Elonwy of Llyr
@redlotus4.bsky.social
Educator; lover of cats, tea, TTRPGs, and books; transplant to RI from AZ; fiercely liberal; cult survivor; mother of 4, UU, hobbies include birdwatching and baking
We come to it at last. The great battle of our time.
She/her
We come to it at last. The great battle of our time.
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I will state loudly that my account is an anti-ICE account.
I am not afraid of you. I post anonymously for other reasons related to my personal life but I am not afraid of Homeland Security.
I am not afraid of you. I post anonymously for other reasons related to my personal life but I am not afraid of Homeland Security.
February 14, 2026 at 2:51 PM
I will state loudly that my account is an anti-ICE account.
I am not afraid of you. I post anonymously for other reasons related to my personal life but I am not afraid of Homeland Security.
I am not afraid of you. I post anonymously for other reasons related to my personal life but I am not afraid of Homeland Security.
Yes, let's keep it that way! I can remember when DHS didn't exist. It can not exist again!
BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security shuts down as the White House and Democratic leaders continue to discuss changes to U.S. immigration enforcement.
Homeland Security Department shuts down as Democrats and Trump negotiate changes
The White House and Senate Democrats have been trading offers on changes to DHS and ICE after two Americans were killed in Minneapolis.
nbcnews.to
February 14, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Yes, let's keep it that way! I can remember when DHS didn't exist. It can not exist again!
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"i've been detained for 45 days and I have never felt so much fear.. everytime I remind myself that once I go back to Honduras a lot of dangerous things could happen to my mom and my younger siblings"
Read the letters @propublica.org got from kids held in the Dilley, TX, ICE facility:
Read the letters @propublica.org got from kids held in the Dilley, TX, ICE facility:
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 11:04 AM
"i've been detained for 45 days and I have never felt so much fear.. everytime I remind myself that once I go back to Honduras a lot of dangerous things could happen to my mom and my younger siblings"
Read the letters @propublica.org got from kids held in the Dilley, TX, ICE facility:
Read the letters @propublica.org got from kids held in the Dilley, TX, ICE facility:
I thought I couldn't get angrier than I am now.
I was wrong.
I also feel so hopeful because of people like Bri.
I was wrong.
I also feel so hopeful because of people like Bri.
With their mother gone, the teenager tried to feed the baby, who was exclusively breastfed, formula to no avail. So they called Bri.
When one mother was taken by ICE, another stepped in to donate breastmilk
Moms in Minneapolis are donating diapers, food and time to help families who have been ripped apart by ICE.
19thnews.org
February 9, 2026 at 11:28 AM
I thought I couldn't get angrier than I am now.
I was wrong.
I also feel so hopeful because of people like Bri.
I was wrong.
I also feel so hopeful because of people like Bri.
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There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.
February 9, 2026 at 1:47 AM
There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.
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Unidos somos América.
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Unidos somos América.
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Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...
The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico
The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.
www.latitudemedia.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...
I got it and was floored. Great article if you didn't get it and a great reminder if you did get it.
Make Puerto Rico a state or let them go - whichever they prefer. But the status quo needs to end.
Make Puerto Rico a state or let them go - whichever they prefer. But the status quo needs to end.
If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico
The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.
slate.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:25 AM
I got it and was floored. Great article if you didn't get it and a great reminder if you did get it.
Make Puerto Rico a state or let them go - whichever they prefer. But the status quo needs to end.
Make Puerto Rico a state or let them go - whichever they prefer. But the status quo needs to end.
This is a cinematic love letter to Puerto Rico.
And I love it!!
And I love it!!
February 9, 2026 at 1:31 AM
This is a cinematic love letter to Puerto Rico.
And I love it!!
And I love it!!
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Using Mr. Rogers in a Super Bowl commercial for mortgages should result in prison time
February 9, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Using Mr. Rogers in a Super Bowl commercial for mortgages should result in prison time
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That Dunkin Donuts commercial is weird af.
February 9, 2026 at 1:02 AM
That Dunkin Donuts commercial is weird af.
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That Coinbase Superbowl ad is the most desperate thing I've ever seen a company do. Absolute edge-of-collapse behavior.
February 9, 2026 at 1:02 AM
That Coinbase Superbowl ad is the most desperate thing I've ever seen a company do. Absolute edge-of-collapse behavior.
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Crypto advertisements are never gonna beat the allegation that crypto is a Ponzi scheme.
February 9, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Crypto advertisements are never gonna beat the allegation that crypto is a Ponzi scheme.
February 9, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Defund ICE, it's literally the only moral stance at this point.
I will not vote for candidates who don't demonstrate by their actions that they will dismantle ICE.
Not reform, not change, no retraining. Shutter it and hold these ghouls, including spokespeople, accountable!
#abolishICE #midterms
I will not vote for candidates who don't demonstrate by their actions that they will dismantle ICE.
Not reform, not change, no retraining. Shutter it and hold these ghouls, including spokespeople, accountable!
#abolishICE #midterms
DHS: Kidney recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester now has access to needed medications
DFL State Rep. Kim Hicks said she’s been concerned the man would not have access to his medication and might die without it. A Homeland Security spokesperson said later in the afternoon that ICE is wo...
search.app
February 8, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Defund ICE, it's literally the only moral stance at this point.
I will not vote for candidates who don't demonstrate by their actions that they will dismantle ICE.
Not reform, not change, no retraining. Shutter it and hold these ghouls, including spokespeople, accountable!
#abolishICE #midterms
I will not vote for candidates who don't demonstrate by their actions that they will dismantle ICE.
Not reform, not change, no retraining. Shutter it and hold these ghouls, including spokespeople, accountable!
#abolishICE #midterms
The way I laughed!
COMING THIS SUNDAY: Entertainment for people who know from experience if skunk tastes like chicken.
February 5, 2026 at 12:34 AM
The way I laughed!
As an educator, I can't imagine how wrenching this was. This poor mother! And the trauma the kids faced.
I feel sick.
I feel sick.
“We had to deliver them to a detention center,” principal Jason Kuhlman said about the second grader and fifth grader.
‘I don’t have words’: 2 more kids from Liam Ramos’ Columbia Heights school taken into ICE custody
The children were taken into ICE custody after their mother was detained at a court appointment. School leaders say the mother asked them to bring the kids to the detention center because there were n...
www.mprnews.org
January 30, 2026 at 11:28 AM
As an educator, I can't imagine how wrenching this was. This poor mother! And the trauma the kids faced.
I feel sick.
I feel sick.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Finally muted the CBS and Bari Weiss. I have not watched news from CBS for decades. I just don't care what the newly hired people think.
January 27, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Finally muted the CBS and Bari Weiss. I have not watched news from CBS for decades. I just don't care what the newly hired people think.
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ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
www.pressherald.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:06 PM
ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
It is going to go lower..
Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
www.independent.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 9:23 PM
It is going to go lower..
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DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
January 25, 2026 at 4:27 PM
DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."