PJS Martin
pjinak.bsky.social
PJS Martin
@pjinak.bsky.social
Author. Entomologist. Environmental Scientist. Believer in social justice. Retired but still writing. Memoir out: ‘Floaters: The Professor and the Captain’ And soon a few cozy mysteries with an environmental bent.
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A federal judge in Denver on Tuesday ordered federal immigration officers to stop making arrests in Colorado without a warrant, unless the detainee posed a flight risk, the latest in a string of lower-court decisions rebuking President Trump’s immigration enforcement tactics.
Colorado Judge Tells Immigration Agents to Stop Arrests Without Warrants
The ruling that immigration agents are acting illegally is the latest to rebuke the Trump administration’s tactics, but earlier orders have been blocked on appeal.
nyti.ms
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
What a great time to support the voices of women by supporting their writing. blog.stabenow.com/2025/11/25/a...
A Friend of Storyknife is doubling your donation!
Some great news–a Friend of Storyknife has pledged to match dollar for dollar up to $35,000 in this year’s fall challenge! Click here and hey, presto, double your donation!And on behalf of the…
blog.stabenow.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Seems appropriate for tonight ❤️

(I think I’m gonna make this one a linocut)

🗃️
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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“It’s so ugly, it’s so cowardly, it’s so stupid.”
Democratic voters want their leaders to stop running from Zohran Mamdani
"It's so ugly, it's so cowardly, it's so stupid."
www.motherjones.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Would you like that outbreak with biscuits or cornbread? 🦠 💀

#backlashthis
August 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Stop screaming into a pillow and start screaming in the streets 😱📢Find a protest near you on Labor Day, September 1st.

maydaystrong.org

The biggest part of this fight is not giving up the fight 💪✊
August 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Trump deployed the National Guard and mine-resistant vehicles to clean up DC crime. Now one crashed into a civilian's SUV. The metaphor writes itself. Our latest on the militarized occupation of Washington:
Trump's military occupation of DC crashes into reality—literally
Armored vehicles running red lights, feds busting residents for pot. All coming to a city near you.
www.motherjones.com
August 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Another shakedown, the more you cave to the autocrat the more empowered he feels.
August 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Things delusional authoritarians do. They create the self-serving reality they need for their ego. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...
Pentagon Fires the Defense Intelligence Agency Chief
www.nytimes.com
August 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Sen. Ted Cruz stripped weather forecasting funds from Trump's megabill. Then the floods came.
Sen. Ted Cruz stripped weather forecasting funds from Trump's megabill. Then the floods came.
Among other things, he removed $150 million slated to improve modeling, predictions, and public communications.
www.motherjones.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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U.S. Rep Thomas Massie (R-KY) declared Saturday evening that his party's leader, the president of the United States, made an unconstitutional move.
'This is not Constitutional': GOP congressman stands up to Trump on Iran strike
U.S. Rep Thomas Massie (R-KY) declared Saturday evening that his party's leader, the president of the United States, made an unconstitutional move.Trump over the weekend announced his administration had dropped a "full payload of bombs" on Iran."We have completed our very successful attack on the th...
bit.ly
June 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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From the piece: "I believe ardently that nonviolent resistance is in the big picture and the long term the most effective strategy, but that doesn't mean it must be polite, placid, or please our opponents, not least because nothing ever will and they'll lie and distort no matter what."
June 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Terry Moran worked at ABC for 28 years. Now, for calling Stephen Miller “hateful,” (which he 💯 is per his own family), ABC fired him to appease an authoritarian hypocrite who ran on “free speech.” This will have a chilling effect on all journalists. Fourth Estate fails. Authoritarianism advances.
June 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Sweeping job cuts and reorganizations taking place at the US Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leave the United States “weaker as a nation,” Dr. Peter Marks told CNN.
Dramatic HHS cuts leave US ‘weaker as a nation,’ says top FDA vaccine official forced out under Kennedy | CNN
Sweeping job cuts and reorganizations taking place at the US Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leave the United States “weaker as a nation,” Dr. Peter Marks...
www.cnn.com
April 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
April 1st means the writers start showing up at Storyknife Writers Retreat! No fooling 😊 blog.stabenow.com/2025/04/01/w...
Welcome to the first Storyknife writers of 2025!
They arrive today, and this is what they’ll see. April 1st also marks the first day of our month-long Founder’s Match. Yes, that means exactly what it says it does–if you donate $…
blog.stabenow.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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New Jersey Sen. @corybooker.com is on the Senate floor, saying, "I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able" to protest President Trump and Elon Musk.

Watch live: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
April 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.
A Pentagon-wide email recently went out warning about Signal's vulnerability
A Pentagon-wide advisory that went out one week ago warns against using the Signal, the messaging app, even for unclassified information.
www.npr.org
March 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This family sent out over 100 postcards, mailed on March 15.
March 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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One of these things is not like the others
March 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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More of this please!!!
March 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM

On Mar.15, people will mail a postcard to Trump. We can break the WH record, with an officially-verifiable flood of fury. #TheIdesOfTrump

Post a pic of your postcard(s) on social media just before mailing.

President (for now) Trump
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
March 13, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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if you buy used books and want to avoid amazon where possible, check out bookfinder.com

you can search essentially every marketplace in one go

so you can, e.g., find the same used copy for sale, from the same seller, on biblio.com or ebay instead of amazon or abe (owned by amazon)
BookFinder.com: New & Used Books, Rare Books, Textbooks
bookfinder.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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It boggles the mind
Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
m.youtube.com
March 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Butterflies take major hit
“"This is really the biggest and most comprehensive study of insects in certainly in the U.S., arguably in North America that we've done," said Edwards…I think it really should be a bit of a wake-up call."
#Butterflies #Insects #Nature
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
Scientists brought to tears by huge loss of U.S. butterflies | CBC News
Scientists calculated just how much U.S. butterfly populations have declined in the past 20 years. The results brought some scientists to tears, and have them warning about dire implications for other...
www.cbc.ca
March 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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A sad day for America—Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University activist, has been arrested by ICE, not for any crime, but for his political activism. The Trump administration claims he was involved in “pro-terrorist” activities, yet no formal charges have been filed.
March 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM