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Jinn, Insistent Witch (she/they)
@polarisjinn.bsky.social
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Arctic social scientist. Here to build opposition & protect our environment, our rights, and freedoms. Immigrant. Anti-MAGA.

I gawk at nature and imagine bird drama at the bird feeder. Unabashed outdoorsy nerd and parent to Wendy and the Meows. 🩵🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱
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Meanwhile in a violent corner of Vermont

#NoKings
A group of people in inflatable suits, including a lobster, Godzilla, Left Shark, and a giant chicken at a protest for No Kings
October 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Be brave and bold, my beauties. Today, we're going to show up and say NO to fascism. Stay safe. Take care of each other. Fear is such a flimsy weapon, and we outnumber the fascists.

We have friends everywhere!
At the top of the page on a poster is written "we the people" and at the bottom, "have friends everywhere". The BIPOC/LGBTQ+ colours are painted above three people who are of minorities.
October 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Not today, Satan!
A screen capture for unlocking a bonus offer from Disney+ and Hulu. I won't put the amount on here because I refuse to advertise for those buggers
October 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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@markhamillofficial.bsky.social, Wendy sends hugs and love.

We are, all of us, in this collectively. We're all lending our efforts in this fight...and it's okay and human to need a breath. We breathe, and continue fighting.

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
A fluffy black dog looking soulfully into the camera lens. Her snoot is very boopable. She sends ALL HER LOVE
August 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Wendy is extra done with everything going on right now

...she's probably done with my nonsense too

Me too, Wendy. Me too

#DogSky #DogsofBlueSky
A fluffy black dog laying on the floor, side-eyeing the camera like it stiffed her on a date and it got her the wrong ice-cream for dessert
August 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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For those of you needing a palate cleanser, Wendy says hello.

Once again, she is asking you for 1,000 pets (for your health of course)
A black fluffy dog with floppy ears, looking relaxed, sits before a green landscape and blue sky
July 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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With all the chaos, ICE thug abductions, looming loss of our rights and services, expected racism on Juneteenth, and threat of war...I can't find the words right now.

What I can offer is Wendy having enough of my sith today and enough of the world in general

#DogSky #DogsofBlueSky
A black fluffy dog lying against the wall with one front leg extended, paws in the air, and ears flopped over. She's laying on her back
June 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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My highlight of #NoKings Day was this right here

#Vermont
Someone holding a plastic tiny hand, which is propping up a sign that says "a tiny sign for a tiny man" in protest of Trump and MAGA for No Kings Day
June 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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May I offer you a supportive drumstick? I hope you feel better! These are rough and trying times, take good care of yourself.
A plush grey cat on a chair, sticking his left leg out
May 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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As it's May the Fourth and Star Wars is very close to my heart...I don't think anything captures all the everything more than Nemik's Manifesto, also known as The Trail of Political Consciousness.

This road will not be a short one, but remember this: Try.

#MayTheFourth
Text from Star Wars: Andor quoting Nemik in Season 1. It's interposed against a mountain silhouetted against a starry sky at sunset. The text says: "There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try." -Karis Nemik in Andor
May 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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There's always a relevant PTerry quote. Feels like a good time to re-read Night Watch...

Vimes is my quietly angry and righteous spirit animal.

"But at times like these, who did the law belong to? If it shouldn't be in the hands of the people, where the hell should it be?"

GNU

#TerryPratchett
Text that quotes Night Watch by Terry Pratchett. "Where was the law? There was the barricade. Who was it protecting from what? The city was run by a madman and his shadowy chums, so where was the law? Coppers liked to say that people shouldn’t take the law into their own hands, and they thought they knew what they meant. But they were thinking about peaceful times, and men who went around to sort out a neighbor with a club because his dog had crapped once too often on their doorstep. But at times like these, who did the law belong to? If it shouldn’t be in the hands of the people, where the hell should it be?"
April 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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I have neglected to post a Wendy pic of late. Here she is, contemplating pursuing a law degree to elevate the fight of Dogs against Doge. An attack on one of us is one on all of us.

Wendy is with us in these times of gross lawlessness against our civil rights and liberties.

#DogsofBlueSky #DogSky
A fluffy black dog sitting at the top of the stairs, a emotional support hedgehog stuffy held between her paws. The light from the window behind her brings highlights to her black fur. Her mouth, dusted with white fur, is downcast. Wendy is all of us right now.
April 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Grateful for folk showing up today...keep driving toward that 3.5 percent. WE ARE NOT ALONE.

We will remind these goons and thugs that there are more of us, and we have courage. We will not be cowed. We will keep marching toward better days and a more just, healthy, and equitable society.
A blue sign that shows "Our voices must be for ALL OF US. Mohsen Mahdawi Kilmar Abrego Garcia Andry Hernandez Romero Rumeysa Ozturk Mahmoud Khalil Alfredo Juarez Zeferino Merwil Gutiérrez Too many more"
April 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Vermonters: Our rep and senators have issued a statement on the illegal detainment/kidnapping of Mohsen Madawi.

Judge Sessions has also issued a temp. restraining order.

www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...

👇🏼👇🏾👇🏿
A court order screencap that says: In order to preserve this court's jurisdiction, and pursuant to the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. 1651, it is ordered that the petitioner, Mohsen Madawi, not be removed or moved out of the territory of the District of Vermont, pending further order of this court. Signed in Burlington VT on 04/14/25, signed by Hon. William K. Sessions.
April 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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**Beep beep beep beep** Urgent! Your broadcast is being interrupted because Wendy and Nicholas are VERY UPSET. The lack of squirrel access is unacceptable.

You may now resume your regular broadcast (which tbf is an emotional rollercoaster).

**Beep beep beep beep**

#DogsofBlueSky #CatsofBlueSky
The back of a black, wavy-haired dog and a grey cat looking out a window at a squirrel on a birdfeeder. THE FIEND Wendy the dog, a black golden retriever and border collie mix, stares at the camera with sad brown eyes because squirrels are her bane
April 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Akshually
Two yellow rings around four very pointed lawn darts, from a game that is now banned
April 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Vermont, you are perfection 💙

#resist #NoKings #Vermont
A man at the Vermont protest against idiot wannabe and ghoulish fratboy JD Vance. There is snow outside, and people holding "protect trans lives" signs. The man, in the foreground, holds a sign that says, "JD Vance puts his cast iron skillet in the dishwasher".
March 6, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Professional whinger and convicted felon and rapist Donald Trump griped about protests and spewed illegal threats of arrest and deportation. So, that means the protests are getting to him!

Now I want to exercise my right to protest more. Do not obey in advance. The cracks are spreading.

#resist
Screenshot from what is likely Truth Social. Convicted felon Donald Trump whinged the following illegal actions on 03/04/25 at 7:30 am, likely on the toilet: All federal funding will stop for any college, school, or university that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! thank you for you attention to this matter. Poster's note: It had the sort of grammar that I'd expect from a concussed mudfish. I didn't care to replicate it.
March 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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I think some Wendy love is needed! I know it's been a minute. She's with us in these hard times.

Her little nose ridge is as fuzzy as you think it is.

#DogsofBlueSky #Dogsky
A dog rests her chin on the side of her left paw, which is extended forward. She's laying down on a grey blanket with a pattern of white and black dogs, and a splash of red, but it's hard to tell the way it's folded beneath her. The dog herself is black, but the light falls on her wavy fur in a way that gives it highlights, with deeper tones between her eyes, and her soft floppy ears. Her face is in focus, while her body blurs in the background. She's looking into the camera with warm brown eyes.
February 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Montpelier, VT. Stay strong! 💪🏽
A considerable group of protestors gathered before the House building in Montpelier, VT. They're carrying signs and slogans that are anti-Trump, anti-Elon Musk, anti-fascism, and pro-rights. It's a beautiful winter day.
February 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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It's week three and it's already a rough go, but I'm still here. We're still here.

Had a chat with this barred owl and felt a bit better, and was reminded of the beautiful in-between moments that make it all worth fighting for.

Okay it was mostly me talking *at* the owl, but still

#owlsofbluesky
A wintry sky, pale grey and cloudy, backgrounds several trees in the foreground. It's dusk, but with enough light that there are silver birch on the left, and what I think is also birch closer to the lens. Leaf-bare trees, spindly and tall, occupy much of the lower half of the background. Perched on a branch is a barred owl, an owl flecked with cream and dark brown and ash feathers, looking off-camera.
February 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Black History Month: Roy Rudolph DeCarava

DeCarava was a Harlem photographer whose work captured the Civil Rights Movement, jazz scenes, and urban life. His powerful work was focussed on elevating the power and grace of his subjects.

#blackhistorymonth

More: www.studiomuseum.org/artists/roy-...
February 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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We are ALL feeling it this week, my friends. This is a rough, rough road that we're on, but we're on it together, whatever small comfort that brings.

Wendy is with us too! She sends her love. I hope you all got a breather today. 💙

Fight, rest, and fight again.

#DogSky #DogsofBlueSky
A black dog curled up on the corner of a grey couch. Her fluffy tail is in front of her; her snoot is pointed downward, and her brown eyes are looking into the camera. One ear is flopped up against the side of the couch. She has wavy fur, and it looks shiny in the sunlight.
February 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Black History Month: I want to learn about someone daily.

Violet Hill Gordon graduated from the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps in 1942. She left the military as a Captain, and went on to be a social worker and activist after the war. /1

guides.loc.gov/6888th-centr...

#blackhistorymonth
February 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Fed employees are not messing around on Reddit! They've decided that spite is the best fuel for what's coming 😂

The flimflam offer from Rancid Pumpkin Palestine and Felon Musk only served to fuel their determination further.

We're all with you!

#federalemployees #rise
A screenshot from Reddit. At the top, the quote says, "We will not resign, we took an oath and we will keep defending it against foreign and DOMESTIC enemies!!" It's placed over an line drawing of a stylistic eagle with outspread wings over the White House, with an American flag to the left of the eagle, and to what I think is an olive branch and a bundle arrows to the right. Underneath, it says, "WE WILL NOT RESIGN" in bold, tall, striking script. Below that, it says "Federal Employees United" in smaller script.
January 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM