NonViolet
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E PLURIBUS UNUM
Doing #genealogy to calm down 🏴
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NonViolet
@non-violet.bsky.social
· Dec 11
In one of the shoeboxes of old family photos, this one with the caption "Mary and I in front of her house — the man is John Bosich — an Austrian".
No other information. Who's Mary? Where is her house? Who's "I"? I had no idea. So I got onto Ancestry with what I did know — the man is John Bosich.
No other information. Who's Mary? Where is her house? Who's "I"? I had no idea. So I got onto Ancestry with what I did know — the man is John Bosich.
@umwaunion.bsky.social I'd love to see you on Bluesky! I follow you on Facebook, but I'm losing patience with the platform, and deleted my ex-Twitter account long ago.
Can you recommend a good source for following what's happening with the silica rule?
Can you recommend a good source for following what's happening with the silica rule?
February 15, 2026 at 3:39 PM
@umwaunion.bsky.social I'd love to see you on Bluesky! I follow you on Facebook, but I'm losing patience with the platform, and deleted my ex-Twitter account long ago.
Can you recommend a good source for following what's happening with the silica rule?
Can you recommend a good source for following what's happening with the silica rule?
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Why is the prevailing response to ICE occupation in U.S. cities for Congress to "abolish ICE" when there is a much simpler solution: Congress can declare amnesty and permanent residency to all persons currently living in the U.S. We created the idea of "illegal" aliens. We can also undefine it.
January 27, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Why is the prevailing response to ICE occupation in U.S. cities for Congress to "abolish ICE" when there is a much simpler solution: Congress can declare amnesty and permanent residency to all persons currently living in the U.S. We created the idea of "illegal" aliens. We can also undefine it.
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What’s it like to celebrate your 12th birthday in an immigrant detention center?
No cake. No presents. No party.
Kamilla’s parents told me they planned to buy their daughter a pack of M&Ms — among the only sweets available in the commissary — and pray they get out soon.
Please read their story:
No cake. No presents. No party.
Kamilla’s parents told me they planned to buy their daughter a pack of M&Ms — among the only sweets available in the commissary — and pray they get out soon.
Please read their story:
'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention
A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine.
www.nbcnews.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:45 PM
What’s it like to celebrate your 12th birthday in an immigrant detention center?
No cake. No presents. No party.
Kamilla’s parents told me they planned to buy their daughter a pack of M&Ms — among the only sweets available in the commissary — and pray they get out soon.
Please read their story:
No cake. No presents. No party.
Kamilla’s parents told me they planned to buy their daughter a pack of M&Ms — among the only sweets available in the commissary — and pray they get out soon.
Please read their story:
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By severing HIV treatments and food aid to the poorest nations on earth, he signed the death warrants for thousands.
He is a man who traded human lives for a rounding error in the US budget
He is a man who traded human lives for a rounding error in the US budget
February 14, 2026 at 11:24 AM
By severing HIV treatments and food aid to the poorest nations on earth, he signed the death warrants for thousands.
He is a man who traded human lives for a rounding error in the US budget
He is a man who traded human lives for a rounding error in the US budget
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hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.
Meet Minnesota Bathrobe Lady Sam Stroozas of MPR News | Minnesota Public Radio
Earlier this week, an unexpected and fast-moving incident unfolded in St. Paul, Minnesota involving both federal and local law enforcement. As crowds gathered and questions mounted, one of our MPR New...
www.mpr.org
February 14, 2026 at 4:44 AM
hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.
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The other day Manchester United’s co-owner Jim Ratcliffe said the UK had been "colonised by immigrants"….today there’s this billboard outside of Old Trafford 🔥….way to go Manchester 💪!
February 13, 2026 at 9:33 PM
The other day Manchester United’s co-owner Jim Ratcliffe said the UK had been "colonised by immigrants"….today there’s this billboard outside of Old Trafford 🔥….way to go Manchester 💪!
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I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.
December 27, 2024 at 11:07 PM
I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.
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NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...
www.wired.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
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Democracy dies in Jeff Bezos' bank account.
February 4, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Democracy dies in Jeff Bezos' bank account.
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Opposition to the “doxxing” of law enforcement is advocacy for having secret police.
January 28, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Opposition to the “doxxing” of law enforcement is advocacy for having secret police.
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10 thousand Hatians "will be subject to arrest & deportation…" One day, able to work, & the next day will not be able to work”
The end of TPS means that people who try to work will be seized [at work] & if not seized in their home."
We will be ready.
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
The end of TPS means that people who try to work will be seized [at work] & if not seized in their home."
We will be ready.
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio?
Nazi Lies in Vance's America
snyder.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 8:50 PM
10 thousand Hatians "will be subject to arrest & deportation…" One day, able to work, & the next day will not be able to work”
The end of TPS means that people who try to work will be seized [at work] & if not seized in their home."
We will be ready.
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
The end of TPS means that people who try to work will be seized [at work] & if not seized in their home."
We will be ready.
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
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Me and @kieraevebutler.bsky.social have even MORE good news and it concerns exotic varieties of pseudoscience you may not have even known exist www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK’s overhauled autism committee is even worse than it looks
Kennedy has stacked another HHS panel with his fellow travelers in the anti-vaccine and pseudoscience world.
www.motherjones.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Me and @kieraevebutler.bsky.social have even MORE good news and it concerns exotic varieties of pseudoscience you may not have even known exist www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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If there is any justice left in America, today will be the beginning of the end of ICE as we know it.
January 25, 2026 at 1:05 AM
If there is any justice left in America, today will be the beginning of the end of ICE as we know it.
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Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 24, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
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National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
January 22, 2026 at 8:25 PM
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
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contrarian.substack.com/p/14-ways-th... riveting and horrifying
14 Ways The Trump Administration is Trying to Kill Us
Deadly policy shifts from Trump’s first year back in office
contrarian.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:11 PM
contrarian.substack.com/p/14-ways-th... riveting and horrifying
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“Trump’s megalomania is transforming the United States from international leader into international pariah, and the American people will suffer the consequences for years to come.”
{gift link} www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
{gift link} www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
America vs. the World
President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:52 PM
“Trump’s megalomania is transforming the United States from international leader into international pariah, and the American people will suffer the consequences for years to come.”
{gift link} www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
{gift link} www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Trump’s entire life has been people giving him what he wants because he’s so fucking unpleasant it seems easier. All it does is make him worse and demand more. Appeasement of Trump has a 100% failure rate.
January 19, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Trump’s entire life has been people giving him what he wants because he’s so fucking unpleasant it seems easier. All it does is make him worse and demand more. Appeasement of Trump has a 100% failure rate.
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Call to abolish ICE don't go far enough. It is an out of control agency that puts all our rights at risk.
January 18, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Call to abolish ICE don't go far enough. It is an out of control agency that puts all our rights at risk.
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”Many millions of Americans love Trump because he routinely humiliates people. It validates their own actions. They live vicariously though him, imagining the humiliation they could inflict if they were given greater power. He also normalizes the behaviour.”
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
The Politics of Humiliation
The politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 17, 2026 at 8:24 PM
”Many millions of Americans love Trump because he routinely humiliates people. It validates their own actions. They live vicariously though him, imagining the humiliation they could inflict if they were given greater power. He also normalizes the behaviour.”
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
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The administration needs to be asked directly how many J6ers, and anyone convicted of seditious conspiracy, are now ICE agents with a badge and a gun.
January 15, 2026 at 8:50 PM
The administration needs to be asked directly how many J6ers, and anyone convicted of seditious conspiracy, are now ICE agents with a badge and a gun.
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Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
January 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.