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Susan M. Gaines

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Novelist & long-lapsed organic geochemist Books: ACCIDENTALS, CARBON DREAMS, ECHOES OF LIFE https://susanmgaines.com #birds #climate #geoscience #SciComm #LitSci #booksky Novel-in-progress: #history Austrian Galicia #envhist

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · Feb 11

I use Bsky to:
- track science & history posts relevant to novel-in-progress
- keep abreast of friends and colleagues activity
- chat about science, birds, climate, and books
- #StopTheCoup #RESIST
The essay "An Anthropocene Ménage à Trois" tells all:
tinyurl.com/SciNatLit

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 3m

This is the kind of blatantly fascist intimidation that only my most politically engaged friends in Germany are hearing about @weserkurier.bsky.social faz.net/datenschutz

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 4h

NON-COMPLIANCE with #ICE WORKS (sometimes)

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 4h

Otherwise known as "basic science." For decades, I've been writing novels (slooowly!) about people doing this kind of curiosity-driven science...
#FictionMeetsScience tinyurl.com/SciNatLit

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 4h

Gotta repost a bit of HOPE...

Lizardrath 💙 @lizardrath.bsky.social · 6h

Now that Christian Nationalist Ryan Walters is no longer Superintendent of Public Instruction in Oklahoma, the state is working QUICKLY to undo his legacy.

This is why you never hire an anti-education activist to run public schools.

Gives me hope for America!

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Oklahoma has already started erasing Ryan Walters’ disastrous legacy

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/AoXcgAq

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 1d

WHERE IS CHICAGO POLICE, who should be protecting their citizens from the violence and lawlessness of ICE thugs???
@mayorofchicago.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov #Chicago

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 1d

#Bremen friends:
Join us Oct 18 to show solidarity with the millions of Americans who will be stepping out in their cities and towns to resist the MAGA police state--and warn your compatriots about the dangers of modern fascism

#MARUM #AWI #unibremen
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS Bremen GERMANY! · No Kings

**TIMES ARE EXPRESSED IN LOCAL TIMES, NOT EDT. The rally will begin at 13 Uhr CEST in Bremen, Germany. We will meet at the Heinrich Heine Statue, which is in the park behind the Kunsthalle. Die Zeite...

www.mobilize.us

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 2d

#Resist #OCT18 #NOKINGS

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 2d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 3d

#chicago #ice

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3d

A man was just abducted by ICE on Clark and Lunt, feet away from our campaign office.

Now our community is showing up and patrolling for ICE. Join us by getting involved in Protect RP: www.facebook.com/share/1DQqPQ...

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 3d

YES! Finally. THIS is what it means to protect your residents. Can you take a page from this playbook LA and Chicago? #LAPD #Chicago #police #ICE

✊Larry Colvin✊ @larrycolvin.bsky.social · 4d

Portland PD threatens ICE with arrest! More. Of. This. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 3d

#Resist complicity!

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3d

🚨🚨🚨University of Arizona students, staff, and faculty are speaking out against Trumps demands in exchange for money. Let’s boost their voices! 1/2

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 3d

"Neutrality?" Like when the press thought they were being "neutral" by countering the science of climate change with the anti-science of climate denialism? Bottom, line, they drove you out by not letting you do the job of a Vice Provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 4d

I'm reposting personal videos from the streets because it's important to know about the #resistance and repression around the country and the news is not reporting.
I'm in Europe now, and my German friends said they had no clue there was so much resistance to the regime in the US. #Chicago

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 4d

Michigan Avenue right now.

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 4d

@wisarchive.bsky.social #womeninscience

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 5d

For #spacetober_challenge day 8 prompt propulsion, my portrait of #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠ 🧪🐡🧮🔭👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci
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Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the

Linocut portrait of Mary Golda Ross looking over her shoulder in a gradient of green (at bottom) to gold (at top) surrounded by vehicles important to her career including P-38 Lighting fighter plane, and Agena rocket, important to Apollo missions in grey.

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 4d

Yes. WHY only 58% disapprove of the rise of a fascist police state in America is a mystery, but IF we are to resist armed federal militias and a complicit Congress and Supreme court, backed up by billionaire funding, at least 70% of the population need to be on board.

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 4d

I can't do this, because I'm not, but if you consider yourself a Christian, READ THIS THREAD and #resist

Anonymous @spartazc.bsky.social · 4d

Your objective as a resistance defender is to create any disruption possible with the regime, if that includes self-declaring as a Christian or leaning into your Christian identity then fucking do it. That means rejecting MAGA's actions or policies from a Christian perspective and voice.

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, sorry! I thought it was the Americans Abroad group in Europe! (Though, actually, I think protesting fascism is more just survival, than politics)

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 4d

I'm in #Bremen on Oct 18, dragging my apolitical German kids & friends to a protest against fascism, in solidarity with the massive resistance effort in the US that day. Join us?

www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS Bremen GERMANY! · No Kings

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 5d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s video of the incident

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 5d

This is what fascism looks like. Let's support those brave lawyers & judges who are holding the front line against its advance #resist
www.democracydocket.com/analysis/law...

‘Stakes Are High:’ Big Law Alerts Clients on Trump’s Domestic Terrorism Order

Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

www.democracydocket.com

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Democracy is not a spectator sport! 🇺🇦 @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 6d

the next national PEACEFUL protest is on 18 October

WILL YOU BE THERE? or will you watch the nation collapse into tyranny? cuz it's ONE OR THE OTHER now

#politics #tyranny #FascistAmeriKKKa #PoliticalViolence #PeacefulProtest #RESIST #NoKings #18October