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Katie Holten
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Artist | Author of THE LANGUAGE OF TREES | Rights of Nature 🌿Climate Justice | Long COVID 😷 Dysautonomia 🫠 | Tree Alphabet | Irish | Born @331ppm | RESIST Bio: https://www.katieholten.com/about Language of Trees: https://bit.ly/LanguageTrees
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · Nov 21
Hello! It's lovely to see everyone here. For those who don't know me; I’m Katie Holten, an artist and dreamer. I like sharing the beauty I find in the world. I made a book called The Language of Trees. I'm learning to live with long COVID. I'm Irish, so I've a grá for blue skies. More trees please!
A human is walking along a country lane under a big blue sky. The landscape on either side of the little road is green with rolling stony mountains in the background. There is not a single tree. The human is a white lady is dressed in black. There are a few piggy white clouds in the sky coming in low over the mountains.
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 1d
New Yorkers were outside ICE HQ again today in solidarity with those abducted & abused by ICE. Rise and Resist holds a silent vigil every Thursday, 26 Federal Plaza, 12-1PM.

The next big march: #HANDSOFFNYC, October 18th, Times Square, 11AM.
INFO: nokingsnyc.com

#NOKINGS #AbolishICE #HandsOffTish
Photo of people protesting outside 26 Federal Plaza in NYC. People hold a large banner that says: ABOLISH ICE. A woman wearing red sunglasses and a sundress raises her right fist in the air. The other women hold signs that say: ICE AGENTS: WHAT DO YOU TELL YOUR FAMILIES? DEMOCRACIES DON'T DO THIS. Some of the windows above the staff entrance have been replaced by plywood. Rise and Resist holds a Silent Vigil outside of I.C.E. headquarters in NYC *every* Thursday, 12 – 1pm. Join us for a silent vigil calling out ICE for abducting immigrants. This may be a silent vigil, but our message is loud! This sidewalk is open to pedestrians and therefore it is legal to protest there. Courage is Contagious. Join the Resistance. Photo of a woman holding a sign outside ICE Headquarters in NYC at 26 Federal Plaza. The woman has shaggy blonde brown grey hair and wears sunglasses and a scarf and a jacket. She has a NO KINGS sticker on her jacket. Her sign says: HANDS OFF OUR NEIGHBORS and has two red hands. There is a green hedge behind her and windows of the building where ICE agents abduct innocent people. Rise and Resist holds a Silent Vigil outside of I.C.E. headquarters in NYC *every* Thursday, 12 – 1pm. Join us for a silent vigil calling out ICE for abducting immigrants. This may be a silent vigil, but our message is loud! This sidewalk is open to pedestrians and therefore it is legal to protest there. Courage is Contagious. Join the Resistance. Photo of people protesting outside ICE headquarters in NYC at 26 Federal Plaza. They hold a black and white banner that says: ICE OUT OF NYC with the Statue of Liberty and a red outline. A woman on the right wears sunglasses and is dressed in black. Her hoodie says: HANDS OFF NYC. Another woman's sign says: ICE = FASCISM ON A PAYROLL. Rise and Resist holds a Silent Vigil outside of I.C.E. headquarters in NYC *every* Thursday, 12 – 1pm. Join us for a silent vigil calling out ICE for abducting immigrants. This may be a silent vigil, but our message is loud! This sidewalk is open to pedestrians and therefore it is legal to protest there. Courage is Contagious. Join the Resistance. The next HANDS OFF NYC protest is on Saturday, October 18th. TIMES SQUARE (The red steps) at 11am. The NYC march route is from Times Square, south on 7th Ave, dispersing at 14th Street Union Square. We need your help to make this big, and to make our voices heard. Bring a friend, tell a friend, sign up to volunteer at www.NoKingsNYC.org Photo of two people holding signs outside ICE Headquarters in NYC. They are sitting on a wall in front of a metal sign with the name and address, Jacob. K Javits Federal Building, 26 Federal Plaza. The sign on the left is bright yellow and says: MIGRANTS AREN'T ROBBING YOU, BILLIONAIRES ARE. The sign on the right says: ABOLISH ICE. Rise and Resist holds a Silent Vigil outside of I.C.E. headquarters in NYC *every* Thursday, 12 – 1pm. Everyone is welcome to join. Join us for a silent vigil calling out ICE for abducting immigrants. This may be a silent vigil, but our message is loud! This sidewalk is open to pedestrians and therefore it is legal to protest there. Courage is Contagious. Join the Resistance.
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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 14h
Standing with our communities to say #HandsOffTish — keep your tiny hands off our badass Attorney General @newyorkstateag.bsky.social. Tish always fights for us, and we will fight for her!
#HandsOffNYC #NoKings

@indivisible.org @nywfp.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social
Protesters holding Hands Off Tish signs Protesters holding Hands Off Tish signs and speakers at the rally A sign that says Hero over a picture of Tish James and Zero over a picture of Trump Sign that says Cowards We See You and Enough Distractions Release the Epstein Files
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 15h
Thank you. He’s sick, needs help.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 15h
Alt text would be helpful 👀
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 1d
📣 Hands Off Tish James
📆 Friday, October 10
⏰ 5:30 – 7pm EDT
📍Foley Square (Pearl Street & Centre St, NYC)

#HandsOffTish

More info:
www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/event...
Solidarity Rally Hands Off Tish James Friday 10/10 Foley Square, 5:30pm
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d
Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela
Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.
www.theatlantic.com
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 1d
New Yorkers were outside ICE HQ again today in solidarity with those abducted & abused by ICE. Rise and Resist holds a silent vigil every Thursday, 26 Federal Plaza, 12-1PM.

The next big march: #HANDSOFFNYC, October 18th, Times Square, 11AM.
INFO: nokingsnyc.com

#NOKINGS #AbolishICE #HandsOffTish
Photo of people protesting outside 26 Federal Plaza in NYC. People hold a large banner that says: ABOLISH ICE. A woman wearing red sunglasses and a sundress raises her right fist in the air. The other women hold signs that say: ICE AGENTS: WHAT DO YOU TELL YOUR FAMILIES? DEMOCRACIES DON'T DO THIS. Some of the windows above the staff entrance have been replaced by plywood. Rise and Resist holds a Silent Vigil outside of I.C.E. headquarters in NYC *every* Thursday, 12 – 1pm. Join us for a silent vigil calling out ICE for abducting immigrants. This may be a silent vigil, but our message is loud! This sidewalk is open to pedestrians and therefore it is legal to protest there. Courage is Contagious. Join the Resistance. Photo of a woman holding a sign outside ICE Headquarters in NYC at 26 Federal Plaza. The woman has shaggy blonde brown grey hair and wears sunglasses and a scarf and a jacket. She has a NO KINGS sticker on her jacket. Her sign says: HANDS OFF OUR NEIGHBORS and has two red hands. There is a green hedge behind her and windows of the building where ICE agents abduct innocent people. Rise and Resist holds a Silent Vigil outside of I.C.E. headquarters in NYC *every* Thursday, 12 – 1pm. Join us for a silent vigil calling out ICE for abducting immigrants. This may be a silent vigil, but our message is loud! This sidewalk is open to pedestrians and therefore it is legal to protest there. Courage is Contagious. Join the Resistance. Photo of people protesting outside ICE headquarters in NYC at 26 Federal Plaza. They hold a black and white banner that says: ICE OUT OF NYC with the Statue of Liberty and a red outline. A woman on the right wears sunglasses and is dressed in black. Her hoodie says: HANDS OFF NYC. Another woman's sign says: ICE = FASCISM ON A PAYROLL. Rise and Resist holds a Silent Vigil outside of I.C.E. headquarters in NYC *every* Thursday, 12 – 1pm. Join us for a silent vigil calling out ICE for abducting immigrants. This may be a silent vigil, but our message is loud! This sidewalk is open to pedestrians and therefore it is legal to protest there. Courage is Contagious. Join the Resistance. The next HANDS OFF NYC protest is on Saturday, October 18th. TIMES SQUARE (The red steps) at 11am. The NYC march route is from Times Square, south on 7th Ave, dispersing at 14th Street Union Square. We need your help to make this big, and to make our voices heard. Bring a friend, tell a friend, sign up to volunteer at www.NoKingsNYC.org Photo of two people holding signs outside ICE Headquarters in NYC. They are sitting on a wall in front of a metal sign with the name and address, Jacob. K Javits Federal Building, 26 Federal Plaza. The sign on the left is bright yellow and says: MIGRANTS AREN'T ROBBING YOU, BILLIONAIRES ARE. The sign on the right says: ABOLISH ICE. Rise and Resist holds a Silent Vigil outside of I.C.E. headquarters in NYC *every* Thursday, 12 – 1pm. Everyone is welcome to join. Join us for a silent vigil calling out ICE for abducting immigrants. This may be a silent vigil, but our message is loud! This sidewalk is open to pedestrians and therefore it is legal to protest there. Courage is Contagious. Join the Resistance.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d
This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d
“King Donald The First. F*ck that.”

Robert De Niro wants to see you in the streets on October 18 to show the world that America has no kings, and power still belongs to the people: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 2d
🪧NO KINGS NYC
📍 47th & 7th Ave
📍  The red steps
📆 October 18th
⏰ 11am
📣 More info at NoKingsNYC.com
📣 Sign up to volunteer bit.ly/4q3mgZU
📣 Sign up to marshal tinyurl.com/NokingsMarshals

This is a peaceful, nonviolent march.
Meet: 47th St & 7th Ave
March: South on 7th Ave, to 14th St.
Graphic with black ground and text in white and red, reads No Kings ! NYC, October 18
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 2d
Me too! I'd never seen this beauty before. Hope you can get over to the garden to have a look. 🥰
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 2d
In the Elizabeth Street Garden today, sitting in dappled sunshine after the rain. This beauty isn't technically a wildflower, but honestly any flower in NYC feels a little wild and wonderful to me. 🌿

#WildFlowerWednesday
Abutilon striatum (Redvein Flowering Maple) in the Elizabeth Street Garden in SoHo, NYC. The flower is a gorgeous globe, bright red with yellow stripes, resembling a Chinese lantern. It looks like a flower that hummingbirds and butterflies might love. The leaves are bright green and look a little like marijuana leaves. Dappled sunlight falls on some of the leaves. You can almost hear the hummingbird. New York City, October 8, 2025.
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 2d
Thanks for sharing. This sounds so familiar, so like what I have. Science is amazing. Let's hope there's funding for more of this research. 🙏
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 2d
🥳 Congratulations to @tobykiers.bsky.social for receiving a MacArthur Fellowship for her exciting work @spun.earth investigating symbiotic relationships among plants, fungi, and other microbes and their role in planetary health. 🍄
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 2d
I don't want to become someone who moves and breathes like all of this is normal. The goal is to feel without coming apart. And to keep going—until we don’t have to live like this anymore. 🙏
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d
"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.
The Emergency Is the Atmosphere
“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."
organizingmythoughts.org
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L.A. Kauffman @lakauffman.bsky.social · 24d
"Resistance doesn't always look like marching in the street or holding rallies ... Sometimes noncooperation looks like regular people stubbornly holding to the existing rules and procedures of a democratic society."

My latest: lakauffman.substack.com/p/on-complia...
On Compliance and Noncompliance
Resistance to authoritarianism isn't always showy, organized, or even public
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 2d
He wanted to “reanimate” the world. “I want us to remember that spirit within ourselves and within all things. It makes life so much more enjoyable & rich & magical, and ensures that we treat each other & our environment with more love & respect & care.” Manchán ❤️

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Manchán Magan was a great man for a video message. You’d never know what you might get
One of the most precious gifts cancer has given me is a deep friendship with this extraordinary Irish man
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d
ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome
Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed
www.theguardian.com
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d
10 days until the biggest peaceful protests in modern American history. A No Kings Day event is likely happening near you wherever you are. Please join us to show we won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 11d
Don't miss today's conversation with @olgaravn.bsky.social. Witches, folk magic, alchemy, the fear of women gathering, animating the archive through ritual & the imagination, & much more
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/olga...
@ndbooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social
Olga Ravn : The Wax Child - Tin House
Set during the 17th century witch trials in Denmark, and relayed to us through the voice of a magically animated wax child of one of the accused, Olga Ravn’s new book, which creates something uncannil...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 3d
Way to go, Chicago, more of this! Kristi Noem is upset that ICE agents in Chicago are being “denied entry” to restrooms and lunch spots.
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 6d
POTS is a form of #dysautonomia — a disorder of the autonomic nervous system. This branch of the nervous system regulates things we don’t consciously control, like heart rate. I have #POTS from long COVID. When I stand up, all the blood in my body falls with gravity. 🫠

#DysautonomiaAwarenessMonth
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 7d
Neuroscience News: 'Long COVID Linked to Surge in POTS Cases'

'Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet show that POTS occurs in almost a third of patients with severe long COVID.'

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Long COVID Linked to Surge in POTS Cases - Neuroscience News
Researchers have found that postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) occurs in almost a third of patients with severe long COVID, making it far more common than in the general population.
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Allen Institute @alleninstitute.org · 4d
Congrats to Mary Brunkow from @isbscience.org on winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine! Brunkow was honored with collaborators Ramsdell and Sakaguchi for their groundbreaking work on immune system regulation.

A proud moment for science and Seattle!

🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 4d
Greta Thunberg releases a video describing the conditions faced by Palestinian adults and children in Israeli custody after her release.
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