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Alison Johnson
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Can't cook, so I feed folks with words. Taste: Democracy. Bearing witness. Art. Tea. Trees. Feminism. Oh, and movies. #PublicPolicy #FairElections

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Pam Brisse @pamdorra.bsky.social · 1d
Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.
A multicolored quilt made of of scraps with the words WE KNOW WHAT WE SAW staggered down it with a large beautiful eye centered between the words. The eye has a rainbow camera aperture as the iris. It is quilted densely.

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Alison Johnson @aljwriter.bsky.social · 2d
Thus bringing joy amidst the madness to all of your followers! 🤓

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 4d
I am speechless.

"The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a 'racist.'" 🗃️ mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...
Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today
Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.
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Chris Polansky @chrispolansky.bsky.social · 5d
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont in his State of the State address: “ICE, everywhere you go uninvited, violence follows. Go home! We’re keeping our Connecticut safe without you.”

Huge standing ovation from Dems; GOP stays seated, House Minority Leader Vincent Candelora shakes his head.

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Alison Johnson @aljwriter.bsky.social · 7d
And that’s why I take my postcards to voters with me - I can write them while I wait! ☺️💪🏼

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Postcards To Voters
Join People Across The United States Writing Postcards To Voters
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 10d
👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.

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Alison Johnson @aljwriter.bsky.social · 11d
Got the package that gives you access to all of this year’s Sundance shorts. Watched 17 shorts today. More tomorrow! 📽️🤓

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12d
An extraordinary document. Read it.

“Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. … ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.”
On January 8, 2026, petitioner Juan T.R. filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.' The Court issued an order requiring respondents to file an answer no later than January 12, 2026. See 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (requiring judges to either "forthwith award the writ" or order the respondent to show cause, within three days, why the writ should not be granted). Respondents failed to answer. Accordingly, the Court granted the writ in part and ordered respondents to afford Juan a bond hearing within seven days or, failing that, to immediately release him from detention. ECF No. 4. Respondents neither held a bond hearing within the required time nor released Juan. ECF No. 6. The Court then issued a show-cause order and scheduled a hearing at which it ordered the personal appearance of Todd Lyons, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE"). ECF No. 7. The Court noted, however, that if the parties filed a stipulation indicating that Juan had been released, the Court would cancel the hearing and would not require Lyons to appear. Id. The parties have now filed such a stipulation (ECF No. 9), and thus, as promised, the Court will cancel the hearing, and Lyons will not be required to appear. That does not end the Court's concerns, however. Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. The extent of ICE's noncompliance is almost certainly substantially understated. This list is confined to orders issued since January 1, 2026, and the list was hurriedly compiled by extraordinarily busy judges. Undoubtedly, mistakes were made, and orders that should have appeared on this list were omitted. This list should give pause to anyone —no matter his or her political beliefs— who cares about the rule of law. ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence. The Court warns ICE that future noncompliance with court orders may result in future show-cause orders requiring the personal appearances of Lyons or other government officials. ICE is not a law unto itself. ICE has every right to challenge the orders of this Court, but, like any litigant, ICE must follow those orders unless and until they are overturned or vacated Juan asks that the Court schedule a hearing at which he may present evidence and argument concerning the hardships that he has suffered as a result of respondents' failure to abide by the January 14 order. See In re Tetracycline Cases, 927 F.2d 411, 413 (8th Cir. 1991) ("Civil contempt sanctions may be imposed for either or both of two distinct purposes, to coerce compliance with a court order, and to compensate the complainant for actual losses sustained by him as a result of the defendants' contumacy." (quoting In re Chase & Sanborn Corp., 872 F.2d 397, 400-01 (11th Cir.1989))). The Court will not schedule a hearing at this time. If Juan wants to seek monetary sanctions, he may file a properly supported motion to that effect. ORDER Based on the foregoing, and on all of the files, records, and proceedings herein, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT the hearing currently scheduled for Friday, January 30, 2026, at 1:00 pm in Courtroom 15 (MPLS) is CANCELED.

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 12d
New @runforsomething.net program alert: We're launching the Future Candidates Cohort, a free 4 week live virtual program for young leaders who want to run in 2027, 2028, or beyond. The deadline to apply is 2/16! runforsomething.net/future-candi...
Future Candidates Cohort - Run For Something
Future Candidates Cohort Applications open: January 19, 2026Deadline: February 16, 2026 Session 1: Wed., March 4 at 8:00-9:30pm ETSession 2: Wed., March 11 at 8:00-9:30pm ETSession 3: Wed., March 18 a...
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Alison Johnson @aljwriter.bsky.social · 13d
Hopefully said the way Rep. Elijah Cummings said it! 🌷

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 14d
They are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic thinking it'll fix the hole caused by the iceberg. But we are the iceberg.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 15d
tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors.

i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare.

thank you. thank you.
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.
StandWithMinnesota.com

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Alison Johnson @aljwriter.bsky.social · 15d
This. Is. Awesome.

I don’t live in NYC, but I burst into tears at the last line! 🤓❤️🥹

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 16d
I wrote the speech I *wish* Chuck Schumer would give tonight - as an actual opposition leader. Here it is:

"My fellow Americans: At this hour, an unrestrained force of militarized and violent federal officers is carrying out a project of ethnic cleansing in the streets of American cities."

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schumer.senate.gov Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 16d
Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 16d
Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16d
We're getting a snowstorm tomorrow. But New York City is prepared.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 16d
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 17d
Singing

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 17d
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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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 18d
Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.

How far we have not come in 250 years.

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Alison Johnson @aljwriter.bsky.social · 22d
The desire to seek out new life forms and new civilizations!

Engage, warp factor one. 🤓🌷🖖🏼

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 22d
Incredibly emotional to hear my poem has been turned into a song of resistance and is being sung in Minneapolis right now. Please do not give up.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 24d
BREAKING: Judge enters TRO blocking feds from interfering with or arresting peaceful protesters in Minnesota. Judge Kate Menendez, Biden appointee. Order: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 27d
It’s cold comfort right now but, if past is prologue, spectacles of violence committed by the state against sympathetic civilians—especially when captured on camera—were the beginning of the end for Bull Connor and Jim Crow, too.

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 27d
Everyone knows Rosa Parks, but fewer know it was Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old, who first refused to give up her seat and sparked a movement.

Colvin has passed away at 86.

I spoke about her during the commencement address at @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social

RIP

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Ian Bassin ’98, Hon.’25: “You Will Decide Whether Democracy Endures”
www.wesleyan.edu

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Alison Johnson @aljwriter.bsky.social · 27d
Your direction gives us all courage, your Grace! 🌷

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 29d
"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?"

A list of ideas!

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Brian Coulter @philabcoulter.bsky.social · Jan 9
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · Jan 6
As we, the good people of America, remember J6 with horror and sadness, spare a thought for the residents of the city it happened in.

DC is often overlooked as a place where folks live, but this trauma happened to us, on our streets, in the place we call home.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Jan 3
Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
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