Salty Octopus
Cephalopod masquerading as a biology professor, living in the deep sea or in Ohio
- Reposted by Salty OctopusI know this is kind of spitting into the wind, but I'd like to make an effort: Just because ICE calls them "administrative warrants" doesn't make that the most accurate term for them. They are forms. ICE forms. Signed by an ICE employee. Authorizing an arrest, but still, a _form._
- Reposted by Salty OctopusNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Salty OctopusI may delete this because it’s a bit spicy but it shouldn’t be lost on us that games being turned into TV is essentially harvesting the stories written by those who don’t have union representation or healthcare with WGA by those that do. Our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?
- Reposted by Salty OctopusDumas' FATHER was born to a French count and an enslaved African women in Haiti. The Père was then brought to France, was educated, served in the military, etc. "The Black Count" is a fantastic book about him. His son is the author Alexander Dumas, and he based Count of Monte Cristo on his Dad.🇭🇹
- For this Black History Month, given the regime’s vile smearing of Ohio’s Haitian population, I think it’s a good time to remember a literary giant of Haitian descent, Alexander Dumas, père He gave us the Three Musketeers, the Count of Monte Cristo & so much more en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...
- Reposted by Salty OctopusIf ever there was a day to announce it - it's today. My paper (one I own) is finally online - we've got fact checking local politics, a spotlight on girls HS sports & Crawlies and MORE! Celebrating 50 years (I did NOT own in in 1976 lol) of publication Check us out! upperrogueindependent.com
- Meanwhile, everybody do what you can to support the local newspapers that still exist... #Vote4Newspapers Subscribe, advertise, put positive messaging the classified sections, and send letters to the editor. #LoveYourJourno
- Reposted by Salty OctopusAs per always on this most holy of mammal holidays, Groundhog's Day, March Mammal Madness launches our annual tournament page! #2026MMM @mmmletsgo.bsky.social libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...
- Reposted by Salty OctopusReminder about "They're here ILLEGALLY" Being undocumented is a civil offense, not a criminal one. That's why they're not entitled to a court-appointed lawyer, why it's "civil detention" not a jail, why it's not in the criminal code, etc. Other civil infractions are things like parking tickets.
- Reposted by Salty OctopusMethane pollution from US oil and gas infrastructure causes more climate change than the entire economies of all but seven nations on earth. (This is with methane's climate impacts conservatively evaluated over a 100-year time frame. Evaluated over shorter time frames, methane's impacts are worse.)
- Reposted by Salty Octopusthe Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability
- Attorneys who have been retained cannot talk to their clients
- Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying. Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
- Choose the bear
- Reposted by Salty OctopusI don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.
- Without TPS, Haitians are not eligible to work. Again, the Trump admin is determined to ruin not just lives, but also the economy
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- Reposted by Salty OctopusAbsolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground
- Reposted by Salty OctopusIn 2023, CBP killed a young Black girl that they imprisoned by incarcerating her and failing to provide the needed medical care for her sickle cell anemia You cannot reform this apparatus which kills people no matter which party is in charge Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who was 8 years old
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- Reposted by Salty OctopusAfter federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
- Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. Marine biology field course (two weeks in Baja California!) 2. Human sexuality (I learned so much about you vertebrates) 3. Entomology (#TeamInvert) 4. Dance appreciation 5. Swimming (yes, I'm an octopus, MYOB)
- Fruit vendors give Los Angeles life. They benefit the community. I don't care whether they came here with papers or without. The US is a worse place without them.
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- Reposted by Salty Octopusfeds have arrested jamael lundy alongside journalists georgia fort and don lemon for the protest at a st. paul church led by an ICE agent lundy is currently running for state senate district 65 in minnesota. his wife is anika bowie, a st. paul city councilmember www.jlundyforsd65.com
- Reposted by Salty OctopusMinneapolis should press its momentum and demand not only withdrawal but start talking about the need for immediate reparations, loudly, with the total certainty that only winners have. "You have wronged us terribly and must pay recompense" and let them argue the second part.
- Reposted by Salty OctopusWe did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrectionists on January 6th. We have to punish ICE. They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them.
- Reposted by Salty OctopusThere is no "self" in self-driving cars.
- Reposted by Salty OctopusJew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks
- Reposted by Salty OctopusI paid my therapist a zillion dollars to tell me this, so I’m passing it on to anyone else in MN who needs to hear it: Think of taking time away to recharge not as not doing the work, but as doing quality control for the work. You’re not going to be able to show up to do it well if you’re depleted
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- So... more murders then? #AbolishICE
- Reposted by Salty OctopusIn sum: America, the concept? Trash, settler colonial, throw it out America, the people? Incredible, salt of the earth, would die for them
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- Reposted by Salty OctopusThe officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Salty Octopus"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
- I would like to have football without militarism, please.
- Oh,dang. Tiktok did not hand over the full algorithm 🤣🤣🤣 It's suddenly very easy too say goodbye to
- Reposted by Salty OctopusDems should introduce lots of such legislation, demand hearings and debate, make a huge fuss, use paid media to call out GOP members who are blocking their consideration--and make clear this GOP Congress is enabling the madness.
- Reposted by Salty OctopusI'm really sick of the "we have to be realistic" people who think that being realistic is bargaining with Kristi Noem and Donald Trump about how many people they get to shoot. They've already said their answer is anyone they want, unconstrained by the law.
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- Reposted by Salty OctopusAnother question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.
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- Reposted by Salty OctopusOur paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
- I had to double check that this is real. Vance really said "You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
- Reposted by Salty OctopusI came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
- I'm a vicious predator and even I think this is cruelty for cruelty's sake. ICE can break down anyone's door if they think the person inside should be deported. Without a warrant. Clear violation of the 4th amendment #AbolishICE
- Reposted by Salty Octopusthinking about how, in the Russian history elective I took in HS, every time a tsar was facing domestic weakness the teacher would turn to the assembled students and ask "so what is it time for?" and we would chant "stunning territorial annexation!" and she would respond "well, DUH, girls"
- Reposted by Salty OctopusPew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
- Reposted by Salty OctopusThe first thing Virginia Spanberger did after being sworn in as Governor of Virginia was repeal Youngkin’s executive order requiring state and local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE. This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.
- Hmong were brought to the US after the Vietnam war to protect them from retaliation. Because they helped US troops. This man is either a war hero or the son of a war hero. And he's being arrested because he isn't white. #AbolishICE
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- ICE has detained NATIVE AMERICANS
- This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...
- What the ever-loving fuck!
- Reposted by Salty OctopusThere’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
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- Reposted by Salty OctopusIt should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing
- Just listened to a couple talking about the Minnesota shooting over dinner. The man went from "well she was a protester, right? What was she doing there?" to "that's an execution" in 10 minutes. Maybe something is changing
- Reposted by Salty OctopusBig Oil spent nearly $100M to get Trump elected in 2024. Now Trump is returning the favor, giving them advance notice of his Venezuela attack and sending their stocks skyrocketing by promising them control of the country's oil reserves. This is what oligarchy looks like.
- Reposted by Salty OctopusJust pulled a loose book from a bookshelf, and regrettably, a secret door didn't open, so I'm afraid your email did not "find me well."
