Sydney Harper
@ferrethouse.bsky.social
She/her
Science, artist, wildlife, Karmai brown bears, polar bears, and nature lover
Science, artist, wildlife, Karmai brown bears, polar bears, and nature lover
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At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.
June 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.
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The fact they chose California as the flash point is also an indicator that they don't think these things through
LA has like 4M+ people. Sending every single ICE officer is ~20K, LAPD is 9K, LASD is 10K. Going in at 100:1 manpower – leaving zero bodies for literally anything else – is foolish
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LA has like 4M+ people. Sending every single ICE officer is ~20K, LAPD is 9K, LASD is 10K. Going in at 100:1 manpower – leaving zero bodies for literally anything else – is foolish
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Not enough personnel to do martial law
The secret of American law enforcement is that most people voluntarily follow most laws most of the time
If that changes for a significant %, things get overstretched very fast
The secret of American law enforcement is that most people voluntarily follow most laws most of the time
If that changes for a significant %, things get overstretched very fast
June 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The fact they chose California as the flash point is also an indicator that they don't think these things through
LA has like 4M+ people. Sending every single ICE officer is ~20K, LAPD is 9K, LASD is 10K. Going in at 100:1 manpower – leaving zero bodies for literally anything else – is foolish
1/
LA has like 4M+ people. Sending every single ICE officer is ~20K, LAPD is 9K, LASD is 10K. Going in at 100:1 manpower – leaving zero bodies for literally anything else – is foolish
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Glad to see Mr. Fitz will be back on the Katmai cams this year!
5 days before we get to watch for our beloved Brooks Falls Bears! I was worried with all the funding cuts and firing that we wouldn't have it this year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWI0...
5 days before we get to watch for our beloved Brooks Falls Bears! I was worried with all the funding cuts and firing that we wouldn't have it this year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWI0...
Get Ready For Bear Cam 2025! | Brooks Live Chat
YouTube video by Explore Bears & Bison
www.youtube.com
June 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Glad to see Mr. Fitz will be back on the Katmai cams this year!
5 days before we get to watch for our beloved Brooks Falls Bears! I was worried with all the funding cuts and firing that we wouldn't have it this year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWI0...
5 days before we get to watch for our beloved Brooks Falls Bears! I was worried with all the funding cuts and firing that we wouldn't have it this year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWI0...
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This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it
May 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it
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A super useful thread on what to do now that the GOP has a framework for reconciliation.
The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich.
THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no.
Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.
THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no.
Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.
April 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A super useful thread on what to do now that the GOP has a framework for reconciliation.
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The only way Donald Trump is going to get people to flock to the streets cheering for him is to start the parade in this:
April 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The only way Donald Trump is going to get people to flock to the streets cheering for him is to start the parade in this:
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"This is what arbitrary, absolute power looks like. And this is why the men who wrote the Constitution never wanted anyone to have it"
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump Is Showing Why Dictatorships Fail
The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.
www.theatlantic.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"This is what arbitrary, absolute power looks like. And this is why the men who wrote the Constitution never wanted anyone to have it"
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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In any authoritarian regime, there are people who make a livelihood by rationalizing the actions of the leadership, making them palatable to a general audience by offering analogies with reasonable theoretical statements. Their profesisonal title is usually something like "chief propagandist"
April 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
In any authoritarian regime, there are people who make a livelihood by rationalizing the actions of the leadership, making them palatable to a general audience by offering analogies with reasonable theoretical statements. Their profesisonal title is usually something like "chief propagandist"
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"Like Amazon, but with human beings."
April 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"Like Amazon, but with human beings."
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Dozens of federal employees tell WIRED that Trump's federal return to office order has resulted in chaos (including bad Wi-Fi and no toilet paper), with productivity plummeting and public services suffering.
'Wi-Fi Keeps Going Down': Donald Trump's Return to Office Mandate Is Going Terribly
Dozens of federal employees tell WIRED that Trump's federal return to office order has resulted in chaos (including bad Wi-Fi and no toilet paper), with productivity plummeting and public services suffering.
wrd.cm
April 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Dozens of federal employees tell WIRED that Trump's federal return to office order has resulted in chaos (including bad Wi-Fi and no toilet paper), with productivity plummeting and public services suffering.
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The White House just put out a statement threatening to veto this bill if it reaches Trump's desk.
punchbowl.news/sap-s-1272/
punchbowl.news/sap-s-1272/
This Senate bill to slap limits on the president’s tariff power now has SEVEN Republican sponsors:
• Grassley
• Moran
• Murkowski
• McConnell
• Tillis
• Young
• Collins
• Grassley
• Moran
• Murkowski
• McConnell
• Tillis
• Young
• Collins
Senators Chuck Grassley (R) and Maria Cantwell (D) just introduced a bill to reassert Congress’s power over tariffs.
—President must notify Congress on new tariffs within 48 hours of imposition.
—Congress must approve them within 60 days or they expire.
www.cantwell.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
—President must notify Congress on new tariffs within 48 hours of imposition.
—Congress must approve them within 60 days or they expire.
www.cantwell.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
April 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The White House just put out a statement threatening to veto this bill if it reaches Trump's desk.
punchbowl.news/sap-s-1272/
punchbowl.news/sap-s-1272/
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Pam Bondi’s brother is running for DC Bar president. Ed Martin’s deputy is running for DC Bar treasurer.
If like me you’re a DC lawyer who doesn’t usually vote in DC bar elections: time to start
If like me you’re a DC lawyer who doesn’t usually vote in DC bar elections: time to start
17 former presidents of the D.C. Bar slam Trump over his targeting of law firms
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
17 former presidents of the D.C. Bar slam Trump over his targeting of law firms
More than a dozen former presidents of the D.C.
www.nbcnews.com
April 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Pam Bondi’s brother is running for DC Bar president. Ed Martin’s deputy is running for DC Bar treasurer.
If like me you’re a DC lawyer who doesn’t usually vote in DC bar elections: time to start
If like me you’re a DC lawyer who doesn’t usually vote in DC bar elections: time to start
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It's not a bad idea to go to the local Walmart or big box retailer and buy lots of consumables now. From toothpaste to soap, anything you can find storage space for, buy before they have to replenish inventory.
Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.
Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.
April 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It's not a bad idea to go to the local Walmart or big box retailer and buy lots of consumables now. From toothpaste to soap, anything you can find storage space for, buy before they have to replenish inventory.
Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.
Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.
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This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Stanley from Yale to Toronto
Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...
leiterreports.typepad.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
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6/ There is it. Inter-Con contractor told USIP head of security that "DOGE threatened to cancel every federal contract Inter-Con held" if they didn't assist the break in.
March 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
6/ There is it. Inter-Con contractor told USIP head of security that "DOGE threatened to cancel every federal contract Inter-Con held" if they didn't assist the break in.
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Here is Judge Boasberg's order—in writing—after the disaster of a hearing today. He wants a sworn declaration that no one was removed based on the AEA proclamation and setting out when it went into effect, an estimate of how many individuals may be subject, and why DOJ can't answer its questions.
March 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Here is Judge Boasberg's order—in writing—after the disaster of a hearing today. He wants a sworn declaration that no one was removed based on the AEA proclamation and setting out when it went into effect, an estimate of how many individuals may be subject, and why DOJ can't answer its questions.
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When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.
Leavitt: "We are encouraging illegal immigrants to actively self-deport to maybe save themselves from being in one of these fun videos."
March 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.
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House Dems' text chains lighting up with apoplexy.
"Complete and utter meltdown," says one member.
Members floating marching onto the Senate floor.
Others urging primaries not just for Schumer, but any Senate Dem who votes for the GOP bill.
@Axios.com www.axios.com/2025/03/14/h...
"Complete and utter meltdown," says one member.
Members floating marching onto the Senate floor.
Others urging primaries not just for Schumer, but any Senate Dem who votes for the GOP bill.
@Axios.com www.axios.com/2025/03/14/h...
"People are furious": House Democrats have "complete meltdown" as Schumer folds on shutdown
Members have talked openly about backing primary challenges to Democratic senators who support the GOP's spending bill.
www.axios.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:59 AM
House Dems' text chains lighting up with apoplexy.
"Complete and utter meltdown," says one member.
Members floating marching onto the Senate floor.
Others urging primaries not just for Schumer, but any Senate Dem who votes for the GOP bill.
@Axios.com www.axios.com/2025/03/14/h...
"Complete and utter meltdown," says one member.
Members floating marching onto the Senate floor.
Others urging primaries not just for Schumer, but any Senate Dem who votes for the GOP bill.
@Axios.com www.axios.com/2025/03/14/h...
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A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
March 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
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if Trump and his cronies are able to veto appropriations made by Congress, then we've already moved into a dictatorial system of government. Why would Democrats waste time negotiating spending deals if Trump can just rip them up after he signs them?
March 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
if Trump and his cronies are able to veto appropriations made by Congress, then we've already moved into a dictatorial system of government. Why would Democrats waste time negotiating spending deals if Trump can just rip them up after he signs them?
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Critical messaging for Dems if they're being forced into a shutdown. Undo the cuts to Social Security, VA health care, cancer care research. Put the DOGE boys into a boxes w chaperones if the Republican want help. NEED TO BE CRYSTAL CLEAR about what's at stake immediately in peoples lives.
March 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Critical messaging for Dems if they're being forced into a shutdown. Undo the cuts to Social Security, VA health care, cancer care research. Put the DOGE boys into a boxes w chaperones if the Republican want help. NEED TO BE CRYSTAL CLEAR about what's at stake immediately in peoples lives.
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@propublica.org reporter Brett Murphy with an explosive scoop. This is insanity.
March 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
@propublica.org reporter Brett Murphy with an explosive scoop. This is insanity.
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So don't want to be the bearer of bad tidings: but DOGE canceled the lease on the facility that processes and stores all the nuclear waste created by the US military. Sorry. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...
DOGE D’oh: Nuclear Waste Facility Edition
As DOGE continues it’s federal government wilding spree, purportedly searching for examples...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
So don't want to be the bearer of bad tidings: but DOGE canceled the lease on the facility that processes and stores all the nuclear waste created by the US military. Sorry. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...