InkBetweenFreckles
@inkonelbows.bsky.social
It turned out that things like morals, empathy and dignity are like trees---they take decades to grow. They can also be clear cut just like trees: when ppl are doused daily with fear, bigotry and hate. *Please credit work of artists whose work you post!
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It started with everyone being fine with throwing immune compromised under the Covid bus ...on their way to brunch.
Full on apathy and don't give AF led to this mess.
Wearing a mask to protect others was just too "weird".
Full on apathy and don't give AF led to this mess.
Wearing a mask to protect others was just too "weird".
Wowsa.
That was an amazing half time show.
I didn't understand a word of it but I loved every minute of it.
That was an amazing half time show.
I didn't understand a word of it but I loved every minute of it.
February 9, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Wowsa.
That was an amazing half time show.
I didn't understand a word of it but I loved every minute of it.
That was an amazing half time show.
I didn't understand a word of it but I loved every minute of it.
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For all that’s written about right-wing billionaires and democracy right now, their deep hostility to public education is under-covered.
The through-lines are shared hostility to:
local government that citizens encounter each day,
emphases on equity (both racial and economic),
labor unions.
The through-lines are shared hostility to:
local government that citizens encounter each day,
emphases on equity (both racial and economic),
labor unions.
Just before election 2024 @nhannahjones.bsky.social invited to me to speak at her Center for Journalism & Democracy summit on oligarchy.
My topic was billionaire threats to public education, rooted in resistance to the Civil Rights era.
Thinking about Nikole’s event a lot this week.
My topic was billionaire threats to public education, rooted in resistance to the Civil Rights era.
Thinking about Nikole’s event a lot this week.
February 6, 2026 at 8:15 PM
For all that’s written about right-wing billionaires and democracy right now, their deep hostility to public education is under-covered.
The through-lines are shared hostility to:
local government that citizens encounter each day,
emphases on equity (both racial and economic),
labor unions.
The through-lines are shared hostility to:
local government that citizens encounter each day,
emphases on equity (both racial and economic),
labor unions.
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🎥 NEW: Trump is more desperate than ever — and he’s getting serious about taking over elections.
@marcelias.bsky.social breaks down Trump’s escalating threats, DOJ ballot seizures and the real plan to undermine free and fair voting in targeted states and cities. Watch it now👇
@marcelias.bsky.social breaks down Trump’s escalating threats, DOJ ballot seizures and the real plan to undermine free and fair voting in targeted states and cities. Watch it now👇
DESPERATE Trump Plans Hostile Election Takeover
Donald Trump is more desperate than ever — and now he’s saying the quiet part out loud about taking over elections ahead of the 2026 midterms. Marc Elias breaks down Trump’s escalating threats, DOJ ballot seizures, and the real plan to undermine free an...
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February 8, 2026 at 9:39 PM
🎥 NEW: Trump is more desperate than ever — and he’s getting serious about taking over elections.
@marcelias.bsky.social breaks down Trump’s escalating threats, DOJ ballot seizures and the real plan to undermine free and fair voting in targeted states and cities. Watch it now👇
@marcelias.bsky.social breaks down Trump’s escalating threats, DOJ ballot seizures and the real plan to undermine free and fair voting in targeted states and cities. Watch it now👇
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:
Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down
Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged
Thuggish violence against observers: Way up
Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down
Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged
Thuggish violence against observers: Way up
February 8, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:
Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down
Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged
Thuggish violence against observers: Way up
Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down
Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged
Thuggish violence against observers: Way up
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How fitting that this happened at Morrill Hall, named after the 1862 act giving stolen Native American land to land grant universities like UMinn to promote settler colonialist agriculture and its extractive practices.
Another colonizer institution perpetuating racism and ignoring its own history.
Another colonizer institution perpetuating racism and ignoring its own history.
NEW: In a protest against the University of Minnesota’s accommodation of DHS & ICE, 6 students chained themselves to Morrill Hall demanding the university be a sanctuary campus. Three of the chained students left after being threatened with academic retaliation and police arrested the remaining 3.
February 7, 2026 at 1:19 AM
How fitting that this happened at Morrill Hall, named after the 1862 act giving stolen Native American land to land grant universities like UMinn to promote settler colonialist agriculture and its extractive practices.
Another colonizer institution perpetuating racism and ignoring its own history.
Another colonizer institution perpetuating racism and ignoring its own history.
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In this episode, I explain Trump’s escalating threats, DOJ ballot seizures, and the real plan to undermine free and fair voting in targeted states and cities.
Watch and share.
youtu.be/ODU-tIrb4iA?...
Watch and share.
youtu.be/ODU-tIrb4iA?...
DESPERATE Trump Plans Hostile Election Takeover
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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February 8, 2026 at 2:50 AM
In this episode, I explain Trump’s escalating threats, DOJ ballot seizures, and the real plan to undermine free and fair voting in targeted states and cities.
Watch and share.
youtu.be/ODU-tIrb4iA?...
Watch and share.
youtu.be/ODU-tIrb4iA?...
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Trump will not attend the Super Bowl because he can’t take being booed mercilessly.
He has canceled the F-22 flyover because if he can’t be there so he’s taking his toys and going home.
Meanwhile, the Pedo Bowl is being projected on buildings.
He has canceled the F-22 flyover because if he can’t be there so he’s taking his toys and going home.
Meanwhile, the Pedo Bowl is being projected on buildings.
February 7, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Trump will not attend the Super Bowl because he can’t take being booed mercilessly.
He has canceled the F-22 flyover because if he can’t be there so he’s taking his toys and going home.
Meanwhile, the Pedo Bowl is being projected on buildings.
He has canceled the F-22 flyover because if he can’t be there so he’s taking his toys and going home.
Meanwhile, the Pedo Bowl is being projected on buildings.
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A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked. A judge ruled his arrest was unlawful.
Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked.
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February 7, 2026 at 3:57 PM
A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked. A judge ruled his arrest was unlawful.
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James Baldwin understood what truth requires.
Writer. Essayist. A voice that confronted power and named the danger plainly.
Black History. Always. 🖤
#SheShed #Voices4Victory
Writer. Essayist. A voice that confronted power and named the danger plainly.
Black History. Always. 🖤
#SheShed #Voices4Victory
February 7, 2026 at 5:02 PM
James Baldwin understood what truth requires.
Writer. Essayist. A voice that confronted power and named the danger plainly.
Black History. Always. 🖤
#SheShed #Voices4Victory
Writer. Essayist. A voice that confronted power and named the danger plainly.
Black History. Always. 🖤
#SheShed #Voices4Victory
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This vector of attack worries me a lot more than the wandering ICE goons on Election Day.
Here's @rickhasen.bsky.social detailing the scenario in which Trump uses search warrant to seize ballot boxes in a contested 2026 locale. This is more worrisome than ICE at the polls. Hasen also suggests ways to act against this now.
It's harrowing stuff:
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
It's harrowing stuff:
newrepublic.com/article/2062...
February 6, 2026 at 8:54 PM
This vector of attack worries me a lot more than the wandering ICE goons on Election Day.
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Get this man out of office.
NEW STORY: Trump admits he was the one who found the video and asked that it be posted from his Truth Social account. Refuses to apologize.
February 7, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Get this man out of office.
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Just a day after Trump pushed for Republicans to “nationalize voting,” Steve Bannon said Republicans are “going to have ICE surround the polls come November.”
The statements add onto growing concerns that the president and his GOP allies are plotting to interfere in this year’s midterms.
The statements add onto growing concerns that the president and his GOP allies are plotting to interfere in this year’s midterms.
Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections
Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...
www.democracydocket.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Just a day after Trump pushed for Republicans to “nationalize voting,” Steve Bannon said Republicans are “going to have ICE surround the polls come November.”
The statements add onto growing concerns that the president and his GOP allies are plotting to interfere in this year’s midterms.
The statements add onto growing concerns that the president and his GOP allies are plotting to interfere in this year’s midterms.
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
www.propublica.org
February 7, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
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It wasn’t a mistake.
It wasn’t done by a staffer.
It’s not a funny meme.
There are no gorillas in The Lion King.
Trump is showing you who and what he is.
Believe him.
Don’t use ableist sanist language. He’s a racist bigot.
He’s always been a racist bigot.
It wasn’t done by a staffer.
It’s not a funny meme.
There are no gorillas in The Lion King.
Trump is showing you who and what he is.
Believe him.
Don’t use ableist sanist language. He’s a racist bigot.
He’s always been a racist bigot.
February 6, 2026 at 9:17 PM
It wasn’t a mistake.
It wasn’t done by a staffer.
It’s not a funny meme.
There are no gorillas in The Lion King.
Trump is showing you who and what he is.
Believe him.
Don’t use ableist sanist language. He’s a racist bigot.
He’s always been a racist bigot.
It wasn’t done by a staffer.
It’s not a funny meme.
There are no gorillas in The Lion King.
Trump is showing you who and what he is.
Believe him.
Don’t use ableist sanist language. He’s a racist bigot.
He’s always been a racist bigot.
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seems that when the cryptobros were running amok yelling “have fun being poor!” a monkey’s paw curled
February 5, 2026 at 11:13 PM
seems that when the cryptobros were running amok yelling “have fun being poor!” a monkey’s paw curled
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Read it all please.
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
February 5, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Read it all please.
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This is the way.
New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced
Canadian Province New Brunswick to Quit Using Elon Musk’s X
New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced Thursday.
bloom.bg
February 5, 2026 at 10:29 PM
This is the way.
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Wait! The public face of nationwide immigration enforcement, Gregory Bovino, said in a newly discovered email that his boss wasn’t the head of CBP. He reported to Corey Lewandowski instead.
He’s a political operative with zero law-enforcement background calling the shots on immigration enforcement.
He’s a political operative with zero law-enforcement background calling the shots on immigration enforcement.
February 5, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Wait! The public face of nationwide immigration enforcement, Gregory Bovino, said in a newly discovered email that his boss wasn’t the head of CBP. He reported to Corey Lewandowski instead.
He’s a political operative with zero law-enforcement background calling the shots on immigration enforcement.
He’s a political operative with zero law-enforcement background calling the shots on immigration enforcement.
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Children in South Carolina are developing rare brain swelling complications after measles outbreak trib.al/YRnKgEt
Children in South Carolina are developing rare brain swelling after measles outbreak
The majority of the Southeast state’s 876 cases have been in unvaccinated children
trib.al
February 5, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Children in South Carolina are developing rare brain swelling complications after measles outbreak trib.al/YRnKgEt
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📹 Eyes On ICE: Document and Record training
Tonight @ 8 PM EST
Details and RSVP 👇
Tonight @ 8 PM EST
Details and RSVP 👇
Eyes on ICE: Document and Record | Indivisible
On 1/24/26, federal agents horrifically shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who cared for veterans, in the Eat Street neighborhood of south Minneapolis after brutally beating him in front of witnesses.
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February 5, 2026 at 4:38 PM
📹 Eyes On ICE: Document and Record training
Tonight @ 8 PM EST
Details and RSVP 👇
Tonight @ 8 PM EST
Details and RSVP 👇
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I’m not a Texan, but it’s hard to ignore what’s happening in the Democratic Senate primary in the state. We’re all clocking it, right?
Let’s start with what should be obvious: whoever wins the Democratic nomination, we Dems should support him or her.
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Let’s start with what should be obvious: whoever wins the Democratic nomination, we Dems should support him or her.
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February 5, 2026 at 2:19 AM
I’m not a Texan, but it’s hard to ignore what’s happening in the Democratic Senate primary in the state. We’re all clocking it, right?
Let’s start with what should be obvious: whoever wins the Democratic nomination, we Dems should support him or her.
🧵
Let’s start with what should be obvious: whoever wins the Democratic nomination, we Dems should support him or her.
🧵
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I hope every Democratic member of the House and Senate reads this and factors it into whatever funding bill gets agreed to. We have seen what ICE can do to U.S. Citizens in the streets, imagine what they will do at the polls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections
Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...
www.democracydocket.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:34 PM
I hope every Democratic member of the House and Senate reads this and factors it into whatever funding bill gets agreed to. We have seen what ICE can do to U.S. Citizens in the streets, imagine what they will do at the polls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...