Jaclyn Friedman
@jaclynf.bsky.social
Writer. Speaker. Feminist Troublemaker. She/her. (IG: @jaclynfable) Come change U.S. sex education with me at @educateusaction.bsky.social
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Like I dunno, I keep thinking about how every time women, especially older women, start becoming *visible* in a left-of-center movement, instead of just invisibly making it run, there’s complaints that the movement is somehow now too centrist.
Still a little mad about this. Dismissing craftivists (who are mostly women) as cringey bandwagoneers is bullshit. Not everyone is Extremely Online; communities form in person, too: PTA meetings, book club, grocery store, gas pump, daycare pickup, pharmacy, dog park, ice rink, stadium, etc etc etc
And they aren't all crowing about it on social media, so let's not assume that all the people in hats and buttons passing out whistles are doing nothing else. People - "wine moms," "knitters," who else do you think has ready access to breast milk? - are working behind the scenes for good.
February 9, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Like I dunno, I keep thinking about how every time women, especially older women, start becoming *visible* in a left-of-center movement, instead of just invisibly making it run, there’s complaints that the movement is somehow now too centrist.
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The Mass Alliance Grassroots Campaign Training is a great opportunity for anyone looking to run for office, manage a campaign, or just get more involved with campaigns!
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February 10, 2026 at 12:06 AM
The Mass Alliance Grassroots Campaign Training is a great opportunity for anyone looking to run for office, manage a campaign, or just get more involved with campaigns!
www.massalliance.org/grassroots-c...
www.massalliance.org/grassroots-c...
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Authoritarian regimes make you feel like shit because they will never admit they’re losing.
But Trump is losing — and it’s because of the organizing work you’re doing.
But Trump is losing — and it’s because of the organizing work you’re doing.
February 10, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Authoritarian regimes make you feel like shit because they will never admit they’re losing.
But Trump is losing — and it’s because of the organizing work you’re doing.
But Trump is losing — and it’s because of the organizing work you’re doing.
Truly, what the actual fuck, @massgovernor.bsky.social. Collaborating with the slave catchers, the fucking gestapo. You are a disgrace.
NEW: Of all the states that voted for Harris over Trump in 2024, there's only one where a Dem governor is overseeing an ICE's 287(g) program:
Massachusetts.
Other blue states have quit, or even outright banned it. My colleague on what's happening: boltsmag.org/massachusett...
Massachusetts.
Other blue states have quit, or even outright banned it. My colleague on what's happening: boltsmag.org/massachusett...
Inside ICE’s Only Contract with a Blue State - Bolts
As part of a 287(g) contract between state officials and ICE, Massachusetts continues to release prisoners into deportation—even as state lawmakers look to ban other forms of ICE collaboration.
boltsmag.org
February 10, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Truly, what the actual fuck, @massgovernor.bsky.social. Collaborating with the slave catchers, the fucking gestapo. You are a disgrace.
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Repealing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act would "make the internet a conformist, neutral space where any controversial truth or opinion will be silenced," Aaron Mackey of @eff.org says.
Yet lawmakers from both parties are pushing to do just that.
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/behind-...
Yet lawmakers from both parties are pushing to do just that.
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/behind-...
Behind the Misguided Bipartisan Push to Muzzle Free Speech Online
This excerpt is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Repealing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act would "make the internet a conformist, neutral space where any controversial truth or opinion will be silenced," Aaron Mackey of @eff.org says.
Yet lawmakers from both parties are pushing to do just that.
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/behind-...
Yet lawmakers from both parties are pushing to do just that.
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/behind-...
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The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...
Hating the Game
The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.
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February 9, 2026 at 12:03 PM
The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...
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Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin
February 9, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin
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It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 AM
It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."
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heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show
February 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
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“We need to help students grow into the difficulty of reading. The best way to do that is not to ‘meet them where they are,’ a bromide that has become doctrine for higher education. We have to do as Whitman says…Stop somewhere ahead and wait for them to catch up.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Stop Meeting Students Where They Are
What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.
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February 8, 2026 at 12:22 AM
“We need to help students grow into the difficulty of reading. The best way to do that is not to ‘meet them where they are,’ a bromide that has become doctrine for higher education. We have to do as Whitman says…Stop somewhere ahead and wait for them to catch up.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Last night we had 2 ICE agents get out of a car, pepper spray legal observers, shout something to the effect of "I'm fucking ICE motherfucker" and drive away.
Ice is being very aggressive with arresting observers this afternoon.
February 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Last night we had 2 ICE agents get out of a car, pepper spray legal observers, shout something to the effect of "I'm fucking ICE motherfucker" and drive away.
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If folks in other parts of the country are preparing for ICe Surge, part of the fabric of response has to include anti-fascist tow truck drivers.
Recruit them now.
Recruit them now.
Tow truck driver offering free service returning abandoned vehicles to families of those abducted by ICE: "For the last three weeks, we have been getting nothing but death threats."
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Twin Cities tow truck driver returns abandoned vehicles to families after ICE arrests
Juan Leon sends a "chase" car to check out where abandoned vehicles are located and arranges discreet drop-offs. Since late December, he estimated they have dropped off 250 cars.
www.cbsnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:39 PM
If folks in other parts of the country are preparing for ICe Surge, part of the fabric of response has to include anti-fascist tow truck drivers.
Recruit them now.
Recruit them now.
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nazi bitches get kicked out of bars
Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tossed from Las Vegas bar
Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino was reportedly asked to leave a Las Vegas bar out of safety concerns for the venue’s customers.
lasvegassun.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:48 PM
nazi bitches get kicked out of bars
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generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023
people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
February 6, 2026 at 11:13 PM
generative AI has become widely available in the summer of 2022 and entered mainstream in 2023
people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
people are working themselves up in a frenzy, convinced they're utterly helpless without software younger than still-fresh canned tuna. we have been making art for at least 50,000 years, get a grip
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They're just trying to preemptively suppress voter turnout by making threats, and you do not, in fact, have to help them do voter suppression by boosting their voter suppression efforts as though it's a done deal and everyone will have to run a tear gas gauntlet to vote.
February 5, 2026 at 11:05 PM
They're just trying to preemptively suppress voter turnout by making threats, and you do not, in fact, have to help them do voter suppression by boosting their voter suppression efforts as though it's a done deal and everyone will have to run a tear gas gauntlet to vote.
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as i keep saying, the things to do to secure elections are to volunteer to work the polls or to serve as an observer, & to pressure your *state representatives* to take steps to further secure voting locations and ballots. you should also learn about how election administration works in your area.
February 5, 2026 at 1:35 PM
as i keep saying, the things to do to secure elections are to volunteer to work the polls or to serve as an observer, & to pressure your *state representatives* to take steps to further secure voting locations and ballots. you should also learn about how election administration works in your area.
I don't just mean Bad Bunny. I also mean Kendrick, and Green Day, and Brandi Carlisle, and and
February 5, 2026 at 11:42 PM
I don't just mean Bad Bunny. I also mean Kendrick, and Green Day, and Brandi Carlisle, and and
do they book the other music too? It's not just Bad Bunny, it's Bad Bunny AND Green Day AND Brandi Carlisle AND Coco Jones singing Lift Every Voice and Sing
February 5, 2026 at 1:58 PM
do they book the other music too? It's not just Bad Bunny, it's Bad Bunny AND Green Day AND Brandi Carlisle AND Coco Jones singing Lift Every Voice and Sing
it's not just Bad Bunny. It's Bad Bunny AND Green Day AND Brandi Carlisle AND Coco Jones
February 5, 2026 at 1:57 PM
it's not just Bad Bunny. It's Bad Bunny AND Green Day AND Brandi Carlisle AND Coco Jones
sincere q: can someone explain to me how the person who books the talent for the super bowl is allowed to be so woke? I know the owners are NOT.
February 5, 2026 at 3:14 AM
sincere q: can someone explain to me how the person who books the talent for the super bowl is allowed to be so woke? I know the owners are NOT.
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A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
February 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
Bluesky! I've got an undergraduate intern looking for a new paid internship for the summer. They'd like to work for an org working on immigration issues in either DC or Boston. They're a smart organizer, a strong writer, and a delight to have around. Who's got a lead for me to share with them?
February 4, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Bluesky! I've got an undergraduate intern looking for a new paid internship for the summer. They'd like to work for an org working on immigration issues in either DC or Boston. They're a smart organizer, a strong writer, and a delight to have around. Who's got a lead for me to share with them?
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New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking some...
www.404media.co
February 4, 2026 at 2:07 PM
New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
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What? AI just reinforces human cognitive biases and can't do abductive reasoning? Who could have guessed?
www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/ai-c...
www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/ai-c...
AI Command and Staff—Operational Evidence and Insights from Wargaming - Military Strategy Magazine
The uncritical integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) into command-and-control poses a fundamental strategic risk: disrupting the application of violence from command. The danger of...
www.militarystrategymagazine.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:39 PM
What? AI just reinforces human cognitive biases and can't do abductive reasoning? Who could have guessed?
www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/ai-c...
www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/ai-c...