Michelle Merrill, PhD
@perplexedprimate.bsky.social
organizing with Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island, recovering academic who worked on Higher Ed for Sustainability, anthropology, behavioral ecology, evolution, social learning
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Today we joined community partners from across the Bay at Kaiser Santa Clara Hospital to demand ICE OUT OF OUR HOSPITALS!
We deserve safe spaces for:
Patients.
Families.
Healthcare workers.
EVERYONE.
ICE OUT of fast food!
ICE OUT of healthcare!
ICE OUT of our communities!
NOW!
#ICEOUT
We deserve safe spaces for:
Patients.
Families.
Healthcare workers.
EVERYONE.
ICE OUT of fast food!
ICE OUT of healthcare!
ICE OUT of our communities!
NOW!
#ICEOUT
February 5, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Today we joined community partners from across the Bay at Kaiser Santa Clara Hospital to demand ICE OUT OF OUR HOSPITALS!
We deserve safe spaces for:
Patients.
Families.
Healthcare workers.
EVERYONE.
ICE OUT of fast food!
ICE OUT of healthcare!
ICE OUT of our communities!
NOW!
#ICEOUT
We deserve safe spaces for:
Patients.
Families.
Healthcare workers.
EVERYONE.
ICE OUT of fast food!
ICE OUT of healthcare!
ICE OUT of our communities!
NOW!
#ICEOUT
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SRTI Actions in 2025 – Part 1
Actions matter! Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island rose to many of the challenges of 2025, showing up to challenge the climate backsliding, the attacks on science, and the rise of authoritarianism over the year. Here's a rundown of over forty ways SRTI Rebels turned…
Actions matter! Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island rose to many of the challenges of 2025, showing up to challenge the climate backsliding, the attacks on science, and the rise of authoritarianism over the year. Here's a rundown of over forty ways SRTI Rebels turned…
SRTI Actions in 2025 – Part 1
Actions matter! Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island rose to many of the challenges of 2025, showing up to challenge the climate backsliding, the attacks on science, and the rise of authoritarianism over the year. Here's a rundown of over forty ways SRTI Rebels turned outrage into action in the first half of 2025 (Part 2 coming soon). Petition Biden - Declare Climate Emergency…
www.srturtleisland.org
January 29, 2026 at 12:03 AM
SRTI Actions in 2025 – Part 1
Actions matter! Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island rose to many of the challenges of 2025, showing up to challenge the climate backsliding, the attacks on science, and the rise of authoritarianism over the year. Here's a rundown of over forty ways SRTI Rebels turned…
Actions matter! Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island rose to many of the challenges of 2025, showing up to challenge the climate backsliding, the attacks on science, and the rise of authoritarianism over the year. Here's a rundown of over forty ways SRTI Rebels turned…
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell California Congressmembers: No Immunity for Big Oil. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell California Congressmembers: No Immunity for Big Oil
As climate disasters like wildfires, floods, and heatwaves grow more extreme, communities around the country are seeking to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable. The State of California and eight...
actionnetwork.org
February 5, 2026 at 6:22 PM
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell California Congressmembers: No Immunity for Big Oil. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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seems ominous
if only we had a way to prevent people from getting this disease
if only we had a way to prevent people from getting this disease
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
January 28, 2026 at 3:22 PM
seems ominous
if only we had a way to prevent people from getting this disease
if only we had a way to prevent people from getting this disease
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Looking for something to do? Pile on to this campaign focused on Target, Hilton, and Enterprise 💥
Target is based in Minneapolis and ICE is using their stores.
Hilton is lodging ICE officers, and cut ties with a local operator who kicked ICE out.
And Enterprise is renting the cars that ICE uses in their raids.
Tell their CEOs to stop their cooperation: FreeDCproject.org/ice-out
Hilton is lodging ICE officers, and cut ties with a local operator who kicked ICE out.
And Enterprise is renting the cars that ICE uses in their raids.
Tell their CEOs to stop their cooperation: FreeDCproject.org/ice-out
January 27, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Looking for something to do? Pile on to this campaign focused on Target, Hilton, and Enterprise 💥
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NO MORE FUNDING FOR ICE.
The Senate is expected to vote on funding for ICE and DHS later this week. Call your Senator now.
(instructions and script below)
The Senate is expected to vote on funding for ICE and DHS later this week. Call your Senator now.
(instructions and script below)
January 27, 2026 at 6:28 PM
NO MORE FUNDING FOR ICE.
The Senate is expected to vote on funding for ICE and DHS later this week. Call your Senator now.
(instructions and script below)
The Senate is expected to vote on funding for ICE and DHS later this week. Call your Senator now.
(instructions and script below)
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January 24, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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For those absolutely awed by Minnesota, this is the site organizers set up to support all of the efforts from mutual aid to direct resistance:
www.standwithminnesota.com
www.standwithminnesota.com
Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:52 PM
For those absolutely awed by Minnesota, this is the site organizers set up to support all of the efforts from mutual aid to direct resistance:
www.standwithminnesota.com
www.standwithminnesota.com
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Take a moment to learn about noncooperation and how to do it
How Blowing A Whistle Is An Act Of Nonviolent Resistance - Maria J. Stephan
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
www.youtube.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Take a moment to learn about noncooperation and how to do it
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Amazing! Way to go Minneapolis!
January 23, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Amazing! Way to go Minneapolis!
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Remember this feel good hit from 1968? Something about it just hits different today...
January 22, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Remember this feel good hit from 1968? Something about it just hits different today...
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I think it's pretty remarkable how, despite the trillions of dollars we've spent and the century of constant campaigning we've been subjected to in order convince us otherwise, some part of us *still knows* that car dependency is a terrible way to live, and most people still don't want it.
Survey: Most Americans Are Open To Ditching Their Cars — Streetsblog USA
Automakers have spent a century and countless trillions of dollars making car-dependent living the American norm. But U.S. resident still aren't sold, a new survey suggests.
usa.streetsblog.org
January 21, 2026 at 2:09 PM
I think it's pretty remarkable how, despite the trillions of dollars we've spent and the century of constant campaigning we've been subjected to in order convince us otherwise, some part of us *still knows* that car dependency is a terrible way to live, and most people still don't want it.
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This is a list of businesses across Minnesota that are closing tomorrow in solidarity with the economic shutdown. Huge thanks to every one of them for stepping up. If your business is also closing, drop it below.
List of Minnesota businesses closing for Jan. 23 anti-ICE strike
First announced by faith leaders and unions on Jan. 13, Minnesota businesses have begun announcing plans to join the action.
bringmethenews.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:51 PM
This is a list of businesses across Minnesota that are closing tomorrow in solidarity with the economic shutdown. Huge thanks to every one of them for stepping up. If your business is also closing, drop it below.
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📣 STAND UP, FIGHT BACK 📣
The power of HUNDREDS of Missourians’ voices is overflowing the State Capitol today.
And together, we’re demanding that MO lawmakers respect the will of the people!
#StandUpFightBack
The power of HUNDREDS of Missourians’ voices is overflowing the State Capitol today.
And together, we’re demanding that MO lawmakers respect the will of the people!
#StandUpFightBack
January 21, 2026 at 6:44 PM
📣 STAND UP, FIGHT BACK 📣
The power of HUNDREDS of Missourians’ voices is overflowing the State Capitol today.
And together, we’re demanding that MO lawmakers respect the will of the people!
#StandUpFightBack
The power of HUNDREDS of Missourians’ voices is overflowing the State Capitol today.
And together, we’re demanding that MO lawmakers respect the will of the people!
#StandUpFightBack
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This is what fascism looks like. Use the word. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/immigration-officers-claim-sweeping-power-to-enter-homes-without-a-judges-warrant-memo-says
Immigration officers claim sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
The memo authorizes ICE officers to use force to enter a residence based solely on a more narrow administrative warrant
www.pbs.org
January 22, 2026 at 7:31 PM
This is what fascism looks like. Use the word. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/immigration-officers-claim-sweeping-power-to-enter-homes-without-a-judges-warrant-memo-says
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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.
Wherever you are, you can stand in solidarity with the people of Minnesota tomorrow. I'm attending Indivisible's event, “ICE Out for Good in Santa Clara - MN Solidarity Day of Action (Hilton)” - sign up now to join me there www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
or find an event near you.
or find an event near you.
ICE Out for Good in Santa Clara - MN Solidarity Day of Action (Hilton) · Indivisible
Wednesday, January 7, an American citizen, **Renee Nicole Good**, was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her death is part of a broader pattern of unchecked...
www.mobilize.us
January 22, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Wherever you are, you can stand in solidarity with the people of Minnesota tomorrow. I'm attending Indivisible's event, “ICE Out for Good in Santa Clara - MN Solidarity Day of Action (Hilton)” - sign up now to join me there www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
or find an event near you.
or find an event near you.
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It’s not a sequence: the Nazi threat IS the climate threat.
So long as we keep using fossil fuels, the petroauthoritarians will have the world by the balls.
So long as we keep using fossil fuels, the petroauthoritarians will have the world by the balls.
January 21, 2026 at 2:39 PM
It’s not a sequence: the Nazi threat IS the climate threat.
So long as we keep using fossil fuels, the petroauthoritarians will have the world by the balls.
So long as we keep using fossil fuels, the petroauthoritarians will have the world by the balls.
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January 21, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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“[ICE] looks like modern-day slave patrols.”
Thank you @crockett.house.gov
Thank you @crockett.house.gov
What we are seeing in Minnesota is what authoritarianism looks like in real time. Racism, dehumanization, and state-sanctioned violence are tearing at the foundation of this country.
January 21, 2026 at 8:37 PM
“[ICE] looks like modern-day slave patrols.”
Thank you @crockett.house.gov
Thank you @crockett.house.gov
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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
Glad to stand with, speak to, and chant alongside so many great activists in #SanJose for the #freeamericawalkout , resisting violent, anti-science authoritarianism rising in USA.
@srti.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
photos by @zdlovett.bsky.social
#freeamericafromfascism #womensmarch
@srti.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
photos by @zdlovett.bsky.social
#freeamericafromfascism #womensmarch
January 21, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Glad to stand with, speak to, and chant alongside so many great activists in #SanJose for the #freeamericawalkout , resisting violent, anti-science authoritarianism rising in USA.
@srti.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
photos by @zdlovett.bsky.social
#freeamericafromfascism #womensmarch
@srti.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
photos by @zdlovett.bsky.social
#freeamericafromfascism #womensmarch
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