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The person you don't see

Recalcitrant Writer

Historical artist/glass/potter

Small town girl living in a lonely world.

This is my other bluesky site for real world things, sadly

Please see ciele.bsky.social for the other things I love ❤️💚💛 💜 💙🤍
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this photo. minneapolis. 💜

📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
January 23, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Same....same
i left the church and have nothing to do with it anymore but something happens when i see priests and pastors and rabbis and imams and sikhs at protests going so hard in mega harsh conditions i get choked up. this is how all of that is supposed to be. that's what all of that is supposed to be for.
January 23, 2026 at 10:31 PM
This!!!

They ~automatically~ deported them when they should have known about their

Asylumn

Status
This is such an important point. That 5-year-old and his dad should never been detained in the first place! That's because they were already in the system and going through the legal process to seek asylum — and their arrest was seemingly just to juice ICE's numbers.
This kid and his father entered via CBP One app. It's just absurd and monumentally unfair for people who availed themselves of lawful channels when they existed by following government processes to suddenly get detained and deported to a third country.

newrepublic.com/article/2056...
January 23, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Look @ that calm face....
Okay sorry one more shot:
January 23, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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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
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Today, Minnesota is shutting down in solidarity.

It could be a model for what the nation as a whole does in coming months, to repudiate the Trump dictatorship. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/minnesotas-general-strike-and-americas
January 23, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Ask me how much I love this
You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer.

In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.
January 23, 2026 at 5:05 AM
NEW: The House just passed the DHS funding bill. Seven Democrats voted yes:

Henry Cuellar of Texas
Jared Golden of Maine
Laura Gillen of New York
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington State
Don Davis of North Carolina
Tom Souzzi of New York
Vincente Gonzalez of Texas
January 23, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Perhaps we could circulate this front page news far and wide

especially to those who are not being told this is happening
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 23, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Know the differences in Warrants and who signs them
This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home!

Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.
January 23, 2026 at 12:25 AM
We've now reached the "adopt KGB tactics" part of the Regime change
There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.
January 22, 2026 at 9:47 PM
If we survive this, we will need to rewrite so much of our form of government
MN's AG: “We will not save our country in a courtroom. ... ultimately, this country will be saved by the people of the United States. And so that — you protesting, you gathering evidence, you sharing it with us, you communicating with us — is action. It’s actually how we’re going to win.”
January 22, 2026 at 9:17 PM
The hero we need…..
Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6
January 22, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Unfortunately, this is now an evergreen gif
January 22, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Sooo I see countless pictures of people arrested over the church service protest

but a judge refuses to let charges stand?

And that’s not being reported?

Surprise, surprise
January 22, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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Jayapal: Did your investigation find that Donald Trump attempted to manufacture fraudulent slates of electors in 7 states that he lost?
Smith: Yes.
Jayapal: Did he pressure state officials to ignore true vote counts in those states?
Smith: Yes.
January 22, 2026 at 5:55 PM
ICE administration hid this so you wouldn’t see it

They passed it on verbally

A whistleblower publicized it

Pass it on
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 22, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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remarkable how much contempt this white house has for the nation’s historical and artistic treasures
VOA's headquarters, 'the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal,' faces possible destruction as part of the Trump administration's drive for "maximum value for the federal real estate footprint." wapo.st/4a5NCsq
January 22, 2026 at 5:52 PM
This testimony will stand the test of time
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
January 22, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Heads up, fellow #Texas #bbq lovers!!
Kaleb Blain, a 35-year old trans man and pitmaster, was fired from the legendary BBQ restaurant Terry Black’s after he was doxxed over Charlie Kirk comments.

Now he’s running his own barbecue spot in Waco: “I feel better than I ever have.”

By @kitoconnell.com
thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/21/b...
‘Barbecue Saved My Life’: Meet Waco’s Antifascist Transgender Pitmaster
Kaleb Blain went from the fast-paced world of 911 dispatching to the “low and slow” of BBQ, where he’s built a following.
thebarbedwire.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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In the 34 days since the Epstein files were supposed to be released
January 22, 2026 at 3:48 PM
This makes sense

They're trying to push us to revolt

Where is Congress????

The Courts??

@aclu.org

@housedemocrats.bsky.social
They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 22, 2026 at 3:51 PM
It appears we're currently @ Stage Two Teds....
January 22, 2026 at 5:30 AM
The hard truth is that this elderly man & a 5 year old are a simple test to determine the dividing line the two factions in our country:

Those that are absolutely fine with no Constitutional due process/rights for all & the crueler our Government is the better

And those that are not fine w it
Let the picture of the little five year old boy standing facing the car and the old man being dragged out of his house with no shirt on, let those images burn into your brain. We don’t have to be this country. We don’t have to live this way.

Donald Trump was a choice, Republican voters made for us.
January 22, 2026 at 5:17 AM