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Rysa Walker

@rysawalker.bsky.social
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SFF author, including CHRONOS Files. ABNA Grand Prize. ITW Finalist. My latest is On Alien Skies. Political junkie and recovering gov't professor. www.amazon.com/author/walker She/her. I only respond to DMs if I already know you. RESIST

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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/08/2026
When Trump is finally defeated, remember that the hangers-on and the ghouls surrounding him, the JD Vances of the world, will all claim that they were trying to moderate his evil and they should be thanked. And we need to remember that this is a lie. They were willing to do anything for power.
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
It would be a duet if I was in the car.
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Well, I guess there’s a chance Mitch got a close look in the second or two before Jesus raised that well-muscled arm and pointed him toward the down elevator.
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Yes, Congress should be able to do these things. A court this contemptuous of Congress deserves to be packed by Congress, not only to correct these disastrous precedents but also because Congress needs to show both Article II and Article III who’s boss.
“On her view, Congress could commandeer the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Ser-vices, most (if not all) of the Department of Justice, and a number of other agencies besides. Indeed, if Slaughter were correct, then it is not clear why Congress would need to allow the President any say in firings at all”
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Posting a document and *understanding it* are two different things. You're misinterpreting Article II, Section 4. The Constitution has no mechanism for impeaching an entire administration at once. I'd be delighted if we had something like a vote of no-confidence that allowed this, but we don't.
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I was a poli sci professor for nearly two decades. I taught American Government for many of those years. There is no method to allow for wholesale impeachment of an administration. It’s one at a time. Even a blue tsunami in November is exceedingly unlikely to yield the necessary 2/3 in both houses.
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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 21/05/2026
Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters
All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Unless you plot your books in advance, that’s the only way to write. Pantsers constantly jump between chapters, adding in clues and “foreshadowing” as we go.
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
His personal accounts, however, have never been in better shape.
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
It's launch day for On Alien Skies, the final book in my Icarus Code series. Audio coming soon. www.amazon.com/Alien-Skies-... #BookSky
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Appointment and then special election. Primary isn’t until June so they’ll likely just hold the election then.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Definitely the first State of the Union where the president talked about the military killing unarmed fishermen as a laugh line
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Petergeist Clines @peterclines.com · 24/02/2026
I tried to think of all the possible nonsense that could come out of the State of the Union address tonight and then realized there was enough possible nonsense I could just make Bingo cards.
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Should probably make it HeeHaw reruns instead of The Muppets.
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Same. And that’s a tough cancel when we’re both Star Trek fans.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Pam Bondi prepping for today's performance at the House of Representatives...
Veruca Salt from Willy Wonka (but I'm pretty sure it's actually Pam Bondi as a child)
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
True, but I would argue that a lot of those people *know* the truth. They just have a self-serving agenda that requires keeping the others willfully ignorant.
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
They cluster in small towns throughout the country and watch only OANN and NewsMax, because they think Fox leans too far to the left. I could introduce you to a few hundred if I was willing to endure the torture of a high school reunion.
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Yes. My entire extended family lives in one of those bubbles. Some will say they don't *like* him, but he's better than the Democrats, mostly because their preacher says so. They don't know 95% of what Trump's done. But they also don't want to know. It's willful ignorance & I'm so done with it.
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This one is fake. It's not on any of the archives of his posts. And he couldn't find that clapperboard emoji to save his life. Probably couldn't find the American flag, either.
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This is an AI generated photo. Count the number of stripes on the flag. There are numerous other signs that it's fake.
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
@reuters.com Is this account legit? Just wondering given that your other accounts end with your domain.
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Um ... pretty sure this photo is AI. Look at the lettering. That's a dead giveaway.
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Not his body. But he *is* the one reading the eulogy for the veteran who died in his care.
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athense.bsky.social @athense.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Be a shame if a bunch of people started calling the hotel asking why they're hosting a gaggle of murderous ethnonationalist thugs
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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
That's a @marriott-hotels.bsky.social outlet, if they'd like to go on record about hosting white supremacist gangs with a growing body count?
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
oh commuters just found the motherlode of ice agents at a suburban hotel, including, potentially, bovino himself. a bunch of confirmed ICE and CBP cars from the bovino convoy there. spring hill suites in maple grove. people of the twin cities, do with this info what you will.
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I've heard there are LICE at that Marriot, too. A recent major infestation.
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Found it! Those don't look like spider bites to me. Marriot needs to get better bedbug protection. LICE, too. I've heard there's a major issue with lice in their hotels.
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I'll let my friend know. I think she may still have the photographs.
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
My friend stayed at a Marriot property in MN. I think it was Springhill Suites in Maple Grove. Her daughter had bites all over her back the next morning and she thinks they were bedbugs. The manager said it looked like spider bites, but whether it's a bedbugs at Marriots or spiders, that's bad news.
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Yep. Motel 6 will even leave the light on for them. Given that they're on our dime and we don't want them there, I think at 2 star hotel at $45 a night is pretty damn generous.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
AND IMPEACH AND REMOVE. We need to clamor for that even if the votes aren't there—yet.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE isn't law enforcement without training; ICE is white nationalism with guns.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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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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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I would argue that we jumped the shark when we voted him back into office. There’s even a solid case to be made for the 2016 election.
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Was just thinking about this song yesterday, along with Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJLo...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I checked the distance from her son's school to the location, along with the student drop off time. There was a 20 minute window, so apparently that constitutes "stalking them throughout the day."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/01/2026
The only lawless behavior I see in this video is ICE harassing and threatening people for no good reason. ICE authority is limited by federal law. They exist for immigration enforcement only. They do not have general police powers. (8 U.S.C. § 1357)
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
How much more in your face can it be? "Why are you asking me for my paperwork?" "Because of your accent." "You have an accent too." "Where were you born sir?" "Where were you born at?" "Put your hands behind your back."
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Rysa Walker @rysawalker.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
So, basically... "Hey, you've got other children. Can I have that one?"
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/01/2026
I mean, I would, if I were them. The US is 100% not to be trusted any more, nor will we be again for a long time, if ever. Even when we get rid of the current feculent toad in what remains of the White House, the US fascist infrastructure will remain and could resurface, like a case of Nazi shingles
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