ree rovardottir
@reerovarsdottir.bsky.social
Midwestern public librarian|art-maker|person. Socialist tendencies but it would be nice if my dryer gave me back all my socks. She/her. Odyssey|Codex.
#freepalestine #landback
#freepalestine #landback
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January 29, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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I thought they surrendered unconditionally at Appomattox? Did they not? Let’s have them do it again, with feeling.
January 29, 2026 at 11:34 PM
I thought they surrendered unconditionally at Appomattox? Did they not? Let’s have them do it again, with feeling.
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“By turns heartrending, joyful, ruminative, and infuriating, these two books bring into focus a Gaza rarely seen and even less commonly rendered, save in a stray photo by an inspired photographer, or a poem dashed off by one of its many wordsmiths.”
This Too Is Gaza - Public Books
“In Gaza, life unfurls as a treasury of daily surprises that many Westerners miss in their hurry to get through their days,” says a Palestinian journalist. How we are treated, he insists, does not…
www.publicbooks.org
January 29, 2026 at 11:55 PM
“By turns heartrending, joyful, ruminative, and infuriating, these two books bring into focus a Gaza rarely seen and even less commonly rendered, save in a stray photo by an inspired photographer, or a poem dashed off by one of its many wordsmiths.”
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The discovery that the continents are in continuous motion is fairly recent—dating back only to the late 1960s — and one woman was responsible for decoding what it meant for California and much of the West Coast.
How plate tectonics revolutionized our understanding of Earth - High Country News
And how scientist Tanya Atwater was at the center of it all.
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January 30, 2026 at 12:01 AM
The discovery that the continents are in continuous motion is fairly recent—dating back only to the late 1960s — and one woman was responsible for decoding what it meant for California and much of the West Coast.
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Maddening story about an Alabamian who happened to have been born in a different country.
Fonzie thought he was an Alabamian. He lived for football and his fiancee and a little too much fun. I followed him to Mexico when he was deported to a place he did not know or understand. This is his story. As it is with any deportation, it is not his story alone.
www.al.com/news/2026/01...
www.al.com/news/2026/01...
'Deported for that?': Football referee forced to leave Alabama for Mexico
Fonzie had to leave behind his fiancée and 18-month-old son in rural Alabama.
www.al.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Maddening story about an Alabamian who happened to have been born in a different country.
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now is the time for believing in things and courageously standing up for those things you believe in. do not care about how you think things should be worded or how not to overplay whatever hand. we're past that
January 29, 2026 at 12:21 AM
now is the time for believing in things and courageously standing up for those things you believe in. do not care about how you think things should be worded or how not to overplay whatever hand. we're past that
dammit kansas you didn't have to do this. You could have listened to the science. You could have met with actual people (if they deigned to meet with you!) and figured out that bathroom bans are cruel and just really fucking unnecessary
‘This bill spits on basic human decency’: Kansas Legislature passes bathroom ban without hearing | via @crazeywriter.bsky.social #ksleg
'This bill spits on basic human decency': Kansas Legislature passes bathroom ban without hearing • Kansas Reflector
The GOP-led Kansas House and Senate on Wednesday approved a “bathroom bill” targeting transgender people, after the House debated for hours.
kansasreflector.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:49 AM
dammit kansas you didn't have to do this. You could have listened to the science. You could have met with actual people (if they deigned to meet with you!) and figured out that bathroom bans are cruel and just really fucking unnecessary
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Confirmed! I would rather shred the website than use it to exploit, hurt, or diminish anyone :) and if anyone wants to read some feel-the-good-rage 'fuck the current fuckery', check out these amazing free-to-read short stories: inkfoundry.net/directory/ce...
January 29, 2026 at 4:20 AM
Confirmed! I would rather shred the website than use it to exploit, hurt, or diminish anyone :) and if anyone wants to read some feel-the-good-rage 'fuck the current fuckery', check out these amazing free-to-read short stories: inkfoundry.net/directory/ce...
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and now there's @inkfoundry.bsky.social for short stories!
A reminder — there are *millions* of social sites on the internet, like Storygraph for your reading and Ravelry for your knitting, etc. It’s only the biggest, run by the extremist fascists, that do these terrible things. Don’t define the internet by a handful of apps run by 5 sociopaths.
ATProto is the only way forward for social media
January 29, 2026 at 3:55 AM
and now there's @inkfoundry.bsky.social for short stories!
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We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
January 28, 2026 at 9:25 PM
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
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This was what a lot of the equipment on the wishlists we set up was for, and believe me. Adding these things to the list and being told this was why?
Fucking NIGHTMARISH.
(thank you everyone who sent so much warm clothing and burner phones <3)
Fucking NIGHTMARISH.
(thank you everyone who sent so much warm clothing and burner phones <3)
This or just dumping people *in the woods* AND sending folks out w/o their phone or I.D.
Volunteers w/ Safe Haven wait at the gate & do sweeps of the woods, with warm clothes, a burner, and a ride home, "so no one is left alone at the gate."
I donated; pls join me if you can: gofund.me/7d506a3d0
Volunteers w/ Safe Haven wait at the gate & do sweeps of the woods, with warm clothes, a burner, and a ride home, "so no one is left alone at the gate."
I donated; pls join me if you can: gofund.me/7d506a3d0
I spent the evening outside the Whipple federal building in Minneapolis, where the feds have been releasing people they detained — often for no discernible reason — into the freezing cold... wearing whatever little clothing they had on at the time they were taken.
January 29, 2026 at 4:39 AM
This was what a lot of the equipment on the wishlists we set up was for, and believe me. Adding these things to the list and being told this was why?
Fucking NIGHTMARISH.
(thank you everyone who sent so much warm clothing and burner phones <3)
Fucking NIGHTMARISH.
(thank you everyone who sent so much warm clothing and burner phones <3)
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Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban https://aje.news/ljjuww
January 29, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
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The Haitian Support Center in Springfield has an emergency fund. As of posting this, they're about $8k shy of their $50k goal. ancljkuy.donorsupport.co/page/FUNDVDT...
January 29, 2026 at 3:56 AM
The Haitian Support Center in Springfield has an emergency fund. As of posting this, they're about $8k shy of their $50k goal. ancljkuy.donorsupport.co/page/FUNDVDT...
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Fellow SFWA members, I hope you won't be leaving the poetry section blank in your Nebula nominations. It's the first year of the award, and important to show that it gets the love it deserves.
If you don't know where to find great SFF poetry, just ask me or another SFWA poet, and we can direct you
If you don't know where to find great SFF poetry, just ask me or another SFWA poet, and we can direct you
January 29, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Fellow SFWA members, I hope you won't be leaving the poetry section blank in your Nebula nominations. It's the first year of the award, and important to show that it gets the love it deserves.
If you don't know where to find great SFF poetry, just ask me or another SFWA poet, and we can direct you
If you don't know where to find great SFF poetry, just ask me or another SFWA poet, and we can direct you
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Trump’s ‘beautiful armada’ underlines US threat to Iran ft.trib.al/LSW6x9P
Trump’s ‘beautiful armada’ underlines US threat to Iran
Build-up of American military power comes as US president weighs strikes
ft.trib.al
January 29, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Trump’s ‘beautiful armada’ underlines US threat to Iran ft.trib.al/LSW6x9P
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Haitians in Springfield, Ohio lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. There will very likely be a major ICE incursion the next day. Haitians in Springfield were the targets of Vance’s lying during the campaign.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/28/t...
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/28/t...
'The folks are fearful.' Haitians living in Ohio may soon lose temporary protected status • Ohio Capital Journal
Thousands of Haitians living in Ohio will lose their temporary protected status next week unless a federal court blocks it.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Haitians in Springfield, Ohio lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. There will very likely be a major ICE incursion the next day. Haitians in Springfield were the targets of Vance’s lying during the campaign.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/28/t...
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/28/t...
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ICE & CBP have been out kidnapping people in Los Angeles every day since June. The media has moved on and acts like this isn’t still happening. The crises are ongoing. Solidarity with the people fighting back in Minneapolis and everywhere.
please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota.
people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.
people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.
January 28, 2026 at 5:54 PM
ICE & CBP have been out kidnapping people in Los Angeles every day since June. The media has moved on and acts like this isn’t still happening. The crises are ongoing. Solidarity with the people fighting back in Minneapolis and everywhere.
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At The Void, your scream is important to us.
January 29, 2026 at 5:14 AM
At The Void, your scream is important to us.
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The streams surrounding foliage hibernates as the morning mist rises with the Sun showing hints of blue sky. 📷🕊️ ….
January 28, 2026 at 5:50 PM
The streams surrounding foliage hibernates as the morning mist rises with the Sun showing hints of blue sky. 📷🕊️ ….
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Ebooks cost public libraries money. Public libraries should be properly funded.
January 27, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Ebooks cost public libraries money. Public libraries should be properly funded.
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A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line
January 27, 2026 at 2:12 AM
A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line
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Based on my "No Selves to Defend" work - noselves2defend.wordpress.com
No Selves to Defend
The Legacy of Criminalizing Self-Defense and Survival
noselves2defend.wordpress.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Based on my "No Selves to Defend" work - noselves2defend.wordpress.com
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis