Greg Spooner
@spoonsky.bsky.social
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Climate activist
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Born at 318 ppmCO2
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@spoonsky.bsky.social
· Sep 11
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We will not stand for this.
No one is illegal on stolen land.
No one is illegal on stolen land.
January 23, 2026 at 6:21 AM
We will not stand for this.
No one is illegal on stolen land.
No one is illegal on stolen land.
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ICE chases a young boy out of his house as he screams “I’m legal!” In Spanish.
It’s freezing in Minnesota. This kid is desperately trying to cover his bare hands as he’s shoved in the snow.
He could end up with frostbite in a matter of minutes.
The masked thugs don’t care.
Abolish ICE.
It’s freezing in Minnesota. This kid is desperately trying to cover his bare hands as he’s shoved in the snow.
He could end up with frostbite in a matter of minutes.
The masked thugs don’t care.
Abolish ICE.
January 23, 2026 at 5:25 AM
ICE chases a young boy out of his house as he screams “I’m legal!” In Spanish.
It’s freezing in Minnesota. This kid is desperately trying to cover his bare hands as he’s shoved in the snow.
He could end up with frostbite in a matter of minutes.
The masked thugs don’t care.
Abolish ICE.
It’s freezing in Minnesota. This kid is desperately trying to cover his bare hands as he’s shoved in the snow.
He could end up with frostbite in a matter of minutes.
The masked thugs don’t care.
Abolish ICE.
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The reality is that 2024 was a fundamental test of the moral character of the nation and we failed spectacularly. We’re living with the consequences now. Maybe we improve. I hope so.
January 23, 2026 at 4:14 AM
The reality is that 2024 was a fundamental test of the moral character of the nation and we failed spectacularly. We’re living with the consequences now. Maybe we improve. I hope so.
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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 22, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since.
That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.
That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
January 22, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since.
That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.
That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.
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All of this is to say that DHS is taking their war on civilians -- and especially on journalists -- to the sky.
And "war" isn't that hyperbolic when you look at their gear. They're literally flying predator drones over large civilian population centers as super creepy surveillance.
And "war" isn't that hyperbolic when you look at their gear. They're literally flying predator drones over large civilian population centers as super creepy surveillance.
Predator drones shift from border patrol to protest surveillance
Civil rights experts question the use of drones to monitor protests on U.S. soil.
www.latimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:24 AM
All of this is to say that DHS is taking their war on civilians -- and especially on journalists -- to the sky.
And "war" isn't that hyperbolic when you look at their gear. They're literally flying predator drones over large civilian population centers as super creepy surveillance.
And "war" isn't that hyperbolic when you look at their gear. They're literally flying predator drones over large civilian population centers as super creepy surveillance.
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Can confirm that I said this and that Drew is not making stuff up...unlike the United States government.
Image-forensic expert Hany Farid confirmed it's a fake.
@donmoyn.bsky.social told me this moves us "closer to the Stalinesque manipulation of images that we think about with authoritarian propaganda, where you really cannot trust materials the state is putting out"
Gift link: wapo.st/4sUEnmr
@donmoyn.bsky.social told me this moves us "closer to the Stalinesque manipulation of images that we think about with authoritarian propaganda, where you really cannot trust materials the state is putting out"
Gift link: wapo.st/4sUEnmr
White House shares doctored image portraying arrested church protester in tears
The photo of an attorney arrested after a Minnesota church protest was edited to make it look like she was crying. The White House’s X post had been seen roughly 2.5 million times by Thursday afternoo...
wapo.st
January 22, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Can confirm that I said this and that Drew is not making stuff up...unlike the United States government.
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There's a call for a general strike for tomorrow, 1/23.
If you can strike, great! Not everyone can.
If you can't you can still:
go to a protest/rally
donate to a strike fund or mutual aid fund
be childcare for someone protesting
call/email your electeds
write an op-ed for your local paper
etc!
If you can strike, great! Not everyone can.
If you can't you can still:
go to a protest/rally
donate to a strike fund or mutual aid fund
be childcare for someone protesting
call/email your electeds
write an op-ed for your local paper
etc!
January 22, 2026 at 10:08 PM
There's a call for a general strike for tomorrow, 1/23.
If you can strike, great! Not everyone can.
If you can't you can still:
go to a protest/rally
donate to a strike fund or mutual aid fund
be childcare for someone protesting
call/email your electeds
write an op-ed for your local paper
etc!
If you can strike, great! Not everyone can.
If you can't you can still:
go to a protest/rally
donate to a strike fund or mutual aid fund
be childcare for someone protesting
call/email your electeds
write an op-ed for your local paper
etc!
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Deporting children with cancer.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.
ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.
ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
January 22, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Deporting children with cancer.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.
ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.
ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
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I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.
January 22, 2026 at 4:04 PM
I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.
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Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
January 22, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
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I really wish senate dems understood what's coming: ICE will be at every voting booth this November under the guise of "voter protection" in order to intimidate black & brown voters into staying home. They shouldn't vote for one more cent going to fund DHS & ICE. You can't reform this.
January 22, 2026 at 4:43 PM
I really wish senate dems understood what's coming: ICE will be at every voting booth this November under the guise of "voter protection" in order to intimidate black & brown voters into staying home. They shouldn't vote for one more cent going to fund DHS & ICE. You can't reform this.
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2016 nostalgia makes sense since that was the year we thought our first Black president might be followed by our first socialist president or first female president and instead we got a fucking rapist Nazi.
January 22, 2026 at 4:53 PM
2016 nostalgia makes sense since that was the year we thought our first Black president might be followed by our first socialist president or first female president and instead we got a fucking rapist Nazi.
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kidnapping a 5 year old to bait his father and then shipping them thousands of miles away should put you in prison, yes, but it should also cause every friend and family member you have ever had to permanently reject you in disgrace, and if they don’t, they share your shame
January 22, 2026 at 4:44 AM
kidnapping a 5 year old to bait his father and then shipping them thousands of miles away should put you in prison, yes, but it should also cause every friend and family member you have ever had to permanently reject you in disgrace, and if they don’t, they share your shame
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bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers
January 22, 2026 at 3:51 AM
bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers
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Pure barbarism.
ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry.
"They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.
"They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy as he came home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Pure barbarism.
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Politicians who are not physically joining decent people in the streets to protect their neighbors from ICE are failing the moment.
What would they have done during US slavery? During the Civil Rights movement? During the Holocaust?
It's what they're doing now.
It's what WE'RE doing now.
What would they have done during US slavery? During the Civil Rights movement? During the Holocaust?
It's what they're doing now.
It's what WE'RE doing now.
January 22, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Politicians who are not physically joining decent people in the streets to protect their neighbors from ICE are failing the moment.
What would they have done during US slavery? During the Civil Rights movement? During the Holocaust?
It's what they're doing now.
It's what WE'RE doing now.
What would they have done during US slavery? During the Civil Rights movement? During the Holocaust?
It's what they're doing now.
It's what WE'RE doing now.
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He's throwing that chemical weapon at Minneapolis council member Jason Chavez.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino is seen deploying a gas canister at Mueller Park in south Minneapolis this afternoon.
Video by Ben Luhmann.
Video by Ben Luhmann.
January 22, 2026 at 12:26 AM
He's throwing that chemical weapon at Minneapolis council member Jason Chavez.
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Incapable of understanding how "abolish ICE" was silly but arresting 5 year olds is public policy
January 22, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Incapable of understanding how "abolish ICE" was silly but arresting 5 year olds is public policy
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We're at the point where the occupying force of federal agents in Minneapolis is now just point-blank pepper spraying legal observers.
FUCK ICE.
FUCK ICE.
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 9:30 PM
We're at the point where the occupying force of federal agents in Minneapolis is now just point-blank pepper spraying legal observers.
FUCK ICE.
FUCK ICE.
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The most disturbing new trend in ICE behavior is agents escorting legal observers who are out patrolling our neighborhoods to their home, stopping, exiting the vehicle and pointing at their house. The message they're sending is pretty clear.
January 21, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The most disturbing new trend in ICE behavior is agents escorting legal observers who are out patrolling our neighborhoods to their home, stopping, exiting the vehicle and pointing at their house. The message they're sending is pretty clear.
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January 21, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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things are bad! (gift link)
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Dear Jonas’ Letter Is No Prize
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:25 PM
things are bad! (gift link)
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Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows
Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows
Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account
Just 32 fossil fuel companies were responsible for half the global carbon dioxide emissions driving the climate crisis in 2024, down from 36 a year earlier, a report has revealed.
Saudi Aramco was the biggest state-controlled polluter and ExxonMobil was the largest investor-owned polluter. Critics accused the leading fossil fuel companies of “sabotaging climate action” and “being on the wrong side of history” but said the emissions data was increasingly being used to hold the companies accountable. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows
It’s horrible that apparently tens of thousands of Iranian protests have been killed by Iranian authoritarian monsters in recent days. It’s unimaginable how hundreds of thousands of mostly children have been killed by US authoritarian monsters in recent months (with many many more to die soon).
"To date, 757,314 people – the majority children – have died from the funding cuts, according to ImpactCounter, which tracks the effect of USAID cuts via sophisticated modelling tools. That is 88 deaths every hour."
One Year Later: The Effect of US 'Chainsaw' on Global Health healthpolicy-watch.news/the-human-co...
January 21, 2026 at 5:45 AM
It’s horrible that apparently tens of thousands of Iranian protests have been killed by Iranian authoritarian monsters in recent days. It’s unimaginable how hundreds of thousands of mostly children have been killed by US authoritarian monsters in recent months (with many many more to die soon).