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Kingfisher on a Wire
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I write for myself, and then sometimes other people read what I wrote.

Consumed by science fiction, history, defending my daughter's inherited world, politics, and wishing I didn't care about politics.

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Lee Pace and MacKenzie Davis's characters from #HaltandCatchFire would like a word.
January 26, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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Abolish ICE is not enough.

Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough.

We need prosecutions and trials.

Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.
January 26, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔
January 26, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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“LET US OUT!”

women & children scream for help inside a detention camp in TEXAS, where private prisons like core civic make billions of taxpayer dollars holding them while abusing, neglecting them, refusing them health care, feeding them dirty food & water, etc.

In our name🇺🇸
January 26, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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This can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this.

Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.
January 26, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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Florida's universal voucher program is estimated to cost taxpayers more than $4 billion. It's not affordable - #schoolchoice = wrong choice for American taxpayers azgovernor.gov/offic...
January 26, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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Pick.
A.
Side.

If you turn away from what's happening and have ANY political power, you've made your choice.

You're supporting the killing and kidnapping of innocent people.

And people around the US -- and the world -- are bearing witness.
Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
January 25, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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Walz: "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write that children's story about Minnesota."
January 25, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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ABOUT FUCKING TIME THANK YOU THANK YOU
Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
January 25, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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The people of Minneapolis are reminding me very much of Ned Stark's famous answer when his son asked if someone can be brave if they're afraid.

"That is the only time a man can be brave."
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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Zohran out there with the people rolling up his sleeves 👇🏽
January 25, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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The list of shame. Boycott and divest now.

For companies, there will be data to remember — not just the silence — but the collaboration. You can find it at whofundstheright.org.
Who Funds the Right
Your data source for information on which American companies donated to the right, sponsor right wing news, rolled back diversity, and have right wing ownership.
whofundstheright.org
January 25, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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“You got signed judicial warrant to gain access to the scene and we’re still denied access by federal agents?”

“Yes, that’s accurate.”

We are so cooked 🇺🇸
January 25, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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America needs 12 million people protesting daily to remove the entire Trump regime.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...
The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
www.bbc.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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TW ⚠️

The stabilized version is brutal.
January 25, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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😢💔
January 25, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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Of course
January 25, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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Mayor calls national guard to help protect citizens from president’s lawless goon squad

Trump’s America
January 24, 2026 at 10:34 PM
The Montgomery bus boycott lasted 381 days.

Imagine a national strike lasting until ICE is gone and this regime is removed from office.
January 25, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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What will it take for people to get the vaccine???????
January 24, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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🚨 Breaking from the US Senator for Connecticut. 👇

There you have it.

ICE has never been about immigration enforcement.

It's a weapon used to brutalize Americans and stoke enough fear so that Trump can rig the elections and usher in dictatorship.
January 25, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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Thank you to everyone who worked hard to preserve this video. It shows ICE murdered Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse. Watch, save, and share. 💔
January 24, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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“The terrorists”
“We have a nice little database.”

Two weeks ago I wrote about the risk of Trump using his NSPM-7 memo to treat citizens exercising their rights like terrorists. Now it’s a reality. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
January 24, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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This is ok tho
January 24, 2026 at 7:32 PM