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Whitney Evans Harrison

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she/her | product development, publishing | parent | knows more Ñoldorin genealogies than your average midwestern mom | ACNAtoo advocate

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Whitney Evans Harrison @whitneyfharrison.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Anyone on here do gardening and know of these are weeds or garden plants coming up? We moved in this past autumn and are uncertain what may or may not come up this spring. There were tomatoes, zinnias, jalapeños, and thyme growing in the garden last year that we were aware of 🤷‍♀️
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11/04/2026
"Welcome back to earth. It's just like you left it. We're so sorry."
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Whitney Evans Harrison @whitneyfharrison.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Agreed. However, the implication that the hobbits were so embarrassed about the whole Bombadil-forest-runningaroundnakedonthebarrowdowns episode that Frodo straight up wrote it out of the record *is* extremely funny.
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Whitney Evans Harrison @whitneyfharrison.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
On the one hand, FINALLY someone who knows what the hell they're doing with the source material. On the other hand, please. Please, I cannot have beef with Colbert. Do not betray me, sir, I'm begging you.
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Whitney Evans Harrison @whitneyfharrison.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Highly entertained that they released this info on Gondorian New Year.
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Stephen Colbert to write new Lord of the Rings film after end of the Late Show
Comedian and avid Tolkien fan to write the Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past, a new Peter Jackson-produced film based on unadapted chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
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Kara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
possibly the best definition of Anglicanism I’ve ever seen
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 30/01/2026
All across the country, Americans are organizing to defend our neighbors and demand ICE OUT! Remember, you have rights. We will MELT ICE, dismantle DHS, and protect our neighbors. We will not concede the power of the people!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I'm begging the media to state this clearly -- we are all in danger now because of the deliberate choices made by Trump's administration and RFK Jr in particular. When the next major outbreak of a preventable disease strikes, they'll point the finger at other people. But it'll be their disaster.
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally." In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.
Tweet from Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun: "Ignorance like this cheapens the horror of the Holocaust. Anne Frank was in Amsterdam legally and abided by Dutch law. She was hauled off to a death camp because of her race and religion. Her story has nothing to do with the illegal immigration, fraud, and lawlessness plaguing Minnesota today.

Our brave law enforcement should be commended, not tarred with this historically illiterate and antisemitic comparison."
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Catherine Hervey @cfhervey.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
My latest piece, at The Bulwark: open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Saving History for the Future at Auschwitz-Birkenau
How the memorial and museum plans to continue its mission of preservation after the last Holocaust survivors pass away.
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smols/rachel @smolsdarklighter.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
RIP Captain Georg Von Trapp, you would have loved using whistles to fight fascists
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I'm going to print this image out and hang it on my wall because the idea that this exists should fill everyone with absolute boiling fucking rage every day.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Like it or not (I don't), they're supposed to work for all of us. Call them and tell them to abolish ICE. 👇
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
it's amazing to watch the We Are The Storm guys paralyzed in terror of the density and sophistication of spontaneous neighborhood watches put together by pissed-off baristas and suburban moms
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 26/01/2026
The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.
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Whitney Evans Harrison @whitneyfharrison.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I really appreciated this inclusion in the Prayers of the People at @advocatewheaton.bsky.social last night
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Whitney Evans Harrison @whitneyfharrison.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
found in a medieval scroll under the heading 10 Weird But Awesome Things to Get For Your Wedded Lord This Yuletide
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Whitney Evans Harrison @whitneyfharrison.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The uhhh kindergarten moms group chat in *Wheaton* (conservative evangelical suburb) is now sending around Defund 🧊 email scripts and lists of senators and reps to contact.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This whole thing is amazing but this part really sings.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Two statements that are compatible. a. I don't think concealed carry is a good policy. b. I do not believe that someone carrying a gun in compliance with a state's gun laws gives federal law enforcement the right to murder them.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/01/2026
It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.
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Kevin McLenithan @mclengthyname.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Re: the latter group of priests in this headline, current events are really exposing how many American Christians - of all political and theological stripes - think of their faith primarily in terms of aesthetic & lifestyle preferences rather than as a set of serious moral and spiritual commitments
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I wonder how many people need to get killed in the street by masked agents of the state before conservatives stop pretending that they’re being oppressed by the existence of HR departments bsky.app/profile/shar...
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 22/01/2026
MnNEAT has created these communication tools to help nonspeakers, or those who may lose speech due to stress, invoke their rights if they are stopped by ICE. As always, please be very careful when taking something out of a bag or wallet in front of police or ICE. mnneat.wixstudio.com/mnneat/safet...
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MnNEAT | Rapid ICE‑Related Safety & Community Care Resources
MnNEAT stands with our community and against ICE. This rapid‑response effort for community care provides downloadable disability access resources to support individuals during the current emergency…
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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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Martyn Wendell Jones @martynwendell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
“The best of America has been broadcast by commonplace nurses, dental assistants, taxi drivers, baristas, and bartenders. It is not some warrior caste or a group of exalted aristocrats that exemplifies the best of us, but normal people who are choosing to do the right things when the moment arises.”
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know that we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down to proclaim blessed the poor, blessed the thirsting for justice, blessed the suffering.

 MAY 11, 1978
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
There is one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away – the rule that God’s word is giving us today: everyone concerned for the hungry, the naked, the poor, for those who have vanished in police custody, for the tortured, for prisoners, for all flesh that suffers, has God close at hand.

FEBRUARY 5, 1978
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Both of Nevada's senators--Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen--have officially come out against the DHS funding bill following the execution of Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis this morning. This effectively ends the DHS funding bill in the Senate.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The official lie is that he came over to interfere with their operations, when you can plainly see several of them get out of their cars, cross the street and confront him there.
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Whitney Evans Harrison @whitneyfharrison.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/01/2026
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The most recent Imperial-involved killings on Ghorman show we must have better training for stormtroopers
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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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KidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 24/01/2026
It is important that tomorrow’s gospel begins with a religious and political dissident disappeared, soon to be executed, by a corrupt state because he critiqued that state excess and immorality.
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Whitney Evans Harrison @whitneyfharrison.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Newsrooms provide their employees with training, space and mental health resources but most people don't have that. It's fine to read about it tomorrow.
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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Once again: If it's not your job, it's fine to not watch horrific footage.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I am doing my best to respond to this without a string of expletives. But let's be very clear. What just happened in Minnesota was cold blooded murder of a civilian by out of control federal agents, aided and abetted by the entire Trump administration and their fascist enablers.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
an ICE agent shot and killed a woman for no reason and the entire apparatus of the U.S. government was marshaled to protect him from a single consequence. why would any ICE agent hesitate to kill again.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Settings > Content and Media > Autoplay Video and GIFs Turn it off, now.
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ACNAtoo @acnatoo.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Recently, a number of people have asked if we plan to offer feedback to the Province regarding the proposed Title IV revisions. These are the reasons we have declined to participate:
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Why ACNAtoo is Not Participating in Title IV Revisions — ACNAtoo
For over four years, ACNAtoo has shared best practices from leading trauma and investigative experts on how to handle a church culture that enables and covers up abuse. Recently, a number of people ha...
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Whitney Evans Harrison @whitneyfharrison.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
It’s that time of year again, folks! “O Earendel, brightest of angels, / sent to mankind over middle-earth, / and righteous radiance of the sun, / splendid above all stars, of your own self / you ever enlighten every age.”
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The Anglo-Saxon O Antiphons: O Oriens, O Earendel
The sun in an Anglo-Saxon manuscript ( BL Arundel 60, f.12v ) On 21 December, the date of the winter solstice, the Advent antiphon sung at V...
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Aaron Harrison @aaronmharrison.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Given all the grievous ACNA church news this week, hearing this sermon preached on Sunday beforehand strengthened my faith. If you're bewildered by what the verdict in the Ruch trial said (blame the survivors and advocates) then take a few minutes and listen to some truth. ⚓
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Whitney Evans Harrison @whitneyfharrison.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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