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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Nancy Langston is an American environmental historian, currently working as a professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University. She was the President of the American Society of Environmental History from 2007 to 2009. Her initial research on the historical and spatial migrations of toxic contaminants within the Lake Superior basin was supported by the National Science Foundation, and has informed her most recent publication titled Toxic Bodies. Langston is a Marshall Scholar. .. more

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 1d

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.

"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."

"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."

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Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 2d

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.

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations!

Reposted by Nancy Langston, Christina Pagel

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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

Reposted by Will Jennings, Tom Clark, Steve Peers , and 12 more Will Jennings, Tom Clark, Steve Peers, Christopher Wright, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Eric Goldman, Guy Grossman, David S. Cohen, David R. Miller, James Goodwin, Brian Keegan, Nancy Langston, Greg Linden, Nathan Richardson, Dan Hicks

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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."

Reposted by Nancy Langston

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

"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."

Our Gettysburg Moment

The stakes in Minneapolis are higher than even the participants may realize.

lnk.thebulwark.com

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 3d

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...

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.

www.theatlantic.com

Reposted by Marc Lynch, Kim L. Scheppele, Ben H. Ansell , and 37 more Marc Lynch, Kim L. Scheppele, Ben H. Ansell, Rebecca Solnit, Nandita Sharma, Joe R. Feagin, Joshua S. Weitz, Jonathan Wolff, Rosemary A. Joyce, Erica Chenoweth, Guy Grossman, Cameron Campbell, Jonathan Hopkin, Robert C. Richards, David R. Miller, Aaron Sojourner, Adrian Daub, Andrew L. Whitehead, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Juan Moreno‐Cruz, Michael D. McDonald, James Goodwin, Anders Sundnes Løvlie, Nancy Langston, Kate Starbird, Henry Jones, Claire L. Adida, Vaughan S. Roberts, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Christina Pagel, Charles T. Mathewes, Aviel Roshwald, Maksym Polyakov, Prakash Kashwan, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Timothy D. McBride, Élisabeth Vallet, Ryan Goodman, David Darmofal, Steven H. Seggie

Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 3d

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...

Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted

The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.

www.theatlantic.com

Reposted by Nancy Langston

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3d

Well done Minneapolis resisters!
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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

www.independent.co.uk

Reposted by Nancy Langston

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

Read it here: lnk.thebulwark.com/4rbwhEj

Emergency Triad: Another American Has Been Murdered by Our Government

It’s worse than it looks and it looks plenty bad.

lnk.thebulwark.com

Reposted by Tom Clark, Robert C. Richards, W. Andy Knight , and 6 more Tom Clark, Robert C. Richards, W. Andy Knight, Gerald Friedman, Anne Norton, Nancy Langston, Ann Bartow, Pam Jarvis, David Darmofal

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d

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

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Jan W. Mueller, Elizabeth Saunders , and 32 more Anna O. Law, Jan W. Mueller, Elizabeth Saunders, Rebecca Solnit, Stephan Lewandowsky, Axel Bruns, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Joshua S. Weitz, Scott L. Greer, Steve Peers, Caroline Krafft, Lesley A. Hall, Richard Waite, Gernot Wagner, Trevon D. Logan, Smith, Robert C. Richards, David R. Miller, Aaron Sojourner, Martha Albertson Fineman, Adrian Daub, James Goodwin, Erol Akçay, Timothy Graham, Nancy Langston, Mark Rice, Andrew Thacker, Susan Strasser, Klaus Oschema, Nicole Guenther Discenza, Farah Mendlesohn, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Aidan O’Sullivan, David Darmofal, Shan Kothari

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d

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.

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Jan W. Mueller, Brian A. Nosek , and 29 more Kim L. Scheppele, Jan W. Mueller, Brian A. Nosek, Joshua S. Weitz, Tom Clark, Stacie B. Dusetzina, Robert W. Wallace, Jon Green, Sarah E. Gollust, Erica Chenoweth, Tuomas Mattila, Gerry Canavan, Michelle Everson, Alan Richardson, Scott A. Imberman, Robert B. Reich, Erol Akçay, Brian Keegan, Michael Müller, Nancy Langston, Andy Reisinger, Gerardo Martí, Hisham Zerriffi, Joanna L. Grossman, Tim Stephens, Stephen A. Meserve, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Jaap Kooijman, Virginia Sapiro, Anya Plutynski, Timothy D. McBride, Shan Kothari

Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 5d

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.

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · 29d

Lovely--but alas, a gated article before the end.

Reposted by Nancy Langston

Anne O'Brien @anneobrienauthor.bsky.social · Dec 29

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!

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Dec 28

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!

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Dec 3

Love this!

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Dec 2

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

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Nov 30

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

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Nov 30

The water reflections are great

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Nov 30

I love the greens!

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Nov 29

Gorgeous!

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Nov 27

All pies are #1!

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Nov 25

Here comes Pernille! She's a bad ass and will handle the kidnappers with one hand tied behind her back.

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Nov 10

If you see this, post your bird art.

#birds #linocut #snowyowls

A snowy owl flies over a winter landscape of snow, wind turbines, and reindeer

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Nov 9

Snow! We have a tiny bit of persistent snow today as well (on Lake Superior's south shore).

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Nov 3

Good r

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Oct 23

A Mexican jay in a silver-leaf oak. Mexican jays are always yakking about in the oaks here in the Chiricahuas. Multi-block print plus 4 color reduction for the jay.

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Oct 22

Pencil sketches of Mexican jays for tomorrow's linocut (only 10 more days of this residency, alas! There are so many things to carve in the high desert).

Nancy Langston @nancyclimateart.bsky.social · Oct 22

Hot pink Javelina in the Chiricahuas. They are goofballs! #printsky #linocut #reliefprintmaking #javelinas

A brown javelina looks to the left on a hot pink background.

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