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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

TODAY (Monday, Oct. 5) is the deadline for registering to vote for the midterms in: AMERICAN SAMOA ARIZONA ARKANSAS FLORIDA GEORGIA INDIANA KENTUCKY LOUISIANA — in-person, mail (10/13 online) MISSISSIPPI MONTANA — mail (11/3 in-person) OHIO SOUTH CAROLINA — mail TENNESSEE TEXAS npr.org/vote

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How to register to vote and check your registration status

For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Eligible voters, time's running out for registering to vote or updating your registration for the midterms. Fri, 10/2 — SOUTH CAROLINA — in-person (10/4 online, 10/5 mail) Sat, 10/3 — U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS — in-person (10/4 online) Sun, 10/4 — ALASKA Sun, 10/4 — RHODE ISLAND More at npr.org/vote

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How to register to vote and check your registration status

For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

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CNN @cnn.com · 11/09/2026

Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have arrested a man in the case of Tasia Fortune, the 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree outside an abandoned house last month, following the state medical examiner ruling her death a homicide. cnn.it/4Aazd9x

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Wendy Walker @wenj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Everything feels so heavy today that a little woodpecker action seems in order. Central Washington Sept. 2026 #Birds #Digiscoping

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Wendy Walker @wenj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hansi Lo Wang out here doing valuable public service. And tracking the complexities of vote by mail and census drama all at once. These are both basic tools of democracy and matter a lot. Now, can we have election day as a public holiday, please?

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Wendy Walker @wenj.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My eldest brother was a truck driver on several tours with Dolly Parton. He said she was just as gracious and kind to everyone on the crew as she was to her bandmates, fans, and any "big wigs" (pun intended). RIP to a legend.

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Wendy Walker @wenj.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"you cannot log your way to a fire-free forest".

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Wendy Walker @wenj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Dear @pikeplacemarket.bsky.social This seems quite relevant. The pilot of restricted hours for cars seems like a winner to me. Why not keep it year round?

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Wendy Walker @wenj.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I, too, am in contempt of Congress.

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Wendy Walker @wenj.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Are we great yet? Still waiting.

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Wendy Walker @wenj.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

@kuow.org has been broadcasting both a BBC program and a local "Best of" week round up at the same time, and the mashup, while maddening to listen to, is also kind of hilarious. It's been doubled up for at least 10 minutes and no one at the station has noticed.

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Wendy Walker @wenj.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Ok, the video is grainy and there's background construction noise, but if you listen closely you can hear the happy peeeeppeeeep of just hatched Stellar's Jays being fed. (Promise the nest is safe. It's in my neighbor's Doug Fir, well hidden but visible from my back deck.) #Birds

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 07/04/2026

Oh: Shortly before the Artemis II Orion craft flew around the moon yesterday, entering a 40-minute period of radio silence, Astronaut Victor Glover — who has been open about this faith — took a moment to reflect on Christian scripture. The passage he chose: love your neighbor as yourself.

HOUSTON: Integrity Houston You are six minutes from your 40-minute lunar flyby LOS. From all of us, it's a privilege to witness you carrying the fire past our farthest reach. Thank you. Godspeed.

VICTOR GLOVER: Thank you for that, Jenny. And thank you to all of you for allowing us the immense privilege to be on this journey together. It's quite amazing. And as we go on this journey, thinking about the NASA mission to explore the unknown in air and space, to innovate for the benefit of humanity and to inspire the world through discovery — and as you've gone along on this journey with us, hopefully we're doing just those things.

And as we get close to the nearest point to the moon and farthest point from Earth, as we continue to unlock the mysteries of the cosmos, I would like to uh remind you of one of the most important mysteries there on earth — and that's love. Christ said in response to what was the greatest command that it was to love God with all that you are. And he also, being a great teacher, said this: I give you equal to it, and that is to love your neighbor as yourself. And so, as we prepare to go out of radio communication, we're still able to feel your love from Earth and to all of you down there on Earth, and around the Earth, we love you from the moon.

HOUSTON: Houston copies, we'll see you on the other side.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/03/2026

This dystopian future is here now. "Emily, who NPR is only identifying by her first name because she fears retribution from the federal government, says she followed an ICE vehicle at a safe distance into a parking lot. www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/nx-...

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ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to...

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Wendy Walker @wenj.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

@democrats.senate.gov Do you understand why we say Abolish ICE? This cannot be restrained or reformed. Corruption and cruelty is a design feature.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?” Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth

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100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?

Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/02/2026

Being in New Zealand has been glorious, and I’ve been trying to bring joy to our world that needs more joy and less rage posting. But this is a rage post. You need to read this gift article because you need to be enraged.

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F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:

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Minneapolis Community Defense Is “Riding on the Learning Edge of a Whirlwind”

“We are becoming the people that we always knew that we needed to be,” says Minneapolis organizer Andrew Fahlstrom.

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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon. A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website: www.georgiafort.com/support

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Support Independent Journalism | GF

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addabook @addabook.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Introducing addabook! At long last, we're ready to share this book journaling and tracking platform. It's designed for readers who want to slow down and reflect on what they read. We’re just getting started. Please follow along, explore, and tell us what you think! #slowreading #booksky

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 25/01/2026

Filming ICE is an act of journalism. Cell phone footage is vital source material for reporters who can’t be everywhere at once. Shooting, killing and other targeting of those documenting news is an attack on press freedom and all else that's good in the world.

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Videos show federal agents killing Minneapolis man

Some details of federal government’s account of the shooting aren’t supported by footage captured by bystanders.

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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 bear

witness, 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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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 23/01/2026

Thousands of Minnesotans marched in downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE. The wind chill was 30 below during the march. Hundreds of businesses closed their doors Friday in support of the protest as activists urged Minnesotans to abstain from economic activity.

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Two things you can do RIGHT NOW, like literally as you read this: 1) Call your reps and leave voice mails telling them NO DHS FUNDING and ABOLISH ICE and they better do it for Liam. 2) Donate what you can for www.standwithminnesota.com (a list of orgs, campaigns, and funds on the ground)

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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory

Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support. PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities- Venmo @powwowgrounds www.powwowgrounds.com

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Pow Wow Grounds

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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 15/01/2026

Hey folks Calvary Food Shelf has been helping out people in Minneapolis for 30 years, and now they’re ramping up to meet the crisis, including doing home deliveries so people don’t have to risk going out. They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?

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Support Calvary Food Shelf: Emergency Response Fundraiser on GiveMN

Help us respond to urgent community needs

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

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CHAIRMAN SITTING BEAR'S STATEMENT REGARDING SRST PUBLIC SAFETY
JANUARY 9, 2026
I have been receiving reports and evidence of First Nations people being racially targeted, assaulted, and detained by the federal agency Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE). We want to remind our members to be safe and proactive by carrying with you at a minimum your tribal identification cards or a copy of your degree of Indian Blood. Our tribal identification affirms our citizenship and political status.
Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands. Any federal activity within our boundaries must recognize and respect our tribal sovereignty, treaty obligations, and established jurisdictional boundaries. Any ICE presence or activity within our lands is not authorized, not welcome, and will be addressed. Unauthorized personnel will be escorted off our lands.

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Wendy Walker @wenj.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Are there any birders out there who can help ID this bird from semi-helpful photos? These were taken with a cellphone through binoculars. San Diego, CA on Dec. 20. If it is what I think it is, it seems unusual for the area, and a lifer for me. Help? #birds #SanDiego

A bird with a pale underside and a very long tail is perched overhead on a wire. The photographer (me) very much hopes this is a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. Spotted in San Diego, CA, USA on December 20.

A bird with a pale underside and a very long tail is perched overhead on a wire. In this photo its head is turned over its back. The photographer (me) very much hopes this is a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. Spotted in San Diego, CA, USA on December 20.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

The goal of the Trump administration is an ethnic cleansing that is actively being enacted, and that promises to destroy the diversity & freedoms that were ever the strength of this imperfect nation. My latest in @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The ethnic cleansing of the US will destroy it | Heba Gowayed

Trump’s racist remarks on Ilhan Omar and Somali immigrants reveals his vision for the US as a white Christian nation

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 02/12/2025

Every journalist hit with a stinger grenade or pepper ball by law enforcement while covering a protest is a message from the government: Stop showing the truth. Journalists must speak out.

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Journalists’ cameras become targets at Oregon protests

Federal agents in Portland are waging war on the press

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Wendy Walker @wenj.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

If you don't think kids should have food, what broke you?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs “The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”

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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

America! Your expats and your friends are *always* with you! Sending you love and courage and #NoKings solidarity and frog costumes from Melbourne, Australia. Make fascism history again!

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

"When we were at war with fascists in Europe, everyday people, everyone would have been an anti-fascist. Being an anti-fascist should not be a controversial thing. It should be controversial to be a fascist." Wrote this five years ago. It shouldn't hold up this well. www.hcn.org/articles/nor...

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What really is antifa? - High Country News

Effie Baum, an ‘everyday anti-fascist,’ talks about President Trump’s threat to designate the movement as a terrorist organization, and corrects the record.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

“They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down. We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military." The worst of what we feared when Trump’s spending bill gave ICE a blank check is happening.

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ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Last night, a judge ordered recently-released Palestinian activist and former @columbiasipa.bsky.social student Mahmoud Khalil deported Tonight at 6 at Busboys and Poets, I’ll be the first to speak with Khalil since the ruling. We will talk about Columbia, cancellation, and free speech.

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Maryam M.-C. @maryneedsnohail.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Fascism is about power, not consistency. You can't fight fascists with gotchas. Your gotchas are music to their ears. The only thing that works with them is interfering with their ability to exercise their power. You have to make them fail at what they're trying to do.

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Wendy Walker @wenj.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Last time I checked, you can't drink data.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

You can now register for the 14th Amendment Center’s webinars on birthright citizenship. The sessions will be held on September 16th and 17th with a line-up of experts. REGISTER NOW: howard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

“The Guardian is printing the names of all the Palestinian journalists listed by the CPJ as having died as a result of Israeli military action since October 2023 as part of a day of action in condemnation of the killings and in solidarity with those journalists who remain…”

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The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war

With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever

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