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Library Bear 📚
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Mama bear. Librarian. Outdoorsy. Leftist. Rather be hiking. 🏳️‍🌈☸️ 🧶📚Ask me for a book recommendation. She/her.

Profile pic: the face of a black bear happily munching some dandelions. Background pic: me the (human) bear under the total solar eclipse ☀️🌕
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What do librarians do when we’re under attack? You better believe that WE FIGHT BACK, for your right to read freely. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... ✊✊📚
US librarians tackle ‘manufactured crisis’ of book bans to protect LGBTQ+ rights
In at least half a dozen states, librarians have joined forces with civil rights groups to oppose book bans, often facing personal and professional repercussions
www.theguardian.com
Fam, it is DONE. 4 months of work & 7 different colorways, including gorgeous ones from Cesium Yarn, Tangled Pixie & the ever superb @isasaxonists.bsky.social Republic of Yarnia. The best part? I now know I LOVE making quilts & have already started quilt 2! 🧶 #knitting #craftsky
February 14, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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WOW. Incredible. This is the case in which DHS claimed that ICE officers had been attacked with a shovel and fired back in self-defense. Evidence since suggests an ICE officer fired through a closed door and struck someone on the other side.

Will DHS retract the prior claims?
February 13, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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May this one day happen to them.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer are also at the Munich security conference, but it's very clear that AOC is the real draw.
February 14, 2026 at 4:45 AM
MADAME PRESIDENT
AOC💪at the Munich Security Conference: “In a rules-based order, hypocrisy is vulnerability...kidnapping heads of state, threatening allies, colonizing Greenland, or looking the other way on a genocide”
February 14, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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It is purely anecdotal but AOC got like five hundred times the coverage for her appearance at Munich than Newsom has so far
February 14, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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Can’t wait for the tribunal.
February 13, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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I interviewed a family of Russian asylum seekers who’ve been held more than four months at the Dilley detention center in Texas.

As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday.

She replied: “To get out of here.”
'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention
A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.
www.nbcnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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A couple days prior, 4 students locked down to the doors of Morrill Hall at the University of Minnesota. The students demanded that the uni cut ties with ICE and refused to leave without speaking to President Rebecca Cunningham. 3 were arrested.

unicornriot.ninja/2026/minneso...
Minnesota Students Arrested After Locking Down to Morrill Hall, Demanding Sanctuary Campus - UNICORN RIOT
Students at the University of Minnesota were arrested for locking down to the administration building demanding the campus become a sanctuary without access for federal agents.
unicornriot.ninja
February 13, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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On Monday, Indigenous activists began an occupation demanding a return of their historical land at Fort Snelling, where the Whipple Federal Building now sits. They set up tipis and have been holding the space since, demanding that state leaders speak with them.

unicornriot.ninja/2026/indigen...
Indigenous Activists Occupy Land Near Fort Snelling, Plan to Stay Until 'Land Back' - UNICORN RIOT
Indigenous activists erected multiple tipis at Coldwater Spring outside Fort Snelling, establishing an occupation. Organizers demand land back in the form of "returning Fort Snelling" to the Dakota pe...
unicornriot.ninja
February 13, 2026 at 5:06 PM
The Hague for Musk is the moderate position. 😡
As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.

About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN
It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...
www.cnn.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:38 PM
For what it’s worth: ICE sighting confirmed in South Station Boston this morning. Just one in Gestapo wear but maybe more plainclothes. Stay toasty fam. 🧊🔥✊
February 13, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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Working on something and am reminded of the words of revolutionary Assate Shakur:

"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."

#showmeyourknits #craftivism #yarnsky
February 13, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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"A whistle will not stop a bullet, or many. But it can do away with isolation. It cannot shield a body, yet it can draw bodies near, transforming vulnerability into presence and presence into power."
February 12, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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There's only one state in the country that voted for Kamala Harris, & voted for a Dem governor, and where a state agency has any sort of contract with ICE's infamous 287(g) program.

Massachusetts.

The MA Gov says she supports it (even days after Spanberger ended Youngkin's same agreement in VA).
Inside ICE’s Only Contract with a Blue State - Bolts
As part of a 287(g) contract between state officials and ICE, Massachusetts continues to release prisoners into deportation—even as state lawmakers look to ban other forms of ICE collaboration.
boltsmag.org
February 12, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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murder
CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.

“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody
The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.
shorturl.at
February 13, 2026 at 2:25 AM
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In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM
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One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.

That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
www.huffpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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Minnesota is still under attack.

Federal thugs swarmed Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis. Witnesses report tear gas used on students and staff. At least two school employees were handcuffed. Video evidence is circulating. DHS is denying it happened 🤬

Schools should be safe havens!
February 12, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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I will absolutely take a pay cut for the honor of fixing this shit under President AOC
The nerds will beat down the doors to staff any AOC Administration, mark my words
February 13, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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The nerds will beat down the doors to staff any AOC Administration, mark my words
February 13, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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February 13, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Madame President 🫡🫡🫡
February 12, 2026 at 11:48 PM