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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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.”
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The people who support mass deportation policies never cared about whether people have "criminal records," and I caution people who want to stop mass deportations that they should not focus on the "criminal records" either.
February 9, 2026 at 11:47 PM
The people who support mass deportation policies never cared about whether people have "criminal records," and I caution people who want to stop mass deportations that they should not focus on the "criminal records" either.
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It is impossible to assault a robot and people who interfere with or damage property are not assailants.
Chicago’s autonomous delivery robots are getting into scrapes with humans, per city records we obtained via FOIA. with @robertchannick.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/09/f...
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/09/f...
February 9, 2026 at 5:54 PM
It is impossible to assault a robot and people who interfere with or damage property are not assailants.
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Abolish the agency that plans to store our fellow humans in warehouses like they are inventory.
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Abolish the agency that plans to store our fellow humans in warehouses like they are inventory.
@dnbrgr.bsky.social hey Dan—is there a place to buy the poster that is your pic here?
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 PM
@dnbrgr.bsky.social hey Dan—is there a place to buy the poster that is your pic here?
The only thing more powerful than hate is…the people, united, who will never be defeated.
February 9, 2026 at 3:19 AM
The only thing more powerful than hate is…the people, united, who will never be defeated.
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Someone tell Common about Medicare 4 all.
February 9, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Someone tell Common about Medicare 4 all.
Celebrating nepotism
February 9, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Celebrating nepotism
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By the NFL!!!
February 9, 2026 at 3:03 AM
By the NFL!!!
Thinking about how colleges across the country are too sacred to acknowledge race and racism. Imagine getting shown up by NBC.
February 9, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Thinking about how colleges across the country are too sacred to acknowledge race and racism. Imagine getting shown up by NBC.
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Commenting on energy injustice is now the floor for any halftime act.
February 9, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Commenting on energy injustice is now the floor for any halftime act.
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So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh
February 9, 2026 at 2:10 AM
So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh
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They spent a gazillion dollars to just train us monkeys how to type bullshit into their bullshit ai machine.
February 9, 2026 at 1:55 AM
They spent a gazillion dollars to just train us monkeys how to type bullshit into their bullshit ai machine.