise throughout the cypress forest creating a ghostly atmosphere. It was enchanting.

Caddo Lake, TX/LA

#BlueSkyArtShow #Cold #EastCoastKin
January 24, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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To everyone caught in the storms this weekend, I send wishes for your safety and well-being. 💙
January 24, 2026 at 2:53 PM
pennyjs.bsky.social
Good morning everyone!

Last night there was a big fire near here. Sirens blew for hours and I could see thick billowing smoke and flashes of orange.

I haven’t gone to see the damage but I think I know what burned and I’m heartbroken for my neighbor.

(Photo unrelated except in mood.)
January 24, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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When it’s cold outside, pictures are where you find them.

Unfolding buds in my sunroom this morning.

Preservation of sanity on a housebound day.
January 23, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Today’s amaryllis swirls. 🤍
January 23, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Remember July? It will come again, on orange wings.
January 23, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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Some warm-up vibes for you.

A spent squash blossom, last summer.
January 23, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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Good morning everyone!

Brrrr! It’s -18F here. As terrible cold and dangerous storms arrive for many of us, I hope you have the food and supplies you need, that your home is warm and that your power stays on. Please be careful out there!

A little bit of summer for you…
January 23, 2026 at 1:51 PM