Steve Harrell
@steveharrell.bsky.social
Retired professor, unretired ethnographer, polyglot, part-time climate activist, occasional contrarian. Taiwan, China, and Whatcom County--Post mostly plants, mountains, energy transition. Occasionally political snark.
It's the "Ge-" in Gestapo--Geheim [secret] that clinches the comparison. Unlike regular cops, they cover their faces and have no badges or name tags or other means of identification. Nobody knew who Ross was until along time after he killed Good.
January 16, 2026 at 5:34 PM
It's the "Ge-" in Gestapo--Geheim [secret] that clinches the comparison. Unlike regular cops, they cover their faces and have no badges or name tags or other means of identification. Nobody knew who Ross was until along time after he killed Good.
The armed services do a pretty decent job of screening out the fourth group, but that group is now the prime recruitment pool for ICE.
robertreich.substack.com/p/americas-g...
robertreich.substack.com/p/americas-g...
America's Gestapo
What you can do to stop ICE's mayhem
robertreich.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:34 PM
The armed services do a pretty decent job of screening out the fourth group, but that group is now the prime recruitment pool for ICE.
robertreich.substack.com/p/americas-g...
robertreich.substack.com/p/americas-g...
But we do live in the general vicinity of the Chuckanut Mountains.
January 10, 2026 at 9:14 PM
But we do live in the general vicinity of the Chuckanut Mountains.
This is actually in our restored habitat in our yard, bought from a nursery.
January 10, 2026 at 9:12 PM
This is actually in our restored habitat in our yard, bought from a nursery.
It was even bigger on Christmas Day:
December 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
It was even bigger on Christmas Day: