The Cats’ Serf
@erinofalaska.bsky.social
Jesus follower, cat lover, still masking to be kind to self & others.
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8
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In one of our signal chats, a neighbor calls these “fuckaroundabouts”
Minneapolis residents are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods. Called filter blockades, they’re pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets, and they’ve already earned the ire of Trump border czar Tom Homan (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Neighbors: Blockades are pop-up parties that also slow down ICE agents
Organizers are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods: pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets. Tom Homan, the Trump administration border cza...
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 4:38 PM
In one of our signal chats, a neighbor calls these “fuckaroundabouts”
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it is absolutely wild that random people on the internet have kept thousands and thousands of minnesota families housed this month
my friend and followers helped pay around maybe 130-140 people’s rent in the past 6 days? like. so much of it was just you guys. it is insane to me, this platform.
my friend and followers helped pay around maybe 130-140 people’s rent in the past 6 days? like. so much of it was just you guys. it is insane to me, this platform.
February 7, 2026 at 5:10 AM
it is absolutely wild that random people on the internet have kept thousands and thousands of minnesota families housed this month
my friend and followers helped pay around maybe 130-140 people’s rent in the past 6 days? like. so much of it was just you guys. it is insane to me, this platform.
my friend and followers helped pay around maybe 130-140 people’s rent in the past 6 days? like. so much of it was just you guys. it is insane to me, this platform.
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SCOTUS is corrupt; Republicans are corrupt; Trump basically has a barcode on his ass and a BOGO deal on state secrets. There’s so much room for radical transformation in positive ways if people know that Democrats will get in there and fight for us against corruption!
November 28, 2024 at 2:52 AM
SCOTUS is corrupt; Republicans are corrupt; Trump basically has a barcode on his ass and a BOGO deal on state secrets. There’s so much room for radical transformation in positive ways if people know that Democrats will get in there and fight for us against corruption!
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2026 Cross Country Ski TeamUSA members #MaskUp & stay outside of the Olympic Village. Nathaniel Herz reports for FasterSkier.
Coach Kristen Bourne said that their “top priority is making sure our athletes and staff stay healthy for the entirety of the Games.”
fasterskier.com/2026/02/in-i...
Coach Kristen Bourne said that their “top priority is making sure our athletes and staff stay healthy for the entirety of the Games.”
fasterskier.com/2026/02/in-i...
February 7, 2026 at 1:02 AM
2026 Cross Country Ski TeamUSA members #MaskUp & stay outside of the Olympic Village. Nathaniel Herz reports for FasterSkier.
Coach Kristen Bourne said that their “top priority is making sure our athletes and staff stay healthy for the entirety of the Games.”
fasterskier.com/2026/02/in-i...
Coach Kristen Bourne said that their “top priority is making sure our athletes and staff stay healthy for the entirety of the Games.”
fasterskier.com/2026/02/in-i...
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Any Alaskan teachers out there? Please get your favorite students to do this. As much email as I can in the alt text, will forward to an address sent in DM. Personal experiences as a 2005 delegate in thread.
February 7, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Any Alaskan teachers out there? Please get your favorite students to do this. As much email as I can in the alt text, will forward to an address sent in DM. Personal experiences as a 2005 delegate in thread.
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To understand the media's double standard in matters of religion, imagine what the narrative would be like if agents of the state shot a minister in the head with pepper balls as he was praying at an anti-abortion protest.
HEADLINE: GOV'T PERSECUTES CHRISTIANS
That should be now, but nah.
HEADLINE: GOV'T PERSECUTES CHRISTIANS
That should be now, but nah.
February 6, 2026 at 10:30 PM
To understand the media's double standard in matters of religion, imagine what the narrative would be like if agents of the state shot a minister in the head with pepper balls as he was praying at an anti-abortion protest.
HEADLINE: GOV'T PERSECUTES CHRISTIANS
That should be now, but nah.
HEADLINE: GOV'T PERSECUTES CHRISTIANS
That should be now, but nah.
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AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past.
It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.
It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.
BREAKING: A 5th Circuit panel has backed ICE's mass detention policy, a decision that clears the way for the administration to lock up people who are in immigration proceedings
It's a 2-1 ruling
Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump)
Minority: Douglas (Obama)
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
It's a 2-1 ruling
Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump)
Minority: Douglas (Obama)
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
February 7, 2026 at 3:20 AM
AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past.
It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.
It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.
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February 7, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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100% this @jessicamalaty.bsky.social
I legit just saw a spike of flu in Australia (outside of flu season) & am seeing it around in Thailand now….so when I see influencers telling people “it doesn’t make much sense to get a flu shot now ”, I’m disappointed by their myopic approach to public health.
I legit just saw a spike of flu in Australia (outside of flu season) & am seeing it around in Thailand now….so when I see influencers telling people “it doesn’t make much sense to get a flu shot now ”, I’m disappointed by their myopic approach to public health.
Quick reminder that it’s NOT too late to get your flu shot.
Influenza B cases are rising—which is typical around this time of respiratory virus season. Cases will likely continue to climb for a few more weeks.
Influenza B cases are rising—which is typical around this time of respiratory virus season. Cases will likely continue to climb for a few more weeks.
February 7, 2026 at 2:25 AM
100% this @jessicamalaty.bsky.social
I legit just saw a spike of flu in Australia (outside of flu season) & am seeing it around in Thailand now….so when I see influencers telling people “it doesn’t make much sense to get a flu shot now ”, I’m disappointed by their myopic approach to public health.
I legit just saw a spike of flu in Australia (outside of flu season) & am seeing it around in Thailand now….so when I see influencers telling people “it doesn’t make much sense to get a flu shot now ”, I’m disappointed by their myopic approach to public health.
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There is, quite literally, a rebellion bubbling up from below in the name of God. The regime knows its potential. It knows it can inspire even more resistance. And it’s taking steps to crush it.
February 6, 2026 at 9:35 PM
There is, quite literally, a rebellion bubbling up from below in the name of God. The regime knows its potential. It knows it can inspire even more resistance. And it’s taking steps to crush it.
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Damn right! Thats my cousin on the Olympic team protecting her health and the people around her!!!!
She has been open about her struggles the last 2 years with chronic fatigue, celiac, and Hashimotos and it's so great seeing her out there in a mask!
fasterskier.com/2025/12/novi...
She has been open about her struggles the last 2 years with chronic fatigue, celiac, and Hashimotos and it's so great seeing her out there in a mask!
fasterskier.com/2025/12/novi...
February 6, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Damn right! Thats my cousin on the Olympic team protecting her health and the people around her!!!!
She has been open about her struggles the last 2 years with chronic fatigue, celiac, and Hashimotos and it's so great seeing her out there in a mask!
fasterskier.com/2025/12/novi...
She has been open about her struggles the last 2 years with chronic fatigue, celiac, and Hashimotos and it's so great seeing her out there in a mask!
fasterskier.com/2025/12/novi...
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This is just a horrible idea. Alaska is being treated like a third world country. It’s a place to be exploited by outsiders and the people are left with crumbs. Even our AG was brought in to exploit not protect Alaska.
A USGS team searched the region in June, but data on what minerals they found hasn't been released yet.
Aleutian waters could open to mineral mining in first-ever federal offshore lease sale in Alaska
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is evaluating whether to hold a first-of-its-kind lease sale for seabed mineral development in federal waters off Alaska, and seeking information and input to help decide if it should move forward.
akpub.io
February 7, 2026 at 1:10 AM
This is just a horrible idea. Alaska is being treated like a third world country. It’s a place to be exploited by outsiders and the people are left with crumbs. Even our AG was brought in to exploit not protect Alaska.
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Eliminating ICE is the modern equivalent of opposing the Iraq War, and right now there are two types of Democrats: those who can see where the ball is moving and go to it, and those who will be swept away because they refused to do so.
“I would rather you vote for what is morally correct,” Davidson said.
“Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back.
“Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”
“Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back.
“Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”
DeLauro to pressing clergy: 'I will not vote to abolish ICE'
The Connecticut U.S. representative found herself at odds with faith leaders.
www.ctpublic.org
February 7, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Eliminating ICE is the modern equivalent of opposing the Iraq War, and right now there are two types of Democrats: those who can see where the ball is moving and go to it, and those who will be swept away because they refused to do so.
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Just like any other country, we need Customs and Immigration at the border. And by at the border, I mean it's within visual distance.
Past that point, it's a job for county sheriffs and municipal law enforcement.
Past that point, it's a job for county sheriffs and municipal law enforcement.
I reject every current argument for why we "need ICE."
No...we don't. That's bullshit. What we need...is someone who respects the United States Constitution in the White House.
No...we don't. That's bullshit. What we need...is someone who respects the United States Constitution in the White House.
February 6, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Just like any other country, we need Customs and Immigration at the border. And by at the border, I mean it's within visual distance.
Past that point, it's a job for county sheriffs and municipal law enforcement.
Past that point, it's a job for county sheriffs and municipal law enforcement.
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This is really an instance of a very longstanding trend where secular pundits end up unwittingly aligned with fundamentalists in treating the crudest and most extreme version of any faith as the genuine article and everything else as somehow inauthentic.
Trump's attempt to crush a religious uprising might be obvious if the press corps treated everyone’s faith as equally authentic, hence equally legitimate. It doesn’t.
February 6, 2026 at 9:49 PM
This is really an instance of a very longstanding trend where secular pundits end up unwittingly aligned with fundamentalists in treating the crudest and most extreme version of any faith as the genuine article and everything else as somehow inauthentic.
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In Fujiyoshida, the influx of foreign tourists has seen traffic chronically jammed and cigarette butts tossed, with trespassing and even defecation in private gardens reported by its citizens, the city said.
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02...
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02...
Mount Fuji cherry blossom festival canceled due to overtourism
The city of Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, said 'the quiet lives of local residents are threatened.'
www.japantimes.co.jp
February 6, 2026 at 10:53 PM
In Fujiyoshida, the influx of foreign tourists has seen traffic chronically jammed and cigarette butts tossed, with trespassing and even defecation in private gardens reported by its citizens, the city said.
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02...
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02...
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it's really, really nuts that our scrappy lil' non-profit media website employs more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Also follow @lapatina.bsky.social she is awesome and smart and so brave
Also follow @lapatina.bsky.social she is awesome and smart and so brave
The Washington Post—for which I wrote editorials for nearly a decade—has closed its Kyiv bureau.
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
@lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not.
We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving
February 6, 2026 at 9:41 PM
it's really, really nuts that our scrappy lil' non-profit media website employs more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post.
Also follow @lapatina.bsky.social she is awesome and smart and so brave
Also follow @lapatina.bsky.social she is awesome and smart and so brave
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Why Spain is breaking the mold in Europe -
choosing regularisation instead of MAGA mass deportations!!
Two reasons: morality & pragmatism.
🙏Spain showing us another, better way is possible www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
choosing regularisation instead of MAGA mass deportations!!
Two reasons: morality & pragmatism.
🙏Spain showing us another, better way is possible www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
Opinion | I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:24 AM
Why Spain is breaking the mold in Europe -
choosing regularisation instead of MAGA mass deportations!!
Two reasons: morality & pragmatism.
🙏Spain showing us another, better way is possible www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
choosing regularisation instead of MAGA mass deportations!!
Two reasons: morality & pragmatism.
🙏Spain showing us another, better way is possible www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
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Today we honor Vivien Thomas, an African American who worked as a lab assistant because he couldn't afford medical school. He helped develop a life-saving surgical procedure for babies with a congenital heart defects. In 1976 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
February 6, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Today we honor Vivien Thomas, an African American who worked as a lab assistant because he couldn't afford medical school. He helped develop a life-saving surgical procedure for babies with a congenital heart defects. In 1976 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
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Encouraging to see some members of the US Olympic team wearing masks to protect their health ahead of competition.
February 6, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Encouraging to see some members of the US Olympic team wearing masks to protect their health ahead of competition.
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Here’s how that reality is shaping Minnesota’s anti-ICE protests: buff.ly/Qd3mSjh
Even when people’s rights are ignored, understanding the law can keep protesters engaged
When protesters experience repression and violence, whether or not they have legal education can help determine continued involvement in a protest movement.
theconversation.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Here’s how that reality is shaping Minnesota’s anti-ICE protests: buff.ly/Qd3mSjh
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Know-your-rights trainings are spreading fast as ICE steps up enforcement. But knowing the law doesn’t guarantee it’s respected, explains CSU Pueblo sociologist Heidi Reynolds-Stenson, who studies social movements and protest policing. ⬇️
February 6, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Know-your-rights trainings are spreading fast as ICE steps up enforcement. But knowing the law doesn’t guarantee it’s respected, explains CSU Pueblo sociologist Heidi Reynolds-Stenson, who studies social movements and protest policing. ⬇️
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“It's part of this whole rush to just throw everything into the data-driven machine-learning nexus, and then hoping something more good will come out of it, your private information be damned,” EFF’s @legind.bsky.social told @CNET.com. www.cnet.com/home/intern...
Starlink Is Using Your Personal Data to Train AI. Here’s How to Opt Out
Starlink says it may also share personal data with partners to help it "develop AI-enabled tools that improve your customer experience.”
www.cnet.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:30 PM
“It's part of this whole rush to just throw everything into the data-driven machine-learning nexus, and then hoping something more good will come out of it, your private information be damned,” EFF’s @legind.bsky.social told @CNET.com. www.cnet.com/home/intern...
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A reminder:
If you hear someone saying that they hope lawyers are ready to go to court to protect free and fair elections, I suggest you let them know that my law firm is already litigating more than 80 voting and election cases in 40 states.
February 6, 2026 at 7:13 PM
A reminder:
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Fun fact: I learned today that DHS puts out a daily newsletter to employees with links to news stories about the agency. We found this out because my editor noticed referral traffic from it. So when we in the press write these stories, DHS tells its employees to read them...???
How ICE agents are using facial recognition technology to bring surveillance to the streets
Witnesses describe an expansion of biometric surveillance as immigration agents use facial scanning and photography to track targets and bystanders.
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Fun fact: I learned today that DHS puts out a daily newsletter to employees with links to news stories about the agency. We found this out because my editor noticed referral traffic from it. So when we in the press write these stories, DHS tells its employees to read them...???