Thistles 🏳️🌈
@thistles4.bsky.social
Heya! I love 🔬science🔭 , 🌻🌱gardening🪴🌵 & 🎨 art 🖼️!
I'm a queer woman in science, a gamer auntie, & I love supporting my LGBTQIA+ family & friends!
I also enjoy a good book, a dirty chai latte, & getting outside for mental health break.
I'm a queer woman in science, a gamer auntie, & I love supporting my LGBTQIA+ family & friends!
I also enjoy a good book, a dirty chai latte, & getting outside for mental health break.
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A must-read from @demcast.com ⬇️
#ICE #Immigration #MeltingPot #epluribusunum
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#ICE #Immigration #MeltingPot #epluribusunum
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Courage Demands an Echo: A Digital Drumbeat for Immigrant Justice
Turning one brave voice into a chorus that refuses to back down
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
A must-read from @demcast.com ⬇️
#ICE #Immigration #MeltingPot #epluribusunum
open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...
#ICE #Immigration #MeltingPot #epluribusunum
open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...
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All I want for Xmas. 🙏
December 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
All I want for Xmas. 🙏
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Federal immigration agents have arrested more than 400 people across Minnesota since Trump last week called Somali immigrants “garbage” in a racist tirade.
December 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Federal immigration agents have arrested more than 400 people across Minnesota since Trump last week called Somali immigrants “garbage” in a racist tirade.
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Apparently we’ve established that if the US can seize the largest tanker off Venezuela, it can just as easily seize a small, alleged drug boat without murdering the occupants.
December 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Apparently we’ve established that if the US can seize the largest tanker off Venezuela, it can just as easily seize a small, alleged drug boat without murdering the occupants.
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A Republican lawyer working on the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) effort to seize states’ private voter data and 2020 election records was previously involved in a GOP lawsuit in Georgia challenging the use of Dominion voting machines. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
New DOJ Voting Lawyer Spread Conspiracy Theory About Dominion Voting Machines
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
A Republican lawyer working on the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) effort to seize states’ private voter data and 2020 election records was previously involved in a GOP lawsuit in Georgia challenging the use of Dominion voting machines. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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"..When the Secretary of Homeland Security can’t stay in a hearing long enough to answer basic questions and when the public trusts the protesters more than the person running the agency, you don’t have a messaging problem. You have a legitimacy crisis.."
#BlueCrew
"..When the Secretary of Homeland Security can’t stay in a hearing long enough to answer basic questions and when the public trusts the protesters more than the person running the agency, you don’t have a messaging problem. You have a legitimacy crisis.."
#BlueCrew
ICE Melts Under Noem’s Shadow
ICE isn’t just losing support; it’s imploding under its own cruelty, incompetence, and Kristi Noem’s vanishing act, leaving America questioning who the real threat is.
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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"..When the Secretary of Homeland Security can’t stay in a hearing long enough to answer basic questions and when the public trusts the protesters more than the person running the agency, you don’t have a messaging problem. You have a legitimacy crisis.."
#BlueCrew
"..When the Secretary of Homeland Security can’t stay in a hearing long enough to answer basic questions and when the public trusts the protesters more than the person running the agency, you don’t have a messaging problem. You have a legitimacy crisis.."
#BlueCrew
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Why are being terrorized?
Why are we suffering price spikes & a #RepublicanHealthCareFailure & #ICELawlessness, with
masked men brutalizing & destroying families & massive job losses & loss of freedom & an eroding democracy?
It's because of an uninformed electorate.
Inform your friends.
Share. 🧵
Why are we suffering price spikes & a #RepublicanHealthCareFailure & #ICELawlessness, with
masked men brutalizing & destroying families & massive job losses & loss of freedom & an eroding democracy?
It's because of an uninformed electorate.
Inform your friends.
Share. 🧵
December 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Why are being terrorized?
Why are we suffering price spikes & a #RepublicanHealthCareFailure & #ICELawlessness, with
masked men brutalizing & destroying families & massive job losses & loss of freedom & an eroding democracy?
It's because of an uninformed electorate.
Inform your friends.
Share. 🧵
Why are we suffering price spikes & a #RepublicanHealthCareFailure & #ICELawlessness, with
masked men brutalizing & destroying families & massive job losses & loss of freedom & an eroding democracy?
It's because of an uninformed electorate.
Inform your friends.
Share. 🧵
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@Rep_Walkinshaw (D-VA) represents my brother and dad who live in VA and boy did they elect a good one. Watch👇 as he asks Michael Glasheen if the FBI still designates the Proud Boys as an extremist organization. Glasheen nervous as hell, refuses to answer. Bravo Congressman!!
December 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
@Rep_Walkinshaw (D-VA) represents my brother and dad who live in VA and boy did they elect a good one. Watch👇 as he asks Michael Glasheen if the FBI still designates the Proud Boys as an extremist organization. Glasheen nervous as hell, refuses to answer. Bravo Congressman!!
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Yesterday, Spc Sarah Becstrom was laid to rest in West Virginia at a VA National Cemetery.
Surprisingly none of the major major news media mention it. No flags were lower to half staff.
Well the Convicted FElon keeps the news focus on him.
www.wvva.com/2025/12/10/s...
Surprisingly none of the major major news media mention it. No flags were lower to half staff.
Well the Convicted FElon keeps the news focus on him.
www.wvva.com/2025/12/10/s...
Spc. Sarah Beckstrom laid to rest with full military honors at W.Va. National Cemetery
Spc. Sarah Beckstrom was laid to rest with full military honors Tuesday in Grafton.
www.wvva.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Yesterday, Spc Sarah Becstrom was laid to rest in West Virginia at a VA National Cemetery.
Surprisingly none of the major major news media mention it. No flags were lower to half staff.
Well the Convicted FElon keeps the news focus on him.
www.wvva.com/2025/12/10/s...
Surprisingly none of the major major news media mention it. No flags were lower to half staff.
Well the Convicted FElon keeps the news focus on him.
www.wvva.com/2025/12/10/s...
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ICE Using Air Passenger Lists For Kidnapping
TSA is providing domestic passenger lists in real time to ICE.
They're using the names of travelers to kidnap people.
Until now, ICE has historically avoided interfering with domestic travel.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
TSA is providing domestic passenger lists in real time to ICE.
They're using the names of travelers to kidnap people.
Until now, ICE has historically avoided interfering with domestic travel.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
ICE Using Air Passenger Lists For Kidnapping
TSA is providing domestic passenger lists in real time to ICE.
They're using the names of travelers to kidnap people.
Until now, ICE has historically avoided interfering with domestic travel.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
TSA is providing domestic passenger lists in real time to ICE.
They're using the names of travelers to kidnap people.
Until now, ICE has historically avoided interfering with domestic travel.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
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Excellent. But again, do not trust MTG. She's not a good person. She's not welcome in my tent - even if she apologizes for and acknowledges her role in the insurrection. www.ms.now/news/marjori...
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s farewell gift to Mike Johnson: a longshot plot to oust him
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been gauging whether there's enough support among her GOP colleagues to remove Rep. Mike Johnson from the speakership.
www.ms.now
December 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Excellent. But again, do not trust MTG. She's not a good person. She's not welcome in my tent - even if she apologizes for and acknowledges her role in the insurrection. www.ms.now/news/marjori...
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BREAKING: BERNIE SANDERS:
“If this resolution passes tonight, we are on our way to throwing 15 million Americans off of Medicaid and the affordable care act.”
“If this resolution passes tonight, we are on our way to throwing 15 million Americans off of Medicaid and the affordable care act.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
BREAKING: BERNIE SANDERS:
“If this resolution passes tonight, we are on our way to throwing 15 million Americans off of Medicaid and the affordable care act.”
“If this resolution passes tonight, we are on our way to throwing 15 million Americans off of Medicaid and the affordable care act.”
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November 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Fighting against Trump isn’t enough. It's time for Democrats to show America what they're fighting FOR — and embrace the fresh, new voices leading the way. This week was a good start. Here's what else they need to do. https://youtu.be/Uzc57eD3cWI?si=fLGGWBf468q4aacc
What Democrats SHOULD Be Doing
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Fighting against Trump isn’t enough. It's time for Democrats to show America what they're fighting FOR — and embrace the fresh, new voices leading the way. This week was a good start. Here's what else they need to do. https://youtu.be/Uzc57eD3cWI?si=fLGGWBf468q4aacc
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Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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They caved. Senate Democrats caved. Their voters demanded just one very simple thing: FIGHT. Dammit, just FIGHT. Instead, they caved.
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 AM
They caved. Senate Democrats caved. Their voters demanded just one very simple thing: FIGHT. Dammit, just FIGHT. Instead, they caved.
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My statement on the proposed Senate deal
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
My statement on the proposed Senate deal
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Schumer is spreading the word he was against the deal. But he is the leader. So he either tacitly let it happen or he failed as a leader. No excuse works for him. This is a fail.
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Schumer is spreading the word he was against the deal. But he is the leader. So he either tacitly let it happen or he failed as a leader. No excuse works for him. This is a fail.
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What's that garbage under my shoe asks @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ?
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
What's that garbage under my shoe asks @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ?
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Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
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🚨 I pledge to NEVER step foot in a Walmart again. If I cannot afford it or find it elsewhere, I do not need it. White people MUST take a stand. This openly hostile contempt for black people cannot be tolerated or dismissed. I am not waiting for a national strike - I am DONE. Who will join me?
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
🚨 I pledge to NEVER step foot in a Walmart again. If I cannot afford it or find it elsewhere, I do not need it. White people MUST take a stand. This openly hostile contempt for black people cannot be tolerated or dismissed. I am not waiting for a national strike - I am DONE. Who will join me?