Kate Sims
@spyderchyld.bsky.social
Perpetual disciple of the natural world. Unrepentant native plant geek, social justice warrior, and steward of homeless dogs.
Wondering where ICE is going to invade and terrorize next? Check this article for a town near you.
www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
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February 11, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Wondering where ICE is going to invade and terrorize next? Check this article for a town near you.
www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
Those of us with Dem senators have some pressing homework this week. Please call your senators and insist that they use their filibuster leverage to hold ICE accountable, or defund them.
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You Can Defund ICE In Two Weeks
The January 30th appropriations bill is a chance to reform the agency (or cut its budget).
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January 21, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Those of us with Dem senators have some pressing homework this week. Please call your senators and insist that they use their filibuster leverage to hold ICE accountable, or defund them.
open.substack.com/pub/bensheeh...
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Eight Men Control What 40% of Americans Believe
Or is his "base finally fracturing"
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January 17, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Hopefully by now you are all aware that Minnesota is under occupation by a brutal, unaccountable, federally-backed militia. Citizens and residents alike are being met with violence, detention, and property damage. If you’d like to support folks, here is a place to start: www.standwithminnesota.com
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Hopefully by now you are all aware that Minnesota is under occupation by a brutal, unaccountable, federally-backed militia. Citizens and residents alike are being met with violence, detention, and property damage. If you’d like to support folks, here is a place to start: www.standwithminnesota.com
“The GOP had motive. They had means. They had opportunity. Every institution that could have stopped them chose to look the other way or participate in stealing the 2024 election. The proof is here.”
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Lora Lucero (@loralucero)
I'm heading over to the DNC building the first week of January and ask for the report.
“Post-election audits in 2024 followed the same pattern as previous elections. They verified that machines count...
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December 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
“The GOP had motive. They had means. They had opportunity. Every institution that could have stopped them chose to look the other way or participate in stealing the 2024 election. The proof is here.”
substack.com/@loralucero/...
substack.com/@loralucero/...
Boycotting billionaires is one thing almost anyone can do, but it only works when enough of us decide that our shared livable future is more important than our current habits of convenience. Please join us im boycotting Amazon, Home Depot, Target, and Walmart this season weaintbuyingit.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Boycotting billionaires is one thing almost anyone can do, but it only works when enough of us decide that our shared livable future is more important than our current habits of convenience. Please join us im boycotting Amazon, Home Depot, Target, and Walmart this season weaintbuyingit.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Bay Areans, it’s our turn to stand up to ICE-stapo and to stand up FOR our neighbors. There is a training call tonight to help folks plug into anti-abduction actions; link in comments.
October 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Bay Areans, it’s our turn to stand up to ICE-stapo and to stand up FOR our neighbors. There is a training call tonight to help folks plug into anti-abduction actions; link in comments.
Tired of leaving voicemails or getting stymied by full inboxes? This strategy might have more impact!
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5 Phone Calls Can Stop American Fascism. Here Are the Numbers.
Politicians have a secret math they don't want you to know.
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September 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Tired of leaving voicemails or getting stymied by full inboxes? This strategy might have more impact!
open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
Thank you, Oakland, for marching with and for us all yesterday. I am always uplifted by the Town’s sweet collective spirit!
September 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Thank you, Oakland, for marching with and for us all yesterday. I am always uplifted by the Town’s sweet collective spirit!
Find your rally for tomorrow here: maydaystrong.org
September 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Find your rally for tomorrow here: maydaystrong.org
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Worth the read, with lots of great ideas at the end. Despair is not an option, right? 😅
Worth the read, with lots of great ideas at the end. Despair is not an option, right? 😅
I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%.
Once they win elections, it's already too late.
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August 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Worth the read, with lots of great ideas at the end. Despair is not an option, right? 😅
Worth the read, with lots of great ideas at the end. Despair is not an option, right? 😅
Reposted by Kate Sims
Anyone else feeling a need for control of something, ANYTHING?!?!?
This oscillation of hope and despair have you curling up on the couch?
Yeah, we get it.
Anytime you feel this way is an opportunity to give the oligarchy a paper cut
Opt out. Unsubscribe. Buy local. Buy secondhand. Lend. Borrow.
This oscillation of hope and despair have you curling up on the couch?
Yeah, we get it.
Anytime you feel this way is an opportunity to give the oligarchy a paper cut
Opt out. Unsubscribe. Buy local. Buy secondhand. Lend. Borrow.
July 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Anyone else feeling a need for control of something, ANYTHING?!?!?
This oscillation of hope and despair have you curling up on the couch?
Yeah, we get it.
Anytime you feel this way is an opportunity to give the oligarchy a paper cut
Opt out. Unsubscribe. Buy local. Buy secondhand. Lend. Borrow.
This oscillation of hope and despair have you curling up on the couch?
Yeah, we get it.
Anytime you feel this way is an opportunity to give the oligarchy a paper cut
Opt out. Unsubscribe. Buy local. Buy secondhand. Lend. Borrow.
Welp, most of us knew DOGE was costing us money instead of saving it, but almost 22 BILLION DOLLARS in 6 months?!?
www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
The $21.7 Billion Blunder: New PSI Report Reveals Billions in Taxpayer Dollars Squandered by DOGE | U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut
[WASHINGTON, DC] – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) released a Minority...
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August 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Welp, most of us knew DOGE was costing us money instead of saving it, but almost 22 BILLION DOLLARS in 6 months?!?
www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
“OpenAI is… quite literally a banana republic. It requires the media and the markets to make up why it has to exist, it requires other companies to pump it full of money and build its infrastructure, and it doesn’t even make [a profit or] products that matter...”
www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...
www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...
Make Fun Of Them
Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak?
I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his mouth?
Here is but one of the trenchant insights from Sam Altman in his agonizing 37-minute-long p...
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July 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“OpenAI is… quite literally a banana republic. It requires the media and the markets to make up why it has to exist, it requires other companies to pump it full of money and build its infrastructure, and it doesn’t even make [a profit or] products that matter...”
www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...
www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...
Reposted by Kate Sims
JULY 17: On the fifth anniversary of Congressman John Lewis’ passing, tens of thousands of Americans will come together to “make good trouble” in response to the Trump Administration’s attacks on our civil and human rights. Join us: goodtroubleliveson.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
July 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
JULY 17: On the fifth anniversary of Congressman John Lewis’ passing, tens of thousands of Americans will come together to “make good trouble” in response to the Trump Administration’s attacks on our civil and human rights. Join us: goodtroubleliveson.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Could not have imagined how stunning this first Sacred Datura bloom would be, which came from a hitchhiker in a native rose I purchased last winter. Like a soft pillowy bed, luring one in. Bees, I envy you. #sacreddatura #plantgeeking #nativeplantsfightclimatechange
June 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Could not have imagined how stunning this first Sacred Datura bloom would be, which came from a hitchhiker in a native rose I purchased last winter. Like a soft pillowy bed, luring one in. Bees, I envy you. #sacreddatura #plantgeeking #nativeplantsfightclimatechange
More than 5 million people took to this streets to *peacefully* protest Dozy Don and his gang of thugs this past Saturday, and the media barely mentioned it. Can you imagine if it was 5 million MAGA out there? Anyway, Oakland was out being beautiful and entertaining, as usual.
June 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
More than 5 million people took to this streets to *peacefully* protest Dozy Don and his gang of thugs this past Saturday, and the media barely mentioned it. Can you imagine if it was 5 million MAGA out there? Anyway, Oakland was out being beautiful and entertaining, as usual.
They were telling us what they were going to do all along. Now it appears we have the “how.”
open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
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She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.
How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.
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June 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
They were telling us what they were going to do all along. Now it appears we have the “how.”
open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...