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Nicole
@talkstoplants.bsky.social
Tinkerer, LESBIAN, and aspiring scientist 🌱🏳️‍🌈🧬🧪🔭

I also make art sometimes: Etsy.com/shop/wonderworkslab
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A child in our community has been impacted by the ICE raids in Minneapolis. While visiting the city with his mom for an elite youth soccer tournament, his mother was kidnapped by federal agents. Support this child here:

www.gofundme.com/f/stability-...
Donate to Stability for Martinn During This Difficult Time, organized by Ann Meredith
I (Ann Meredith) am setting this up on behalf of the Forward Madison Foo… Ann Meredith needs your support for Stability for Martinn During This Difficult Time
www.gofundme.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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Partisan gridlock at the federal level means that state and local policy is critical to creating and nurturing strong communities where everyone is able to participate in our democracy.

Madison residents! Sign up for the new Common Council newsletter.
inbox: Madison's city council is launching a newsletter on "topics being considered by the Common Council, opportunities to engage with alders, and other timely updates." Will summarize introduction items and give info from city staff on current legislative discussions.
January 12, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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“Do not get lost in a sea of despair.”

- John Lewis #RIP
January 10, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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the best antidote to blackpilling is remembering that every video you see of an ICE thug abusing their power was recorded by an American who volunteered to put themselves in harm's way for the sake of people they've likely never met and never will
/2 In light of that, I am in awe and deep respect of the people who are still showing up to monitor the ICE Gestapo, protect and defend their neighbors, do whatever they can to hold ICE to account and call out their lawlessness. What incredible bravery.
January 9, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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January 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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Well this is cool.
“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”
Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:41 AM
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“The best thing we can do in this moment is link arms because there are more of us than there are of them. They’re projecting strength but their power is fragile.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social

Over 1,000 ICE Out For Good events are happening across the nation this weekend: mobilize.us?tag_ids=2913...
January 10, 2026 at 2:18 AM
ORGANIZING WORKS
Avelo Airlines thought it could profit off Trump’s terror tactics by running secretive deportation flights.

But you grounded “ICE Air” and showed that organizing still works.
January 9, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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Ok, I couldn't stop thinking about this. Apologies to the literally dozens of people I've lifted from... I want to do a fully credited version, but I'm sitting here sobbing and, well, maybe you'll feel some release, too.
January 9, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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Renee Nicole Good's wife:

"We honor her memory by living her values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and pursuing peace, refusing division and knowing we must come together to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love."
January 9, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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BREAKING: The Minneapolis school system says it will offer families remote learning as federal officials carry out immigration enforcement in the city.
Live updates: Anger and outrage spill onto streets of Portland and Minneapolis after ICE shootings
As anger and outrage spilled out onto Minneapolis’ streets Thursday over the fatal shooting of a woman the day before by an ICE officer, a new shooting by federal officers in Oregon left two people wounded.
bit.ly
January 9, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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There's this episode of Star Trek where Captain Picard is captured and tortured, and the main way that the torturer tries to break him is by showing him four lights, and telling him that there are five.

There are four lights.

This is not a post about Star Trek.
January 9, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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I just realized that the Disney-Star Wars series ANDOR is an instructional video.
January 8, 2026 at 3:30 PM
WE the PEOPLE say NO to authoritarianism, NO to fascism, and NO to ICE! People all over the country are resisting in remarkably brave ways. Don’t lose hope, and join your neighbors in the fight. We can ONLY succeed in community and solidarity with each other

#nokings #fuckice
#reneegood #resist
January 8, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Making my 3yo lunch while he cries about wanting me to play with him (after we played for hours and after I attuned and comforted etc) as he literally wraps me and him together in a golden string as I cook. Feels like I’m in some kind of beautiful and awful poem about single motherhood
January 8, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Our @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and @ezralevin.bsky.social will be here this afternoon to talk about the ICE killing and lawlessness in Minneapolis, the regime’s attack on Venezuela, and everything else that’s on your mind.
What's the Plan with Leah and Ezra · Indivisible
The chaos out of the White House is meant to overwhelm us. Our antidote is community. Join Indivisible co-founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin every Thursday to break down the week’s biggest politic...
www.mobilize.us
January 8, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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The media (and everyone else) need to stop referring to ICE as "law enforcement".

They are out to perform "ethnic cleansing" and to terrorize the population.

There is nothing "lawful" about it.
January 8, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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Indivisible groups across Wisconsin hosted at least 766 events to protect and defend our democracy from the rising threat of authoritarianism in 2025.

With 1,400% more groups than this time last year, there is almost certainly a group near you.

Join us.

groups.indivisible.org?keywords=wis...
December 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Because it’s gonna take all of us to make real, transformative change.
January 8, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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"If an agency can chase down a mother and kill her for leaving, then 'freedom' is just a word they use until they decide to pull the trigger. Today, she was the target. Tomorrow, the State will find a label for you. For me. For us."

#momsky
January 8, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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January 7, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
January 8, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.
January 8, 2026 at 12:19 AM
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Make it viral.
January 8, 2026 at 3:22 AM