persephone
@sirensplight.bsky.social
“The plight of the siren is no one believes her.”
Multiply-disabled former high school teacher of drama, spec ed, alt ed, English, & more.
♾️ AuDHD
🍁 settler in Tkaronto
🧶 crochet artist
✨Sicilian witch
Gender = hoodies
Extremely married.
Multiply-disabled former high school teacher of drama, spec ed, alt ed, English, & more.
♾️ AuDHD
🍁 settler in Tkaronto
🧶 crochet artist
✨Sicilian witch
Gender = hoodies
Extremely married.
Pinned
I was outside walking for like 10 minutes total just now & I feel like my toes are going to fall off which just makes what the folks in Minnesota are doing even more amazing. I’ve done picketing in extreme cold during winter strikes (photo below from 2020) & it’s a lot. Solidarity from Ontario 🇨🇦
January 23, 2026 at 9:41 PM
I was outside walking for like 10 minutes total just now & I feel like my toes are going to fall off which just makes what the folks in Minnesota are doing even more amazing. I’ve done picketing in extreme cold during winter strikes (photo below from 2020) & it’s a lot. Solidarity from Ontario 🇨🇦
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Cannot see the end of it.
January 23, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Cannot see the end of it.
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January 23, 2026 at 9:21 PM
I have a theory that ppl who were either wealthy enough not to be impacted in any real way by the recession of 2008 / who actually got wealthier after it as a result of it (often the same ppl) have developed a sense of carelessness & complacency that makes them unequipped for this moment.
January 23, 2026 at 8:10 PM
I have a theory that ppl who were either wealthy enough not to be impacted in any real way by the recession of 2008 / who actually got wealthier after it as a result of it (often the same ppl) have developed a sense of carelessness & complacency that makes them unequipped for this moment.
I need everyone to remember that Trump was a racist POS even when he was a Democrat
January 23, 2026 at 6:11 PM
I need everyone to remember that Trump was a racist POS even when he was a Democrat
Remembering how my Nonna wouldn’t even let anyone utter the name Mussolini in her presence even tho she was a young kid during that time & thinking about how my own kid will react when Trump dies.
January 23, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Remembering how my Nonna wouldn’t even let anyone utter the name Mussolini in her presence even tho she was a young kid during that time & thinking about how my own kid will react when Trump dies.
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If there's anyone who still thinks this will all blow over when our big beautiful president Leaves Us, you have to realize the Republican Party is crawling with fascists
When an ICE agent confronts you is "when your due process ends," says the member of Congress from the largest border district.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 23, 2026 at 4:33 PM
If there's anyone who still thinks this will all blow over when our big beautiful president Leaves Us, you have to realize the Republican Party is crawling with fascists
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Been reading a book on & off for a year now called Rebel Cities. It is about how the physical & human geography of Paris, London, & NYC shaped resistance / revolutionary actions as part of larger movements or moments of change. I think about it a lot re each metro area & state’s unique responses.
January 23, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Been reading a book on & off for a year now called Rebel Cities. It is about how the physical & human geography of Paris, London, & NYC shaped resistance / revolutionary actions as part of larger movements or moments of change. I think about it a lot re each metro area & state’s unique responses.
I’ve been estranged from religion for a long time because of how often it played the exact opposite role of this in my life, but btw personal tragedy & the state of the world rn, I’ve found the ritual & repetition of praying the rosary as meditation to be comforting in these moments.
As clergy pray, arrests begin
January 23, 2026 at 6:04 PM
I’ve been estranged from religion for a long time because of how often it played the exact opposite role of this in my life, but btw personal tragedy & the state of the world rn, I’ve found the ritual & repetition of praying the rosary as meditation to be comforting in these moments.
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I’m not much for religion but if I were, if a line of clergy flew in to freezing weather to line up and oppose me while singing songs of faith, I might be thinking “are we the baddies?”
Singing
January 23, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I’m not much for religion but if I were, if a line of clergy flew in to freezing weather to line up and oppose me while singing songs of faith, I might be thinking “are we the baddies?”
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Clergy arrests are powerful symbolism and the clergy that deploy that symbolism are usually very conscious of that.
Priests aren't required to wear collars all day every day, it's a deliberate choice when they're in clerical apparel
Priests aren't required to wear collars all day every day, it's a deliberate choice when they're in clerical apparel
January 23, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Clergy arrests are powerful symbolism and the clergy that deploy that symbolism are usually very conscious of that.
Priests aren't required to wear collars all day every day, it's a deliberate choice when they're in clerical apparel
Priests aren't required to wear collars all day every day, it's a deliberate choice when they're in clerical apparel
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Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans.
Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.
Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.
Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
January 23, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans.
Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.
Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.
Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
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I sure hope we don't repeat that grossly gendered language that would erase the astonishing innovation and humanity of those who've made this moment about mutual aid.
January 23, 2026 at 5:44 PM
I sure hope we don't repeat that grossly gendered language that would erase the astonishing innovation and humanity of those who've made this moment about mutual aid.
“What radicalized you?”
Literally just caring about children & seeing them as human beings.
Literally just caring about children & seeing them as human beings.
January 23, 2026 at 4:55 PM
“What radicalized you?”
Literally just caring about children & seeing them as human beings.
Literally just caring about children & seeing them as human beings.
RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS
ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.
January 23, 2026 at 4:30 PM
RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS
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Today is, among other things, a reminder that you don't get a general strike by posting that we should have a general strike.
You get a general strike—on the rare occasions you do—by the long slow slog of building organizing power with those around you in response to local conditions.
You get a general strike—on the rare occasions you do—by the long slow slog of building organizing power with those around you in response to local conditions.
January 23, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Today is, among other things, a reminder that you don't get a general strike by posting that we should have a general strike.
You get a general strike—on the rare occasions you do—by the long slow slog of building organizing power with those around you in response to local conditions.
You get a general strike—on the rare occasions you do—by the long slow slog of building organizing power with those around you in response to local conditions.
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This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
January 23, 2026 at 2:23 PM
This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
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one thing i’ll note is that the administration is desperate for a repeat of 2020 and the targeted jurisdictions refuse to give it to them
One of the big trends in opposition activism during Trump 2.0 has been the localism of protest. This level of organizing is pretty astonishing to watch, and anyone who insists that there haven't been any protests against Trump is simply ignoring it www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
January 23, 2026 at 2:38 PM
one thing i’ll note is that the administration is desperate for a repeat of 2020 and the targeted jurisdictions refuse to give it to them
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Outside the Twin Cities this morning, where it is -19F—
Minnesotans are gathered early outside the Whipple Federal Building. ICE and DHS agents currently arriving at work to much disapproval.
Minnesotans are gathered early outside the Whipple Federal Building. ICE and DHS agents currently arriving at work to much disapproval.
January 23, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Outside the Twin Cities this morning, where it is -19F—
Minnesotans are gathered early outside the Whipple Federal Building. ICE and DHS agents currently arriving at work to much disapproval.
Minnesotans are gathered early outside the Whipple Federal Building. ICE and DHS agents currently arriving at work to much disapproval.
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Back in 2007 Fox News did a segment on how Mr. Rogers, who died in 2003, was "evil" & was the source of many of America's problems. Fun fact: Fred Rogers was a lifelong REPUBLICAN, but he was the sort of old school liberal Republican that Fox News was designed to eliminate. youtu.be/29lmR_357rA?...
January 23, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Back in 2007 Fox News did a segment on how Mr. Rogers, who died in 2003, was "evil" & was the source of many of America's problems. Fun fact: Fred Rogers was a lifelong REPUBLICAN, but he was the sort of old school liberal Republican that Fox News was designed to eliminate. youtu.be/29lmR_357rA?...
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
That last sentence killed me.
nine years old
January 23, 2026 at 3:57 PM
That last sentence killed me.
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One thing I have learned by being the freak of the family: people who are scared to be themselves will always hate people who cannot help but be themselves, or who make more courageous choices, or who are forced into a situation where there is no choice left.
January 23, 2026 at 2:31 PM
One thing I have learned by being the freak of the family: people who are scared to be themselves will always hate people who cannot help but be themselves, or who make more courageous choices, or who are forced into a situation where there is no choice left.
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A decade of trans advocacy has taught me people believe lies because they want to, not because they don't know they are lies. They believe trans people will regret our transition because they want us to regret our transition. They believe we are a "social contagion" because that is how they see us
January 23, 2026 at 1:18 PM
A decade of trans advocacy has taught me people believe lies because they want to, not because they don't know they are lies. They believe trans people will regret our transition because they want us to regret our transition. They believe we are a "social contagion" because that is how they see us
We lost a family member instantly, most likely due to weather & road conditions. Please stay safe out there folks. Prepare for blowing snow, icy surfaces, & dangerously low temperatures before heading out to whatever you’re doing today, wherever you are.
January 23, 2026 at 1:32 PM
We lost a family member instantly, most likely due to weather & road conditions. Please stay safe out there folks. Prepare for blowing snow, icy surfaces, & dangerously low temperatures before heading out to whatever you’re doing today, wherever you are.