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.
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Fuck this guy forever.
very cool!
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.
A good reminder in case you didn’t know: hit your iPhone power button five times in quick succession and you’re signed out and must sign in again with a password - faceID won’t work. Just in case you ever have to hand your phone to someone you don’t want to have access.
January 15, 2026 at 9:14 PM
A good reminder in case you didn’t know: hit your iPhone power button five times in quick succession and you’re signed out and must sign in again with a password - faceID won’t work. Just in case you ever have to hand your phone to someone you don’t want to have access.
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ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid.
And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.
And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.
relevant to the debate over whether we should keep funding DHS without reforms and accountability for how out of control their spending is
January 15, 2026 at 4:28 PM
ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid.
And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.
And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.
Bury these absolute fossils. It shouldn’t be hard. Their heads are already in the sand.
Just got this forwarded. Here are the talking points Schumer's team just emailed out to their allies TODAY - this afternoon.
The words "Minnesota" or "ICE" don't appear anywhere here.
The words "Minnesota" or "ICE" don't appear anywhere here.
January 15, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Bury these absolute fossils. It shouldn’t be hard. Their heads are already in the sand.
What the absolute fuck, Kotek? “Knopp doesn’t have an extensive background in economic development.” Yeah no shit.
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek taps Republican rival to boost business relations
Tim Knopp, a former state senator from Bend, will join Kotek’s administration.
www.klcc.org
January 15, 2026 at 8:53 PM
What the absolute fuck, Kotek? “Knopp doesn’t have an extensive background in economic development.” Yeah no shit.
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You can read more about this here, in this piece we published today about legislation designed to rein it in www.404media.co/new-legislat...
New Legislation Would Rein In ICE’s Facial Recognition App
The proposed law would force DHS only use the app, called Mobile Fortify, at ports of entry; delete all photos of U.S. citizens taken by the app; and effectively kill the local law enforcement of the ...
www.404media.co
January 15, 2026 at 8:13 PM
You can read more about this here, in this piece we published today about legislation designed to rein it in www.404media.co/new-legislat...
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I compared the user interface in this photo to the leaked user guide I have for Mobile Fortify, and it's the same. Mobile Fortify is ICE's app for verifying someone's identity, immigration status, whether issued order of deportation. ICE says it overrides a birth certificate bsky.app/profile/donm...
The people wearing masks are scanning your face to capture your identity.
January 15, 2026 at 8:12 PM
I compared the user interface in this photo to the leaked user guide I have for Mobile Fortify, and it's the same. Mobile Fortify is ICE's app for verifying someone's identity, immigration status, whether issued order of deportation. ICE says it overrides a birth certificate bsky.app/profile/donm...
Required reading for when ICE comes knocking.
www.patreon.com/posts/147921...
www.patreon.com/posts/147921...
How to Legally Protect People in Your Home from ICE | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
Get more from Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon
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January 15, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Required reading for when ICE comes knocking.
www.patreon.com/posts/147921...
www.patreon.com/posts/147921...
I hope you read all my typos as evidence this is all written by a real live human who feels things deeply and has fat thumbs.
January 15, 2026 at 7:15 PM
I hope you read all my typos as evidence this is all written by a real live human who feels things deeply and has fat thumbs.
People are arguing with Jamelle again about “what if Trump cancels elections” and Janelle keeps going back to “okay but HOW” and talking about how hard that would be, and he’s right, but I think we should seriously engage with the “how” question and use the answers to prepare.
January 15, 2026 at 6:17 PM
People are arguing with Jamelle again about “what if Trump cancels elections” and Janelle keeps going back to “okay but HOW” and talking about how hard that would be, and he’s right, but I think we should seriously engage with the “how” question and use the answers to prepare.
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WE ARE ALL WE HAVE; WE ARE ALL WE NEED
January 15, 2026 at 5:32 PM
WE ARE ALL WE HAVE; WE ARE ALL WE NEED
When people say "this is America" it's either an example of what they want America to be or an acknowledgment of our worst tendencies. Both are in evidence in this clip, the worst being ICE, but this guy right here, this is the America I believe in.
January 15, 2026 at 5:35 PM
When people say "this is America" it's either an example of what they want America to be or an acknowledgment of our worst tendencies. Both are in evidence in this clip, the worst being ICE, but this guy right here, this is the America I believe in.
Cosign.
When you know a former news outlet is now being run as a state propaganda arm and dismissing expertise as unnecessary to news reporting, you are under no obligation to quote-tweet their latest propaganda, even to dunk on it. That's doing exactly what they want, which is providing engagement stats.
January 15, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Cosign.
Stupid fucking cosplay hitlers.
January 15, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Stupid fucking cosplay hitlers.
One party is consistently expected to be perfect in word and deed while the other is actively encouraged to be ever more evil.
ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms
January 14, 2026 at 10:12 PM
One party is consistently expected to be perfect in word and deed while the other is actively encouraged to be ever more evil.
The rot is coming from inside.
Every couple of weeks we get a different description of the apparently awful stench coming off our necrotic president and I think it's high time the media nail down exactly what kind of rotten meat covered in women's perfume he actually smells like.
January 14, 2026 at 10:08 PM
The rot is coming from inside.
We have a phrase for this when it happens in other countries: ethnic cleansing.
BREAKING — Mayor of Lewiston, Maine posts on FB that ICE is coming to the city imminently. This confirms my reporting the agency is planning a surge in the city and state generally.
Lewiston is home to a large Somali-American population, which made up 4.6% of the population as of the 2020 census.
Lewiston is home to a large Somali-American population, which made up 4.6% of the population as of the 2020 census.
January 14, 2026 at 9:55 PM
We have a phrase for this when it happens in other countries: ethnic cleansing.
The same administration asking colleges for lists of Jews routinely posts nazi propaganda to X.
A barely altered play on "Which Way Western Man?" a foundational white nationalist text arguing Jews, racial mixing & equality are destroying society. DHS prev tweeted in August. It required no interpretation, but the media's role was to pretend it was a Rorschach test and help surface WH denials.
“Which way, Greenland man?”
January 14, 2026 at 9:49 PM
The same administration asking colleges for lists of Jews routinely posts nazi propaganda to X.
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So far, everyone who has said, "they're not going to do that; it's just a joke; don't overreact" has been proven wrong over and over again. Not sure how many times people need that to happen before they start taking every threat seriously.
Folks in the US still like to treat the whole Greenland invasion stuff as sufficiently unserious to engage with, but it is sufficiently serious that NATO allies are actively deploying tripwire forces to deter the US. That is *already* a political and actual cost to them, and to US relationships
January 14, 2026 at 9:43 PM
So far, everyone who has said, "they're not going to do that; it's just a joke; don't overreact" has been proven wrong over and over again. Not sure how many times people need that to happen before they start taking every threat seriously.
Seems like the world is rallying against us right now, and most of us agree with them.
NEW and WOW: Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, and Canada are sending troops to Greenland amid continued threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to annex the territory, multiple outlets reported. www.newsweek.com/greenland-ge...
Germany, other NATO allies sending troops to Greenland amid Trump threats
Trump said Wednesday anything less than U.S. control of Greenland would be "unacceptable" in a warning to NATO allies about Arctic security.
www.newsweek.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Seems like the world is rallying against us right now, and most of us agree with them.