Gaylene Pheysey 🌮
@desertortoise.bsky.social
Mom to 3 fantastic kids, got a cute hubby and cute dog, living in SE WA, closer to 50 than 40, member of https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/?lang=eng 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🫶
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In 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited New York City on his way home from accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway. Speaking to a packed crowd at City Hall, Dr. King said,
"Those who have sat so long in darkness now find themselves lighting the way for others...”
"Those who have sat so long in darkness now find themselves lighting the way for others...”
January 19, 2026 at 4:39 PM
In 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited New York City on his way home from accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway. Speaking to a packed crowd at City Hall, Dr. King said,
"Those who have sat so long in darkness now find themselves lighting the way for others...”
"Those who have sat so long in darkness now find themselves lighting the way for others...”
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“They will hold this torch high without faltering because they have weathered the battering storms of persecution and withstood the temptation to retreat to a more quiet and serene life.”
These words continue to inspire and guide us, on MLK day and every day that follows.
These words continue to inspire and guide us, on MLK day and every day that follows.
January 19, 2026 at 4:39 PM
“They will hold this torch high without faltering because they have weathered the battering storms of persecution and withstood the temptation to retreat to a more quiet and serene life.”
These words continue to inspire and guide us, on MLK day and every day that follows.
These words continue to inspire and guide us, on MLK day and every day that follows.
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Cow Tools!
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Cow Tools!
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
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“We have done so much for America”: Denmark fought alongside the U.S. in Afghanistan. Now, as Trump eyes Greenland, the families of fallen soldiers have a message for him, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/I8nGcxwO
January 19, 2026 at 5:45 PM
“We have done so much for America”: Denmark fought alongside the U.S. in Afghanistan. Now, as Trump eyes Greenland, the families of fallen soldiers have a message for him, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/I8nGcxwO
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It's cool that these guys just use pepper spray casually now, against people who are wholly within their rights, without a moment's hesitation. Several shots of them using it as they climb into their cars and drive away, not even a pretense of urgency or need. Just a parting "fuck you" to them.
This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
January 19, 2026 at 4:44 PM
It's cool that these guys just use pepper spray casually now, against people who are wholly within their rights, without a moment's hesitation. Several shots of them using it as they climb into their cars and drive away, not even a pretense of urgency or need. Just a parting "fuck you" to them.
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This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
January 19, 2026 at 3:46 PM
This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
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i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
January 19, 2026 at 3:05 PM
i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
Here is the message that the Norwegian PM had sent just before Trump’s absurd response.
Full text from Norway’s PM that triggered Trump’s Greenland-Nobel prize meltdown
Full text from Norway’s PM that triggered Trump’s Greenland-Nobel prize meltdown
Full text from Norway’s PM that triggered Trump’s Greenland-Nobel prize meltdown
www.independent.co.uk
January 19, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Here is the message that the Norwegian PM had sent just before Trump’s absurd response.
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mad king moment
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:09 AM
mad king moment
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
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Full text from Norway’s PM that triggered Trump’s Greenland-Nobel prize meltdown
Full text from Norway’s PM that triggered Trump’s Greenland-Nobel prize meltdown
Full text from Norway’s PM that triggered Trump’s Greenland-Nobel prize meltdown
www.independent.co.uk
January 19, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Full text from Norway’s PM that triggered Trump’s Greenland-Nobel prize meltdown
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The question of offering pastoral care to immigrant detainees has become a theological and legal flashpoint since President Donald Trump launched his mass deportation effort last year.
religionnews.com/2026/01/13/f...
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Faith leaders are denied access to immigration detainees in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — The question of offering pastoral care to immigrant detainees has become a theological and legal flashpoint since President Donald Trump launched his mass deportation effort last…
religionnews.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:02 PM
The question of offering pastoral care to immigrant detainees has become a theological and legal flashpoint since President Donald Trump launched his mass deportation effort last year.
religionnews.com/2026/01/13/f...
religionnews.com/2026/01/13/f...
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Once again, it all should have ended immediately in 2017, when he started monetizing the presidency at his hotel blocks from the White House.
January 18, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Once again, it all should have ended immediately in 2017, when he started monetizing the presidency at his hotel blocks from the White House.
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Heard from a public school staffer.
ICE agents follow school buses on their afternoon routes & target some parents picking up kids from bus stops.
If ICE knew anything abt particular parents, they'd go to homes.
Seems they're just leveraging kids' vulnerability & mixing with racial profiling.
ICE agents follow school buses on their afternoon routes & target some parents picking up kids from bus stops.
If ICE knew anything abt particular parents, they'd go to homes.
Seems they're just leveraging kids' vulnerability & mixing with racial profiling.
January 15, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Heard from a public school staffer.
ICE agents follow school buses on their afternoon routes & target some parents picking up kids from bus stops.
If ICE knew anything abt particular parents, they'd go to homes.
Seems they're just leveraging kids' vulnerability & mixing with racial profiling.
ICE agents follow school buses on their afternoon routes & target some parents picking up kids from bus stops.
If ICE knew anything abt particular parents, they'd go to homes.
Seems they're just leveraging kids' vulnerability & mixing with racial profiling.
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Sub-zero resistance: Minnesotans standing tall against ICE.
January 18, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Sub-zero resistance: Minnesotans standing tall against ICE.
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Noem: the paid protestors in Minnesota.
Minnesota:
Minnesota:
Sub-zero resistance: Minnesotans standing tall against ICE.
January 18, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Noem: the paid protestors in Minnesota.
Minnesota:
Minnesota:
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They should call him Carte Blanche
BREAM: Is the FBI investigating the ICE agent who shot Renee Good?
BLANCHE: What happened has been reviewed by millions of Americans bc it was recorded. We investigate when it's appropriate. That is not the case here. We are not going to bow to pressure. So no, we are not investigating.
BLANCHE: What happened has been reviewed by millions of Americans bc it was recorded. We investigate when it's appropriate. That is not the case here. We are not going to bow to pressure. So no, we are not investigating.
January 18, 2026 at 10:52 PM
They should call him Carte Blanche
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@gideonrachman: "Europe must not appease Trump on Greenland
By capitulating again, the EU and UK would signal that we are now irrevocably in a might-makes-right world"
www.ft.com/content/2642...
By capitulating again, the EU and UK would signal that we are now irrevocably in a might-makes-right world"
www.ft.com/content/2642...
Europe must not appease Trump on Greenland
By capitulating again, the EU and UK would signal that we are now irrevocably in a might-makes-right world
www.ft.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:52 PM
@gideonrachman: "Europe must not appease Trump on Greenland
By capitulating again, the EU and UK would signal that we are now irrevocably in a might-makes-right world"
www.ft.com/content/2642...
By capitulating again, the EU and UK would signal that we are now irrevocably in a might-makes-right world"
www.ft.com/content/2642...
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Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.
January 18, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.
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“We have moved beyond the place of sternly worded letters, right?” said Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan.
religionnews.com/2026/01/15/m...
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Mourning in Minnesota
(RNS) — America is witnessing more than an immigration enforcement surge — we are witnessing an escalation of unchecked federal force that is deadly.
religionnews.com
January 18, 2026 at 9:15 PM
“We have moved beyond the place of sternly worded letters, right?” said Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan.
religionnews.com/2026/01/15/m...
religionnews.com/2026/01/15/m...
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
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Trump is definitely committed >50% of the 27 grievances we listed about the Mad King George III on July 4, 1776.
(1) "He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good." (Trump ✅)
January 18, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Trump is definitely committed >50% of the 27 grievances we listed about the Mad King George III on July 4, 1776.
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Kristi Noem is the one who released Jonathan Ross's name to the public but she's angry that anyone else would repeat what she revealed.
Pretty sure her noggin is 90% botox and fillers at this point.
Pretty sure her noggin is 90% botox and fillers at this point.
January 18, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Kristi Noem is the one who released Jonathan Ross's name to the public but she's angry that anyone else would repeat what she revealed.
Pretty sure her noggin is 90% botox and fillers at this point.
Pretty sure her noggin is 90% botox and fillers at this point.
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In addition to my law firm, I started Democracy Docket to keep you informed about what is happening to democracy with a particular focus on elections and the courts. It is a great resource and you can sign up for free. Or, you can pay $10, get premium content and help support it. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
January 18, 2026 at 9:20 PM
In addition to my law firm, I started Democracy Docket to keep you informed about what is happening to democracy with a particular focus on elections and the courts. It is a great resource and you can sign up for free. Or, you can pay $10, get premium content and help support it. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0