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Your Local Mountain Gal

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Parent (To my tween boy), Partner (To my lovely wife🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️), fellow Cat Lady, the B and Q in LGBTQ, Engineer, Manager, Hobby Gardener and Colorado resident (since 2004). I am anti-fascism, pro-choice, pro-science, a Trekkie, and an Ally✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿🚫🧊🕊️ 🇺🇦

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Your Local Mountain Gal @mtngalpal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
LLMs are word guessing generators, they are probabilistic not deterministic.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
Fellas, we have to talk to our sons while they’re still young. This foundation👇🏽 is the way…
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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 31/07/2026
We now have the technology to eliminate HIV and AIDS. But cuts to USAID mean it’s not gonna happen any time soon. My latest. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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HIV prevention drug could reduce number of cases globally but USAID cuts prevent access, say experts
Injectable PrEP drug holds promise but investment in HIV prevention has declined dramatically worldwide
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Your Local Mountain Gal @mtngalpal.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Heck yeah
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
🇭🇺 The latest election results in Hungary. Péter Magyar is the Tisza Party. Viktor Orbán is the Fidesz Party.
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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 31/03/2026
The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.
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Maxima @maxima-infinity.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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Your Local Mountain Gal @mtngalpal.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
No Kings but more importantly mobilizing with our communities to vote this fall if we still can. #NoKings #FDT
Two paper mache puppets with a sign that says "trans rights are human rights"Statue of Liberty puppet putting her head in her hands and weepingTrump on a stick in a jail suitPupper with sign that says Trump: I am a naturalized citizen
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/03/2026
Take two minutes to watch this piece with NYT photojournalist Kenny Holston, the only news photographer on the House floor during Trump’s State of the Union speech. There’s one shot in particular that will likely end up in the history books. See if you catch which one.
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Your Local Mountain Gal @mtngalpal.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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God @thegodshow.com · 28/02/2026
Thou Shalt Not Start A War To Distract From The Epstein Files
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Memento Mori @mementomori4950.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Definition of insanity 😏
The Pigs of War A

Bubblemaps

@bubblemaps

THE RESISTANCE

JUST IN:

Six suspected insiders made $1.2M betting on a US strike on Iran

Most of these wallets:

were funded in the last 24h

specifically bet for February 28

bought "yes" hours before the strike

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$493,512.16

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$119,888.84

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$1000K

Chris Murphy

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It's insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I'm introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.
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Your Local Mountain Gal @mtngalpal.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I would argue we're further along, and closer to 1940 in the comparison. We already had a LOT of detention facilities in 2019, and now systems and leadership excuse deaths and illnesses at these places, and we have > 30 state-sanctioned shootings in and around these camps. #fightfacism
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/02/2026
Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
February 1, 2026
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February 1, 2026
On February 1, 1862, in the early days of the Civil War, the Atlantic Monthly published Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” summing up the cause of freedom for which the United States tro...
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Your Local Mountain Gal @mtngalpal.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Preach it from both sides of what used to be an aisle!
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Your Local Mountain Gal @mtngalpal.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Black History is integral to our American history, when we accept and acknowledge the horrors, find ways to repair, and embrace the resilience and gifts that come from that history, we all benefit.
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Your Local Mountain Gal @mtngalpal.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Hot tip for the tech savvy, let's get on it
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Your Local Mountain Gal @mtngalpal.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Wine Moms showing up for justice and anti facism! ✊🏻🍾🍷
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Your Local Mountain Gal @mtngalpal.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
DHS buying warehouses to detain PEOPLE they are actively kidnapping and trafficking without any due process....sounds a lot like internment camps, concentration camps, native American"boarding schools" only blatantly more evil.
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a bald man wearing glasses is sitting in front of a wall .
ALT: a bald man wearing glasses is sitting in front of a wall .
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Your Local Mountain Gal @mtngalpal.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Pepper are power ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
“This isn’t a moment, it’s a movement”
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Your Local Mountain Gal @mtngalpal.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Does your neighborhood have a signal group to stay connected? One of may good tips here. Community is the best way to resist fascista youtube.com/shorts/0IegV...
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U.S. Gen Z Protesters Are Adopting International Resistance Tactics
YouTube video by AJ+
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Your Local Mountain Gal @mtngalpal.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I have literally had to tell friends and neighbors the same thing,I will handle the protesting they need to stay safe.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
If Don Lemon didn’t matter, they’d ignore him. They can’t. Power only fears what it can’t control. That’s Don Lemon. And they fear the platform he’s building. Which they just helped build.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
January 30, 2026
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January 30, 2026
As the American people continue to express their fury over the violence of federal agents in Minneapolis and elsewhere, officials from the Trump administration today tried to shift the public narrativ...
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@jzikah @jzikah.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Don Lemon livestream. #FreeDonLemon Start shouting about 1A at the top of our lungs, America!!! #StopTheMAGAnazis #PunchaNaziDay www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9EZ...
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BREAKING: Don Lemon ARRESTED!
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The regime is going to try to rig the election. They're going to flood the zone with misinformation and suppress the truth on X and TikTok.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 28/01/2026
Today, Rep. Castro and I visited precious Liam and his father, Adrian, at the Dilley Detention Center. My heart absolutely breaks for Liam, his family, and every person being wrongfully detained.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The coup never ended. Criminal regime. Trump belongs in prison, for many crimes. No Justice, and we pay the price bsky.app/profile/chri...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I agree. Working on a new report on this right now. What happened in Atlanta today is significantly worse than it even appears on the surface. I daresay I no longer hold out much hope that this fall will be anything but utter—and scary—chaos. A free and fair election increasingly feels unthinkable.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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Earthling @ziyatong.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/01/2026
Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment "I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim. At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."
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Robin Budd @robinbudd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Today would be a good day for @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social to step aside as Minority Leader. cc @jayapal.house.gov @ocasio-cortez.house.gov @robertgarcia.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @frost.house.gov @friedman.house.gov
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.
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CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC
You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bearwitness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Repeat after me - the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy, among which is the rule of law
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We The People @snowowls.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social Grow a spine FFS!!! You have the power of the purse and you waste it away EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Stop playing by rules no one else is using. WHEN IS ENOUGH ENOUGH?!
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I really appreciate @donlemonofficial.bsky.social’s continued ability to keep his cool and not give a fuck while just trying to do what he does best
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Your Local Mountain Gal @mtngalpal.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
This film was released in 2013 using news clips and a narration of excerpts of the the book "Death of the Liberal Class". Still very relevant, especially the section towards the end on resistance. vimeo.com/59002146?fl=...
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This is a film based on the book "Death of the Liberal Class" by journalist and Pulitzer prize winner, Chris Hedges. It charts the rise of the Corporate…
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Thank you Andreas Ulbricht wherever you are !!
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