Tracey
@forestdweller89.bsky.social
7-12 ELA & social studies teacher
Avid outdoor lover & Lake Superior enthusiast
Avid outdoor lover & Lake Superior enthusiast
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As we all learned in school, a bill becomes a law when the People’s Republic of China sends it to the U.S. President and he signs it.
January 27, 2026 at 11:41 PM
As we all learned in school, a bill becomes a law when the People’s Republic of China sends it to the U.S. President and he signs it.
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While the billionaire class gets obscenely richer, two-thirds of Americans say a middle-class lifestyle is out of reach , and a majority can’t afford decent education, housing or a secure retirement.
In the richest country on Earth, we can, and must, do better.
In the richest country on Earth, we can, and must, do better.
January 27, 2026 at 5:57 PM
While the billionaire class gets obscenely richer, two-thirds of Americans say a middle-class lifestyle is out of reach , and a majority can’t afford decent education, housing or a secure retirement.
In the richest country on Earth, we can, and must, do better.
In the richest country on Earth, we can, and must, do better.
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Trump officials have ordered national parks to remove dozens of signs and displays related to climate change, environmental protection and settlers’ mistreatment of Native Americans.
More history exhibits pulled from national parks, including Grand Canyon
A new wave of takedown orders from Trump officials targets signs about climate and Native Americans at several national parks, including Big Bend and Glacier.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Trump officials have ordered national parks to remove dozens of signs and displays related to climate change, environmental protection and settlers’ mistreatment of Native Americans.
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Consumer confidence plunged this month, hitting a 12-year low.
January 27, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Consumer confidence plunged this month, hitting a 12-year low.
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The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.
January 26, 2026 at 10:56 PM
The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
January 25, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
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In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 25, 2026 at 3:50 PM
In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.
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Walz: "I call on all Americans to see the decency this state is exhibiting, and the horrific cruelty, unprofessional, absolute abomination that is passing for what these f--- ICE agents are doing on our streets."
January 24, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Walz: "I call on all Americans to see the decency this state is exhibiting, and the horrific cruelty, unprofessional, absolute abomination that is passing for what these f--- ICE agents are doing on our streets."
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This is a white supremacist paramilitary operation. Their goal—their stated goal!—is to force America to submit to the President's racist domineering vision for the country.
The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.
The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.
January 24, 2026 at 6:22 PM
This is a white supremacist paramilitary operation. Their goal—their stated goal!—is to force America to submit to the President's racist domineering vision for the country.
The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.
The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.
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U.S. citizen Matthew Allen brutally arrested in Minneapolis as his wife Sarah Allen watches in horror. She explains to a clergy member comforting her, they were both running away from the tear gas & he was arrested. Heartbreaking to hear & watch. This happened within hours of the killing of a man.💔
January 24, 2026 at 5:54 PM
U.S. citizen Matthew Allen brutally arrested in Minneapolis as his wife Sarah Allen watches in horror. She explains to a clergy member comforting her, they were both running away from the tear gas & he was arrested. Heartbreaking to hear & watch. This happened within hours of the killing of a man.💔
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Will you ride for this? Will you die for it?
January 24, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Will you ride for this? Will you die for it?
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Pritzker: "The GOP is nowhere to be found. They're the ones that scream and yell about 'federal tyranny' about interference with states' rights. And now, their president is violating states' rights and attacking our states and Republicans are nowhere to be found to talk about it."
January 24, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Pritzker: "The GOP is nowhere to be found. They're the ones that scream and yell about 'federal tyranny' about interference with states' rights. And now, their president is violating states' rights and attacking our states and Republicans are nowhere to be found to talk about it."
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Trump's militarization of Minneapolis and other parts of our nation isn't about illegal immigration. It's not about enhancing public safety. It's about destroying any sense of that safety—to intimidate political opponents, and to punish dissent.
January 24, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Trump's militarization of Minneapolis and other parts of our nation isn't about illegal immigration. It's not about enhancing public safety. It's about destroying any sense of that safety—to intimidate political opponents, and to punish dissent.
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ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
January 24, 2026 at 3:55 PM
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
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History will likely teach the US had more to lose by abandoning our European allies than it ever had to gain from Donald Trump
January 21, 2026 at 1:27 PM
History will likely teach the US had more to lose by abandoning our European allies than it ever had to gain from Donald Trump
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Did you know that Walt Whitman drafted a poem about Lincoln‘s assassination just one day after the tragic event? For that and much more about Whitman‘s trio of occasional poems on Honest Abe, check out today’s post! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social
So for the next post in my blog series on American occasional poetry, takeaways from the three poems Walt Whitman wrote on the occasion of Lincoln’s assassination, including one of his very best, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d"!
blackwhiteandread.com/january-20-2...
blackwhiteandread.com/january-20-2...
January 20, 2026: Occasional Poems: Whitman on Lincoln – Black and White and Read All Over
[65 years ago Wednesday, John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as President. One of the most famous parts of that January 1961 event was Robert Frost’s powerful poem, so this week I’ll AmericanStudy that te...
blackwhiteandread.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Did you know that Walt Whitman drafted a poem about Lincoln‘s assassination just one day after the tragic event? For that and much more about Whitman‘s trio of occasional poems on Honest Abe, check out today’s post! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social
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This.
"You're asking me about something that the president just said... He's never going to implement it... We should talk instead about what he's doing... Every time we get distracted by what he talks about rather than what he does... he destroys and he redistributes to the rich."
January 20, 2026 at 3:25 PM
This.
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In a time of crisis for U.S democracy, CBS News under new right-wing management just committed one of the worst acts of journalism in American history
What's so terrible about its unverified, unlikely Trump propaganda over the the MLPS killing by ICE
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/cbs-...
What's so terrible about its unverified, unlikely Trump propaganda over the the MLPS killing by ICE
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/cbs-...
The day that CBS News became literally ‘fake news’ for America | Will Bunch
An unverified, unlikely story about the Minneapolis ICE shooter exposes the new CBS News team as Trump's state media.
www.inquirer.com
January 18, 2026 at 7:01 PM
In a time of crisis for U.S democracy, CBS News under new right-wing management just committed one of the worst acts of journalism in American history
What's so terrible about its unverified, unlikely Trump propaganda over the the MLPS killing by ICE
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/cbs-...
What's so terrible about its unverified, unlikely Trump propaganda over the the MLPS killing by ICE
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/cbs-...
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
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Kinda hard to gaslight us into believing they’re actually supportive of LEGAL immigration when they’re targeting LEGAL immigrants.
www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/5...
www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/5...
January 18, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Kinda hard to gaslight us into believing they’re actually supportive of LEGAL immigration when they’re targeting LEGAL immigrants.
www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/5...
www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/5...
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My friend up north asked if there was something I could record to speak to current events. After the '24 election, I was doing these twice a month but slowed down recently. Today, I was reminded of Mr. Rogers: Look for the helpers. Thank you, Heather, for being 1 of the best helpers of our time. 💙
January 18, 2026 at 6:56 AM
My friend up north asked if there was something I could record to speak to current events. After the '24 election, I was doing these twice a month but slowed down recently. Today, I was reminded of Mr. Rogers: Look for the helpers. Thank you, Heather, for being 1 of the best helpers of our time. 💙
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"Angels do not govern us [cf Madison Federalist 51]— men and women do — and no man or woman should be immune from the rule of law."
@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social on the constitutional degradation of the US *returning* to a dual state, normative and prerogative. Again, history is essential here.
@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social on the constitutional degradation of the US *returning* to a dual state, normative and prerogative. Again, history is essential here.
January 18, 2026 at 1:40 PM
"Angels do not govern us [cf Madison Federalist 51]— men and women do — and no man or woman should be immune from the rule of law."
@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social on the constitutional degradation of the US *returning* to a dual state, normative and prerogative. Again, history is essential here.
@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social on the constitutional degradation of the US *returning* to a dual state, normative and prerogative. Again, history is essential here.
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I get it: Billy Joel could write “We Didn’t Start the Fire 2” using just headlines from the past two weeks.
That said, Trump’s increase in wealth has to be one of the biggest stories of his first year in office.
Check out this week's news on Trump's for-profit presidency in 1100 Pennsylvania.
That said, Trump’s increase in wealth has to be one of the biggest stories of his first year in office.
Check out this week's news on Trump's for-profit presidency in 1100 Pennsylvania.
Trump Is Worth $2.3 Billion More Than When He Was Re-Elected
News on the return of Donald Trump's for-profit presidency
www.1100pennsylvania.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:26 PM
I get it: Billy Joel could write “We Didn’t Start the Fire 2” using just headlines from the past two weeks.
That said, Trump’s increase in wealth has to be one of the biggest stories of his first year in office.
Check out this week's news on Trump's for-profit presidency in 1100 Pennsylvania.
That said, Trump’s increase in wealth has to be one of the biggest stories of his first year in office.
Check out this week's news on Trump's for-profit presidency in 1100 Pennsylvania.
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Repression almost never announces itself by targeting everyone at once. It begins quietly, aimed at minorities, those with less power, fewer allies, or voices that are easier to ignore. Their rights are restricted, their freedoms narrowed, and their suffering dismissed as exceptional or deserved.
January 17, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Repression almost never announces itself by targeting everyone at once. It begins quietly, aimed at minorities, those with less power, fewer allies, or voices that are easier to ignore. Their rights are restricted, their freedoms narrowed, and their suffering dismissed as exceptional or deserved.