Erica Gibson
Anthropologist, dog mom, traveler, cook, reader, 🇳🇴immigrant and dual citizen! (Use alt text for reskeet.) She/her.
- Always rooting for America and Norway in the Olympics but if your last name is Gibson I’ll cheer for you too! (UK figure skater) ⛸️
- Reposted by Erica GibsonNo 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 Erica GibsonFor Dallas area folks. Hutchins is where DHS plans to open a concentration camp for 9,500 people.
- More news, and finally some GOOD news!
- Reposted by Erica GibsonWaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
- Reposted by Erica GibsonINBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
- Reposted by Erica GibsonThis just passed subcommittee. Keep calling your reps as I believe it's heading quickly on to the next step.
- I'm trying to write notes on all that's happened in US political news for the past 2 weeks for tomorrow's radio recording and the news just keeps happening! I need a break.
- Maybe you want to show your reps some 💗 love 💕 or maybe you have some other choice words for them 🤬💔 - come write them a valentine postcard this Saturday in Oslo! More info below 👇 (the things I do for social media 🤭)
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- Reposted by Erica GibsonMedia coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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- Dems Abroad in Stavanger - join us tonight! www.facebook.com/groups/DASta...
- Reposted by Erica GibsonThe Montreal Canadiens are playing the Minnesota Wild in Minneapolis tonight. The players have been recommended to stay in/eat at the hotel, take the team bus to the arena, and carry passports. Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...
- Le voyagement est aussi affecté → www.danslescoulisses.com/ice-le-canad...
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- Reposted by Erica GibsonThe city of New Orleans has banned data centers for at least one year
- Texas residents the last day to register to vote is tomorrow! Even if you’re registered, check to make sure you haven’t been purged. www.iwillvote.com Alt text on Gina’s pic: light blue calendar illustration saying Feb 2nd with text underneath saying “last day to register to vote in Texas”
- Texas: the voter registration deadline is just a few days away on Monday, February 2nd. To check your registration visit IWillVote.com
- Reposted by Erica GibsonToday I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
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- Berit and I used to work together and I was so proud of her offering to speak up and speak out Weds night about what’s happening in her hometown of Minneapolis. Her two daughters came to the candlelight vigil with her and I know they were proud of their mom too.
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- Reposted by Erica GibsonThe Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
- Reposted by Erica GibsonWrong fucking Home Alone 2 actor goddammit.
- Reposted by Erica GibsonWhy does Pam Bondi hate Georgia Fort? "Georgia Fort is a three-time Midwest Emmy award-winning journalist who was one of two journalists in the courtroom for the sentencing of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murdering George Floyd." www.startribune.com/who-is-georg...
- We’re so thankful to our members like Rebecca who came out and spoke from the heart on Wednesday night. Stand up, fight back!
- Reposted by Erica GibsonOmg! Local San Antonio news is at a protest in Dilley, Texas at the Family Prison where Liam Ramos is being held. Y'all I'm crying so hard. These young people are so brave. I'm guessing most are from San Antonio. Absolutely clear video proof that the cops were the only violent actors here.
- Joined another protest today outside of the embassy. #AbolishICE
- Thank you to NRK as well for continued coverage of our vigil! #AbolishICE
- Tusen takk til Dagsavisen for covering @demsabroadnorway.bsky.social ‘s candlelight vigil to remember the victims of ICE last night. #AbolishICE #OsloRemembers
- Thank you to everyone who came out tonight to remember Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and others who have died this year in ICE custody. #AbolishICE #ImpeachNoem
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- Thanks to Christina Skovsgaard for giving me a shout out on NRK this morning! Join us tonight if you’re in Oslo. Bundle up, bring a candle, a protest sign, and a friend. #AbolishICE
- California knows how to party
- Reposted by Erica GibsonTrump received 13% of the vote in 2024 in the Minnesota district (in St Paul) that held a legislative race tonight, losing it by 71%. Today, the GOP nominee got 4%, losing the race by 91%.
- I studied biocultural medical anthropology because you know more if you use both biological and cultural frameworks to understand human health!
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- Amazing research results out of Japan. Sometimes the best answer is “we don’t know.” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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- This event is open to everyone in Oslo who would like to stand in solidarity with Americans mourning those that we have lost at the hands of our government. Please join us on Wednesday evening. We hope to see you there.
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- Dems Abroad Norway members please RSVP and join us at our online Vent Event! We want to hear from you.
- Reposted by Erica GibsonWake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA
- Reposted by Erica GibsonI’d rather have open borders than this. If you’re here, you’re here. Pay your taxes, don’t hurt anyone, and welcome to the neighborhood.
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- Reposted by Erica GibsonReminder: DHS legislation that funds ICE at current levels without policy restrictions is in the Senate and needs 60 votes to pass. Deadline is next Friday.
- Reposted by Erica GibsonMemory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.
- Reposted by Erica GibsonIf you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
- Reposted by Erica GibsonIf you’re outside of Minnesota and you’re wondering how to help, this guide is excellent. And seriously. Take down your Ring doorbell TODAY.
- Reposted by Erica GibsonPer his colleagues: The victim’s name was apparently Alex Pretti and he was an ICU nurse caring for severely injured veterans at the VA Hospital. He was acting as an observer, filming the raid. Any suggestion that he was there with violence on his mind is horrific gaslighting.
- Reposted by Erica Gibsonthinking about Mr. Rogers "look for the helpers" quote and I see the helpers and the helpers are being shot in the fucking head
- Reposted by Erica GibsonStephen Miller is unelected, unconfirmed, getting people killed, and shredding the social fabric of this nation. Members of Congress should be demanding his exit from the Executive Branch.
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- This is the bare minimum
- Reposted by Erica GibsonWe have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
- Reposted by Erica GibsonTwo days ago, 7 democrats voted to fund that execution
- Reposted by Erica Gibsononce again i am asking literally anyone in a position of power to do literally anything so that our neighbors stop getting fucking murdered in the street
- If you live outside the US remember you can send your reps messages to save on an international call!
- Something we all can do +1 (202) 224-3121
- Reposted by Erica GibsonWe owe an incredible debt to the Minnesotans who are on the streets protesting and documenting what is happening.
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