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LimnerMarsh

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Photographer and admirer of peculiar plants, animals, and fungi. “[T]he fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.”--Rebecca Solnit

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LimnerMarsh @limnermarsh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For context, the quote is Thomas Jefferson discussing slavery.

Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia Query xviii: Manners (1784)

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LimnerMarsh @limnermarsh.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I'm just here to second the recommendation for this book. "Blueprint for Revolution" by Drdja Popovic is a good source for the how tos of nonviolent civil resistance. It emphasizes the same point.

A book cover with the text,

BLUEPRINT FOR REVOLUTION

SRDJA POPOVIC

HOW TO USE RICE PUDDING, LEGO MEN, and OTHER NONVIOLENT TECHNIQUES to GALVANIZE COMMUNITIES, OVERTHROW DICTATORS, or SIMPLY CHANGE the WORLD

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LimnerMarsh @limnermarsh.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Pritzker owns his look. Trump can't touch someone who enjoys dressing as Fred Flintstone.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker costumed for Halloween as Fred Flintstone standing with a costumed woman and two costumed boys.

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LimnerMarsh @limnermarsh.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

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The following month, the firings began. Since February, DOJ has fired at least 98 immigration judges, and another 55 or so left voluntarily after seeing the writing on the wall. "Amanda" was one of the first judges fired in February. "I was never told why I was let go," she said. "A lot of people were shocked. I don't think anyone would have described me as a liberal judge. I'm a former immigration prosecutor. The feeling was that if they'd fire someone like me, no one was safe. Which is probably the message DOJ wanted to send."

Amanda said there was one incident in her record, when she worked for the Executive Office of Immigration Review, that may have flagged Trump's DOJ. "I was once reported for engaging in 'illegal DEI," she said. "One of the individuals I supervised moved the seating arrangements for African American staff to the same undesirable hallway, causing staff to refer to that hall as 'Jim Crow Row.' I told her she had to stop doing that. When this new administration called for reporting of 'illegal DEI,' the staff member forwarded an email to me to notify me that she had reported me. Maybe that's why I was fired. But my termination notice was a few sentences long. So who knows."

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LimnerMarsh @limnermarsh.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Too close to the (literally) iconic gesture, which looks like this s

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LimnerMarsh @limnermarsh.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

WTAF is it with NYT headlines? The subhead accurately describes the piece, which is a perfectly good discussion of the absurd use of "IQ" in justifying the fake tech bro/right wing meritocracy.

Musk's I.Q.?

The questionable measure of intelligence has now been uncoupled from any test and loosed into the discourse to justify Silicon Valley's power.

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LimnerMarsh @limnermarsh.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I've always been one to think more about ethics than honor, but I'm in no mood to forgive those who dishonored my country today. Here you are, you tough-guy posers.

Ukraine flag saying "These Colors Don't Run."

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LimnerMarsh @limnermarsh.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I've chosen Rebecca Solnit tells us: “[T]he fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving." I've used this quote as the epigraph for this account. My first post is the Fox River at dawn--a photo of something worth saving.

A view of a river with bare trees along the banks. There's a grey and pink dawn sky. The water is still, and there's a thin layer of mist over water.

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