Hermit Thrush
@hermitthrush24.bsky.social
songbirds, forests, lichens, basil. art, poetry, óran na h’eala, Lo Jai, extinction rebellion; book editor in the heart of indigenous N. California; reparations; universal health rights; voting rights; plant acorns. Awake. Free Palestine. Resist fascisti
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Did Trump’s DOJ really think dropping hundreds of blacked-out pages counted as complying with the law?
I know it’s a bunch of unqualified folks with no backbone over there, but this is next-level.
I know it’s a bunch of unqualified folks with no backbone over there, but this is next-level.
December 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Did Trump’s DOJ really think dropping hundreds of blacked-out pages counted as complying with the law?
I know it’s a bunch of unqualified folks with no backbone over there, but this is next-level.
I know it’s a bunch of unqualified folks with no backbone over there, but this is next-level.
And every other affront and assault, erase like in ancient Egypt, and no pension or SS either, undo everything repairable that these monsters have done. Going to need a lot of sage.
December 20, 2025 at 1:24 AM
And every other affront and assault, erase like in ancient Egypt, and no pension or SS either, undo everything repairable that these monsters have done. Going to need a lot of sage.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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New nativity just dropped: Jesus is being born in the middle of teargas and state-sponsored terror. He is being ripped from his parent's arms and denied a lawyer. He is always coming into being in our context, and @lakestreetchurch.bsky.social's nativity makes that clear. Proud to be its pastor.
November 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
New nativity just dropped: Jesus is being born in the middle of teargas and state-sponsored terror. He is being ripped from his parent's arms and denied a lawyer. He is always coming into being in our context, and @lakestreetchurch.bsky.social's nativity makes that clear. Proud to be its pastor.
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My church! If Jesus were born into our world right now, this is how it would look. It's a good reminder that God is always emerging into our present context, and you know what they would do to Jesus if he showed up right now because ICE is showing you every day.
Savage! 🎄 Lake Street Church of Evanston creates a nativity scene with gas masks to remind us that Jesus was a refugee.
"This installation is not subtle. The crisis it addresses is not abstract. We ask viewers to confront the disconnect between professed religious or moral values & immigration."
"This installation is not subtle. The crisis it addresses is not abstract. We ask viewers to confront the disconnect between professed religious or moral values & immigration."
December 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
My church! If Jesus were born into our world right now, this is how it would look. It's a good reminder that God is always emerging into our present context, and you know what they would do to Jesus if he showed up right now because ICE is showing you every day.
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Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
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Federal judge in Chicago orders ICE to start releasing hundreds of people grabbed in recent raids. Likely Expanding To Charlotte, NC -NBC
News
News
December 4, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Federal judge in Chicago orders ICE to start releasing hundreds of people grabbed in recent raids. Likely Expanding To Charlotte, NC -NBC
News
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Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
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Rolling Stone: clearly documents a 30+ year long con job. A rural county's own leadership lined their pockets by helping ag interests destroy the water supply.
Everyone who read the article apparently??: Amazon data centers did this in 2011
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Everyone who read the article apparently??: Amazon data centers did this in 2011
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
www.rollingstone.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Rolling Stone: clearly documents a 30+ year long con job. A rural county's own leadership lined their pockets by helping ag interests destroy the water supply.
Everyone who read the article apparently??: Amazon data centers did this in 2011
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Everyone who read the article apparently??: Amazon data centers did this in 2011
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
eat local. oppose invasive oversized unsustainable toxic projects anywhere, including ai, also fish farms www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Those who eat Chilean salmon cannot imagine how much human blood it carries with it’
The country is the world’s second-largest producer of the popular fish, and the biggest supplier to the US, but its farms are beset by accusations of dangerous labour conditions, antibiotic overuse an...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 AM
eat local. oppose invasive oversized unsustainable toxic projects anywhere, including ai, also fish farms www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
ICE's racist racial profiling: actor Elaine Miles says she was detained by ICE officers who said tribal ID ‘looked fake’
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Native American actor says she was detained by ICE officers who said tribal ID ‘looked fake’
Elaine Miles of Northern Exposure was stopped by four masked men in Seattle while walking to bus stop
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 AM
ICE's racist racial profiling: actor Elaine Miles says she was detained by ICE officers who said tribal ID ‘looked fake’
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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[COMMENTARY]
“This is the Amazon COP. If it ends with a decision that ignores Indigenous rights and props up offset markets that science says cannot work, it will squander the moral clarity of this moment,” a new op-ed argues.
** The views expressed are those of the author.
“This is the Amazon COP. If it ends with a decision that ignores Indigenous rights and props up offset markets that science says cannot work, it will squander the moral clarity of this moment,” a new op-ed argues.
** The views expressed are those of the author.
It’s time to end the carbon offset era, COP30 scientists & communities say (commentary)
At COP30 in Belém, the first climate summit held in the Amazon, something rare has happened. For years, the risks and failures of carbon offsetting have been dismissed as activist exaggeration or…
news.mongabay.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
[COMMENTARY]
“This is the Amazon COP. If it ends with a decision that ignores Indigenous rights and props up offset markets that science says cannot work, it will squander the moral clarity of this moment,” a new op-ed argues.
** The views expressed are those of the author.
“This is the Amazon COP. If it ends with a decision that ignores Indigenous rights and props up offset markets that science says cannot work, it will squander the moral clarity of this moment,” a new op-ed argues.
** The views expressed are those of the author.
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Fury as 'Shamefully Weak' COP30 Draft Drops All Mention of Fossil Fuels. "We can’t have a deal that fails to deliver what science and the law require on finance, fossil fuels, or forests and call that progress." commondreams.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?...
November 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Fury as 'Shamefully Weak' COP30 Draft Drops All Mention of Fossil Fuels. "We can’t have a deal that fails to deliver what science and the law require on finance, fossil fuels, or forests and call that progress." commondreams.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?...
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Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.
October 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.
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"This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for masking-up and has heard the same reasons advanced by ... ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence."
Young’s opinion, which rules that the Trump admin illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation, is absolutely scathing.
“In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”
“In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”
September 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for masking-up and has heard the same reasons advanced by ... ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence."
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Proud to be among those who signed.
Detention of Reporter Mario Guevara Sparks Outcry from Writers, Journalists, and Scholars
Renowned writers and journalists sign on to a letter decrying the detention of journalist Mario Guevara who has been in ICE custody 100 days.
pen.org
October 1, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Proud to be among those who signed.
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What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.
October 1, 2025 at 3:04 AM
What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.
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Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband.
Today they attacked two journalists.
We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.
Today they attacked two journalists.
We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.
ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove | amNewYork
ICE agents assaulted amNewYork's own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of
www.amny.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband.
Today they attacked two journalists.
We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.
Today they attacked two journalists.
We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.
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AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance
However, they are weaker than they look…
However, they are weaker than they look…
October 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance
However, they are weaker than they look…
However, they are weaker than they look…
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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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Only 1-2% of the EU are primary forests aka wilderness.
Rich countries have to reduce meat & cheese first or rewilding locally makes everything worse as it exports land use to old-growth regions where it causes more deforestation.
When it comes to rewilding and CO2, there are no math shortcuts 🐄
Rich countries have to reduce meat & cheese first or rewilding locally makes everything worse as it exports land use to old-growth regions where it causes more deforestation.
When it comes to rewilding and CO2, there are no math shortcuts 🐄
Push to Rewild in Wealthy Countries Fueling Destruction in Poorer Ones
e360.yale.edu
September 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Only 1-2% of the EU are primary forests aka wilderness.
Rich countries have to reduce meat & cheese first or rewilding locally makes everything worse as it exports land use to old-growth regions where it causes more deforestation.
When it comes to rewilding and CO2, there are no math shortcuts 🐄
Rich countries have to reduce meat & cheese first or rewilding locally makes everything worse as it exports land use to old-growth regions where it causes more deforestation.
When it comes to rewilding and CO2, there are no math shortcuts 🐄
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This is the way.
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
August 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is the way.
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