Derek Powazek
@fraying.bsky.social
I used to make websites (Blogger, JPG Mag, Fray). I wrote the book “Design for Community.” Now I grow flowers and keep animals at milkbarn.farm.
Replies limited to followers. It's not you, it's me.
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Reminder that everything you post here is public and permanent.
January 17, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Reminder that everything you post here is public and permanent.
Once again, shared blocklists are a gift we give to each other.
January 17, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Once again, shared blocklists are a gift we give to each other.
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hey elected dems: they're gonna investigate you for obstruction anyway. you might as well deserve it
Here we go. www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/p...
DOJ investigating Minnesota governor, Minneapolis mayor over alleged obstruction of law enforcement, source says | CNN Politics
The Justice Department is investigating Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over possible obstruction of federal law enforcement, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
www.cnn.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
hey elected dems: they're gonna investigate you for obstruction anyway. you might as well deserve it
My grandma thought chopping cucumbers made her hands hurt but she listened to an actual doctor who told her it was arthritis and also she WASN'T HEALTH SECRETARY FOR THE GODDAMN COUNTRY.
Exclusive: RFK Jr. suspects a flu shot damaged his voice and stopped getting the vaccine in 2005
RFK Jr. shares why he stopped taking flu shots in 2005
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told USA TODAY he stopped taking annual flu shots because of concerns about side effects.
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January 16, 2026 at 11:17 PM
My grandma thought chopping cucumbers made her hands hurt but she listened to an actual doctor who told her it was arthritis and also she WASN'T HEALTH SECRETARY FOR THE GODDAMN COUNTRY.
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Here’s his closing: “My advice to ICE agents is to get out while you can, because history says the most likely outcome is for you to be hanging by a lamppost and then your body paraded through the streets.”
THE DOGS WERE GOOD AGAIN THIS WEEK.
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THE DOGS WERE GOOD AGAIN THIS WEEK.
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January 16, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Here’s his closing: “My advice to ICE agents is to get out while you can, because history says the most likely outcome is for you to be hanging by a lamppost and then your body paraded through the streets.”
THE DOGS WERE GOOD AGAIN THIS WEEK.
www.instagram.com/reel/DTiy3rk...
THE DOGS WERE GOOD AGAIN THIS WEEK.
www.instagram.com/reel/DTiy3rk...
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For @wired.com, I wrote about how misogyny and homophobia have been used by the right to wage a campaign to destroy Renee Good www.wired.com/story/the-ca...
The Campaign to Destroy Renee Good
After an ICE agent shot and killed the Minneapolis mother, conservative media launched an all-out attack on her reputation. Her identity as a queer woman was central to it.
www.wired.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:46 PM
For @wired.com, I wrote about how misogyny and homophobia have been used by the right to wage a campaign to destroy Renee Good www.wired.com/story/the-ca...
Aw, man. Now I have FOMO about the "ferocious cultural revolution" we had that I somehow missed.
what the hell is this revisionist nonsense? This *did not happen*—except in the minds of the far-right. You're buying their bad faith bullshit. MAGA called for and now is building a white ethnostate b/c *they are white nationalists*. That's what they do. FFS
January 16, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Aw, man. Now I have FOMO about the "ferocious cultural revolution" we had that I somehow missed.
Really happy to see the first review of our new CBG tincture come in. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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January 16, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Really happy to see the first review of our new CBG tincture come in. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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I'm taking a little coffee break to call my senators and say defund and abolish ICE. Feel free to do the same.
January 16, 2026 at 8:49 PM
I'm taking a little coffee break to call my senators and say defund and abolish ICE. Feel free to do the same.
I am well represented in Oregon.
That’s why I helped announce that the Congressional Progressive Caucus will withhold its votes on any appropriations bill that sends a single cent to ICE or CBP as it stands. No blank checks to Trump's secret police.
January 16, 2026 at 8:47 PM
I am well represented in Oregon.
If you’re an elected Democrat and you can’t point at what ICE is doing right now and say clearly “this is wrong,” then get out of politics immediately.
January 16, 2026 at 8:14 PM
If you’re an elected Democrat and you can’t point at what ICE is doing right now and say clearly “this is wrong,” then get out of politics immediately.
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NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend.
This is Alice's story:
This is Alice's story:
Queer trans ICE protester in small Minn. city recounts agents' violence and humiliation
Alice Valentine of St. Cloud was pepper sprayed and jailed by ICE for trying to protect immigrant neighbors.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 16, 2026 at 6:58 PM
NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend.
This is Alice's story:
This is Alice's story:
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There is no recalibrated or sanitized way to conduct the war that Trump and Stephen Miller are waging on American cities right now. That’s because it’s a campaign of deliberate terror.
The policy *is* the terror, and the terror *is* the policy.
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
The policy *is* the terror, and the terror *is* the policy.
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
January 16, 2026 at 7:40 PM
There is no recalibrated or sanitized way to conduct the war that Trump and Stephen Miller are waging on American cities right now. That’s because it’s a campaign of deliberate terror.
The policy *is* the terror, and the terror *is* the policy.
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
The policy *is* the terror, and the terror *is* the policy.
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
I love this idea for an additional reason Mike doesn't mention: in this scenario, and individual judge would likely hear fewer cases, so when they got one they'd feel extra personal pressure to get it right because their name will be on it.
www.techdirt.com/2026/01/16/t...
www.techdirt.com/2026/01/16/t...
The Case For A 100-Justice Supreme Court
With the current mess that the US is in, there has been plenty of talk of “what comes after” and how to think about the big structural changes needed to prevent another authoritarian fr…
www.techdirt.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:51 PM
I love this idea for an additional reason Mike doesn't mention: in this scenario, and individual judge would likely hear fewer cases, so when they got one they'd feel extra personal pressure to get it right because their name will be on it.
www.techdirt.com/2026/01/16/t...
www.techdirt.com/2026/01/16/t...
They are working so hard to destroy our relationships with every other country.
"The Trump administration is directing employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate foreign scientists who collaborate with the agency on research papers for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.”" www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With
The new directive asks workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” Their names are being sen...
www.propublica.org
January 16, 2026 at 6:26 PM
They are working so hard to destroy our relationships with every other country.
Eerily, unseasonably dry winter lately, but the goats are loving it.
January 16, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Eerily, unseasonably dry winter lately, but the goats are loving it.
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"A Minneapolis couple said that ICE agents deployed tear gas... around them and their six children — the youngest only 6 months old — as they tried to maneuver their car out of a tense protest on Wednesday night."
They were driving home from a son’s basketball game.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
They were driving home from a son’s basketball game.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 16, 2026 at 5:42 PM
"A Minneapolis couple said that ICE agents deployed tear gas... around them and their six children — the youngest only 6 months old — as they tried to maneuver their car out of a tense protest on Wednesday night."
They were driving home from a son’s basketball game.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
They were driving home from a son’s basketball game.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
I can’t think of a conversation I’d like to hear less. They’re all idiot grifters who talk about tech without understanding anything about it.
Standing on a train platform listening to the latest Hard Fork and, I'm sorry, but I'm not sure Jonathan Haidt understands what causation means. Hosts ask him to explain how he's proven causation and he cites single examples of individualized harm which have nothing to do with his broad thesis.
January 16, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I can’t think of a conversation I’d like to hear less. They’re all idiot grifters who talk about tech without understanding anything about it.
I consider myself pretty well informed on the nazi precedents for today, but I didn’t know this one. They truly are just running the playbook.
There is a precedent for a person getting someone else's Nobel Prize. In 1943, the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, gave his Nobel Prize in literature to Joseph Goebbels uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Knut Hamsun
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) was a towering figure of Norwegian letters. He was also a Nazi sympathizer and supp...
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January 16, 2026 at 5:04 PM
I consider myself pretty well informed on the nazi precedents for today, but I didn’t know this one. They truly are just running the playbook.
Fuck this guy forever.
January 16, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Fuck this guy forever.
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If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.
Newport co-ed cheerleading team is at center of Trump transgender athlete crackdownTrump admin focuses on swimming, cheerleading in Maine transgender athlete probes
The U.S. Department of Education announced a slew of Title IX-related investigations this week that include 2 school districts in Maine.
www.pressherald.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:09 AM
If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.
Nick is the same idiot who sued the Portland police alleging they were in league with antifa (which is hilarious if you know that PPD routinely beats the shit out of lefty protestors). www.opb.org/article/2025...
January 16, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Nick is the same idiot who sued the Portland police alleging they were in league with antifa (which is hilarious if you know that PPD routinely beats the shit out of lefty protestors). www.opb.org/article/2025...
Everybody’s angry and scared and nobody knows where to put it, so they’re putting it here, even when it doesn’t help.
January 15, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Everybody’s angry and scared and nobody knows where to put it, so they’re putting it here, even when it doesn’t help.
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hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again
January 15, 2026 at 6:09 PM
hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again
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Yesterday, Coinbase withdrew its support for the crypto market structure bill. Hours later, the Senate Banking Committee canceled the markup hearing. They’re not even trying to pretend anymore that this bill isn’t written by the industry, for the industry.
January 15, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Yesterday, Coinbase withdrew its support for the crypto market structure bill. Hours later, the Senate Banking Committee canceled the markup hearing. They’re not even trying to pretend anymore that this bill isn’t written by the industry, for the industry.