Karen James
@kejames.bsky.social
Environmental geneticist & outdoorswoman into eDNA, botany, evolution, space, sci-comm, skiing, Outlander & kindness • auntie • cat mom • she/her
“I would teach my feet to fly”
Banner art by @[email protected]
📍Unceded Wabanaki land (aka Maine)
“I would teach my feet to fly”
Banner art by @[email protected]
📍Unceded Wabanaki land (aka Maine)
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Karen James
@kejames.bsky.social
· Jan 8
Here’s me ice skating into the sunset on New Years Day, in hopes it might help someone out there relax or get to sleep. Hang in there, friends.
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If you’re local, please come stand with us and about 1000 of your friends and neighbors. Tomorrow 11-1 it might even be over freezing!
Bearing Witness
New England
Bearingwitnessne.org
February 17, 2026 at 4:17 PM
If you’re local, please come stand with us and about 1000 of your friends and neighbors. Tomorrow 11-1 it might even be over freezing!
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It is quite clear that the US is carrying out crimes against humanity in its detention, torture, and deportation system. Everyone involved at DHS ought to consider that crimes against humanity are subject to universal jurisdiction with no statute of limitations.
“They’re trapped in this little confinement cell, a dark cell with no sunlight, with multiple people,” said Shaan Chatterjee, an attorney at New England Immigration Law. “They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation.”
(Free article) www.sunjournal.com/2026/02/07/i...
(Free article) www.sunjournal.com/2026/02/07/i...
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.sunjournal.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:57 PM
It is quite clear that the US is carrying out crimes against humanity in its detention, torture, and deportation system. Everyone involved at DHS ought to consider that crimes against humanity are subject to universal jurisdiction with no statute of limitations.
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Not only should the engineers of this policy face prosecution under U.S. law, but there might be a case for ICC prosecution for crimes against humanity. (1/2)
“They’re trapped in this little confinement cell, a dark cell with no sunlight, with multiple people,” said Shaan Chatterjee, an attorney at New England Immigration Law. “They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation.”
(Free article) www.sunjournal.com/2026/02/07/i...
(Free article) www.sunjournal.com/2026/02/07/i...
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.sunjournal.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Not only should the engineers of this policy face prosecution under U.S. law, but there might be a case for ICC prosecution for crimes against humanity. (1/2)
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We peacefully protest there every Wednesday from 11 to 1. It's at the Burlington Mall, of all places! But they are making it hard to park near the location and have put up signs in the adjacent lots to threaten towing. (The ICE agents supposedly live at the Marriott across the street.)
February 17, 2026 at 3:21 PM
We peacefully protest there every Wednesday from 11 to 1. It's at the Burlington Mall, of all places! But they are making it hard to park near the location and have put up signs in the adjacent lots to threaten towing. (The ICE agents supposedly live at the Marriott across the street.)
“They’re trapped in this little confinement cell, a dark cell with no sunlight, with multiple people,” said Shaan Chatterjee, an attorney at New England Immigration Law. “They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation.”
(Free article) www.sunjournal.com/2026/02/07/i...
(Free article) www.sunjournal.com/2026/02/07/i...
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.sunjournal.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:40 PM
“They’re trapped in this little confinement cell, a dark cell with no sunlight, with multiple people,” said Shaan Chatterjee, an attorney at New England Immigration Law. “They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation.”
(Free article) www.sunjournal.com/2026/02/07/i...
(Free article) www.sunjournal.com/2026/02/07/i...
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There have been hugely successful campaigns to fight prison and jail construction across the country, especially in rural areas. These bring together hunters, environmentalists, Indigenous people, prison abolitionists, and immigrant advocates as well as people concerned about land use.
February 13, 2026 at 5:28 PM
There have been hugely successful campaigns to fight prison and jail construction across the country, especially in rural areas. These bring together hunters, environmentalists, Indigenous people, prison abolitionists, and immigrant advocates as well as people concerned about land use.
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Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
February 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
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This is pure marketing genius 💘
February 9, 2024 at 6:35 PM
This is pure marketing genius 💘
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Trying to decide if I need to stay up until midnight to tell you that in Wales they don’t celebrate Valentine, they celebrate Dwynwen who wanted to be away from [a specific man] Maelon so SOULFULLY, she literally walked on water until an angel agreed to turn him into ice
She felt bad about it, so:
She felt bad about it, so:
February 14, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Trying to decide if I need to stay up until midnight to tell you that in Wales they don’t celebrate Valentine, they celebrate Dwynwen who wanted to be away from [a specific man] Maelon so SOULFULLY, she literally walked on water until an angel agreed to turn him into ice
She felt bad about it, so:
She felt bad about it, so:
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Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data.
Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
February 14, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data.
Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
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Happy Pale Blue Dot Day to all who celebrate 😀 #Astronomy #Space
February 14, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Happy Pale Blue Dot Day to all who celebrate 😀 #Astronomy #Space
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Because my hashtag had a typo: #AbolishICE 🚫🧊
I continue to be unimpressed with anything that Hakeem Jeffries says or does. 😒 #AbloshICE @joyannreid.bsky.social @wajali.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Because my hashtag had a typo: #AbolishICE 🚫🧊
This illustration is *chef kiss*
They’re just out there setting records at everything.
Love in a cold climate: Winter Olympic village runs out of condoms after three days
Free condoms for competitors at the Winter Olympics have run out within a record-breaking three days
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:08 PM
This illustration is *chef kiss*
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Okay but she posted on Reddit after the broadcast that she realized partway through Double Jeopardy that this was her only way to win, and started deliberately picking clues/buzzing in to maximize the odds that they would be tied going into Final. Absolute galaxy brain.
February 13, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Okay but she posted on Reddit after the broadcast that she realized partway through Double Jeopardy that this was her only way to win, and started deliberately picking clues/buzzing in to maximize the odds that they would be tied going into Final. Absolute galaxy brain.
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And Horner had a rep as a creep well before this. Marrying a 19 year-old-student when he was 65, then treating it as some kind of joke or unserious. Women MSU students who told me they were interested in paleo, until their interactions with him. Not to mention how got his fame by claim jumping.
For people outside of paleontology:
This senior paleontologist, who married a 19-year-old, visited a convicted pedophile in 2012 & 2016. Is beefing over a conference argument from 13 years ago, angry because he was banned from a family-friendly event across the Atlantic. The level of petty.
This senior paleontologist, who married a 19-year-old, visited a convicted pedophile in 2012 & 2016. Is beefing over a conference argument from 13 years ago, angry because he was banned from a family-friendly event across the Atlantic. The level of petty.
February 12, 2026 at 12:55 PM
And Horner had a rep as a creep well before this. Marrying a 19 year-old-student when he was 65, then treating it as some kind of joke or unserious. Women MSU students who told me they were interested in paleo, until their interactions with him. Not to mention how got his fame by claim jumping.
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Darwin also famously had beef with the marine iguanas of the Galapagos, writing "The black lava rocks on the beach are frequented by large, most disgusting, clumsy lizards" and calling them "imps of darkness"
February 12, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Darwin also famously had beef with the marine iguanas of the Galapagos, writing "The black lava rocks on the beach are frequented by large, most disgusting, clumsy lizards" and calling them "imps of darkness"
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February 12, 2026 at 6:49 PM
How is “Where there is heroism, there is no final defeat,” even remotely controversial? I smell a rat.
⚡️'Remembrance is not a violation' — third Ukrainian athlete barred from wearing helmet at Olympics.
Short track speed skater Oleh Handei said his helmet bore a line from Ukrainian poet Lina Kostenko: "Where there is heroism, there is no final defeat."
Short track speed skater Oleh Handei said his helmet bore a line from Ukrainian poet Lina Kostenko: "Where there is heroism, there is no final defeat."
'Remembrance is not a violation' — third Ukrainian athlete barred from wearing helmet at Olympics
Short track speed skater Oleh Handei said his helmet bore a line from Ukrainian poet Lina Kostenko: "Where there is heroism, there is no final defeat." It was banned from the Olympics on the grounds o...
kyivindependent.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:04 AM
How is “Where there is heroism, there is no final defeat,” even remotely controversial? I smell a rat.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness… unless the Dow is doing well. Then whatevs.
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
February 11, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness… unless the Dow is doing well. Then whatevs.
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Unsurprisingly, Trump's immigration crackdown is still not delivering labor market improvements for the US-born
Over the last year, native-born unemployment is up from 4.3% to 4.7% while native-born employment has decreased
Over the last year, native-born unemployment is up from 4.3% to 4.7% while native-born employment has decreased
February 11, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Unsurprisingly, Trump's immigration crackdown is still not delivering labor market improvements for the US-born
Over the last year, native-born unemployment is up from 4.3% to 4.7% while native-born employment has decreased
Over the last year, native-born unemployment is up from 4.3% to 4.7% while native-born employment has decreased
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🚨 H.R. 261 would remove oversight and risk harm to our National Marine Sanctuaries. Don't let Big Tech undermine our marine protected areas. Call your Rep today: Say NO to H.R. 261! 🐚🐋
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
www.congress.gov
February 11, 2026 at 2:33 PM
🚨 H.R. 261 would remove oversight and risk harm to our National Marine Sanctuaries. Don't let Big Tech undermine our marine protected areas. Call your Rep today: Say NO to H.R. 261! 🐚🐋
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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The Taken
Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents from Minnesota to Texas
By @rgoodlaw.bsky.social and Sophia Khoroushi
www.justsecurity.org/131101/ice-m...
Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents from Minnesota to Texas
By @rgoodlaw.bsky.social and Sophia Khoroushi
www.justsecurity.org/131101/ice-m...
The Taken: Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents From Minnesota to Texas
We document these patterns through the use of sworn declarations and court filings.
www.justsecurity.org
February 11, 2026 at 1:44 PM
The Taken
Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents from Minnesota to Texas
By @rgoodlaw.bsky.social and Sophia Khoroushi
www.justsecurity.org/131101/ice-m...
Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents from Minnesota to Texas
By @rgoodlaw.bsky.social and Sophia Khoroushi
www.justsecurity.org/131101/ice-m...
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
Shout-out to the Olympic athletes speaking out for our constitutional rights & multicultural society. Hunter Hess, yes, but also Rich Ruohonen (curler), Chris Lillis (freeskier), Amber Glenn (figure skater), Chloe Kim (snowboarder), Jessie Diggins (XC skier).
Who am I missing? Let’s make a thread!
Who am I missing? Let’s make a thread!
February 11, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Shout-out to the Olympic athletes speaking out for our constitutional rights & multicultural society. Hunter Hess, yes, but also Rich Ruohonen (curler), Chris Lillis (freeskier), Amber Glenn (figure skater), Chloe Kim (snowboarder), Jessie Diggins (XC skier).
Who am I missing? Let’s make a thread!
Who am I missing? Let’s make a thread!