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Nancy Langston

@nancyclimateart.bsky.social
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Linocut printmaker; emerita professor of environmental history. I write about reindeer. website: www.nancylangston.net

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BadRobotLinda @lms2025.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Vote NO on the SAVE Act!!
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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Our rescue pittie Blueberry, who loves libraries as well as shelters, hopes you get that opportunity. But all libraries must include a shelf for dog treats, he adds.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It implies that we are visitors in someone else’s country.
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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Animal shelters, like libraries, are among the best things possible!
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Finnish artist, author and illustrator Tove Jansson in her home studio, 1956 #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a standing white woman with short hair facing forwards dressed in dark trousers and top in an artist studio
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Pam Brisse @pamdorra.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.
A multicolored quilt made of of scraps with the words WE KNOW WHAT WE SAW staggered down it with a large beautiful eye centered between the words. The eye has a rainbow camera aperture as the iris. It is quilted densely.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities: Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged Thuggish violence against observers: Way up
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
This is like something out of a horror movie, my god
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 04/02/2026
What should alarm us about the Epstein files isn’t just the appalling details, which are horrific and criminal. It’s that here is a growing sense that there is small number of elite who see themselves as above the law.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 04/02/2026
can’t not hear and see:
photograph of David Wojnarowicz’s black leather  jacket, reading: If I die of AIDS, forget burial – drop my body on the steps of the FDA” (courtesy The David Wojnarowicz Papers, The Downtown Collection, Fales Library, New York University) via https://wojfound.org/timeline_event/1988-july-if-i-die-of-aids/
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/02/2026
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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 03/02/2026
Not in the Epstein files: - trans people - migrants and asylum seekers - people who arrive in small boats - benefits claimants In the Epstein files: - rich white guys who tell you (or pay people to tell you) to hate the people above
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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 03/02/2026
Representatives of Nuiqsut have sued the Trump administration over the abrupt cancellation of a program that gave protections to the Teshekpuk Lake area and the caribou herd that uses it. via @alaskabeacon.com
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Alaska Native group sues Trump administration for nixing North Slope caribou protections
A Nuiqsut group says the administration violated federal law by ending Teskekpuk Lake safeguards and dismissing subsistence harvesting as a ‘non-use’ of resources.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 03/02/2026
ICE detained multiple kids (all under the age of 10!) in the last week alone. Still kidnapping people based solely on the way they look. Still arresting parents at school pick up. Nothing has changed in Minnesota. Nice words from the Admin won’t change that. ICE leaving will.
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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The judge writes: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned."
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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
"Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned."
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Key quote from the judge's order releasing Liam Ramos & his father: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned."
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 31/01/2026
Bells rang at the Basilica of St. Mary at noon as part of a call for unity from more than 100 churches across the Twin Cities, one week after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti. Continuing coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi... 📽️ Kyeland Jackson/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 31/01/2026
The front page of tomorrow's Minnesota Star Tribune: Feb. 1, 2026
The Feb. 1 front page of the Star Tribune
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 31/01/2026
It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Oh, look! The guy in charge of deporting people for being antisemitic is antisemitic himself. Is that where self-deportation kicks in? So shocking that the tiny dude with the Nazi haircut and Nazi coat who likes to harass people in the streets is an actual Nazi.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
They used "anti-semitism" as a pretext to deport foreign-born students and chill free speech, and their deportation chief -- the one with the nonstandard Hugo Boss-style greatcoat -- was spouting anti-semitic insults at a US attorney
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Kieran Meadows @kieranbluesky.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Popping out of the vehicle guns drawn and pointing them at a legal observer exercising her constitutional rights. Everything about this is reckless, dangerous, the opposite of law & order and keeping anyone safe… how do people see this and not see masked secret police style terror on US streets
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2026
This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
1. Medieval women's literature 2. Organic chem 3. Neuroscience 4. Medieval history 5. African drumming
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
It's easy to get inured to this. But it's genuinely shocking. These are just untrained, hyped up hooligans terrorizing people.
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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Relief printmaking was traditionally a form of protest art. I'm a linocut artist, and I protest. So here are two linocut resistance posters for Minnesota (a loon, the state bird, and an eagle)--if anyone wants high-res images to use, just DM me. Feel free to use them.
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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Congratulations!
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Paul Rieckhoff @rieckhoff.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
And they always told you the Democrats were gonna take your guns. It’s not the Democrats. It’s the fascists. And they’re saying it out loud. No doubt this will wake up millions who haven’t been activated until now. This is happening, America. To ALL of America. Including gun owners.🚨🇺🇸
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/01/2026
in Hungary do they have masked agents of the state gunning down civilians in the street? I feel like we need to dial up our authoritarian regime comparisons quite a bit from where they were a year ago
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/01/2026
Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 27/01/2026
"House Democrats should get themselves to Minneapolis. Immediately. They should be on the street themselves, cameras out and recording, observing and putting their bodies on the line."
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Our Gettysburg Moment
The stakes in Minneapolis are higher than even the participants may realize.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Well done Minneapolis resisters! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
While immigration officers support the Trump administration’s goal of deporting undocumented migrants, many of them have grown ‘disillusioned’ with leadership’s tactics, according to reports
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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
After weeks of brutality, this is the best possible news: Bovino has lost his job, and Kristi Noem may soon do the same www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Greg Bovino Loses His Job
The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 25/01/2026
Read it here: lnk.thebulwark.com/4rbwhEj
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Emergency Triad: Another American Has Been Murdered by Our Government
It’s worse than it looks and it looks plenty bad.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Walz: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets or on the side of a nurse at the V.A. who died bearing witness to such government
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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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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Lovely--but alas, a gated article before the end.
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Anne O'Brien @anneobrienauthor.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
An appropriate picture for this time of year. The Blessed Virgin reads in bed while Joseph looks after the baby. All watched over by the ox and the ass. From the 15th century Besancon Book of Hours. A woman, with a book to hand for that moment of leisure, after my own heart!
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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I taught climate history for 2 decades at midwestern public universities. I always included a few slides and discussion of her work. Not a single uni student had ever learned of her. Glad that you're spreading the word!
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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Love this!
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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
A barred owl under an apple tree--reduction linocut, 6 layers, 9X12" printed area, 2025. This was a commissioned piece for someone who loves apples trees and owls. #printsky #linocut #reductionprint #owls
A barred owl perches in an apple tree
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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Layer by layer, the cover for my forthcoming book REINDEER (Yale UP) is taking shape! Only a couple more layers I hope. #reindeer #svalbard #reductionprint #yaleup
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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
The water reflections are great
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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I love the greens!
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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Gorgeous!
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