Bright Echo
@brightecho.bsky.social
Writer & Composer | Critter Enthusiast | Wanderer of Unusual Places
Always chasing new adventures, fascinating folks & stories they carry. Leftist with a penchant for wandering off the beaten path & a PhD in meeting strangers who somehow become friends.
Always chasing new adventures, fascinating folks & stories they carry. Leftist with a penchant for wandering off the beaten path & a PhD in meeting strangers who somehow become friends.
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Makes me want to cry when you think we could have had Kamala and Walz, and may have...I don't trust the election result we got.
January 25, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Makes me want to cry when you think we could have had Kamala and Walz, and may have...I don't trust the election result we got.
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Truly awful people
January 25, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Truly awful people
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Some cities actually arrest ICE. The others(looking at you Minneapolis) allow ICE.
Some cities actually arrest ICE. The others(looking at you Minneapolis) allow ICE.
Nick Perri (@xplicitpolitix)
Philly is not fucking around. This should be happening in EVERY. FUCKING. CITY!
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January 24, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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Some cities actually arrest ICE. The others(looking at you Minneapolis) allow ICE.
Some cities actually arrest ICE. The others(looking at you Minneapolis) allow ICE.
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For all lives lost and for Alex Pretti it is insane, immoral to keep calling these illegal forces “ federal officers”.
January 25, 2026 at 3:54 PM
For all lives lost and for Alex Pretti it is insane, immoral to keep calling these illegal forces “ federal officers”.
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Like most here, I am horrified and heartbroken over what has happened in Minneapolis with the death of yet another brave citizen in the fight against ICE abuses. No one should have to pay that price for our freedom, and no family should have to hear that terrible news.
January 25, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Like most here, I am horrified and heartbroken over what has happened in Minneapolis with the death of yet another brave citizen in the fight against ICE abuses. No one should have to pay that price for our freedom, and no family should have to hear that terrible news.
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In January 2025, the Washington Post urged confirmation of Noem and Bondi.
Democracy Docket opposed them from the start. Subscribe to and support pro-democracy, independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
Democracy Docket opposed them from the start. Subscribe to and support pro-democracy, independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
January 24, 2026 at 10:49 PM
In January 2025, the Washington Post urged confirmation of Noem and Bondi.
Democracy Docket opposed them from the start. Subscribe to and support pro-democracy, independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
Democracy Docket opposed them from the start. Subscribe to and support pro-democracy, independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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Margaret W. Rossiter coined the term “Matilda effect” to describe the bias against acknowledging the achievements of women scientists. Some cases illustrating the Matilda effect include Eunice Foote, Rosalind Franklin, & Jocelyn Bell Burnell
#Womeninstem
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#Womeninstem
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Eunice Foote, climate change, and the Matilda Effect
The birth of modern science was hostile to women’s participation. The world’s major academies of science were founded in the 17th century: the Royal Society of London (1662), the Paris Académie Roy…
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January 24, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Margaret W. Rossiter coined the term “Matilda effect” to describe the bias against acknowledging the achievements of women scientists. Some cases illustrating the Matilda effect include Eunice Foote, Rosalind Franklin, & Jocelyn Bell Burnell
#Womeninstem
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#Womeninstem
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The 🇨🇦 Canadian company, #Roshel, is selling more than $10 million worth of armoured vehicles to US Immigration & Customs Enforcement, or #ICE:
@thetyee.ca
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@thetyee.ca
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A Canadian Company Is Supplying Armoured Cars to ICE | The Tyee
The Canadian government should consider companies’ complicity in US human rights violations when sourcing contracts.
thetyee.ca
January 25, 2026 at 8:16 AM
The 🇨🇦 Canadian company, #Roshel, is selling more than $10 million worth of armoured vehicles to US Immigration & Customs Enforcement, or #ICE:
@thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
@thetyee.ca
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I've been saying. Hard to vote with gas, drones and guns to your heads.
I believe we need to shut down the economy.
Fascists eventually seize their enemies assets anyway.
A short term shut down now is better than a forever fascist regime that takes away your rights AND your assets.
I believe we need to shut down the economy.
Fascists eventually seize their enemies assets anyway.
A short term shut down now is better than a forever fascist regime that takes away your rights AND your assets.
January 24, 2026 at 6:03 PM
I've been saying. Hard to vote with gas, drones and guns to your heads.
I believe we need to shut down the economy.
Fascists eventually seize their enemies assets anyway.
A short term shut down now is better than a forever fascist regime that takes away your rights AND your assets.
I believe we need to shut down the economy.
Fascists eventually seize their enemies assets anyway.
A short term shut down now is better than a forever fascist regime that takes away your rights AND your assets.
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If you’re able, please support this verified GoFundMe for Alex Pretti’s family. And if you’re not in a position to donate, sharing it far and wide matters just as much. It’s at $300K and counting.
Donate to Alex Pretti is an American Hero, organized by Keith Edwards
On January 24, 2026, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a Minneapolis resident and American citizen wa… Keith Edwards needs your support for Alex Pretti is an American Hero
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January 25, 2026 at 6:26 AM
If you’re able, please support this verified GoFundMe for Alex Pretti’s family. And if you’re not in a position to donate, sharing it far and wide matters just as much. It’s at $300K and counting.
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Those Dems need to resign or be primaried. We need an opposition to this tyrannical regime.
January 24, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Those Dems need to resign or be primaried. We need an opposition to this tyrannical regime.
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Do people realize there are always a few Dems who vote to pass GOP atrocities, like the recent extra $10B in ICE funding? Will the Senate pass it as well, after today’s murder?
January 24, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Do people realize there are always a few Dems who vote to pass GOP atrocities, like the recent extra $10B in ICE funding? Will the Senate pass it as well, after today’s murder?
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“The Global Gag Rule is a disastrous and deadly US policy. It forces many struggling organizations that depend on US funding into an impossible choice: limit essential healthcare for the most vulnerable populations or shut their doors."
– Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International
– Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International
USA: Expansion of Global Gag Rule will threaten lives and rights of millions worldwide
In response to the expected announcement by the Trump administration on Friday of an expansion of the Global Gag Rule blocking US international aid to non-governmental organizations that provide abort...
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January 25, 2026 at 3:46 AM
“The Global Gag Rule is a disastrous and deadly US policy. It forces many struggling organizations that depend on US funding into an impossible choice: limit essential healthcare for the most vulnerable populations or shut their doors."
– Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International
– Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International
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Abolish ICE. Prosecute the murderers. Impeach Noem and Trump. At a minimum. This week.
January 25, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Abolish ICE. Prosecute the murderers. Impeach Noem and Trump. At a minimum. This week.
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This time, Trump will be held accountable ... even if he dies from a Big Mac, he can be posthumously tried and convicted, his assets seized and his family members as well. Make Trump hands down the most reviled name in history and on earth
January 25, 2026 at 6:10 AM
This time, Trump will be held accountable ... even if he dies from a Big Mac, he can be posthumously tried and convicted, his assets seized and his family members as well. Make Trump hands down the most reviled name in history and on earth
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When we finally get a legitimate government in DC, these thugs must be held accountable.
And the department heads who lied about what actually happened.
Nixon didn't go to jail, but some of his henchmen did. Looking at you Bondi, Patel, Noem, Bovino.
And the department heads who lied about what actually happened.
Nixon didn't go to jail, but some of his henchmen did. Looking at you Bondi, Patel, Noem, Bovino.
January 25, 2026 at 4:20 AM
When we finally get a legitimate government in DC, these thugs must be held accountable.
And the department heads who lied about what actually happened.
Nixon didn't go to jail, but some of his henchmen did. Looking at you Bondi, Patel, Noem, Bovino.
And the department heads who lied about what actually happened.
Nixon didn't go to jail, but some of his henchmen did. Looking at you Bondi, Patel, Noem, Bovino.
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Get Stephen Miller out of the White House
Kristi Noem out of the DHS
Pete Hegseth out of the Defense Department.
Trump out of our White House.
Kristi Noem out of the DHS
Pete Hegseth out of the Defense Department.
Trump out of our White House.
January 25, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Get Stephen Miller out of the White House
Kristi Noem out of the DHS
Pete Hegseth out of the Defense Department.
Trump out of our White House.
Kristi Noem out of the DHS
Pete Hegseth out of the Defense Department.
Trump out of our White House.
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Family Statement
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January 25, 2026 at 3:57 AM
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They spelled “permanently abolish ICE, and impeach and charge Noem, Bondi, Miller, Vance and Trump” wrong.
Abolishing ICE is essential but isn’t enough. Everyone who empowered them needs to be held accountable for their crimes.
Abolishing ICE is essential but isn’t enough. Everyone who empowered them needs to be held accountable for their crimes.
A pause in ICE activity in Minnesota is not debatable after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti Saturday morning in south Minneapolis, writes the Star Tribune Editorial Board.
Editorial | An ICE pause is the only path to peace
A pause in ICE activity in Minnesota is not debatable after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti Saturday morning in south Minneapolis, writes the Star Tribune Editorial Board.
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January 25, 2026 at 3:40 AM
They spelled “permanently abolish ICE, and impeach and charge Noem, Bondi, Miller, Vance and Trump” wrong.
Abolishing ICE is essential but isn’t enough. Everyone who empowered them needs to be held accountable for their crimes.
Abolishing ICE is essential but isn’t enough. Everyone who empowered them needs to be held accountable for their crimes.
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Turning over voter rolls (extortion) and ICE leaving Minnesota are completely unrelated issues. Bondi & Trump are obviously transparent and they’ll steal the election if they can. They have to. If not Republicans will be demolished in the midterms and ALL of them go to jail. Burn, baby, burn.
January 25, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Turning over voter rolls (extortion) and ICE leaving Minnesota are completely unrelated issues. Bondi & Trump are obviously transparent and they’ll steal the election if they can. They have to. If not Republicans will be demolished in the midterms and ALL of them go to jail. Burn, baby, burn.
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AG Bondi demands access to Minnesota voter rolls after fatal shooting.
This is maybe the most shocking thing that anyone could even imagine happening at a moment like this.
But a bizarre and horrifying event like this makes perfect sense. It's transactional and tied to murder and mayhem.
This is maybe the most shocking thing that anyone could even imagine happening at a moment like this.
But a bizarre and horrifying event like this makes perfect sense. It's transactional and tied to murder and mayhem.
January 25, 2026 at 4:09 AM
AG Bondi demands access to Minnesota voter rolls after fatal shooting.
This is maybe the most shocking thing that anyone could even imagine happening at a moment like this.
But a bizarre and horrifying event like this makes perfect sense. It's transactional and tied to murder and mayhem.
This is maybe the most shocking thing that anyone could even imagine happening at a moment like this.
But a bizarre and horrifying event like this makes perfect sense. It's transactional and tied to murder and mayhem.
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Regardless of if or how SCOTUS would rule on this… it’s important to try because trying makes them use resources, slows them down, changes the narrative.
You know, the same thing those GOP POS are doing to us.
You know, the same thing those GOP POS are doing to us.
January 25, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Regardless of if or how SCOTUS would rule on this… it’s important to try because trying makes them use resources, slows them down, changes the narrative.
You know, the same thing those GOP POS are doing to us.
You know, the same thing those GOP POS are doing to us.
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Am I right to assume that the Bondi letter to Walz can be used against the admin in court to show that the ICE deployments aren't actually vital to national security or any such bullshit?
January 25, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Am I right to assume that the Bondi letter to Walz can be used against the admin in court to show that the ICE deployments aren't actually vital to national security or any such bullshit?
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Let's monkey wrench ICE, there are easy ways of doing so and there are MILLIONS OF US NOW!!!
#UnplugICE
#ICE #AbolishICE #ICEOut
#Minneapolis #Minnesota #Good #Pretti
#CBP #DHS #Trump #Bovino #Noem #Bondi #Leavitt
#UnplugICE
#ICE #AbolishICE #ICEOut
#Minneapolis #Minnesota #Good #Pretti
#CBP #DHS #Trump #Bovino #Noem #Bondi #Leavitt
#UnplugICE. A Distributed General Strike.
ICE doesn't operate in a vacuum. Behind every person killed, every raid, every detention, every deportation flight is a web of corporations cashing checks.
unplugice.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Let's monkey wrench ICE, there are easy ways of doing so and there are MILLIONS OF US NOW!!!
#UnplugICE
#ICE #AbolishICE #ICEOut
#Minneapolis #Minnesota #Good #Pretti
#CBP #DHS #Trump #Bovino #Noem #Bondi #Leavitt
#UnplugICE
#ICE #AbolishICE #ICEOut
#Minneapolis #Minnesota #Good #Pretti
#CBP #DHS #Trump #Bovino #Noem #Bondi #Leavitt