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jenny hauf

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writer, teacher, tender head witch at muddy river herbals 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇸🇩🇺🇦 https://linktr.ee/muddyriverherbals

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · Feb 5

My latest offering is an essay on the necessity of cultivating joy in these unbearable times. May we all be graced with the solace and pleasures we deserve. open.substack.com/pub/jennyhau... #substack

Rekindling Joy

On finding pleasure in the unbearable

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 7h

Right, shameless plug here on #WyrdWednesday for the feed I run, #PhantomsFriday, since it falls on Halloween this week. If after today you Wyrdlings have ghostly things left over, please post them on Friday using that hashtag - art, words, #folklore, pictures of haunted places - anything #ghost!

A man is kneeling before a draped pumpkin-headed figure. A hand is reaching through the cloth to take a bag of gold proffered by the kneeling man. I wish this picture to in no way suggest that I will pay people for posts on Friday. You must do so out of the spookiness of your hearts.

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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 20h

ICE kidnapping operations are happening all across LA. Day laborers @ Home Depot & street vendors continue to be targeted. 12 ppl were taken this morning at the Panorama City HD (pictures below of pigs @ today's raid). 16 ppl were taken at the HD on Slauson & Western yesterday

picture of 2 ICE agents in a van used for kidnappings

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'

We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.

Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.

Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head

Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

www.theguardian.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

a trans girl in vermont was kicked off her swimming team and committed suicide and at the very same time, the discourse in d.c. today is about whether the democratic party should’ve abandoned her sooner in order to win votes

a day in an american life

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.

Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in:

- Los Angeles
- Phoenix
- Philadelphia
- Denver
- El Paso
- San Diego
- Seattle/Portland
- New Orleans

Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both.

Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed.

Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino.

ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.

I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations.

I am hearing from both sides of this friction.

One senior DHS official tells me:

"ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?".

Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me:

"What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table."

It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there.

Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results.

Official statement to
@FoxNews
via
@TriciaOhio
:

"While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country."
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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 1d

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 1d

Lolol

jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 1d

So gross.

jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 1d

Oh man 🥲

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 1d

Such a good rule of thumb!

jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 1d

I love this. Thank you.

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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you National Hurricane Center, NWS and flight crews working to warn us about #HurricaneMelissa even as the government remains shutdown

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 1d

Holding Jamaica in my heart today. I'm devastated by what's to come and the landslides and flooding that are already there. Want to help? Go to www.care.org/media-and-pr... #hurricanemelissa

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Warming oceans probably fueling Hurricane Melissa’s rapid intensification

Climate scientists have long warned that warming oceans are making such explosive storm development more common

www.theguardian.com

jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 1d

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 1d

Brian Eno speaks of Alexei Yurchak's belief that revolution happens in two phases. “The first phase is where everybody realizes that things have gone completely wrong—the phase we're in now... Then the 2nd phase, & the important one, is where everybody realizes that everybody else has realized.”

The Character of Now: Both Terrifying and Thrilling

On March 4th, following a week of shock global events that started with the Trump and Zelensky Whitehouse episode and included the introduction of his Tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada, a much small...

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 1d

So good!!

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 2d

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in ’s own house.

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 2d

This sounds like important research, and long, long overdue www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

‘A medical miracle’: is period blood ‘the most overlooked opportunity’ in women’s health?

Period blood has long been thought of as ‘stinky and useless’, but startups are exploring using the fluid to test for a wide range of health conditions – including difficult-to-diagnose endometriosis

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jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 1d

What a sweet trio 💓

jenny hauf @jennyhauf.bsky.social · 1d

And you have the Blue Jays, the Best blue team.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

People who got the 2024-2025 Covid booster had a 44% lower symptomatic infection rate and more than a 50% lower rate of death and hospitalization than those who did not receive the booster, and did not experience a higher rate of adverse outcomes. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...