Anna Carey
@annacarey.ca
Urban naturalist in Durham Region, Ontario. Gardener (CA 5B), corporate information wrangler (MLIS) adjacent to climate tech. You might know me from prev work with VaxHunters Canada. She/her/they/Hedge Witch of the North
"Things are bad" =/= "all is lost"
"Things are bad" =/= "all is lost"
Pinned
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It is not our moral responsibility to coddle the delusional fears and bigotries of white supremacists. It is not our moral responsibility to change reality for them so they can hold onto those fears and bigotries.
It is our moral responsibility to make their fears and bigotries THEIR problem.
It is our moral responsibility to make their fears and bigotries THEIR problem.
February 9, 2026 at 12:18 PM
It is not our moral responsibility to coddle the delusional fears and bigotries of white supremacists. It is not our moral responsibility to change reality for them so they can hold onto those fears and bigotries.
It is our moral responsibility to make their fears and bigotries THEIR problem.
It is our moral responsibility to make their fears and bigotries THEIR problem.
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The fact that Bad Bunny's halftime show made white bigots angry and feel excluded is A GOOD THING. It's one of the best things about it. It's not a problem to solve. It's a solution to pursue. Bigots *should* feel excluded. We should find *more* ways to celebrate the reality of USian diversity.
February 9, 2026 at 12:07 PM
The fact that Bad Bunny's halftime show made white bigots angry and feel excluded is A GOOD THING. It's one of the best things about it. It's not a problem to solve. It's a solution to pursue. Bigots *should* feel excluded. We should find *more* ways to celebrate the reality of USian diversity.
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"What about that 5-year-old citizen?" The 5-year-old citizens who know Ramos best are literally asking for his return.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
February 8, 2026 at 6:14 PM
"What about that 5-year-old citizen?" The 5-year-old citizens who know Ramos best are literally asking for his return.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
I'm not remotely confident the adult voters do any better.
February 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM
I'm not remotely confident the adult voters do any better.
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Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way
February 9, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way
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as you watch all of the rah-rah pageantry of the Super Bowl it’s astounding to remember that MAGA is so weird and offputting that they’ve apparently given football to the libs in the national divorce
February 8, 2026 at 11:36 PM
as you watch all of the rah-rah pageantry of the Super Bowl it’s astounding to remember that MAGA is so weird and offputting that they’ve apparently given football to the libs in the national divorce
I expect they would be happy to consider a white person born in Puerto Rico to be appropriately American without hesitation.
they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American
The Super Bowl halftime show, with Bad Bunny showcasing Latin music before a global television audience expected to top 100 million, will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star delivers an explicit political message.
February 8, 2026 at 5:46 PM
I expect they would be happy to consider a white person born in Puerto Rico to be appropriately American without hesitation.
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"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."
February 8, 2026 at 2:12 PM
"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."
I run the mom beat because it's the one I know best, but do you know what happens to a cesarean scar if you get scurvy?
Concentration camps:
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
lataco.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I run the mom beat because it's the one I know best, but do you know what happens to a cesarean scar if you get scurvy?
I wrote a mediocre essay in 2020, now lost to time, about how children's adventure films are part of the lie adults tell ourselves when we let ourselves get too used to the routine. It's not the kid's job! Adults have much greater access to power and resources! It's OUR job. All of it.
😭 our kids should not have to save us because far too many adults in far too many rooms have created the material conditions under which our children must fight
February 7, 2026 at 3:20 PM
I wrote a mediocre essay in 2020, now lost to time, about how children's adventure films are part of the lie adults tell ourselves when we let ourselves get too used to the routine. It's not the kid's job! Adults have much greater access to power and resources! It's OUR job. All of it.
I see "we got them out of LA and Chicago!!" way too often. I'm begging people to try to dedicate just one more ounce of attention to the thing that isn't Today's Thing. It's still everybody's fight and everybody's still fighting.
ICE is still snatching people in Southern CA, Los Angeles county and blocks from my house.
We don't have the large bullshit you're seeing in Minnesota or when they first pressed us...but they've never stopped.
We don't have the large bullshit you're seeing in Minnesota or when they first pressed us...but they've never stopped.
ICE isn’t out of Minnesota. Enforcement hasn’t stopped; in many places it’s intensified. What changed wasn’t the raids, it was the coverage. As pressure grew, cameras shifted and Democrats redirected the conversation. But ICE activity in Minnesota is still very real & ongoing. #FuckICE #AbolishICE
February 7, 2026 at 3:15 PM
I see "we got them out of LA and Chicago!!" way too often. I'm begging people to try to dedicate just one more ounce of attention to the thing that isn't Today's Thing. It's still everybody's fight and everybody's still fighting.
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In response to colder temperatures forecasted throughout the week, the City's Warming Centres, surge and additional shelter spaces remain open. Shelter system capacity remains available.
Daytime drop-ins are also available. For locations and more information: www.toronto.ca/homelesshelp
Daytime drop-ins are also available. For locations and more information: www.toronto.ca/homelesshelp
February 7, 2026 at 1:38 PM
In response to colder temperatures forecasted throughout the week, the City's Warming Centres, surge and additional shelter spaces remain open. Shelter system capacity remains available.
Daytime drop-ins are also available. For locations and more information: www.toronto.ca/homelesshelp
Daytime drop-ins are also available. For locations and more information: www.toronto.ca/homelesshelp
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Excellent, necessary episode of an excellent, necessary #podcast.
"Yeah, I definitely resonate with the heaviness. There’s this public escalation of the nervous system, but also there is so much like, 'Okay, what is the strategy? How do we move?'"
#movements #organizing #minneapolis #justice
"Yeah, I definitely resonate with the heaviness. There’s this public escalation of the nervous system, but also there is so much like, 'Okay, what is the strategy? How do we move?'"
#movements #organizing #minneapolis #justice
I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:
Minneapolis Community Defense Is “Riding on the Learning Edge of a Whirlwind”
“We are becoming the people that we always knew that we needed to be,” says Minneapolis organizer Andrew Fahlstrom.
truthout.org
February 5, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Excellent, necessary episode of an excellent, necessary #podcast.
"Yeah, I definitely resonate with the heaviness. There’s this public escalation of the nervous system, but also there is so much like, 'Okay, what is the strategy? How do we move?'"
#movements #organizing #minneapolis #justice
"Yeah, I definitely resonate with the heaviness. There’s this public escalation of the nervous system, but also there is so much like, 'Okay, what is the strategy? How do we move?'"
#movements #organizing #minneapolis #justice
We fail ourselves if we consider the acute and critical rise in fascist white supremacy to be an American phenomenon. The last 20 years have been similarly contentious across the colonized world. It's white male supremacy (necessarily held and passed on with aid of white women) all the way down.
February 6, 2026 at 1:14 PM
We fail ourselves if we consider the acute and critical rise in fascist white supremacy to be an American phenomenon. The last 20 years have been similarly contentious across the colonized world. It's white male supremacy (necessarily held and passed on with aid of white women) all the way down.
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drove my 8yo to music lessons. passed a different "ICE kidnapped someone here" sign i hadn't seen before. that's two in one afternoon on routes i happened to travel today.
nothing has changed. it's all still happening. relentless awfulness.
nothing has changed. it's all still happening. relentless awfulness.
February 4, 2026 at 11:39 PM
drove my 8yo to music lessons. passed a different "ICE kidnapped someone here" sign i hadn't seen before. that's two in one afternoon on routes i happened to travel today.
nothing has changed. it's all still happening. relentless awfulness.
nothing has changed. it's all still happening. relentless awfulness.
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PROTIP EVERYONE
When it's commonly considered a violation of fiduciary to advise or even assist a client in purchasing something maybe that something is bad
February 4, 2026 at 6:27 PM
PROTIP EVERYONE
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all people should be freed, of course, but the fact that we can't even get the party behind freeing children is so bleak
February 4, 2026 at 6:31 PM
all people should be freed, of course, but the fact that we can't even get the party behind freeing children is so bleak
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It’s just racism. There’s no immigration problem
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
February 4, 2026 at 1:29 PM
It’s just racism. There’s no immigration problem
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Since ICE got to Minneapolis, 5-year-old Vera has a new hobby: setting traps.
“All bad guys are trying to take dark skin people like my friend,” Vera said. “So I try to keep them safe.”
@setharichardson.bsky.social on how kids, parents, and schools are handling the upheaval of ICE violence.
“All bad guys are trying to take dark skin people like my friend,” Vera said. “So I try to keep them safe.”
@setharichardson.bsky.social on how kids, parents, and schools are handling the upheaval of ICE violence.
February 3, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Since ICE got to Minneapolis, 5-year-old Vera has a new hobby: setting traps.
“All bad guys are trying to take dark skin people like my friend,” Vera said. “So I try to keep them safe.”
@setharichardson.bsky.social on how kids, parents, and schools are handling the upheaval of ICE violence.
“All bad guys are trying to take dark skin people like my friend,” Vera said. “So I try to keep them safe.”
@setharichardson.bsky.social on how kids, parents, and schools are handling the upheaval of ICE violence.
You have to understand that the fundamental family value in question for family values Republicans is that men are in charge. The "white" is silent but understood.
February 4, 2026 at 1:38 PM
You have to understand that the fundamental family value in question for family values Republicans is that men are in charge. The "white" is silent but understood.
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A new edition of the 1 Million Experiments zine is here! It’s terrific as usual and includes a new zine which is a treasure. To jump-start neighborly relations, try one of the 50 (mostly untried) ways to meet your neighbors. Get into some Porchside Abolition. open.substack.com/pub/millione...
#11: Porch Side Abolition
New Zine: "50 Ways To Meet Your Neighbor"
open.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:55 AM
A new edition of the 1 Million Experiments zine is here! It’s terrific as usual and includes a new zine which is a treasure. To jump-start neighborly relations, try one of the 50 (mostly untried) ways to meet your neighbors. Get into some Porchside Abolition. open.substack.com/pub/millione...
This is also why you have to understand things like residential schools as concentration camps. Those kids were there to have their culture erased not just from their bodies but from the world. If they lived, it took a lot of work to keep training them to properly honor whiteness.
death by preventable disease is an inevitable and even desired outcome of concentration camps. in every era of concentration camps people have died of typhus, which is a disease of privation and enforced crowding. this illness is intentionally inflicted
Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
February 2, 2026 at 2:43 PM
This is also why you have to understand things like residential schools as concentration camps. Those kids were there to have their culture erased not just from their bodies but from the world. If they lived, it took a lot of work to keep training them to properly honor whiteness.
I need you to understand that most people know so little about immigration that they do not know there's a vast territory between undocumented/overstay and citizens. Their mind is citizen and non-citizen.
And not to put too fine a point on it, but a president who ran on eliminating “illegal” immigrants created a ton more “illegal” immigrants by canceling a bunch of actual real legal statuses. He took people off the path that everyone says they want people on.
I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.
February 2, 2026 at 2:39 PM
I need you to understand that most people know so little about immigration that they do not know there's a vast territory between undocumented/overstay and citizens. Their mind is citizen and non-citizen.
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An extreme Kansas bill will invalidate the drivers license of every trans person in the state. It was passed alongside a particularly extreme bathroom bill, meaning that the implications of every trans Kansan losing legal ID overnight has largely been missed.
Kansas Bill Will Strip Driver’s Licenses from Every Trans Resident Who Changed Gender — Assigned
As Kansas passes a bathroom bill, another bill that will invalidate the driver’s license of every trans resident has been deemphasized in the coverage. Also, Trump’s Department of Education says San J...
www.assignedmedia.org
February 2, 2026 at 11:01 AM
An extreme Kansas bill will invalidate the drivers license of every trans person in the state. It was passed alongside a particularly extreme bathroom bill, meaning that the implications of every trans Kansan losing legal ID overnight has largely been missed.
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Imbolc
Summon forth our spirit of renewal
With the turning of the wheel
As we determine that which must be put to rest
And envision all which is ready to be awakened.
❄️🕯️🌱
Summon forth our spirit of renewal
With the turning of the wheel
As we determine that which must be put to rest
And envision all which is ready to be awakened.
❄️🕯️🌱
February 2, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Imbolc
Summon forth our spirit of renewal
With the turning of the wheel
As we determine that which must be put to rest
And envision all which is ready to be awakened.
❄️🕯️🌱
Summon forth our spirit of renewal
With the turning of the wheel
As we determine that which must be put to rest
And envision all which is ready to be awakened.
❄️🕯️🌱