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TJ Otter

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Writer. Wildlife rehab volunteer. Duck rescuer. In Utah but not of Utah.

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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · 6d

Gotta love it. 👏 The backwoods Barneys TEMU agents of Salt Lake City, ladies and gentlemen. #SLC #ICEwatch #UTAH #saltlakecity #ICE #AbolishICE

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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · 6d

Gotta love it. 👏 The backwoods Barneys TEMU agents of Salt Lake City, ladies and gentlemen. #SLC #ICEwatch #UTAH #saltlakecity #ICE #AbolishICE

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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · Jun 19

Now what? Gotta be more specific.

TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · Jun 11

He is wretched. Repulsive. Abhorrent. Pedestrian.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Jun 8

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.

Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · Jun 8

Red state blue city. Most cities are.

TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · Jun 8

They’re in red states too. Two construction site raids last Monday and this crap on Thursday. They scared the sh!t out of employees and customers at an open business in the middle of the afternoon. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjgSUjGM/

🚨 ICE CONFIRMED 🚨 Thursday, June 5, 2025 in South Salt Lake City, UT #ICE 🧊 #SLC #utah #icewatch #ICEspotting THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE! 😡

TikTok video by ducksandclucks

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · Jun 8

ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people

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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · Jun 7

#ICE is NOT WELCOME in #SLC

TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · May 25

I did dishes, gave the big squirrels a bigger space, held a red tailed hawk, did intake for a magpie, and brought in plum and willow branches. Whew! Spring is springing.

TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · May 25

Today at wildlife rehab I fed rock squirrels and a red squirrel and so many house finches, flickers, gold finches, robins, scrub jays, a mourning dove, a collared dove, and a baby bunny…

TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · May 12

Yesterday at wildlife rehab I cleaned the squirrel cage, fed the baby house finches, scrub jays, gold finch, cedar waxwing, coot, doves, hummingbird, and baby bunny. 🐰 Some of the little birdies need food every 45-minutes from dawn to dusk, so they’re keeping us busy.

TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · Apr 26

I keep this clip on my iPhone because I laugh so hard every time. Happy birthday, Carol Burnett! Thanks for all the laughs.

TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · Apr 26

Today at wildlife rehab I fed a tiny baby finch, weighed a dove, cleaned pens and fed the cedar waxwing, hummingbird, chipmunks, and coot. Did dishes, swept and mopped the floors. Good day.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Apr 23

The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery.

björk 182 @readsettle.rs · Apr 23

one of the tasks of the American left is to explain to retail and service workers that this is the future that America has planned for them

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 23

there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Apr 23

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

Tricia McLaughlin &
@TriciaOhio
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The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully.
He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family.
This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements.

In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.

"You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.

The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had
it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document.
Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained
"at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error.
Hermosillo said he was detained with about
15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because
"they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.

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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · Apr 21

Absolutely

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Apr 20

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?"

Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · Apr 20

Today at wildlife rehab I rinsed the dishes, weighed the baby barn owls and cleaned their pen, refreshed the nectar for the overwintering hummingbird, and cut a bunch of donated surgical gowns down to size to use as cage bottom substrate.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · Apr 20

Democrats can win the battle of ideas if they chose to fight.

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · Apr 20

Sunday morning April 20, 2025

Fox News Sunday — Van Hollen

NBC's Meet the Press — Van Hollen

CNN's State of the Union — Van Hollen

CBS’ Face the Nation — Van Hollen

ABC’s This Week — Van Hollen

@vanhollen.senate.gov
#AbregoGarcia #RuleOfLaw

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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · Apr 19

#Utah50501

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · Apr 19

As I keep saying: These people are cowards who cosplay as tough guys because no one stops or stands up to them. As soon as someone does, they fold. That is why collective action and solidarity is so important.

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · Apr 19

Harvard stood up to the bully — and the bully blinked

Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard (Gift Article)

An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · Apr 18

Give him a minute, would you?

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · Apr 15

Brave, courageous, powerful statement from Abrego Garcia's wife, Jennifer. Watch, cry a little, share and let's keep fighting everyone.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 15

Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."

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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · Apr 15

5calls.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 15

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Apr 15

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data

A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

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TJ Otter @tifotter.bsky.social · Apr 14

The time to act is now

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