David Kaib
@davidkaib.bsky.social
Political education, socialism, abolition, unions, cats
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David Kaib
@davidkaib.bsky.social
· Jul 12
For what it's worth, if you are a socialist or interested in socialism, it is *my job* to educate you, so ask away.
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My god.
I keep rereading this paragraph expecting the words to change
February 11, 2026 at 12:24 AM
My god.
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Yes, kidnappers tend to do this
Lyons says ICE agents actually "took care" of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos when they detained him, before shipping him off to a horrific Texas ICE facility.
He says ICE officers "comforted him" as they chased his dad, put him in their car to play "his favorite music, then took him to McDonalds."
He says ICE officers "comforted him" as they chased his dad, put him in their car to play "his favorite music, then took him to McDonalds."
February 10, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Yes, kidnappers tend to do this
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I saw a post from someone that said they believe negative posting on Bluesky will affect turnout for less engaged voters and buddy there ARE no 'less engaged voters' on Bluesky and if you think faceless rageaholics on a tiny social media site influence election turnout, they absolutely don't.
February 10, 2026 at 7:24 PM
I saw a post from someone that said they believe negative posting on Bluesky will affect turnout for less engaged voters and buddy there ARE no 'less engaged voters' on Bluesky and if you think faceless rageaholics on a tiny social media site influence election turnout, they absolutely don't.
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It’s been predictable but still fascinating to witness the Final Form of these folks just being an evolution into the exact people they did a Revolutionary War to get away from
February 10, 2026 at 7:54 PM
It’s been predictable but still fascinating to witness the Final Form of these folks just being an evolution into the exact people they did a Revolutionary War to get away from
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Annotating for the radical book group with @davidkaib.bsky.social tonight. That Shane Burley letter had me marking so much.
February 10, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Annotating for the radical book group with @davidkaib.bsky.social tonight. That Shane Burley letter had me marking so much.
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In 1963 MLK supported a nationwide boycott of Xmas shopping. @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social notes that the NYT editorial board wrote a piece slamming the effort called “Strike Against Santa Claus” which they said would “put civil rights activists on the same level as those who did the church bombing.”
February 10, 2026 at 2:31 AM
In 1963 MLK supported a nationwide boycott of Xmas shopping. @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social notes that the NYT editorial board wrote a piece slamming the effort called “Strike Against Santa Claus” which they said would “put civil rights activists on the same level as those who did the church bombing.”
No matter how outrageous or illegal a claim from the Trump admin is, a lot of media has treated it as true.
February 10, 2026 at 3:43 AM
No matter how outrageous or illegal a claim from the Trump admin is, a lot of media has treated it as true.
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Massie is abusing Trump stooge Todd Blanche over this
February 10, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Massie is abusing Trump stooge Todd Blanche over this
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Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein
February 10, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein
Libraries are good, LGBTQ+ characters for kids are good, concentration camps are not.
Under a new Georgia bill, librarians could be arrested for allowing a minor to read a book with LGBTQ+ characters or storylines.
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Georgia librarians could face criminal charges for ‘harmful materials’ • Georgia Recorder
Librarians and education advocates are warning that a bill moving through the state Legislature could cause Georgia’s librarians to self-censor controversial materials and lead to more challenges on b...
georgiarecorder.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Libraries are good, LGBTQ+ characters for kids are good, concentration camps are not.
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IDK who needs to hear this (Ok, I do, but I'm being diplomatic) but you cannot simply report what DHS says as fact in 2026 without looking into it
February 9, 2026 at 8:00 PM
IDK who needs to hear this (Ok, I do, but I'm being diplomatic) but you cannot simply report what DHS says as fact in 2026 without looking into it
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They told us their plans from the start.
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
February 10, 2026 at 1:16 AM
They told us their plans from the start.
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Some books that I'm using as sources as I revise a paper on U.S. immigration policy and the threat it poses to freedom.
February 10, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Some books that I'm using as sources as I revise a paper on U.S. immigration policy and the threat it poses to freedom.
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i fucking love this place i’ll never leave
February 10, 2026 at 12:16 AM
i fucking love this place i’ll never leave
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so cool to see major newspaper editorial boards doing "reefer madness" hot takes while the post gets shutdown by an oligarch who attended the inauguration
February 10, 2026 at 12:46 AM
so cool to see major newspaper editorial boards doing "reefer madness" hot takes while the post gets shutdown by an oligarch who attended the inauguration
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I am begging people to understand that "illegal" does not mean "impossible."
"How is that allowed? Isn't that illegal?"
Laws of society aren't laws of physics. Life isn't a video game. There's no Big Boss who's going to fire someone from life for not playing by the rules.
"How is that allowed? Isn't that illegal?"
Laws of society aren't laws of physics. Life isn't a video game. There's no Big Boss who's going to fire someone from life for not playing by the rules.
February 9, 2026 at 8:13 PM
I am begging people to understand that "illegal" does not mean "impossible."
"How is that allowed? Isn't that illegal?"
Laws of society aren't laws of physics. Life isn't a video game. There's no Big Boss who's going to fire someone from life for not playing by the rules.
"How is that allowed? Isn't that illegal?"
Laws of society aren't laws of physics. Life isn't a video game. There's no Big Boss who's going to fire someone from life for not playing by the rules.
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The Whipple Building needs to be shut down. No human should ever be treated with this much inhumanity. 3/
February 10, 2026 at 12:38 AM
The Whipple Building needs to be shut down. No human should ever be treated with this much inhumanity. 3/
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Thin walled apartments which share air ducts are a recurring plot point in X Files.
February 10, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Thin walled apartments which share air ducts are a recurring plot point in X Files.
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NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...
February 9, 2026 at 11:38 PM
NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...
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Our kid and his classmates despise their graphic-organizer focused ‘HMH into reading’ curriculum so much they are basically in outright revolt against it
February 9, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Our kid and his classmates despise their graphic-organizer focused ‘HMH into reading’ curriculum so much they are basically in outright revolt against it
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I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.
People have worn out "performative." We often perform things that are real, you know. Posting is a kind of performance of one's politics. Performative doesn't actually mean "fake" or "empty," it just gets deployed that way. We actually need performance. Case in point: last night's performance.
February 9, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.
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BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”
February 9, 2026 at 10:31 AM
BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”