Joan Zimmermann
jmzimmster.bsky.social
Joan Zimmermann
@jmzimmster.bsky.social
Semi-retired writer/editor, biologist, gardener, dabbler in too many arts, tryna get through.
Last full moon of 2025
December 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
December lights
December 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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🏠 Home for the Holidays 🏠

MELIA is only 3.5 years old, around 50 lbs, needs a peaceful adult only home. No dogs. Cats are ok. Shes needs a patient, kind, caring, loving human. Please be her hero. Over 810 days

🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
December 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️
December 4, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Kamlager-Dove: We also know that DHS has a habit of taking people to hospitals under false names so they cannot be located. This prevents their family members and lawyers from getting to them. And so we want to know: is this what also happened to Vicente?
December 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Spotify needs to remove the ICE recruitment ads. If you hear one, make sure to give it a thumbs down.
December 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Meet Benita, a gentle 9-year-old who is so ready for her soft place to land.
She was found living in a derelict car doing her best to survive & scavenging for food. When she came into our care, she was thin, exhausted & covered in fleas – a little soul who had been fending for herself for too long.
December 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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There have been reports of volunteers in TN being harassed, and those incidents have been forwarded to local authorities. Everyone deserves to participate in our democracy without fear or intimidation. If you ever find yourself in a situation that feels unsafe, don’t hesitate to reach out for help.
December 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Reposting this everyday until Pete Hagueseth faces justice for his crimes against humanity.
Thou Shalt Not Murder Fishermen While Pardoning Drug Lords
This is evil.
www.thegodpodcast.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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It's December. The goal is to find MELIA a home for Christmas. We can do this. Over 810 days waiting. Poor baby. A quiet adult only home, no dogs, cats are ok. 3.5 years old, around 50 lbs. Come on New York!

Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
December 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Community notes don’t get much more brutal than this
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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All I want for Christmas is you
🎁 A peaceful adult only home, no other dogs, cats are ok with slow intro. Only 3.5 years old, enjoys the outdoors, 50 lbs of beauty, at the shelter 810 days! Please adopt MELIA 😩 🙏

Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
November 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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🎁 Home for Christmas 🎁
806 days. Can live with cats, no dogs. She needs an amazing, kind, loving, patient human who will be her forever. Quiet adult only home. 3.5 years old, 50 lbs

🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
💻Adoption@hempsteadny.gov
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
November 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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🗽 Good Morning New York 🗽
This gal is looking for a low traffic adult only home. Cats are ok. No dogs. Needs training.
MELIA - 3.5 years old, 50 lbs
Over 800 days waiting. Be her hero.

💻Adoption@hempsteadny.gov
🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
November 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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RIP civil/womens rights leader Sojourner Truth, died this day 1883.
“I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.”

“I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.”
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Breaking: The House voted unanimously, 426-0, to strip a provision in the funding bill that allowed senators to sue the government for $500K if their phone data was searched without their knowledge.

The provision was designed for GOP senators to sue over the Jack Smith investigation.
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?

But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.

But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM