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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Me: (watching Grey’s Anatomy, again)
Netflix: (Recommending Grey’s Anatomy like they've cracked some code about me) “Hey, we think you’ll like this.”
Netflix: (Recommending Grey’s Anatomy like they've cracked some code about me) “Hey, we think you’ll like this.”
February 14, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Me: (watching Grey’s Anatomy, again)
Netflix: (Recommending Grey’s Anatomy like they've cracked some code about me) “Hey, we think you’ll like this.”
Netflix: (Recommending Grey’s Anatomy like they've cracked some code about me) “Hey, we think you’ll like this.”
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The kind of utter confusion Brooks is going to inflict on Yale undergrads.
February 14, 2026 at 5:05 PM
The kind of utter confusion Brooks is going to inflict on Yale undergrads.
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One thing that is evidence for just how much crime is NOT rampant now is all the reporters in the city descending on your neighborhood to report out a specific, localized example of a crime as big news
February 14, 2026 at 5:25 PM
One thing that is evidence for just how much crime is NOT rampant now is all the reporters in the city descending on your neighborhood to report out a specific, localized example of a crime as big news
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I think that a critical mass of Americans doesn’t want to see fifth graders running from their own government
February 14, 2026 at 6:08 PM
I think that a critical mass of Americans doesn’t want to see fifth graders running from their own government
Sometimes people use the word fraud when they mean ‘we created a bunch of confusing barriers with little guidance that someone failed to follow and what other explanation is there but cheating?’
February 14, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Sometimes people use the word fraud when they mean ‘we created a bunch of confusing barriers with little guidance that someone failed to follow and what other explanation is there but cheating?’
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James Kilgore: "All these details are really difficult. I know you always say that activists must be nerds, right. So when you're fighting this stuff you have to do research..."
Ruth Wilson Gilmore: "It is true, activists throughout the history of liberation struggle have been nerds."
Ruth Wilson Gilmore: "It is true, activists throughout the history of liberation struggle have been nerds."
February 14, 2026 at 6:03 PM
James Kilgore: "All these details are really difficult. I know you always say that activists must be nerds, right. So when you're fighting this stuff you have to do research..."
Ruth Wilson Gilmore: "It is true, activists throughout the history of liberation struggle have been nerds."
Ruth Wilson Gilmore: "It is true, activists throughout the history of liberation struggle have been nerds."
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Mirror Universe Kira Nerys didn’t pour herself into that silver jumpsuit for a bunch of nerds to get weird about there being some sex scenes in Star Trek.
February 14, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Mirror Universe Kira Nerys didn’t pour herself into that silver jumpsuit for a bunch of nerds to get weird about there being some sex scenes in Star Trek.
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I would like to hear Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski call a baseball game
February 13, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I would like to hear Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski call a baseball game
Chicago Fire dunking on Chat GBT therapy.
February 14, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Chicago Fire dunking on Chat GBT therapy.
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I would simply not believe the hype
February 14, 2026 at 5:39 PM
I would simply not believe the hype
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In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
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The better course was never to capitulate, but it's important to remember, you can still back out. The agreements are unenforceable and no one works at the DOJ anymore.
NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. But it ...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:27 PM
The better course was never to capitulate, but it's important to remember, you can still back out. The agreements are unenforceable and no one works at the DOJ anymore.
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Let's fight misinformation, help good journalists to make a decent living, and stick a big ol' finger in Jeff Bezos' eye.
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February 13, 2026 at 6:50 PM
You can help build billionaire-free local news.
Repost this -> I give $1
Follow @51st.news -> I give $1
Follow me -> I give $1
Donate -> I match your gift
Let's fight misinformation, help good journalists to make a decent living, and stick a big ol' finger in Jeff Bezos' eye.
Repost this -> I give $1
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Follow me -> I give $1
Donate -> I match your gift
Let's fight misinformation, help good journalists to make a decent living, and stick a big ol' finger in Jeff Bezos' eye.
Exceedingly tired of politicians, university management and union presidents insisting our most urgent problems are too much worker power, a lack of plagiarism and wrong information as opposed to troops in our communities and concentration camps.
February 14, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Exceedingly tired of politicians, university management and union presidents insisting our most urgent problems are too much worker power, a lack of plagiarism and wrong information as opposed to troops in our communities and concentration camps.
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Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
February 13, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
Clown shit
BIG NEWS: We’re partnering with Open AI to launch a phased rollout of a ChatGPT-powered AI assistant for state workers – the first state in the nation to do it.
AI is here. Let’s use it as a tool to make government work faster and better for the people of Massachusetts.
AI is here. Let’s use it as a tool to make government work faster and better for the people of Massachusetts.
February 14, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Clown shit
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Never forget that the administration didn't want to fight this and was making moves to give in
February 14, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Never forget that the administration didn't want to fight this and was making moves to give in
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Ok I see you UCLA Faculty Association and the Council of University of California Faculty Associations, pushing your university to be better and creating the space for this to happen!
NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. But it ...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Ok I see you UCLA Faculty Association and the Council of University of California Faculty Associations, pushing your university to be better and creating the space for this to happen!
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I also wonder if Trustees prefer administrators with up-and-out aspirations over ones who want to stay long term, since up-and-out aspirations might make administrators easier for Trustees to manipulate during the time they're there.
thread. related, my impression is a lot of higher ed administrators are significantly oriented toward making a mark on an institution in the short term so they have a claimable on their CV to get their next admin job elsewhere. that incentivizes vandalizing institutions, whether by AI or otherwise
Yep. The market problem writ large is exceptionally true in highered. But it won’t matter — and doesn’t matter — to those in charge right now because the point is to strip the institution.
February 14, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I also wonder if Trustees prefer administrators with up-and-out aspirations over ones who want to stay long term, since up-and-out aspirations might make administrators easier for Trustees to manipulate during the time they're there.
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Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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In order to abolish ICE and defeat fascism, people in this country need to rethink their relationship to the criminal system and why it determines one's fate.
February 12, 2026 at 8:18 PM
In order to abolish ICE and defeat fascism, people in this country need to rethink their relationship to the criminal system and why it determines one's fate.
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I don't think it is only our job to teach students how to read long novels; it may also be our jobs to teach them how to live without an online surveillance state. To learn without intrusive apps. To swap notes. To write in a book's margins. To exist in their communities in slow, clunky, human ways.
February 14, 2026 at 3:41 PM
I don't think it is only our job to teach students how to read long novels; it may also be our jobs to teach them how to live without an online surveillance state. To learn without intrusive apps. To swap notes. To write in a book's margins. To exist in their communities in slow, clunky, human ways.
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“Who’s kitchen table?” remains a hell of a question.
February 14, 2026 at 1:58 PM
“Who’s kitchen table?” remains a hell of a question.
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It’s very wild we still have people dismissing Black people being pushed out of the workplace as a distraction from “working class”/“kitchen table” issues…
February 14, 2026 at 1:58 PM
It’s very wild we still have people dismissing Black people being pushed out of the workplace as a distraction from “working class”/“kitchen table” issues…