Birdwell is Not Shutting Up
@wellbird.bsky.social
Author of dystopian worlds, past and future. (The present speaks for itself.) I'm a recovering anthropologist and a progressive who doesn't believe in progress. (she/her)
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This is where we Texans need to take a stand. It is disgusting that our governor has allowed all of these concentration camps in our state. (Maybe because the private prison companies have been big contributors to his war chest? He's up for reelection this year...)
Is this the place she said they are at? We should make this place famous.
February 1, 2026 at 12:56 PM
This is where we Texans need to take a stand. It is disgusting that our governor has allowed all of these concentration camps in our state. (Maybe because the private prison companies have been big contributors to his war chest? He's up for reelection this year...)
What she said. All of it.
Pissed-off immigration attorney details ICE abuses and lawlessness.
February 1, 2026 at 12:54 PM
What she said. All of it.
We Democratic Texans need to pay attention to the qualifications and policies (winners!) of this guy as we go to the polls to select the candidates we'll be putting forward in the November general election. He's a union man, by the way.
Breaking: Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins solidly red Texas Senate seat in stunning special election upset.
Democrat wins special election for red Texas Senate seat
With ballots tallied from all but a handful of voting centers, Rehmet had 57% of the vote, besting the 43% for his GOP opponent, Leigh Wambsganss, who had a massive spending advantage.
www.texastribune.org
February 1, 2026 at 12:49 PM
We Democratic Texans need to pay attention to the qualifications and policies (winners!) of this guy as we go to the polls to select the candidates we'll be putting forward in the November general election. He's a union man, by the way.
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This is important.
February 1, 2026 at 12:43 PM
This is important.
Follow the Money: Who’s Making Bank Off ICE, CBP, and DHS? by Dr. Lauren Tucker medium.com/age-of-aware...
Follow the Money: Who’s Making Bank Off ICE, CBP, and DHS?
Immigration enforcement didn’t fail. It succeeded — financially.
medium.com
February 1, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Follow the Money: Who’s Making Bank Off ICE, CBP, and DHS? by Dr. Lauren Tucker medium.com/age-of-aware...
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Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
January 29, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
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Part of why you don't do this is not just b/c pending investigation. Even when it was 100% justified and necessary, it's no small thing psychologically. It's traumatic in, like, a PTSD sense. To be kind of shell-shocked by it. Of course you don't put them on the street the next day. That's deranged.
CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
January 26, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Part of why you don't do this is not just b/c pending investigation. Even when it was 100% justified and necessary, it's no small thing psychologically. It's traumatic in, like, a PTSD sense. To be kind of shell-shocked by it. Of course you don't put them on the street the next day. That's deranged.
This helped hold my shattered heart together on this icy morning. ♥️
Indian restaurant owner distributing samosas to the anti-ice protestors in
Minneapolis
Minneapolis
January 26, 2026 at 12:57 PM
This helped hold my shattered heart together on this icy morning. ♥️
Having a conversation with this little character to keep my brain from exploding and my shattered heart from totally disintegrating. 🩷🦜#fuckICE
January 25, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Having a conversation with this little character to keep my brain from exploding and my shattered heart from totally disintegrating. 🩷🦜#fuckICE
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This is absurd to put all of those CBP agents involved in the murder of Alex Pretti back onto the streets already.
They pose a very real, proven danger to the community.
They pose a very real, proven danger to the community.
CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
January 25, 2026 at 10:08 PM
This is absurd to put all of those CBP agents involved in the murder of Alex Pretti back onto the streets already.
They pose a very real, proven danger to the community.
They pose a very real, proven danger to the community.
Riiiiight. 🤦♀️
Remember when these guys lied that they were preserving Confederate monuments because you had to leave up the whole messy contested historical record rather than erasing history?
More than 400 years of history and a decade of advocacy were torn down Thursday afternoon when National Park Service employees removed every single display at the President’s House.
🔗 What's next? We explain: www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
🔗 What's next? We explain: www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
January 24, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Riiiiight. 🤦♀️
The man simply does not act like a head of state. He acts like a CEO only concerned about his own bottom line. The people be damned. 🤬
Trump is severing the linkage between the legislature and the purse, and attempting to concentrate access to capital in the hands of the executive. This is not how a president of the United States observing the Constitution operates.
How Trump Turned a Foreign Country Into a Piggybank
And how Marco Rubio used Trump to hurt Cuba.
lnk.thebulwark.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:42 PM
The man simply does not act like a head of state. He acts like a CEO only concerned about his own bottom line. The people be damned. 🤬
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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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 8:25 PM
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.
I can't believe Congress is just sitting there and letting this happen!!
January 21, 2026 at 12:40 PM
I can't believe Congress is just sitting there and letting this happen!!
Keep on keeping on, people!
January 20, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Keep on keeping on, people!
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“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it" — Martin Luther King Jr
#martinlutherking #mlk #mlkday2025
#martinlutherking #mlk #mlkday2025
January 19, 2026 at 1:13 PM
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it" — Martin Luther King Jr
#martinlutherking #mlk #mlkday2025
#martinlutherking #mlk #mlkday2025
I've been on board with this guy since before he declared his candidacy. He's unique and has the kind of appeal Texas needs. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/o...
Opinion | Can James Talarico Reclaim Christianity for the Left?
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:21 AM
I've been on board with this guy since before he declared his candidacy. He's unique and has the kind of appeal Texas needs. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/o...
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Anyone else notice how you don’t see these videos coming out of Florida or Texas? No, just only in blue cities.
“They just assaulted him. The whole f*cking thing is absurd.”
January 13, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Anyone else notice how you don’t see these videos coming out of Florida or Texas? No, just only in blue cities.
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BREAKING:
We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing
People have had seizures. They passed out.
“I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen
Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing
People have had seizures. They passed out.
“I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen
Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
January 13, 2026 at 12:06 PM
BREAKING:
We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing
People have had seizures. They passed out.
“I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen
Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing
People have had seizures. They passed out.
“I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen
Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
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From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.
January 12, 2026 at 3:42 PM
From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.