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Dave Ruder
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ziibiing.com
i just want to cry. i have literally just spent the last 6 hours responding to email after email of people begging for rent money or for me to point them in the direction of help, which does not exist.

please @governorwalz.mn.gov. we need an eviction moratorium. there is no other solution.
January 28, 2026 at 8:45 PM
daveruder.bsky.social
"it's in the past, it's in the bracken, did something happen?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaY5...
Robyn Hitchcock - "No, I Don't Remember GuilDford"
YouTube video by tworeeler
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January 28, 2026 at 6:12 PM
daveruder.bsky.social
It’s a great day to wear a respirator in America
eileen4ever.bsky.social Eileen Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 5d
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
January 28, 2026 at 2:02 PM
daveruder.bsky.social
lizard
mole
spring
mountain
hair
down
etc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFjA...
Baby Let Your Hair Roll Down
YouTube video by Roscoe Holcomb - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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maddelucchi.bsky.social
For my latest piece, I spent the weekend writing about sports' response to the killing of Alex Pretti, slave patrol resistance in 1850s Boston, anarchist calisthenics, and overcoming nihilism to ensure we abolish ICE.
www.goldenstateofmind.com/general/1076...
They hope sports helps you forget Alex Pretti. Make them abolish ICE instead.
An essay on slave patrol resistance, anarchist calisthenics, the NBA trying to return to normal via a Warriors and Wolves game, and ICE abolition.
www.goldenstateofmind.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:12 PM
daveruder.bsky.social
This is a beautiful listen and loads of respect goes to Crips for eSIMs for Gaza podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
Crips for eSims for Gaza w/ Jane Shi & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (01/22/26)
Podcast Episode · Death Panel · 01/22/2026 · 1h 1m
podcasts.apple.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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avierkant.bsky.social
I have had that feeling before where in the middle of an action you feel how tangibly another world is possible, but this time I feel it across an entire city. So many here are seeing what life could be like if it were organized around different principles, if the rhythm were completely different
January 25, 2026 at 2:13 AM
daveruder.bsky.social
The more time that I’m on this earth, the more it’s clear to me that what it’s all about is heckin doggos and doggin heckos
January 23, 2026 at 7:19 PM
daveruder.bsky.social
great new music out on Gold Bolus today from pianist Emily Manzo, playing new music by Mary Halvorson and Aaron Siegel (and Emily's playing it at Roulette on Tuesday) emilymanzo.bandcamp.com/album/time-i...
Time in Water, by Emily Manzo
6 track album
emilymanzo.bandcamp.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:55 PM
daveruder.bsky.social
is "eat shit" the best trochee in the English language?
January 22, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
punk ass
ddayen.bsky.social David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 12d
NEWS: While Hakeem Jeffries has announced he's opposing the DHS/ICE funding bill tomorrow, his team is not whipping the vote. Several frontliners are expected to vote yes. There's a difference in leadership between personal vote decisions & unifying the caucus.
From me:
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding - The American Prospect
While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.
prospect.org
January 21, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
To block modern gun laws, the justices only need to invoke concerns loosely tied to the 19th century

To pass gun laws, legislators must rely on history, and be sure to set aside any history the Republican justices wish to forget

* jazz hands * originalism!

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/wolfo...
The Supreme Court’s “History and Tradition” Test Just Ran Into America’s History and Tradition of Anti-Black Racism
Requiring "historical analogues" for modern gun laws eventually turns up some history that makes even the conservative justices uncomfortable.
ballsandstrikes.org
January 21, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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thesicktimes.org
"Like so many people who have had Long COVID, [I’ve had] this sort of slow realization... unsure if something is temporary or permanent… It took me a long time to feel comfortable saying that [I am disabled]."

Read @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social's Q&A with @daveruder.bsky.social bit.ly/4pO6Kjr
Dave Ruder, a man wearing a respirator and glasses, with shoulder-length hair, is surrounded by cartoon images of a red footed duck, James Worthy, a can of seltzer and a bee, and a sign that says “Don’t touch me.” There’s a music player with his album imposed on top of the other images. The text reads, “The Sick Times. Composing the “Long COVID album”: An interview with Dave Ruder. By Betsy Ladyzhets.” "There’s a way that, I think, particularly for sick artists, for disabled artists, having that feeling of someone taking you seriously and not being alone in your illness and in your ailment is one of the best things that we can provide." - Dave Ruder, Composing the “Long COVID album”: An interview with Dave Ruder
January 16, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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bdproctor.bsky.social
I've seen some folks giving into doomerism by citing the US's history of paramilitary violence shutting down fair elections in the South, and I want to add some historical context to support Jamelle here (as an historian of Reconstruction paramilitary violence)
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18d
the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?
ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 18d
Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
January 15, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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mileswgriffis.bsky.social
ICYMI: @daveruder.bsky.social talks about composing the "Long COVID album"!

"I can still write everything..arrange everything..produce everything...sing everything...but I need to rely on other people to be able to articulate what I’m trying to do."

thesicktimes.org/2026/01/12/c...
Composing the “Long COVID album”: An interview with Dave Ruder - The Sick Times
Last fall, Brooklyn-based musician Dave Ruder coined a new format when he released a “Long COVID album,” shaped by his experience with the disease.
thesicktimes.org
January 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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leftistlawyer.com
JUST ABOLISH ICE

I don't want to scan the fascist goons' QR codes whilst they're kidnapping my friends, I want there to be no fascist goons kidnapping my friends
ritchietorres.bsky.social Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 19d
I am introducing the Quick Recognition (QR) Act, which requires ICE and CBP officers to wear uniforms featuring QR codes. When scanned, the code would generate a digital ID displaying the officer’s name, badge number, and law enforcement agency.

ICE should be unmasked both physically and digitally.
January 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
daveruder.bsky.social
I am extremely grateful to @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social and @thesicktimes.org for talking to me about my latest album. The interview was just published, and the conversation definitely helped me better understand things myself! thesicktimes.org/2026/01/12/c...
Composing the “Long COVID album”: An interview with Dave Ruder - The Sick Times
Last fall, Brooklyn-based musician Dave Ruder coined a new format when he released a “Long COVID album,” shaped by his experience with the disease.
thesicktimes.org
January 13, 2026 at 2:02 PM
daveruder.bsky.social
Cause I got a peaceful, easy feeling
But I'm gonna tear this mother down
Cause I'm already standing
On a clown
January 13, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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baddestmamajama.bsky.social
When the Anglican Church is more woke than most of your progressive friends
= @ stmargaretscedarcottage.ca ST. MARGARET'S CEDAR COTTAGE ANGLICAN CHURCH 1. There is no anti-oppression without disability justice. Immunocompromised people - including people whove had organ transplants, those receiving cancer treatment, or those on immunosuppressive drugs to treat autoimmune conditions such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis — are more vulnerable to really bad outcomes if they get COVID. Immunocompromised and other disabled people who would be badly impacted by COVID should be able to engage in public life. All groups that experience systemic oppression include disabled people, and groups that experience systemic oppression consistently face health inequities. Children are another equity-deserving group that includes disabled people. Their agency and power is limited in society; they're required to attend schools in-person with no prevention or mitigation strategies in place to protect them. Despite claims to the contrary early in the pandemic, children are also susceptible to the harms of COVID and often silently struggle with the impacts of Long COVID and repeat infections which could last their entire lifetimes. COVID isn't only a risk to "vulnerable" people: every COVID infection makes a person more vulnerable because of the silent and accumulating damage it does to the body.
January 12, 2026 at 2:07 AM
daveruder.bsky.social
j'ai gingembre
j'ai gingembre
j'ai gingembre
January 12, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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resnikoff.bsky.social
The case against Graeberism and for Mamdanism dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
Instead of retreating into facile cynicism about the safety net and regulatory state, people on the left should be trying to occupy the bureaucracy at the state, local, and, after the MAGA putschists are finally expelled from power, federal level—not simply because we need good people in those jobs, but because enough good people in any given department can change its internal culture for the better. A lot depends, for example, on whether state and local transportation departments are staffed by car-brained traffic engineers or planners who are genuinely invested in walkability and developing viable mass transit networks. Just as much hinges on whether state health agencies are staffed by people with a genuine commitment to the cause of universal healthcare, even in the face of brutal federal Medicaid cuts. There’s another reason for occupying the bureaucracy, too. For a movement that wants to transform the state, there is tremendous value in understanding how policy implementation and institutional change happens on a granular level. If you spend some time working inside the bureaucracy and you keep your eyes open, you can learn a lot about the points of leverage that leftist politicians and outside advocacy groups can press to their advantage. On the flipside, you can also learn a great deal about the tradeoffs associated with certain approaches and how well-intentioned but undercooked policy initiatives can produce unintended consequences. These are all important lessons for anyone trying to push any level of government in a more humane direction. But they’re especially important lessons for leftist officials who have ambitious agendas, a finite amount of time in which to implement them, and little room for error.
January 12, 2026 at 6:04 PM
daveruder.bsky.social
a switch that would be long overdue! blue surgical masks are no substitute for a proper respirator! www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Face masks ‘inadequate’ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO is advised
Experts are urging guideline changes on what health professionals should wear to protect against flu-like illnesses including Covid
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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craigmranapia.bsky.social
This is probably going to demand a depressing amount of repetition, but here goes.

If Renee Nicole Good was a childless foreign national, its still wasn't OK for a federal employee to straight up execute her. Begging everyone to not concede one inch of ground to this toxic framing.
newsguy.bsky.social Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 25d
The victim has been identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, a US citizen and the mother of a small child.
January 8, 2026 at 12:46 AM
daveruder.bsky.social
dream blunt rotation, but instead of blunts, it's a feral cat like an ocelot or serval
January 7, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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gregggonsalves.bsky.social
Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/
January 5, 2026 at 10:39 PM