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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Angie Nixon's people-power campaign is getting ready to flip a Senate seat in Florida. Join us Thursday to meet her. We need your help to send this REAL Democratic fighter to DC. share.indvs.org/s/fxcPNu3P

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We demand Wilber has immediate access to his loved ones and his attorney (who are currently struggling to get access to him), AND a full independent investigation into what happened. We stand in solidarity with Wilber and the people of Texas. ICE OUT NOW.

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So, it's okay to kill endangered animals now - no problem. I'm livid and crying at the same time. They LIED - again. They watered down the rule about "harm," got thousands of complaints they ignored, and then they chose to ignore their own rule. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

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Trump administration says developers, loggers can kill endangered species

The Trump administration’s top wildlife official issued a directive last week that expands a recent rollback of endangered species protections much further than the feds had told the public.Individual...

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#indivisibleNOVAwest led an excellent voter registration event today on a local college campus. HOORAY for new voters!!! 🥳🙌🎇🍾🥂 share.indvs.org/toolkit/chec...

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Check Your Voter Registration

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Registered college kids today with #IndivisibleNOVAwest! 🔥It's National Voter Registration Day, and we're getting #VoteReady! If you’re not registered at all, get registered. And if you have any trouble or need more help, call 1-866-OUR-VOTE. #NationalVoterRegistrationDay share.indvs.org/s/4bfOzCaG

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Check Your Voter Registration: Select Your State

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Trump and Congressional Republicans are the BEST!! ...... at BANKRUPTCY. DEBT. RIPOFFS. 🫡 NEWS NUGGET: U.S. debt topped $40 trillion for the first time. The Treasury Department said the total public debt outstanding reached $40.047 trillion Tuesday, more than double the level from a decade ago.

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Solidarity Social @solidarity.social · 11/06/2026

By popular demand, we are rolling up our sleeves to launch precinct-connect.us to go beyond tools for organizers. Precinct Connect is live in: GA, SC, NC, OH, IA & KS. Other states to follow soon. Let us know if a precinct lookup doesn't work. We are readying actions/campaigns. Connect Away!

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Organize for an inclusive and accountable Democracy

Set your precinct to chat with your precinct team, access a list of actions and campaigns and decide what to work on together — in your precinct or in precincts that need help.

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

That's exactly right! Now is the time to organize infrastructure, so we can mobilize voters. Let's do this. 💪 💙🩵💙

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

MAKE THIS GO VIRAL, PEOPLE! Top notch data analysis. You can't argue with it. Came directly from DHS. You can download the program that shows the data itself. From the source. GO.

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The Republicans in Congress are worse than useless. They are complicit in every breach of our allies' trust, every war crime, every dirty thing Trump has done. Republicans could have stopped him whenever they wanted to. They own his crimes. They've all broken their oath to the Constitution.

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The vice president is scheduled to go to Hungary on Tuesday to campaign for the country’s authoritarian leader, Viktor Orban, a Kremlin-allied white nationalist who proclaims that Europeans “do not want to become peoples of mixed race.” - Dana Milbank, New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/o...

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Opinion | How Much Humiliation Can Vance Take?

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

It's about time they were held financially liable for the massive amount of harm they cause. The only way to force changes on social media giants is to hold them financially responsible for their tactics.

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

"In President Trump’s America, there may be only two genders, but our military adventures can identify however they please." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...

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Opinion | Trump Has Made a Fundamental Miscalculation about Iran

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The more you've stolen through fraud, the more likely it is that Trump will pardon you. He relishes having criminals indebted to him; it's a ready pool of talent to draw on and encourages loyalty, vs following those inconvenient barriers to wealth called laws. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/u...

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Trump Vowed to Crack Down on Fraudsters, but He’s Pardoned Dozens

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Making America Stupid, Trump & Hegseth Edition

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

3rd party candidates are pointless until we reform our elections so they have a chance of actually winning. Until then, if you vote 3rd party between a weak dem and a fascist, you care more about your idealism than protecting the people you care about. Primaries are how we demand the dems we expect.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

If you disagree with Indivisible's strategies, you tell me what your plan is. You are so focused on criticizing, but what are you DOING? What do you suggest we do? Actions. Go. You're it. And take a hot second to read my posts so you know we're on the same side.

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Who are you even replying to??! I'm in leadership in my Indivisible group. I'm actually working my ass off full time in my retirement to volunteer and try to build power in the resistance, because I AM interested in the future. I DO value human life. I think you've mistaken me for a couch potato.

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I've lost track of why you're saying I'm wrong. I think I give up here.

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I'm saying we pull all the levers of power we possibly can, we fight back like hell with proactive, strategic nonviolence. We form networks of support so we're prepared for general strikes, we take care of each other when someone needs a meal or a ride or child care or money for the doctor.

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The most heinous thing this tyrannical regime is doing is targeting marginalized communities. I'm in this fight for all of us, because my white cis hetero middle aged lady ID gives me an advantage that isn't fair. I see all the ugly fascist BS. I think you and I are arguing about nonviolence.

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I know that very well. This is not new to me.

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Also, realize that when you discourage people from getting involved by telling them they will fail, how are you helping? Do you want to be right, or do you want to win? I want to win, and I'll keep encouraging people to get involved in sustained opposition. Your words influence people. Choose wisely

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I hear you. I'm curious - how does your perspective change your opposition plans? Do you arm yourself? Organize an armed opposition? You may be right, but I'm not interested in foreseeing the future. I'm interested in doing effective sustained nonviolent work. It might fail. But it might succeed.

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

That's incorrect. I suggest you look into the research of Erica Chenoweth. In a study of the past 100 years of global INTERNAL conflict, she expected to find that violence was more successful than nonviolence in removing tyrants. She was surprised when her research proved the opposite was true.

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

3/3 Traitors to the cause of freedom and democracy. Those are the Chamberlains of our time, but internally. That would be a fair comparison. Do you believe that the extensive research done by Erica Chenoweth, which shows that nonviolent resistance has been more successful than violence, is invalid?

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

2/3 War between countries as in WWII is entirely different from internal opposition to the Trump regime. You're comparing apples to oranges. Chamberlain's appeasement failed. Appeasement always fails. The institutions in the US that have turned to appeasement are traitors.

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

1/3 One country threatening another is very different from tyranny over one's own people. What a foreign country decides to do is ultimately out of our hands, whereas we can influence politics and power within our own country.

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Twin Cities news from the St. Paul Pioneer Press - Federal Judge orders lawful refugees to be flown back to Minnesota, released. 🎉 And another federal judge says ICE has violated nearly 100 court orders - more in January alone than some agencies have violated in their entire existence. 😡

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Nonviolence isn't just preferable. It's a strategic tactic that is more successful than violence. We're building the muscles we need to sustain this nonviolent movement in Indivisible. Folks should join! I'm active in my local group's leadership, and we must keep growing this movement; and WE WILL.

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I disagree. In fact, violence is exactly what backfires with the American public (L.A.). On the other hand, look at the rise in opposition to the violent tactics of ICE and Border Patrol following the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. These are our "Selma" moments: the murder of innocents.

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

GIFT article - Do not be fooled into thinking that Trump and MAGA have had a change of heart following the feds' murder of Alex Pretti. This is nothing more than a "tactical retreat," as David French explains in this New York Times opinion piece.

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Opinion | Trump’s Lies Have a Purpose

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

New Yorker Cartoon - Dystopian Conditions Ahead: Use Caution. Artist: Matt Reuter

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Minnesota is proof that those assumptions are incorrect. When people organize in supportive, proactively nonviolent ways, they can challenge political power, even a police state. It comes with a cost - a dreadful cost, as we've seen in Minneapolis - but that collective action is true power.

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

And so it becomes challenging to motivate people to take action. I feel this intensely as a community and political organizer. Just convincing people their collective actions matter is a big hurdle. And there are other factors making people feel politically powerless: unequal access, big money, etc.

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Karen Mortensen @cbirdfly.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Very true. A guest on PBS News Hour discussed the psychological result of living in an info-saturated media world: learned helplessness. Constant intake of info lulls people into the role of passive observer; the news becomes something that happens TO us. We forget our power to create change.

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