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Haddayr Copley-Woods 🏳️‍🌈
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I mouth off and make things.

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Out of state and feeling helpless? The ever delightful and indispensable @naomikritzer.bsky.social has a great round-up and educational piece:

naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That said, I do have a section of lo…
naomikritzer.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:40 PM
haddayr.bsky.social
ICE entering homes without a warrant, no matter who told them they could, is illegal and unconstitutional.
January 22, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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Minnesota folks and beyond: Here’s a growing list of the businesses participating in the 1/23 General Strike/ICE Out Of Minnesota - are your favs on the list? Please support these businesses and any other participating ones you know about!
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List of Minnesota businesses closing for Jan. 23 anti-ICE strike
First announced by faith leaders and unions on Jan. 13, Minnesota businesses have begun announcing plans to join the action.
bringmethenews.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:29 PM
haddayr.bsky.social
Especially if you don't live here, PLEASE read this, even if it's just one or two stories, and share:
www.wired.com/story/how-ic...
‘I’m Witnessing a Lot of Emptiness’: How ICE Uprooted Normal Life in Minneapolis
WIRED talks to a postal worker, a teacher, two US citizens detained by federal agents, and six more Minnesota residents about life in an occupied American city.
www.wired.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:42 PM
haddayr.bsky.social
I just watched a video of a friend of mine being brutally detained by ICE. They broke their hand, and grabbed their partner for trying to go to their aid.

They are all over the city. They are knocking door-to-door, now. We are under attack by our own government.
January 9, 2026 at 8:46 PM
haddayr.bsky.social
Bluesky has taken down this video from other people, claiming it's 'graphic.' It's not. It shows ICE shooting through the windshield of a car that is attempting to drive away. There is no blood. You can't see the person. We need to share this everywhere.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9CJ...
ICE officer fatally shoots driver in Minneapolis
YouTube video by Minnesota Reformer
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January 7, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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CA UPDATE:

Newsom has signed these queer rights bills:
- AB 82 / SB 497 (Medical privacy)
- AB 1084 / SB 59 (Name/Gender changes)
- SB 450 (Adoption access)

And vetoed these bills:
- SB 418 (HRT stockpile)
- AB 554 (PreP)

Final total: 8 bills signed, 2 vetoed.

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October 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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They are the #SurrenderCaucus
March 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Therapy is my therapy.
March 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
haddayr.bsky.social
For my fellow visually-impaired friends: Have you been wanting to read the screenshots of teeny tiny itty bitty text everyone is sharing in which Judge Reyes hands Rump DOJ lawyer his ass?

Now you can!

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February 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
haddayr.bsky.social
A google map screenshot with the words "Gulf of America" where "Gulf of Mexico" should be. Inset into the lower left is an image of a cover of 1984 (a red background with a blue eye closeup) and copy below reads: Oceana has always been at war with Eastasia.
February 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
haddayr.bsky.social
Had to call in to work today as I have been confined to bed
A sweet-faced and fun-sized yellow Lab lies across a teal bedspread, pinning down the author's leg. A bright-eyed Chihuahua mix with a brown and white muzzle and prodigious ears pins the lab's hip.
January 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Making cool stuff for someone I love: double-knitted alpaca mittens in deer hide shells. This took my knitting expertise, my tailoring -which leaves much to be desired- leatherworking tools, sewing skills, and lots of time. Finished the mittens last winter and I'm not done yet.
January 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Middle-aged ladies in dry climates always have at least one inexplicable and teeny spot they are bleeding from.
A freckled middle-aged white lady wearing enormous glasses twists her nose to display one of her dozens of inexplicable bleeding spots. She has graying dark hair, a Very Gen X amount and distribution of earrings, and wears ear buds.
January 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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"TV sHows fr0m the mIdDle aGes hAve goTTen too WOKE"
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East Asia meets Europe in Lower Austria: Archaeologists perform genetic analysis of Early Middle Age individuals
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, together with an international team, carried out an archaeogenetic study of human remains from more than 700 individuals from t...
phys.org
January 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
👂 CALLING ALL MY SOUND-SENSITIVE PEEPS 👂

Please fill out this survey to help a very wonderful 4th grader that I know get some key data for a school project! And please share!

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Sound Sensitivity
IF YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF TO BE SENSITIVE TO SOUNDS, please fill this out to help a 4th grader with a research project! And feel free to share! Thank you!
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January 14, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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measuredandslow.bsky.social
I know TikTok might not be front of mind for you and that’s okay, but I need people to understand that in nine days there are going to be THOUSANDS of small businesses devastated to the point that most of them won’t recover. Small seller forums are full of panicking people, it’s very very bad
January 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
haddayr.bsky.social
Late to the party, but I have just finished the Outside triad and I wept at the end.

The audiobooks are good.

The series contains multitudes, but it's really about how a bunch of queer neurodivergent mentally ill people save the world(s).

I can't think of a better time in our history to read it.
Cover image of The Outside: A human form walks among gloriously scaled space age tentacles. Or perhaps a gorgeously designed spaceship. Cover image of The Fallen: A human form sits on the edge of what used to be a highway overlooking a twisted landscape of broken and bent roads, street lamps, and turf in which all of these things have partially turned into organic matter that twists and writhes and looks like trees or monsters or things with many red eyes. The book cover of The Infinite: A human figure stands atop a pile of building rubble with twisted and bent rebar and half sunken cement. She reaches up into a sky that is filled with an enormous monstrous creature with four purple eyes and innumerable tentacles. The creature is reaching out to the human's hand, and between her hand and the tentacle shines a bright spark of light.
January 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
haddayr.bsky.social
Jerry does not believe he cares for his new sweater.
Small Chihuahua mix sits on a brown-amd blue couch, wearing a red and blue turtleneck sweater. His body language and the set of his ears indicate much hesitancy about the whole situation.
January 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
haddayr.bsky.social
I talk about balancing herbal and allopathic medicine in my next post in "The Practical Herbalist."
the-practical-herbalist.com/2024/11/22/a...
Allopathic vs. traditional medicine
There are various schools of thought among herbalists about allopathic medicine (allopathic = western medicine). Some people believe that allopathic medicine and the whole pharmacy/health insurance…
the-practical-herbalist.com
November 22, 2024 at 10:26 PM
haddayr.bsky.social
Today's post on what a wise herbwif I am:
the-practical-herbalist.com/2024/11/18/t...
The Púca’s Enforcement
This afternoon, it was supposed to rain a ton and then freeze hard, so on my lunch hour I grabbed my basket and scissors and my crutch, scurrying down to the park. I headed for where plantain alway…
the-practical-herbalist.com
November 19, 2024 at 3:59 AM
haddayr.bsky.social
What up; I just started a new blog about herbalism for regular people, if you're interested. Here's the first post:
the-practical-herbalist.com/2024/11/15/m...
Motherwort speaks
. . . but do I listen? For years, my front and back yards have been infested with what I called “prickers.” I hated them. For various reasons (and diagnoses), I have trouble staying on …
the-practical-herbalist.com
November 18, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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Undecided voters
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October 28, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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"that’s what the core editorial problem at NPR is . . . an abundance of caution that often crossed the border to cowardice. NPR culture encouraged an editorial fixation on finding the exact middle point of the elite political and social thought, planting a flag there, and calling it objectivity."
jayrosen.bsky.social Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · Apr 16
At NPR... "I and a couple of other editorial leaders were encouraged to make sure that any coverage of a Trump lie was matched with a story about a lie from Hillary Clinton. Another colleague asked what to do if one candidate just lied more than the other."

Silence. slate.com/business/202...
NPR Is a Mess. But “Wokeness” Isn’t the Problem.
The real story behind the public broadcaster’s woes.
slate.com
April 16, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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THUNDER rolling across the sky
April 16, 2024 at 7:51 PM