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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This trip to Maine has been really fascinating and I'm so excited to write about the way queer communities and organizations have stepped up to support anti-ICE efforts.
February 13, 2026 at 12:44 PM
This trip to Maine has been really fascinating and I'm so excited to write about the way queer communities and organizations have stepped up to support anti-ICE efforts.
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This is worth reading, but read it with both your eyes open: it’s clearly coming from ICE’s Lyons, CPB’s Scott and Tom Homan to preserve their secret police while marginalizing their bureaucratic rivals
Firing a pilot for leaving Kristi Noem's blanket behind. Berating staff when she's not on TV enough. Inside the constant chaos at DHS.
A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS
Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.
on.wsj.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:46 PM
This is worth reading, but read it with both your eyes open: it’s clearly coming from ICE’s Lyons, CPB’s Scott and Tom Homan to preserve their secret police while marginalizing their bureaucratic rivals
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It annoys me when people write analyses of the left where they criticize the strategies/tactics they think are ineffective, but they don't lift up any strategies/tactics that they think are effective and should be scaled up.
February 13, 2026 at 5:01 AM
It annoys me when people write analyses of the left where they criticize the strategies/tactics they think are ineffective, but they don't lift up any strategies/tactics that they think are effective and should be scaled up.
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bro this lady on Jeopardy was deep in third place going into Final Jeopardy, and she didn’t know the answer so she just wrote “i hope they both bet it all” and the other two guys fucking bet it all and got it wrong and she won
February 13, 2026 at 1:57 AM
bro this lady on Jeopardy was deep in third place going into Final Jeopardy, and she didn’t know the answer so she just wrote “i hope they both bet it all” and the other two guys fucking bet it all and got it wrong and she won
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Congressman Jim McGovern, longtime advocate of normalization between the US and Cuba, today introduced a bill in the House to officially repeal all of the legal pretext for the American blockade on Cuba.
Press Releases | Congressman Jim McGovern
mcgovern.house.gov
February 13, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Congressman Jim McGovern, longtime advocate of normalization between the US and Cuba, today introduced a bill in the House to officially repeal all of the legal pretext for the American blockade on Cuba.
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It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond
February 13, 2026 at 1:46 AM
It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond
The question of legal authority is important but it is a separate one from whether someone has the power to do something.
February 12, 2026 at 11:56 PM
The question of legal authority is important but it is a separate one from whether someone has the power to do something.
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Serious question: did all of the men have a group chat poll about ai this week or something?
Once again: people are angry for very good reason, and this brand of post is perhaps one of the most tedious and bewildering. Practically every social media platform is rabidly pro-‘AI’ so are govts, academia, companies. This one small space being critical of AI is okay, I think.
February 12, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Serious question: did all of the men have a group chat poll about ai this week or something?
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Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you
February 12, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you
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renewed my library card and checked out a book
the book is fantastic and if you're doing any kind of movement work, i highly recommend it
thank you, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
the book is fantastic and if you're doing any kind of movement work, i highly recommend it
thank you, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 6:56 PM
renewed my library card and checked out a book
the book is fantastic and if you're doing any kind of movement work, i highly recommend it
thank you, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
the book is fantastic and if you're doing any kind of movement work, i highly recommend it
thank you, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
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Some personal news
Scoop–CFPB just fired employee alexisgoldstein.bsky.social for allegedly disrupting &documenting a meeting a year ago between CFPB & DOGE www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
She says she's being retaliated against after asking DOGE visitors who they were & if they'd completed training on handling info
She says she's being retaliated against after asking DOGE visitors who they were & if they'd completed training on handling info
CFPB Fires Employee Over a Confrontation With DOGE a Year Ago
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fired an employee for disrupting and documenting a 2025 meeting between the agency and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, according to emails rev...
www.bloomberg.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Some personal news
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I gotta say, "the Pentagon uses a high powered laser to shoot down a party balloon" feels like enough symbolism for awhile. all full up thanks
February 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
I gotta say, "the Pentagon uses a high powered laser to shoot down a party balloon" feels like enough symbolism for awhile. all full up thanks
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I'm pretty good at operating tiny buttons in response to predetermined environmental stimuli, in case any scientists out there are looking to hand out small cheese rewards for that
February 11, 2026 at 12:28 PM
I'm pretty good at operating tiny buttons in response to predetermined environmental stimuli, in case any scientists out there are looking to hand out small cheese rewards for that
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I don’t really pay attention to charges of doomerism. I don’t know what it means offline.
I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.
I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 5:51 PM
I don’t really pay attention to charges of doomerism. I don’t know what it means offline.
I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.
I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.
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We have created an impunity machine, and invited and incentivized terrible people to join it. Abolish the whole damn thing.
At least two dozen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and contractors have been charged with crimes since 2020 and the wrongdoing includes patterns of violence, sexual abuse and corruption, a review by The Associated Press found.
As ICE expands, an AP review of crimes committed by agents shows how their powers can be abused
Investigators say one immigration official abused his girlfriend for years. Another admitted he sexually abused a woman in his custody.
bit.ly
February 11, 2026 at 6:33 PM
We have created an impunity machine, and invited and incentivized terrible people to join it. Abolish the whole damn thing.
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Many analogies made btw resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act & popular resistance to ICE. One analogy not often made is that it literally took the creation of a new political party to get the “opposition” to stop compromising w the slavocracy
January 31, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Many analogies made btw resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act & popular resistance to ICE. One analogy not often made is that it literally took the creation of a new political party to get the “opposition” to stop compromising w the slavocracy
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"These are the times to grow our souls. Each of us is called upon to embrace the conviction that despite the powers and principalities bent on commodifying all our human relationships, we have the power within us to create the world anew."
--Grace Lee Boggs
--Grace Lee Boggs
February 11, 2026 at 9:15 PM
"These are the times to grow our souls. Each of us is called upon to embrace the conviction that despite the powers and principalities bent on commodifying all our human relationships, we have the power within us to create the world anew."
--Grace Lee Boggs
--Grace Lee Boggs
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Generally, i.e., by definition, hype isn't true tho
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Generally, i.e., by definition, hype isn't true tho
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the giant amounts of money being kicked around back and forth like a ball in midfield should be a sign that nothing is actually being produced
February 11, 2026 at 5:48 PM
the giant amounts of money being kicked around back and forth like a ball in midfield should be a sign that nothing is actually being produced
One reason I think we should dismiss AI hype tout court is because the people pushing it are 1) blatantly lying about it’s current capabilities and 2) often trying to keep a bubble inflated.
February 11, 2026 at 5:38 PM
One reason I think we should dismiss AI hype tout court is because the people pushing it are 1) blatantly lying about it’s current capabilities and 2) often trying to keep a bubble inflated.
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A.I. needs to watch its back, I'm coming for its job.
Borrow tons of money with no chance of ever making it back? Kid shit.
Lie that I'm good at stuff that I'll never be good at? Doing it now.
Always be 5 years away from meeting my potential? Buddy, that's my life story.
Borrow tons of money with no chance of ever making it back? Kid shit.
Lie that I'm good at stuff that I'll never be good at? Doing it now.
Always be 5 years away from meeting my potential? Buddy, that's my life story.
February 11, 2026 at 2:01 AM
A.I. needs to watch its back, I'm coming for its job.
Borrow tons of money with no chance of ever making it back? Kid shit.
Lie that I'm good at stuff that I'll never be good at? Doing it now.
Always be 5 years away from meeting my potential? Buddy, that's my life story.
Borrow tons of money with no chance of ever making it back? Kid shit.
Lie that I'm good at stuff that I'll never be good at? Doing it now.
Always be 5 years away from meeting my potential? Buddy, that's my life story.
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"Only two English words rhyme with culture, and these, as it happens, are sepulture and vulture. We don’t yet call museums or galleries or even universities culture-sepultures, but I hear a lot, lately, about culture-vultures (man must rhyme)."
Raymond Williams
Raymond Williams
February 11, 2026 at 1:16 PM
"Only two English words rhyme with culture, and these, as it happens, are sepulture and vulture. We don’t yet call museums or galleries or even universities culture-sepultures, but I hear a lot, lately, about culture-vultures (man must rhyme)."
Raymond Williams
Raymond Williams
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7. Political messaging is lagging regular people’s sense that tech has gone rogue. There is an opportunity to tap into fear about government overreach and economic insecurity. That would tie together several threads of political structures of opportunity — from occupy to environmental racism
February 3, 2026 at 2:03 PM
7. Political messaging is lagging regular people’s sense that tech has gone rogue. There is an opportunity to tap into fear about government overreach and economic insecurity. That would tie together several threads of political structures of opportunity — from occupy to environmental racism
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The “TikTok-pilled Gen Zers” queueing for the expensive grocery store in Manhattan are likely not the same individuals who will struggle to purchase property. Hope this helps
Gen Zers and millennials are swimming in student debt and may never own homes, but they’re splurging on gut-healthy juices and rotisserie chickens.
The Booming Business of Luxury Grocery Stores
A new crop of gourmet grocers has hit the city, drawing lines of trendy TikTokers, MAHA-curious health fiends and Instacart devotees who want to pop in for a treat.
on.wsj.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:45 AM
The “TikTok-pilled Gen Zers” queueing for the expensive grocery store in Manhattan are likely not the same individuals who will struggle to purchase property. Hope this helps