TreesOfGreen
Irish, British and European historian; HBCU, professor; nature enthusiast, Packers fan. Author of Drink and Culture in 19 century Ireland.
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenI'm just saying.....
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenThis is powerful. Minneapolis is EVERYTHING that is good in America. I've said it before and I'll say it again. The people of Minneapolis, Minnesota are awe-inspiring. 🙌🙏🫶💪👏✊️👇
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenThis is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):
- For a paper that seemed to Pride itself and bringing light to democracy, the corporate executives there sure seem bent on dimming the lights pretty low
- Reposted by TreesOfGreen"'The Nation' Nominates Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize" This will be fun.
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenIf anyone can be labeled a domestic terrorist for speech opposing this administration, our First Amendment rights are under grave threat. I spoke to @nickturse.bsky.social about how, using NSPM-7, the Trump administration is trying to silence and intimidate those who speak out against its excesses.
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenA good thing happened today: Haitians in Springfield, Ohio and elsewhere are (for now) safe from the planned ethnic cleansing operation. This happened because people came together — organizers, reporters, and those who care — and made it happen. Let’s take the win and continue the work.
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenWSJ: “.. The deal marked something unprecedented in American politics: a foreign government official taking a major ownership stake in an incoming U.S. president's company." @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenTrump’s name is mentioned over and over again in the new Epstein release. The DOJ would like you to believe they are “sensationalized”. The truth is the have never been investigated or found false. The DOJ’s only job was to release the files. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 www.thetimes.com/us/
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenNewsweek: Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins voted with their Democratic colleagues on Friday to repeal billions of additional funding to ICE and redirect those funds to Medicaid. Yes, please! #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenMovie review from Guardian on Melania.
- This doesn’t look good
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenThis week’s cover of The Economist.
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenTrump announced today that he was going to keep housing prices up, sued the US taxpayers for $10B, threatened Canada, made a few dozen posts about how he won in 2020, posted about prosecuting Obama for treason, then went to a movie about his wife that Bezos spent $75 million on.
- And it keeps coming…
- Breaking Bloomberg: Trump just sued the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion over the unauthorized disclosure of his tax returns to the press during his first term in office — potentially putting American taxpayers on the hook for a massive payout. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- While the share holders of most of these companies may be pleased, it looks like high-tech companies are building back worse For American workers in the age of AI
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- Reposted by TreesOfGreenThere are approximately 1200 detainees at the Dilley torture camp & one third of them are children. C👶🏾H🍼I👶🏾L🍼D👶🏾R🍼E👶🏾N FFS! Call your Senators at 202-224-3121 today because there are voting on DHS and ICE funding tomorrow! SAY NO FUNDING FOR ICE MURDERERS! ABOLISH ICE! #NoWarrantNoICE
- Reposted by TreesOfGreen‘To lead a life is to be always aware that the moving present is embedded in an extended history, which helps determine the significance of what one does or feels now.’ Thomas Nagel on how we think about our lives in time. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenJournalist Lidia Terrazas covers a HIGE protest & on going crisis at The Dilley Detention Center in Dilley TX 1 /28 / 26 About 1/3 of the detainees there are children & the living conditions there are horrendous www.instagram.com/reel/DUETQ1r... #DilleyDetentionCenter #Dilley #Texas #NoKings
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- Reposted by TreesOfGreenDo not compare ICE or Border Patrol agents to the Nazis. That’s unfair. The Nazis were willing to show their faces. – Stephen Colbert
- How many other cases have gone under the radar through our judicial system?
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenNo one with an ounce of decency works for Trump. How many resignations of people with long resumes of public service have happened in the last year?
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenLook at all the people protesting Trump outside the Horizon Event Center, where he had his rally in Clive, Iowa. 50x more than the pathetic crowd he drew inside. Bravo, Hawkeyes!
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenI shared this video the other day. Tonight @maddow had this lawyer on her show. People are being tortured at Trump's detention camps Including children deprived of medical care. PUTRID WATER BUGS IN FOOD Call your Senators & DEMAND they stop funding DHS! 202-224-3121 Do Not Fund ICE terrorism.
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenIn response to the regime’s political violence, over 100,000 people have signed up for tonight’s mass call on exercising our constitutional right to document and record ICE and other federal agents. We hope you can join us: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenPeople at the Prairieland ICE Concentration Camp, located outside Dallas, Texas, are enduring freezing temperatures as the ICE refuses to activate the facilities’ heating systems. The temperature outside is a bone-chilling 13°F (8°F with wind chill), and the situation has persisted since 1/26/6
- Who could not see the freight train coming for your freedom? www.stormlake.com/stories/who-...
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenreported ICE activities in the Twin Cities this morning -- terrorizing a daycare -- drawing weapons outside a bank
- Reposted by TreesOfGreen💥 ICE OUT NONVIOLENT ACTION TRAINING💥 TONIGHT, 1/26, 7:30PM ET Join Women’s March coalition, for coordinated and interactive training to establish what Nonviolent Direct Action means and looks like in practice. Build the skills we need right now #Pinks RSVP: act.womensmarch.com/signup/mvmts...
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenThey sprayed him with a chemical agent, beat him, and then executed him. His crime. Filming them and trying to protect a lady who they had violently shoved to the ground.
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenWe don't just have a cancer on the presidency. The president is a cancer.
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenBBC News - Minnesota holds economic strike to protest ICE presence www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenICE Agent Caught: Agent admitted their current directive is to detain legal immigrants www.PAXIS.app explains: This isn’t enforcement. It’s systemic abuse. Targeting lawful presence for profit is not immigration policy. It’s state-enabled exploitation. Defend against ICE: gofund.me/e511efadf
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenBessent pushes Albertan independence from Canada: "Albertans are very independent people. There's a rumor they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not. People are talking. People want sovereignty. They want what the US has got."
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenIn the face of resistance, Taco Trump (Trump Always Chickens Out) has apparently backed down on bullying threats to invade Greenland and impose tariffs on NATO allies. (cartoon Dave Granlund)
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenAnybody who rents nonsensically like this should be committed to a psych ward. Congressional Republicans on the other hand thinks this babbling smelly old fool still deserves to be in the White House.
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenOur reporting has found that ICE sent 600 immigrant kids to detention in federal shelters in 2025. A 17-year-old was detained at a traffic stop because officers couldn’t make contact with his dad, who is deaf. Another kid ended up in a shelter after making a wrong turn:
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenTrue American patriots!
- Reposted by TreesOfGreen"Putin has sought to undermine NATO for nearly two decades. "Now, as Trump pushes to control Greenland, Moscow is cheering. "A Kremlin spokesman said, 'Trump will undoubtedly go down in the history books. Not only in the history of the US, but in world history.'" 🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenhere's the number for the ICE tip line, folks
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- Reposted by TreesOfGreenThe letter
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenNothing says I deserve a Peace Prize like threatening to destroy NATO and invade a sovereign nation in a very hostile takeover. No one should come to this country unless they're coming to arrest that orange shitgibbon.
- Reposted by TreesOfGreen"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." -- Benjamin Franklin, born #OTD 1706
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenICE arrested someone at gunpoint today right outside of where I went to college in St. Paul. It's crazy how many incidents there are like this in the Twin Cities every day that you can monitor on Ice Out.
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenIn Minneapolis, Minnesota, a woman was surrounded by agents and unable to produce her ID quickly enough. She was physically seized and taken away.
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenALERT: My office has received reports of heavy ICE presence near 12th & Maple in DTLA in the Fashion District. Agents are actively walking the area. If you have info report to: LA Rapid Response Network: (888) 624-4752
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenICE is now running operations border to border, hurting the Ag sector and business in the Red Districts. The dumbass mngop did this to themselves. www.startribune.com/with-ice-sur...
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenI hope this letter finds you, sir, I hope you have the time. Between the rallies and the ruin, to read this little rhyme. I'm writing from the heart of what you say you came to save, a land of quiet desperation, a half-empty, open grave. youtu.be/W2YVdEAHMAY?...
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- Reposted by TreesOfGreenAnd when you look out from your tower, at the smoke and at the fire, are you proud of your creation, does it feed your soul's desire? youtu.be/W2YVdEAHMAY?...
- Reposted by TreesOfGreenWSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
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